ViatorOmnium

Unfortunately much of Trump’s base cares more about their religious idols than they do about people, so this kind of news might actually make a difference for once.

Apparently only atheists read the catechism these days:

2309 The strict conditions for legitimate defense by military force require rigorous consideration. the gravity of such a decision makes it subject to rigorous conditions of moral legitimacy. At one and the same time: - the damage inflicted by the aggressor on the nation or community of nations must be lasting, grave, and certain; - all other means of putting an end to it must have been shown to be impractical or ineffective; - there must be serious prospects of success; - the use of arms must not produce evils and disorders graver than the evil to be eliminated. the power of modem means of destruction weighs very heavily in evaluating this condition.

Vance’s war of choice meets none of the criteria. There was no certain damage (Iran has been “Two Months Away”™ from having nukes for 20 years, and even if they had them doesn’t mean they would use them), negotiations were still officially ongoing, they went in without even having concrete goals let alone a plan to end the war, and then started by bombing a school.

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani says water is wet. Orange Ape with oversized red tie says the smartest people say water is hugely dry. Tune in for the debate where we present the two sides as equivalent.

In this case it looks like on purpose. Making the punchline look like an afterthought is a common humor trope.

The main exception to this is device firmware and operating system images that require them (most visibly for smartphones), but the law in that case focused on demanding 5 years of software updates. IMO it doesn’t go far enough - they should also be forced to publish everything required for the community to pick up the support at EOL - but it’s not being ignored.

I said it before and I’ll it again, the best solution for this is to have a standard API where device admins can optionally set a age group, and that treats an unset value as signalling unrestricted access. This is so simple it’s almost impossible to fuck up, parents get a parenting tool, most people can just ignore it, and big brother can go on a long vacation.

People that wander for a living usually live by a combination of charity and payments for odd jobs. For example, a small farmer might gladly part with some old clothes and provide a few meals and a bed in exchange for help with some tasks, and I’ve heard about people with a preternatural ability to couchsurf from city to city.