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I was listening to more of the news coverage of the Israel-Hamas conflict and those were the first thoughts that came to my mind. Hamas so viciously attacked Israel because itโ€™s people, the Palestinians have been so abused at the hands of the Israelis over the years. Why have the Israelis abused the Palestinians so much, forcing them into tiny walled cities, much like the Nazis did the Jews? Mostly because theyโ€™re set on continuing the cycle of violence as theyโ€™ve learned and grown up under the worse of the worse.

Itโ€™s been 80 years since World War II was underway and all the atrocities it involved. But the actions of the Nazis against the Jews and other minorities havenโ€™t stopped hurting, all these years later. A fear and hatred, and oppression that was put upon the Nazis from the world powers after World War I with numerous penalties put on the German nation for starting  the first World War.

A cycle of violence unbroken. ๐Ÿ•Š

Murder, terror, and war crimes can not and should not go unpunished. You canโ€™t not arrest a school shooter, because he was sexually abused by his parents. Hamas is a threat not just to Israel but to world as a whole. Itโ€™s leaders need to be put behind bars, punished for the lives taken and harmed. But the oppression of the Palestinians by the Israelis canโ€™t be ignored. Leaders who commit war crimes, engage in terror need to be punished.

Nobody of good conscience can have sympathy for the Hamas leadershipโ€™s actions against Israel, but at the same time, one can understand why many people tolerate or even sympathize with their efforts to liberate the Palestine people. The cycle of abuse needs to end, powerful counties shouldnโ€™t abuse minorities, and minorities shouldnโ€™t retaliate using murder and terror.

Iโ€™m not one to get involved in protests or even share my thoughts on social media, lest the wave of negative comments. But I have my views, as unpopular as they may be in some quarters. Maybe my views come out of my disdain for the mainstream media and political thought, but I canโ€™t stand to see minorities oppressed and the constant drum-beat of conformity demanding support for Americaโ€™s preferred winners in conflict.

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Why a search engine that scans your face is dangerous : NPR

Imagine strolling down a busy city street and snapping a photo of a stranger then uploading it into a search engine that almost instantaneously helps you identify the person.

This isn't a hypothetical. It's possible now, thanks to a website called PimEyes, considered one of the most powerful publicly available facial recognition tools online.

That website is pretty neat. Works well for me with all the pictures of me on the blog, lol.

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Abortion, guns back at the Supreme Court in its new term : NPR

The U.S. Supreme Court formally opens a new term on Monday, with all manner of political lightning rods already on its docket, or on their way.

Guns, abortion, extreme partisan gerrymandering ... you thought those legal issues were gone, or at least resolved? The conservative court seemed to think so, too. But those issues are back this term.

Take abortion: When the conservative majority struck down Roe v. Wade, eliminating the constitutional right to abortion, the conservative justices said they were simply returning to the states the question of whether abortion could be legal. Similarly, in another case, the conservative justices ruled that the court was out of the business of policing any form of extreme partisan gerrymandering. And in a broad ruling about gun rights, it said that in the future, gun regulations would be legal only if they were analogous to regulations at the time the constitution was written.