It might be fun, but it is only cheaper in the long run if you consider your time to be worth nothing.

I remember after failing to fry some fish during my university years, there was some burnt-on oil on the stove top which would not come up. I tried around five different cleaning products that didn’t do squat, and then what finally got it to come off was baking soda mixed with water.

Bringing a guillotine to a protest merely to show it off and make a statement is a great way to have blackshirts (also known as the police) harassing you about making “terroristic threats”.

Cutting fruit with it sends the same message, while also demonstrating that the device actually works and is not for show. And you have a legitimate reason for having it. What, officer? I’m not threatening anyone with this. This is a watermelon-cutting machine.

Classic Oregonian wit for you

The US banned them over three decade ago and nothing changed so I’m not holding my breath on this one.

Grok was originally programmed to pull data from decently reliable sources like Wikipedia and mainstream news outlets. It was also constantly used to humiliate Elon Musk during that period by rebuking his bad takes, so he ordered successive “lobotomies” (changes to how it processes input data) on it in order to get it to agree with his worldview.

There’s nothing inherently wrong with the concept of ANPRs (automatic number plate recognition) as these are called in the rest of the world. It’s more of an issue that there is a complete lack of laws surrounding how that data is to be used, and especially when it’s controlled by a private company. If there were strict laws limiting the situations where ANPRs could be used, such as requiring a warrant to begin searching for plate numbers and automatically discarding data from non-matching plates, I doubt people would complain as much about these.

World Cup truce is OVER, time for more self-destructive trade wars!

So far, in the cases which have actually run to completion in the ICC, they have been about crimes committed in countries with weak or non-functional judiciaries. This, I would assume, is the court’s primary purpose.

Your assertion that the ICC Prosecutor is obligated to respect the decision of a state party’s procuratorial authority to not prosecute seems unsupported by the text of the Rome Statute. Article 20, Section 3 of the Statute only precludes the ICC from trying offences which have been fairly and impartially tried in another court. The key here, is that the accused must have actually been tried. A decision not to prosecute by local prosecutors does not prevent the ICC Prosecutor’s Office from pressing charges.

I do, however, agree for the most part that the United States can avoid the issue with respect to its own citizens by simply prosecuting all the possible crimes domestically in American courts, which would remove the jurisdiction of the ICC, averting all the nasty due process violation concerns. The US can accede with a reservation that all crimes involving US citizens will instead first be referred to the US Department of Justice for local prosecution, and then domestic legislation can force the Department of Justice to at least put some effort into a prosecution to satisfy the requirements of Article 20, Section 3 and foreclose ICC jurisdiction.

There are also some arguments about how the US being obligated to arrest visiting foreign heads of state or government with active warrants against them would be detrimental to the general peace-building process, but I don’t agree with this interpretation. Article 98 of the Rome Statute states that state parties are not required to extradite in violation of other obligations of international law, presumably including diplomatic immunity.

So yes, I agree that it is a weak argument for not adopting the Rome Statute. To be clear, I think the real reason the US did not ratify the Rome Statute is because the US military has its fingers in so many pies that it’s inevitable that some criminal conduct has occurred somewhere, but having even a single US service member appear before an international war crimes tribunal would be geopolitically embarrassing, especially since neither of the two other contemporary world powers subject themselves to ICC jurisdiction.

I will be honest, the genuine reservations voiced about the ICC and the due process problems are legitimate. I don’t agree that they outweigh the benefits of joining the ICC, but I do understand that a reasonable person could conclude otherwise.

For one, ICC proceedings take years and there is no right to a fast trial. Article 67 of the Rome Statute gives the defendant a right against “undue delay” but this clause is essentially toilet paper in reality. A defendant can spend years in detention awaiting a resolution to their case, even if they are later acquitted and released (which has happened).

For comparison only, there is a right to a speedy trial in American law. If exercised, this usually results in a trial scheduled in mere weeks, at most a month or two for complex cases.

If the ICC is known for anything, it’s the completely broken pre-trial process.

After the next presidential election, the US should accede to Rome Statue and dump this loser on the steps of the ICC. Might as well nab Bibi as well, Maduro-style.

This news source is an Iranian state media outlet.

If one of the parties involved in a war (any war) publishes something that says “We’re destroying the other side and totally winning this war”, I would take it with a very large pinch of salt.

Interesting idea, impossible to implement without creating problems ten times worse.

Would this include the signage found at filling stations?

Dumb law if yes.

It’s more a question about why Omani officials haven’t thrown a fit on the international stage about this blatant violation of their sovereignty. I’m not stupid enough to think that Iranian missiles stop at the international border.

Side question: Why, in this whole debacle, can’t ships just sail within the territorial waters of Oman, on the southern side of the strait? Why does Iran get to dictate what happens in Oman’s territorial waters? 've heard surprisingly little said by or towards Omani officials about this.

If you’re a hacker and use Windows, you deserve to get caught tbh

The Hong Kong Police Force has a habit of posting their naughty list at the airport and near immigration checkpoints. They’re usually a bit out of sight, but it’s usually a bunch of wanted posters plastered on a column or on a notice board. It’s chilling to see the names and pictures of the city’s previously most-prominent pro-democracy activists on wanted posters with huge bounties on their head. I think I remember $1,000,000 was offered for Nathan Law. It reminded me a bit of the wanted posters in One Piece.

As someone living in America, I really hope that the next administration puts these clowns on trial and we make the systemic changes necessary to rejoin the democratic world order. Living under this wannabe fascist sucks.