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Canadian Israeli peace activist Vivian Silver, feared to be held hostage, confirmed killed in Hamas attacks | CBC News

Vivian Silver, a Canadian Israeli peace activist whose family said they believed was taken hostage from her home in southern Israel when Hamas-led militants carried out a surprise assault on Oct. 7, was killed in the initial attacks, her family confirms.

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Some folks are early birds, and others are night owls.
Then there are those who creep through life on tattered wings, too tired to soar with the flock and looking for somewhere to hide with wine & a good book.

In America, a toddler has shot someone with a gun, every week, for 2 years straight.

Yes, you read that correctly.

As I’ve gotten older, I’m much less interested in pretending to like people.

A relationship is like a thorny rose. No, more like a fence. Yes, like an electrified fence. No, more like a barbed wire fence. Which is also electrified. Patrolled by Rottweilers which haven’t eaten in a week. And killer robots.
NO WAIT: KILLER ROBOT ROTTWEILERS!

Anyway, a relationship is like that.

Last boost: NASA has to protect its people from sick right wing motherfuckers. That's how low we have sunk as a nation.
The diversity of our NASA team is what brings different perspectives to our missions, and we celebrate and share their stories. To protect our people from personal attacks, we have decided to limit comments on this post.
#NASAEarth
This whole submarine thing is a preview of exactly how "space tourism" is going to go

People. People. Think!

"Moral hazard" explains why it's good to spend millions to rescue five billionaires trapped in an ego-powered submersible, but bad to rescue 700 refugees in the Mediterranean who were seeking freedom from war and poverty.

See, if we rescue the migrants, we just encourage MORE people to seek better lives, whereas if we rescue the five tourist mariners we're merely encouraging more people to become billionaires by raping and plundering the planet for personal gratif...

Oh.

Sorry, NVM, carry on.