AHemlocksLie

joined 6 months ago
[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago

Hmmm you may be right. We'll have to see how the numbers shake out to be sure either way, but I'll concede it at least sounds plausible the collateral damage is unacceptably high.

[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I haven't seen reports of significant collateral damage. I'm sure there was at least some, but that's different from large amounts of collateral damage. To be considered indiscriminate, I think it would need to have either used larger charges with a bigger blast radius or distribute the pagers more widely in the hopes that Hezbollah agents got them along with the public. From my understanding, which may be flawed, neither of those conditions are true, so while there almost certainly was collateral damage, I don't currently think it was widespread enough to consider the attack indiscriminate. If you have a source to contradict me, I'm open to reading it.

Fuck Israel's rampant genocidal war crimes, but I don't think this counts as one.

[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago

To be totally fair, pretty sure he explicitly told them he'd do it, too. Could've sailed off and enjoyed their loot.

[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If it was worth stressing about, it was worth discussing with me when I was on the clock. The entire premise of a job is that I work in direct exchange for money. No money? No work. Pay me or wait until next shift.

[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago

And 100 out of 100 times, we build emulators that run on PC. They can take years to make with the complexity of newer systems, but they'll get there.

[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Dude this all started because top comment knew this post was gonna be full of people discouraging voting for Harris, and then you jumped in and accused people of being pro-genocide for it. This is what I mean when I said you walk a similar walk. Anyone who disagrees with your perfect view of the world MUST be an enemy who directly wants genocide.

None of us like genocide. We're just tired of it being used to trash the candidate who's objectively better on the topic, shitty as that may be. I, at least, don't care if some posts about her are negative, but I'm real fucking tired of people trying to pretend that her failings here mean getting the objectively worse Trump elected on purpose or on accident is somehow a coherent idea, much less a good one.

[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

I'll admit I was mistaken given your comment was sandwiched between two people suggesting otherwise and given your suggestion that anyone tired of listening to those people try to discourage voting for Harris is pro-genocide. You may not be one of them, but you walk a very similar walk here, so I wouldn't be so surprised by the confusion.

[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 weeks ago (22 children)

Maybe they just have a tendency to confuse the painfully obvious consequences of not voting or voting against Harris for your actual intended goals. Trump is clearly going to be worse for Palestinians since he outright said Netanyahu should just finish the job, so if you're on a clear and obvious path to getting someone even worse elected, we can't help but wonder if you don't actually care about the Palestinians because for all the bitching and moaning about Harris's stance, you're on your way to making the situation objectively worse.

[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 19 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

We can be upset with her decisions and policies and still very easily acknowledge that one of the candidates is clearly worse. Trump has outright said Netanyahu should just finish the job. He wouldn't just not resist, he'd actively encourage it. It's like choosing between getting shot with a .22 or a .45 bullet to your leg. Both fucking suck, nobody wants to choose either, but if you're knowledgeable about all the consequences and paying attention, it's not a difficult choice.

[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So it seems like if you're using Office on desktop, not SaaS, but they do offer it in a browser, so would that count? Technically, if it's in JavaScript or something like that, computing is handled locally, but it still feels close enough to count.

[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

These apps aren't SaaS, but their alternatives are in at least some cases. LibreOffice competes with Microsoft Office, for example, and Microsoft wants people to pay a subscription for it, although I think you can still buy it outright. Pretty sure I've heard similar for Adobe products. Not super familiar with all the options, so can't say if it's true for all of them.

[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 month ago

Somehow, I doubt it'll be the same

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