That was super cool.

#MahsaAmini

“Mandate labels” —-> Nanny state “Remove restrictions” —-> Not nanny state

Pick one and be consistent

I don’t agree that mandating documentation of the ingredients in the food/medicine products sold commercially really falls under the “nanny state” category.

It’s more just standard consumer protections. Good decisionmaking on the part of the end user has accurate information availability as an essential prerequisite.

It’s not onerous to require sellers document plainly what they are selling.

It is very onerous to tell them “you’re not allowed to sell that”.

Some would argue that consumer protection is nanny state. Or general health insurance...

How come US is the only country that needs military bases all over the world to “defend their country”?

With your justification the Russia invasion is actually to prevent a future war with NATO. I am pretty sure one can justify any war that way.

Well, no, the US is most certainly not the only country with military bases all over the world: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_overs.... I know it’s easy to assume that because you normally only ever hear about the US army, I agree the US does have the largest number of overseas bases around the world, it’s not the _only_.

NATO is a defensive organization. How does going to war with the Ukraine help Russia avoid confrontation with NATO when invading the Ukraine puts NATO members and arms length reach away dramatically increasing the chance of a full scale conflict with NATO? This argument doesn’t make any sense.

Justify != right. Anyone can justify a war from their POV, see Russia -> Ukraine, US -> Iraq. It doesn’t make it any more right.

If you read through that page, a couple countries have bases in ~15 countries, and the US has ~50.

There is a major difference in scale.

NATO is kinda a for ensuring Ukranian independence. Minus NATO, NATO countries could get involved to help Ukraine, whereas they're currently limited by MAD

There is also an official website: http://www.kitsault.com/index.html

It seems acquisition and merger wave of failed SPACs is started. I think we will see many of these in the upcoming months.

IronSource went public last year via SPAC at over $10B of market cap. The merger or rather aquisition? happens now at $4B. Definitely a big loss for many of the investors and most likely a lot of the employees who couldn’t get out fast enough.

Still, if you're going to catch a falling knife, best to do so before it hits the floor.

A falling knife has no handle. It's always best to catch the knife after it's settled on the ground. ;)

The problem is judaism is used both for ethnicity and religion.

You cannot become a Japanese if you practice their religion for seven years, but you can become Jewish.

Assumption: everyone has a garage!

I was thinking of an apartment building garage in that statement, but all of my reasoning goes the same for an apartment building parking lot.

Mandatory parking area is not that excessive as it is inside the USoA all over the world. Those mandatory parking area laws are on the mayor contributors to urban sprawl (where every family needs a 2 car garage and therefore has one).

I don’t think he made the pencils, but he has a huge collection apparently from the basic ones to some ancient ones.

I searched a bit online and I couldn’t find any online shop or price samples for the store.

This is their instagram page, but not sure if it adds any more information:

https://instagram.com/medad_rafi