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I'm so fascinated by languages with different levels of formality built in because it immediately introduces such complex social dynamics. The social distance between people is palpable when it's built right into the language, in a way it's not really palpable in English.

So for example. I speak Spanish, and i was taught to address everyone formally unless specifically invited otherwise. People explained to me that "usted" was formal, for use with strangers, bosses, and other people you respect or are distant from, while "tú" is used most often between family and good friends.

That's pretty straightforward, but it gets interesting when you see people using "tú" as a form of address for flirting with strangers, or for picking a fight or intimidating someone. In other languages I've sometimes heard people switch to formal address with partners, friends or family to show when they are upset. That's just so interesting! You're indicating social and emotional space and hierarchy just in the words you choose to address the other person as "you"!!

Not to mention the "what form of address should I use for you...?" conversation which, idk how other people feel about it, but to me it always felt awkward as heck, like a DTR but with someone you're only just becoming comfortable with. "You can use tú with me" always felt... Weirdly intimate? Like, i am comfortable around you, i consider you a friend. Like what a vulnerable thing to say to a person. (That's probably also just a function of how i was strictly told to use formal address when i was learning. Maybe others don't feel so weird about it?)

And if you aren't going to have a conversation about it and you're just going to switch, how do you know when? If you switch too soon it might feel overly familiar and pushy but if you don't switch soon enough you might seem cold??? It's so interesting.

Anyway. As an English-speaking American (even if i can speak a bit of Spanish), i feel like i just don't have a sense for social distance and hierarchy, really, simply because there isn't really language for it in my mother tongue. The fact that others can be keenly aware of that all the time just because they have words to describe it blows my mind!

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The bodies of three slain hostages, Ofra Keidar, Jonathan Samerano, and Staff Sgt. Shay Levinson, were recovered in a joint military and Shin Bet operation from the Gaza Strip overnight, the IDF announces.

The operation to recover the bodies was carried out by the Gaza Division, and was “enabled by precise intelligence” obtained by the military’s Hostages Headquarters unit, the Military Intelligence Directorate, and the Shin Bet, the IDF says.

Keidar, 71, was murdered by Hamas-led terrorists in Kibbutz Be’eri during the October 7, 2023, onslaught, and abducted to Gaza.

Samerano, 22, fled from the Nova music festival to Be’eri with two friends, where they were murdered, and his body was abducted.

Levinson, 19, was a tank commander stationed on the Gaza border on the morning of the onslaught. He was killed while battling the invading Hamas terrorists near the Nova party, and his body was abducted to Gaza.

The three bodies were brought to Israel for identification at the Abu Kabir forensic institute, after which their families were notified.

Terror groups in the Gaza Strip are now holding 50 hostages, including 49 of the 251 abducted by Hamas-led terrorists on October 7, 2023. They include the bodies of at least 28 confirmed dead by the IDF. Twenty are believed to be alive and there are grave concerns for the well-being of two others, Israeli officials have said. Hamas is also holding the body of an IDF soldier killed in Gaza in 2014.

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No this is still not WW3. Not every conflict is WW3. It could escalate to something bigger depends how Iran responds and America responds back. I’m guessing Iran will attack American bases in Iraq but the US seems aware that will happen based on the evacuation. At most a regional war though the idea of boots on the ground hasn’t been floated yet and would be really hard to make happen based on the border countries. But in the end Iran is not well liked and its biggest allies Russia is busy and China doesn’t get involved this way so no one else getting into this.

No you aren’t getting drafted, the draft is not needed US has big army already, the draft is super unpopular and it actually makes a worse army then volunteer. If the draft happens it’s because Trump thinks it’s cool despite all that and goes ahead, all the republicans would have to fall in line but they are stressing the whole time because they know it’s a bad idea and Republicans will lose for 20+ years., it would likely not help with any and make the situation worse. But no one got drafted Afghanistan or Iraq war so they wouldn’t now.

The biggest thing to expect is gas prices going up.

Anyway this was inspired by a relative complaining he’s going to get drafted and thinking we literally entered a nuclear war which we have not. I was feeling annoyed

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Pro Palestine folk when you tell them that you can criticize the Israeli government whilst also acknowledging and celebrating queer rights in Israel

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I need people to see this before it's lost forever to the insta archive

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I don't know anything more than I did at the minute I started reading this godforsaken task!

TASKMASTER 19.6 It's Got to Be Obsolete

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When Gentiles say "Never Again": We should all learn a moral lesson from the Holocaust and remember not to allow crimes against humanity to be committed against any group of people. Bad things are wrong and we should not do bad things to people.

When Jews say "Never Again" about the Holocaust: We have learned that no other nations will protect us, so we will never allow the nations to commit genocide against us again - we will defend ourselves, we will protect Jewish life and sovereignty, we will depend on our army, our state, and our community. Our survival will be insured by Jewish strength, not by the undependable mercy or goodwill of the nations, because those did not save our families.

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It has been abundantly clear to me that the pro-Palestine movement's antisemitism, anti-Israelis-as-people sentiment, glorification of violence, and all the other components of the shit stew that I'm currently too angry to articulate, were going to lead to extreme violence, including against Jews in diaspora. I have been telling y'all for over a year and a half to collect your fucking people and you will not do it. I have been trying to educate gently and with nuance and provide a voice that is neither "there's no antisemitism in the movement" nor "antizionism is antisemitism." And yet somehow for either the message does not get through or frankly many of you just do not give a shit. Setting Jews in Colorado on fire will not free Palestine and frankly you are really stupid if you think it will, and also you and I are different because as a general principle I think setting people on fire is bad and you don't.

Anyway I could not be more fucking over it. Your movement is cooked as hell and is also not in any sense "leftist" or "radical." It's actually reactionary as fuck. At this point if you continue to refuse to speak up in your activist spaces and collect your people I will no longer be assuming you just need some gentle education, I will assume that it is intentional and you either agree with the bullshit or are prioritizing your personal social standing.

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TASKMASTER | 19x05 | Maybe We're The Monsters

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I think some of the AI problem is that we have a generation of students, many of whom were taught to read by looking at the page and filling in what they didn't understand by guessing. Since they were taught that guessing was valid, it is probably kind of hard to explain why having a computer do the guessing is less valid.

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I’ve talked about how, as a goy, speaking up against the appalling onslaught of antisemitism that permeates every facet of society now often feels like yelling into an abyss, because most people either just don’t care or are actively participating in it.

And then it hit me like a brick to the face. People who speak up in support of Jews, Israelis, or for the wellbeing of the hostages often get accused by the extremist “antizionists” as “manufacturing consent for genocide.”

And that is EXACTLY what they are doing. The sheer level of dehumanisation and demonisation of Jewish communities, of Israelis, has reached a point where if a large scale horror like the Holocaust were to happen again, a terrifying amount of people would shrug their shoulders, turn away, and say “it’s just Zionists, they deserve it anyway.”