Okay, thanks for the information. That’s…obviously dumb as fuck and simply adds to Israel’s crimes. Didn’t Nestle try to pull some similar shit somewhere?

I agree the context makes the entire existence of a siege unusual here, I’m just pointing out that water and food deprivation have been used as tools of war for forever. The language used in the article—the “weaponization of water”—is meant to put a shiny new coat of paint on something ancient and make people think this is some new diabolical tactic Israel has invented on its own and that no one prior to them was barbaric enough to think of it. That’s what’s garbage journalism here.

Again, not defending Israel, just trying to point out sensationalist manipulative tactics on the part of this media outlet.

Source? It doesn’t say anything like that in the article. It mentions that 30% of Gaza’s water is purchased from Israel, but that’s hardly claiming that “all rainwater” belongs to Israel.

Not trying to defend Israel’s actions here, but let’s keep claims fact-based.

Christ, these headlines. What Israel is doing is abominable, but it’s nothing new. These are siege tactics and they’re practically as old as war itself.

Nah, if it was communist propaganda, it would mean that you get no material reward compared to anyone else, but could count on the teacher to pass on a good word for you with the principal, who then might mention your name positively at an education board meeting, who then might mention you to the mayor, the governor, etc, and now you have a real shot of becoming dictator of the single-party government that rules your country.

Value not consumer prizes and instead seek nepotistic alliances, for through them will the material comforts flow. —Mao, probably.

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I feel like the meme also works if you put the red box around “Gay. Depressed.” instead.

…No, no—I’ll see myself out.

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He talks about joy, but you can tell how bitter he is from his writing. Few people do this as well as Catholics, in my experience.

Much better headline than a previous article from yesterday stating he was sentenced to “life in prison.”

It’s pretty simple: the bugs weren’t gay.

Then they’d be wrong. It objectively isn’t worth it.

Not everyone can do it, because the necessary muscles (auricular muscles) are considered vestigial at this point, meaning not everyone has them or doesn’t have large enough ones to wiggle their ears. In other words, evolution is slowly deleting them from our bodies as a species, with some of us being “further along” than others.

Yes, because its calculation relies on the local speed of sound, which is varies based on several factors, including altitude.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_number

I mean, it can still be whatever you want it to be even if it’s dirty…it’s just also gross.

In the paragraph the HBS draws attention to, Gessen wrote that “ghetto” would be “the more appropriate term” to describe Gaza, but the word “would have drawn fire for comparing the predicament of besieged Gazans to that of ghettoized Jews. It also would have given us the language to describe what is happening in Gaza now. The ghetto is being liquidated.”

Not taking sides here, but it does seem to me like Gessen’s phrasing was deliberately provocative towards those who might be offended by their comparison. I’m left thinking, “I mean, if you kick a beehive, don’t be surprised if you get stung.”

Agreed, but it’s not really like you’re any different, is it?

In a lot of vampire fiction, it’s the faith of the cross-holder that matters. I’d like to see a movie where a vampire is turned by a person holding up a teapot.

I really hope he lives so they can properly execute him.

Refreshing to see an article focusing on the suffering of boys and men in these sorts of wartime atrocities. Normally, articles focus on how women are raped and/or sold into sex slavery, while not at all or merely as a footnote mentioning that boys and men are systematically killed or forced to serve the attacking militia as cannon fodder.