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CanadaPlus, (edited )

They have done their best to minimize Palestinian civilian causalities.

Where does denying entry of food and water to the whole strip factor in to that?

Also, mandatory comment that terrorist is a meaningless word, since I don’t want it being used as a rhetorical crutch. I don’t like Hamas because they are brutal theocrats who care nothing for human rights.

CanadaPlus,

For now.

CanadaPlus,

Oh, well it’s totally okay then. /s

He’s might be technically right so far, since most of the population is still standing, but depending on where things go next this line could be remembered along with “peace in our time”.

CanadaPlus, (edited )

Yeah. Nothing lasts all that long when put next to 400,000 degree plasma. The bigger risk is just know-how that the Chinese could take advantage of, either by employing former staff or copying what they find.

CanadaPlus, (edited )

You don’t want to leave anything copyable in the wreckage either, though.

CanadaPlus,

It could be, that would certainly be safer. I don’t think that sounds easier to set up than an explosive charge, though.

If it’s not based on physical destruction, I’d guess it’s some variant of a killer poke (so the thing is set to burn itself out or actuate parts into damaging configurations), combined with a thorough wipe of all software.

CanadaPlus,

0% surprised. This itself would be a fallback if they can’t get the C4 in place in time, I’d expect. Unless it literally is just a small amount of C4 that’s built in.

CanadaPlus, (edited )

It depends on what they study. I know of some that come for agriculture-related degrees which are just worthless in a totally different climate. “Canada educated” comes with a lot of prestige back home, though, and they have the money, so they come anyway.

CanadaPlus,

Actually, the ones the government has cracked down on most are business degrees. They’re the cheapest to deliver so they’ve been used as an (often needed) cash cow by educational institutions. That’s probably more useful than learning the frost tolerance of a crop you don’t even grow at home, or treatment of temperate pests, but it’s not engineering.

CanadaPlus, (edited )

“Terrorists” itself is a bit of a sneaky choice of words, because it’s very vague but sounds very bad.

If they had to talk about deterrence, proportionality and the actual demands and interests of the various factions involved it wouldn’t sound so good for them anymore. Instead, it’s them vs. “terrorists”, being against them is being for “terrorists”, and any attempt to argue with that is doomed to scuttle in the semantic molasses of WTF it even means.

You can still not like Hamas for being brutal theocrats that don’t care about human rights.

CanadaPlus,

Doing training, maybe. How hard is it to do in Eastern Poland instead, though? I just don’t see the problem this solves.

CanadaPlus,

This is a pretty old meme now. It’s a bit late for that.

CanadaPlus,

I don’t know about unique, but you’re right, it’s not universal. In some cultures it’s not seen as a bad thing, either, because there’s recent memory of famine being a regular thing.

CanadaPlus,

Hah! Is that how it works?

Buddhism solved, take your robes home guys. /s

CanadaPlus,

I legitimately wonder if he has early dementia. The filter seems to be MIA sometimes.

CanadaPlus,

That’s fair. Thanks for the intelligent conversation.

CanadaPlus,

Gripens?

Zelensky: 'Our partners fear that Russia will lose this war' (kyivindependent.com)

President Volodymyr Zelensky believes that Ukraine’s partners “are afraid of Russia losing the war” and would like Kyiv “to win in such a way that Russia does not lose,” Zelensky said in a meeting with journalists attended by the Kyiv Independent....

CanadaPlus,

It’s not what we expected, but everyone will agree geopolitics is much improved. This time, he not only smokes in the white house, but has an arm fall off somewhere unfortunate. /s

CanadaPlus,

That’s not what I said.

CanadaPlus,

It’s true, and they’re not wrong, nuclear Yugoslavia would be scary. Unfortunately I don’t think there’s an alternative, Putin rang a bell that can’t be un-rung.

CanadaPlus,

Yeah, being able to ignore legal proceedings is about as close to the opposite of civilisation as you can get.

Helicopter carrying Iran's President Raisi crashes, search under way (www.reuters.com)

DUBAI, May 19 (Reuters) - A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister crashed on Sunday as it was crossing mountain terrain in heavy fog, an Iranian official told Reuters, and rescuers were struggling to reach the site of the incident....

CanadaPlus,

Huh, TIL there’s a distinction. Where is mountainous considered to begin?

I feel like if there was a pamphlet people got upon becoming rich and famous, “don’t helicopter through foggy mountains” would have to be on it.

CanadaPlus,

Amateur move. Everyone knows bedroom communities are less tolerant than the core. /s

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Damn, I never get invited to the cool parties. /s

CanadaPlus, (edited )

Natural language is inherently imprecise. You’re going to have to add a contextual definition if you want this to have a single answer.

If making someone do something is always authoritarian, abolition is authoritarian to slavers and anti-authoritarian to slaves. If implementing a law with no checks and balances is authoritarian, it was authoritarian when Louis XIV did it, but maybe not in other cases. If a policy that upholds any kind of hierarchy is authoritarian, it’s always anti-authoritarian.

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