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Killings in the U.S. are dropping at a historic rate. Will anyone notice?

Really astonishing what kind of stories people come up with here...

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/murder-homicide-rate

Look at "annual % change" for 2020/2021 and you should quickly realize that this "historic drop" is actually just a slow recline from the historic rise we just had.

And the framing of this article is just as astonishing. The whole "does anyone even notice" spiel! Amazing.

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Israeli undercover forces dressed as women and medics storm West Bank hospital, killing 3 militants

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Interestingly, the commentary on Article 85 of the Third Geneva Convention includes “the wearing of civilian clothing by members of the armed forces for purposes of disguise” as an example of a war crim

Bonus points because guess where I read that?

https://en.idi.org.il/media/6191/combatants_dressed_as_civilians.pdf

It seems like some things just don't change.

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Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight

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Iirc this is phrased in a slightly misleading way. What they actually want is apps on the play store to be allowed to use their own billing system. And they want to be allowed to offer alternative store apps on the play store.

Android itself or more precise AOSP is open source and of course anyone can do anything with it. This is about what is or isn't allowed in the context of google app ecosystem that comes with 99.9% of all devices running android.