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@charlesmurray @gcochran99 Maybe constant training is needed, just like physical training.

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@aledeniz @davidbessis I think that it’s better to introduce the concept of proofs. It can be done with basic plane geometry and it’s much more interesting than the mechanical rules of calculus.

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@IMAO_ You need an OLED TV and to watch it in a low-lit room.

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@jaorp @isaacrrr7 They aren’t immigrants. They were born in France and are the children and grandchildren of immigrants. Even if immigration stopped tomorrow, it wouldn’t improve the situation much.

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@AndrssTerranova @RyanSaavedra Force the golf courses to do the same also

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@TMoldwin @snewmanpv According to OpenAI: "The proof came from a new general-purpose reasoning model, rather than from a system trained specifically for mathematics".

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@invaderalex @pmarca

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Rouleau papier bulles, 40cm x 5 mètres GPV https://t.co/wAON976kNr

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@vikasreddy @herandrews Yes but …

[ELV Hugo @ELVUgo]

@akarlin @herandrews Jobs created for its clients by the regulatory demands of the state are not required to pass a test of utility or value in any free market.

[UN Watch @UNWatch]

SHAME: The Islamic Republic of Iran has just been nominated to the U.N. Committee for Program and Coordination, which meets soon to shape policy on women's rights, human rights, disarmament, and terrorism prevention.

ECOSOC members who backed this include:
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[Amit Schandillia @Schandillia]

“But there was no Hezbollah when Israel occupied Lebanon in 1982!”

True. But you don’t get to draw lines wherever it helps your case. Chronology doesn’t work that way. So here’s a quick timeline for you:

1943: Lebanon is born.

1948: Arabs invade Israel. 100k Palestinians flee to Lebanon. Jordan occupies Judea and Samaria, names it West Bank. Egypt occupies Gaza.

1950s-60s: Lebanon prospers. Beirut the “Paris of the Middle East.”

1964: PLO is born in Jerusalem.

1967: Six-Day War. Aggressors lose, Israel gets control of Judea and Samaria, Gaza, Sinai, and Golan Heights. 300k Palestinians flee to Lebanon. Arafat and PLO expelled from Israel for collaborating with the invaders during war, flee to Jordan.

1970-71: PLO “state within a state” in Jordan. Attempts to assassinate King and overthrow government. Crushed by Jordanian forces with help from Pakistan’s Zia ul Haq. Expelled from Jordan.

1971: PLO relocates to Southern Lebanon. Another “state within a state,” named “Fatahland.” Sudden demographic shift in Lebanon. Resented by the natives.

1970s: Regular artillery and rocket launches and border raids from Southern Lebanon into Israeli border towns. Avivim School Bus Massacre (1970), Kiryat Shmona Massacre (1974), Ma'alot Massacre (1974), Kibbutz Shamir Attack (1974), Savoy Hotel Attack (1975), Coastal Road Massacre (1978), Nahariya Attack (1979)...

1975: Start of Lebanese civil war between Muslims and Christians, largely fueled by the sudden influx of Muslim refugees from Israel eroding Lebanon’s own sovreignty.

1982: PLO splinter Abu Nidal Organization attempts to assassinate Israel’s ambassador to the UK in London. Israel demands destruction of “Fatahland” to eliminate the nuisance once and for all. Lebanon helpless. IDF invades Lebanon. Occupies Southern Lebanon. Massive cleanup operation, Arafat and PLO expelled.

But this didn’t end the civil war. PLO was then about 14k terrorists in Southern Lebanon. Even after their expulsion, the region still had more than 300k Palestinians who were not “officially” PLO but a nuisance all the same.

That’s when Ayatollah Khomenei steps in. Hezbollah is born to occupy the militant leadership space left vacant by Arafat.

Yes, Hezbollah was born AFTER Israeli occupation.

Which happened AFTER a decade of terrorism by PLO jihadis in Lebanon.

Do not confuse cause with effect. It’s dishonest and in this day and age, impossible to get away with.
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[UN Watch @UNWatch]

INMATES RUNNING THE ASYLUM: The U.N. just elected China, Cuba, Nicaragua, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan to their Committee on NGOs, which oversees the work of human rights groups at the U.N. and decides which to accredit.

ECOSOC members who backed this include:
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[Rabbi Daniel Rowe @rabbidanielrowe]

1. Israel’s post Oct 7th fight back on 7 fronts has been conducted more or less the same as it would have by any Israeli leader. Most Israelis believe that they can never again live with terror armies massing on the border, nor with a nuclear Iran, nor with Iran’s proxies stretching across all Israel’s neighbours to choke it to death.

2. Popularity in the US is critical. But survival is even more critical. Israel is a miniature country without much territory to protect its civilians. It faces more armies dedicated to its destruction than any other country. Fighting to survive may make it unpopular. Failing to do so would likely result in 8 million dead Israeli Jews.

