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by edanm 1y ago
I'm not going to read an entire book, especially one written by someone I so little respect for, since he lies constantly and is, to put it mildly, biased against Israel. What happened was that the state of Israel accepted reparations
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Do you have a source for this? These are much higher numbers than that I'm aware of outside of during specific skirmishes which usually lasted a few weeks at most.
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by edanm 1y ago
A possibility of an imminent strike on Iran was discussed in the Israeli press for the last few days. There have been several signs that it might happen, including the US removing people from its embassies in the region, etc.
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by edanm 1y ago
> You’re in a thread arguing that it’s ok for “western governments” to have cyber weapons but not Iran because Iran is morally inferior. Yes, and the parent's answer to this was "allies of Western governments are also morally i
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by edanm 1y ago
I'm not sure what you're talking about. Israel kept a small buffer zone around the border, but other than that, I'm not sure what "layered security exclusion zones" you mean. And Israel didn't just randomly sho
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by edanm 1y ago
I would greatly appreciate if you didn't just assume things about me with absolutely no reason for it. Or do you also want people to assume everything about your views based on the average views of people in your country? > Such m
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by edanm 1y ago
I don't know why you think anything you said contradicts anything I said. I didn't say that allies of the US were morally superior. > Turn off the tv and learn about the history of topics you want to shoot your mouth off in pub
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by edanm 1y ago
You're right, but the parent wasn't saying Israel has a vast spy network, they said Israel has the "biggest spy network ever invented, which is woven into practically all software and tech infrastructure we use in the West [.
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by edanm 1y ago
So Israel has been conducting genocide against Palestinians for decades? That's simply preposterous. There's zero reason to think so, and many, many reasons to think it's not true. > since decades before its for for-show s
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by edanm 1y ago
> "most are combatants" serves to justify the ongoing genocide when the opposite is true in reality. I disagree with that part of the comment (and said so), but disagreed on a factual statement does not make a comment genocidal
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by edanm 1y ago
> Israel is doing settler colonialism to people that had nothing to do with WW2 and the holocaust. If you have a problem with the Germans, take it up with Germany. > [...] it is a common understanding that they are being subjected to
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by edanm 1y ago
What makes the comment "genocidal" exactly?
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It's inaccurate to say "most" are combatants. The estimate is usually 2/3rds are civilians and 1/3rd are combatants. Of course it's hard to get real answers on all these questions - Gaza's Hamas-run MoH is
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by edanm 1y ago
Israel is powerful, but also has powerful enemies. That's entirely consistent and happens to be entirely true. And yes, Israel is a tiny country, both compared to almost all its enemies, and just objectively - it's one of the sm
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by edanm 1y ago
> The misuse of such tools outweighs the legitimate use cases, so people want to know who is so reckless to sell these programs Do you have any evidence of this? Cause my guess is the misuse is the stuff you hear about because it eventua
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by edanm 1y ago
If you're claiming that Iran's government is somehow morally equivalent to Italy's, you're massively wrong. It's not about "the white mans burden", whatever that means. It's about Iran's governme
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by edanm 1y ago
vim mode is far, far better than any alternative way of using a keyboard (because you don't have to ever move your hands from home row). Even without vim mode, just the vim keybindings by themselves are far better. Once I got used to u
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by edanm 1y ago
Note that I worked with Emacs already a few years ago, and it was Spacemacs specifically. That said, VSCode is - much nicer looking, a lot of things come working out of the box that I had to work hard to make work in Emacs (even with Spacem
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> I don't find that it's possible or reasonable anymore, the desire to be "pure" and use only ONE tool to rule them all. It's not about being "pure". I was originally interested in Emacs because of th
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by edanm 1y ago
> Personally, after using MyFitnessPal for a couple years, switching to ParrotPal made calorie counting way less time-I just need to give it a quick text (or voice) description and it does a surprisingly good job of estimating. I haven&#
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by edanm 1y ago
> Counting calories presumably works (when it does) because it’s combined with more nutritious, regular meals, better awareness, etc. This is what critics don't get. Calorie counting is what makes people have better awareness, and w
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by edanm 1y ago
> I'm sorry but the majority party in the Israeli government is unquestionably motivated by racism. [...] The Israeli government is unabashedly engaged in a racially motivated genocide, Let's put aside whether or not someone ag
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by edanm 1y ago
> or exiled to the ever-shrinking West Bank. You're mixing two completely different things here. Arab-Israelis (meaning Israeli citizens who are Arabs, which represents about 20% of the Israeli population) are not "exiled&quo
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by edanm 1y ago
> Go learn about what Israel is doing in the non-Hamas-controlled West Bank. For the record, there is a lot of Hamas presence in the WB, even if it's not Hamas controlled. So if you are referring to government action in the WB, then
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by edanm 1y ago
There are some Israeli officials who are extremists and talk that way, but they represent a right-wing extreme bloc of Israeli voters. These officials have a lot of power and influence right now for a variety of reasons. But this is by no m
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by edanm 1y ago
> A lot of nationalist consider a lot of other races undesirable. The Israeli mainstream right is fairly open about their attitudes to gentiles, whether arab muslim, arab christians, or the disposable lives of US servicemen they wish to
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by edanm 1y ago
> If we state the full nature of our experiment, what we controlled and what we didn't... how can it be a "degree of belief"? Here's a question for you: what's the millionth digit of Pi? (In the standard decimal
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by edanm 1y ago
Expecting an expert in one thing to also be pretty good at other domains, especially when they're relatively related, isn't a fallacy.
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by edanm 1y ago
> the promises of groundbreaking use cases that will change the world are obviously not materialising and to anyone that understands the tech it can’t. In what world is this obviously not materializing? Plenty of people use GenAI for c
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by edanm 1y ago
I don't really know what we're disagreeing on. > This isn't markdown, but markdown + dozens of extensions, Yes, if the way you use Obsidian includes dozens of extensions that each use a proprietary format, then it's s

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