So, it’s worth noting that a decent cobbler can resole even cemented shoes most of the time.

But nicer shoes:

a) are actually worth resoling, because good leather ages better over time
b) are easier to resole again and again because of other construction features I’m not going to delve into

It’s also worth noting that the oversimplified “tiers of leather” advice you’ve probably heard about “genuine leather” vs “full grain” vs whatever the other tiers were is more or less made up, and that understanding what makes leather good is… complicated, so it helps to either know the tannery (brands that name the tanneries they get their leather from are usually at least pretty good) or get recommendations from people who know better.

But RW IRs are really solid boots, enjoy.

I was referring to the comparative death tolls over the course of Israel’s decades long

alright I’m going to ignore the rest of your antisemitic bullshit and just focus on the ratio you picked, probably also out of made-up numbers (and I doubt you included all the Israeli soldiers killed in wars started by surrounding Muslim nations pretending to act on Palestinians’ behalf), to frame the issue without ignoring what actually happened.

Over the past few decades, the Palestinians have started every damn war they could against Israel, including two intifadas, suicide bombings, rockets aimed vaguely at civilians (historically, roughly 1/3-1/4 of the rockets fired from Gaza since 2001 landed in Gaza). Hamas has built plenty of tunnels in Gaza, but no workers, because it prefers to see its civilians die because it makes the statistics more gruesome and keeps their control of the gaza strip going.

Meanwhile, Israelis invest billions into not only technology like the Iron Dome to defend Israeli civilians, but also in warning technology like roof knocking tech, medical tech that it used to save Palestinian lives, including that of Yahya Sinwar, and… Oh yeah, remember the thousands of greenhouses they left in Gaza in 2005 when they unilaterally withdrew? Gee, what ever happened to those?

So Palestinians:

• Don’t defend their own
• Send their own into suicide missions—sometimes, in that history, literally
• Literally kill their own (and count the numbers against Israel in their often made-up statistics, see the Al-Ahli hospital explosion)

It doesn’t matter what Hamas agrees to or doesn’t,

So you don’t want a ceasefire, you want Israel to stop unilaterally and then whatever happens to it next is fine by you, right?

Don’t call it a ceasefire if you don’t know what a ceasefire exist.

up to this point the ratio of Palestinians killed to Israelis has been 25:1.

Really? 1200 Israelis murdered on October 7th, you’re really telling me that over 30,000 Palestinians have been killed?

You wanna maybe try that again?

what you quoted only makes the Hamas facility the target. Civilians inside that hospital are not valid targets.

Right. So Israel targets the Hamas facility. Sometimes, civilians in the hospital die as a result of attacks targeting the Hamas facility and Hamas individuals. This is what is commonly known as “collateral damage.” It is a tragedy that should be minimized.

Glad we’re in agreement.

What is more collaborative:

“They made an agreement where some Jews were allowed to flee the Holocaust”

or

this shit

fleeing versus encouraging and attempting to extend the holocaust, who were the real Nazi collaborators?

They have bombed a neonatal unit!

Source for this?

a one-sided ceasefire, or a two-sided ceasefire? Would you expect Hamas to keep its end of a ceasefire agreement?

ahh yes. Because the Israeli army has literally no options between “relentless bombing of Gaza, denying access to food, water and medicine,

the IDF turned off its supply of 7% of gazan water for a few days, and is still getting shit for it. Hamas never bothered to maintain the power plant or desalination plant, stole fuel from the power plant that could have been used to keep running the hospitals and desalination plant, and openly dug up water pipes to fashion into rockets. They didn’t even hide that, they were proud of that.

sniping civillians trying to flee according to your demand on the safe routes you designated

You know that bridge was Hamas snipers, right? Israel didn’t have a real presence in that area yet, the closest thing they had was a ship that did not fire small bullets. People initially blamed all the bullet-ridden bloody bodies on the bridge on an Israeli airstrike, and then realized that there was no sign of any explosion anywhere on the bridge, and had to change their story. =/

and bombing ambulances trying to move patients in the same way”

Hamas said that there were no patients in those ambulances, but the IDF had intelligence that there were, in fact, terrorists in them. This is in keeping with a long-standing pattern going back a good 20 years, Hamas loves shuttling terrorists around in ambulances.

Israel could have led an infantry assault into Gaza withou pounding everything first. That would have meant higher casualties though and here shows the true nature of Israels government and army.

I love how, now, people are saying “they should have invaded by land!” when, before the ground invasion began, everybody was protesting the concept of a land invasion and surrounding nations had threatened to declare war if Israel invaded.

They do not care for any palestinian life. So far for every Israeli soldier that got killed, more than 200 palestinian civillians were killed.

