I was going to use communities as my examples due to the relatively small size of each, but decided country was a better metaphor due to each instance’s ability to fully control their own rules or “laws”, where as communities in the real world are usually beholden to the higher laws of their countries.

No, each instance is more like a country with it’s own laws, and trade agreements with other countries to share or block content.

so does the fetus technically not have a skeleton before then?

The cartilaginous pre-bones would still be a skeleton. Sharks have skeletons, but don’t have any bones for example.

I myself don’t want to live in Montreal, but I do enjoy a visit once in a while.

Protein expression falls under biochemistry, and you need to grow cells for that.

Don’t forget putting your samples in the incubator and waiting overnight for cells to grow.

They won 60% of the seats in parliament with only 40% of the voted. I fucking hate first past the post elections.

The provincial conservatives where I live are trying their best to destroy that universal healthcare. It’s rather infuriating.

Not useless, surgical masks reduce spread by more than 50% so far as I recall. Not perfect, but not useless.

Nope, because you fail to understand how Israel denying the movement of aid into Gaza would be a bad look for them.

And Netanyahu is still a piece of shit who needs to be removed form power, but not for allowing aid into Gaza.

Now before you continue your mental circlejerk

Pot, meet kettle.

Money is considered aid, always has been.

And now you have an even worse humanitarian crisis, and a pissed off international community because you’ve denied aid to Gaza. Congrats, you’re a terrible world leader.

But unlike sending food, it is non-perishable, and can allow a country to buy what it needs. Money is aid.

Money is aid. Money can buy food, and water, and whatever other supplies a state needs.

Given the thousands of rockets fired at Israel by Hamas from Gaza every year, the international community is understanding of a blockade being put in place.

Denying the passage of aid across that blockade however would be seen as far worse.

And the current air-strikes are a result of a large scale attack against Israel, so they are seen by many as justified. Though you can see most of the world now sees Israel as going too far. Thus proving that Israel can only get away with so much before their allies drop off.

Of course they lobbied not to sanction Qatar. Once again how would it look to the world if Israel worked to deny aid to Palestine?

And I never said Netanyahu was a swell guy, he needs to be removed from power as well as Hamas.

It wasn’t Israel funds being smuggled in, it was Qatari funds. And how would it have looked if Israel blocked official Qatari aid to Gaza?

Mythbusters found it makes no difference in the spread of fecal matter. Toilet lids aren’t perfect seals.

Yep, Bing is pretty solid as far as search engines go.

For someone like OPs mom it would be more than good enough is my point. She’s saying she wished something existed that does indeed exist.