PrinceWith999Enemies @ PrinceWith999Enemies @lemmy.world

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I’m going to second The Good Place. Both it and Ted are complete now, and they close their story arcs perfectly. The third one I would add is Schitt’s Creek.

I also really liked Our Flag Means Death, but they haven’t said whether the second season will be the last one or whether they’re going to try for a third. I’d still recommend it, though.

They were on sale for a buck an ear.

We must send them the historical documents so they can work to achieve the perfect society.

There are actually schismatic churches right now. Mel Gibson and his father are members. Iirc they left because of Vatican II, and JP2 was too liberal for them. Mel apparently has a chapel on his property and a priest of that sect says the Latin Mass there.

I think I read about it when he said that anti-Semitic stuff after getting pulled over.

Next, he’s going to say that he did repeat the oath, but he had his fingers crossed so it doesn’t count.

-Andrew Ryan, founder of Rapture

He must have customized it. That model usually comes with a birken stock.

The majority of what would constitute the “far left” - those openly conducting or advocating political violence - were largely taken out by the FBI in COINTELPRO. Note that they also went after peaceful protestors and student groups, and to this day groups like ALF and ELF are considered terrorist groups.

Probably not all that much, to be honest. Look at India and Pakistan. That would be the closest example here.

Nuclear weapons’ most important role today is preventing an all out invasion of the country. Israel is already a nuclear power. They could launch a nuclear attack on Iran at any time. They don’t, for obvious reasons. Russia could launch a nuclear attack on Ukraine. They don’t, for equally obvious reasons.

I started my career in Soviet analysis, and ended up knowing quite a bit about the role of nuclear weapons in foreign and military policies. In the early days (50s), we thought it would be possible to fight and win a nuclear war. I don’t think anyone thinks that anymore.

There is no scenario which includes Russia using a nuclear weapon against Ukraine that does not end with the end of the Putin government if not the end of Russia as we know it. It wouldn’t even need to be a global nuclear war for that to happen.

The same holds true for India and Pakistan, which like I said is the best analogy. Implacable enemies with religious and territorial disputes, screwed over by colonialism, and ongoing low level violence.

Israel-Iran is the same, only more so. The I-P conflict doesn’t have the US as an unquestioning ally, unlike Israel. I-P have about 150 weapons each. Israel is estimated to have 100. Iran has 0, and even if and when they start production, they’ll have 5-10. And then you have to factor in the delivery of the weapon, which would be the opposition between the Iranian and Israeli (and US) air forces, with predictable results.

Never argue with them on the basis of their claims - protecting America, balancing the budget, saving the children. Those are never good faith arguments, they’re just appeals to feelings.

Instead argue with them on what they actually do.

Iran does not pose a credible military threat to Israel. They only have a couple of options - terrorist attacks from their proxies, maybe a cross-border incursion from Lebanon that would be a slaughter and change the balance of power there, or an air strike. Israel is so amped up right now that they’d respond with airstrikes inside Iran, and US carrier groups are in the area with no misunderstanding as to what they signify.

This is saber-rattling for theatrics.

They need to be investigated as a criminal organization.

Do you take every district court decision to be the last word on what is or isn’t constitutional, or do you wait for the supreme court to rule?

What is “constitutional” changes all the time. The AWB was constitutional. Mag limits were constitutional. Background checks are constitutional.

At some point, this may be found to be constitutional, or not, but it’s not like the constitution is some unchanging document, and it certainly doesn’t mean that federal or state governments cannot restrict who can buy which firearms under which conditions, or regulate how they may be legally carried. That’s been the case forever.

No, I am very well aware of that. But they’re not saying “You can’t wear a BLM button because we do not think black lives matter, but you can wear a proud boys one if you want.”

They may or may not have that right - that’s going to depend on both the currently existing corporate rules and any state/local legislation.

I was thinking in particular about a case in the past 5 or so years where a company was sued for forbidding one employee from wearing a hijab while allowing others to wear crosses. It was a case of religious discrimination.

