I know this is not yet decided, but i find it certainly inspiring and i dearly hope for Mr. Williams to succeed.

Experts said it is unclear if the cash brokers’ activities benefit Hamas, as some Israeli analysts claim.

The war has made it more difficult to determine who is behind all sorts of economic activity in the territory, said Omar Shabaan, director of Palthink for Strategic Studies, a Gaza-based think tank.

“It’s a dark place now. You don’t know who is bringing cigarettes into Gaza,” he said, giving just one example. “It’s like a mafia.”

The UN has reported on Aid trucks regularly being looted by the Abu Shabab gang. A group of lowlife criminals, who are armed and supported by Israel to wreak further havoc in Gaza and exploit the population further. In one of their largest raids, they robbed and burnt almost a hundred UN trucks for Israel in November 2024. I wouldn’t be surprised if Israel is funneling fresh cash to such criminal elements to further strengthen them and extract money from the people of Gaza through a middlemen allowing them plausible deniability. Note that the Abu Shabab criminals also have ties to ISIS. As Israel had consistently accused Hamas of “being ISIS” this shows once again that every Israeli accusation is a projection.

It also is less energy efficient as running the juice directly through a cable of course is more efficient than creating a magnetic field that then induces juice on the other side to flow again.

It should be said that this is the principle of transformers, but they are built in an efficient way for it.

Note that countries like Israel, Turkiye, Iran, UAE and Saudi Arabia try to undermine unity in Syria and exacerbate ethnic tensions. In particular Israels tries to instrumentalize Druze and YPG/PKK Kurds to restart the civil war and prevent the emergence of a stable and peaceful Syria.

I think it was more of a bad flirting attempt

Your problems go way beyond MAGA. You need a Denazification, a Denoeoliberalization a Deneoconversitivization, a Deimperialistization, a DeMICization, a Dezionistification, a Dewaronterrorization, a Devirtuesignalinsteadofactualpolicyization…

The entire narrative of what the US is and isn’t needs to be reworked from the ground up, if you ever are to become a just nation striving for peace and cooperation in the world.

This distracts heavily from the fact that over the past 40 years the middle class was systematically eroded and people have much less economic security.

Turns out people are against “change” when all the change they experience is being fucked over.

We need to stop referring to people as “violent” for damaging the means of oppression. Also people might technically be violent if they defend themselves against violent attacks by the authorities, but that again should not be accepted as a framing.

For how easy kicking is in DRG i found it to be used extremely rarely. One of the most chill game communities imo.

There is not “the” Mastodon. If servers are affected by such stupid laws, people can go to servers in countries that aren’t affected. Or at least until the great firewall is built.

Someone with the flick of a piece of wood can just murder you outright, with you having no way of defending against it. Before they learn to control it, the magic of the children just “flows” in uncontrollable ways. Maybe doing something silly like coloring hair, but maybe also destroying things and hurting people. For a non magical person in an entirely unpredictable way, without any possibility to intervene or repair the damage as easily.

Keep in mind that there is no mention of the Dursley’s ever receiving any sort of guidance on how to deal with a magical child. They are just expected to figure it out by themselves. Imagine you would have to deal with a special needs child, just that nobody is giving you any information, you can not reach out to anyone about it, you must keep it a secret as otherwise you get booked in the closed psychiatry and on top of it all the child at any point may burn down your house.

To be fair his aunt was really shitty to him. But that makes me remember the whole thing how from their perspective Harry ruined the once in a lifetime business deal of Vernon when he tossed the cake onto the business partner over dinner. They couldn’t know about the whole Dobby business. And even if they did. Some strange run down creature just popping into your house to cause havoc, so your nephew gets kicked out of school, what the heck is that madness?

Because of that he develops anger issues and kind of locks the child in, which of course isn’t okay, but he doesn’t know what else to do. There is no government resources to help him. He doesn’t know how to reach the people who dropped the child off, however they seem to keep tabs on him and his family. Again from all he understands they are involved in some paramilitary actions.

Germany tosse out the Gepard systems, of which some also got a revival in Ukraine with great effect.

Turns out explosive autocannons are still very much the way to go against close by targets you can track from the ground. They are cheap, they can’t be countered with the typical decoy mechanisms against missiles and in an emergency they can be used in direct fire.

In which country is that? “Our” Catholics are pretty darn easy and happy about everyone they can get, as a lot of people leave because of child abuse and corruption scandals keeping to emerge.

Also “they” for the most part take their belief as serious maybe going to church once a year. The ones that go every Sunday are already the “hardcore” ones.

The US of course having nothing to do with Somalias messed up 20th and 21th century history…

Sort of too shy to follow through previously

Worst thing to happen realistically is that you get a “no thank you, i’m good”.

Don’t worry. It will come back worse soon enough. Climate change doesn’t just mean everything gets hotter. It also means everything gets more extreme, including cold events or these storms that prevent the heat from forming.

Question is, if it is a 1:1000 year event locally, state level, country wide?

These terms are often thrown around rather broadly by media, which does not help their use and makes it easy for cliamte change deniers to attack it.

These terms also provide a false sense of security. For instance we had a “thousand year” flood in parts of Germany in 2021 that killed about 200 people. The statisticians then said that because of climate change, this is now a “four hundred year flood”. But the kind of weather event that is producing these enormous rainfalls leading to the flooding actually occurs about twice a year now. It is just the question where the downpour comes and if it can dissipate in flat land, or if it comes down in the mountains, washing away everything in the valley. So that “four hundred year flood” is probably occurring more like once a decade but in different places in the future.

Don’t worry, it is not just in the US.

There was devastating floods in Germany about 4 years ago, killing some 200 people. Just a few months before the ruling “conservative” party CDU lead coalition in one of the states affected badly had scrapped some flood protection laws. During the election campaign for the federal election the chancellor candidate of the “conservative” party was laughing his ass off in the background as the German president held a commemoration speech for the victims in one of the villages heavily destroyed.

The CDU came out strongest again in the next state level elections, including in the areas that were destroyed by the floods and had many people killed.