I guess OP found this in yesterday’s ‘Astronomy Picture of the Day’, which includes the link you sent. Would’ve cost a second to include it in the post.

Thanks! My opinion is that images from NASA, ESA etc should always link to the source. They always include interesting information about what is in the image. It is also nice if I don’t need to search the database for ages.

no social media platform in history has had a good name

I think Twitter and ‘tweeting’ actually is pretty clever naming. And to be honest, Facebook is a pretty understandable name too, if you look at where the name comes from and what it once was.

Of je gebruikt fish-en-chips engels en eindigt woorden met -our, -ise, etc.

Voorwaarden zijn dat maximaal 200 kilo vuurwerk van het type F2 wordt afgestoken, dat het op een buitenlocatie gebeurt en dat het terrein goed bereikbaar is voor hulpdiensten. De personen die het vuurwerk afsteken krijgen het vuurwerk pas aangeleverd op 31 december. Zij mogen niet onder invloed zijn van alcohol of drugs. Bovendien moet de vereniging ingeschreven staan bij de Kamer van Koophandel.

Ps. van mij mag het ook volledig weg of alleen voor vuurwerkshows. Maar op zich vind ik de intentie niet verkeerd. Realistisch gezien kan ik me ook voorstellen dat dit de max is aangezien je de VVD nodig had.

I don’t think anyone is doubting that, the real question remains whether the US will keep cooperating.

International law is far too complicated to be dismissed so easily when a few states breached a small section of the rules between states. And I’ll repeat there is no legal justification for military action. This is an internal conflict.

And even then, why would European leaders take it lightly to send their boys and girls into an offensive war and potential death against ‘the most powerful military’ in a national conflict?

Biden incited nothing. Ukraine requested assistence in their defense against the Russian invasion. Biden and other European states (too) slowly buildt up military support for Ukraine in the form of resources, training, and equipment. There is only one responsible for the war in Ukraine and that is Russia.

Another question for you then, why would European or Canadian leaders be willing to sacrifice European soldiers for an internal conflict in the states? Americans have the 2nd amendment to protect themselves from tyranny, and many are already protesting. I don’t see a reason yet for foreign forces.

Another difficult aspect of international law is that many states still hold themselves to customary law and other rules. The US themselves breaching this is concerning enough. European or other states also breaching it would bring the whole principle even more so in danger.

First and foremost the US has sovereignty over its jurisdiction and other states can’t enforce their own rules (or those set by the US) in the US.

The only occasions another state is allowed to intervene militarily in another state, is when the state itself allows for this or with a mandate given by the UN Security Council.

The EU already has qualified majority on some issues. Also this has nothing to do with veto, but postponing implementation of a regulation that already is agreed upon.

I’ll add to agree that I’d love to see more things to require qualified majority instead of unanimity.

Fennec is only Android, right? My issue is with the desktop version. It is also not a deal breaker, but I think it is quite a useful feature and easier to edit the search.

If this is a compromise to get states on-board (so they can keep their national armies), I’d consider it a promising start.

Ja, zeer frustrerend, kinderachtig en onverantwoordelijk. Iemand die ik ken stemde erop omdat hij kosten wat kost niet wilt dat ‘links’ (D66 viel daar ook onder) ‘luie mensen’ helpt… Dit zijn gewoon verwende mensen die niet in kunnen zien hoeveel ze zelf gebruik maken van sociale voorzieningen (otw de ladder onder zich weg trappen (om maar even een engelse idioom te gebruiken)).

Cheers! It is indeed on 642 :)

Still only showing 2.4.1 for me

I share that sentiment.

It just doesn’t mean international law means you can shoot whatever you want out of your airspace, nor if a state should want to set that precedent.

There are a lot of other things to consider, like which branch of international law is applicable here (not humanitarian law/law of armed conflict as there is no armed conflict between the concerned states and Israel).

Customary law is to be very careful shooting down planes that violates airspace (which I doubt is the case here, as I expect they were allowed to fly through their respective airspace).

Netanyahu is also not convicted yet. And not all states agree with the ICC’s interpretation of head of state immunity.

There is some reality that needs to be taken into account, both that states have questionable views on Netanyahu, as well as that certain actions leads to unwanted consequences and/or precedents.

I’d rather focus on the fact that all states have an (erga omnes) obligation to prevent and concern themselves with the ongoing genocide, acts against humanity, and war crimes.

Finally, let’s hope Netanyahu sets food in a state that will abide by the warrant and we see him in the Hague soon.

While I am also frustrated that many European states do not take their erga omnes obligations serious in regards to genocide, do I think shooting down a plane on the basis of a disputed warrant would not be a proportionate measure^[1].

Generally planes can be ordered to land, but if they ignore that call and there is no further threat (like many Russian planes), they will generally escort these planes until they are out of the airspace. States do this based on the prohibition of the use of force as defined in article 2 of the UN Charter.

They are indeed tracked down by fighter jets and followed out of the airspace. My point was more that international law doesn’t allow a state to just shoot stuff, even after a warning, when there is no immediate threat.

You don’t just shoot down planes that pose no immediate threat, even though they contain people with warrants or are not allowed in the airspace.

Even Russian planes are not shot down when entering European airspace.

It is going to be interesting to see if/when they move to opencloud (from open-xchange) where they have greater control of the feature-set and bug fixes as they are both part of Heinlein Gruppe.

Either way I am happy with them so far, while also having some minor annoyances (syncing of shared task list on iOS is a bit weird, and no IMAP VTODO (combined calendar and tasks)).