I DIDN’T GET FREE COFFEE!

To be fair, the other guys was better.

No dating before 14.

What are talking about? The entire thing is about how it makes me feel and how I am moved by it. To be brutally honest, I think you have reading comprehension issues.

Also worth checking out is his Hater’s Guide to the AI Bubble. I listened to the three part podcast. He’s the only person I have to listen to at less than 1x, but it’s really good stuff.

This looks really cool…what were the electronic components you needed to build the enclosure? And what was the cost for materials?

First, I’ll say you’re right. There’s more than two sides. Its a mistake to only highlight the leaders and the fighters. The average inhabitants are primary in my world view.

I shared the long passage because I thought his slide from condemning netanyahu and the right wing of likud to criticizing slogans was important. So I posted a long passage to show the both sides he was criticizing. The second size isn’t Hamas, it’s social media with a “just asking questions” about Hamas.

Its funny to me that he gets that Likud* is a monster that needs to be banished. And I agree, Hamas emerged as a monster. But he fails to ever say who has almost all the cards. And who has all the power and where that is coming from.

Likud knows they can and will get away with ethnic cleansing. They know they are doing monsterous things. And that Israelis will thank them later. There will be no Palestinians left to blame or thank or codemn Hamas. If Hamas ever returns all the kidnapped, I don’t think Likud will stop. Do you?

Do you think what Hamas did on Oct 7th is anything near the scale of what Israel has done since? Israel denies targeting civilians or reporters and yet they seem to just die somehow. Isn’t this a horror that exceeds the terrorism of Hamas. We don’t have a word for it, but it’s worse. And the horror of Israeli control of Palestine, an act whose monstrosity can be hidden because of the power imbalance and the rest of the world pretending like nothing is happening … Again we have no words. We have no power. We pretend to when we scream “Free Palestine”. But we know all we have is sorrow.

* I use Likud to represent their whole coalition. If Likud fails to win the next election, but another right wing government emerges and continues the policy, my analysis still stands.

They both sides it.

I think Netanyahu and his crew of extremists are totally out of control and need to be stopped, and that the international community should put all the pressure it can on them to cease. Their excuse of self-defence has long since worn thin and has been replaced by a transparent desire to take control of Gaza and the West Bank permanently.

I believe this ultra-nationalist administration has hidden itself behind a terrified & grieving people and used them to deflect any criticism, using that fear and grief to further their ultra-nationalist agenda with terrible consequences, as we see now with the horrific blockade of aid to Gaza.

While our lives tick along as normal these endless thousands of innocent human souls are still being expelled from the earth… for what?

At the same time the unquestioning Free Palestine refrain that surrounds us all does not answer the simple question of why the hostages have still not all been returned? For what possible reason?

Why did Hamas choose the truly horrific acts of October 7th? The answer seems obvious, and I believe Hamas chooses too to hide behind the suffering of its people, in an equally cynical fashion for their own purposes.

I also think there is a further and extremely important point to make.

Social media witch-hunts (nothing new) on either side pressurizing artists and whoever they feel like that week to make statements etc do very little except heighten tension, fear and over-simplification of what are complex problems that merit proper face to face debate by people who genuinely wish the killing to stop and an understanding to be found.

This kind of deliberate polarization does not serve our fellow human beings and perpetuates a constant ‘us and them’ mentality. It destroys hope and maintains a sense of isolation, the very things that extremists use to maintain their position. We facilitate their hiding in plain sight if we assume that the extremists and the people they claim to represent are one and the same, indivisible.

If our world is ever able to move on from these dark times and find peace it will only be when we rediscover what we share in common, and the extremists are sent back to sit in the darkness from whence they came.

I sympathize completely with the desire to ‘do something’ when we are witnessing such horrific suffering on our devices every day. It completely makes sense. But I now think it is a dangerous illusion to believe reposting, or one or two line messages are meaningful, especially if it is to condemn your fellow human beings. There are unintended consequences.

