scoobdog

I posted in the other thread and deleted it. It's not just in poor taste, it's nothing to celebrate unless you're the family member of one of the rescued. You don't get credit for doing something after you created the mess in the first place. Here's the thing.... we probably wouldn't be even discussing this if this rescue mission had happened earlier in the campaign. There's a big difference between killing civilians in the process of pulling hostages out of their homes and killing civilians to blow up a tunnel beneath their homes. I'm not suggesting that Israel should have framed their operations in human terms to justify their actions, but, at the same time, a lot of the international condemnation centers on how Israel has gone about presenting their deconstruction of Hamas and its infrastructure. Unfeeling as it might sound, we as international observers can't offer much criticism if Israel had said "We had intel that there were hostages in this tunnel, so we razed the homes on top of it to get access and discovered, unfortunately, there were no hostages there to rescue." Of course, after one or two of these failed operations, that rationale can be nearly as damaging. Israel has no obligation to consider civilian casualties when there is reasonable assurance that what they're doing is to achieve a legitimate goal. Netanyahu opened himself up to taking unearned blame in this situation by not publicly prioritizing hostage rescue at the beginning of the operation instead of a quixotic quest to destroy Hamas. Israel is getting blame now because people are as apt to consider the rescue as a happy coincidence in the quest to ravage Rafah as they are a legitimate attempt of find hostages. Not only is that unfair, it's emblematic of how Israel botched a mandate to rescue it's lost citizens and protect itself in the process.

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Well, they’re hanging out in the firearms section, so you fart at your own peril.

A gang banger at a Bass Pro?

Happy Birthday. Hope things are better for you.

Why would they do that? I might be different because I like to cook, but I would still think you would know better than to do that just for the historical record.

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What the fuck?!

Your tag says non-aggressive, but I'm definitely sensing a theme here....

I like that we never change.

Made my own French toast again. I liked it.

This whole fucking board is making my head hurt the last few days.

I won’t go the route of suggesting saving 4 citizens is not worth the death of 94 civilians, only because that’s an attempt to falsely use logic to solve a problem with no equitable solution. All anyone really needs to know about this is that Benny Gatz still left the war cabinet after the rescue was announced, and that it was most likely an acknowledgment that his approval rating would continue to suffer by supporting Netanyahu’s war. Losing the comparatively popular opposition leader from his war operation also sheds any remaining legitimacy Netanyahu had with the Israeli electorate concerning this bungled war. That is not what happens when a military maneuver is considered a success. In fact, it looks very much like evidence that those with the best vantage point concur with Biden’s assessment of Netanyahu’s personal ambitions.

She’s lucky the dude’s heart didn’t explode like mid sentence.

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Would Moonmetropolis have had data from 2 years ago? I was under the impression his parole was much more recent than that.

No, Trump has dementia.

Did Josh post that screenshot?

True. In part, that’s a machine predicting human behavior, but it could also be a machine attempting to incorporate emotional behavioral patterns when developing a solution. Humans may be express emotions in erratic ways, but there is a predictable correlation between emotions and specific stimuli , and a computer can certainly predict stimuli with the broad accuracy of a statistical map.

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The trolley problem isn’t necessarily illogical though. The idea that sacrificing a few for the many is something of a red herring. It also exhibits a flaw in mathematical logic: you have to factor in the emotional impact with the physical impact. That can be considered empirical data.