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sqgl ,

Sounds about Right.

sqgl OP ,

Is this China bullying in international waters or are they supporting North Korea against UN Security Council sanctions which Members unanimously voted for?

If NK is still shipping munitions to Russia then this could be China helping Russia while pretending it is about water territorial rights.

Member state.. authorized to:

Inspect North Korea cargo on land, air, and sea, if the state has reason to believe that it contains prohibited items and seize any prohibited materials or technologies

https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/UN-Security-Council-Resolutions-on-North-Korea

sqgl OP , (edited )

Your doubts are incorrect.

Asked about the incident at the daily Chinese foreign ministry press conference, spokesperson Lin Jian said: "What truly happened was, an Australian military aircraft deliberately flew within close range of China's airspace in a provocative move that endangered China's maritime and air security in the name of enforcing UN Security Council resolutions."

sqgl OP ,

Shanghai Daily columnist Andy Boreham pointed out... "the area they claim the incident happened is within China's EEZ... Innocent passage is allowed but military aircraft do NOT constitute 'innocent passage"

Kind of like the many Chinese military incursions in the airspace of the Taiwanese EEZ, eh Andy?

sqgl OP ,

Which UN Security Council Resolutions do you think he was referring to if not the NK sanctions?

sqgl OP ,

The "you came close to your airspace so we scare you away" response seems like regular old territorial bullying to me.

See my other comment about the EEZ.

sqgl OP ,

In my quote the claim was that Australia was there enforcing the UN resolution. That resolution was made a long time ago, well before China took sides in the Ukraine war. Too late to veto the resolution now.

PS Admittedly my quote is not from a credible source. I haven't time to test its veracity.

sqgl ,

I'm biased towards paragraphs.

Otherwise, good point: understanding the other side is a good way to somehow being able to work together.

sqgl ,

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty, especially as the sheep was a black one. Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of the word liberty.

Quoted from Abraham Lincoln

sqgl ,

He probably was drawing the analogy with the landowners exploiting black people.

And black sheep are rejected by the flock apparently.

sqgl ,

TBH I didn't understand your soulism comment or how it is connected with your original comment.

I was really just supporting your original comment.

sqgl ,

That Lincone guy who said it was a famous dude for being smart and shit. Could be hype eh?

sqgl ,

So I looked it up....

Soulism is a school of anarchist thought which argues that reality, the laws of physics, and the limitations of our bodies are unjust heirarchies which must be abolished.

https://www.reddit.com/r/serioussoulism/

I think I am done chatting with this person after mistakenly embarking in good faith. You spotted the evangelical kookiness quicker than I did.

sqgl , (edited )

Did Gantz attend? He is the likely successor of Netanyahu.

4/5 parties within the coalition attended. Some of those parties would be in any new coalition.
But does attending mean endorsing?

sqgl ,

CCTV pointing at politicians not citizens

sqgl ,

Steady on, you post here and then get annoyed when someone offers troubleshooting help?

sqgl ,

I see it as ambiguous. Terry may have won in convincing the patient that the parents were "abusive" even though that is way too strong a term.

sqgl ,

Sad Clippy

sqgl ,

There was a free version of virtual desktops already available.

sqgl ,

SimpleX uses Signal protocol but without needing your phone number.

tricks to bypass soulseek "filtering/censorship"

I use soulseek (well nicotine+ for linux, but same network). For years know I have know that searching for certain terms will fail to give results because they are being filtered. For example "bryan" or "adams" returns no results for me. Although I can find these items in other ways- I'm curious if there have been any new...

sqgl ,

That thread is from 12 years ago so things haven't gotten worse thankfully.

sqgl ,

I couldn't run an internet radio station without it and imagine there are many other similar stations.

In the old days labels used to secretly pay AM Radio stations to play their artists. The rort was called payola.

Have anyone tried Tailscale as a Hamachi alternative?

I used to use Hamachi on Windows to play "local LAN" games with my friends, has anyone tried using Tailscale for this purpose? As far as I know it should work fine, but I'm not sure and I don't have any friends to try it out with, but it makes me curious.

sqgl ,

LogMeIn's TeamViewer is free for personal use but I have been flagged three times for commercial use even though I barely use it.

Then I have to send an email which seems to be ignored for months until it starts working again.

Seems they do not want personal users, they only want potential customers.

Meta gave Netflix and Spotify access to users private messages ( arstechnica.com )

in 2018, Facebook told Vox that it doesn't use private messages for ad targeting. But a few months later, The New York Times, citing "hundreds of pages of Facebook documents," reported that Facebook "gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages."...

sqgl ,

I'll see you on Wire.

