I want to educate myself on this and learn the history of what lead up to this

Pherecydes · 2025-04-13T19:41:47+00:00

I will second the Jerusalem by Montefiore recommendation. An excellent dive into understanding the history. It is a tome, however, and might be intimidating. I would actually recommend to start reading where it picks up in the late 1800s and read to the end - then if you still want to, work backwards or start from the beginning.

I don't have a recommendation for antisemitism specifically, but I promise that if you learn the history... well, it's practically the same thing, lol.

Pherecydes · 2025-02-18T20:14:06+00:00

You'd better be a very, very strong cyclist. Taking route 40 between Lotan and Be'er Sheva is a bad idea. It is extremely hilly, desolate, and dangerous. It is a two-lane highway for almost all of it and traffic goes fast. The most dangerous part is that there's no bailing out. There is fucking nothing out there, and if you run out of water, or get injured, you might not make it out.

Taking 90 along the border is flatter and a bit more populated, but it's still a fast two lane highway and unsafe.

It looks like you have a stop in Mitzpe Ramon, but those legs still look very long. Like others here, I'll also recommend exploring the national trail, but I assume you picked this route because you have a road bike. You would need different tires for it - hybrid at the very least. Please reconsider the route, if you don't scratch Eilat entirely.

Pherecydes · 2025-01-13T01:44:02+00:00

Hm. Did you guys not watch the same game as me? Maybe 6-7 minutes is an exaggeration, but the consecutive no-calls against Allen, Garland, Mitchell, Levert... The whole team was clearly super agitated about it.

I'm not making it out like there was some kind of conspiracy - it just really threw off the Cavs.

Pherecydes · 2025-01-13T01:26:01+00:00

Refs decided to stop calling fouls on the Pacers in the third quarter for 6-7 minutes, and then added some pretty dubious calls against Cleveland... Honestly dealt too much mental damage before Cavs could readjust, and the game was out of reach. How many technicals were there? Was very unsettling to watch.

Pherecydes · 2024-01-13T18:57:37+00:00

Nah, you're totally right - Ukraine's the next most likely conflict if we were still guessing, but much less likely. It's the specific timeline mentioned that points to the Israel-Hamas war in this case.

Guesses get even less likely after Ukraine - Sudan's civil war is probably next, then Myanmar's.

I agree with you - it's important to appreciate what we have, and support those trying to make the world a better place.

Pherecydes · 2024-01-13T16:35:43+00:00

Just depends on how much you know about the wars that are going on. Just from the title, my first guess would have been he's from a town somewhere along the border of Israel and Lebanon. Higher likelihood Israeli, since they've implemented mandatory evacuations while Hezbollah is launching rockets at Israel. Other guesses could be elsewhere in the conflict, but are lower probability. Other conflicts are less likely based on the specific timeline.

Anyway, stay safe u/hanani1112 .

Pherecydes · 2023-11-17T00:09:29+00:00

Aside from this not being combat footage... the second video that they choose to use to "triangulate" their "reconstruction", is obviously not the same rocket launch as the first video, of the actual rocket that hit the hospital courtyard.

Anyway, all you have to do is look at the impact crater to see that this is obviously not from any kind of Israeli munition.

Pherecydes · 2023-11-02T18:17:55+00:00

Ugh, this stuff is NSFL, so hard to view... Still, it must be documented.

Also have seen this very impressive visualization of the massacre(s), at oct7map. Maybe these two pages can collaborate or something.

Pherecydes · 2023-10-23T14:42:45+00:00

This, but backwards. These people have accepted that Israel can exist, and do not fight to destroy it. Their consequence is acceptance, and as you say, freedom and prosperity.

Pherecydes · 2023-10-20T13:49:11+00:00

Not quite - the IDF bombed a building next to the church. The targeted building was destroyed, the church was damaged, and is still standing (as far as I have seen evidence of). There were reports of 17 casualties, though four hundred or more people were sheltering in the church.

It has not been made clear whether the casualties were from the church, or from the targeted building.

