I was walking to the grocery store when I saw a neighbour polishing his in front of his house. I said "Wow, a Cybertruck," and he replied, "Cool, isn't it?"
I said, "No, it's a $120,000 go-kart made of scrap metal that will rust in a month."
Edit: sounds fake but I do have a picture of the car in question, but I took it on a different day—
The effectiveness of bans has always hinged on two factors:
The likelihood of being caught
The severity of punishment if caught
For example, everyone knows that the odds of being caught speeding are pretty low, but if the punishment for speeding is ten years imprisonment, then very few people will risk speeding.
Similarly, even if the odds of getting caught violating this law is only 1%, if the punishment is banning the platform and shutting down the company along with a fine equal to a year's worth of revenue, then companies will probably not want to risk it.
I donate 12€ a year through OpenCollective. Donate here!. That's 12€ more than any other social media site has ever gotten out of me. Donations also support mastodon.world.
If everyone donated 12€ a year then they'd be so flush with cash that it'd make the Wikimedia Foundation look broke.
Yes, firing missiles at Tel Aviv would be a legitimate military tactic, as long as you're actually aiming for military targets and not just shooting randomly.
This is like saying that the Reich Chancellery and the Führerbunker are in Berlin and questioning whethering bombing Berlin is a legitimate tactic. Of course it is. You just have to hit actual targets.
Israel definitely has the capability to hit targets with precision. They have the best weapons in the world, courtesy of the United States. But there's been too many "oopsies, we obliterated the entire neighbourhood killing a thousand civilians" for it to be merely sloppy aim.
Although I don't deny that the Israeli military is generally quite reckless with civilian casualties (and this is probably purposeful to an extent), it's also true that Hamas doesn't exactly pick the most civilian-free areas to set up their base of operations either.
Like, if Hamas sets up shop in an orphanage with 100 kids inside, the IDF will bomb it to smithereens without second thought and kill all 100 just to get the 3 Hamas commanders inside, as long as none of those children were Israelis. That kind of scenario. The next day, Hamas blames Israel for killing 100 innocent children and Israel blames Hamas for endangering them in the first place.
So it's not fair to finger only one side when both parties to this conflict are so unapologetically shit and treat the rules of war like an achievements list.
Contrary to popular belief, in terms of health, high-fructose corn syrup is not really worse for you than sugar. It's very unhealthy, of course, but that's because it's sweet, not because of its chemical properties.
That being said, in many things (such as soda), people prefer the taste of sugar over high fructose corn syrup.