zerfuffle

joined 11 months ago
[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

I'm sort of sad that you even had any doubts lol

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Have you considered that the journalist might have been Hamas?

Just like that Reuters journalist that was killed. Just like that Al Jazeera journalist that was killed.

Odd. A lot of journalists are being killed. Maybe they're all Hamas?

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's a fundamentally different problem here: it's new infrastructure, which in this day and age is barely profitable in terms of first-order effects (fees, fares, etc.) but is significantly profitable in terms of second- and third-order effects (economic growth, new businesses, yada yada).

If you could build a new subway in New York, spend zero capital, but have to give up the fare revenue for that subway, why wouldn't you?

Also, the India/US alternative is to... Just outright give the Indian Adani group a majority stake in their port expansion. So much better. So much. Truly.

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

Germans are Hamas too, obviously.

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

IDF reliability in reporting is at an all-time low.

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

Have you ever looked at the tool you sent?

Please, do put in Niger and find out (FWIW, your tool is very low granularity and I know there are visualizers that show it at a more fine scale).

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I'd recommend you take a look at the demographic pyramids of countries in Africa. Mortality is steepest in the 14-34 range because that's when most people die.

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago (4 children)

You do realize that poorer regions have much higher fertility because of much higher child mortality rates and much lower average lifespans, right? Fertility is inversely proportional with wealth and access to healthcare.

This isn't unique to Gaza. It's true in Africa, India, and pre-communist China.

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml -1 points 11 months ago

You mean, going to an EDM rave within eyesight and earshot of a concentration camp and within eyesight and earshot of an IDF military base wasn't the best idea? Say it isn't so.

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

Considering a good chunk of US media is just ingesting Reuters and adding a spin to it, I'm not surprised.

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Except the EU backtracked. It's like everyone on here is salivating at the thought of more dead Palestinians, as if they haven't suffered enough under apartheid.

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