#intelligence failure

[tomorrowusa]

« Hamas's surprise attack on Israel, on the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur war, will be remembered as an intelligence failure for the ages.

[ … ]

Israel’s surveillance technology industry, as evidenced by the Pegasus spyware scandal, is among the most advanced in the world. Despite all of this, Hamas’s preparations were missed.

[ … ]

[T]his attack takes place in the midst of a period of profound social dislocation for Israel. Netanyahu’s far-right government, peopled with individuals in cabinet roles who should not hold public office, such as Itamar Ben Gvir, the minister for national security, have spent their time pouring petrol on what was an already highly combustible situation in the occupied territories. »

— Peter Beaumont at The Guardian. Mr. Beaumont was previously The Guardian's correspondent in Jerusalem.

This is one of the most spectacular intelligence failures since the start of the 20th century. Israel had previously been renown for having world-class intelligence gathering. Politics may have undermined its effectiveness.

Prime Minister Netanyahu heads the most rightwing government in Israel's history. His Minister of National Security is Itamar Ben-Gvir who is best known for his openly racist views.

Ben-Gvir is an attorney who enjoys representing Israelis accused of hate crimes. The reason he's a senior minister is that Netanyahu needs the votes of Ben-Gvir's extremist party to hold on to power.

Ben-Gvir's portfolio includes overseeing border security. Before being chosen as Minister of National Security by Netanyahu he had no experience in national security – and it certainly showed this weekend.

Pandering to far right factions to attain or retain power is ultimately not a winning move in any country – and that includes the US.

In the end, Netanyahu gets the blame for this disaster; when you intentionally sow division in your country and promote unqualified allies to power for political gain then it's your fail. If you can't rule without the help of racist extremists then you don't deserve to be leading a country.

[qupritsuvwix]

“They do not carry guns.”

[ofswordsandpens]

I'm sincerely very happy for anyone who is enjoying the show but every time I see takes that the show has improved the book characterizations or that the book characters are underdeveloped in comparison to the show...

[the-joy-of-knowledge]

Lessons from failure

I have failed on a small scale and I have failed largely. Some failures still shock me and some, I have gotten over. Here are some lessons I have learned:

Failure could be the beginning or the end of a goal. Only you can figure this out.

Some failures could be predicted.

It is hard to console yourself when you know you are responsible for the failure.

You may fail because you are aiming too low.

To overcome failure, look into the failures of others.

The last thing to do is worry.

You will not get over it, so find a way to get around it.

It will hurt your self-esteem, so seek other ways to repair it.

To minimize the effect of failure, expand your scope.

Don't attach yourself too much to a person, place, or thing.

Try to learn from it while it hurts.

Do not repeat the same mistake.

If you find yourself going through those same cycles, take a break.

Know when to share your failure and when to keep them to yourself.

Best, know who to share them with, let your journal know before your best friend.

[crowtrobotx]

Crying laughing at how stupid I am. I’m checking the roster for a ballet class coming in tonight and the way our system lists attendees for kids’ classes, it shows the parent(s) names and then you click on that and a drop down opens showing the children. I just clicked on one, and saw “Audrey, Cori, +Peanut.”

I was like. These people. They named their kid Peanut. What the hell. What the fuck. Why. Why would you give your other two daughters normal names and then just do a bong rip before signing the birth certificate on the last one. PEANUT JONES.

And then I realized the + was a medical symbol and it was just indicating the girls have peanut allergies as an FYI.

[ride-a-dromedary]

Feeling some kind of way about this exchange between Rath and Kagha post if you expose Kagha working under the Shadow Druids and convince her out of it.

Kagha: I see it on your face. You hate me. And I don't blame you.

Rath: I do not hate you. I am ashamed at how far I let your machinations spread.

Rath: I was blind not to see it. Too trusting. A fool.

Kagha: Not a fool. A friend. Would that I'd realised it...

[satancopilotsmytardis]

Good morning everyone, but especially the person who left a comment saying that my Dabi is fittingly sharp as a knife and dull as a brick. I am kissing you directly on the mouth

[chronurgy]

Every so often I think about the ways I thought wyll's quest was going to go at the end of act 1/early act 2

[ofailureandhatred]

For FUCKS SAKE.

[kinos-fortress-2]

miss pauling is too much of a loser to be a girlboss bruh what are you guys on.

[goblingirlpicnic]

✨❤️😃Please put me down 😃❤️✨

[narwhalandchill]

85 surgically implanted psychiatry degrees and still lost the fight against clinical depression and existential nihilism day 1. everyone point and laugh please

[squarebracketsmileyface]

Hi, I keep coming back, but I got another song for you!! Life After Salem by Lil Nas X is so Jay to Alex, but you can even squeeze some Tim in there too!!

NEW SONG WHOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Okay you know the drill, shitty lyric analysis under the thingy so its all neat and tidy before BAM me spewing a bunch of bullshit about my favorite lil guys. Also this one goes off the rails cos i just finished it with a massive fuck off migraine, so it starts out all detailed then becomes "yes song good good" pretty much lol

You're so right tho, this song is so Jay and Alex.

