You do not need to condemn Hamas to condemn Israel. Israel's actions against the Palestinian people are crimes regardless. It is not antisemitism to hold Israel accountable for Israel's actions
Did Hamas also do something condemnable? Certainly, but don't change the subject.
Lookin at you Daniel Kurtzer of Haaretz, who wants to know why Palestinians won't condemn US student protestors who support Hamas, as if a couple extreme quote pulls can compare to a literal active genocide
Even if we take up the (deliberately false, propagandistic, purposefully twisted) assumption that phrases like "palestine will be free" are intended to be calls for the genocide of Jews,
Such rhetoric in that capacity still would not justify literal genocide as a response: genocide is not in any way a form of self-defense, justice, or accountability
Be very skeptical of recommendations that you build your process around stakeholders contributing work
This generally signals that there was insufficient buy-in to start the process and the extra time and effort required from your stakeholders doesn't earn you a lot of gratitude like it's supposed to
They'd rather have been included in the decision to build or not to build something, than be asked to help build something they might not even want
I'm just saying, while a #CarringtonEvent during this #solarmaximum would likely destroy a lot of our electrical infrastructure, it would also basically eliminate light pollution in affected urban centers while drastically reducing our collective carbon emissions in the process.
an essential part of the history and ideology of the Soviet Union is that the partisan dictatorship tasked itself with acting in order to bring about Communism
Like, it's not that Stalin was viewed by anyone as a good guy revolutionary, it's that the negative outcomes were viewed as the byproduct of technical-political solutions intended to eventually create Communism
So when you point to that stuff like "Communism is bad" what you're really observing is "they never had it"
So, like, this is not a heart-warming story of poverty don't read it that way, everyone would be better off if everyone had been paid better for the last 40 years
That said something I really admired my mom for doing once or twice was taking PTO to work at a Christmas tree farm, so she got paid double those days while making wreaths by the fire and listening to dulcimers and watching revolutionary war reenactors encamp
Apparently there are Islamic lodges of freemasonry and I should have known that but wow
Having flashbacks to 6 weeks ago when teach was casually glossing over a discussion of whether God is subordinate to Justice or if Justice is subordinate to God and wow
Not sure if he accidentally coincidentally threw out what should have been an obvious clue or if he's secretly a massive nerd for western esoteric philosophy and was dropping references on purpose, but either way
The Masonic answer, by the way, is very specifically "neither": for Masons, justice is a byproduct of wisdom. God's limit is his own perfect wisdom: He's way too smart to make an imperfect (i.e., unjust) command. The fingerprint of divinity on Earth is that humans can occasionally be wise, too
As you know, we said goodbye to our two cats last year (the anniversary of that event next week) but now I've become fixated on a black and white neighbourhood cat who visits our garden almost every day/night.
I haven't seen him lately and now I'm worried - silly, I know.
Yesterday however there was a different cat, one I hadn't seen before.
What's happened? It bugs me.
@oldrawgabbit So what they're doing is they're roaming their territory: because multiple cats typically share overlapping territories they will change their schedules/routines/routes after encountering each other. This helps keep the peace
Seeing a new cat is a good sign the other cat is fine
Time to build: about 45 mins (not including soldering the power supply)
Materials:
(4) $5 Arctic P12 fans
(2) $10 10x20x1 1200D filtrete MERV-11 filters
(2) $7 20x20x1 1500 MERV-12 filtrete filters (pack of 12 off ebay)
duct tape
zip ties
cardboard
12V power supply (free because I soldered a random old adapter, but normally $10 plus $3 or so for a splitter. Or get the fans with built-in splitters)
Total: approx $55, next one will cost about $70.
Roughly 225cfm and extremely quiet. #CRBox
@Andres4NY@enobacon "It spends more time on because we can tolerate it on" is a great observation
You've probably already tinkered with this but I would think the filters used would have a significant impact on outcomes, too: you might see tradeoffs like more CFM with lower air quality