“This is the time for us to show resolve, not appeasement,” said von der Leyen, who was set to travel to Kyiv later on Wednesday to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. “We are in it for the long haul.”
A Queen, without power is a fake; it's just a title but with the inability to do anything because successive governments over time striped the Royal Family of any and all powers, and any that do remain can be vetoed by the Govt.
This media circus, is a form a worship.
Sure people can cry for a person such as the Queen, a person they do not know except for what they see on TV or in other forms of media. Personally I don't get it, I think Israel bombing Gaza killing children (just an example) is far more sad
>A Queen, without power is a fake; it's just a title but with the inability to do anything
The power the queen had was very minimal, but she did still have some power. Maybe you don't consider minimal power to be sufficient to be considered a monarch?
>This media circus, is a form a worship.
Are you using worship to just mean a high level of respect? If that is the case then fine, I assumed you were using it as thinking of the queen as divine.
>Sure people can cry for a person such as the Queen, a person they do not know except for what they see on TV or in other forms of media.
Most of us don't know any person in Gaza so it is just a number or image on a TV. It doesn't really seem any different than the queen in that respect.
Also, a random kid in Gaza likely doesn't impact us in the way the Queen can. If a kid in Gaza makes a speech are you going to hear about it? What about the queen?
>Personally I don't get it, I think Israel bombing Gaza killing children (just an example) is far more sad
It is irrelevant though? People can be sad for multiple things. There have been multiple threads on HN over the years about Israel / Palestine and other places going through turmoil. Why can't you just let people express sadness without trying to one up the sadness?
Great Britain is still a monarchy. However, it’s known as a constitutional monarchy and now King Charles III is the holder of this title. However since it’s a constitutional monarchy, most of the governing power rest with the parliament.
Although she was Commander-In-Chief, she gave responsibility to the prime minister and the Secretary of State for Defence, along with other officials. Theoretically she could have ordered a strike against the white house but this would be vetoed by the govt.
She had the ability to declar war, however the government doesn’t need the Queen’s permission.
She could have issued an order of Dissolution of Parliament, but parliament is not the same as the government. The British government is the one that actually rules in the UK. Also such an act would have caused an absolute uproar among UK
citizens and probably ensured the beginning of a Republic
So she has "power" in name only, but no real power which was my point, everything has been taken away from her ... and now also King Charles.
You can also do it the easy way, instead of installing Ubuntu, which is based on Debian, install and Arch spin such as Arco Linux https://arcolinux.com/ and during the installation choose the 'hardened kernel' option instead of the default or zen kernel.
>These sobering statistics recently led Andrea Toreti, a researcher with the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in Milan, to make a shocking declaration: that the 2022 drought is likely Europe’s worst in nearly 500 years
Bollocks, and so easily disproved by the "Hunger Stones" along the Elbe River in central Europe.
The stones become visible when the water level of the river drops significantly, as in during times of drought.
The oldest stone carving to emerge was carved in 1616.
"Some markings date back to the 15th century, Czech researchers found in 2013, and the Decin stone commemorates at least 12 droughts over 600 years. "
Droughts come and go and are a natural climate phenomena.
because the population is 8 billion and because people build homes/cities in geographically vulnerable areas subject to flooding or drought.
Ask yourself, why would people build a city on known geological fault lines, or at the base of still active volcanoes, or along river flood plains ... which flood every few years, or in harsh arid areas bereft of water? Yes, stupidity is one reason ... maybe the only reason.
