kingofpandora

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by kingofpandora 2y ago
> 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
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by kingofpandora 3y ago
> 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.
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by kingofpandora 3y ago
Depending on where you are getting your recordings, what you are hearing isn't necessarily the quality that the pilot and ATC hear.
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by kingofpandora 3y ago
I guess Navalny is a dissident but, man, seeing his name next to Mandela is jarring considering his views.
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by kingofpandora 3y ago
I noticed in the video that many people onboard A359 were wearing masks. Would those have helped significantly to prevent smoke inhalation?
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by kingofpandora 3y ago
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).
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by kingofpandora 3y ago
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.
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by kingofpandora 3y ago
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/AskHist
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by kingofpandora 3y ago
I don't listen to his podcast, but I understand that Carlin is discredited by most serious historians in general.
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by kingofpandora 3y ago
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
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by kingofpandora 3y ago
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&#x
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by kingofpandora 3y ago
How many American expats in other countries bother to learn the local language?
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by kingofpandora 3y ago
To be clear, I am saying it was probably deliberate but only the decision of the local forces rather than from up on high.
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by kingofpandora 3y ago
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 ba
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by kingofpandora 3y ago
It's a problem when offices have to operate according to Beijing time.
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by kingofpandora 3y ago
I had to click the pencil/edit button first.
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by kingofpandora 3y ago
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 someo
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by kingofpandora 3y ago
So you have to kill all the civilians to make sure what all the terrorists die? Otherwise how can we be sure?
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by kingofpandora 3y ago
But if they were in the way, you'd be totally ok with it, right?
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by kingofpandora 3y ago
Israel explicitly pursues collective punishment as a strategy. Always has and it's obviously what's happening in Gaza now.
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by kingofpandora 3y ago
> 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 operate
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by kingofpandora 3y ago
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 whene
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by kingofpandora 3y ago
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.
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by kingofpandora 3y ago
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&#
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by kingofpandora 3y ago
> 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 P
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by kingofpandora 3y ago
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
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by kingofpandora 3y ago
Wow calling FOSS developers lazy is pretty low.
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by kingofpandora 3y ago
> Do these corporations even have proofreaders? It's called The Grauniad for a reason!
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by kingofpandora 3y ago
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.
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by kingofpandora 3y ago
One of the biggest motivations is that the country shared it's name with the bird.

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