@BraveSirZaphod I think a lot of it’s just the human tendency to be lazy about sourcing.

Once at a dinner party I overheard someone confidently telling the people at the other end of the table something that I’d just told him about 20 minutes earlier. There’s no way he’d had time to verify it but he was already treating it as factual.

@Stovetop which the British should not have done. But this is not an isolated incident; it’s in a wider context of civil architecture destruction:

Among the buildings destroyed or partially destroyed are the main Palestinian court in Gaza, known as the Justice Palace, the Palestinian Legislative Council complex, 339 education facilities and 167 places of worship, while 26 of the territory’s 35 hospitals are not functioning.

Hugh Lovatt, of the European Council on Foreign Relations, suggested Israel was “deliberately and methodically destroying the civil institutions and infrastructure that will be needed to govern and stabilise post-conflict Gaza”.

Asked about the supposed trickle of aid coming into Gaza, the woman, says there is plenty of aid

This is problematic. We all know how much aid is getting through because the humanitarian NGOs are fighting for every inch of it and credible news agencies are reporting on it.

So right off the bat she’s made a claim that’s easily disproved. I’ve no doubt she believes what she’s saying, but she’s not a reliable witness.

This is a bit like if a news agency interviewed my dad’s Q-anon friend.

This is giving Terezin inspection energy, especially the part where he says they are overpaid and don’t do much work.

@BraveSirZaphod unlike the person above I don’t think that’s a very good comparison.

When citizens affect a regime change of their society themselves, they are in a position to decide which amenities to keep for their future use and which they can do without.

When a hostile outside force is affecting a regime change, destroying civil infrastructure so that whoever is left can’t use it after the war, is a form of salting the earth.

New Zealand, and via Kbin.

Not sure what “payment” you’re referring to, but no New Zealand definitely does not have a UBI.

It has a monetarist economy with a target inflation of 1-3% and has been running at up to 7% in recent years.

No, spending makes inflation rise.

Wage Price Spiral.

@Stovetop it doesn’t make any sense.

Buildings are inanimate parts of civil infrastructure. They don’t have allegience to whichever administration is currently using them.

@TIN this is what I think happens too.

I feel like its judgemental of them to mention her single status though.

I don’t know, I’m in here to scope ideas.

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@Auli the last time Hamas was even voted in was back when George W Bush was still president in America.

@Gamers_Mate always!

@Bunnylux really. Here’s an article on it.

@GBU_28 I see what you mean!

The smaller tech communities seem to have a better signal to noise ratio, I was in !technology@kbin.social the other day and it’s mostly posts about actual tech.

@Bunnylux okay here’s one: ants have hospitals where they treat wounded ants.

@Gamers_Mate I’ve been pretty good to ants over the years so I was hoping they would recognise me from that. :)

@FlickOfTheBean the ICJ and the UN have been mixed up in this for a long time and have a binding ruling, so UN intervention is not out of the question imo.