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ToaKraka
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14hr ago
Trust me that's the very last of your worries. Two of my best school friends, then college age, went backpacking there for several months with very mediocre English and no knowledge of any local language.
That doesn't sound very enjoyable to me.
IMO getting a serious gf is a much more sensible option and very realistic for a well-earning westerner now matter how much you struggle with western women
I am not seeking a romantic partner. After around a half-dozen attempted friendships in college, I concluded that friendship was not worth the effort—and romance is just deeper friendship, so it would be even worse.
Also living expenses are quite low, so even apart from any dating a great place for young retirees to stay or travel indefinitely.
My calculations indicate that I will have enough money to retire in the US two years from now, so I have no need to move to the jungle.
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19hr ago
Willandra is therefore a pivotal place in human history. And yet, as you read this, those human fossils are being reburied. Mungo Man and Lady are already gone; around a hundred other remains are following. All are being destroyed, like medieval books burned in a pyre.
Why? Politics and guilt. At the behest of some Aboriginal groups, the precious bones of the ‘first peoples’ are being reburied. This is occurring in the traditional way and in secret. The locations will then be willingly forgotten. As one Aboriginal elder, Ivan Johnson, has put it: ‘It’s been a long wait: 50 years to bury our ancestors.’
Some opinions issued by the US Supreme Court have been fairly long. But have you ever devoted any thought to the International Court of Justice?
The ICJ's opinion on the legality of the secession of Kosovo from Serbia (penned by President Judge Owada of Japan, for a majority of nine against a minority of five) is 54 pages—far from outrageous. (Compare the US Supreme Court's recent 42-page majority opinion regarding Trump's presidential immunity.) But there also are nine other opinions from individual judges. Of those, the longest (a concurrence from Judge Cançado Trindade of Brazil) is 95 pages by itself, and the other eight (three concurrences and five dissents) take up 78 pages in total. And you can add to that both a 31-page summary of all the opinions and an eight-page press release super-summarizing the majority opinion. That's a total of 266 A4 pages—easily enough to make a book! (The aforementioned US Supreme Court stuff has only 64 pages of separate opinions and 8 pages of summary, for a total of 114 letter-size pages. Note also that the US Supreme Court uses significantly larger margins than the ICJ does.)
Programmers love semantic versioning.
Given a version number MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, increment the:
MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes
MINOR version when you add functionality in a backward compatible manner
PATCH version when you make backward compatible bug fixes
Additional labels for pre-release and build metadata are available as extensions to the MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH format.
Can this be applied to fiction writing?
Given a version number MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, increment the:
MAJOR version when you make a retcon
MINOR version when you add information in a backward compatible manner (e. g., a new chapter)
PATCH version when you make backward compatible fixes (e. g., to English or continuity errors)
Additional labels for pre-release (e. g., Patreon-exclusive vs. public) and build (e. g., HTML/EPUB vs. Word/PDF, or fanfiction.net vs. archiveofourown.org) metadata are available as extensions to the MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH format.
My signature is merely my name (first, abbreviated middle, last) in ordinary cursive. I personally like how the capital letters look, but it does perhaps take a few seconds longer to write than would be ideal.
Flying to the brothels of Nevada would cost me next to nothing. But it's my understanding that the extremely low supply of (legal) prostitutes in Nevada results in high prices and low quality. If this is the only sex I will ever have, why not go to a proper free market in order to buy it at low prices and high quality, rather than rewarding the Nevada government for its stupid policies?
Wikipedia indicates that, other than the US, Australia is the only English-speaking country where brothels are legal. (In Britain, prostitution is legal, but brothels and advertising prostitution are not.)
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2d ago
It appears that brothels are illegal in Thailand (1 2). Randomly walking the streets of a country where I don't speak the language in order to look for women of widely-varying hotness at opaque prices (and, if this is the only sex that I will ever have, why not go for the hottest ones?) does not sound very enjoyable, in comparison to being able to pick from a lineup of brothel-curated employees at transparent prices that are posted on an English-language website.
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2d ago
Australian brothels advertise prices around 200 Australian dollars (130 US dollars) for 45 minutes of time. The majority of the cost would be the plane tickets, which I agree probably are not worth it.
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2d ago
The evidence he provided doesn’t to date confirm that.
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2d ago
A person who is not interested in sports will not spend time (1) looking at top-tier athletes and (2) comparing their musculature in detail.
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2d ago
Yes, at age 31 I have fucked exactly zero hawt gurls. Unfortunately, the rumors of magical wizard powers are greatly exaggerated. (I may spend five kilodollars on a trip to the brothels of Australia after I retire two years from now, but I probably will not be able to justify that expense.)
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3d ago
I think his account is perfectly reasonable. I personally was not aware of the huge strength differences between men and women until around age 25, when I stumbled across this transcript of a Senate hearing on the topic of adding women to combat units in the US armed forces. I watched exactly zero sports on television.
