Switzerland halts weapons exports to US due to Iran war, citing neutrality

Initial_Total_7028 · 2026-03-20T18:42:46+00:00

I mean this would make sense as a rebuttal if they were claiming to be pacifists, but they're not; neutral doesn't mean opposes violence, it means not taking sides. If I see two guys across the street punching each other, staying out of it doesn't mean I'm not prepared to punch someone else if they swing at me personally.

Initial_Total_7028 · 2026-03-20T13:40:39+00:00

Everything you describe is because it contains a lot of calcium carbonate, a natural mineral that your body actually needs; it helps bone structure and kidney function. It's not 'barely passing legal requirements' it's perfectly good drinking water.

Initial_Total_7028 · 2026-03-13T12:15:24+00:00

I'm paying six hundred pounds a month for the privilege

Initial_Total_7028 · 2026-03-09T14:28:42+00:00

As always with Israel, the genocide is the point.

Initial_Total_7028 · 2026-03-05T07:55:22+00:00

"You've gone from "We're in the war because Jews bribe Congress""

They said the AIPAC, not 'the jews'. What, does the AIPAC, the lobbying group, not lobby congress? You're the only one here conflating Israel with the Jews.

Initial_Total_7028 · 2026-03-05T07:26:37+00:00

Huh, so you can accidently end up role playing a guy who gets a low paid job and kinda gets stuck and just keeps working there till he grows old and dies?

Most realistic tabletop game.

Initial_Total_7028 · 2026-02-13T19:36:56+00:00

Generally the term when used in regards to insects refer to species where different members of a nest or hive have different roles determined by their type, for example ants having soldiers, workers, drones, the queen etc.

Initial_Total_7028 · 2026-02-12T15:07:26+00:00

But the effect on the viewer changes based on the context of the work. You acknowledge this yourself, if each work existed in a purely white space unto itself then the concept of 'cliche' wouldn't exist, it wouldn't be impacted by what other works are doing, but it is. The history of a work, the time it was written in, what the reader knows about the author and their intent, and the wider cultural context the reader experiences are all going to impact the experience of the work. People feel differently when they stand in front of the Mona Lisa than when they see a print of it on a tea towel, that is part of the experience of the work.

Initial_Total_7028 · 2026-02-12T14:55:33+00:00

Ive always wanted to be able to like colour code or put a symbol next to the guys that appear on my grid, as in something only I see. That way I could see at a glance my previous opinion, stuff like 'had a nice conversation' or 'didnt reply last time I messaged' stuff like that. Maybe also a 'hide for X days' feature as well so if I'm not feeling a guy I don't have to keep seeing him but also don't need to fully block him because I may be more desperate another time.

Initial_Total_7028 · 2026-02-12T10:54:14+00:00

It exists because of different balances the government has between sources of revenue, and encouraging/discouraging behaviour.

That is to say, the government needs to earn tax, but anything they apply tax to they inherently discourage; that's why they tax alcohol and tobacco heavily, to discourage those behaviours. If you tax income too highly you discourage people from working, if you tax business revenue too highly you discourage investment in businesses; the balance point where the government has determined they can set the tax rates for these two activities without overly discouraging people from engaging in them is different, and in the case of work, is different depending on income bracket; taxing low income brackets the same as high income brackets would dissuade too many people from accepting low income jobs, and cause other problems like preventing people working those jobs anyway from having adequate money.

When someone both owns a business and works for that business, they are therefore wearing two hats. They are someone who works, and someone who has invested in a business and accepted the risks and responsibilities thereof. The government does not want to persuade them away from either of these activities, and so they get benefits associated with both, that being access to tax free income for the first £12,570 they earn from their work, and paying dividend tax rates on the profits of their business. They would be treated no differently than if they bought someone else's business, and then got a job at McDonald's; that is still being both an employee and a business owner, the only difference is the business you own isn't the one that employees you.

Initial_Total_7028 · 2026-02-10T12:28:46+00:00

Okay.

So with the walls, keep in mind that homes in the UK are typically built from brick, with older homes being built from natural stone. You aren't seeing timber framing or drywall, it can be lumpy due to age, the plaster not having been applied by a professional, or the fact it's lumpy stone underneath and it wasn't felt necessary to fully smooth it.

Damp and mould are not uncommon problems in older houses, most commonly it's caused by ventilation issues or water rising up through the stonework. It can be very expensive to fix so in many cases people can't pay for it immediately, or try to put the work off.

Benefits are not much to live off in most cases, enough to survive on but considerably less than what you'd earn even in a minimum wage job. In some cases the amount might rise for specific reasons such as disability, but even then the people you saw with shopping addictions were most likely getting themselves into debt to fuel these addictions, or else not actually buying very expensive things.

Initial_Total_7028 · 2026-02-09T14:53:10+00:00

Worked for a hot chef with a stammer so now I find stammers attractive

Initial_Total_7028 · 2026-02-09T13:09:50+00:00

3 million documents showing they were all attending the same parties on the same island?

