they could’ve easily just targeted specific individuals
They did target a specific individual - the Iranian ambassador in Lebanon. Everyone else was collateral damage.
they could’ve easily just targeted specific individuals
They did target a specific individual - the Iranian ambassador in Lebanon. Everyone else was collateral damage.
Bombing a police station because there’s a chance one of the cops might try to arrest me.
Bombing the court house so there’s no place for my trial.
Bombing the mayor’s Special Committee On Investigating City Bombings to cover my trail.
Bombing the local field office of the newspaper that’s writing a report on all these bombings.
More people are saying I’m the bad guy, but this is just adding the number of people I have to add to my list of future bomb targets.
Once again, it needs to be noted that this entire operation was designed to assassinate one guy. The part of the pager shipment was an order made by the Iranian consulate in Lebanon.
Since the Israelis didn’t know which pager was going to the ambassador, they just rigged them all to explode. Then everyone who got caught in the crossfire was labeled “Hezbollah” after the fact.
even though they’re (trying to) occupy the exact same plot of land
Explaining to my Cherokee friends that, really, you’re no better than the European settlers who displaced you because you both wanted to live in Florida. Suddenly, they’re not my friends anymore. Can’t believe they were anti-white racists the whole time.
When the entire population of Palestine is described as “Hamas”, all “Condemning Hamas” amounts to is blaming civilians for their own massacre. It’s just racist people demanding you be as racist as they are before they let you speak.
The Haitians in Springfield who got accused of eating geese in the park are currently all there to revitalize Ohio’s automotive industry. Republicans love their car culture and hate their car manufacturing workforce.
That’s not a good thing
Two sticks you can rub together.
Yes.
You need to pretend you live in a democracy or the administrators will take away the illusion.
He will be exempt. The areas that he lives in and the things that he does will not be tagged as “criminal” on the data system that he has the contract to administer.
That’s always how these systems work. You don’t worry about getting dragged into the Saudi Consulate and bonesawed to death by intelligence officers when you’re MBS, because you’re the boss and the guy getting bonesawed is your employee.
For the same reason, you don’t worry about getting spied on when you’re the one who owns and operates the big surveillance infrastructure because it exists for your benefit.
going down to the creek to dip my toes in
creek is full of industrial runoff from the giant factory upstream
walk upstream to see the factory
How Memphis became a battleground over Elon Musk’s xAI supercomputer
xAI’s central focus is a tool called Grok. It’s an AI chatbot, similar to ChatGPT, that the company flaunts as “having a sense of humor.” Musk has called it the “most fun AI in the world.” It has fewer rules than other AI chatbots and has been known for creating controversial deepfake images, such as Mickey Mouse as a Nazi and Kamala Harris in lingerie.
The primary purpose of the Memphis supercomputer is to provide compute power for Grok.
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The cancer rate in South Memphis is four times higher than the national average, according to a ProPublica report. And a 2020 University of Memphis study found the life expectancy here is 10 years lower than other parts of the city. South Memphis also has elevated asthma rates, and the American Lung Association gave it a failing grade for air quality. Experts say this is largely due to the neighborhood’s proximity to Memphis’ industrial zone.
Like Russia does?
Israel and Russia remain close geopolitical allies.
Basically what the French did to Haiti, several centuries ago. Kill off all the native peoples and bring in a slave population to handle the manual labor.
insert dubiously sourced anecdote by anonymous IDF officer
handing my friend a screwdriver
“You can use this for simple crafts and home repairs”
Me, backing away from the screwdriver in terror
“Nice try, but I know what that is. They use that thing to build the Space Shuttle.”
We’re talking about rentals, dude.
We just had a major rental catrelization scandal, by which landlords collaborated to keep vacant units prices above the clearing rate to deny their tenants anywhere cheaper to move.
Someone can afford the home you’re in.
I’ve got half a dozen units on my block that are selling above the clearing price. They’ve been vacant for years. This is speculative real estate. The only people who can afford it are the developers and investors looking to accumulate housing stock on the gamble that someone will be able to pay the markup at some point in the future.
no money spent
Well… electricity.
Israel doesn’t have to go anywhere. No more than South Africa went somewhere after Apartheid ended in that state. Or Cuba vanished after the Batista government collapsed. Or Germany vanished after '45.
But the war criminals leading the current genocidal policy towards the people in their care. They need the same treatment as Milosoviec, Omar al-Bashir, and Saddam Hussein.
Drag Netanyahu to the Hague and prosecute him for crimes against humanity. Dismiss the current illegal and unconstitutional Kinesset and hold new free and fair elections in Israel. Provide reparations for the displaced Gaza and West Bank citizens, and launch a Truth and Reconciliation Committee to recover damages for the crimes committed against them.
That is the only moral path forward for Israel.