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halflife··on AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware
Many, many, many Fortune 500 companies use Israeli cybersecurity services.

I guess that your concerns are not aligned with reality, or the benefits far outweigh whatever it is you think may happen.

(Talking as an Israeli working in cybersecurity)

halflife··on New Apple TV 4K
Playing dead cells on Apple TV is awesome. But it does tend to slow a bit in more hectic fights
halflife··on The Dock on Mac, from OS 10 to macOS 27
How many Macs are you setting up? This is only a 1 minute chore…
halflife··on Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age
Interestingly, the name 2cv means 2 Cheval Fiscal, or 2 fiscal horses. Which was a tax measurement for cars based on a formula of the shape and performance of the engine.

The car itself had 9 horsepower.

halflife··on How Protein Took over the World
Beans look gross?
halflife··on A 5.3M-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone
Scavengers reign was one of the best shows I’ve seen
halflife··on Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery
The Jew?
halflife··on Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery
I can’t believe modern people still believe Middle Ages blood libels. Antisemitism truly runs deep in some circles.
halflife··on Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery
Sexual predator karim khan, which was the icc prosecutor, was supposed to arrive with a delegation to Israel to investigate the charges and see evidence from the Israeli side. A day before he cancelled the delegation and one sidedly published the accusations.

A year later we learned that he threatened his victim that if she would expose him, it would hurt the case against Israel.

halflife··on Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery
Wow that’s a lot to unpack.

Dahyia doctrine - this means inflict damage on your enemy in such way that will deter him from ever trying to attack you again. It was named in the 2006 Lebanon war, which Hezbollah started, after which nasrallah admitted that if he knew of the Israeli response, he would not have started the war. I suppose your a 5 star general with a better way of creating deterrence.

Hannibal directive - affects only soldiers, and it means that the army must do whatever’s necessary to prevent a kidnapping. This is after a soldier was kidnapped into Gaza, kept there for 5 years without seeing any natural party to assess his condition (which is illegal but no one cares about that when Israelis are the victims), and eventually was released against 1,000 Palestinian prisoners, one of which was sinwar. Again, I assume you are a 5 star general that can find a better solution.

Israel is a secular state. The only thing controlled by religion is marriage (btw USA gives weapons to turkey, Saudi Arabia, UAE, where is the protest against support of these unsecular countries?)

And finally - how exactly is the Iran war illegal?

halflife··on Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery
What the hell are you talking about
halflife··on Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery
Maybe it’s their parents that sacrifice them?

Here’s a recent video of a child carrying weapons for terrorists: https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bj0epw85gx

And before you say that you don’t trust Israeli media, the world doesn’t care enough when it’s Palestinians at fault, so it’s not covered anywhere else.

halflife··on Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery
You don’t get it, in their twisted worldview, Israel is to blame for anything. Coincides is exactly what’s being taught in every household in the failed states surrounding Israel. No jobs? Israel. Illness and death? Israel. Taliban slaughtering people? Israel.

Instead of understanding that these governments use the Israeli Palestinian conflict as a scapegoat, and Israel as a boogeyman, just to make the populous blind to the true cause for their suffering.

halflife··on ICC judge on what U.S. sanctions mean for her and global courts
Actually international law does let you do that, ie: child soldiers
halflife··on Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art
Ha, it’s still up.

Looking up my user, kind of embarrassing to see comments from 22 years ago asking and giving code advice.

However, it does raise lots of nostalgia for the BBS era.

halflife··on ICC judge on what U.S. sanctions mean for her and global courts
Right, because we know this court is infallible, and 1000% not political?

The judges are picked by the member states, which are political. Karim khan (the former prosecutor who was kicked out because of sexual assault) asked to come to Israel as a delegation to investigate the charges. The day before he canceled the trip, and published the accusations without hearing the Israeli defense.

The ICC is geopolitical theater just the same as the UN.

Why isn’t there arrest for irans leaders? Why not for erdogan? Why not for living Hamas leaders?

halflife··on ICC judge on what U.S. sanctions mean for her and global courts
This is all foreign influence with just a different leverage. One is of sanctions, the other is of in a guise of international laws
halflife··on ICC judge on what U.S. sanctions mean for her and global courts
And the ICC is not a prime example of influence of foreign nations on other's politics?
halflife··on Israel-bound flight diverted to Saudi Arabia after brawl between pilots
Copying my comment from a previous thread -

Flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv, details as known so far:

Omani second pilot stabbed the Emirati captain severely, and tried to crash the plane causing a dive from 34k to 15k in mach1.

The captain managed to take control back, and in the meantime Israeli passengers who have heard the commotion in the cockpit broke in and apprehended the Omani pilot.

A second flight crew on the plane landed the plane safely in Saudi Arabia, with a damaged tail from the dive.

halflife··on Israel-bound flight lands in Saudi Arabia after violent incident between pilots
Flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv, details as known so far:

Omani second pilot stabbed the Emirati captain severely, and tried to crash the plane causing a dive from 34k to 15k in mach1.

The captain managed to take control back, and in the meantime Israeli passengers who have heard the commotion in the cockpit broke in and apprehended the Omani pilot.

A second flight crew on the plane landed the plane safely in Saudi Arabia, with a damaged tail from the dive.

halflife··on Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah
It happened once.

And I see you’re sticking with the “evil IDF just decided to kill these 3 hostages without any reason” plot.

halflife··on Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah
Yes, because Hamas routinely does that to lure IDF soldiers.

Let’s use occams razor hear.

Option A - mistaken identity because the enemy wears no uniform, embeds itself in civilians, and uses inhumane tactics to confuse IDF soldiers (like putting explosives on dead bodies, placing speakers with hostages recording as bait)

Option B - IDF decided to kill the hostages they came to rescue for some evil reason

halflife··on Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah
That is completely incorrect. The terrorists that were put in charge of these hostages fled and left them alone in a war zone. They were definitely NOT released.

They were killed because of mistaken identity, which is horrible, but it happens in war, some IDF soldiers died from friendly fire.

Hamas definitely didn’t ask protection for the hostages, they asked protection for themselves.

There are many hostages reports of Hamas terrorists saying to hostages that if IDF will draw near, they will shoot the hostages.

halflife··on iPhone Duo
It’s marked ip68, I wonder how they made the hinge water and dust proof
halflife··on Glacier Mice
You managed to talk with the dog from fallout 1?
halflife··on Disrupting a new covert influence campaign from Russia
Ukraine received Patriot missile defense systems from Israel, Zelensky confirms

https://www.jpost.com/international/internationalrussia-ukra...

halflife··on A U.S. Strategy to Prevent the Creation of Mirror Life
Possible path for organic zero calorie sugars!
halflife··on A U.S. Strategy to Prevent the Creation of Mirror Life
Incorrect. There are symmetric achiral molecules. Which can be consumed as food for both normal, and mirror life, thus creating competition for resources.
halflife··on Israel's Rave Music Drowns Out the Sound of Its Victims
What a shitshow of an article. The first victims of the Nova festival mentioned in this article are not the ones massacred, kidnapped and tortured by the gazans, it’s the ones killed by “Israeli police” in a “crossfire”.

For an article trying to celebrate peace love and unity in edm music, it fails to mention the fact that Hamas weee the ones to attack innocent festival goers.

halflife··on Gina Gallery of International Naive Art
But not all naive art comes from 3rd world. I remember learning about famous naive artists from Northern Europe which were quite amazing.
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