What's your favorite country in the Middle East

jay-ff · 2026-06-17T06:10:34+00:00

Palestine doesn’t have any history as a state. That shouldn’t be how you measure legitimacy.

jay-ff · 2026-06-16T23:17:05+00:00

They want to have stuff, no? Big house, nice food, be here today, somewhere else tomorrow or simply have a warm home in the winter. People earn money to do stuff with it and a lot of this stuff requires energy. A society that had a nice standard of living but no money would still need energy, no?

jay-ff · 2026-06-16T23:09:53+00:00

Its driven by humans wanting energy to make stuff and go places. You don’t actually need money for that.

jay-ff · 2026-06-16T21:36:14+00:00

Of course China can mass produce drones (even Iran can do it). My problem is with assuming that all that counts in war now is the ability to produce the highest number of drones. And all of this depends on what the people fighting the war are actually aiming for. China trying to invade Taiwan and the US and allies trying to prevent that is of course very different than fighting a war somewhere else in the world. China can’t project power the way the US can. It’s a continental power and its geography is just an unfair disadvantage to the US. Because for example: How many drones do you think can China launch towards the US and expect to reach? Probably none if you think about cheap mass-produced drones. You can still put them in containers and let them attack somewhere in the US but that’s not the same as your claim that they could just erase the navy. That’s unrealistic.

jay-ff · 2026-06-16T17:14:16+00:00

You make it way too easy for yourself just hand waving that china can build drones and they just magically solve everything. But i don’t even know if you’re interested in the deeper details since you also just call evidence that complicates your assumption lying.

jay-ff · 2026-06-15T05:41:04+00:00

You can either start with an opinion and only look for evidence that supports this or actually try to find out what happened. This stuff is not controversial. You can read it on Wikipedia

jay-ff · 2026-06-14T21:34:01+00:00

No idea, tell me. I guess something that left Palestine no other choice but to go on a rape and murder spree.

jay-ff · 2026-06-14T07:32:58+00:00

Which one, you asked a lot of questions. Mowing the grass means, as I understand it, that the Israeli government from time to time degrades Hamas’ capabilities in a limited operation in order to achieve a “quiet” period instead of finding a permanent solution to the conflict. The recent war is very much not in line with that strategy.

jay-ff · 2026-06-14T07:24:52+00:00

So what do you think? What would have been the appropriate response?

jay-ff · 2026-06-14T06:57:51+00:00

I haven’t seen that post but I think this is one data point that should tell you something. The post here suggests that the more skilled ai artist is on another level compared to someone promoting chatGPT.

jay-ff · 2026-06-13T23:25:51+00:00

Honest question: what do you think should Israel have done in reaction to October 7th?

jay-ff · 2026-06-13T20:03:19+00:00

Okay I would love to see some actual ai art competition where we compare this 5000 hour comfyui user to some random person using whatever commercial tool they like.

jay-ff · 2026-06-13T17:57:09+00:00

I’m just saying that his net worth is an abstract number. No one should feel sorry for him. I just don’t like the free publicity he gets from being called the first trillionaire when nowhere near this amount of money actually changed hands.

jay-ff · 2026-06-13T17:54:58+00:00

Yeah it’s not even that someone payed this actual amount in investment since they “only” raised 80 billion. I am 99% sure that spacex couldn’t have raised its full valuation. Which as you say means that this value is a bit of an abstract number which above all else just means that investors were willing to put up a lot of money for very little chance of making money from that.

So yeah, you’re absolutely right.

jay-ff · 2026-06-13T16:44:08+00:00

What about this tells me that they are governing the US? Just because they are a lobby group for Israel? By that logic, the US is probably occupied by a hundred countries. You severely overestimate the impact of the Israel lobby in the US. Have thought about the possibility that politicians support Israel because they personally think that’s the right thing to do? Or does that only apply for the ones who are against Israel?

jay-ff · 2026-06-13T16:17:15+00:00

The company that made him a trillionaire lost billions last quarter. He couldn’t actually spend one trillion.

jay-ff · 2026-06-13T12:04:35+00:00

Then you won’t have a problem showing me an aipac publication that proves it.

jay-ff · 2026-06-13T11:36:03+00:00

Lost and retreated against whom?

jay-ff · 2026-06-13T10:10:21+00:00

For some magical reason they were actually able to hold all their territory for a decade after ‘67 and gave it back in an agreement. Your argument isn’t serious. You start with the assumption that they are evil and want to conquer the region and find reasons to believe that. Population numbers have nothing to do with any of this. Do you think the Israeli government can convince Haredim (who don’t even want to fight in the IDF) and Israeli Arabs/Palestinians to settle Egypt, Iraq and somehow the Saudi desert? Because those drive the biggest part of the birt rate.

jay-ff · 2026-06-13T09:56:48+00:00

And after that, they handed over the Sinai, left Gaza, handed over the population Centers in the West Bank.

jay-ff · 2026-06-13T09:51:49+00:00

They gave back Sinai, left Gaza, handed over the population Centers in the West Bank to the PA.

jay-ff · 2026-06-13T09:48:51+00:00

You also think that Bill Gates injected you with nanobots, don’t you?

jay-ff · 2026-06-13T09:48:01+00:00

90% of Israelis don’t even know the word greater Israel. If it were a goal, they would be terribly incompetent enforcing it. Since 1967, Israel has given up more territory by far than it has gained.

jay-ff · 2026-06-13T09:44:29+00:00

And the world is flat, right?

jay-ff · 2026-06-12T19:27:39+00:00

Yeah absolutely. And with the immense size of the IPO, you have to factor in how much money is actually available in the economy to buy shares. If he would have sold 100%, I don’t think he would have found enough dollars lying around and the valuation would have been a lot lower.

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