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  • Third person omniscient…got any favorite examples, either novels or short stories?* - By forn May 1, 2024 at 09:16:11 AM
  • Tale of Two Cities, Old Man & The Sea * - By Spirit May 1, 2024 at 10:17:53 AM
  • London Fields by Martin Amis, one of my all-time favorites of any genre.* - By GoBrew May 1, 2024 at 09:28:06 AM
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray by Wilde, Stardust by Gaiman, The Name of the Wind by Rothfuss are a few of my favorites* - By Babycakes May 1, 2024 at 09:26:21 AM
  • Man I wish Rothfuss would get it together and give us another book* - By Mabee May 1, 2024 at 10:19:30 AM
  • On3 launches On3 HER for women's sports. the head of the vertical will be crumbs favorite Talia Goodman * - By Nikos May 1, 2024 at 09:15:05 AM
  • Love her.* - By crumbs May 1, 2024 at 09:30:14 AM
  • What an insane coincidence that she shares a last name with Jeff Goodman. (nm) - By suede May 1, 2024 at 09:16:50 AM
  • Well, looks like we solved the Middle East. Back to the diss tracks, I guess (nm) - By danny May 1, 2024 at 09:15:04 AM
  • You ever write any diss tracks, danny?* - By Blue Man May 1, 2024 at 09:28:06 AM
  • Starbucks Posts First Sales Drop 14% - since roll out of Pumpkin Spice in 2020 - By Ed May 1, 2024 at 08:52:07 AM
  • Bill Grueskin: Mayor says the Hamilton Hall takeover was "led by individuals not affiliated with the university ... external actors hijacking peaceful protest, influencing students."* - By crumbs May 1, 2024 at 08:48:38 AM
  • BTW, Santa (and the presidents of Yale and UCLA) are gonna have to testify in Congress in 3 weeks - By danny May 1, 2024 at 08:48:33 AM
  • About Day's PI firm probably* - By ChiWalker May 1, 2024 at 09:21:15 AM
  • ??? * - By Nikos May 1, 2024 at 08:50:49 AM
  • About how they are handling the protests, anti-Semitism, etc. - By danny May 1, 2024 at 08:54:31 AM
  • Santa knows we're all God's children. * - By JohnH May 1, 2024 at 09:04:46 AM
  • Columbia admin handled the protests very poorly* - By Harbaughdyssey May 1, 2024 at 09:04:07 AM
  • Tough spot. Private university. A lot of non-students, making some of the legit students feel threatened. - By WindsorBlue May 1, 2024 at 09:32:28 AM
  • Everyone should read the letter from the President of the U of C. I am proud to be a Maroon.* - By crumbs May 1, 2024 at 09:31:04 AM
  • (deleted ineffective joke about uchicago being nerdy) (nm) - By suede May 1, 2024 at 09:52:58 AM
  • Who is gonna coach special teams? - By danny May 1, 2024 at 08:39:05 AM
  • Thaw* - By ajs May 1, 2024 at 08:58:26 AM
  • I don't trust him after the big melt down.* - By jjwalker May 1, 2024 at 10:40:34 AM
  • We had a special teams coach in the Rose Bowl. Didn't do us much good. Maybe it'd be better to not have one. - By Blue Man May 1, 2024 at 08:54:24 AM
  • JB Breezy * - By Nikos May 1, 2024 at 08:44:42 AM
  • Breezy of House Brown I hope (nm) - By suede May 1, 2024 at 08:42:10 AM
  • Fuck it. I'll do it. How hard can it be?* - By apblue May 1, 2024 at 08:40:15 AM
  • This isn’t hard - Hamas are horrific terrorists, and Israel is engaged in an immoral war of disproportionate retribution. ** - By Ian May 1, 2024 at 08:30:19 AM
  • You can’t call it disproportionate unless you know the specific target…..the higher the value of the target, the higher are the allowable civilian deaths…it’s aa horrible calculation to make but war requires horrible choice……that’s why one should not initiate a war. - By the wino May 1, 2024 at 10:40:20 AM
  • To say nothing about using civilians for protection and not allowing civilians to use the tunnels for protection - By the wino May 1, 2024 at 10:46:39 AM
  • I cited the Geneva Convention's definition of a disproportionate attack above. I stand by my statement. ** - By Ian May 1, 2024 at 10:43:49 AM
  • Then You need to read that in its entirety again…simply it is the amounts of civilian casualties versus the military advantage….the latter you do not know* - By the wino May 1, 2024 at 10:49:14 AM
  • What is the military advantage here? I would argue that the premise of the entire operation - eliminating Hamas - is impossible and flawed. ... - By Ian May 1, 2024 at 11:12:59 AM
  • Killing Sinwar or a comparable leader or finding a large cache of rockets of the kind fired at Israel * - By the wino May 1, 2024 at 11:21:46 AM
