That’s just the spirit of Nergal taking possession over his husk.

There’s a few more left. :)

Numbers, I assume.

Birds aren’t real, silly goose.

I totally agree with you here, this is the important, intended subtext I left out. We just are not used to not having a monopoly on political capital.

I meant is it’s not a service I’d depend on in a regional crisis as they can and will deprioritse it. It is not the main mission as the following passage to that sentence shows:

The functions of a diplomatic mission consist, inter alia, in representing the sending State in the receiving State; protecting in the receiving State the interests of the sending State and of its nationals, within the limits permitted by international law; negotiating with the Government of the receiving State; ascertaining by all lawful means conditions and developments in the receiving State, and reporting thereon to the Government of the sending State; promoting friendly relations between the sending State and the receiving State, and developing their economic, cultural and scientific relations.[18]

It’s not even rare for embassies outside of the first world’s to be openly hostile or outright useless to their own citizens in a pinch during times of peace.

Embassies can deprioritise citizen services when diplomatic relations within the host state make it politically costly to physically impossible, which is exactly what’s happening here. That’s the substantive point about the article and why citizen services are not even mentioned in the introduction.

I’m saying it’s a bonus to a diplomatic mission rather than a duty.

Kind of. Their main purpose, though, is to represent the state for relations and dealings with the host, citizen services are secondary to this. Political capital within that relationship will determine what kind of things that they can help with, but overall you as an individual are responsible for yourself. There’s many places you’re kind of SOL even with an embassy.

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

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/neanderthal-men-may-ave-often-hooked-up-with-human-women-thousands-of-years-ago-180988273/

We don’t know. :(

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/neanderthal-men-may-ave-often-hooked-up-with-human-women-thousands-of-years-ago-180988273/

Some things are better when spread out. Just enjoy the show. :)

no.

Lmao I could give a rant about my field about this but we’re saving it for a series of papers.

Edit: Totally sent it to a collaborator lmao.

I have a bunny ear cactus I’m not able to kill and every time I water it, I get punished.

You are claiming empathy while using a framework that pathologises the people you claim to care about.

You just recommended Jonathan Haidt, a man whose entire thesis is that we should empathise with the moral intuitions of people who oppose civil rights, as a corrective to my reading of MLK. I don’t think you’ve understood either of them. He has been extensively criticised for false equivalence on exactly these kinds of questions.

https://behavioralscientist.org/whats-wrong-with-moral-foundations-theory-and-how-to-get-moral-psychology-right/

Moral psychology and civil rights protesters: Exemplary, different, and mad -> https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/spc3.12915 This one specifically talks about MLK and Haidt’s pet theory.

Ah, and there it is. You have proven my point, yet again, better than I ever could.

“In your statement you assert that our actions, even though peaceful, must be condemned because they precipitate violence. But is this a logical assertion? Isn’t this like condemning a robbed man because his possession of money precipitated the evil act of robbery?”

You just told me my anger is the problem and that my feelings are “overwhelming my communication.” That I should stop seeing the world as dichotomous. In other words: the person naming the injustice is responsible for the discomfort caused by naming it. You tone police the objection so you never have to address the objection itself, and your response to being told you were handling it badly was to diagnose my emotional state.

https://letterfromjail.com/

It looks like an oil painting, which is bitterly ironic.