America.

2x4 studs are 3.5" deep. Even interior walls have drywall on both sides, usually over a half inch, but even half inch drywall, tape, mud, and paint, gets us to 4.5-5" thick.

That gives you a 2 inch “buffer”.

Is your body thicker than 2"?

There’s just no way it works.

2 and 7 feels OP compared to any other combo by a mile. Definitely getting nerfed in the next patch.

Unfortunately most walls are thicker than 7" when accounting for decorations, furniture, trim, etc. Not to mention adding your own thickness.

As usual, the onion nails the satire.

Arguing from empathy with no regard for facts is hopeless.

Arguing from facts with no regard for empathy is dangerous.

We need both.

Don’t forget Coca-Cola Fanta.

100%

Just BROADLY speaking, the pro Palestinian take right now is that Israel should be removed and Palestine given all of the territory.

Like, that’s the take. They don’t just want an end to the violence - Israel wants that too. Hamas has been dedicated to the destruction of Jews and Israel for basically forever.

So it’s asymmetrical.

The pro Israel take is “destroy Hamas so that these attacks stop and there can be peace.” But it’s important to note that up until the October 7 attack Israel only wanted peace. This new policy is a reaction to an unprecedented attack.

It’s a memorial urn. My mother bought a few for family that wanted something to remember her by, but her ashes aren’t in it. They’ve been scattered.

So it’s really just sentimental clutter.

Some people are really attached to physical representations of things. They want a grave site to visit, or an urn to have. It’s probably just a mental thing, but it seems to be really common.

I have some organic cyanide you might be interested in…

Yes.

This is the thing people don’t understand about a ubi.

I had a coworker who’s wife was a… Case manager? For welfare. Her whole job was determining whether or not people were lying/exaggerating about various elements of their claim.

First of all, government union paper pushers make decent money. There was an entire office full of people that covered cases in their region only.

Second, it’s a soul sucking job. Her primary assumption was that everyone was cheating and lying and she needed to minimize everyone’s payout.

UBI solves both of those things and by plugging it directly into the tax system people can be free to try to earn a better living, which studies have shown most people want when they are given a UBI.

Increased productivity, increased employment, increased entrepreneurship, increased mental health outcomes, there is literally no downside except for needing to tax the rich.

So wait, your position is that Israel is behind the Hamas attacks on Israel, in order to justify their military action against Gaza?

Do you have any evidence to support that?

IIRC Jews have called the land west of the river Jordan Israel for a long time, too, 3000 years or so?

So what do we do, get into a competition to see who can find the oldest historical documents? Or just accept that we have two (or more, really) groups of people that have historical and cultural import around the same region?

And more importantly, can we do that without the constant terrorism? I think we can all agree that terrorism is bad.

There’s a difference between a historical description of the land, and a formal Nation.

Even Mandated Palestine wasn’t Palestinian-run, it was British.

If I poke a bear and then it chases me home and eats my family while I’m hiding in the basement, it’s my fault.

Only instead of poking the bear I’m murdering its cubs.

It doesn’t matter how much stronger the bear is than me. If anything, I SHOULDN’T POKE THE BEAR.

Hamas terrorists hide amongst innocent Palestinian families. If they weren’t cowards they would wear uniforms like the IDF and most (if not all) of the civilian casualties would be avoided… But Hamas doesn’t want that anyway, because they use the civilian casualties to justify their violence.

That said, I agree with what you’re saying. At some point you have to say “if you two can’t play nice, you’re both grounded”.

There was no Palestine in 1900, it was the Ottoman Empire.

They collapsed after a spanking in WW1.

BBC explains it pretty well:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-54116567

The article is written by “MEE Staff” and while it mentions their journalist Maha Hussaini has left her home in the North, she wasn’t the author of the article.

Other sources are not named.

This whole event is rife with mis/disinformation. It’s best to be cautious.

I’m in support of not negotiating with terrorists. If I’m captured, kill me. I’m likely too suffer and then die anyway, and be leverage in the process. Fuck that.

If you decide to START history in 1947 you might miss out on over a thousand years of Muslim aggression towards Jews.

I’m no Quran expert but people seem to talk about numerous passages where Muhammad went on one rant or another about how awful they were.

https://www.answering-islam.org/authors/roark/hate_jews.html

Also the regional conflict goes way farther than the 20th century.

https://www.profolus.com/topics/origin-causes-israeli-palestinian-conflict-explained/