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  • And if they get hungry and surrender just to eat, because the “enemy” is following international law

    If its international law to guarantee everyone gets fed and you are able to defeat an military by starving out the host population (a technique the Israelis are claiming is being used to defeat Hamas) then how are you following international law?

    I think it's about the enemy soldiers starving into surrender, not the civilian populace. Surely this doesn't mean you are not allowed to attack the supply lines of an invading army inside your own borders?

    Or... does it?

    A quick google yields the resolution: https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/3954949?ln=en&v=pdf#files

    Starting to read it...

    It... starts with six pages of "recalling this", "acknowledging that"? Are UN resolutions like patents, where only a small fraction of the text is actually meaningful? Maybe I should find a guide for reading them first...

  • Says 179 when I try (not sure why it's different) but only 47 of them are the actual article - the rest are references.

  • What's so special with four and a half billion years (or 13.8 billion years, if you measure from the big bang instead of the formation of the Solar system and Earth) that makes it so weird for us to "just happen to be" during that time?

  • Back in the 19th century, Henry George suggested to solve this with a very high land value tax.

    The idea, in a nutshell, is that a good chunk of the worth of a property is not the building itself but the land it is built on - and that component does not come from the landlord's investment, it comes from the community's effort. Take that away, and housing prices will dramatically drop (or at least - stop rising so steeply) because real estate will no longer be such an attractive investment avenue, since most of the value that comes from the land will be taxed away. The part that remains - the value of the building itself - is the part that landlords really do have to build and maintain themselves.

    I'm usually skeptical about economic ideologies that claim to be both morally correct and utility increasing - simply because I've never seen an economic ideology that doesn't claim to be both these things. But here I think Georgism did manage to show a direct link between the two, so I'm more inclined to believe in it.

  • Is it "dumbass" (a single word) or is it "dumb/ass" (relation)?

  • Post on social media, mostly

  • Banana

    Jump
  • Americans use it as an excuse to avoid converting to metric.

  • I suspect they are hoping to get their hands on some radioactivity which will turn them into an animal-human hybrid.

  • They should create a model that'd only trained on the content of .tex files.

  • Maybe, but they're cats, not dogs. Looking after them is not as nearly as much time consuming.

  • So the fragment thing really is necessary, because it'd technically be a different URL and my new NFT will be the first one to match it.

  • Wait what? I thought it was the hash of the URL, and the same URL generates the same hash (that's why I thought about changing it by using the fragment - which I've mistakenly called "shard" (not sure where I heard that name exactly...))

    Every time I think cryptocurrency can't get any dumber, and every time I'm proven wrong...

  • Not related to the outage itself, but I wonder... can I take an existing NFT's URL, add a shard (or modify the existing one?), and mint it as a new NFT?

  • decent

    You've misspelled "descent"

  • That place you were going to will owe to give you the thing you want as a reward for your effort. This is exactly how the world works.

  • Yes

  • I prefer Borking News and it'd just be videos of dogs.

  • This. It's not like it's running LLM queries behind your back. It's not even a popup. Just an option in the menu that will do nothing as long as you don't click on it.

  • Could you guys stop dumping your trash in the forest please? It obstructs my garbage trucks which I send to the forest to dump garbage in.

  • Zoomers and Alphas have more years of that bleak future to enjoy.