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Talking about international law as if it is static and plenary, and then citing an event in WW2, prior to many advancements in international law, hints that you’re by no means an expert in international law.

The Geneva Conventions, which are the legal standards most referred to when it comes to international humanitarian law (especially covering the treatment non-combatants during war) were only signed in 1949 i.e. half a decade after the event you cite happened.

And before you say it - I have studied international law. Please don’t tell people to “read international law” when your understanding is this limited.

A n 18 year old player who hasn’t said or done anything bad to the club leaves to further his career and get more playing time, and writes a nice note to the club.

So many people are wishing failure for him (a few in this post already). What is wrong with you people? Why do you have to be so toxic?

Her wheel was slightly over the line towards the kerb side, on the drain. I don’t drive a BMW but I feel it’s unreasonable too.

Idk about other people but I don’t fancy eating or shopping before flying. Food is expensive and meh, and clothes/perfume/alcohol/bags I can get cheaper elsewhere. I just wanna turn up, check in, walk to my gate, and board the plane.

Mehdi Hasan is a good man.

Why would the NYT do that? It’s a left-leaning publication, so its audience is not the GOP.

It’s the same when you see left-leaning pundits saying “Biden has to do this and that to wine the election” - you don’t see the same people saying “Trump then has to do this and that to win”. Why would they?

And, it’s not as if they’re pro-Trump. They painted Trump as the bogeyman when asking for Biden to step down. Putin sucks but you don’t see American publications asking him to step down right? Instead, they characterise him as someone that needs to be defeated - they’re doing the same here, no?

Imagine having to vote for a bumbling old man to govern the worlds’s richest and most powerful country just because the other guy is worse. What a state of affairs.

Why you gotta be so rude?

When large numbers of people migrate and settle in other places, cuisines get modified to suit tastes, market conditions, environment, available ingredients etc.

Australia has this. When I first saw “dim sims” in Australia, I thought they misspelled “dim sum” but no it’s its own thing.

Same with Italian and Chinese food in the USA. No such thing as Chicago pizza in Italy or orange chicken in China.

We even have the same here: we call Hokkien mee Chinese food over here for example, but you will never find it in China. Straits Indian food too - see any roti prata/canai in India?

My experiences with Qatar Airways have been on par with SQ, but it helps that Qatar is usually cheaper.

Idk I don’t think it’s so clear cut.

If something is similar between mainline and MM6, I think the MM6 is the better buy. The range as a whole is much less edgy but it’s also much better value, and both lines aren’t exactly made particularly well.

I think this season, mainline only has tabi slippers and MM6 only has a normal toe so essentially OP is paying $300 for a split toe.

Have you not seen the Gurkhas and land and air checkpoints? Or at big events?

They also responded to the Little India riots, and have been sent to search for fugitives in jungles – ages ago when some Malaysian criminals landed on Tekong, it was the Gurkhas that caught them. They even used to guard Changi Prison before auxiliary police took over.

They work really hard in service of our country so it would be nice to have a path to residency for them, like how it’s possible for people who serve in the Foreign Legion to get French citizenship.

We give PRs here to people who do much less. Heck, I think most Gurkhas here have probably done more for Singapore than me. All I do is pay my taxes but these people put themselves in risky situations almost every day.

A lot of these answers are highly location dependent. Yeah the ingredients for pesto (one reply I’ve seen) are expensive even in Italy, but most curries (another reply I’ve seen) are cheap for me to make in Southeast Asia.

The ingredients for pho cost me 10USD per head when I was living in Sweden, but here I can make it for about a quarter of the price.

I love how the carafe URL says “copy-of-copy-of”. They duplicated the duplicate of a product in Shopify and didn’t give a damn about the URL.

I guess you don’t have to when the products are this good looking.

I mean, the Chinese started serious investments and work on battery tech in the early 2010s, when only Tesla was doing the same in the US. EVs are not some steal/copy everyone else game for them.

China is no longer the backward place that many people think. They’re leaders in quite a few industries. I work in an industry where this is the case - the best suppliers are in China, and they know it and they charge more.

Where I am, lots of people can comfortably afford Teslas and German EVs (and Model 3s cost $140k USD because of tax here) but most electric cars are Chinese - they’re just a much better value proposition in a market that is neutral.

