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DaveO
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Tech, SF, APIs, coffee and beer and the chocolate biscuits. Caution may contain opinions. Quality of opinions varies. I write SF, buy my books :) Trunk Line - the series - https://amzn.to/4lAURez
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DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · Aug 19
One man, one summit, a bunch of AIs and a LOT of delegates who don't like each other - what could possibly go wrong!

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DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 10h
Then I’m confused (I think) because what has been done to Gaza clearly looks like they want the population never to return and the society scattered?

That fits Lemkin’s definition doesn’t it?
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DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 10h
What part of Lemkin’s definitions are you disagreeing with?

He covers that IMO.

The attempt to essentially eliminate the society, economy and any trace of what would be a nation and society surely has to play.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 11h
wow guys I am starting to think tariffs are not useful tools to force down China's trade surplus
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 11h
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DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 11h
As Lemkin pointed out when he coined the phrase. It’s not ONLY about the numbers killed is it.
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DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 13h
Was ‘liberal’ ever a particularly good label for the Democratic Party?

Conservative stopped applying to the GOP some time back too :(
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DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 16h
Ok then. 🙄
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DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 17h
How long did the Korean War last in MASH?
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DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 18h
Write a book they said. Self publish they said. It’ll be fun they said.

I have 50 reviews for my first one after literally years but I will admit ‘real’ life keeps getting in the way.
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DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 18h
‘The Mob’

Uh huh. How about covering news in an impartial manner as befits national networks?
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Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 22h
This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss
The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.
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DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 19h
I was about 14. At school. We went on to laugh at the twee nature of the US version.
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DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 19h
Now remember watching it when it came out when you were a teenager and ask what impact that had on you.
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DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 19h
There might be rural areas that could feed themselves for a bit but they still have to fuel and equipment and supplies from somewhere at that is also somewhere with a port.
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DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 19h
It’s entirely possible Monday might also be ribs. He says looking at the ribs he is preparing.
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DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 19h
My plan for the week.
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DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 19h
If I don’t like the stats it is because the stats are wrong?

Is that a thing now?
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DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 19h
That would be the case. Yes.

Where this ends up is they will be essentially having to rule on every single lower court position constantly via the shadow docket and the whole system will
Grind to a halt.
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DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 19h
General note.

Not everything has a ‘center’ position. Somethings just have a position right or wrong where you have to take a side for or against.

While a lot of things are nuanced there is little more pernicious a thing than insisting there are two sides to things with a mythical center.
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DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 19h
Block. Block. Don’t feed the trolls. Sigh.
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DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 20h
Does it count if the nutjobs saying stuff like that can’t do it?

Do 2 wrongs make a right where you come from?
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DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 20h
Why don’t we ask the guy who coined the term what he thought?

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael...
Raphael Lemkin - Wikipedia
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DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 20h
I am genuinely curious how what has been done to the region doesn’t meet Lemkin’s standards for genocide. His definition adopted by many post WW2 does include the infrastructure of a nation or society as well as the people. Can Palestine ever recover from this or do they just move on?
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DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 20h
Is it proportionate to kill 1% of a population in response to losing 0.01% of yours?

Especially when all the evidence shows it won’t achieve the desired goal. At some point it just looks like killing people for no particular end.
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DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 20h
Just block and move on. Block and move on.

Doh.
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DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 20h
So it’s ok that it’s just the industrial scale murder of a civilian population by a better equipped military?

Got it.

I mean it’s a flex but ok.
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DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 20h
You said this bit? Right?