With flow through the national supply lines weakening, the Israel Water Authority ordered local councils to curb consumption for farming, gardening, and other public use, while the Israeli government completely shut off external water supplies to Gaza.

“No other country should provide any assistance that could contribute to these unlawful US government killings,”

calling on israel to end its support of racist US massacres

Neither of the examples you are providing are ideal approaches, but personally I might prefer the first one. It kind of sounds like they are asking a question but badly. But it is possible to approach this kind of conversation way more tactfully. And to the advantage of the manager because people will be more comfortable and less defensive.

There are a million ways your scenario could happen. Another possibility is that the manager misunderstood something. My last boss was notorious for approaching people, very serious and grimly, with accusations of wrong doing. then when the worker would go ask the “accusor” it would turn out to have been some totally innocuous comment or like someone making a joke or mild social-type complaint or giving feedback on the workplace as a whole. And this included situations where multiple people were present and everyone agreed, so its not just someone lying to preserve the relationship. I was on both sides if the exchange myself. When i heard that i had made an “accusation” I had made I really had to think hard to figure out the grain of reality it was based upon. That’s just one example of what could have transpired.

As you may infer from that story, “accusations” were pretty commonplace. And it was overall a good job, just that manager didn’t know how to do their role. 2 in 4 years is a pretty good run.

while there is clearly a genocide, and the attacks on the flotilla were probably illegal, I don’t easily see how the flotilla attacks were genocidal.

Headline should read “useable right now”.

1. As of 24 June 2026, 4 091 ha of cropland, equivalent to 27.2 percent, were accessible. Of this, only 448 ha, or approximately 3.0 percent, were both accessible and undamaged, compared with 601 ha, or approximately 4.0 percent, in October 2025. This represents a decrease of 153 ha, or 25.5 percent, with the largest declines in available cropland recorded in Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis.

But the total amount of damage is 90% cropland and 80% greenhouses.

The damage was all done 2+ years ago and the longer that passes the harder it will be to remediate. So think the article kind of buries the lede.

They should rename it the Straight of America

chamber of commerce. corporate lobbyists. religious advocacy.

just think of anything that’s doing fine, there is a group for that.

but even if you pick something you don’t find evil, like say you have a great park near you, there is probably some group or another that keeps it that way. so even though it looks like a do-nothing job, they are doing something.

does an existential threat imply existence?

Blaming their problems of shit infrastructure on RUSSIA.

https://georank.org/population/ukraine