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I can't believe no one has given this advice yet: https://piped.video/watch?v=vvmpc83nv4A

In 1976, Benjamin Netanyahu's brother died. A flight from Israel to Paris had been hijacked by some Palestinian and German terrorists, and flown to Uganda, where they demanded release of prisoners, threatening to kill the Israeli and Jewish passengers (the rest were released). Israel decided to launch a mission on foreign soil to rescue them, and I think Bibi's older brother was the sole Israeli casualty.

What we are seeing today in Gaza is most likely, mostly, as a direct result of that death. Raw caveman emotion. (with a few decades of carefully layered public relations)

[now I'm going to go upvote all the heart-warming examples of human kindness in this thread]

In Biostatistics - only ever use pi in the variance of the logistic density. Using 3.14 gives substantially equivalent results to using arbitrarily large precision. But I use whatever my calculator or R give me.

Or when you're looking for the Chinese consulate.

by some magical means

It could probably be done by the government, but it would mean forgoing an aircraft carrier.

Unfortunately, no it's not catastrophic. I think we'll run out of adjectives before this is over, so we need to ration them now.