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what an incredible way to ensure you physically cringe the entire time you play any nintendo game with the sound on

the 18 layers of approval probably exist because it’s 30mn/ep

normally in a geometric proof, a right angle is a right angle

the answers here assume that the base is a continuous, straight line

given one of the angles on the left triangle is a right angle on the diagram, but 80 if you calculate it, you can’t assume that

ask them what happens when a guy walks into a women’s restroom and says they’re a trans-man but is lying and isn’t actually trans?

highlight the text and click the strikethrough button

win + R

copy it into run box

TBH, I haven’t used wordpad since Windows 98

which is why they’re getting rid of it

it would probably be pretty easy to just patch telemetry into it, except nobody uses it because why would you

i can’t source it and it’s tangential but i do remember hearing about some study that looked at people’s reactions to their cancer diagnosis

• some people react with melancholy
• some people react by entering into a strict regime to give themselves that maximum chance of surviving, like heavily controlled diet, exercise, etc.
• some people react with outrage and denial, just refusing to allow the fact that they have cancer alter their lives

and the outcome was that the second groups had better outcomes than the first, but more interestingly, the third group also had better outcomes than the first

they don’t have a date yet

quite literally the definition of an indefinite delay

how much restraint is appropriate when their stated goal is ending a genocide?

presumably if somebody’s shipping weapons to israel, you’d be fine with the houthis sinking that ship? so you don’t disagree with the blockade in principle, you just think it’s being implemented too strictly?

the meme never mentions supporting houthis, it says praising them

acknowledging somebody has done something good is praising them

hence “If isis starts attacking israel, that does not mean you need to support isis…” is a bad response

If isis starts attacking israel, that does not mean you need to support isis…

it was a response to this, which in the context of the original post, has a sentiment that directly contradicts what you just agreed with

Yeah but being bad and doing a good thing from time to time doesn’t make you good.

sure, and i’m not saying that the hypothetical would make isis good

i’m saying that it would make fantasy isis worthy of praise for this specific hypothetical achievement

fucking christ can you stop wanking yourself off with rhetoric for 5 minutes and actually address something i’m saying? ta

it’s called a thought experiment

do i think anybody is realistically going to kidnap me and plumb my kidneys into a world famous violinist? no. but i can still use that hypothetical to make a point. do i think anybody is likely to run into a barn at 0.9c while holding a long ladder? no, but i can still use that to learn something.

based on your response, i presume you agree that a group can do bad things, or even be on the whole bad by a very wide margin, but still do something good worthy of praise?

so you agree that a group can do bad things, or even be on the whole bad by a very wide margin, but still do something good worthy of praise?

Hence a blockade is an act of war.

but we’re not talking about something being an act of war

we’re talking about whether it’s morally justifiable

are you saying any offensive war is automatically unjustifiable?

because it disrupts non-Israeli trade

so, just to set a baseline here, are we agreed that

• what israel is doing is bad
• stopping israel from doing what they’re doing is good
• stopping israeli trade might stop what they’re doing
• therefore stopping israel from trading is good

given that trade is definitionally between two separate parties, one of the countries in the equation has to not be israel

how can you stop israel from trading without impacting other countries?

tldr: the sanctions on russia also have an impact on global trade, so if this is your redline, you should be anti-sanctions

I’m sorry that the words ‘attack’ and ‘war crime’ mean nothing to you.

are you saying the blockade is different to sanctions because russia attacked ukraine and is committing war crimes?

i’m not sure if you’ve paid attention to things in israel recently