It's like it's trying to impress you with poetry in comment: "What the function does, it does well, and only just once"

There are several factors involved as I see it - a lot of money from Qatar flowing to make sure Israel is always shown as the aggressor, anti-semmitism is still prevalent, most people can't grok what the issue is in the Middle East anyway, people don't understand what living 10km from people who want to kill you looks and, and war is horrible and it's always easier to side with the people who seem to be the underdog.

> most people can't grok what the issue is in the Middle East

In your own words, what is the issue in the Middle East?

Unfortunately this is a story as long as time itself, with tons of narratives to it so I can't write as a HN comment.

I wish I was eloquent and knowledgeable enough to write it, I'd probably write a book.

That’s certainly one way of describing it.

Another is: an indigenous people with a continuous presence in the land, joined by mostly legal immigrants (and later by refugees fleeing pogroms and the Holocaust with literally nowhere else to go) built towns, farms and infrastructure, drained swamps and developed an economy that also attracted some Arab immigration and created Arab employment.

This happened under the colonial rule of the Ottomans. Then later under the colonial rule of the British. Finally in 1948, colonial rule ended, much to the dismay of Arab colonialists.

You could say that, but you'd be wrong, like saying indigenous people with a continuous presence in the land, joined mostly by lehalmimmgirwnts, built towns, farms and infrastructure, drained swamps and developed an economy, in South Africa.

What part of what I said was wrong?

South Africa is a meme analogy which doesn’t fit the history. If you’d like a better analogy (though there are no good ones) I’d look at India and Pakistan in the 1940s.

I also happen to know the history of my own country, Australia, and when I try to draw parallels between Australian history and Israeli history, I see that the excuses we give for continuing our presence here are weaker in every way. So it would be hypocritical for me to holier-than-thou the decision of Jews to declare a homeland where a non-trivial portion of their global population have always lived.

What was there before Hamas?

The PLO, which was getting too peaceful for Netanyahu's tastes so he had to prop up Hamas instead.

What makes you believe this? Please show hard facts, not just wand waving

Netanyahu said so. Please do a quick Google before commenting, it'll make your propaganda much more effective.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up...

It says clearly in the article you linked that it's just a rumor. He said no such thing.

Interesting you didn't make any actual point there. On purpose, I assume. You're just doing the Joe Rogan meme of telling us to think about something.

have you seen the extent of tunnels that were there?

No, have you? Is there any independent confirmation of their existence?

Personally I haven’t. I know my office is gone. I know the hotel I used to stay in (always fun to wake up seeing a gunboat a couple of miles off shore pointing at you out the window) has gone.

My colleagues have seen these tunnels. At least ore 2023. Israel has denied them entry since then.

Tons of pictures and videos were published by both sides.

Yes, hamas posted about it?

> You could have bought a bell...

Over engineering is about the solution, not the requirement:

> I wanted something that lets me play a custom bell

"You could have bought a bell.."

No because similar commercial products were either out of stock or not compatible with my AC voltage.

If you find one that meets your requirements that is an option.

Granted maybe your requirements are ridiculous. But I also had cases where I DIYed a solution because the commercially available solutions all either didn't fulfil the requirements and/or had anti-features that ruled out their use. I haven't had any regret so far with these solutions, with some of these being active for over a decade.

There may be over engineering, but replacing a bought solution that needs to connect to the internet and someone else's computer to ring a bell with a simple 433MHz sender and a MP4-player module isn't that. Do you know what is required for a device to even connect to a WiFi? That alone is more complex than the whole system the user built here.

Your comment got downvoted, because on this site it is frowned upon to write lazy, confrontative and uninformative comments. If you don't have an argument that furthers the discussion consider not writing instead.

Simple systems have the advantage that there are less moving parts. Less moving parts means less chance of failure. That is a trade-off an engineer will sometimes take even if it means building a new thing, sometimes something with more moving parts is needed and that is okay as well.

Maybe your requirement is to have a doorbell that does work when the internet is out. Who knows? OP might live in a place where this happens more often. Or they might not and like the idea to never again have to think about their doorbell-manufacturers cloud and the latests exploits targeting that IoT product. There are many reasons why simple can be the right choice and any true engineer would say: "depends" instead of "so what".

> If you don't have an argument that furthers the discussion consider not writing instead.

You are correct in general, but I think "so what?" was an adequate response (even though I don't agree with it) in this case that actually furthered the discussion as can be seen from your long reply.

We don't always need LLM-like, long comments. Sometimes "so what?" can be intriguing enough.

Could it be related to the anagram it's planting?

If it's wasting inference attempting to also fit in some anagram, it would make sense why answers are so dogmatic.