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They are already shooting down drones so no chance of that.

There is no doubt the ruthless leaders of Hamas are willing to starve the residents of Gaza to death for the sake of the annihilation of Israel and the Jewish people.

That's not who is stopping aid trucks from entering, killing medics, and killing humanitarian aid workers. She's refusing to hold Israel accountable for its war crimes.

• the provocation was deliberate
• they can position themselves as threatened/defending themselves (no reasonable person thinks Gaza poses an existential threat to Israel)
• they can draw the US into defending them
• this will dampen/limit US backlash against the Gaza genocide
• Netanyahu needs the war to go on because it helps him stay in power and away from being prosecuted, US entry could achieve that

Morpheus: ".... and find out just how deep the rabbit hole goes." Only it's more like an interconnected maze of rabbit holes leading everywhere. I wonder if you can still get "pina colada" Malibu?

Theoretically she could part her hair with a knife and bleach the green side, wait 20 min and put the black side on with a toothbrush, then wash it and add the green as required?

I love how Gen Z has gone back to all that stuff.

The problems with Ethiopia's rail system and financing are well-known though, you can find articles about it right accross the political spectrum.

Disagreeing with this article's conclusions about it would be valid, but there's no point trying to pretend the facts listed are not facts.

I remember being young and thinking middle-aged people are staring at me because they want me /they disapprove/whatever.

Now I'm middle aged myself, I know the staring is way more likely to either be something along the lines of "ah that kid is so 90s, I never had that green colour but blue Fudge used to wash out to green like that..."

Or "have we run out of natural yoghurt, we bought that 500ml pottle last week but we had curry twice, maybe I should get some more..."

50 Shades of Grey.

The film is silly and mediocre but the book is next level terrible.

Probably because Starship Troopers isn't PKD. It's Heinlein.

Kind of funny to imagine what it would have been like if it had been written by PKD. Johny Rico would have spent 1/3 of the book going through a divorce and the troopers would have all been on halucinogens.

No but I think it's okay for mods to have some guidelunes and this submission breaks them.

People are supoosed to post news articles with an excerpt. Not some kind of semi literate editorial of their personal opinion.

Assange is not an American citizen.

These days it's a public issue in Australia that their ally the US is doing this instead of handing him to them. It makes their politicians look weak.

So there's political pressure on Biden from Australia on this.

Orientalism is this stuff.

Idk I personally enjoy seeing terms I learned in grad school being thrown around in a mod log.

Paradigm shifts keep the brain nimble.

And fuck off whoever that tells me again to set up my own instance. What I want is popular instance admins and mods to

Seriously though you're making demands that other people work for free in a manner that will benefit you.

Way I see it, either take some of the free lunch that's on offer or make your own.

They're a country that's known to use torture and secret courts. They still have Guantanamo which is one big human rights violation.

That would be my concern.

At Corsight, board member and retired Israeli major general Giora Eiland has advocated for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza in Israeli newspaper articles. 

In October, he wrote that Israel “has no choice but to turn Gaza into a place that is temporarily or permanently impossible to live in,” and that “creating a severe humanitarian crisis in Gaza is a necessary means to achieving the goal.”

Later, he wrote that “Gaza will become a place where no human being can exist.”

It obviously doesn't deter crime.

The US is an outlier on the death penalty. Most western countries don't have it, but we don't have higher homicide rates.

Those aren't the only options.

Well looks like Israel's strategy of hastily bombing nearby countries has paid off.

Wrong side of history.

I think it might depend on the level of formality; pretty sure in very formal British ettiquette it goes clockwise from the person to the right of the host.

I don't really understand how they would be able to know the age of everyone like @Waker describes though.

The rounding up would make sense.

I don't think I have paid cash in a restaurant here in this century. In this part of the world the debit card system took hold quite early.