Making the trip through the Mediterranean easier saves money to the human traffickers because they can give the boat 20 km of fuel then call a ship to rescue them. This makes it cheaper for them but they charge the same money, so it's a profit for the traffickers.

I'm not trying to say the NGOs are willingly complicit in human trafficking, i think they just want to save people that risk their lives, but it doesn't mean the traffickers don't use them to their advantage regardless

2.628 × 10¹⁴ minutes

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Radio waves

Must set an alarm to get the washing in, just in case. How many minutes is that?

The children are going to have to learn about Tek War sometime

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It's almost as if people are pissed off. Albeit it's for a different reason in Israel.

Weird number of downvotes here. Imma guess the bots or something are out. I highly doubt Banksy has some secret migrant dump and rescue operation. The makes zero logical sense

True, but I'm not really sure how a sphere faces anything. A surface normal at the equator pointing towards earth?

What does pointing mean under that level of gravity and over that much distance?

fr fr, on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard.”

If you couldn’t get food by legal means you would rather starve to death than steal?

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Just saying if anyone wanted to find out it seems like it'd be easy. Especislly since uk is covered in cc tv they definitely have to know. Which makes me suspicious of him

I would be curious what in this constitutes emergency care and whether all doctors will be expected to have the same supplies or capability.

Da!

Black holes have a front and a back? An up and a a down? Left and right?

What reason does anyone have to expose him? He wishes to remain largely anonymous, so anyone obsessed with figuring out who he is would be, at best, a massive prick and at worst a psychopath.

Plugging the loop hole kills a massive talking point for the opposition parties. The conservatives harped on and on about this for ages. Now that something has been done about it it’s been crickets from them.

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Ratifying a convention means putting it into national law. The enforcement mechanism is Italy's legal system.

That's not quite the same. Buying child slaves gives money to the slaveholders. That's why charities don't do it. Freeing slaves without giving money to slaveholders is not an issue at all.

That depends, sometimes the right wing of those planets don't want immigrants, cuz we going to take their jerbs.

You misunderstood something there. There is no way to claim asylum from outside the US. For good reason: It would completely overwhelm the system and lead to a massive increase in successful applications for political asylum. You first have to cross the border. What the US wants to do is expedite the process of processing asylum claims: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-unveils-rule-speed-up-asylum-processing-deportations-border-2022-03-24/

The car was just an example. Stealing food because I can't afford it or breaking into someones house because I can't get my own place isn't okay either.