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Yup. From a legal standpoint this was the right decision. Too bad the SC isn't always so punctilious in its rulings.

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“We weren’t looking at this from a public health perspective,” said a senior military officer involved in the program. “We were looking at how we could drag China through the mud.”

But to what end in this case? Impede their pharma industry? It doesn't even make sense. It's so childish and spiteful.

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someone with a fucking conscience in the command chain should have stopped this.

Based on the article it sounds like many on the US side did strongly oppose this, which is slightly reassuring. I'm going to tell myself the goons that went ahead with this were MAGA.

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One notable example cited in the lawsuit is a mural commissioned by General Mills in 2005 at the Covington plant. Designed by a member of the “Good Ole Boys,” the mural depicted characters from General Mills cereals in the likeness of Confederate figures, such as Sonny the Cuckoo Bird as Jefferson Davis, Chef Wendell as Robert E. Lee, and Buzz the Bee as Stonewall Jackson. The mural was only removed in 2021.

I just can't... Is this satire?

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The funniest part of this story is learning that American hospitals have gift cards. What a joke of a healthcare system.

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Wow, another map where the old GDR borders are easily visible. This time they are voting for Nazis. Horseshoe theory proved correct yet again?

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as is assuming GDR was a “far left”

Communism isn't far left? TIL

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That's a relief! Hopefully the far-right wave has bottomed out by the next election.

I've got this idea baking because I saw a guy post that it's been as many year from 1971 to 2024 as it was from 1971 to 1918. How do the global wars compare in the two periods?

It occurs to me that this last 1/2 century or so has been globally pretty peaceful. And I wondered if it might even be one of the MOST peaceful 50 years we've had....

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Great link, thanks for that. We should also note that those are only combatants and don't include the far larger number of civilians who dies because of these conflicts (Holocaust, Siege of Stalingrad, etc.)

I agree that the last 50 years, in terms of "war deaths per capita", must be the most peaceful in all of recorded history, and probably by a huge margin.

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HR doesn't work for you and is never on your side. They exist to cover your employer's ass.

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Time to switch to Linux 😁👍 (there are plenty of Adobe alternatives for it,

Unfortunately this is not really true. I think people who say "just use GIMP" have only ever used PS to open and crop images. Inkscape is also nowhere near Illustrator, and Scribus feels more like QuarkXpress circa 1998 than a viable InDesign replacement.

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If you just want to crop and adjust levels, GIMP is fine. If you want to clone stamp or replace backgrounds etc (or of course work with motion graphics) then there's no comparison. Nondestructive editing has been a huge drawback for GIMP since its inception but they are finally adding that, which is good. I'm not even sure if they've added CMYK support. Text editing is also godawful. I could go on, but for real work, it just isn't the same at all.

People who say they are interchangeable is like saying an e-bike is the same as a pickup truck. If you just need to commute downtown, they can both work. But if you need to move a half ton of crushed stone, they are not comparable.

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The only apps I've used that come even remotely close are those by Serif/Affinity, but even they don't have feature parity. They were also just bought out by Canva and will likely become fully enshittified soon.

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I couldn't paint to save my life, so I didn't know about that aspect. How does Krita stack up?

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For example you can't adjust spacing between paragraphs at all. I think that's because it's unsupported in the SVG spec rather than an Inkscape issue, but still. Adding printer's marks is also a total shitshow.

I will say however that Inkscape vs. Illustrator is the closest matchup of the three Adobe design apps. I like Inkscape and use it whenever I can to avoid firing up my Windows VM.

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Can't wait to read about this on Al-Jazeera!

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For Vatniks, "peace" means passively letting Russia do what it wants.

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Interesting tactic... I hope this doesn't turn into the Pebbleyeet tug-o-war meme.

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TikTok working as intended.

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Lmao, I hope you let him know after this happened.

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They're about to get Molon Labe'd

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I think the UI and lack of non-destructive editing is holding it back more than the name, but IDK

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Yes and it does help tremendously, but I much prefer Krita. What I'd really like is Affinity Photo on Linux, even if it isn't FOSS...

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I know what you mean — it's like a 90s design paradigm that doesn't take current conventions or best practices into account at all.

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You might have missed the news, Affinity sold out to Canva.

Oh FFS, I had no idea... Can something not be turned to shit by big tech for once?

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Never mind phones, what about cars?

