Kyre

I don’t hate children but children under age 6-8 creep me out. I get a flight response when I am put into a situation where I have to be around a toddler or baby. I have always thought it was an uncanny valley thing though. As soon as they can make complete coherent sentences though, it’s awesome. It’s incredible to watch them learn, absorb, and have them experience new things.

Also Lower Decks is incredible. A Star Trek show that makes fun of itself and the franchise but is still narratively driven and… entertaining.

Too bad. The world would be a better place had it just managed to take out one of the religious nutjob justices. Hell, it’s a symptom of deferred maintenance which would be ironic if it was caused due to restricted spending by their own corrupt compatriots.

I have been thinking about this too. Patriotism is very different from nationalism and I think people who love their country despite its faults should display it proudly.

Diplomatic immunity is a legal fiction. On whose authority does he have diplomatic immunity? It’s not some magical construct, it describes the pressure that can be exacted by the diplomat’s country were that diplomat to be detained or run afoul of some law in the host country. It’s not like there is some central overarching authority handing out Diplomatic Immunity cards. It’s based upon ad-hoc agreements between nations. South Africa can do as they please. They will have to face any potential consequences from either Russia for enforcing the ICC arrest warrant, or from the ICC for not enforcing the warrant.

The ICC doesn’t have nukes. All that said, hard to give the launch order when you are dead so lets hope for misadventure.

100% this. Think of a satellite as a really tall Radio tower able to reach much further away.