It is shouting from the darkness. It is not looking people in the eye when you speak. It is making dangerous assumptions. It is not debate and it is not critical thinking.

Importantly, it is open to online manipulation of all kinds, both mechanistic and political.

Yellow gets me every time.

No. Down voting is disagreeing with bullying hasn’t been a thing for 20 years. Many people here have been bullied in the last twenty years. Heck, at my kid’s school there was a bullying incident that caused quite a stir a couple of years ago. Unfortunately, the district no longer has any tools to deal with it if the restorative justice model doesn’t bring all the parties to the table. The parents, from what I hear, said it was a boys will be boys thing. And I know of at least one person who withdrew their child in no small part due to this.

So I agree that bullying is probably way down from when I was a kid, but to say it isn’t a thing because you have no awareness of it is a little self centered.

Okay, let’s spell it out.

Women don’t benefit from patriarchy. So you are saying that men don’t benefit from feminism.

Male loneliness is a bad thing. Something that doesn’t benefit men. This is caused by feminism which men don’t benefit from. Right? That is what you’re saying … Hard to know. You said so little and so shocked that people misunderstood you.

Feminism advocates for the equality of women and men in politics, economics, social, and interpersonal relationships. If women are treated in these areas (politics, economics, social, and interpersonal relationships), then men have equals to relate to, communicate with, and build community with. This is a benefit to men.

With #4, don’t be surprised if they give you a short almost unengaged answer. They might not be warmed up, they might have something else going on ,or they just aren’t interested. Either way, give them a couple of chances to signal if they want to join your flow. If not, that’s cool… Just move on.

I get the reason for alterity. While the term is new to me, the need for it has been clear for a while now. But I don’t get why you need to jettison difference.

Slop seems superficially different but structurally the same. But structurally different is the goal. We invite people into a new structure, such as solar punk, by living it’s principles. But is the argument for not being superficially different so you can be relatable to the average person? So you escape detection from the state apparatus? So it projects a deep root confidence that some might find alluring?

I feel like one of the biggest concerns I have with solar punk is it’s very beautiful aesthetic. It can get in the way of some digging deeper. And yet Id be lying if part of the initial appeal wasn’t the aesthetics. The author might consider the solar punk aesthetic as Manechian. I would never want to jettison that aspect. I would want it to inspire me to dig deeper. And maybe, through community, inspire changes in that aesthetic through a shared lived experience.

any case, thanks for sharing. Got me thinking.

At first glance, it looks like rishi.

Now if it can stab people and drain them of their bioenergy, I can reach my final form!

At first I was outrage by this: forældrekompetenceundersøgelse. Then I read this sentence: “The municipality told her she was “not Greenlandic enough” for the new law banning the tests to apply, despite her being born in Greenland of Greenlandic parents.”

I think you’re referring fourth wave feminism. I’ll say that I know very little about it, but it seems not to be have the level of thought behind it found in second wave, third wave, or crt. That may change, but I think most people working on the field are rigorously extending previous waves. So I wouldn’t call fourth wave a replacement for previous waves therefore making it any more modern other than it’s origin is more recent.

My next question would be, is it truly integrated into a theory or is it just added to an set of beliefs picked from both second and third wave. Honestly, I have no clue.

Intersectionality isn’t the expansion of feminism. It is a recognition that an individual from two separate oppressed groups has an experience of oppression that is unique and something other than the addition of the two systems of oppression.

Also this.

Overeating has been my thing. I’ve done two main things. First, exercise. Exercise has been so helpful. I like to exercise in twenty minutes bouts and so do two session. I’ve known this about myself for a while and couldn’t do it. Two things helped. First, doing something at home. And second, taking creatine. Exercise has been difficult because of not having enough energy and creatine has been helpful at a low dose.

The other things that have helped is taking a digestive with my meal. I always felt tired after a meal, but the supplement helped. Finally, ending the day with psyllium. It just topped me off so I wouldn’t eat at night.

So far it’s been good. Let’s see how the next few weeks go.