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How Orientalist of you
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He also finds time to vote on a number of resolutions, but somehow not the Holocaust Remembrance one.
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Here we go: www.timesofisrael.com/how-israel-w...
I was somewhat off on the percentage- the article says 70-90%. Still, not exactly a major distinction when it comes to these things.
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There was an article that flew under the radar by @timesofisrael.com about how Israel vastly improved the water infrastructure over the first few months of the war. It was so bad that it had something around 95% loss beforehand. I'll see if I can dig it up.
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Let's see how long it lasts, he's been booted before but came back. And I don't think Twitch is going to like losing their cash cow.
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When the mother of a trans kid in the local school was being harassed, the people who showed up and protested in her defense were the parents who said "we wouldn't tolerate this if it happened to me or my kid"
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Perhaps the pilot of the ship was, like Hegseth, a DUI hire
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Should I watch Boardwalk Empire?
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I feel bad for you, having nothing better to do with your time than to go back to a thread a month old to start yelling at people. I hope you at least treat people in real life better than you do people on the internet, for their sake.
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You sound like Alex Jones
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Decrying the expansion of NATO while expanding their ass for Putin
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Ironically, the whole "X institution used to be good, and now we pine for when it was how we want it to be and we keep supporting it because we don't want to accept that it's changed" is a form of conservatism.
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I wonder what they did during Bennett and Lapid's tenures, and whether there was a new official portrait done for Netanyahu or did everyone just get his back out of their supply closets.
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The whole "the Jews are from Poland" is so blatantly antisemitic from anyone who knows anything about the Holocaust- there are comparatively barely any Polish Jews anymore because so many of them were murdered. So "go back to Poland" is subtly a "go back to Auschwitz".
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It's a weird replacement for Christianity. Figuring an original sin to make the vast majority of their group responsible for, and then offer their movement as absolution for that sin.
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Is SPLC still okay? I know they were good a while ago, but I haven't kept up with them.
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The whole "divestment is what caused SA to eliminate apartheid" is such a Western-centric way of thinking. Sure, people totally undid decades of ingrained racism just because of divestment. Not the literal fighting Nelson Mandela and his compatriots did.
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It's like the scene from Life of Brian: "we should be focusing on the *real enemy*"
Leftists: "The Democrats? Where?!"
"No! The racists!"
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The first image I saw looked more to the side so I was very confused about what the fuss was about, it was just a weird wave.
This angle left no room for mistake. Holy fuck.
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The Nazis were colonial? Then why'd the Vichy government restore the anti-colonial Algerian party that would become the FLN? And why'd the Iraqi government have a pro-Nazi coup in 1941?
All the antisemitic "anti-colonial" movements were started or supported by Nazis.
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I mean, Türkiye as a NATO member is a liability to the rest of NATO given the way Türkiye is involved in so many conflicts- but there's a difference between "Türkiye is bad for NATO" and "NATO is bad for Türkiye".
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Quantization's been around for a while, though. Even before GPT-3 was released. And quantization's not necessarily a guarantee of performance, a network can simply not be quantizable.
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I think a decent chunk of the skepticism and ethical concerns are warranted, but many of it's overblown. Like the whole "the images aren't cohesive and look terrible once you look at it for more than a moment" is correct for now, but the power consumption is mostly a matter of economics.
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And as LLMs get more refined (more efficient designs to utilize computing power and better specialization for tasks) that's only going to get easier.
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My experience with LLMs for some things has been "this has absolutely made me more productive". Enough of a productivity boost than the cost? Dunno, that's up to my employer that pays for it.
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My prediction is that many AI services are currently burning through investor money and will eventually run out based on cost vs value of their service. But that doesn't mean they'll simply vanish, it will mean people will have to consider which things are actually worthwhile.
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This is eerily similar to the idea that "Ukraine's existence is a threat to Russian sovereignty", that as long as what Russia claims is Russian territory isn't under its control, Russia is threatened.
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The USSR fought the Nazis. That doesn't mean the USSR was one of the "good guys" of WWII. Which is why even though Finland was "on Germany's side" during WWII, it was less "pro-Nazi" and more "anti-Soviet".
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People seem to expect the President to be all-powerful, but that it's okay because he'll be all-powerful in the "good" way. So many of the things people demand of him take acts of Congress to change.
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They're literal fascists- they require pledges of loyalty to their rule, they employ a secret police that encourages reporting on neighbors, and brutally maim and murder political opposition.
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"forcibly transfer homeless people to areas of the country that people left for good reason" is quite the take
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You think the hostage deal would happen without military actions? As if Hamas would just decide "you know what, I don't want them anymore"?
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There were rallies in support of the attack on the very same day. So many people claiming "this is what liberation looks like".
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Where was all this concern for Gazans' oppression at the hands of Hamas before October 7th?
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"The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies... However, the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak."
-Umberto Eco
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Conveniently, "hating Zionists" allows them to make Maghrebi, Mizrahi, Yemenite, Ethiopian, and several former USSR Jews as valid targets of hate. You know, the "non-white Jews".
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Soviet antisemitism has shown itself to be remarkably resilient
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Case in point: Benjamin Zuskin, who helped promote Yiddish culture among Russia's Jews, was executed by Stalin. His daughter lives in Jerusalem.
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Honestly- Trump.
The Netanyahu-Trump relationship is a lot more complicated than people realize, so it's very probable that Trump put extremely strong pressure on Netanyahu in ways Biden couldn't.
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Plus, by this logic Americans should be protesting Egypt and the UAE for that same "we're paying for it" reason.
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For someone so "objective", you leave out quite a few massacres of Jews committed by Palestinians even before the Zionist movement started.