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Comment · 6 months ago
> [...] Iran targeted Americans for acts of violence.

Remind me, what happened in Iran in 1953?

Comment · 10 months ago
> there are weird hard line breaks (an ASCII character) in the wrong places

They aren't in the wrong place, if you view the site on desktop, or mobile browser in desktop-mode (for me at least), or the source, the line-breaks form proper paragraphs. Looks like the host actually delivers HTML/CSS with wrapping rules instead of plain text though, which messes it up for screens narrower than a full line in the file.

But either way, the file remains perfectly readable even with the added line breaks, not like any text is missing or moved.

Comment · 1 year ago
If you have red-green blindness like me try this:

- Right-click the image and select "Inspect".

- Add a new CSS hue-rotate filter to the element:

    element {
       max-width: 100%;
       margin: 0 auto;
       filter: hue-rotate(-90deg);
    }

Usually I use "filter: saturate(100);", but that didn't really work well for this image. You might have to adjust the rotation degree though, -90 worked best for me.
Comment · 2 years ago
Enact personal sanctions against war-enablers, which is fine with me by the way. But the family of war-enablers are not necessarily involved in their crimes. You didn't mention stolen wealth or money laundering at all. You said:

> And their families and kids who all keep their money in US, UK and EU.

Let's just say, for arguments sake, there is a child who is genuinely estranged from his war-enabling parents, living in Europe on his own dime. Should they fall under these sanctions? I would say no.

Comment · 2 years ago
Well sure. However you didn't say go after them for money laundering in your OP. You said go after the families of war-enablers.
Comment · 2 years ago
I did. Now you may argue that NATO and Russia are not in a state of war and therefore Russian citizens do not fall under the definition of a protected person given in article 4, but then you would be saying that it is alright to commit war crimes during peace times. Which seems kind of backwards to me.
Comment · 2 years ago
De facto? Maybe. De jure? Still a war crime.
Comment · 2 years ago
The Geneva Convention (part IV) is pretty clear on this matter:

> Article 33 - Individual responsibility, collective penalties, pillage, reprisals

> No protected person may be punished for an offence he or she has not personally committed. Collective penalties and likewise all measures of intimidation or of terrorism are prohibited.

> Pillage is prohibited.

> Reprisals against protected persons and their property are prohibited.

Comment · 2 years ago
> And their families and kids who all keep their money in US, UK and EU.

Collective punishment is still a war crime.

Comment · 2 years ago
> For example Firefox has the same design problem where its buttons have nor border and therefore have no clear place where draggable top space is and button is.

This can be changed by going to "about:settings" page and setting the option "browser.tabs.inTitlebar" to 0.

Comment · 2 years ago
Well you need to install the appropriate texlive dependencies which can be somewhat complicated, but once that's done it's just writing inline Latex

    $$\like{this}$$
into your Markdown files and then doing

    pandoc -f markdown -t pdf -o output.pdf input.md
Haven't used this in a while and just tried it again, was just a matter of searching a few error messages, gleaning the missing texlive package names from the results, and installing them. Works like a charm now.

I also had this working for Markdown to HTML conversion back in the day when I needed it, but that requires the website using a JS library like Mathjax.

Comment · 2 years ago
What got me was the geofencing for the trains to break down when in competitors workshops. Was apparently only found in 2 out of 30 trains, but still there is no plausible deniability here at all.
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
I'd assume it's due to the discovery not being some human remains but rather processed wood, making it the oldest evidence for wood working we have by a massive margin. Quote from the article:

> Prior to this discovery, the oldest known surviving wooden structures were built by people living in northern England around 11,000 years ago.

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