𝕯𝖆𝖘 𝖜𝖆̈𝖗𝖊 𝖐𝖊𝖎𝖓 𝕻𝖗𝖔𝖇𝖑𝖊𝖒 𝖜𝖊𝖓𝖓 𝖎𝖍𝖗 𝖉𝖎𝖊 𝕽𝖚𝖍𝖊𝖟𝖊𝖎𝖙𝖊𝖓 𝖊𝖎𝖓𝖍𝖆𝖑𝖙𝖊𝖓 𝖜𝖚̈𝖗𝖉𝖊𝖙 𝖎𝖍𝖗 𝕾𝖈𝖍𝖑𝖚̈𝖒𝖕𝖋𝖊

Honestly you’re more likely tripping over your shoelace

Ladders. Ladders are the #1 killer. And stupid shit on top of that, like taking something down from a high shelf.

When the dynamic you’re alluding to is done right you have the (typically, not always) woman wanting to be chased as much as the man is chasing. It’s the rider saying “oooh, rollercoaster, you’re so intimidating and scary, toss me around” while the rollercoaster is saying “ooooh, you like curves and airtime don’t you I’ll hold you fast and secure”.

most violence against women is committed against men.

I’ll leave that one for you and Freud to figure out.

…one question, though: When you say “violence”, do you mean psychological, physical, or both?

Is this article about a newborn being killed?

No. The illustrative example was about newborn getting killed. Try to understand the point OP is making SMH.

Amazon engineers will oversee the hardware because AWS owns the hardware and is responsible for maintaining it just as they do in the company’s public data centers.

It seems I severely underestimated just how cooked the US are.

They were also happy to not give permits for the Power of Siberia pipeline. They’re 3.5m people on a gigantic piece of land right in between Russia and China, I don’t blame them for appeasing: Their very existence hinges on convincing two authoritarian states that they’re not a puppet of the other. In this case, also convincing them that they’re not a puppet of what they’re calling their third neighbours. They’re doomed to neutrality.

Criticise any other country for not executing that arrest warrant, or at least uninviting Putin, heck while you’re at it criticise a couple of alleged democracies that they’re not a signatory: But not Mongolia. They have damn good reasons to not go through with it and as far as I’m aware, that’s actually covered in the Rome statute. They’re pulling the national security card and they’re right about it.

And no one is talking about “avoiding fines.” WTF are you even on about?

You are. Who is going to pay the fine against X? If Starlink doesn’t like it they’re free to sue Musk for the money back. They can cancel a couple of his shares to cover it. I don’t care. Brazil doesn’t care. The fine has been issued, and it’s going to be paid.

State fines against a company aren’t a civil matter. Brazil isn’t suing anyone, they’re enforcing compliance with law by means of fines and the laws governing that would be written shoddily indeed if you could avoid fines by incanting “limited liability” like some sovereign citizen. “I’m not breaking laws, I’m doing limited liability business”.

Certainly not on AWS ours does not. And even in the US I think the TLAs you might get are the likes of the DMV, not the FBI, or anything else even remotely connected to law enforcement or the military.

If it’s about paying fines then that’s standard procedure. You can’t limited liability yourself out of fines: If the subsidiary doesn’t pay they fall onto the owner, said owner is Musk, said Musk has assets in Brazil in the form of Starlink accounts, hence, you impound them. If he had parked his Yacht there they would’ve gone for that.

This reminds me of an old, really old case: Some nobleman owed a Hanseatic trader money over a grain shipment. Refused to pay. Had the gall to show up in Hamburg. Trader had him arrested, noble threw a fit, appealed to the Emperor. Emperor said: “Dude that’s Hamburg, they DGAF if you’re a noble short of forbidding you to take up residence in the city, pay up”. Ended up selling most of his land to get out of debt and therefore prison, and an important lesson about assumed privilege was learned.

Should’ve at least uninvited Putin from showing up in person, though.

With pretty much any other country, yes, I’d agree. But Mongolia is stuck in between Russia and China, I can’t blame them for appeasing. It’s a delicate balance, demonstrating to both that they’re not a puppet of the other, and, in this specific case, not a puppet of their “third neighbours” either.

From the Russian side, that might very well have been the intention: Asking “Mongolia, do we need to start worrying about you”.

Oh. Bonus Metal.

