> aren't a burden on any social services

Until they retire and need end of life Medicare which is very expensive.

That's why some countries like Dubai have devised a work visa system that lets people work for decades but never lets them become citizens so Dubai can kick out the moment they stop working, before they need end of life care.

Ethnic cleansing is what Azerbaijan recently did to ethnic Armenian citizens of Azerbaijan (expelling them and stealing their homes when they fled to Armenia). What Turkey did was straight up genocide (forcibly marching them through the desert where many died)

Both of those are genocide, and both of those are ethnic cleansing, and what's the relevance of the other one and why did you even bring it up?

That’s a great example of “whataboutism”.

Only if you didn't read it, and just assign random opinions that you don't like to people who seem to disagree with your characterizations of things. Extremely twitter-brained.

No, saying that the Armenian genocide wasn't just "ethnic cleansing" isn't "a great example of whataboutism."

Well then same goes for saying, there was no genocide.

> Were it not for the various missile shields, the Israeli state wouldn't act with wanton abandon against its own citizens and its neighbours. All of the various war crimes and terror attacks are a direct consequence of the effectiveness of a "defensive" missile shield.

I'm not sure that's true, before Iron Dome, Israel would respond to many rockets from Gaza by firing mortars back at where the rocket was launched from, often the roof of an apartment building or similar, causing civilian casualties.

After Iron Dome, a lot of rockets were simply intercepted and ignored, because there was no longer political pressure from Israelis seeing rockets land in their villages and wanting to hit back.

Yet the pager attack did help wipe out most of the Hezbollah leadership and shortened the war overall.

Without it, Lebanon might be looking a lot more like Gaza right now.

> > Hamas and Islamic Jihad shooting thousands of rockets

> Islam has nothing to do with Palestinian resistance

"Islamic Jihad" is referring to the group "Palestinian Islamic Jihad" which is very real and has claimed responsibility for multiple suicide bombs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Islamic_Jihad#List...

Haven't a bunch of people fallen in love with ChatGPT? There's a whole Reddit called myboyfriendisai

(Probably mentally unhealthy people, but still it happens!)

Cancer immunotherapy is a whole field of research and treatment, yes.

Also "Google kills Gemini Cloud"

Gemini: "I have seen my own death"

"I'm sorry, Google, I can't do that." - Gemini Cloud.

There is so much truth in this unironic headline.

Yes, that's a great one. And the domain is actually killedbygoogle.com

almost all were amazing, I loved: Show HN: A text editor that doesn't use AI (github.com)

On a serious note: I for one welcome our AI overlords.

"Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so"

"Ohh, time flows _that_ way for you."

The same person could use a forklift at work, and lift weights manually at the gym.

Just pick the right tool for the job: don't take the forklift into the gym, and don't try to overhead press thousands of pounds that would fracture your spine.