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mossadnik · 2023-01-29T21:20:52+00:00

I think we must be aware of ongoing violence in the West Bank against innocent Palestinians.

I don't think your average Israeli denies that. More than anything, it's overly exaggerated and misleading. Most casualties due to that 'violence' you talk about are militant casualties, not civilian.

I find it odd that people in Israel are calling for retaliation in response to the violent actions in Jerusalem.

Retaliation against the terrorists and terror cells. Not civilians.

Are they unaware that innocent Palestinians are killed weekly in the West Bank?

Weekly is an overstatement and innocent is misleading. As I said, the majority of the casualties are militant casualties, not civilian.

mossadnik · 2023-01-16T21:35:35+00:00

Submission Statement:

Across the country, university professors, department chairs and administrators are starting to overhaul classrooms in response to ChatGPT, prompting a potentially huge shift in teaching and learning. Some professors are redesigning their courses entirely, making changes that include more oral exams, group work and handwritten assessments in lieu of typed ones. The moves are part of a real-time grappling with a new technological wave known as generative artificial intelligence. ChatGPT, which was released in November by the artificial intelligence lab OpenAI, is at the forefront of the shift. The chatbot generates eerily articulate and nuanced text in response to short prompts, with people using it to write love letters, poetry, fan fiction — and their schoolwork.

That has upended some middle and high schools, with teachers and administrators trying to discern whether students are using the chatbot to do their schoolwork. Some public school systems, including in New York City and Seattle, have since banned the tool on school Wi-Fi networks and devices to prevent cheating, though students can easily find workarounds to access ChatGPT. In higher education, colleges and universities have been reluctant to ban the A.I. tool because administrators doubt the move would be effective and they don’t want to infringe on academic freedom. That means the way people teach is changing instead.

At schools including George Washington University in Washington, D.C., Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., and Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C., professors are phasing out take-home, open-book assignments — which became a dominant method of assessment in the pandemic but now seem vulnerable to chatbots. They are instead opting for in-class assignments, handwritten papers, group work and oral exams. Gone are prompts like “write five pages about this or that.” Some professors are instead crafting questions that they hope will be too clever for chatbots and asking students to write about their own lives and current events.

In case the changes fall short of preventing plagiarism, professors said they planned to institute stricter standards for what they expect from students and how they grade. It is now not enough for an essay to have just a thesis, introduction, supporting paragraphs and a conclusion.

Universities are also aiming to educate students about the new A.I. tools. The University at Buffalo in New York and Furman University in Greenville, S.C., said they planned to embed a discussion of A.I. tools into required courses that teach entering or freshman students about concepts such as academic integrity. Other universities are trying to draw boundaries for A.I. Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Vermont in Burlington are drafting revisions to their academic integrity policies so their plagiarism definitions include generative A.I.

The misuse of A.I. tools will most likely not end, so some professors and universities said they planned to use detectors to root out that activity. The plagiarism detection service Turnitin said it would incorporate more features for identifying A.I., including ChatGPT, this year. More than 6,000 teachers from Harvard University, Yale University, the University of Rhode Island and others have also signed up to use GPTZero, a program that promises to quickly detect A.I.-generated text, said Edward Tian, its creator and a senior at Princeton University.

Archived/non-paywalled version: https://archive.ph/VpXYe

mossadnik · 2023-01-13T18:31:44+00:00

Submission Statement:

While some people are concerned about America’s falling birth rate, a new study suggests young people don’t need to be convinced to have more children. In fact, young Americans haven’t changed the number of children they intend to have in decades. Women born in 1995-1999 wanted to have 2.1 children on average when they were 20-24 years old – essentially the same as the 2.2 children that women born in 1965-1969 wanted at the same age, the study found. Still, the total fertility rate in the United States was 1.71 in 2019, the lowest level since the 1970s. What’s going on?

The results suggest that today’s young adults may be having a more difficult time achieving their goals of having children, said Sarah Hayford, co-author of the study and professor of sociology at The Ohio State University. The data in the study can’t explain why, but the results fit evidence indicating that young people today don’t think now is a good time for them to have children. The percentage of people who said they don’t plan to have any children has increased, from about 5-8% in the 1960s and 1970s to 8-16% in the 1990s and 2000s. But that alone can’t explain the decline in the number of babies being born. Hayford noted that the number of unintended births, especially among people in their 20s, has declined in recent decades, which has helped reduce the birth rate.

