Death from giving birth number seems awfully low

Seemed slightly on the high side to me, but within the bounds of normal. This is like a medical version of the overton window, I guess.

Here in NZ it’s around 7 per 100,000. I get the impression the US is an outlier on this particular stat.

I find this comment disturbing in so many ways. I think an example that really sums up what’s wrong with it is

Israel unsurprisingly puts the safety of their soldiers above the concerns of local farmers.

“Concerns of local farmers” isn’t the main issue with crop destruction. Famine and starvation are.

And the binary between being blown up by ieds and destroying fields is a false dichotomy. A better way of phrasing it would be:

Israel puts expediency above the lives of local civilians.

The UN doesn’t declare famine until 30% of a population’s children are displaying physical signs such as muscle wasting. This is really serious. We saw it two years ago with the deliberate famine in Ethiopia and now we’re seeing it in Gaza.

Every single nation on Earth would have reacted to this with a full-on war

I find it a bit bizarre that people keep using this talking point when there’s ample evidence that other countries do not react to terrorism by slaughtering thousands of innocent civilians.

Many countries have shown themselves able to respect international law. Britain for example managed not to massacre the children of Ireland en masse when it was dealing with the IRA.

“Think of the children” as a phrase is meant to satirize the fallacious appeals of “moral panic” arguments in support of conservative social values.

Your idea that it also covers arguments for literally not killing children is odd. There’s nothing necessarily fallacious about singling out children as a subset that it’s especially important to avoid killing.

In this case half the civilians are children and they are being killed, so it’s a reasonable thing to want to stop.

The implication of your use of the phrase here is that no one should consider children’s wellbeing even when real harm is being done to them. I find that idea dystopian and inhumane.

Yikes, you’re not wrong!

The death toll continues to rise, with reports from the Gaza Health Ministry reporting 2,670 Palestinians injured and another 9,600 wounded during Israeli attack since the 7th of October.

I don’t know who wrote this but if it was a human there’s something up with them.

Bush pulled us out in 2002.

Her, uh, did a little bit more than that…

Well, put it this way, the US still has the American Servicemembers Protection Act in which it authorizes itself for a military invasion of The Hague if the ICC ever tries to indite an American for war crimes.

They may have bombed this exact “safe” zone before now

@lemmy_user_838586 Reddit used to have a left wing political sub called ChapoTraphouse. After it got banned its users all moved to their own fediverse site, Hexbear. It has its own site culture, slang, name-calling, and memes.

It has been defederated from quite a lot of instances.

• It was not federated for a long period of time. Part of its - culture involves what it calls “dunking” on people its users disagree with politically, which as far as I can see is a compendium with snark at one end and bullying at the other.

• When Hexbear federated, its users were “excited to dunk” on people again. Their copious use of visual memes, including a picture of pig testicles covered in excrement, stretched threads. They are also a big community, which means when they pile into a thread it looks like brigading.

• The situation wasn’t helped by large numbers of Hexbear users coming into threads where other instances tried to discuss what to do about issues around federating with Hexbear. As larger instances defederated them, they became disproportionately drawn to small instances that remained, which added to the brigading effect and led to more defederations.

Ugh that will probably never leave you. I haven’t seen CSAM since I stumbled on it in the 1990s but what I saw is still burnt into my brain. What has been seen cannot be unseen.

This is one of the reasons I stay on kbin, it doesn’t autoload images.

HKET is HK’s best selling financial newspaper. Might be an Overton window issue but to me the WSJ is also conservative.

That said yeah I’m not disagreeing with you that SCMP is HK’s main paper. But I happen to avoid it.

Well, I don’t often give the WSJ clicks either, but wouldn’t its equivalent be the HKET?

SCMP has gone a bit weird since it was bought by Alibaba.

Well it’s like the old joke says,

Q: how do you know someone’s a vegan?

A: OH, THEY’LL TELL YOU.

Seriously tho I don’t have a problem with them unless they start saying there’s no difference betwern killing an animal and torturing it.

Worth noting that for the UN to declare famine:

• at least 20% of the adults have to be experiencing severe hunger and

• at least 30% of the children have muscle wasting and/or stunted growth.

That one looks a lot more normal but… why does it look like I can see the tree through its head???

Okay you got me. I finally gave SCMP a click. But it was worth it!

Heh. Most English-speaking countries spell cheque this way.

Thanks, beautiful photo.

I’d forgotten how Metal the cicadas look over there.

Ours all just look like this so pictures like yours look like some kind of Undead version or something to me, with its crazy red eyes.

Thanks for the apology, it’s all good. Glad I can stop avoiding replying to you in my threads.

I am really bad at not backspacing over the pre-populated tag though. Doesn’t help that I interact a fair bit with people from Mastodon on here and they tend to use it. Also kbin thread displays can be confusing so the tags help me keep track of the conversation in big threads.

So, yeah I’ll try to not tag you but if I ever do start annoying you, do block me.

Are you sure? I’d expect the number applying to the US would be hundreds of times higher than the number applying to New Zealand.

I don’t especially love or hate Biden btw, I mean I can’t stand US foriegn policy on the Gaza Genocide but it’s not like their other mainstream politicians wouldn’t have done more or less the same. It’s a real pity the US hadn’t been able to elect someone like Bernie Sanders.