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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 weeks ago

What does "winning the war" look like to you?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 weeks ago

Can't join NATO with an existing territorial dispute. "Agreeing and joining NATO anyways" would be an official admission by the Ukrainian government that the territories currently held by Russia are not part of Ukraine anymore.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

While I agree that the ANC has deserved to lose an election for a while, one must be very careful here. Without any viable opposition party ( the DA is not considered a viable opposition party by the majority of South Africans, as seen by them failing to grow their voter base this election), the "big tent" ANC is splitting along racial, ethnic, cultural, and religious lines, in a reactionary manner. Jacob Zuma's MK party is the most obvious example of this, their manifesto calls for scrapping the constitution.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They will lose their majority. Votes are 99% counted and the ANC is barely above 40% of the vote. The ANC have screwed themselves with rampant corruption and a failure to deliver government services reliably, the most obvious example being the rolling electricity blackouts (loadshedding) that South Africans regularly experience. Having no electricity for 8+ hours a day at worst due to government incompetence, corruption, and austerity is not workable.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Going to be honest back when I was in high school we drew penises on the fields in the dew/frost. It was an all boys school so yeah.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Even if it's only plausible, many countries have laws on the books preventing the sale of weapons to countries under suspicion of committing genocide. I know that the UK has such a law. UK arms export licensing Rule 2c states: licences must “not grant (licenses) if there is risk …of a violation of international humanitarian law”.

So already with the ICJ's plausible ruling, many parties and countries open themselves up to lawsuits if they continue business with the Israeli military. Japan has stopped working with Israeli Elbit systems because of this, and it also led to the US pushing through their major arms deal with Israel, including 25 F-35 and 25 F-15 fighter jets, to be singed the day before the ICJ delivered their preliminary verdict.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Isn't it illegal, by their own laws, for many of these countries mentioned to sell Israel military equipment, supplies, and ammunition due to the recent ICJ ruling? Not even international law, but their own civil laws. Which should open weapons manufacturers and their governments up to civil lawsuits. I know South African lawyers plan to file such lawsuits against the USA and UK.

The pressure must be kept up against Israel. Not a moment of relief. Genocide cannot be tolerated.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

This should be a popular opinion honestly, because it's correct.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

Well you can, but the consequences of doing so are much worse in adulthood

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Your friend sounds cool

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Outside of crying because of physical pain (chronic pain sucks), 6 years ago was the last time. I don't know exactly why, it's just doesn't happen, even if I'm feeling really bad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Only android phone with tensor is Google pixel. There is much more to android than that. I still get 9-10 hours screen on time, off of one charge on a three year old android device with a 120hz screen. Apple definitely tracks you and free apps definitely have ads. On Android, private DNS allows you to essentially block ads system wide. And Android has advantages such as pop up and multi window apps for multitasking, I've been using that for 10 years now, since the galaxy S4. Apple still does not have this feature on the iPhone, only the iPad.

The advantages of an iPhone are the cohesive software experience with top class hardware and a premium feel, with top class video quality. In that they are alone at the top.

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