bustrpoindextr @ bustrpoindextr @lemmy.world

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I'm gonna go ahead and tell you, that's a bit high for after tax.

I make 172/year and after tax and benefits and what not in South Carolina, I'm at 8.6 a month, which is less than the 150 estimate. So in an average tax state and making 20k less? Might be more like 7.5-8.

Edit: granted of course, 401k contribution can change things a bunch

To be fair, I live in a low cost of living area and having purchased a house this past January, if I dropped to 130k I might be paycheck to paycheck after a while. Which, granted is lower than the survey.

This being said, my mortgage payment is only $50 more than what my rent was about to increase to, because landlords are the devil.

I also didn't get a big house, it was well under the national average for cost and size, very much a "starter house". But still over 300k, because housing is a nightmare.

1. They weren't "chest bumping"
2. Closing a gap does not constitute battery
3. Yes, once you put hands on me, I can punch you in the face. That's the law. Under the law, and for good reason, her reaction is self defense.
4. One person's punch is not necessarily equivalent to another's, as we saw in this incident. I mean, turns out she needed to have used a more serious form of self defense here. So it's irrelevant whether it was a shove, a punch, a kick or whatever. He put hands on her first and she got the broken nose.

Yeah the rosy days of Lemmy that invited discourse only lasted a few months.

That's why instead of "good morning" I just send SYN

Behind the curve. This was also what I immediately thought of

Here's some more data, the consensus, as of yesterday, is that rocket came from Gaza. The French confirmed it too, your video is also old (and from the height of the disinformation campaign)

https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-hospital-rocket-gaza-8bc239d2efe0cff3998b2154d9220a83

You've also yet to back up the claim that Israel has that position at all, or that the general consensus from the intelligence community agrees with you either.

You can't just say no.

Third party data shows it was Hamas. You can't just say no.

the Israeli story is that a PIJ rocket misfired and hit the hospital. This means it's:

No the third party, not even Israeli, story is.

It literally couldn't have been Israeli and it was Hamas or some other local area bombing, which means it couldn't have been Israel.

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/national-security-daily/2023/10/18/u-s-intel-indicates-israel-didnt-bomb-gaza-hospital-00122197#:~:text=A%20day%20after%20a%20horrific,indicates%20Israel%20wasn't%20responsible.

Sooooo he's an Israeli guy...

Yeah, you really got me there. And I said that bit was valuable...

Jayzuz.

I've never heard that guy before but he's purposely ignoring things to make the other side seem idiotic, which is not a good faith argument.

You can't say Hamas is not using human shields. They are, they've even bombed some of them and spread disinformation that Israel did it to make Israel look even worse, it was one of their first moves after Oct 7th.

The only valuable bit of the link you posted was the CNN clip from the Israeli guy. I'm only leaving this comment in hopes that people think about the echo chambers they get in. Echo chambers are incredibly powerful and with regards to this conflict, very dangerous. It's an incredibly complex situation with the only innocent parties being the civilians on both sides.

Neither civilian group wants either of the current leaderships in play, but those leaderships are what caused this and are perpetuating it.

Well lead did a pretty big number on a certain generation that has been in power for quite some time, and you actually can't fix that.

Not bin laden, no. Definitely not.

It's just a big container

Oh same, I lived in Philly for years lol

Yeah they've been more fuel efficient for awhile now, but you can take my 6 speed from my cold dead hands 🤣

I just like it.

I have an auto truck because I needed a truck and that was what was available for the price I wanted to pay, but my daily driver is a stick and imma drive it till one of us dies lol

May I introduce you to Nerd fonts you can have your inconsolata and your symbols

It must be nice to live in a black and white world.

I'm not saying anyone wants to see innocent deaths (well honestly except Hamas) but like, honestly... What are you supposed to do? If you're bombed by someone hiding behind human shields, and you do nothing because of the human shields, that means your people are allowed to be bombed with impunity. Compound that with Iran and Hezbollah on Israel's border and you'd be inviting enemies to keep assaulting your civilians.

It's also unclear how many Palestinians have actually died by Israel's hand, because we also know that Hamas has bombed their own civilians and then claimed Israel did it via a disinformation campaign to make Israel look worse, and we also know that Hamas is inclined to inflate those numbers for the same reason.

If you're actually wanting to understand the complexities of the situation, Ian Bremmer has a pretty in depth explanation here: https://youtu.be/K5tcwIicICg?si=YKdANlGRfa0GiIFv

Always have been