I know that sentence seems absurdly light but it’s important to remember that in England, there’s a lot of precedent for rich perverts being treated differently. It’s a major part of their history, second only to paying those perverts rent with eels.
Is there a UK Lawyers group for every place the UK’s colonial legacy has resulted in seemingly endless conflicts or just Israel?
Dude, I love China and its people and have been there several times. I obviously don’t approve of everything but some of the funniest, most kindhearted people on Earth are in China. I’m not sure there’s a place on Earth I’d rather have a meal with some regular citizens.
But just follow The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Taipei can be wrong too. But those laws took like centuries of stupid wars and, ultimately, diplomacy, to establish. Even if you want to change them, it’ll require diplomacy and cooperation, not hosing down some Filipino fishermen.
I don’t care what his background is, if a guy who looks like Boris Johnson tried to sell me uranium, I’d call security and ask how he got into the building.
I’ll never forget during COVID when I learned Denmark had more mink than people and had to do a cull and it went very poorly. I assumed Denmark was a pretty normal place and then one day, they were like, “OK, so we have 17 million mink.” Like, what the fuck?
It was like finding out your seemingly most normal friend runs a Pokémon card funded crime syndicate that smuggles mini ponies or something where you’re like, “I’m not mad yet. I’m confused. But I reserve the right to be mad. What were you doing with 17 million mink?”
I hope I’m not being too cynical but I suspect Israel’s largest police union is going to have to arrest Netanyahu for there to be a ceasefire/hostage deal. He definitely seems like he’s clinging to power to avoid jail and if the negotiators come to an agreement, he’ll tack on additional demands until it’s unacceptable and then blame Hamas for the deal collapsing.
I found tons of copper in my neighbors’ A/C units. There’s no shortage.
When I studied International Affairs we were assigned a book called “The Road to Dayton: A Study in American Statecraft” about the Dayton Accords ending the Bosnian War. Richard Holbrooke and Warren Christopher weren’t the only players, obviously, but I remember it being excellent for the time.
I went to college a long time ago so I have no idea if the book is still relevant. But there’s even a Simpsons joke where Homer is afraid Bart is gay and Moe says, “Time was, you send a boy off to war. Shootin’ a man’d fix him right up. But there’s not even any wars no more—Thank you very much, Warren Christopher.”
In retrospect, it was all very September 10th but we used to actually end wars. Probably sounds crazy to young people but it’s true. There used to be peacetime where joining the military just meant you trained and maybe went to Germany or something.
There are no reliable narrators. This is wisdom, not logic, but you have to find your own truth. Even particles have Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle. There’s always uncertainty.
It’s not necessarily bad logic. If a regular at a dive bar says someone drinks too much, it’s probably a sign that person drinks way too much. If a college kid tells you an all-you-can-eat buffet sucks, it’s probably not secretly delicious.
Trump (like his diaper) is always full of shit so him calling someone corrupt wouldn’t mean anything. It’s not about logic; it’s about whether the narrator is reliable or not.
“Lawless” in the sense that mining companies support them and are the ones laundering the products. It’s not like they’re smuggling manganese to U.S. addicts like fentanyl.
Thank you for the correction and extra info. It’s a ridiculous moral panic at any time but it’s even more ridiculous at an Olympics where no one is trans, everyone is a genetic outlier, and someone is actually doping.
She was suspended for naturally high testosterone levels by the IBA, a governing body that has since itself been suspended and had it’s recognition revoked due to corruption scandals. (Imagine what it takes for the famously corrupt IOC to say, “No, that’s too corrupt.”) No matter how you want to define gender, biological sex, identity, etc., she’s a woman. She’s just a freak athlete and that’s what the Olympics are about. No one would be all up in arms if her hands had a naturally high score on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness. You’d put on your gloves and catch her topaz-hard hands.
One point of failure can’t possibly result in a catastrophe.
I have no idea if that framing is outrage bait — like, who gives a shit about hideous industrial blight when people’s homes and a national park are being destroyed — but also, what horrors are unleashed when an oil pipeline meets a wildfire? It sounds like it’d be pretty fucking bad.
Also, I get protecting the waste treatment plant. Firemen have it hard enough without having to trudge through actual hot shit. (And it might be flammable too. I do my best to avoid learning what happens after a toilet gets flushed.)
TL/DR: I’m totally ignorant of what happens when oil and shit meet fire but I’m guessing it’s bad.
What’s the “Iraq treatment”? The U.S. spending a trillion dollars to create enough instability for something like ISIS to emerge?
Don’t forget that it’s essentially owned by the Falun Gong cult/religion. The Washington Times is similarly run by a cult/religion (the Unification Church aka Moonies).
The line between cult and religion is obviously blurry so I’ll leave it as an exercise to the reader to form their own opinions on Falun Gong and Unification Church.
It’s because they don’t use the same wireless networks as phones and have like a 96h battery life. That’s why hospitals give them to doctors. And plenty of people still use walkie-talkies because they work (within a certain range) even when nothing else does.
Also, the pager companies are still in business mostly because of the pucks you get at a restaurant that buzz when your table or food is ready. “Obsolete” tech that’s dirt cheap can sometimes hang around for niche use cases.