It’s cool until you get caught, which is not cool, thus cool friends may avoid you. Also, what’s not cool are rats, which one of your cool friends may turn into if they get caught.

To put it differently, the risks are way higher than reward here. Your reward is a device that you may sell for below market value. Your risk is if caught, you get a record, waste time in “the system”. Either way you choose, it doesn’t matter to anybody else, cuz there’s a criminal justice system for folks like you. Maybe you get a good lawyer, but probably not, which is added risk. A bad lawyer can seriously mess up your life… which means your risk is infinite.

Anyways hopefully you choose a less risky option when you’re browsing the latest tvs that will be obsolete by new years.

Peter Zeihan, a geopolitical strategist, says Ukrainians need to kill 10 Russians for every Ukrainian. And that the only realistic way of doing that is causing famine in the Donbass and Crimea. That’s the harsh reality.

I remember seeing a documentary about starving children and famine in Yemen. Have things changed?

Thanks for noticing haha

Answering that question is a whole rabbit hole I will not go down. Just wanted to point out that comparing Hamas with any other terrorist organization is imo not really possible.

Sure. With that logic, you can win every argument. Done talking to you now, thanks

Point taken. However Hamas isn’t just a terrorist organization, they are the elected political party of Gaza. They are the government. So not really apples to apples.

Gotcha. Asking questions is the new wild accusation these days. It’s a good way to avoid critical thought.

It’s interesting how just asking critical questions of Hamas entails that I support Israel’s response.

I’ll agree israel is worse in hindsight, but Hamas kicked this off with this sneak attack that has led to this situation, so I’d say that is worse. Hamas was so successful in causing an Israeli intelligence disaster, which I feel like caused their military to lash out. All militaries do is destroy, they are not nation builders. Surgical special force operations can take a long time to plan and wouldn’t work since there were so many hostages and they kept moving them around.

Before I answer your questions, you answer mine. Which is less acceptable?

Speaking from experience since I looked into it, there’s scammers peddling solar panels and overall, from a financial point of view, they are just a bad deal - Too much cost, with little upside with extra risk. In addition it certainly does not increase home values at all.

However, in southern California and deserts, it would make sense to get solar since the sun shines more.

Also wind turbine industry needs to start making recyclable blades cuz used blades take up a lot of space in landfills.

Then why is it over $35k to get them installed on a house’s roof? And still I’d need to be plugged into the grid.

That’s great for them, I hope it was worth it in the end. And that would work great in a desert and southern California, but it won’t work to well in most of the USA due to weather.

So, which is less acceptable:

Hamas, a military threat to Israel who hides behind children.

Or

Israel, a country with a military who is responding to military threats in a way a military would.

BTW, my original post is asking questions, but you Lemmy Users just keep making it seem I’m pro Israel just for asking.

It’s not that simple to electrify with renewable. We’d need to mine wayyyy more copper for wiring. We’d need to produce wayyy more rubber for insulated coatings of all those wires. We’d need wayyy more transformers. And if every garage in America has a car charging in it, then we’ll need wayyy more batteries and We’d have a lot more load on our electric infrastructure. In the end, we’d still need fossil fuel infrastructure to account for when the sun’s not shining and wind isn’t blowing.

IMO, that government has already been stomped, but it’s propped up somehow. Venezuela has lost about 10% of its population over last few years and it’s currency is inflated badly. It just doesn’t make sense how that man is still in power.

What? I was asking questions and they are not rhetorical.

Thanks for clarifying for me. Didn’t realize it was such a simple scenario like a bank robbery.

Things just dont make sense. Hamas, a very weak power, sneak attacks Israel, a relatively strong power, then hides amongst the civilian population with military targets scattered throughout neighborhoods and municipalities.

Is Hamas surprised by the mass civilian casualties or are you (the reader) the one who is surprised? Is Hamas actually weaponizing their civilians by showing the world how many are dying and being an agent of change in the UN?

Is Hamas considering these civilian deaths as martyrs? Because martyrdom is not the same as innocent death.