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  • I'm super happy with jmp.chat

    I was hesitant to try it, but once I ported my number over, it's the best service I've ever used.

    It's $5/month, and your phone calls and texts are forwarded to an XMPP account. Voice mails are transcibed and sent as a text, with the included audiofile. It works over the internet, so you can have multiple phones with the number, and you can use your computer for the service as well.

    For data, I use jmp.chats data only esim. It's $7/year + $5/gig but the data never expires.

  • Israel ready for ‘all-out war’ in Lebanon
  • LOL.

    Yeah, that's why the north is evacuated and Hezbollah is striking the north of Israel with impunity. How's that Iron Dome working in the North?

    Secondly, Hezbollah is probably, pound for pound, the most competent military force in the region right now. You want to discount that to feel safe, well, that's part of the fuck around and find out. Thirdly, Iran will have this as an Casus Belli to enter the conflict, and the PMU's in Iraq have already stated they will invade in the event of an invasion of Lebanon.

    The only powers in the region that are threat to them are Turkey, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia.

    This is what makes it clear that you are not a serious person in the area. Saudi Arabia couldn't beat the poorest nation in the world with American planes, Columbian mercenaries, American refueling, and American intelligence all while starving the nation in an attempted genocide.

    Saudia Arabia as a regional military power? That's a bad joke. I can't believe you wrote that with a straight face. They were literally beat by teenagers in flip flops.

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  • Having an opinion on privacy is having an opinion on a political topic, and yet you cross posted this to the privacy ... Sub-lemmy?

    This will be a hyperbolic statement, but it is true, none the less.

    Creating technology without consideration for how it is used inevitably helps bad people do horrible things. The person who devised the gas chambers for the Nazis should have considered it's politics. Warner Von Braun cared about rocketry over anything else, to the point that he didn't consider the politics and was happy to use slave labor to help him get to space.

  • Israel ready for ‘all-out war’ in Lebanon
  • The scenario I described is World War 3.

    That what Bibi, and Biden with his unwavering support, are playing with.

    then you’re sorely mistaken about how truly insane US defense spending is.

    NevermindNoMind already made this point to you but it bears repeating, Money spent doesn't translate into combat effectiveness. In fact, it tends to actually go against it. EDIT: Or, more specifically, money spent on individual weapon systems. The best weapon is the cheap one that can be mass produced, even if there are better weapon systems.

    Ansarallah has been clear that part of their missile strategy is to eat into our budgets. They've been winning by that strategy. The total cost of their drones/missiles used against the US was in the several hundred thousand range, and the estimate for the missile defense ammo the US has used is around a billion dollars, and that was several months ago. Even the US can't compete with that cost disparity.

    Secondly, it doesn't matter how many ships you have if you can't resupply them with ammo. America outsourced its production capabilities. It didn't outsource its weapon production facilities, but we can't convert the facilities we don't have any more to support increased ammo production, and we don't have enough weapons factories to supply the requisite ammo for continued operations in a modern war.

    Third, your usage of "just planes and helicopters" is stupid beyond description. I am not willing to agree with you that the US will have air superiority in all theaters, which sadly is what its military doctrine both requires and assumes. (Which, by the by, is why the NATO trained Ukrainians did so poorly with their spring offensive. It's not their fault they couldn't use tactics that assume air superiority that they didn't have, but jesus the NATO people switched to racism right quick to explain the failure.) However, other countries doctrine assumes that air superiority won't be theirs.

    Iran, for example, assumes they won't have air superiority from the start and so they spent most of their engineering time on missile technology. The Russians have tried to compete with their aircraft, but focused mainly on their G2A anti-air defenses. Now, even with Syria and Ukraine, there still isn't a lot of info on the effectiveness of the S400 in against the American Airforce.

    It also doesn't account for the huge disparity in drone deployment capability which is frankly the future of the next war. And the US fails at this completely. The two main US drones cost 30 and 40 million a piece when the name of the game here is CHEAP. Frankly, Iran and now Russia beat our pants off on this topic. Even Hezbollah and Ansarallah have confirmed US drone kills. This is the scariest part. Culturally in the American military right now, being involved with drones was not seen as a career advancer, and definitely not something you'd want to put money into serious research.

