Galactic Goal
Entrepreneur, Inventor, Passionate Rationalist, Transparent
Joined May 2018
Here is what I think is going to happen with the #Israel - #Gaza conflict:
- Mass migration to evacuate Gaza city. Already starting.
- A safe-passage corridor will be established near the southern boarder to the West Bank
- International aid will be directed to the West Bank to build temp housing
- Gaza City will be systematically razed by the IDF so that there is no reason to return
- Most of Gaza will be a no-man's land for the foreseeable future
- Tens of Thousands will die
The only argument we should be having about Israelis and Palestinians is "What is the problem?"
Then, ask "So, what caused that problem?"
An so on....
The resolutions are deeper than what we typically argue about.
And, they are usually only addressing the symptom.
I think Hamas is a symptom. A really shitty one, but the problem is not simply getting rid of Hamas. It may be part of the solution, but it is not the end of the problem-chain.
And, how will studying history improve our ability to get there?
And, if we ever arrive, will we know?
I went to a lecture last night at the Long Now Foundation where the topic of understanding the nature of history.
It left me with a question: "Where are we all going and why?"
I just finished building a system that generated 1000 categories within the context of Wildfire Management.
In 8 minutes.
I used ChatGPT's API.
The results are good. Not "great". But, I'm on the way to doing something I was budgeting $2-4M to do. Now I'm able to do it in my spare time.
The world is changing fast.
A problem should always be defined independently of the current solution being implemented.
Past solutions can contribute to, or change, the problem.
It seems like that is the case with Palestine and Israel.
The problem was big before, and now it is even bigger.
#israel
The police are reporting that the suspect intentionally crashed his care into the Consulate. Security guards are holding him down.
There seems to be a rash of incidents happening in San Francisco at the moment.
Hope they are not related.
Otherwise, we're in trouble.
Uncertain if suspect is still at-large.
The Chinese Consulate in San Francisco was hit by a car.
Shots fired and someone has been hit.
Police on scene.
Alerts are being sent to citizens.
I think supporting the rights of the Palestinian people is fundamentally different than supporting the attack on Israel this past weekend.
Regardless of where you stand on human rights and similar priorities, cutting down civilians is fundamentally a terrorist's action.
Any support of Hamas is a support of terrorism. Period.
War creates an environment for difficult decisions to be made.
Extreme solutions can be implemented because measured resistance is overwhelmed by the thunder of emotions.
Gaza will now experience extreme measures not seen in generations.
The question I now have is "with this bring about a lasting solution?" (and I'm not implying "peace")
Brutal as it will be, will it actually change the historical trajectory?
Stanford women's soccer beats Colorado!
My niece is their star goalie!
Senator Diane Feinstein's house this evening.
I did a long walk through the neighborhood to see it.
It's not the Republican Party.
It's the Nihilist Party.
Governance is not the objective.
It's to burn the whole thing down.
Chaos is their metric for success.
They believe the system cannot be fixed incrementally. It must be rebuilt from the ashes.
I wonder if the Democrats made an offer to McCarthy to abstain from voting so that the threshold to keep him in office was lowered.
If they did, it just goes to show how shitty of a politician and strategist he is.
Nancy Pelosi's statement on the passing of her neighbor, Sen. Diane Feinstein:
https://pelosi.house.gov/news/press-releases/pelosi-statement-passing-senator-dianne-feinstein
Galactic Goal
Entrepreneur, Inventor, Passionate Rationalist, Transparent
Joined May 2018