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Gaza is under a declared blockade, Maritime Law (the oldest of international law) allows detaining any ship bound for a blockaded port. It's really cut and dry, they very publicly declared they were bound for a blockaded port. It's not like Israel boarded a ship that just happened to be in the area, these freedom flotilla yahoos very publicly declared they were bound for Gaza, which under Maritime Law permits Israel to board it.

International law is an agreement between nations and doesn't actually restrict nations from doing things that will hurt your feelings. You're going down the sovcit path when you pretend international law is whatever you want it to be.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatari_support_for_Hamas

Russians keep gravitating towards authoritarians over and over again. Can't think of any other country that reverted back to it multiple times in a century. Weak people want strong man leaders, just how it is.

I'd hoped Russians could grow a spine and get rid of Putin, but they'll probably go on riding his dick for the rest of his life. Closest they got to ending that cunt was Prigozhin attempting a coup in a drunken rage, but he sobered up and chickened out before it was done. Just how shit goes in Russia, always on a spectrum between drunkenness and authoritarian dick riding.

If you voted for Trump you voted for hurting people. This is what you voted for.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-trans-right-asylum-canada-trump-transgender-hannah-kreager/

https://www.newsweek.com/transgender-lgbtq-canada-asylum-immigration-2061055

That's my type!

Happening already. US trans people are coming to Canada and applying for asylum now.

The point of this was never to deliver aid. The point was to have the exact result that has played out. It's doubtful they were even carrying food, they did this with the intent on being boarded to produce propaganda. The IDF handed out sandwiches to mitigate the propaganda. Both parties knew how it would play out, the Freedom Flotilla got some video to monetize, mission accomplished, I guess.

Also there is no way to distinguish between a drone carrying food from a Houthi drone carrying munitions. The drones would be shot down. Though you never know, the Freedom Flotilla crowd might try it if they feel that it would be good propaganda. Though it's doubtful since whatever boat they launched these drones from would be quickly boarded and they would be detained for potentially a long time before it could be verified the drones they launched weren't weapons.

Gaza is under a declared blockade. Israel has the legal right to board any ship bound for Gaza under international law. The whole Freedom Flotilla thing is just dumb entertainment for the ignorant. It changes exactly nothing.

Apparently your alternative media news has never shown you the palaces the Hamas political leadership in Qatar lived in. I'm using past tense there because most of them are dead now.

But the billions of dollars they hoarded still exists, it's not like the government of Qatar is going to freeze the assets of Hamas.

You shouldn't assume that because the people living under an authoritarian regime are poor, the leaders of that regime are also poor. In fact the opposite is more often true.

I mean, some of the taxanomic divisions do have common names as well - jawed fish and ray-finned fish

Searching for "jawed fish" takes me here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnathostomata

But that's jawed vertebrates. So I'm not sure which taxonomic group you're referring to when you're saying "jawed fish". The wiki page indicates salamaders are in the Gnathostomata group. Are salamanders considered to be jawed fish?

I think this just goes to further prove that using english words for taxonomy just causes a lot of confusion. My search results for "jawed fish" also returns a lot of results from national park sites and yeah, that kind of terminology for a national park conversing with a layperson is fine. Close enough for a layperson, but for a biologist they probably should use Gnathostomata when that's what they're talking about.

Was that the weird chapter that was just a biology lesson, but was also completely wrong?

Probably, but it's been awhile since I read it. But it would be insane to read Moby Dick expecting it to be a good biology text book. You have to read it as people's understanding of biology and terminology in the past, which is why I referenced it in the context of the evolution of linguistics about ocean animals.

We're not quite to this extreme (yet?) but it's a similar logic to allying with Stalin when Hitler was around.

Trump isn't Hitler, and Xi isn't Stalin, but the logic is similar. It's an ugly thing, Xi is a complete shitbag after all. But Trump is the more immediate threat.

I think that's more up to the Russian people than anyone in the west. Russians like strong men, it's a weakness in their society. Everyone outside Russia wanted it to continue to be a democracy, Russia even had a brief association with NATO while it was. But Yeltsin drank too much (alcoholism being another weakness in Russian society) and that allowed a guy like Putin to make himself a Czar.

Yeah, it seems authoritarianism is bad. Hopefully Russians will figure that out the next go around.

Yeah I've always said the the flaw in Turing's Imitation Game concept is that if an AI was indistinguishable from a human it wouldn't prove it's intelligent. Because humans are dumb as shit. Dumb enough to force one of the smartest people in the world take a ton of drugs which eventually killed him simply because he was gay.

The "let them eat CO2" policy. Yeah, it's insane, global warming is a solvable problem. We have the technology needed already, we're just lacking in a willingness to change. The powers that be are going all in on stagnation while facing a crisis.

Yeah the attitude of "let China fix this" is really annoying. Don't people want to be the world leaders in fixing a global problem?

Also "just let China fix this" means only China will have all of the skill experience with the technology that we'll all be using in the future. Why would you want that? It's just laziness plain and simple.

Yup. Also the whole reason China produces the majority of the rare earths isn't because there's some cave that only exists in China they come from. It's because processing rare earths involves toxic waste and it's cheaper to do it when you're willing to just dump the toxic waste on the ground, which is what they do in China.

Environmentally motivated tariffs makes a lot of sense, if companies aren't gaining a competitive edge by being environmentally irresponsible, they will start being more responsible. Trying to appeal to the morals of corporations isn't going to get anywhere, there needs to be a financial incentive for them to do things right.

It's why taxonomy uses latin for this... the definition of english words are based on common usage which isn't going to line up to any kind of scientific categorization. English is always changing and scientific categorization is also always changing when there's more empirical data. These changes are independent of each other so it was wisely decided long ago to not even try to make english words consistent with scientific taxonomy.

So in common usage, yeah it's based around the general shape but it isn't a whale (big mammal) a dolphin (a relatively smaller mammal). A shark might be called a fish but more likely someone will just call it a shark instead of just using just "fish". This is fine for communication among laypeople, if marine biologists are having a conversation about those same animals, they break out the latin and there's no confusion.

Also my understanding is that in medieval times, the word whale actually refereed to a specific species of whale... what we know call the Right Whale, which is nearly extinct. So a word for a species became a word for a group of species and then it was awkward how to refer to that original species. What kind of whale is that? "It's a whale whale... you know the original whale... the proper whale... the right whale." There's actually a paragraph in Moby Dick about this.

English is weird and changes in weird ways. Just use latin if you want to be scientifically precise.

It's a propaganda mission. The port is under blockade so the ship will be boarded. This is something that's legal under international law everyone knows this and everyone knows it will be boarded. The point isn't to bring aid to Gaza, the point is to create a video of Israel boarding the ship.

The ghouls that monetize the suffering Hamas has created want you to watch and are hoping someone dies so they can monetize it, just as they've monetized every aspect of the suffering of Palestinians. Since they've successfully monetized human suffering they seek to extend the war as long as possible to maximize profits.

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I don't think dump trucks filled with raw ore dump out materials into Lockeed Martin's parking lot and then they have some magical device that converts it into an F-35. I think it's more likely they purchase very specialized bits of metal that is produced at or above a specific grade. Producing materials to very specific requirements isn't cheap, and requires specialized tooling and training to do.

Yes you can refit mills and train people in the US to produce those bits of metal but that takes time and money to do. There's likely even security clearances people have to complete to see the specs on some of the materials.

And the significant investment needed to retool and retrain isn't happening because the investment crowd is in the TACO mindset.