Nope. At that point, you’re new money with no way to sustain it. You’re part of The Poors but with the added step of funneling that money into “better, more capable” hands, and a poor investment for a pardon.

As far as I know, everyone who has been cryogenically frozen and thawed out has had to have their soup-ified remains be scraped out of the vat into a barrel. I cannot imagine voluntarily paying to sign my child up for that fate.

You know why

Hell, they’ll look them straight in the eye with greasy lips smiling wide and sincerely say, “Thank you.”

I guess a better analogy would be a guy with his beaten and bloody wife who is pleading for help from the officer, who just shrugs and says “Sorry, ma’am” before leaving. But the general idea remains the same.

That’s my reading as well. I have no idea what is actually in Article IX but it sounds like UAE snuck in “except us” when it came to defining the ICJ’s jurisdiction. It’s giving SovCit vibes, only instead of a sovereign citizen unbeholden to their government and declaring their house a nation state, it’s a country unbeholden to the world and declaring themselves outside of its purview. And the ICJ is just shrugging their shoulders saying the same thing.

Imagine someone shooting up heroin while driving, getting pulled over on a highway on-ramp, then telling the cop who is looking at the needle in their arm that technically this is a highway, so highway patrol are the only ones who could pull them over. In what world does the cop shrug and say “Aw shucks, you’re right” before getting back in their squad car and driving off? Because it seems like the international equivalent of that just happened but with genocide instead of addiction.

We’re gonna need a bigger M&M’s tube…

Scooped this up because of this post. I don’t know a ton about knives and my only other balisong was a cheap one from a tourist trap. That said I am very happy with this little guy. I like the weight, feels very solid

Only thing is that the screw that holds the latch (and clip by default) gets loose pretty easily when repeatedly latched and unlatched. I don’t have loctite at the moment to threadlock it (I never loosened it to begin with) but hopefully that will fix it. For now I just tighten it when the clip starts moving