Sounds a bit like youre clutching your pearls.

You’re downplaying human rights organisations and indiscriminate bombings.

Comparing this to firearms is beyond ridiculous. You aim your “humble” rifle, each bullet.

https://www.1lurer.am/en/2024/09/20/Death-toll-from-device-explosions-in-Lebanon-rises-to-37-injuries-near-3-000/1190896

At UNSC, UN rights chief says Israel’s attacks on Hezbollah devices violated international law and could be a war crime.

“Pearl clutching.”

I’m not gonna start whatabouting, but I don’t think you’d be that glib about dead 9-year-olds in real life.

Why do you pretend cowardly indiscriminate bombings with civilian objects, during daytime, weren’t a violation of international law?

Do you happen to know the law? Oh no? You’re just defending Israel by talking out of your ass against international humanitarian law experts? Yeah, guessed as much.

https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule12

The 24th International Conference of the Red Cross in 1981 urged parties to armed conflicts in general “not to use methods and means of warfare that cannot be directed against specific military targets and whose effects cannot be limited”.[14] Further evidence of the customary nature of the definition of indiscriminate attacks in both international and non-international armed conflicts can be found in the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice and of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. In its advisory opinion in the Nuclear Weapons case, the International Court of Justice stated that the prohibition of weapons that are incapable of distinguishing between civilian and military targets constitutes an “intransgressible” principle of customary international law.

This definition of indiscriminate attacks represents an implementation of the principle of distinction and of international humanitarian law in general. Rule 12(a) is an application of the prohibition on directing attacks against civilians (see Rule 1) and the prohibition on directing attacks against civilian objects (see Rule 7), which are applicable in both international and non-international armed conflicts. Rule 12(b) is also an application of the prohibition on directing attacks against civilians or against civilian objects (see Rules 1 and 7). The prohibition of weapons which are by nature indiscriminate (see Rule 71), which is applicable in both international and non-international armed conflicts, is based on the definition of indiscriminate attacks contained in Rule 12(b). Lastly, Rule 12© is based on the logical argument that means or methods of warfare whose effects cannot be limited as required by international humanitarian law should be prohibited.

Yeah, those pesky human rights organisations, damn pearl clutchers, amirite fellas??? /S

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/09/lebanon-establish-international-investigation-into-deadly-attacks-using-exploding-portable-devices/

The evidence indicates that those who planned and carried out these attacks could not verify who else in the immediate vicinity of the devices would be harmed at the time of the explosion, or even whether only fighters had been given the pagers and radios. Therefore, the attacks were carried out indiscriminately, would be unlawful under international humanitarian law and should be investigated as war crimes. The attacks also violated at a minimum the right to life under international human rights law, which continues to apply in situations of armed conflict, and likely other human rights, depending on the various impacts of the attack on the Lebanese population and their daily lives.

Cleaning a disposable bazooka?

Where I live, at least when it comes to contracts involving jobs, you can not specify something that’s less than the law would require. Like you can’t agree to work all day without a break on less than minimum wage. Not legal despite any contracts.

You could technically give someone permission to assault you, but you couldn’t give someone permission to aggravated assault you. The former being a crime that the victim decides to press charges or not, but the second one being so serious that it will be prosecuted no matter what was agreed.

But yeah your formatting would be way mroe extensive; if a company even tries some shenanigans to avoid consequences in the event of something like this happening, it voids the contract. I agree.

Meme name seconded

High-stakes gambling. Play like shit, assuming that winning would count as not having spent the money.

Shouldn’t be that hard to get to bigger and bigger tables when you’re just literally throwing money away and losing on purpose.

Edit yeah the text pretty clearly said no gambling

Also, couldn’t you hire a personal servant? No owning, no buying.

Rent all the fucking hotel rooms. Here’s just one that’s 100k a night. https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/inside-the-most-expensive-hotel-room-in-the-world

Or you know, go for an entire island.

https://www.privateislandsonline.com/search?availability=rent

Have a few yachts visit.

https://www.boatinternational.com/charter/luxury-yacht-charter-advice/most-expensive-superyachts-for-charter

Fly from casinos to other casinos and then to the harbor with your super yacht filled with hired servants (and is the cap you can pay others salary set? Foot massager, 10 million an hour?) then have a party on the island, take another yacht to another island and yeah I think 100 million in a month is very much doable.

“still hasn’t broken out yet”

I don’t know if I perceive a pessimistic or sn optimistic tone here.

Nice try, gluten

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Mobilisation would be voluntary and open only to certain categories of prisoners.

Among those not eligible to serve include those found guilty of sexual violence, killing two or more people, serious corruption and former high-ranking officials, Shuliak said.

Only prisoners with under three years left to serve on their sentence may apply, she said. Any prisoners who are mobilised would be granted parole rather than a pardon.

Simply untrue according to the article, but it’s not like you bothered to even click the link, right?

Mobilisation would be voluntary and open only to certain categories of prisoners.

Among those not eligible to serve include those found guilty of sexual violence, killing two or more people, serious corruption and former high-ranking officials, Shuliak said.

Only prisoners with under three years left to serve on their sentence may apply, she said. Any prisoners who are mobilised would be granted parole rather than a pardon.

They’re giving the option for prisoners to apply to be a part of defending Ukraine. They’re not conscripting rapists to cannon fodder battalions or anything like that, ffs.

