Pretty much. Articles like that one assuming the shooters didn’t take the good stuff they had come for is just idiotic. (Though with witnesses coming out of nearby buildings, and their brother/accomplice bleeding out from gunshot wounds, they probably didn’t have nearly as much time as the police did to ransack the…

They weren’t “collateral damage”.

Counterpoint:

Honestly, as “violence against protesters” goes most of what I’ve seen (though I’ll admit I haven’t given it my full attention) doesn’t look particularly oppressive in context of what (even unofficial) footage shows some of the protesters doing.

That’s because all the men who drink 3.5 standard drinks per day who are susceptible to congenital heart defects die before they manage to father children, and thus fail to pass on the risk.

of which is the researchers’ baffling assertion that men’s drinking patterns after conception could somehow affect the fetus’ risk of heart problems

Climbing stairs isn’t hard for most people (differently abled, or whatever the correct PC term currently is if that isn’t it with my apologies, excepted). The point of escalators is to speed up travel, not do your trivial work for you.*

People shouldn’t walk on escalators. (It slows down the flow at rush hour.)

Update:

Lot of wishful thinking there.

‘k.

NK doesn’t have a large enough population.

You will certainly be playing ‘on Sunday’ in the future but we have stopped watching the NFL due to the disgusting tattoos, awful hair and immature antics in the end zone.

is only that Israel has been more successful in branding its conflict with those it oppresses as genuinely above reproach

and so seeing them stand with the wrong side of history

Define “stupid”.

You mean “purely greed-driven” isn’t a defense?

I believe he was merely pointing out that your phrasing of “Become the norm” is incorrect.

But they ARE upholding the values of their customers. You’re just under the misimpression that you, and not the mainland Chinese, are the majority of their customers.

Population of Hong Kong: 7.3 million