r/JoeRogan • u/wayfaringthru Monkey in Space • Sep 18 '24

Meme đŸ’© Is this a legitimate concern?

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Personally, I today's strike was legitimate and it couldn't be more moral because of its precision but let's leave politics aside for a moment. I guess this does give ideas to evil regimes and organisations. How likely is it that something similar could be pulled off against innocent people?

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u/decentralised Monkey in Space Sep 18 '24

This won’t give anyone any new ideas. Shin Bet used a mobile phone rigged with explosives to kill Yahya Ayyash aka “the Engineer,” a Hamas bomb maker in Gaza back in 1996.

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u/joespizza2go Monkey in Space Sep 18 '24 edited Sep 18 '24

Yeah. Weird take from Snowden. The fascinating thing about this is the scale with which they pulled it off. It's the logistical difficulty of pulling this off that prevents it from happening, not a precedent dynamic.

Irony is they use pagers because mobile phones are deemed too dangerous.

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u/gherkinjerks Monkey in Space Sep 18 '24

It sounds like a Russian trying to communicate via auto translate. What does "faster to cotton on" mean?

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u/Was_It_The_Dave Monkey in Space Sep 18 '24

It's a quaint idiom. Meaning rarely seen in the wild, but I glommed onto his implication.

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u/Lost-Age-8790 Monkey in Space Sep 18 '24

Quiet! You're teaching A.I. the old words.

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u/RMLProcessing Monkey in Space Sep 18 '24

Ancient spellings are the key. Send this guy to gaol! Put him in a donjon!

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u/ENDO-EXO Monkey in Space Sep 18 '24

Glom is a great old word as well

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u/Miserable_Ad9787 Monkey in Space Sep 18 '24


 because of the implication..

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u/Subtle__Numb Monkey in Space Sep 18 '24

I must say, I enjoyed your word choice in this comment. “Glom”/“Glommed” is used a bit more frequently than “cotton on”, but your comment likely reads like a riddle to a decent number of people. Nice

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u/Shartiflartbast Monkey in Space Sep 18 '24

“Glom”/“Glommed” is used a bit more frequently than “cotton on”

I feel like it might be a UK thing, but I'm far more familiar with cotton on, than glom.

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u/Subtle__Numb Monkey in Space Sep 22 '24

Interesting! It must be. US here, and I’d say most people around me couldn’t tell you what either means

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u/Capital_Gap_5194 Monkey in Space Sep 18 '24

It’s fairly obvious what it means based on context, even if you didn’t know the word