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phoneymouse , (edited ) to World News in West Bank: Israel Defense Forces accused of possible war crime

Seems like a possible, hypothetical scenario that happened there. Looks like some inadvertent collateral damage. Looks like these boys walked into the line of Israeli fire, according to some critics, according to Hamas, according to Pro-Palestinian voices, according to anti-Semitic opponents of Israel. Looks like an isolated incident.

phoneymouse , to Today I Learned in TIL 40 states in the US charge you $20-$80 a day for being incarcerated in prison.

Just to really fuck up your life when you get out

phoneymouse , to World News in Israel tells U.S. it will punish Palestinian Authority if ICC issues warrants

“If you hold me responsible for abusing my neighbor, I’ll abuse them more”

phoneymouse , to Today I Learned in TIL: The Phrase “Death To America” Didn’t exist Before the CIA Overthrew the Iranian Government for Nationalizing their Oil in 1953

Thank Allen Dulles.

phoneymouse , to Fuck Cars in If You Hate Density, Maybe Don’t Live in A City (Oh the Urbanity!)

Recently got to see Japan and it was eye opening. It’s by far the densest country I’ve been to and also the most functional. The public transit is amazing, as trains can get you literally everywhere, even between cities. There is also hardly a square of wasted space when it comes to housing. Buildings are tall and they are packed. The roads are mostly one way and narrow, except on a few major roads. The cars that do exist are small. I did appreciate seeing what is possible.

That said, the amount of people is intense and you do walk a lot between trains. On one day, I hit 12 miles, and that included lots of public transit. It becomes tiring a bit. If humans want to keep increasing in number, we should do it the Japanese way. But, I also wonder if we shouldn’t just stop breeding so much if we don’t like intense density. Those are basically our choices. If we want to keep breeding, low density is not an option.

phoneymouse , to Technology in FCC restores net neutrality rules that ban blocking and throttling in 3-2 vote

FCC Chairwoman who made this happen. She was also there voting against Ajit (Shit Pie) Pai when he pushed to overturn Obama era net neutrality back in 2017. She also initially set up the net neutrality rules during the Obama admin. She can be credited for fighting this fight for many years now on our behalf.

phoneymouse , to Technology in FCC restores net neutrality rules that ban blocking and throttling in 3-2 vote

Thanks Jessica Rosenworcel.

phoneymouse , to Videos in The University of Texas at Austin has 'delisted' this video so that it's harder to find.

Fifty-seven people had been booked into the Travis County Jail in connection to the protest, Travis County sheriff's office spokesperson Kristen Dark said Thursday morning

All have had their charges disposed, Dark said, but it was unclear how many people had been released from the jail as of Thursday morning

They just arrest people and let them go… just for a photo op I would guess.

If you’re arresting people and letting them go without charges, you shouldn’t be arresting them in the first place.

phoneymouse , to memes in Maybe someday we will find our way

I bet the guy jumped in 2 seconds after this photo was taken

phoneymouse , to Technology in Big Tech passkey implementations are a trap | Proton

Not commenting on the merits of the blogpost’s arguments, but Proton is selling their own product here too

phoneymouse , to World News in Moscow attack: Russian court charges four men with act of terrorism

Man, Russia is nuts. I dunno where these guys got their beatings, but this seems like nothing you’d see in the US.

Also, hard to understand how they can blame Ukraine for this while none of the suspects are Ukrainian.

phoneymouse , to World News in Israel announces largest West Bank land seizure since 1993 during Blinken visit

I don’t see how Israel can do this and expect not to be attacked by Palestinians. Palestinians are justified in retaliating.

phoneymouse , to memes in Burgernomics Δ

It changes in that there are economies of scale involved. It actually becomes cheaper and more efficient for the company to make 20 cheeseburgers at once than just one. That’s why this surge pricing thing is a joke. Would the company really like to introduce friction to customers buying more food?

phoneymouse , to World News in New Sidebar Rule:

19 articles still seems like reasonable usage to me. Spam or abuse would probably be a bit higher than that and likely include off topic and duplicate links.

phoneymouse , to Technology in California clean energy industry rocked with widespread jobs losses, bankruptcies, following state’s dismantling of rooftop solar program

Well - they kinda needed the grid for this program. Basically, the incentive was you could install solar and send your excess power to the grid. Whatever you put on the grid, you could take back 1:1 when you needed it (ie. at night). Essentially, you could treat the grid as your battery, without needing to pay for a battery. This made the break even time horizon super short.

It also meant solar customers weren’t paying much for grid infrastructure and transmission costs.

Now, you can only draw back 25% of what you send to the grid. Getting a battery now makes more sense, but it’s also a big upfront cost.

Don’t get me wrong. PGE is evil incarnate and its execs should be sent to prison. The company should be seized by the public. Rates should be lowered on the backs of executive bonuses and salaries.

But, as a non-solar owner, I do think the previous deal was only going to increase costs for non-solar customers. It couldn’t last forever. Hopefully, the state does improve the current incentives just a bit though. More than anything though, the state needs to take control of PGE and fire the execs.

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