Wow, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised given what I already knew about the history and present-day reality of humanity's interactions with animals, but I'm still surprised.
It's notable that on the island your links describe, the entire penguin "industry" and several shipwrecks' worth of dead sailors were the product of one moderately-successful entrepreneur's ambitions, that he received widespread condemnation at the time, and that this condemnation was not enough to stop him.
I agree that the notion that Hamas can be defeated by denying it food, and furthermore that doing so justifies starving the civilian population, is indeed something I consider well outside the boundary of civilized warfare. The fact that Israel is doing that makes it hard to believe that it is seriously attempting to minimize civilian casualties in other ways. With that said, my point is that Dershowitz is still in principle correct.
That's the only viable strategy - if there was some number of Palestinian civilians that Hamas could operate among with impunity, it would do. I don't think Israel is currently fulfilling its obligation to protect civilians as much as is practically possible while still fighting a war effectively, but civilian casualties would be high even if it was simply due to the nature of urban warfare against an enemy operating among civilians who have nowhere to evacuate.
I think it's important to note that America's permissive immigration policy during the 18th and 19th centuries was accompanied by the lack of a government-provided "safety net" for those immigrants.
No, the Republican fantasy is doing that and having the benefit cuts pay for the tax cuts. This is the Republican reality where the tax cuts still require borrowing an enormous amount of money.
Edit: Society is always making a trade-off between helping the poor and using that money for other purposes and if, with the support of working class Americans, a candidate is elected who decides that society will help the poor less, then that's a reasonable outcome in a democracy even if it isn't one that I personally support. However, running the debt up like this is an extremely reckless and selfish decision to buy lower taxes in the present day at the expense of America's future. It's so short-sighted that I think it isn't a reasonable choice for any ideology except perhaps nihilistic disregard for anything beyond the next election cycle...
Heck, are there dating sites that work at all anymore? Over a decade ago I had some success with OkCupid but my impression is that ever since swipe apps became a thing, online dating went from bad to terrible for everyone except gay men looking for hookups. Now I might have to go low-tech and ask my grandma to introduce me to her friends' single granddaughters...
That's a long exposure, but there really can be that many of them. I was out on a moonless night in upstate New York. An amazing number of stars was visible (I could even see the Milky Way), I was surrounded by fireflies and glowworms, and there were no other sources of light once I turned my flashlight off. It was so dark that I couldn't see my own feet, just lights in all directions.
I think the big challenge now is to create a method of online dating that isn't a miserable experience for most of its users, but if I had a creative solution for that, I'd be rich.
Wow, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised given what I already knew about the history and present-day reality of humanity's interactions with animals, but I'm still surprised.
It's notable that on the island your links describe, the entire penguin "industry" and several shipwrecks' worth of dead sailors were the product of one moderately-successful entrepreneur's ambitions, that he received widespread condemnation at the time, and that this condemnation was not enough to stop him.