I was about to build a whole hypothetical analogy out of Vatican City and the Piazza San Pietro, but I couldn’t be arsed.

None, and it’s been many many hours now. But that’s going to be my go to approach from now on.

This happened an hour after I read the article.

In Freedom Units, if one of those 155s hit the middle of a football field, everyone on the field is dead, and everyone in the stadium catches shrapnel.

Oh wow, I missed the video also linked in that article. Oops!

Why?

Because I am sure that lots of people read “human trafficking” and think that it primarily affects women, or is a “women’s issue”, and by extension, assume that human trafficking has little impact on men. That opens up a whole “men vs women” can of worms, frames women as victims and men as perpetrators.

The provenance of the image on that article is here. Those are freed captives.

I would like to point out that a huge proportion of the people in that picture are men.

… “inaccurate and uncalculated” artillery fire.

They only meant to drop shells near the aid stations, to keep the bad guys away. Gazans should make quantum leaps from where they are to inside the aid stations, without passing through the space near the aid stations. Duh.

The US military has said the operation went as planned and that it was an “overwhelming success.”

Just to be clear, that can be true and the mission failed to do more than set Iran back a few months. They can have destroyed the targets they were told to destroy (success), but the targets may have been wrong or incomplete. Or, as the article suggests, the bombs landed where they were supposed to, but didn’t penetrate underground enough to do the damage desired.

So many nations over there proclaim a sort of “we stand with our brothers to the death” out loud while their actions (or lack thereof) say something completely different.

Huckabee, you got a little … right on your … no the other side. Yeah, it’s some orange jizz dripping down there, make sure you slurp it all up.

That hardly seems like it’s worth getting upset about.

I know that in the UK, the judiciary is based on the common law system. This was brought to the colonies, of course, and the judicial system in the US is a codified version of that.

But the basic judicial concepts enshrined in common law in the UK are essentially the same as the ones codified in the US.

US, that’s true. But I would expect it to be the same in the UK, since our concept of the judicial system really hasn’t diverged much, historically speaking.

To expand on this, even if you are caught dead to rights in whatever crime you’re charged with, you plead not guilty at arraignment. Because once you plead guilty, it’s over. You can always change your not guilty plea to guilty later on, if a plea deal negotiated with the prosecutor is satisfactory to you. If you just plead guilty, your ability to negotiate charges and consequences are nilch.

Any time you read “So-and-So pleads not guilty” in the news, it’s not news. It’s just what you do when you are charged with a crime.

Eh, that one sounds like he was being an asshole to get a reaction, got a reaction, then harangued the person about it. People laugh in a a lot of “unfunny” situations.

Stop asking me questions!

Abagnale is a bit of an unreliable witness. He blatantly overstates his “exploits”.

Just walk away, and there will be an end to the horror.

Yes, controversy feeds engagement, but advertisers don’t want to appear in the vicinity of certain content, too. So it’s a balancing act.

I am reminded of the meme with the left/right spectrum, and the weird curving line above marked “Whatever the fuck tankies are.”