  • And there are no ways to achieve those ends short of 30,000+ civilian casualties? The ICC likely won't see it that way. ** - By Ian May 1, 2024 at 11:28:19 AM
  • Oh please tell us Sun Tzu * - By the wino May 1, 2024 at 11:53:41 AM
  • Is Haniyeh in Gaza? Or is he chilling poolside at the Doha Four Seasons? (nm) - By suede May 1, 2024 at 11:27:26 AM
  • Correct. Sadly, Israel has become a religious ideological state. Not much different than Hamas or Iran.* - By chinaBlue May 1, 2024 at 10:10:24 AM
  • Fighting a war to be "proportionate" is a good way to lose. Once a war starts, you fight to win. Pick up the pieces after. That's just how it works** - By xcheck May 1, 2024 at 09:59:10 AM
  • What did Hamas expect to happen when attacking Israel with Netanyahu in charge that he would fly paper airplanes at them?* - By detroitbry May 1, 2024 at 09:12:23 AM
  • They probably expected more support from Iran. They were hoping for more regions chaos. And also to strain gulf arab Israeli relations* - By wf May 1, 2024 at 09:33:13 AM
  • i don't think there's any grand strategy. they planned for one opportunity and they took it. and maybe an outside chance they believed (and wanted) Israel to go nuts retaliating* - By 6p May 1, 2024 at 09:44:00 AM
  • The response is the point, imho. They want to drive the international narrative. That's why they don't protect their citizens, who are essentially hostages.* - By FlintBlue May 1, 2024 at 10:20:56 AM
  • Hamas' act is akin to suicide bombing. they did it because they do it every once in a while fully expecting the Israel response. They are like Al Qaeda in that respect. They also fully know that innocents will die but they know it* - By 6p May 1, 2024 at 09:18:48 AM
  • hamas isn’t very similar to AQ. It is basically the state of Gaza while AQ is a relatively small non-state terror group* - By Harbaughdyssey May 1, 2024 at 09:24:27 AM
  • While there have no doubt been war crimes committed, I’ll disagree with labeling the entire war as “disproportionate”. What is happening is what happens in urban warfare.* - By Guns May 1, 2024 at 09:07:16 AM
  • also why have expectations for proportionality for a retaliatory attack? You could argue being known for a disproportionate response acts as a deterrent.* - By Harbaughdyssey May 1, 2024 at 09:18:31 AM
  • Israel isn't even saying this is retaliatory. The point is to eliminate Hamas. (m) - By FlintBlue May 1, 2024 at 09:28:51 AM
  • That is not how the laws are written nor should they be..* - By Guns May 1, 2024 at 09:22:45 AM
  • what laws?* - By Harbaughdyssey May 1, 2024 at 09:25:03 AM
  • The Geneva Conventions, which deal with proportionality among other things. (m) - By Guns May 1, 2024 at 09:28:34 AM
  • I've seen this going around, and it's wrong. Fully understanding the situation, then fashioning a solution, is incredibly hard.* - By FlintBlue May 1, 2024 at 09:05:57 AM
  • so what would be proportionate? - By onb May 1, 2024 at 08:54:18 AM
  • Was WWII an immoral war from the American side? - By GritsGoBlue May 1, 2024 at 08:53:37 AM
  • WWII is not really a good analogy for lots of reasons ... - By Ian May 1, 2024 at 09:34:12 AM
  • For the purposes of your point - the morality underlying the war - it is directly relevant. - By GritsGoBlue May 1, 2024 at 10:32:17 AM
  • There is no Palestinian state. I understand Hamas is nominally elected, but I would argue that Hamas is closer to Al Queada than the Third Reich or Imperial Japan. ... - By Ian May 1, 2024 at 11:00:53 AM
  • The Taliban would be a closer example than Al Qaeda. - By GritsGoBlue May 1, 2024 at 11:25:12 AM
  • At least the Japanese hit a military target - By WindsorBlue May 1, 2024 at 09:46:33 AM
  • so why not bomb the entire Gaza? take out 2 million people* - By 6p May 1, 2024 at 09:50:47 AM
  • yea the Bibi thing is appalling. He's like the most neocon guy who you ever met and a lot of guys here seem to agree with him* - By 6p May 1, 2024 at 09:41:25 AM
  • What would be proportionate?* - By BBA May 1, 2024 at 08:47:28 AM
  • Over 30,000 civilian deaths is not proportionate, particularly in a campaign with militarily un-achievable aims. ** - By Ian May 1, 2024 at 09:02:00 AM
  • Answer the question. * - By BBA May 1, 2024 at 09:07:37 AM
  • Still waiting, sweetcheeks.* - By Don May 1, 2024 at 10:32:14 AM
  • I did. You just don't like the answer. ... - By Ian May 1, 2024 at 09:18:28 AM
  • The ratio of civilians to combatant - By WindsorBlue May 1, 2024 at 10:00:37 AM
