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This has always been in my mind as well. Like, can't Hamas just... hide among the civilians and take very few casualties, wasting Israel's time with t...

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/17jpxn5/israeli_tank_firing_upon_civilian_car_upon/ I would be naive if I thought Israel had any reas...

I find this generally agreeable. You might enjoy this article I read on Sunday, about this very topic https://archive.md/2023.10.28-061758/https://www...

how much of it has to do with Christian evangelical Zionism?

if that was the point of your reply, you certainly hid that point between the lines. It wasn't leftist knee jerk for me to say that, I just thought it...

nothing about what you said, to me, makes it obvious that Israel isn't a much safer place for homosexuals, atheists and apostates than any other count...

I see, fair enough. In the case of the Palestinians, the influx of Jews did in fact have a massive effect on the politics of the region. I don't blame...

That's true, Japan wreaked havoc in China - some of the worst horrors known to humanity went on their, they arguably put the Nazis to shame. Although ...

I personally can put it quite simply: I don't want to live in a Muslim theocracy, and it seems many Muslims do. They oppose gay rights and even the ri...

Yeah. My first time trying to do an extensive backend was in node.js with Express, which has very very little magic by default - almost everything is ...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Israel I'm sure Israel isn't PERFECT in their respect of homosexual rights, but I think I'm fairly just...

You don't see a difference between a country where gays are gleefully murdered by morality police, and one where they aren't?

I don't think one has to think of it like that, ESPECIALLY in retrospect, knowing what happened to them. They didn't want the Jews to come in, the UN ...

nah, Palestinians wanted to cut off Jews right to immigrate to the region before it was ever describable as "illegal colonization". They were willing ...

I agree. I like magic most when there's a clear way to demystify what's actually happening underneath the hood. The biggest problem with magic that yo...

You're absolutely right, they did seek permission but not from the native Palestinians, whose wishes were ignored. Which is... sort of exactly my poin...

I'm a software engineer. If you need any guidance or advice for this project, let me know. I haven't done any full fledged SPAs but I've done mini SPA...

Actually, these SPAs have the ability to change the URL without actually loading a new page. One of the most common SPA Frameworks is REACT, and there...

"settlers" meaning who exactly? Israelis stealing land in the west bank? That's not who this post is talking about, it's not defending those settlers ...

case in point lol. If you think what's happening to Palestinians is terrible, you should give at least some slack to Europeans who don't want the same...

Same for me. Sadly, America seems full of people who support Hamas so much they think Hamas murdering innocents is ethical, AND they also hate white E...

I'm really not sure what you're trying to say with all that. I can't even tell which bits of your comment are quotes and which bits are you saying som...

I don't think that answers my question.

so you don't feel like there's anything beyond an act when you see a colour, for example. Look at something vibrantly red or blue or green. It's that ...

Most people have conscious experiences, and so take that as a given. Do you have conscious experiences?

I mean, that's my view, which I am pretty confident of but I am of course not the final arbiter, and plenty of smart people disagree.

That's the neat part - they wouldn't!

Frank, patterner here is also attacking the naive notion of "conceivability". If something's conceivable just because you can string a couple words to...

I encourage you to really investigate what "conceivable" actually is meant in this context. It's actually trickier than just saying "I'm completely ig...

I don't think that's the case. David Chalmers makes conclusions given the "conceivability of p zombies". If they're conceivable just because you're ig...

That's not what other people mean by "conceivable". Not in this context anyway.

your ignorance of something isn't much of a point in any direction at all. Not knowing something SURELY doesn't make something "clear", that's the opp...

yes, love it. I don't believe it's ever implied that they're not truly conscious or don't experience qualia. Would you like to explain the relevance o...

What does this phrase mean?

rather than trying to define sanity, it would be far easier for me to justify what I said by instead describing the behaviours of a person who doesn't...

use your intuition. I'm not using some precise unintuitive definition of sane. If you yourself are sane, your intuition of what a sane person acts lik...

I can't see a single state working at all. Israeli Jews don't want to be governed by Muslims (and I can't blame them), and Palestinian Muslims don't w...

Yeah I think it's probably impossible for a person (or at least a sane functioning person) to have no beliefs whatsoever.

What does independence look like in this situation for you? Does it mean their own sovereign state, as a neighbour to Israel, or does it mean no Israe...

I don't think that's clear at all

Human bodies sometimes say things like "I'm conscious". Presumably your body has said or written that kind of thing at some point. There are casual re...

today I learned. Interesting

Letting everyone from Gaza in indiscriminately would absolutely result in a terrible catastrophy. I'm not saying this because I don't want all the inn...

I think literally all of Hamas would try to do exactly what Hamas's stated goal is. Not all Palestinians want Hamas's stated goal, but *enough* of the...

It would have a bit more bite to it if he replaced "colourless ideas" with an actual colourless idea. Green angles sleep furiously

yes, they aren't the Palestinians in Gaza though are they? They aren't the Palestinians that just raided the towns and the music festival and slaughte...

I have no idea what you're trying to say here.

It doesn't have to be genocide. A lot of people just want the Jews to willingly leave.

I think it's very unfortunate that we've come to focus on exactly how they were slaughtered. Beheaded, burned alive, slit throats, stabbed through the...

While I think it might not be right to ban the phrase, Palestinians chanting that ABSOLUTELY mean "from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean sea, Pal...