The mothers may not even have been alive and medical staff simply can’t evacuate premature babies and all the ICU equipment needed to keep them alive.

This story is absolutely going to be used as “look how inhuman and barbarous these Palestinians are, good thing we’re genociding them” and your comment is exactly what they’re looking for.

But the reality is that if you shoot and bomb civilians, then threaten to bomb the hospital they’re being treated at, this could happen anywhere in the world.

They weren’t leaving babies to die and rot 6 months ago because they weren’t being shelled and shot at and if they weren’t being shelled and shot at now, they wouldn’t have left those babies either.

Exploding head syndrome only a beep? Brains do weird shit.

They’re not uninformed, they’re lying.

They are fully aware that if a politician tried to introduce gun laws that were an exact copy of Switzerland’s, they would be staunchly opposed by the pro-gun community, Republicans and the gun lobby that owns them.

They just want to muddy the waters and drag out the conversation forever. The Switzerland excuse is just as bad-faith as when they blamed video games, music or too many doors.

Edit: also, might make the government think twice about fucking with democracy or stepping over the common man.

That’s just a marketing campaign from gun manufacturers. If it actually worked, it would have worked in America.

Instead, they get to choose between a neoliberal and a fascist every few years (if they haven’t been disenfranchised or gerrymandered into irrelevance), which decides whose rich friends and donors get to pocket the most public funds.

That’s why the gun lobby nails it – the propaganda they use to sell guns creates more issues to use as propaganda to sell guns.

There’s demonstrably millions of people who are absolutely fine with being assholes, especially if it’s profitable. It doesn’t matter to them in the slightest.

The browsers solved this long ago.

Any request to open a new page, from either the pages themselves or from the OS, prefers a new tab. If there are multiple windows in which it could open a new tab, it prefers the latest. If you want to split a tab off into a new window, you can.

With Explorer, any OS request for a folder that isn’t already open creates a new window and there doesn’t appear to be any way to prevent that.

But in a weirdly shit way. I will never want more than 1 window but still end up with 5.

Would it change anything besides their technique?

They almost certainly already have vote manipulation tools for reddit that work via browser automation, because someone offered me money to build one 10 years ago.

Those tools and a handful of accounts+vpns would already be borderline undetectable without the access needed to see that 25 accounts always voted the same way.

At least on Lemmy, you have that access. Reddit not only makes zero effort to prevent it, they actively obfuscate the information needed to spot it.

You could treat both at once if it wasn’t for Republicans.

And look at that, here you still are, pushing analogies to their breaking point, a second chance that thousands of people never got because they had access to a firearm.

The pro-gun crowd doesn’t care. There’s no such thing as a body they won’t sweep under the rug and suicide makes it easy.

Only 1 in 10 people who survive a suicide attempt go on to die by suicide. The number is much the same the world over, regardless of method.

Very few people survive putting a gun in their mouth and pulling the trigger.

There is a record high number of children doing exactly that with their father’s guns. I wonder how many of those fathers claimed the gun was to “keep their family safe”? I wonder how many of them taught their children how to load and fire the round that killed them?

There’s actual lives behind those numbers.

People’s gut feelings about how suicide works are often demonstrably wrong. Means reduction and survivability are huge factors in prevention.

Would you have built a deck if you had a tool that built decks instantly and with no effort whatsoever?

Unfortunately, protest songs could absolutely be commercialised.

While not exactly protest songs, the grunge movement of the 90s was a reaction to what was seen as shallow, packaged pop music of the late 80s.

Once their snouts smelled profit, the usual middlemen rushed in to wrap that discontent in plastic and sell it to kids at Walmart, chewing up musicians along the way.

I think it’s simply that protest songs are more difficult to wring profit from compared to creating pop music using the formula that sold the most last time.

Which is a very carefully orchestrated bit of propaganda.

Child sexual predators are one of the few groups of people you can openly advocate violence against.

They’d love to openly call for the murder of minorities and “leftists”, but they need the plausible deniability.

So instead, they label undesirables as child sexual predators.

To what end? The backstory will follow the same basic pattern it always does.

Probably white, almost certainty male and definitely far-right. Increasingly radicalised by online content. Bought a gun because he legally could and carried it around everywhere for 6 months, hoping for a chance to shoot somebody. Eventually lost control of his delicate little emotions and killed someone.

“Responsible gun owner”.

And who votes against it?

Yeah that’s why they’re always pushing things like “a higher minimum wage (but only for women and minorities)” and “universal healthcare (and by universal we mean just women and minorities)”.