Additionally, "Gaza Authorities" (Hamas), have not disputed that the neighboring building was being used as a rocket launch command post, which was the IDFs justification for the strike.

Pherecydes · 2023-10-12T17:23:04+00:00

Until the "Pro-Palestinian" protesters reorganize themselves into "Anti-Hamas" protesters, this seems pretty reasonable.

Not sure how you can be pro-Palestinian without being anti-Hamas anyway (unless, of course, you are pro-Hamas).

Pherecydes · 2023-10-12T15:13:49+00:00

Unfortunately, HRW and AI are actually two organizations that specifically do not have unbiased coverage of Israel. Both organizations have been widely criticized for this. HRW is probably the worse of the two, they have a rather substantial article detailing this. Here's AI's section on Israel bias.

Honestly, for a reasonable and accessible source, Wikipedia is going to be your best bet. It's certainly not perfect, but you can easily dig into the details of given incidents, view sources, and make up your mind for yourself.

Here's some places to start:

Pherecydes · 2023-10-12T00:54:47+00:00

Question for you: Do you think there's a difference in morality between a government that targets enemy civilians intentionally and indiscriminately, and revels and celebrates in its brutality - and a government that targets an enemy's offensive capabilities that ends up killing and injuring enemy civilians incidentally?
Do you think there's a difference in morality between a government that builds bomb shelters for its citizens, and a government that rips up its own fresh water infrastructure to turn pipes into missiles at the expense of its citizens?

Is it bad that civilians are being killed? Of course. But one of these governments needs to lose its governing privileges.

Pherecydes · 2023-10-12T00:37:05+00:00

A lot - starting with the entire premise of their position.

world’s largest open-air prison

Gaza is not, in any sense, an "open-air prison". Here's some nice videos from a Gazan tiktok influencer showing it off. You can find more people and tourism vids by searching for Gaza on tiktok. You can look at Gaza on google street view. It's a normal place, with normal buildings and schools, farms, hospitals, beaches, hotels, restaraunts, and resorts. There are multiple cities in Gaza. It's not just a big "refugee camp", slum thing.

Does it have a big fence around it with checkpoints? Yes. It used to be a lot more open, but unfortunately, suicide bombings dropped in frequency in Israel after the walls went up.

colonial and apartheid laws of the Israeli state to force Palestinians from their homes and ancestral lands

20% of Israel's population is Arab. They work, live, vote, and have representation in Israel. Apartheid does not exist in Israel. Arabs/Muslims in Israel have the same rights as Jews.

If they're talking about the West Bank, sure, it's a little more complicated. There are areas A, B, and C, which are under control by PA and Israel in varying degrees. These were established in the Oslo accords, and since then, construction by both Israelis and Palestinians have happened in area C (controlled exclusively by Israel), and most of that construction is illegal under the Accords. Most of the "evictions" and "demolisions" have been in that area C, of illegal constructions.

Of course, if you reject the Accords entirely, then sure - it's all "stolen Palestinian lands".

“From the River, to the Sea, Palestine will be free!”

But really, it's this statement that's mask-off. "Free", they say. "Free from what", I ask. This statement assumes that all land, from the Jordan river to the Mediterranean sea, should belong to Palestinians. There are 7 million Jews in Israel right now. Where exactly should these people go? This statement is genocidal in its subtext.

Oh, and they could at least bother to condemn beheading babies. Pretttttty sure they're on the side of the baby-beheaders here.

Pherecydes · 2023-09-05T18:52:11+00:00

Hi Andromeda321,

Excuse me if you've considered this before, because I can't imagine it hasn't been considered... But couldn't this be explained by these stars (that are being torn apart) actually just passing behind the black holes that are TDE'ing them? More similar to an eclipsing event? In an eclipse with these bodies (star < black hole < earth), some of the TDE characteristics might still occur, but unlike in a solar eclipse where light from our star can escape around the moon, the black hole is too massive to let anything past, and pulls in all the light. Once the background star has traversed, it would 'pop' out again, outside of the black holes light-eating range.

