Come and join me in Firefox and try out container tabs. Super powerful when you're trying to keep home and work identities seperate.

Indeed. The armed forces has never been known for being a pack of pretty boys.

Or Waltz worked as a teacher, the other men worked as Actors. And they both prioritized thing required in their professions.

Is NOSTR any good? I've heard a bit about it but I haven't gotten my feet wet yet.

Some signs. But who knows if it's just chatter or real talk.

History says that it is. There have opuoentoy wealthy people into Antiquity. But supporting the number of opuoentoy wealthy that modern Russia has requires an organized economy. You can't have 1,000 Billionaires in an 500B sized economy.

Not a lot of North Korean billionaires living it up in the West though. To extract that level of wealth you need a better class of worker.

Industry requires labor. And an extract based wealth generation scheme requires a large amount of unskilled and semi-skilled labor along with a relatively small amount of highly skilled specialists to operate.

It's in your interest for the unskilled and semi-skilled labor to be as vast as possible to keep costs down.

Because they'll make a fortune from the next guy too. But they won't see their entire labor pool decimated.

The goal should be to use whatever is most effective and efficient for yourself,

And if taught as they should be, that will be the keyboard.

Counting out 5*5 on your fingers works and might be the fastest way you've been taught to multiply, but that doesn't mean we should excuse schools not teaching times tables and how to use a caluclator.

It works well for casual conversation. But if you're trying to have a technical conversation it will fail on uncommon or custom words or phrases.

They also stopped teaching typing in schools. My younger family members never had an computer class or a typing class.

Is it really surprising that a government that started a war while spending zero dollars on air superiority, zero dollars on artillery, zero dollars on defensive fortifications, zero dollars on civilian bomb shelters, zero dollars on radar and enemy detection and zero dollars on a military college for its officers is losing the war it started with a 45:1 casualty ratio?

If Israel were truly trying to maximize harm in Gaza it could easily be 4500:1.

This is special Olympics vs. Olympics here.

I was alive and politically active in 2004/2005. There was a legitimate belief that the pullout would be a blueprint for peace.

The path to zero settlements and zero settlement violence is peace in Gaza. As long as Hamas keeps breaking cease fires, the political factions who are advocating for the end of West Bank Settlements will never gain power and will never be able to implement a pullout.

Did you comprehend this section? There's a faction in Israel that is pro 2 state solution. Unless that faction takes power, Israel will never roll back it's West Bank Settlements. Since that faction is responsible for the pullout in Gaza, the Israeli body-politic is not going to vote them into power until the Gaza Strip is peaceful.

The settlements represent land-grabbing, and land-grabbing and peace-making don’t go together, it is one or the other.

The faction that was against that in Israel implemented the Gaza pullout. You're right it is one of the other. Advocating for Gazan violence is defacto advocating for settlements.

You're just straight up defending Settler Colonialism.

I'm doing the opposite. The path to zero settlements and zero settlement violence is peace in Gaza. As long as Hamas keeps breaking cease fires, the political factions who are advocating for the end of West Bank Settlements will never gain power and will never be able to implement a pullout.

As long as we in the West continue to invest massive dollars into Gaza and just accept that they use it to find their war machine, were perpetuating the settlement situation in the West Bank.

We can deny patterns in human behavior as long as we want to. But Israel's body politic will never accept a two state solution while their two state solution experiment has a hundred hostages and openly says they want to bomb, attack and rape them again. Stop being a child.

They withdrew the Gaza settlers into the West Bank and used the Oslo Accords to justify the ever expanding settlement of the West Bank

Two different leadership coalitions. The coalition responsible for pulling settlers out of Gaza lost power because of the massive failure that was. And the alternative coalition (still in power today btw) who advocated for increased settlements in Gaza and in the West Bank won power.

Look at the numbers between 2000-2005 on this chart. The growth (192k, 226k, 249k) over that 5-year span is congruent with the growth you'd expect from a slightly younger-than-average population and a small ingress of settlers. Over half of that growth occurred in the three biggest West Bank settlements established before the Gaza pullout. So certainly some settlers in Gaza likely relocated to established settlements in the West Bank but not a significant chunk. Additionally, look at the settlements they pull out of in Northern Samaria (in the West Bank). They did that to prove that pullout was a viable option. Yes those settlements were small, but there's like 50 settlements smaller than the largest that they pulled out of.

And if you look at the biggest 10 settlements on that list, it makes up over half of the total population of Israeli settlers. And they're all like 15 miles or less from the '67 border. It's legitimately plausible for Israel to pull 50% of it's settlers out of the West Bank and fully pull out of 85% of the land area of the West Bank in just a couple of months. And more importantly, there is an active political coalition attempting to do that in Israel. But every rocket, every suicide bomber, every organized rape, every hostage prevents them from being able to be a big force again politically in Israel; because they're still seen as being responsible for the boondoggle that is Gaza.

You're mistake (and the HRW's mistake) is believing that the group of Israeli's responsible for pulling out of Gaza is the same group responsible for expanding into the West Bank. They're opposing groups. And as long as Gaza is non-peaceful; the group advocating for expanding into the West Bank is going to continue to win.

Small correction, Israel hasn't occupied the Gaza strip since 2005. Over the course of 2004 & 2005 the withdrew behind the 1967 borders, and evicted several sizeable Jewish settlements and settlers at gunpoint. And ceased their military occupation of Gaza.

And at the same time they withdrew from a handful of small settlements in the West Bank to show that they were serious about following a similar path across that significantly large chunk of territory.

But the point is that this recent war and violence is not caused by an occupation of Gaza.

Undoubtedly Harris is an improvement compared to Biden.

I used M365's' Copilot. And I asked it to bullet point summarize the article's text.