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I agree except most Israelis do not support their leader or government, support is at all time lows, just 25% according to some recent poll. Being a democracy does not automatically mean the government is doing the will of the people. Especially when their government discriminates against their own citizens.

Many of the rights you are accorded in Israel stem from your nationality, not your citizenship. Your nationality is determined by your ethnicity and it cannot be changed or challenged.

Meaning an “Arab” Israeli citizen and a Jewish Israeli citizen, while both citizens, enjoy different rights and privileges determined by their “nationality”. This is not merely discrimination in practice, but discrimination by law.

This is intentional. It is an ethnic democracy executing the will of one ethnicity over another. It puts the power in the hands of those who are most likely to be indifferent to the plight of the Palestinians, and takes power away from dissenting voices.

https://decolonizepalestine.com/myth/israel-is-a-democracy/

This reminds me, Think Geek used to be my go-to for holiday shopping. I haven't been there in years.

I just got my first zebralight after reading about them on here. I got an SC65c HI and it's now my favorite flashlight! I'll have to make a post for it soon.

Whether it's a surprise or not, users don't have a choice of what platform is most popular or effective at getting work. Many applications for gigs ask for links to your social media, it's the default portfolio that many clients look for.

All that artists can do is diversify to other platforms which have the same issues, and make a personal website which will probably get almost no traffic.

The board of random people who cycle out every year? Some of them working for competing AI companies? Yeah they definitely aren't the brains of this operation.

Sam has been there since the beginning and had the vision, but he made some mistakes along the way that allowed this power grab to happen.

No matter what OpenAI does, Microsoft will own their IP and future development on it, so OpenAI has already lost.

Here is a comment I copied from Hacker News:

If they join Sam Altman and Greg Brockman at Microsoft they will not need to start from scratch because Microsoft has full rights [1] to ChatGPT IP. They can just fork ChatGPT.

Also keep in mind that Microsoft hasn't actually given OpenAI $13 Billion because much of that is in the form of Azure credits.

So this could end up being the cheapest acquisition for Microsoft: They get a $90 Billion company for peanuts.

[1] https://stratechery.com/2023/openais-misalignment-and-microsofts-gain/

The stick she tells you not to worry about.

The exorbitant price is the whole point of luxury stores like Dior. People who shop there would stop if everything became reasonably priced. Do you really expect people of their status to live like the rest of us?!

"The researchers found that individuals on the autism spectrum were 2.49 times more likely to be left-handed than people without autism.

Altogether, about 28 percent of individuals on the autism spectrum were left-handed as compared to about 10 percent in the general population.

Moreover, individuals on the autism spectrum were 2.34 times more likely to be mixed-handed than the general population and 3.48 times more likely to be either left-handed or mixed-handed than the general population."

Thanks for the suggestion, I've been trying it out and it's really good!

That's only because everyone was voting against Trump. This is the fault of our voting system. It is why we need rank choice voting, so we can vote for the people we like instead of against the people we dislike.