and let grandpa pay for repairs himself
I must have not seen those threads. Or did see them and forgot. But there’s a very fundamental issue here. If the global economy is dependent on continuous GDP growth, then regardless of what we may or may not do about critical issues like climate change (and we’re not doing much) continuous growth necessarily implies continuous increase of resource consumption and continuous environmental devastation.
Where does it end? Corporations with short-term myopia don’t care. But ultimately this pattern of continual increased consumption, if continued without restraint, has to end with extinction. There is simply no other alternative. The flora and fauna that we depend on to sustain our life and environment will most likely come first, and then we will follow. This is ultimately the price of our current and unsustainable economic model of continuous growth.
Somali will serve the full sentence (only six months but still)
If I recall correctly, he will also have to register as a sex offender when he returns to the United States. That’s going to do wonders for his international travel prospects for more “nuisance streaming”.
I visited Israel a couple of years ago with a large international group. And in hotel restaurants, all of us were shocked by the number of little kids running around, screaming, fighting with each other, and sticking their hands into buffet food items. (Or tasting items and putting them back.) Israeli child-rearing appears to be a lot more permissive of kids doing “outdoor” stuff indoors than any other place I’ve visited. I’m sure there are both advantages and disadvantages to that. But i think the only reasonable way to protect the art is to use more physical barriers (glass, whatever) between the art and the patrons. And that has disadvantages, too.
How do you know they were all Israeli kids?
They spoke Hebrew. The little boys wore kippot. And this was typical at most (all?) of the hotels we stayed at.