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New comment by joomooru in "Beirut airport bans pagers, walkie-talkies on all flights"

joomooru — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 22:49:22 +0000

Raping and killing innocent civilians is an abhorrent crime. So we both agree that what Israel has done in Gaza (40,000 killed) and the systemic rape of Palestinian prisoners is abhorrent as well? What say you, Ben?

[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-ham... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sde_Teiman_detention_camp#Sexu...

New comment by joomooru in "Beirut airport bans pagers, walkie-talkies on all flights"

joomooru — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 21:47:56 +0000

The explosive material presumably not detected for some months, so probably not very easy to detect

New comment by joomooru in "The pro-Israel information war"

joomooru — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 23:04:20 +0000

Israel absolutely had incredibly specific intel [1] of the attack plans a year in advance of the attack, yet chose to do nothing out of arrogance

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/world/middleeast/israel-h...

New comment by joomooru in "Common Voice"

joomooru — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 17:25:14 +0000

Accessibility is an important part of the browser :)

New comment by joomooru in "Bug in macOS 14 Sonoma prevents our app from working"

joomooru — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 18:38:18 +0000

Went to look at tailscale vpn and didn't realize it was a service entirely contained within tailscale, so I can't use my existing Mullvad account or credit tailscale with my already-purchased Mullvad credits :(

New comment by joomooru in "Bug in macOS 14 Sonoma prevents our app from working"

joomooru — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 18:12:19 +0000

No wonder, I recently installed the latest sonoma beta and couldn't for the life of me get Mullvad to work. Glad to hear Mullvad is working on a workaround. I even considered downgrading back to Ventura this morning. I feel validated!

New comment by joomooru in "Twitter Is DDOSing Itself"

joomooru — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 03:54:00 +0000

perhaps we should sidestep the problem of profitability in healthcare entirely and create a non-profit healthcare system? which even the most free-market loving enthusiast should be in agreement with -- inelastic demand and all

New comment by joomooru in "Fewer than 40% of New Yorkers earn a living wage"

joomooru — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 16:27:33 +0000

Damn, you really said I don't believe it, therefore it couldn't possibly be the case. Crazy

New comment by joomooru in "Fewer than 40% of New Yorkers earn a living wage"

joomooru — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 16:24:28 +0000

Suppliers lobby to limit the amount of housing being built. Suppliers build luxury apartment buildings which are out of reach for lower-income residents, further limiting supply in the lower band of the housing market. Surely the suppliers share a large part of the blame here.

New comment by joomooru in "Ask HN: 6-hour workdays more important than 4-day workweeks IMO"

joomooru — Fri, 20 May 2022 13:24:35 +0000

Really telling when a person equates low wage with providing no value in society. So much for "essential workers" being forced to work in-person during the pandemic

New comment by joomooru in "Wire is now on F-Droid"

joomooru — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 19:08:29 +0000

Sorry, political neutrality doesn't exist.

Inaction in the face of injustice, means you are advocating for the status quo. E.g. the white moderate from Letter from Birmingham Jail.

New comment by joomooru in "Wire is now on F-Droid"

joomooru — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 19:05:53 +0000

Tell that to the victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting victims: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_(social_network)#2018_Pitt...

New comment by joomooru in "Wire is now on F-Droid"

joomooru — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 18:56:09 +0000

Funny thing is with these "free speech" advocates, allowing hate speech (antisemitism, racism, sexism, etc.) on your platform is anything but politically neutral. It's obviously capitulating to hateful groups like white supremacists/neonazis.

New comment by joomooru in "Opposition to High Density Development"

joomooru — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 18:32:55 +0000

Infrastructure is so hard to build because of NIMBYs, and you've indicated you're one of them. Also, it's much more costly to build infrastructure for low-density development, so you're complaining about a problem which your advocacy directly causes. Oh, and lack of public transportation directly increases traffic

New comment by joomooru in "Opposition to High Density Development"

joomooru — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 18:25:21 +0000

Totally, that's why rent in Manhattan is extremely affordable :)

New comment by joomooru in "Why Tokyo Works"

joomooru — Sat, 06 Nov 2021 23:56:42 +0000

As opposed to American cities, famously known for sustainable and efficient transportation and not expansive suburban sprawl, pedestrian-hostile development, and adding more lanes to already-inefficient highways to induce additional traffic