yesman

Before Oct 7, I was a vague supporter of Israel. I got interested and read a few books. Goddamn!

Only one is a polemic, the other two are histories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hundred_Years'_War_on_Palestine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Day,_Everyone_Will_Have_Always_Been_Against_This

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ethnic_Cleansing_of_Palestine

I just look at vanilla lemmy.world on a browser. I'm not really sure what an "instance" is, other than .mil sucks.

"mass" prayer event.

The article doesn't load. I'm confused; when they say "mass" do they mean a whole bunch of people will be praying, or that it's a Catholic service?

By cultivating radical individualism conservatives shoot themselves in the foot. In their vision of freedom any obligation on the citizen is an outrage.

America is weak.

Fred Hampton. I don't mean to pass over other civil rights martyrs, but the Black Panthers were something special. Real revolutionary politics, organised, and taking direct action; the high-water mark of leftest politics in modern America.

If you're doing a factorial the long way, is there any reason to multiply anything times one? It seems like you could just skip it, but I'm not a math guy.

I strongly prefer games with fixed character(s). The biggest problem with open character creation is that it necessitates a narritive full of generic dialogue and events to accommodate every possibility the player might choose. Fixed characters live in a world where they belong, and that world regards them as developed and known individuals, rather than rudimentary flavor dialogue that may account for species, gender, faction, or class.

Roleplaying Geralt, Aloy, Arthur Morgan, and Cal Kestis means pathos, story, and character development. Vault dweller, Dragon-born, and the Tarnished One are coat-racks that you hang armor sets on.

It's a good theory, but Shapiro's problems pre-date this. Shapiro's problems seem to really start in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's killing. The Nick Fuentes, anti-Semitic faction of the Right has become ascendant and they don't like Ben. (for some reason).

You could even argue it goes back to the friction with Candace Owens, and her firing from The Daily Wire behind her support of Kanye West.

In any case, the American right is splitting up over the idea that opposition to Israel is antisemitic. They believe that and therefore cannot support Israel.

AI slop is content geared toward metrics in an algorithm. AI is helpless and must produce content averaged out by the metrics of whatever company designed the thing. But humans are perfectly capable of producing slop.

For example, a director working for Apple wanted to nerd out on the opening sequence to pay tribute to an obscure movie he liked. Apple said no. Their data showed that audiences needed to be captivated in the first 30seconds or they'd switch off. So how about a drone-shot over a European city with a song that cost a fortune to licence, and with a voice over explaining everything? All the slop, none of the AI.

You can't just bully weaker Island nations near your coast just because their's a history of political bad blood.

I got my ass paddled 3 times before my State cut that crap out. Mr Summerville got me twice, but that was nothing compared to the drilled-out paddle that Mrs Routin kept.

Throw his ass in the volcano.