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aqouta
1d ago
Welp, 9 week visit went poorly, we're probably going to have another miscarriage, we'll know for sure in a couple weeks. I looked up the odds, seems like there is only like a 30% chance the problem is some kind of chromosomal thing that makes us totally inviable.
We found out a couple weeks ago my sister is expecting her second in January, they would have been similar ages. We're going to another baby shower in a couple weeks. This really sucks.
ZanarkandAbesFan
1d ago
If the IDF offered food and a trip out of Gaza for the family of anyone who accurately reported Hamas hiding spots I bet they would win fast.
Knowing where Hamas are hiding has never been the IDF's problem. It's been trying to target Hamas members while causing as little collateral damage as possible, given that Hamas invariably hides among large clusters of civilians. But for something closer to your example, the Israelis have for almost a year been offering $5 million to any Gazan willing to return a hostage (I assume helping to return a hostage carries a similar reward). As far as I'm aware, they've had no takers.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
I feel like genocide and ethnic cleansing are different ways of slicing the same flavor of activity by severity.
Certainly not. Dividing a nation and moving all members of one ethnic group to one half while moving all members of another ethnic group to the other is "ethnic cleansing", but it is in no way genocide. However, this is not happening. Gaza is already basically "ethnically spotless". The only ethnic cleansing Israel did in Gaza was in 2005, when it removed its own settlers (often by force), and I don't think that's what anyone means by it now.
Ethnic group: Palestinians
Religion: Muslims
There are very few non-Palestinians and/or non-Muslims resident in Gaza, but those who exist have been moved around with the rest.
TowardsPanna
1d ago
I'll re-check against a group of enemies.
Did notice it was considerably quicker to take down one of those white giants when using this Ash though.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
Additional Protocol I, Article 54
Israel has not signed Additional Protocol I. (and the US has not ratified it). Hamas, of course, ignores such things entirely as applied to itself.
Corvos
1d ago
Every time you use the art, it should send a wave of energy for maybe 5 metres. I think with a shorter buildup time if you chain them.
TowardsPanna
1d ago
What did you mean by medium range slash/wave attack?
I've put it on my longsword and it seems to just get activated by a L2 slow-ass slash? Seems like it can only be used for opening combat, would be too slow to enable in mid combat. I don't see a wave?
coffee_enjoyer
☕️
1d ago
intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population as such or against individual civilians not taking direct part in hostilities
This, as with any law, will be pursued with litigation and deliberation to work out details. The entire application of law is not based on a single sentence with no rational determination applying to it. The above, along with Additional Protocol I, Article 54, “ Protection of objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population”, which states “Starvation of civilians as a method of warfare is prohibited”, leads one to think that Israel is committing war crimes. In addition,
intentionally using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare by depriving them of objects indispensable to their survival, including wilfully impeding relief supplies as provided for under the Geneva Conventions
is a crime, and regarding said relief, if
part of the population of an occupied territory is inadequately supplied, the Occupying Power shall agree to relief schemes on behalf of the said population, and shall facilitate them by all the means at its disposal. […] Such schemes […] may be undertaken […] by impartial humanitarian organizations
ThisIsSin
Liberty has an anti-privilege bias
1d ago
the most egregious motte-and-bailey that is currently widely accepted
No, the most egregious motte-and-bailey is "consent".
Note that this statement:
Call someone a 'pedophile' because they express attraction towards someone just barely under the age of majority, and uninformed onlookers might very well imagine that they're a predator who stalks 10 year olds with designs on kidnapping and molesting them.
is a specific version of the more general form, which is:
Call someone a
'pedophile'rapist because they express attraction towardssomeone just barely under the age of majoritya woman who isn't interested, and uninformed onlookers might very well imagine that they're a predator who stalks 10 year olds with designs on kidnapping and molesting them.
and the popular definition of "pedophile" is fundamentally just the most defensible/best Think Of The Children extension of that core idea. (Because no, that definition only includes man on girl; we pretend it includes man on boy when it's politically convenient to do so, but we don't treat the two equally.)
Stellula
1d ago
Can I prove that my dog is a dog? Can you prove that Robert Maxwell was an Israeli intelligence asset?
Listen to the podcast I linked. It’s a 6 hour long answer to your question.
AvocadoPanic
1d ago
Lost and overwhelmed.
My wife (20 years) and and have been having marital difficulties, I believe she's depressed and has become involved in some online extremist communities. Her online 'persona' had been bleeding through in real life more and more.
Yesterday being the netadmin for my own network I undertook a block of many of the apps and sites.
Today while she was collecting our 4 children from vacation bible school, I saw she had left her laptop open. She'd been very secretive with it recently. I snooped.
She's been sending bitcoin to someone in control of an @aol.com address apparently believing she's arranging an in person meeting with Elon Musk, who she says in her email she has been in contact with for a while. They're expecting 10k for a meeting with Elon.
She's refusing to see a therapist alone or with me, she's refused to see a psychiatrist.
Anyone encountered anything like this?
Any suggestions?
jake
1d ago
If you're looking for another person for editing, feel free to message me. I can provide a sample from my own writing if you'd want to see my bona fides.
token_progressive
maybe not the only progressive here
1d ago
While I agree that it's out of the Overton Window of what I expect to appear in the pages of the Huff Post or NYT, "Bill Clinton is a rapist" is something that is commonly stated on /r/politics (in the context of the right countering claims against Trump by bringing up Bill Clinton), and I'd be astonished if any millennial or younger person I knew would disagree.
banana_republican
1d ago
They're definitely propaganda. "Propaganda" means "everything that does and doesn't exist." If you disagree, you are wrong, or worse, a linguistic prescriptivist.
