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fldskfjdslkfj··on ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials
Sure, and yet if you take the examples you provided, unless you just happened to make a series of "unlucky" picks the probability is that the bias is pretty strong.

Now of course, there's nothing inherently wrong with having a bias (depending on the bias of course), but if you clearly have one while claiming to try and be unbiased that's wrong imo.

fldskfjdslkfj··on Bluesky is ushering in a pick-your-own algorithm era of social media
I never understood why something like YouTube doesn't allow you to at least control the level of discovery.
fldskfjdslkfj··on Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted
Take 100 NATO F-16 pilots and grant them Ukrainian citizenship.
fldskfjdslkfj··on Ben Affleck's surprisingly comprehensive take on LLMs for video
We already have procedurally generated content in games - and quite a few of those seem to be pretty popular.
fldskfjdslkfj··on Humans have caused 1.5 °C of long-term global warming according to new estimates
On the bright side for a brief moment in time we created lots of shareholder value.
fldskfjdslkfj··on OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are struggling to build more advanced AI
There's plenty of video content being uploaded and streamed everyday, i find it hard to believe the more data will really change something, excluding very specialized tasks.
fldskfjdslkfj··on Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to Lead Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)
As in do(d)ge Tesla cars after Musk removes all safety regulations for self driving cars?
fldskfjdslkfj··on Code that helped end Apartheid
I think you missed the point. The claim is based on being native to the lands, has nothing to do with god.
fldskfjdslkfj··on Code that helped end Apartheid
It's a pretty simple argument - how can one colonize a region in which they are native to?

You could argue there's unfairness in the events, but saying israel is a colony is just odd, jews have come from the region.

fldskfjdslkfj··on Code that helped end Apartheid
Feel free to educate yourself on the history of jews in the region: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_and_Judais...

"God gave us the land" has nothing to do with the jewish connection to the land.

fldskfjdslkfj··on Code that helped end Apartheid
Oh to the contrary - It would be the privileged who would be fine chasing some ideal in the name of justice while sacrificing all the unprivileged people who are actually suffering day to day.
fldskfjdslkfj··on Code that helped end Apartheid
A news source that has confirmed with at least one seismology expert who has conducted a thorough (preferably peer reviewed) analysis showing that the charts are abnormal for an earthquake and are more inline with those of an explosion.

It seems to me like it's should be extremely easy to distinguish the two, there's more than enough earthquake data - and that fact that there is no such report says it all. For starters i'd even take an amateur analysis, but just some dude on twitter saying "there was seismic activity - must be a nuclear test" - nah.

fldskfjdslkfj··on Code that helped end Apartheid
Enjoy your speculative theories. Lots of minor earthquakes don't have aftershocks, not to mention that Iran is one of the most seismically active countries in the world.

But please feel free to provide a trustworthy news source backing your claim.

fldskfjdslkfj··on Code that helped end Apartheid
What are you even talking about?
fldskfjdslkfj··on Code that helped end Apartheid
You are delusional. Iran lost most of its deterrence, its proxies have been decimated and its ICBM capabilities, although not nothing haven't really managed to cause any significant damage and have shown that they lack sufficient accuracy.

Will the balance of power change a few decades from now? Maybe, who knows, but for now Iran is in a tough spot.

fldskfjdslkfj··on Code that helped end Apartheid
Could a one state solution work sometime deep into the future? Perhaps, but the only way to achieve a stable and prosperous one state solution is by first having a two state solution with decades of peace, rebuilding of trust and a return to a more secular direction from both sides.

If you'd try to force a one state solution in the near/medium term you'd just end up with another divided failed state similar to lebanon (and probably much worse), the population would just be too divided on basically every subject, with militant/religious extremists on both sides making the keg especially explosive.

So ask yourself what is better for the people, trying to achieve some ideal for the sake of that ideal or actually trying to achieve something that could work? If this were an engineering project, would you do a full refactor with an extremely high chance of failure or go through an intermediate step that would bring a lot of the benefits with a much higher chance of success?

fldskfjdslkfj··on Code that helped end Apartheid
Show me a country that doesn't have systemic discrimination of minority groups.

At the end of the day it's quite clear why jewish people want a jewish country, so yes, some discrimination around immigration will always be "built-in" into israel.

Now do I think israel is trending in the wrong direction? 100% yes. Do I wish for a two state solution and achieving as equal rights as possible while maintaining the status of israel as a jewish state? also 100% yes.

Do I think that calling israel proper an apartheid is just leading to people on both sides to become even more extreme? also yes.

fldskfjdslkfj··on Code that helped end Apartheid
That's not a verdict. The only case that was brought to court afaik was for the occupied territories

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICJ_case_on_Israel%27s_occupat...

fldskfjdslkfj··on Code that helped end Apartheid
In the west bank yes, in israel proper no.

And to sprinkle some "whataboutism" - just a reminder that most of the muslim world is an apartheid based on gender, and even men who don't suffer from it usually have way less human rights than arab israelis.

fldskfjdslkfj··on Code that helped end Apartheid
The jewish people have a 2000 year old history and presence in the region, if that's consider colonialism then might as well just declare earth a settler-colonialist project and get it over with.
fldskfjdslkfj··on Google replaces executive in charge of Search and advertising
Yeah, maybe Nick Fox wasn't the one at the top, but I believe he definitely had a seat at the table. If i recall he was the one running allo/duo, which may not be the beginning of the failed chat strategy, but at the very least a continuaiton of it.
fldskfjdslkfj··on Google replaces executive in charge of Search and advertising
Hangouts/Chat/Allo/Duo/...

https://capitalg.com/team/nick-fox/

"he was responsible for Google's communications products"

fldskfjdslkfj··on Google replaces executive in charge of Search and advertising
Pretty sure he was the person who butchered Google's chat strategy so...
fldskfjdslkfj··on Microsoft: 'ever present' AI assistants are coming
They misspelled "ever present user data collection"
fldskfjdslkfj··on Our ping pong startup hit a $50M valuation in 5 years by tapping into automation
Feels like a mini WeWork in the making. They should keep it small if the actually want to be a viable business.
fldskfjdslkfj··on Meta Quest 3S
Oh yeah, tried a bunch of "static" games as well but those just got boring pretty fast for me.
fldskfjdslkfj··on Meta Quest 3S
Asgard's wrath, arizona sunshine, the walking dead, and a bunch of other highly rated ones. It's worth noting that I don't have a big empty room so i needed to rely on "teleporting" for most movement.
fldskfjdslkfj··on Meta Quest 3S
Well yeah, but the "teleporting" is annoying so you're really not left with a lot of options - I was bored with the thing within a week once the novelty wore off.
fldskfjdslkfj··on Israel’s Pager Attacks Have Changed the World
i'm just saying that the "enemy for life" is pretty short sighted.
fldskfjdslkfj··on Mira Murati leaves OpenAI
at 5% rate that's a cushy 500k a year.
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