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Hey Canada, Greenland and Panama, did you know that "...the U.S. government argued that Bin Laden and Soleimani posed an imminent threat and that the killings were defensive and, therefore, justified under international law."
I'm not saying anyone should hurt anyone. Violence is never a good answer. I also think someone threatening to invade and take possession of you by force is...bad.
quote source:

What does international law say about targeted killings? | CBC News
It certainly wasn't the first time a government was accused of orchestrating a killing on foreign soil, but observers around the world were nonetheless shocked by Prime Minister's Justin Trudeau's allegation that India's leaders had a hand in killing a Canadian citizen earlier this year in B.C. 

I have used excellent niche services this year:
• https://elicit.com: scientific publications summarisation using a LLM (don’t know if trained on or RAG). It cites them and I didn’t experienced hallucinations
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[ August 24, 2025 - August 30, 2025] Conference or similar: IAHR Congress CFP, ‘Reimagining Religion, Rethinking Philosophy: Theories and Methods from Buddhist Sources’ https://philevents.org/event/show/124354

IAHR Congress CFP, ‘Reimagining Religion, Rethinking Philosophy: Theories and Methods from Buddhist Sources’
Dear Friends and Colleagues, As part of the XXIII Quinquennial World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR), hosted by Jagiellonian University and the Polish Society for the Study of Religions and taking place in Kraków, Poland, on August 24–30, 2025, I warmly invite paper proposals for the open panel titled ‘Reimagining Religion, Rethinking Philosophy: Theories and Methods from Buddhist Sources’. “Is Buddhism a philosophy or a religion?” is a…

Rewatching "The West Wing" yet again. Season 6, Episodes 8-9 were utterly terrifying (the China trip) but it's still a welcome respite from reality.
Chicken soup for the Democrat soul.
"This plane is going to China!"
https://youtu.be/A2i8xuzaTdY?si=AMA_Kv

"...the number of dogs euthanized at [Los Angeles] city shelters jumped 72% compared to last year."
"[Dept] general manager, Staycee Dains, resigned. Dains had been on paid leave since August."
Trying really hard to hold back tears after so much EXTERNAL volunteer effort was put into reducing kill rates in LA.
"Days after LA Animal Services GM resigns, dept. faces audit" - K-Earth 101