Jokes aside, "images of facts on the ground" can be misleading. A camera was placed in a location at a time, and the camera produced photographs. Why was it here and not there? Why snap a photo now and not then? To expose what's in the frame? To distract from what's outside the frame?
Not saying anything about the object level.
thejdizzler
1d ago
At least at Hopkins (where I am), it's woke all the way down.
anti_dan
1d ago
Full blockade of all supplies. Bombing of any building with credible intelligence that a fighter or weaponry is in. Creeping artillery barrages of the entire territory. Things like that
Throwaway05
1d ago
but it's mostly isolated to the "usual suspect" departments: anthropology, sociology, literature, and The Studies.
Medicine is a much "harder" field than the social sciences but is pretty much just as woke captured, with all the bells and whistles you see along with that and extremely problematic results such as lots of people on this forum not believing that COVID actually happened.
You'd have to completely redo a million things to get anything resembling more politically balanced medicine and with the way our licenses can be attacked nobody has any interest in stepping up without a ton of protection.
roystgnr
1d ago
If the "ping" in "ping-ponging" is ethnic cleansing, would the "pong" be "ethnic dirtying"? Getting someone out of an area permanently because you want to settle there would be ethnic cleansing, but getting someone out temporarily because it's an active war zone and then bringing them back when it's safe is just good manners, not ethnic cleansing.
There may be ethnic cleansing to come later, because the Israelis can't possibly have failed to notice that "thread the West Back back and forth with settlers" turned out to be a surprisingly secure situation relative to "leave Gaza entirely and hope that leads to peace and then watch your civilians get massacred", but if you want to retain the trust and moral standing to oppose ethnic cleansing when it happens, don't go all boy-who-cried-wolf in the meantime.
the Israeli's would be even happier to push them into Egypt, but they can't.
There are Israelis who would be happy to push the Gazans into Egypt; there are other Israelis who were happy to bring Gazans to Israel en masse for medical care, even ones who really didn't deserve it (poor link, original is paywalled).
Were the latter just suckers, to take such risks only to have critics ignore their existence? On a moral level, they seem exemplary: you do good for its own sake, not to prevent people from slandering you as evil. But on a practical level, the incentives created by these indiscriminate libels are reminiscent of another old and tragic story. What's the penalty for being unable to end a war without collateral damage? Genocide accusations. What's the penalty for outright expelling the nation who started the war? Genocide accusations. Well, there's no such thing as a war without collateral damage...
hydroacetylene
1d ago
But Epstein stuff is not hurting Trump Much with his actual base. It’s the twitterati resistance libs making a stink about it once more, as they have over a thousand other things, and Trump digging in his heels because that’s always worked for him before.
Throwaway05
1d ago
Epstein was an Israeli intelligence asset. This should be as obvious as saying that the four legged furry animal that barks at the mailman, chase tennis balls, that lives in my house, and had two parents who were both dogs, is, in fact, a dog.
Do you have any evidence to support this? All I've really seen is a bunch of sus shit that could easily be alternatively explained as "person with a lot of connections has a lot of connections" and sensible counter arguments like "the first rule of spy club is don't tell random people you are a spy..."
I don't think it is as clear as you think it is or alternatively - it is very scissorish.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I think Trump would happily go to a wine tasting with other powerful people, even if he wouldn’t personally drink.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
1d ago
A nitpick, perhaps, but I really don't think that's a fair description. Refusing to step on a trap isn't incompetence.
Sure, except that explanation has much bigger implications about the state of meritocracy among the progressives. Not knowing what a woman is would be an individual failing, putting enough people with weird ideas in positions of influence like academia, so that giving a straightforward answer to such a basic question becomes a trap, is a collective failing of massive proportions.
OracleOutlook
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
1d ago
It was my understanding that Republicans wanted any legal immigrants to be super woohoo about America, so it feels weird to see Vance say effectively the opposite.
He says, "And I happen to think that it’s absurd, and the modern left seems dedicated to doing this, to saying, you don’t belong in America unless you agree with progressive liberalism in 2025."
My understanding is that people who agree with progressive liberalism are not people who are "Woohoo" about America. One of Progressive Liberalism's main points is that America was conceived with the original sin of racism and needs to be born again.
It is my understanding that Conservatives would prefer that every immigrant be the kind who loves America, 4th of July, the Federalist Papers, George Washington, Apple Pie, Hamburgers, and basically be a Weeaboo but for America. Basically support the prior civil religion. Immigrants who support the current civil religion are disfavored which seems to be exactly what JD Vance is saying here.
After some thought, and spending time with kids, I have come to the opinion that my own transition to adulthood is probably best delineated by when I stopped being bored: the world is an interesting place and there is far more stuff I want to do and skills I want to acquire than time to do them all. I won't say I don't procrastinate ever, but I am never sitting around wondering what to do. Kids aren't very good at this, in my experience.
To consider a hare-brained thought, The Internet is a (questionably ethical) form of Gom Jabbar. "What's in the box?" "Slop. Endless slop. And also the collective knowledge and creative works of mankind."
The test is whether you fall for any of the well-trod failure modes of The Internet, or actually drive to and engage in self-actualization as Maslow intended.
I'm so sorry to hear this!
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