I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but there really aren't many countries in the world that aren't founded on murder and oppression. It is not, IMO, reasonable to hold decendants responsible for the crimes that their grandparents, great-grandparents, great-great-grandparents, etc. committed, but it is reasonable to hold them responsible for what they're doing right now.
Because it's a consumer (really a prosumer) stove, that shielding is already built in. You wouldn't want to install a commercial range in right next to wooden cabinets; it's assumed that surfaces in commercial kitchens are all going to be non-porous, hard surfaces, usually stainless steel or ceramic.
That's just a bad-faith, black-and-white view. Nazi Germany had the right to exist, but they didn't have the right to invade other countries, exterminate Jews, Romani, gay people, etc. It's not the existence of the state, or even the beliefs of the people running the state, but the actions that matter.
You can be the most racist, homophobic, misogynist Christian asshole in the world, and as long as you don't act on your beliefs, it's not a problem.
If Israel ceases it's genocidal actions, and ceases treating Palestinians like sub-humans, then there's no issue.
There is absolutely no way that Musk will go ahead with this. Even if it was contractually agreed that it would be aired completely unedited--which I doubt it can be, Comedy Central network censors would almost certainly have to bleep words out--Musk would come out looking so bad, esp. with a host that wouldn't let him dodge or redirect questions, that he would skip. Muskrat might drink his own FlavorAde, but there's not way in hell that he's dumb enough to do this.
"Soft tissue lengthens, relaxing muscles and ligaments. As the tissue relaxes, the Neodymium magnets increase blood flow to the area calming nerves and promote relaxation. VuVa™ are the only patented sets available with Neodymium magnets."
"Magnetic Therapy is based on the premise that all living organisms exist in a magnetic field, including the human body. The human body generates its own magnetic field. Therefore, the body can heal itself when electromagnetic energy is in balance."
It's like those stupid magnet bracelets and elbow wraps, only for your vagina. It's all woo.
They have certain specific advantages, but they are actually slower.
This entirely depends on the stove. Consumer-lever stoves? Sure, definitely. Commercial stoves? Probably not. Commercial stoves put out 3-4x the BTUs of a high-end consumer stove, and usually can't be installed in a home because they require significant shielding around them (so you don't burn a building down) and a very high flow hood. The highest-end Wolf range has a single burner that has a maximum output of 10,000BTU, and costs a whopping $17,000; a fairly basic range top for a commercial kitchen has six burners that can all output 32,000BTU, and costs about $3700. For stir-frying specifically, you can get a single ring wok burners outputting 92,000-125,000BTU starting at about $700 for natural gas (and a helluva lot more if you use LP).
Unfortunately, I can't find a solid conversion between gas and induction stove capabilities.
Oh, and FWIW - if you live somewhere with an unstable power grid, a natural gas or LP stove will continue to function when the power is out, albeit you'll need to light it manually. We lose power fairly regularly due to storms--usually only a day at a time, but sometimes as long as 3-4 days--and it would be a real hassle to have all electric appliances when there's no power.
You can support Israel's right to exist while still condemning the genocide and other human rights abuses that they commit. These things are not mutually exclusive.
I def. agree with the issues in re: Dunbar's number. Anarchism can, and does, work pretty well in small groups and communes. But scaling it to the size of a country... Well, that's the hard part. But if you don't, then authoritarian countries will eat you alive.
Those who want the role are also those you REALLY don’t want with that power.
That unfortunately seems to be the case with most cops as well; the ones that want to do it out of a sense of civic responsibility seem to get pushed out pretty quickly by the ones that should never have been cops in the first place. And--looping back around to anarchism--cops are a necessary evil because otherwise you quickly end up with vigilante groups that enforce a capricious set of morality and ethics.
I forgot about sterilization. I had no problems when I was sterilized; my doctor said that he didn't do them, but he referred me to another doctor in the practice that did. That doctor asked a couple of brief questions, and then made the appointment for me. There was very little hassle. But I was married to my ex- at the time, and they went with me to appointments (esp. surgery, since they had to drive home). So even without kids already, it was pretty clear to the doctor that they were not wanted by either of us. I'm sure it would have been a lot more of a hassle if I was AFAB.
I think that there needs to be some degree of authoritarian, arbitrary power. Mostly because I've been in anarchist groups in the past, and when everyone has input into a decision, shit gets bogged down really fast. Not everyone understands a given issue and will be able to make an informed choice, and letting opinionated-and-ignorant people make choices that affect the whole group is... Not good.
The problem is, I don't know how to balance these competing interests, or exactly where authoritarian power should stop. It's easy to say, well, I should get to make choices about myself, but what about when those individual choices end up impacting other people? For instance, I eat meat, and yet I'm also aware that the cattle industry is a significant source of CO2; my choice, in that case, contributes to climate change, which affects everyone. ...And once you start going down that path, it's really easy to arrive at totalitarianism as the solution.
I also don't know how to handle the issue of trade and commerce, and at what point it crosses the line into capitalism.
Mostly a movie trope now. Casinos are full of video cameras, and are owned by large corporations; they're not going to want to pay a large legal settlement because you got beat up by a security guard. And, BTW, most large chain stores with security usually tell their loss prevention officers to not get physical with shoplifters for the same reason.
You'll usually just get thrown out and banned for life from any of their properties.
When casinos were largely owned by organized crime? Probably pretty accurate, if you were lucky.
No, sometimes it's actual doctor shopping, because they know what their underlying problem is, and doctors refuse to treat it.
Example: a number of post-menopausal women know that the correct way to treat their symptoms is with hormone replacement therapy, which must involve an estrogen, a progesterone, and sometimes (often, really) a small amount of testosterone. Due to overblown studies from the 80s about certain risks from HRT--including breast and endometrial cancers, heart disease, etc.--a large number of doctors will flatly refuse to do HRT, or prescribe older/less effective treatments. So post-menopausal women with the means to do so will shop around for gynecologists until they find one that, first, takes their symptoms seriously, and second, is appropriately aggressive in treating it.
It's all good. Firearms in general are an autistic special interest. (No, seriously. I'm high-functioning autistic, and guns have been a special interest for, um, a very long time.) I don't expect anyone outside of policy wonks to have hard numbers memorized.
You think those thugs would have dragged this woman out if they had force being presented?
No, I think they would have killed her on the spot.
I think that a show of force is useful, at times. (And if you read through my comments, you'll see that I'm very supportive of individuals in minority groups arming themselves.) I think that large groups of armed protestors that protest peacefully help keep things peaceful. I think that groups like GBGCs showing up to protect Drag Queen Story Hour is a great way to display force. I think being armed is a great way to be able to fight back when someone is threatening to do serious physical harm to you. But in a situation where you're surrounded by hostile people, I think that discretion is perhaps a wiser course. At least, it is if you want to be able to protest another day.
And honestly, I'd rather read a headline about a woman having her right violated than a headline about a women being killed at a town hall because she flashed a gun.
Yeah, that sucks. I've had the same thing happen with one of my (former) gay friends; he just wouldn't drop it. It was really uncomfortable, and I eventually dropped him as a friend because he refused to respect my boundaries.
I mean, yeah, I get it; you don't really have a choice over how you feel. Some people experience limerance, and it's not a choice, but how they act is. I've had the displeasure of experiencing limerance a number of times, and each time I've found that it was more productive to cease contact with the person than to, well, do exactly what your online friend is doing.
So you would agree to the 1950 borders, correct?