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    Some Problems of Our World

    Three weeks is much too long to wait for your order to arrive, very frustrating. But to be fair, this is not Tokopedia's fault. 3 weeks is not a regular 'holiday late delivery'. At this stage your order is probably lost in Limbo and the courier is to blame for that. On the other hand, Tokopedia...
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    Keep your head down when it comes to government posts

    There's only one way to find out. Keep us posted!
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    McNamara's Mea culpa.

    Yes, I've seen a couple of documentaries about it. It is a fascinating story. The fact that the idea persists that this could have been an accident is remarkable, to say the least. The incident happened on a clear day, USS Liberty was flying a large American flag and its hull number was clearly...
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    McNamara's Mea culpa.

    Any mention of why Robert McNamara failed to properly investigate the USS Liberty incident, an Israeli attack on a US ship (34 american crew members were killed and 171 wounded)?
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    How do you guys invest?

    Yes, physical gold, the gold bars, are sometimes difficult to obtain. A month or three ago, the smaller Antam bars of 20g or less were completely unavailable here in East Java. The premium you pay for Antam bars has been high for a long time. This morning I checked with us, and it was Rp640,000...
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    Garden visitors

    A picture from a couple of years ago. This pit viper was hiding on our garden bench. My wife found it when she wanted to rearrange the pillows. A beautiful animal, the bright green color and its triangular head. Pretty aggressive animal. We've had one inside too with a tail as red as a ripe...
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    Garden visitors

    For this reason, I've partnered with a stray cat. She gets two handfuls of delicious Cat Choize from me every day, and in return, she guards our garden, driveway, and surrounding area. She catches all sorts of things, not just rats and mice, but also cicaks, grasshoppers, tokehs, and even small...
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    Indonesia set to introduce strict new law banning sex outside of marriage

    "The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."
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    New laws- Government control

    Gitu aja kok repot -Gus Dur
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    Somethng else to worry about.

    Very high mortality rate, however, since its discovery 27 years ago, only 435 people died of the virus so far.
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    Windows 10

    After installing Linux Ubuntu, it didn't show up in the Boot Order menu in the BIOS. That was because of a 'unique security feature' of the laptop where you must "trust" the Linux boot file before it will let you boot from it. In the Security Tab you have to set a Supervisor Password and then a...
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    Windows 10

    Maybe it was his limited personal experience. Or maybe he had a quick look at the person he was talking to and thought: Nah, this guy is not the sharpest tool in the shed, he'd better stick to Windows? I recently bought a Linux installer flash disk on Shopee and installed Ubuntu on my Windows 11...
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    Prabowo Family Tightens Grip on Indonesia’s Political and Business Elite

    In some banana republics they call it lobbying.
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    New laws- Government control

    Our local ta'mir masjid—the person who manages the mosque—sells elpiji gas, the subsidized 3kg gas cylinders. If you call him, he'll deliver them to your door. He can carry up to 10 cylinders on his motorbike. He doesn't seem to be high up in the Pertamina hierarchy, but who knows? I haven't...
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    Muslim Brotherhood in Indonesia

    The UAE minister of foreign affairs talked about this problem many years ago.
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    New laws- Government control

    If someone were to say that they have a very strange interpretation of Christianity somewhere because they ring the church bells loudly, everyone would know there's something wrong with that statement. The number of decibels coming from the loudspeakers of a particular mosque has little to do...
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    The drab hand of religions.

    It is interesting to explore how many and for whatever reasons women wear a jilbab, burka or some other type of veil. But to leave out the possibility that some/many women wear it because they see it as a (obligatory) part of their religion is just ridiculous. I think for some women there are...
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    The drab hand of religions.

    If you believe there are no women wearing a jilbab because of religious reasons, there is a big disconnect between you and the islamic society around you.
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    The drab hand of religions.

    Exactly. "Are these women with us in the room right now, Pantaiema?"
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    The drab hand of religions.

    On the other hand it may also be someone's personal decision. On the other hand it may not be the case and they experienced pressure from the society (western or not) they were visiting to remove their veils. Pretty hard argueing with that.

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