Hamas lied about the death tolls but not in the way you think. The truth is that Hamas only counted the people who they could confirm the identity of, their death toll is a massive underestimate. Basically all credible sources agree that the death toll is at least as high as Hamas says.

EV batteries are nearly always recycled.

When it’s free, it gets treated by the government as a service for the poor which they can safely let rot. Far better to improve comfort and reliability than reduce prices.

Australia started the toilet paper hoarding. We are the OG toilet paper hoarders.

The concern is that we’re kind of in a youth unemployment crisis. Nobody wants to hire people without experience. Reduced rates are a way to address that.

Not really. Higher speeds increase fuel consumption, and traffic light timings don’t change with fewer cars on the road. They might save a little on roundabouts but for the most part I think the effects would be negligible.

Fatshaming is almost never done out of a genuine concern for the person’s health, and it’s debatable how effective it is at getting people to lose weight. Especially because of how confusing the process is.

Given the identity ICE agents have of themselves, as a muscular brute standing between civilized Americans and barbaric outsiders, fat-shaming them is reasonable. Also, they don’t deserve to be treated as human beings. Even murderers deserve better than ICE agents.

That sounds kinda reasonable then. If the company has access to the chat logs in plain text, they should probably be scanning it for CSAM. Though the use of AI to identify it is concerning, given the low accuracy. And I guess there’s also the risk of communications with someone’s doctor being flagged.

On reflection it’s still a dumb law.

That’s what the market prices are for. The taxes are for raising revenue and encouraging long-term behavioral change.

There’s not a lot of advantage to calling out Trump’s BS. Firstly because Australia has no real influence over American foreign policy (hell America has no real influence over American foreign policy), and secondly because the average voter generally doesn’t like Iran even if they don’t approve of the war.

Free public transport just drives down quality, because voters generally don’t approve of that much spending on other people’s public transport (private transport though, that’s a different matter).

I was banned from the lemmy.ml memes community for saying the Democrats are slightly better than Republicans. After saying it I needed to argue with 20 people at once, all with preprepared arguments, who were adamant that both sides are the same.

I’ve also recently seen that that community is extremely toxic in other ways.

Inflation is probably the main thing. Voters and businesses alike hate inflation.

Well, the stuff I replaced the American stuff with is just better.

This lawsuit is about end-to-end encryption and the lack of age verification on Instagram. So not good.

This lawsuit is about end-to-end encryption and the lack of age verification on Instagram. So not good.

The vertical axis is labelled “gun homicides”. That’s not a very useful statistic.

Whatever the correct arrangement is, Hungary or Tajikistan need to be on the right side.

We have 100,000 Jewish people in Australia, a significant portion of which consider themselves Zionists. Anti-Zionist slogans are something the Jewish population (wrongly) finds threatening and Labor doesn’t have the political space to take the progressive side in every culture war.