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I mostly agree, except for the blatant calls for genocide from the Israeli side, and the blatant calls for genocide from the Palestinian side. I honestly don't know who to support …

While I appreciate your candor, words matter. I wouldn't call Israel an apartheid state if, in fact, it was two different countries warring to the death over not enough land. I thi…

While I actually have sympathy for people on both sides of the struggle, I also find it hard to answer "yes" to both questions, mostly because of how muddied the definitions of eve…

Uh, probably it would have been a place to be avoided for a non-Arab

I don't disagree with you, but I think it's hard to convince the Israel government, since the last time Israel withdrew from Gaza (in 2005), a terrorist organization was elected an…

First, 60-70% of Israeli Jews are of Arabic descent, not European. Second, while it's possible to complain about the circumstances of the creation of Israel, I'm not sure that doin…

Currently, housing availability is not a factor in immigration policy. Canada allowed over 1.2 million new residents last year. There were approximately 200k new houses built in th…

Canada is in the top end of the OECD when it comes to building housing. The problem is that the rate of new house construction has been severely outpaced by population growth. Cana…

As a supplement to this excellent breakdown of laser cutting, can I recommend the Guerrilla Guide to CNC [0]. To this day, it's the best reference I've ever read on small volume fa…

Spoiler: If the first person did not want to eat, he would have answered "No, we are not ready". Him not being ready is enough to negate the whole thing. He doesn't know if the bot…

Aviation in general is very safe. However, there is clearly something wrong in Boeing's design and manufacturing process that's persisted for many years. I would not feel comfortab…

There are crazy over-engineered solutions with strict requirements and insane dependency management with terrible trade-offs and compromises. I've worked in the aerospace field bef…

> They are also less productive when coding than the scientists because they care too much about the quality of their work and not enough about getting shit done. You can't solve t…

Believe it or not, you're argument strongly resonated with me. However: >It makes me wonder: is the topic so toxic that no conversation can happen at all? I believe that the topic …

It's not that I don't have an opinion (or even a strong one!) on this subject. The point is that everyone (and their mother) has a strong opinion, not only on the absolute morality…

I (and many other users of this forum) have expectations on the minimum quality of discourse. Moreover, I am happy this forum exists with its quality of discussion. I am interested…

I'll let your comment speak for itself. We did give lots of aid to Ukraine and we somehow were able to have discussions about whether we should continue to do so, in a relatively c…

In my experience, the "benefit of the doubt" has been lost in relation to this subject. I no longer believe it is possible to have any thread about this remain civil. It's tragic a…

You're also absolutely right - I hadn't considered that point of view, and that we also shouldn't be "de facto" censoring subjects. I implore the community here to not ruin the gen…

I'm not sure the Canadian government ever pretended to 'fight for the people'. 'Rights' in Canada are completely different to what most consider a right and mean something very dif…

I honestly don't think this subject should be on here. I don't think it's possible for a coherent or respectful or even useful conversation to happen here. I haven't seen any conve…

NTSB may want to consider regulating the size of new trucks and SUVs, which are disproportionately causing deaths and damage, instead of inventing new problems for themselves.

I don't understand why offering parents more choices in how their children are taught could be a bad thing. Maybe the public school system is failing its students. However, it alwa…

As a side note, as of today Firefox has something like 2.79% of the browser market, coming in fifth , behind Opera, Edge, Safari and (of course) Chrome. Firefox only comes slightly…

I don't disagree, but now imagine Quebec having deals with (for example) France and Switzerland and Ontario only having agreements with Italy and Spain (but only for medical licens…