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Cake day: May 16th, 2026

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  • I guess it depends on what concepts you are willing to let go of. If you think Jews have some kind of holy right to land occupied by other people, yes, things are goig to be complicated because you also want to protect your ability to think of yourself as a good person, and that precludes you from supporting ethnic cleansing and genocide

    If, on the other hand, you see Israel as a settler-colonial project no morally different than the Dutch in South Africa or the British in North America or the Spanish is South America or the Belgians in the Congo, it becomes a much easier ethical calculus.

    There are plenty of Jews who view Israel as the latter, and the fact an identity “makes things complicated,” points to self-interested decision. Just like being white makes the concept of removing barriers to employment by black people “complicated”, or being a man might make supporting female rape victims “complicated.” The fact that a choice might not benefit a group you identify with is not an argument in favor.

    And, yeah, nobody should listen to “as a mischling jew.” That’s 1/4th Jewish.




  • No, I get it, the problem the way we’ve chosen to build society, but now that it is the way it is, judges and juries are reluctant to ban someone from working and buying groceries for anything less than a prison sentence…

    Like it’s pretty crazy to me that the State (USA) can seize you car if you transport drugs with it, but not if yoU literally run over a human being. People with multiple violations and triple-suspended licenses still get to keep their cars.













  • I feel like it’s not that much work and the benefit is that it gives me a lot more freedom to read what appeals to me.

    FOr instance, I found an unseeded torrent of 600 French epubs. Imagine being able to do something as simple as sorting them by lexical complexity–that is do a unique word count and rank from lowest unique word count to most unique word count. Trivially simple to do and would yield me books that are constantly in my range of proximal learning.

    But, yes, thank you for the suggestion! I’ll look into some readers, depending if I feel more lazy than broke.