I wouldn’t blink if you told me these were randoms you picked up on the streets of Beirut or Latakia. I can probably find a doppelgänger for every person in these photos in a 5-minute stroll down the Ras Beirut corniche and recreate them with very little effort.

I wish there was anything to say about this like “Isn’t it cute how racists are willfully blind to what’s in front of them” but it’s not. I’m beyond finding the humor in shit like this.

I can’t wait until we (Lebanon) get sanctioned over this.

His face looks a bit like a stereotypical random Syrian teenager as well to me which is funny.

The monkey’s paw curls.

We now have a one-state solution where every citizen regardless of origin has full legal rights, stolen land and houses have been returned, the renamed towns have been reassigned their original names, and a sizable proportion of colonists have willingly chosen to leave because they were only ever interested in being the protected class in an apartheid society. Robust border infrastructure has been rebuilt to Lebanon, Syria, and Egypt, with a direct maglev like from Al Quds to every major nearby city. The world rightly recognizes the crimes that have occurred west of the river and the Nakba now sits in the global public consciousness in the same place as Rhodesia and the Nazi Holocaust.

The catch? The country cannot be named Palestine. It has the be named Donald J Trump (PBUH) Presents: The Miraculous Peace in our Time West of the River of America Thank You For Your Attention To This Matter, Buy Gold and War Bonds

Too optimistic huh. We are allowed to dream

I always had the impression that there was an underlying censorship issue over in the US (what with everyone there hearing nothing good about Palestinians for the past half century) but to have it be so open and discussed in such a euphemistic and yet banal way, wow. I wonder how these quotes we are seeing on our screens will be remembered.

“Permission structure” on its own is incredible.

Fervently waiting their next film, Triumph of the Birth of the Will of a Nation (after they finish editing out all the woke parts)

I saw

A baby kit-

ten, half smeared into

the pavement.

I wish I could know if

It ever ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ disavowed Hamas

Good to hear, hamdillah. I did say what I hear around me may be wrong, to be fair.

50% of the people around me are (understandably) hyper-sensitive to bad news from Palestine and will share unverified news without vigilance and the other 50% seem to not care at all (not meaningfully at least). Not a fantastic environment to know what’s actually happening.

I know you’re asking about a few users on here, but murmuring in Lebanon is that Gaza’s limited internet has been cut off since yesterday night and there’s some extra intermittent cuts in the West Bank. This is all just hearsay from around me though, I’m sure there’s a better way to check.

I love my city (Beirut) it is full of trams (Kia Picanto 2013 base model w/ automatic transmission)

I have a special bottle of cognac for Kissinger, but I was abroad for work when he returned whence he came so I didn’t get to enjoy the occasion. I haven’t opened it yet given how shit the situation everywhere is, but maybe celebrating small wins is vital even when important stuff is happening.

Sprinkle on some Glorm to taste, or for you midsouthnortherners, pour in some Old Undeserving Chattal Slave Mamy’s for a similar effect

Mfw (I am in the Middle East and my understanding of American food is exclusively “<verging-on-parody tuple name> Whopper” (this is a 30 second explainer on how to boil a potato))

Music guides were the saving grace of the cesspit that is 4chan. I miss that era back before it went from the ultimate RNG site to a place that is reliably only full of the worst kinds of people

I’ve gone down parts of this rabbit hole (reading, not implementation). Wish I could guarantee that I could set anything up (including just setting up Meshtastic nodes in fun places) without getting arrested for setting up what can only look like an espionage infrastructure network to the government.

Difficult explanations of complex subjects that may not be aligned with the statistical word pattern distribution of the corpus of a dead web.

It’s not impossible that this exact paragraph could be generated. But it was more likely crafted by someone who both understands the subject matter on a comfortable level at the very least, and who understands what parts of it are intuitive enough to create a scaffolding of knowledge that are distinctive to this topic.

I don’t think I could have come up with anything that doesn’t use the word iota a half dozen times and then falling backwards on myself trying to get across the idea of how energy could not exist in measures that are not multiples of a minimum iota of energy (and explaining that it’s just how it is, no I don’t know how that was measured, etcetera etcetera)

This is what LLMs are taking from us, and I say this without a shred of irony

I do miss having languages listed on the side by default. I felt like it gave some depth to how important or culturally isolated a subject can be. For example, a short article available in 30 major languages, a long article available in 30 major languages, and a long article only available in like 3 languages would all feel just a little different.

English is not my native language and a lot of subjects I like (or fixations I may have, knowing Wikipedians) just exist in the realm of English. So these long long pages that don’t exist in many languages have a particular vibe to them.

I personally think cooking will have serious staying power.

Yes. They do make long lifespan SD cards for things like CCTV recording, they cost a bit more but might be worth taking a look at. I know people running more critical systems on Pi 4s and Pi 5s will use something more durable than an SD card nowadays, like an actual SSD.

Yeah it’s a famous Onion style account, local to me. At the risk of having every single one of my comments just be ranting about my country, this checks out. It feels like everyone around me, regardless of how original their thoughts are, sees anything you might input with a keyboard in English as a rough draft that exists only to be “corrected” by a slop filter.

I am even catching clunkily translated GPT-isms in Arabic-language ads on the radio. I thought it was funny that we had one of the highest ChatGPT users per capita soon after it launched (according to many dubious infographics at least, I can’t find them now so I guess that was overblown), but it’s been shit. Especially as my own writing is a bit mechanical, since my English is much more informed by reading than speaking. I love getting accused of not doing my job when I’m the only one on my team doing it.

The people behind this page seem to have a refreshingly witty sense of humor but they still felt like they needed to make a few pulls down at the slop machines to make it look good, it even watered down the messaging :(