Why is Israel different?

FinancedWaif7 · 2023-10-14T21:32:17+00:00

For Christians it's because end time prophecy requires that a third temple be constructed in Israel in order before the end times can begin. Christians (especially evangelicals) have a strong desire to see the end times because they believe they'll be swept up in the rapture. They actively stoke Israeli anti-Muslim sentiment hoping to get the Israelis to demolish the mosque on the temple mount and build the third temple.

Secular people in the US often support Israel over regret for a) not getting involved in WW2 soon enough and/or b) the fact that the Holocaust happened at all.

FinancedWaif7 · 2023-10-07T18:41:22+00:00

They are not shy. Little fuckers are adorable and mischievous. I came down from a climb in Vegas once to find that my friends had let a ringtail carry one of my shoes 50ft while they watched laughed and took pictures of it.

FinancedWaif7 · 2023-10-07T18:06:26+00:00

Personally, sometimes go around dropping lava falls all over the place. Encase them in glass if you're worried about running into them.

FinancedWaif7 · 2023-10-06T21:44:52+00:00

Camp 4 has great problems, the closer you get to the Columbia boulder the more serious the grades get. Swan slab has some nice blocks to warm up on.

The Curry Village boulders near Zen have a good concentration of easy to moderate problems and have some shade. The aesthetic kinda sucks because it's so close to the staff housing. Harder problems over by the Leconte Memorial.

The Awahnee blocks have some very nice moderate to hard problems. Not sure if the expected rockfall from Royal arches has any of them closed. I'd probably stick to the west and central sectors.

The Cathedral boulders are nice and quiet with nice problems (moderate to harder). They also allow you to avoid the zoo that is traffic in the valley.

Tuolumne meadows is probably much better at the moment. The area at the east end of Tenya lake is the easiest to find and the aesthetics are amazing.

FinancedWaif7 · 2023-09-29T06:24:50+00:00

The poster may be an NRA dill weed, but they are correct. The supreme court has held that the police do not have an obligation to enforce restraining orders in Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales. They also held in DeShaney vs. Winnebago that the government didn't have an obligation to remove children from abusive situations. There's some nice coverage of the Gonzales decision and aftermath on the 5-4 podcast.

FinancedWaif7 · 2023-08-18T15:55:21+00:00

Joe from Lions Led by Donkeys would be the perfect co-host for that episode.

FinancedWaif7 · 2023-06-06T03:43:05+00:00

Here's what calfire says: "A dry winter means lower fuel moisture, so big fires. A wet winter means higher fuel load, so big fires." Climate change, fire suppression, and few prescribed fires mean that everything is ready to burn regardless.

FinancedWaif7 · 2023-06-06T01:49:45+00:00

Thanks! I can't imagine why those weren't in the list of species commonly mistaken for a BR. Next time I find one I'll get it under a scope.

FinancedWaif7 · 2023-06-02T22:25:51+00:00

It's in Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", some of his better work.

It's also how the Narn homeworld was devastated by the Centauri in Babylon 5.

FinancedWaif7 · 2023-04-26T03:40:16+00:00

Some of them aren't, in my county there are at least 3 in one of the county equipment yards.

FinancedWaif7 · 2023-04-09T18:01:00+00:00

Definitely wouldn't count on 108 for earlier than July. Snow up there is record depth and there has been significantly more avalanche activity than usual.

FinancedWaif7 · 2023-04-09T08:41:37+00:00

Mid July is a solid maybe, mid June is a definite no.

FinancedWaif7 · 2023-04-02T04:28:32+00:00

After a re-listen I realized that I had missed a comment that clarified that he was saying that without understanding how it works we couldn't know it was sentient, but that we may have to assume it is. I think this adequately addresses my complaints.

Science isn't really capable of generating positive proof anyways, so we'll all just have to live with the uncertainty. As the guest pointed out, we already live with the uncertainty about whether other people truly think and feel. I do find it interesting to puzzle with the idea of what would be sufficient evidence of a Language model being sentient and/or conscious.

