Sure but the context of the comment I replied to was that many airlines don't have a choice but to buy aircraft from Boeing because Airbus is much smaller and therefore unable to service the required orders. In actual fact they deliver nearly an equivalent number of (civilian) aircraft over 10 years from 2007-2016 and Airbus has been delivering more aircraft per year recently. If everyone suddenly only ordered with Airbus then sure it would create a supply bottleneck but that's not because Airbus is a smaller company.

By what measure is it a much smaller company? By planes sold it appears negligible: between 2007 and 2016 Airbus delivered 5,644 and Boeing delivered 5,718, for a difference of 74. In terms of market share they're roughly equivalent in twin-aisle jets and Airbus has a significant lead in single-aisle jets (for obvious reasons).

Delayed response but if you're talking about the general experience of VR being an uncanny valley experience then no, I don't agree. It's very common for people who use VR to say that they forgot for a moment that it wasn't real.

Reality doesn't downsample when you're not looking at it, your eye does that.

You wasted absolutely no time trivialising reality to suit your simplistic narrative.

The groups I'm 'fluidly dancing' between are not fringe offshoots, they are the 'elected' governing body of Gaza and a coalition of Arab nation-states who have invaded Israel more than once. To provide you some focus you badly need, Hamas's charter is very clear on its goals and objectives around the state of Israel and its population of Jews. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/10/hamas-covenant-israel-attack-war-genocide/675602/

I wonder why the Arab nations surrounding Israel have invaded it twice since the late 1940s? Or why Hamas (the 'elected' governing party of Gaza) have the destruction of the Jewish state (and, until a few years ago, also the indiscriminate killing of any Jews) as among their formally stated objectives.

If you're surprised at the idea that Palestinians might not like Jews very much you should do a bit more reading before wading in with accusations of racism.

I think the onions take is fair and can't really argue with it. After so much bad blood on both sides over so many decades I've got no clue what the solution is. However, I think another objective way to look at the situation is to consider what the outcome would be if the relative military strength of the two sides were switched. I think it's pretty clear that in such a case the state of Israel would have been erased in the late 1940s.

I'll mention again that your own source (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/how-a-shocking-report-on-40-babies-in-israel-was-deemed-disinformation-before-then-being-verified/ar-AA1hZUff) concluded the report as true.

Some other sources such as Snopes say the reports of babies being specifically beheaded is unverified, but they do confirm that babies have been killed and adults have been beheaded. So if we want to take that on face value, we're still back to the pointless and absurd discussion about how many civilians of any age can be killed, and in what manner, before such killings go from being a justifiable to unjustifiable response to Israeli oppression.

That is an entirely accurate depiction of kiwis.

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Palestinian people's struggles are real and have been continually acknowledged for decades. But so are the struggles of Israeli people.

The problems start when people excuse these terrorist attacks as being a natural reaction to Israel's oppression, or even worse, directly blame it on Israel (as per the Harvard letter). And this is something that has been repeated ad-nauseum in certain circles over the last week.

Nothing justifies behaviour like beheading a bunch of babies.

Not surprising at all, no. But these anti-semites were islamic (not the white neo-nazi variety). And considering the small crowds in London dancing around waving swastikas and a car full of people in Melbourne driving around saying they were "hunting Jews", combined with Hamas's formally stated aims of killing Jews and destroying the Jewish state, you might be entitled to wonder how many actually aren't anti-Semites.

Nobody is being punished by having their id checked or their person searched.

This is probably a reflection of US racism more than anything else. The US-mexico border is constantly in international news so there is an awareness of your 'challenges' with migration across that border.

You may conclude that we're anti immigrant but Australia has double the per-capita immigration of the US. Nearly 30% of our population was born overseas as of 2020.

We didn't enact a zero tolerance policy for immigrants, and I'm unaware of anything remotely similar.

Hopefully this protest is peaceful, unlike the one during the week where protestors were chanting "gas the Jews".

Not to interfere with your narrative but this comes after a pro-palestinian protest during the week where protesters were shouting "gas the Jews" https://www.reuters.com/world/police-investigate-pro-palestinian-protest-sydney-opera-house-over-alleged-anti-2023-10-10/

I had a galaxy S21 FE provided for free by my employer and I disliked it so much after about 8 months I spent my own money on a Pixel 7 Pro to replace it.