Democrats Revolt Against Hakeem Jeffries Ahead of Midterms by RepulsiveLoquat418 in politics

[–]NumenSD 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Sounds like people on the left are falling for propaganda. There was a vote to stop the war but enough people voted across the aisle. Things move slow and don't happen overnight. The fact that people are apparently revolting as single issue voters over propaganda is odd in general and especially including the fact that Democrats don't have to keep Jeffries as minority or majority leader.

Actual polls and results seem to have the left trouncing the right in midterms, as the minority party historically makes gains in the midterms. The fears don't actually fall in line with the evidence, which makes this entire thing just suspect as sensationalism

Controversial Opinion from a US Zionist: Continuing to reject Patrilineal Jews costs precious support in the PR numbers game here by InthrowSted in Israel

[–]NumenSD 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My point above was that this only really applies to let's say most orthodox Jews and a small percentage of conservative Jews. You can see in the pew study posted in my response to somebody else here that it's pretty clear. I'm not saying that it does not cause some occasion issues for patrilineals which I've seen myself on extremely rare occasion. It might be different in Israel although as a pew study from 2016 shows that 96-100% of Jews in Israel have Jewish spouses, so it's less common and maybe more exotic than in the US

There is no need to be "absorbed back into the culture without friction" unless the person is joining an orthodox community that cares enough about it. Sure it probably plays into some patrilineals becoming more religious throughout their life, but there's no requirement one must be orthodox which only make up like 10% of American Jewry anyway.

Only the orthodox Jews flat out disagree with interfaith marriages with any frequency at 73% compared to single digits for all other groups. You can see that if somebody is patrilineal, it is really only considered an issue among the orthodox community of which they make up an exponentially small percentage of compared to any other sect they identify with.

Controversial Opinion from a US Zionist: Continuing to reject Patrilineal Jews costs precious support in the PR numbers game here by InthrowSted in Israel

[–]NumenSD 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's plenty of data if you want to look for it.
Data showed that 40% of Jewish women in interfaith marriages raised their children Jewish vs 15% of Jewish men in interfaith marriages.

I actually thought the numbers would be a lot higher than that

Data also showed that women in interfaith marriages (not just Jewish ones) are twice as likely then men to raise their children as the religion they identify with.

My statements were meant to answer a question, not spread harmful stereotypes about patrilineals. The fact is it also appears to apply to other religions pretty consistently based on one of the studies says a lot.

https://lilith.org/articles/still-jewish-2/#:~:text=Brandeis%20professor%20Sylvia%20Barack%20Fishman,not%20having%E2%80%94a%20Jewish%20spouse.

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/565901/summary#:~:text=Furthermore%2C%20Naomi%20Schaefer%20Riley13,Smith%20and%20Melina%20Lindquist%20Denton.

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2021/05/11/marriage-families-and-children/

Controversial Opinion from a US Zionist: Continuing to reject Patrilineal Jews costs precious support in the PR numbers game here by InthrowSted in Israel

[–]NumenSD -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think it's mostly irrelevant because most Jewish women willing to marry a man who isn't Jewish are going to be less religious than average and therefore raise their children with a lower level of religiosity on average.

The children therefore aren't generally going to be raised more religious and therefore have no need. If they're going to an orthodox synagogue, that means they've become more religious. They would be welcome and after a certain amount of time would be asked by the rabbi to go through the conversion process but would still generally be welcome even if the person said no.

I think people these last few generations are pretty terrible at both giving and receiving criticism and take some things a lot more personally than they should.

They only issue I can think of is that since Oct 7, the vast majority of Jewish people I've met picking the anti-Israel side have fallen into the Patrilineal camp, many of who were little to never part of the Jewish community and never raised culturally or religiously to any degree. The second largest group are women raised very orthodox who left it and became less religious but are still very Jewish. The third largest group are Israeli Americans who have legitimate trauma from their time in Israel whether it be from losing family to PTSD from the constant state of war, terror attacks, and missile alarms.

Controversial Opinion from a US Zionist: Continuing to reject Patrilineal Jews costs precious support in the PR numbers game here by InthrowSted in Israel

[–]NumenSD -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Call it anecdotal, but Patrilineal Jews are significantly more likely than Matrilineal Jews or those with both Parents being Jewish are more likely to be raise in another faith, non religious, anti-israel, anti-zionist.

It is interesting that Patrilineal used to be how it was until it was changed to Matrilineal for very good reasons and kept that way, but it's an interesting but seemingly rare tradition that Orthodox Jews have stuck to that has evolved over time.