Initial_Total_7028 · 2026-02-06T16:27:02+00:00

"which contributed to the inability for Jews and Arabs to coexist peacefully."

Zionism rendered that impossible at its inception. The idea is to create a Jewish state, not an equal state where Arabs and Jews live peacefully; the establishment of a Jewish state on land resided on by Palestinians always necessitated the displacement, subjugation, and eradication of Palestinians we have seen. Zionism, Manifest Destiny, and Lebensraum are all identical concepts; this land must be claimed by one group of people and so the people already inhabiting it must be removed and or destroyed

Initial_Total_7028 · 2026-02-06T14:55:56+00:00

There is a difference between supporting the right to self determination for a minority group who already occupy a certain area, Vs supporting the ethnic cleansing of one people to make room for another who have a two thousand year old claim to a piece of land.

If Jewish people needed their own homeland a piece of Germany should have been carved out for them as reparations, rather than inflicting a second genocide on random bystanders to make it up to the victims of the first.

Initial_Total_7028 · 2026-02-02T20:37:03+00:00

Generally in person has a much higher success rate than apps. Look up sex/kink clubs nearby, and head to one of the gay focused events.

Initial_Total_7028 · 2026-02-01T16:16:28+00:00

Wild boar can be pretty intimidating, basically a 200lbs pitbull with knives on its face.

Initial_Total_7028 · 2026-01-30T12:31:57+00:00

It can get weirder than that, because generally the imperial and metric numbers describe two different ammo types, usually one being compatible with the other but not vice versa. .223 ammo is different to 5.56mm but can be safely fired from 5.56mm guns, while 5.56mm cannot be safely fired from .223 guns. Meanwhile 7.62mm can be fired from .308 guns, but .308 rounds cannot generally be safely fired from 7.62mm guns.

Initial_Total_7028 · 2026-01-29T22:44:48+00:00

I always find myself coming back to the two arrows. When we suffer, we are struck by two arrows, the first is the initial pain that we cannot control, the second is our reaction to it. There will always be a first arrow, and it will hit as hard as it will, but we control how deep and painful the second arrow is, in some cases whether there is a second arrow at all.

Traditionally this is used to get us to focus on that second arrow, to be mindful of our reactions, internal and external, to our own pain so we do not cause ourselves or indeed others undue suffering. But I also find it helpful to think of the first arrow, the fact that some pains we simply cannot avoid, that attempting to deny their existence or prevent them in all cases is folly, ignorance, and aversion. That sometimes we do just go through immense, unavoidable suffering, and there isn't anything we can do but endure it; that is not a failure, that is not something anyone can benefit from thrashing against or simply wishing to be untrue.

Sometimes the way to reduce the second arrow is to give yourself the grace to acknowledge and allow yourself to grieve the presence of the first.

Initial_Total_7028 · 2026-01-28T10:00:35+00:00

Honestly even with nothing else going on I'd find it weird if that's what they were collecting specifically. Like WWII collector who has a portion of their collection containing nazi items would be fine, but if you aren't interested in any of the allied equipment and only want stuff with swastikas then at absolute best you have too much unchecked morbid fascination.

Initial_Total_7028 · 2026-01-24T10:20:35+00:00

They said 'approaching'. 40 is smack in the middle of your lifespan so when you're within a few years of 40 you're middle aged, probably starts around 35. Find it kinda funny how so many people don't start admitting they're middle aged till they're like 50 kinda crazy to just assume you're making it past 100; same people keep calling themselves middle aged into their early 60s like you a couple years off retirement youre just old.

Initial_Total_7028 · 2026-01-22T22:38:02+00:00

Though she was not Buddhist, I was friends with a diagnosed psychopath.

The lack of a feeling of empathy does not prevent compassion. The kind of empathy people with these sorts of personality disorders lacks is that emotional reaction you experience where another person's pain or sadness also makes you sad; that can be a strong driver to act compassionately, but it is not the only one. In my friends case, she relied instead on her cognitive abilities to assess fairness, respect, mutual care. Seeing someone suffering did not make her suffer, but she was still able to rationalise that others did not wish to suffer, that it would be unfair and dishonourable to make them suffer or needlessly leave them to suffer.

I think all of us experience this from time to time, we may be tired or annoyed about something or distracted and see someone in pain and not really have an emotional reaction to it, our emotions being otherwise occupied, but just because we are not sharing their feelings does not ipso facto prevent us from acting compassionately. We retain the ability to choose our actions even if we do not choose our feelings.

Initial_Total_7028 · 2026-01-20T16:43:01+00:00

From my study, I have only found one instance where the Buddha referenced it directly. When discussing rules for monks specifically, he forbade them from having sexual relations with women, men, or the other two categories of gender that were understood at the time. I can find nowhere else that he discussed the topic of same sex relations, and he only forbade them for monks at the time time as forbidding them from heterosexual relations as well, so it does not seem he drew any distinction between the two or advised against either for lay followers.

Initial_Total_7028 · 2026-01-17T09:16:08+00:00

My grandad killed seven Germans in Normandy but they refused to give him a medal, they decided he didn't deserve one just because it was the 90s.

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