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Did you have a point relevant to UPF? The fact that my post above had maybe 9 upvotes and 12 downvotes does show that some folks found it helpful. In the early days of the publicly-available internet, folks tried to help each other. Now the world is on the edge of WWIII and folks are beating folks down where they think they can. I kinda miss the old internet. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Hilarious? Folks don’t usually downvote things that make them laugh. It was my belief that putting a link up as a follow up to his question was helpful.

I don’t even know what an “ultra processed food” •IS•.

Ultra-processed food - Wikipedia

You mean this article?

I sure don’t want U.S. weapons going to genocide an entire people, but I also doubt Netanyahu’s assertion.

“There’s a built-in assumption that there’s nothing at all weird about viewing the US as sort of an open field for Israel to operate in, that there are no limitations,” said Lara Friedman, president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace.

Does the U.S. citizen get “No taxation without representation”, or does Israel get “representation without taxation”?

During the drug war, the authorities told us that cannabis affected the testes. In that same time period, health authorities were telling us to eat low-fat high-carb diet to combat high cholesterol.

Hope we don’t see a return to tuberculosis sanatoria.

Catholic priests are supposed to be celibates. It seems they’re celibate in body but not in mind? It reminds me of following the letter of the law but not the spirit.

I wish the cost of internet access decreased to match decreased available content. Internet shrinkinflation?

Globally, there are at least two relevant definitions in play per Wikipedia:

A child (pl. children) is a human being between the stages of birth and puberty,[1][2] or between the developmental period of infancy and puberty.[3] It may also refer to an unborn human being.[4][5] In English-speaking countries, the legal definition of child generally refers to a minor, in this case as a person younger than the local age of majority (there are exceptions like, for example, the consume and purchase of alcoholic beverage even after said age of majority[6]), regardless of their physical, mental and sexual development as biological adults.[1][7][8]

It seems reasonable to request clarification as to which definition of child is being used.

Is Mumin a psuedonym or his real birth name? Wikipedia says “mumin” means “believer” whereas “muslim” means submitter. I’m wondering if this is a caste-based naming system.

And the White House is baffled by Netanyahu’s claim about not supplying enough weapons to Israel. Is torture allowed under the Geneva Conventions?

It’s been found that wealth reduces compassion.

Filipino sailor lost his thumb. How much longer until a life is lost?

How sad. Aid workers depend on neutrality to avoid hostilities, and that neutrality is now in doubt.

Palestinians already harbored deep doubts about the pier given the lead role of the U.S., which sends weapons and other support to its ally Israel, said Yousef Munayyer, a senior fellow at Washington’s Arab Center, an independent organization researching Israeli-Arab issues.

Keep Students in School

SB 274 addresses public school responses to students considered to be deemed to be in “willful defiance.” The law will ban the suspension or expulsion of those students. Instead, it will require school officials to implement intervention programs and other support for students who are deemed as disrupting school activities or willfully defying the authority of school personnel.

The news item text says it applies to public schools while legiscan says it also applies to charter schools. It also needs to apply to private schools (which are often religious), and if it doesn’t that’s a huge loophole of detriment to some kids.

Rather important news if true.

What is the population of Gaza? Maybe 2.1 million in the Gaza strip? Various search engines give results between 1/2 million and 5 million, a rather wide variance. This article says the U.S. hopes to deliver 1 million pounds of food every 2 days. The average person eats between 3 and 5 pounds of food per day. It’s not enough food even for the lowest population estimate. OTOH, every bit of additional food helps and is good news.