And that, it seems to be effectively restraining the worlds most powerful military power.

All forms of retirement are funded by current workers. Social security is just more honest about it. A retired person is still consuming goods and services produced by the working without producing anything themselves.

Israel’s founders didn’t sit down one day and come up with a new form of non-constitutional democracy.

They convened an assembly back in 1949 to draft the constitution; and that assembly simply failed to do so. The plan was to establish the Knesset (parliament), and kick the can of writing a constitution to them. The Knesset also never finished the job, instead passing a patchwork set of basic laws. It wasn’t until 1995, that their Supreme Court unilaterally asserted that basic laws formed a quasi constitution (a position that they did not start entertaining until the early 90s).

It is true that Israel is not the only country that has stumbled into this system. However, it is a small club. Within that club, what sets Israel apart is how young it is. This is not merely a historical curiosity yet. The tensions that prevented them from forming a constitution in the first place are still alive and well. And, they do not have the generations of precedent needed to provide the clarity that a real constitution can.

I did the math for my EV. Even the expensive fast charging station near me came out to be only about 25% of the cost my old ICE car would get for gas on a per mile basis. The slower level 2 chargers typically cost substantially less than that, but are really only worth it if you were going to park in a lot that had them anyway.

Every once in a while, declare peace. It confuses the hell out of your enemies.

-Rule of acquisition #76

Prosecutors are part of the executive branch. The judiciary covers judges and court staff.

There is also supposed to be a separation within the executive branch, but the Supreme Court has ruled that unconstitutional under the unified executive theory.

A bit of a historical correction. Killing all the Jews was never plan A. It was the final solution they came up with after realizing that all other solutions to the Jewish problem were unworkable.

Those solutions included the Haavara Agreement, which facilitated the migration of around 60,000 Jews from Germany to Palestine between 1933 and 1939.

When that program ended, they started talking about the Madagascar plan, which would relocate Jews ton Madagascar; although that plan never got off the ground.

Construction of the death camps wouldn’t begin until 1941, and the Nazis attempted to keep them secret under the guise of being a continuation of the earlier migration programs.

A) No it doesn’t. Where I live, it is entirely legal for a man to enter the women’s bathroom. Nothing to do with transgender folks; it simply is not a crime.

B) The UK has an official “gender recognition certificate” program. If you wanted to draw a line, I would think that individuals with such a certificate would fall on their recognized side of the line; however, under the new standard, a trans women with an official government issued gender recognition certificate is still considered by that same government to be a man for the purposes of using a toilet.

It is not so much that they expect us to be in charge, as it is that we were in charge, then suddenly pulled out without any warning or planning.

Other countries are trying, but the US simply erased the core of the global health system which took decades to build.

We’ve had nasal flu vaccines for decades.

They’ve been working on a vaccine since 2023.

https://www.wired.com/story/a-new-hantavirus-vaccine-is-in-the-works/

The reason we had a covid19 vaccine so quickly was because of all the work that was already done for a vaccine due to prior Coronavirus outbreaks (SARS in 2022, and MERS in 2012, with the latter seeing a resurgence in the past few years).

It does do that. I just had a door to door salesman stop by and ask for my parents. I’m thirty, and have always looked old for my age. Sadly, he still read me as a guy, but I’m still only a few months in.

It is not about who violated the ceasefire. The US is still saying that the ceasefire is holding.

If you don’t have a UPS, just use a suicide cable to energize the circuit while it is disconnected at the breaker.

(/s, if the term suicide cable wasn’t enough of a hint; don’t actually do this)

No one becomes an expert based on their opinions or conclusions. In this case, he became an expert through his Oxford PhD, and subsequent 35 year long (and counting) academic career,

He’s a historian. Looking for causes is kind of his job.

More than that; hospitals are required to provide emergency care to people who cannot pay. This often ends up being more expensive than just providing care before it becomes an emergency; which the rest of us end up paying for in the form of higher costs.

My Hebrew school had a class trip to Israel.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VA8vQorhAE0&pp=ygUUemFwcCBicmFubmlnYW4gdHJ1bXA%3D

The resemblance is uncanny!

North and South America are joined by a thin strip of land that serves as the continent border. Africa and Eurasia are joined by a thin strip that serves as a continent barrier. Europe and Asia have no natural border between them.

The consumable on the US side is interceptors, not missiles. Iran’s ability to land hits goes up dramatically once we are out of them.