You would certainly lose a lot of money masturbating in a bus. You’ll be kicked off the bus, arrested for indecent exposure, and have to pay a fine and court costs plus community service.

Well, it’s not like they had anywhere to be. They were just wandering around in the desert for a while.

But Asia Minor ain’t gonna conquer itself!

I know it’s just a meme and the accuracy of ancient history/religious folklore is always going to be questionable anyway, but don’t you think it’s reasonable that an army of orderly and disciplined soldiers would move just a bit faster and more efficiently than a band of refugees?

Slightly related, but apparently people also do this to the testicles of the Charging Bull statue in New York City.

Windows has a package manager. Two, actually. There’s the Microsoft Store, the shitty one, and Winget, the decent one.

It’s not wrong, but I don’t regard Lemmy.ml as being problematic enough to defederate from. Their moderation practices are questionable and their user base is annoying but it’s otherwise generally tolerable. People can block the instance if they don’t want to see content from it.

There’s too much content on lemmy.ml to defederate. We’d lose like a quarter of all the content.

Just so people can understand why the ICC claims jurisdiction, it is because the Palestinian Authority acting as the State of Palestine acceded to the Rome Statute of the ICC and thus became a state party in 2015. They pretty much did this with the express intention to give the ICC jurisdiction over alleged Israeli war crimes in occupied Palestinian territories. In 2019, ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda requested a ruling on the question of ICC jurisdiction in Palestine. In 2021 the ICC Pre-Trial Chamber ruled that Palestine’s accession to the Rome Statute gave it jurisdiction over Palestinian territories occupied by Israeli forces (a.k.a. the West Bank and Gaza Strip).

Lebanon is not and has never been a state party or signatory, for those curious. Israel and the US are signatories but refused to ratify the treaty, and thus aren’t state parties. Nonetheless, the ICC had decided that crimes committed in countries who have acceded or ratified its statute, or accepted its jurisdiction, are subject to ICC regardless of the citizenship or residency of the alleged perpetrators. This is also why it issued arrest warrants against Vladimir Putin despite neither Russia nor Ukraine being state parties; Ukraine accepted ICC jurisdiction on an ad hoc basis for crimes committed during the Russian invasion.

This is not the right way to put it. She won 60,000 CNY, not 8,000 USD. A “low-wage” worker at a fast food restaurant or a coffee shop in the city earns 20-30 CNY per hour.

This is a pretty substantial payout by Chinese standards. At the same time, China doesn’t recognise “punitive” damages or “emotional damages” as a thing. The response to the notion of “punitive damages” is “don’t you mean a fine?”, and that to “emotional damages” is that “there is no such thing, you can just get over it”.

That feeling when you change the law to force your crush to use the same toilet as yourself

You could, however, accurately say that a French family founded the modern British monarchy. That much is still true. The UK royal family can still trace its lineage directly to William the Conqueror.

I thought the Oregon Trail was a pretty standard part of US history curriculum.

People have been saying “As long as no [disliked social group] exists in the Middle East, there will be no peace” for the entirety of history.

Well, Trump seemingly had the time to send out a hundred tweets a week while still being president of the United States so I wouldn’t discount it.

I never presented this as a dichotomy. You know, people prefer things in a certain order, right? I prefer Flatpaks and native packages over snaps and I prefer snaps to building from source.

Unpopular opinion: snap is not so bad and genuinely useful for many things

I would rather have a snap than building from source or use some tar.gz archive with a sketchy install script

It seems Donald Trump has assembled a crack[pot] team of the most [in]competent people to run this country

There has not been peace in the Middle East since the Ottoman Empire and there probably never will be peace in the Middle East for at least several decades more.

The exchange rate is basically frozen as the Russian central bank won’t allow it to be freely traded on the open market.

They get accused of war crimes every single day but nobody ever does anything about it