FriendOfDeSoto

We must hang out in very different circles then.

I don't think it will be a big win for the Palestinians. One reason why this hasn't happened in the past is that there is no reliable, functional government in place that governs over all of the territory. You had Hamas in Gaza and the PLO in most of the West Bank and they don't see eye to eye. This hasn't changed. It will be difficult for these established governments to cooperate with a a fractured non-functional one so the benefits for the Palestinian people will only be patchy and homeopathic.

So I fear recognizing a Palestinian state is actually an impotent, diplomatic gesture - like: "we see what's going on there, it's horrible, and we don't have the resolve to do anything else to bring Israel back to the status quo ante." It's finger wagging at Israel more than actual support for the Palestinians. It's a gesture that can easily be reversed as well, like the orange one moving the US embassy to Jerusalem. And I think that's why these announcements of recognition fall on very deaf ears in Tel Aviv. It's political theater for the audiences in the countries whose governments have announced this. "Look, we are doing something! (But we're doing not that much really, we could do other things as well, isolate the Israeli government and/or cut it off palpably from necessary economic and military supply chain support. But we won't. It's a complicated conundrum, that Middle East. And we're not quite ready to jeopardize the existence of Israel over this.)"

Become active in your local politics. That's where this urban design sausage is made. I'm gonna go ahead and doubt that your post here will reach many decision makers and urban designers.

The reason why you can't angle that parasol is because it will cost more money. Anything the public can use will be abused and then broken. We cannot have nice things.

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I think it is hard though, legislatively, as the RTBF already proves. It's a terribly vague set of rules that put search engines in the position where they have to evaluate a claim and then sit in judgement over it with little to no oversight and then only a public form of objection if this somehow ends up in a court. This is not a good process. Adding more reasons to use a bad process doesn't sound like a great idea regardless of how well intentioned they are.

An issue I see are massive Streisand effects. One is occurring if you need to take a Google to court for not following up on your RTBF claim. Nobody really cared about your drunk driving incident from 2019 until you fill the headlines with your court proceedings. Now everybody knows. The other is this: let's say Roberta became Robert. Calling him Roberta would be dead naming him. But if every time I framed it as "Robert Streisand (known until 2023 as Roberta Streisand)" I'm merely stating fact and I don't see how many courts will intervene against that. Why can virtually everybody still dead name Chelsea Manning? Because every time her name was mentioned post transition they added this factual context. So all you will achieve in the end is that all trolls and dickheads will just use the legally defendable boiler plate phrase. And hang a much brighter lantern on the issue.

Just to be clear: I'm not defending anybody deadnaming somebody else. I'm just looking at this issue, the RTBF, and I'm thinking of that road to hell and with what it is paved.

Never accept a pasta served by an "Australian mushroom."

I don't think the people who do the happiness statistic could see past the "forcibly inject" part.

No one here can tell you for sure what's wrong with your cable. So no one can answer if it will be good or bad over time. Slow (normal) charging is better for your battery than fast charging. A wobbly wire might stop and restart the charging process, which might be detrimental to the battery over time.

But it could also be that your port is so clogged up with pocket lint that the contact in your phone is affected and that's why fast charging no longer works. Something could be broken in the brick you use and that's why it won't work any more. It could be that the cable was bent so many times it's broken. It's probably that.

You could try to narrow down where the error lies. If you use a friend's cable does the same thing happen? Friend's fine-working cable in your power brick? If you got a phone repair kiosk in your neighborhood, maybe ask them if they could clean your port. If they're friendly, they can probably help you narrow down this problem also.

I think it's safe to say these thoughts weren't necessarily factored in in the first beliefs in reincarnation. A lot of this stuff is about thinking horizons. If you don't know about the vastness of space, you think everything happens around you. So you must be reborn close as well. And then the universe is being revealed (still) bit by bit. If your science isn't great, you could be forgiven for thinking the world is 6000 years old and maybe created in a week. But then your horizons broaden and there is a lag in how the new knowledge filters into these established belief systems. So if you tried to argue logically about a reincarnation system, yes, it would be likely that you could become a rock near a supermassive black hole or a slug on a planet far, far away just as much as an ant on Earth (depending on how you fared in life). But logic and belief are natural opponents. I think all the Dalai Lamas were reincarnated on this planet. So that's odd then, isn't it? Doubt lengthens the lag.

If either one says anyways here's wonderwall and launches into the song I'll be ready to shoot them into the sun.

I fear as the number n of the repeated day approaches infinity, any day would be horrible to have to relive again. And again. And again.

If your approach at dating hasn't materialized in anything, perhaps it is time to change your approach. For me, the best things happened when I wasn't trying at all. Be social, be courteous, be nice - and as the owner of a penis: non-threatening.

You have self identified a problem of anxiety. If your next step is to criticize all "females" as being difficult in terms of dating, you're missing a beat here and making a bad word choice. The problem may be more of a you-problem than a them-problem. Also, no matter the primary sexual organ situation, people can pick up on both an air of entitlement or the scent of desperation.

Also, all cicadas shout for sex but not every cicada gets laid.

If there is no checking in place, like an airport security check and/or check for devices emitting radio waves. Also, the producers know where the candidates are at, don't they? If they spot regular drone flights in the area, I think the game will be up as well.