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  • Bertuccio@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldRafah
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    4 days ago

    “Now Jimmy, make sure you wait for a full year of bombing and spend a few thousand dollars adjusting the timing of this satellite to get exactly comparable images so someone on the internet who vaguely heard about manipulative photo techniques, but is fine with ignoring the realities of actually taking the photos, can’t nitpick an image of very clear destruction.”

    EDIT: And let’s just drive this home: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/08/27/satellite-imagery-shows-vast-destruction-in-rafah/

    The differences between 2023 November and 2024 April are due to lighting, and it’s plain to see the buildings are still there even with lighting differences.

    Between 2024 April and August nearly everything left of the red line is gone. It’s not some trick of the light or sand - you can clearly see the other buildings right of the line.

    You’ve tried to deflect by saying people are missing the point and you agreed there is destruction - but no one said that. They said that your two points, that the destruction was not as bad as the images suggest, and that the images are intentionally misleading are both false.

    And they are both false.



  • Bertuccio@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldWhat's your radical opinion?
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    5 days ago

    Misunderstanding “right of way” is half the problem.

    Right of way is ability to make a road, or the road itself by extension. You can’t have the right of way - it’s usually the government’s - and you can’t give it away. This is why wording is consistently who must yield the right of way, and not who has the right of way.

    If it’s a driver’s turn to act, they are obligated to act. It’s not their option or right to act.







  • My guess is it wasn’t speed. It’s probably an all-wheel drive car and the front wheels are really close to the front.

    So a stubborn driver could tap the bollard, get mad their car stopped, then after contact hit the gas hard and ride up the bollard while still keeping traction on the front wheels because they’re never pushed off the ground. The bumper would take less damage because after the first push most of the motion is upward.







  • Bertuccio@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldSorry hun
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    1 month ago

    Also the notion that children aren’t allowed to do certain things that adults frequently do in front of them somehow magically doesn’t apply to curse words.

    Kids can’t smoke, drink, drive cars, change light bulbs, use the stove and oven… But no one ever says adults aren’t allowed to cook in front of the kids because kids might get the wrong idea. They tell the kids not to use the stove and respond appropriately if the kids do anyway.