3. Israel has faced the largest demonisation campaign in human history, with a concerted push from countries like China, Russia, Iran, Qatar and others, with disinformation armies it cannot hope to match, with behind the scenes buy outs of influencers, bot armies and manipulation machines it has been unable to push back against.

4. It also is up against the world’s oldest social pathology: demonisation of whatever represents the collective Jew. In the modern world that is the Jewish state. Mass demonisation of the Jewish collective is the norm not the exception. Having to fight a brutal urban war in a social media age is fertile ground for its reawakening.

5. The global red-green alliance constituting over half the world’s population has since at least the 1960s identified demonisation of Israel as its central unifying focal point. For decades at the UN 70% of resolutions will be condemnations of Israel no matter whether it is being attacked or at peace and no matter how many wars, famines, pandemics etc there are globally. This level of obsession and demonisation existed ling before this war.

6. Since the end of the cold war, soviet anti western thinking has permeated campuses and left wing politics to varying degrees. Central to that orthodoxy is an axiomatic religious like fervour that sees Israel as the great satan, in a way matched only by jihadism. In recent decades the two have become powerful forces in the global left. The trend of declining support for Israel especially on the left long precedes this war.

7. The world’s media and human rights groups and academics typically skew hard left, and carry with then this visceral hatred and demonisation of Israel and that was true long before the war. During the war these forces have focused vulture like on every ounce of suffering of Palestinians (which is real) in an obsessive way that they have not done for the dozens of other conflicts happening globally, and only do when it comes to Israel. This fuels the demonisation campaign no matter how ethically Israel tries to fight its war of survival.

8. For decades the ‘human rights NGOs’ have been hijacked by this obsession with Israel demonisation. They give ethical cover for this demonisation and hatred campaign. No matter how wild the accusation, the accuser can fall back on ‘but experts say’ ‘but human rights group x says’. The moralisation of demonisation is the historical fulcrum of Jew demonisation. Institutions of piety, morality or justice sanitise and moralise the demonisation. Mobs are whipped up, doubters are cast as heretics.

9. whole fictions and fabrications have emerged from otherwise trustworthy sources, on a regular basis. Lancet medical journal ran pieces alleging Gazan death tolls of fictional proportions, UN experts reported famines that were quietly retracted. Media plastered children suffering genetic diseases and claimed them to be victims of Israeli induced famines. Podcasters interviewed Anthony Aguilar making up stories about seeing Israeli soldiers shooting a child who, it turns out, is still alive, a war in which the civilian population grew became a “genocide”.

Failure to acknowledge these forces at play is to miss the main story.

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#WTH Is NATO really an alliance anymore? https://t.co/8aagmEl0vL

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@BAAZ1034 @ZubyMusic @realpeteyb123 I bet that guy isn’t an immigrant

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@Jagermorder I bet that guy isn’t an immigrant, and neither are his parents.

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@ayubio @LambrinLuigi Está bem claro no artigo 3 que críticas a Israel NÃO serão consideradas antissemitas.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

A bartender in Galveston, Texas was arrested for serving a drunk customer who killed someone. She makes $25 an hour. A federal judge makes $236,000 a year and has absolute legal immunity for every decision on the bench, including releasing violent offenders who kill again.

42 states have dram shop laws. The bartender’s causation chain has two links: pour drink, person crashes. Exposed window? Sometimes three hours. She can be charged with criminal negligence, sued in civil court, and lose her livelihood. All for failing to eyeball whether a guy at a crowded bar was too drunk for one more round.

The judge has a pre-sentencing report, a criminal history score, a risk assessment algorithm, victim impact statements, and a prosecutor arguing the case in front of them. Every tool the system can produce. And when they get it wrong? Nothing. Absolute judicial immunity, codified since Bradley v. Fisher in 1871, means a judge cannot be sued for any act performed in judicial capacity.

How absolute? In 1978, the Supreme Court ruled in Stump v. Sparkman that a judge who signed a petition to sterilize a 15-year-old girl without her knowledge or consent was fully immune. The court acknowledged the act was reprehensible. Didn’t matter. Judicial act, judicial immunity, case closed. That precedent still controls today.

The recidivism data is where this gets obscene. The U.S. Sentencing Commission tracked violent offenders released in 2010 across eight years. 63.8% were rearrested. Median time to rearrest: 16 months. These numbers haven’t moved in two decades. The 2005 cohort and the 2010 cohort produced statistically identical outcomes. Judges aren’t making unpredictable calls. They’re making well-documented bets with other people’s lives, and the base rates have been published and available the entire time.

The bartender gets three hours of ambiguous signals. The judge gets the full weight of the federal data apparatus. One of them can go to prison for getting it wrong. The other can’t even be named in a civil suit.

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The US-Israeli strategy against Iran is working. Here is why | US-Israel war on Iran | Al Jazeera https://t.co/YpPMGAMPIE

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@MarissaFahlberg @benphillips76 “do what they want and don't care what anyone thinks”
Isn’t this egocentric?