thechadwick @ thechadwick @lemmy.world

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Yep, clearly a loaf. Probably a kids park somewhere. Tons of weird themed places like that in the former bloc

I'll just leave this here

https://youtu.be/SsoOG6ZeyUI

This is not accurate. It's a provacative narrative, but the heyday for private military contractors passed a decade ago. Blackwater was such a disaster for the military, they relegated 99% of contractor jobs to BDOC/BOSI (tower guards etc) roles ages ago.

This move is almost certainly related to transitions from limited counterterrorism structures to great power conflict Army force design. The military has missed it's recruitment goals by massive numbers in the past couple years, and filling obsolete positions is actually impacting Forces Command from meeting their manning strength mandates.

I fully expect to see more of these changes announced over the next 3-5 years as military procurement and restructuring guidelines catch up with implementation timelines. But this is categorically not evidence of a large scale plan to turn active soldiers into PMC personnel (to work around rules of engagement restrictions). There's manpower shortages as it is, and there's no institutional incentive to make those shortages more drastic than they already are.

"The King can do no wrong" bit also lays up really nicely with "The President must have absolute immunity". It's an insightful commentary all around.

https://crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/liberals-against-progressives/#comment-729288

Guess the asshole part of that depends on whether you're a Kuwaiti or Republican Guard..

G. W.'s round 2 (electric boogaloo) version was an entirely different exercise in absurdity. Bush 41's war was not really comparable.

Pfft, probably wouldn't recognize a carebear stare if it hit ya in the face.

Amateurs.

For even younger members, The Twilight Zone was The Black Mirror, before netflix was a thing.

After that, 紙に神の髪を描く (Kami ni kami no kami o kaku)

I wish Japanese had 1.5–2x the number of sounds it has presently.. Without Kanji it's unreadable, but since the advent of English gairaigo, it's rapidly becoming a weird weird English language anyway...

Vid related: https://youtu.be/pW4AiEqKGto

Better call her then.

I mean, it's right on the sign.

Perfection.

Will no one think of the quarterly earnings reports? What the hell is wrong with you people?

Non credible defense is skewing older and more colon-health conscious than I would have initially expected..

TIL.

Something's going to have to give and soon. Police need to carry individual malpractice insurance, where gross negligence results in personal liability, and blanket qualified immunity as a whole needs to go.

No other institution has built a self-licking ice cream cone like law enforcement. The US health care system certainly tries, but at least it doesn't have a monopoly on the use of force. Until the incentives change, there's no future where civil relations recover. You just can't remove liability for bad faith abuse of power and expect an organization to self-police its behavior.

Crushingly ironic that the "don't tread on me" crowd are the loudest proponents of the wholesale gutting of freedom of the press/speech..

This is in fact, a much better article and (horrifying texan political hellscape aside) the key except is copied here for convenience:

Begin quote: The Texas statute she was charged under made it a crime to solicit non-public information from a government official with an intent to obtain a benefit. Prosecutors alleged she used the information to amass more Facebook followers.

A Texas state court judge in 2018 tossed the charges, finding the law unconstitutionally vague, and she sued in 2019. A judge ruled the officers and prosecutors were entitled to qualified immunity, but a 2-1 panel reversed in 2021.

But in Tuesday's ruling, U.S. Circuit Judge Edith Jones, an appointee of Republican former President Ronald Reagan, said law enforcement officers were not required to predict whether the Texas law at issue was constitutional before arresting her.

Yeah? Well that's just like, your opinion, man..

For real though, formatting in word is a nightmare of ribbon-esque proportions.

Tildes.net

It's pretty heavily curated, but it's where I go for non-bot discussion on any variety of topics. Sorted hierarchically, and they keep out the riff raff pretty actively.

Unless of course, you're on a movie set and the armorer has called it a cold gun and pointing it towards people is part of the movie.

Then it might be the fault of the person who knowingly co-mingled live and blank ammo in gross disregard for any kind of safety procedures.

Yes if you are handling a firearm, you have a responsibility to know safety procedures. But in film, obviously you have different familiarity levels with weapon handling. That's why you hire an armorer who enforces safety procedures. So non-shooter actors handle prop weapons with blanks.

Now, arguably as a co-producer Alec may have had some culpability in hiring an unqualified armorer? Somehow I doubt he was heavily involved in those kind of nitty gritty hiring decisions. Seems significantly more plausible that those decisions were made by the actual producers who work for a living and not the a-lister who gets titled co-producer for SAGAFTRA billing purposes..

Call me crazy, I know.

Just have to delete the system32 directory. That gets rid of the changed settings the fastest.

Another post mentioned just giving cash anonymously and I think that's easily the best option. You would almost certainly have access to their mailbox if it's a suburban stand alone type? If not, an unmarked envelope under the door, with cash, would preserve plausible distance from making the neighbor feel like they have to decline out of etiquette.

Don't think about it more, they clearly need the help if they mentioned it, and if you can help without feeling the impact just do so without strings or direct attribution. They'll suspect it, and can if they approach you in genuine thanks if they want, then you're able to be gracious about accepting, or simply act surprised and happy that such a nice thing happened if not.

I've had people clearly embarrassed at the grocery checkout take a 50$ bill I claimed fell out of their pocket before several times. Preserves their dignity even if it's just a pretext for helping. Puts the ball in their court at least. "Hey man, I don't know what to say but it's not mine. Pay it forward for someone who needs help if it's not yours" is the worst that's ever gone for me before. Nobody likes being a charity case.

The best thing is adding the metadata of a book by ISBN. That or simply search it on worldcat.org and adding by the browser extension.

Phenomenal citations manager.