Jace, Extat

So are you saying that the variance in persons amounts simply to differences in training data? Or are the differences in the platforms?

Z, you're one of my favorites. ... Must... resist... glibness!

I read this as being straight backwards. Ten additional years of terror attacks leads to decreased belief in peace... that makes perfect sense to me.

Maybe, but I think the Tom Cruise movie will prove prescient if this is the case. It'd be a strike on their nuclear development facilities, which means home soil. Iran can't roll over and keep playing proxies if that happens, not and keep their status as a regional power. Interesting times.

I'd pay a pretty penny to have the Iranian versions of all the news alerts I'm getting about Houthi attacks at sea on U.S. assets and civillian shipping. I'm sure the state department is all over it but I worry that current leadership is doing nothing as we slide into more conflicts. And what's worse, the potential alternative leadership we might get is fucking insane and shouldn't be in charge of a bake sale, let alone a possible east european war, a west-asian war, and an east-asian war all at the same time.

That's dope! Was your great-grandpa a supporter from his days as governor? '33 is pretty early.

Watching season 4 of the Harley Quinn show. God, it's hilarious. And Talia al Ghul is perrrrrrfect!

The Bengals have played well but that punt is probably about it for this one. Shouldda taken that 3.

Oh I wasn't complaining. Drill sergeants are the very best Americans. I wish I could have one of those nutcases pop into my house once a week and scream me into productivity.

How did I miss this?? Anyway, slight digression. All drill sergeants like dogs because they are, to a man and woman, insane control freaks who can only get off when some other creature's will has been turned against itself. It just makes them happy.

What a horrible thing to say about another human being. What's he ever done to you?

I tell ya, this Browning character ain't no quarterback. Kid's a Football Player!

Lamar is so fucking handsome!

If there can be peace between Tyrael and Kalestine then anything is possible.

INSOMNIA

Woo hoo! You tell 'em Wolfie. Go Lions.

Well, shit. Y'know? The west is in desperate need of dynamic leadership that can actually work diplomacy towards responsible outcomes. The leaders we have now make Chamberlain look like a bulwark of democracy. It's a real fucking problem. But this has to be resolved with U.N. powers putting their money and troops where their mouths are once Hamas is defeated. And Israel has to let them in. Israel's current government is doomed, new policies can be encouraged with new leadership. Hopefully after the war constructive heads can prevail.

It seems to me that there are only two likely outcomes. Your best case is that the Israeli government and some coalition of U.N.-led allies participate in a reconstruction of Gaza and support of a responsible government therein. Think Berlin in 1946, with different governments taking responsibility for different projects and management. This is your path towards something that maybe could be long term peace.

I've never killed anybody, nor particularly wanted to. I became a medic specifically because I wanted to save lives, not end them.

Nothing was done for Palestinians on Oct. 7th except provocation of war and tragedy. They cheered not m for freedom, but for dead jews.

Not in my HoI4 campaigns it's not! The Rome of the East will rise again!

War means destroying the enemy's capacity to coordinate and maintain combatants in the field. That is what Israel wants to do, and they only wanted it after Hamas attacked first. There has been a popular drift of the word "indiscriminate" by many in these threads. Indiscriminate is what the allies did in WW2. Dropping bombs by the thousands from high altitude and not caring what they hit. These kinds of attacks produced casualties as high as 120,000 or 180,000 in a single day, in Germany and Japan. It's just incorrect to lay that charge on Israel in Gaza. I'm no legal expert, so I'll leave it to the U.N. to bark up that tree as soon as they're done rescuing a cat that's up a different tree. As for immorality, well. Agree to disagree, I suppose.

What would you have them do? It is a war. Hamas is responsible for starting the war, for using aid money to build infrastructure and weapons of terror and abusing their own people. Hamas has to go, just like the Nazis had to go. Your repeated assertions that there will be nothing but more terror in the future is speculative. There is terror and war now.

You're dancing around Oct. 7th, acting like the Israelis are responding to rhetoric instead of deadly and deliberate attack. C'mon, now! "Wants to do to Israelis." Come on...

You should never feel bad for enjoying family and the good things in your life. If it makes you happy to step back from the bustle and buzz of ongoing events that's something to appreciate, not be guilty over. Just my opinion.