You shouldn’t think of “AI” as intelligent and ask it to do something tricky. The boring stuff that’s mostly just typing, that’s what you get the LLMs to do. “Make a DTO for this table <paste>” “Interface for this JSON <paste>”

I just have a bunch of conversations going where I can paste stuff into and it will generate basic code. Then it’s just connecting things up, but that’s the fun part anyway.

That assumes the Democrats will ever be in power again.

Wasn’t he a child getting told to become space Jesus by Marlon Brando when he was still in the space pod?

Lucy Lawless could probably take down Hercules.

Palestinians that lived in what is now Israel are very old and very few in number now. Israelis won’t feel safe with having Palestinians moving into their neighbourhoods after what happened on October 7 for at least another generation.

So right of return is dead now. Hamas killed it.

But there are the settlements. Israel has returned land from settlements to Palestinians in the past. They did this in on part of Palestine… Gaza. And there was never any problems from Gaza ever again after that, right? Nope, what happened was a plurality of Palestinians voted for Hamas and once they were in power there weren’t any more elections in Gaza.

The problem mostly stems around poor leadership. Given their past experiences with attempts to exchange land for peace always ending in Palestinians seeing it as a sign of weakness, Israelis turned to Netanyahu who sucks. Palestinians have been convinced they should hate Israelis so they turn to Hamas (fascists who use hatred as tool to gain and maintain power). Fatah is an alternative, but they are corrupt and since it’s easy to blame Israel for everything there’s no incentive to root out corruption.

But there are plenty of Israelis that don’t like Netanyahu. There are plenty of Palestinians that are against Hamas. You just won’t hear about them much on lemmy because people here tend to think of countries as “good guys” and “bad guys” and discussing internal politics of countries goes against the simple narratives people like.

And we should not ignore the problem of Iran’s government. There obviously isn’t going to much of chance for peace if there’s a country in the region that will send rockets to whatever faction is willing to fire them at Israel. Before October 7, we were very close to seeing official recognition of Israel by the Saudis and normalization of relations. This kind of thing isn’t in Iran’s interests and they have proxies that can attack Israel so…

October 7 was obviously beyond previous attacks but it’s been an ongoing conflict between Israel and Iran’s proxies for decades. So how do you convince an authoritarian theocratic regime to chill out on a country their whole propaganda system has villainized for decades? So… once again bad leaders.

So yeah… we could only wish this was just a land for peace kind of problem. That’s hard to solve to be sure, but nothing compared to the complexities involved with the various factions throughout the region.

One of them is currently more monied and has more support from imperialist governments, but they’ve both done horrible things to one another and ended millions of eachothers lives over millennia.

Israel is trying to put an end to it forever in the most effective way they can think of.

Violence.

Are you not aware that Iran supports Hamas? Are you pretending October 7 didn’t happen?

I think you’re being very selective in your reading of history.

Iran is trying to put an end to Israel through violence and colonialism. They support violent oppressive factions throughout the middle east.

There have been land for peace deals negotiated in the past, there’s a willingness in Israel to make peace. But Iran gives support to violent factions like Hamas. Hamas has oppressively ruled over Gaza for over a decade and a half with the support of Iran.

Iran also supports the violent Houthi faction in Yemen which rules over a large part of that country (including the capital). The civil war there has been over 300,000 dead. They supported Assad’s regime a brutally oppressive faction that took a civil war with over half a million dead before he was ousted from power.

How many people need to die in this insane theocratic authoritarian regime’s goal to wipe Israel off the map before you’ll consider the possibility that they might be a problem?

Nobody takes you seriously when you max out on the hyperbole.

And now you’re just wildly accusing people of racism for pointing out facts. What is it you’re hoping to accomplish by this?

I remember some kid in elementary school once said to me “I’m not racist because I hate all races equally!”

He thought he was super clever to come up with that.

Crazy idea, but maybe we should end our dependence on oil? Wars cost money and we fund those wars when we buy oil. We pretend to be upset when we see the suffering caused by war, but then vote for whoever we think will bring down the price of gas and then pretend we don’t understand why there’s war in an oil rich region of the world.

Only simple according to the internet narratives.

