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Nidal Hasan-born in virginia
Syed Farook, born in chicago
Naveed Haq, born in washington state

QED

alaska is so fucking empty

no soap radio

I don’t know about amusement parks. Watkins glen is a nice day trip.

Nice area. I once vacationed near there at a small inn near keuka lake. Mennonite area.

Like saying to Miriam Adelson “she must have like 60 billion in the bank”

If this is still current I would include some bottles of bubbles. Even people who don’t drink wine enjoy a prosecco or cava of some sort.

How much of this stuff scripted and how much off the cuff? Just rambling on and on

Trump speaking. He is so off the wall. But funny.

Bibi not going to sharm and prez of Indonesia not coming. Things change very fast here. Reason given was holiday tomorrow (it’s Sukkot here ) but that would have. made the sharm summit more interesting.

Been glued to tv news for hours. Waiting for trumps speech. Then bibi is joining the big summit in sharm (a-sisi has refused to speak to bibi even on the phone ) and now I hear the prez of Indonesia is going to visit here tomorrow.
End of days feeling here. If any evangelicals out there are thinking of the rapture now would be a good time.

Speaking of planes. USAF Boeing C-17A globemaster flying over my house (I’m very close to Ben gurion airport approach routes) bringing stuff for trumps lightning visit here Monday.

Venezuelan politician Maria Corina Machado wins Nobel Peace Prize

What did the bookmakers say? Long shot? How much would I have made betting on her….

I think a more reasonable option is him getting it in 2026.

at least you have the guts to go up in an elevator to the rock. i dont like those high building views, even for someone who grew up in new york, i hate high floors in buildings. and i think my fear of heights is increasing with age although i never feel it in planes, always get a window seat, which is weird.

@AndyD said in Mildly interesting:

Can't recall seeing a relief map of this area; look at all those mountainous areas in Yemen etc!

yemen is not on the map, thats over to the east across the red sea, maybe you are referring to the Sinai peninsula, which in the south is quite mountainous (eg...Mount Sinai)

@kluurs i get it. no one here is blind to the horrors and we do have our own fair share of tik tok idiots who want to self glorify, but speaking from first hand knowledge, the overwhelming majority of Israelis, including soldiers who are after all, representative of the population as there is mandatory conscription (more or less but thats another topic) are normative people thrown into an impossible situation. yes many non combatants killed. but intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group?

(I could not find any documented sources to a soldier boasting of killing 9 infants....the only thing i found maybe applicable is this news item" https://wisconsinwatch.org/2024/02/israel-gaza-killing-babies-university-of-wisconsin-madison-chabad-fact-brief/ which was of course disinformation)

be that as it may, there is incredible anger here at the flippant use of the word genocide. like by this incredibly misguided young lady with a gazillion followers.

His taste in young interns?

Is there a kindle edition?

@jon-nyc said in Hamas attacks Israel:

Honestly it’s like calling a glance at a black woman’s hair ‘white supremacy’.

You take a word with a well understood and emotionally charged meaning and apply it to something very different with the hopes of getting some of the stink of the word on the new thing.

Of course it also cheapens the word if you’re successful.

This tweet pithily demonstrates that since most of us still assign to the word the original horror it was meant to convey, but there’s a palpable absurdity in its use given Hamas is taking days to decide whether it wants it to end and will probably not quite get there. After all, there’s hunger, and there’s release-the-hostages hunger. Their famine seems to be somewhere between the two.

I agree with all you wrote very eloquently but I think the one problem which facilitates the cheapening of the term is the fact that the holocaust is getting so farther and farther back in history such that many young people simply are disconnected to it ( a recurring theme in this aging forum is that historical events once so present in our psyche are but wisps of memory for young people. Pearl Harbor seems to be forgotten and the impact of 9/11 will be in another generation.matter of time that movies like Schindler’s list or the pianist describing world war 2 will not be made anymore)

Be that as it may, your description of the use of the word genocide is right on target. What a fucked up world. Just reading the descriptions by the flotilla detainees led by Greta of their 48 imprisonment being nazi like, is enough to make you shake your head and think how are people so incredibly stupid.