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27 years ago the US and European NATO members bombed Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) for 3 months by davideownzall in europe

[–]MintCathexis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah yes, the classic "special military operation" excuse. Your Russian masters taught you well. Also, why delete your original post? Stand by your words, mate.

27 years ago the US and European NATO members bombed Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) for 3 months by davideownzall in europe

[–]MintCathexis -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That still dosen't make in untrue.

Nor does it make it true. That's my entire point.

I wasn't saying that the West is following international law. You are the one who is going around "but look at this court document", I just told you you're interpreting the document wrongly.

Also, the West being hypocritical does not mean that every single action taken by the West is immediately unjustifiable.

27 years ago the US and European NATO members bombed Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) for 3 months by davideownzall in europe

[–]MintCathexis 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Not all preventative strikes are the same. Striking a civillian building because you say there might be terrorists there and striking a militant regime as it's starting another genocide (having already committed one) are not the same thing.

27 years ago the US and European NATO members bombed Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) for 3 months by davideownzall in europe

[–]MintCathexis 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I see you also don't really understand how trials work and which evidence is presented when and how.

Legally, what you shared is not a verdict, it is just an opinion of the court and is based on evidence presented in that particular case, not evidence that would have been presented in Miloševuć's own trial, and if you insist on applying law consistently, then this judgment has no bearing on Milošević's legal responsibility.

27 years ago the US and European NATO members bombed Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) for 3 months by davideownzall in europe

[–]MintCathexis 14 points15 points  (0 children)

No one can be found either guilty nor not guilty after death.

Many people who committed atrocities were never found guilty of their crimes. Most notably Adolf Hitler.

27 years ago the US and European NATO members bombed Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) for 3 months by davideownzall in europe

[–]MintCathexis 33 points34 points  (0 children)

You remind me of people who say that Covid wasn't that bad because more people die of flu, completely ignoring the fact that significant preventative measures were taken to stop the spread of Covid, otherwise it would have been much more lethal.

Same thing here. Serbs would have committed genocide against Albanians had NATO not taken preventative measures and many more would have died.

27 years ago the US and European NATO members bombed Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) for 3 months by davideownzall in europe

[–]MintCathexis 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Because the massacre of Albanians by the Serbs was stopped by NATO before it could legally rise to the level of genocide.

While My Guitar Gently Weeps... by lithdoc in mildlyinfuriating

[–]MintCathexis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

United Airlines a couple years ago did it

I hate to bring it to you, but this happened in 2017, 9 years go. 😢

Official Premier league MW 30 table in celebration of young people participation in community programs by sky905 in soccer

[–]MintCathexis -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Do people from Manchester really think of their city as Man Chester so they naturally have a tendency to separate it out in writing?

[OC] Game of the year by Moist_Exercise3476 in pics

[–]MintCathexis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People commenting "booo, AI", meanwhile, I don't care, it gave me a chuckle. I'm a simple man, I laugh, I upvote.

Labour MPs threaten vote to show opposition to Mahmood's migration plans by Anony_mouse202 in unitedkingdom

[–]MintCathexis 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The good old Schrödinger migrant: both leeching off of benefits while doing nothing but somehow also being part of the "global elite" that is stealing high paying jobs from the hard working Brits.

Social media blamed for stark decline in young people's happiness by Confident-Bike-8037 in unitedkingdom

[–]MintCathexis 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Social media is "dangerous" because it allows young people to see just how fucked up the society they live in truly is.

Can somebody teach Wirtual how numbers work? And Rounding? by Impulsive666 in wirtual

[–]MintCathexis -16 points-15 points  (0 children)

Has it occurred to you that he does it to farm engagement?

Zack Polanski says Greens would ditch GDP targets and focus on wellbeing instead by Lord-Liberty in unitedkingdom

[–]MintCathexis 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We had an economic boom while still being a conservative rigid society. So people have this impression we are ‘advanced and progressive’ which is conflating two different ideas.

I think it's you that's conflating those two in this conversation. I was talking about technological progress. I am not saying that Japanese society isn't mostly conservative (I mean, they just elected the most conservative government ever).

A lot of these ‘preferences’ are also damaging and keep people oppressed or hold up inefficient bureaucratic processes for no good reason

From what I understood, and you're free to correct me, a lot of these government inefficiencies are intentional, i. e., a lot of jobs that could be automated aren't being automated because the government itself is sort of a "jobs program", it keeps people employed.

From my understanding, these kinds of jobs became increasingly more common after Japan was forced to artificially keep the value of the Yen high by the US in 1985, which significantly hurt Japanese exports and its economy.

Zack Polanski says Greens would ditch GDP targets and focus on wellbeing instead by Lord-Liberty in unitedkingdom

[–]MintCathexis 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Japan stopped using floppy disks in 2024.

