maporita @ maporita @unilem.org

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What did the Romans ever give us eh?

Unilem has a specific policy of not blocking users or posts. Basically unless it's illegal it's good to go. I prefer to be treated like an adult and allowed to decide for myself what I want to see online.

They only had a majority in both houses for 2 years and still managed to get the ACA passed which was pretty significant. Even Trump couldn't undo it. Also in fairness to Obama he was focused on staving off financial collapse for a good part of his first term.

The key to getting progression policies passed is voting for Congress. Having a democratic President, whether it's Biden or someone else, doesn't matter if we only have a razor-thin majority. We just get held hostage by people like Manchin. We need solid majorities in both House and Senate to achieve anything.

My wife owns a small business and I work for her. I get all kinds of perks including being able to sleep with the boss.

This is what bugs me more than anything. They "know" my bag didn't make the flight but instead of sending me a message (to the email / phone number I already gave them) they make me wait two hours on the ground after a one hour flight.

We know that a child ate a corn chip and the child later died. We don't know that the child died as a result of eating the corn chip. If we believe that policy should be based on evidence and not on anecdote it seems reasonable to wait for an investigation before we apportion culpability.

If they tell me it's close to zero (C) then I know it's time to change from shorts to pants. If it's close to zero F and you're still in shorts then you're probably dead.

Said by someone who has never lived under occupation.

My wife was horrified to learn that we put our parents in a home when they get old. She's from Colombia and such a thing would be unthinkable.

Having said that I would never want my children to look after me. It's not fair on them.. they have their own lives to lead.

A previous owner of my apartment had for some reason installed a high security door. It's 5 inches thick with steel plates inside and has 3 separate sets of 3 locking rods like a bank vault. Not sure what line of work they were in but, really, good luck to the person who thinks they can break in here easily. Downside is there is no way to put a digital lock on the sucker.

Then they should move elsewhere. When you immigrate to a country it's on you to conform. I as a gay man would never consider moving to a Muslim country where my lifestyle is rejected. If otters feel their values don't align with secularism then don't come here.

Yes of it's visible. Religious symbols are allowed to be worn if they are not visible.

We can debate questions of historical sovereignty all night .. it will never end. But do you think the majority of Ukrainians would prefer to be part of Russia? If so you are either lying or you live on a different planet. Like the Poles, the Romanians, the Lithuanians, the Czechs, in fact anyone who has lived under the Soviet / Russian boot, Ukrainians for the most part detest and despise Russia (with good reason). The most ardent anti-Russians are the ones who used to be ruled by them.

"Orwellian" is a term that gets thrown around a lot these days so one hesitates to use it, but when a country invades another sovereign state and then turns round and claims they didn't start the war it really does sound like something the ministry of truth would say. To be clear. America started the war in Iraq (incidentally I marched in the street in protest). Russia started the war in Ukraine.

Damn poor people.. always demanding services like water and electricity /s

Ukraine was invaded by a tyrant. The people have suffered for over a year, children have been slaughtered or lost limbs, civilians entombed in rubble, and the armed forces have lost tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands defending their homeland.

Now I'm not a violent man but I have to admit, in the face of all these poor people have suffered, reading your glib comment does make me feel like punching something.

When Ukraine began drone strikes deep into Russian territory the Russians were forced to pull back some air defense units from the front line. That might be part of the reason Ukraine is able to mount attacks with TB-2s now.

Also to add to this, science is self-correcting and, unlike religion, allows and even requires questioning in order to function. Newtons' laws of motion revolutionized classical mechanics and held firm for more than 200 years. But there were some things the laws could not explain. Eventually Einstein formulated corrections to Newtowns laws that took relativity into account. So Newtons' laws didn't disappear.. they continue to be useful at non-relativistic velocities. But when we need to deal with hyper-fast objects we need to take relativity into account.

The line between leftist guerilla and common criminal started blurring some time ago. But the bigger problem in Colombia is the right-wing paramilitaries. They are well funded and well connected and at least until recently received support directly from the government and the military. The peace deal includes these paras also. Let's hope Petro can make it work.