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It's not scary at all from behind a keyboard.

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Not sure if this is exactly what you're looking for, but the opening scene to The Conversation uses a high-zoom shot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlwdpNw1FW8

Eye in the Sky also prominently features long-distance/high magnification shots from the perspective of a drone/UAV.

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If Hamas isn't a terrorist organization then what would you call them?

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My definition of terrorist tactics is irrelevant to how the OP would classify Hamas.

Regardless, here's how terrorism is defined on Wikipedia: it seems pretty reasonable to me.

Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims. The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violence during peacetime or in the context of war against non-combatants

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The fact that you're trying move this conversation towards the actions of Israel while avoiding the actions of Hamas leads me to believe you're not interested in having a genuine discussion. I think you're trying to play gotcha.

Have Israel and Hamas used terrorist tactics? I think so. Do both sides not care about the well-being of civilians? I think so. Are both sides of this conflict bad? I think so.

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I agree with everything you've said. Hamas can be a terrorist organization, and still be the elected government. Both can be true, and acknowledging the how and why of that being the case is necessary reach a resolution to the conflict.

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9 of the teams reaching a different conclusion is a pretty large group. Nearly a third of the teams, using what I assume are legitimate methods, disagree with the findings of the other 20 teams.

Sure, not all teams disagree, but a lot do. So the issue is whether or not the current research paradigm correctly answers "subjective" questions such as these.

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So ignore all non-significant results? What's to say those methods result in findings closer to the truth than the methods with no significant results.

The issue is that so many seemingly legitimate methods produce different findings with the same data.

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The US tried that. It was called the Articles of Confederation. It didn't really work out.

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What do you consider to be memes? Just images/image macros? Gifs? Videos? Copy pastas? Do you dislike all of these, or just some?

Generically, I'd say memes are essentially just widespread "internet culture" inside jokes. Disliking humor or inside jokes is definitely not the norm.

18+ YSK: The "Troubled Teen" industry that was big in the 90's and 2000's was not only a complete sham, but was (and STILL is) horrifically abusive and traumatic. ( en.wikipedia.org )

Marked NSFW for a number of reasons - potentially triggering to anyone who's been through this or something similar. Supplemental links contain some very dark, horrifying accounts....

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Tom Hanks sent one of his kids to one of these institutions.

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