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2 minutes ago, Ominous said:

At least it didn't nose dive into the Ocean I guess....

They were fortunate it happened at 16,000 feet, otherwise at cruising altitude it would have probably disintegrated. 

The part that blew off was a side paneling that covers an optional emergency exit. If the plane has a seating arrangement that can sit over a certain number of passengers, then an emergency exit door is installed at that spot. Otherwise they don’t need the exit and it’s covered with a panel. The 737-900ER has the same type of exit, and that plane was released in the late 2000s.

Still not enough to convict him or keep him from running - Roberts

2 hours ago, Remarkableriots said:

Couldn't they put some sound dampening material under the road? Maybe some sound walls to direct the noise up?

There are noise canceling walls that are really good at stopping noise, but you pretty much create a wind tunnel on the highway and it would be an even bigger eyesore. Noise walls are more common on ground level freeways that have more land between the highway and the neighborhoods, not on an elevated freeway tight in a neighborhood. 

A New Orleans neighborhood confronts the racist legacy of a toxic stretch of highway

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There's a new federal fund to address highways that cut through minority and low-income neighborhoods, like New Orleans' Claiborne Expressway. But should the noisy highway be...

The question is how much can you tear down without significantly affecting traffic flow. And racist traffic planning is still happening today, such as with I-49 going through Shreveport, LA. 

3 minutes ago, Ominous said:

They looked like civilians? 

Israel’s military is primarily concerned with bombing and shooting civilians, so no surprised they shot at and killed three hostages who looked like civilians. 

6 minutes ago, TUFKAK said:

Fourth Anniversary of the Global Coalition’s Territorial Defeat of Daesh/ISIS in Syria and Iraq - United States Department of State

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Fourth Anniversary of the Global Coalition’s Territorial Defeat of Daesh/ISIS in Syria and Iraq Four years ago, the Global Coalition to Defeat Daesh/ISIS and its local...

 

Did all that without destroying 90% of the area, bombing hospitals, schools and mosques indiscriminately and killing 10,000+ people while calling them all Hamas supporters. 
 

Hamas (or its followers and allies) will emerge stronger from this all thanks to a spineless, dickwad politician trying to save his grip on power. 

7 minutes ago, TUFKAK said:

Hamas needs to be destroyed and any American who would pull support from Biden to trump over that stance will absolutely love president trump v 2.0, the revenge. 

Love how you think bombs will destroy Hamas. It’s the same exact thinking we had after 9/11 and that really served us well!

8 minutes ago, UpvoteShittyTakesOnly said:

Osama bin Laden’s ‘Letter to America’ Goes Viral 21 Years Later — on TikTok

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Osama bin Laden's 'Letter to America,' published a year after 9/11, found a new fandom on TikTok and got removed from The Guardian's website.

people on tiktok agreeing with a bin laden doc in which he explicitly hates on gays and jews was not amongst the things i expected to see today

 

you really dont have to hand it to the guy for saying some true things in an otherwise hate filled justification of mass murder

A lot of people on the far right would agree with most of the shit he said. 

Nothing would please me more than to see Stephen Miller’s head under the guillotine (metaphorically of course)

16 minutes ago, Spork3245 said:

My chud-filled township just voted in a Dem for Mayor and BOTH Dems that were on the ticket for Township Council, all by high margins. I legitimately cannot remember the last time a Democrat won in my town, let alone winning everything on the ballot.

Town elections are different from a presidental election decided by electorates. South Carolina hasn’t voted for a democrat since Carter, and this state is full of MAGA chuds

I’m voting third party as well, but it doesn’t matter either way since I live in a deep red state.

Can we fund the government for more than 90 days? Yearly or bi-yearly budgets?

9 minutes ago, TUFKAK said:

Then they have effectively made non combatants targets and can never cry about the response. Reap and sow after all.

And using the same logic, Hamas gunning down people in a music festival is justified because of Israel bombing apartment buildings in Gaza. 
 

This whole logic is completely and utter bullshit, and understanding this is the first step in breaking out of this cycle of violence. 

3 minutes ago, ort said:

In the minds of Palestinians, Israel started the fight. So their disproportional attack is just as justified.

 

This isn't my belief, I'm just pointing out that the same logic can be applied in either direction.

And this contributes to the problem. Israel bombs Gaza and kills someone’s family. That person joins Hamas and massacres citizens which causes Israel to bomb more civilians. It doesn’t matter who started it, because the cycle of violence keeps going regardless. 
 

I remember playing a Flash game some time after the US invasion of Afghanistan where you had to shoot missiles at terrorists in a crowd of civilians. For every civilian you kill, three more turn into terrorists so the game ended up being impossible to kill. 
 

Trying to take out Hamas with overwhelming force won’t work for Israel. After 20 years of war in Afghanistan, the Taliban are still in control. 

4 minutes ago, SuperSpreader said:

 

Have you seen the police thread?

Of course I have. Doesn’t justify what they do. 

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Using this example, you shoot at me from your brothers house, I shot back with a higher caliber weapon and it hits your family who was in the house with you.

Me shooting you justifies you choosing the action that kills innocent women and children?

If a mass shooter runs and hides into a house with people, then why do the police not blow the house up with a tank?

12 minutes ago, TUFKAK said:

lol.  I fucking hate the "disproportionate response argument." It's so fucking stupid. Someone breaks into my house with a knife and goes after my fiancé I have to grab my gladius and not my assault rifle cause proportionate response herp-derp.

