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  • I was literally just having a conversation earlier with someone In another thread calling for the destruction of Israel and for Jews to live under Hamas rule.

    I used to be like you. Went to the rallies. Even met with the leaders, until they showed me they were racist and hated Jews. Didn't want Israel to exist. Then I realized that both sides were just going to be at each other's throats till the end of time. Because neither would back down or allow the other to back down.

    In a game of Total destruction there will be no winners. The only way to win is not to play. Yet Hamas has plenty of support to erase Israel, which is hamases official position. This isn't even the largest conflict happening right now. More people die in conflicts in Africa every day. But it's more important to hate Jews then discuss what can be done to protect civilians in conflicts with higher casualty rates in Africa...

    I asked how the anti Israeli as a country Hamas supporter would implement dearming and desegregation. I've seen it before after the troubles and seen reunification several times. But no response. It's not about honesty, it's just spin. Whatever it takes to say Israel has no right to exist is the propaganda.

    Hamas will stop at nothing less than exterminating all Jews. That's their official stance that Hamas themselves advocate for.

    I won't fall for this type of mental gymnastics because I've been down that road. The leaders of the rallies I went to said they want all Jews dead and their homeland restored to them after the rally was over behind closed doors when they weren't in front of the media. All that one state solution is just propaganda BS without a chance of happening meant to tug at your heart strings while your cash goes to racists.

    Yea sure let's trust the hostage takers and child murders not to take any more hostages or murder more Jewish childen if we just open our hearts.

    There are no innocents here and it's all propaganda.

  • Careful the terrorist apologiests will be here any second to tell you how all Israelies should give up their country, tear down the borders,live under Hamas rule and just accept being murdered and burnt alive.

    I can't wait to hear about how the terrorist child murders and hostage takers are innocent and Israel needs to chillax.

  • Yea negotiating with the Taliban and the Afghan opium drug producers we termed 'war lords' worked so well.

    Bring along the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces RSF too why not and the al Shabaab forces too.

    Maybe we should negotiate with Iran again too since Trump backed out of the nuclear deal. The Norks will want to tag along too.

    While we're at it let's get the Houthi insurgency, M23 rebel group, Mara Salvatrucha, and the Sinaloa cartel.

    Let's get all the murderous psychos together that only speak the language of violence and ask them politely to stop killing. That always works so well.

  • EWG did some testing of various consumer level water filters and published a report that was recently in the news for filtering of PFAS 'forever chemicals'

    https://www.ewg.org/research/getting-forever-chemicals-out-drinking-water-ewgs-guide-pfas-water-filters

    While there were higher performers I went with the epic filter which has a lower cost over time. I also just use a regular white Brita as a prefilter.

    Of course there's other options like under sink reverse osmosis filters if you got time and money for all that.

  • Ok if you're not being disingenuous then how will you get Hamas to lay down their arms when they, Iran, and Hezbollah have all said they will not until all the Jews are dead?

    How do you propose to end the conflict and unite the governments?

    How should both sides unarm?

    How can desegregation be implemented like it was after the troubles?

    We both know you post so often you're the one in the PR brigade and have no interest in reunification, which I'm old enough to remember seeing in several countries. It's not Israel that's holding up a two or one state solution. It's those obsessed with killing all Israeli Jews.

    A best one side is in a religiously modified war and the other fighting to survive. At worst both sides are in a religiously motivated war that will never end.

  • You literally said Hamas should be given all of Israeli and Israeli citizens should give up their citizenship and live under a "democratic" Palestine. We both know Hamas will stop at nothing less than exterminating all Jews. That's their official stance that Hamas themselves advocate for.

    "Jewish people can stay and live under Palestine"

    Translation, remove the borders and let Hamas expand their operations

    I'd be open to this type of thinking if the leaders of the rallies I went to didn't say they want all Jews dead and their homeland restored to them after the rally was over behind closed doors when they weren't in front of the media. All that one state solution is propaganda BS without a chance of happening.

    Yea sure let's trust the hostage takers and child murders not to take any more hostages or murder more Jewish childen.

    There are no innocents here and it's all propaganda.

  • In the other thread you call for the destruction of Israel and for Jews to live under Hamas rule. This is going to get a lot worse while Hamas and people like you refuse a 2 state solution.

    I used to be like you. Went to the rallies. Even met with the leaders, until they showed me they were racist and hated Jews. Didn't want Israel to exist. Then I realized that both sides were just going to be at each other's throats till the end of time. Because neither would back down or allow the other to back down.

    In a game of Total destruction there will be no winners. The only way to win is not to play. Yet Hamas has plenty of support from some people to erase Israel. Hamas and Israel are going to fight. And more people die in conflicts in Africa every day. But it's more important to hate Jews then discuss what can be done to protect civilians in conflicts with higher casualty rates in Africa...

  • So Hamas murdered civilians, children, elderly, at gun point then burnt their houses down and took hostages but the answer is for everyone to go live with Hamas so they can all be murdered by terrorists that very vocally say their goal is to erase Israel and kill all the Jews?

    Why don't you go live in Palestine and help directly then? Plenty of people have gone to help such as Rachel Corrie.

