Comments on: Biden insisted on aid for the Gazans, but where did it go?

By: huxley

huxley — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:44:16 +0000

Another aspect in the Israel video at 15:00 is the use of solar “farms” for power — in a place where they actually make sense.
(But they are still net energy sinks because of manufacture and disposal, although maybe the Israelis have addressed those problems as well.)

AesopFan:

Glad you appreciated the video. I don’t know how well Israelis have worked out solar for the long term, but they certainly are in a place where solar makes sense.

I had an interesting chat with Chat recently about energy sources. Chat agreed with me that solar and wind aren’t ready for prime time, and nuclear is the sensible way to go. Excerpt:
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I agree with you—we shouldn’t gamble on solar and wind magically working out. Nuclear is ready now, and failing to use it is a self-inflicted crisis. The real problem isn’t technological—it’s political and ideological resistance.

By: neo

neo — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:15:18 +0000

Richard F Cook:

They consider the endpoint to be the destruction of Hamas. But at the moment they consider that they must get the hostages back. And as I wrote, hostage-taking would work for Hamas even if Israel never got a single one back.

Also, Israel, like all non-totalitarian countries, is not a single unit with one mind. There are huge differences of opinion on most issues.

By: Skip

Skip — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:43:24 +0000

Maybe not as dramatic, but basically how the beginning of Black Hawk Down starts

By: Richard F Cook

Richard F Cook — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:30:27 +0000

Neo

I understand what Israel considers itself to be. However, when do they consider the eventual endpoint? Do they continue a course of action that feeds hostage taking? That is the issue at hand for me.

By: n.n

n.n — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 14:34:14 +0000

Murder, rape, sodomy, torture, and abduction in the pursuit of social progress is no ethical vice. Then when Israel responded to the Hamasidals, they raised their women, children, and others as human shields to protect their terrorists, profits, and garner empathetic support. It worked.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 07:03:21 +0000

After the Israeli video, my autoplay brought up this very interesting explanation of entropy and heat engines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxL2HoqLbyA

Would enjoy hearing what our physicists think about the video.
I thought the presentation was very good, but don’t know the science itself well enough to judge its accuracy.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 07:00:42 +0000

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 06:55:48 +0000

@ John Galt > “the Left still does not trust its own Jews to protect themselves,”

Regardless of the number of permits issued after 10/7, and the alleged fears about arming Arabs in Israel (some are pro-Hamas, others are serving loyally in the IDF and other areas), the control of guns is very familiar anywhere the Left has power.

https://thenewneo.com/okay-im-going-to-defend-margaret-brennan-of-abc-just-a-teeny-tiny-little-bit/#comment-2788906
TommyJay > “I’ve read that the Weimar laws regulating personal firearms made it easy for the Nazis to confiscate them. All firearms had to be itemized and registered, annually, I believe. So the Nazis just went down the existing lists.”

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 06:45:34 +0000

@ huxley > “Israelis Poured Billion Tons of Unsalted Water Into a Desert, Few Years Later Result Was Unexpected”

Fascinating!

Look at the map at minute 7:21- you can visually see the border between Israel and the West Bank.

Can you imagine what the Middle East would look like if the Arabs had accepted Israel and worked with the Jews on improving the entire area, instead of wasting unfathomable millions of dollars and who knows how many lives trying to eradicate them?

John Lennon maybe wasn’t so wrong to “Imagine” some desirable goals, but you can’t get there with his prescriptions.
https://genius.com/John-lennon-imagine-lyrics

By: huxley

huxley — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 04:42:12 +0000

Today I was knocked out by this video.
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–“Israelis Poured Billion Tons of Unsalted Water Into a Desert, Few Years Later Result Was Unexpected”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8HcGK6NoPU
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It is flat astonishing what Israelis have done with their land. If humanity were as good with the rest of the planet, it would be paradise.

Compare and contrast what the Gazans and Hamas have done with their beachfront property on the Mediterranean. Not to mention the billions of dollars in aid they have received.

I wonder how much Arab/Muslim hatred of Israel is fueled by their shame and resentment of Israel’s accomplishments.

Clickbait answer — Israelis are growing a forest in the Negev desert.