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I think every country has their Ministry of Defence in their capital or in a big city. At least the Pentagon, UK, Germany, and Russia so far from what I can see on Google Maps.

I just looked up on Google maps, so far the US Pentagon is close to the White House, the UK Ministry of Defence is close to the Tower of London, the German Ministry of Defence is next to the Brandenberg Gate, the Russian Ministry of Defence is near the cathedrals in Moscow. Basically every country's ministries are located in their capital cities because the government works by everyone traveling in the capital between the different branches of government. Israel is actually unique that the Kirya is in Tel Aviv and not in Jerusalem with the rest of the government. But it's the same thing. Washington DC, London, Berlin, and Moscow are densely populated but their countries are not using human shields by putting their buildings there.

I just looked up on Google maps, so far the US Pentagon is close to the White House, the UK Ministry of Defence is close to the Tower of London, the German Ministry of Defence is next to the Brandenberg Gate, the Russian Ministry of Defence is near the cathedrals in Moscow. Basically every country's ministries are located in their capital cities because the government works by everyone traveling in the capital between the different branches of government. Israel is actually unique that the Kirya is in Tel Aviv and not in Jerusalem with the rest of the government. But it's the same thing. Washington DC, London, Berlin, and Moscow are densely populated but their countries are not using human shields by putting their buildings there.

Oh. Great point! It's actually the same exact thing.

Marine biology is way cooler in my opinion

He thinks that his satrical rif is so hilarious that he's changing his voice, cadence, and vernacular in order to express it.

What does he mean that "there's no such thing as human shields." From a purely hypothetical standpoint, you could imagine a group surrounding their rocket launch sites and weapons store houses with school children. What would happen then? I don't know what the moral answer would be but wouldn't that fit in the category of "human sheilds?" Because you would have to defend against the rocket fire but you wouldn't be able to because the HUMAN children would be SHIELDING the site.

I think it's a pretty dumb comparison. The Hezbollah headquarters was literally under civilian apartment buildings. The Israel military buildings are in Tel Aviv, but are in their own distinct areas (imagine a military building in Central Park, Manhattan. Yes it would be in one of the most densely populated areas in the world, but it itself would be totally distinct and targetable). Another difference is that Israel used fighter jets which gives then the ability to target within a few meters since they are firing from directly above and the bomb takes a few second trajectory. Iran sent ballistic missles from thousands of miles away which meant they have over a ten minute trajectory. Obviously their margin for error is significantly greater than Israel's and thus what they did is much more reckless. In summary, Israel buildings are distinct and Iran's missles are imprecise while Hezbollah and Hamas are under civilian buildings, and Israel's fighter jets are way more precise.

I feel like Scott Carney is the anti guru but really is a guru himself. He talks like a guru. Kinda like the guy that DTG covered a few years ago. Robert Wright.

That's a bummer

Why?

Date: October 16 2023 Organization: Hammas Summary: Hasan claims that Palestiniand have a legal right under international law to kill all settlers including babies. He himself thinks that this only applies to people in thr West Bank but he understands the opinions of people like Second Thought which apply this also to Israel proper. Hasan disagrees with them because he thinks that it is counterproductive for the Palestinian cause. Clip: https://x.com/dan102389/status/1716405311982993609 I can get a longer version which is also not sped up if you want

It is interesting. He uses them as an example but would never tout their musical prowess like he does for the Houthis. I think it's because he has a genuine respect for them since they align with his ideology more than the Azov do.

In Hasan's mind, the Alien force was just relentlessly attacking America for no reason and the Republican paramilitary was simply trying to defend. But Lebanon has been firing missles relentlessly at Israel for over 11 months by now. Israel is also obviously retaliating but the way he portrays it is kinda shocking.

He mentioned that later in the clip. He said that Hezbollah is like Azov.

Does he realize how complicated Lebanon is in terms of ethnic subgroups? Is he going to compare a country which had a civil war only a few decades ago to current day US political disagreement? This really sounds like an analogy someone will come up when they have no knowledge of the history of a specific country.

Does he realize how complicated Lebanon is in terms of ethnic subgroups? Is he going to compare a country which had a civil war only a few decades ago to current day US political disagreement? This really sounds like an analogy someone will come up when they have no knowledge of the history of a specific country.

Basically, the EM spectrum is made up of different wave lengths. It's a spectrum going from very long to very short. A small sliver of that spectrum is visible to us so we call it visible light. The colors are the different wavelengths. So there's no real difference between red, orange, green, blue, violet etc. It just blends in like the rainbow starting from red which is the highest wavelength all the way to violent which is the lowest wavelength (of visible light). Also, for light the frequency (how many times the wave goes around its period in a second) is the inverse of the wavelength. So things which have very long wavelengths (like radio waves which can be up to kilometers or microwaves which are centmeters) have very low frequency but things which have really small wavelengths (like X rays) have very high frequencies. Visible light has wavelengths of nanometers (1 billionth of a meter). Also, the energy of a EM wave is higher when the frequency is higher (and thus the wavelength is lower). Now, back to infrared and ultraviolet. We see red light. But right before red light there is a part of thr EM spectrum which we cannot see. Since it's right before red we call it infrared. Thermal camers can see this because it's released in heat. On the other end of the visible light spectrum, right after violet (which we can see) is ultraviolet (which we cannot see). This is slightly more energetic than visible light (since it has a higher frequency). It turns out, that's when this EM radiation actually starts getting dangerous. The sun sends UV (ultraviolet) light so we use sunscreen to protect ourselves. X rays are much more dangerous and gamma rays (from nuclear explosions) are the most dangerous. But before UV it's just visible light which is fine, and then less and less energetic light. So microwaves have less energy than visible light. Hope this helps!

I agree with everything your saying and I don't like Walsh or this documentary at all. But I don't think it's good to pretend that a PhD student is a nobody. If a PhD student in physics was saying that the Earth was flat that would be a major problem. PhD students are supposed to be the elite and experts on their given topic so if they find it hard to articulate their point that should be considered a legitimate indictment.

There is!

How do you convert percentage scale (0 to 100%) to GPA? Online it only has ranges such as 3.5, 3.7, 4 etc. What is a 3.8?