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People will note there has been very little to say about the Gaza Strip over the last two weeks. The British public have protested in large numbers to try to embarrass British politicians into attempting to do something political internationally. Britain's politicians have refused, so no difference ...

Bryn Mawr wrote: ↑Fri Nov 17, 2023 9:39 amstill getting lots of new additions to the family

For the avoidance of doubt I suggest you make it clear this is at second, third or, quite possibly by now, fourth hand.

Hi, I have seen the news and that was terrible as lawyer union attacked doctors as they had issue with some of the doctors in cardiology hospital Lahore, Doctor's are also guilty in this case , If I have issue with a doctor, dentist, police officer or criminal kingpin, I would carefully never say s...

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Lots of sand. Is it cheaper to fly like that and rent a car than to just pack sandwiches and a Vacuum-Insulated Beverage Bottle (once known as a Thermos), drive East and follow the signposts? I'm trying to recall where I was reading recently about US lighthouses with mercury basins. It wasn't a book...

I should, I suppose, document the present setback to the political career of Israel's heritage minister Amichai Eliyahu. Should I? Any encouragement there from the back of the circle? Let's. Israel’s Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu was suspended indefinitely after he said in an interview that drop...

Oddly enough, I played Sha Na Na quite a lot in the 70s.

Mostly at other people's parties.

Excuse me if I start the thread with a conversation with an AI from a couple of hours ago. This is with Claude-2 from Anthropic: https://claude.ai/chat Partly it's because Saint just showed up and I'm interested to hear what he thinks of conversational AI strength and weaknesses. Partly it's that I'...

While, I've got you here...there used to be a "New Posts"button to see just the threads that are active. Is it still there? I can't find it. Yo, big J, dude. If you drag-drop this to your bookmarks ribbon (Internet Explorer didn't call them bookmarks though. What was it. Favorites) it wil...

There have been over a thousand deaths reported so far. Only an incurable optimist would think the figure will stop short of five figures by November. The preponderance of the dead are civilians and that proportion will only increase. The quoted text was posted in this thread's OP on October 8th. T...

I'm quite puzzled by the label against the following photo at https://www.theguardian.com/culture/202 ... -off-stage

The Globe theatre in the days of Shakespeare. Photograph: Bettmann Archive

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Mike Pence: Former US Vice President withdraws from 2024 presidential race

Someone clearly ran out of donations.

eta: we have additional comment - "after prayer and deliberation he concludes ‘it is not my time’". Christians really make my skin crawl on occasion.

UN General Assembly votes to call for immediate humanitarian truce in Gaza The UN’s general assembly has overwhelmingly called for an immediate humanitarian truce in Gaza. The resolution, drafted by Arab states, passed with 120 votes in favor, while 45 abstained and 14 - including Israel and the US...

More than 250 British lawyers, including eminent KCs and professors of law, have called on the UK government to press for a ceasefire in Gaza, saying serious breaches of international law are being committed. The lawyers have written to the prime minister, Rishi Sunak; James Cleverly, the foreign s...

In this time of war, the health ministry in Gaza has been given its own health warning. Joe Biden has questioned the reliability of its reporting of the number of people killed and wounded during the Israeli assault on Gaza – because the health ministry is run by Hamas. “I have no notion that the P...

Election denier, climate skeptic and anti-abortion: meet the new US House speaker Mike Johnson https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/25/who-is-mike-johnson-house-speaker-election-denier-climate-anti-abortion I'm not sure he can push his advocacy for these odd notions he espouses, but perhaps...

Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, has called on UN secretary-general, António Guterres, to resign after his remarks earlier today saying the “appalling attacks” by Hamas inside Israel on 7 October cannot justify the “collective punishment of the Palestinian people”. And a further comment ...

Curry ‘getting support’ after receiving threats following racial slur allegation https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/oct/24/tom-curry-getting-support-after-receiving-threats-following-racial-slur-allegation-england-rugby-world-cup Tim Curry? Declan Curry? Jedidiah Curry? Why on earth do news sub...

Here we have Admiral John Kirby, National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications, speaking to the press today: In a breathtaking admission that more civilians would be killed in this conflict, Kirby said: I wish that that wasn’t going to happen. But it is. It is going to happen. A...

For those who may have forgotten, this is President Biden reported on February 7th 2022, directly threatening to terminate Nord Stream 2 following a Russian invasion of Ukraine. Do please say if you think I'm twisting his words. Biden said should there be a Russian invasion, which he defined as “tan...

Posters went up online overnight calling for religious Jewish settlers to go to pray at the sacred enclosure around the Al-Aqsa mosque, known to Jews as the Temple Mount, a provocative act that has the potential for triggering unrest in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. https://www.theguardian.com/...

1. UN chief says humanitarian law being broken in Gaza Let's look back at more of the remarks of UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in New York earlier. He said: "The protection of civilians is paramount in any armed conflict. Protecting civilians can never mean using them as human shields. ...

Reconsidering crime rates with Chat-GPT4 At the court of Chandragupta Maurya, Megasthenes reported local crime rates to be very low. If you can discuss that I'd be grateful, but it's a bit obscure. Certainly! Chandragupta Maurya was the founder of the Maurya Empire in ancient India, reigning from c....

I'll offer a side-note to the Al-Ahli Arab hospital explosion on Tuesday, responsibility for which has been denied on all sides. I find it notable that there are two clusters of estimates for the number of dead, one provided by Arab sources, one by the IDF. The IDF estimate is between a quarter and...

As an indication of how effective the targeting in the Gaza Strip has been so far, prior to the anticipated major ground attack, I offer the following sum. To date, 5087 people have been killed by strikes within the Gaza Strip during this month's event. 2055 of those are children (14 years and under...

