There's a long history of horrible treatment and outright abuse/massacres of the N.A.'s, which is ironic to me in in many ways because even Lewis & Clark's expedition left pretty convincing evidence that members of the expedition were doinking female N.A.'s on their trek left and right - mercury that was used to try to cure syphilis. But the experiences and the history of the N.A.'s is not a parallel to the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It's not even close. For one thing, the Jews returning to the land of Israel (which a small percentage of us never actually left over the past 2000 years) is not a case of foreign invaders/colonizers. It was the return of a mostly forcibly displaced people to its homeland, which wasn't anywhere near as populated as it is now. Our status as being native to the MENA/SWA region did not have an expiration date on it like your bottle of milk does.

False premise. I'm only aware of one side of the conflict celebrating the killing of minors. We didn't pass candy around on the streets when children in Gaza were victims. But the Palestinian side HAS done this. And I'm not even suggesting that all Palestinians agree to celebrate our murders, especially those of our minors, but enough of them do (it's in no way a minority that condone it). I can only suspect that those Palestinians find it ok to kill Jewish kids because they don't view us as fellow humans. (This article isn't specific to minors as victims, but it's a pretty recent example of the phenomenon, and the victims were all random passers-by.)

If Arabs put down their weapons, there would be peace. If Jews put down their weapons, there will be no Jews. We've seen that movie before, and our numbers still have not recovered.

As a reminder, the Israeli - Palestinian conflict really is a sideshow in the Middle East. The Arabs have a long history of infighting among themselves, especially that whole sunni v. shia thing, all about who was next in line after muHamad. And given the Abraham Accords, it's further demonstrating that the Palestinians just aren't that important to other Arabs. They were politically expedient in the past.

I agree with Lapid that a two-state solution would be the most viable. It's just a further screwing over of us because it further reduces the land we would have control over and access to our holy places (many of which are in what you'd likely call "the west bank" because much of that was yehudah - the heart of our homeland), but it's a bitter pill I'm willing to accept if it were to be a lasting peace, especially if we could have warm ties. And as a reminder, there's been numerous offers of exactly this to the Palestinians, and they were all rejected. Just a few of the more recent offers: ehud baraq's offer, ehud olmert's offer. They aren't going to get everything they want, nor are we. But after baraq's offer was flat out rejected, I recall another intifada being contrived. Jews aren't going anywhere, and Jews aren't "colonizers". Believe me or don't, I don't have time to go further into the weeds. For a different take, see Fred Maroun's blog postings on TimesofIsrael.com.

I should also note that we, as Israeli Jews, are extremely horrible at exterminating people, because not only has the Israeli Arab population increased significantly since 1948, but so has the Palestinian Arab population. Worst. genocide. ever.

Oh, silly me, I didn't realize that this whole /. post was about Native Americans. Please forgive my forgetfulness to write a dissertation for you about the plight of the Native Americans. And they're a remnant of what they used to be mostly due to a pandemic that wiped out something like 90% of the population of natives across the continent, AS WELL as the racism they faced and still face.

I did, however, notice that you feigned offense about the Native Americans in order to avoid addressing the question I made about the pertinent subject matter.

Goy-splain much, eh? I can infer from your response that you aren't Jewish. And yet you have the audacity to think that you can "learn" me about my own people? As a famous former statesman once said here in the USA, "everybody is entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts". You have lots and lots of opinions, but very very little fact to base them on. What you recited above isn't even remotely the tip of the iceberg, and much of it is ahistorical to boot. But then I can only guess that this is why you chose the nick you did. I find no benefit to continue to discuss any of this with a goy-splainer. If you seriously have any desire to improve your knowledge on this subject, I recommend starting off with reading Yair Rosenberg at The Atlantic. This is a good one to start off with, as he tackles your mistaken notion that we're just a bunch of random people with a common religion binding us: https://newsletters.theatlanti...

The problem is that so many people, even some Jews, don't understand even how everything connects. Judaism is the religious practice of the Jewish people. One can be Jewish without observing Judaism (see: Albert Einstein), since we are best described as an ethnoreligious group (a concept that long predates the modern pseudoscientific racial classifications). Zionism is, in its most basic form, the concept of supporting Jewish self-determination in our ancestral homeland. It in of itself does not call for the removal of other groups of people who may be living there, even if those other people are themselves the descendants of Arab colonizers. There are some that took this basic concept and ran with it pretty heavily, like the current politician Itamar Ben Gvir.

