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They literally have one commandment against murder (thou shall not kill. Anyone? Anyone?). Genocide much?

It's better translated as "don't murder" than "don't kill" - it uses the Hebrew verb רצח which refers to immoral unlawful killings (i.e. murder), not killing in general.

In Judaism, for example, the rabbis ruled in the Babylonian Talmud that it's OK to kill someone who is actively trying to murder someone else.

As far as where in the Torah it says to kill people, there's a bunch of places. For example, here's one commandment from deuteronomy 21:

If a man has a wayward and rebellious son, who does not obey his father or his mother, and they chasten him, and [he still] does not listen to them, his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place. And they shall say to the elders of his city, "This son of ours is wayward and rebellious; he does not obey us; [he is] a glutton and a guzzler." And all the men of his city shall pelt him to death with stones, and he shall die. So shall you clear out the evil from among you, and all Israel will listen and fear.

Edit: As an aside, the rabbis weren't too keen on actually stoning kids, so they clarified the conditions to make it basically impossible to do.

Hamas's goals are both political and religious.

They're explicitly fighting to establish a Muslim theocracy, under sharia law.

It's not akin to something like the American revolution, where you had a number of religious people fighting to establish a secular country.

It's more like the Maccabean revolt against the Selucids, where the Jewish leaders were the priests, and ended with the establishment of the Hasmonean dynasty where the high priest became king.

Would you really argue that the Maccabean revolt had nothing to do with religion?

Hamas is literally an offshoot of the Muslim brotherhood.

Fatah is reasonably secular. But Hamas is fighting a literal jihad against Jews. To Hamas, this is very much a religious war to establish a Muslim theocracracy over all of Israel.

Which mostly means it doesn't matter. Car vs electric truck is basically a rounding error compared to either a lorry or the regular freeze-thaw cycle.

There's more than 2 ways to get Israeli citizenship.

Both of those fall under the "right of return" for Jews.

Non-Jews with permanent residency can become citizens after 3 years if they give up their previous citizenship. Meanwhile, Jews are allowed to be dual citizens. For example, some Druze in the Golan Heights became Israeli citizens that way, particularly due to the Syrian Civil War.

Also, in 1952, Israel passed a citizenship law that gave citizenship to anyone who had been a national of the British mandate in 1948, had registered as an Israeli resident in 1949, and hadn't left Israel before claiming citizenship. So about 170k Arabs were granted citizenship, while the ~720k who fled or were expelled during the war were excluded, although they expanded eligibility a bit in 1980 to include Arabs who had returned to Israel after the war.

Would you really rather see <\Foo> than )?

There's a reason why most popular languages use } rather than end if or fi. The added verbosity doesn't actually help people read your code more than e.g. indentation or editors with paren matching or rainbow parens.

It goes back a bit further than that, right?

The Jaffa riots, for example, were back in 1921. Palestinians rioted and killed about 50 Jews, and British police killed about 50 Palestinians while trying to restore order.

Python virtual environments feel really archaic. It's by far the worst user experience I've had with any kind of modern build system.

Even a decade ago in Haskell, you only had to type cabal sandbox init only once, rather than source virtualenv/bin/activate.sh every time you cd to the project dir.

I'm not really a python guy, but having to start touching a python project at work was a really unpleasant surprise.

Soy milk is great, but it's not a good milk substitute.

It should taste beany, and that's not really what I want with my cereal. A Chinese cruller, on the other hand...

The US isn't a uniform age.

You get more hyper-local accents like the Boston, Philly and NYC accents in the older US cities, and fewer in places that haven't been densely settled as long.

Is there a difference between a Las Vegas accent and a Pheonix or Los Angeles accent? Honestly, I don't really know.

Still, there's fewer hyper local accents and accents tend to be spoken over a wider area. Probably also because the US has had relatively large amounts of internal migration. Also, I assume average people travel further on average than they used to when wagons were the state of the art.

Companies exist to maximize profit.

If more vegans exist, the normal thing you'd expect is decreased production of meat products and increased production of beans.

The effect from one person is negligible, but it adds up.

Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) usually refers to how readily it infects and kills birds, rather than humans.

