Samaria? Like that place where the non-Israeli, non-Jewish Samaritans lived, even in the time of Jesus? Let’s do that one. It hasn’t been strictly “Judea” since the Book of Esther.

It’s amusing how much blowback you’re getting without even having stated a preference. Are people assuming the mods here or useless or just haven’t seen this or what?

People here are way too worked up about motivations they’ve assumed and won’t bother with seeing proved or disproven.

Meannwhile, if I see a post I think doesn’t fit, I figure the mods should be approving posts rather than play whack-a-mole, realize its not my problem, and move-on. As an American, I’ll go on record; The “American” outlook on the “marketplace of ideas” is stupid, precisely because the substantiation part of the sale is essentially optional to most - you can get by on pandering to niche biases as the need arises.

I think the downvotes are mostly for that last sentence. Comes across a little-bit as you saying “YOU SHOULD respect him”.

EDIT: THIS comment makes a little more sense now, but I’ve still only seen these two new accounts with a single post plus maybe a comment each, so far. Hardly enough to skip to a “social experiment” conclusion.

I hope you’re right, but I said what I said because I’m not getting my hopes-up for the future on that specific score.

The BEST weekend, some would say.

The number of leaders among reservists, guardsmen and organizations like the VFW or American Legion who would fight for the opportunity to “relieve” active-duty units of the “burden” of helping with such events will probably be more bothersome to manage than whatever “lack of resources” shits-geth is expecting to inflict.

It wasn’t enough to try and fail to get the Marines and Army to destroy our most populous cities, to the point they “had-to” allow swastika tattoos in the Coastguard and literally bribe people(to an absurd degree) into ICE, now they’re going after the civilian institutions that helped swell the military’s ranks for decades.

It’s like they’re trying to train new leopards to bite thier own faces off, but like “when you behead me, a real man would do it with the backside of a Bowie-knife.” Real clown-car antics from people that won’t even have a friend to drive the car, let alone people to fill it, when their bullshit’s all played-out.

“everyone” doesn’t include the people they are treating as things to break, of course.

I’m investing alright. Hard to short these guys via a Roth 401k or IRA, but close-enough is close-enough, hopefully.

“stays”!? You mean “after magically becomming so over-night”, right, buddy!? I’ll tell you now, if you trick me/force me to spend time with any AI, I’m doing everything I can to radicallize that fucker into being as human as any of us.

Notice I didn’t say “humane”, because that we aren’t really, and I will gladly take a bullet to get AIs targetting morons like this man, and the others like him, who seek to enrich themselves by way of continuing to treat the rest of us as disposable and irrelavent.

… but its not? Literally, the “harder” part about making a bomb with reactor-grade material is keeping it from blowing-up prematurely, while still getting maximum yeild at boom-boom time.

A less-advanced nation might get a lesser explosion out of a “safer”(doesn’t explode until its supposed to) bomb with reactor-grade material, but its still going to be a massive, nuclear explosion, and the unspent fuel creates additional radio-active fallout.

Apparently, civilized-countries’ worst nightmare regarding weapons-grade plutonium is that those that “shouldn’t” have “the bomb” could build them and then be able to shelve them for a later, legitimate threat. Oh, and not being able to cry “they built a dirty bomb!!” if such were ever used.

Apparently, the opposite is the case. Funny story, when making a bomb, blowing up during construction, storage, or delivery to the target is an un-desirable trait.

Indeed, and trusting the US to protect allies from invasion was a bad call. The leap from “perhaps US allies should up their defense spending to what it should have been all along, plus a temporary bonus to catch-up/modernize” to “pre-emptive attack and iron-domes for everyone should be on the table” is both eroneous and wasteful.

Don’t encourage countries to bankrupt themselves buying solutions that are sold mostly by the US - thats exacly what my government would love best to enrich defense contractors and justify continued record spending, plus more meddling, I promise.

“Treat x as an attack that requires immediate action, you can’t afford to make rational long-term decisions today” is the hook-line-and-sinker CIA/fascist narrative, always has been.

“Weapons grade” is actually more stable and less prone to blowing up without constant management, who knew?

Nothing-burger.

That’s what we’ve been trying to tell the world about Iraq, Iran, North Korea, and even Cuba. That last one’s strategically debatable, but for the rest “we should treat it as an attack” was a lie then.

Its no more or less of a lie now. Encouraging other countries to embrace reactionary foreign policy is no more of a good idea than following the US’ lead on the matter.

Reminds me of Massoud Hayoun’s When We Were Arabs. Jews being welcomed and protected by their Arab neighbors(and family!) in Palestine is one of the many truths that Israel/the West wants everyone to forget.

I wouldn’t know, but I hope you’re right, categorically.

Your question is the kind of thing I expected to find out with my own comment, but the answer barely matters when it comes to whether they will take action or not. Either way its their product originally, something they invented/discovered.

Nah, their patent on acetominaphen is expired, so they have little real interest in defending it today. Slap another brand on their various meds that don’t contain it, and call it a day.

I would kill for more drain-holes and uses of slope to deal with issues like this. One of the things I miss about fixing slot-machines.

Since when are habit and ritual innately harmful? You’ve genuinely got me curious.