Legality and morality aren’t necessarily the same.

Hundreds of years passed between Discovery and DS9, cultures evolve and not always in a good way.

If they distribute the drawing, yes. And the difference is that a drawing is immediately recognisable as a drawing, but an AI generated image or video isn’t necessarily easily recognisable as not being real, so the social consequences for the person depicted can be much worse.

Even if you don’t want to consider it CSAM, it is, at the very least, sexual harassment. The kids making and circulating these pictures and videos should be facing consequences. And the fear of consequences does offer some degree of protection at least.

I think you’re confusing MacOS with iOS.

Same thing that’s up with it in the US. They offer simple “solutions” to complex problems, and (at least in the UK and Germany, not sure about the Netherlands) they’re fuelled by right-wing media conglomerates.

What VPN offers 12 months for $12 and is there a catch? I’m happy with Proton but having something cheap and trustworthy to recommend would be nice.

Because mobile providers charge by the message for MMS. It’s not like there’s no benefit to being able to just message people who don’t have InsertAppName, it’s just that actually using your phone’s normal texting app is ridiculously expensive.

I don’t pretend to be. It just strains my willing suspension of disbelief beyond the breaking point. I don’t even know why it’s the spore drive that does it instead of telepathy or fucking Q, but it is.

As far as I know they still support some of their old Intel lineup, but it’s all ARM for new devices now.

Make me, terrorist supporter.

Urban warfare is never pretty. If Hamas cared about Palestine they’d release the remaining hostages and surrender unconditionally. But they don’t. Their leaders are safe in Qatar, and their zealots care only about murdering Jews, not about the people caught in the crossfire of the inevitable Israeli counterstrikes. If they cared about their people they wouldn’t use them as human shields.

And yes, if you say that Israel shouldn’t attack if there’s a risk of civilian casualties you need to offer up an alternative that gets Hamas to stop attacking Israeli civilians.

I mean, yes? Other than most people thinking of dogs as pets what’s the moral difference between eating dog and eating cattle or poultry? It’s pretty hypocritical to ban one and not the other.

And no, I’d never eat a dog. But I have eaten horse.

Meh, the only time I’m actually using my mouse for prolonged periods of time is when I’m gaming. And whenever I feel strained I’ll just switch to a controller, I’m absolutely terrible with controllers but they still feel less weird to my brain than trackballs.

Which is a very important distinction that people here seem to overlook. If you give in to a terrorist’s and hostage taker’s demands you’re inviting more terrorism and hostage-taking because it worked.

It is now.

That’s a significantly better source, thank you. But I’m still not seeing genocide. The ramblings of one cabinet minister in a coalition government don’t make something government policy. The only thing that Israel is actually doing is expanding its settlements, which is bad because it makes a two-state solution less likely, but it’s not genocidal.

Say the people who get their news from Al Jazeera. A Qatari state-owned outlet.

It’s not bad faith, it’s experience. Most people who attend pro-Palestinian rallies are the “Palestine from river to the sea” type, not the “no settlements in the West Bank let’s work toward a Two-State Solution” type.

Hiding isn’t a war crime. Trying to blend in with a civilian population while you’re an active combatant, however, is. Precisely because it makes strikes with mass civilian casualties a military necessity.