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It seems like putting a lawyer in jail would just be a recipe for delaying a trial though. They can't be expected to provide defense if they're locked up. Or do they just require you to find new counsel?

Is there some reason you can't start up a decentralized content hosting platform. Just let anyone with a spare hd and a spare pc at home join up?

Like I guess I don't really want anything illegal on my PC.... Maybe this plan is awful.

I'm always a bit shocked the worlds governments don't start offering free email/hosting to their citizens. It'd give them a cheap way to surveil that was "opt-in" (but would probably catch a lot of dumb people) and everyone would have a "verified" email for official stuff too. It seems like a good investment to me.

Israel is really in the drivers seat of this conflict though. You can imagine a reality where they had opened borders with Gaza and given them voices in the government. Where they're all these foreign funds for to build schools and libraries and pumping in tvs and video games and internet and helping keep the streets safe, and where it's much harder for a kid to say "I'm going to join a millitant groups" and where, even if Palestine is fighting it, we're moving towards peace. There's still violence from time to time, but it's declining.

You cant imagine the same story with Palestine. They have no power in the current relationship to give anything to Israel afaik. They can't build schools there even if they wanted to. So (to some extent, and acknowledging that it's horrible horrible horrible for the people involved) the lashing out isn't surprising there. It's not good, but also not surprising. The two atrocities are very very different (imo).

This is not true. There are hundreds of cultures around today who were conquered and just left to live until their conquerors eventually moved out. The Jews themselves have literally been conquered a dozen times.

But it won't kill hamas. It'll just breed more of them living in all the countries surrounding Israel.

LoL. Western governments still aren't even saying "please stop" let alone pulling the billions in funding that's being used to do this.

I expect Israel just out and out kill everyone is Gaza this time and take the land thinking it will end this problem forever. I expect in 10 years they'll figure out they failed when another attack happens.

This is basically what all those reddit clients did on phones, now coming for us to enjoy on desktop.

I assume they're being quadruply careful with trump. The last thing they want is to take him to court and lose.

I mean, every OS out there beyond (maybe?) some hardcore Linux distros preinstalls this stuff though. Some (but not all) will let you remove it. None really make it "easy" or give you choices during install.

I think it's just easier to treat all apps the same than special casing some and then having to install other hacks to get around the first ones for managed systems. It's cheaper to treat them all the same.

As an American who left, it looks batshit insane to me. Everything is crazy expensive and they're passing restrictive laws that, if passed anywhere in Asia or Africa, would be run as "look at these backwards shitty country" news stories.

I've got a trans kid. We're not returning any time soon. It seems unsafe for them to exist in the us for the foreseeable future.

But I've got us friends who feel the opposite. We visited a friend in Bainbridge a few years ago who really couldn't comprehend why everyone wouldn't want to live on their island.

Asia (here) isn't really any more unsafe. I visited India recently and it felt less safe, but everyone I know there also said it wasn't really. It depends on areas as well, and much of it (everywhere) is just media depictions and racism telling your brain to panic.

The real advantage of the us is just cash. You can make a lot more money there. They're rich. Money is good. It makes life easier. Its also expensive there. To save at any income level, you have to be thrifty.

I think Moz helped write and supports this. I even think it's (partially enabled in nightly?)

Not sure if these built in decoders are supported though. Seems a bit dangerous to expose native codecs directly from the web to be honest, since you'll end up with wildly varying support across browsers.