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>types of buildings they're trying to construct.

Having lost everything in a house fire, I'm okay in concrete.

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“He can remain free”

AKA: we lost track of him :’D

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Even if it were door to door slaughtering of civilians, it doesn't define the actions that must be taken to prevent it. We've planned to reduce fuel purchases over the next five years and have written a strongly-worded letter of protest. Problem solved.

The populationnis becoming quite well established and for obvious reasons people keep quiet about their locations.

Seeing as they are a recent extirpated species I think it's great to see them back in the UK.

Well somebody better that owl he won't be prosecuted for absconding his prison cell. Good for him I say.

Possible but unlikely. There’s going to be some pretty significant behavioral differences between him and any great horned owls, especially if he’s been in a zoo his whole life. The behavioral differences will make it hard to find a mate. Released zoo animals are less likely to find a wild mate (and that’s not even considering that he’s a different species lol)

Also great horned owl breeding season started weeks ago so he’s gonna have to pick up the pace if he wants to find a mate. He’s already behind so he would need to find a territory, nesting site, and a willing mate in the next 2-3 weeks

Also great horned owls are semi-uncommon in the city so he’ll have pretty limited options. If he’s still in central park I think there is actually a single female there though

Add it to the list

Yup textbook US Texans.

Are your referring to article 1 ?

“As customary international law, such obligations are binding on all States, whether or not they have ratified the Genocide Convention. The ICJ has also concluded that the obligation to prevent genocide contained in Article I of the Genocide Convention has an extraterritorial scope.”

“Acts of genocide” infamously were not determined to be the same as genocide in 1994.

“Cultural genocide” / active and forced dispersal of a people, likewise don’t trigger Article 1.

It would seem that we need to wait for charnel houses and gas chambers for maybe some brave member of the human race to act.

You sent me down a rabbit hole as I had no idea we had them here.

> The Scots Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Cornish and Irish Gaelic languages all have words for them

So interesting to see they used language as a way of determining whether we used to have owls

That is because the legal definition of genocide requires two layers of intent. First you have to do acts of genocide intentionally, like stealing children. Second for it to be a genocide it has to be proven that the acts of genocide was done with the goal of destroying a national group in whole or in part.

So everyone agrees that russia are commiting acts of genocide but it's still not proven that this is their goal.

And no it's not a legal obligation for anyone to do anything unless the UN security Council decides to do something. And Russia has a veto there.

There is currently a case in the international court of justice about Russian claims of genocide in Ukraine. So far the court has decided that russia is legally obliged to withdraw untill its clear that ukraine is commiting genocide (they are not), but the fear in the west is that ICJ will decide that genocide does not mean that anyone can intervene at all without UNSC approval.

This also what made the NATO bombing of kosovo illegal. NATO did not have a right to intervene, but at the same time not many countries felt like condemning them for breaking international law in that case since they indeed stopped a genocide.

I used to have one of these in the UK.

They're huge big softies that will 100% reduce the local dog and cat population.

There's debate taking in the UK regarding the recent successful breeding population of Euros as to whether They're escapee birds or have recolonised from Europe and therefore should be culled. I say leave them be.

Because...Russia would know they are gone either way but now how.

Turkey: amateurs. Fucking amateurs.

Gonna wager a guess and say no one in these comments is aware of the history of Radio Free Europe and yet they choose to speak as geopolitical sages. What’s most worrisome is that people lack the intuition to investigate what they’re told

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The entire history of Muscovy -> Russia -> SU is basically a litany of the worst aspects of imperialism. Russian history is an unending line of forgotten genocides and atrocities.

I don't think you understand the level of aggression Russia has. They literally admit on TV that they force adopt Ukrainian children, and they also say that everyone in Ukraine needs to be killed.

>You'll notice that this article is also written in English. Ukraine needs to announce this to an international audience to keep the war in international news and keep international sympathies with Ukraine.

This isn't even a Ukrainian production, for what it's worth. It's RadioFreeEurope, which is wholly funded and operated by the US government.

You say that like it wasn’t already.

Everyone is calling it a genocide and that's not how international law works. Acknowledging it as genocide doesn't legally obligate anyone to do anything, unfortunately.