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Cake day: July 25th, 2023

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  • Contrary to Linkerbaan’s claims, this is mentioned in the article.

    From the article:

    Israel said they were Hamas operatives

    Separate bit from the article:

    The Israeli military said Mohammed and Hazem were Hamas military operatives and that Amir was a cell commander. It said they had conducted militant activity in the central Gaza Strip, without elaborating.

    What this article fails to contain is any sort of rebuttal - the closest it comes is this, which isn’t a rebuttal or denial:

    Haniyeh accused Israel of acting in “the spirit of revenge and murder.”

    I can’t find any sources claiming the three were civilians. So to reiterate: Israel killed 7 people, claiming 3 were military targets and 4 were civilian collateral damage. Hamas (or rather, the Hamas leader who was the dead people’s patriarch) claimed the killings were an act of revenge. Both can be true, and I can’t find any sources rebutting either claim.








  • So he was unable to go to the bathroom, I guess? Because the plane was not at the gate yet?

    Well in that case, as disgusting as this may be, you can’t fine anyone for having bodily functions. I believe peeing in a cup is the right thing to do. Better than on the floor.

    Why is this such a thing on Lemmy? Why do people comment on articles they haven’t read?

    From the article:

    She said the man was “obviously quite drunk” and spilled urine on a flight attendant as he left the plane, it reported.

    He was drunk and making drunk decisions.



  • The problem with your attitude is that, by definition, free speech is only a useful right when it protects unpopular speech. The law at hand here isn’t a surprise (the UK hasn’t got free speech as an enshrined right), but it is certainly a particularly glaring red flag that there is absolutely nothing stopping them from e.g. passing a nearly-identical law copying Thailand about the royal family and putting in prison anyone who calls Prince Andrew a pedophile.

    The vast majority of important free speech cases throughout history have involved the most deplorable people making the most deplorable kinds of speech, but e.g. American free speech would be nonexistent if the KKK hadn’t won their landmark case.