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5xad0w OP t1_ja6f4w3 wrote

Reply to Medical services plane crashed in Nevada, killing 5, after apparently breaking up mid-flight, NTSB says | CNN by 5xad0w

The flight was in the air for about 14 minutes and had reached an altitude of just over 19,000 when radar noticed the plane was in a descending right turn at a high rate of descent, Landsberg said.

Obviously no idea what happened, but sounds like they went into a dive that exceeded the airframes survivable speed.

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GenShermansGhost t1_ja6db38 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Israelis, Palestinians pledge to curb violence at Jordan meeting by Hiversitize

> , as determined by the UN itself.

The Arab world holds outsized influence among the UN, and the body has displayed gross bias against Israel in the past; it has issued more resolutions condemning Israel than against all other countries combined, despite there being far worse countries out there than Israel.

> On top of that, there is a very clear disparity in the deaths that are caused by Palestinians and those caused by Israelis.

There's a reason for that and that's a pisspoor argument.

> Palestinians are completely in the right to fight back and if there are Israeli civilian deaths then that should be considered caused by the Israeli government.

You're either a lunatic or bloodthirsty.

> They have pushed Palestinians to react this way.

Pretty sure Israel didn't push the Arabs to attack them in 1948 with the stated goal of "pushing the Jews into the sea"

> Israel does not get to take everything from these people and then cry when they fight back and kill them.

These people are getting a far lesser version what their ancestors attempted to do to the Israelis.

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CrowVsWade t1_ja6d7do wrote

Reply to comment by m1sterlurk in Daily use of marijuana raises risk of heart disease, study finds by TheDodoBird

The politicization of cannabis and related plants has very little to do with the scientific realities of what we do know about the pros and cons, and the far larger amount we don't know. The same can be said for most large cases of prohibition. That's usually a political decision.

My comment was focused on the latter, related to actual clinical and scientifically sound research on same, and growing evidence that the impacts might be far more mixed (at best) than the decidedly non-scientific pro weed lobby would like to be the case, or like to have acknowledged in open discussion. The cannabis debate, such as it is, is highly partizan. Scientific research doesn't hold much similarity to public debate.

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GenShermansGhost t1_ja6d3wc wrote

Reply to comment by BrownMan65 in Israelis, Palestinians pledge to curb violence at Jordan meeting by Hiversitize

> allowing the Palestinians that are being held like prisoners throughout the area to return to their homes

That ship sailed when the Arab world ethnically cleansed their own Jewish populations. At this point, demanding the right-of-return is demanding the enforcement of a double-standard where the Arabs are allowed to remove Jews from their lands, but not vice-versa.

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