It's insane that a country which suffered so much under a fascist dictatorship would want to return fascists to power.

F16's won't give Ukraine much of an advantage until sufficient numbers of pilots are a trained. There are two weapons that could immediately change the battlefield landscape. GLSDB's and ATACM's are long range precision bombs that would allow Ukraine to target Russian supply lines and ammunition stores far behind the front lines, including into Crimea. They both have backup inertial guidance systems in order to mitigate GPS jamming.. which is a big problem for their current guided munitions.

My parents were British and they used to have two washing bowls. Pile the dirty dishes into one and fill with warm water and dish soap. Clean water in the second bowl for rinsing. After a while the second bowl builds up residual soap so it needs to be emptied and refilled. I figure I use the same amount of water rinsing under a running faucet. But the soak thing is a great tip - leaving dishes in water to soak makes cleaning them so much easier.

As a Canadian I'm proud of my fellow countrymen for helping and accepting refugees. Although most arrive here with nothing, studies have shown they benefit our society in the long run. They contribute massively to our economy and enrich our culture. They overcome daunting obstacles and become productive members of society, and they make Canada a better, fairer and more inclusive place

The Patriot Front is one of the groups that perpetuate the conspiracy theory about the secret Democratic cabal of child sex abusers. So the emphasis here is quite relevant. It's like saying "anti-LGBTQ man arrested for soliciting gay sex" (something that also seems to happen with depressing frequency). If membership of a group is relevant to the alleged crime then or course it should be noted.

Que triste. He tomado está ruta varios veces y siempre me ha parecido peligroso las casas al borde de los ríos. Pero ¿que más? .. no hay por dónde construir. El sector es muy inestable .. siempre hay derrumbes, y los ríos vienen de la cordillera y pueden crecer muy rápido durante las frecuentes tormentas y aguaceros.

This isn't Haiti .. this is a US organization called Black Alliance for Peace. Apart from advocating against sending troops to Haiti they also want to abolish NATO and close all overseas military bases.

If it were a Bible or a Torah that was burned we wouldn't be having this conversation now because it wouldn't have even made the news. There is only one major religion that reacts violently to incidents like this. I think that's the point OP was making and it's a valid one.

Turkey won't allow military ships to pass the Bosporus in any direction while there's a war on. This prevents Russia from reinforcing their Black Sea fleet but also prevents Western navies from entering.

UPFs also mess with our gut bacteria and can cause bowel inflammation. Long term effects can include hypertension and Crohn's disease. Changes to gut bacteria also affect the bioavailability of calories in food which means calories from UPFs are absorbed faster than calories from other foods.

I hope they can use part of those tax revenues to fix our healthcare.

Canada is no longer a shining first world example of success (if it ever was). We used to boast about how great our healthcare system was, but it's had serious problems for years and those problems just keep getting worse. If I were a tech immigrant looking to move to a rich country I don't think I would choose Canada at the moment.

I don't know about Canadian news but Google has blocked bard (their AI chatbot competitor to ChatGPT). Not sure if it's related to this but Canada is one of the few countries worldwide (along with the likes of Iran and China) where bard is not available.

The cruise line is concerned about upsetting their passengers, that is all.

Cuando el peso estaba a los 5.000 al dólar todos los uribistas dijeron que era por culpa de Petro. Ahora quedan en silencio.

I've been a fan of "Trova" and it's many offshoots ever since I first heard a song by Silvio Rodriguez when I was starting to learn Spanish. I've been hooked every since and to this day it remains my favorite genre. I've been lucky enough to see some artists live (recently saw Inti-Illimani and Quilapayún in Medellin). I think it's high time for the same movement in English music. Unfortunately (maybe this is just me getting old) but it seems much of modern music is either bland and boring or else just plain anti-social, glorifying violence and misogyny.

One of the saddest social commentaries in the US was how country music got co-opted by the right, and the beautiful and powerful songs of protest of the past turned into soulless ballads of today extolling "muh freedum".

Those are countries that care about free speech. They would also allow burning the bible or the Torah .. it's not just the Koran. The inference in the headline is flawed.

You can drink beer and wine (not sure about spirits) in parks in Quebec as long as you have food. Some people just bring a few packets of chips or cookies to comply. But the police are relaxed about it (at least in Montreal)

High inflation is worse for workers than high interest rates since wage hikes always lag price rises. This round of inflation was brought to us by poor economic decisions .. pumping billions of dollars into the economy without raising taxes, as well as the Ukraine war. It wasn't caused by corporate greed, as some claim. The BoC is doing absolutely the right thing. If they don't raise rates now they only kick the can down the road when the pain would be far worse.

It seems like the US is scrambling and scratching to find whatever can break the deadlock. A better option would be to simply allow Ukraine to join NATO and bring them under NATO's security umbrella. This strategy comes with the risk of escalation but as long as NATO troops have clear rules of engagement, and are explicitly forbidden from launching any attack at Russia itself, I don't see how Russia can claim their intervention as an "existential threat" ((although they will anyway since that was the initial justification for the invasion).

