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I think I see what's happening here. The missing piece of the puzzle is that there are 2 kinds of rights.

"Negative rights" = the right to not have certain things happen to you, aka freedoms. Eg freedom from being assaulted.

"Positive rights" = the right to do/have stuff.

In the case of enslavement, the negative right - to be free from being forced to work, owned, etc is a much more important right than the positive right to own property.

It isn't "OP's invention" at all, it's the article's title at the time of first publication. Here is the Guardian announcing the article under its original title.

Maybe spend 5 seconds on a basic search before you accuse people of stuff.

Given that the article says the aid will still have to go through an Israeli checkpoint in order to be sent north (where the worst famine is) I will be amazed if the small amount of aid scheduled to come through this pier doesn't suffer the same distribution blockages as other aid.

When they're trying to discourage someone from raising money to help starving children, is there like, a brief moment where they wonder if they're the bad guy?

Cool! Tanzania is a country I hope to learn more about. The wildlife is famous but I don't know much about the people and politics.

Yes those children and premature babies really bit off more than "they" could chew

/s

South Africa's a democracy with a history of opposing Israeli apartheid.

It's really not surprising that it's taking the lead on this.

Empty optics only work if people are not paying attention to facts. I don't think that's going to happen here.

Sorry to burst your bubble but it's technically incapable of enabling sufficient aid.

• the US plan is to start with 70 trucks worth of aid and ramp it up to 100 trucks
• even before the war Gaza needed about 400 trucks of aid, that was when people still had homes and hospitals
• there are IDF outposts on each side of the pier meaning it could become a choke point just like the crossings
• the IDF have reinvaded the North where the worst of the famine is
• the closing of the Rafah crossing means famine conditions are rapidly worsening in the South as well now.
• once people are actually starving, you need aid workers to distribute aid.

Ah that's such an interesting part of the world! Do you live in Tanzania, or Kenya? I would offer to do a temporary house swap but I don't own my own house yet.

Thanks, that makes sense! But I don't understand how that could fit in temporally? Like, wouldn't you have already got halfway through the possible investment overview while you were still talking? Or is it more that you're doing both at once?

It sort of sounds like yoi do it as a way of externalizing the questions, like it's a different part of your brain or your brain wants to make it clear to you that the question process is different from the answer process.

To me a question feels like knowing there's something behind my occipital bone and sensing it moving forward towards my eyes. So it's not verbalised but it's definitely a separate feeling.

Exactly, it's like not being able to fast travel in a game.

I like tiktok for non talky stuff like those 10 second videos of a fox walking along or something.

Yikes.

I had a conversation with Pi which tries for empathy. It was really weird because every now and again it did sound like it was interested in me or cared about me. Reminds me of that Philip K Dick story about the murder bots that look like wounded soldiers or lost children.

I can see that could have that effect! I pretty much need it for typing, it's like an act of translation. I have to write a lot for work or I probably wouldn't have started doing it that way.

If someone is talking or the radio is on when I type I will accidentally include some of the words from those sources.

I wonder how someone like this squares it away in their According to her beliefs she was keeping dead human bodies in her house.

I didn't express it very well - I meant basic proprioception, which most people have. We need it for things like walking or lifting a cup to our mouths.

Sapere Aude, OP. You don't need to outsource your opinions.

None of the answers in here are about hobbies tho.

Oh yeah and iota carageenan nasal spray. My sinuses love it.

Washing my hands using the WHO method instead of randomly.

Avoiding catching viruses.

Meditation.