Interesting fact about this case: the mushroom in question, Amanita Phalloides is responsible for 90% of mushroom related deaths in the world.
Also, what "news" site is this? Kinda sus coming from a brand new account as well.
I take your point to be that hostility toward Israelis right now is about opposition to Israeli government actions in Gaza, not about their ethnicity or religion. If that’s what you mean, I get the distinction you’re making.
I’m not saying every action taken against something Israeli is motivated by antisemitism. But it’s also undeniable that some people in the anti-Israel/pro-Palestine crowd are antisemites, and they hide those views behind the broader narrative. Acts of indiscriminate hostility toward anything connected to Israel - even if not motivated by antisemitism - look and function exactly the same as if they were. People should consider the optics, even if their intentions are clear to themselves. That’s the specific distinction I’m talking about, and it’s the one I haven’t seen you address yet.
Sanctions against Russia are a coordinated, state-level pressure tactic aimed at hurting the Russian economy to twist their arm. Everyone acknowledges there’s collateral damage to civilians - the difference is that the economic impact is real, and it has a plausible path to change. If someone were vandalizing the business of a Russian-born German citizen with no involvement in the war, I’d criticize that just the same.
Randomly targeting an Israeli company or civilian abroad that has no connection to the war isn’t the same thing. It’s not part of an organized effort to apply economic pressure, it doesn’t meaningfully weaken the Israeli state, and it has no realistic chance of changing policy. It’s just hostility toward something for being Israeli.
Buddhists probably had figured out a lot of things about the workings of the human mind way before science did.
You haven’t addressed my point. I’m not debating whether Israel’s actions are above criticism - I’m saying that targeting unrelated Israeli entities, like an airline office in Paris, isn’t legitimate anti-war activism. It’s indiscriminate, identity-based hostility.
You can frame it as “just graffiti” if you want, but that doesn’t change the fact it’s aimed at something with no connection to Gaza. That’s exactly the distinction I was making, and nothing in your reply engages with it.
And that's called a moral contamination fallacy - the belief that if X is connected to Y, then X must share full moral responsibility for everything Y does.
This kind of vandalism does nothing to hurt the war effort. All it does is damage property, terrorize innocent civilians and alienate the people who would've otherwise been on your side.
This reminds me of the time we often heard people saying "I'm not racist, I'm race realist"
An honest critic of Israel directs their criticism at the people and organizations actually worth criticizing. Antisemites, on the other hand, direct it at anything that’s Israeli or Jewish. In your previous comment, you showed no sympathy for an Israeli airline’s office in Paris being vandalized - as if that has anything to do with the war in Gaza. That’s not anti-war activism; it’s blind hatred aimed at people based on their group identity - i.e., racism.
Emojis are for chatting/texting. I don't even want to see them here.
Samsung default one. It's funny when I'm at the hardware store buing supplies for work in the morning and a phone rings there's like 5 builders who all check their phones.
I hear you - you're reacting to how people throw around the word “intelligence” in ways that make these systems sound more capable or sentient than they are. If something just stitches words together without understanding, calling it intelligent seems misleading, especially when people treat its output as facts.
But here’s where I think we’re talking past each other: when I say it’s intelligent, I don’t mean it understands anything. I mean it performs a task that normally requires human cognition: generating coherent, human-like language. That’s what qualifies it as intelligent. Not generally so, like a human, but a narrow/weak intelligence. The fact that it often says true things is almost accidental. It's a side effect of having been trained on a lot of correct information, not the result of human-like understanding.
So yes, it just responds with statistical accuracy but that is intelligent in the technical sense. It’s not understanding. It’s not reasoning. It’s just really good at speaking.
Now how am I supposed to get this to my desk without either spilling it all over or burning my lips trying to slurp it here. I've been drinking coffee for at least 25 years and I still do this to myself at least 3 times a week.
I figured I’d give this chisel knife a try, since it’s not like I use this particular knife for its intended purpose anyway but rather as a general purpose sharpish piece of steel. I’m already carrying a folding knife and a Leatherman, so I don’t need a third knife with a pointy tip.
You can literally look up these videos on google. It's not even illegal in many countries. There's a famous case in Finland of a guy who snuck on a farm at night to fuck pigs and if my memory serves, the only thing he got charged with was illegal entry.