athos77

lmao. I worked at FDA for about a decade, was one of the main programmers for their system that tracks approval of biologics, as well as the system that tracks and handles approvals of individual biological lots. And then the MAGAts started making up bullshit conspiracy stuff about how biologics are developed and approved … :/

They’re not “getting revenge” for him leaving California, they’ve stopped buying cars of dubious quality from an immature, arrogant, and very literal white nationalist.

Of course. And Israel has already said that they need a one kilometer “security zone” between Israel and Gaza, and that they’re not going to put the security zone on [current] Israeli territory.

Gaza’s border with Israel is about 32 miles long. The amount of land taken for the demilitarized zone would be about 20 square miles. Gaza is about 6 miles wide; aside from the incredible disruption the “security road” will cause to Palestinian life, a demilitarized zone on either side of that road would be another land grab of about 6 square miles, meaning Israel is planning to steal (yet another) 26 square miles of Palestinian land. Considering that Gaza is only 141 square miles in the first place, they’re planning on taking 18% of all Gazan land.

Israel itself is 8,550 square miles, and the demilitarized zone would be less than one-third of one percent of Israeli land, and the Israelis say they want it to feel “safe”, so once again all the benefit is to Israel and all the detriment to Gaza.

As a final note, you know they’re going to “hold up” [deny] traffic between the halves, just like they’re holding up [denying] humanitarian aid trucks. Israel has also said that they expect the international community to do the rebuilding of Gaza, and that they won’t allow shipments into Gaza from Israel. That means that everything going into Gaza will either be from Egypt’s land border, or from a port. But it means that there will likely need to be two entirely separate supply lines, which will make logistics, humanitarian aid, and rebuilding supplies significantly more complex.

Which is the whole point, of course. Israel wants the Gazans miserable enough to leave voluntarily, and they certainly don’t care how many die to make that happen -either way, they “win”. And when some part of Gaza hasn’t been rebuilt within a given amount of time, when Palestinians haven’t been able to set up support and supply lines to every corner of Gaza (because Israel is deliberately kneecapping then), well then, Israel will have yet another excuse to justify taking even more “unused land” that doesn’t belong to them.

Fuck Israel.

It’s specifically timed: you get up and get dressed for the free breakfast, get back to your room and you’re like, “Well, I’m already up and dressed and everything, I might as well hit the road!” And you leave, conveniently leaving the room available for Housekeeping to clean for those early arrivals.

Amusement parks will do something similar: time a fireworks display in a central-ish area near the end of the night. Everyone comes to the fireworks, they end and everyone looks at tl the time and is like, “Well, there’s just enough time for one more ride / snack / set of games”, and then we’ll have to leave," ignoring the way you’ve been collected to a central(ish) location and primed to leave, making the job for closing security much easier.