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wever, if you don't prove that they're useless by showing that every time you get new information, the model is wildly different. If it turns out that no matter what you do to the model, it still predicts roughly the same thing, that would also tell you the models are fake. The glaring signals that the climate models are going to be next on the chopping block. Like it'll be the next thing that jus…

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or you're supporting another one or something. So it's really powerful that that narrative exists.

However, my observation is that that goodwill or that power that they get from that historical narrative is being used spent to get control of Gaza. Now that might be a good expense if they can somehow get rid of all the bad elements in the Palestinian population and they don't create a second state that becomes their new threat and they continue being the ones who provide the security the defense for all that area. I feel like they would get a good deal even if what they did was greatly degraded the power of the Holocaust narrative because then people who don't like Israel would say well yeah the Holocaust was plenty bad for sure but look what you did and again I'm not taking that point of view I'm just telling you that people will take that point of view so it's expensive what Israel wants to do with Gaza, but I'm not sure they have a choice. And the way I look at it is what would we do if it were your country and you knew that reconstituting Gaza and putting Hamas back in charge guaranteed that there would be more missile attacks and more October 7ths and an endless number of future problems. What would you do? What would Trump do? Yeah. So I don't judge anybody over there. Everybody's just pursuing their best self-interest as they see it.

So according to the Vigilant Fox, a great account on X with lots of good summaries of what's happening in the world, they're talking about, you probably knew that YouTube now can monitor the behavior of a user and it will know just by the behavior and what you visited and how you click and stuff that you're probably under 18 and then they would restrict you from things you should not see if you're a child. But Australia is trying to get other products like Google Maps and Apple Maps and Bing and more. Wants to get them all powered so that they can really tell who you are and wha

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t age you are. The fast version of this is that Apple apparently has a patent that can verify your identity based on your body, your clothes, and your movements. So there are a bunch of ways to identify who you are based on what you do online. So that would suggest that you would lose all privacy for going to naughty sites or whatever it is you're going to because they'll know who you are. Now tha…

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