watutalkinbout

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by watutalkinbout 2mo ago
Whereas they just love the Muslims.
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by watutalkinbout 2mo ago
Someone should probably do it, given that most news media don't appear to consider it news worthy.
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by watutalkinbout 2mo ago
I think if you believe that a two state solution is a potential future outcome (without gargantuan shifts in numerous things), then I think you aren't evaluating information sources very well (which to be fair applies to all of us cons
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by watutalkinbout 2mo ago
I agree that aid saves lives and support it, and think some of the people behind cutting it are basically evil... ... but the ethical difference between not giving something to kids versus dropping bombs on kids isn't hard to spot.
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by watutalkinbout 2mo ago
It's not that complicated. 123 died in Iran School bombing event. At least 21,600 Gazan children have died since the beginning of the war [UNICEF] in many events over a long period of time. 21,600 > 123 (Both involved US tax dollars
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by watutalkinbout 2mo ago
It's complicated... but people don't like the mass bombing of kids. That's not complicated.
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by watutalkinbout 2mo ago
"Not formally" rather implies you think it was. Northern Ireland was/is part of the UK, so civil war I could probably agree with. The reason I mentioned religion was nothing to do with the requirements it places on how thing
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by watutalkinbout 2mo ago
I guess your viewpoint on that varies entirely based on your preferred time period, and my responses vary based on how realistic or honest I believe the response is. I'm not sure there is a win-win solution, and I think there are sizea
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by watutalkinbout 2mo ago
Which is exactly why people should be defining things in terms of the seller, not the buyer.
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by watutalkinbout 2mo ago
If I deliberately ridiculously over pay for an item to create publicity then as the buyer it explicitly doesn't have that value to me. The value isn't in the item purchased. I think your definition of value / worth should be
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by watutalkinbout 2mo ago
I'm curious. Was Britain at war with Northern Ireland? I've come to believe that it's pretty impossible to understand Israel-Palestine without the lens of religion.
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by watutalkinbout 2mo ago
I'm struggling to work out if you actually believe this, which seems unlikely, or if it's just a plausible facade.
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by watutalkinbout 2mo ago
I don't think even I would think surrender, in those circumstances, makes a great deal of sense. Given the long run experience of Palestinians... And I'm an atheist. Mind you, I'm also British. Northern Ireland and all that.
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by watutalkinbout 2mo ago
If you genuinely mean this, at least somewhat naive. I believe Russia and Ukraine have had many peace talks, and Putin really wants peace. It's just those peaky Ukrainians not agreeing.
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by watutalkinbout 2mo ago
Hamas isn't Gazans. The population of Gaza has been declining over the last 2 years as a direct result of 10s of thousands of Gazas being killed, including thousands of kids. The methods thankfully differ, but the goals are pretty simi
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by watutalkinbout 2mo ago
I guess it depends on your definition. The issue is that buying something for the memes isnt worth less, it's 'what you are actually buying'?. If I arbitarily decide to buy an apple for $10 that I could have bought for $1, wh
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by watutalkinbout 2mo ago
So if I bought it for the memes, the shop itself wasn't worth $1 billion. I could have bought bike shop, or an apple. That value wasn't associated with that specific item. It's an arbitrary choice.
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by watutalkinbout 2mo ago
If you lock women and children in a ghetto, then bomb and shoot them relentlessly for months and years, people are going to want to know what book you are reading.
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by watutalkinbout 2mo ago
Gazans are being exterminated regardless of their actions. The Warsaw ghettos didn't exist for very long. People are people, treat them the same way and you'll probably get similar results. Of course, in this case both sides have
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by watutalkinbout 2mo ago
I'm pretty sure French guards didn't prevent movement between Germany and the rest of France.
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by watutalkinbout 2mo ago
What if I say, "it's not worth $1T to me but I'm doing it for the memes" Are you selling me just the apple?
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by watutalkinbout 2mo ago
Okay. I buy a sweetshop for 1 billion dollars. Now, immediately after I have bought it, what's it worth?
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by watutalkinbout 2mo ago
No. You are assuming that the money that I buy the sweet shop for is what I evaluate the value of the sweet shop to be worth. That's not necessarily true. You're also assuming I'm not insane. If I offer to buy an apple from
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by watutalkinbout 2mo ago
Warsaw Ghetto was sealed off in November 1940 by a wall more than 10 feet high, with barbed wire and guarded gates. German authorities specifically used the guards to prevent movement between the ghetto and the rest of Warsaw. Sounds famili
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by watutalkinbout 2mo ago
Well, yes but not really. I could buy a local sweetshop for a 100 billion dollars, just because I might do that, that doesn't mean it's actually worth that.
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by watutalkinbout 2mo ago
Norway could just start a European AI company (or even just a Microsoft replacement). OpenAI is a mess. Start with a fresh slate, using open models and you can actually build a company that makes sense.
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by watutalkinbout 2mo ago
A lot of Jews in the Polish Ghettos were pretty extremist.
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by watutalkinbout 2mo ago
I was referring to Jews outside the US, although I appreciate most Jews outside Israel live in the US (you were referring to Eastern Europe). I'd agree that within the US opinions differ markedly, which I think is likely in part strong
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by watutalkinbout 2mo ago
Based on data, the American population distrusts is own news media more than the European population distrusts its news media (markedly so if you consider only Western Europe). In 2026, only 25% of Americans said they trusted news overall
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by watutalkinbout 2mo ago
I'm not sure what meaning you can ascribe to this kind of statement, because whilst it is factually true in isolation, it also omits so much information it's almost meaningless. There's plenty of evidence that the Israeli gov

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