We’re learning in real time that the ICC and UN are great tools, until they disagree with you, at which point they can be ignored and even threatened.

But, but… Dragging things out forever in court is his only move?

Maybe, it also has symbolic value, and might demoralise the civilian populace, whose support is crucial to the continued state support.

It still seems a weak move as infrastructure should be a more effective target, but who knows how many layers of distractions and attacks of opportunity really happen in the field?

Yes, as the blurb says in the fourth word or so.

Edit: did the math and counted up to the fourth word

I am sure, I can download the gif from the source and play it fine.

Good point, I’m editing now

I’ve gotten sets with nigiri and maki in several cities around Japan. I guess my experience and yours differ.

In my European country you’ll order sushi as nigiri at any cornershop sushi place.

It’s most often sold as a set, where there’s typically 4 pieces of some roll with three ingredients and nori on the outside (but variations are not uncommon).

It’s quite close to what I’ve had in Japan. Although fish quality is very different.

Yeah, and although greedy, maybe not enough to ruffle feathers over.

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I understand that this information is against your internal narrative, but a quick look at data for 2021 shows:

One in two women and one in five men felt unsafe walking alone after dark in a busy public place.

And data from 2022 shows 45% for the same measure.

As for harassment:

2022 - 55% of women 16-34 felt harassed

2021 - Three out of five, 60% felt harassed during the year.

Twice as many women reported being harassed as men, and several reported changing their behaviour because of harassment.

This is also echoed in international studies over multiple cultures. Women are much more often harassed than men, almost exclusively by men, and have more limited freedoms, expressions and rights than men.

This is not controversial, it is well established in study after study, there is an actual right answer to this, and it’s not the one you’re proposing.

How is it that you keep ignoring data when faced with it, and instead of presenting supportive data resort to arguing feelings and whataboutisms?

From the study summary:

Three out of five women aged 16 to 34 years experienced at least one form of harassment in the previous 12 months

Three out of five is 60%.

Did… did you miss the #metoo movement?

Where like 60% of women get harassed regularly, and 50 % felt unsafe walking home in public, due to men. Or 79% of women felt unsafe while exercising, due to men. And 88% of travelling women felt unsafe, due to men.

Bears are hungry, scared, have cubs to protect, or mostly want to be left alone. They won’t stalk you, leer at you, catcall or grope you.

You sir, are the one lacking self reflection.

I’d agree that there are some variation in the European far right. In contrast to Italy, Spain and Russia: German, French, UK, Nordic far right are not restricting abortion, but are doing most of the rest (northern European ones not as much dismantling welfare/healthcare as making it inaccessible to some, especially immigrants, trans, lgbt, etc).

From a European perspective, the US centre-right are more conservative than the European fringe right. The European far right doesn’t (typically) want to restrict abortion, sabotage education or reinstate child labor for example. And are mostly about increasing and militarizing police, disenfranchising minorities, and different schemes to control that only the right people get to vote.

I’d argue that the US centre right is actually as radical, or even more so than the European fringe right, they are certainly causing about the same commotion, but of course have much more power in the US.

The best time to plant a tree was 30 years ago, the second best time is now.

Remember that every lie has consequences for all negotiations.

That Trump regularly turns on a dime and trashes or backs out of any relationship that doesn’t immediately benefit him persinally, means everything from trade negotiations to maintaining army bases becomes much harder.

And/or more easily manipulated as we saw with Saudis, China, and Russia.

There is no lesser evil when it comes to genocide.

This is obviously untrue. If the option a) is genocide and b) is genocide and also dismantling the methods to protest it, methods to oust the decision makers, dismantling national security in resources and relationships, at the same time as blatantly plundering both the pockets of citizens and communal coffers, there’s very obviously a more evil option.

Equivocation and black-white thinking is comfortable, but there are still shades of brown when the shit has hit the fan.

In the best of worlds you wouldn’t be in this situation, now you are, make the better choice.

Yeah, we got people in droves.

Elephants however are rare and majestic.