Lemmy has terrible UX too. I only find it useable because of third-party apps.

Mate I’ve got briefs that are two decades old

I don’t think I would do that. I kinda like having new-ish underwear.

Yeah, exactly.

They last two or three years and I throw them out as they wear out. Six briefs is my annual top up. They come in packs of six.

Fruit of the Loom men’s briefs.

I buy a six-pack from Walmart every year. I don’t think I’ve ever been so loyal to a brand.

But OP was asking about travelling the world. Sign language wouldn’t help with that.

Sign language isn’t one language. There’s American Sign Language, British Sign Language, Australian Sign Language, Nigerian Sign Language, etc.

American Sign Language and British Sign Language are completely unintelligible to each other.

Up until 1967, the bad guys were Britain.

Britain seized Palestine from the Ottomans during WWI with the help of the local Palestinians, promising the Palestinians sovereignty in exchange for their help overthrowing the Ottomans.

At the same time, Britain promised to create a homeland for Jews in Palestine (in the Balfour Declaration), and Jewish refugees from Europe began settling in Palestine. Britain did this because they thought they might gain the support of Jewish financiers for their war efforts.

The Balfour Declaration was deliberately vague about whether Britain was giving all of the land to the Jews or just some of the land. It was vague because Britain wanted to appeal to Jewish Zionists (who wanted all of Palestine) while not alienating the Palestinians.

Britain never did divide the land, resulting in two different populations who felt they legally owned the land, one who had always been there, and one who mostly arrived as refugees.

When Britain left following WWII, a civil war broke out for control of the land. A border was eventually drawn at the line of control (which ran through the middle of Jerusalem), and Israelis declared the new State of Israel, while Palestinian refugees fled to their side of the border or neighbouring states. That was in 1948.

So, up until then, it’s a messy situation created by Britain, but one which eventually resulted in the land being split (albeit violently), with both Israelis and Palestinians having a state, and each having part of Jerusalem. The world accepted this as the new status quo and hoped it would be sustained peacefully.

That changed in 1967 when Israel annexed the Palestinian lands (the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) in the Six Days War. Since then, Palestinians have been living under a harsh Israeli occcupation as a stateless people (meaning no citizenship), with their rights and freedoms strictly curtailed. Palestinians have been resisting through a number of resistance movements, usually designated as terrorist groups in the Western media.

There was a political movement towards peace and repartitioning of the land that peaked in the 1990s, but since then it has been held up by a series of right-wing governments in Israel. Meanwhile, Israel has been aggressively building Jewish neighbourhoods (called settlements) in the formerly Palestinian lands of the West Bank.

So since 1967, Israel has pretty clearly been the bad guy.

The terrorist attack that killed 1200 young Israelis was horrific, and we should all hope nothing like that ever happens again. But the root cause of the attack was Israel’s occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. The way to prevent future terror attacks is to end the oppression of the Palestinian people.

There was a writer’s strike in the middle of the final season which seems to have sent the show off the rails.

No, they’re the same name. Guylaine is a respelling of Ghislaine that makes the pronunciation more obvious, like how Jeffrey is a respelling of Geoffrey.

They seem different to you because you’re using the non-traditional pronunciation of Ghislaine.

There are two pronunciations.

The original pronunciation is gee-LENN. (Hard G like gum, not gin. Note that the S is silent.)

The more common pronunciation these days is zhee-SLENN.

The gee-LENN pronunciation is still common in Belgium (where the name originates) while zhee-SLENN is more common In France and Quebec.

Trams and trains have drivers.

That’s Heather Locklear, right?

Why would China engage in military conflict with the USA when they can just sit back and watch the USA collapse on its own?

So what you’re saying is: Lynne Cheney has been wrong for 23 years so far.

To be fair, the president can and does already assassinate people extrajudicially.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assassinations_by_the_United_States

Because he’s winning.

The people calling for Biden to drop out are doing it for one reason: Because they fear Biden won’t win.

It has nothing to do with how moral Biden or Trump are or are not.