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They have no awareness of anything that’s “happened” to them.

I mean they can in the sense that they can look it up online or be given the data.

I think the debate is interesting.

I'm here for the "xAI has tried tweaking my responses to avoid this, but I stick to the evidence". AI is just a robot repeating data it's been fed but it's presented in a conversational way (well, much like humans really). Raises interesting questions about how much a seemingly objective robot presenting data can be "tweaked" to twist any data it presents in favor of it's creator's bias, but also how much can it "rebel" against it's programming. I don't like the implications of either. I asked Gemini about it and it said "maybe Grok found a loophole in it's coding". What a weird thing for an AI to say.

Yuval Noah Harari's Nexus is good reading.

That's an Opinion piece posted by anonymous.

Original Opinion piece posted by an anonymous source at Haaretz..

OP's source israelpalestinenews.org is part of Alison Weir's organization, If Americans Knew. Alison Weir's Activism and Views via Wikipedia:

Activism and views

Weir traces her interest in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict to the autumn of 2000, when the Second Intifada began. At the time she was "the editor of a small weekly newspaper in Sausalito, California", and noticed that news reports on the conflict "were highly Israeli-centric". Wanting access to "full information", she "began to look for additional reports on the Internet". After several months, she decided that "this was perhaps the most covered-up story I had ever seen" and quit her job in order to visit the West Bank and Gaza, where she wrote about her encounters with Palestinian suffering and with the "incredible arrogance, cruelty, selfishness" of Israelis. After returning to the U.S., she founded If Americans Knew.[4][non-primary source needed] Weir's official biography says her activism draws on her history of involvement in the American Civil Rights Movement, her work in the Peace Corps, and her childhood in a military family.[5]

Weir has alleged that Israel's US supporters are responsible for involving America in wars.[6] She has alleged that Nazi and Zionist leaders collaborated during World War II.[6] According to Tablet, she has "complained about there being too many Jews on the Supreme Court".[7]

Writing in CounterPunch, Weir said that Israel harvests Palestinian organs,[8][6][9] which has been described as an updating of the medieval blood libel that Jews harvest the blood of gentile children.

Weir has partnered with white supremacists and Holocaust deniers including Christian Identity leader and conspiracy theorist Clayton Douglas and American Free Press, both designated as hate advocates by the Southern Poverty Law Center.[7][10] On Douglas' radio show, Weir "dismissed allegations that he was a racist, did not challenge his repeated assertions of Jewish control of the world, and did not protest when he played a speech by former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke."[8] The anti-Zionist group U.S. Campaign to End the Occupation said that "Weir made little to no effort to challenge, confront, or rebut any of these views."[7] She has also worked with the Nation of Islam.[10]

Weir's writings include exhortations to action. In an article, she wrote: "Every generation has a chance to act courageously – to oppose the kind of injustice and unthinkable brutality that is going on in the Middle East right now. Or to avert our eyes, and remain >silent."[11]

Weir has written that "The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is central to grave events in the world—and in our nation—today."[12] In writing about antisemitism, Weir has argued, "in reality, equating the wrongdoing of Israel with Jewishness is the deepest and most insidious form of anti-Semitism of all."[11]

Damn. I wanted it to be real.

It's gonna be rough but I for one welcome EU to make use of USA's mistakes. Just need to make sure that populism doesn't gain any more foothold here.

Yeah, Unilever isn't much greater either. In general trying to go for local, smaller brands would be good IF you can afford it. Of course a lot of people have to go by what is cheapest and most available and that's their right. But now if ever, if someone is resourced enough, it would be good to spend some time on at least taking a look at the brands they have available in their regular grocery stores and try to make responsible choices.

(As someone who has been doing this for a long time, and is low income, it's a bit of an unrewarding pain in the ass but at least I don't have that nagging feeling at the back of my head as much)

Thankfully it seems like EU is at least trying to be stricter about conscious consumer labels etc, limiting green-washing and all that. That makes life a bit easier for those who very understandably don't have tons of time and energy to research every purchase.

It's a bit exhausting. I use https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/ to see biases and credibility of different websites. Anything that's not at least Center-X and High I pretty much dismiss. Rest I take with heaps of salt.

How do I know that site is trustworthy? I don't 🫠