But also, they do have a point: education isn’t, or rather shouldn’t be, just a means to get a better job. We don’t think of someone who takes singing or playing lessons as “failed” if they don’t become a professional musician. A day labourer with an art degree isn’t worse than one without one

Another reminder that France, Spain, and Italy forced the Bolivian president’s plane to land in Austria because they thought Snowden was on it.

The contents of the previously unknown 35-page assessment could sway future war crimes trials of EU politicians for complicity

Now that would be a sight

Gaza and West Bank surveillance and control systems are the proof of concept for dealing with climate change fallout.

I would have thought his part in contraception would be being 70.

Learning from Israel. The spyware is Cellebrite.

If the healthcare is shit?

It almost sounds like a message from one of those cold war counting stations. “…55-65-% sign-tarif increase-chinese furniture-sliding rail…”

Well, you know, …it wasn’t easy.

On the contrary, from Wikipedia:

Heresy is any belief or theory that is strongly at variance with established beliefs or customs, particularly the accepted beliefs or religious law of a religious organization.[1][2] A heretic is a proponent of heresy.[1]

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Heresy is distinct from apostasy, which is the explicit renunciation of one’s religion, principles, or cause;

Atheism is not heresy. A heretic is a type of believer. You can argue you meant the colloquial usage as “divergent thought”, but that’s not the usage I used.

Either way, the point stands: not all Islam is the same thing, and the Tehran regime quite clearly has an easier time stomaching cooperation with secularists than with Sunnis.

I’m aware.

No, secularists are nonbelievers, possibly apostates. A heretic believes in the same religion as you do, just the wrong kind of it.

…Yes, the Ba’ath party is 100% secular, and Tehran would rather deal with secularists than with heretics.

Religion isn’t religion isn’t religion. Iran is Shia, “moderate rebels” are by and large Sunni.

They think they’re Aragorn and we’re orcs.

Huh, that also sounds familiar…

Huh, sounds kinda familiar…

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Honestly, sounds like a traffic enforcement problem.

Israel is the world leader in spyware and surveillance software. All the cameras, drones, contact-free checkpoints, and automated guns on the Gaza perimeter? IIRC, Elbit is making them on the southern US border.

Gaza, West Bank, and southern Lebanon are proof of concept for dealing with climate crisis.