Lemmy has this weird thing of justifying mass execution of civilians…

NK has 152mm and 122mm howitzers compatible with Russian artillery, but also mixed bag of other calibers. But how much of which calibers they have is unclear.

I doubt they trade the weapons/ammo for consumer goods, I assume it’s a trade for Russian weapon technology.

There’s a non zero chance that Iran would intervene.

So again, who exactly claims they are independent? Because the “Donbas people” (DPR/LPR) claim they are part of Russia.

Hamas is a death cult openly using human shields, so no surprise really.

Literally nobody claims they are “independent”. Russia annexed it and claims it’s Russian, the rest of the world recognizes it as regions of Ukraine.

Wtf I can’t even…

Do I read it right that Hamas isn’t responsible for the atrocities they committed?

She said “freedom fighters”, not “civilians”.

Why don’t “freedom fighters” don’t “fight” the atrocities rather than film them?

Keep in mind this was said in the context of the Hamas attack.

Seems like you people are just whitewashing her.

It’s going to be pretty bad for the people who will lose their savings over this.

Gaza is extremely over populated and is inhabitated almost exclusively by Palestinians. Taking some of them (those who want) would not contribute to cleansing in any meaningful way. The truth is that Muslim countries don’t really care about the Palestinians other than using them as a political tool.

How else do you interpret that statement?

Can you please tell me how else can you interpret that statement other than her asking for better footage of the atrocities committed by the Hamas?

Sure, but the comment I was replying to made a direct comparison with Russia.

Well Russia is currently bombing a European country which I personally consider much worse than an embargo.

I don’t know what to tell you

Well, you apparently don’t know the cause of his experience, so duh …

Doesn’t seem very likely to me given that cheap feature phones likely use cheap older parts while flagship smartphones state of the art components.

That reminded me how a local wanna-be influencer did a smartphone detox for a week, immediately after the completion she posted an FB story: Part 1 - Reflection, how eyeopening the experience was, how much time she suddenly had for the things that truly matter etc. Subscribe to not miss the Part 2!

the flip phone lets me make phone calls from my basement and many other places that the smartphone cannot.

Why? The smartphone supports everything the flip phone does. Honest question.

The only way I see around this is a really aggressive cap on rent. Like, once a rent is established, it can never be raised, for any reason, ever again

We have something like that in my city. The rents grow, but are bound to the inflation. The dynamic is similar - the old contracts are vastly cheaper than the new contracts. That has several downsides:

• young families can’t afford good apartments, since they will need to tap the new-contract market which is expensive
• old people have nice large apartments for very little money. Sounds good at first, but then you often have situations where a single 80-year-old has a 100 m^2 apartment in the downtown, while a young 4 member family is in a 60 m^2 while paying more money. Even more perversely, the 80-year-old can’t move out, because they wouldn’t be able to afford a smaller sized apartment with a new contract.
• old contracts become a form of property in itself and are sold on “black market”, inherited etc.
• old contracts are not let go even if the apartment is not needed at the moment. So apartments are often empty, waiting for the kids to grow up, or used only occasionally (the family has a house outside the city and only occasionally spends time in the city).
• you’re heavily disincentivized to move (to be closer to your work, family, get a bigger apartment for growing family etc.) because your old contract would get cancelled, and you will need to get a much more expensive new one