Hegar

not going to be “neutral”

Apologies for the misunderstanding. Not neutral as not taking sides, neutral as in neutral tone. Calm, to the point and not full of anger and high emotion.

Moral outrage is a biological response to horror, but that warm feeling of righteous indignation does not help anyone. It makes anyone who might need to hear what you have to say instantly stop listening.

speculation that israeli police and hamas may have caught civilians in the crossfire

The releasee is quoted in the article linked as saying they were fired on by IDF helicopters after being taken hostage.

Obviously assigning motive is going to be speculation. Was the IDF deliberately killing hostages? Seems unlikely to me. Deliberately careless with the lives of hostages when trying to kill Palestinians? Based on the looser use of force rules we’ve seen from the IDF that seems perfectly possible.

how about we don’t shit on

shhhh come now. Don’t feed the internet outrage machine. Better to keep a neutral tone so you don’t shut down rational argument.

I mean we have definitely not been visited by aliens in spacecraft.

Sure, but when people say UFO they don’t mean an unidentified flying object, they just mean a UFO.

UFOs were a plot by the US government - but just to get the Russians to waste money researching something we knew was nonsense. Yet another cold war deception.

This current UAP nonsense is probably us seeing if China will buy the same ploy. Chuck Schumer does seem to be a UFO true believer though.

I’d sure like to know why our government has spent millions upon millions on these things if they don’t exist.

To get a near-peer adversary to spend even more money on nonsense.

UFOs definitely don’t exist. First time round we pretended otherwise to get the russians to waste time and money researching bunk.

This time round it’s directed at the Chinese.

Imagine how damning their behavior must be that they paid half a billion to cover it up. 10,000 people in the US could live comfortably for a year on this single hush money payment.

Who is he and what did he look like before his face melted?

Let’s just let the heroin traffickers keep their profits. After all, they are white.

Thousands of dead school children agree!

At the sick bed of Cuchulainn we’ll kneel and say a prayer
And the ghosts are rattling at the door and the devil’s in the chair

China has plenty of earnest nationalists who are as stupid and easily roused by nonsense as nationalists here in the US. The party doesn’t need to stoke this. Also, that’s not how social credit or disappearances work.

People are taking this as a dig on China, but it’s a tale of how fragile nationalists are the world over. This is a level of dumb on par with freedom fries.

Pine pellet for horse stalls is definitely the correct answer. It’s the most effective, easiest litter AND it’s monstrously cheaper.

I’ve tried maybe 5 or 6 different litters, nothing absorbs as much smell as pine pellets. You can ignore it for a couple of days without issue. It doesn’t track or clump. You don’t have to scoop pee, although you should give it a quick stir or sift daily. That’s easy enough to do when you scoop any poop.

Agreed!

We stopped using pretty litter because it didn’t absorb as much smell as pine chips, smells bad itself, tracked everywhere, and the pH changing thing sounds cool but just wasn’t necessary. It’s also needlessly expensive.

The crows loved their cat food though.

People are going to make fun of the conqueror of Anshan, King of Kish, Ruler of Sumer and Akkad? That seems unlikely to me.

I’m very partial to early bronze age names.

Epirmupi

Manishtushu

Tiglath

Inshushinak

Labarna

Naramsin

If you look at the Sumerian or Elamite king lists, you really can’t go wrong.

A conversation between those three people sounds like the theoretical limit of dull.

I tend to think the permission structure part is more important. Not everyone who is swayed into this nonsense already thinks that women are less than them, but they can see what believes that allows them to do.