I would say an absolutist would be justified in crossing the border if they offer that land back at the end of hostilities in exchange for other concessions.

Even if Ukraine doesn’t reclaim all of their land they could offer Russia kursk for some other equal amount of Ukrainian land in any peace talks.

Otherwise if Russia refuses Ukraine is justified in keeping that land.

You would have to guarantee those phones would eventually end up in the right person’s hands.

Otherwise if you sabotage 100 phones and only 30 go to your targets, even if you only detonate those 30 there are now 70 phones out there randomly floating around with enough explosives to kill some random person.

People will believe a bullshit rumour easily if it conforms to one of their preexisting biases.

Anyone who believes that Haitian immigrants are eating the neighbourhood cats is 90% likely to be straight up racist even if they don’t think they are, or 10% likely that they are just dumb as bricks with no critical thought capabilities.

I work in mosquito control, it’s been generally fairly well known as far as I know. Light traps use black light bulbs as one of the methods to attract mosquitos because the lack of visible light cuts down on the number of bycatch like moths but the bulb still generates heat to attract the mosquitos, usually paired with dry ice for CO2.

It was 34°C where I was on Saturday in western Canada. Thankfully cooling off quite a bit in the next few weeks though down to highs of 18-20.

Regular mowers have a person which animal can recognize as a threat and run away. They may not bother running from an automated mower I imagine.

Might sound stupid, but perhaps then they shouldn’t be offering services like Disney Plus and instead simply offer a car that lets you download any streaming app you have your own subscription for.

Why does anyone live there? Is it cheap?

Products that change the service they offer after you purchase it should also be eligible for a full refund (plus a % on top for the hassle). Such as offering a service through the product for free at the time of purchase but then moving it being a monthly subscription paywall later on, or just removing the feature completely.

There should almost be some sort of technological transfer to nearby empires, like cultural influence. If your neighbour is at 10000 tech points or whatever while you are at 1000, you should be able to leech some tech points from your neighbour to develop faster.

Transfer rate increases with the disparity between nations and decreases with distance.

So a super advanced empire on continent A will contribute to nations on continent A and B, but those on continent A get more of a bonus than those on B.

This aligns fairly well with reality as neighbouring countries would transfer students to universities all the time, less so the further the nations are apart.

Global politics is complicated, I know it’s hard

Do you use an entire avocado for your toast?

Where I live it’s $5 a gallon for milk (let’s assume 1/10 gallon for breakfast cereal so $0.50 per bowl)

Then it’s like $1.00 /100g of cereal, so you’re probably looking at $1.50 for a bowl of cheerios.

Where I live I can get avocados for $1.20 each and a loaf of bread for $4.50 (14 slices?) so if I use half an avocado for my slice of toast that’s less than $1.

Where I live I’m looking at a possible $1600 mortgage for a 750sq ft. apartment if I live in a shitty part of town where I may need to replace a window due to stray bullets at some point.

And then PlayStation 6 will come out in like a year or something. Why would anyone buy this when they could wait for the ps6?

Don’t we already have pretty strict safety standards for vehicles? I can’t imagine these Chinese vehicles meet all the safety and testing requirements for the price they’re sold for.

Should be allowed to return products at a full refund when they do something like this, and for an additional 25% value in a gift card for the inconvenience.

I don’t understand why school has to be a full day either. I’m sure teachers could use an extra hour every morning to do their prep, planning, and grading.

Where I live (not the US) most food isn’t taxed unless it’s something that’s considered more of a luxury item or has punitive taxes like soft drinks with a sugar tax.

What’s the point of stronger laws if the existing ones aren’t enforced? The stronger ones wouldn’t be enforced either.

I don’t even understand why I need to make a password for some sites anymore. They send a code to my phone everytime.to make.sure it’s me so it seems like there’s practically no point.