Fair enough. You aren’t wrong. I think we’re just concerned with different points here, which is fine.

If that were true, there would be a carve out in the provision for the use of gasses with transient effects, like cs gas. There is none. Just the opposite, there is a carve out for their use against civilians, but they are prohibited in warfare.

Many other countries do not use CS gas in warfare due to the CWC (Australia, Canada, Greece, India, Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, etc. - there are a lot). https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v2/rule75 => pulls provisions from the laws of various countries as well as combat manuals detailing the usages of riot control gasses and their various rationales.

The US chooses not to interpret the CWC as banning riot control gasses for war, that is a minority position and the US gets away with it like it does many breaches of international law. The US uses riot control gas weapons against civilians… liberally and in a way that most of the world would see as police brutality. It’s use is on the rise globally, but it has been used extremely widely by US cops for a long time and in problematic ways.

If it is used to disperse dangerous protests as a deterrant to advance, sure, I get it. But that is not how it is typically used by US cops. In the US cops have killed a number of people by firing tear gas cannisters at them from close range. They deploy tear gas in the middle of crowds causing panic and the risk of stampede deaths/crowd surges. They deploy tear gas behind crowds causing them to move toward police. They deploy tear gas in situations that do not warrant it, on peaceful protests that may involve at-risk people. They use tear gas in enclosed spaces, increasing the risk of death due to respiratory distress.

Human rights groups have noticed this pattern of behavior by cops in the US and increasingly globally. You can find dozens of articles and studies by the CFC, ACLU, Red Cross, Amnesty International, Physicians for Human Rights, etc. It is a majority position among human rights groups that these agents should be banned or heavily restricted.

https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/HRBodies/CCPR/LLW_Guidance.pdf#2006362_E_inside.indd:.7975:1077

In response to a comment saying that it’s torture, me stating that it’s banned for use in war by the geneva convention?

Well, connecting the dots there, that if it’s too dangerous/painful/not controllable for warfare, it probably shouldn’t be allowed to be used on masses of civilians expressing their rights.

UNLOADS

Fun fact: Tear gas is banned by the Geneva Convention as a weapon of war under the chemical weapons provision, but it’s a-ok for use on civilians by law enforcement.

oh how the turn tables

EDIT: Thanks for the gold, kind stranger!

Also, even if you do pull over somewhere safe and put your hazards on, drive slowly, maybe call 911 to confirm it’s a real cop if the car looks weird, etc. the cop may freak out on you. It’s been known to happen.

I really don’t think original buldak noodles are very spicy at all. Like, I can feel it, but it isn’t what I would consider to be very spicy. They also don’t taste good, though. Like 3/10 spiciness.

Typical buffalo sauce or name brands like tabasco, cholula, etc. are not noticeably spicy to me.like 0/10 spiciness.

I have a decent spice tolerance, but I also don’t enjoy eating super spicy things “just because”. I want my food to actually taste good. Being able to eat spicy food lets me taste more flavor in hot peppers, but there’s zero point in eating really spicy stuff just to prove you can, imo.

Yeah it was his kid’s “career fair” day at school so he wanted something representative to show them

No it’s: D U M M Y W I T H O U T W H Y

Don’t jump to conclusions just yet. Epstein had lots of ties to people. Not all of them are pedos. Look at the actual correspondence they had, there isn’t anything incriminating except the mere association with him.

And additionally, looking at the emails he actually sent and received from Epstein, they seem totally innocuous. Until I see actual evidence of wrongdoing, I’m going to withhold judgement. None about anything untoward, just literally stuff about politics and linguistics. Chomsky seemed to be corresponding with a similar rushed tone like he does in other correspondence - man answers a lot of emails.

By contrast, Trump has many accounts of sexual harrassment and assault perpetrated by him, lots of circumstantial evidence tying him to the shady side of Epstein’s dealings, etc.

My wife is on the ace spectrum. She enjoys sex, but only experiences reactive sexual desire (i.e. she’ll get in the mood once sex is basically already happening). Effectively she does not experience sexual desire in the way people typically mean that.

That’s been a struggle for us. We don’t do scheduled sex, but it’s something we’ve considered. Even though we have very good (if infrequent) sex, the frequency isn’t the thing that’s hard for me to deal with. The hardest thing is not feeling desired in ways I am used to in relationships. That has made me feel insecure and just overall is not great. But it’s something we’ve had to work through.

So all that goes to say: yes, if you find the right person you’ll be able to make it work. The key, in my opinion, is talking about it and being very clear about how you’re wired and that it isn’t anything wrong with them.

Well sure. CEOs’ main job is to coordinate the functions of major business units with the wishes of shareholders/the board of directors. Ultimately they’re a middleman on the hook for the results of the business without actual direct control of day to day operations.

Effectively that means they give broad goals and direction to named execs, who translate those goals into actions for their organizations, that middle managers direct their teams to achieve. Then middle managers report success/failure to named execs, who report back to the CEO who (in conjunction with the other named execs) reports success/failure to shareholders & the board.

The execs all are basically on the hook for the results of the decisions made by those below them, but they only decide the broad strokes of the actions of the business.

LLMs could do most of that. The only problem is they can’t really make decisions properly. But they cpuld pretty easily turn what is said by the board & shareholders into goals for others to enact - and maybe determine if actions taken by the business support the goals to some degree.

That is like 80% of the job of a CEO.

US does mulled wine, but it’s more of a general winter thing. More common up north in areas with more northern european influence, I think. Mince pies aren’t really a thing, though, which is a shame.

Sounds like he wants a hush money payment. We’ll see how it works out for him…

很酷！很多的人也很多的我的朋友 from my hometown & childhood 和你一样来自中国。我喜欢能看到 the etymology in a 汉子。

I wish 我的中文是足够好 to understand 中文 TV. 老师小猪佩奇不是有趣的。

我正在学习中文。中文很难！

I took a break from learning Chinese for a while due to personal stuff being busy and am trying to get back into it. Chinese is a very logical language, I think, and learning it is fun and interesting but challenging. I was just about HSK1 level, I think, before I stopped. I gotta boot up peppa pig in mandarin again - 你好小猪佩奇老师，我是你的学生！

Yeah. Autopens have been used for like… 150 years or something? And they involve the president actually authorizing the signature, whereas Stephen Miller or some aide or somebody is just copying and pasting this shit on random documents

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcSf9cqphx-PbOVujJojhQgFBCPEE7LQ7lhzBz-m0BcVEg&s=10

1. take your open chip bag

2. fold the top of the bag down about 2cm/1in. Do this 2 more times.

3. take the corners of the rolled part and fold them toward the middle of the rolled part at an angle

4. the tricky part. We are going to invert the cuff we’ve made - like flip the rolled part inside out. Push those corners in and flip the rolled part over them.