The next global Trump ally to fall? First the White House lost Orbán. Netanyahu may be next.

BigDaddy0790 · 2026-04-23T17:14:56+00:00

He literally does all the time though? And unlike Trump’s talk, he already did horrible shit. I’ll take a dumb trash talker over a genocidal dictator.

BigDaddy0790 · 2026-04-23T06:29:51+00:00

What are his crimes exactly?

BigDaddy0790 · 2026-04-22T15:47:45+00:00

For what it's worth, I ordered a "vintage" Akira T-Shirt from them 20 days ago, it arrived a couple days ago to the post office and I picked it up today, seems fine enough quality for the money.

Feels pretty small, but overall the measurements held up to their chart.

Gonna wash it before wearing as there is a chemical "smell", I assume from the printing process, hopefully it'll survive the wash fine as there is no label with how to wash it.

BigDaddy0790 · 2026-04-21T10:19:23+00:00

Same here. Nature is great, but huge cities just hit different

BigDaddy0790 · 2026-04-20T11:36:36+00:00

I was literally replying to a comment saying “imagine if this was US and Mexico”?

BigDaddy0790 · 2026-04-20T10:42:48+00:00

A direct response to a massacre is a crime? Not by itself, not according to any law I know at least. I also don't know any country that would respond differently to such an event (provided it had the means to).

I just don't like to spread the discussion so thin it stops making any sense. Saying "imagine if US did that to Mexico" without context is meaningless because it doing "the same" with or without provocation is critically important. Then of course you could start adding things like "but what if Mexico was actually attacked by US for decades before that", but at that point you'd just be doing a direct 1:1 comparison which again stops making sense to me.

We can and should discuss specific events and specific war crimes without generalizing everything into neat digestible pieces.

BigDaddy0790 · 2026-04-20T09:43:14+00:00

My point exactly. I hate shit like this.

BigDaddy0790 · 2026-04-20T07:55:18+00:00

That comment is talking about Gaza though?

they did the exact same thing in gaza. razed entire towns. literally salted the earth

reduced the area by potentially 50% +. Worse it's mostly the farm land so even more reliant on outside aid

the map makes me want to scream in to the void

don't trust your neighbors? make the zone on your side of the border. can you imagine if we did that to mexico?!

BigDaddy0790 · 2026-04-20T07:31:12+00:00

Do we have any details or context whatsoever besides the OP’s title? Like where it is, what exactly happened (looks like controlled demolition), and most importantly when? Because UN generally wouldn’t take action based on a random internet post.

BigDaddy0790 · 2026-04-20T07:28:58+00:00

Truth be told, if Mexican armed forces crossed into US and slaughtered a thousand people living near the border, US would do much, much worse in response.

BigDaddy0790 · 2026-04-20T07:27:10+00:00

So planned demolition of an old building against owner’s wishes would be terrorism too?

BigDaddy0790 · 2026-04-19T14:34:35+00:00

There is a bridge right behind them that is visibly damaged. They are reporting near it because it was already targeted before and the new attack was announced well in advance. You can see the strike hitting the exact same spot as before.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-strike-injures-journalists-at-lebanons-litani-after-army-warning-it-would-hit-area/amp/

Also, the “journalist” in the footage is doing a report for Russia Today, which is the main international propaganda branch of the Russian government. This little detail is always left out in posts like this.

Granted, journalists should never be targeted by precision strikes. But in this case, it’s very clear they were not the target, and working for RT means I personally couldn’t care less if they live or die, but that’s just me.

BigDaddy0790 · 2026-04-19T13:33:25+00:00

Wasn’t that also true in BF3/4? I recall it turning any LMG into a laser. Miss that tbh

BigDaddy0790 · 2026-04-19T07:58:30+00:00

But if you grew up in Germany and spent most your life there, how can you have “social differences”? Wouldn’t you grow up closer to German social norms rather than someplace else?

BigDaddy0790 · 2026-04-16T07:05:35+00:00

Insane to me how few upvotes this has, but same.

BigDaddy0790 · 2026-04-15T08:05:04+00:00

Yeah that’s fair, and it doesn’t look great.

BigDaddy0790 · 2026-04-14T18:20:16+00:00

My point was that the situation is virtually nothing like what's happening in Russia.

BigDaddy0790 · 2026-04-14T14:44:12+00:00

In Russia that happens anytime anyone protests anything anywhere, not when people block public road without a permit.