You know how I know you made that number up? Nobody anywhere has published any number of palestinian civilians that were killed in this war.

In world war 2 the axis powers killed about 6 civillians for every axis soldier and the allies killed about 1 civillian for every 4 ally soldiers. So the war that was about total destruction and genocide still had more than a magnitude less civillians killed relative to combatants killed.

Please, feel free to cite Hamas statistics here, I’d love to see if they’ve finally claimed a number of civilians vs combatants.

It is. When your enemy is embedded in hospitals and mosques and everywhere else civilians try to go for safety, it gets hard. But I’m sure your alternative is just for Israel to just agree to a one-sided ceasefire and wait for Hamas to shore up its weapons, move the hostages, and repeat its 10/7 attack, huh?

Targeting civilians is a war crime. Targeting enemy combatants while trying to evacuate civilians, trying to warn civilians so desperately that you warn the enemy combatants too, and killing civilians in attacks that target legitimate military targets and reflect a sufficient level of care to minimize risk to human life, is not a war crime, that’s the definition of “collateral damage.”

There’s no double standard there, that’s the whole issue.

Antisemitic. They’re using the word Jew, they’re looking for any Jews they can find regardless of where they came from, they aren’t rioting to get Jews to leave Israel because these Jews already left Israel.

When people try to make Jews leave Israel, their goal is to get us out in the open so they can kill us more easily.

There is, unfortunately, no organization able to provide an accurate number. Whatever the number is, it is tragic.

Did I say something that’s not completely accurate?

Is there a format in which you think these facts would be less inconvenient for you?

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So I did read the article. But telegram as a service allows users (some of whom are just civilians with no ties to Hamas) to warn people of imminent attack. That’s in the article. They (that channel admins) still have to add subscribers.

It’s a Hamas channel! They’re not warnings, they’re threats! And they’re recruiting! And they know those users are sharing video of their attrocities in other Hamas groups! And the al-Qassam Brigades have a public channel too!

The thing is though, for telegram and messaging apps like it this is basically playing whack a mole. I know I said that before, but what I meant by it is that it’s better for the purposes of building intelligence and or sending their geolocation data to relevant authorities. If they close one channel more will pop up. IP bans and even device bans will not stop this from happening. You can create a telegram bot in like 10 minutes.

The mole is out in the open, sticking its fingers in its ears, and laughing at us, and Durov is saying “yeah, that’s a fine mole, no idea why I’d whack it.” It’s gaining steam! They’re openly using the names of terrorist organizations and recruiting new members constantly and telegram isn’t even considering a response.

But deleting certain channels will detrimentally affect the civilians caught in the cross fire.

No, it absolutely will not.

"Telegram CEO Pavel Durov wrote that he was hesitant to shut down Hamas-used channels in a post on October 13th, saying that “tackling war-related coverage is seldom obvious” and writing that Hamas had used Telegram a few days prior to warn civilians to evacuate an area before the attacked it " < from your article.

He referenced Ashkelon. There are zero Israelis in Ashkelon following Hamas on Telegram. Israel knows when to evacuate its citizens, and unlike Hamas, actually does so when necessary. Hamas is a terrorist organization. Hamas is threatening Israeli civilians before targeting those civilians. THE THREAT IS THE FIRST CAUSE OF THE TERROR. This is what terrorism is! They threaten violence on civilians, they do the violence they threatened, and then they celebrate it by sharing videos! They threaten, plan, and celebrate on telegram, out in the open!

It’s the same thing with scammers. Most telegram scammers are using private messages that have encryption. So you absolutely are suggesting the telegram snoop through private messages.

There’s a funnel. They start on twitter, just kind of innocently saying “follow me on Telegram.” Then they say “alright, this broadcast channel will tell you exactly what token to buy, and when! Do exactly that!” It’s a pump and dump scheme, some people fall for it. And then the real rubes get into those 1-on-1 secret chats with the scammers where they go ahead and give out their private info.

A tech company like Telegram could, in theory follow this funnel through the unencrypted channels. It’s obvious enough from the information you and I have.

These channels are all operating openly. You know they’re all pump and dump scams, right? They’re not in secret chats, they’re huge channels with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

So can we stop pretending that this is simply an easy fix?

Can we stop pretending that ignoring the problem is a better solution?

not in a million years. Not with FDIC insurance or open-source non-custodial crypto wallets or anything like that.

That sucks. I think it’s worse when they’re doing it to capitalize off violence, especially when they’re taking money that dumb people assume might go towards some cause.

… they did?

you can’t?

Lol, yeah, this sociopath is going to develop a full suite of banking services and software in a year while laying off employees, sure.