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jackk, thanks for defending the honor of emoji research. do you have an opinion whether NPR public funding is indeed 2% as claimed?
> border is open for all the illegals
there are 80 mln international arrivals in US airports annually, this is a little higher than number of people crossing Mexican border (who also quarantine for weeks in the desert).
I think you guys have a legit an interesting debate, but it is outdated. I am claiming that current Israel is not permeated by original Zionism. The anti-religious left is now more into global liberal ideas; traditional, mostly Sephardi, Jews were not affected by it to begin with. What you have is – a state consisting of multiple Jewish groups, many of who are not observant or partially observant. It is the same as in other countries, except that all of them share the bus. In other countries, you simply do not meet these people and do not depend on them. Maybe, Israel gives you an opportunity to show these Jews – who mostly were not religious before they came to Israel – the beauty of Torah. Instead, you are hating them. Look at Yonah and Kikayon. Do you have no chesed to this small country populated by Jewish people?
If you are a real American, any place in Israel is within commuting distance!
But there are tons of companies in the area – Intel, IBM, MSFT, Rafael: start a shiur there.significant ones, ordered by time, more or less, not dividing into bad and good:
wheel (Amerindians did not), alef-beis, paper, military horse saddle, growing beans with wheat (responsible for growth of Northern Europe and Ashkenazim), long bow, printing press, marine chronometer (enabled measuring longitude and actually going to an exact location), steam engine, electricity, cotton gin (American thingy), radio, federal reserve (economic stability), Kalashnikov, potential functions and support vector machines (first serious machine learning technology), PC, Netscape browser (rather than internet, making it available to non-geeks), altavista search engine (first working one), zoomujm, I suspects the same. Very Shakespearean drama: risking his own life for the throne …
Note that paranoid Putin is more careful than the Queen – he meets people at a 6 meter-long table. Hope, she is healthier, though.rw, could you clarify how many and out of how many were taken off the market, according to your sources, hopefully separately for brands and generics?
also, taken from the market may be a sign of monitoring working, even if at this late stage
note that late during Trump administration, after shortages of medicines started, there was an initiative to identify what ingredients are sources from non-friendly countries and looking for substitutes.
Avira, I was specifically talking about times closer to ours. Many of the ones you listed are way earlier. Some of the later ones sound more like financial claims – free housing to olim in wrong areas .. control educational system, and political disagreements. Claims that Israeli system is not always according to halakha does not support claims of “shmad”.
It may depend on the drug. Some are very sensitive to changes in production, many others are easily copied. you would need to research a specific drug.
HaKatan, you seem to repeat the same phrase about 3 generations without adding any proofs or arguments. This is not an interesting conversation.
Another example of a well camouflaged false claim: there was popular theme in the 80s and 90s of accusing “rich getting richer”, and the simple jingle proof was “2% of highest earners earn XX% of GDP” or something like that. Heard it on NPR many time and it sounded convincing. What’s the catch?
These 2% of “rich” people are not the same people each year … Someone sells a business, a farm, wins a lottery – he joins the “rich” for that year (and gets taxed accordingly). This is not to deny that are rich people, but the proof was a lie.
ujm, Luna quoted what NPR says themselves in a very straight-forward written “non-partisan” article. It is hard to suspect it of outright lies. They are good at their business. The only thing that caused me to look was a dissonance between these “facts” and hysterical reaction to suggestions to get rid of such subsidies. Thank you, Luna, for making me look at it. I did not know how it worked.
Mark Twain +1 I am quoting this to my teen kids all the time.
Democrats are good at propaganda
Many democrats cared about their slaves and did not abuse them
more seriously,
left-wing democrats, like all communists, are often sincere in their desire to help poor people and get rid of evil capitalists. We should learn from their zeal.
moderate democrats, like Joe Liberman, genuinely think and care about the country and Jewish people also.HaKatan notices that Reform is dying and Zionism is not to justify bigger evil of Zionism. Maybe it means that Reform was wrong (more)? They led their communities to full assimilation. I would add that original Zionism is also not around. You describe it how it looks in 1930s, maybe you read some seforim from 100 years ago and did not go out much.