It ends with Russia losing. As long as NATO makes it explicitly clear they will not attack Russian territory nor violate Russian sovereignty Russia has no basis to escalate beyond Ukraine. A nuclear war between Russia and NATO would result in the total destruction of Russia (and everything else of course). Russia wouldn't start one unless they felt their existence was threatened.

In Israel the right-wing government is currently using the same argument to try to muzzle the supreme court so it can push through legislation. It's always a bad idea. Anytime we Democrats remove these mechanisms it always comes back to bite us. In 2013 Harry Reid led a vote to reduce the Senate supermajority requirement for bench appointments from 60 votes to a simple majority. The direct result of that was the Republicans removing the supermajority requirement for the Supreme Court which culminated in the mess we have today.

The founding fathers built in these safeguards to force us to seek compromises. The alternative is rule by the extremes which is what we see today.

Apart from a front end language like Python it's always good to know basic SQL. A lot of engineering software uses some sort of relational database and it's handy to be able to query the data source directly. If you're going to be doing any kind of data analysis then look at R also.

No Programmer? Perhaps they assume that retirees can't code.

"Vested interests create “checks and balances” primarily to make political systems non-responsive to demands for social reform.".

It is thanks to checks and balances that we don't currently have a dictator Trump running this country. Anyone who thinks checks and balances are a bad idea need only take a cursory glance at the world over the past few years to realize we would be far worse off without them. From Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil to Boris Johnson in the UK, would be autocrats were thwarted in their quest to remain in office by these same checks and balances.

I think we should let the Ukrainian military decide what weapons they need.

The big advantage of these weapons for Ukraine is that they can be fired directly from the western -suupplied Howitzers and HIMARS they already have without needing modification. Ukraine's problem is that they are running out of shells. Cluster munitions go further since they are area weapons.

No matter which side you are in the statement “The Taliban’s successful opium ban is bad for Afghans and the world.” is objectively true. The shortfall in opioid production will easily be made up from other sources, likely adulterated with synthetics that cause more harm. As for the Afghan farmers who grew the stuff they've not been given another alternative..they just had their crops destroyed and have no other sources of income.

You can't solve a shortage of houses by discouraging people from building them. Canada is simply not building enough housing and has not been doing so for a long time. Your proposal would have a marginal effect at best and would in any case be only a temporary solution. People who buy second homes do so in places where there are generally few jobs. And people who buy houses as an investment need to rent them .. which is not necessarily a bad thing. The problem we have is that home prices have risen to such stratospheric heights primarily because of policies that discourage new development. The only way to fix that is to promote legislation that penalizes NIMBYism and encourages building in urban areas.

Russia has used cluster munitions from the start of the war and Russia is the invader. Ukraine should be allowed to do the same in this case.

Your Democratic vote is the only thing preventing this country becoming a theocracy. We had one term of Trump and look at the damage he caused. Imagine what a second term would look like.

Both Russia and Ukraine have been using Soviet-era cluster munitions since early in the war. The US made versions have a lower failure rate so it's preferable that Ukraine use those instead.

Ukraine (and Russia) have been using Soviet-era cluster munitions since the start of the war. The US versions are more reliable (fewer unexploded bomblets) which should make things better not worse for civilian populations.

So if corporate greed is responsible for things like high oil prices what happened on April 20, 2020 when oil prices touched 0.01 per barrel? Do you think the oil companies were suddenly overcome with a spirit of charity?

It's true there may be some profiteering during times of economic instability but those are exceptions and they certainly don't account for the high profits experienced after the pandemic..those were a result of supply chain bottlenecks and a release of pent up demand. Corporate profits are now trending back down, at least in the US. Do you think the companies there have suddenly become less greedy?

The article confuses cause and effect. Stratospheric corporate profits are the result of too much money chasing too few goods and services, the same as it's always been. The culprits are not corporations but rather profligate spending by rich world governments.

During the pandemic central banks reacted by opening up the money spigots, injecting vast amounts of cash into economies trying to keep them afloat. It was the right thing to do. The problem was that they never turned off the taps, nor did they raise interest rates or taxes to try to balance the books.

The fact that companies raise prices in response to shortages is not only natural it's also desirable. There is no other way to align supply and demand short of rationing.

I have a person who goes round once a week to check everything. Water the plants, flush the toilets and also check the mail. She throws any junk mail away and everything else she opens and takes a photo and sends to me. Costs me $40 and well worth it.

There's nothing inherently bad about propaganda. The problem with Russian propaganda is that it's trying to justify a brutal invasion that has killed hundreds of thousands of people, among them children buried in rubble by missile strikes. The US did the same after it's invasion of Iraq. It was wrong then and it's wrong now.

U.S. joint military training is not only aimed at pressuring China, but also combatting revolutionary and progressive forces inside the countries that cooperate with the U.S.

All of the countries and territories in the region that cooperate with the US are democracies - unlike China. Their governments can be voted out if they act against the wishes of the people, which suggests that the populations of these regions support being friendly with Uncle Sam. Could it be they feel more threatened by China than by the US? Taiwan certainly thinks so.

Cuba was removed from the list during the Obama administration and put back on the list by Trump. This has nothing to do with terrorism and everything to do with appeasing a large and vocal group of Cubans in Florida.