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That's fair. Religion can be a very important part of both identities.

However, I would like to stress that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not directly motivated by religious differences. As in, it's not a case of "their religion is different! GET EM!". The direct problem isn't that the other side has a different religion, it's that the other side essentially has competing land claims, and a competing nationalist vision.

Since religion is an important part of Hamas' identity (and possibly of some factions in Israel, I'd guess), that affects how each side frames the conflict, and what some of their means and ends are. But the key issues of the conflict have to do with things like land borders and economic conditions.

AFAIK it scales at a 2:1 ratio. n girls means n/2 cups.

No, it has almost nothing to do with religion. The only part of the Israeli-Palestinian crisis that actually tangibly relates to a religious dispute, is the contesting claims over Jerusalem (because it's holy to both Judaism and Islam).

Literally the entire rest of the conflict is based on competing nationalist claims.

Yes, even though Hamas is yelling "Allahu-akbar". Believe it or not, they're not fighting because of their religion, they're fighting because of their political goals (namely in Hamas' case AFAIK the destruction of Israel). They do also happen to be religious, but the primary conflict is a political one.

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That's pretty wild.

What's even the point of using a nuke at that point? Are they somehow cheaper to produce than conventional bombs of a similar scale? Even if you just want some fallout, you can use a dirty bomb or something, no?

If we're going with what the commenter above laid out, then even if Hamas fighters evacuate, their tunnels presumably get collapsed.

Also, I think that might actually be why they gave such a tight deadline. If there isn't enough time for everyone to get out, will Hamas manage to escape, that sort of thing.

God I hate all of this.

The southern part of Gaza

I don't think they make nukes small enough to only get the northern half of a city, without also getting the southern half, and everything else around the city for a decent radius.

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"Of course I know him, he's me"

Speaking as someone who does know what a homestuck fan is, you're 100% right.

ancaps: "muh NAP"

ancoms: "please get away from our commune, thank you"

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Yeah. In the image, Ash is just RESTing.

Honestly, fair enough.

As far as I know, the USSR collapsed because Gorbachev's reforms weakened existing institutions and power structures, without providing replacements.

That's how I started out! It was a pretty decent experience.

However, I would rate Debian as a slightly better choice over Mint. You see, Mint is a fork of Ubuntu (which is a fork of Debian). So when I needed to troubleshoot an issue, instead of just googling "Linux Mint [my issue]", I actually sometimes had to google "Ubuntu [my issue]", or even "Debian [my issue]", depending on the situation. This is because Mint and Ubuntu share large similarities with Debian, but with certain particular differences; for any given situation, I didn't necessarily know which differences played a role. This is actually why I switched to Debian; I figured, my experience was going to be basically exactly the same, just with more straightforward troubleshooting.

If you're worried about user-friendliness, then the good news is that's largely to do with your desktop environment (GNOME, KDE, Cinnamon, etc). Whichever one you pick, it will pretty much feel the exact same no matter whether the underlying distro is Debian, Ubuntu, or Mint. Especially because they're all Debian-based.

I am going to call it that now.