Honestly I’ve daily-driven Fedora, Mint, and Ubuntu and I can’t say I saw a fraction of the problems that you did.

I will say that I struggled with PopOS – despite claiming to be the most Nvidia and gaming friendly distro, it gave me endless trouble with the Nvidia graphics in my gaming laptop. Mint and Ubuntu, though, never had a whiff of trouble. I’m on Ubuntu now with no complaints.

Small steps are how engineering gets done. It’s a rare technology that proves its value overnight.

Bean chili is a perfectly legitimate chili. FIGHT ME!

I’d call it chili. Eggs cooked in the sauce is what makes it shakshuka.

For real, go to a library and ask a librarian for help.

They’ll have various books aimed at different levels of maturity and reading levels. Get a book, read it yourself, then ask him to read it and talk about what you learned.

Google Maps right now:

Absolutely.

I hate to say it, but the only solution to bullying (and it’s not much of a solution) is to escalate the issue to administrators and parents. Over and over and over again, until the administration realizes that allowing these kids to be near each other is exposing the school to risk.

Sounds like the friend is absolutely “negging” your sister, trying to convince her that she’s defective and can’t expect better treatment.

Of course, you can explain this dynamic to your sister – that her friend is trying to build herself up by convincing your sister that she’s terrible. But sadly many people subjected to such behavior internalize it and are unable to fight it.

No Muad Dib, it’s not like that!

Conservation of mass in chemical reactions still applies, though.

Thanks to Miracle-Gro™ lawn products.

MIT administrator dusts off their hands…

“Problem solved!”

An operation can be both an act of resistance and terrorism at the same time

I broadly agree, but the language of the original article is what I objected to:

It dismisses the costs of both sides for defending the settlements while fighting the Palestinian freedom fighters, that Israel calls terrorists.

That language clearly implies that the label “terrorist” is invalid.

EDIT: Just to clarify. We’ve seen this many times before.

The Muhajadeen who fought so hard to free Aghanistan from the Soviet Union had a just cause, and they were certainly resistance fighters. But they had no interest whatsoever in “freedom” for Afghanistan. They wanted to rule it.

That is the same accusation I am levying against Hamas. They are terrorists, and they are resistance fighters. But they are not freedom fighters. Their goal is to eject Israel and install an Islamist, anti-democratic state.

Admins, please answer this.

In the United States, the right to trial by jury is absolute. Once of the consequences of that right is that juries can choose to follow the law, or not, a they see fit to ethically administer justice. “Should a jury nullify if…” regarding hypothetical future crimes is a completely legitimate topic of conversation, to explore the ethical issues of nullification.

one is extreme due to being occupied with no one bringing justice to Palestinians

And Hamas is bringing no justice to Palestinians. Did Hamas invade and take Israelis captive to “bring justice to Palestinians”? Absolutely not, they perfectly well understood what Israel would do in return. That’s what they wanted. This is the conflict Israel was propping up Hamas for. Hamas’ job was to start the war, and they did.

Hamas is extreme and all the leaders should be held accountable once Palestinians are free. It doesn’t change the fact that Israel is an occupying force and are currently killing Palestinians

That is precisely what I meant by “they’re both wrong”.

It’s in the Hamas charter. The organization is literally founded on the ideal that killing all Jews is commanded by Islam:

… the Islamic Resistance Movement aspires to the realisation of Allah’s promise, no matter how long that should take. The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said: The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp

The Anc in south Africa was responsible of killing civilians

And how did that conflict end?

Did the ANC push all the white people into the sea?

It ended with truth and reconciliation. It ended with the ANC committed to peaceful transition.

I see zero indication that Hamas will lead Gaza in that direction. They are the polar opposite, becoming more militant and extreme over time, not less.

I mean… they’re both wrong.

Schocken said “the Netanyahu government doesn’t care about imposing a cruel apartheid regime on the Palestinian population. It dismisses the costs of both sides for defending the settlements

No lies detected.

while fighting the Palestinian freedom fighters, that Israel calls terrorists.”

If Schocken is referring to Hamas, then he’s out of his mind. Freedom is the last thing Hamas wants for Gaza or Palestine.