You seen people rolling Coal? Long distance flight, plastic and energy usage? Wide scale industrial farming?

An outdoor cat doesn’t even register by comparison.

Looked through history, they aren’t a bot.

Did you look, or just assume because you disagree?

Apparently that doesn’t matter.

Good on you for looking at facts that support you objectively.

Depends on your defined of terrorism, and what these actions are.

The usual one i see is to the effect of “non state actor using violence against a civilization population to further political objectives”. By that one:

• no, Israel is a state

• violence, yes.

• civilian population is a maybe, depending on your definition of Hezbollah actions and position. Are they civilians, combatants, terrorists themselves?

• further political objectives is likely, however I don’t see what the objective is. Kill people we don’t like is murder, not terrorism.

Of note, if its not a terrorist act it could very well be an act of war, invoking the right of self defense (Art 30???). If so, and civilian casualties weren’t minimized its leading towards war crime territory. I wouldn’t say it was - small explosive, on an object usually carried by the target, which was unlikely to be used by civilians.

Israel could use the same article to call this attack self defense against actions already taken. You can look at gulf War for the whole discussion around preemptive strikes for self defense.

Personally, I say no. Same way Chinese vessels “only” ramming and using waterguns on Philippine vessels isn’t terrorism.

Oh, im aware. Lots of stuff we thought was limited to American colonization, education that has since been whitewashed to make it sound not as bad as it was, and general comments that miss most of the story. Even at the high school level.

You are not responsible for the actions of your ancestors, regardless of how direct or indirect it was. The flip side is that I did not suffer that treatment, and therefore can no blame my life and actions on it. Very different viewpoint to a number of my iwi, who are still stuck in the take take take and I’m owed mindset. Screwing over the next generation with their excuses.

All good - I actually wish some of us would stop using the last 150 years as an excuse. Did we have to deal with alot of shit - absolutely, and a not 0 ammout is still ongoing. But FFS, the opportunities are there if you stop using it as an excuse to not do better.

Thats ok, us Maori spend our whole time hating normal kiwis, who then hate nazis. They just need to slot in and direct theirs in the right direction (/s).

I mean, what are they really going to do - deport us back home? Actually don’t answer that, they may try it.

Unlike their police force.

Or prison force

Or medical system

Or legal system

Or religious system.

By this point the American government killing its own citizens in its domestic and foreign policy isn’t even a blip on the radar anymore.

Id actually bring back the power to pirate.

The amount of effort that has gone into trying to extract every possible stream dollar makes me just wanna fuck the system. I am happy to pay to watch or play something, but pirating is the only way to get it without being ripped, “this is no longer available” or “buy this other platform and make an account”.

Steam and GoG got alot of my money because I could buy what I actually wanted. I would have happily paid for a soap2day app that allowed me to just select and watch stuff. The amount of 90s cartoons I could show the kids…

I know a few politicians who do that too.

If you’re a great friend you will add a set of maracas

You know it won’t

I recommend “squirrel” as a name

I have three of the one in the bottom right.

Great tongue game as a result but that’s about it.

I have (had- grew up) 3. They are cute - its a natural defense mechanism so we don’t throw them in the bin when they are up at 3am for the 22nd night in a row.

They are correct - placing a price floor on a supply demand relationship (like employee/employers) does create a dead weight loss and a move away from equilibrium.

But when you consider how much money places like this make, you know very well its not the costing jobs they care about.

Great, guess I know what I’m doing after my uni exam… and possibly before (let’s be honest).

Hang on, Troopers mod???

I would also argue we lived in a pre-9/11 world.

It us shocking how much the world changed in response for the sake of security and safety, and I know it’s a controversial take but the terrorists succeed in changing the world to their image.

While I get your understanding from my comment, I don’t know if I’d call it both-sideism as much as I would neither is innocent. Either was quite capable of taking steps to stop this before it happened.

If it wasn’t for the fact it had happened before in Ireland I would 100% say there is no way the differences could be reconciled to a permanent two-state solution - but clearly there must be a pathway to peace. Unfortunately I don’t hold much confidence in it actually happening and more will continue to suffer because of it.