In fact we had that here fairly recently, some older people who lost their home and had nowhere to go squatted in it and burned it down with a candle, with themselves inside of it.

Wars they didn't start, except with terrorism?

What you said didn't contradict what I said in any way, so it was purely worthless whataboutism.

I learned to recognize that kind of shit in grade school.

Wise up.

Why don't you try learning to read without making things up sometime? I never claimed that the poor fucker turned into hamburger wasn't killed. What I said is that you're a gullible toolbag because you believe that Trump was shot with no evidence.

Where is the evidence that this was the case, though? When the U.S. has something like that happen, there's a formal inquiry, there's a public documentation trail showing why the actions were taken, and the consensus is that they made the right call more often than not. We're not seeing that from Israel, or if we are, it isn't being reported, and that's disconcerting, particularly given the rate of these incidents.

Hiding among civilians is not the same thing as using protected sites to run operations. One person in Hamas living in an apartment building with his/her family is not equivalent to storing vast quantities of weapons and munitions in a protected location, which is what that exception was intended to allow.

Blowing up schools with children inside is never okay. Blowing up hospitals with patients still inside is never okay. Giving them enough warning to get innocent people out is an absolute minimum standard of human decency, and failing to do that means that you're deliberately targeting civilians, hence a war crime.

The Netanyahu government can hide behind pedantic interpretations of international law all they want to, but when you look at the big picture, you don't rack up a 10:1 civilian to militant kill ratio if you're operating within the bounds of international law. There's just no way. Typical U.S. wars were less than 1:1 (ignoring any indirect deaths, which are hard to compare). And no U.S. war has ever deliberately prevented aid from getting to the innocent victims of that war. The things that the Israeli government has done are, IMO, nothing short of unconscionable. It isn't just a few incidents; it's a clear pattern of lack of concern for innocent human lives, repeated almost daily.

At this point, the U.N. commission of inquiry has concluded that Israel's actions are clear war crimes and that the intent is tantamount to genocide. There's really no defending the Israeli government's actions. They went way, WAY too far on way, WAY too many occasions to give them the benefit of the doubt. And regardless of what happens with Iran — and mind you, going after Iran's government for their proxy war against Israel is at least arguably a legitimate military action — I think it is still critical to hold the Netanyahu government accountable for war crimes committed in fighting this war, if only to serve as a deterrent to electing similar governments in the future.

Oh, I'm sure the sentiment is real. Popularity of the current government officially hovers around 50%, with a significant minority very much in favor of setting the whole government on fire (but also a not-small minority that wants to keep the status quo, and they have the guns and soldiers).

What I'm questioning is whether they're angry enough to do something about it and powerful enough to take on the entrenched power structure. After all, those sorts of mass protests in authoritarian countries tend to paint targets on the chests of the participants — in some cases, in a very literal sense (with laser scopes). And more often than not, the power vacuum gets filled with something worse, or with something so weak that it quickly topples in favor of something remarkably similar to the government that was previously in power.

But maybe this time will be different. One can only hope.

The way Trump got elected is that republicans have been fucking up education since Reagan. You want to blame the Democrats?

Cold doesn't burn down buildings, and unless they are in the path of a glacier... Ok, that's snarky, there's hail and snow and such. But go ahead and price insurance for those.

You can also dual boot Windows on the steam deck. Presumably you will soon be able to dual boot steam OS on some Xbox branded hardware like the Asus ROG Xbox Ally (do I have the name in the right order? Whatever.)

Now, no. That would allow competition and they still sell hardware at a loss.

Eventually, probably. All the console makers will probably be forced to open their platforms sooner or later, at least in some markets.

So far they have moved away from console exclusives to publishing almost all of their own titles for at least Xbox and PC. They are headed that direction as slowly as possible.

"They know exactly what the risks are."

That in no way excuses Israel deliberately sniping journalists and your whataboutism is also irrelevant.

Oh look, an AIPAC shill. I never would have thought they would spend money on this dying hobby site.

He does act that way, but only after dipping his toe in to see if there will be any backlash.

You cannot both support human rights and Israel, the nation on the planet which kills the most journalists yearly (having taken the crown from Saudi Arabia recently, mostly by sniper rifle but also by bomb) and whose leader is an internationally wanted criminal for war crimes.

Emma Watson: Higgsley Squigglebotham. Five-nine-two Elkdale Terrace. Zero-two-zero, five-six-four-one, seven, seven, seven, seven.

Gives me the chills. :-D