    This is more than I meant to write in response to a comment that basically amounts to a middle-schooler pounding their chest while screaming "My daddy can beat up your daddy" so I'm going to end it here.

    If you think money translates to military readiness and sound doctrine, then you're not thinking about this very hard at all.

  • Israel ready for ‘all-out war’ in Lebanon
  • If they do, that will very likely pull in Iran, Russia, and now with the recent agreement, possibly North Korea.

    The US is not as big as they were in the late nineties and early aughts.

  • Israel ready for ‘all-out war’ in Lebanon
  • The situation is not static at all.

    Hezbollah has significantly improved upon their capabilities during that time period. Also, as a corollary to this, weapons technology in general has significantly advanced in a form that brings various capabilities to state actors that didn't use to have the tech or financial base to support them.

    Guidance systems, avionics, electronics, and drones are changing the face of warfare in a way that removes a lot of the tech advantages rich nations had over poorer nations. But, the richer nations (And this isn't just about Israel, but most of the western states) are sticking their heads in their sand because their weapons manufactures are used to being used more for laundering tax payer money to the right people then for making great weapons. The main drones for the US cost between 30-40 million EACH!

    Furthermore, Israel is going through all of the copium that settler colonialist societies go through when their martial superiority is starting to come into question. They clutch harder to their beliefs that make them feel secure. Israel withdrew in 2006 and declared themselves victors when it was obvious that they were not victors at all. Now, that is all that Israel remembers about 2006. That they won. That is what they truly believe.

    There are a lot of delusions that are about to break here. That is why I say that if they try with Hezbollah, that it will be a 'Find Out' stage.

    EDIT: Also, people tend to use the wrong measurement for what they consider to make an army strong. One of the most important factors is a willingness for a military to take causalities. There are very few armies stronger than Hezbollah by this measurement, whereas Israel has been very weak on this front since the early 2000's. Having a conscript army will do that.

  • what foss phone OS do you use and why?
  • I was about to answer this, but decided I didn't want that information in public.

    However, the bank I use, which is a largish one, has an app that I've installed with the aurora store without microg or google play services on divestos and it complains that it won't work without gsf, but it works fine after clicking ok.

  • How an Israeli raid freed 4 hostages and killed scores of Palestinians in Gaza
  • No, sources link by linking to the thing you say you're linking to.

    In this example, I'm linking to your disgusting racist lie in your post that you also appended a source to that didn't corroborate your racist lie.

    I'm going to be curious to see if you end up editing out the proof of your racism eventually in the future.

  • How an Israeli raid freed 4 hostages and killed scores of Palestinians in Gaza
  • You're also a racist that believes all Palestinians want to kill all Israelis.

    You state this openly, and then post a link to a study that doesn't make that claim at all or anything resembling it and call it a source. Which, of course, isn't how sources work. This is how sources work: https://lemmy.ml/post/15906506/11178832 The important bit there is that the source actually shows what I said it shows because I'm not a bad faith liar that enjoys justifying genocide.

    You're already insisting one side is good and one side is bad when you intentionally, and surreptitiously lie to try and get people to think your racist statement is true, hoping they don't actually click through to your so-called sources.

    So, please, pardon me if I don't believe your bullshit pretending you want peace between the two sides.

  • Israel’s New Air War in the West Bank: Nearly Half of the Dead are Children
  • Can you read for me the title of this post, please?

    I'm not certain, but I may be hallucinating words and need to verify that you're not just changing a goal post to justify the slaughter of innocent children that literally have nothing to do with Israels war against Gaza.

  • Israel’s New Air War in the West Bank: Nearly Half of the Dead are Children
  • That's Southern Lebanon.

    The political organization for the West Bank is the Palestinian Authority. It is viewed as completely subservient to the Israel government to the point of allowing the IDF to take Palestinian children hostages (Technically the IDF calls it an arrest, but there are no charges, and often times no trials. It is functionally equivalent to kidnapping.)

    Regardless, you've made it clear you have literally no idea what you're talking about and you are doing so in defense of the slaughter of innocent children.

  • Israel’s New Air War in the West Bank: Nearly Half of the Dead are Children
  • So Israel is killing a bunch of non-valid military targets and justifying it by saying they were Hamas. Got it.

    You don't actually have any standards or morals, and just want to justify everything as "With us or against us"

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