Notices by Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide (infoseepage@mastodon.social), page 3

@thomasfuchs What brand are yours? Coinrew? Any idea of the actual measures AH capacity? I'd love to be able to ditch micro-usb entirely, but still have a few things that use it.

@thomasfuchs I have 4 of these I use while traveling. They don't have the capacity of a quality NIMH cell, but because they're voltage regulated, they basically keep putting out a pretty consistent voltage until they're nearly dead, instead of starting at sub alkaline volts and sagging off like NIMH batteries. I find them very convenient, because I don't have to carry along another charger in my gadget bag. These things are great imo. The ones I have charge via micro-usb, but same concept.

@WhatTheChel @RickiTarr The last high end phone I had with a replaceable battery was a LG G5. The base of the phone popped off and you just slid the battery out. Very easy to carry a spare. They made an small holder for a 2nd battery which acted as a charger and a battery bank, so you could just carry a second battery along with you and just pop it in when you needed. Loved the concept and sad that it was sort of their last gasp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_G5

@pvonhellermannn But, it sounds from US statements and witness statements and visual evidence like Israel may have used the military base they've constructed at the seaside terminus of the Netzarim corridor during the operation, evacuated the hostages by boat rather than via the corridor, which has come under recent heavy attack, and may have disguised their forces as an aid shipment. This imperils legitimate aid operations in the area, not that Israel cares about that one bit.

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@pvonhellermannn US Centcom has officially denied that the humanitarian pier was used for this operation. The humanitarian pier may not even exist at that location currently (It partially broke apart a few weeks back due to wave activity and was hauled to Ashdod for repair). It doesn't appear to be present in the most recent publicly available Sentinel-2 satellite images.

https://www.centcom.mil/MEDIA/PRESS-RELEASES/Press-Release-View/Article/3800955/centcom-statement-regarding-idf-rescue-operations-today/

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@darnell We don't know yet whether H5N1 will end up being another Covid in terms of it's level of mortality or Airborne Ebola or something in between. A good way to find out is to continue to allow it to spread in human adjacent animals with huge lung volumes like cows...which is to say, we really shouldn't do that.

@darnell Most indications we've got about this virus is that it really isn't good in mammals and if it does pick up mutatations to spread more readily in human to human transmission, that may come with a boost in how pathogenic it is when people do get infected.

This idea that viruses weaken over time isn't true. What is true is that viruses that completely wipe out their hosts are self limiting.

@darnell What we've got is the percentage of people who show up at a medical center and go "Doc, I'm as sick as I've ever been in my life" and the place tests and finds it is Flu A, but the Doc is suspicious and has it sequenced or they sequence it because it resulted in mortality. What we know is that a high percentage of people who show up at the ER really, really sick, do end up dying from it.

@darnell So, we don't know much about what percentage of overall infection rise to that "show up to the ER" level. The actual mortality level is lower, but how much lower is the question? What we've seen is that in a lot of mammals, the mortality rate is pretty damn high. Cats? Yeah, half of them outright die within days of infection. Ferrets? Yup, ferrets are completely boned when they get it? Seals? BAD BAD BAD. Suckling goats? Yeah, they die.

@darnell It is basically 52% mortality rate in documented human encounters, but that is the keyword here, documented. We have no idea of the number of people who get it and are asymptomatic, have symptoms so mild or have symptoms which are mild that they go to the doctor and the doctor is like "Yeah, sounds like you've got the flu. Drink plenty of fluids and watch your temperature and blood pressure. Should be over in a few weeks."

This is your periodic reminder that the Israeli port of Ashdod lies just to the North of Gaza. Also, World Central Kitchen has a functional jetty which they used twice to deliver barges of aid at the same place where the US is doing their JLOTS. Maybe just switch to using the jetty! You know...the stationary structure which doesn't need anchor cables and which isn't subject to being driven off by wind and waves?

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It sounds like the Trident pier itself may have been beached/grounded. The ability of the US military to execute JLOTS at this location on an ongoing basis has really been called into question. This just isn't a good system for delivering aid by boat.

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As usual, the "What's is Going on With Shipping?" channel has informed ongoing coverage of the JLOTS debacle (which this channel rightly said was going to be a debacle for a long time).

He says this as someone with decades of experience as a merchant mariner and one who has participated in these sorts of JLOTS exercises.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzzVyuPnMHk

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@WuMargaret @Adam_Cadmon1 @mcnado Ah, the endless "lesser of two evils" argument when you've got one of the evils actively supporting a genocide. Sorry, that argument about "less bad" loses all meaning with me when you have someone committing the most absolute evil mankind has conceived. You might not like "Genocide Joe," but it is completely on point and accurate. Biden is someone for whom committing atrocity is not a consideration in his calculus of action.

@QasimRashid Biden also ordered the Pentagon to share its intelligence on possible Russian war crimes with the ICC. The Pentagon normally objects to sharing intelligence with 3rd parties, but Biden publicly overruled them. It is almost like Biden thinks the ICC is a legitimate institution for the prosecution of war crimes.

He just doesn't like it when the "Rules based order" he so claims to cherish comes down in favor of something contrary to his administration's desires.

@QasimRashid

Q:Could you give us your reaction to the International Criminal Court issuing an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin?

Biden: Well, I think it’s justified. But the question is, it’s not recognized internationally by us either. But I think it makes a very strong point.

Q:Should Putin be tried for war crimes? (Inaudible.)

Biden: He’s clearly committed war crimes.

@QasimRashid He wants an international rules based order where the US is the only one setting the rules. That isn't a rules based order where all parties are equal before it, it is the appearance of law, but with unequal application. It is a tool of US hegemony or nothing.

You see the same thing at the UN, with the major security council players repeatedly vetoing widely desired attempts to establish some sort of international law with actual teeth.

@DrALJONES According to UNRWA, April averaged 183 trucks a day via land. May has averaged just 70 and almost all of that was before Israel seized the borders and halted almost all truck passage. Only 70 total trucks have been allowed through since then.

Basically, unless the pier averages 183 trucks a day, then it isn't even replacing what came through before. The US has also halted all airdrop efforts, which averaged less than 20 tons a day since March 02.

https://www.unrwa.org/what-we-do/gaza-supplies-and-dispatch-tracking

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@DrALJONES There were simpler ways to bring aid in by water and WCK had their jetty operation more than two months ago. The new trident pier is right next to the jetty. The US could have used NGOs to ship in US aid from Cyprus at any point.

@dansup I really like this idea. I've been a longtime Flickr user and have invested a lot of time pushing my photos to there, but it hasn't kept up with the times and has gone through a whole series of corporate acquisitions and pricing changes such that I no long upload photos there. It's a dead archive for me.

I love the idea of small "sovereign" hosting where I'm not going to get jerked around by the whims of the corporate world.