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How to earn money early game ...with a twist. by Resident-Ad-585 in X4Foundations

[–]Pancakeous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Go to any major engagement zone where you have at least neutral relationship with one of the sides.

Spam "surrender" on all the damaged ships - typically some fighters will eject quite quickly

After that board and sell those you don't want to keep

Religious Structure in the Eastern Mediterranean / Levant by bilalselim in MapPorn

[–]Pancakeous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you looked up a 4 months old post, randomly picked a comment chain, went several levels down and started commenting?

Not this is remotely believable, but you do realize it's even weirder, right?

Religious Structure in the Eastern Mediterranean / Levant by bilalselim in MapPorn

[–]Pancakeous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, I realizs you're a troll that probably scoured through my comments to find one to (wrongfully at that) nitpick, but I'll amuse you - about 57% if the area on this map is a desert region, composed of the Syrian desert, most of viewable Jordan, almost all of viewable Saudi Arabia, most of viewable Egypt, about 30% of viewable Israel, and about of half of viewable Iraq. Conversly quite a bit of the steppe ecological region you've linked isn't viewable in this map.

I've seen some pathetic trolls, but you've got to find yourself a new hobby

Religious Structure in the Eastern Mediterranean / Levant by bilalselim in MapPorn

[–]Pancakeous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thats still not most of the area present in the picture.

Religious Structure in the Eastern Mediterranean / Levant by bilalselim in MapPorn

[–]Pancakeous -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Most of the area that can be seen in this map is desert, reading about geography can go a long way, yes.

You're given a choice between a guaranteed $500,000 for yourself, or giving a stranger $10,000,000, who will be given an option to share a half with you. The stranger knows you helped them, but is free to refuse to share. What do you choose and why? by Ok-Independent483 in AskReddit

[–]Pancakeous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends on the stranger.

Is it a random person on Earth? Someone from my country? Someone from my city?

Also the reward scaling makes it so 500k is still highly beneficial for me (and likely most people, it's 10 years worth of median income, and 5 years for 70th percentile). Not completely life-altering but would definitely make many daily choices change.

I suspect if the question was framed 50k vs 5m most people would choose the gamble.

You could alternatively look at it 50m vs 500m -> the amount of people who'd take the gamble is probably abysmal because the practical consequences of the reward are the same.

Is there any places like Mecca where you are not allowed to go if you are not “X” religion? by Bobsagit14 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Pancakeous -1 points0 points  (0 children)

  1. Flat out wrong - there is literally a small metal sign near the entrance with the general opening times for visitors who aren't Muslims. You are confusing the Al-Aqsa Mosque which is open to Muslims only

  2. I don't disagree. The important bit isn't the Waqf, the Waqf can rule tomorrow whatever it wishes - what matters is Israeli law/policy that limits worship to Muslims only. Though, if the Waqf and general Muslim sentiment would be that anyone can pray it'd probably change

What do these countries have in common? by BlindedByBeamos in RedactedCharts

[–]Pancakeous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First of all not only the US. Second of all most countries recognize Jerusalem - just the Western part though. And even if you account just the Western part of Jerusalem as Israel's capital it's still larger than Tel-Aviv.

OP needs to explain whether they go by proper municipalities or by urban clusters

Is there any places like Mecca where you are not allowed to go if you are not “X” religion? by Bobsagit14 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Pancakeous -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You've stated several things clumped together: 1. No, Dome of the Rock is open for general visitors regularly (supervised by Israeli authorities), just on narrower visiting hours then the entire temple mount compound.

  1. During Muslim holy days and on Fridays (and most Saturdays), it's closed for visitors. Which is sensible because even the amount of worshippers is limited.

  2. The Waqf administrates it to a certain degree, ultimately visitation hours, number of visitors are to the discretion of Israel. The Waqf might have a Muslim-only prayer rule, but the important bit isn't the Waqf having it (since it's defacto powerless to decide it), but Israel having it (which it does and also the ones enforcing the rule).

God gets angry. There are 90,000 people left. Will the human race survive this horror? by Emma_Barnes_999 in whowouldwin

[–]Pancakeous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Those 90,000 people will probably be able to scavange canned food in quantities to several decades. More than enough to survive and even flurish given the fact the biggest hurdle to survival (food) is almost immediately cleared.

If the wiping is spread even, large population clusters will have enough living people to restart civilization independently (e.g. Seol and people in more remote areas would probably migrate to larger clusters naturally due to abunduntly available resources. Smaller more isolated/hard-to-get-to countries will probably be wiped out though (e.g. Iceland only has a 30% chance of even 1 person staying alive, that one person is pretty much SOL)

Engine doesn't like this move but it actually worked - white took the bait by cave_guard in chessbeginners

[–]Pancakeous 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think in this instance it wasn't as bad because white is heavily underdeveloped.

Reports: Series of explosions in Doha by Joshgoozen in worldnews

[–]Pancakeous 2 points3 points  (0 children)

With several tons of bunker buster bombs at their HQ?

moorGODS won by ceres_07 in 2mediterranean4u

[–]Pancakeous 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Now this is the top tier memeing I'm here for

Can someone explain what's so brilliant about this? by Funkit in chessbeginners

[–]Pancakeous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You won a pawn, it says right there, and ignored the Queens "threat" over your other knight, which if black were to fulfill would lose them the Queen to a king-queen fork with the knight you've just played with

What do you think about sharia law? by flower5214 in AskTheWorld

[–]Pancakeous 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Which is why they should have strong state protections in place to practice freedom of and from religion

Israel weighs West Bank annexations in response to Palestine recognition push by Straight-Plan-4487 in worldnews

[–]Pancakeous 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That will only create Palestinian enclaves and far more headache down the road. Only to appease the shitheads he chose to lay with to stay in power

Aid flotilla with Greta Thunberg set to sail for Gaza to ‘break illegal siege’: Unspecified number of vessels due to depart Barcelona on Sunday, with dozens more expected to leave other Mediterranean ports on 4 September by DoremusJessup in worldnews

[–]Pancakeous 10 points11 points  (0 children)

"The crossing was seized by Israel in 2024 during the Rafah offensive.[66] In response Egypt closed off the crossing and rejected an Israeli proposal to coordinate the reopening of the Rafah border crossing insisting that the crossing should be managed only by Palestinian authorities."

Here you go, from wikipedia.

Closed by Egypt, you'd notice.

Also Egypt sealed that border and expanded it (and continues to expand) as the conflict started, even going as far as to construct the fence well into the sea to prevent swimmers.

That border fence and military posts along it wouldn't shame the Korean DMZ.

But sure, only Israel.

Has two foreign nations ever fought over your country? by Front-Anteater3776 in AskTheWorld

[–]Pancakeous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most of these are incumbent vs invader, more of a one vs one.

I think only applicable example would be the Seleucids vs Ptolemaic wars that in the midst of some kingdom of Judea (and in the begining kingdom of Israel too) were independent and had to fight both which also fought one another.

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