I tihnk a lot of judgment is based on “selection bias”. As Avira is saying – A chusid travelling for a vacation and instagramming is not representative of the klal. And what Gadol sees as “changes” may simply be more mainstream community joining in.
Goldilocks, great tips. If you need to post, do it after you are home, not before you are travelling. Crooks are scanning for this info.
But maybe think what is important and post that – a kid with a sefer, someone helping a grandma cross the road ..
Goldilocks, great tips! If you need to post those photos, do it after coming back.
Also, please consider that school finance committee can also find those videos when you are asking for a discount.
Amway was popular in previous century. Is MLM still active?! When you can google it and see the scam? When there are not enough workers for so many jobs? makes no sense to me
CTL > Federal Government said to the states if you don’t raise the drinking age to 21, we will cut off all federal highway funds to your state.
CTL, I always wondered how this is allowed to be legal. Feds collect taxes for the enumerated powers – defense, commerce, etc. Fine. Now they are are using the power of that money to compel states to do many other things. Constitution and bill of rights were made to limit federal powers. What is the limit here? Is there anything feds can’t compel by withholding funds?
what is wrong with blue laws? why can’t all peoples enjoy a day off? They know they will be hayav misa if they do it on Shabbos so they chose a day before or after.
RebE, indeed! It is better to NOT be born in Sopron, but if you are born in Sopron, better escape and count your blessings!
Same as previously discussed comparison between Bavel and Israel – Bavlim learn how to argue and fight, but the best ones wrote a bigger Talmud.
But we should not argue – Hashem sends every person his own challenges and one should not be jealous – not of riches, not of challenges. You were strong enough to get to Sopron , I – to some other challenges (that I chose not to advertise here).
Amil > Why shouldn’t public transport be available to them?
Religious zionists, or at least people sympathetic to non-religious Jews, might argue on that. What seems inconsistent that those who reject Medina, do not see value in national movements, etc – protest shabbos violations. They don’t protest in Brooklyn, what’s the difference (from their point of view)? maybe someone can explain this to me.
charlie > But natural immunity did not provide protection against the omicron variant.
It provided, similar to the vaccine, protection from severe outcomes in part due to T-cell immunity that is more general than antibodies and come to play after someone is infected.
What we really need for non-vaccinated is a way to get exposed to a light case. For example, make them come into an infected room for 2 minutes [this will avoid possible exposure for 2 hours]. Or, better, release a weakened variant (either find a natural one or engineer). Of course, FDA that had hard time understanding the value of imperfect home tests, will not approve of such “unethical” path even as it will save millions of lives.
common > The traffic light turned red, I stopped for the light and a car driving on the other street who had a green light did not crash
Common, thanks for the advice! I now tried this segulah and it worked!
First, a car behind me crashed into my car (expecting me to speed up as usual). So, I questioned the ways of Hashem … Then, insurance paid me for the total value of my junked car based on current inflated prices, my friend mechanic repaired it for close to nothing, and now I have both a car and money to pay for kids’ colleges!My miracle beats yours, Reb E: Hashem made sure I never even came to Sopron!
Luna > funding from federal grants … only amount to about 2%
you surely heard (or read) this on NPR, so this is reliable!
Note that 32% of their funding comes from fees from their “member stations”. Member stations are funded in part by government funds and CPB. CPB in turn is FULLY funded by federal government. Each of these organizations are also charities, that is donations is partially subsidized by government.
So before adding all of this up, I feel justified to declare this fact check as “mostly untrue”.
> Causing major additional expenses to families who are very tight in their budget
On one hand, we have halakha of not competing with another Jew when he is doing business with a non-Jew. This typically applies when a non-Jewish aristocrat hires a Jewish tradesman. I am wondering whether this still holds when the power differential is reversed, In this case, we presumably talk about Jewish employers (who possibly chose not to work themselves) hiring (possibly illegal, not speaking English) workers (possibly not paying employment taxes) lacking a lot of legal protections. While we may not be obligated to care about these workers as we would for Jews, it is not clear that one _has_ to participate in this race to the bottom in order to spare expenses to others.
