In Prague CZ (supposedly the 2nd best public transport system in the world) the “PID” has been employing “pain clothes inspectors” aka “revizori” for I suspect most of it’s 100+ year history. There are currently 140 of them employed full time, they don’t have body cameras and they come in pairs. Some of them are women. Comparing the sizes - 1.4 billion trips /year for PID and 600 million trips for TTC - it wouldn’t be unreasonable to have few “inspectors” employed full time. Of course I don’t know how significant fare evasion is in Toronto. Also - Public Transport should be free anyway.

This one specifically 🤓 #6900 came into service in 1973 and is still serving valiantly in Ukraine 🎖

Yet the stocks of funeral homes have remained unaffected. There is an opportunity here! /s

Ballpark numbers (guesstimated by ChatGPT). In the 50s (after the ww2 explosion of the US industrial capacity) you came home after an 8 hour shift in a fridge making factory and had an income that could easily keep up 3 kids (including education), 2 cars, 1 stay at home wife and a house (like in The Simpsons). Since then the work productivity has risen 600% - 700%, yet the average income has risen less than 150% and the median icome less than 80%.

I don’t know if its only here in eu - but if you go to a knife shop that carries victorinox knives in order to buy “the springy think” that makes the scissors work - they won’t - they’ll just fix it for free.

Asahi linux. AFAIK Linus Tovalds still uses Macs - he has done so at least since the Intel era. I am co nsidering buying one as first a sort of low power gaming console (on MacOs) and eventually as an efficient yet powerfull home server…

The article is IMO misleading (not that surprising considering Breitbart reputation). The shroud has been considered a fake many times - Bishop Pierre d’Arcis of Troyes was already doubting its authenticity in 1389.

From what i’ve managed to understand - there was a carbon dating attempt in the 1988 - which had to be limited - since cabon dating is a destructive process. The above mentioned study (published in Herittage in 2022) is using Wide-Angle X-ray Scattering which seems not that suited for dating, but has some advantages - much smaller size of sample and ability to test the sample repeatedly. What the study really says is how the shroud would have to be stored before it arrived to Europe in order to look today the way it looks:

The experimental results are compatible with the hypothesis that the TS is a 2000-year-old relic, as supposed by Christian tradition, under the condition that it was kept at suitable levels of average secular temperature—20.0–22.5 °C—and correlated relative humidity—75–55%—for 13 centuries of unknown history, in addition to the seven centuries of known history in Europe.

Also - unsurprisingly - there is no mention of an AI powered reconstruction in the study.

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Depending how the Maldives is doing this (is it based on Israeli Citizenship or is it based on Israeli Nationality?)

It’s in the article - passports!

It doesn’t make any difference, since because there really aren’t any supporters of Israel in this thread, you will just open on anyone you assume is one with walls and walls of text (with which I mostly agree with you) but on a topic nobody put forward and in this condescending manner that is just meant to offend people. You haven’t tried to understand my argument at all, you haven’t even read the bloody article, you just want to scream at somebody.

So since you are this terrible at reading - let me put it again just for you and you only, I’ll try to be blunt:

The tragedy here is that Israel says in response to the 7/10 that all Gazans are guilty, they all deserve to die. That is not acceptable, that is called collective punishment. And Maledives are justifying Israels approach by doing the same. Now Israel can say:

" Look ! Maledives are also using the same principle of collective punishment / collective responsibility and the World is praising them! “They are all antisemites and they are all using “special meter” on us and different meter on everyone else:”. /s

…and what is worst - in this case they have a point! This exactly what we don’t need right now. They could have just banned the settlers, or they could have just banned those several settlers Biden has banned and that would be perfectly fine. This is clumsy at best - no - It’s just tragically stupid. It’s costing us time that Gazans don’t have.

I would like to point out that for some time I’ve felt bad for also wrongly accusing somebody without reading it all ironically also in regard to the Gaza conflict, but you are so much worse than I am.

Please read the article.

You haven’t read the article. It says Israeli passport holders.

I expected to get downvoted, I got downvoted, I am not angry. Reverse psychology? Manipulate? Are you 100% sure you are not talking about yourself?

And yet your post implied some sort of equivalency.

Equivalency - I have to confess English isn’t my first language and I am not sure I understand what you mean specifically/ in what context. Would you please care to explain?

As for the blanket ban - while it wasn’t my comment, I don’t find it unreasonable - how would you describe a rule advertised as punishing extremist Zionism that also punishes both post Zionists and anti Zionists all the same?

Nobody is saying we’re going to block the Palestinians from traveling anywhere. Only the perpetrators, not the victims.

Well that is pitty, because they’ve just blocked 2 millions of Palestinians living in Israel proper - Demographics of Israel, wikipedia

Banning someone from your resort island is the same sort of punishment of civilians as killing them?

No, but punishing population for the actions of their government is always bad, always unacceptable, and specially when the country isn’t even democratic like Israel never was. For one thing - this ban does not only affect Israelis, but also 2 millions of Palestinians who live in Israel proper. Wikipedia - Demographics of Israel

South Korea or Brazil also doesn’t have regular citizens? How about Switzerland? List of 85 countries that had mandatory military services in 2023.

There were economic sanctions, there was a huge wave of divestment, but all that was pointed at the institutions of the state - not at its citizens ( like this unfortunate decision of Maledives).

Edit: how much sense would it make blocking black citizens of SA from visiting your country -simply because they live under apartheid?

IMO the equivalency is in how you’ve chosen those individuals that don’t deserve to live / that are no longer allowed to enter…