Fuck it. No-one is this thread can seem to agree, so I’m making a unilateral declaration that from here on out, all units of time except for the second are abolished, and we just use unix time for everything. You have until 1699217619s to make the switch.

They’re not identical, but they have similarities. What Russia is trying to do to Ukraine is not dissimilar to what Israel did to Palestine half a century ago.

Fly out of smaller airports. International airports put on the whole security theatre with strip searches and sniffer dogs in order to placate the Americans. If you fly out of small regional airports you can arrive 20 ninutes before takeoff and walk straight onto the plane without anything more than a glance at your boarding pass.

When you have no choice but to kill or starve, any killing is justified, but when starvation is off the table because you have access to agriculture and global supply chains, then that justification no longer exists.

I would expand the original statement to “there is no ethical way to kill someone who doesn’t want to die, if you have an option not to kill them”