Beyond the ethnic cleansing issues everyone already presented:

• How are you calculating the 'value of the land'?
• Who deternimes the value and where the new borders are to be drawn?
• Do family estates get prorated for sentimental and historical value?
• What is the conversion rate of coastline and maritime claims to arable land?
• Does Israel get to keep the value of settlements that it already holds either "legally" (per Israeli law) or illegally?
• Why would Israeli settlers in illegal settlements vacate, and (perhaps more to the point) why would the Israeli state stop backing them when they decided not to leave?
• Why would Egypt give up control of an excellent defensive border region to a hostile neighbor for a noncontiguous state that would likely be re-occupied by said state before the treaty ink is dry?

Saw this and was struck by how close the outline looks to a contiguous US map.

More popular among whom? I imagine Putin would become more popular with Ukrainians by shooting himself, but those remain long odds.

It isn't really that odd, considering you've only been here a couple of weeks. Mutual Aid is a foundational idea in most if not all anarchist projects and theory.

There may be many scammers, yes, but the goal remains the same - get help to those who need it from those in a position to give it.

As for being part of the problem, I must disagree. Scammers aren't leeching just this, they'd be present in any system purporting to help others (in gov't systems this is called fraud), the goal of these grassroots aid projects is to help those who fall through the cracks of more formalized systems and decentralize some aid in case the church/NGO/gov't can't or won't help (see the Hurricane Helene/Katrina responses when FEMA is overwhelmed).

Means-testing recipients is kinda a dick move anyway: those who have demonstrable need will have a harder time getting aid and time/money that should be spent helping are now spent with verification.

I mean, yes? But also no?

The US famously lost to poorly equipped guerillas on at leat two occasions (Vietnam and Afghanistan).

Thanks for doing this with a light touch.

Nothing irks me quite like when I don't know what someone said that causes a whole slew of comments to get removed.

If the story hadn't been written out, I would definitely not be able to follow the cacophony that was that goddamn video.

The Taco Bell beetle?

Urticulating!

Buddy, the pyramids are literally covered in written records. 's what heiroglyphs are.

Tried both, hate both. Pooh-bear at all opportunities.

It was presided over by an impartial knife-fight referee.