In the Netherlands we literally cannot spend the money we have allocated for our military since there aren’t enough Dutch weapons to buy. 😬

“swarm” here is a verb, not a noun. As in, “to swarm”.

“The sappers exploded their charges under the city walls, and the invader’s troops swarmed in through the gap.”

That’s right. He’s still making his excellent history podcast, Hardcore History, at his traditional relaxed pace. 😆

A podcaster who used to make a podcast called Common Sense stopped because he felt he had said everything he believed and there wasn’t any point in making new shows.

He did one recently which basically said “well it happened just like I expected, but I didn’t expect it would be so sudden”.

(At least, that’s what I took from it…)

Yes sorry I was unclear. The South African president said that South Africa has a violence problem, not just for white farmers.

Indeed the president of South Africa said exactly that in the meeting.

Thanks for this link. It’s kind of amazing and I like it because it says what should be obvious to us all: public homes are a good idea.

I think that another - and I think more important - answer is that the capital class finally regained control. They chaffed for decades under the limits imposed after they destroyed the worldwide economy in the early 20th century, and spent the second half of the 20th century and the start of the 21st systematically removing constraints.

It’s almost like Israel needs Lebensraum…

I just use restic.

I’m pretty sure it uses checksums to verify data on the backup target, so it doesn’t need to copy all of the data there.

Southern Lebanon? Surely you mean northern Israel. Just a buffer zone.

Yeah I did the same. Pity!

Yes I literally have to pay when I produce more than I use, like every day in April.

I looked into batteries, but they cost 10 times my annual power bill, and of course they wouldn’t replace all electricity, so would take like 20 years to be cost neutral.

I’m considering buying a high power laser and turning it on to consume extra electricity. I’d rather send photons back into space than pay the power delivery company.

Many laws are written to give the executive branch leeway in defining the details of how a law is to be implemented. This makes sense, assuming everyone is acting in good faith; technologies, science, standards, and best practices all evolve over time.

Laws are usually written in a way to ensure Congressional oversight, to prevent the executive either intentionally or accidentally from subverting their will. But with a treasonous President and a complicit Congress, here we are… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Why did you mention them not being US citizens then? 🤔

Could be Canadian, eh?

My own reading of that amendment is that it puts requirements on the US government, period. It does not limit things to US citizens.

Of course, I know that’s not the way the courts interpret the amendment. 😔

Can you give some examples? Do you mean the Supreme Court legalizing gay marriage in 2015? The #metoo movement in 2017? Black Lives Matter protests in 2020?

What do you think has gone too far?

You can be both?

Thailand has had a weird strictness around the king for a long time now.