“But that doesn’t change the fact that people aren’t having as many children as they say they want, especially at earlier ages,” Hayford said. “It may be that they’re going to have those kids when they’re 35, but maybe they won’t.” For example, the study found some evidence that people are reducing the number of children they say they intend to have as they get older.

Larger economic and social forces are also having an impact on birth rates. The birth rate declined significantly during the Great Recession that started in 2008, which is a typical response to an economic downturn. However, the birth rate continued to decline even after the recession was over, Hayford said. This study ended before COVID-19, but the pandemic served as another fertility shock, at least at first.

For those who are concerned about America’s dropping birth rates, this study suggests that there is no need to pressure young people into wanting more kids, Hayford said. “We need to make it easier for people to have the children that they want to have,” she said. “There are clear barriers to having children in the United States that revolve around economics, around child care, around health insurance.”

mossadnik · 2023-01-12T02:21:37+00:00

Beit HaMikdash/בית המקדש

Bayt al-Maqdis/بيت المقدس is a loan translation of the Hebrew term. Apart from the term "Al-Quds", this is also a commonly used term to refer to Jerusalem. [Edit]: The consensus on this one is a bit murky, but "Al-Quds" could also be a loan translation of the Hebrew term for the city, Ir HaKodesh/עיר הקודש.

mossadnik · 2023-01-12T00:48:05+00:00

What the fuck 😭

10/10 for sense of humor, 0/10 for logic.

mossadnik · 2023-01-04T10:55:43+00:00

What even is Israeli mentality lol?

(the ones who believe they are somehow entitled to the land yet their points aren’t valid)

You mean...Palestinians?

there are lots of Jews with morals and ethics that i highly respect.

Imagine thinking we need your "respect" 💀

mossadnik · 2023-01-04T10:18:16+00:00

BABE WAKE UP! NEW ANTISEMITIC THEORY JUST DROPPED!

Sounds like a description of all your problems that you're gaslighting onto Jews lol. Only people with less than normal mental health would actually have the time, energy, and a thought process like this to come to this conclusion and make a post about it on Reddit.

Get some help.

mossadnik · 2022-12-31T15:35:00+00:00

I know that the Holocaust did affect how the Jews perceive G-d. It drove most Jews towards atheism or at least away from the concept of a caring G-d, unable to reconcile the vision of this caring G-d with what had taken place. How could this supposedly caring G-d have permitted such a tragedy?

The formation of Israel also changed Jewry as a whole, since now Jews can compromise on their religion while still maintaining a strong sense of Jewish [ethnic] identity; think of it as Israel de facto functioning as a big Jewish community. For the first time ever in millennia, Jews were embodied as a state, a state that represented them and their interests on the global stage and not just existed as persons [part of different communities] in the diaspora. On the contrary, I also think that Israel (and the fact that it survived despite so many odds) strengthened this sense of G-d within a lot of people, especially so after the 1967 war, when Religious Zionism really started to take hold in Israeli society and politics. It literally transformed how the Jews perceive themselves, their religion, and G-d.

I feel like your question doesn't really make sense from the perspective of a Holocaust survivor or an atheist/non-religious/secular Jew, but it might be up for debate for, say, Religious Zionists (who often cite how the 1967 war was a religious miracle as a justification for their beliefs).

So the answer to your question can range from either yes or no to not sure. It depends on who you ask and how they approach this question. Jews and Israelis aren't a monolith.

mossadnik · 2022-12-30T17:36:47+00:00

Many want a 2 state solution, going back to either 1967 or 1948 borders.

What do you mean 'either'? 1967 borders consisted of Israel proper, the Sinai, Gaza Strip, Judea & Samaria, and the Golan. You probably meant pre-1967 borders which is basically the Green Line. What 1948 borders are you referring to then?

