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  1. 1 minute ago, Trey3216 said:

    They also get out of control by letting fucking idiot kids do whatever they think they want to do.  Look at the fucking idiocy going on in the Northeast.  

    What precisely do you think is going on? All accounts I’ve seen so far have indicated that the protests at Columbia, Yale, etc. have been peaceful. 

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  2. On a more global note, this movement has real potential to impact the election. College students should be Biden’s bread and butter. In 2020, exit polls showed Biden won 18-29 year olds at a clip of 60-36. And I found one pre-election poll that showed college students preferred Biden over Trump 70-18. 

    But this Israel-Palestine issue could erode Biden’s support in this demographic. I doubt it would shift votes to Trump, but it might shift them to some whack job like Kennedy.  

  3. 5 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:


    UT - Abbott has already issued a warning, the hammer will be dropped on any UT protesters 

    Fuck that rollerfascist. 

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  4. Just now, F250 said:

    This makes absolutely no sense and is nothing like what lead to AWS. Elon is just talking out of his asshole.

    Yeah I’m not talking about the practicality of the overall concept which, as I understand it, is to use idling EVs to provide computational capacity for AI. I'm asking specifically about the terminology he used. “Kilowatts” does not seem like an appropriate unit for computational capacity. Seems like that should be expressed in flops. But I’m not a computer engineer.

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  5. 26 minutes ago, Goredho said:

    “There’s a potential... when the car is not moving to actually run distributed inference,” Musk said. “If you imagine the future perhaps where there’s a fleet of 100 million Teslas and on average, they’ve got like maybe a kilowatt of inference compute. That’s 100 gigawatts of inference compute, distributed all around the world.”

    I’m still trying to figure out what Musk is claiming here. Maybe it makes sense to CS/CE types. But it seems like he’s muddling power and computational capacity. In other words, that’s just fancy technobabble to say “Our cars have a battery and a computer and we can use those when they’re not being driven.”

  6. 11 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

    What's your point you fucking idiot? Was there a coherent thought anywhere in that post?

    New Surly motto?

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  7. 17 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    I recognize Kellyanne Conway and they guy from ‘The Guild’ but never heard of the rest.

    The guy on the far right is the inventor of the big dick toilet and former acting attorney general of the United States. 

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  8. Just now, Smax said:

    lol ok you're not worth the effort man you're right, you're the middle east history expert here as this is your career and all 

    Well, I certainly hope it’s not yours.

  9. 3 hours ago, UpperWestside said:

    More awesome stuff.

    Oh you are still following the thread. I assumed you were busy or offline, since you hadn’t responded to my request that you explain your theory. But it seems you’re just ducking the question.

    So I’ll ask again: can you explain how “the origins of [the modern Israel-Palestine conflict] go back three millennia” (as you claimed in an earlier post)?

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  10. 2 hours ago, Smax said:

    hand wavy bullshit? LOL, there is historical documentation of Arabs under muhammed attacking jewish settlements throughout the Arabian peninsula, the battle of uhud being one of the first.

    You’re literally talking about ancient history. Things that happened over 1,000 years ago.

    The question isn’t whether those things happened; it’s whether they demonstrate a sustained conflict between Jews and Arabs of which the modern Israeli-Palestinian conflict can be understood as a mere continuation. That idea is ludicrous. It ignores the fact that the founders of Israel were European immigrants whose ancestors had lived outside the Levant (and thus had minimal to no contact with Arabs) for centuries, and the reasons those immigrants came in the first place. 

    If you’re looking to explain the situation in Palestine as a consequence of conflict with a rival religious group, 20th Century Christians are far more relevant than 7th Century Muslims. 

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  11. Too late to edit my last post, but I wanted to add: the canard that any two groups of human beings are eternal enemies is defeatist bullshit, based on a weird assumption that hatred is a genetic trait. Peace is possible, but not if we assume animosity is encoded in our DNA. 

