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Good social skills require more than just being "sociable" though. Intelligence and logical thinking play an important role too so I doubt that focusing _only_ on soft skills is the best way to become sociable in a well-rounded way.

IIRC, Bret Weinstein said something like "invest in skills that upgrade your thinking". Coincidentally, many such skills, eg. math and coding, happen to be exactly those where AI also excels at, so I wouldn't rule out learning something simply because AI happens to be good at it.

My pet theory is that companies deliberately stick with terrible chat apps in order to discourage employees from chatting and keep them "working" instead. In my experience, it's not a good tradeoff though.

Thank you for the unban! I'll behave.

@4gotunameagain Really appreciate vouching for me, thank you.

True. Hopefully one day brown people will be considered people too.

Did exactly what?

> The only difference is that now that liberal Zionism is dead and has been dead since the death of Itzak Rabin and the demographic explosion of the settler movement there's really no one to stop them from proceeding with these plans.

Also it's a self-reinforcing cycle. The far right keeps testing what they can get away with, becoming increasingly emboldened. The leftists are packing up. Those in the middle see global backlash grow and realize there's no going back to pre-2023 world, so they might as well go all-in with the right. Israel is like a heroin addict using the very thing that's destroying them, in order to cope with the damage it already caused. Without intervention it generally doesn't end well.

> You don’t call it colonialism when it’s Muslims migrating en masse to Europe

Mass migration generally does more harm than good and should be reserved for very exceptional cases like natural disasters.

> you don’t oppose ethno-states when they are Arab states that have cleansed all their Jews

Such as Saudi Arabia? Seeing it (starting to) fall apart is my favorite thing about 2026 lmao.

> and you don’t give a shit about actual genocides.

I do care about them all but it makes sense to focus especially on the one being carried out with my tax money.

It's okay to have an agenda, just be honest about it please. Anti-Zionists tend to be pretty open about their agenda: opposing colonialism, ethno-states, genocide etc. It's telling that modern Zionists often seem less willing to express theirs.

Thanks for sharing. At this point I'm so numb to the destruction that this piece of trivia got to me more than the new satellite photos.

Interesting insights, thanks. I was raised Protestant (in Europe) and have similar impression of Evangelicals. I'll never be able to wrap my head around some of that shit.