[The Palestinian] genocide is going to happen regardless of the two.

damn, citizens in western democracies don't really have a say in what the state does? at least we're not in AUTHORITARIAN communist china though am i right

i say this as a battery guy

holy shit stop putting batteries in stuff. they suck

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that's right folks, we're hitting them where it won't hurt, like at all

now that's big money gun safety folks

If I'm at home and not working, it's no contest - I plug in some real headphones, open back over-ears preferably.

That said, I've been really liking these wireless Samsung things recently. They are in-ears, so maybe a bit off-topic. These days it seems all I do is eat hot chip, work with loud equipment, and ride the train - so, lots of background noise and over-ears are too cumbersome.

1. I'm getting lucky with this bluetooth stuff. They pair immediately when i open the little case, 100% of the time.
2. These samsung ones just sit in my outer ear and may be the most comfortable headphones I've ever tried. Definitely the most comfortable in-ears. They don't even fall out when I'm running, and the normal silicone-tipped ones always did.
3. They don't sound good, and this is no surprise because the driver is so small and the form factor is so weird. But they sound okay, and on the train no headphones are sounding that much better than these.
4. Cable doesn't get in the way or get caught on things when I'm working, and also maybe it's some sensory thing but I hate how the cable feels running under my shirt. For me this is huge.
5. The battery is not great. Needs charging every day.

At any rate, wired definitely shouldn't be phased out. My new phone has no 3.5mm jack

chinese posting is unparalleled

they probably have like 5 drils for our one dril

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Nearly half (46%) globally said that the European Union, United States and Nato were doing too little to assist Ukraine, while 11% said they are doing too much

I do think the paper is flawed but not useless. I wasn't really the one who posted it though, it's the primary source for this claim in the other article.

Sure, for what it's worth I could concede that a global majority might approve of support for Ukraine according to this data. Looking at raw data from: https://www.allianceofdemocracies.org/initiatives/the-copenhagen-democracy-summit/dpi-2023/

That figure may not be accurate however, especially because I can't see that they computed a weighted global total by population. They extrapolate to obtain each "nationally representative result" by taking into account the respondents' age, gender and education to mitigate selection bias. I have my doubts about extrapolating like that, but okay. The main problem is when you check the global total, it's just an unweighted average of all nations. Highlighted in orange: Top - unweighted average of all nations, Bottom - reported figure from the author

Each country has ~1000 respondents, so there isn't a proportional representation of each country based on its population - small countries (mostly imperial core, as it happens) have an outsized effect on the average.

we're just normal men... we're just innocent men