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by borski 2y ago
I think you have either intentionally or unintentionally missed my point, and you're talking past me now. War never has any guarantees. You do the best you can, and you do the best the intel suggests, and you minimize and avoid civilia
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by borski 2y ago
Fine. The point is that Israel is at war with Hezbollah. Hezbollah operatives were the targets. That is who was targeted and who was hit.
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by borski 2y ago
Sure, but the implication that US politicians are on board with Israel because of some perceived threat of danger to their lives is absurd. If Israel threatened, even once, to attack the US, rest assured their US support would be gone in an
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by borski 2y ago
I believe you, and I’m not happy about that. My AP history teacher in high school was black, so that may have affected it too, or perhaps it was the NYC curriculum as compared to curriculums in the South. I’m not sure, but I definitely reca
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by borski 2y ago
1. Those pagers were purchased by Hezbollah, for Hezbollah. They were distributed by Hezbollah, to Hezbollah. I have extremely little doubt that Israel had intel telling them this, and that these weren’t used by hospitals by doctors and nur
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by borski 2y ago
This is a strawman. US politicians are not at war with Israel, and do not use specifically distributed devices for military ops and communication against them. This has nothing at all do with politics.
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by borski 2y ago
But they didn’t arbitrarily poison food and hope it got to their target, poisoning all sorts of civilians along the way. That is a strawman. These devices were not used by non-militants. These devices were used for communications, by milita
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by borski 2y ago
Didn’t mean to imply you hadn’t watched them at all; was simply trying to use them as evidence. > What makes „some“ any different than a hundred or a million? How can you be certain of the intent if civilian casualties were/should h
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by borski 2y ago
Yes. It is the definition of discriminate. The only more discriminate attack would be individual in-person assassination. Everyone seems to want to find a reason to claim Israel is targeting civilians here, but they aren’t. This is surgical
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by borski 2y ago
Once again: watch any of the videos. The vast majority of them involve anyone standing around the operative walking away just fine. This was a targeted attack. Some civilians got hurt, but the intent was not to harm them, and that is the po
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by borski 2y ago
If I were a Hezbollah operative, I would be in a bomb shelter entirely naked for a few days… I'm not sure what electronics I'd be able to trust at this point.
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by borski 2y ago
A 30g explosive going off in a device that is owned by a militant? Yes, that is limited, by definition. Once again, people in that grocery store who were standing near the militant mostly walked away - you can see that on nearly every video
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by borski 2y ago
With enough time, effort, and money? Sure. But that would be many orders of magnitude more difficult that what they pulled off here, which was already very impressively difficult to pull off.
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by borski 2y ago
Toyota puts their engines in other cars all the time.
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by borski 2y ago
Yes. If North Korea or Russia pulled this off we would all be suitably impressed. This is an impressive feat, as targeted as it gets (you could have been standing right next to one of these and walked away, as shown in many of the videos on
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by borski 2y ago
(a) Disrupt Hezbollah’s communications network and take out operatives. (b) The pagers were specifically distributed to Hezbollah operatives, not civilians. It targeted, by definition, the owners of those pagers, supporting the military obj
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by borski 2y ago
It is targeted, by definition. Every pager was owned by a Hezbollah member or was about to be. Same with the walkies. That there was collateral damage is unfortunate, but Israel was definitely not indiscriminately targeting civilians, which
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by borski 2y ago
I grew up in NYC and definitely learned about Tulsa.
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by borski 2y ago
During wartime? Yes. Technically that would be a targeted attack, and if “somebody” were able to pull that off it would be an absolutely massive win for that “somebody.” I wouldn’t like it, but I certainly could not call that terrorism, as
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by borski 2y ago
I don’t disagree with that. When I did keto for about 10 months, I was very similar. The challenge with this was, of course, maintaining it - I’m an extrovert, and being social often meant being around people at dinner, drinking, etc. Even
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by borski 2y ago
That is fantastic that that was true for you. I, too, have tried many times to lose weight, and I hadn’t given up. The closest I got was losing 55 lbs, which worked great, until I dislocated my shoulder and had to have surgery, which meant
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by borski 2y ago
There is no scientific basis that genetics affects your predilection to obesity? Uh, I have about a dozen papers to show you, at least. There was a drug shortage because the media ran away with the story and the pharmaceuticals were unprepa
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by borski 2y ago
I completely agree that diet sodas aren’t good for you. But you have it right - between sugar and the alternative, I’d always pick the alternative. I like monkfruit, Swerve, allulose, and various others.
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by borski 2y ago
> Well I'd say it encourages poor nutrition by allowing people to continue to eat terrible food, while briefly suppressing their appetite for it by slowing down gastric emptying. While this isn't every case, people's nutri
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by borski 2y ago
> How is it a moral judgement to say that some folks don't put in the effort to control calorie input? The implication that anyone reading it walks away with is "... and it is because they don't care enough to try and&#x2F
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by borski 2y ago
Precisely. OTOH, I am glad that more and more are switching to sweeteners like Monkfruit rather than aspartame and the rest. (Yes, I know the jury is out on them being carcinogenic, blah blah, I don't care - I'm just glad that peo
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by borski 2y ago
They do not require zero effort, and the people taking them to not already want to give no effort. Please reserve your moral judgments. These drugs don't work without 'classical methods' such as caloric restriction. > Ther
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by borski 2y ago
There are other valid arguments. The one the parent mentioned is not a valid argument, and it was only in that sense that it was mentioned.
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by borski 2y ago
It's nice that that worked for you. Please clarify how "ozempic encourages poor nutrition" (it doesn't), and how it "entrenches body dysmorphia" (it doesn't). Specifically, doctors prescribing GLP-1 meds c
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by borski 2y ago
They work in tandem. These drugs to appear to have cardio-protective effects, but they also help you lose weight, which in turns helps you work out. Any doctor prescribing a GLP-1 med will prescribe it with a lifestyle change of working out

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