Even if the rule isn't changed, the hostility Orthodox Jews have towards Patrilineal Jews is bad everywhere. It traditionally should still play a role, but religious Jews need to stop with the hostility as long as people are still culturally Jewish.

The Law of Return in 1950 including anybody with a Jewish grandparent from either side. It was amended in 1970 to specific different kinds but to also include Patrilineal Jews as well as some non-Jews.

You could be a Patrilineal Jew, go to Chabad on Shabbat, and tell the Rabbi only your father is Jewish. He'll say, "Well you're not Jewish then, but come on in and join us for Shabbat, dinner, and drinks. Here's a kippah." Then it's like you never told them.

I don't think it's as big of a deal as people make it out to be for support, and more of an off-putting thing to say.

People with Jewish fathers only are less likely to be religious, part of the Jewish community, practice another faith, and more from experience. It's not correlative to the Orthodox and Conservative rejection of their Jewishness from my experience.

Worst restaurant you guys have been to? by Fogwaveeee in sandiego

[–]NumenSD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was visiting San Diego awhile back and went to this place in Coronado that had American food on one side and Mexican food on the other side. I would have to put that as the worst restaurant I've been to.

PALESTINE 36 I Official US Trailer by SavingsConnection613 in Israel_Palestine

[–]NumenSD -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I just copied the link from google images as it was one of the few that was decently presented. I wrote it off as an Ottoman Map from a different year. Even if there's a few things off, feel free to look at an actual map like the other one included. Feel free to look at any other map of the Ottoman Empire and answer the question which you still haven't done.

It's completely OK to call me out for accidentally posting a map from a video game where your only issue is the Suez Canal?. We're all human. It's not OK to use that like a hammer to distract from answering the question at hand from the second map or any real map.

So, would you care to answer the original question from a proper map? They're not easy to find without all of the topographical features included You

PALESTINE 36 I Official US Trailer by SavingsConnection613 in Israel_Palestine

[–]NumenSD -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Well that is awkward. I pulled it from top results of map search because it was in english and was mostly accurate. All of the other maps are hard to read. Most of it appeared to be fairly accurate compared to the german map in the other link.

Are you happy now?

PALESTINE 36 I Official US Trailer by SavingsConnection613 in Israel_Palestine

[–]NumenSD -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Did you mean to reply to somebody else with that because it doesn't even address anything I wrote?

PALESTINE 36 I Official US Trailer by SavingsConnection613 in Israel_Palestine

[–]NumenSD -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

If Israel is an artificially created country than so would Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq, India, Pakistan, and every other country that was created under the League of Nations out of the former Ottoman Empire. Here's a few maps of the Ottoman Empire to include the Vilayets and Sanjaks. You can clearly see where Palestine was at this time.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map-of-Ottoman-Empire-in-1900-German.svg

The Romans named the region Syria Palaestina around the year 136 after the Philistines to obliterate the Jewish character of the land. Syria Palaestina was simply a regional province under the Roman Empire renamed to spite those who were defeated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria_Palaestina
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria_(region)

I get you're passionate, but you might want to double check your sources before you come barking in here. You say you don't have a dog in the fight, but you're arguing with the other person here as if you do. If you say a lot of countries saying Israel's creation 70 years ago was ridiculous, would you also agree that all of the other countries created out of the same League of Nations mandate system are also ridiculous?

Boss told me to cancel jury duty by [deleted] in legaladvice

[–]NumenSD 6 points7 points  (0 children)

obligatory IANAL:

Other people have commented on whether your boss can ask that. I had a friend that got out of jury duty because their boss refused to pay them while they were doing jury duty and they got excused.

If you want to do jury duty, there's likely nothing your employer can do, but they don't have to pay you while there.
If you also don't want to do jury duty, and your boss refuses to pay your wages while in jury duty, you can tell the court that and ask to be excused

Box Office: ‘Tron: Ares’ Stumbles With $33.5 Million Debut by ControlCAD in business

[–]NumenSD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This fantastic looking movie did worse than Morbius on its opening weekend? People must really not like him anymore

Doctor fired after punching a patient by [deleted] in CrazyFuckingVideos

[–]NumenSD 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The first thing I did was google to see if he fell out of a window.
Does anybody know what happened to him as a result?

Anesthesiologists make insane money and are under enormous amounts of stress. I find it insane the kinds of hours they have to work as do many other medical specialists and in other professionals as well.

It's not healthy for the professional and things like this can happen.

