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Exceptions are possible. Money isn’t everything for everyone.

It’s based on Hamlet. So Shakespeare, not the bible.

Is the internet scarier?

Or is it just millennials and “internet natives” having kids and more of them knowing better what the internet actually is.

I tell people to imagine a public place with everyone in it, the majority wearing masks or costumes. With constantly recording surveillance. Do you take off your mask.

Sure the mask is not perfect protection, and there are areas off to the side where people seem to not be wearing masks. But go ahead and choose a way to keep your kids safe.

Fl. Oz are actually nothing to do with weight. They are volume.

For each fluid oz. use 30 ml

It’s only approximate but the official measurements for nutrition actually do it in the US so it’s not a real unit anyway anymore.

Hey I’m just checking in with your account status. Definitely just that, not hoping you’ll but anything…

All emails companies send you are designed to get you to spend money.

It’s an ad.

Of course if that ad comes with a discount I might not be unhappy to get it. But if a(n) status message ad comes in reminding me of pizza and it’s on a day they want me to pay full price for dominos. Then I don’t want that message.

Either I’ll feel hungrier or poorer.

Honestly, Zoom just has a hilariously high frequency of vulnerabilities being discovered.

Let’s set the sentence for executing an innocent man to, death.

The first barrier to the death penalty is to make sure verdicts are right 100% of the time.

After that you can begin the debate about **whether it’s moral at all.

Proportional representation does give a minority voice to these people.

It’s the cost of fairness and it is useful to demonstrate minority views are disregarded for no reason other than because they’re the minority.

How’s that FPTP election going? Nice and stable, no extremists likely to overthrow democracy or anything?

So to disappoint. This is a shopped title.

But the real thing isn’t much different.

https://www.discogs.com/release/16531551-Lil-Richard-And-His-Polka-All-Stars-Wine-Girls-And-Goodtimes

Anyway, here’s the title track.

https://youtu.be/dzsAUpeMUog?feature=shared

So to disappoint. This is a shopped title.

But the real thing isn’t much different.

https://www.discogs.com/release/16531551-Lil-Richard-And-His-Polka-All-Stars-Wine-Girls-And-Goodtimes

Anyway, here’s the title track.

https://youtu.be/dzsAUpeMUog?feature=shared

They’re doing similar things to the IDF.

I put them both in the terrorist state category.

Both terrorists, both governments.

You can’t stop a genocide with reason, to commit a genocide you have to dehumanise people, you’re beyond reason.

The only response to genocide is materially affecting the perpetrators. The time for diplomacy stops at atrocities.

Don’t talk to Likud’s supporters about anything. Defund and boycott the country until Likud is not in power.

That requires speaking to the international community and especially American voters to see what effect they can have on the current president.

There are sandwich artists and sanitation engineers. Everyone knows they get paid like crap.

Unfortunately “prompt engineers” seem to be getting paid small fortunes when their job is essentially using a massive amount of computing power to commit various levels of intellectual property theft they hope no one will notice.

There’s a Russian Pravda and a Ukrainian Pravda.

Both extremely partisan. Neither what I’d call reliable sources of news but you’ve probably seen propaganda from both.

Of course the Ukrainian Pravda has literally been able to print facts, unguilded, and they’ve matched what they would say as propaganda anyway so it’s appeared like a reputable news source recently.

That’s what happens when Russia genuinely does things like use chemical weapons (cs gas) banned by the Geneva convention.

(For those wondering, even though cs gas is used in riots the convention bans all gas based weapons as they target indiscriminately and could easily be mistaken for nerve agents by either side. Leading to either accidental use of nerve agents or accidental retaliation with something similarly destructive)

Or when the Russians directly hit a nuclear reactor 3 times.

Meanwhile the Russian Pravda has to manufacture its propaganda, like claiming an Islamic State attack which Islamic State issued video evidence of and claimed was somehow Ukrainian.

People will say it’s not the same as the other Boeing incidents.

They’re right, it’s not.

Unfortunately this is a new normal.

The Federal Aviation Authority has succumbed to regulatory capture. The FAA is no longer capable of protecting American’s from poor design and build quality by American manufacturers, or from poor maintenance by American airlines

The best way to stay safe is to do 2 things:

1. Choose to fly on Aircraft designed and built in Europe recently, or perhaps America before 2007.

The FAA had massive budget cuts after the financial the crisis and even though they were meant to be temporary putting the budget back has been a political football ever since. American Aircraft designed and built since those budget cuts are the problem.

2. Choose an airline that has routes in Europe and not just domestically. That means maintenance is likely to have to comply with a better funded regulatory body in addition to the FAA.

Do one and 2 and you’ll almost certainly be safe. Aircraft design and build will be as safe as we’d come to expect, so will the maintenance.

I’d prioritise 1 if you can’t do both. Even though it seems bad, a well designed aircraft losing a piece like this mid flight isn’t going to bring it down. Even if it’s not good enough to catch things like this I’d expect maintenance by domestic American Airlines to still avoid a crash, even without FAA oversight being effective. If a piece falls off, redundancy or simply the fact it’s not critical to flight means the pilot will be able to simply divert and land. Delays, not deaths.

The problem Boeing has brought in is we’re now flying modern aircraft without redundancy in key systems and structures. The FAA has allowed it. It’s the thing that’s most likely to cause fatal accidents.

Well how is it un-typical?

To be fair, the problem currently is a terrorist attack has been responded to with genocide and that’s still ongoing.

That shouldn’t be out of the news cycle, or even the top story spot.

Anything to pressure the president to actually take action to hault a genocide is worth doing. The threat he might lose an election due to low turn out is real. He can change that before November but the longer he fails to take action, the fewer voters will be willing to look past his delay and inaction.

Just as an interesting point, not to make any judgement,

You aren’t the only one who thought exactly that.

“During the case, when asked why he chose to kill John Lennon, Chapman stated “because he was famous”. Chapman later claimed that he believed Holden Caulfied would have killed John Lennon because he was a “phony”.”

Thanks.

Important to put the blame where it actually lies.

There are 20 fl oz. to a pint

Instead of cups you should use half pints.

There are 8 pints to the gallon.

Unless you specify which pint, gallon then you’re probably wrong anywhere outside the US. Even then you could have to deal with vintage Canadian equipment with imperial labeling.

US Cups are random in measurement and only sometimes half a pint.

The imperial fluid oz. has one value 28.413 ml

The US fl. oz used to be 29.573 ml. But now can officially be 30 ml in some settings.

Metric is the best system, followed by imperial which at least is still a consistent standard.

Then US customary measures where the written value may or may not have to meet a standard these days.

The US has been using metric for everything important for a long time now like the rest of the world. Except the Mars probe NASA crashed.