The USA doesn’t recognise the ICC because they do not want their citizens to be subjected to it. There are quotes from senior officials and diplomats essentially saying that the USA agrees with the concept of the ICC but only for lawless countries where people who violate international law are unlikely to be held to account. Essentially it is a humdinger of an example of “rules for thee but not for me” creedo. The US hides behind its UCMJ (Uniform Code of Military Justice) as a panacea excusing it from subjecting itself to the rules it wants to enforce on the rest of the world. The argument is that the UCMJ is sufficient to enforce accountability and international law, and that the ICC is superfluous. It’s a tenuous argument at best and ultimately shelters the USDF from international accountability for their actions.

This should be in /antimemes

What’s the current polymarket on the count of gay Tate brothers >0?

The tracking is used to identify the source user who shared the link - that is connected in the DB to the user who received and used the link. That connects their two digital footprints as far as the website is concerned. It’s one element that leads to strangely tenuous “people you may know” style lists. If you and the person you share with have totally separate online lives. The moment you share that link - everything YouTube (Google) knows about both of you is connected. If one of you has shared your contact lists, your phone number, address etc is potentially now connected to you even if you’ve never posted it to anything online. It doesn’t take much for someone to be linked to 1000’s of people in a chain reaction of connections started by a single shared link that hasn’t been anonymised.

I read the heading and thought you were posting sugar-free Haribo gummy bears.

It requires use of tentacles though.

It is the only way. The belly demands it. The universe demands it. Faceplant and then breathe 🥰

It’s hard to believe they’re the same species.

Ahem, Lenny CrabTits*

The impact of the blue (Or any dark ) paint was that it absorbs more radiation from sunlight, increasing the temperature of the water in the pool. It’s this temperature increase which gives rise to the algal bloom. Theoretically painting it black would have been even worse.

As the camera zooms in on Mr Vance, who was talking near his seat in the corner of his room, he appears visibly concerned by the Iranian delegation’s walk out.  He approaches Mr Sharif and Mr Munir shortly afterwards and the three men are seen talking before someone chimes in with a question: “How are the talks going so far, Mr Vice President?”

That reporter has brilliant comedic timing, I’m dying!

As was the style at the time.

Nawww what a cute lil Splatty Gilmore 😍

My vote is mildly annoyed at being filmed. My cat gets irritated when the IR light gets emitted (I think for the autofocus) - he can tell when the camera app is open vs not - I think it shines right in his eyes and it gives him the irrits.

I thought it was belittling and patronising.

What in the ever loving fark Australia!?

A ship of fools you say?

Excuse me, uh did you say yutes?

Yeah your honor the two yutes.

Uh, what is a yute?

Oh excuse me your honor - two youTHs.

Good grief. You couldn’t pay me to go on a cruise. I just… don’t get it.