kingofpandora

> It's of note that while there about 20% muslims in Israel, there's about zero jewish person in Gaza (there are some israelo-palestinian though) and zero jewish person in Iran. Or close to that.

Not only are there Jews in Iran, they even have a seat permanently reserved in the Iranian parliament.

> I thought ISIS gained power in Syria first, taking advantage of the Syrian civil war which the US explicitly did NOT participate in.

The US absolutely participated (and continues to participate in) the SCW.

Depending on where you are getting your recordings, what you are hearing isn't necessarily the quality that the pilot and ATC hear.

I guess Navalny is a dissident but, man, seeing his name next to Mandela is jarring considering his views.

I noticed in the video that many people onboard A359 were wearing masks. Would those have helped significantly to prevent smoke inhalation?

They have their own origins, motivations and agency; it's a mistake to assume there's someone pulling all the strings (and this goes for all sides).

Like I said, that comment was by no means exclusively negative and I don't recall where I read the more critical take, but it might have been one of the other (many!) posts about Carlin on r/askhistorians.

Trying to remember where I've read this in the past. I used to follow AskHistorians on Reddit and a quick search shows questions about him being asked quite a bit, for example here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1ppmsm/comme... (it's not all negative!). There are a ton of other threads too.

I don't listen to his podcast, but I understand that Carlin is discredited by most serious historians in general.

What if you were denied opportunities because of your race or gender or something else? Wouldn't you want to know that there barrier is now gone?

(Ignore the Saudi case, since this is almost certainly a cynical gesture to foreigners so we can be more accepting of MBS as being actually a really great guy after all considering what he's doing for women)

That's only if you look at the population of the named cities themselves rather than the population of the city plus the surrounding populates areas.

In Geneva's case, it is composed of several different named cities/towns/etc and those taken together are bigger than Spokane plus the municipalities that comprise its urban area.

How many American expats in other countries bother to learn the local language?

To be clear, I am saying it was probably deliberate but only the decision of the local forces rather than from up on high.

It was probably an individual decision rather than high-level but that's only because the Israeli leadership has normalized killing Palestinian civilians and the military personnel know there will be no repercussions unless it is so bad that they can't cover it up.

They used the normal playbook in this case (blame Palestinian terrorists) and when there was enough evidence to disprove that assertion they just threw up their hands and said "accident" and that was it.

It's a problem when offices have to operate according to Beijing time.

I had to click the pencil/edit button first.

Have you been to China? It's time zone make sense for Beijing and the coast but forces the "Chinese" of Xinjiang to do things at unnatural hours for the convenience of the ruling elite.

It's bizarre to suggest that someone in western Alaska should wake up at the same time as someone in Florida because that's what India does.

So you have to kill all the civilians to make sure what all the terrorists die? Otherwise how can we be sure?

But if they were in the way, you'd be totally ok with it, right?

Israel explicitly pursues collective punishment as a strategy. Always has and it's obviously what's happening in Gaza now.

> Not that simple. You think Palestinians love being beholden to the terrorist leadership that refuses to allow elections, is known for stealing their humanitarian aid to enrich themselves on the order of billions of dollars, and operates safely from a foreign country?

According to large segments of the political class in the US, yes they do love it. And in fact they are legitimate targets of the Israeli military because of it.

Not an Arab or speaker of any languages that use the alphabet but yes despite it having the potential to be very beautiful, most of the typaces they use are very ugly.

This free font is very nice though, and I set it to be the default whenever Arabic needs to be displayed on my computer: https://www.amirifont.org/.

It's obviously your choice to believe this despite all the evidence to the contrary.

For me it just underlines how people need a flimsy excuse so they don't have to openly support killing civilians.

So you look at the aerial and satellite photography and you really believe that every last building was justifiably destroyed as a legitimate military target?

If that's the case, then the government propaganda has done its job. There's nothing more to say.

> I wouldn't count on anything coming from the circle of Netanyahu.

It's not about whether I trust them or not (I don't!). It's that everyone is following the same playbook. Israel can do whatever it wants and blame Palestinians with impunity.

Every teenager shot on the street is a militant. Every house that is flattened was used by terrorists. Every journalist that was dies while working was actually killed by the Palestinians themselves.

The power imbalance is not just military in nature. Israel has command of the message as well and the is frighteningly effective because it's just plausible enough.

>Notice that Israel also used phone tracking to check that civilian population moved away from the target. No county that ran a campaign of this type in the past used such an approach to avoid civilian casualties.

What about all the people who can't charge their phones because Israel only allowed 4 hours of electricity per day before the most recent campaign? Or whose phones were lost when their homes were destroyed?

This is a great example. The IDF can make claims about how they "avoid civilian casualties" but why do you believe that it's anything more than for show?

Remember that an advisor to Natanyahu tweeted that the Al-Arabi Hospital was bombed by Israel because it was being used by Hamas.

No, I'm not saying that the hospital was actually bombed by Israel; I'm saying that everything that Israel bombs is labelled with the "used by Hamas" tag as justification for what this really is.

No one actually believes that all or even most of the buildings destroyed in this campaign was "used by Hamas" if you are being honest with yourself. It's obviously collective punishment and revenge with a little bit of show ("we dropped leaflets" or "we sent warnings by SMS") for those who need it in order to go to bed at night.

Wow calling FOSS developers lazy is pretty low.

> Do these corporations even have proofreaders?

It's called The Grauniad for a reason!

Private in Germany is no better. The incompetence is everywhere. Actually it's not incompetence, it's something else, but whatever it is, it's pervasive.

One of the biggest motivations is that the country shared it's name with the bird.