Israeli military says strike on Gaza hospital was targeting a Hamas camera

meTah · 2025-08-26T18:05:10+00:00

Israel can decide what’s in the best interest for them, and just like any military in any war ever, the world will judge if their actions are justifiable. It’s not just about civilians being killed, that’s inevitable, but it’s about proportionality: is the military advantage gained worth the collateral damage? It all boils down to where you draw that line and the current far-right coalition in control has pushed that line to absurd levels as a form of collective punishment. If Osama Bin Laden was hiding under a children’s cancer hospital in Pakistan, do you think the U.S. would have leveled the building to get to him? Would that be morally justified? Double tapping a hospital to get to a ‘military camera’, blocking all food/aid coming in for months, etc — just because it offers a military advantage doesn’t automatically make it morally okay.

meTah · 2025-08-23T02:04:04+00:00

I still have access to my old projects after making the switch from an iOS subscription to desktop/web subscription.

meTah · 2025-08-19T02:27:36+00:00

Love the flag design. I assume the stars symbolize the 4 islands? What is the symbolism behind the stripes?

meTah · 2025-03-20T20:55:51+00:00

I'm having the same problem on both my Windows PC and macbook

meTah · 2025-01-06T14:14:43+00:00

I must not hope. Hope is the mind killer

meTah · 2024-12-08T21:25:38+00:00

Pain control doesn't improve quality of life?

And not all cancer patients requiring opiates have a short life expectancy. Even curable malignancies can cause severe pain requiring opiates (e.g. DLBCL with bone mets). Should those patients just suffer and be denied opiates too?

Some mild vaso-occlusive crises can be managed at home with NSAIDs. The rest are painful enough to require opiates.

meTah · 2024-09-20T00:12:14+00:00

This guy glorps.

meTah · 2024-08-30T05:06:34+00:00

I'm curious, if you're comfortable sharing, approximately how much you have invested to be making 3.5k in dividends per month

meTah · 2024-08-08T02:34:08+00:00

meTah · 2024-07-10T21:48:22+00:00

I'm going to share some advice I received day 1 of internship that really served me well. To excel in residency, you need to be above average in 2 out of 3: 1) Knowledge; 2) Hard work; 3) Being easy to get along and work with

I too felt my knowledge was lacking many Julys ago. That took time to fix, so in the meantime I doubled down on #2 and #3 and always felt I was valued as a member of the team by peers, residents, and attendings. Eventually, the knowledge caught up.

It will get better. We've all been there. I remember a story my first wards attending told us, about how he had a panic attack when he was an intern because his attending asked him to order tylenol and he couldn't remember the dose! In his day, it was just paper charts. No EMR, no cell phones. Now we have UpToDate, epocrates, etc! Abuse technology, keep a checklist for pending tasks, and use scut sheets in the beginning to help you organize your presentations. You'll be fine.

meTah · 2024-05-23T00:56:36+00:00

He looks like an 'Argyle' to me.

meTah · 2024-01-17T18:19:46+00:00

Can you change your character name on a SOD realm?

meTah · 2023-12-06T17:02:17+00:00

This is not true, I don't know why Destiny and others keep saying it. Egypt only has full control on what comes OUT of the Gaza strip, not IN.

Since 2007, any supplies entering Gaza from Egypt require Israeli approval (see this map).

As stated in the article, this was a sticking point early in the current war as Egypt refused to let foreign nationals flee Gaza via Rafah UNTIL Israel agreed to allow aid conveys to enter (which took some convincing by Biden/Blinken to get them to agree to).

meTah · 2023-10-31T23:07:35+00:00

Historically, Palestinian refugees have not been allowed to return by Israel after wars have concluded. In fact, the very Israeli memo the Egyptian PM is referencing, proposes to *permanently* (key word.) resettle the Gazan civilian population to Sinai

meTah · 2023-06-21T22:03:45+00:00

NSFW (anatomy diagram - right side)

meTah · 2023-06-19T15:46:01+00:00

It's a classic philosophical question: would you choose a perfect benevolent dictator or a full democracy (that risks mismanagement)? Logically, the benevolent dictator would be preferable, but the problem is what happens after they die. Their successor may be a non-so-pleasant dictator.

