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You're advocating punishing an entire population for having the temerity of selecting their own elected government.

There's a term for that:

https://casebook.icrc.org/a_to_z/glossary/collective-punishments

Isn't that standard procedure though? Not much disaster workers can do until actually stops raining, right?

Katrina hit August 29th, 2005. Bush signed the relief package 9/2, 4 days later. And that was just approving the money to be spent, not actually spending it.

I mean, if the area is actively being destroyed, how do you even get people in to help?

I can't believe this whole 50+ comment slapfight started over an argument of possessive apostrophes.

Internet - Don't ever change!

For the record: If you want to imply that the Clintons are owned by someone, it's NOT "Clinton's". They are the ones BEING posessed, not the owner.

"The Clintons (plural) were Epstein's (possessive) clients (plural)."

https://www.sussex.ac.uk/informatics/punctuation/apostrophe/possessives

U.S. fertility rate is actually up the last few years, still below replacement level, but up.

https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/usa/united-states/fertility-rate

Our son was 14 at our wedding, his bio-dad died when he was 3.

Oregon / Washington - Deep fried sweet walla walla onion rings:

https://youtu.be/a2tTg0HpGrE#t=1m56s

Everyone should have realized it was security theater when nobody was asked to remove their underwear after the underwear bomber.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umar_Farouk_Abdulmutallab

Next up is to ditch the fluid restrictions.

"I'm sorry, that's too much fluid, here, let me dispose of it right next to this massive line of people in case it has an explosive, chemical, or biological component..."

Everyone should have realized it was security theater when nobody was asked to remove their underwear after the underwear bomber.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umar_Farouk_Abdulmutallab

Next up is to ditch the fluid restrictions.

"I'm sorry, that's too much fluid, here, let me dispose of it right next to this massive line of people in case it has an explosive, chemical, or biological component..."

How about this... Not "buying" a game that's disabled if it's no longer online...

Helps if you view it from the side:

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The key flaw in the logic is that American police are there to protect people. They aren't.

https://prospect.org/justice/police-have-no-duty-to-protect-the-public/

I think the top link is busted, it just goes to the red image on a loop.

American here... 3km is just under 2 miles, so you're looking at a 4 mile walk just to get to the grocery store and back?

I wouldn't walk that, mostly because bringing the groceries back is the problem. Maybe if you had a wagon or a cart or something.

Closest grocery to me is 1.77km, I wouldn't walk that either. No sidewalks all the way so you'd be feet away from vehicle traffic, and coming home with groceries would be up-hill. No thank you.

I remember being 4 or 5 back in the 70s, my mom tried to put me in Converse, I refused to wear them calling them "clown shoes". LOL.

I feel vindicated.

Time To First Byte 0 to 800ms.

"It now takes Microsoft’s browser less than 300 milliseconds to start rendering the first parts of a website for users, whether it’s text, images, or parts of the user interface."

They're bragging about now meeting the minimum standard. LOL.

https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/v5/about

"Our cars are now faster than ever! They can go as fast as 55 mph on a standard highway!"

She's Canadian, so pretty sure she's a native speaker. Sure, could be French speaking...

She didn't marry at 15 or 16, but that's generally the age kids look to get their first jobs, that would have been the time to start looking at legal requirements.

$4 mil seems low, must be 1960s dollars. :)

That was the thing my daughter in law ran into... Myanmar doesn't allow dual citizenship, so she had to give up her own citizenship to become a US citizen.

In the end, it's safer for her now because she can visit her family and doesn't have to worry about being immediately blocked re-entering the US.