"One particular Talmudic-era commentary comes to mind. Everyone knows that Pharaoh and his army were on horses as they chased Moses and the Israelites seaward. But it took the genius of Shimon ben Yochai, the sage, to ask where the horses came from. A plague of hail had killed off all the livestock in Egypt, other than that which belonged to upright individuals who held the Lord in awe. What this means, then, is that Pharaoh got his horses from the upright individuals. Ben Yochai concludes: [In times of war], it is correct to kill even the righteous among your enemy (Mekhilta 14:7).
Ben Yochai witnessed the Roman annihilation of Judea. He understood that the way your enemy fights a war affects the definition of the righteous way to fight back. In other words, his recommendation was calibrated to the assumption that if the Jews are fighting a war, then their own future survival (and flourishing) is a nonnegotiable goal of the war.
Thus, a Jew living by the Torah and confronted with an enemy armed with a human shield must ask: What does God want me to do now, given what I face? And how might I figure that out by studying the Torah?
As Abraham learns when arguing with God about Sodom, the ultimate decision about who lives and who perishes in calamity is the Creator’s choice, and while you can plead with God to spare the righteous, you must also have the moral humility to trust that He knows what He’s doing.
As for you and what you can do: The Torah commands you to accept that the world’s Creator put you in the circumstances you are in, and that He only wants from you that you should do the most correct thing possible according to the Law, given the circumstances.
And among the constraints and instructions given by the Torah is a specific one: “Choose life.” Accepting one’s own death because the other options are ugly and seem heartless is not on the menu.
In the current war in Gaza, a basic Judaic question therefore arises and must not be ignored: What is the bare minimum we must do in order to prevent our own mass murder?"
These fields include: phone numbers for the past five years, email addresses for the past 10 years, IP addresses and metadata from electronically submitted photos, family member names (and their phone numbers, dates of birth, places of birth and place of residence), biometrics such as face, fingerprint, DNA and iris, and business contact details.
New York-based Australian immigration lawyer Zjantelle Cammisa Markel said the vetting to establish “identity and admissibility” has added notably to visa processing wait times and caused some consulates around the world to cancel interviews to manage the administrative burden.
“Typically, they’re looking for anything that is anti-American, anti-Israel or anything that could be considered inciting terrorism or unrest,” she said.
Any activity that suggests illegal behaviour is a no-no, and on that topic, Cammisa Markel said, although marijuana use is legal in some states, it is still prohibited federally.
“A picture at a dispensary in Colorado, where it’s legal ... that would still be a problem,” she said.
Yep, my SanDisk SSD died, was one that had the bad firmware but supposedly a fixed revision. They did RMA it but took about a month. Only using that now for Ventoy, can't really trust it for anything else. Also annoying is they wanted a serial number that they silk-screened on in tiny letters matte black on black.
Quick edit: Wasn't a fake either, was bought direct.
This is why hospitals go broke.
While it is great for the individual, society suffers.
Here in Australia, our 2nd biggest private hospital owner has just gone broke.
At a fire sale, there was so little interest in buying the hospitals that many will be shut down.
The rest of the unsalable hospitals will be shoved into a stripped down charitable tax exempt trust so that the creditors ( banks and pension funds ) can recoup a small amount of the money they lent the hospitals.
Udemy was generally crap.
Coursera was decent.
Crap eats decent.
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