@paninid (of course!)
hatred is so much easier than pain.
“the extremist must find a way to change the politics of the situation from a 0-100 sliding scale into a binary choice between 0 and 1. In other words: Where thoughtful men once queried ‘what is your preferred policy outcome given the means at our disposal?’ they now must demand ‘whose side are you on?’” #TannerGreer https://mosaicmagazine.com/response/israel-zionism/2023/10/the-extremists-gambit-helps-explain-why-hamas-attacked-now/
to promote peace need not imply a demand that any side capitulate.
there are other means of contesting outcomes than armed conflict.
peace requires only mutual acceptance of alternative forums under which the conflict might continue, under less negative-sum terms. it need not imply acceptance of a final outcome.
@elbowspeak we’ve been happy with our kids’ school. there’s a bit of a don’t-ask, don’t-tell aspect to the hot button issues. they just had their scholastic school fair. i might have asked whether the "Share Every Story, Celebrate Every Voice" collection was included. i decided not to. i know the teachers are doing their best in spite of the bs from the state level. putting them or the school in a position of having to defend what they don’t want to would do the kids little good.
@elbowspeak i haven’t seen the kid getting taught Prager U material or stuff like that yet. (he’s only in fourth grade.) i don’t worry about that, though. he thinks for himself and i think is likely to recognize and roll his eyes at indoctrination, and develop his own take on the underlying issues.
@Alon @JoshuaHolland @ChristoFBG I really hope it works out. It’d be great if Netanyahu were out and PA could serve as a unified authority and a process towards a more permanent settlement might resume. Again, though I understand why the current strategy might have felt necessary and justified, what was felt was not well thought. I think if PA as partner is the outcome you are after, the character of Israel’s response renders that harder than alternative approaches might have. I’ll still hope.
@Alon @JoshuaHolland @ChristoFBG there's no excuse for anyone to celebrate the Oct 7 massacres.
but the blood of 8000 and counting mostly innocents (beyond perhaps no-excuse sympathies) is a high price to pay for deterrence by punishment, and that deterrence may be countered by the resurgent hatred it has engendered among Palestinians and the risk to Israel of a larger war.
i think even on terms that consider only the long-term interests of Israel, the choices made thus far have been unwise.
so are we going to see Elon Musk lobbying for a generous child allowance, or at least an expanded, fully refundable CTC?
Screenshot of Elon Musk tweet: Having children should be incentivized, not be a financial penalty like it is in most countries! We must create the next generation of humans or spiral into oblivion.
"leap from the moral high ground into a pool of blood"
so well put. by @JoshuaHolland https://zirk.us/@JoshuaHolland@mastodon.social/111331969152197925 ht @ChristoFBG
my fave halloween costume.
you have to remember i'm a lazy fuck.
in my 20s i was invited to some crazy loft halloween party, and had nothing to wear. so i found some cheap purple face paint and just splotched it on my face.
then
"well, what are you supposed to be?"
"what do you *think* i am?"
"umm..."
"what do you see?"
"uh"
"i'm a Rorschach test!"
it was supposed to be some nanotech science fiction hypthetical, but i look at gaza and i see gray goo.
the subject of the e-mail was “band books”, and it was not in error. it was from a music teacher at the kid’s school.
Is there any way on a mac to check what kind of cables your USB-C cables in fact are? (How much power can they provide? Do they support Thunderbolt 3, USB 4 etc?)
( This blog post seems relevant https://people.kernel.org/bleung/now-how-many-usb-c-to-usb-c-cables-are-there-usb4-update-september-12 )
no leviathan would permit this.
@admitsWrongIfProven just never let a live oak play with matches, okay?
wars are like wildfires except the trees are humans.
i get invited to these events where they promise i can meet new people but i almost never find many infants when i go.
it’d be fun to have LLMs trained only on works from particular eras, so we could talk to the zeitgeist of the sixties or the 1890s or whatever.
"We used to have slack, and productive capacity, but then came private equity and mergers. And now we don’t. The government can’t actually solicit bids from multiple players for most major weapons systems, because there’s just one or two possible bidders. So that means there’s little incentive for firms to expand output, even if there’s more spending. Why not just raise price?" @matthewstoller https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/why-america-is-out-of-ammunition