Like OpenAI!

Don’t care too much about the supposed hardening, but it’s on FDroid and has UnifiedPush, so I use it over Signal

I would be

Chinese teenagers would be much more competent at running tech companies

Backups are, first and foremost, your responsibility. It’s unfortunately not realistic to expect someone to diagnose whether an issue is software-related or a hardware failure on any obscure DIY OS you might have installed. But as long as it’s possible to flash back the original firmware, warranty should still apply

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_and_gender-based_violence_in_the_7_October_Hamas-led_attack_on_Israel

While it’s possible that individual rapes and other sexual violence happened, it’s overwhelmingly likely that it wasn’t widespread or systematic. Hamas has called for an independent investigation into the claims, which Israel blocks to this day. Israel also refuses to release the purported evidence. Numerous witness statements and commonly shared outrage-stories have been discredited (there were, for example, images circulating of horribly mutilated women, claimed to be Israeli. They were actually Kurdish YPJ fighters that fell in the battle of Kobane against Daesh in 2019). Video testimonies of Palestinian fighters were shown to have been given under duress, with obvious signs of torture.

None of this helps the credibility of Israel. The pathological liars of the IDF are using the language and goodwill of feminism (like the #MeToo hashtag, which got flooded by pro-genocide propaganda after the 07.10.) to paint Arabs as savages and less-than-human, to manufacture consent for their genocide. And it seemed to have worked. As someone who considers herself a feminist, I am sickened by how gullibly most western feminists followed this narrative.

I’ve seen the footage of the raid too, and I don’t think we need UN experts to tell whether opening fire from an ambulance is a war crime

Other sex crimes, this is about Palestinians being systematically raped in Israeli camps, not the rapes that Israel exaggerated or straight up made up to justify their genocide

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/25/middleeast/israel-sanctions-haaretz-over-comments-intl-hnk/index.html

Sure

Besides the fact that you’re using Blockchain to mean Crypto Currency, this is unrealistic and counterproductive in a number of ways.

What if people could earn money by generating solar energy and selling directly to vehicles, instead of the grid?

How? How do you get your rooftop power to a buyer across town, or the other side of the country? Corporations or municipalities still control the grid

Then there is the distribution issue. Energy must be transported to the points of consumption, the charging stations. But due to the decentralized nature, this could actually result surprisingly cheap, as instead of transporting large distances, more charging stations in neighborhoods could reduce those distances. But still, this would require upfront charging stations and distribution investments.

You caught it yourself. Are you proposing an alternative grid? Good luck with that. Putting a charging station on your own property and renting that out via crypto? That’s a massive waste of space, since you’ll now need an additional parking spot for every home

Generators would be rewarded with a blockchain token for the energy generated, while consumers would pay for the energy in those tokens. Therefore speculation would be curbed as the tokens are for a real thing, energy, which on top is a stable unit - kWh.

How do you get tokens, if you consume more than you produce? You buy them with money. So saying it curbs speculation rings hollow. Besides, who rewards these tokens? Contrary to Bitcoin etc. you need physical hardware to confirm the proper amount of energy was transferred, and hardware can be tampered with.

What we need are communal, shared infrastructure and an end to growth. Not more electric cars, and certainly not more individualistic, crypto-capitalist tech fetishism. I don’t mean this as an affront to you, but this whole suggestion runs contrary to all that Solarpunk is about

I am not doubting that eye placement is a strong, but not decisive, indicator where the animal falls on the predator/prey divide. That is a very basic fact of zoology. I am doubting the claim that prey animals categorize non-native, and therefore unknown, species as a threat by this eye placement.

Source? This sounds incredibly made up

kilopounds. really‽