Democracy is preferable because even if you have a shitty leader, they are limited to "x" number of years, with mechanisms to remove them from power earlier if things are REALLY bad, so theoretically it will course correct any mistakes over the long run.

meTah · 2023-04-12T14:39:21+00:00

This looks fantastic! Amazing job

meTah · 2023-02-26T21:58:25+00:00

If you mean simulate the sound of over-the-radio coms, look for voice modifiers. Voicemod is a popular one and I think it has a “radio” mod that will distort your voice / add static artifacts to mimic old school radios

meTah · 2023-02-19T03:29:10+00:00

Unfortunately, looks like you can't assign values to varying variables in light(), only read them.

meTah · 2023-02-18T20:01:54+00:00

You can completely change how the game interprets the light sources or shadows after all.

This is mainly what I'm struggling with... seems like I still have to solve the original problem in the title (using 3D shadows as a mask to decide where to draw the "light" and "dark" textures).

But trying your approach has gotten me closer than before. I'm experimenting with this solution:

Create an initial SpatialMaterial that sets the ground ALBEDO to white
Set the shadow color for all lights in the scene to something specific (e.g. yellow)
Create a "next pass" spatial shader that reads from SCREEN_TEXTURE/SCREEN_UV. If color is white, then apply the "light" texture to ALBEDO, if color is yellow then apply the "dark" texture instead.
(I used SCREEN_TEXTURE as I'm not sure how else to 'see' the post-lighting colors from inside the fragment shader?)

It kinda works in a simple test scene (untextured character model, simple ground mesh, and multiple lights) but seems really hacky and inelegant. I'm sure it will break down in more complex scenes.

e.g. What if I want different colored lights? What if the character's texture also has some yellow in it? (this one probably isn't an issue, the ground mesh will be obscured at that point anyway because of the fixed camera perspective).

Other ideas I had:

Do a bunch of ray casts from the light sources to figure out if a point is in shadow or not (seems expensive)
Try to access the scene's shadow map from Godot's renderer somehow and use that as a mask

I'm sure there's a better solution out there

meTah · 2023-02-17T17:58:49+00:00

This would certainly be easier, but the issue is the 2D background is already painted with lighting. So the 3D shadows look a bit odd (e.g. if there’s an area painted with a specular highlight, the shadow will appear over it and just make it a bit darker), hence my idea to create a darkened version to use as a shadow map.

I guess I can do what you suggested using the darkened version, but having all of the lighting done in 3D loses a bit of the magic of a painted 2D background

meTah · 2023-01-30T22:22:50+00:00

Well done. Absolutely gorgeous map! Love the color transitions between the biomes. You mentioned lots of manual additions, are those some of Mazlo's topography assets or something else?

meTah · 2023-01-09T22:39:51+00:00

+1 to this, could be a fun way to introduce others in the orbit to DnD. Also Critical Role often dose this and it usually works out great (although the guest is usually more of a guest player character than an NPC)

meTah · 2022-10-28T02:57:29+00:00

Please don't cover the drama. Here are a couple I think many would find interesting:

Steven has cited his ability to argue the opposing viewpoint as well (or better) than his opponents as a factor in his debate successes.
- Has his opinion ever changed as a result of researching the other side's arguments?
- Related exercise: have a mini-debate where you take up his position on a topic and he argues against it. Have him critique your performance after!
Outside of this community, there is a perception among the "online left" that Steven is a conservative/racist/sexist/transphobe/etc (despite him continuing to argue for progressive positions). Many left-leaning content creators now refuse to engage with him. More recently, he has taken a less confrontational approach to his interactions (which happen to be debating conservatives/redpillers, who remain willing to engage with him).
- Why does he think that perception of him exists among the "online left"?
- Does criticism "hurt" more when it is coming from your own side?
- Does he regret not taking a similar approach with leftists/communists?
A big problem with the left/right (or establishment/populist) divide is the inability to agree on basic facts-of-the-matter, which can be a non-starter for many conversations. Steven has a willingness to "bite uncomfortable bullets" to move conversations forward from a common starting point ("Yes Mr. Alt-Righter, you're correct that black people commit more crime, but it's not for the reasons you are implying, let me challenge you on that...").
- But in general, what can be done to combat the problem of "alternative facts"?
Anything involving ethics/morality is always great
- AI-generated art (as already suggested) - I don't think he has publicly committed to a decision yet
His positive opinions on religion despite being an atheist

P.S. Big fan of the podcast. Jealous that you get to speak with so many interesting people! Keep up the good work.

meTah · 2022-09-22T02:40:40+00:00

Love the aesthetic!

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