Am I allowed to steal the chatroom analogy?
Am I allowed to steal the chatroom analogy?
You fail to realize that this is the most meaningful action that the UN General Assembly can take against the US on this matter. The UNGA can be very effective in facilitating international cooperation and settling minor disputes but really has no tools in its arsenal to meaningfully effect action to stop something like this.
I can hopefully demonstrate this by asking you what lever(s) the UN can pull to actually directly address this. Before you say “send aid!”, they are. And before you point to something like its past military intervention in Korea, be fully aware that that’s not at all applicable here: the US has a permanent seat on the Security Council and therefore absolute veto power; the only reason the UN was able to intervene in Korea was because the USSR didn’t use their Security Council veto; and the US is not capable of being directly matched militarily by any nation on Earth, let alone in their home waters. And before you say “sanctions”, well I’ll give you one guess what organ of the UN controls sanctions.
It’s still worth voting to show the basically unanimous agreement. 187–2–1 (with one of the ‘Against’ being the US itself) is a clear expression of overwhelming disapproval – to an extent that even I, a US citizen who supports lifting the restrictions, didn’t know how pervasive and long-lasting it’s been until seeing this. It forecloses on any sort of bullshit argument that “that was then, this is now” or that it wasn’t like that for some period of time or whatever. And it showcases the complete abdsurdity that no country on Earth except the US itself and what’s effectively a US protectorate actually thinks there’s any merit to this policy.
For what it’s worth, it’s actively strengthened my already strong resolve that this policy is insane.
Oh yeah, to be clear, no disrespect to people who use trucks routinely for their intended purpose.
Up to you if you want to adopt this, but I’ve taken to calling those tiny, useless afterthoughts tacked onto modern trucks “vestigial beds”.
A truck is a tool
Nah, that’s usually the person driving it.
OP, The Sun is one of the trashiest rags on the face of this Earth. Your best option regardless of their ad practices was always to stay well away from them.
If you care about having your taxpayer-funded weather accessible without going through a private, corporate middleman, you should never use AccuWeather.
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This sounds like “I want developers’ lives to be a living hell if they ever decide to overhaul their UI.”
Congress needs to give the FDA the power to regulate supplements goddamn yesterday.
Haha, yup, you’re right; had a brain fart.
Parents killing reaping their zombie children was a favorite one of mine.
Yahoo! News is an aggregator like MSN (and has very few original articles), and thus the quality varies widely based on the source. Here it’s some outlet called TCD.
This image isn’t reCAPTCHA, but since it’s still relevant, here you go:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/buster-captcha-solver/
Yeah, I gotta say, I’m against Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, but I’m still confused about why the OP article is clearly using scare quotes for the name of an internationally recognized state.
Betteridge’s law of headlines in shambles.
Your daily reminder that DDG also has an infinite scroll option under its settings. (Seriously, DDG’s Settings menu is so good.}
True. See WP:NOT and WP:CON for some idea of how this whole thing works.