  • That isn’t a serious answer and you haven’t made a serious post on this topic yet. Best decision you made today is pretending like you didn’t read Grits’ post above * - By BBA May 1, 2024 at 09:24:21 AM
  • targeted killing of terrorists. Now they level them without giving a damn about collateral damage* - By 6p May 1, 2024 at 08:49:36 AM
  • You understand that Hamas makes that impossible, right? So what you’re suggesting is Israel has to just accept living next to Hamas - By mgaelster May 1, 2024 at 08:54:51 AM
  • That's not "impossible". playing the probability game, if they see a non-zero probability of someone being Hamas, they just kill them. The food aid workers killing was a) done in the night and b) is news because it happened to Jose Andres. Why are you inconsiderate towards innocent kids being killed?* - By 6p May 1, 2024 at 09:00:38 AM
  • It is an urban war. Innocents are going to die* - By BBA May 1, 2024 at 09:12:38 AM
  • applause* - By 6p May 1, 2024 at 09:14:23 AM
  • You do realize that right? It isn’t clear to me * - By BBA May 1, 2024 at 09:26:27 AM
  • This is fucking stupid* - By Pal May 1, 2024 at 10:02:24 AM
  • If "innocents are going to die" why not level entire Gaza?* - By 6p May 1, 2024 at 09:38:59 AM
  • That’s wrong, unless you believe Israelis don’t deserve security - By mgaelster May 1, 2024 at 08:41:53 AM
  • This is a really ridiculous take. Think a little harder please. ** - By Ian May 1, 2024 at 08:53:57 AM
  • It’s not. Your take is lazy, drive-by “everybody should get along” pablum nm - By mgaelster May 1, 2024 at 08:56:32 AM
  • Do you have any criticisms of the way Israel is prosecuting the war? Not aid and relief, but the actual military operation. ... - By Ian May 1, 2024 at 09:15:18 AM
  • I believe it’s painfully naive not to recognize that the IDF is the only actor in the region who tries to protect civilians - By mgaelster May 1, 2024 at 10:20:34 AM
  • Really persuasive response. A guy who just said something very complex is simple just told somebody else to think harder * - By BBA May 1, 2024 at 08:55:52 AM
  • Deserve ain’t got nothing to do with it. (nm) - By suede May 1, 2024 at 08:44:12 AM
  • Well, if human rights aren’t a factor, maybe Israel should ethnically cleanse Gaza & the West Bank - By mgaelster May 1, 2024 at 08:50:36 AM
  • That doesn't seem like a strategy that would improve their geopolitical standing. (nm) - By suede May 1, 2024 at 09:53:55 AM
  • Doubt it would hurt nm - By mgaelster May 1, 2024 at 11:02:57 AM
  • except it is hard—which is why major violence happens every 10-15 years and never an actual peaceful resolution. To get to the point of peaceful resolution you need some sort of plan which means some actors/groups need to make specific changes or have changes forced upon them* - By Harbaughdyssey May 1, 2024 at 08:36:19 AM
  • Sounds about right.nm - By OldSoldier May 1, 2024 at 08:34:37 AM
  • Agree with everything other than "this isn't hard." Because most people don't actually want to learn or understand -- they want to confirm their priors, justify their bias, or promote propaganda so their favored side can win in the court of public opinion* - By Brad May 1, 2024 at 08:33:55 AM
  • Well put. To add to this, the Netanyahu government is simply not a credible actor at this point. A Gantz-led offensive would be much more similar than it is different but would face much less opprobrium from the Biden admin. (nm) - By suede May 1, 2024 at 08:32:08 AM
  • I've been hoping that Haredi conscription would take down Netanyahu, but his government keeps kicking that can down the road.* - By TheMile May 1, 2024 at 09:02:48 AM
  • known as national champions (nm) - By danny May 1, 2024 at 08:33:11 AM
  • Back to back nights with basically no sleep - By Nikos May 1, 2024 at 08:15:29 AM
  • Due to hours and hours of unending carnal passion? (nm) - By suede May 1, 2024 at 08:19:00 AM
  • I think more insomnia could be cured by a late night rendezvous - By jfitz May 1, 2024 at 08:29:48 AM
  • Will the Maize Ragers actively root against Wolf (and possibly Goldin)? (nm) - By danny May 1, 2024 at 08:07:53 AM
  • Some of them might. And those who root for him will attack them.* - By Blue Man May 1, 2024 at 08:57:19 AM
  • May’s Rage IMHO* - By d May 1, 2024 at 08:12:54 AM
  • Governor J.B. Pritzker's office says the #Bears' lakefront stadium proposal remains a "non-starter* - By Ed May 2, 2024 at 10:53:11 AM





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