[…] addressing the significant increased abuse of the de minimis exemption, in particular China-founded e-commerce platforms, and strengthening efforts to target and block shipments that violate U.S. laws.
The difference between officers and enlisted (even enlisted “officers”) is well understood in the public domain. Just google the term “military officer”. You won’t find a reference to NCOs.
From the AI:
Here are some things to know about military officers:
Pay grades
Officer pay grades range from O-1 to O-10.
Broadly speaking, "officer" means a commissioned officer, a non-commissioned officer (NCO), or a warrant officer. However, absent contextual qualification, the term typically refers only to a force's commissioned officers, the more senior members who derive their authority from a commission from the head of state.
This just takes very little research for anyone writing an article on the subject. No, I don’t expect the laymen to automatically know the difference between an NCO and a commissioned officer, but we are talking about a journalist here. I suppose if you want to lower your standards for journalism, fine.
The term officer, alone, as it stands in the headline, is reserved for commissioned officers. No one in the military would assume that headline was referring to an NCO.
-- Acquire new skills that will pay off in the long run.
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-- Build deep friendships, relationships, and connections. It’s the decade where many lifelong bonds are formed.
-- Learn about budgeting, saving, investing, and managing credit. Financial literacy will greatly benefit you in the future.
-- Failing in your twenties is part of growth. Embrace failure and learn from it.
-- Focus on collecting experiences, such as concerts, festivals, road trips, or spontaneous adventures, rather than material goods. For memories, don’t collect shot glasses, you’ll regret it later.
-- Learn to enjoy your own company, reflect on your goals, and become comfortable with solitude.
-- Work on understanding your emotions, how to manage them, and how to empathize with others.
-- Expand your mind with literature, self-development books, and works that challenge your worldview.
-- Spend an extended period in another part of the world which can give you an appreciation for different cultures and provide life altering experiences.
-- Learn how to prepare your own meals- a valuable life skill which can help you live healthier.
-- Understand the importance of looking after your mental, physical, and emotional well-being.
—Spend time thinking about where you want to go in life, and set both short-term and long-term goals.
That’s the argument made on one of the interviews in a sky news video on this. That Russia is making their troops “zero” surrendering Ukrainians to ensure they, the russians, won’t surrender in the future.
Because they already made surrendering impossible by murdering Ukrainians.
Apparently that turkey in the straw one is super racist- or rather the lyrics of the version that took off and led to ICT fame. I swear ours still plays it.. I’ll have to listen closely next time I happen to hear it.
The first and natural inclination, of course, is to assume that the ice cream truck song is simply paying homage to "Turkey in the Straw," but the melody reached the nation only after it was appropriated by traveling blackface minstrel shows. There is simply no divorcing the song from the dozens of decades it was almost exclusively used for coming up with new ways to ridicule, and profit from, black people.
De minimus -
:lacking significance or importance
:so minor as to merit disregard
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