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Even Windows 7 actually didn't care if you had no key.

You could leave it unactivated forever and the worst thing that would happen is it would have a "Activate windows" watermark message bottom right over the desktop, and it wouldn't let you change the personalization settings eg theming (oh no).

Heyyy cops hiding their faces, where have I seen that before..

It says in the article that many died during transport. Dead spiders smell. Large dead spiders packed in a box with dozens of other large dead spiders would stink.

However, it's my understanding that most international mail gets x-rayed as standard when passing through customs. This is the case in Australia where I live. So even before the smell, this package would have been on the radar for inspection.

It says in the article that many died during transport.

Cunts illegally importing exotic species with no shits given for their welfare, for the pet trade.

Russia is even paying mercenaries and leaning on allies to send troops from China and North Korea - that sounds pretty desperate to be honest.

Reason is not justification, I excuse nothing - just pointing our it's much wider than the US.

What you're failing to include in your calculations is how cheap political sway is to buy worldwide. You don't need to be the wealthiest nation in the world to place several $50k political donations per year to the two major parties and some of their key politicians, and keep a lobbying firm in the nation's capital well-funded to wines and dines key politicians and journalists.

Manufacturing consent is financially trivial for Israel, they've been practicing it for 50 years and the machine is institutionalized.

Myopic US take. The Israel lobby is all through the western world and has pushed almost every government into the corner of accepting this racist genocidal war lest they be labelled anti-Semitic.

Good article. Shitty title. Also from the article, "The rise of settler militias is not a new phenomenon."

They've been doing this for decades. What's new is them being so emboldened by the rhetoric and backing of the Israeli police state that they've begun attacking IDF soldiers who they deem not supportive enough during their attacks on Palestinians, and raiding IDF bases for supplies and weapons.

I legit do not understand your comment.

My Aussie mate back in England told me that the British killed the First Nations and took their land,

With you this far. Yes your Australian friend (who was in England at the time) told you that the British killed the first nations people and took their land.

like his ancestors just turned up here to find swathes of unoccupied land and were like “crikey, what’s been happening here!” and immediately started doing Acknowledgement Of Country at the start of every office meeting.

Now you're saying your Australian friend was foolish to ideate that his ancestors just turned up in Australia to find swathes of unoccupied land.. and then start making Acknowledgement of Country statements.

First of all - how is this not contradictory to the first part of your analogy? He didn't ideate that.

Second, the Acknowledgement of Country statements didn't start until 200 years after colonisation.. So this is really disingenuous representation you make of your "Aussie mate's" position.

Completely fair. When your neighbour is as untrustworthy and aggressively expansionist as the Russian government I would line the border with mines too.

Nah gotta make the question more pointed: *why is your administration, in your own words, giving access to top secret Intel to low-level losers?*

It was sold to the Trumps, what do you think their plan is for it - donating it to a wildlife society?

It's not like the news reporter has changed its fate with the terms they chose to discuss this purchase in.

As the article mentions, this is not even the first BBC documentary on Palestine that the BBC have pulled from their service after public pressure this year. They pulled one about kids in Palestine in February - after complaints from all the usual Zionist warhawks, including J.K. Rowling.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3374xm65mvo

The BBC have also pulled documentaries over less - merely "possibly upsetting conservative viewers with truth" is enough. Their leadership are spineless.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/mar/10/david-attenborough-bbc-wild-isles-episode-rightwing-backlash-fears

If China wants to keep escalating skirmishes and expanding ownership claims then it forces world powers to travel via the strait to demonstrate that it's still a regular legal channel of international naval transit, owned by no-one. The channel is 130kms wide at its most narrow section ffs.. the closest passing ships come to land is ~65kms. That's a pretty large buffer.

China just sailed a fleet of their own warships around Australia three months back, crossing into Australian territorial waters a number of times and even conducting live firing tests in the waters between Australia and NZ. None of which was done with permission, or necessary to be done near Australia or NZ. There are enormous uninhabited sections of ocean that would have been less travel (and cost) for them to reach - its just done to flex muscle and could just as easily be framed as "intentional provocation" and "undermining peace and stability". So its 'rules for thee, not for me'.

I'm not sure and would like to know too. But I do believe it's much less common for the uterus to be moved outside the body during Caesarian (exteriorization), the standard is intra-abdominal repair - ie repaired in place by surgery. Exteriorization is an older practice done due to surgical simplicity, and it's fallen out of favour due to various risk factors it adds. Latest metal analysis I found on it with that recommendation from a 2021: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34811700/

Caesarian is absolutely not 'much more dangerous' for mother and child, cite some evidence. 32% of all births in the US are caesarian, about the same in the UK, and over 50% of those are emergency c-sections after natural childbirth has proven impossible and the doctors have had to step in to save the mother and baby from death or lifelong injury or disability.

"Delivering a baby via cesarean section is generally considered safe, and in some instances is medically necessary and safer than a vaginal birth"

https://www.healthline.com/health/pregnancy/how-many-c-sections-can-you-have

"The data shocked the study’s head author, Darine El-Chaâr, a perinatal researcher at the Ottawa hospital. In the planned vaginal birth group, there was a higher percentage of negative outcomes compared with the MRC [maternal-request, non-emergency c-section] group, driven by serious vaginal tears and babies admitted to intensive care. “I myself am challenged by the data,” she says, underlining that she believes vaginal birth is natural. “I wanted it to be the other way around.”"

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/feb/13/caesareans-or-vaginal-births-should-mothers-or-medics-have-the-final-say

Yes, sadly we have social media access in Australia too, and the same loony shit that glues eyeballs to screens in the US and makes people choose poorly has the same affect here.

50% seems like an overstatement, but who cares if the hospital uses c-sections regularly? Much like people's lower jaws are evolving to be smaller over time and we're experiencing many health issues related to teeth overcrowding (due to people having processed food and needing to chew hard foods less often) - we're experiencing changes in childbirth too. Women are having children much later in life in western nations, which causes narrower pelvises, and they're having heavier babies.. Both of which lead to much higher likelihood of natural birth complications, especially when you factor in the obesity epidemic. So yes, c-sections are becoming more common - to ensure the child and mother are safe through the birth.