Hamas has a habit of hiding weapons under civilians. Rocket launchers in schools, command centers in hospitals... I wouldn't be shocked if they stockpiled weapons next to wells. Anything to make legitimate retaliation look like a war crime.

Well, he was never really interested in being one. He was an Egyptian who invented the idea of a modern Palestine in his quest to eradicate Israel.

The "Palestinians", who were really Egyptians, Syrians, Jordanians, and the remnants of the Ottoman empire, sided with the Nazis in WWII. The Nazis lost.

Or forcing a fundamentally unworkable solution to function for more than a couple of months. It's an absurd idea to begin with. Gaza is predominantly Egyptian, the West Bank is Syrian and Jordanian. They don't get along. Gaza is ruled by Hamas (a terror group not interested in governance), the West Bank is under the Palestinian Authority, which is corrupt and barely holding itself together, and doesn't get along with Hamas. Then there's the silliness of one nation being in the middle of another and the utter insanity that is sharing a capital city. It shouldn't be hard to see how two governments trying to rule the same city cannot work.

That implies rot from within but this was really just top down Intel firing anyone and everyone in order to make quarterly targets.

That was fine when AMD was struggling but AMD got their shit together in 2017. Intel kept firing people they actually need it all the way up to well, now.

The problem is that your engineers are rotting it's that you don't have them because you fired them. Worse it's not as if you got to assassinate them or anything so they went off and got jobs at your competitors.

This is why Nvidia has always been so strong they hire the hell out of engineers in order to keep them out of the hands of competitors. It's a bit problematic because it's why AMD and Intel have such a hard time competing in the GPU market space. They simply cannot afford to hire enough of the kind of engineers they need. Not with the budget the CEO gives them

Hamas likes to put artillery emplacements and CnC facilities in places like schools and hospitals so that they can claim Israel committed a war crime in destroying them. Which is itself a war crime, but they do it for the PR and idiots in the media fall for it.

They also lie like particularly dishonest dogs.

Next will be incredibly tight regulation on VPN access and use. Leading up to government-run vpns and a Chinese style great firewall.

This is a authoritarian power grab and once authoritarians start grabbing power they don't stop.

I don't think it's anything that can be stopped because voters are too distracted by the culture war bullshit.

The next step is to ban vpns. They will be more tightly regulated than guns.

Not that it matters because human civilization is collapsing but all this think of the children bullshit is just a power grab by authoritarians.

We can't do anything about it because we're too busy worrying about woke trans drag queens forcing us to say happy holidays while playing Mortal Kombat on the Sega Genesis.

Full disclosure, I didn't really expect you to understand the point. If the majority of you did, your society wouldn't be as fucked as it is now.

You're not thinking about the trillions of dollars and cheap imports that being the world's primary currency gets you. It's a form of economic colonialism and China would love to have it. So would any European country.

America is very close to handing nuclear launch codes to religious lunatics. One more election and it happens.

These people believe God will protect them from literally anything. I know because I have family like this.

They will launch those nukes. And is America's empire fails we are going to have to start doing military expansion to maintain our economy. We are already moving into Venezuela to take the oil for exactly that reason. Canada and Mexico and the rest of South America will follow. Europe will be next and eventually we'll try our chances with China.

The rest of the world ought to be interfering with the Russian interference that's getting us into this mess but they're all hoping that America will collapse letting them take over as the primary world power and letting their currency take over as the world's de facto currency. If they can pull that off then they're a billionaires get to become the first trillionaires instead of our billionaires becoming the first trillionaires.

The problem is everyone is underestimating how fucking crazy my country is. We will launch those nukes folks. Especially if the religious lunatics who are currently running our government finish the project 2025 work they've been planning for 60 years and end up in total control.

So people with degrees have opinions on their value? Yeah, please fuck off. My degree got me out of the poverty I was born into. Most degrees are pointless, but what doors did you think a history degree would open up? Look...folks can say whatever the fuck they want, but their behavior is what matters. Did I learn anything relevant to my career? Nope, not one thing.

However, many hiring managers called me and ignored some guy with no degree who was equally qualified, especially when starting out. Many bosses have pools of equally qualified engineers and choose the ones with better education for leadership positions. Why? They have their internal biases.

People can say they base decisions on merit, but the clear pattern emerges...people with degrees get promoted faster...and I know those fuckers and some are fucking useless and need to be fired.

Frankly, these speeches from Peter Thiel and others ring hallow. It makes him sound cool to thumb his nose at the educational institutions and say they're useless, but I'll wager your upper ranks are filled with well educated individuals who got promoted over slightly more qualified peers with lesser educations. It's like listening to some vapid hot chick say that race and height don't matter, but her dating history is nothing but tall white guys. Your words mean nothing, only your actions matter.

If you're young...and let's face it, no one on Slashdot is younger than 40, so I am speaking to the wrong crowd...get a fucking degree and get a useful one. You only have a small window to get one...you don't want to be getting a bachelor's degree at age 40. It's a fucking hoop you have to jump through to get a job...it's pointless and stupid, but if you're young, you're used to doing stupid things....I'd never be able to go back to school just because I value my time too much and know calculus is fucking pointless or whatever stupid math class they want to teach you these days to get a computer related degree. On the plus side, it's a great env to get laid in!!

You're conflating education with vocational training.

A master's degree isn't for earning money, it's for shaping your intellect.

it has detailed arguments in between making fun of idiots who think hyperloop is real.

If you can't be arsed to learn things though I can't help you. Maybe reddit's "conservative" forum is more your speed then. They'll do a good job of protecting you from knowledge.

Did you know they had a week long gap in new posts when the voting on the Epstein files was going on?

That's part of it but you need to remember that every single one of those Rich fuckers is a crook.

This means they fully expect their kids to be the target of a wide range of scams and ripoffs and they want their kids to be able to think critically so that they don't fall for that shit.

Some of them are so dumb they still do like Trump. But if that happens the elites have solidarity and they take care of each other.

Occasionally you will get somebody like Bernie Madoff or Elizabeth Holmes that manages to get through that system but when it happens and they get caught they go to jail for decades.