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Loshen, it sounds like encountered this singularly in one of the busiest airports of the world, and also at the height of Omicron.
I googled right now, you can get PCR at Heathrow for 60 GBP next day and 80 same day; 4 hour! for 120. Maybe you should arrange the next day test?
HaKatan, there are many ways to skin this cat, here is a statistical one:
12% of American Jews go to (any kind of) synagogue weekly
25% of Israeli Jews do (32% of those who call themselves “traditional”)
27% of Americans go to religious services weekly.21% of American Jews say religion is very important
30% of Israeli Jews do, 32% of traditionals do.you could argue, of course, that given a more religious, and more Jewish, environment in Israel the difference should be larger.
US also had it’s share of Jewish socialists in 1930s and even later who were fighting religion. They simply assimilated and now fight climate change instead of other Jews.
All kiruv work is great, but the number of non-O Jews percentage wise affected by it is very small, and, I think, getting smaller.
On the same page, there is also a cryptic notion of negative issues from (1) people who should be learning – not learning, (2) people who should not be learning – learning, (3) bad leaders ….
this seems to go somewhat against “universal learning” ideal, although can be explained away, of course.
The issue of “working most of the week” is not so pashut.
Daf Yomi talks about the person who would learn one day a year (traveling/working the rest of the year) and this might be equivalent to full time learning if done properly.
I was not thinking about overworked wives getting a law degree in addition to everything else. I was thinking about kollelmen themselves getting into law, then having 6 months annually to learn and help at home. With 2-3 wives, this can be even full time learning (we can suspend R Gershom’s decree due to urgency of the hour, as we do with other halochos).
jackk, in the spirit of respectful discussion, could you try to summarize the court filing in a non-partisan manner, without omitting something that is not good for your side?
I did not read the filing, but I read previous documents, and I recall a bunch of serious stuff, like a university using their DARPA-provided IP data to come up with “suspicious” IPs, while one of the researchers explicitly telling all that this is not suspicious; Sussman requesting this “research”, and then taking as a “concerned citizen” to authorities, with also implications that others are aware of what was going on. this is fomr memory and early docs, so maybe you can help us get more details on this.
coffee, avira, I also did not like it when seeing other people doing it for years.
But really works for outside – self-lightning, allows for gloves without need to turn tiny pages; if it gets damaged by drops of rain, it is a broken phone, rather than a torn siddur, maybe should move the text according to where I look or even better, where the chazan is mumbling. For shabbos, probably can be automated to a certain speed like a shabbos elevator… some joke that some people wake up by shir shel yom to ask what day is it diay, but phone siddur shows the right shir. I am not really advocating phone, just found it surprising that I changed my opinion 180 when I am using it rather than others 😉 talking about bias!By the way, what’s up with tables and supersizing everything?
Seems like _sitting_ on a chair is more traditional and safe (and Kings used to sit even in Beis Hamikdash, nobody put them on a shaky table!).
midwesterner, thanks for the correction!
Yoma 22-23: first episode is when one kills another in anger (and father of the victim is trying to keep the knife tahor..). This did not lead to the prohibition as this was clearly an issue of anger after competition. Second episode that I referred to when one pushed the other was clearly during the competition and lead to banning the practice. So, it seems that Beit Din did not mind people getting competitive, just not getting physical. Btw, mussar recommends to parents who can’t hold themselves from murder (shouting at children) should use positive rewards and competitions between children. Try saying “quietly” to your spouse that the other kid two years ago did that homework easily.
Mahybe you guys should start a “Jews for Covid” fund. What a shanda.
Both questions should be asked:
Trump was elected because rural Americans were tired of liberals; nobody liked Hillary; and Putin could not imagine Trump winning, he just wanted to hurt Hillary before she becomes President.Biden was elected because suburban nice people did not like Trump’s tweets; Biden sounded nice and non-threatening (except when bullying a fat guy in Iowa); and pandemic allowed quick-thinking Dems to increase numbers of their voters by mail vote while Trump was distracted by Covid, impeachment, illegal surveillance.
