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> and selective quotation
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I suspect that many of these characters used both creative arts and psychoactive substances as a way of coping with or processing intense and difficult feelings.
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Memri TV is well known for using mistranslations and selective quotation in order to portray Arabs as anti-semitic and extremist: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/may/15/arabic... For all I
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Well put. The step to AI is a little like the step to using an IDE. It simplifies and automate a various bottlenecks. But when the IDE starts randomly failing, you need to call on that guy that knows how to work without the IDE.
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Banning the eating of fish on Fridays discriminates against Catholics, even if the ban applies to everyone.
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The Israeli occupation of Palestine is nothing like a teacher sitting some kids at the front.
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The question is whether Israel treats its Arab citizens fairly. Not whether they fare better in Israel than other countries by some metrics.
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Imagine you're a parent explaining to a kid why it's not right to punch other kids. Do you accept "but they punch other kids too" as an excuse?
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At 90kph if you go on the motorway/highway then you're often a sitting duck in the slow lane being continuously overtaken by massive lorries. That didn't feel very safe. Arguably you should avoid motorways in these cars, but
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Arguably, incidental civilian deaths are morally permissible if they constitute the only effective way to achieve reasonable military objectives. In this specific case, the objective is something like "disable Hamas' capacity to a
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This webpage has a pretty good rundown on the status of Arab Israelis: https://www.cfr.org/backgrounders/what-know-about-arab-citiz... An example of implicit discrimination is Israel's ban on family unification wi
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And the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_refugees_from_German-oc...
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> not expelling Ukrainians to resettle the place with "ethnic Russians" The similarity might be stronger than you suspect. Russia abducts and transports Ukrainian children to controlled territories [0], and actively encourages
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I condemn the terrorist that stands behind a hostage; I condemn the sniper that takes the shot anyway.
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Sure, that's Israel's purported reason for all of its blockades. The result, as in most cases in history, is that civilians bear the overwhelming brunt of the impact while the military resistance digs further in, switches to gueri
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The ICJ is legally and structurally independent of the UN. What specifically do you disagree with about the advisory opinion?
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There is a severe lack of construction materials in Gaza. My guess is that Hamas has a choice between using what's left for tunnels, or losing the war.
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> In October 2025, the ICJ issued an advisory opinion [wikidata] finding that Israel's claims that UNRWA had been infiltrated by Hamas were unsubstantiated. The advisory opinion also said that Israel's decision to end cooperati
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> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. https:&#
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The difference in political climate matters because the public has the ability to vote in a party that will roll back the Investigatory Powers act, if it was something they cared about. The difference in cultural climate matters because Rus
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Buffet is well known for acquisitions that pushed the boundaries of fair competition, and investments in other companies that did the same, or otherwise pursued deeply unethical practices. But he's trodden carefully around the law, so
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In my mind "complacent" means the opposite of "pro-active" - not taking actions or decisions in the face of an issue. That could be because of feeling panicked or uncertain. So I was also surprised by the "smug&quot
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It's pleasantly surprising how much positive vibes you can get driving an unusual car. On a business trip last year, I arrived late at night to the hotel and there was a rank of the smallest cars I'd ever seen: https://
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Huh, I could swear the Windows XP we had when I was a kid showed file extensions by default.
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> While we're at it: Hiding filename extensions was one of the capital sins in computer history, if you ask me So true! Does anyone know why this happened?
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That just sounds wrong. It's a totally different political and cultural climate. Russia has been aggressively censoring the internet since the 2000's, including blocking websites simply for advocating opposition parties (the famou
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It's "learning how to..." rather than "learning that...". Good self-help books can provide a framework to understand how your own childhood development influences your current behaviours, and how you can work to cha
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I think it's absurd to say we're anywhere near Russia, a literal dictatorship. Russia blocks almost all Western and independent media, blocks or throttles Instagram, Facebook, Telegram, and WhatsApp. People who discredit the milit
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I'd be astonished if 14 and 15 year olds don't know workarounds for iOS and android child controls.
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Yes, and that choice is far less successful if their children's friends all have smartphones already.

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