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I wonder what her point was? Is she saying that life in Dubai is easier because there’s people taking care of things, despite nobody paying income tax? Or is she irritated that we don’t use slave labour to take care of society’s basic necessities?
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Personal envoy from Biden is my guess. Perhaps about Putin winning in Ukraine? Or trump winning in the US? Or Israel going rogue? Or China invading Taiwan?
Could also be aliens. I wouldn’t be surprised at this point, this reality show is making less sense with each season.
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I can’t figure out if some of the posts on this the last week are parody.
User Hippy definitely spent some time at the rubbish tip though.
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The cruelty is the point.
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Best to sell on if possible. No telling when the bubble will pop.
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Stay with stainless. A poorly sealed hub will let grit in, eventually destroying ceramic bearings if that’s what you’re thinking.
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you don't cut the hand that feeds you?
Modern day investment and corporate attitudes seem happy to bite, cut, draw, and quarter the hand that feeds them, if it means they get a slightly larger reward in the short term. Sadly, there’s loads of other hands to move on to.
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Odd hill indeed. I partially agree but I think it’s done without malice by most people who just like the name. That said, that’s not an excuse to avoid changing a potentially racist cultural habit, so it’s worth examining.
I think some dog owners don’t consider dogs as inferior beings in the way that would make it insulting to give them a foreign human name; I do understand how it could be offensive: Mohammed is a good example, or perhaps Jehova.
The slight knee jerk reaction it provokes is interesting because it appears there is a line somewhere, but it’s unclear where.
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Dead Whistleblower’s claims were pretty shocking. Production managers and workers kept raiding the scrap bins for parts they needed, so he installed a locked cage. People kept getting in, so he changed the lock, so corporate had 200 copies of the key made and distributed.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68534703.amp
What’s the likelihood the garbage parts were carefully labelled and the reason for them failing QA was documented and accessible? Literally anything could be wrong with the part, it’s in a scrap bin, from the looks of it. Will it fail immediately, or at 60% of its life expectancy? Who knows!
Unconscionable, putting parts on a plane like that.
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Another Boeing plane in the news now, after losing a panel at some point between now and who knows when: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna143686
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Website has been picked nearly clean. Well done folks. Still a few Assos bits in XS and XL to be had.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/15/business/boeing-787-dreamliner-cockpit-seat-latam.html
Too early to confirm but possibly a flight attendant closing a switch cover on one of the pilots’ seats may have pushed the seat/pilot into the steering column, causing a sudden dive.
Pretty poor design by Boeing, not properly covering the switch. It’s especially telling that it was identified as a possible hazard 7 years ago. 1 person is in critical condition (age undisclosed), 11 others were hospitalised, and dozens of others were injured. Unlikely it was an air pocket.
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From my own experience working with (not for) the UN and studying its origins, imo they’re a prime example of organisational scope creep. Too much crap and complexity attached to what is at its core a very valuable forum, for all sorts of reasons.
Their main mission is to prevent another world/large war, and on that front they’re doing ok. We probably would have had a war during the Cuban missile crisis if there hadn’t been a forum like the UN.
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Cats have better sight at twilight and better motion vision than us.
But our colour vision is better.
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videos of Israeli soldiers wearing Hijabs and pretending to be Palestinian Doctors/nurses, claiming in Arabic with their thick, pharyngal, Hebrew accents (unlike Levantine Arabic) that Hamas have a base or took over their hospital.
I recall an assassination where the Israeli hit team dressed as medical staff to kill a few hospitalised, alleged Hamas fighters (who were asleep, but I digress). I haven’t seen or heard of a video with what you’re mentioning.
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Casual chat on the ground, apparently. Will need to wait for official report by Chilean aero agency to find out what really happened.
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Undibs.
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Could be.
It’s hearsay, but one passenger interviewed by a few newspapers claims the pilot told them the gauges went blank and they suddenly lost control of the plane.
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Why do you keep replying to my posts
The hope to convince you or other readers that Israel has agency and its choices are its own. It’s just choosing to inflict catastrophic suffering on exponentially more people than those who had anything to do with Oct 23, and those choices will ultimately harm Israel more profoundly. Don’t worry, with the lack of any meaningful discussion I’ve now become bored of it.
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Afaik, the prisoners at Guatanano Bay are there because the USA regards them as unlawful enemy combatants, not because they are terrorists.
Which itself is an unfortunate legal theory leveraged purely to justify black sites, indefinite detention without representation or right of appeal, and effectively outlawing people post 9/11. Sadly it wasn’t challenged strongly enough at the time to do away with the ridiculous notion.
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Did you make a point with your word salad? I can't find one.
Ok let me rephrase it for you. In response to:
Hamas (…) they're an army with a military strategy. That strategy is the controlling factor in current events. It dictates what the Israeli military does. It has to be the logical starting point for how we think about all aspects of the problem, from starving children to a future solution.
It doesn’t matter what Hamas does or doesn’t do, it doesn’t give Israel an exception to break with its obligations under international law. Disproportionate harm to civilians, collective punishment, indiscriminate attacks, wanton destruction of civilian infrastructure, forced displacement of peoples, the list of forbidden miseries goes on and on. Israel unilaterally agreed to avoid ever doing anything from that list, no exceptions, but their ongoing decisions since Oct 23 have given many people cause to believe that they are doing at least some of them, which Israel itself agreed would be illegal.
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sometimes folks don’t seem to realise the meaning of what they’re saying
Oh please. Of course I realise the meaning.
You clearly don’t because otherwise you’d see the myriad contradictions in the points you’ve been trying to make, including but not limited to points expounded on a decade ago: https://www.unescwa.org/sites/default/files/pubs/pdf/palestine-occupation-fourth-geneva-convention-facts-figures-english.pdf
It’s unclear what legal ruling you’re referring to, but literally the whole idea behind a legal ruling is that it be binding. If you disagree with a ruling, you can argue through the proper channels, and any other disagreement is moot.
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What is going on with Boeing these days? First the door plug incident, now a 787 dropping in the air unexpectedly and hard enough to smash unsecured passengers into the ceiling (not roof).
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They're not terrorists
Yikes.
Quite. I know it’s a bike/kitchen forum and not a law school, but sometimes folks don’t seem to realise the meaning of what they’re saying.
LFGSS
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of fixed gear and single-speed cyclists.
Conveniently leaves slave labour or rivers of oil money out of the equation.