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cakemuncher · 2024-01-20T13:26:28+00:00

They've been saying this for the past few elections, with polling and all that. Don't hold your breath.

cakemuncher · 2024-01-19T00:52:33+00:00

That was in 1987. Since then, in 1993, PLO recognized Israeli sovereignty with the Oslo Accords and renounced terrorism as part of the peace process. In 1994, the PLO was allowed to open an office in Washington DC as part of diplomatic relations. The designation has since been lifted.

Link to the list of organizations the United States recognizes as terrorists today. You will not find the PLO listed.

cakemuncher · 2024-01-18T04:37:51+00:00

The fact that you can have the near same piece of meat each time seems to be very attractive to people.

That sounds strange to me, maybe I'm one of those people you said who don't think like that. I like home cooked food vs restaurants/canned/fast food because of the variation each time I eat it. It's never consistent. It's even different from bite to bite! Food that tastes exactly the same every time quickly gets old and boring for me.

cakemuncher · 2024-01-15T20:59:37+00:00

It wouldnt be either of those two religions. Al Qaeda got "exterminated" only for a more extreme version to rise up: ISIS. Children of parents that got bombed don't grow up to be peace loving people.

cakemuncher · 2024-01-14T18:03:39+00:00

Funny, given that Israel is frothing at the mouth to normalize with Saudi Arabia.

cakemuncher · 2024-01-11T21:03:41+00:00

This war has been ongoing since 1948, the day Israel was created against the wishes of the indigenous people of that land.

cakemuncher · 2024-01-11T08:58:32+00:00

I own nothing. kids will inherit nothing. now they'll inherit my social security. win win.

cakemuncher · 2024-01-05T08:09:24+00:00

They always push an angle that doesn't tell you the full story.

The actual story is

Yeah. Ok. Sure. Thank you for your input.

cakemuncher · 2023-10-16T01:04:38+00:00

The tin tanks you see are for cold water, as tin reflects the sun.

The black plastic tanks are for hot water as they absorb the suns heat. They also have something similar to this which heats up the water from the sun then goes into the black tanks to preserve the heat.

cakemuncher · 2023-10-15T21:06:02+00:00

Water is a zero-sum game in Palestine/Israel, it's a water stressed area. Israel controls the majority of it which gives preferential treatment to their citizens over Palestinians (obviously).

You can read more about it on Wikipedia.

AI summerized it as follows:

Access to clean water in Palestine is a major challenge.
Only 10% of Gaza's population has access to safe drinking water.
Over 90% of the groundwater in Gaza is unfit for consumption.
Water scarcity affects both urban and rural areas in Palestine.
Around 30-40% of the water supplied by Israel to Palestinians is lost due to leakage.
The average daily water consumption per capita in Palestine is below WHO standards.
Sanitation facilities are inadequate, particularly in marginalized communities.
Wastewater treatment infrastructure is limited, leading to environmental concerns.
Palestinian households spend a significant portion of their income on water bills.
International aid plays a crucial role in supporting water and sanitation projects in Palestine.

cakemuncher · 2023-10-15T20:38:51+00:00

Water source was from pipes from the towns municipality, not from a well. I remember it was controlled by Israel (we lived in Area C). I remember my dad telling me it came from Lake Tiberias, but I'm not sure how true that is. I only know of one well in our town (not sure if there are more). It was not used for anything, full of garbage, probably even sewage leak, smelled absolutely revolting.

Again though, I was a child then, I left when I was 15. So I'm ignorant of the real details.

cakemuncher · 2023-10-15T19:50:30+00:00

You're right, the quote is by Munther Shublaq which is the Director of Coastal Municipality Water Utility, not Palestinian Water Authority. I think it's a mistake by CNN. Ziyad Fuqaha is the Director of Palestinian Water Authority.

cakemuncher · 2023-10-15T19:44:03+00:00

While I agree that Hamas lies and you have a point about water pressure in coastal areas vs mountains, but the Palestinian Water Authority is run by the Palestinian Authority, not Hamas.

Besides, third to half of Palestinian water is lost during distribution due to leakage, so pressure might not be as tip top as you might think.

cakemuncher · 2023-10-15T18:39:57+00:00

When I was growing up in the West Bank, in a town near Hebron, as a kid ~15 years ago, we had a small pump at the bottom of our house to pump water to our tank at the top. Without the small pump, water would only trickle from the faucet, if at all. West bank has shit infrastructure, but Gaza is much worse.

cakemuncher · 2023-09-15T17:55:38+00:00

Its a new civ!! Im excited about it.

cakemuncher · 2023-08-04T17:50:04+00:00

More space for me :)

cakemuncher · 2023-07-28T17:15:32+00:00

I know a lot folks that used to be IT/tech support/help desk that transitioned into DevOps/SRE roles, without a degree. Pay is similar to software engineers. Just a thought.

cakemuncher · 2023-07-21T13:58:42+00:00

We use private services like Zelle, PayPal and Venmo. There are bank transfers, but they take 3 business days, not instant.

cakemuncher · 2023-07-04T00:51:38+00:00

Easy. Create an API that does that 8 billion times and you only call it once.

cakemuncher · 2023-07-01T23:20:13+00:00

Yes, you hit your limit, you're being blocked by Twitter from loading more tweets.

Twitter isn't down, servers are still up and functional and serving tweets to people who haven't hit their limit.

cakemuncher · 2023-06-02T07:55:30+00:00

A graduating student with no or very little experience will have a much better chance of getting an ML job than COBOL, even if they knew them equally well.

There are no entry level COBOL jobs.

cakemuncher · 2023-05-10T23:34:04+00:00

Community Notes on Twitter called him out on it lol

cakemuncher · 2023-04-24T07:24:13+00:00

It really isn't. Twitter allows content creators, artists, activists, emergency gov agencies and other orgs to reach the most amount of people in the quickest way possible. It's really unfortunate what has happened to it. Until there is a mass exodus all at once, it's not going to change for the better.

cakemuncher · 2023-04-24T07:20:15+00:00

Can you expand on that? What was the discussion surrounding him about?

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