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Is this not another Luddite-like, ultimately futile protest? It's going the way of film cameras, to use an example from the last 25-30 years?

Yes, you are right, but I meant as a general long term pattern of behaviour.

Turns out it was caused by being punched in the eye.

I can't believe you're a Netanyahu apologist. Him, Smotrich and Ben-Givr are my definition of evil.

Or "Ooh look, my little Johnny is the only one in the parade marching to the beat".

Because you are inclined towards the Israeli arguments, those terms, naturally, will be alien to you, as that isn't how you see them. You are, I'm sure, happy to call Hamas and Palestinians 'terrorists'. POV determines what descriptives one uses.

Here's Afghan Sharbat Gula in 1985 who has notable green eyes. Her stern look is because she was forced to have the picture taken, which is considered bad manners for girls to expose their face to men.

One of my female friends has a green and a blue eye. I'm sure there are more, but I'm only personally aware of her and David Bowie having that feature,

Just filtering for cognitive and emotional competence would be a start without a universal ban.

Yes, how much of this is being prolonged and people dying because Netanyahu is trying to save his own ass? I find it very hard to stomach that people like him and Trump will and do cause national and global mayhem for there own selfish reasons of avoiding accountability for their own chronic criminality.

Apparently, it seems possible to convert csv to png directly. Is that an option? https://search.brave.com/search?q=convert+csv+to+png&source=desktop&summary=1&summary_og=131eda47d88cfd6962b688

A sheriff fatally shot a judge yesterday in his district office during an argument. Think about that; top officers of the law. Because of their ubiquity, imo, there isn't enough 'mental distance' from thinking about it to actually shooting someone. There's no respectful fear for arms in the US, like there is elsewhere.

@joigus ❤️ This problem is like a tangled ball of fishing line, with many ends to start untangling it from. We see the problem and the path to its solutions depending on which end(s) we choose to start from. For me, after reviewing the relevant history of the area back to Romans, it seems sensible to focus from the period when Zionism became a tangible idea. Prior to that, history just pottered along, as it does. That's basically where I'm coming from. This discussion is a microcosm of the different paths we travel to arrive at our conclusions. Only in this arena are we personally diametrically opposed, as I am with others here on other subjects. It is an area of difference, but I don't judge your whole person on it. Whether we like it or not, we inevitably gravitate towards social media echo chambers that support our personal views and seek evidence to that end. True objectivity is pie in the sky.

Yeah, post facto solutions are pretty useless, like lacing bullets with penicillin.

Is this user manual any use? https://s18798.pcdn.co/chem_sif/wp-content/uploads/sites/24268/2023/09/NYU-Agilent-Cary-3500-UVvis-User-Manual.pdf

Thanks. That was interesting.

AFAIK, from reading, up until now, there was a more nuanced attack plan with specific conditions to be met before setting these devices off to maximize the effect of their main battle plan. It appears that they realized their adversaries were getting wind of something afoot, so they possibly cut their losses and went for what damage they could inflict instead. That's why I called it a 'common garden terrorist attack' earlier. The intended military objective was not achieved, it appears.

There are up to 10 000 Iranian Jews living in Iran. Tehran has 25 functioning synagogues. Jews in Gaza is difficult to answer, since there are illegal settlers there, but antizionist Jewish groups , like Naturei Karta, cordially associated with Hamas prior to Oct 7th. Moderate Muslims and Jews are not fundamentally or philosophically opposed to each other, but Zionists are with both the others. Zionists, in fact, regard antizionist Jews as traitors. The Nakba of 1948 is within living memory... and is on-going. Zionists are claiming territorial rights that they lost in 135AD to the Romans...your lot.... 1800+ years ago. You Italians have got a lot to answer for. 😛 As Oliver Hardy said to Stan Laurel: "Look what a fine mess you've got us into!"

OK, all I'll say is you've drunk well on the Zionist Kool-Aid. Antizionist Jews and Muslims get on just fine. Zionism is the problem, not Judaism. I have devout Jewish and Muslim facebook friends that I share posts with every day. Lovely people. There is no religious disharmony between moderate Jews and Muslims. They are, after all, including Christianity, worshipping the same God and revering the same prophets, bar one. The disharmony is purely of Zionist construction and lies to support their maximalist political land grabbing aims in the Middle East. Hamas, Hezbollah and the people of Gaza an West Bank are one united entity. The concentration camp-like conditions of Gaza and West Bank leave the armed resistance with no choice but to blend in with their families and neighbours, with the concomitant tragedies that they have to endure between them. They don't have the luxury of being able to fight their cause away from civilian centres, like the Zionists do. They do what they can with the negligible resources that they have. Zionists are dropping TWO THOUSAND POUND BOMBS on tents. FFS. How many images like this, not hearsay, can you produce of Hamas-held hostages? I've got dozens, and more, on my hard drive like this. The sad reality for the Israeli hostages is that Netanyahu et al have sacrificed them as part of their 'Hannibal Directive' i.e. they are expendable.

I don't conflate Jews with Zionists. Zionists are a political grouping. It is not fair to lump Torah-respecting Jews that follow the true diasporic spirit of their faith and sense of global community with people who act like they are the New Aryans with an inalienable right to land they hadn't governed since 135AD.

It's people like you that remind me that American foreign policy and independently-thinking Americans aren't the same. I feel the same way, as an English man, with my government. They are the co-architects and willing stooges of the Israeli debacle that perpetuates the instability in the Middle East.

I don't have the 'Founding Fathers' mentality, where invaders are pioneers struggling for "independence".

I was thinking with modern computerized systems doing the calcs the error rate is probably cut down a fair bit now.

Yes, I'm surprised they haven't been out causing mayhem by now.