Are your referring to article 1 ?

“As customary international law, such obligations are binding on all States, whether or not they have ratified the Genocide Convention. The ICJ has also concluded that the obligation to prevent genocide contained in Article I of the Genocide Convention has an extraterritorial scope.”

“Acts of genocide” infamously were not determined to be the same as genocide in 1994.

“Cultural genocide” / active and forced dispersal of a people, likewise don’t trigger Article 1.

It would seem that we need to wait for charnel houses and gas chambers for maybe some brave member of the human race to act.

This is genocide but no one will say it’s genocide cos then the rest of the world is legally obliged to stop it.

I didn’t have my glasses on and legit thought that this was a Bob Ross Happy Little Waterfall painting …

Watch Kenneth Branagh extended all inclusive version of Hamlet first - then read the play. It will not only help you make sense of the at time archaic dialogue, but will make you love and appreciate the prose as well.

This is blatantly unfair .. wave a camera ANYWHERE in NZ and it’s a stunning view …

I’ve not read the book yet but accidentally came across the tv show and was entranced …

Yea. The Bastard never confessed however and his family still defended him. I can’t watch this version of the music video without thinking of what those poor kids went though ..

Less uplifting - in australia three if thé young people missing and featured in that song were later found to have been that victims of the mass murderer, Ivan Milat.

Had she been somewhat less effusive, I would agree. And she wasn’t an acquaintance them - she has been someone who had been calling me long distance in tears as her marriage had been breaking up (btw - I’m a woman), so I had thought her a close friend at the time.

Anyway - it was a good in the end. Last minute Airbnb in a moment of desperation led to me making two new friends.

And the more I think of it … I have another dear friend who I will keep in my life forever who, hearing that I was in town, insisted that I stay with him and his GF in their flat. We were and have remained platonic friend fwiw … anyway what he didn’t tell me, was that his flat was the size of a shoebox, so I ended up spending the weekend, sleeping on their kitchen floor. I didn’t mind - and we are still (very platonic) friends.

To be clear - both her and her husband were once my friends and we had all known each other whilst working overseas. I’ve stayed with my best friend and her husband (who’s also my friend) without issues elsewhere so - eh - dunno.

Anyway - my way of getting by in life is to pretty much have no expectations from anyone other than myself. Anyone actually pulls for me - is a bonus - I’ve been blessed to have genuinely decent people cross my path, but not by design.

No.

I dont realise this otherwise I wouldn’t put it out.

I’m just not into people who say things that they don’t mean.

Also - when you are at your lowest, you see how people treat you when you have nothing to offer.

I supported “friend” 1 and meant all that I said. She didn’t in the end. Her words, were empty.

I had nothing at all to offer Friend 2 who likewise would have been very justified in explaining to me how she didn’t have time for me - or just not having time for me. Friend 2 didn’t - and I reached out when things were better and thanked her once I realised what she had also been going through.

Anyway - I’m just being honest - it’s the internet so I’ll take whatever comes with it.

So true. An acquaintance of mine who I helped support emotionally when she was separated from her husband, kept insisting on how welcome I would be in her home as a guest when visiting her town etc etc etc - “you’ll always have a place with us” . So she stayed with said husband and I was between rentals and needed a place to stay for 2 nights…. Her : “I would love to have you over but husband isn’t comfortable.”

I’m sure.

I out here very firmly in the acquaintance box after that, and treat any other banal promises she makes as worth the grime on the bottom of my shoes.

Conversely — I found a gem in another friend who went above and beyond to help me when I was in a pretty bad place … and then found out that she was in a worse situation than me. This person will stay on my life for a very long time.