Did his school never do the Presidential fitness tests?
I don't think my high school did.
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4d ago
Associated Press: UN judge from Uganda is convicted in the UK of forcing a woman into slavery
A British jury on Thursday convicted a United Nations judge of forcing a young woman to work as a slave after tricking her into coming to the U.K.
Prosecutors said Lydia Mugambe made the Ugandan woman work as her maid and provide childcare for free.
Mugambe, who is also a high court judge in Uganda, was studying for a doctorate in law at the University of Oxford when the offenses occurred. According to her United Nations profile page, she was appointed to one of the global body’s international courts in May 2023.
Prosecution lawyer Caroline Haughey told jurors during the trial that Mugambe “exploited and abused” the victim, deceiving her into coming to the U.K. and taking advantage of her lack of understanding of her rights.
Prosecutors said Mugambe arranged for a contact in the Ugandan High Commission in London to get the woman a visa, under the guise that she would be working in the household and office of the diplomat. Once she arrived in Britain, she was taken to Mugambe’s home and made to work as an unpaid nanny. Her passport and visa document were taken away from her.
The victim eventually sought help from a friend, which led to police becoming involved.
Mugambe, 49, denied the charges. Jurors at Oxford Crown Court convicted her on all four charges she faced, including an immigration offense, forcing someone to work and conspiracy to intimidate a witness.
There were gasps from the public gallery as the verdicts were read out, and the court was cleared after Mugambe appeared unwell. She is due to be sentenced on May 2.
“Lydia Mugambe used her position to exploit a vulnerable young woman, controlling her freedom and making her work without payment,” said Eran Cutliffe of the Crown Prosecution Service’s Special Crime Division. “Thanks to the victim’s courage in coming forward it has been possible to bring Ms. Mugambe to justice and be held accountable for her actions.”
Reuters: Ugandan UN judge convicted in Britain after 'slavery' trial
Lydia Mugambe was appointed in 2023 to be a judge of the U.N. International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, which performs functions of previous tribunals relating to war crimes committed in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia.
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6d ago
The Canadian territories are too small in terms of population to be reasonable states. The three Canadian territories combined have only 130,000 people, despite their huge land area. That's significantly fewer than the least populous Canadian province's 180,000 people, and far fewer than the least populous US state's 590,000 people.
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7d ago
Prosecutorial discretion is a bad thing. If all laws were enforced to the hilt 100 percent of the time, then legislators would be very quickly incentivized by public outcry to make the definitions and the penalties for those crimes more reasonable.
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7d ago
Crystal Cafe is the female (femcel?) equivalent to 4chan's /r9k/ (incel?) board.
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7d ago
So am I. You don't need to be a lawyer in order to find interesting court opinions.
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7d ago
an outsider like me
Feel free to post opinions from your own country's judicial system.
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7d ago
Some renewed life has also been breathed into the idea of a CANZUK confederation.
The leader of the UK Liberal Democrats, Ed Davey, has publicly endorsed CANZUK in a recent newspaper column.
Following the resignation of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, four candidates have emerged to become the next leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, with two of the candidates [Carney and Baylis] resoundingly endorsing CANZUK during a televised leadership debate.
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8d ago
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Elizabeth is driving a 2016 Honda CR-V at 50 miles per hour on a two-lane undivided road. She drifts over the centerline and hits an oncoming car, driven by Ann. Both Elizabeth and Ann are killed in the crash. Ann's estate sues Elizabeth's estate, and presumably extracts a large settlement.
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Ann's estate also sues Honda. The estate's theory is that the CR-V counts as an unsafe vehicle, making Honda liable for the crash, because Honda failed to make "lane-departure warning" and "lane-keeping assist" technologies standard rather than optional in that vehicle.
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The trial judge rejects this argument and dismisses the case, and the appeals panel affirms. A manufacturer does not have a duty to install every available safety-enhancing technology. The base 2016 CR-V has a steering system sufficient to enable the motorist to keep the vehicle in its lane, so it counts as "safe".
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8d ago
According to Wikipedia, this decentralization was instituted by Deng Xiaoping back in the 1980s. Quoting various books published since 2008:
The governance of China is characterized by a high degree of political centralization but significant economic decentralization. Policy instruments or processes are often tested locally before being applied more widely, resulting in a policy that involves experimentation and feedback. Generally, central government leadership refrains from drafting specific policies, instead using the informal networks and site visits to affirm or suggest changes to the direction of local policy experiments or pilot programs. The typical approach is that central government leadership begins drafting formal policies, law, or regulations after policy has been developed at local levels.
After [Deng's] economic reform, China has been characterized by a high degree of political centralization but significant economic decentralization. The central government sets the strategic direction while local officials carry it out, including developing the details of policy.
Laboratories of <del>democracy</del> <ins>socialism with Chinese characteristics</ins>
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