Aceticon

Also numbers such as 1200 are "dozens".

Saying "dozens" is a great way to understate a number which is much more than 12.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/report-suggests-arms-still-flow-from-canada-to-israel-despite-denials/ar-AA1Jw2FU

First result from a DDG search for "canada arms exports Israel"

Last I checked France was doing a similar thing, whilst the UK is literally flying surveillance flights over Gaza and giving the info to Israel, selling weapons to Israel (in their recent "review" they cut something like 2% of licenses for weapons export to Israel and then loudly proclaimed that they had "cut weapons sales to Israel") and even arresting British citizens who are merelly planning to demonstrate against the Genocide.

People who are OK with the mass-starvation of children don't have any moral or ethic qualms about deceiving the public.

True, such a low number of production units design would really only make sense if you could find an off the shelf solution to drive multiple displays.

If these displays are not supposed to be animated and they're reasonably low resolution (say, 800x600 20bit RGB or less), they could be connected via SPI and pretty much every microcontroller out there has multiple SPI ports, so even a cheap SBC would work for that). However I expect that getting XWindows or Wayland in Linux to work with such displays would be a PITA.

I've only ever got software running under Linux to control a tiny 2-tone display via I2C - on an Orange Pi SBC - and it's totally its own thing which happens to be running under Linux sending low-level commands via the I2C dev and not at all integrated with X-Windows or Wayland. This would also work fine if the comms was via SPI (in fact the code barelly changes since I'm using a library that does most of the low-level work for me).

To just display a static image or a sequence of static images loaded from storage in a bunch of screens low-resolution enough to support SPI (so 800x600 or less) I expect something like that would be fine.

The more I think about it, there more I expect this thing could run on a single $50 SBC as long as the connector exposes at least an SPI device and 8 independent I/O lines (given how SPI works, shared SPI bus is fine with one separate Chip Select line for each screen as long as the SPI device under Linux can run on a mode that lets your code control the CS line itself, and the other 4 I/O lines are for touch detection) assuming touch position is irrelevant.

Human replaceable printed paper labels, manual stick.

What I describe goes well beyond things with screens.

For example computer mice have a microcontroller inside (and unless it serves a mechanical function, not much more than that) and cars have several, only one of which actual handles a proper screen (it's actually a microprocessor rather than a mere microcontroller).

The simplest microcontrollers have nowhere near enough memory to handle any half-way decent display (some nothing at all, some can just about handle a two-tone 320x200 display over I2C or SPI, some can handle 640x480 16-bit RGB but without animations as they don't have enough memory to actual have a buffer for image composition) and yet they keep getting sold in massive numbers.

Pretty much all digital electronics out there no matter how invisible to users has been replaced by embedded microcontrollers or, in a some use cases, single function controllers (which are basically microcontroller programs converted into integrated circuits).

Embedded computing was a massive revolution in digital electronics.

Yeah, I really missed pretty much the entire domain of sweet things.

The Western Public Opinion has changed so the pro-Genocide politicians are fighting to delay any meaningful action until after Israel has finished executing their Holocaust, by which point they'll switch to claiming that "we have to accept the facts on the ground that an independent Palestinian nation is not viable with just the population of the West Bank alive".

I've seen this strategy of support something bad; pivot to talk about some future meaningless act that has zero impact when the population realises how bad it really is; pivot to " it's too late now" and "lessons will be learned" when the thing is irreversible, be used countless times in Britain, though never to protect such extreme mass murderers.

As far as I can tell every single Western nation politician pushing this "solution" is from a nation still selling weapons to Israel and who totally refuse the idea of sanctions on Israel.

The whole thing reeks of a "throw it into the long grass until the public pressure blows over" strategy to give time to Israel to finish their Holocaust without getting hit by the sanctions that Western public opinion now wants.

If these were honest people rather than sociopaths they would have already gotten the ball rolling on sanctioning Israel, not talkie-talkie about, maybe, in the future, merely recognizing the statehood of the country of the people being right now Genocided by Israel, something with no inherent impact on Israel and hence not a chance in Hell from stopping or even slowing down the Israeli Holocaust.

If you want to spot the truly Evil Hypocrite Sociopath politicians, just observe who at this point when the Israeli Genocide is well beyond undeniable and has morphed into a Holocaust by Starvation, is "threatening" Israel with the possibility of some future recognition of Palestinian statehood.

Only somebody on the extremely end of the sociopath spectrum would at this point in time and whilst confronted with pictures of children dying of starvation and overwhelming evidence of the IDF executing civilians trying to get Food Aid, waffle and finger wag about thinking of, maybe, in the future, doing something which puts no pressure whatsoever on Israel.

Sugar!

Before Europeans discovered the sugarcane they only had the natural sweetness of things to make sweet food, the sweetest of which is sugar beet, whose sugar is lot harder to purify than that of sugar cane.

How sweet can cake be without some reasonably pure form of sugar you can add. Did the concept of cake even exist in Europe before that?

Edit: nevermind - I forgot the sweetness of fruit (oops).

The impression I get from this wave of recent announcements about Israel including of people like the British Government and Macron (both of which keep shipping weapons to Israel, and the former even has the police arresting anti-Genocide protesters) of "we will recognize Palestine as a nation if you don't stop" is that a bunch of politicians in Western nations are activelly executing a delay strategy to avoid that under pressure from public opinion all over the World (including their own countries) Israel is the target of actual sanctions.

The whole thing reeks of the "thrown it into the long grass until it blows over" kind of political strategy for not doing what the public wanted that was incredibly common in British politics when I lived there.

History shows us that Israel always keeps on trying to eliminate those of any other ethnicities than White-Jewish in that area to steal their land (if you think this is not a "White" thing, go check how Israel has treated Black-Jews), so a two-state solution is nothing more than yet more chances in the future for Israel to finish their Holocaust if they don't finish it this time around.

The only real solution is a single, multi-religious or even non-religious state, which is not Israel and probably should not be based on anything from Israel since the very constitution of Israel makes it an Apartheid state.

We're well pass the point were the upsides of the existence of the nation of Israel as is outweigh the downsides.

I don't think the people using ChatGPT like that actual verify its answers.

I suspect they don't even know its answers cannot be trusted.