Except this isn’t only what happened here. Someone broke into your house, you shot them dead and then you shot a missile toward their house to kill their brother, who planned this with them, and their wife and children who had nothing to do with it. 

1 hour ago, TUFKAK said:

I’ll trust American intel over the Times.

American intel said there were WMDs in Iraq. If there is intel on what really caused the explosion, then we might not know for certain for quite a while. 

A Close Look at Some Key Evidence in the Gaza Hospital Blast - The New York Times

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A widely cited missile video does not shed light on what happened, a Times analysis concludes.

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The footage has become a widely cited piece of evidence as Israeli and American officials have made the case that an errant Palestinian rocket malfunctioned in the sky, fell to the ground and caused a deadly explosion at Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City.

 

But a detailed visual analysis by The New York Times concludes that the video clip — taken from an Al Jazeera television camera livestreaming on the night of Oct. 17 — shows something else. The missile seen in the video is most likely not what caused the explosion at the hospital. It actually detonated in the sky roughly two miles away, The Times found, and is an unrelated aspect of the fighting that unfolded over the Israeli-Gaza border that night.

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The Times’s finding does not answer what actually did cause the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital blast, or who is responsible. The contention by Israeli and American intelligence agencies that a failed Palestinian rocket launch is to blame remains plausible. But the Times analysis does cast doubt on one of the most-publicized pieces of evidence that Israeli officials have used to make their case and complicates the straightforward narrative they have put forth.

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Moreover, the crater left from the impact was relatively small, a fact that Israel has cited in arguing that none of its munitions caused the blast, and could be consistent with a number of different munitions. Hamas has not produced a remnant of an Israeli munition or any physical evidence to back up its claim that Israel is responsible

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Meanwhile, Israeli officials have pointed to the Al-Jazeera video in media interviews and social media.

 

The Al Jazeera video footage was shared three times by the Israel Defense Forces on X, formerly known as Twitter. In the posts, the Israeli military identified the moving aerial object as a “rocket aimed at Israel” that “misfired and exploded” at nearly the same time as the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital blast. Spokesmen for the

 

Israeli military also explicitly identified this munition as the misfired rocket that caused the explosion in interviews with CNN and the BBC on Oct. 18 and in an interview with India Today on Oct. 19.

 

Numerous media outlets have shown the video footage and several have cited it as evidence that a Palestinian rocket hit the hospital.

But The Times concluded that the missile in the video was never near the hospital. It was launched from Israel, not Gaza, and appears to have exploded above the Israeli-Gaza border, at least two miles away from the hospital.

 

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To trace the object in the sky back to Israeli territory, The Times synchronized the Al Jazeera footage with five other videos filmed at the same time, including footage from an Israeli television station, Channel 12, and a CCTV camera in Tel Aviv. These different videos provided a view of the missile from north, south, east and west. Using satellite imagery to triangulate the launch point in those videos, The Times determined that the projectile was fired toward Gaza from near the Israeli town of Nahal Oz shortly before the deadly hospital blast. The findings match the conclusion reached by some online researchers.

 

In addition, the videos show that the projectile in the Al Jazeera footage was launched after the barrage of Palestinian rockets Israeli officials assessed was responsible for the hospital explosion.

 

From 6:59 p.m. on Oct. 17, barrages of Palestinian rockets are fired from two positions southwest and northwest of the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital, the videos show. Flames from the Palestinian rockets are visible in the nighttime sky as their engines propel them northeast toward Israel. More than 25 seconds elapse between the final Palestinian rocket and the hospital explosion.

 

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The Times cannot independently identify the type of projectile that was fired from Israel, though it was launched from an area known to have an Iron Dome defense system. The Israeli military says it doesn’t fire Iron Dome interceptors into Gaza, and indeed the missile seen in the video may not have crossed over into Gazan territory. The Israeli military has stated that the Iron Dome did not shoot any interceptors in the questioned time and area.

2 minutes ago, Massdriver said:

I condemn the Saudi lead air strikes in Yemen that have killed and injured thousands of innocent people. 

Funny he’s talking openly about Saudi Arabia crying over the crimes of Israel when they were this close to establishing relations with Israel

28 minutes ago, TUFKAK said:

I mean yeah

 

But what next 

Hopefully your people in Israel can take Netanyanu and kick his ass out the door and the next administration can take a different approach and work with the PA on an approach for peace and prosperity for everyone in the West Bank, Jerusalem and Gaza. It needs to start in the West Bank and they need to pull back the settlers and IDF troops who routinely abuse the Palestinian residents there. 

What happens if this fail? Will they keep trying to push that or vote for another speaker? And can they really not vote on any legislation if they don’t have a speaker?

12 hours ago, skillzdadirecta said:

Dude it's ridiculous... I LOATHE going to the Rite Aid across the street from me because they NEVER have enough people manning the store and it always takes me 15 to 20 minutes getting in and out of there regardless of what I'm doing there. It's ALWAYS a wait. Meanwhile the small mom and pop pharmacy in the same building as my doctor's office is a breeze in and out.

Those pharmacies typically fill less than the chains. They fill roughly 200-400 prescriptions. CVS, on the other hand, usually processes around 800-1200 prescriptions in a 10-12 hour day.