Hyperreality

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On most Israelis being of Middle-Eastern or North African descent:

Mizrahi Jews constitute one of the largest Jewish ethnic divisions among Israeli Jews. Mizrahi Jews are descended from Jews in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia and parts of the Caucasus, who had lived for many generations under Muslim rule during the Middle Ages. The vast majority of them left the Muslim-majority countries during the Arab–Israeli conflict, in what is known as the Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries. … As of 2005, 61% of Israeli Jews were of full or partial Mizrahi ancestry

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizrahi_Jews_in_Israel

Bit of a tangent, but this is partly why Israel’s security services are/were so feared in the middle-east. They simply employed ‘Arab’/Mizrahi Jews, who were indistinguishable from other Arabs and often knew the culture.

On Mizrahi Jews being more likely to support (far-) right parties:

Why the right-wing Mizrahi vote is misunderstood in Israel … Israeli Jews from the Middle East and North Africa vote en masse for Likud and its right-wing allies, despite being told it’s against their interests.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-why-right-wing-mizrahi-vote-misunderstood

‘In Some Respects, Mizrahi Identity in Israel Is Dominant … Most of the cabinet ministers are Mizrahim, most of the mayors are Mizrahim, …

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-05-19/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/in-some-respects-mizrahi-identity-in-israel-is-dominant-and-ashkenazim-face-inequality/00000188-2f95-d914-af8c-afb5a0fb0000

If you want you can look up (recent) Israeli cabinet ministers on wikipedia, you’ll often find they have Middle-Eastern or North African ancestry. Often these are some of the most right-wing politicians. For example:

May Golan … is an Israeli politician and activist … In 2023, a group of former Israeli ambassadors said they were “shocked” by the appointment of Golan as Israel’s new women’s advancement minister, saying that “Golan’s appointment is outrageous as she is a racist and divisive figure … She is the child of a single Orthodox Jewish mother … from Iraq … Golan was known for a number of inflammatory statements she made about African asylum seekers in Israel, referring to them as rapists and infiltrators who would spread HIV among the Israeli population. Golan says “If I am racist for wanting to defend my country and for wanting to protect my basic rights and security, then I’m a proud racist”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Golan

Itamar Ben-Gvir … is an Israeli lawyer and far-right extremist… who has served as the Minister of National Security since 2022 … His father was born in Jerusalem to Iraqi Jewish immigrants. He worked at a gasoline company and dabbled in writing. His mother was a Kurdish Jewish immigrant … has faced charges of hate speech against Arabs and was known to have a portrait in his living room of Israeli-American mass murderer and Jewish extremist Baruch Goldstein, who massacred 29 Palestinian Muslim worshipers and wounded 125 others in Hebron … Ben-Gvir took part in the clashes between Israeli Jewish settlers and the local Palestinian residents, brandishing a gun, telling the police to shoot at Palestinians throwing stones at the scene, and yelling at them that “We’re the landlords here, remember that, I am your landlord.” This was a message that was later repeated by him in a tweet on the morning after the 2022 election in his victory tweet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itamar_Ben-Gvir

30,000/2.4 million (population of Gaza) = 1.25%

6 million Jews / 9.5 million pre-war European Jewish population = 63%

In Gaza at least 30000 people have been killed, and that at least is doing a lot of heavy lifting, in less than five months.

Operation Rheinhard:

Using an unusual dataset originating from railway transportation records, this study identifies an extreme phase of hyperintense killing when >1.47 million Jews—more than 25% of the Jews killed in all 6 years of World War II—were murdered by the Nazis in an intense,100-day (~3-month) surge.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aau7292

1.25/9.5 = 13.6% of the Jewish population in Europe in 100 days.

I get people are angry and why people make the comparison, but it’s quite easy to debunk that it was on a similar scale to what the Nazis did. The numbers don’t lie.

Nazi/Holocaust comparisons undermine any criticism you make of Israel, because what they did is so clearly on a different scale. If you want to win the argument, it’s better to avoid these hyperbolic comparisons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_victims

Most Israelis are now ‘brown’ people of Arab or North African descent. They’re also the group that is most likely to support (far-) right parties.

17 million is a larger number than 30,000.

That doesn’t make what the Israelis are doing excusable or any less of a crime. It does mean what they’re doing isn’t on the same scale as the Nazis.

Yep. Very common.

A lot of people use their pc like a console or media server. Ie. use it to watch/play stuff from their bed or couch.

I saw this was posted in theonion, I know hardtimes is satirical, I still wasn’t entirely sure it was satire.

You say that like it’s incompetence.

They’re deliberately lining their pockets with exhorbitant executive pay-outs.

It’s a relatively nuanced take, even if I don’t agree with everything he says.

Of course, if you’ve become radicalised, you might think he’s a Zionist shill or making excuses for Hamas.

Why would you need a freezer to treat rice?

I do genuinely enjoy buying enough rice to last a year. Also bought a great cheap rice cooker at my local Chinese grocer. Idiot proof and almost certainly saves electricity.

I think I once worked out that the rice based meal I’d just eaten had cost less than a euro to make.

A freeze response is a perfectly common reaction to something like this. Happens regularly in car accidents. People panic, freeze, drive straight into a tree. It’s not unlikely that you would react in the same way.

If anything you’re the one with the IQ of a cucumber to think otherwise.

I’m a former (recent) language teacher. Foreign language education is shit in much of the world.

The natural way to learn a language is listening, speaking, reading then writing. Then you slowly perfect what you’ve learnt. It’s how we learn our native language. When learning foreign languages, you’ll inevitably start with grammar or writing exercises almost immediately.

It’s dumb. The results are predictable: people who know obscure grammar rules but are barely able to have a conversation.

Want to learn a language? Listen to audiobooks, watch movies (with subtitles), go to a foreign country and actually immerse yourself in the language.

IME most British people barely speak English.

AI.

They probably do, but no one listens to the weird guy arguing with his reflection on the bus.

I think this is the new normal bud, at least here in America

We’re all living in Amerika, Amerika ist wunderbar.

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How do you say “I’m very lonely” in C++?

For example, you hear a word that sounds (exactly/a bit) like another word, and can tell it’s not that other word, because the other word has a different gender. Or you only really need to learn one word because both are very similar. Some examples:

Spanish : La Nina/La Nino. Both basically the same world (female/male child) and sound the same, unlike boy/girl in English.

Dutch : Het jacht = the boat / yacht, de jacht = the hunt. No need to guess the meaning of the word from the context, you can go by gender.

Spanish: El Capital = Capital as in money, La Capital = Capital as in Capital City.

French: Un Livre = a book. La livre = pound sterling.