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From what I understand, the most effective way to get aid in at this point would be land-based aid through the Rafah entrance. Unfortunately, Israel has apparently been slow walking inspections. Some shipments have gotten aid in, though that is likely to lessen after the World Central Kitchen attack. It isn't the enormous volume that is capable through a larger land crossing, though.

Edit: Also, sending aid through Israeli ports is a bad idea. Right wingers in Israel have been blocking aid trucks trying to get in. Whatever route is chosen, it needs to not be beholden to extremists.

wants the poors to go plant based but refuses to

I don't know much about him, but poking around a bit shows him saying vegetarian or reduced meat consumption. He eats cheese and fish. Sounds like he's doing exactly like what he's recommending to others.

I love that quote, and it's so reusable.

And why wouldn’t it? It’s directly stopping ships from supplying israel, and israel gets most of its imports from ships.

You're half right, in that it prevents shipments to the Red Sea port of Eilat. The problem is that that is not where most of Israel's cargo flows through. Most of its cargo is brought in through ports along the Mediterranean Sea in the north. If that's the aim, they're failing.

It's disrupted badly needed aid to Yemen by making one of their ports too dangerous to deliver to. It's also disrupting aid flows to Ethiopia and Sudan. In normal times, 15% of world trade flows through the Red Sea, much of it involving countries that have no involvement in the Israel-Palestine conflict or which have sided with Palestine. Despite what they say, the Houthis still have been hitting neutral vessels. making insurance rates too expensive for many trips. Obviously the US is partly just defending its own interests, but the Houthis are also just being destructive against the wrong targets.

Why? It's not like terrorist attacks on ships hurts Israel to any significant degree. It's hurting Yemen more, in practice.

I smell bullshit. It's almost entirely just a list of fossil fuel producers. That doesn't really tell you who is using the end product and therefore driving the carbon production.

We just had a downpour (COVID-19) and many of them were trying to blame it on umbrellas.

My grandmother got polio as an adult and suffered from post-polio syndrome. She lived to a ripe old age (mid 90's), but had a significantly reduced quality of life.

I don't know about that, it seems like one of the things that makes the world simple for programmers and complex for everyone else. It doesn't allow for large countries to split along sensible political boundaries. So if one boundary slices through the middle of New York City, too bad. Moving boundaries to instead be at state/province/etc boundaries or in the middle of nowhere like we usually see now seems more sensible.

If a Republican was in power, would it be bad or worse for Palestinians?

She used to teach writing courses at the university where I work. According to some of the old IT hands, whenever she came in with computer problems she was a delight to work with.

And it pokes through in his books, along with this "I am very smart" attitude that a lot of his characters have.

Yes, it's not so much that she's a great writer on the level of many of the others listed here. But in terms of cultural impact, she made a huge splash.

I am gay, so if you're trying to suggest something then you're barking up the wrong tree.

Okay Canada, no more giving us crap until you can get your kids a lunch.

I hesitate to call her a great author in her own right and I detest her attitude towards transwomen. That said, J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series transformed the young adult fiction genre from a bit of a wasteland of Nancy Drew and Hardy Boy novels into a quality genre with significant cross-generational appeal.

I'll mention Orson Scott Card as well, but his books have worn thin over time as he squeezes every penny out of the Enderverse. Ender's Game got me through a miserable hospital stay as a young child, so it will always have a special place in my heart. Speaker for the Dead I also loved.

Yes. My state makes it really easy, just check a box when renewing your ID or driver's license. I can only hope if I lost my life I could give a new lease on life to someone else.

What a message to give to kids, wow.

Yeah, the idea of a sudden swap is simplistic. The New Deal coalition included white Southerners and a substantial number of Black people and people who were otherwise prone to being sympathetic to Black civil rights. Certain dynamics protected the spot of Dixiecrats, but the contradictions were just too great for the party to hold together forever. It was a simple matter of absorbing the disaffected Dixiecrats.