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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • No setup needed. Israel is an ally and a democracy, and the West isn’t going to let Iran gobble it up for any reason, let alone to be part of some delusional far-right pan-Islamist caliphate with ambitions of an actual genocide.

    This position has nearly unanimous support in the annals of government throughout the western world, and nearly unanimous, bipartisan support in DC. Many of the foreign-made bombs Israel is dropping right now were made in the 80’s and 90’s. They don’t drop the new shit. They drop the old shit. We’ve already armed them for the next twenty years. Again: ally, young democracy, surrounded by total nutters: no setup needed.







  • How are they going to smear a guy that pulled over to ask if I had everything I needed when he saw me changing my tire, checked again on his way back and handed me a cup of coffee with pastry?

    Later, he was my neighbor for a while. Came over when he saw me working on projects, let me borrow tools I didn’t have, and occasionally he’d borrow one of my tools. Such as a little trailer I had, and one tire had a slow leak, and when he brought it back he had replaced the valve stem and greased the wheel bearings, pumped up all four tires, and took it through the wash.

    None of this is true, but like you could try to talk shit about a guy like Walz, but to anyone that knows him, what kind of dude he is, you sound fucking dumb and weird.

    You know when like some new friend comes along and privately tries to talk shit to you about one of your old friends, not knowing that you’re old friends? That’s how it feels hearing any of these god damn super weirdos talk shit about a genuinely nice, honorable dude like Walz.


  • Man, the first link contains no information other than a link to the second link with some quotes from it. Not sure why you posted the first one if you were going to post the second link, since the first one is literally about Amnesty having posted the second one.

    The second link is based on a post hoc analysis of two cell phone videos, but doesn’t show them. Says they “appear consistent with white phosphorous.” Says nothing about any chemical tests being done. Shows photos of smoke screen weapons, probably containing small amounts of white phos, being airburst on trees. They quote a doctor who treated exactly three people for shortness of breath and pulmonary irritation, consistent with exposure to white phosphorous, or any smoke, dust, or seasonal allergens, even.

    Third link talks about photos showing airbused munitions being used as smoke screens. Same sort of innuendo and conjecture.

    Second and third links obviously begin with, at the very top, almost first thing on the page, solicitations for donations. Surely they benefit from the sensationalized half truths.

    In actuality, WP is perfectly legal and effective for smoke screens and signal flares, and while they loosely imply it, the articles contain no allegations, let alone evidence, in any of these links, that WP was used as an illegal incendiary weapon on people, which would be a war crime.

    The articles are all very careful to talk about how it was used as airburst, smoke screens and flares, and talk about how it could be used as incendiary, but none state that it was. This is the typical coverage of anything to do with Israel.

    How do you fall for it so easily?

    Should ban yourself for misinfo.

    Edit: oh, the first article does contain one piece of additional info:

    Dheira, a town of 2,000, has become a focal point for fighting. Just across the border from an Israeli radar tower, it has been used as a staging ground for Hezbollah’s attacks against Israel. At least 94 people have been killed on the Lebanese side of the border since tensions escalated, according to data released on Dec. 5 by the country’s Health Ministry — 82 have been militants, according to Hezbollah. In addition, at least 11 Israelis have been killed, most of them soldiers.

    Obviously Amnesty would never describe the circumstances for why there is fighting in the first place, so only named the town.









  • Secondly, our dogs lose their minds barking when my wife comes home from work

    What do you do when she comes home? What does she do when she comes in the door as far as greeting you and the dog?

    when we have expected company

    How do you greet your company? What do you do with the dog from the moment the bell rings?

    Practice with expected company. You and your family stay seated in the room and ask a friend knock on the door.say, “come in its open.” Stay seated, let your friend come in and take a seat. Everyone ignore the dog. If the dog is not calm throughout after one or two tries at this, I will eat my hat.

    when we come back from running errands,

    When you get home from errands, what is your dog’s experience? Is it a bunch of excitement and greetings? Lots of attention for the dog? Immediate play, petting, or food? Do you start arguing when you get in the door?

    when our neighbor comes home from work and slams his car door etc. etc. etc.

    Do you watch the neighbor come home and gripe about the loud noises? When you hear a loud noise outside, do you run to the window? Go outside to see what it is? Talk about it? Pay attention to it?

    Regardless of breed, your dogs are going to pay attention to what you pay attention to, and their emotions are going to mimic their human’s, with very little exception. If you hear noise and then look out the window, obviously your dog is going to get excited about that noise and want to look for it, too.