    Shit by your logic we could give Gaza to turkey because the Ottoman Empire had it for over 400 years. Such brave Internet logic. Everything is so black and white. Tell me more about how terrorists threatening to kill hostages are improving everything for everyone.

  • After rolling out 3g router fail over for pokies, lotto, wagering in Oz I'm sure the money they saved from no longer having any downtime can pay for 4G, 5g, and starlink redundancy.

    5 hours of driving across Oz? Wouldn't even make Carnarvon Gorge much less Mount Isa.

    Beautiful country to drive across tho.

  • I only watch foreign cop shows where one of the detectives is a dog. And most of the time the dog solves the case.

    I'm talking Kommissar Rex/Inspector Rex, Hudson & Rex. But I'll settle for K-9, K-911, K-9 PI, Scooby Doo, and Ace Ventura.

    Anyone got any more crime solving animals TV shows?

  • Hurry up and wait.

    If you're a specialist that's needed for a specific task you might have to travel a long way.

    You probably already have bags packed. You probably already have a limited power of attorney or will. You might write some checks out for rent/bills. You might make sure your gf/wife/dependa has some condoms ready for Jody. You might want to make sure you have childcare someone to watch your dog, someone to start or charge your car while gone or you might arrange for someone to put the car on parked status for cheaper insurance and just jump it or buy a new battery when you get back.

    You prolly make sure all your CBTs are done and maybe if you don't already have it done you get a checklist of shit to do on base. That quickly turns into a series of quests just like that video game you hate.

    Then if you do deploy you get a call and possibly have to call some else on a phone tree and go HURRY UP AND WAIT.

  • Most terrible: Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter

    Most fucked up: Ichi the Killer

    WTF: Meet the Feebles

    Best black mockumentary: Man bites dog

    Things that aren't cheesy, maybe more weird and creepy or worth a mind fuck mention

    La jetee

    Naked lunch

    Brazil

    Dark city

    Repo man

    Jacobs Ladder

    Paprika

    Pi

    Solaris

    They live

    Total recall

    Wristcutter A Love Story

  • We're you refered to physical therapy after breaking your foot? Or are you able to see if insurance will pay because your mobility has been reduced?

    I had several injuries in the military that left me unable to stand, walk, drive a car, or balance for very long. With the help of physical therapy I was eventually able to walk properly, then after some time I was able to take a ride to work a job where I was sometimes sitting but often standing. Eventually I was able to work and exercise enough that I got all my balance and mobility back.

    Having public transit helped me when I still didn't have enough fine motor control to operate a pedal and brake.

    Not everyone is on the same journey, but please see if you can access physical therapy. Please advocate for not just healing but making yourself whole.

  • While this does depend on the drive... you really never want to get above 85-90% full on an SSD.

    It really does depend on how the drive deals with partially filled blocks, caching, and over provisioning...

    But I've seen this massive slow down worse than spinning disk on some older Samsung consumer grade drives when full. Now I just shrink the usable space by 10% on a new SSD and don't worry about it.

    https://pureinfotech.com/why-solid-state-drive-ssd-performance-slows-down/

  • Lenovo legion is worth a consideration.

    Do some research on what you can or cannot upgrade e.g. RAM and m2 drives. Look at notebookcheck website. Consider if you want a screen without PWM.

    you don't have to go top of the line to get a good system. Also considering finding what you want and waiting for black Friday or a similar sale. The discounts can be worth it! X1 carbon extreme can get deep discounts for example.

  • Kogan provides a year warranty tho... so it's not exactly a grey import (like fly by night eBay seller)

    I think you might have to cover shipping for repairs tho if you don't have their extended warranty.

    I think they have to provide that warranty by law tho

  • Why?

    We've pretty much been at war nonstop since WWII.

    They just called it the cold war.

    Cooler heads have prevailed, for the most part, for a long time. The shock and awe overwhelming force doctrine has worked when we needed it. There's questions on if it will work on a near peer in a new battle space featuring Internet, space, drones, and unconventional warfare.

    It's likely a near peer would target our water and power infrastructure with hacks. It's possible many civilians could die without even using nuclear weapons from that. It's possible the Internet would never be the same afterwards.

    But so far cooler heads have prevailed. The military industrial complex might be great at extracting tax dollars but the idea is that all that spending will work to prevent WWIII by being prepared to fight it.

    We might have to fight that war one day. Why worry? We spend plenty of money to be prepared to do so.

  • They will trade in the Confidentiality and Integrity for just Availability.

    When something like a hack finally drops the availability they will be forced to act.

    They will never do a pentest tho.

    Same story all over from government, small companies, all the way up to medical in big corporate hospitals and systems that could cause harm to human life.

    Security is at most a checkbox somewhere that just gets checked regardless of the true state of the system. If it still works don't fix it.

  • Eh, most dashcams have metadata with GPS, timestamps, etc.

    GPS locations, time, that's just math tho. But we could put a private key on every camera and digitally sign every photo/video to prove where it came from.

    If it gets bad enough you'll just carry around a film camera and snap a photo of an accident to prove your dashcam was "real."

    Official news sources, such as the AP, aren't going to just start faking shit. So look towards media that has a reputation. Yellow journalism has always been around and always will. But one advacent in faking whatever does not mean countermeasures stop advancing.