Older gen Z is in their mid 20s. Higher education enrollment rates are declining. I don’t see much wrong, factually, with that point of the assessment.

https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mje/2022/04/19/the-future-costs-of-declining-college-enrollment-rates/

Don’t mix our precious Elmo with this clown! 😭

I went with a tiny build in a Fractal Terra. It still fit a 7900XTX and I’ve been super happy with the look and form factor on my desk. If you need details about the cooler and other parts, I can share a PCPartPicker link. There’s a bit of an art to squeezing all your component goodies in but it should be more than enough for a very powerful, extensible build.

Stop muddling fucking unrelated laws together in the same bill!!! This is why good shit doesn’t get passed.

Oh I guess this is fake news

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Palestine

I buy a short $5 indie game. I give it away afterwards digitally to a friend. The next guy does the same thing. And the next guy.

Now the developer has to primarily make money by selling merch or ingame ads. No thanks. If the game is good, people will buy it.

You could argue people did this with physical media. But it was not nearly as impactful; I couldn’t click a few buttons in seconds and hand the game away.

That’s like…a short drive. In a supply convoy going over rough terrain looking out for drones, maybe a couple hours.

I dont see this guy wearing a headband

https://youtu.be/1lqcoJoZWmQ?si=4PF_AV7WevAuhhyr

Only slightly related: Why don’t Hamas fighters wear a colored rag to distinguish combatants?

It’s one of many things they could do just like how security is a layers thing.

Does Mahmoud Abbas not exist?

This premise is invalid. Hamas governed Gaza for the past fifteen years, not Israel. Palestinians held elections until they voted in Hamas, which put an end to that. Israel maintained a blockade, but Egypt also strictly controlled Gaza trade and passage at Rafah. Not being able to ship stuff from your ports sucks, but Hamas made no good faith efforts to really improve the security situation to enable easy trade through Egypt. Having significant external influence over a region doesn’t mean you are their government.

They could inject random zero width non joiners to help detection too. Easy to defeat, but something a layperson would have to go through extra effort to filter out. Kinda like how some plagiarism cases have been won by pointing out identical misspelled words.

Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction when the US invaded. Iraq also wasn’t involved in 9/11. But for how faulty the publicly given reasons for invading were pushed by the US, Saddam was truly one of the most evil men in power on Earth at the time and I have no qualms with the US having caused his downfall, arrest and eventual hanging by his countrymen.

Well, Hamas kidnapped several hundred civilians from a music festival to use as hostages before Israel militarily invaded Gaza. Or is that fake news?

That’s…Hamas doctrine. They use civilians as human shields to avoid western attacks. Israel is notably different in their approach where they have basically decided to ignore human shield attempts in order to more effectively counter Hamas. Arguably, if it never works and Hamas fighters get killed anyway, Hamas might stop doing it because being amongst civilians means there are a lot of people who can inform on where Hamas militants are and what they’re doing. I suspect most civilians there support Hamas though, so it probably won’t change Hamas doctrine.

In Afghanistan by contrast, the US worked with various tribal elders who didn’t support al-Qaeda. This information allowed US forces to counter human shield tactics in those areas and fighters increasingly moved out to the remote regions so civilians couldn’t inform the US where they were.

You have to gain real power first before attempting to make big changes, especially if the people currently in power have power over YOU.

They’ll get bargaining chip if they can hold it. Russia will want Kursk back, and maybe give up their gains in the east in an eventual settlement. On the other hand, it could drum up more popular support for a wider draft.

No ransom demand? lol

“How much do you think these Russians are worth?”

“Probably nothing - do not press our luck, but see if they offer anything.”

But there is one nice improvement, at least: F-16s are able to use all missile modes for NATO munitions instead of the couple available through converted Soviet era fighters. Some important features like BVR and multi-target engagement likely don’t work, or are severely limited, with Ukraine’s MiGs.