richardfeynman

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by richardfeynman 6mo ago
This is the latest information on Gaza casualties. As you can see, there's a disproportionate number of fighting age male casualties. https://x.com/GabrielEpsteinX/status/2024527393226936441/pho...
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by richardfeynman 6mo ago
Kiwi here. This is not a new phenomenon. Not sure why this is news.
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by richardfeynman 7mo ago
Initial impression is that it looks cool. $100 / month is too pricey for hackers. I know the infra costs are high, but still.
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by richardfeynman 7mo ago
Your information is false and out of date.
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by richardfeynman 7mo ago
Actually a simple statement you can actually support would: Israel bombed this hospital building on this date using this munition. You can’t meet that simple standard because it never happened.
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by richardfeynman 7mo ago
You are being bigoted (“evil, evil people”) and if you believe what you say you can just answer my question directly. You won’t because it hasn’t happened.
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by richardfeynman 7mo ago
You're just linking me to lists from highly unreliable sources. I'm a simpleton, make a claim like this: "I think Israel bombed this hospital building on this date using this ordinance. Here's the evidence."
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by richardfeynman 7mo ago
Well, just in the past two months, iran is thought to have killed more than 30,000 of its own citizens, while the whole civilian death toll in gaza is about 40k or less over more than two years (out of roughly 70k killed), so i'd say y
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by richardfeynman 7mo ago
nzrf wrote: "Do you really believe killing 175 children[0] will bring peace and prosperity to the Iranian people?" The implication is that someone thought that it would. I am saying nobody in the US or Israel thought bombing a ch
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by richardfeynman 7mo ago
Step 1. OP makes a positive claim, repeating an IRGC narrative. Step 2. I point out there’s no good evidence supporting it. Step 3. You reframe that as "you’re just demanding more evidence." That’s backwards. If someone claims som
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by richardfeynman 7mo ago
The main source in that Wikipedia article is "According to the IRGC." Trusting any belligerent in a war is silly, but given its history, trusting the IRGC during wartime is even sillier. No independent body like the Red Crescent (
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by richardfeynman 7mo ago
Exactly, a real moral calculus needs to be made, not a hysterical "But the IRGC said 175 children died." And a real moral calculus involves weighing the value of the deaths caused by removing the IRGC against the deaths caused by
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by richardfeynman 7mo ago
A falsifiable prediction. Thank you.
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by richardfeynman 7mo ago
Perhaps the original comment, putting forth debunked IRGC propaganda, and presenting it as definitely true, was bait.
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by richardfeynman 7mo ago
You are rewriting your own argument. You opened with "Israeli massacres sparked the Second Intifada." Now the "massacre" is just the first day of the riots themselves, and when that gets challenged you pivot to Oslo (whi
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by richardfeynman 7mo ago
You said al Shifa isn't operational. I proved it is. Now you're trying to redefine "operational" to mean "yes, you can get treatment at the hospital but it's not working well." That's a major switcher
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by richardfeynman 7mo ago
Nice try, but you are rewriting your own claim. You opened with: the Second Intifada was sparked by Israeli massacres. Now your alleged massacre is Sept 29, the first day of the clashes after Sharon’s visit. That is not a prior massacre tha
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by richardfeynman 7mo ago
You are switching topics because the original claim does not survive contact with the record. You said Israeli massacres sparked the Second Intifada. Your own timeline does not name any massacre that happened before it began. The first deat
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by richardfeynman 7mo ago
There are areas where Hamas was stronger and areas where it was weaker, as is true in any military comparison. Hamas was no rag-tag militia. It was also a government organization which spent billions building a military tunnel system that w
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by richardfeynman 7mo ago
Hospitals in Israel are generally guarded the same way hospitals in the US are: by police and security guards. As opposed to Hamas, the IDF doesn't use hospitals as bases. They don't build terror tunnels under hospitals. They don&
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by richardfeynman 7mo ago
This mixes up the first 24 hours with who launched the Intifada as a sustained campaign. Even if you think Sharon’s Temple Mount visit was provocative and Israeli police used excessive force on Sept 29, senior Palestinian figures later said
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by richardfeynman 7mo ago
I'm not vaguely asserting that "some enemy might have set foot in the hospital at some point." I'm accurately pointing out what is common knowledge: armed Hamas members were and are in hospitals, where they also took and
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by richardfeynman 7mo ago
People keep repeating that Al-Shifa is not operational. That claim does not match current primary sources. 1) UNICEF (Feb 5, 2026) reports restoration of pediatric intensive care services at Al-Shifa, including 7 PICU beds equipped with ven
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by richardfeynman 7mo ago
Look, I'm obviously not saying that Hamas is stronger than all European countries in every metric, and I already did mention their lack of an air force. All I'm trying to say is that by some standard ways to judge military force (
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by richardfeynman 7mo ago
Calling the Second Intifada "sparked by Israeli massacres" reverses the basic chronology and ignores Palestinian leaders' own admissions. 1) Marwan Barghouti (Fatah leader of the uprising in the West Bank) told The New Yorker
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by richardfeynman 7mo ago
If Hamas had the tech, they'd surely blow up the whole of Israel, including military installations. But they don't (which I agree is good) and their history and words and actions all show a desire to target and kill civilians.
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by richardfeynman 7mo ago
I do not keep comparing the Palestinians to Nazis. I made an analogy between Hamas and Nazis to illustrate a rhetorical point. I stand by that comparison.
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by richardfeynman 7mo ago
It's hard to believe the earth is round, but it is. As I mentioned above, Hamas's army was comparable to countries like Denmark (20k active soldiers), Finland, the Czech republic (27k active) and maybe even the Netherlands (40k ac
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by richardfeynman 7mo ago
The whole point is that Hamas is an unconventional fighting force that does aim at civilian centers and doesn't particularly care for accuracy. You sneeringly ask me to look up CEP, as though Hamas tries to be accurate and target milit
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by richardfeynman 7mo ago
"Probably wrong"? Who do you think has it?

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