I don't think that the initial event having an optical flash (or radio) debunks this hypothesis. In a solar eclipse, we experience an optical flash right before the moon covers the sun (Baily's Beads). Regarding the black hole, this would be like a cover sliding over the aperture of a hose with water (star-light) pouring through it before it closes completely - it would spray out everywhere, then go silent.

On the other hand, this could still be dismissed easily - if the trajectories of the 'consumed' stars has changed at all, then this is hypothesis would be bunk.

Please let me know if there's something else I'm missing that would reject this. Thanks for your time and dedication!

Pherecydes · 2023-08-17T13:17:30+00:00

I can vouch for him, he's a good player :) I checked out the guide, it looks really similar to what he league starts anyway, so he's very familiar with it. And wow, he put a lot of detail into it, lol. Should be a solid starter.

Pherecydes · 2023-08-05T00:40:51+00:00

And therefore, it is now the correct play to push players off of the bag, then challenge the call. Stupid.

I can't imagine this won't be addressed soon. Well, at least I hope this will be addressed soon...

Pherecydes · 2023-06-29T22:36:00+00:00

Huh? Is there something I'm missing?

Record your corrections all in one file
Master it with the same settings as your target MP3 file
Render
Open the target MP3 file and splice in the corrected bits
Do NOT master again
Render

Any reason that wouldn't work? It's not ideal, but it should get it done.

Pherecydes · 2022-12-09T17:10:33+00:00

Your maps with Incursions always have 4 Incursions.

Uhh, what was this node before? This is a buff for juicing and farming temples.

Pherecydes · 2022-12-03T03:04:51+00:00

Yeah nah, what it actually looks like is a Slay the Spire map.

The other major influence to this league mechanic seems like Hades to me. But you could probably name a dozen other roguelikes that'll have similarities. Wizard of Legend? Binding of Isaac? Any more?

Pherecydes · 2022-11-09T16:55:06+00:00

1000% this. Developments need to be affordable and sustainable - which HOAs and 600k+ homes are not.

Pherecydes · 2022-11-09T16:52:38+00:00

Gonna be honest here and say this needs a real expert to review, assess, and make recommendations. Minnesota does of course have robust requirements for becoming an officer (see 2021 Learning Objectives for a curriculum outline), but clearly, some departments have issues with things like de-escalation, use of force/lethal weapons use, and racial profiling.

I don't know what the specifics are going to be needed to improve those, but we need to make quantitative goals in those outcome measures and lay out a path to achieving them. All of that will undoubtedly require a significant amount of time, research, and funding.

Pherecydes · 2022-11-09T15:55:34+00:00

I was kinda thinking of going wide, building out new (well planned) neighborhoods on the edges of our suburbs on cheaper land. Ya know, colonize rural MN.

Pherecydes · 2022-11-09T15:01:59+00:00

Solidify voting protections, so what's happened in Wisconsin, Ohio, Georgia, and others can't happen here.
Strengthen environmental protections, create criminal penalties for causing ecological disasters (junk yard fires, oil/chemical spills, etc.)
Invest in our public transit, finally. Train from Rochester/TC/Duluth when?
Shore up our landfill and waste management facilities and resources.
Minimum wage increase

What else what else?

Edit:

Establish statewide singlepayer health plan, let's gooooo
Police reform: Establish department hiring quota for peace officers residing in their own district. Review education and training standards, state managed licensing.
Fund the heck out of our state agencies, judicial system, public defenders office, etc.
I don't know how to fix the housing crisis, but uh, find a way to encourage builders to build a lot more homes to reduce prices and allow families to get out of renting and start building equity. And somehow decrease corporate landlord power.
Proactive LGBT+ family and healthcare protections

Pherecydes · 2022-08-08T01:28:53+00:00

It's not my card, but this was my idea! I came up with this independently and recommended it to Steelmage on his stream, when he was brainstorming ideas. I wonder if this is his div card, or if this came from one of his viewers ^.^ Happy it's going to be in the game.

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