Or SimpleX

sqgl ,

"Absolutely shocked"? Were these teachers all home schooled in their youth or something?

sqgl ,

Also it is mainly the undisciplined school drop-outs who fall for Q-Anon and other conspiracy bs.

sqgl ,

What was in them that inspired her to release them?

sqgl ,

It is bad in Gaza and I agree with Bernie that Biden should stop funding Israel however the hyperbole of "genocide" is devaluing the word.https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/8201dcd7-5207-419d-aea9-558316bf9fb6.webp

sqgl ,

It's simple arithmetic.

sqgl ,

Yeah I would call myself a Zionist because it merely means I think they deserve to live in that area. Not exclusively like "from the river to the sea" or anything. A two state solution is Zionist.

sqgl , (edited )

Outside their borders? Do you mean the 1948 borders when Israel was attacked by several Arab countries?

Not everyone. The one group which was hounded and exterminated throughout history and gets woven into conspiracy theories to this day.

Nobody credible is arguing for a single state. Two state is the best hope, although there are plenty of Arabs living in Israel.

Israel is largely secular although Likud are doing their best to undermine that progress. Palestinians are largely religious extremists.

sqgl , (edited )

After the 6 Day War in 1967, when Israel attacked 3 of its neighboring countries,

Am a noob in this but, going by Wikipedia, only Egypt was attacked and that was after they blocked Israeli shipping in the South. Syria and Jordan attacked in solidarity with Egypt.

Re 1948, yes it does seem deliberately misleading by the table to leave it out, I acknowledge that.

Re the current war: it started off as legitimate retaliation although in retrospect I think it was futile. Israel should have sucked it up and fixed their lax border patrol.

If Israel wanted to ethnically cleanse they could have been more efficient but that would have turned the world against them. The mission creep (whether intended or not) suited Likud.

Unfortunately I hear that even a change of government in Israel would not change the current trajectory. Other nations withholding arms/funding is essential now but this call was hobbled at the start by not even acknowledging the horror of Oct 7 (at least in a call for a ceasefire presented to the Australian Parliament). Israel was called genocidal from the outset, before they even retaliated. That did not help and would have lost support for the resolution from the Left in Israel.

The resolution notably does not specifically condemn Hamas for the Oct. 7 terrorist attack — nor does it mention Hamas by name at all — a line the U.S. had said was necessary... The resolution also doesn't affirm Israel's right to self-defense or mention rocket attacks by Hamas and other militant groups on Israel.

sqgl ,

Sorry, I meant I support their claim to statehood.

As for animosity towards a 2SS, that is mainly the Likud party who only scraped into power after 5 failed elections. Bibi has two prosecutions for corruption pending. He is not popular.

sqgl , (edited )

The Sinai option is recent. At this point in time semantics don't matter. I agree it is ethnic cleansing now. This is what you get when two right wing groups fight.

The excuse of stopping another Oct 7 is weak. A competent government would not have let it happen in the first place. Preventing a repeat would not be difficult. Eliminating Hamas is fantasy as is eliminating the state of Israel.

It would help if the global Left would drop the inflammatory "river to the sea" mantra and instead concentrate on a 2SS.

sqgl ,

Oct 7 was also "some ethnic cleansing". Hamas didn't even pretend otherwise.

sqgl ,

Point is: hypocrisy does not help conflict resolution.

The global Left refusing to call that genocide (even inventing conspiracies about IDF killing its own people on the day) helped escalate it. It made even moderate Israelis cheer on the retribution which ended up wildly disproportionate and counterproductive.

You seem stuck on seeing any criticism of the Palestinian side as unbridled support for Likud's agenda.

sqgl ,

You did not read your own link. They did not call it service cleansing (yet).

A UN human rights expert warned today that Palestinians are in grave danger of mass ethnic cleansing

I agree with the expert though. There is no need to invade Rafah, to expel Palestinians, or even eradicate Hamas (since it is impossible). To do so will justify calling it ethnic cleansing and indeed that does seem to be Likud's aim.

sqgl OP , (edited )

Fair call. I have now added inline links

sqgl OP ,

Average could be either mean or median or mode or some other esoteric measure

sqgl OP ,

That is why the comparison is with 2019. It wasn't a pandemic until 2020.

sqgl OP ,

Admittedly I cannot find evidence for the statement by Grothe that the benefits are in each quintile. However...

It is possible that corporate marketing has successfully bred dissatisfaction so that people are not happy with what they have. "Everybody needs a thneed".

People are made to think that having a bad day is a big issue because they expect to be happy every day. I like to call it Feelgood fascism, especially when it is peer pressure.

sqgl OP ,

(Arguing against the point of my own post) if people are substituting to "inferior" products then that indicates hardship and the CPI correctly measures that.

It is like if people started showering only once a week because hot water is too expensive. We should still be counting how much it costs to shower every day, not fudging the measurements to accomodate coping strategies.

sqgl OP ,

Nevertheless, voting Trump back in would take US backwards.

sqgl ,

The bar for "genocide" keeps getting lower. The word is getting devalued.

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