They did indeed, which is sort of the point you’re missing. Now you’re letting Israel dictate your messaging by supporting its use, bad plan.

If you want to help Israel, make an anti-Israel message that conflates Israel and Judaism (or just appears to), that’s their entire gambit right now, and it shields them by making anti-Israel messages trigger racism alarms and get ignored.

The more clearly anti-Israel messaging distances itself from anti-Jewish racism the harder Israel has to work, and combining a Star of David and a swastika is straight up zero effort for them. They probably don’t even need to throw any bot comments into the mix, real people will reach the conclusions they want without any help at all.

Notosans all the things everywhere? It’s a shame, but font users have an ethical duty to not pay these scumbags anything

Seems like they would have to prepare for it more often than it comes, given their predictive models are imperfect, so that makes sense.

Same rule as long running meetings, actually. Could call it the unified law of mandatory snacks.

All else must pay to support the tower of aging population, it will inevitably fall, but we must make it as tall and top heavy as possible, and make the base as thin as we can, all so the fall is as spectacular as possible.

I prefer the monsters locked in cells forever. Not for the monsters sake of course, but for the rest of us. It’s the final proof that we’re better than the worst we could be, if we refuse to ever execute anyone when there’s an alternative. Thankfully they’re rare enough that we can afford to lock them all up and treat them “well”.

Needless to say, execution by fellow inmate isn’t good enough, I want us to be better than that.

On the other hand, fuck that guy, I largely agree with your sentiment, if not the result.

Yeah. Also, this was not the first lawsuit, they had already been ordered to lower their coffee temp and decided to treat the lawsuits as a cost of business. The legal system is often mocked for overly small findings against big business, but in this case McDonald’s was taking the piss a little too blatantly. McDonald’s unsurprisingly did reduce their coffee temps after that, because the damages were finally appropriate to achieve their goal.

Assault is already a generic crime. But random assaults whilst serious are just a form of crime that hurts the country a bit but not a lot (individuals might get badly hurt, but a low level of assaults is just a nuisance from a societal level).

But hate crime is different, hate crimes beget hate crimes, and even a low level can grow rapidly, and once you have a racial/religious/whatever conflict you’re stuck with that for a few generations, so hate crimes are incredibly dangerous for society, so get stomped on very hard.

That’s the theory anyway.

Yeah, that matches my understanding.

Depends on your specific denomination of pro-life. I think some consider even the morning after pill to be a form of abortion.

But yeah, for everyone else it’s a definite win, including the less extremist pro-life crowd.

Tldr: a very hard change to hate, but of course the most hateful people will manage to somehow.

In this country our sewage and drainage are largely combined in the same sewers (we built the system before anyone had the idea of separating them, and now can’t afford to fix it), so hard to believe it could cause any problems, probably just improved the flavour of the broth a little

Serious answer: the actually wealthy are too good at tax dodging, so taxing them is rarely effective, plus they can scare governments by threatening to fly their private jets to some other country if they were actually threatened with effective taxation.

I’ve heard it claimed that the only effective way to run a wealth tax is to do a single massive one off tax with no warning or lead time, that way the cockroaches wealthy can’t run and hide in the woodwork quickly enough.

Words to live by

Is this actual terrorism or just supporting a group that blew up a parked military plane again?

Stealing human remains is illegal, but selling (correctly sourced) human remains is legal.

I think their point is that it’s very hard to prove bones are illegally sourced, meaning they can only prosecute if they’re able to prove the bones were sourced illegally.

If instead it was always illegal to sell human remains (presumably with exceptions for medical/educational purposes), that might make policing them somewhat easier.

An alternate strategy might be to require strict tracking for human remains - you can sell a skull but it must have a certificate listing the full chain back to its original owner (presumably deceased). Failure to retain that chain of custody gets you in legal hot water regardless of how you obtained it. Possibly with a little extra security to prevent duplicate use of legitimate certification. (eg each sale is logged with a trusted 3rd party so you can’t keep claiming that every skull you sell is the same guy until one of them gets inspected, forcing you to find a new legitimate doner to act as cover).

Technically it’s nothing to do with Palestine itself, you can protest that fine.

The issue is the group Palestine action, which the gov declared a terror group because they wrecked some military planes, and we have a law forbidding the support for declared terror groups.

An overreaching dumb law applied badly as a way to overreach even further. I admit this is not much better than arresting Palestine protestors directly, it’s a pretty thin cover…

Fair point, after some googling I see I was significantly overestimating ais impact despite your comment previous comment, my bad.

It currently is negligible. Depending on how long this hype train lasts it may stop being negligible. Coal is on the decline. Private jets and careless billionaires are growing problems, but not as fast as ai. All need handling one way or another.

Realpolitik perspective defeating the nazis still feels like a good long term investment for Britain (though admittedly at enormous cost). We lost our empire, but we prevented a pan Europe empire forming right next to us. A united Europe with an expansionist bent would be the biggest threat to Britain I can imagine. Even if they left us alone for a while they’d surpass in capability once they had a chance to rebuild from the war, and at some point they’d start pushing their weight around, and we’d lose our empire then presumably they’d gobble us up on their way to a squabble with the US or something.

We won ww2 to keep Europe separated.

From the same perspective, brexit was a real blunder: a united Europe and we’re sat on the sidelines waiting to see what they do next? And now the Russians are forcing them to arm up and work together, we’ve practically recreated the lose scenario of ww2, admittedly with less nazis (which I admit is a pretty major win).

Edit to repeat: this is the realpolitik perspective, my real view is that the empire loss was a win for the world in general, the Nazis were a threat to humanity in general and that the EU is a really good neighbour to have, but it’s fun to look at things from the Machiavellian perspective occasionally.

Right, but to be fair Britain had no access to the nazi leaderships’ private writings at the time, and really couldn’t be sure if they felt that way, and we can’t be sure the nazis might have changed their minds in the face of a meeker and weaker British response.

So overall, I think perhaps the British response was pretty close to forced out, despite the theoretical full knowledge scenario of coexistence.