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Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
There are so many things that are wrong with this sentence.

It's such a low effort reply that doesn't offer any proof or arguments to back it up.

It isn't true and it's actually documented that it's the IDF that used palestinians as human shields to protect themselves. (https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-arm...)

Even if were true, this doesn't justify the killing of civilians. You wouldn't blow up an entire building if there was a single terrorist in there. But, if I'm not mistaken, the IDF has quite a high number of acceptable collateral casualties, in the 100s, for a single valid target. So they're purposefully attacking civilians or attacking without any care for them.

Comment · 1 year ago
Yes, but most of them are from the global south. The USA, Canada, countries in western Europe (except for Spain and Irelandand those are the same countries always talking about a 2 state solution. That's very hypocritical.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Having talked to a few Palestinias that live outside of Palestine, I know that they all have temporary statuses in the neighoboring countries (for example, those in Lebanon) and that doesn't give them much rights and it has lasted for decades already. Forcing the remaining people in Gaza to leave "temporarily" is first of all ethnic cleansing (forced displacement) and second of all it will be anything but temporary.

The same for Syrians in Turkey, they don't have a proper refugee status and have instead a secondary status that gives them fewer rights.

Here's some food for thought from me as well: why does anything that goes in and out of Gaza go through israel? Why don't other countries recognize the state of Palestine? Wouldn't that be a good step towards a two-state solution? (Even though I don't believe that would work, at least not without justice for the Palestinians).

Comment · 1 year ago
What a coincidence! I have done the exact same thing but on Instagram instead of Facebook and have had similar results to yours. Since both belong to Meta, we can safely assume that they use the same or very similar backends to serve ads.

I think it would be interesting to do a large scale experiment to see what can happen.

Comment · 2 years ago
I don't we should be admiring such an attack especially after it killed civilians and innocent people (https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/world/funeral-held-for-...).

On top that, this attack just sets a terrible precedent and opens the door to more similar attacks happening elsewhere.

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
I agree with the other commenter. If you don't think the submission is appropriate then you should flag it. But since you commented and then called the protestors "Hamas supporters" then I assume you're okay with other arguing with you about that. Simply calling them "Hamas supporters" and "getting away" from them won't change much and only resonates with people that are already pro-Israel and/or pro-genocide. If you disagree with the protests and their claims you should at least provide some substance for others to have a proper discussion with you. Historically speaking, opposing student movements has a terrible track record of putting you on the wrong side of history (e.g. Vietnam War) so I wouldn't just dismiss them.
Comment · 2 years ago
I kind of understand how the 2nd point, "shut down a major thoroughfare.”, would lead to your conclusion, "seems fine", but I fail to understand what the 1st point has anything to do with it. Could you please help me understand? In the article, the protestors are labeled as "anti-war" protestors, and even though the specific war they are protesting involves Israel, I would not necessarily label them as "anti-Israel".
Comment · 2 years ago
If you're looking for some best practices related but limited to machine learning application code, you could have a look at Beyond Jupyter (https://github.com/aai-institute/beyond-jupyter)

Here's an excerpt from the readme: "Beyond Jupyter is a collection of self-study materials on software design, with a specific focus on machine learning applications, which demonstrates how sound software design can accelerate both development and experimentation."

Comment · 2 years ago
I agree with you. Let's not rehash this finger pointing argument. It doesn't get us anywhere.

I however disagree with the framing in the example. Starting from the event that Able attacked Baker without mentioning the reasons or the context clearly portrays Baker as not having done anything to provoke such an attack. Nothing ever happens in a vaccuum.

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Perhaps you could help me with that? I was trying to reply to the parent's question about what Israel is supposed to do and offered some alternatives to indiscriminate killings. The part about the right of return dates back to around 1948, right around the time the state of Israel was established. How far back in time should we go for it to stop being a symptom and become a cause?

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