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This completely disregards the asymmetry of truth and lies. Refutation of bullshit takes significantly more time and effort than spewing it does. One would hope that any bans for calling people liars would be accompanied by bans for disingenuous, but I’m simply not confident in that. I am...

It's my view that as the invaded party fighting an existential battle for survival, it is not possible for Ukraine to commit war crimes. Any means necessary.

The resulting munitions cookoffs are presumably where most of the casualties come from. Anybody have specific knowledge of what thermite does to the barrel of a 2A65?

Is that white phosphorous (searches just return guys named Willie Peete)? Because if so, how can it have a comeback when it never went anywhere to begin with? Israel loves using the stuff.

Napalm and white phosphorous are probably both worse than thermite from a wounded and suffering point of view. White phosphorous only burns around 800c.

I dunno about the first clause in that final sentence. I think he's a true believer white supremacist. He might not believe every last "fact" he spouts, but the racial animus is genuine. I agree that he probably doesn't respect most of his fellow travelers. He's just a smug bastard, so I think...

It's still a legal representative, just not in the sense that most of immediately think of. But yeah, like any job where you're the one on the hook for any lawbreaking and your boss is still perfectly willing to flaunt the law, quitting is the only reasonable option.

This is one of those statements that's so obviously true as to be meaningless. Otherwise, we'd still fight wars with bones, rocks, and chert.

Read up on how thermobaric artillery shells work.

As others have pointed out, legal representative in this context means some sort of executive with decision making power in the country. It's not just legal but commonplace. It's the only way to keep multinational corporations accountable to the countries in which they do business.

Because of the wildfire risk, I presume? Or do military incendiaries tend to leave a lot of long lasting contaminants behind? I guess I'm just hung up on thinking that incendiaries would be generally LESS harmful than something like good ol' Agent Orange.

From my understanding of thermite*, you get an enormous amount of fire from a very small quantity of material. *Anarchist's Cookbook, so take with a great lake of salt

Spitsear would have been better, but I don't know if Mieville even gets distributed in Ukraine.

The orcish love of thermobaric artillery rather moots any grounds they have to complain. To absolutely butcher some metaphors, you should be careful playing with fire because it cuts both ways.

On the one hand, humanity is the absolute worst. On the other hand, SLAVA UKRAINI! Burn you some orcs.

Nah, they stopped that when Yaccarino was hired. It was her one big change to the company. Now they just spew some crap about being too busy and still send it /dev/null.

Agreed. Programmers who live dangerously and disregard compiler warnings are a menace.

Ah, ok. I didn't pick up on the operands were swapped (in retrospect, I see you even pointed it out 🤦). This all makes perfect sense now, and it does seem like a good defensive coding practice.

Did Bolsonaro appoint him, or was it a predecessor? If it was Bolsonaro, I can't help but be struck by the similarity to Trump's whinging when one of his appointees rules against him.

Perfectly understandable, but that slog seems more likely to eventually shift China's position than a spotty tit for tat a company or product at a time does.