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Surely the recourse is to send them to the back of the queue? It's not like the driver rates the store, right?

I think a common view is that the strength (and possibly frequency?) of El Niño is a symptom of climate change.

The New York Times and The Washington Post left wing bastions?

Either your list is way out of date or the Overton Window is so far to the right in the US that this statement is somehow possible.

There are many more institutions on that list that are explicitly not left wing by non-US standards.

We have more than enough experience to know that privatising infrastructure is often a terrible move as far as consumers are concerned. Yet we still fall for the lie of 'private efficiency'.

The truth is that the efficiency argument is just a fig leaf for the true ideological motivation to sell off publicly owned assets. The true reason is at the core of neoliberalism and it is essentially to increase investment opportunities for people with capital. Nothing (not even childcare) can be provided by people for people. It must be offered up to 'the market'.

> Public transport has inherent problems that cannot be solved that will always have it be less convenient than a car.

Keyword here being 'convenient'.

We have been seduced by convenience. Moreso than simple greed, I would say. Unfortunately, convenience is killing us. It is also robbing us of satisfaction.

You'll have to pry Django from my cold, dead hands.

Like others, I use AI to write code these days, but that makes it all the more important that I can make sense of it quickly. The conventions of a framework help with that.

Also, the boat may be leaving, but I still have one foot on the shore. I'm holding on to my independence - even if I might be kidding myself and it turns out I'll be dependent on AI from here on out. I just can't shake the feeling that the rug (or maybe more appropriately - flying carpet) might be pulled out from under me.

(For what it's worth, I gave up on React over 5 years ago)

Or maybe some other cultural reason?

> Palestine isn't an internationally-recognized state for better or worse.

Yes, it is.

From Wikipedia:

"Palestine is a permanent non-member observer state at the United Nations (UN) and is recognized as a sovereign state by 157 of the UN's 193 member states."

There is a difference between a state and its governing party (or parties).

Also worth noting that the ICC issued arrest warrants for (now dead) Hamas leaders.

I think you mean Americans. Are the Europeans in the habit of issuing unilateral sanctions in an attempt to impose their domestic law internationally?

If the target were legitimate then maybe the EU could stick to respecting legitimate sanctions.

What many people seem to forget is that the US is in the habit of issuing unilateral sanctions. They are not legitimate in the way UN sanctions are.

A 'defensive policy' put into practice in the territory of another state that is a signatory.

If you commit crimes in another state, expect to be judged according to their system of law (which in this case includes the ICC).

From time to time I remind myself of a rule that has worked well for me. I call it 'no idle screentime'. It makes me more cognisant of when I am browsing without purpose or going off on an unhelpful tangent.

Settle down Socrates.