All of my feelings are gone I left 'em all on the floor Man, who's to blame if you don't love me no more? No, I don't mind, just take whatever you want

Shocker, Alex and Jay singing a duet.

To me the first two lines would be sung by Jay about him hiding his feelings for Alex back in college/uni, pretending he didn't like him or want to be in a relationship with him (beyond just their FWB relationship), pretending he wasn't in love with Alex for years despite knowing that he absolutely was. Probably those lines would be sung by Jay to Alex about their time in College, explaining what he tried to do with his feelings: "I left 'em all on the floor". Those lines would also probably be sung, like, after Alex has said all those nasty things to Jay in the kitchen? Somewhere around then. This is like a song for if they ever actually fucking talked to each other properly lmao.

The next line would be Alex's response, a sort of manipulative way of saying he understands why Jay doesn't trust him anymore, that he understands what he did and why it was cruel. But in that kinda "oh woe is me I'm just the worst" kinda way, yknow? Trying to make Jay go "no, you're not the worst, you're not evil, you just didn't think it's okay!" and give Alex another chance. There'd definitely be a certain level of sincerity as well though, because Alex really does realize that he was pretty damn shitty to Jay. He wants Jay not to love him anymore. He needs Jay not to love him anymore.

Then the last line is kinda both of them, but in different ways, like they'd sing it together but with completely different tones and it'd be so obvious that they're talking about different things. For Jay "No, I don't mind, just take whatever you want" is about how Alex just kinda took and took and took from him throughout their relationship, but it'd also be a kinda, like, good tone? Like Jay's convinced himself that he genuinely doesn't mind how much Alex has taken from him, he kind of likes the fact that he could give Alex that control over him etc? For Alex "No, I don't mind, just take whatever you want" would be a lot more bitter, he feels like Jay is the unreasonable one who just keep's taking, because he's taken Alex's heart (lmao cringe) and Alex was not ready to give it away to him.

Why don't you just take what you want from me? I think you should take what you want and leave Why don't you just take what you want from me? I think you should take what you want and leave

Alex. He wants Jay to have basically everything he's wanted out of their relationship just before he leaves and Alex makes sure that they don't see each other again. Jay gets to kiss Alex, they have sex in a bed, Jay sleeps over, they have breakfast together, etc.

(It is another day now and I have a headache. Thinking is hard, the rest of this is probably gonna be a mess im sorry lol.)

What you want from me? Yeah What you want from me? Yeah

Then just Jay not really knowing why Alex has changed and why he's doing all these nice things for him, so he's just sitting there trying to figure out what Alex wants from him in return for all these nice things. (the answer to that being: alex wants him heartbroken enough to save himself)

Get yourself an Adderall Then throw me up against the wall And kick me when I have to crawl Ooh, I love it when you show no love at all You know I can be your part-time lover Our scars, they'll dance with each other I can be your part-time lover Our scars, they'll dance with each other

Okay, hear me out, this bit's about their dynamic, shocker... even tho it makes it sound a lot more toxic and abusive than it actually was. They were both mostly happy with the dynamic and neither were trying to hurt each other. They just both kinda wanted it to be a romantic relationship when it wasn't, but Alex was scared of that, and Jay wasn't gonna push it for fear of losing what he already had so far. And he'd rather have that than nothing.

"Ooh, I love it when you show no love at all" at first i thought this bit would be Jay, but now that i think about it, it's Alex to me. He liked it when Jay didn't show him any love back in college, because it made it easier to ignore his own feelings for him.

Why don't you just take what you want from me? I think you should take what you want and leave Why don't you just take what you want from me? I think you should take what you want and leave

What you want from me? Yeah What you want from me? Yeah

You're changin' You're changin' every day You played me I let you win again You're changin' You're changin' every day And you're takin' You're takin' everything

They are in fact changing, yup. Probably Jay talking about Alex, Alex changed up their usual dynamic when they got back to his house, then it turned out that all the niceness was just a way to break Jay's heart even worse. He just got his feelings played with, and he didn't really do anything to stop it, because he liked how Alex was treating him too much. Which like, fair.

[anxiously-going]

New mantras: "My intelligence is not based on people's (perceived) assumptions of my knowledge." And "I have value beyond my intellect."

[zorkaya-moved]

aven: oh for kaveh to hear those crimes . . me: thinking about al-haitham probably being the one to read them off (as an acting grand sage) one by one since she was the one who submitted them and zarina just admits to every single charge without changing in the face me: y-yeah... me internally: kaveh might watch zarina die twice too oh no . . .

[vivi-ships]

Oopsie daisy, I thought too hard about the fact that I'll never have the relationships with my family that I desperately crave and that even if I did invite them to my wedding they would ruin it for me because they're awful and now I'm having a mental breakdown. UwU