Completely agree, the death penalty isn’t necessary, but I am glad of the message this sends to some rich folk. Probably mostly Vietnamese ones, but still.

I see you’re also a man of culture.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSXIetP5iak

I once met one of those.

Just the type @Cold_Brew_Enema is talking about. Self-important douche who literally tried holding presentation on what scum master does. On a recreational evening. And we had no choice but sit there and listen because the space we were spending the evening in was the conferencerooms/sauna of their company. Then he had a brilliant idea of making people do airplanes as a “social activity.” Ugh. The average age in that room was past 30.

And yes I’m aware I wrote “scum”, it was on purpose. It was either that or “cum”, but I don’t want to slut-shame anyone and imagine any potential cum masters out there being more pleasant to be around than him.

I didn’t?

Also, that is the direct translation, yes, but a more accurate (context wise) would be conscientious objector.

I’m a supply core NCO in the reserves, served 362 days. I went in the second batch of 2009. That’s why I said “I served II/09”

I don’t think conscription is bad at all. It was one of the best years of my life.

Especially because ours is very much flexible and has options like unarmed service or civil service. (And with Russia neighbouring us with a long border, a conscription army is needed.) The only thing is that currently it only applies to males (and you can be excused for several reasons, like being a Jehova’s witness). It’s flexible when you do your conscription as well. Many people go to uni before the army. Not most, but many. And if you’re for instance a competitor in a sport on a high level, you’ll can get lots of free days from the time you serve. Some people like Kimi Räikkönen or Jarkko Nieminen for instance did “serve” their conscription, but in reality it was them going in for a few days/weeks every now and then when they had the time.

I would’ve never joined the American military, had I been American.

I believe in defending my country, not attacking others.

Well I have been accused of that a fair few times by some rather adamant defenders of Israel who, for some reason, said the UN and literally all international news outlets were “Hamas propaganda”, despite not being to show any sources for their own claims. Or perhaps some story in “the times of israel”, a clearly very unbiased source.

I’ve never been further South than Amsterdam, lol.

Yeah but… Israeli trolls and Poe’s law…

Oh man. Totaalikieltäytyminen is so easy nowadays, god damn.

I served II/09 so it’s been a while.

Thanks for the info. Guess the mad bastards managed it then, because I did hang around totari people as well, and that’s where I actually learned this idea. Because he had counted prison capacity in Finland and it was something like 1-3% of every batch who would need to say “nope” and they just wouldn’t fit into prison anymore.

I really would like to know the details of when this was on the board being discussed.

First good news I’ve heard today, ty man.

Well at least here in Finland, where we also have conscription, you go to a normal prison and serve six months (or at least it used to be 6months, the same as the shortest conscription time). And I’d like to note that there are several options for conscription. Full military service, unarmed military service (you serve in the military but don’t have to touch weapons, you’ll be a backline logistics guy or some such) and civil service, which is a bit longer, but you never serve in the military (essentially you work in an old people’s home or something for 13 months).

For one, we don’t have a “military prison”, as that’s an actual prison operated by the military. Israel does have them though. Or one with several detention centers.

Secondly, because when conscripts refuse conscription, they’re still civilians, as they’ve not been conscripted.

This one was about a reservist, so it’s probably different.

However, going by the stats on…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_military_prison

… I think the numbers might’ve been in the figures I mentioned (compare the occupancy numbers) and because a lot of the prisoners were prisoners of war, who go to these military prisons.

My point is that while a majority opposition to the war seems unlikely, getting 1/10th, 1/20th, or even 1/50th (=2%) of people refusing like the brave woman in the article, there’d be massive issues for the Israeli prison system.

They already started trying to lift regulations of the conditions in the prisons, so they could shove them even fuller.

Well I’ll forgo my dislike of linking this bullshit “news source”, so we can all be on the same page, more or less… No pun intended.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/jails-running-out-of-room-due-to-war-prison-service-warns/

Eighty-four percent of those classified as security prisoners are currently living in an area of under three square meters in size, less than the legal limit, and 3,000 prisoners are now sleeping on mattresses on the floor rather than in beds.

This situation is potentially dangerous and “my biggest fear is that we will lose control over the prisoners in the prisons,” committee chairman MK Zvika Fogel (Otzma Yehudit) warned

They fear the exact problem I’m proposing would be easy-ish to exacerbate.

Last month [Nov -23], in the wake of Hamas’s devastating assault on southern Israel, lawmakers passed a bill allowing the government to declare an “incarceration emergency,” paving the way for the temporary lifting of restrictions on housing conditions for prisoners.

And another article from December:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/knesset-extends-israels-incarceration-emergency-as-prisons-near-capacity/

##Knesset extends Israel’s ‘incarceration emergency’ as prisons near capacity

According to the Israel Prison Service, 19,756 people are currently held in Israeli jails and ‘within a week or two, we will reach the maximum capacity for prisoners’

They mention the max capacity as 20,000.

And these must be military prisons as well, since I don’t think POW’s or “security prisoners” would be held in normal prisons.

He added that some 88% of Palestinian prisoners held for terror offenses — commonly known as security prisoners, are living in spaces of “less than three square meters per prisoner.”

Some genocidal right-wing zionist maniac then went on to say how these conditions are “a summer camp” and how “Hamas killers must be kept in the lowest conditions the law allows”.

And this is following a security prisoner getting a beat to death.

Anyway thanks for coming to my TED-rant.