samjones33

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McGran's Dead Economy –> Evolved with Dostoevsky Framework(zimberthink.substack.com)
2 points by samjones33 3mo ago|1 comments
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by samjones33 3mo ago
McGrann evolved his thinking from the Dead Economy essay to (what I think is) a more profound piece using The Grand Inquisitor as a framework. Text and audio links here: https://zimberthink.substack.com/p/owen-mcgrann-t
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Bots Have Hijacked Substack Likes and Restacks(zimberthink.substack.com)
9 points by samjones33 7mo ago|0 comments
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by samjones33 11mo ago
I was part of a team building a complex web gui. We started the project in 2015. The GUI had a _lot_ of cascading business logic, an editable high-density grid, all kinds of fun. In our tools evaluation, React just had too much overhead. ch
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by samjones33 1y ago
>I don't think "getting invaded" counts as "choosing offensive war". Do you know what Hamas is? Do you know their charter? Do you know that they diverted billions of $, meant to build housing for Gazans to their
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by samjones33 1y ago
That is polling, that isn't reality. I live here. In places like Jerusalem, Jews and Arabs are together all day, every day. 40% of the police officers in Jerusalem are Arabs. What is your problem? Why do you selectively omit the polls
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Substack – network error when adding images
1 points by samjones33 1y ago|1 comments
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by samjones33 1y ago
What is the life expectancy of a body politic that chooses ongoing offensive war? That is not a well thought out question. The answer is different in PA controlled areas, non PA areas, and Gaza. And Gaza's life expectancy is different
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by samjones33 1y ago
>dissolving the whole state What? You understand what would happen next, right? Is there a single time in history when that has occurred? And if so, what happened next? What a fantastically violent thing to say or propose. >the israel
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by samjones33 1y ago
I am not saying it is good or desirable. Do you live in a place that has a death cult committing daily acts of violence and killing (against people on both sides of the fence, of both "ethnicities")? Do you live in a place where b
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by samjones33 1y ago
Well said. What I try to emphasize is that Hamas has agency. They make the decision to keep fighting, or stop fighting. To deny Hamas agency is to dehumanize them. They have as much agency as Israel or any other actor. And they are a death
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by samjones33 1y ago
There is not a single person in the Middle East who maps the behavior of Hamas to that of the PLO in the 1980's. Hamas is a death cult. They will fight to the last Gazan child. They have agency. They could end the war tomorrow, or a ye
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by samjones33 1y ago
Inventing what, exactly? The population growth rate in the West Bank and Gaza is higher than that of Europe. I ain't the one having the babies... The residents of those places are.
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by samjones33 1y ago
Israelis are brutalized, by the actions of Hamas and at having no choice but to fight Hamas in horrible circumstances. Hamas could have ended the war in Gaza a year ago. Or on October 8 2023. Do they? No. They will fight to the last Gazan c
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by samjones33 1y ago
East Jerusalem is ... not a nut anyone here is going to crack. What do those folks want for themselves? Be part of the Palestinian Authority? (Not the ones I have been doing a remodel with.) Make them part of Jordan? Jerusalem is disputed t
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by samjones33 1y ago
- There is only one Israeli citizenship. Jews have it. Israeli Arab Muslims have it. Israeli Arab Christians have it. Druze have it. It's the same. Is there discrimination, in all directions? Yup. The world is a tribal place. But you s
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by samjones33 1y ago
That is two random youtubers. You know better than to listen to rants on line... I hope!
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by samjones33 1y ago
Can you explain a genocide in Gaza or the West Bank both of which have growing Palestinian populations even during wartime? (If you correct for the 100K+ who left Gaza before Egypt closed its border in 2024)
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by samjones33 1y ago
Have you paid attention to who can hold power in, say, Iran? Or Saudi Arabia? Or Syria? Or Jordan? Israel isn't any more apartheid than any of those places. Given that Israeli Arabs can and do vote (and become Medical Doctors), Israel
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by samjones33 1y ago
I think you have not paid attention to European and Middle Eastern countries. They are all ethno states. The very concept "nation-state" is an alignment of "ethnic tribe" with "political borders" You might want
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by samjones33 1y ago
The problems of Israeli democracy are not the ones you list. The fundamental issue is the population of the West Bank, who, outside of Palestinian Authority areas (aka "Area A"), are largely controlled by Israel but cannot vote. N
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by samjones33 1y ago
I agree. Bombing can only "do" so much....
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by samjones33 1y ago
Evangelical Zionists who fund extremist Jews ... Film, Til Kingdom Come -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Til_Kingdom_Come_(film)
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by samjones33 1y ago
>3) Israeli intelligence knew October 7 was gonna happen and did little to prevent it This is not considered valid in Israel. In Israel October 7 is considered a massive failure of intelligence. No one in the top 30 of any Israeli intell
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by samjones33 1y ago
>Israel's response to Hamas' attack nearly two years ago now is likely even stronger than the USA's to 9/11 I dunno about that. Iraq suffered between a quarter million and a million dead (depending on how you count).
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by samjones33 1y ago
>(For example, see how Hamas will not surrender Yup. Hamas will fight to the last Palestinian. They could have ended the Gaza war a year ago (or more). All they have to say is: "Here are the hostages. Here are our weapons. We are no
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by samjones33 1y ago
Iran has spent 100x more (1000x) preparing for and battling Israel than it has Saudi. You are clearly not counting Iranian-funded rockets in the region or where they point. (Hezbollah had 15,000 of em... zero pointed at Saudi... ditto arms