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Could you have a bunch of them and draw from them in sequence?

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Yeah but I doubt that's actually the case based on the physics involved. We need fast charging cars way more than fast charging phones.

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Thanks for this - I was doing some reading in the meantime which confirms what you're saying about power capacity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_electric_vehicle

As of 2010, the best ultracapacitors can only store about 5% of the energy that lithium-ion rechargeable batteries can, limiting them to a couple of miles per charge.

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Wait, I thought it was bad to punish civilians for the actions of their government/military.

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Imagine thinking I'm anti-Palestinian because I don't support a blanket ban on Israeli travel. The state of the "discourse" nowadays...

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Banning someone from your resort island is the same sort of punishment of civilians as killing them?

It actually is the same sort of punishment, yeah - the difference is one of degree. Kicking you in the shin once and punching you in the face fifty times are both "assault". It's concerning that most here don't understand that.

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I like how you completely dodged what I just said. What is there to address about the blanket ban? A country is banning all travel from another country. It doesn't get more "blanket" than that.

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Haha what? They're banning all Israeli passport holders. Do you have some special definition of "blanket ban" that you manipulate to suit your purposes?

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Uhh yeah OK, congrats on winning this argument based on your made-up definition of "blanket ban". Go ahead and celebrate with Donald Trump, who wanted to enact the same against muslim-majority coountries.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_travel_ban

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Here's one on the same topic with "blanket": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13769

What definition of "blanket ban" are you using here? This is a pretty good one, I think:

A ban that applies to or affects all or the majority of a given class of people or things.

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Am I being pranked here? This conversation is absolutely bonkers.

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I would 100% support targeted bans/sanctions against illegal settlers.

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Wew, it's rare for leaders to directly call out China like this, but I like it!

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Well, we can also look at precedent. Article 5 was applied only once in NATO's history, despite multiple other occasions where NATO could have done so. I do think that a deliberate Russian attack on a NATO member would trigger a response, but history shows it clearly isn't mandatory.

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You tell me, you're the one who says Article 5 is a guarantee. It has been used only once (9/11)

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You’re the one that says we should turn to precedent, and said there have been multiple occasions NATO could have triggered Article 5 but wasn’t. When were these other times? You made the statement, now provide evidence.

I'm sure I'm missing some, but:

  • Soviet blockade of Berlin
  • Argentine attack on the Falklands
  • Iraqi attacks on Turkey
  • Syrian attacks on Turkey
  • Russian missile landing in Poland last year
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… and was Article 5 triggered any of those times?

No, which is my point. Allow myself to quote... myself:

Well, we can also look at precedent. Article 5 was applied only once in NATO’s history, despite multiple other occasions where NATO could have done so.

As for your other line of thought:

in the scope of the treaty (which, yes, must actually be triggered), a response from all member states is mandatory.

This is also demonstrably incorrect. If we look at the single time Article 5 was triggered, 9/11, the response was not all-in. The largest-scale combined effort I think was patrols in the Mediterranean.

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You perhaps missed the second part of my reply about the post-9/11 response. If I understand what you've been trying to say here, you're implying that all NATO members must participate after Article 5 is invoked, which is not the case.

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Afghanistan would be a good example. This explains it in better detail than I could, especially since I've been forbidden from discussing international treaties: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/five-myths-about-nato-and-afghanistan

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stop spreading Russian disinformation

WTF? I sincerely don't understand why you're so averse to what I'm saying. I'm not anti-NATO by any means — I'm only stating a fact that I thought would be very cut and dry.

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_110496.htm

With the invocation of Article 5, Allies can provide any form of assistance they deem necessary to respond to a situation. This is an individual obligation on each Ally and each Ally is responsible for determining what it deems necessary in the particular circumstances.

This assistance is taken forward in concert with other Allies.** It is not necessarily military** and depends on the material resources of each country. It is therefore left to the judgment of each individual member country to determine how it will contribute. Each country will consult with the other members, bearing in mind that the ultimate aim is to “to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area”.

At the drafting of Article 5 in the late 1940s, there was consensus on the principle of mutual assistance, but fundamental disagreement on the modalities of implementing this commitment. The European participants wanted to ensure that the United States would automatically come to their assistance should one of the signatories come under attack; the United States did not want to make such a pledge and obtained that this be reflected in the wording of Article 5.

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I truly hope you're right! I'm doubtful, but I do hope so.

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