"Defensive gun use" is horseshit. Statistics clearly show that owning a gun increases the risk that anyone in the household (including children) will die by homicide, suicide or unintentional injuries. The amount of successful defensive uses of a gun pales in comparison to the number of preventable injuries and deaths that gun ownership brings.

An Iranian civil war would be Netanyahu's preferred outcome.

In the Netherlands, to become a judge you must first study Dutch law at a university, then get at least 2 years of work experience in a law-related job. Then you take a second study of 15 months to at most 4 years to become a judge, which also has very strict selection criteria.

After that, you can become a judge. The judiciary branch selects its own members in that way.

If you want to become a higher level judge, you need 10 years of related experience and another study taking at most 2 years.

There's no supreme court in the Netherlands. The legislative may make laws that supersede the constitution, but only if a very strong argumentation as to why is provided. The Raad van State (Council of State) can judge whether the cabinet has properly applied the law when writing new laws or taking executive decisions. The cabinet can suggest who should join the council, but the council determines if they are a good candidate (ranging from judges to scientists to former lawmakers). They then serve "for life" meaning until they turn 70, after which they retire. There can only be 11 members at a time.

I feel like this is far too dismissive for a comment that was in my eyes fairly constructive. He correctly pointed out that one of Amazon's main selling points is their whole logistics division. A federated website doesn't have that. So either:

• You somehow also start doing logistics, or
• You provide a good reason why shops don't actually care about Amazon's logistics all that much, and how they could to it themselves instead.

Maybe you could actually address the core of his criticism instead of outright dismissing it.

You could have a hired group of people to laugh at certain jokes in a theatre show? Would sound exactly like and have the same purpose as a laugh track. It'd be live and not recorded, but just as non-genuine as actual laughter from the audience.

He's joking that it is caused by dementia because Trump kept saying that about Biden and that therefore Biden should drop out. Since Trump is "unable" to get her name right "clearly" it's the dementia talking and Trump should go to a nursing home.

It's all in jest, we all know it's the racism talking.

North Korea started lobbing missiles again, Putin built up his invasion force for Ukraine, his dismissal of Palestinian concerns and emboldening of Israel led to Hamas attacking Israel again, Afghanistan was overrun by the Taliban because he decided to pull US troops out.

The world wasn't very peaceful under Trump. Rather it geared up for war.

In the Netherlands 112 is fine, most critical systems are. It's mostly airports that are getting fucked by this it seems.

Banks and PSPs are fine here too.

Could be an attempted Slovakian flag.

The PR had some issues regarding files that were pushed that shouldn't have been, adding refactors that should have been in separate PRs, etc...

Though the main reason is that Signal doesn't consider this issue a part of their threat model.

If you do dumb shit while drunk, you still chose to get drunk. Your fully-aware mind is perfectly capable of grasping that you getting drunk will make you do dumb shit, so imo you're fully responsible for your actions while drunk.

Source? There's pictures of the helicopter landed in Ukraine. See https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1694320580152164794