thehalfhog

[B.M. @ireallyhateyou]

Posted in December 2023 in a popular Israeli Facebook group for women, with 91K members:
"So he came back with gifts from Gaza 🤭 All the products are sealed except for one, would you use it? And do any of you know the products or is it only [available] in Gaza? 😅"

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

"Lo que ocurre dentro de las prisiones de Israel, es que son un cementerio. Desde que entras no paran de agredirte, me agredieron desde que me arrestaron delante de mis hijos. Tras las palizas no pude recordar la imagen de mi hijo y perdí la capacidad de respirar".

Mujahed Bani, un periodista palestino de 37 años, que fue brutalmente torturado por "Israel" hasta perder la memoria y no poder respirar, por las torturas sufrió un derrame cerebral y perdió parte de su craneo.

Ni siquiera tenían pruebas contra él, solo era un periodista que denunciaba los crímenes de "Israel"... cosa que no hacen los mercenarios de la prensa occidental que ocultan estas barbaridades y tenemos que ser nosotros quienes las denunciemos.

[Rusty Shackleford @Gr33nOnions]

You've been a zionist your whole life. You only change your tune now that there's massive public outcry. Outcry led by students and activists that you and your ilk smeared for years as terrorist sympathizers.

[Jamarrius @YungxJayy]

I say I hate Israel, and then I read something like this, and I realize I don’t hate them nearly enough. These people are sick beyond words.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Kanafani was a poet.
People knew then that Zionistan was a terrorist state with a great PR cover.

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

The Wikipedia entry for Rafah, a city bigger than Limerick, is now in the past tense.

It is gone. Not a single building left intact.

An entire city erased by Israel.

They are the Nazis of today.

[ABB @Mont_Jiang]

Consumerism produces a specific type of personality which leads to the collapse of civic life.

Put machine intelligence at scale behind the technology of consumerism... it's like setting a nuclear bomb under civic life.

The generational shift in China will be massive.

[thehalfhog @thehalfhog]

@Mont_Jiang If only you'd found it in the draw at 14:50, the classic analogue watch-on-display time. Beautiful timepiece!

[thehalfhog @thehalfhog]

@Nikolaoz @JMGreerWriter Seems to but doesn’t. More oil gets found. Some of that could be extracted. But look at the amounts being brought online vs current daily usage.

[thehalfhog @thehalfhog]

@TF_Global Biotic pump!

[Parody Jeff @Parodyjeffx]

THIS IS SATANIC ✡️🇮🇱

An Israeli soldier throws a stun grenade into a car carrying a Palestinian family, trapping them inside to absorb the blast.

Reports confirm one of the children inside is now permanently blinded for life.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

I still CANNOT believe humans were gifted a planet full of trees, fruit, water, animals and sunshine and then they invented debt, capitalism and war.

[John Rad @JohnRad15]

Capitalism is not synonymous with markets. Markets are what work the magic you're talking about. Capitalism is a feedback loop like a black hole sucking matter from a galaxy or a parasite sucking blood from a host. And capitalism captures governance for the capitalist elites.

[Ana Kasparian @AnaKasparian]

@netanyahu fuck you

[Stanley Cohen @StanleyCohenLaw]

The paradox of those who find it essential to love their country while denying the right of others to have one.

[Ori Goldberg @ori_goldberg]

I've been having conversations with several smart people over the past two days about the Israeli public's response to the life of the Palestinians in Gaza and in the West Bank. As far as the Israeli smart cookies are concerned, there is absolutely nothing with regard to this "situation". They are bored with the historical / legal / moral implications of the story.
"Yes, it is the Palestinians' fault. They shouldn't have started a war they are not prepared to lose. Everyone knows that they just want to kill us anyway. We, they and us, would be better off if they weren't here. That is all common knowledge. But how long can you keep repeating these things? This is war. We will keep fighting forever. That is what the PM said and we believe him. Can we move on now? Can we remember it is summer vacation and get on with the business of living? Could you be less of a stick in the mud and let us do just that?"

