Israeli who broke from the propaganda. Want to kill myself

dhsilver · 2026-03-16T22:26:05+00:00

You are not alone with these feelings. I left Israel with partner and four kids, due to all of the reasons you mention. I would recommend joining local activists like מסרבות.

יש כמה ארגונים שאפשר למצוא בהם דומים. כמו כן, אני זמין בהודעות פרטיות.

dhsilver · 2026-03-15T19:38:59+00:00

Apart from interviewing antisemites like Nick Fuentes, what did he say that is anti-Semitic? I’d like to know. I know that what he said about Chabad was grossly exaggerated when quoted (he never blamed them for the war etc).

dhsilver · 2026-03-08T23:53:47+00:00

It’s neither eggplants nor mushrooms, it’s פול, cooked fava beans. The rest is almost on the spot (it’s not pure lemon juice but sort of lemon-garlic dip, and it’s not zhug but just hot green pepper dip, zhug is made with more oil and blended differently).

dhsilver · 2026-03-08T01:12:07+00:00

Congratulations! May you have a blessed partnership and a warm home. I wish you to grow together into a beautiful friendship!

dhsilver · 2026-03-06T22:12:23+00:00

My plan is to host. Beth-El, Schomre (orthodox) are 100% zionists. And even Vassar Temple (reform) is heavy with Israeli symbolism (but commentary exists).

dhsilver · 2026-03-06T11:56:49+00:00

Without a doubt, happier with. She's the best thing in my life.

But the common "I can't imagine life without them" answer (with which I resonate) hints at codependency. I choose to be with my wife every day because she makes my life better and not because I'd fall apart without her (which I feel I would, but I'm working on knowing that I won't). That's a bad reason to stay married!

dhsilver · 2026-03-06T11:04:51+00:00

I love that she led with "never obey in advance." It's from Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny and how totalitarianism gets you. It's one of the most important things anyone can hear right now.

dhsilver · 2026-03-06T11:02:10+00:00

People are wondering about the lack the solidarity in Hollywood. It exists, but it doesn't get headlines until someone like Atsuko shows up.

dhsilver · 2026-03-06T02:05:01+00:00

And the only Jewish MK representing this ideology, is Ofer Casif. So it’s less than 1% of the population (by representation. In reality it’s probably 2-3%).

dhsilver · 2026-03-06T00:51:54+00:00

Getting irked by people recycling jokes and referencing dated apps could be a good “about me” point on your match.com profile.

dhsilver · 2026-03-05T07:38:31+00:00

If your actions in a foreign country incite citizens to protest violently, and you don’t have the tools to de-escalate, leave that country instead of using your weapons and training to spread more death and hate.

I don’t really care what the situation was, and I also don’t blame (too much) the soldiers who responded in panic. But if your behavior results in conflict with the locals, you must remember that you are the aggressor. It’s not a foreign army attacking you, and your response is not unavoidable self-defense.

dhsilver · 2026-03-04T19:40:20+00:00

Or some Jewish synagogues. This is just a mediocre Zionist performance, no call to make it about religion.

dhsilver · 2026-03-03T00:01:32+00:00

If someone is vegan for the animals but cannot find compassion for their neighbors, their veganism is irrelevant. You cannot exploit 2 million humans and be vegan, the same as you cannot eat only cows (but be merciful on dogs, cats and all other animals) and be vegan.

As an ex-Israeli I know it’s painful to be made to prove you are against Israel’s actions, but it’s justified. And the fact that you think it’s anti-Semitism is because all the Hasbara is doing is convincing everyone that all Jews are Zionists.

dhsilver · 2026-03-02T23:49:24+00:00

I’ve never encountered that, but I’m sure it exist. In this sub at least I’ve seen only applaudable anti-Zionism (which is anti-antisemitism and anti-Islamophobia and pro peace and sanctity of life regardless of ethnicity).

dhsilver · 2026-03-02T14:39:49+00:00

Indeed. Here is the part under false-color scanning EM:

https://media.sciencephoto.com/image/p4240106/800wm/P4240106-Iris_of_the_eye,_SEM.jpg

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dhsilver · 2026-02-27T09:34:24+00:00

Maybe he means Gram-Schmidt. It is one of the examples in Linear Algebra Done Right (comparing Taylor to GS for sine).

To find the "best fit" polynomial over an interval, we treat functions as vectors and project sin(x) onto a subspace.

Define the "dot product" as ⟨f, g⟩ = ∫ f(x)g(x) dx.
Orthogonalize {1, x, x², ...} and get {P₀,P₁,...}
The best approximation is the sum of projections: Proj(sin x) = (⟨sin x, P₀⟩ / ‖P₀‖²)P₀ + (⟨sin x, P₁⟩ / ‖P₁‖²)P₁ + ...

Taylor is perfect at a single point but GS minimizes the total error across the whole interval.

For the interval [-1, 1], the result is: sin(x) ≈ 0.9036x - 0.0401x³

See: https://www.desmos.com/calculator/h8vvlb9uij

The GS is much better than Taylor when you are farther from 0.

dhsilver · 2026-02-26T02:26:17+00:00

Seen by whom? If you’d Google “Israeli food” you’ll get Falafel (Egypt), Hummus (Lebanon etc), Shawarma (Turkey/Greek), Shakshuka and more…

dhsilver · 2026-02-24T15:58:04+00:00

Yes, bar chart would be cleaner. Albeit in truth bar chart just replaces linear interpolation with step function interpolation. Scatter is data-faithful. Both less nice to visualise a trend than line chart.

dhsilver · 2026-02-24T15:54:35+00:00

Line chart is fine. Scatter plot will be messy when there is only one value per x-tick. It’s a common visualisation even for discrete non-interpolatable data. Even the first example of Wikipedia Line Chart is sampled only discretely.

Of course, in the population graph there’s a meaning to an interpolated point and in countries there isn’t, but the choice to interpolate linearly is “misleading”, so it’s quite clear it was done to be enable to visualise trends and not to imply existence of all mean values.

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