About water use, this is essential reading.

andymasley.substack.com/p/the-ai-wat...

Tyrants and dictatorships don’t like democratic countries nearby. Might give their subjects ideas.

Mutta jonkun toisen hyvä on jonkun toisen paha. Jos joku ajaa voimakasta hierarkiayhteiskuntaa missä ihmisen arvo riippuu hänen paikastaan hierarkiassa, se on tasa-arvoon arvopohjansa nojaavan mielestä pahuutta. Taitaa olla että monet ikivanhat "hyvä/paha" myytit käsittelee juuri tätä.

Yeah seems right up this train of thought. It isn't just that rampant inequality means a dysfunctional society - it is, historically speaking, an existential risk to society as a whole. The negative feedback loop of oligarchy using wealth to accumulate political power to the point of revolution.

For me what Israel is making is more comparable to a colonial war than a racial war of exterminations. Palestinians are in the land that the Israelis want. Palestinans are resisting loosing their land, so they must be destroyed. The more Palestinians resist, the more brutal the colonial war must be