So no.
svcg
joined 2 years ago
If you're inclined to be charitable, I believe the capitalist-brained reasoning goes something like:
These grocery stores will inevitably run at a loss and/or need to be subsidised - costing the taxpayers money - because the state couldn't possibly run them as efficiently as a private enterprise competing in the free market.
(Not saying I agree.)
Sure, the result isn’t as stiff or sturdy as wood, but hey, when did a pencil need to be this stiff?
To sharpen the pencil, just use a regular blade or knife.
So it's incompatible with existing pencil infrastructure, and you can't even chew the end of it while you're thinking.
I'm sure this will be a hit!
Women are too emotional to be leaders
Seems to only ever be said by people who don't count anger as an emotion.
If I had to describe my feelings about this, I would have to say that I am bivalent.
Any floury potato will do. In England we would probably use Maris Piper potatoes.
It depends on your definition of "legitimate", I suppose.
My point is that the targeting of civilians is still and always has been common in war. It may now be de jure illegal but it is de facto not policed.
You couldn't make Brokeback Mountain today. Some Hollywood studio would be like "hey you can't make Brokeback Mountain, we own the rights to that."
According to the British (during the Malayan Emergency) and Americans (during Operation Ranch Hand), indiscriminately starving enemy civilians by spraying Agent Orange everywhere was legal.
In more recent history, we of course have Captain Drone Strike's reign of terror against wedding parties and aid workers in Afghanistan.
The only thing that's changed since the Geneva conventions of 1949 is that when civilians are targeted, the rest of the world says "tut tut, that's a war crime" before it proceeds not to do anything about it.*
* Unless you're from Africa or the Balkans, apparently.
Since when?
Baked potatoes fancy? I love a baked potato with beans and cheese, but it's hardly fancy.
Fondant potatoes are what you want for fancy (and delicious).
Ice cubes and artificial sweetener?