Just so people can understand why the ICC claims jurisdiction, it is because the Palestinian Authority acting as the State of Palestine acceded to the Rome Statute of the ICC and thus became a state party in 2015. They pretty much did this with the express intention to give the ICC jurisdiction over alleged Israeli war crimes in occupied Palestinian territories. In 2019, ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda requested a ruling on the question of ICC jurisdiction in Palestine. In 2021 the ICC Pre-Trial Chamber ruled that Palestine’s accession to the Rome Statute gave it jurisdiction over Palestinian territories occupied by Israeli forces (a.k.a. the West Bank and Gaza Strip).

Lebanon is not and has never been a state party or signatory, for those curious. Israel and the US are signatories but refused to ratify the treaty, and thus aren’t state parties. Nonetheless, the ICC had decided that crimes committed in countries who have acceded or ratified its statute, or accepted its jurisdiction, are subject to ICC regardless of the citizenship or residency of the alleged perpetrators. This is also why it issued arrest warrants against Vladimir Putin despite neither Russia nor Ukraine being state parties; Ukraine accepted ICC jurisdiction on an ad hoc basis for crimes committed during the Russian invasion.

Chinese law does not recognise the concept of paying someone compensation for suffering trauma.

This is not the right way to put it. She won 60,000 CNY, not 8,000 USD. A “low-wage” worker at a fast food restaurant or a coffee shop in the city earns 20-30 CNY per hour.

This is a pretty substantial payout by Chinese standards. At the same time, China doesn’t recognise “punitive” damages or “emotional damages” as a thing. The response to the notion of “punitive damages” is “don’t you mean a fine?”, and that to “emotional damages” is that “there is no such thing, you can just get over it”.

The fact that Musk and friends are always complaining about it seems to indicate that they are.

Unpopular opinion: snap is not so bad and genuinely useful for many things

I would rather have a snap than building from source or use some tar.gz archive with a sketchy install script

There has not been peace in the Middle East since the Ottoman Empire and there probably never will be peace in the Middle East for at least several decades more.

The exchange rate is basically frozen as the Russian central bank won’t allow it to be freely traded on the open market.

Same here. I get $10 off for using my own router. That’s $120 off per year. A cheap router bought from a supermarket cost me $60. It works fine, the signal quality is only okay but my flat’s pretty small anyway. Getting your own router is just a financially sensible option.

IPv4 address depletion isn’t really the ISP’s fault. It’s a shitty solution to a shitty situation, to be sure, but it’s either that or employing rationing strategies to stretch the remaining supply of IPv4 addresses.

Remember when memes were organic expressions of human thought shared purely for their social value rather than as part of covert advertising campaigns run by large companies to get more people to think about their products?

Pepperidge Farm, a subsidiary of the Campbell’s Soup Company, remembers.

I thought most SSH servers default to some AES-based cypher like most other programs. Is that not the case?

What a surprise, put a foolish overconfident man with dictatorial ambitions in charge of the state and now he wants to expand the state’s power.

People get blinded by religious extremism. Those that don’t generally just want to live in peace and don’t want to fight wars to maintain a fragile government that wasn’t even that great to begin with.

We all like to think of ourselves as brave souls who would put down our lives for our ideals but at the end of the day most of us will not actually stand up when the time comes to it.

We need legislation to fix this. Something like “should a contract drafted by a lawyer include clauses that they knew or should have known to be unenforceable or void, the entire contract shall be unenforceable by the drafting party”

In the United States where TikTok is based, contracts can include “severability clauses” that state that in the event any part of the contract is deemed unenforceable, the other parts are still good

“We send £350 million a week to the EU, let’s fund our NHS instead”

Narrator: they did not fund the NHS

In the end, it doesn’t matter too much whether people support Ukraine. It’s whether their governments support Ukraine. I doubt pulling back support for Ukraine will be a popular election tactic, especially in Europe.

Texas and Florida are pretty well-known as the shitholes of America. Run by populist idiots who cater to the uninformed and gullible voter. I’m sure there are places like that in every country.

YOU WOULDN’T STEAL A PURSE

Using fecal matter as fertiliser! How disgusting! If only garlic cloves came with some kind of natural barrier—a “wrap” or a peel of some sort to protect the part that we actually eat!