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  • As another comment noted. If Hamas had more firepower they would use more firepower.

    They are not morally Superior to Israel.

    Hamas started a conflict with an obviously more powerful military. They knew there would be consequences but they still chose violence over diplomacy. Obviously diplomacy in the middle east is terrible but I would never think that attacking civilians is a viable alternative to diplomacy.


  • The history of Palestine is super messy. All sides have committed terrible acts to the other, coming back hundreds of years. Each side can always look at recent history and claim X has provoked Y or Y has caused a disaster on X.

    You can claim this was a provoked attack. I for once can hardly justify an attack on civilians. You can argue, Israel has done worse in the past, and while each side is biased, perhaps you’d be right.

    My point is. This is an endless discussion

    Both sides are bad. IMO the best outcome at the moment is to stop the conflict as soon as possible


  • Man what a terrible choice of words.

    By your standards I could provide a counter argument like: Has any Israeli launched an unprovoked attack on Palestinians and kidnapped 300 of them?

    And then I sit on my biased moral throne and feel the meaningless superiority of my argument

    Reality is not black and white. Both sides are bad

    Hamas launched a horrible slaughter of civilians. they knew it would have consequences. The IDF would obviously retaliate but they are using too much force and causing extreme suffering

    This war should stop as soon as possible. There is nothing to gain in prolonging this conflict



  • Archeology does not build infrastructure to make people’s lives easier but neither does any form of entertainment like Cinema, Music, Theater, Museums and others.

    Medicine law and engineering are wonderful jobs, and necessary to live. But Art, History, Philosophy and Music are things we live for

    It’s fine if you’re not a fan of it, but it’s quite childish to think certain things are of less value because you personally don’t like it.




  • That’s the point though. It doesn’t matter when time travel is invented, only if it can be invented.

    If time travel is possible even 10 000 years in the future someone would almost certainly show up at Hawking’s party since they have a time machine.

    The fact that no one showed up it’s a reasonable argument that time travel is impossible


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    2 months ago

    This kind of sad romantization of physical phenomena is weird to me.

    I think romanticizing physical phenomena can be a really great tool to create a narrative and get people interested in the subject, or can just be a cool talking point about physics.

    This example is pointless and kinda sad

    If a photon from the sun misses the earth it will likely travel for billions of years into the void, most of them probably absorbed by random space dust. So hitting earth or hitting a human could be considered cool depending how you sell the narrative.

    It’s possible to tell many different narratives. I just dislike the sad ones. There are many more cool ones




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    2 months ago

    Sure, physicists can just keep track of about 5% of the universe’s mass. That’s their whole job, and they just got 5%!? Are they stupid??

    Who are you to complain Brenda?! The only thing you keep track of is the amount of Oreos you have in the pantry

    5% of the universe is still several trillions of tons of mass! Although I suppose a good part of that is your fat ass!




  • It’s just a media game

    Every time Russia says “there will be consequences” they’re just throwing threats around like a dog barking from the other side of a fence

    All their cards are on the table. The only things they could pull off are drafting more people or going nuclear

    They’re now scrambling to find soldiers from other nations because announcing another draft would obviously shake Putin’s control over Russia

    I just wish Europe would stop playing this war like a political game. SEIZE RUSSIAN MONEY! What are you afraid of? Ruining relations with Russia? Fuck off! Ukraine won’t have people to fight forever