bonque, ben (טריפה שאלות)

I love this so much 💖

(1) The accused declared, ordered, or otherwise indicated that there shall be no survivors or surrender accepted; (2) The accused thereby intended to threaten an adversary or to conduct hostilities such that there would be no survivors or surrender accepted; (3) It was foreseeable that circumstances would be such that a practicable and reasonable ability to accept surrender would exist; (4) The accused was in a position of effective command or control over the subordinate forces to which the declaration or order was directed; and (5) The conduct took place in the context of and was associated with hostilities.

✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here.

Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning:

Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime.

And recognized as such by the US Government.

From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.

"Declaring that no quarter will be given" is specifically prohibited by Art 23 of the Annex to the Hague Convention IV, which means it is a war crime under US domestic law by virtue of the War Crimes Act (18 U.S. Code § 2441).

What a fascinating response.

The half shekel is a requirement from the Torah. What's exploitative about it?

Iow, the facts of that story drive in the opposite direction from what you indicate.

A) there are zero lenders in the story you're thinking of, just currency exchangers. The presence of lending in the Xtian imagination is due specifically to medieval antisemitism.

B) the money changers charged a fee of about 2.5%, but that fee was waivable in cases like poverty

It's been Too Warm in ABQ for weeks now.

“Don’t proudly announce an international war crime for at least 20 minutes” Pentagon challenge.

NEW: Senate Democrats have filed legislation that would prevent the U.S. from attacking Cuba without congressional approval as they seek to force a vote on President Trump's stated goal of a "takeover" of the Caribbean country 9:59 AM • 3/13/26 • 8.9K Views

See now this should actually be given some praise, getting ahead of the possibility and raising the alarm about another war of aggression based on the president's own words

a funny story is my younger son, when he was like, I want to say 3 or 4, he was in daycare, and the daycare had an agreement with the nearby school that did various kinds of medicine and pharmacy classes, and they would sometimes go to the daycare with prototypes for child-proof medicine bottles

ואעשך לגוי גדול:
And I will make you a great gentrifier

Ye Olde Idolle Shoppe

There's a reason it was so easy for Avram to wreck his father's shoppe

Abraham framed Ea-nāṣir

Just pick a lane, please! 😭

Abraham: well now you know why I had to get out of town

I also blocked them.

Compassion is one of those things where you lose access to deploying it by using it less.
Succinctly, you're at best a picky bigot.

I share zero JewSky mutuals with you. I share zero mutuals of any kind with you. Go interrogate elsewhere.

The onus is on the caliper wielder.

Well, part of its Hebrew, but that hardly presents any challenge.

You should know better than to ask people to perform for you.

אחי, זיי ווייניקער מאדנע.

I'm asking you because you seem to be the expert. Got them fancy calipers, maybe.

SURJ endorses Nazi tattoo guy.

He embodies having a Nazi tattoo.

Am I Zionist?

Look I know it’s a little grimy, not super esthetically pleasing with all the oil refineries and ports, and the mosquitoes are just awful, but if people want to devote themselves to Corpus Christi I think they should be allowed to.

I didn't get a PhD in Religious Studies because it was an economically sensible thing to do. I did it because I like to read sources and think and write about them. I do not want to automate all of that.