VoxelVexillologist
🇺🇸 Multidimensional Radical Centrist
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VoxelVexillologist
🇺🇸 Multidimensional Radical Centrist
1d ago
Not knowing how to read the original text, is "Jewish" there explicit or just implied?
As a hypothetical, "the people" in the Second Amendment could be translated as "Americans" pretty reasonably for a global audience, but there are probably more than a few "shall not be infringed" stans that would explicitly claim the right should be universal, but probably not to the point of, say, invading Canada to hand out guns to everyone there. I'm not sure I'd claim either way is "correct" per se: the source material is a bit ambiguous.
I saw recently that Singapore has created a dating app that uses Gale-Shapley, so maybe there is mathematical hope for the monogamously-inclined. I'm legitimately curious how that will go for them.
ETA: Curious which variant they're using. The bias in the method is well-documented, but there are egalitarian forms.
VoxelVexillologist
🇺🇸 Multidimensional Radical Centrist
1d ago
My thinking was less "search and seizure law" and more "the Allies sent reconnaissance planes (without informing the pilots) places they knew enemy ships to be from code breaking, such that the Germans wouldn't suspect they could read Enigma messages."
But it seems less likely in this case.
VoxelVexillologist
🇺🇸 Multidimensional Radical Centrist
2d ago
Morality laws and norms varied a lot over the course of the Empire. Augustus criminalized adultery, for example. And the later part of the empire literally adopted Christianity, although I assume that wasn't your intended comparison.
VoxelVexillologist
🇺🇸 Multidimensional Radical Centrist
2d ago
Then a farmer saw
My conspiracy brain wonders whether this was happenstance or "parallel construction" on something that they expected to be there via means not intended to be disclosed.
On the subject of blockade, doesn't Taiwan just lose?
Maybe. But they could plausibly return the favor Iran-style. Blocking, or just dissuading via insurance premiums, a large fraction of traffic at the ports of Shenzhen or Shanghai would also be disasterous for China, especially if Japan, Korea, Vietnam, or the Philippines were to even quietly be supportive. Both Chinas rely heavily on imports for energy and agriculture. And Trump's Iran blockade has had to be pretty clear about not applying to food, too.
It seems quite possible that both sides could "lose" there.
VoxelVexillologist
🇺🇸 Multidimensional Radical Centrist
6d ago
Jamake Highwater comes to mind: he wrote several award-winning books and worked on PBS documentaries on the fake basis that he was Cherokee. IMO worse, after this was published in the 80s, he continued to have a career doing so, notably consulting on Star Trek: Voyager.
Does this include refined products? IIRC the Gulf states had been moving up the value chain, and had built a lot of refining capacity there, largely displacing smaller facilities in other nations. I recall someone in the industry saying that refiners still operating were doing really well on margins because so much global capacity (Russia and Gulf states) was offline. I hadn't heard if the Gulf refineries are back online, even if crude shipments (or total volume?) are recovering.
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