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INTERNATIONAL 24 HOUR PERIOD OF CRAB RAVE DECLARED FOLLOWING DEATH OF THE INFAMOUS WAR CRIMINAL HENRY KISSINGER
happy dead kissinger day
My life has been defined by genocide of Jewish people. I look on Gaza with concern

The history of mass killings, for me, is never ending. And so are the lessons for today

The Guardian
You escape from 100% of escape rooms you don’t go into.

#TrolleyProblem is predicated on the assumption that it's possible to know all possible outcomes in a scenario. Just like all other thought-experiments. "Broad Logical Possibility" as an old prof used to put it when students would get hung up on the fact that #THOUGHTEXPERIMENTS ALMOST INVARIABLY PRESUME PRIOR CONDITIONS THAT ARE NOT IN ANY CONCEIVABLE WAY POSSIBLE.

In a real self-driving car scenario, the car will almost always be able to do something else besides killing someone.

Socks come in pairs. If you put a sock on your left foot, the other sock of the pair instantly becomes the “right sock,” no matter where it is located in the universe.
Boston-area family has finally been able to leave https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/11/02/metro/medway-family-escape-gaza/
Medway family update: Abood Okal, wife, and son escape Gaza

Abood Okal, his wife, Wafaa Abuzayda, and their 1-year-old son, Yousef, were able to depart Gaza early Thursday and enter Egypt, according to an attorney and family friend.

The Boston Globe

Folks, the trolley problem is a thought experiment, not the real world. We don’t live in a Saw movie franchise dilemma where we have to trade one life for another. Killing Israeli kids won’t save Palestinian kids and killing Palestinian kids won’t save Israeli kids.

We know this because people have been killing Israeli and Palestinian kids for decades and they’re still not safe.

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