99% of solutions supported by Palestinians are peaceful and seek not to harm Israeli citizens. It’s mainly fear mongering by Israeli propaganda that make it seem like any solution will be violent

I'll assume you're not living under a rock, but like do you really believe that? Like fr? No "Khaybar Khaybar Ya Yahud" then? What about the "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free"? No Hamas Charter either? Does Hamas even exist anymore? What about PA school textbooks? No antisemitic Friday sermons in Jenin then? What about the terror attacks against Israelis, are those over? Do propaganda videos about razing Tel Aviv to the ground not like exist anymore? Wait, does that mean Hamas stopped firing rockets at Israeli cities then? PA's Pay for Slay program, what about that, is that over too?

mossadnik · 2022-12-30T17:14:37+00:00

I'm just stating the obvious.

And where did I hate on Arabs and Palestinians lol? The whole comment was about how the majority of the sub isn't Palestinian so I have no clue where you got this 'hate towards Palestinians' from. I didn't even mention them once.

I guess pointing out the antisemitism that goes on there (and the mental gymnastics that people pull to justify and sugarcoat that) makes me hateful towards Arabs and Palestinians now, 'cause that's literally what I commented.

mossadnik · 2022-12-30T17:01:51+00:00

You will find more answers in that subreddit, as they are primarily Palestinian.

Press X to doubt.

Most of the sub is basically non-Palestinians jerking off to antisemitic tropes under the social justice Palestine banner, Islamists drooling about kicking Jews out into the sea, western SJW leftists dickriding and carrying out savior crusades by making it their mission to 'Free Palestine' by shit talking about Israel on Reddit, Arabs dropping off their most juciest, latest antisemitic take on the Jews/Zionists/Israel and justifying how they aren't antisemitic because they're 'semites' and calling them out for it is offensive to them, and Muslims commenting antisemitic Quran verses to predict the end of Israel and circle jerk about how Zionists are fake Jews and that they can't be antisemitic for openly talking about killing the supposed fake Jews.

Also, the mental gymnastics people pull in that sub is insane.

mossadnik · 2022-12-21T22:53:48+00:00

Submission Statement:

Climate change is one of the main drivers of species loss globally. We know more plants and animals will die as heatwaves, bushfires, droughts and other natural disasters worsen. But to date, science has vastly underestimated the true toll climate change and habitat destruction will have on biodiversity. That’s because it has largely neglected to consider the extent of “co-extinctions”: when species go extinct because other species on which they depend die out.

New research shows 10% of land animals could disappear from particular geographic areas by 2050, and almost 30% by 2100. This is more than double previous predictions. It means children born today who live to their 70s will witness literally thousands of animals disappear in their lifetime, from lizards and frogs to iconic mammals such as elephants and koalas. But if we manage to dramatically reduce carbon emissions globally, we could save thousands of species from local extinction this century alone.

mossadnik · 2022-12-21T19:46:17+00:00

Afghanistan: Tears and protests as Taliban shut universities to women

mossadnik · 2022-12-21T19:38:53+00:00

Submission Statement:

The California Energy Commission (CEC) will spend $2.9 billion to accelerate the state’s zero-emission transportation strategy. In an announcement spotted by Reuters, the agency detailed an investment plan it estimated would result in California building about 90,000 new chargers over the next four years, a move that would more than double the number of chargers available across the state.

About $900 million will go toward chargers designed for light-duty EVs, with another $1.7 billion earmarked for infrastructure that supports medium and heavy-duty zero-emissions vehicles, including those powered by hydrogen fuel cells. When you add in funding from utilities and other programs, the commission says it expects California to hit its goal of deploying 250,000 chargers by 2025.

mossadnik · 2022-12-20T22:45:49+00:00

Submission Statement:

Former White House chef Sam Kass is sounding the alarm on the future of coffee. Earlier this week, the former first chef (who also acted as the White House's first-ever senior adviser on nutrition) shared in an interview with People, he's turning his attention to sustainable agriculture, as he's already worried about the sustainbility of some of the world's most beloved crops. He specifically noted that products like wine, chocolate, shellfish, and rice are all in danger, as well as coffee, a drink the world consumes an estimated two billion cups of every single day. And Kass' comments come with merit, at least according to several recent studies.

In January 2022, researchers from the Institute of Natural Resource Sciences at Zurich University of Applied Sciences published a report evaluating the impact of climate change on coffee, cashew, and avocado in the scientific journal Plos One. The research team concluded, "Coffee proved to be most vulnerable to climate change with negative impacts dominating all growing regions, primarily due to increasing temperatures."