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  12. 3 hours ago, Smax said:

     

    Thanks for recs but come on everything is written with a slanted view. I  tend to agree with UW view of this, yes this current conflict can be traced to the creation of Israel by Western powers, but prior to that jews and muslims were not all kumbya holding hands everything great buddy. Yes there were times of "peace" but whichever sect was ruling was happy, the others were not, throughout history muslims have committed genocide to jews (and vice versa), it was one the first acts muhammed did when he came to power.

    I think anyone who is jumping on UW or anyone else for mentioning the history between the two tribes and saying this only because of the creation of Israel and ignoring the deep seated animosity built up over the centuries is being naive and or ignorant. History is what shapes us and many of you are way too intelligent to ignore the history of jews and muslims and view this current conflict in a vacuum

     

    That’s all hand-wavy bullshit. There’s no substance to this idea that Jews and Muslims have always been at odds, vying for control of the Middle East.

    Jews were replaced as the majority in Palestine in the 5th century AD, by Christians. Christians were, in turn, surpassed by Muslims. For centuries, Jewish people formed a tiny minority in Palestine, amounting to somewhere in the range of 1-3% of the population. They just weren’t a significant part of the region’s demographics or history during that lengthy period, which only began to change in the late 1800s. 

    It would be like if Aztecs had fled en masse to Europe, established themselves as Europeans, intermarried for centuries, but kept worshipping Quetzalcoatl and speaking Nahuatl as a second language. If their ancestors started immigrating to Mexico in 2400 and violence broke out between Aztecs and Spanish-speaking Mexicans, would it be fair to justify the situation with a shrug and a cliche like “Well, the Aztecs and Spaniards have been fighting back and forth forever, so whaddya gonna do?”

    That would be stupid, right?

    I mean, hell, you could use the same argument to justify war between Israel and any Western nation, since certainly Christians committed grave atrocities against the Jews throughout history (and far more recently than any Muslim-perpetrated aggression).

    It’s bad history and bad logic, and it ends up causing otherwise intelligent people to stop thinking critically about current events. 

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  13. 21 hours ago, 'stache said:

    I remember a time that I thought Conan wasn’t that funny. I must’ve been clinically depressed or something. So in for this!

    In the 90s, I regularly watched Late Night for the post-monologue sketches. Actual Items and satellite TV were a goldmine of random comedy genius. 

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  14. 3 minutes ago, UpperWestside said:

    Good stuff.

    Okay then. Why don’t you explain to us how this current conflict has roots in events in Palestine that occurred three millennia ago? 

  15. 26 minutes ago, UpperWestside said:

    I stated plainly that the origins of this go back three millennia.

    And I stated that your claim is 100% bullshit which, in any meaningful sense, it is. 
     

  16. 11 minutes ago, UpperWestside said:

    There’s no attempt to stifle any debate. You can go back and forth into perpetuity if you want to. The evidence shown says that we will not see these two groups of people sit down and come to an agreement that stops the violence.

    Your understanding of the history of this conflict is fucked. The idea that Jews and Palestinians have always fought and always will is a lie. I can’t put it any more politely than that. 

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  17. 29 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

    You and I are in agreement on the issues. I just take issue with this line that is often repeated.

    It’s a thought-terminating cliche. An attempt to stifle debate and inspire “What are ya gonna do?” shrugs, rather than dig in and understand the conflict. The biblical connotations make it extra effective at shutting down any critical thought.

    And yeah, I thought twice about calling out @UpperWestside specifically on this because his views on the issues seem generally reasonable. But he has repeated this particular canard and it’s a dangerous one.

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  18. 12 hours ago, UpperWestside said:

    The animosity is something we cannot fix. This goes back to Old Testament times for each of them.

    That’s 100% bullshit. 

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  19. 1 hour ago, tx 3 putt said:

    Imagine you’re laying pipe to your hairy Iranian wife

    I thought this was funny…



    …in the mid-80s, when I heard the racist dumb kid who was held back in fourth grade make the same joke in the school cafeteria. 

     

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