I appreciate your forthrightness, and on many points we quite agree, notably noone’s keen to leave and that the current charged atmosphere around the war does chill honest representation of one’s ideals.

That said, while this particular war was the result of Hamas and their October 7 attack, I believe that if not them, some other group would “lead the charge” maybe it would have been more of a single flashpoint or a series of smaller skirmishes, but conflict was (and continues to be) inevitable under the circumstances that Palestinians and Israelis live in.

I want to inquire further on your take that Israeli buffer zones are the land theft so demonized by the anti-Zionists. We see the expansion of the buffer zone in Syria as a landgrab because any security buffer sufficient for defense against the Assad regime should be more than enough, especially when paired with Israeli strikes on weapons caches and bases in Syria. The more puzzling point, though, is the establishment of new settlements and growth of existing settlements in the West Bank even as recently as this week.

…and people who want to hide in the shadows, there’s no reason to do that when you’re buying a vacuum off me and want to come to my home to pick it up.

As a buyer of random trash, I really don’t want anyone to know more than they have to. The only identifying details about me should be “paid $13.65 for a set of glittery plastic tableware.” In whatever ledger you keep for those sort of things.

I got a promotional text message from a store I bought a single repair component from once in a state I never visited. It made me irrationally upset. I would not accuse you of such, but every action to verify someone’s “personhood” means that marketing types have that much more access to try to sell me junk.

Two patents exist for quarter-shooting pistols designed for shooting coins at toll booth baskets from 1965 and 1988. Source: wikipedia.

This is the world AnCap libertarians want.

I’d rather just the cutout. If I wanna subject people to buttholes, I can make them with frosting.

Sounds like you need to take your competence down a few ticks. Be more relaxed.

A 128 decibel rendition of the Emancipation Proclamation. Because some fuckers need reminding.

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I get the message and generally don’t care for prescriptive grammar, but for some reason this particular rule haunts me.

Let those votes be a lesson: camouflage your actual point behind a picture everyone loves and you will … win fake internet points?

I know precious few rules and when even those don’t matter, I know even less.

Yeah. Never managed to properly get the hand of punctuation.

This is to make sure they are not overwhelmed an hour later when the next wish restores their sight permanently.

So, based on Wikipedia, Cocola has ~15-20% stake in the company, but does not own them.

Which is to say that Coca Cola probably has the most say on anything that goes, but is not running the show.

Damn. Must have misread that as fixed-wing. Or even powered.

Transatlantic flights by Montgolfier ballon - travel in style for the next six weeks.

“A fitting and glorious end-”

Fitting, sure. I’d call it ignominious before glorious, though…

Do you make your cottage pies with minced beef?

For some reason I find the beef fat takes on an unpleasant flavor/texture when chilled and reheated. Maybe I’m doing it wrong.

Pizza is one of my favorite ledtovers, though. Cheese is good warm or cold.

Has she considered infodumping? I hear that’s a great hook. Might even be able to stay in the plane museum if that’s her interest.

Ah, sure. Alabama. You probably weren’t coming here anyway (even I don’t wanna be here), but I’m just learning things for the protracted lean times that are coming.

I recently learned blood is a decent egg substitute. But you don’t want to be using the tainted blood of the poor for this kind of thing. You’ll just get microplastics and lead and such in your food.

Glory to you, cat.