My point is that for this to be non-discriminatory it has to be a policy that’s handled in an even handed fashion. Of course it has nothing to do with the constitution - I’m not even sure why you’d introduce that unless you’re staying to strawman. But I know that I can’t fire someone for saying in the workplace that they agree with Trump unless I have a wholesale policy banning talking about politics. I’d be in trouble if I said people could talk about politics, but they could only say nice things about Biden and bad things about Trump. You might be able to get away with that at a locally owned auto body shop, but not at a major corporation.

My further point is that saying that black lives matter isn’t political, unless there’s a major political party that thinks black lives don’t matter. Rainbows aren’t political, unless there’s a major political party that thinks the LGBT community shouldn’t be visible. Books on gay parents aren’t political unless there’s a political party that thinks gay people shouldn’t be allowed to be parents. But that same party would allow a flag pin, or a yellow ribbon, or a book about a hetero couple with a kid. It’s only political when they disagree with it. Otherwise it’s just “normal.”

The eye hook through the top of his head kind of ruins the feel-good effect for me.

So if they’re banning BLM as political, do they have to be even handed and ban all political iconography?

Is a rainbow political? Obviously anything with an American flag is political, so those need to be banned. Anything like a cross obviously would be forbidden - necklaces would have to be tucked in and invisible. Christianity is far more of a political thing in the US than BLM, as it’s being used to specifically and actively drive legislation. Would they then have to ban employees from other religious dress, like wearing a hijab or yarmulke? I don’t recall Muslims or Jews passing legislation in the name of their religion at the national level, but do activities in Dearborn or Williamsburg count?

Are wedding rings heteronormative? They’re certainly both a cultural and a social thing. Makeup is also both cultural and social, and additionally potentially has gendered implications. If we ban rainbows, do we ban anyone wearing makeup or require everyone to do so, since they’re potentially signaling gender identity?

This was an “I drink your milkshake” moment for DeSantis. Ron lost. He was always going to lose. He can’t punch back against Trump, or he will lose Trump voters, and he will lose. He can’t fold like an umbrella and allow Trump to dog walk him, because he will also lose. As soon as Trump announced - as soon as it was clear Trump was going to again bald-face lie about everything and that the gop voters were still down with him - it was over. The gop politicians, again, fall into line.

The gop is the party of Trump more than it was ever the party of Reagan. I remember reading that Putin almost pulled his support from Trump when Trump attacked the family of a veteran killed in the Iraq war. Even Putin thought the republican party, with all of its blathering about national security and supporting the military, would side with the dead soldier and his family. They sided with Trump. They sided with Trump when he not only insulted the service of John McCain - a veteran and once considered an icon of the republican party as exemplifying the highest levels of patriotism - but also all other POWs. They went from flying POW flags to backing the guy who says he prefers heroes who don’t get captured. They backed the bone-spurs draft dodger. Hell, he even opposed vets marching in military parades because he hates the way the old and disabled look. He thinks it’s not manly to have been injured in the service. He said that serving in the military is for suckers and losers.

Putin, of all people, thought too highly of republican honesty. Putin took seriously the idea that the gop’s definition of patriotism meant supporting the military, because that’s the way he set it up in Russia. It turns out that gop voters literally don’t care. When they criticized Kerry for speaking out against the Vietnam War, it wasn’t because Kerry was “unpatriotic.” Trump boasts about dodging the draft and saying his biggest risk during Vietnam was avoiding VD.

It is about power to the republican politicians, and it is about hate to the republican voters. Republicans have finally found the person who embodies all republican virtues in donald trump.

If it’s simply good coding practice, then you’re fine.

If you’re cloning an API, that might be a violation. If you’re copying blocks of code, that’s definitely a violation. The fact that someone else actually wrote it in the first place is also an obvious signal that the code went from work to your personal project, and not vice versa.

If you’re still working there and want to continue to do so, I’d suggest reviewing your employment agreement and NDAs. Some employers have you sign an agreement that anything you write while employed belongs to them, others explicitly prevent you from using any ideas/use cases that you’re working on at work for outside applications.

But the word “fake” is also in the title…

They’re a mercenary force that fights for money.

That said, you do not want to be captured by rebel forces in someplace like the CAR or DRC for any amount of money.