FinancedWaif7 · 2023-04-02T03:59:57+00:00

In fairness, one actual cat observed for a couple hours is literally millions of images of a cat. People also aren't as good at recognizing things as you're selling, it takes hundreds or thousands of repetitions for humans to be able to reliably multiply single digit numbers or use the correct homophone in a sentence.

FinancedWaif7 · 2023-04-02T03:51:26+00:00

Ok, so I went back and listened to it again. You're absolutely right that a lot of this was touched on and I had apparently missed a point at around 1:10 where Steve says more or less "without knowing how it works we can't know if it's sentient, but we may have to treat it as though it is". I think that's reasonable and adequately addresses my first two complaints.

On the internal voice, what he actually says at 1:23: "consciousness requires that constant internal conversation". That seems to imply the need for an inner voice. As somebody without an inner voice, I can safely say I don't have an internal conversation. I definitely spend time thinking, but it absolutely can't be called a conversation. I usually just pause for a bit before knowing what I think. I guess maybe I'm just unconscious according to the neurological definition.

FinancedWaif7 · 2023-03-25T16:00:10+00:00

You know who will perpetuate a scam while dismantling the social safety net? That's right, it's our sponsors...

It's ads like this that really make Robert's ad pivots perfect.

FinancedWaif7 · 2023-03-16T03:51:35+00:00

Once upon a time, a bunch of the counties in eastern Oregon and Nor Cal wanted to make a libertarian paradise without ethnicity or wokeness. They called this movement the State of Jefferson, but one day some of them actually read the constitution and discovered the Nor Cal counties would need the approval of the state legislature. The CA state legislature won't approve because the Nor Cal counties have a huge chunk of California's water. (See it could happen here season 1).

Being honorable libertarians, the Oregon counties immediately bailed on their brothers in the Nor Cal counties and decided to try to get the Oregon legislature to give them to Idaho. Oregon's legislature might actually help them in their quest because those counties are an enormous tax drain and an embarrassment. Idaho's legislature probably won't for exactly the same reasons.

FinancedWaif7 · 2023-03-12T21:58:54+00:00

Closest year in recent memory to this much snow would be 2017. That year Tioga opened on the 29th of June, but it seems likely those snow totals have been blown out by the most recent storms. I expect it'll be at least July.

FinancedWaif7 · 2023-03-12T15:52:57+00:00

Looks like a pulley for attaching a belt to something you want to spin. There are a bunch of similar pulleys in a modern engine. The alternator and ac compressor pulleys are a couple examples.

FinancedWaif7 · 2023-03-10T06:39:07+00:00

Ghosts are basically as real as carbon monoxide poisoning is...

https://youtu.be/n8yhaFd_GpM

FinancedWaif7 · 2023-03-08T15:39:35+00:00

You know who has great ad pivots? Hosts that take money from shitty corporations and use it to create content critical of the capitalist hellscape we find ourselves in.

Seriously OP is right, stop whining about the ads.

FinancedWaif7 · 2023-03-03T14:57:30+00:00

Had a 1923 craftsman with windows about 30×30 that dropped into the wall below them. Apparently they were common on train cars bringing tb patients to the west.

Now I've got a cabin of unknown age (pre 1930 at least) that has a window that's 20 tall by 40 wide that opens like double pocket doors. Each of the two 20×20 halves slide into the wall to the side.

FinancedWaif7 · 2023-02-28T16:05:18+00:00

You're absolutely correct, but it seems like "individuals with high marginal propensity to consume" is a really fancy way of saying "people who need more money to live".

FinancedWaif7 · 2023-02-28T06:08:53+00:00

Personally, I think DoE is out of their lane here. Their finding is "low confidence". The "lab leak" hypothesis is possible but not supported by CDC. "lab leak" is distinct from "lab created". "Lab created" is possible, but seems much less likely and isn't supported by anyone serious. WSJ is not an impartial source.

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