#politics #opinion

I'm probably too one-sided against Israel. So let me make a case for Israel.

Hezbollah has been firing rockets at it for almost a year. Those rockets are not guided and their targets are not certain, making them war crimes and "terrorism". They come from various places, mostly from valleys in the mountains, but also from residential areas. If Israel is held to the standard of "you cannot use war crimes or terrorism in response" that puts Israel at a distinct disadvantage and they just lose. Of course they aren't going to just sit there and take it. When they did air strikes on Southern Lebanon they hit many civilian residential targets which then experienced many subsequent explosions (indicating they hit a cache of weapons) or several rockets came flying out in spirals like a fireworks stand (again indicating that they hit a cache of weapons). You can find the videos. I can attest to seeing some of these on live-stream so they aren't AI generated.

Now I believe that Hezbollah's aims are noble, to pressure Israel to stop the genocide. But their methods include terrorism, war crimes, and intentionally placing military assets among cilivilan neighborhoods.

Just because one side is committing crimes doesn't mean the other side isn't.

Many innocent Lebanese are dying, as well as many innocent Israelis, and war is hell.

I predict it will get much worse, because Israel has just repeatedly escalated over and over without even IMHO a good reason to have done so, leaving their enemies little choice than to escalate and possibly even do a ground invasion of Israel or S Lebanon or both.

I hear there are 40,000 Hezbollah ground troops in the Syrian Golan Heights ready to invade.

I hear there are 40,000 US troops throughout the middle east, as well as new troops amassing at Cyprus and the 101st Airborne.

Russia has a naval base at Tartus (North of Beirut in Syria) a city that Israel attacked four days ago (I don't know what the target was). They have an S-500 here, the placement of which put an end to Israeli fighter jet activity in Syria (Russia said they would shoot them down). Russia should be able to shoot down Israeli fighter jets attacking Beirut, but they haven't done so and I don't believe they ever told Israel they would shoot down their planes in Lebanon, only in Syria.

There are lots of ways this could pay out.

Don Pepin Vegas Cubanas.

Notes of cedar, cocoa, and pepper.

Nice medium body cigar with Nicaraguan filler.

#cigarstr

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You seen the research on phosphorilated polimerisation of fibrin process initiated through breakdown of lipid nanoparticles? That really should be enough for people to question the entire mRNA platform technology by but I kind of understand people glazing over when one says that!

I got three Covid shots but today won’t get anymore. My daughter got 9 months of vaccines but today won’t get any more. I have changed my opinions on a number of issues in the last few years after reviewing a lot of evidence, and I am happy to discuss your opinions on anything to try to understand the world better.

But you made it clear you’re not interested in that. 🤷‍♂️

Its also complicated as tend not to want to listen to evidence based science which makes things even more confusing. Is what it is

Cue: Ironic by Alanis Morissette

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I feel the stressful stimulus of a cold plunge just by thinking about it. Not for me.

If you are not taking showers so steamy hot it low-key scares every cell in your body, you’re missing out on expanding your lifespan. That’s my kind of daily hormesis.

Think beyond sauna. It’s the boil plunge. ✨

#healthstr #jokestr

Can’t help but wonder where development here would be if the community here viewed cousin protocols like Bluesky as inspiration, not opposition.

Bluesky rolling out a great new feature should be motivation to find a way to nostrfy it, but it instead seems to be a guarantee that nostr will never have it. Feeds, gifs, self-moderation, and app passwords all come to mind.

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Im on the modern medicine train. Just annoyed I didn’t already get one this season because it could’ve prevented it. Definitely not into discussing peoples views on vaccines though