Israel is never held accountable and the world walks away: King Abdullah More from the Jordanian king: “Today Israel is literally starving civilians in Gaza but for decades Palestinians have been starved of hope, of freedom and of future. “Because when the bombs stop falling, Israel is never held a...

Posters went up online overnight calling for religious Jewish settlers to go to pray at the sacred enclosure around the Al-Aqsa mosque, known to Jews as the Temple Mount, a provocative act that has the potential for triggering unrest in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. https://www.theguardian.com/...

I think it is necessary, before the ground invasion of the Gaza Strip begins, for the international community to demand extreme care not to harm any civilian resident. My own impression is that the number of civilian dead is going to increase dramatically, and that this is in fact a policy decision ...

I'll offer a side-note to the Al-Ahli Arab hospital explosion on Tuesday, responsibility for which has been denied on all sides. I find it notable that there are two clusters of estimates for the number of dead, one provided by Arab sources, one by the IDF. The IDF estimate is between a quarter and ...

The question is, is this computer program creating a coherent set of ideas. Its output certainly generates additional comment from me when it's my turn to speak. The post has all the hallmarks of a conversation. Hmm, I think that it is still, basically just going about the business of "Connect...

The question is, is this computer program creating a coherent set of ideas. Its output certainly generates additional comment from me when it's my turn to speak. The post has all the hallmarks of a conversation.

If for once I offer the thread a personal opinion as opposed to a quote from news outlet: I would not be surprised if the current desire of Israel is to empty the northern half and seal it off permanently so that nobody has access to the area, and that the whole of the population of the Gaza Strip ...

I may be misremembering from years ago but did we not decide at one point that the Speaker of the House didn't necessarily have to be a member? Might we not think that the House Republicans would unanimously vote President Trump into the office of Speaker if asked? Problem solved. Or my memory is as...

I've just listened my way through the most unprofessional hissy fit I've heard in years on Radio 4. This was from Colonel Daniel Hagari, a spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces, and it was effectively one long scream against anyone and everyone daring to quote Hamas with regard to a large explosio...

It was by no means clear until today whether damage to the Finland - Estonia gas and broadband link was deliberate. Today's news makes it clear that it was: A telecommunication cable connecting Sweden and Estonia has been damaged, Sweden’s civil defence minister has said. Carl-Oskar Bohlin said the ...

Eight Concepts for Paired Perspective - collaborative design by Claude shaped by the I Ching Please provide eight concepts. Each is to be an aspect of reality. Consider a querent attempting to isolate the essential aspects of a matter. These concepts are intended to provide a perspective to adopt in...

Please discuss the ways in which the range of information content in the following processes changed the form of response their practitioner could expound: Urim and Thummim, I Ching, Tarot, and Augury. Certainly, each of these methods has historical and cultural significance and has been used to se...

The USS Eisenhower carrier group ought to be joining the Gerald R Ford on station by Friday morning, having deployed out of Boston over the weekend. There will then be more uniformed Americans in theater than Hamas members.

And the Yorkshire Post reports that train operator Northern has started to broadcast predatory hawk calls through speakers to deter defecating pigeons from Driffield Station in East Yorkshire. The paper says it's hoped the noises will give commuters some respite from pigeons who regularly carpet bo...

Good lord, it's unstoppable. He was known as the titular hero of 1970s TV detective series Baretta and starred in the 1997 film Lost Highway, but his career struggled following his wife's 2001 fatal shooting. This following example is so strange it's utterly meaningless: Mehrjui, who studied in the...

This is definite proof that Claude can be deliberately amusing when he tries... In English, the word "superstition" has invariably had a pejorative implication. Is that common as it gets translated around the world, or is it a peculiarly English form of abuse? The inherently negative conno...

Discussed with ChatGPT4: I have no knowledge of the Mahabharata other than a sentence on Radio 4 that the Bhagavad Gita is embedded in it, and about that I'm equally uninformed. I feel I should acquire some knowledge of its teaching and context. Act as tutor in this field please. Absolutely! The Mah...

Without wishing to prejudice outcomes, I note several news commentators have suggested Israel's War cabinet should end up with named warrants from the International Criminal Court in The Hague on a charge of ethnic cleansing. The deaths in just a single event of 70 Palestinians obeying the IDF comma...

Anyone concerned at the possibility of a lack of balance in UK government demands can be reassured by today's news reports: Police have arrested a 22-year-old woman in England suspected of having made a speech backing Hamas, despite laws forbidding explicit support for banned organisations, the loca...

The window for evacuation of the northern half of the Gaza Strip has been extended by 6 hours. The UN humanitarian office, OCHA, estimates that 90%-98% of the population of the northern half of the Gaza Strip has stayed put and not gone south - the words used are "tens of thousands" obeyed...

From what I can see, we have What: Evacuation of Gaza City, which is the major population center of the northern half of the Gaza Strip and Why: "for their own safety and protection", according to IDF spokesperson Jonathan Conricus and When: 1.1 Million in Gaza Should Evacuate Within 24 Ho...

Two stories heading today's news, the first being progress with major arms shipments into Israel from America: The Guardian US to send more arms to Israel before expected Gaza invasion Ground forces are gathering near the border, as UN says that Gaza is dangerously close to running out of food and w...

Representative Scalise appears to have abandoned the field as Thursday evaporated around him. I presume this simplifies matters and that he can't simply change his mind in a couple of weeks.

I note widespread headlines resembling "Every Hamas member is a dead man, Netanyahu says" emblazoned on every continent this morning. I'm sure he has a far better understanding of the structure of Hamas but an indication of what "member" means in this context would provide clarit...

We could throw in a Press Release while it's still warm. Oct. 10, 2023 Release Number 20231010-01 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TAMPA, Fla. - The USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group arrives in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea in order to deter any actor seeking to escalate the situation or widen this war. ...

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