They don’t even pretend to be objective. Compare their reports with ones written by HRW or AI and you will see for yourself how they operate.

Their reports on other countries in the region are comparatively sparse.

https://ngo-monitor.org/ngos/euro-med-human-rights-monitor/

There have been major protests by key members of the military like pilots against the planned judicial reforms before October 7th. That event unified the country like nothing else since the Yom-Kippur-War.

Israel is loss averse because of their citizens army. That bleeds over in their tactics as well. This manifests for example in destruction of whole houses and roads instead of clearing explosive traps, mines, and IEDs one by one at a higher risk to soldiers.

A large part of the secular left in Israel hates sending their children to defend fanatical settlers in the West Bank.

The war against Hezbollah in 2006 was cut short because of losses and protests.

Universal conscription isn’t a perfect solution, but it creates stronger bonds between military and the general population.

Scams are widespread, especially on social media.

There’s also a long tradition of smaller organizations collecting money for Palestinian children, and then the money is funneled to Hamas.

If you want to donate, great, but be careful where you send your money. There are legitimate aid organizations as well.

Cadus does fantastic work in Gaza, Ukraine, and elsewhere. They don’t have such a huge overhead of promoters and admin like other organizations.

That’s not a credible human rights organization. HRW or Amnesty are credible.

That’s one of the better ideas in the paper. It could lead to lower willingness to go to war.

Sure the system is broken and my experience is anecdotal.

There’s a generational war if you want to call it that. Birthdates fell below replacement rates starting over the last 60 years in European countries. At the same time life expectancy increased significantly. In European countries with state run health care and pensions this has a huge impact.

So now you have lots of boomers that retired early, own real estate, receive government retirement benefits, company or government pension, healthcare, etc.

At the same time there are a big number of immigrants, who cost the state more than they contribute. On top of that the quality of infrastructure and state services keeps decreasing.

Gen X and Millenials are the workforce, who are forced to pay for all of that. Stagnant wages, high taxes, worse government services, worse healthcare, etc. All of it was caused by boomers, their life choices, and political votes.

Boomers still occupy the most powerful positions in the state, other institutions, NGOs, corporations, political parties, etc. Gen X only starts getting there.

The whole demographic crisis was known for decades. However retirees are the biggest voting block. In the end we have an alliance between retirees, capital, welfare recipients, and the state against the productive working population.

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The success of the populist right is directly caused by the decades of failures by institutions run by boomers and the policies they have voted for.

It’s a class war that built this system, not a generational war.

Class war accelerated the generational war.

My parents received a lot o financial support in order to afford to buy an apartment for our family.

Neither my sister, nor myself has received similar financial support to buy a place to live in.

My parents instead live in a gigantic place they don’t use fully, and own several houses and apartments they rent out for profit. Of course none the real estate they own is anywhere near myself or my sister’s family. They also love to go on fancy expensive vacations all the time and complain about the younger generations. Of course they also get pensions from the companies they used to work for. Something that just doesn’t exist anymore.

There’s a lot of overlap between generational and class war.

It’s necessary because people develop software with Macs.

macOS just makes you jump through a hoop every time you run an application that’s not notarized.

In practice that means cross platform open source projects don’t want to pay money to join apple’s developer program and set up code singing and deal with certificates.

So after download an unsigned app, macOS refuses to start it until you go to system settings > security > and allow.

You have to do this again after every update.

It’s very annoying and does very little for security.

Not if you’re doing it while traveling.

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Hitchhiking and couch surfing is a thing.

Germany has had several chancellors in office for 16 years.

Leather can last for many decades if treated well. Vegan leather aka plastic lasts a few years tops.

Jupiter contains lots and lots of Helium that just needs to scooped up from the atmosphere.

I have used Macs for more than twenty years and have also played games on everyone of them. They run just fine.

If you buy a computer for gaming, Macs are not the best choice. However there are more great games that run well than you can ever play.

I distro hopped a bunch in March. Tried like eight distros, maybe more. I installed steam on all of these to see how it works.

Voluntary debt slavery.

No, you tell about management the problem and how only their amazing social and people skills will be able to do something about it.