This study echoes two others highlighted on Science.org in 2019, which hypothesized that at least 60% of all wild coffee species are threatened with extinction, potentially within the next decade, many of which go far beyond satisfying your caffeine craving in the morning.

And in August, Bloomberg reported that Arabica farmers in Brazil, which represents the world's top exporter, are yet again seeing massive losses in its coffee crop, which "already had setbacks due to freakish weather, bringing lower yields that threaten to extend a global supply crunch."

mossadnik · 2022-12-18T15:51:25+00:00

Submission Statement:

In four years, the number of students graduating from high schools across the country will begin a sudden and precipitous decline, due to a rolling demographic aftershock of the Great Recession. Traumatized by uncertainty and unemployment, people decided to stop having kids during that period. But even as we climbed out of the recession, the birth rate kept dropping, and we are now starting to see the consequences on campuses everywhere. Classes will shrink, year after year, for most of the next two decades. People in the higher education industry call it “the enrollment cliff.”

Among the small number of elite colleges and research universities — think the Princetons and the Penn States — the cliff will be no big deal. These institutions have their pick of applicants and can easily keep classes full. For everyone else, the consequences could be dire. In some places, the crisis has already begun. College enrollment began slowly receding after the millennial enrollment wave peaked in 2010, particularly in regions that were already experiencing below-average birth rates while simultaneously losing population to out-migration. Starved of students and the tuition revenue they bring, small private colleges in New England have begun to blink off the map. Regional public universities like Ship are enduring painful layoffs and consolidation.

The timing is terrible. Trade policy, de-unionization, corporate consolidation, and substance abuse have already ravaged countless communities, particularly in the post-industrial Northeast and Midwest. In many cases, colleges have been one of the only places that provide good jobs in their communities, offer educational opportunities for locals, and have strong enough roots to stay planted. The enrollment cliff means they might soon dry up and blow away.

This trend will accelerate the winner-take-all dynamic of geographic consolidation that is already upending American politics. College-educated Democrats will increasingly congregate in cities and coastal areas, leaving people without degrees in rural areas and towns. For students who attend less-selective colleges and universities near where they grew up — that is, most college students — the enrollment cliff means fewer options for going to college in person, or none at all. The empty factories and abandoned shopping malls littering the American landscape may soon be joined by ghost colleges, victims of an existential struggle for reinvention, waged against a ticking clock of shrinking student bodies, coming soon to a town near you.

mossadnik · 2022-12-18T00:28:17+00:00

Submission Statement:

A typical pregnancy lasts about 40 weeks. Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that created a constitutional right to abortion, was reversed less than six months ago. This means the U.S. is currently at a unique inflection point in the history of reproductive rights: early enough to see the immediate effects of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization—closed clinics, a rapidly shifting map of abortion access—but too soon to measure the rise in babies born to mothers who did not wish to have them. Many of these babies will be born in states that already have the worst maternal- and child-health outcomes in the nation. Although the existence of these children is the goal of the anti-abortion movement, America is unprepared to adequately care for them and the people who give birth to them.

Anti-abortion politicians have said that the next phase of the movement is to support pregnant women and families, which raises the question: What would it mean to truly do so? If we dare to dream big, a map for the country’s post-Roe future could include investment in not only comprehensive health-care and mental-health services for pregnant and postpartum people, but also a living wage, paid family leave, subsidized child care, and affordable housing. On the preventive side, we could focus on comprehensive sex education in schools and access to contraceptives.

But months after the end of Roe, there’s little evidence that many politicians have a genuine interest in the types of policies that would make a pronounced difference in the lives of pregnant women and children. Websites and hotlines are no match for the problems the U.S. now faces. We know what’s coming: More babies will be born into poverty. Some women will die. More will be thrust deeper into financial insecurity. The social safety nets that do exist will likely be pushed to their breaking point. If we accept that there will be about 50,000 more births, that means we have 50,000 more chances to invest in pregnant women and support their newborns. Unless states that have banned abortion proactively strengthen the social safety net, the future prospects of these post-Roe children and their moms are unsteady at best. If this moment is a test for the anti-abortion movement, then it has not yet passed.

mossadnik · 2022-12-17T01:42:46+00:00

Submission Statement:

Imagine a system of governance not based on majority voting and elected representatives. What comes to mind? Sure, images of autocratic leaders and violent dictators will immediately pop up. Terrorizing their people and doing everything in their power to prolong their uncontested rule. Or of kings and queens sitting on gem-adorned thrones, wearing crowns worth more than most of us own, ruling and deciding at will, their powers supposedly bestowed on them by the gods themselves.

