theneverfox

What a healthy conversation. I'm not used to it, it's making me uncomfortable.

Fuck you no reason in particular!

Hey, friend, take a breath. Listen... This isn't how we all die. Unless you live in Iran I guess, and then maybe, depending how it plays out - but even that is not at all a sure thing. I know this is pretty bad, but you can't burn yourself out on this one

This isn't world war III. It's just another bad thing. China has signaled nothing on this and Russia is in no position to do anything. Europe has been quiet, the other Gulf states have been quiet... This could turn into another forever war, but this isn't going to spark a powder keg.

But yeah, Iran has clearly been trying to return to the fold for years now, and netanyahu has started a second conflict to hold into power. It's very obvious who the aggressors are

And yes, if you use targeted means to hit civilians and their family, obviously that's a war crime.

But war crimes don't cancel out. There's no place for whataboutism when real human lives are being snuffed out in their homes. We make a list, and hopefully soon the fascists will fall and all the war criminals will stand trial

It is funny that you can buy an ice jacket on Amazon... I've considered getting one to conspicuously leave in my car, just in case

According to some scholars, the emperor Aurelian instituted in AD 274 the festival Dies Natalis Solis Invicti ('birthday of the Invincible Sun') on 25 December,[53] the date of the winter solstice in the Roman calendar.[54]

Funny how Constantine moved the Sabbath to Sunday at the same time he founded the Roman Catholic Church, and a lot of what Jesus taught seems to have been totally reinterpreted very conveniently

But that's it exactly - cluster bombs just fling granades all over a city block at random. It's basically just collateral damage in the hopes of hitting a soft target

I mean, fuck palantir and I really don't like this tech in general, but blowing up a room or a house is way more precise. You're hitting just what you mean to hit

And that's what a lot of war crimes come down to - certain weapons are unacceptably imprecise. Which gets into the first rule of war crimes - you're not supposed to attack noncombatants

Let's not defend cluster bombs just because Israel is going to use this for justification...

Because of course they will, this whole thing started by blowing up the Iranian negotiator, they're obviously not going to start acting in good faith now

The argument being cluster bombs are a dirty move, but using simultaneous AI powered assassin drones to strike while people are sleeping makes you the good guys?

I mean... That is how this works. Cluster bombs are bad because they're less precise and cause more collateral damage. So weapons that target individuals with high precision are better

But like... Presumably, you're not just individually killing a bunch of civilians precisely

I agree with the sentiment, but I wasn't joking. I can draw individual eyes pretty well, I can do textures, but I can't maintain the same perspective between two things

I'm plenty creative and good with my hands, hell I'm great with Photoshop...I just can't draw. Probably because I can't see it before it's on the page

Are you sure? They all look the same in my head

Honestly, I was going to say North Dakota, but I wasn't totally sure which Dakota it was, so I picked Nebraska

I'm saying the objective (teaching/learning/understanding) has been confused for the metric (test results)

It's endemic. Nothing else in life works like this. Even now, someone is probably reading this like I'm some midwit thinking "well, how do you rank the students, smart ass?". And that's a fucking problem

Yeah, seems that way...

What happens when you practice a skill for decades and can only draw eyes? Not matching eyes, mind you... Just eyes

Sorry to disappoint, I meant I learned the story behind the myth of vaccines causing autism. They seemed to be pretty good parents, before they moved away their kid was often outside on his bike.... He seemed happy and healthy to me.

We had a significant age gap so we never interacted, but he was on the sidewalk frequently and never in the street when I was driving... Take from that what you will