

You wouldn’t have your sentence increased from a fine to a prison sentence for trying to appeal against it though. Let’s not pretend that the legal system in Dubai and UK are similar


You wouldn’t have your sentence increased from a fine to a prison sentence for trying to appeal against it though. Let’s not pretend that the legal system in Dubai and UK are similar


You clearly did not read the article


Whomever wrote these needs a grammar checker. Also why on quora? That’s a weird site to use to host a blog


Since his reign began in 2012, Xi Jinping’s endless purges have removed millions of officials — from top-ranked Communist Party “tigers” down to lowly bureaucratic “flies,” to use Xi’s evocative terminology.
Millions of officials? This must be a typo?


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I interpreted “middle of the road” as doing nothing special, just normal tasks done a normal way and therefore hoping everything just works so you can focus on work


I’m impressed you figured out how to make a lemmy account with your two braincells knocking around in there
This is why I got a MacBook (unpopular opinion here)


You don’t get to decide what people can and cannot discuss. And if someone replying was transphobic then maybe responding calmly and rationally would help change their mind. Just calling people transphobes does more to turn people away from your cause than just not replying


Take a note on how the other user responded to my question. You instead responded with hostility, good luck convincing anyone if that’s how you engage with a genuine attempt to discuss the topic


Thanks for the detailed response! Interesting


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Plenty of places have bunkers, for civilians to hide in during air raids or missile attacks. Switzerland and Finland have bunkers everywhere. That’s not the same as a command and control military installation


You should change who you’re hanging out with


That doesn’t even make sense. I understand everyone’s emotions are high, and what is happening is truly tragic, but can we at least agree on some common logical foundation?


People trying to help and making the situation worse does not help, at all. Putting soothing your own feelings above the pragmatic requirements to solve the situation does not help
This is why politicians are universally hated, but still required


If we were to be devils advocates for a second here… if you knew that the terrorists that you’re trying to wipe out would steal any fuel you send in, but everyone keeps telling you to do it anyway, would you send 9000 litres and resupply your adversary or would you send a few hundred litres and record what happens to make a point?
Logseq is the obsidian foss clone , worth a try