“If I should die, think only this of me: that there’s some corner of a foreign field that is forever England,”

Even their poetry was imperial and expansionist. Oh well, at least this gives me some context for that Roger Waters song.

Yes, that’s exactly how it works. It just seems normal because it’s on Law and Order, but threatening people with prison is coercive.

You’re gonna have to explain how a public defender has the power to jail anyone. Prosecutors coerce people to take deals thousands of times every day. Not only is that legal, and normal, the system would collapse without it.

Or is this Lemmy being pro-war?

Supporting Ukraine’s violent resistance is not pro-war any more than shooting a robber in your home is pro-crime.

These laws don’t make BDS illegal, they make it so that businesses who contract with the state must not engage in BDS. This is a common tactic (usually employed by the left) to push business to do what they want, often when a law requiring it would be unconstitutional.

An example of this is preferential contracting to businesses owned by poc.

Also, I’d argue that the popularity of these anti-BSD measures have nothing to do with their effectiveness.

which comes from the same family as Ebola and has a fatality rate of nearly 90 per cent.

The Telegraph

The average fatality rate is around 50 per cent, with rates varying from 24 per cent to 88 per cent in past outbreaks depending on the strain of the virus and quality of medical care.

Also the Telegraph

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/what-deadly-marburg-virus-symptoms-causes-vaccines/

For some people, “war crimes” isn’t a legal theory, but a moral outrage. In this case, they’ve painted themselves into a corner because Joe Biden is already fully responsible for genocide, so adjudicating a few war crimes seems petty and irrelevant.

Never mind that a conflict in the same time-zone as Israel, energy infrastructure is a primary target for both sides.

Hezbollah are actual terrorists and proxies of Iran. There is no way any sane person can side with them.

IDK what you mean by “actual terrorist” or “proxy”. Would it include an organization labeled “terrorist” by the U.S. And the U.K.? Maybe people who planted bombs in the King David hotel? Maybe it would be working hand in glove with a criminal regime to terrorize innocent people? OK because what I just described is an organization called Irgun led by a fellow called Menachem Begin, or the 6th prime minister of Israel. (he was in charge when Israel invaded Lebanon if that helps narrow it down.)

This isn’t a whataboutism, but a refutation to the single-digit fallacy that the terrorists are only on one side.

I’m getting really sick of the “conventional wisdom” that government is inefficient and wasteful when compared to private industry. Medicare for example can provide more healthcare per dollar than any private insurer despite subsidizing that industry.

Profit and marketing are inefficiencies because they add cost but no value.

Remember that movie where in the future all restaurants were Taco Bell? Well the real future, all public services are police.

What toppings? Are we talking fresh Moz? White sauce? This is very important.

I hope he does run: for inmate trustee of the month.

There has been a lot of coverage about how state Republican organizations have been taken over by MAGA. The result has been incompetence, mismanagement, and an alienation from the “elites” who we used to call the “donor class”.

I’m too old to be optimistic, but Trump sure looks like the leader of a loosing campaign.

Meanwhile, Putin is going to visit Twitter (formally X) to thank all the people who are helping his war effort.

Too many innocents go to jail behind false arson accusations. You never know if the building was into it at the time, but then felt ashamed later and cried arson. And then it’s just your word against the fire investigators. Just the accusation can destroy your reputation, no trial or nothing.

This isn’t a rule. Some bureaucrat was mistaken.

The same thing happened to another girl a couple weeks ago.

If you read the article, this is minor plagiarism. Four sections, of about 2 paragraphs each have been shown to be copied. However, the content copied were factual: dates and definitions, not ideas or the thesis. It’s reasonable that all of this is explained by the bad sourcing of an ameture author.

He’s so transparent. The internal polling must be showing him getting murdered among women, prob worse than the national polling shows.

That or he’s just stung by the implications of being unpopular with women.

FYI: Defibrillators don’t start the heart, they stop it.

The heart doesn’t stop in many heart attacks. Instead it just beats erratically and in a way that doesn’t pump blood well. Shocking the heart to stop it (what a defib does) causes the nerve cells to “reboot” and start beating regularly again.

Shocking a victim who’s heart has stopped is useless and automatic defibrillators won’t go off until they’ve detected the arrhythmia.