There’s a clear difference between deciding not to eat something for cultural reasons than deciding not to eat something because it’s an intelligent, thinking creature.
This would, if the system is working, be the blood that future regulations are written in. That these kinds of things happen so rarely came to us at a cost of past lives.
I'm a little surprised to hear that some folks hate being inside such buildings -- my apartment is in one, and I specifically selected it for its floor-to-ceiling windows in every room. My brain is apparently a little different from yours.
Although I can sympathize with the story, this particular aircraft had been in their hands just a couple months. Its first commercial flight was just a couple weeks back. Maintenance isn't the issue here, clearly.
Although I see somebody else suggesting otherwise, I promise you that you can send/receive iMessages (and SMS messages) via your phone number if you have an iPhone. You do have to select your phone number as your "Default Alias" from the iMessage chat network configuration page, though.
I don't really want to get involved in this argument, but I think this is a situation where there's just a little bit of missing historical background that might help you two understand one another. What the upstream commenter is referring to is the fact that the land that was historically eastern Poland isn't part of Russia now -- it's part of Ukraine and Belarus. Sure, the USSR (of which Russia is the successor state) is what performed that land transfer, but the land was not transferred to what is now Russia.
If you ever get to Seattle, you owe it to yourself to check this place out.
I went here a few years ago while on a trip from Portland expecting to spend an hour or two glancing at out old, dead vintage telecom equipment, but... most of the equipment they have there is not only working, but actually wired-up and usable. They have several working vintage telecom exchanges, even, and the volunteers there will not only explain how these antiques work, but in some cases let you use them.
If you have any interest at all in vintage electronics, this place will blow your mind.
For what it's worth, I do use screen scaling (in fact: different scales on different screens) and haven't had trouble with screen sharing on Zoom on Ubuntu in over a year.
In that time, it was thought that rapidly building a nuclear deterrent against the soviets was important enough that the environment could be sacrificed. You can see this effect throughout the defense industry throughout the cold war, probably most viscerally in the example of the Rocky Flats Plant in Colorado.
On the HIV front, you might not be aware of how well that was solved, actually: there are drugs available and in regular use that prevent you from catching it (~99% effective), and in the extremely unlikely event that they do not, we have developed medications that allow you to live a normal life if you do.
Unfortunately you can't ask Oscar Grant, Ahmoud Arbery, Atatiana Jefferson, Breonna Taylor, Jordan Edwards or the other countless POC who are killed disturbingly regularly by our police whether they'd count their deaths as the modern equivalent of lynching.
I recently decided to scratch an itch I've been having and put together this tool to help me (and you, accidentally), run complex Jira queries. Hopefully others find it as useful as I do.
I usually respect the Jacobin as a publication, but am I misreading something if I still read those figures as absolute improvements - especialy given that the world population increased by 2 billion in the noted time frame? I absolutely agree that the originally-cited poverty metric is absurdly poor, and focusing on an at least somewhat higher standard should be our goal as a civilization, but I don’t see any evidence here that refutes Pinker’s core argument.
In countries having overwhelmed healthcare systems, most recently: Italy, the rate is much higher than the 3.4% estimated by the WHO. It’s still too early to say what the actual figure will turn out to be in Italy, but 6% was the raw result from 13 March.