DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
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DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
18d ago
Have you attempted changing the color filter accessibility feature to deuteranopia, and then looking at scenery pictures?
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
20d ago
I just discovered that everything looks better with the color filter in the Windows accessibility features, and I may have very slight sub-clinical deuteranopia, weakness of the green cones. I was just playing around with the feature and realized the desktop wallpaper on my second monitor looked a lot better!
So I took the https://www.colorblindnesstest.org test. Apparently there aren't supposed to be any "hard" guesses on the Ishihara plates (bubble numbers), but four of the plates took me more than five seconds to decipher.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
25d ago
I wondered why the attack happened on a Sabbath, but it being the week of Purim makes sense. Per Google:
Shabbat Zachor: The Shabbat immediately preceding Purim is known as Shabbat Zachor ("Remember"). During this service, a special Torah portion (Deuteronomy 25:17-19) is read, commanding the remembrance of Amalek, an enemy who attacked the Israelites from behind, specifically targeting the weak and elderly. This connects directly to the villain of the Purim story, Haman, who is considered a descendant of Amalek.
Trump’s team is doing a Pascal’s Wager that it’s worth supporting Israel religiously, as well as politically. This will make the anti-Zionists and antisemites “big mad” as the kids say. I do wonder if this strike counts under the original Persian decree of Xerxes that the Jews be allowed to defend themselves; in the Book of Esther, a decree written in the king’s name and sealed with the royal signet ring cannot be revoked.
As for the direction of the Middle East and Levant going forward, I want to see Iranian blood money dry up and see the region incentivized to peace by the siren song of capitalism.
Iran is run by an ethnic supremacist Arab ruling class forcing (at pain of death or worse) the native Persian populace to bow to their god. The tens of thousands of protesters they killed are more legibly a genocide than the fog-of-war deaths of far fewer non-Hamas Palestinians.
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