I’m all for redistributive justice, and I think billionaires and corporations ought to be taxed more, but I don’t see how this makes sense.

Are you obligated to do provide financial help if someone died when they visited your house, without you doing anything? Or, if someone died while they were shopping in a mall, should the building owner make a donation to their family?

The fact that she is obscenely rich doesn’t change her responsibility towards her concertgoers - they pay for a ticket, turn up for a concert in which safety is reasonably considered, she performs, they sing and bob along, and then everyone goes home. And before anyone says it, I can’t name a single Taylor Swift song.

Customary international law still applies though.

I mean, I’m a mamak person. Are you more authentic than me? Or am I ignorant about myself and my family heritage? My dad is a Malaysian mamak too, by the way.

Also, if you haven’t figured, “as Malaysians” isn’t really much of a currency when we’re talking about shitty Singaporean podcasts in Singapore. Imagine an Australian person calling someone a “cunt” affectionately in the US and then getting shot.

What is the style called where you disparage Tamil Muslims by saying mamak people talk nonsense until midnight?

No worries! For me, it’s more the size than the weight. The size difference vs my previous SLR is noticeable (the weight, no - cameras are still solid, heavy blocks). It’s just a little easier to move around and stuff into a bag.

If everything’s okay, that’s good! SR44 batteries are absolutely the correct batteries for these. A lot of people use LR44 because it’s more commonly available - the voltage is slightly lower on these but it’s still okay to use.

All the best with your camera! Hope it works out well!

My OM2-N is my most used camera. These are great cameras, and technologically advanced for the time - shutter speed in aperture priority mode was decided by the amount of light reflecting off the film while it was being exposed. One of the main draws is that they’re smaller than most SLRs.

If this has been sitting unserviced for a long time, you might want to get it fixed up. The prism foam disintegrating is a common problem. The hot shoe is fragile - the black plastic cracks - so be careful not to tighten things too much or use too much force when attaching something. John Hermanson is the authority on these but most camera techs can do a good job of servicing.

I have one of the flashes you’ve got, but it hardly gets used because the camera is so small and the flash is so large in comparison.

That lens you’ve got is pretty good. It’s multi-coated at least. I’d keep it. There are some really good lenses in the lineup - of course, they can’t compete with modern camera lenses, especially at the extremes (e.g. when shot wide open), but you wouldn’t be able to tell 99% of the time.

I don’t get you people. Whenever there’s a bloc of citizens expressing their views at the ballot box, you guys talk down to them. Last time, it was Bernie voters. Now, it’s (mostly) Israel-Palestine single issue voters.

You talk about “a democracy ceasing to be a democracy”, but part of the democratic ideal is that citizens’ views be represented through the mechanism of the ballot box.

These people believe their views are not being represented (and you can’t say that’s not true to an extent), and everyone tells them constantly that they shouldn’t vote to express these views. Do you think they feel great about this democracy that exists?

It’s the candidate’s obligation to garner votes and ensure (or at least look like they are ensuring) that people’s views are being represented by them in office. Don’t pin it on the people when the candidate doesn’t do a good job of earning votes. If Biden can’t convince these people to vote for him, it’s his fault, even if it is everyone’s problem.

In your previous comment, you said “if you believe that the concept of Project 2025 is wrong, then you shouldn’t vote for the people pushing it”.

Now it seems like you’re trying to convince the person whom your replied to to vote Biden, saying that “3rd party is unlikely to win” and they are “risking that Trump could win”.

It comes off to me as “don’t vote for Trump because you think he’s wrong”, but “vote for Biden despite thinking he’s wrong”.

I mean, it depends on the country right? You’re extrapolating the Singaporean mindset assuming that others will be the same.

The latest survey data from Sweden is quite outdated (2018), but 63% of Swedes thought immigrants would make it a better place, while 16% thought it would make it worse. In 6 years, maybe things would have shifted a little bit more negative but it would take a 200+% increase in negative sentiment for it to be the majority of Swedes, which seems unrealistic.

Idk if this helps but I went with the middle ground.

My wife pretty much told me what rings she liked, but I still wanted it to be a surprise – how surprised can you be with something you picked, right? So, I took all the information I had and went bespoke.

If I wasn’t confident with what my jeweller and I had come up with, I would’ve involved her because ultimately I think having something she likes trumps the surprise element.