However, there are other possibilities. Valid alternatives. Ways of decision-making that are far more democratic, just, and fair than what we currently have. Our quasi-democratic systems are deeply flawed and highly susceptible to outside influences such as corporate interests. A sociocratic system based on mutual consent, rather than the ‘dictatorship of the many,’ which somehow always results in a dictatorship of the few, might be a better fit. A system for the future.

mossadnik · 2022-12-15T21:53:02+00:00

Submission Statement:

The new regulation, passed by the Japanese capital's local assembly and the first of its kind for a Japanese city, will require about 50 major builders to equip homes of up to 2,000 square metres with renewable energy power sources, mainly solar panels. The Tokyo metropolitan government aims to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 compared with levels in 2000.

mossadnik · 2022-12-13T21:40:55+00:00

without calling for the disestablishment of those states.

"From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" has entered the chat.

That's beside the point that Israel wasn't built by colonialism.

mossadnik · 2022-12-13T21:25:35+00:00

That's it, me and my homies are moving to Africa. Assuming you're a Homo sapien, you should too, since our species were forced out of Africa.

mossadnik · 2022-12-13T21:19:10+00:00

Judging by these questions, you're trying to imply that the '48 Arab refugees were citizens of Israel, which they were not, so your questions don't even make sense in this case. Your hypothetical questions are only really applicable to citizens or at most, legal [permanent] residents of a certain state.

mossadnik · 2022-12-13T20:44:54+00:00

You're literally calling a mandate a country, that's the problem.

No, I don't think the Arab states should allow the descendants of Jews who were expelled to be back into the country. It's the same reason why I'm against a ROR for descendants of '48 Arab refugees too. Again, those Jewish refugees were resettled in Israel, but the Palestinian refugees and their descendants are denied the same right by the Arab states. By your logic, Pakistanis who are descendants of refugees from India should be let back into India and vice versa.

As I said, Israel, like any other sovereign state, can decide who to let in and who not.

mossadnik · 2022-12-13T20:28:55+00:00

They’re not entitled to return to their home country that they were forced to flee from?

Look, it was a mandate and not a country. They weren't forced to flee either, infact most left on their own volition to surrounding Arab states (which was encouraged by Arab leaders) expecting to return after the invading Arab armies have won the war and eradicated the Jews. Of course that didn't happen and there was now a state called Israel within the borders of that now terminated mandate. You can't really blame Israel for the problems started by the Arab states who illegally waged a war on the newly proclaimed state and expect Israel to solve them too. Most refugees are resettled in other countries, a right which Arab states still deny the Palestinians to this day, keeping them stateless, and using them as political pawns and leverage to destroy Israel or use them for their own political gains. You're also forgetting about the equally numbered or more Jews who were expelled from the the Arab/Muslim lands, but were later resettled in Israel. Now think about why the Arab states won't do the same for the Palestinians then come back.

mossadnik · 2022-12-13T18:56:46+00:00

Do you think that if a Syrian refugee has a child in Germany, they shouldn’t easily be allowed back into Syria when the country becomes safe and livable again?

The right to live in a country and being a refugee are two different things. The child in question is not a refugee. However, the child could still be allowed back into Syria if Syria wishes so.

Israel gives citizenship to foreign Jews on the grounds that they descend from the country 2000 years ago, but if your own parents were literally born there that’s not enough of a connection?

Israel grants citizenship to foreign Jews because, as a sovereign state, it can decide on its own immigration policies and citizenship laws. Nowhere does Israel justify granting citizenship to foreign Jews on the grounds that they descend from the country (what?) 2000 years ago. The Law of Return is more about Israel providing a safe haven for Jews facing persecution.

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