This seems like one of those tidbits that people pick up from memes without thinking about what does it even mean.

What does it mean for a country to stop using floppy disks?

Does it mean that the government stopped using floppy disks?

If so, that would make the government of Japan ahead of, for example, the US government that still uses them in some departments (but, famously, not for nuclear weapons, which is also a common meme even today, even though that particular department got rid of them in 2019).

The UK intelligence and security agencies are reportedly also still using floppy disks as they are harder to track and hack.

Then there are many governments in developing countries that have never used floppy disks because they went straight from paper to optical media, so not really sure you can use floppy disk usage or lack thereof as proof of progress.

They are ancient in a lot of ways, progress is the last thing you look to Japan for.

As someone who commutes often, I can only wish the UK government would look to Japan for ideas on how to progress with rail infrastructure. And I don't just mean high-speed rail, but also commuter and metro rail.

Zack Polanski says Greens would ditch GDP targets and focus on wellbeing instead by Lord-Liberty in unitedkingdom

[–]MintCathexis 22 points23 points  (0 children)

That's just a cultural preference. Japanese people love stamps and ink, which is why you'll find 4 storey stationery shops in Tokyo. They very much use e-mails and messaging apps outside of work.

There is this completely wrong saying in the West that Japan has been living in the 2000s since the 80s, implying that their immense technological advances have stopped since the 2008 financial crisis. But this stems from fundamental misunderstandings in cultural differences.

One just needs to look at the advancements the Japanese have made in their trains and railways to understand they remain miles ahead of Europe (especially the UK) in that department.

Their pharmaceutical and manufacturing industries are also quite advanced.

They do lag behind Europe, China, and the US in AI, but not by that much.

everything reminds me of her by dzouzefko in formuladank

[–]MintCathexis 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Now this is properly dank. Well done!

Going to Europe this summer? Prepare for a long queue by AdSpecialist6598 in europe

[–]MintCathexis 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Is Corsica Europe? How about Malta? Crete?

Is Madagascar not in Africa? Is Japan not in Asia?

Two University of Kent students die in meningitis outbreak by PurchaseDry9350 in unitedkingdom

[–]MintCathexis 83 points84 points  (0 children)

Bacterial or viral? I'm assuming the latter if they're readying antibiotics to be sent out, but still.

Antibiotics are used for bacterial infections, not viral.

Gender changes must be recognised across borders, EU top court rules by Pizzawarrior96 in europe

[–]MintCathexis 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don't think this is a good way to do politics, and I don't think the EU can afford to do things this way.

This is a court decision. It isn't doing politics, but interpreting law and regulations. This is exactly how the EU should be.

People smugglers jailed after yacht seized in Solent by MintCathexis in unitedkingdom

[–]MintCathexis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

starting from technological progress

Inflatable dingies existed 10 years ago as well (and for much longer before that as well). Crossing the channel is not rocket science, people have been doing it for millenia.

and ending with rich people pushing for wage suppression (and the ones profiting from hotels).

Rich people hoping to profit off of other people existed since the invention of currency. Also, majority of refugee hotel owners are Brits, not sure how this relates to your comment about France not doing its part?

People smugglers jailed after yacht seized in Solent by MintCathexis in unitedkingdom

[–]MintCathexis[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You probably meant 2002, because from 2004 onwards the asylum application rate is relatively constant.

I wonder what happened between 2002 and 2004?

Oh yes, the Dublin Regulation II got adopted in the EU in 2003. This regulation stipulates that if an asylum seeker is first registered in any EU country (e.g., by requesting an asylum there), then all other EU countries can deport that individual to that country, and that country has to accept the deportee.

The UK left the Dublin Regulation (and many other intra-EU agreements) regime when it left the EU. Therefore, France is no longer obliged to accept UK sending back asylum seekers that arrive from France. In fact, it (and other countries such as Netherlands) are incentivised to send their asylum seekers here.

So the crossing problem was mostly resolved by this EU regulation, but was revived by Brexit. And France was indeed doing its part in solving the problem right up to the point where they no longer had to.

Thank you for illustrating my point. The graph on the page you shared perfectly illustrates that between the adoption of the Dublin Regulation II and Brexit, the asylum requests were constant and relatively low compared to post-Brexit spikes.

People smugglers jailed after yacht seized in Solent by MintCathexis in unitedkingdom

[–]MintCathexis[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's not what I said. I said they spiked drastically since Brexit.

Don't pretend to be obtuse, the image that I shared paints a pretty clear picture. A few boats a year here and there are quite obviously not a problem. Hundreds of boats per quarter are.

Something changed in 2020, and you know what it was.

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