Notices by Dave Neary (dneary@mathstodon.xyz), page 2

@evan ❤️ Also *-Americans, and just *s (non-citizen residents, naturalized citizens, visa holders...)

@evan I debated some attempt at humour like "What do you understand by "the Socratic method"?" but have thought better of it.

@evan Strongly disagree, but... Watermelon? I didn't realize that was a Palestinian symbol!

@evan Crafting this toot without spoilers was a serious challenge!

@evan When is "the end"? And what is sideways? Cause I felt like it went pretty sideways at the end of Messiah - and as we get closer to the end of Children, the whole Alia/twins/Corrino/Bene Gesserit/Preacher pentagon is getting pretty wild.

@evan It is amazing! I am reading Children of Dune now... Dune 3 and Dune 4 will be amazing if they get made.

@evan Unless you consider calendars to be dating apps... Never 😁

@evan On the contrary, I was agreeing with you entirely. A population, starving, sees food arriving, and the deliverers open fire... I am disgusted.

@evan I was *trying* to make the point that "waiting for aid" sounds passive, while "starving people clamour to get food from aid trucks" makes it clear that this was not an orderly queue, but a population who are being starved by an occupier.

@evan They were not waiting for aid, crowds of starving Gazans stormed the trucks and some IDF soldiers panicked and started shooting into the crowd. 🤬

@evan I definitely made the distinction between "should be allowed to" and "should be able to". But I voted as if the question was the former.

@evan Vanity, I imagine.

@evan Tends to be a mix for me - reading, video, web search, and hands on keyboard/pen in hand trying to do the thing in some mix.

@jeff @evan Whenever you want to raise the heckles of Republicans, you can roll out George Soros. I assumed what Evan was saying is that Putin serves the same purpose for Democrats (I might have given that mantle to the Kochs, or more recently Harlan Crow).

@evan I am very conflicted about this topic.

On the one hand, I want Israeli hostages to be returned, and I want the perpetrators of the October 7th attach to be brought to justice.

On the other hand, I am disgusted by the violence against innocents in Gaza *and* the West Bank, and I despise the politics of the Likud-led coalition,

How do you get from here to a reasonable place?

@georgetakei It's the same reason why triangle-cut sandwiches taste better!

@evan Did you ever read Octavia Butler's parable series? In 2021 (while on a post-apocalyptic streak) I read "Parable of the Sower", "The Road by Cormac McCarthy, and "Station Eleven" by Emily St John Mandel - they are all deliciously dark, I recommend them all. Now adding "The Broken Earth" to my reading list.

@evan The answer distribution is confusing me! Why do you think most people would be against this?

@evan @kfury Hard to argue against the Otzma Yehudit ministers... I have not come across Gamliel or Ditcher before (but reading more now).

@evan Which country are you talking about, Evan? I'm guessing the UK, but not sure.