Gadol, wow … first time ever I am envious. Send this info to the kahal, this is an easy way to have kollel fully paid!
I used to be annoyed by people scrolling through their prayers. But now I also found phone siddur useful for outside minyanim… looking for shabbos edition, though.
My favorite mahzorim are two pre-WW1 from different sides of the family, one Vilna, one Wien … good feeling that you follow your predecessors in davening. Wien one is much thinner – less piyutim and much better, thinner, paper.
Gadol,
I was annoyed by this guy’s insistence on inconveniencing others for relatively optional activities, that could have been re-arranged or done faster. You can see it in the opposite way that he is such a tzaddik that he would not compromise on his mental preparation for shabbos. I was raised to put obligation to others first. When I worked for companies and was expected to be in office, I only requested absolute minimum I needed and repeatedly apologized for that, rather than referring to the discrimination laws. One of my friends years ago went to further extreme in middos to make sure he is not abusing the employer: he did not inform his employer about his needs (and went without kippah) and would simply request time off when required. He was prepared to resign if refused. He was an excellent and reliable performer, so was never refused. At my company, the rules are that anyone can take off any days they want, disregarding secular calendar rules.Syag, sorry for not being clear. I wanted to highlight that one family whom I know for a long long time – who first did not read the directions (or possibly disregarded them), and then refused to follow them when I asked them (extremely nicely). All they needed was to hop into the car and get the kid home. They had someone sitting with the rest of the kids.
Re: when you say “our doctors”, maybe you can say what your doctors say specifically.
My questions about psak is generally towards people’s public behaviors, not medical decisions. Usually directed at people who bring mysterious quotes from websites, not you. I am pretty sure those are not from their doctors.
ujm> exact wording of the New York Times headline
you would not consider “you have as much integrity as NYT headline writers” a compliment, would you?
but it worked to attach attention 🙂> chasan lost his balance.
RebE, maybe add safety grips attached to the table? Maybe this procedure is a moshal for the upcoming married life – treated as a King, but turbulence ahead? So, chasanim need to learn how to keep their balance.
Gadol, “did not enter” until recently, while Europe was able to figure it out. This is food for thought for you about difference between gov lead by a businessman or by a politician. Biden made an announcement about test availability in the middle of omicron surge and they started arriving shortly after the crisis seems to pass. the insurance approach (again, only from Jan 2022) is cumbersome and is not a very good incentive. The goal is to have low-informational population to use these tests when they need them. It got to be simple, not with a promise of filling out forms later.
rw > fact that CDC deleted from their own website the info of how long vaccines are tested (10-15 years)
I looked at the original article with these words. They list all steps in vaccine development, and the value of Warp Speed was able to compress all of them. The site says that the final phase 3 trial takes about 60K people, and Pfizer had 44K – close enough. As this is the final step proving efficacy and and safety, there is no reason to worry about quality of previous steps. Just tells you how fast research can happen when government gets out of the way.
Syag > long term damage,
I trust you know more of what is happening with kids in schools. There is a “recover” trial run by NIH to look at long covid, including in kids. I don’t know how to weigh these risks against each other.
Syag > vaccine did not do anything to prevent transmission
factual correction: vaccine does reduce transmission, although less than severe disease – especially for variants. 7x reduction for the famous Phase 3 trials was for transmission. Event in question was pre-Delta. I don’t plan to discuss details of organizer motivation, as well as others. I just brought a minor detail that struck me as totally oblivious – you are told of the rules, it would take 15 minutes to comply, and you refuse. Pre-covid, this would be boorish behavior that would just end up with extra shnitsel consumed. Start appreciating all the gemorahs discussing a thought put into every act done correctly – drinking reviis with 2, not 1, not 3, gulps. If you learn to be careful with every action, then you can easily adjust to ever-changing reality.
RebE > One must weigh the risk
Match the weight of the chatan to the maximal allowed for the table?
Gadol, tru, if I recall correctly, the methods employed by T’Ch might have involved risk to them (other than in carrying kallah) rather than to the chatan.