denying food from the soldiers of the invading enemy army.
How do you deliver food to a local population so an invading army can’t get it?
you may be able to dwindle it enough to starve them
Who is going to starve first? The folks with guns or the folks without?
never underestimate the human ingenuity when it comes to inflicting harm on other human beings.
Right. I guess the UN teasing the idea of famine relief and pulling back on it is part of that.
I think it’s about the enemy soldiers starving into surrender, not the civilian populace.
Shy of magic, that’s not a policy you can implement. Either people in a region have access to food or they don’t. You can’t just put a stamp on a loaf of bread that makes it inedible to anyone carrying a gun.
Are UN resolutions like patents, where only a small fraction of the text is actually meaningful?
:-/
A lot of it is legalese that matters much more to an actual court system than a random layman picking through the fine print. But yes, broadly speaking a central critique of the UN has been its habit of going out and announcing “Bad Thing Is Bad” and then failing to do much to back that statement up.
At the same time, when the UN has intervened… well… look at the horror show that was the Korean War. Nevermind the intervention and occupation of Yugoslavia or Somalia. Or the Oil for Food Scandal with regard to Iraq.
I mean, the fundamental problem with the UN is that its still composed of many of the countries that are actively participating or tangentially benefiting in whatever horrible thing they’re supposed to be preventing. Much like any republican institution, you’re stuck with people who were put there by the corrupt institutions they’re supposed to police. How do you untangle that web? Ask Alexander the Great, maybe.
proceeds to list 3 separate providers
Just don’t look to hard at the market share or the client composition, sure.
The issue is more so with companies that choose to use cloud providers. They’re the ones attempting to cheap out because they don’t want to pay infrastructure costs.
I mean, do you tell people they’re cheaping out because they hire a plumber rather than spending eighteen months learning to DIY every pipe in their house? There’s nothing fundamentally wrong with outsourcing to cloud services on its face. A couple big warehouses at strategic points in town specifically designed to operate as central hubs for digital traffic makes far more sense than every single office building having a dozen different floors with two IT guys of dubious quality in a badly ventilated closet manning cobbled together rack space.
For anyone downvoting, I’d love to hear what “democratizing” the internet means, how it would work, or be functional.
One of the more successful American models for publicly owned and operated data infrastructure:
The inverse of the old axiom “The cloud is just someone else’s computer” is “Yes, duh, that’s how you get economies of scale”.
In-housing would mean an enormous increase in demand for physical hardware and IT technical services with a large variance in quality and accessibility. Like, it doesn’t fix the underlying problem. It just takes one big problem and shatters it into a thousand little problems.
It’s funny, because I’ve heard a variety of reasons why the outage happened, why it wasn’t caught in time, why it signaled a problem with hardware versus software or human error versus automation.
I think its safe to say the company is increasingly over-managed and under-staffed, no matter how you slice it. Maybe its time to just break the mega-corp up already and let some good old fashioned free market competition fix this mess.
The US is vetoing and the rest of the member states are shrugging and announcing “Guess there’s nothing we can do”.
Europe has doubled its weapons trade with Israel since the genocide began. Arab States are expanding their trade with Israel despite internal domestic calls for boycott. The so-called ceasefire is only furthering cover for Israel’s largest partners to get back to business as usual.
Sure. And you can know the difference. And I can know the difference.
And the UN Security Council can pretend not to know the difference.
And if they get hungry and surrender just to eat, because the “enemy” is following international law
If its international law to guarantee everyone gets fed and you are able to defeat an military by starving out the host population (a technique the Israelis are claiming is being used to defeat Hamas) then how are you following international law?
Also, there are programs to feed starving people
I got mine through insurance, so it didn’t cost an arm and a leg. But seeing the price tag on these things on the market is insane. It’s a glorified air compressor and they want $3k for my model.
imagine if you could fix your entire life by doing something that is super easy
I see someone has confused “suffering from ADHD” with “got handed a pithy self help book”
My ass took forever to get to sleep and then the CPAP didn’t fucking work
I gotta say, 90% of the journey is just getting the damned machine. And 50% of that 90% is realizing you need one.
My mom snores like a chainsaw, wakes up utterly exhausted every morning, swears it’s every reason except the fact she’s basically asphyxiating herself eight hours a night, and then drags herself through the day on coffee and grumpiness with periodic naps to catch up.
She’s been like this for decades.
I’ve got one and it’s been a life changer. But there’s still a dozen different reasons why I don’t always wear it when I should.
So easy to say it’s easy. Much of the difficulty is in the fine details.
they should have their own logistics
“Everyone has a right to eat, but not everyone should have the right to the logistical supply chain that they need to receive the food” is UN doublespeak in a nutshell.
the US is Israel’s bitch
Billionaires in both countries are profiting handsomely off the genocide
Because they’re assholes on principle.
These resolutions are toothless without the materials and logistics to implement them. Food should be a right and it’s an easy thing to vocally support (unless you’re manufacturing a famine in Gaza).
But how do you relieve the famine in Sudan if you’re unwilling to export agricultural surplus at below market rates from Southern Europe? How do you meet global human demand for fresh produce if you’re dedicating enormous qualities of arable land to high profit, low yield livestock? These generic statements of principle don’t actually change how and why food is distributed.
And those are just the “capitalism bad” dumb lefty critiques.
What about in a war zone? Should we be feeding Russians occupying Ukraine? What about Israel settlers in the West Bank or Han Chinese in Xinjiang and Tibet or illegal Hamas ISIS Haitian Cartel MS-13 terrorists attacking people’s dogs in Cleveland, Ohio?
Shouldn’t we be killing these people instead?
costing thousands of dollars
If I had a dollar for every $10k my company paid Microsoft…
My employer keeps saying I can’t do this
Does the USA educate the same fraction of their population as Sweden?
I guess that depends on how you value “Business School” as an education model.
Thank you
I might argue the Vietnam War was what really changed things. Once college became a means of draft dodging, universities filled up with blue collar kids looking for deferment.
Colleges responded by tightening enrollment standards and setting up new barriers to entry, some of which were financial.
I think some of you younger folks really don’t know what the Internet was like 20 years ago.Shit was up and down all the time.
I worked on a project back in 2008 where I had to physically haul hardware from Houston to Dallas ahead of Hurricane Ike just to keep a second rate version of a website running until we got power back at the original office. Latency at the new location was so bad that we were scrambling to reinvent the website in real time to try and improve performance. We ended up losing the client. They ended up going bankrupt. An absolute nightmare.
Getting screamed at by clients. Working 14 hour days in a cramped server room on something way outside my scope.
Would have absolutely killed for something as clean and reliable as AWS. Not like it didn’t even exist back then. But we self-hosted because it was cheaper.