"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.

IMO it's fine to wear dark, but be aware that drivers will have a harder time seeing you and you should be careful crossing the street.

Just don't cross a road without looking and you should be good.

I do agree with you that that packaging is misleading. But I do think the issue is the lack of the word "vegan" on the front, not the usage of the word "sausage".

Because this vote basically would require it to change into "cocktail cilinders" or something equally stupid, rather than "vegan cocktail sausages" which imo is much clearer.

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 think they did briefly mentioned they improved the sticks, but they never clarified what exactly.

That's not really self-diagnosis is it? Self-diagnosis would be you already claiming there was a tumour before doctors found something.

Knowing something off is not diagnosing yourself.

Perhaps it was being influenced by the chat history. But try asking how many r's in raspberry, it does get that consistently wrong for me. And you can ask it those followup questions to easily get it to spout nonsense, and that was mostly my point; figuring out if you're talking to an LLM is fairly trivial.

Cheapest way to dispose of broken bottles. Just chuck it into the well.

Absolutely done to increase profit margins.

Semiweekly is twice a week (semi meaning half, so every 'semiweek' or half-week).

Omnipotence. Then I'm pretty much done.