Does anybody, besides perhaps what remains of the Native American population, call into question modern day Americans' right to self-determination upon the land controlled by the United States of America? Not by any rational person, you say? If that's the case, then why does the modern state of Israel always have people questioning its right to exist as a homeland for the Jewish people, who are technically indigenous to that land?

It's one thing to be critical of policies of the state of Israel, and it's even reasonable if one holds other nations of the world to the same standards of criticism. But if one is critical of Zionism or anti-Zionist, what they're really saying is we have no right to self-determination in our native homeland. Hamas denies our right to even exist, and even Mahmoud Abbas denies our long connection to the land. There can be no official peace between Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs until we are accepted as belonging to the region.

There is no uniform authoritative database with fine-grained-enough data that can tell you whether or not there are wires on the poles, wires underground, who owns them, what type they are, and whether or not there is capacity to provide you service at any given address. Take for example my situation: There is a DSLAM about 4000-5000 ft from me, which does put me in range for at least older DSL service. That copper does come to my house. BUT there is exactly ZERO capacity available in the DSLAM, and AT&T ain't going to do crap with the equipment in our "neighborhood" (a neighborhood of 1/2 acre to 350 acre sized lots) unless they were forced by a court of law to do so. I WAS lucky enough to obtain Starlink after living here and suffering tiny data transfer caps on cellular, but honestly, I'd prefer terrestrial fiber to that solution.

Problem is that you conflate a POTS line with telephone service. This isn't the 1970's anymore, and the PSTN isn't how you imagine it - even just the portions of the PSTN that have a wired layer1 connection.

I have the entire collection of episodes and movies. And I did think that it got a little weak in the last two volumes, but it was still enjoyable. But most importantly, I think "Meanwhile" was a great episode to end on. I am not so sure I want a revival at this point to ruin that.

Dayam. Kinky Friedman got 13% of the vote in the actual vote back in 2006 (he was independent, so no primary for him).

Dude, I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm one of those folks who had to collect icicles off the side of my house and melt them in a pot on a camp stove outside just to have water in order to be able to flush my toilet last February. If by it being a problem of "politics", then perhaps you mean "the GOP congresscritters in the state Congress refusing to do more than ask very nicely for all power generators on the ERCOT grid to please winterize after the 2011 (at least I think that was the year of the last major freeze) freeze and failure", then I guess you're correct that it's politics. But the major contributor to the failure was the power generators that used methane had the pipelines freeze up. Because, you know, nowhere else in this country has ever solved that problem... (sarcasm obviously)

Whats more, it most definitely affected metropolitan areas. How do I know? By information provided to me on Austin Electric and Austin Electric itself. Plus coworkers of mine and I losing power. As well as people dying in the various cities from smoke inhalation after trying to heat their homes with makeshift burning or from problems with their chimneys. Now some, like my ex-wife, are close enough to medically sensitive facilities, and thus she was lucky and never lost power. And she, too, is on Austin Electric.

But please, keep talking about things you don't know and don't understand.

I'm 8 miles away from the center of the nearest suburb, and I have exactly 2 choices of internet at all... Cellular LTE and RFC2549 (sorry, geostationary satellite is about as latent as rfc2549, and rfc2549 is cheaper - it works for seed.) I'm stuck waiting for Starlink service.

And you shall receive it, in abundance.

This isn't an either-or situation. For my Model 3, the fast home charger can max out 60A from my main panel. My a/c uses about 30A or 40A, I forget which. On my normal day-to-day usage, my car would be replenished in about 1 hour of charging, versus needing to cool my house continuously throughout the day to keep it around 78F. Thankfully despite the poor insulation in my attic, my a/c unit is a pretty efficient system, and does *not* run continuously despite an outdoor temp of 105-110F.

I'm in Central Texas, and if your a/c is running like that, there's likely other problems that you're experiencing. You could have a lack of good insulation. You could have an inefficient a/c. You could have a problem with a specific component of your a/c. My house needs its insulation redone, and albeit it is only 1100 sq feet, my goodman a/c unit does not run continuously all day long even when it's 100+ outside (which it has been all week). Besides, with outdoor temps like that, I'm perfectly comfortable with the indoors being set to 78.

I'm glad I'm on Pedernales then (a co-op), and things aren't so complicated.