The options are: a) convince Hamas to release the hostages b) convince Israel to abandon their people c) wait for the IDF to find where Hamas is hiding and free the hostages (or more likely in most cases, find the bodies of those abducted) while urging restraint.

Option a) is difficult because Hamas is a group of psychopaths. There have been some hostages released in exchange for ceasefires and release of Hamas fighters from prison, but then that just means more people the IDF will fight when Hamas stops releasing hostages. If this were a conflict out in an empty field then whatever, but since the battlefield is a densely populated urban environment, this means civilian casualties.

Option b) just isn’t going to happen.

So option c) is the only one left while there’s constant talks to negotiate a ceasefire. Current status on that: Israel has agreed to a ceasefire if Hamas releases the hostages and Hamas has said they “look favourably on a ceasefire” but they always say that.

Yeah so Biden did an executive order to forgive student debt, it got challenged in the courts and so it didn’t happen.

People saying “Democrats should just do executive orders like Trump does” need to look into who’s on the Supreme Court.

The “do everything by EO” strat only works for a party that has had a loyal voting base for decades so they have control of the courts.

Sorry to interrupt the “both sides” narrative leftists/MAGAs love so much.

Do you think lemmy sets public policy? The only thing that happens here is people comment on shit. So you’re bothered by comments to the effect of “influencers tell kids to do stupid shit and sometimes kids die because of it, and this is bad.”

Why do you think that freedom of speech means no one is allowed to criticize speech? Criticism is also speech.

It sometimes is. The character Shylock was Jewish. He was also someone who loaned money at high interest rates.

Trump was talking about borrowing money, not about Jews. So in that context, probably not antisemitic. Though given the audience, it could be a dog whistle.

It’s mostly a nothing burger.

So just another case of attacking Trump on something unimportant and diverting attention from the actual terrible things he’s doing.

Your TikTok addiction may have turned you into a psychopath. “Kids die all the time, what’s the big deal?”

The gun rights crowd has better arguments about why their hobby is more important than kids dying.

It’s a think globally, act locally kind of thing. You can love your community and help people in your community without disliking other communities.

If you love your wife, and she’s obviously of some ethnicity does that mean you’re racist against other ethnicities?

The fact is everyone lives somewhere and wanting to live in a good place and working to to make where you live better doesn’t mean you hate the places you can’t really do anything to improve. This isn’t a zero sum game, people in countries where I don’t live can work to make where they live a better place too.

Wanting to live in a good country isn’t a negative emotional thing, it’s actually very rational. Countries function better when people work together for the common good, and that’s ultimately what patriotism is about.

Ranked choice means it’s easier for voters, but when it’s not available voters are capable of understanding the scenario you describe and voting accordingly.

Many times I haven’t voted for my preferred candidate and instead voted for the candidate most likely to defeat the candidate I couldn’t stomach getting into power. Here in Canada we call it voting strategically and if you look at the polling data it definitely happened last election (and in many others in the past).

I’d like to have ranked choice, but it’s insane to say it’s not a democracy without it. But multiple rounds of voting (like France has) is better than ranked choice as it gives a clear choice to voters in the final round. But having multiple voting rounds is expensive and people might prefer to just vote once and have it done with, so ranked choice may be preferable for many people.

Single issue voter is still committed to being uncommitted.

Yes if you can convince everyone in the world of this simultaneously, we’ll end all wars.

Do you think Vladimir Putin will agree with your sentiment?

Patriotism is loving your country and wanting it to prosper. Nationalism is believing your country is superior to other countries and seeing all others as adversaries.

It’s the difference between working on self-improvement because you care about yourself vs. wanting to take things from others and being paranoid about them taking from you.

Someone tried to wipe out the Jews, so nationalism for a Jewish state must be healthy too, right?

Or maybe nationalism is just a tool to manipulate people and make them ignorant of the problems in a government. Fatah is incredibly corrupt but you don’t seem to care about that because you believe in some nationalistic narrative. There would already be a Palestinian state if there was strong leadership. But using narratives about historical humiliation, misogyny, hatred of other ethnic groups, reclaiming a glorious past (all hallmarks of fascist manipulation) means people are less likely to demand better leadership and corrupt governments can persist.