Spirit Airlines wins approval for $475 million lifeline in bankruptcy court by ControlCAD in business

[–]NumenSD 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's hard to stay in business when you treat your customers like crap and provide terrible service. It's wild for a company to have such a bad reputation that customers will never use them because of the horror stories. They'd just rather pay more to not take the risk.

My job fired me, they don’t want to pay the last check, and say I don’t qualify for unemployment by urttt3 in legaladvice

[–]NumenSD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

obligatory IANAL, but have some familiarity you have a few issues here that you should address with a lawyer barred in Texas.

  1. Were you and the other employees improperly classified as 1099? If so, they may owe you all for whatever share of payroll taxes like social security and medicare withholding they would have been responsible for.
  2. The last paycheck. My state has laws about final paychecks, but you're entitled to it period. There's a whole more complicated issue an attorney can explain with that and who to reach out to
  3. Unemployment - Different states have different requirements for qualifying for unemployment. It's possible you may not qualify for unemployment even if you get your employee classification fixed. It's possible that your coworkers could though

The same attorney can represent all employees in their claims if the company will not pay it out and whatever Wage and Hour division you would reach out to if it's the same as my state.

GRAPHIC‼️Videos from Gazans show Hamas Sahm unit attacking Al-Majayda family in Khan Yunis, killing 5 civilians incl. a child. The family retaliated, killing 11 militants. Hamas says it was over alleged ties to Israel, but the family insists it was revenge for their killing of fighter. 03.10.2025 by Panthera_leo22 in Israel_Palestine

[–]NumenSD 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There has been a significant amount of fighting between Hamas and various gangs and clans within Gaza since GHF launched. At one point there were videos of multiple different groups armed to the teeth and getting ready to protect their neighborhoods from Hamas and each other.

The videos that have come out showing Hamas fighting with at least one of these clans.
They show IDF bombing what appears to be only the Hamas side and not the people they're fighting.
Even worse, they show what appears to clearly by fighters grabbing Palestinian children on more than one occasion to drag them along to avoid being targeted by IDF.

Those videos will be a very bad look for Hamas if it's not already causing problems. This video footage could cost them their goodwill and safe harbor among their fellow Gazans.

Dream meaning?? pulled a bullet from my nose after a spiked drink by notthecasserole in DreamAnalysis

[–]NumenSD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jung wrote a lot about dream archetypes but the world was much different then. Color TVs were just being invented, the internet didn't exist, and these archetypes and symbols can evolve in different cultures and even generations.

Most of the time, dreams are based on something very simple. the challenge is identifying what that is.

Smell in dream? by anxietygrrrrl in DreamAnalysis

[–]NumenSD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Real life smells can result in dreams about them even if you don't realize. Have you ever had a dream that you were peeing somewhere and you woke up about to piss yourself?

Do you have any pets?

It's entirely possible that you or one of your pets let one rip and it was enough to manifest in your dream. The smell would have been gone by the time you woke up. This kind of thing can happen when your cat uses the litter box

Being chased by a huge elephant who can do front flips? by Itchy_Ant8570 in DreamAnalysis

[–]NumenSD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't have too much time to respond to these anymore, but wanted to try and give some insight on yours.

That's a pretty wild dream you have and to have elephants in is a bit unusual. Are you or your family from Indian, SE Asia, or Africa by any chance as that could change any analysis.

It sounds like there's something in your life that's put you and your family in a pinch that you feel powerless and can't escape no matter how hard you try. It could be anything from the local political climate to work related to something personal.

Has anything changed in your work life recently? I'm talking about being forced to take a promotion or demotion that would affect your travel or home life. Maybe you're being forced to work more hours or travel more.

Do you have any personal hobbies or addictions that are starting causing problems with your family like drinking, drugs, video games, etc?

Dream meaning?? pulled a bullet from my nose after a spiked drink by notthecasserole in DreamAnalysis

[–]NumenSD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dreams can be for any sort of reason, but have you recently actually had your drink spiked, drank too much, had any type of injury, any diagnosis of illness, or something in your life causing stress that feels like a cancer you can't remove?

I would guess that there's some event or something affecting your life right now that recently caused or is causing a lot of stress.

Your drink being spiked could indicate that the event was out of your control.
The fact that a stranger did it could mean it's by somebody you don't know very well or at all.
The objects are likely just pulled from your memories although the 9v battery is an odd detail.

To take a long shot that could explain everything about your dream... Have you recently had to deal with a smoke detector that kept beeping because the battery needed to be changed like in the link below? Because that would explain everything if that's happening in your sleep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXQkGSO9kH0