Very accurate. Working for a small dev shop with sympathetic senior team members brought me through 2 and into the start of 3. But a job change (into something I only barely qualified for) meant I had to trek phase 3 alone. It's a loong slog, and the myriad of technologies in the intro without ever feeling like you know anything is spot on (I would frequently be reading web pages for help only to pull my hair out at how often they mentioned things I should know but didn't). Fortunately I had gone to work for an IT team embedded in a larger company, not a software company itself, and they had far lower standards. I don't think that's a good thing in general, but it did allow me to get semi hacky things done during the desert of despair and I felt like I was delivering just as often as I was floundering. The upswing of awesome is real though. I hit it about 5 or 6 years in. I found my niche, everything id been reading and studying suddenly started to reinforce one another rather than sow deeper confusion and confidence and productivity started to multiply. About 7 years in I was technical lead in a couple of business critical areas. After 8 years I started my own consultancy in those technologies and have never looked back. I take care now to give junior staff projects that stretch them, and they need to work at, but which aren't soul crushing.
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They were not delivering food, but it was a WCK car. There were people unrelated to WCK with them at the time. Ultimately this comes down to whether or not one believes Israel. What Israel and WCK say is not contradictory, WCK just says they didn't know if the person participated in the Oct 7 terror attacks or not. Israel says they did. If you maraude around another country stabbing women and children any car you get in in the future is liable to get a rocket through the roof. It's not on Israel to risk its soldiers apprehending someone like that. Cowardly of that particular person to seek to hide amongst civilians. That's if Israel is to be believed.
Because most of human history looked something like mad max and all the "peace first" guys were the first to die nasty deaths
On the contrary, the most effective "I'm sorry Jon"s are the ones that juxtapose the banality of everyday with horror. If you did a 4 panel Garfield "cartoony" cartoon, but in the last panel just had a subtle tentacle lying on the table. That could be quite effective! Lol
That is as unreasonable as me saying you're pro-Hamas.
I would consider industrialised total war to be using terrorism as a weapon, yes. Whether that's the British firebombing civilian areas of Germany or the Germans indiscriminately dropping rockets on London. Both actions are designed to terrorise the populace. So, 'terrorism'. I would judge the rest of your examples by that criteria.
Whether or not I think various causes in history were just or not is a separate consideration. So in some cases I would support 'terrorism', yes. Though I would struggle to find an actual clear cut example where I think that's the moral thing to do.
The cycle of violence between Jews and Palestinian Arabs has existed before the state of Israel even existed. Since each side has been continually justifying their actions based on what the other did it is very difficult to point to any moment in living memory where either exist "in a vacuum". They have progressively created each other.
I realise you don't agree with this. But I'm not saying it to be "pro Israel". Quite the contrary.
Israel has the upper hand and should stop its terrorism against gaza civilians. But I think you, and others here should realise that even if Israel were to give Hamas all their demands it's not like Islamic terrorism against Jews would stop. The ideology pre-dates Israel and even Zionism in general..
Can you explain whether or not you are in fact pro-Hamas because that would go along way to explaining why you're objecting to what I said.
Genocide is wrong. That doesn't mean one has to be pro-Hamas. How are you looking at it in such a simplistic way?
How are you misunderstanding this?
Genocide is wrong. The indiscriminate killing of civilians is wrong.
That's not taking sides, that's saying neither Israel nor Hamas is right.
It's non combatants of both sides who are innocent here and the Palestinian civilians are in dire need of help.
Mortimer and Winehouse gone fishing.
Want a seat next to two comedy legends as they enter their chill years and ponder things while fishing? Look no further
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b0b7r2k6/mortimer-whitehouse-gone-fishing
Yes. I think his character dies in one of the Jack Ryan films (clear and present danger?) and for years my brain thought that was real life..