Oh yeah absolutely. Humankind has not been… kind, to their species.

holy shit

I can’t wait for the elephant-to-human translators

imagine if we could actually talk to elephants? if we could, like, teach them concepts?

Lightsong the Based

This isn’t religiously motivated violence the same way that the Spanish Inquisition was. But religion is pretty deeply baked into the conflict, in some very important ways.

You know? I think that sums it up nicely.

That’s fair. Religion can be a very important part of both identities.

However, I would like to stress that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not directly motivated by religious differences. As in, it’s not a case of “their religion is different! GET EM!”. The direct problem isn’t that the other side has a different religion, it’s that the other side essentially has competing land claims, and a competing nationalist vision.

Since religion is an important part of Hamas’ identity (and possibly of some factions in Israel, I’d guess), that affects how each side frames the conflict, and what some of their means and ends are. But the key issues of the conflict have to do with things like land borders and economic conditions.

No, it has almost nothing to do with religion. The only part of the Israeli-Palestinian crisis that actually tangibly relates to a religious dispute, is the contesting claims over Jerusalem (because it’s holy to both Judaism and Islam).

Literally the entire rest of the conflict is based on competing nationalist claims.

Yes, even though Hamas is yelling “Allahu-akbar”. Believe it or not, they’re not fighting because of their religion, they’re fighting because of their political goals (namely in Hamas’ case AFAIK the destruction of Israel). They do also happen to be religious, but the primary conflict is a political one.

(a) that’s an awesome looking setup

(b) what’s that tetris game called? I want that

That’s pretty wild.

What’s even the point of using a nuke at that point? Are they somehow cheaper to produce than conventional bombs of a similar scale? Even if you just want some fallout, you can use a dirty bomb or something, no?

If we’re going with what the commenter above laid out, then even if Hamas fighters evacuate, their tunnels presumably get collapsed.

Also, I think that might actually be why they gave such a tight deadline. If there isn’t enough time for everyone to get out, will Hamas manage to escape, that sort of thing.

God I hate all of this.

The southern part of Gaza

I don’t think they make nukes small enough to only get the northern half of a city, without also getting the southern half, and everything else around the city for a decent radius.

Honestly, fair enough.

As far as I know, the USSR collapsed because Gorbachev’s reforms weakened existing institutions and power structures, without providing replacements.

The “as geography permits” part is a big obstacle, unfortunately.

it does!

Actually, I haven’t gotten around to trying Wayland yet! Mostly because i3 on X11 works well enough for me already.

I mean, I literally just plugged in my monitor, then went into Arandr and dragged the funny rectangles a little.

Edit: For reference, my multi-monitor setup is literally just 2 monitors side by side. In my case, I did have to change some settings, specifically set the left one as primary rather than the right one, and make them tile in a slightly different way. But I wouldn’t say it involved any “jank” — just some configuration, same as it would on any other OS. (Specifically, I dual-boot windows 10 for some rather silly reasons, and I found the multi-monitor configuration process very comparable in terms of jank or complexity.)

I’m not sure what your experience has been like, but for me it’s been basically plug-and-play.