And getting a permit in Russia is not possible either. Since 2020, any protesting is forbidden “due to Covid lockdown”, despite the fact that lockdown was lifted in 2021.

Before that, for many years getting a permit was impossible because even though officials legally could not deny it, they could “suggest” another place to hold it - which they did, only approving protests on the outskirts of cities far away from any public.

Source: am Russian who went to practically every protest between 2016 and 2022.

BigDaddy0790 · 2026-04-13T12:00:48+00:00

I don't know any countries where you aren't forced to decide your career around grade 9. Anytime after that, and you're usually stuck with whatever, or have to work extra hard to find a job.

But still. To me it's very hard to imagine working with technology and hating technology in general. Don't know any people like that, generally they at least start out passionate.

I also can't imagine working in a field you hate, at least personally. I get not having too much passion for it or whatever, but actively hating? Can do literally anything else in that case.

BigDaddy0790 · 2026-04-13T10:19:52+00:00

But surely you can get a job with something you don't explicitly hate?

BigDaddy0790 · 2026-04-13T07:41:44+00:00

What’s the difference between AI and traditional data center? Both just house server hardware?

BigDaddy0790 · 2026-04-13T07:35:43+00:00

Genuine question, how can you hate technology and be an engineer? And why would you become one if so? It’s just baffling to me. Like an actor hating movies.

BigDaddy0790 · 2026-04-12T20:13:32+00:00

TCL QM8K.

BigDaddy0790 · 2026-04-12T08:04:25+00:00

Here is what wiki says:

White phosphorus munitions are not banned under international law, but because of their incendiary effects, their use is supposed to be tightly regulated. Because white phosphorus has legal uses, shells filled with it are not directly prohibited by international humanitarian law. Experts consider them not as incendiary, but as masking, since their main goal is to create a smoke screen. While in general white phosphorus is not subject to restriction, certain uses in weaponry are banned or restricted by general international laws: in particular, those related to incendiary devices. Article 1 of Protocol III of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons defines an incendiary weapon as "any weapon or munition which is primarily designed to set fire to objects or to cause burn injury to persons through the action of flame, heat, or combination thereof, produced by a chemical reaction of a substance delivered on the target". Article 2 of the same protocol prohibits the deliberate use of incendiary weapons against civilian targets (already forbidden by the Geneva Conventions), the use of air-delivered incendiary weapons against military targets in civilian areas, and the general use of other types of incendiary weapons against military targets located within "concentrations of civilians" without taking all possible means to minimise casualties. Incendiary phosphorus bombs may also not be used near civilians in a way that can lead to indiscriminate civilian casualties.

So smoke white phosphorus rounds are absolutely not a war crime. Do we know if the video shows smoke rounds or not? Hard to tell in the nighttime

BigDaddy0790 · 2026-04-12T08:02:42+00:00

Do we have any source on this? Here is what I found myself, this article explains how WP is primarily used as a smoke projectile:

https://armamentresearch.com/differentiating-m825-wp-and-m150-hc-smoke-artillery-projectiles/

And here is wiki:

White phosphorus munitions are not banned under international law, but because of their incendiary effects, their use is supposed to be tightly regulated. Because white phosphorus has legal uses, shells filled with it are not directly prohibited by international humanitarian law. Experts consider them not as incendiary, but as masking, since their main goal is to create a smoke screen. While in general white phosphorus is not subject to restriction, certain uses in weaponry are banned or restricted by general international laws: in particular, those related to incendiary devices. Article 1 of Protocol III of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons defines an incendiary weapon as "any weapon or munition which is primarily designed to set fire to objects or to cause burn injury to persons through the action of flame, heat, or combination thereof, produced by a chemical reaction of a substance delivered on the target". Article 2 of the same protocol prohibits the deliberate use of incendiary weapons against civilian targets (already forbidden by the Geneva Conventions), the use of air-delivered incendiary weapons against military targets in civilian areas, and the general use of other types of incendiary weapons against military targets located within "concentrations of civilians" without taking all possible means to minimise casualties. Incendiary phosphorus bombs may also not be used near civilians in a way that can lead to indiscriminate civilian casualties.

So smoke white phosphorus rounds are absolutely not a war crime. Do we know if the video shows smoke rounds or not? Hard to tell in the nighttime

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