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  • Pipoca@lemmy.worldtoA Boring Dystopia@lemmy.worldNot hiding it
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    4 months ago

    The fathers of 44% of Israel were born in Israel, as of 2015. I doubt they have dual citizenship, just as most Americans don’t have dual citizenship to their grandparents and great grandparents countries of origin.

    Also, most Mizrahim and Sephardim these days are living in Israel, similarly to how most Ashkenazim are in the US. Even if an Israeli somehow has e.g. Iraqi, Iranian or Yemeni citizenship, moving back probably isn’t a safe idea. Morocco is probably safer, though.

    After the fall of the USSR, there was also a huge wave of Russian emigration to Israel. Given conscription for the war in Ukraine, moving back now might not be the best idea.




  • Ivermectin is a general antiparasitic drug used in dogs, horses, sheep, cows, reptiles, and humans. It’s on the WHO’s list of essential medicines, and it was the 341th most commonly prescribed medication in the US. We use it for lice, scabies, whipworm, etc.

    These people use horse paste because it’s available off the shelf at Tractor Supply, whereas to get ivermectin for humans requires a prescription from a doctor. Which they’re not gonna get, because it doesn’t work for covid.

    And they shouldn’t get it, because we don’t want to overuse it and end up with ivermectin resistant parasites. Hell, I wouldn’t be opposed to ivermectin for horses requiring a vet prescription and doing fecal egg counts so we don’t end up with resistant strongloides.


  • There’s a story in the Talmud about Hillel the elder, a rabbi who died in 10 CE:

    There was another incident involving one gentile who came before Shammai and said to Shammai: Convert me on condition that you teach me the entire Torah while I am standing on one foot. Shammai pushed him away with the builder’s cubit in his hand. This was a common measuring stick and Shammai was a builder by trade. The same gentile came before Hillel. He converted him and said to him: That which is hateful to you do not do to another; that is the entire Torah, and the rest is its interpretation. Go study.





  • Yeah, it doesn’t really belong in the ‘no’ column. It’s not an appropriate cat food because it’s not nutritionally complete.

    So it’s rather like how just eating bread or cornmeal that don’t have added vitamins will give you scurvy or pellagra. But obviously they’re not poisonous or anything and most of the world eats them without a problem.




  • Pipoca@lemmy.worldtoFunny@sh.itjust.worksExpert swordsmen
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    4 months ago

    The only problem is that the functional replica anime sword section is probably going to be entirely empty. They’re basically all decorative wall hangers.

    They’ll differ in build quality, though. Some might break if you swing them hard, others might break if you hit something with them.






  • Pipoca@lemmy.worldtoFunny@sh.itjust.worksExpert swordsmen
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    4 months ago

    it’s not unreasonable to expect the cool prop to feel like it’s not trying to fly across the yard if you swing it around.

    You might think that, but most of these are called wall hangers for a reason.

    Many of them have rat-tail tangs or are made with stainless steel. They might feel balanced, but are liable to snap if you swing them around.


  • She married her husband a year after they both graduated college. This would have been taken while she was still in college.

    Her father was a career politician, and had spent about a decade as Baltimore’s mayor before Kennedy’s election. That’s presumably why she was there.

    At any rate, she’s never had a career outside politics. She did volunteer work for the Democratic party when she was raising her kids; she first ran for office around the time they were graduating from high school.