What if is there are sad but nonetheless valid explanations for the massive civilian death tolls?
Can you think of one that doesn't make Israel look like they're doing Holocaust 2.0 in order to clear the Gaza strip for Israeli settlers? They've committed several war crimes, including maiming and starving children.
I don't think you're a jerk. Your son is 16, more than old enough to handle it. The fact of the matter is that, in professional sports, most young boys are scouted by the time they're his age; if it hasn't happened yet, it probably won't.
He needs to start planning for a more realistic future, but he's allowed to think you're being too hard on him. You don't have to be responsible for his mistakes if he chooses to make them, you already did your job by telling him to think more realistically.
Do you think he might be good enough for a foreign league if he works his ass off? Not every basketball player is good enough for the NBA, but a lot are good enough to play in China or Europe, for example. Maybe, if this career is what he really wants, it would help your relationship if you gave him some pointers about playing in a league he might be more competitive in.
That said, you could also try to see if he might enjoy sports medicine or some other adjacent career, like training. Surely you know what might be a good fit for him outside of being a player, considering your experience. Giving him other options that still allow him to be close to the sport might be a nice way to show him that you still think he can be involved in professional sports in some capacity.
Absolutely wild claim considering the centuries (millennia?) of indigenous migration in the area...
I dunno, maybe if you never put it up again. But you could also think of it as a performance where the act of putting up and taking down the banana is part of the art. And the person who "owns" it gets to be part of that, which is special.
Israel is an ethnostate because they are deliberately ethnically homogenous and view Arabs as inferior on an institutional scale, not because of their state religion. A state with a religious ruling class is called a theocracy.
I see what you're saying because religion has societal and cultural impacts that reinforce specific behaviours, but not all states that have a state religion are actually theocracies in the traditional sense.
Hmm, I suppose the big difference between Fedora and Kubuntu is that Fedora is a fixed point release distro (similar to rolling release but less frequent) that applies updates only on restart, so it's possible that it needs a moment to ensure that everything is compatible.
It's certainly a weird choice to kidnap your desktop, so I don't blame you for being annoyed. If that's causing this, then you might want to try a stable release distro. This is part of why I like Debian, because it doesn't change very quickly and updates are unlikely to need special care to ensure stability. Debian also doesn't have the issue you're talking about, it updates right away in the background.
Kubuntu is Ubuntu-based (duh) so if you like how it behaves, you could try Debian (which Ubuntu is based on) or try another flavour of Ubuntu. Pop!_OS and Zorin are both Ubuntu-based and should definitely be on DistroSea.
I'm not familiar enough with KDE to know what you mean by a Windows-esque update step, but if you can explain further I'll see if I can find something for you.
Alternatively, someone else might pop in with some options.
For gaming, people often recommend Pop!_OS, Bazzite, or Zorin, but you can use whatever you want if you are a tinkerer. I use Debian and have a great time gaming.
Outside of gaming and if Windows software compatibility isn't really something you're worried about, you can use any distro you want.
You can try some of them out using a web browser with DistroSea if you feel like it, though they don't have every distro because that would be nuts.
You can't overwater in water! So you're good.
As an aside, my wife went to school for horticulture. Overwatering is exceptionally common. Whenever you feel like you should water a plant, skip that day and maybe even the next one.
Some plants even like to be drier and watering an amount that might be normal for another plant will kill it. You may want to consider getting a cheap hygrometer (or more than one) to test for moisture prior to watering.
Yeah, I just noticed that some of these aren't actual "news" sources, so I added a couple of others that seem to corroborate each other. It's important to get a varied perspective when the source is new to you or doesn't have established credibility.
When are we going to stop treating Israel and the IDF as though they are capable of accurately representing any kind of series of events related to Palestine? They constantly lie about what happens and have been for years if not decades.
Brain damage from an injury made him "dumb enough" to drive a truck. It's a joke riffing on the idea that someone who's smart shouldn't do a job for "stupid" people lest they waste their potential.