The usual way we handle HPAI outbreaks is to kill every bird on that site when a single case is discovered. So if you have backyard chickens and an indoor parrot, from what I understand they'd euthanize your parrot if your chickens got sick. Or if you have an outbreak of a million hen egg farm, you depopulate those million chickens en mass, often though a less than humane method like suffocating then in foam or giving them heat stroke because it minimizes human exposure.

If you remember when eggs were expensive not too long ago, that was HPAI as well.

Objectively, vegan diets are better for the planet than equivalent omnivorous ones.

There's honestly more impactfull things we could collectively do like decarbonizing electricity and transportation, building walkable cities, etc. You definitely don't have to go vegan to be an environmentalist, and I'm not even sure it's the highest impact personal change you could do.

There's some particularly bad vegan foods for the environment, like air freighted berries. But those foods aren't exclusively vegan, and aren't hard to avoid. The foods you'd actually consume a lot more of as a vegan like beans and nuts are way better for the environment than beef or chicken.

What do you imagine happens to old dairy cattle? We just compost them?

Dairy cattle absolutely get slaughtered for food. If you eat them, though, they were probably in your burger or hotdog.

That's because older animals are less tender than young animals, and consumers prefer tender meat.

If you knead bread by hand, it'll have some human DNA in it from e.g your skin cells. It's almost impossible to cook or process food while preventing it from getting literally any human cells into it, because humans are shedding cells and DNA literally all the time. You can wear gloves, hairnets, and frequently mop up, but eliminating the problem entirely is hard.

Both a vegetarian burger and a beef burger are probably going to have more human DNA in it than either a steak or a pot of black beans would.

Pigs and chickens don't eat air, you know.

70% of US soy becomes animal feed. Some of the rest is used industrially, or becomes biodisel. Relatively little US soy becomes soy sauce, tofu, etc.

Soy subsidies, in practice, mostly function as a chicken and pork subsidy.

You'll notice that we heavily subsidize animal feed crops like corn and soy, and spend much less money subsidizing fruits and veggies, nuts, and other legumes like black beans or lentils.

The fact that they have it on this blatant of a propaganda poster means that unions work.

Not necessarily.

A poster this blatant means unions are bad for management.

It doesn't prove that unions aren't bad for both workers and management alike. Business isn't a zero sum game. To show that something helps workers, you need to demonstrate that it helps workers.

Which is to say, this poster is a bad argument for unions. The success of the writers strike, on the other hand, is a good argument of how unions protect workers from the bad deals management offers.

No.

Honey bees are dying because of parasites and pests, pathogens, poor nutrition, and sublethal exposure to pesticides.

It's not just one thing. Most of those things on their own won't even kill them. For example, Varroa mites will kill an already weakened hive, but not a healthy one.

Lawns absolutely contribute to poor nutrition, due to habitat loss. Same with all the mowed grass we have everywhere in suburbia. Monocropped agriculture does as well, because bees do best with a variety of flowers.

I've let the back part of my property grow wild the past couple years, and it's currently filled with a ton of goldenrod, chicory, and a bunch of other random flowers. You would not beleive the number of honeybees I've seen back there at once, or how loud the buzz was.

Similarly, there's a reason I see a ton of fireflys in my yard, but I see almost none in my neighbors yards. It's because they're well- manicured green wastelands

A nuclear reactor is the part of a nuclear plant that generates steam from the radioactive materials.

NuScale's plan, for example, is to build a pre-fabricated reactor you can ship via truck to the plant. You put it in a deep pool, and add some piping to connect it to your steam turbine, and you've got a power plant.

It's modular, in that you can put many nuclear reactors in your pool. You can hook them up to whatever steam turbine you want. You don't necessarily need more sites, you can have one site with more reactors.

The advantages of the design is better passive emergency safety, centralized building of the most complex parts, and the ability to build smaller plants for smaller cities.

Additionally, there's been some discussion refurbishing old coal plants with small modular reactors; you'd basically replace the old coal furnace with a new pool of SMRs, hooking the steam to the old turbines and other infrastructure. Honestly, I'll beleive it when I see it.