You seem to have a hard time understanding that water is used because it is cheaper than the alternatives which already exist. This new development won’t replace water while the water remains cheap.

Which state? It doesn’t seem to be the case in NSW according to that web page.

Not exactly true.

They do not monitor the face of the driver and they are only mandatory for coaches and long distance freight.

https://www.nsw.gov.au/driving-boating-and-transport/roads-safety-and-rules/heavy-vehicles/vehicle-monitors

In Australia Palantir collects shopper data of customers in the stores of one of the three major supermarket chains: Coles.

https://www.getup.org.au/campaigns/economic-fairness-30a37751-ec16-4026-a076-e283f3b4092f/coles-palantir/who-s-watching-while-we-shop

Countries like Australia, Scotland, NZ, Germany have superior voting systems compared with the US “first past the post” system.

https://fairvote.org/

I would say a good proportion are enablers, probably because they are thinking of themselves as “temporarily embarrassed future billionaires”

No windows, therefore quiet, and good acoustics.

I don’t understand his point about restoring your messages to a new phone. How does that prove it isn’t encrypted? Couldn’t Telegram store the encrypted data on their server, send the encrypted data back to you and then you automatically decrypt it because you have the key?

Am happy to discuss at this level.

The Haaretz article says “Friday’s attempt to breach fence was most violent yet”.

That implies the attempted breach was the most violent yet on the part of the Palestinians. Or it is poor English and they meant the response was the most violent yet?

Either way, an attempt to breach the fence is not exactly peaceful. October 7 was a breach.

I acknowledge that certainly is a disturbing number of injuries. Did they all happen in the space of a few minutes before people could retreat? Or were they refusing to retreat and pressing on?

they had tried the peaceful option

Hamas and PIJ were viloently trying to thwart the Oslo peace process.

And I thought the very reason Likud became more right wing was because the suicide and missiles attacks were happening even after the 2005 Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, perhaps even emboldened by the withdrawal.

Gaza remained under siege

Because of the attacks and the need to prevent rearmament.

It is delusional to think Jews will withdraw from the Levant regardless of whether we think they should be there in the first place. Egging Hamas on is therefore irresponsible IMO.

Regardless, the expansion into the West Bank has me concerned. I have no opinion on how to curb that at this point apart from the hope of a turnaround in the October Israeli election.

Thank you for finally getting this discussion onto a good faith, intellectual footing.

Dunno enough about Nazi Germany to comment on those points.

The “open air prison” of Gaza was due to border controls stopping weapons shipments as Hamas and PIJ kept attacking Israel.

If the attacks stopped then I imagine the borders would have been relaxed to previous levels.

Paradoxically the tedious border checks led to Gazans merchants funding tunnels merely for civilian supplies. Israel would have done well to have funded those checks better to speed them up and remove this incentive.

Israel didn’t expect so extensive a tunnel network. Hamas expected other Arab countries to rally to their war like in 1967. Both sides miscalculated resulting in this tragic spiral (although I suspect the Israel right wing hoped it would spiral).

Israel also would have done well to have not even counterattacked in the name of retribution. They could have instead investigated how the leadership failed in their border security and jumped straight to a hostage/prisoner exchange.

To this day however Hamas are breaching the peace by not surrendering arms and continuing attacks. A large IDF retaliation is unfortunately coming soon.

I am not weighing into Holdomor. But you are equating the Gaza tragedy to the targeting and rounding up of Jews in Europe for their ethnicity and exterminating them en-masse, not in combat. ⅔ of the population.

Yes there are evil cunts in the current Jewish government who make explicit statements (Ben-Gvir and Smotrich especially).

But you do not want to acknowledge that the banned phrases in Queensland were explicit genocidal calls by PLO and Hamas… not just by individuals as in Israel’s case. Of course Israel needs to remain a Jewish majority in the light of that.

And yet you call the collateral civilian deaths in Gaza genocide.

Not if you change this setting.

Invites by either QR or URL. You will be fine. Anyone who figures out how to join the Fediverse will figure out SimpleX too.

Last I checked (over a year ago) desktop was not great. IIRC there was no scroll bar.

Also getting noobs to join is tricky. You cannot use your native camera app to accept an invite (has to be via the SimpleX app) and it screws up invites via Facebook messenger (gets confused by the tracking suffix Facebook appends).

Search for it in the Google play store.

https://simplex.chat/blog/20250729-simplex-chat-v6-4-1-welcome-contacts-protect-groups-app-security.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/SimpleXChat/

SimpleX uses the Signal engine but requires no phone number. Also can awt up your own server (unlike Signal).

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If you are an old programmer/geek young people will dismiss you even though they don’t even know what a folder is. They think they are IT experts because they can apply the latest instagram filters to their photos.