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Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Chris Elvidge <chris@internal.net> Newsgroups: sci.lang,alt.usage.english Subject: Re: OT: Converting miles/km Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2025 14:08:10 +0000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 67 Message-ID: <vq4d4a$1basd$1@dont-email.me> References: <slrnvepbvk.tfc.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> <8a49d912-d0bf-3ca1-6f10-2639a7e8eddc@email.de> <vcjhnd$12ln8$1@dont-email.me> <vd13st$3mqhg$1@dont-email.me> <20240926104015.552dfc13b81e84699978c092@127.0.0.1> <67c2d52a$2$16848$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <vpuspi$77cr$1@dont-email.me> <mn.0bda7e93465b1e2f.127094@snitoo> <vq0s97$lj0q$1@dont-email.me> <vq23tj$s6bc$1@dont-email.me> <r3hasjd17luhg0c5dg9hg6mvv0tg6ht88d@4ax.com> <67c5945f$0$28077$426a74cc@news.free.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2025 15:08:11 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="0957d43643fa3769a5586cb15e6b5980"; logging-data="1420173"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/2/muEO2K5h7ZUsQmTHDo1vg6FcVbaYDE=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 Lightning/5.4 Cancel-Lock: sha1:W8EEPoM4KXwmh6LKWrj5B/qIHeM= In-Reply-To: <67c5945f$0$28077$426a74cc@news.free.fr> Content-Language: en-GB Bytes: 4367 On 03/03/2025 at 11:37, J. J. Lodder wrote: > Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote: > >> On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 11:18:42 -0600, lar3ryca <larry@invalid.ca> wrote: >> >>> On 2025-03-02 00:02, Peter Moylan wrote: >>>> On 02/03/25 11:26, Snidely wrote: >>>> >>>>>> A bit like the idiot who said he had a solution to end a war but >>>>>> forgot to invite one of the parties to the negotiations. >>>>> >>>>> You're being generous if you think it was just forgetting. The >>>>> display he and his wingman Vance just gave was clearly intended to >>>>> have Ukraine twisting in the wind. >>>> >>>> Trump didn't seem to understand the impression that the TV audience got. >>>> It went down well in Moscow, of course, along with Putin's comment that >>>> Zelenskyy had been "disciplined". Throughout the Western world, though, >>>> the reactions were along the lines of "this will go down as America's >>>> most shameful day in history". Zelenskyy went on to London and got a >>>> hero's welcome, and all the European leaders seem to have closed ranks >>>> behind Ukraine. Trump came across as a little kid having a tantrum. >>> >>> We can expect nothing more from Trump. USA LLC is now a company with a >>> CEO that runs it based solely on profits, and with no HR department. >>> This is made worse by his belief that it's not enough to win in any deal >>> he makes, but the other party has to lose. >>> >>> IMO he is currently the single worst human? on the planet, with Putin as >>> a close second. Both of them are the most likely to start a nuclear war. >> >> I think you overlooked Netanyahu. > > Deliberately I guess. > This is also your South African perspective showing. > In the USA and much of Western Europe all mention of Netanyahu > in connection with crimes against humanity, or war crimes, > is met with voluminous howling of 'anti-semitism'. > (against Francesca Albanese for example) > > Netanyahu is the good guy, and all he does is justified > because he is fighting those horrible 'terrorist'. > It is all the fault of the ICC, for falsely accusing him. > > They cannot see Israel like South Africa sees it, > as an example of an apartheids regime, > and as just another nasty (de)colonisation war. > > 'The West' (-USA by now) also fails to see > that it is their double standard > wrt Gaza/Ukraine that makes 'the rest ot the world' > unwilling to widely condemn Russia for its agression. > > Jan > (yes, too broad a brush) > I've never understood why - Several hundred Israelis 'captured' by Hamas = Hostages Several thousand Palestinians captured and kept in Israeli gaols without trial = Prisoners Aren't they hostages, too? -- Chris Elvidge, England THE BOYS ROOM IS NOT A WATER PARK