If that were the case, Israel wouldn't be intricately planting bombs in Hezbollah pagers.
The pagers do give Israel a certain veneer of plausible deniability that they wouldn’t otherwise have if they had used more traditional bombing methods.
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elliekelly commented on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon reuters.com/world/middle-... · Posted by u/logicchains
Maybe future iterations of this attack will include facial recognition to determine user age > ~18?
> Perhaps they do exactly the same as they did to that woman in any case..
It's arguable than in most instances they don't overreact and throw pregnant women into jail for half a day. In a country of 330,000,000 people, you would expect to see stories like this all day, every day, if it were even a little bit routine. The fact that this is national news gives some idea how out of the ordinary it is.
Or she’s one of the few with the resources & social connections to get this on the country’s radar.
As an American, living abroad was one of the biggest eye opening experiences to seeing how messed up our law enforcement system is here. I don’t think it’s as much desensitization (which is part of it) as portraying law enforcement as “can do no wrong” heroes in our media and culture. It really skews public perception and results in a lot of people turning a blind eye… until they are the ones affected.
There are so many “copaganda” TV shows in the US it’s wild. I bet every American could easily name 10 off the top of their head and that wouldn’t even begin to scratch the surface.
elliekelly commented on Defecting from North Korea is now harder nytimes.com/2023/07/09/wo... · Posted by u/perihelions
>It is evident that having knowledge of individuals' travel destinations would undoubtedly assist in contact tracing efforts.
Any evidence for that? Actually, any evidence that contact tracing has actually had any benefits wherever it has been tried? I'm sure it helps at very, very early stages of a pandemic, and even then depending on which virus we are trying to trace... But I'd like to see actual proof that it helps for pandemics like COVID.
Otherwise it is such an easy way to implement mass surveillance, that requiring very very thorough proof that it actually helps is the bare minimum. This story is proof of that.
I think monkey pox was mostly contained through contact tracing and then vaccinating those who were potentially exposed.
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elliekelly commented on Debris Field Confirmed as Titan independent.co.uk/news/wo... · Posted by u/methodical
I think it’s one thing to build your own insanely dangerous exploration device and try it out yourself but to try to make money by selling people tickets for rides on it is far beyond mere “experimenting”. There’s also the very substantial public cost of rescuing the victims of these short-sighted ”experiments”.
elliekelly commented on Debris Field Confirmed as Titan independent.co.uk/news/wo... · Posted by u/methodical
What can we learn from this? Don't go in pressure vessels; don't go in confined spaces.
I think it’s more along the lines of “learn from the experiences of others”. It’s my understanding that there are quite a lot of very smart people who have spent decades figuring out how to build these things relatively safely. This company decided to ignore the existing knowledge base entirely because what the industry had learned was expensive and inconvenient for a fledgling tourist company.
What’s that analogy about taking down a fence without understanding why someone put it up in the first place?
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