Mongolia is a democracy and NATO partner there’s a chance that the west would actually care. Mostly though neither China or Russia are even trying to touch it because they prefer having a buffer state in between them that is not aligned to either, but has the diplomatic wherewithal to have good relationships with both.

Also it’s a fucking desert plateau. There’s a reason there’s so few Mongolians. Few things grow there and practically nothing grows well, and there already is quite an issue with overgrazing because animal husbandry is pretty much the only thing you can actually do on the land. And who is to say that copper is going to be cheaper after you conquer the land? It’s not like Mongolia would be unwilling to export. Even if you could do it for cheaper, still probably not worth the political headache. And sanctions.

I find it amusing that you believe German bureaucracy to be versatile and efficient enough to be able to be steered so quickly by spontaneous political will.

I believe that it is able to receive new orders, even on short notice so that politicians can make speeches. That has nothing to do witch actual processing speed. On the contrary, in fact, they might very well have to re-open a case file they just closed and start from scratch. Sisyphus has nothing on German bureaucrats.

It also doesn’t mean that they follow those new orders until a court reminds them to, not all new orders trickle down to everywhere they should.

The notion, that a human life has “no value” is contradictory to all established standards of ethics and morality.

Would you have lost sleep if any of the assassination attempts on Hitler had succeeded? Did you break out in tears, felt bereaved, when he shot himself, proclaiming that his people betrayed him?

You can moral high-horse all you want. At some point you just don’t care whether someone makes it. That doesn’t mean that you want them dead – it means that they’re too much of an assclown to care about: Because either you stop caring about them, or you become a doormat for them. They will exploit and monopolise your empathy, making you lose the capacity to care about and aid people who are, indeed, more worthy of your empathy and support than fucking Hitler.

Maybe people know more than what’s written in the article. Say, they might have read the German press. Like this article.

28 people, all convicted of serious crimes, examples given are a rapist, someone who got into trouble with the law 150 times, we have attempted manslaughter, aggravated robbery, aggravated bodily harm, another rapist, more aggravated bodily harm, more rape.

Three were held back by the state attorneys saying they want to prosecute further and/or want them to sit in prison for longer, two were not at home when police came to arrest them, one of those is now a fugitive.

Oh and all get 1000 Euros so they won’t straight-up starve on arrival.

Defenders have advantage yes but there’s basically noone defending Kursk. With Ukraine focussing on Kursk, Russia may even win as much territory in Ukraine as it’s losing of its own.

Yet that’s still bound to be a political win for Ukraine as every square metre of Kursk is worth a lot more in terms of negotiating position than a piece of the Donbas. And as we all know war is the continuation of politics with different means, that is, politics is all that it’s about. Winning or losing a war is not decided by square metre of occupied territory, or kill count, or whatnot, but about making it politically advantageous for the enemy to withdraw.

150% political manoeuvring before the elections. The federal government changing their policy as to whom to extend subsidiary protection to really doesn’t do anything as it’s state courts which have the ultimate say whether someone can be deported.

…and yes that means that in the extreme Germany has 16 different opinions on which countries are safe to deport people to.

My very point is that comparisons become impossible at some point. You might be able to say “The Nazis are worse here” or “The Soviets are worse here” but once you try to go “They’re better” you look around and see that nope, that’s just coincidence, nope, that’s still fucking unconscionable, nope, there’s no tiny sliver of goodness behind that that would make “better” a word anyone with an ounce of ethics would use without their stomach churning.

Thus, neither are better than the other, and both are worse. Because the shit they did is so far off the scale that comparisons break down. It’s like comparing infinities.

No, I’m referring to the postwar situation of the 1940s in which thousands of Poles were deliberately starved to death by Soviet authorities.

So the 1946/47 Winter? Germany also hungered back then, it was an extreme cold and draught double-whammy, but by the life of me I can’t find anything about Poland, and that’s with searching for sources in Polish.

Yes, that’s kind of the point. The Soviets were opportunistic genocidaires. The Nazis sabotaged their own war effort to engage in more genocide. One. Is. Worse.

Yes: Being opportunistic is more effective in the long run. Cold-bloodedness doesn’t tend to make things better, on the contrary, as it necessitates habit it’s harder to overcome.

…and just for the record: If you’d been arguing that the Soviets were worse I’d have challenged you by arguing that the Nazis were worse. That’s my very point. They’re both worse.