How I love the tag feature!

See you around!

Good strategy, use few words to keep people guessing if you’re that dimwitted, or just being paid per post by your masters.

God forbid you try to explain yourself and confirm which one it is.

What?

The government is doing its job, protecting consumers from predatory and monopolistic practices, and you’re crying “oh no, the poor billionaires”??

Ok that’s one fucked up family. Out of all of them, god only saw fit to smite one of them? Sheesh.

Well the article says that

the brother of a man who died without children is permitted and encouraged to marry the widow. However, if either of the parties refuses to go through with the marriage, both are required to go through a ceremony known as halizah, involving a symbolic act of renunciation of their right to perform this marriage.

So, permitted and encouraged, but not forced into it. Except by god it seems.

To add to this, the most closely related passage in the bible is in Genesis 38, where this guy Onan was ordered to have children with his brother’s widow so the child could inherit his brother’s estate.

This seems to me a bit outside your usual family obligations, and so did the guy because while he engaged in sexual intercourse, he “spilled his seed” on the ground to avoid fulfilling this familial duty.

God didn’t think much of that and killed him on the spot.

The tale is usually linked more to the “sin” of contraception, but it seems like a much more pragmatic story: it’s best you knock up your brother’s widow than have everyone start a war over the spoils.

I swear I saw the post and it had brave as #1 app and not it’s gone. I mean, good, but still…

To explain this joke: velocity is a vector quantity, so it has a magnitude (speed) and a direction, which mom failed to indicate, shame on her.

It is the rejection of exploitation of animals as far as is possible and practicable, as per the vegan society’s definition.

I’m sure individual opinions can differ and that others might hold more restrictive views, but like you said, in extreme circumstances people would probably not judge, we’re in agreement 🤝

Applying ethics isn’t saying that it’s unethical.

I’m making this distinction because the post he’s replying to said they “only applied ethics to their equals or betters”, which is appalling: it’s not even concluding that something bad is ethical, it was just outright denying that ethics even applied to “lesser beings”.

Regarding your point, I think it’s widely consensual that killing for sustenance, if no other choices exist, is ethical - even vegans agree with this, and by nature, they don’t tend to agree with much (haha joke, calm down vegans!).

Where it gets more debatable is killing animals, who are very much capable of suffering and do possess a measure of self awareness and intelligence, when alternatives exist.

Do explain then.

Edit: since he’s not picking up, I’ll raise what I think his point might be.

He sees ethics applying to his equals or betters. In that case, even if a more advanced race comes along, it would still apply to him, because he made himself the measuring stick, so he would oppose torturing of, at least, some humans.

Where our dimwitted friend failed to follow the reasoning is that, if value (in the case, being worthy of ethical concern) is in the eye of the beholder, a more advanced race then would see our dimwitted friend as a lesser animal and butcher him with no qualms.

So if a more advanced alien race came over and started torturing and butchering humans, by your logic you’d be perfectly OK with that.

A well organized drawer or cabinet should still be O(1). It takes at least 2 more steps, assuming you don’t leave them open all the time, but the number of operations doesn’t change depending on the number of clothing items you need to retrieve.

A pile of clothes is faster, but only for a small number of items. As the number of articles pile up, they hide older items and need to be pushed side before the intended article can be found and then retrieved. This is now O(N), and less efficient than just storing things in the proper place…

Nobody on this planet is going to help trump in this war.

It’s a war of aggression with no justification, didn’t they say they bombed the shit out of Iran’s nuclear program a few months back?

Iran is forcing trump to end the war in the cleanest way possible: making gas prices go up in US pumps.

Sure, the rest of the world is going to be suffering from this for years to come, but I can’t even blame Iran, they’re fighting for their lives.

I’m sure there’s videos of that in Epstein’s collection.

We need openWrt for TVs :(

It should.

Had the EU been forceful in its deterrence, Russia would have never looked to Crimea, let alone start a war.

Buy alas, being spineless and weak gets you exploited.

I’m surprised how we’re not seeing Chinese AA systems randomly show up across Iran.

Not officially supplied by China, of course - sold to some neighbour, and mysteriously and “illegally” moved to Iran, along with some Chinese passer-by to monitor the systems performance against real American combat aircraft.

Especially against the F-35s, I assume they’d want to collect data.

It is not the right call. That cedes ground to Russian influence.

The right course of action is to fight back the russian covert ops, expose orban as grossly incompetent and corrupt, and get him replaced with someone who’s actually good for Hungary.

That’s just par for the course, like with emails, slack messages etc, always assume they have access to everything.