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Biden: "I unreservedly give Israel my full support."

Republicans: "no! You're not supporting them hard enough!"

What a clown show Republicans are.

Well, since Democrats and Republicans overwhelming support Israel, I can't see this will be much of a problem in the long-term.

They could agree on a temporary permanent speaker... Someone who had the official role, but could be ousted as easily as McCarthy.

There are workarounds when both parties are on the same side of an issue.

I feel really bad for the 25% of Palestinians who don't like Hamas.

Never stood a chance of wiping out the Jews? Good.

House Democrats support his ouster because ANY Republican Speaker is going to face the same problems with the MAGAts, and maybe the next Speaker will occasionally side with the moderate instead of capitulating with the alt-right every time McCarthy did.

Also, chaos in the House is better than the right-wing doing all the evil shit they do when they are working as a team.

Democrats have zero incentive to help them out of this mess.

If course, if even a HANDFUL of Republicans were willing to reach across the aisle, they could form a coalition with the Democrats, find a moderate Republican speaker and pass all kinds of moderate legislation that must even get through the Senate.

I'm not sure what the terrorists hope to accomplish here, but unless it's suicide by Israeli airstrike, they're going to be disappointed.

That headline makes it sound like both sides are doing this. That's just simply untrue.

Democrats impeached Trump twice for high crimes that they could clearly articulate, and for which there was abundant evidence in the public record. There was even limited bipartisan support for both of these.

Republicans are the only ones who are weaponizing baseless impeachments.

Israel has demolished a lot of homes, most because they were being used by terrorists to make bombs.

Some for other reasons. We'd have to look at a case by case basis to see what you're referring to.

If you're saying that Israel just rolled in to for the purpose of making life miserable, and knocked down a house, I'd be really curious about who is making that claim and what evidence they are citing.

Yup. This is why it is vital that we all get behind Universal Basic Income.

The jobs will leave and they won't come back. UBI is inevitable, but if we don't get there soon enough there will be years of suffering and poverty for hundreds of millions.

Israel. It's the only country in the region where a gay Muslim women can be an elected official, let alone vote.

Not at all. Israel's offers of peace have been objectively the most generous terms in history.

If you think that's what happened, you don't understand the origins of this conflict in the slightest.

Jews trying to build an Israeli state has very old origins, but the ACTUAL founding of the state of Israel was entirely about world finding something to do with all the Holocaust refugees who were turned away by every other country in their hour of need.

This was Europe's way dealing with a refuge crisis. It wasn't Jews that seized Palestinian lands, it was the British, and it happened way before they ever entertained any notion of giving up that land for any reason, let alone creating a Jewish state.

You're wandering into one of the great questions of our age: what is intelligence? I don't have a great answer. All I know is that gpt-4 can REASON, and does so better than the average human.

It's gpt-4 self-aware? Yes. To an extent. It knows what it is, and can use that information in its reasoning. It knows it's an LLM, but not which model.

Can it make judgement calls? Yes. Better than the average human.

Understand meaning? Absolutely. To a jaw-dropping extent.

Accuracy and correctness... Depends on the type of question.

What you need to understand is that gpt-4 isn't a whole brain. Think of it as if we have managed to reproduce the language center of the brain. I believe this is mechanism for higher reasoning in the human brain.

But just as in humans with right-brain injuries, the language center is disconnected from reality at times.

So, when you think about gpt-4 as the most important, difficult to solve part of the brain, you start to understand that with some minimal supporting infrastructure, you now have something very similar to a complete brain.

You can use vector databases to give it long-term memory, and any kind of data retrieval used to augment it's prompts improved accuracy and reduces hallucinations almost entirely.

With my very mediocre programming skills, I managed to build a system that is curious, has a long-term memory, and do a wide variety of tasks, enough to easily replace an entire customer service, tech support team, sales team, and marketing team.

That's just ME, and working with the gpt-4 that's available to the public with a bunch of guardrails on it. Today.

Imagine a less-restricted system, with infrastructure built by an experienced enterprise coding team, and with just one more generation of LLM improvement? That could wipe out half the white collar workforce.

If LLM improvement was only geometric, and not even exponential (as it clearly is), in 10 years these things will be smarter AND MORE CREATIVE than all humans.

The truth is that we're going to be there in 5 years.

I am against the settlements. Dick move.

But I'm against Palestinians blowing up school busses more.

Sure... In the same way that cops don't necessarily have to be racist to be part of a system that is unquestionably racist.

Plenty of people who aren't anti-Jewish don't give a second thought to the fact that they spend about 10000% more energy publicly criticizing Israel than they do any of Israel's neighbors who oppress women horrifically, murder LGBTQ people, and are unabashedly pro-genocide.

They also criticize Israel for civilian collateral damage without acknowledging that Israeli's steps to minimize those deaths are the most advanced in history, and that they easily outperform even the United States in minimizing casualties during military operations.

So, no... You don't have to be anti-Jewish to be anti Israel, but when you criticize the only Jewish state for things that you give inarguably worse nations a pass for... Your absolutely feeding into an anti-Jewish system.

He's pretending that he doesn't know that "antisemitic" is a word that has been used exclusively to mean anti-Jewish for ... What 50 years? More?

They've offered these people peaceful coexistance and self-governance for more than half a century.

Palestinians have walked away from every peace talk and turned to terrorism.

The only ones with power to change the dynamic are the Palestinians.

Hamas quite famously and openly uses their own people as human shields. They launch rocket attacks from hospitals and school buildings to give Israel the choice between retaliating by striking those places, or just sitting there and letting their own civilians die.

And when you get mad at Israel for the times they do retaliate, you're 100 percent playing into the hands of the terrorists. The WHOLE reason they use this tactic is because YOUR reaction to it is their goal.

That's exactly what they are doing.

They hold Israel to an invented standard that they apply to no other nation.

There was a brief, shining moment after 9/11 when the entire world was united against terrorism. But the critics of Israel were so determined to frame Israel as the bad guys that they invented a meaningless phrase "state terrorism" which just meant "anything that Israel does". And they pretended that that was the moral equal to the actual terrorism of the Palestinians, deliberately targeting children and other innocents.

Israel builds a fence to keep out suicide bombers. They scream "apartheid!"

Israel bulldozes a vacated house that was used as a terrorist bomb-making factory. They scream "genocide!"

The problem with Israel's critics is that since they damn Israel for any and every action, they have made their voices utterly useless.