Yeah but I don’t think the average smash and grab thief is going to be smart enough to recognize the potential value of the data on the laptop, they’re just going to pawn the thing off as quickly as possible

Anyone smart enough to want the data probably doesn’t need to smash a window, they’ll just access the data remotely when the computer is on and the drive is unencrypted

So even then, it only protects you from the very narrow overlap of thieves who are dumb enough to need to break into cars for a living, but smart enough to harvest data off of stolen laptops

I still stand by full disk encryption accomplishing almost nothing for the average user but separating them from their own files

If you don’t have data on your PC that someone might be willing to kill you for, you probably don’t need it, and Microsoft enabling it by default for Win11 installs is crazy

Why would NATO have any say in if they accept or not? What would the threat be if they do, they stop providing them with arms and ammunition? Surely, if Russia is indeed so benevolent, Ukraine wouldn’t need them going forward in this hypothetical peace?

Sorry but most people don’t read Pravda

“But you see, hohol, if you just let me win the war, then there will be peace!”

A TOS doesn’t give you the legal right to destroy someone’s property… At worst they could deny service

Hot take: A well armed populace is important for keeping the power of the state in check, and a well armed state is important so that it can’t be easily overthrown without a majority taking up arms against it

Basically, domestic mutually assured destruction will keep everyone playing by our agreed upon rules

I mean, it’s a fraction in the sense that 2/3rds is a fraction (The US has 92 operating nuclear reactors as of 2023)

The average age of a nuclear power plant in France is 37 years

They have 56 total reactors, and have only built 6 in the last 30 years (with the most recent one being connected to the grid in 1999, 24 years ago)

I’d be willing to bet that the cost of nuclear energy derived electricity is going up because most countries haven’t been building new plants for the last like 50 years

Average age of a nuclear power plant in the USA: 42 years

Average age of a nuclear power plant in the EU: 31 years

Average original intended operational lifespan: 20-40 years

To put their age into perspective, the average US nuclear plant was built closer in time to the Trinity nuclear test in 1945 than to today (along with any other plant 39 years or older)

This doesn’t prove that nuclear energy is bad, only that slowly degrading nuclear energy technology from decades ago is bad

Pay for centuries to keep it safe? We literally just throw it in an old mine shaft and fill it with concrete, it’s really not that monetarily or resource intensive

You’re right, it was previously the PLO that were bombing places and hijacking planes

I feel like a lot of people don’t realize this, keeping your data a secret is these ad platform’s top priority, knowing what you like (for highly targeted ads) while others don’t is one of the biggest ways they make money

Not even Debian comes with Python 2 these days.

It was only removed 9 months ago

As far as I understand it the war crime part of it is generally considered to be the secondary effect of fires started by its incendiary nature going on to indiscriminately kill people, not the WP itself as a munition that directly kills (although this too is obviously inhumane)

If they were blanketing entire neighborhoods with large WP bombs (like Russia in Ukraine) I’d be more inclined to believe indiscriminate civilian death and property damage was their goal rather than the more obvious answer of “making artillery more accurate, hopefully resulting in less collateral damage”

Not trying to justify the invasion in general, I just think that the idea that Israel using a few WP artillery rounds is clearly with the intent of causing grievous bodily harm to civilians is unfounded at best, you can get into “they know they can’t be too obvious about it so they can only use it a little bit” conspiracies rather quickly

I saw that as an alternative but at least according to wikipedia:

According to Steinritz et al., “Due to its potential pulmonary toxicity,” zinc chloride producing smoke grenades “have been discharged from the armory of most western countries (…).”

Despite its continued use by FPS (Federal Protective Services) as a riot control agent, the Department of Defense has begun to phase out the use of HC smoke after a 1994 report by the U.S. Army Biomedical Research and Development Laboratory due to ensure the safety of US soldiers, noting that, “Exposure of unprotected soldiers to high concentrations of HC smoke for even a few minutes has resulted in injuries and fatalities.”

Leave it to the cops to use something the army is phasing out as too dangerous domestically on protestors

After a cursory glance, it seems like your options for smoke generation are primarily either WP, or various ways of making literal clouds of hydrochloric acid

There’s maybe one way you can perfectly calculate a ballistic trajectory that will pinpoint land an artillery shell on a position: if you’re in a vacuum

When you start adding environmental factors like wind and temperature differences you start getting into needing in-flight course correcting shells, which do indeed exist (they guide themselves via GPS), but even America with its $1.8 trillion military budget doesn’t exclusively use them because they’re so expensive (in the realm of $70,000 per shell vs $800 for an unguided one)

Well if they’re dead set on destroying whatever the target is, it’s either that or run a higher risk of your artillery missing and destroying some other random building, so it’s kinda lose-lose for everyone involved

War sucks and picking between different ways to accidentally kill civilians tends to be the reality

Using it against infantry targets is, but WP use by itself does not necessarily indicate a war crime

It’s commonly used by nations around the world to produce smoke for the purposes of concealment or signaling/marking

I’m inclined to believe their intended use here are as artillery spotting rounds to guage whether fire is accurate or not, it’s not like Israel doesn’t have plenty of more effective conventional ways to kill people if that was their goal with these WP rounds

I would probably call its usage in such a densely populated urban area reckless and callous at best but that’s the name of the game in war unfortunately