I repeat: kidnapping?

Well everyone, even “normies”, accepts that “hangry” is a thing. So it really shouldn’t be surprising that our eating habits are so directly related to our mood and state of mind.

My understanding is that we still don’t know what it IS, but we now have corroboration that it EXISTS and roughly what it WEIGHS.

I’m glad we have you to tell us what is and isn’t culture worth preserving; we were at real risk of having a diversity of opinion for a moment there.

Kidnapping?

https://xkcd.com/903/

Obama’s been gone almost a decade at this point and we still have yet to pass this bill because the government always backs down at the last minute in the face of threats from the US that it would “force” US companies to not do business with us. The Dáil (parliament) supports the bill but the cabinet shoots it down. So you’re not wrong to be cynical, but every time Israel commits some fresh outrage the pressure grows for the government to pass it or risk losing the next election.

To be specific, Ireland isn’t in Schengen because the UK isn’t in Schengen and we’re trying to keep the border as non-bordery as possible.

Note: by having the USA abstain from that UN vote right at the end of his presidency, Obama made it possible (ie legal) for us to do this.

If we were targeting Israel specifically, we would run afoul of all sorts of EU regulations since external trade policy falls under EU competency. HOWEVER, because there is a UN resolution specifically identifying the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories as illegal occuptions under international law, it’s possible for us to pass a law that doesn’t specifically target Israel by name, but rather target any territory that is illegally occupied.

If Brussels takes issue with the ban and tries to fine us for some trumped-up reason like arguing that we’re exceeding our reserved competencies, that would initiate legal proceedings which would give us standing to counter and argue that we are only meeting our international obligations as outlined by the UN, and furthermore that the EU-Israel trade deal has a boilerplate clause requiring Israel to meet certain human rights criteria or the entire trade deal goes kaput.

Basically if the EU takes us to court over this, we’ll be able to force the argument to be over whether Israel is violating human rights, at which point (because judges are not politicians) the court will almost certainly side with us, which would THEN put Brussels into the legal position where they’re OBLIGED to ban these goods EU-wide.

Because Brussels knows this, they’re likely to try and avoid initiating proceedings, turning a blind eye. However a lack of consequences for us would embolden other EU members to copy us. Basically it’s a rock and a hard place for Brussels.

Just pointing this out so that people see that UN votes DO matter.

The word “al” means “the” in Arabic - for example, “al jazeera” means “the island”. And a lower case L looks like a capital i, so “AI” is visually indistinguishable from “Al”. So the joke is that people who try to shoehorn Artificial Intelligence into everything look like they’re speaking in Arabic.

Like, extra rights, you mean? Because lots of countries recognize animal rights.

I might have tried it once when I was a kid but it’s not as effective as a fingernail so once was enough.

I don’t think history supports that prediction. Far more likely that America will follow the trajectory of post-USSR Russia. Not as extreme of course, but I think the normalization of open kleptocracy is already on display.

Why not just reboot the whole thing from scratch altogether and redo the entire franchise but with coherent logic this time?

Evidently not, since some voters thought (and still think!) that the solution was to elect Trump. That’s evidently where the bar is, as determined by the voters.

Causality is backwards. Whenever the show’s close to dead, American money is brought in as a last-ditch effort to keep it alive.

It needs to go back to cheap practical effects and far less CGI. The aliens don’t need to be made of papier-mâché but we don’t need shots of a spinning TARDIS flying through space or the vortex. Just show it fading and reappearing, like normal. The TARDIS interior doesn’t need to be so enormous; the size of that Memory TARDIS from the Sutekh arc was fine. It doesn’t need to be the location of a story; just a small backdrop while the Doctor and companions are briefly in transit to where they’re ACTUALLY going. Finales don’t need giant CGI monsters or fleets of Dalek saucers to “raise the stakes”. A single Dalek should continue to pose enough threat to have the Doctor worried.

I was perfectly happy watching Twin Peaks and another dimension was represented by some red curtains and garish knick-knacks. Imagination is fine. Weeping angels being the same statue just moved around, and a different one when they attack, that’s effective cost-cutting. The creature you never see because it’s always behind someone? That’s effective cost-cutting. The swarm of invisible locusts that turn you into a skeleton if you stand in the wrong shadow? That’s effective cost-cutting. Limitations INCREASE creativity. Budgets don’t need to be enormous. Jaws was scarier in the scenes where you DIDN’T see the shark.

I’m not sure I understand. Are you saying you want a retcon to say the revival never happened? No War Doctor, 9th, 10th, Metacrisis, 11th, 12th, 13th, MasterDoctor, 13th again, 14th, bigeneration, 15th, Piper? Current Doctor is still Paul McGann’s 8th? No Timeless Child, no Tekteun, no Fugitive Doctor, no Division, no Flux, no Weeping Angels, no River Song, no Time War?

It’s happening, but for Hollywood.

Worse than Trump? No.