Possibly sim cards! More and more phones have the option for e-sim, which companies seem to want to push on us.

I was thinking total, but interpret the queston in any way you like :)

To answer my own question, approximately 1900km of which:

• 80km on foot (if my smart watch is to be believed)

• 700km in car with at least one other person

• 1120km on my own in my car

Some of them definitely. According to Dr HA Hellyer who was interviewed for the article:

“I keep hearing this from different people connected to the ground on Gaza that there’s a mini civil war brewing between Hamas and anti-Hamas figures,” he said.

“But the anti-Hamas figures aren’t people like the Palestinian Authority; the anti-Hamas figures are collaborationist forces with the Israelis."

“From what I’m hearing, Hamas seem to also be going after traditional families and traditional tribes that simply don’t want Hamas to be in charge, not because they’re getting support from the Israelis, but that they just don’t like Hamas.”

Interesting although contentious letter detailing an estimate of potential indirect conflict deaths (it includes potential future deaths).

However, it seems rather simplistic and/or flawed. They simply multiply the casualties Hamas have reported by a “conservative” x4 multiplier which then gives their number. The multiplier comes from this publication and states that most of the casualties are “indirect and caused mainly by preventable infectious diseases, malnutrition, and neonatal- and pregnancy-related conditions that emerged in the resource-poor post-conflict environment.” - which means that this number includes post-conflict casualties that have not yet happened and are preventable. Furthermore, the base number already includes a lot of indirect civilian deaths, and unlike the other conflicts that the x4 multiplier comes from is heavily reported on and followed by media/authorities.

This article from Die Welte is more recent and examines a more robust study.

Still, even if we took the estimate provided by the Lancet here at face value, OP’s claim of “millions of people” looks like absurd misinfo to me.

No worries. I think the more interesting discussion that I’d like to have at some point is how a good system for immigration actually looks. It’s not a trivial problem to solve and can’t be done in isolation either. Societies are systems where everything is interlinked in one way or another.

millions of people

Where did you source this data? Based on mainstream sources (UN, OCHA, B’Tselem) the number of Arabs displaced from modern day Israel/former territories of Mandatory Palestine from '47 until 2025 are between 995 - 1’105’000 and the number of casualties 67 - 105’000.

As a comparison, the number of Jews displaced from Arab countries during the same period number somewhere between 800-900’000.

Thanks for a well-written reply. Here’s some quick responses:

1… as mentioned the primary costs here come from increased crime which is hard to document. In high trust societies (which social welfare countries usually are) this has a disproportionately negative impact on the economy. Also, in several Scandinavian countries everyone has a right to emergency healthcare, regardless of their immigration status.

2… I believe you’re correct when it comes to countries with less social welfare such as the US, however, this isn’t the case in countries with robust social welfare systems. As recently as 2023 Denmark assessed the net contribution of migrants and their descendants on the public finances and published the results. The sum total effect of migrants was negative (-19B DKK). Per capita the average Dane had an impact of (22k DKK) per year and the average migrant (-21k DKK). Some migrant/migrant descendant subgroups were better or worse than others (best 52k DKK, worst -109k).

3… Sure, I assume this accounts for other societal costs such as law enforcement and crime?

4… See the response to #2. The taxes don’t cover the costs.

If you have a society with robust social welfare systems - education, healthcare, social security, pensions, childcare, housing etc. etc., mass immigration becomes a massive problem.

Everything is taken care of via taxes, and those taxes come from a productive working population. Slow population growth (whether from births or immigration) allows social institutions to expand at a matching rate over the decades.

Rapid population increases from migration can overwhelm the systems in place and put society in a spot where it is no longer able to maintain them.

Furthermore, when it comes to illegal immigrants, it gets doubly bad. They can’t hold down a legal job (at least in my country, and thus not pay taxes either), which inevitably pushes them towards crime or illegal jobs which brings a whole host of other issues.

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for the sake of clarity, honesty and responsible communication

No? We’re already using pseudonyms, which is intentional and has a purpose.

at least have that vote public, IMO

It already is public, just not easily accessible. Why do you want to know all the votes? A voter is not an active part of the conversation. I’d equate it to the audience cheering or booing on a talk show.

For the ones actively participating you can read their comments and it’ll be obvious what their stance is.

Ideally, votes wouldn’t exist

Absolutely disagree on that one. Votes are a fundamental part of this type of social media, and the low-pressure interaction of up/down votes encourages a large number of people to interact and rank content. This shifts focus from the loudest/most active people dominating the space to the most widely appreciated content dominating the space. This is explicitly one of the parts I like about it.

Also, more replies are not necessarily useful. Consider all the “This!” or “Same!” comments from Reddit. An up/down vote is much more information dense.

Honestly it sounds to me like you actually want a forum based on fundamentally different mechanics. Technically it wouldn’t be that difficult to create a Lemmy clone that just scraps votes entirely from the UI, but you’d need a new way to rank content.

In an ideal scenario I’d actually prefer the votes be entirely anonymous, but that’s just not feasible with the fediverse system.

95% of the time when downvoting content it’s a question of…

Disagreeing/considering the content bad/thinking the user is behaving poorly.

Also, writing comments takes a lot more time, which (believe it or not) is a limited and valuable resource for most people on the internet.

The solution here is obvious - creating an instance and/or community with stricter moderation rules, much like blåhaj.zone.

Each instance/community has the ability to set their own general rules and whilst (yes) this means that an individual person can’t guarantee their “safety” everywhere it does mean anyone can create their own little bubble and then pick & choose which parts of the fediverse to connect with.

The fediverse is at its core a free speech project, which is why I like it. There are many other platforms out there that focus on safety.

Is it because I’m (probably) autistic?

No, it’s a basic human decency thing. No man I know would (intentionally) touch without invitation (whether verbal or body language) and if someone does they deserve a smacking.

The most common gray area is tight crowds where some assholes try to get away with groping disguised as “accidents” which is disgusting.

Besides, alcohol and drugs are no excuse. If you can’t control yourself under the influence, don’t use them.

First time I’d seen it used as a verb and yet is made complete sense. Language is a wonderful thing.

Heck it even looks like some of those crashes that make you go “heh wonky physics” (the roof fold)

Mint is a great starting point. I might also recommend having a look at KDE (the desktop environment) which will feel very familiar coming from windows and is available on quite a few distributions. I use it with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed - less beginner friendly than Mint, but still an ok plafe to start.

People being fine with higher taxes is a function of a trustworthy system where tax money actually goes to spending that benefits the tax payer.

If the expectation is that the funds get misplaced/pocketed/diverted along the way your average citizen will be far more willing (and view it as far more morally justifiable) to make efforts to avoid/reduce paying taxes.

…because they believe those reports to be exaggerated, false, or both.

Probably:

K>B>H>E>G. They all have decently developed countries whilst ensuring that you don’t end up born in a developing country.

For the big slices, F should be best (guaranteed to avoid the worst outcomes).

If you are a MasterCard customer, like me, and have any concerns you’d like to bring up with the company they have a very convenient PDF with toll-free numbers for all countries available here:

https://www.mastercard.com/_assets/docs/GlobalServiceTollfreeNumbers.pdf

I was very lucky to be able to find the link, because their customer support number wasn’t advertised anywhere on their website for my country!