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I've read on some places that it's actually normal and they help decompose the solids, but I am not sure if this much is okay. Otherwise I don't notice any difference and the drain field looks normal

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Unfortunately everything you said about israel is true, as an (expat) Israeli I see the current conflict only drives us further from any solution and more bloodshed in the future is almost certain.

Regarding Hamas, it's a fundamentalist jihadistic group that will not stop until the complete annihilation of all the Jews, with that I'm certain as they are saying exactly that. However they can be overthrown, that is what this war is about. Who will replace them ? No idea. Might be even worse...

There are many good people on both ends that want to live in peace. Unfortunately the leadership is bad, driven by extremists and the politics are horrible (at least on Israel's side, don't know much about PA)

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I agree with your analysis of Israel. I don't see much hope for change there, unfortunately and looks like this sentiment will only grow stronger from now on. However the discussion was around Hamas specifically. They don't want to live in peace alongside Israel. They completely deny the concept of Israel and will not stop until the last Jew is driven out. Can't justify that either

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Thanks for your answers The round box is the basin in this example. But that's not exactly my setup. In my setup, instead of an open ended exit directly there, I would take it through a pipe to the basin where it would pour open ended... So not that different I guess.

I get what you mean about the pressure. My only doubt is that since it's greywater, it might have slight dirt / hair etc coming from the shower and washing machine that may clog small pipes. I know I can add a filter but I'm trying to keep it simple

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A lot of what you said is just factually incorrect. Putting the west bank aside and focusing on Gaza, there was no humanitarian crisis before October 7 and there are no settlements in Gaza. The "snipers at the border" were not so effective on the day of October 7th when Hamas broke into Israel and massacred women and children. Hamas did not go into settlements in the west bank. It went into regular villages and cities and did what it did.

And that last part about the mocking of Holocaust survivors, not sure where you get that from

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I think Palestinians are very much conceived as the victims today world wide. And I think they are playing that card well and I don't blame them for that.

I didn't want to go to "who started it" because it's a useless debate. The cycle has been going for decades with casualties on both ends.

I'm very much capable of empathy. This whole thread is about the Israel Hamas war so I steered the discussion back to that topic.

I am very sad about the current state of affairs, there's immense suffering on both ends and it's not going to stop anytime soon. I don't hate Palestinians. As an expat Israeli, every time I see a Palestinian abroad we usually become friends and naturally have more in common.

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How do you et HASS to name them ? i,e. what names does it chose ? So basically you leave the location out of the name as that is shown in the area anyway ? Thing is, that sometimes you need to choose a device from a dropdown, and in these dropdowns they don't show the area, so having the location sometime gives more information that is missing

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Palestinians should agree to get their own country and rule it themselves. Why would they be starved and killed ? Not sure I follow. No one should be starved or killed.

And regarding Hamas - Israel cannot coexist next to it. Since Palestinians will not remove Hamas, who else will do it ? Egypt ? The rest of the Arab world ? Israel is left to do it unfortunately. I would like to see any other country in the middle east handle a situation like that... Think they would eliminate Hamas with 0 civilian casualties?

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You have a very dichotomous view of this subject.

All I was trying to convince you is that Israel is not all evil. I can give you countless examples where Palestinians have been treated very well by Israel and by IDF soldiers.

I don't blame you for your haitred. It's a product of your experience. I wish you all the well and that you will find peace one day (all of us).

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I can see you are washed with hatred, I don't blame you.

I can tell you many stories about Israeli peace activists that were affected by all this as well, like this guy for example: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/israeli-exec-who-hired-palestinians-in-tech-boom-still-hopes-for-peace-while-mourning-slain-daughter-c8af06c8

He hired engineers from Gaza and the west bank to try and foster peace through work and his daughter was murdered on Oct 7th. He still hasn't given up on hope.

If you only choose to hate, you continue to cycle

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It IS the government

Then according to your same logic, it is a genocidal government as well, as they murdered 1200 people in few hours.

Hamas doesn't embed itself

Thier fighters are fighting from within the population. It's by design, and there's evidence that they prevent the innocent population from fleeing the war zone even by shooting people who try to flee.

I have as much sympathy for them as I do for visitors to a slave plantation caught up in a slave uprising. Which is to say, some, but not too much. The blame should lay on the family that took their children to a plantation, knowing it was a plantation.

This analogy makes me understand that you see no legitimacy what so ever for the existence of the state of Israel, or Jews in that land, no matter on which borders.

I won't go into the history of Jews in the land of Israel as I don't think it will convince you with anything. You think of Jews as a colonial (white) power occupying a foreign land. Let's agree to disagree.