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Malaysia prepares draft resolution to expel “Israel” from the United Nations
  • The purpose of the UN is to bring all countries no matter how evil together. The UN is useful - to the extent is useful at all - because of the larger number of nations that get together in peace to talk. I'm sure China loves this as it helps their efforts to keep Taiwan out. This is just another attempt to destroy the UN.

  • GM has now sold over 300,000 EVs in the US with ‘EV for all’ plan finally unfolding
  • Isn't there bluetooth? My wife's van predates all this car/phone integration things, but bluetooth still works just great. You shouldn't be changing the channel while driving or whatever it is that those excra tools give you. (my car features a cassette deck which is annoying when I want to listen to something, but I almost never drive so it works)

  • Too many Github repositories bad?
  • They won't look until you have captured their attention and are trying to decide you vs someone else. unless it is an open source job nobody else will have a github account.

    make sure nothing illegal to ask in an interview is there. I don't want to know you are black/white/married/have kids/or what ever. those can only hurt as I'm not supposed to know and I feel cheated when I find out and that works against you.

  • You can buy a (rather expensive) scale model of a Menards in Menards.
  • There is at least one Menards with a railroad siding, or at least was 20 years ago when I lived in the area. (oakdale mn) I undrestand some deliveries came via rail to that store and them by truck to the rest of

  • Ukraine to Request Military Assistance from South Korea
  • South Korea has a lot of useful equipment and the supply chains (factories) to build a lot of it. That equipment is what Ukraine needs more than anything, ideally at a low price (or under generous loan terms)

  • Zelenskyy: Ukraine will not cede territory, regardless of US election results
  • Nuclear programs are expensive and only useful in cases where things are so bad you are willing to end the entire world - including yourself. I'm not completely against France expanding their nuclear program, but I do think most of their effort should be focused on not letting things get that bad in the first place and that means enough conventional defense that they can defend themselves.

  • Zelenskyy: Ukraine will not cede territory, regardless of US election results
  • That itself would be a victory. One of Trump's stated reason for wanting out of NATO is Europe wasn't doing their part - the treaty requires specific amounts of military spending and most members were below that. Now that Ukraine happened most of Europe is at least close to the treaty required levels (many are still below, but at least they are close)

    Which is to say you can't lay down arms you don't have. If you want to leave America behind (which is both good and bad in different ways) you need to have something in place to handle potential attacks without America.

  • US and NATO should consider striking North Korean forces in Ukraine - US Congressman
  • The Korean war is still on - the last serious battle was 1953, but the two sides just decided it wasn't worth fighting but never agreed to end it. It probably isn't hard to find treaties and laws dating to back then that give the US military permission to attack without asking congress. (the us never declared war though, so it would need a very detailed lawyer and months to go through all the laws to figure out the exact status)

  • North Korea fires intercontinental ballistic missile
  • How old are you? The Cuban missile crisis was far worse than this - but 1962 was 62 years ago - not many people alive are old enough to remember how bad it was then. For most of us that is just something for history while the things happening today are real to us.

    Odds are this will pass, but just like in 1962 nobody knew for sure we were not on the brink of war, I cannot tell you for sure.

  • North Korea fires intercontinental ballistic missile
  • Every since the end of WWII there has regularly been things happening that felt like we were steering towards WWIII. You have to learn to live your life, you have no idea in advance what will actually start WWIII. There are of course plenty of signs but you don't know until after WWIII is over what were important. Even WWII when the first shots were fired did not have to become a world war, things just escalated in ways that you couldn't be sure at the time they would.

    Don't real the above as you shouldn't work for peace, or that you shouldn't prepare for WWIII. You should be doing both at the same time. The cost of peace sometimes higher than the costs of war - and war is expensive! (peace can sometimes only be had at the cost of becoming a slave - I'd rather my kids die in war than become slaves)

  • Why is the term "bloodline" often used instead of "family tree"?
  • A tree is a terrible representation since people will appear in more than one place on it. brother sisters marriages (which did happen) tend to produce deformed kids, but first cousins have good odds for normal kids. By third cousin odds of genetic issues was close enough to zero, but those kids will have six great great grand parents not the mathematical eight. I didn't mention half siblings but that happens too and a couple generations below could marry safely.

    the above isn't just theoretical. Before modern transport you often lived and married in the same village for many generations. It would often be impossible to find anyone to have kids with that wasn't at least sixth cousins from more than one path.