Zionism can be both the nationalist movement for making Israel a Jewish state as well as the interpretation that such a movement is inherently colonial and racist.
So Zionism for Israelis might just mean "we support and advocate for a Jewish state in the land of Israel" which also includes two-state solutions but it can mean "we are a colonial and ethno-religious racist state" to the ones being displaced by the movement (like Palestinians).
78 years is not that far ago in terms of human generations, the children of the people displaced are still alive, and they've disputed it all the time since then.
Don't understand why you think 78 years is a long time, even less why you think it's equivalent to 1300 years.
The problem is that you assert 78 years is soon enough for the Palastinian claim to the land to still matter but 1300 years is too long for the Byzantine claim to still matter so we have a paradox of the heap situation where you have to choose a hard cutoff time period after which all claims to land are invalid.
There's no need to be technical about a social aspect of human life, there's no paradox of the heap when considering the human aspect: people alive have felt in their skin and soul the displacement of their parents which is not true at all for a claim 1300 years old.
Moreover, there are Palestinians that would like the generationally farmed land back that they lived on last week, last month, last year, five years ago, etc.
Shouldn't they have the right to land that has been illegally stolen from them that recently?
While I have no idea of the actual outcome, I’ll muddle through the extra step + thinking to opt-out where possible.
My own personal bend is that I do not want to be sold anything and I want anonymity where possible. We’re constantly being advertised to. Anything small action that I can take to deter that, or make the ads less personalized/interesting/distracting to me, is worth it. Even if I also will never knowingly click an ad.
It’s probably largely a control thing psychologically. With cookie banners specifically, I also don’t want to concede to dark patterns which make accepting easier than rejecting.
> My own personal bend is that I do not want to be sold anything
You can always choose this no matter what ads they show you. In some ways, choosing to not be sold AFTER being shown ads might be more effective at shutting down that behavior than simply avoiding the ads entirely; forcing the company to pay to show you the ad that you ignore is costlier to them than simply not being able to show you the ad at all.
"I said, Imagine how cool would this be if we had like, a 10-foot wall. It’s interactive and it’s historical. And you could talk to Martin Luther King, and you could say, ‘Well, Dr, Martin Luther King, I’ve always wanted to meet you. What was your day like today? What did you have for breakfast?’ And he comes back and he talks to you right now."
I’m surely in a niche group here, but I’m appreciating Siri more and more.
It’s a mostly competent tool for basic operations and simple questions. For something I interact with over audio, I’ll choose that over a bullshit machine any day of the week.
That's interesting. It has literally gotten worse over time. The same queries that were fine earlier now fail or go wrong. Too often it fails with basically "I can't do that" but not explain why.
A tool like that shouldn't just be "mostly competent" -- the failures just mean it's not worth the time to try (i might as well use another guaranteed tool rather than the coin flip and time sink of asking siri).
We use it to play music in the car on Spotify sometimes. While it is really bad ad this we found out it mishears quite reliably so there are now some crazy things that I would have never played myself that my family has heard in the car. This has brought a lot of joy to some mundane drives.
But when I am alone on a run I really wished it would just work because without someone else to laugh about it, it really sucks
That's funny you mention that—very similar experience here. My partner and I often get a laugh out of the strange occasional errors. Things like responding with "…huh?", and then completing the task.
I'd rather see a robot fail rather than eat the world and fill it with trash. But the running use case does sound very annoying!
