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🧙‍♂️These three things, monks, are conducted in secret, not openly. What three? Affairs with women, the mantras of the brahmins, and wrong view.

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    matunos ,
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    @ElleGray girl, run!

    Sherifazuhur , to palestine group
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    Israel began bombing Rafah about 4 hours ago and casualties of at least 63 - who knows how many by morning. I just saw ppl shroud a dead baby. @palestine @israel

    matunos ,
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    @Alon @Sherifazuhur @israel @palestine indeed if the IDF is announcing something that cannot be faked and would be extremely detrimental to them among their own admirers if found untrue, they have more credibility.

    the how and why part, of course, could still be false.

    matunos ,
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    @Alon @Sherifazuhur @israel @palestine right, these also seem like factual claims that are hard to keep a lie about going. versus, say, what they found in an underground bunker or a teen's bedroom

    matunos ,
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    @Alon @Sherifazuhur @israel @palestine I'm not saying they're all false, I'm saying they don't have a lot of credibility. Where things are independently corroborated or at least seem difficult to fake, then that must be factored in.

    matunos ,
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    @Sherifazuhur @Alon @matunos @israel @palestine As the old adage goes, "truth is the first casualty of warfare".

    It's always good advice to consider the motivations and biases of any report, and especially so when it's coming from one of the parties of a conflict.

    saddestrobots , to random
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    "israel-hamas war" but also we're gonna seal-team-six some paralyzed guy in a west bank hospital just because we feel like it

    "israel-hamas war" with israel-UNRWA war characteristics

    "israel-hamas war" but there's wall-to-wall genocide apologia in the papers

    matunos ,
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    @saddestrobots oh i see we have an antifisherite here

    pluralistic , to random
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    Giant Teddy Bears R Us

    https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

    #X

    If you go down to the midway at your county fair, you'll spot some poor sucker walking around all day with a giant teddy bear that they won by throwing three balls in a peach basket. The peach-basket is a rigged game. The carny can use a hidden switch to force the balls to bounce out of the basket. No one wins a giant teddy bear unless the carny wants them to win it. Why did the carny let the sucker win the giant teddy bear? So that he'd carry it around all day, convincing other suckers to put down five bucks for their chance to win one. The carny allocated a giant teddy bear to that poor sucker the way that platforms allocate surpluses to key performers – as a convincer in a "Big Store" con, a way to rope in other suckers who'll make content for the platform, anchoring themselves and their audiences to it.

    matunos ,
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    @pluralistic does that imply the best way to increase your odds of winning a big carnie prize is to play early in the the day?

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