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This article directly contradicts your commentary

What do you know of this person? I can only assume you made this up with no knowledge of him, based on what I'm seeing. For example, according to Wikipedia:

In August 2023, Bartov was one of more than 1,500 U.S., Israeli, Jewish and Palestinian academics and public figures to sign an open letter stating that Israel operates "a regime of apartheid" in the occupied Palestinian territories and calling on U.S. Jewish groups to speak out against the occupation in Palestine.

Bartov has said that Israel's 37th government brought "a very radical shift", adding, "I am a historian of the 20th century and don't make analogies lightly" before recounting how the movement of fringe politics into the mainstream in Europe led to fascism, and emphasizing: "This is the current moment in Israel. It's terrifying to see it happening."

In January 2024, Bartov said that Israel had repeatedly expressed genocidal intent against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip during the Gaza war. By August of that year, having visited Israel again in June, Bartov said it "was engaged in systematic war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocidal actions". On April 24, 2025, Bartov said: "It's a misnomer to call it a 'war'. [...] This is an occupation by the IDF designed to take over Gaza. There will, of course, be resistance, but it will be guerrilla resistance." He also noted the violence had escalated beyond Gaza to include the West Bank.

When someone says "billionaires," you can go ahead and include in that figure all those whose net worth is between 8 and 12 digits

Yes. Greenhouses add significant cost, that's my point.

Pi is well known, up to many more than hundred digits.

They're asking how this is known...

Shipping from Mexico isn't very far, fyi. Mexico is closer to the entire southern and western US than those areas are to New England. To be clear, I support eating/buying local at every opportunity, but as international trading partners go, shipping from Mexico is about as efficient as can be.

Hydroponics and indoor farming add significant cost, also

Given that tomatoes suffer when nighttime temperatures start going below 55°F (13°C), there is pretty much nowhere in the continental US where they can be grown successfully year-round without some sort of environmental control or protection.

I can't wait to buy American tomatoes in the fucking winter, after the tomato growing season is over.

Can you name some examples of what you're watching where this happens? You might like JCS Criminal Psychology on YouTube, he covers forensic interviews and goes into detail on how both the interviewer and interviewee act.

It's actually really delicious

Multinational conglomerates regularly rename their products worldwide to try to cater to local tastes

Or any language spoken over a wide geographical area

Why is it off center 😨

Not if you put hardware cloth in front of the screen

This is the hardest projection I've ever seen. So very hard

Are you saying you don't like shards of hard, sharp plastic rubbing against your scrotum?

A physician "drowning" in student loan debt is still making bank, in my experience. Having a lot of debt doesn't automatically mean you're drowning, if you're making $300K+, you will have no problem paying down that debt and living well at the same time.

This survey only measured what teenagers were considering doing in the future. The headline is a severe overstatement of the results

Yes

Diquat bonds strongly to mineral and organic particles in soil and water, where it remains without significant degradation for years. However, bound to clays, diquat is biologically inactive at the concentrations typically observed in agricultural soils.

Unfortunately, the "just don't eat it" idea doesn't work so well when it persists in the environment for so long