Oh that’s a different thing 😉 You should be already able to see the armor in the cage iirc

Po tip: Ice makes any water taste better

'It does not matter how many there are. We will sweep them into the sea. Arab League Secretary-General Azzam Pasha, 1948

Idk that certainly sounds like “kill them all”

I’m not denying the origins of Israel, that it was created by colonial powers at the expense of Arabs & Palestinians, nor that it displaced a significant Palestinian population after an organized and protracted campaign of Zionist, Jewish terrorism. However in 1948 the reality is the Jews were there, and the rhetoric from the top was of elimination and eradication - and that is a genocidal act

I don’t have the energy to dive into the pre-1948 history of Palestine beyond to say this;

• The Nakba was (and remains) a stain on humanity, as a direct result of European nations like Poland, France, and the UK callously using the holocaust as cover for their own anti-Semitic motivations to ‘offload’ their Jewish population into Palestine, at the expense of the locals
• The British especially, but the Allied powers as a whole, undermined the crumbing Ottoman Empire by promising self-determination to the Arab rebels, all while having already assigned and divided that land for themselves and their Allies after WW1
• Irgun and other Jewish militias were doing A LOT of terrorism, against both the British in charge during Mandatory Palestine, and the existing Arab population and civilians

While acknowledging the above, the fact is that in 1948 there was a Jewish population there, who were facing a second genocide attempt that decade. The powers that be washed their hands of it, not unlike the Fall of Saigon or Afghanistan, yet we don’t learn from our interventionism. To unwind this problem requires either a robot peace that both sides want, or one of the two getting ethnically cleansed.

Tl; Dr:

• Savant-genius in our time works on/with and drives a large amount of the early “Web 2.0” era that champions decentralization, openness, and freedom of information
• This ethos is carried throughout his work in tech, leading him to mass copy databases that are paywalled or closed access to students, that he had permission to use, and dump the info online for free
• JSTOR and MIT get salty about this, set up a sting at the school servers where he’s doing said mass copying
• Prosecutor wayyyy overcharges Aaron and seeks to neuter him from using tech, Aaron gets scared and (due in part to a longstanding mental & physical illness) commits suicide

There’s more info and context, but that the broad strokes. Fuck MIT for pushing his prosecution, JSTOR was fine once he stopped uploading their database

Like any substance use, it depends.

Shower beer/seltzer/soda is great at the end of a long day/hard run/big trip etc from the hot water getting your body clean, and the cold refreshing beverage you drink during the process

If beer #7 gets brought into the shower at 3pm, you likely need to sit down and take a look at your life choices

• Provides political, military, and economic support for Israel after they were attacked horrifically. Refuses to set any limits or conditions upon said support
• Gets taken for a ride by the hardline zealots who see this as their best chance to crush Gaza completely, and already have high level government and cabinet ministers attending & hosting talks to annex Gaza in part or completely
• Cannot undo what he has done in the name of geopolitics, increasingly is getting hammered by Muslim voters in the US at large, and voters across the spectrum who sympathize with the Palestinian civilians, and a growing rebellion within his own party

There was a moral imperative in 1948 & 1967 to support Israel against outside aggression who openly stated they wanted to end Israel. There’s now a moral imperative to protect Gazans and their land as was agreed to in Oslo II.

Enjoy your mess Joe, you sleepwalked into this one, crisis by crisis by believing Bibi unconditionally until very recently. Because now Egypt is getting testy:

Netanyahu’s words have also alarmed Egypt which has said that any ground operation in the Rafah area or mass displacement across the border would undermine its 40-year-old peace treaty with Israel. The mostly sealed Gaza-Egypt border is also the main entry point for humanitarian aid.

That’s a big fucking issue, if Egypt is throwing that language around I doubt Jordan is far behind them. I’ll say it again, is the alliance with Israel worth it, if it jeopardizes US relations with literally every other nation in the gulf?

The end game armor you unlock is good… but it is walled off until the very end game when you’re otherwise super geared up, so it’s not the ‘epic purple loot’ it seems like

The Flying Dutchman fight is hella bullshit though, I swear that thing was midair and turned 180 on the spot multiple times. Made lining up broadsides annoying af when a man-o-war is nimble and tough

Yes, he has a stutter and typically does a very good job of working through it.

He didn’t stutter, go watch the linked video and stop shamelessly carrying water for him.

That was the best part for me lol - open world piracy simulator with your crew belting out sea shanties and upgrading your ship. The on foot parts of the AC franchise might as well be on train tracks, not my jam

If you’re not enjoying your time at sea, on the ship itself, I’d recommend powering through the quest line, possibly the legendary ship battles and leave it there.

I stopped trying to 100% after AC2, and sped through the ‘housekeeping’ pre-assassination missions. Follow this guy, loot this chest, pick her pocket, etc gets real old quick

You can get court-martialed for infidelity. I’d be shocked if they go free; theft of property, criminal trespass, conduct unbecoming, etc

We can keep the meme, but give him what he deserves - 30 seconds more in paint with the eraser tool keeps dickheads in the past 👍

Man I used to enjoy Zero Hedge before like 2010. Back when he was bitter as fuck about getting caught and was basically livestreaming all the skeletons in Wall Street’s closet. Zero citations generally, but grab your popcorn and see how the capitalists make their cancerous sausage!

Then it changed to Breitbart for the wannabe tech-bro or the moonbat conspiracist who thinks InfoWars is too culty.

Fully aware I’m either the old man yelling at clouds, or at the choir. CAN’T STOP, WOLN’T STOP

Can lazy ‘journalists’ publish five paragraphs that say little but have eleventy advertisements in the article? Do people click through, read said nothing, and get them money from advertisers?

Then the answer is “never”

Carano is claiming wrongful discharge and sexual discrimination, seeking $75,000 in damages and a court order that would reinstate her on the hit series.

Oh buddy. Too broke to afford lawyers, only asking for $75k. I guess she took too many hits to the head during her fights, everyone knows you shoot high and let the judge adjust down if you win. Know your own value I guess, and Gina is signaling that she’s not worth much

The suit details that Carano was required by Disney to meet with a representative from the LGBTQ+ group Glaad after online behaviour that was seen as anti-trans, yet she refused. She was then asked to meet with a group of LGBTQ+ Disney employees but again refused and was fired soon after.

She got offered an easy out after posting her screed, and refused to even sit and talk with Glaad rep. Because she would have to listen and couldn’t argue or shout them down, and that’s political persecution

Her acting is okay, her social media presence is super toxic and puts the show into the headlines for reasons unrelated to the show. Disney have a pretty solid case for dismissal here, when will these dumbfucks realize that it’s not a liberal v conservative issue - it’s genuinely just your hate speech

It isn’t a crime unfortunately

In seeking to decouple from state propaganda, it is important to critically examine alternative sources, lest you be duped into becoming a state mouthpiece.

Thanks for linking, but while there’s smoke and circumstance, it’s not a fire imo. Anonymous source, not sources.

And Hersh seems to have fallen from the tightrope of critical analysis and skepticism, into acceptance of conspiratorial narratives from shaky actors.