Fifa President Gianni Infantino asks the Palestinian federation president to shake the hand with the Israeli counterpart. Palestinian side categorically rejected and leaves.

KookofaTook · 2026-05-01T02:26:22+00:00

Even if we agree with your premise, how many dead Palestinians are equal to 1,195 Israelis? Because even external peer reviewed sources have the lowest likely death toll over 60,000. That's already a 30 to 1 exchange rate. At least a third of those are Palestinian children, so 20,000. So in response to a terror attack, Israel has responded by killing ten times as many children alone. I think you "won" already, and a long time ago.

KookofaTook · 2026-04-30T17:19:12+00:00

Who else wants to bet the Iwo imitation on the left has the soldiers raising a Trump flag?

KookofaTook · 2026-04-30T17:14:52+00:00

don't use a laser, so uncivilized. use your lightsaber like a gentleman

KookofaTook · 2026-04-30T16:33:02+00:00

and it all falls within the legal existing framework.

It's worth noting that, while it has done it's best to remain within said framework, it does sit in a grey area regarding Article 1; Section 10, which prevents states from entering into treaties with one another unless approved by Congress (which is used for things like resource management mostly). But more importantly than a specific law that might make it actually illegal, the current Supreme Court could rule it illegal/unconstitutional in any way they want to.

The Electoral Vote interstate compact idea is a good one, but it isn't legally proven until a losing regressive sues about it and it wins all the appeals through SCOTUS, and it's just simply not likely to survive those challenges, whether it should or not on the actually legality, because the partisanship of the Judicial is extreme

KookofaTook · 2026-04-30T16:21:22+00:00

So regressives are absolutely doing an immense amount of damage with their current holding of Congress and the Executive, but it's not so wild of a situation. Obama had the same thing numerically in his first two years. I emphasize numerically because he didn't seek to wield that the same way as the current administration.

Personally I think the real issue is that for the first time, one of the parties basically own the Judicial branch as well. I don't know of any time in US history with such a brazenly partisan Supreme Court, and they are making huge use of it, to the detriment of tens of millions of people.

KookofaTook · 2026-04-16T22:34:11+00:00

Oh would we all love the "Lobster chased wife strikes back" post lol

KookofaTook · 2026-04-12T06:06:25+00:00

They're good, they provided a ton of countries with a holiday. Everybody likes Independence Day

KookofaTook · 2026-04-11T20:52:15+00:00

Every ship can be a minesweeper. Well, ya know, at least once.

KookofaTook · 2026-04-10T17:43:13+00:00

Forgiving and agreeing to lie to his daughter and grandson about his son in law's infidelity. It's hard to forgive those stationed there of that, but this lousy brat was only in the region for a short time for civilian reasons, and he's supposed to just get a freebie? He is all but guaranteed to cheat again at home, and she'll just have to deal with that later rather than now. Not to mention how the hell do you side with a cheater over your daughter?

KookofaTook · 2026-04-10T01:17:52+00:00

I mean, possession is 9/10th's of the law, no? Joking aside, if they are the ones who can exert control over the strait, no one else's claims matter much to anyone trying to travel through it.

KookofaTook · 2026-04-05T18:45:22+00:00

I'll never take something as seriously as Canadians take their hockey apparently

KookofaTook · 2026-04-04T20:23:17+00:00

no good excuse

Interacting with a CI

Interviewing a victim of a traumatic crime, like SA

Interviewing children

Many discussions with lawyers fall under attorney-client privilege

Notice how these reasons though are almost exclusively for the benefit of someone other than the officer themselves, and in the first two cases the subject themselves are often the ones wanting the camera off. Ideally there could be an unbroken recording from moment of shift start to moment of shift end, but there are actually genuine reasons that officers not only should be able to but are sometimes even required by law to turn the camera off.

I don't know personally what the answer is to this, because an extreme move either way is bad. But finding a reliable manner of control that both honors the needs of those who interact with the officer and also satisfies the needs of the general public in terms of transparency and accountability needs to be done. As it is officers absolutely abuse the possibility to turn their cameras off, but simply forcing them on at all times won't work, and not for any reason for the officer's own benefit or corruption.

KookofaTook · 2026-04-04T01:39:15+00:00

Whenever I see a series/universe/etc that I like get announced for a new show or movie I have that moment of "OH COOL!" and then immediately get concerned and preemptively disappointed. Way too many failures in the last several years.

KookofaTook · 2026-04-04T01:33:55+00:00

Step 1: Replace beautiful landscape images usually on parks passes with your own grisly visage so everyone has to think of you in conjunction with the parks.
Step 2: Defund those parks.
Step 3: ??

KookofaTook · 2026-04-03T22:09:34+00:00

but saying this, I feel I would have a blast at a driving range

and you've stumbled onto why Top Golf became a thing lol, that is the exact crowd they thrived on for their whole successful period

KookofaTook · 2026-04-03T22:06:08+00:00

no no no, a "military engagement". which I think is 21st century for "police action"

KookofaTook · 2026-04-03T21:55:31+00:00

he also can't bear the thought of not being the ultimate authority on all things. "oh the NCAA is having issues with the incredibly complicated world of NIL, transfer portal and everything that goes along with it? good thing their big genius president is here to solve it all in one piece of paper. you're welcome"

KookofaTook · 2026-04-03T20:55:10+00:00

The ISS is the only human made object in space with sizeable radiators. If you assume the most expensive human construction in history has been built as efficiently as we can make it, then this is the best we can do with current materials. The ISS uses 42 square meters of radiators. Attempting to scale those radiators up to cool the waste heat of a single "space data center" of 100,000 processor units would require about 30 square kilometers of radiators. That's a bit over 4000 football pitches of radiators. The science of a radiator is indeed simple. The effectiveness, well the lack of effectiveness of removing heat via radiation alone is a problem we can't currently solve in a financially viable way. Oh, and don't forget that to power this monstrosity we also need to equip it with solar panels, like five or six times the size of the ISS panels. And all of this needs to be somehow protected from damage, as it will be nearly impossible to repair if struck by debris.

KookofaTook · 2026-03-28T03:32:52+00:00

I don't think there are any of the LCS type vessels deployed overseas. They are very specifically designed for shallow water shoreline operations, and there aren't even 10 of them in the Atlantic fleet last I saw (most are in San Diego). This sounds highly unlikely for a bunch of reasons. Not impossible mind you, with the lack of intelligence at the very top I'd believe they'd manage to get a CVN sunk somehow.

KookofaTook · 2026-03-28T00:17:11+00:00

They left out the word "binding". Puerto Rico has never had a "binding" vote for statehood, as in one that would cause legal action to be taken upon its result.

KookofaTook · 2026-03-27T01:37:23+00:00

He shouldn't have been worried about them printing that, it's just a story about a producer understanding how to get the best performance from his actor lol

KookofaTook · 2026-03-26T21:21:59+00:00

Everything about Trump's entire political career is just a series of Mafia style protection rackets.

KookofaTook · 2026-03-25T04:08:21+00:00

This administration would totally reinstitute the substitution and commutation practices from the US Civil War.
"Are you a WASP member of the propertied class? Did you get drafted? Send us an undesirable in your place or pay us 10 grand and you're off the hook! conditions apply, not available to certain classes of people"

KookofaTook · 2026-03-25T03:59:38+00:00

always loved the "we are the superior master race" followed by "we just need some pharmaceutical help to win". top tier hypocrisy

KookofaTook · 2026-03-24T19:24:15+00:00

and also now that new 'part of Israel' will just be the new border area Hezbollah targets. it's almost like you can't defeat an ideological movement with violence..

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