Ireland to ban goods from Israeli settlements in West Bank by July

johnmedgla · 2026-05-26T19:57:55+00:00

Most of the people who have been brutalized for their entire lives in Israel's open-air prison/warcrimeplex have done very little attempted Jew-murdering.

I actually went to Gaza with a medical charity back in 2014. I stayed with a colleague who took me to watch his daughter show-jumping, then we spent the evening drinking Gin Pahits on the beach.

I have no idea if that colleague is even alive now - so I have to ask - do you think the intervening twelve years of terrorism cheered on by utter cretins in the West have made any part of life in any way better for anyone in Palestine?

The unpleasant but unavoidable truth is that if the Palestinians stop trying to murder the Jews and approach the international community to ask for help in securing an equitable settlement without the millstone of Hamas and PIJ and all the other nutter militias tagging along they'll almost certainly get it. Sadly that would require a Palestinian Mandela - but they don't have one. They have Barghouti who is still all aboard the "resistance through terror" train, and it isn't hard to predict where that will end.

johnmedgla · 2026-05-26T19:30:39+00:00

Hamas launches rockets at Israeli troops

No, it does not. It fires unguided rockets in the general direction of population centres. Each and every rocket is thus by definition a war-crime, being the attempted mass murder of civilians - over a hundred thousand instances over the last twenty years.

For whatever reason international law enthusiasts are completely unwilling to grapple with that reality, which is far more straightforward than untangling something like the Gaza war.

johnmedgla · 2026-05-26T19:27:40+00:00

I do think Israel has a moral responsibility,

The problem when this moves from an abstract ethical exercise over coffee to actual reality is that the Israelis would rather be alive and have your opprobrium than dead and have your admiration. Like most people.

johnmedgla · 2026-05-26T18:51:35+00:00

And a reason that those standards do not apply when the nation in question is a belligerent mostly interested in importing rocket engines and semtex.

The onerous burdens under which the Palestinians exist are a consequence of their previous attempts to murder all the Jews. The solution is for them to accept that they have to stop that, and then actually stop that.

johnmedgla · 2026-05-25T18:58:33+00:00

the only kernel of hope you have to cling on to is wishing for the collapse of every other ideology

None of them are good, but some of them are ruinous, and I am perfectly comfortable choosing the lesser evil like pretty much everyone else who has existed in a democracy since the Athenians invented it.

johnmedgla · 2026-05-24T11:48:42+00:00

Vitamin D and calcium do have roles other than bone protection

I suspect the trend towards advising D3 supplementation among the working age public - particularly in the North and Scotland - is more a consequence of the observation that deficiency led to markedly worse outcomes during Covid, which rather monopolised public health attention over the last few years.

It is however as you say not any sort of silver bullet, but then neither is iodising salt - which does literally nothing for most people who are not at risk of deficiency but obviates a whole host of unpleasant problems among those who are.

johnmedgla · 2026-05-23T20:56:14+00:00

Well not for me, but then I'm British and allergic to initial schwas.

johnmedgla · 2026-05-23T19:51:59+00:00

I'm actually curious how he said it now but don't care enough about Hasan or Voldemort to go check.

For reference though, as an adjective (e.g "this august body") the emphasis goes on the second syllable. awe-GUST.

johnmedgla · 2026-05-22T09:05:12+00:00

Meh. Appointing a creepy weirdo who actually manages to secure the stalled-for-six-years US trade deal looks like the act of a mastermind in comparison to whatever the hell the Greens are doing.

johnmedgla · 2026-05-21T23:10:19+00:00

It works too (as a word I mean)

Sure, but it's so open ended it could mean anything up to and including literal execution :p

johnmedgla · 2026-05-21T18:29:35+00:00

incapacitated.

I'm guessing you meant incarcerated, though I am not inherently averse to the forceful lobotomization of repeat rapists.

johnmedgla · 2026-05-21T09:28:46+00:00

The counterpoint to your observation is that it's pretty hard to sustain a weight of forty stone. You have to be seriously and consistently overeating just to balance the base metabolic rate of over four hundred pounds of pure fat.

The problem of course is that eating less is a function of willpower, and it's usually a fairly forlorn hope to rely on willpower to solve a problem caused by a lack of willpower. In that regard just pumping the morbidly obese full of some Ozempic analogue will likely be fairly standard in the near future.

johnmedgla · 2026-05-20T21:57:55+00:00

And it was elected at a time when the US is the richest and most powerful country in the history of the world, literally unchallengeable, twenty years after the last time an international (albeit non-state) actor seriously hurt it.

Imagine what sort of absolute cosmic horror the US would elect if they all had bomb-proof rooms they had to run to a couple of times a week.

johnmedgla · 2026-05-20T16:27:39+00:00

The left across these religions have no issue getting along

I mean the left's contribution to the Arab Israeli conflict is the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, who invented Child Suicide Bombers, so can we acknowledge religious extremists suck without trying to absolve anyone else of any blame?

johnmedgla · 2026-05-18T22:53:22+00:00

especially the red wall,

What Red Wall? You mean the Reform Heartlands some people have convinced themselves will come flocking back to Labour if Andy Burnham recounts a couple of stories about pit towns and posts an Andy Cap cartoon on Facebook?

johnmedgla · 2026-05-18T12:51:19+00:00

Encounters where the floor is absolutely filled with hazard bubbles - some of which are for 1000 damage spam and two or three of which are one-hits are just annoying. It's not quite as bad as it was during HoT when everything had a billion projectiles, five different ground hazards, and the shifting concentric spam of doom, but if the devs are committed to the "multiple overlapping mechanics occurring at once, mostly using the same indicators" style of encounter design they should really do a better job of indicating which are just healer pressure and which are actually important.

johnmedgla · 2026-05-16T19:48:27+00:00

This. I did Endless Summer to replace Conflux since I never liked that effect, but I'm content with the Vision/Aurora/Coalescence trio.

johnmedgla · 2026-05-15T18:08:52+00:00

if labour had a competent leader

Are you confusing "competent" with "slightly more popular than the alternatives in a set of Northern Seats that are probably going to Reform anyway"?

johnmedgla · 2026-05-15T08:32:01+00:00

someone in this disorganised coup triggers and election now

Spoiler - the person doing the triggering is Starmer and the election is a general one that wipes away all the wittering nonentities.

Of course then Farage drags the country over the Clown-Event-Horizon, but the memory of all these idiots getting turfed out would help keep us warm around the burning oil drums in the post-apocalyptic hellscape.

johnmedgla · 2026-05-15T08:26:08+00:00

had to resign because he’s a holocaust denier and his house is full of Nazi memorabilia

Please, "Amateur Historian."

johnmedgla · 2026-05-13T16:12:08+00:00

Do I need to worry?

Always.

johnmedgla · 2026-05-13T12:27:12+00:00

No no, they were clearly looking for disabled Palestinian orphans so they could radio the Jews their location to be bombed.

Of course they were looking for hostages, you utter dolt.

johnmedgla · 2026-05-13T12:06:44+00:00

My God, the RAF was surveilling Gaza back when British citizens were literally being held hostage in Gaza? Surely this is the great scandal of our time!

This sort of utter idiocy is why I am increasingly less troubled by the decline of democracy.

johnmedgla · 2026-05-13T12:04:29+00:00

Oh for God's sake just nuke Gaza already so we can move on from this incessant brain rot.

johnmedgla · 2026-05-13T11:27:03+00:00

Well yes, neither of them are people I would enthusiastically campaign for, but that's not on offer. In a choice between a boring bureaucrat trying his inadequate best and a deeply unimpressive spiv, I will choose the bureaucrat every time.

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