The smart ones who are not Israeli cannot but ask again and again and again, "now that the Israeli public knows what is happening, now that it is a broad consensus that more than 70000 were killed, is the Israeli public capable of acknowledging its actions? Is anyone in Israel capable of a discussion about what happened and is continuing to happen? Can Israelis, gearing up for a general action, consider or imagine a future that is not perpetual war?"

It is almost impossible to explain, or it may be the easiest thing in the world to explain, but the general answer to all the questions from outside Israel is "no". Israelis know everything, but they don't care and they have no plans for caring. At best or at worst they are talking about delaying "discussion" about these "affairs" to a later date, after the only issue on their agenda is resolved - replacing Binyamin Netanyahu as PM.

There is nothing there. Many Israelis celebrate the death of Palestinians. Many, many more simply don't care and will carry out any and all orders given to them by those in charge. Jewish Israel, as a society, doesn't care. I think any attempts to divine the origin of this sentiment and guiding spirit is superfluous at best. I don't think it matters. What matters (to humanity at large, btw) is recognizing the depravity and the criminality of this condition. I don't know if you can imagine "nothing". It is worse than bigotry at its most murderous. It is a rejection of the most basic human urge, to live.

Ben Gvir and Smotrich, for example, don't share this nothingness. They are full to the brim with malevolent glee. The self-styled "liberals" are where this cult of oblivion begins. All Israelis want is for things "to go back to normal". They support a perpetual war because otherwise they will be "destroyed" (remember: nothing or everything are the only options). They want Netanyahu replaced because he is mad, but also because his perpetual war was not successful enough. . Someone will take care of the "security" while Israel's finest will spend years in the reserves, continuing to kill and bomb. Those who are not will hold Summer Wine festivals and talk about flight prices and real estate opportunities. That is all there is to it.

Nothing. The killing can continue unabated. So can the ethnic cleansing. Nothing will stop them. Once again, this is not a request for pity or for lenience. If anything, it is the other way around. Don't look for extenuating circumstances. Don't look for anything. there is nothing there.

[thehalfhog @thehalfhog]

@Nikolaoz @JMGreerWriter In what way meaningless? It’s a term with a definition.

[thehalfhog @thehalfhog]

Whose neck doesn’t hurt these days?

[Squat University @SquatUniversity]

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Most neck pain isn't a NECK problem. Rather, the symptoms are stemming from an imbalance at your mid-back. Today's video explains how to figure out if that is YOUR problem and how to fix it!

[thehalfhog @thehalfhog]

@hang_bibek @SquatUniversity Better see a doctor / physical therapist in person to get specific diagnosis, treatment and exercises.

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

i'm obsessed with what's happening in AI reforestation right now

this Franco-Brazilian startup called MORFO took a patch of land in Brazil that was rock-hard and compacted from years of cattle farming. they replanted it using a single drone. months later the ground was covered in grass, bushes, and small trees. the land came back to life.

here's how the whole thing works.

1. drones scan the terrain with high-resolution cameras and sensors
2. AI analyzes the imagery alongside soil samples, moisture levels, slope, and surrounding vegetation
3. the system picks from a catalog of 300+ native species, deciding exactly which plants will thrive in which specific spot
4. the drone fires biodegradable seed pods packed with seeds, nutrients, and moisture at 180 capsules per minute
5. satellite and drone imagery monitors regrowth over time, with AI tracking vegetation cover and biodiversity
6. two people and one drone cover 50 hectares a day. a person planting by hand manages about one hectare.

and MORFO isn't alone. AirSeed in Australia drops 250,000 seed pods per day into bushfire-scarred koala habitat, replanting swamp mahogany that koalas depend on to survive. Flash Forest in Canada fires 50,000 pods daily into wildfire-destroyed boreal forest, planning the replanting alongside Cree Indigenous communities. re-green won Prince William's Earthshot Prize after planting 6 million seedlings across 30,000 hectares of Amazon and Atlantic Forest.

five companies across four continents built this same approach independently. nobody coordinated. the physics of the problem demanded it.

knowing which seeds belong in which soil used to require years of ecological fieldwork, manual planting crews, and budgets that made large-scale restoration nearly impossible. now two people with a drone and an AI model trained on local soil data can replant 50 hectares before lunch.

this is the AI work that'll still matter in 50 years.