FtttG
User ID: 1175
FtttG
1hr ago
Second attempt: 288/320.
FtttG
1hr ago
I've been banging this drum for a long time.
FtttG
2hr ago
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FtttG
2hr ago
I think the typos are deliberate foil questions, under the assumption that a person genuinely familiar with the topic would notice that the word was misspelled.
My results: 280/320.
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I only noticed afterwards that exactly five answers are correct and five false. Curious if I can improve my score armed with this knowledge.
FtttG
5hr ago
In this way they carry water for the actual anti-semites.
@ymeskhout drew an evocative comparison:
Getting on a soapbox with "We demand that Israel stop trying to get its hostages back from insane terrorists!" is not a winning message, and so they tried to falsely moderate their Jihadi simping. The unabashed loons braying for the complete destruction of Israel could take cover behind the normies who showed up to protests simply because they hated seeing pictures of dead kids on their Instagram feed. Kind of like human shields.
FtttG
5hr ago
if one day the shoe is on the other foot and the Palestinians achieve military supremacy?
I'll believe it when I see it.
Ashkenazi (European) Jews, who make up most of the Israeli population
Untrue. Ashkenazi Jews only make up 32% of Israeli Jews, or 23% of Israel's population. The single biggest Jewish demographic in Israel are the Mizrahi Jews, representing 45% of Israeli Jews or 33% of the population of the country.
European and good at science you say?
Among Israeli Jews, 45% are Mizrahi who are about as European as the Arabs are. I'd hazard a guess that if I conducted a survey in which I showed respondents a photo of a Mizrahi Jew and a Palestinian Arab without telling them which was which, people would perform no better than chance. 3% of Israeli Jews are Ethiopian. Less than half are Ashkenazi or Russian.
The idea that the Israel-Palestine conflict reduces to anything as simple as "white settler-colonialists oppressing brown people" is a ludicrous fantasy.
FtttG
8hr ago
The Nakba is estimated to have expelled 750k Palestinians from their land i.e. 7.4% of the current total population of Israel. From a purely pragmatic, logistics perspective, expelling 10 million people is going to be a lot harder than expelling 750k people.
FtttG
10hr ago
First, there's this idea that Israel is the primary/principle cause of all instability in the region, and that if we suddenly removed all the Jews and gave back the land to the Palestinians, we would have peace. This is absurd. The violence in Lebanon between shiites/sunnis/christians, the question of the Kurds, and the Sunni/Shiite Cold (I guess hot now) war are all conflicts that have their origins long before the founding of Israel. Heck if Israel wasn't there to focus hatred on, the Arabs would probably fight among themselves even more.
As I pointed out 8 months ago, since the end of the second world war, the average Middle Eastern state has been involved in 10 conflicts, including civil wars and revolutions. My interlocutor characterised Israel as a state which is in constant conflict with everyone and everything around them, but this seems to describe pretty much every Middle Eastern state, and Israel is actually the outlier in having undergone zero civil wars or revolutions since its founding.
FtttG
11hr ago
Israel has repeatedly offered Gaza back to Egypt, and Egypt has always refused. They don't want millions of dysfunctional and violent Palestinians inside their borders any more than Lebanon did.
FtttG
11hr ago
There is a criticism of ethnonationalism that since every ethnic group considers itself God’s gift to humanity, ethnostates will be especially prone to lash-out and start wars when they don’t get the respect they think they deserve.
How many wars have Japan, Korea and Liberia been involved in recently?
Even if Israel is an ethnostate, it's more diverse than several of these nations e.g. the 2 million Arab Israelis.
FtttG
1d ago
Yes, I could just marry a Filipina, but Chinese women are more intelligent, and more beautiful.
Filipinas are more well-endowed though.
FtttG
2d ago
My boss has wanted me to build a report for him for months, and I haven't been able to figure it out. Yesterday I tried asking ChatGPT, but after iterating on its suggestions for hours, I was no closer. Girlfriend suggesting asking Claude: Claude suggested much the same nonviable solution as ChatGPT, then demanded I pay for the pro version before it would offer me any more help. The nerve.
Today a colleague suggested asking Gemini. The first two solutions it suggested didn't work. The third one worked perfectly.
I am seriously impressed. I had no idea how good Gemini was relative to other LLMs.
Seconded doing it in instalments. You can use our comments as feedback when you're compiling a second draft which combines all four into a single post/article.
FtttG
2d ago
New year's resolutions check-in:
- To make up for only going to the gym twice the week before, I went to the gym four times last week. Can deadlift 1.8x my bodyweight for 3 reps, squat 1.05x for 6 reps and bench press .85x for 6 reps.
- Have not consumed any pornography since waking up on January 1st.
- Have completed the SQL course.
How goes it, @thejdizzler, @birb_cromble, @falling-star and @Tollund_Man4?
FtttG
3d ago
Completed the fourth draft of my novel on Sunday. It's just shy of 96k words, about 17k shorter than the third draft and, I think, much stronger for it.
FtttG
3d ago
Personally, I hate the Turkey teeth look almost as much as lip filler. People cutting about like they've a mouth full of bathroom tile.
It's more of a chronological categorisation than an ethnic one. Ashkenazim who emigrated to Israel around 1948 would presumably have a lot of ancestry in common with Russian Jews, but the Russian Jews are mostly those who emigrated from the USSR in a large influx around 1989. Because of this, they're a distinct cohort in terms of culture, language and history, if not ethnicity.
It is surprising that they don't mention Sephardim etc. anywhere in the article. Maybe there really aren't that many of them?
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