My optimistic way of looking at it is like this (admittedly US-centric but, well, a lot of things about Israel are US-centric): Israel should be a global pariah state but has historically been showered with aid by the US and given carte blanche to do whatever it wants. We’re not going to flip the switch over night but America’s abstention in an important votes marks a real turning point. Not helping, but not protecting either. We’re then on the journey to eventual outright condemnation. Netanyahu, genocidal fascist, has just barely managed to remain in political power (and out of prison) over the years due to deep divisions in Israel. I think single-handedly turning Israel’s most important ally against it might be enough to convince the Israeli public to finally permanently remove him from power and prosecute him for his myriad crimes.
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The headline is right. Even if you don't know Best Buy's fiscal year, the tenses used in the quote makes it clear that they already closed 24 stores. Best Buy's 2024 fiscal year ended on February 3, 2024. They plan to close 10 to 15 more by roughly one month into 2025, so not literally "by 2025" but close enough.
The teen was riding an e-bike on a sidewalk along Highway 20 in Bend last June when a van turned right, striking and killing him.
Kid on sidewalk hit by van so … ban kids from riding bikes? How does this make sense to literally anybody at all?
Do not install any third-party antivirus software. It's unnecessary and is itself a massive security risk. You have to literally override the built-in protections in order to allow the antivirus application to scan the other applications and files.
Then why did you waste time describing what you believed was the intention behind it earlier when you said
I never said that was the intention. I said that's what I think of it as. In practice all it does is underline a point. These same people also totally screwed up how we chose the president and vice president and failed to provide a proper mechanism for replacing a dead president.
horribly incompetent at writing legal language
Horribly incompetent? No. Flawless, or even particularly prescient? No. They got a lot of big stuff right; they got a whole lot wrong.
it is worded incredibly clearly and explicitly as a prohibition
And yet it’s inherently non-operative. I’m unconcerned with how it was intended since that’s totally irrelevant to what it actually is.
Indeed, the limitation in what can be amended is in practice totally powerless. I think of it as a rhetorical flourish to emphasize the importance they placed on representing states rather than people. For what it’s worth, I advocate for the full abolition of the Senate. It’s an anti-democratic institution. There’s no way to fix it without making it a clone of the House so let’s just do away with it entirely.
And yet that provision is itself still part of the constitution so really an amendment just needs to have an initial sentence to override that limitation first. If there’s actually support for a change, anything can be changed.
No, my phone went into SOS mode yesterday. No apps, just a button to call 911.
That's not a thing that exists. The closest thing is the shutdown screen, where the options are "slide to power off," "Medical ID," "Emergency SOS" and a cancel button, which requires you to enter your passcode and then takes you back to the home screen.
Sounds a bit sensationalist and doesn’t contradict what I said: if you already added your boarding pass to your phone, it will still be there, regardless of whether you have internet access at the moment. Furthermore, the staff can still pull up your record so nobody is going to miss their flight.
No it's not. The iTunes Music Store is available in the majority of countries in the world. Plus there are other services that cover some of the other countries. Vanishingly few people can choose only a CD.