My guess is he didn’t get the reaction he expected and was offered exile. He saw a quick death if he continued and the chance to defect west or something if he stopped. I think stopping becomes the obvious move in that case.
The bigger question is why did he start in the first place? What conditions existed that meant that was the best move.
Not quite. If you are in so deep that you are worried about color you already past the executive order that defines the layout of the flag as you know it.
If you notice all the flags in the video has a singular blue area. This one has two. Whether that is valid or not dependa on how you interpret “union of the flag shall be forty-eight stars, white in a blue field”.
If you think that means the blue area must be contiguous then this flag does not meet the definition. If you think the blue area does not need to be contiguous then this flag may meet the definition.
<Bad Russian accent> It is but rapid ammunition delivery. <\accent>
So I had a conversation on this in a different community. I’m going to summarize my conclusion here.
Sadly the flag code defines the flag as having a singular blue fied.
I tried to get a good definition of what exactly a field is. Here we have the definition “The backdrop color to a flag. Ex: On the Arkansas state flag, it is the red part.”
I’m not actually finding a better definition and am starting to question if the canton in the US flag counts as a field in vexillology terms since it isn’t a ‘backdrop’.
A better way, and perhaps the more accurate, is to ask how we would construct a flag. The red field in the Arkansas flag is one piece of fabric. The blue canton is one piece of fabric. Two blue stripes could be once piece of fabric with everything else sewn into of it. But I think the better construction would be two pieces of fabric sewn on to the outer two stripes.
But I wouldn’t worry about it since section 5 codifies “existing rules and customs pertaining to the display and use of the flag of the United States” by using an existing executive order. That order’s attachment basically defines the flag as you know it.
Of course none of this is actually has a mechanism of enforcement so you can fly just about anything and just call it the American flag.
Ok here’s my take from someone who hasn’t played them in probably close to 2 decades, didn’t actually own them but just played with a friend who owned it. But I did love the series at least enough that I still have impressions of my feels from over 20 years ago.
I remember loving playing Twisted Metal 2. I can remember sitting in front of the TV plating the single and multiplayer. I can’t remember the specifics of much more beyond very basic mechanics but there is a very positive emotion. My memory of Twisted Metal 3 is just disappointment and blandness.
I didn’t get much time with either game but I remember having the choice between them and choosing 2 over 3 consistently.
If a large chunk of people are in a similar situation as me, only vague limited impressions from long ago, give their opinions you their opinion over more than a decade you build a very negative image.
Throw in people just discovering the games and being told 2 is good and 3 is bad. They then compare maybe minutes of the gameplay before deciding which to play and reinforce the narrative. You can end up with a fan base with an unjustly harsh view.
I can honestly see 3 being just kind of mediocre and just being judged awful because of how good 2 was.
Citizens United at least had some hand wavy group rights derived from each individual’s rights going for it.
This is basically buy your way to vote in any local election.
<s>Because as a business owner you have exactly as much say in a locality’s government as someone who actually lives there. Or even more of they don’t fix the “each LLC gets a vote not the owner loophole”.<\s>
In other towns where this is allowed, a representative of the entity, not the actual owner, was able to cast the ballot for the company after signing the necessary affidavit. Delaware allows for the owner of the LLC’s identity to not be public.
Yep no way this doesn’t-
In a Newark referendum election in 2019, a property manager was able to vote 31 times because he was in control of 31 LLCs, which owned 31 parcels of land. The city then changed its regulations after this became public.
Ah it already did cause problems.
Why in the world would you put business on the same legal basis of actual citizens?
New ERA just dropped boys.
Also I broke my foot stepping on it.
Pretty much what the article says.
The alpha radiation that DU emits is not strong enough to penetrate human skin, so just being near depleted uranium is not a health risk. But it may become a health hazard if it is ingested or inhaled, or shrapnel fragments are retained in the body.
It’s really just one more hazard a former battlefield can have. If I was in or around a former battlefield that had DU rounds used, I would be more concerned about unexploded high explosives.
I feel like this would make a great “me and the girls” template.
Very informative article.
DU also has nonmilitary applications. Its high density makes it useful for stopping radiation in medical, research and nuclear facilities.
I find it funny a source of radiation, admittedly safe alpha radiation as long as it is outside of you, is used as radiation shielding.
It’s really location dependent. Some places you’ll see the birds in seconds and others never. You’ll need to know the climate, local weather, soil conditions, what else is growing in the area, time of year, etc. to get an accurate answer.
It would be whatever is negotiated in the personality rights contract. I think voice actors have a union so I could see a standardized contract negotiated by the union.
I don’t think there is a way native to Lemmy for a mod to do that. You would have to talk to the instance admin you are on to defederate them at the moment. This might change in the future.
What you might be able to do is see if anyone has made a mod bot yet. Then you could configure the bot to ban anyone who posts from instances you don’t like. So reactive bans instead of preemptive.
I’ve seen the first couple bots pop up so I would expect to see a mod bot pretty soon.
I’m not seeing any serious suggestions of that there. Looks more like hypothetical talk.
I actually had a similar thought to that yesterday. Could moderators be classified as employees for the work they do?
I think you would have a massive uphill struggle to argue Reddit’s moderators are employees in court. Without that no back pay and no union.
Ah the classic “I’m trans better tell everyone. Wait maybe I’m not. Nope definitely I am better tell everyone again.”
“I refuse (voiceover) work that states they’ll take my voice and make an AI model from it,” voice actor Brad Ziffer told CNBC. “The best way to protect myself is to just stay away.”
As you should. There is a big difference between narrating and giving away personality rights.
But the article kind of negates the title.
However, experts say seamlessly replicating the way a human talks with AI is still a ways away. Human beings offer unique intonation, cadence, and emotion when they speak.
Voice artist narration for big title releases isn’t going away anytime soon. And if it does the job is going to be replaced with technical/artistic jobs fine tuning the generated narration.
What I actually see happening in the short term is it becoming profitable to do generative narration of smaller authors and books that would be profitable using traditional voice work.
In time I could see this working it’s way up the budget ladder into larger projects but that’s still a way off.
As far as I’m aware defederation is one way. If instance 1 defederates instance 2 it means they won’t accept posts, comments or any other data from the instance 2. But instance 2 is still capable of viewing the data from instances 1 much like an unlogged in user
Looking at lemmy.ml/instances I dont see lemmy.world in the blocked list. I don’t think either has defederates the other. Are you thinking of Beehaw?
Mastodon instances are technically able to interact with lemmy instances. Both platforms use the ActivityPub protocol. The issue for your average user is the UI frontend of the platforms don’t have anyway of doing the correct queries or display the information from each other. But if you use alternative interfaces, I think it’s basically just all command line utilities at the moment, you can view content and post across them. There should be some other platforms able to do this as well.
HardlightCereal got banned from Raddle for doxing someone. The site’s primary admin quite literally uses they pronouns. That doesn’t preclude enbypobia in itself but should at least make you question what HardlightCereal’s actual goal is without more evidence.