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Adm_Drummer

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  • Indeed

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  • I mean... Lawrence of Arabia was a real person and his story was quite well known. Written into a biographical account in 1926.

    It's not a far stretch to think Herbert was inspired by those stories as well as those of the desert rats and fighting forces in the Africa campaigns of WW2, Conrad's heart of darkness and well... Yeah everything in human history up to that point.

  • What happens if someone refuses to work in a socialist economy?

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  • Socialism doesn't mean that money goes away. It means that your hard earned money is yours to spend how you please.

    You're not forced to pay insane rent to line the pockets of a landlord, rather you live in a rent controlled neighbourhood where the profits go towards housing generations of people.

    Another way the money you have is yours to spend how you see fit: Rewarding other people like you and I for running the local coffee shop or splurging for the D.O.P. San Marzano tomatoes at the grocery store and insert that money directly into your local economy.

    Money exists, you just don't have to spend all of it on surviving. Rather, you can spend it on living.

    You still make money based on your merit and input, grocery clerks aren't being paid the same as neurosurgeons but both people can spend the same basic amount every month on living.

  • 127 Years Ago, a Coffin Fell From the Sky. Scientists Just Solved a Major Piece of Its Mystery.

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  • How long ago were planes invented again?

  • “For All Mankind” S5 Teaser

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  • Okay so hear me out. It's 2350, right? Humanity has expanded to the outer reaches of our solar system. Humaniry is divided into three classes of people, Earthers, Martians and those who live and work in space, Belters.

    Mars has become a free nation and is now in the middle of a cold war with Earth. Then one day a ship named the Canterbury disappears and someone named James Holden, an earther working for a Belt based ice hauling company says his ship the Canterbury was destroyed and points the finger at Mars.

    They could call the new show something like The Void or The Space Between. 🙃

  • Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot +

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  • Haha same. That's why I started with the other formats. I would hit the sheets, read a page then wake up to my alarm.

  • Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot +

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  • I cheat a little bit. I always get the paper, digital and audiobook of whatever I'm reading.

    Nothing to do? Paper. On break at work? E-book. Cooking dinner? Audiobook at 2x.

    That said, I read the entire first novella in one night in bed and then I downloaded/borrowed everything else.

  • Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot +

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  • Such a fantastic series. I read the entire thing over two weeks while I had nothing better to do and I am so glad I did.

  • Caladius Grav Tank Size?

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  • Yeah most men usually round up to the next inch.

    (I don't own qrav tank. I'm just a Harlequin in the streets)

  • Have you encountered this?

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  • Thanks for the clarification. I totally forgot it isn't federally regulated.

    There are also student wages which allow you to pay students under 18 even lower wages. Fun stuff!

  • Have you encountered this?

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  • It is sadly a part of canadian restaurant culture but not seen as mandatory. Canadian service workers are regulated to be paid at least minimum wage.

    Companies mostly use tipping here as an excuse for the wages to not come out of their own pockets. If tips received equal or exceed minimum wage then they don't have to fork out the cash. If the employee only made $10hr in tips then the employer fills in the rest.

    Because of this, I mostly refuse to tip. I'm not going to subsidise a restaurant paying their employees. If you can't afford to pay people you shouldn't be in business.

  • What was something that you thought was overhyped that actually lived up to the hype?

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  • What do you use your keyboard/computer for and for how long if you don't mind my asking?

  • Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4 | SDCC Surprise

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  • Have you watched any of SNW or are you deciding to pass judgement on a show based on... Nostalgia?

    Its a really good show and the musical episode doesn't feel out of place in an episodic Star Trek show. I think you should give it a good try. The show is a lot of fun and is a return to classic episodic trek with great stories intertwined.

  • Imperial German trench digging machine, WW1, 1918

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  • I'm naming my E-Tool Dragula as we speak.

  • Imperial German trench digging machine, WW1, 1918

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  • I want one. How much?

    Sincerely, man who has dug way too many trenches.

  • NSFW

    Russians on the left bank of the Kherson region complain that booby-trapped first aid kits are being dropped by Ukrainian drones.

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  • I'm glad I could be of a little help. Nations have been trying to clearly define these things for centuries.

    I think your final statement is why I'm here. A lot of internet discourse around war immediately resorts to calling everything a war crime. That's an incredibly precise label and we can't always be certain. What I know for sure is that war is hell and undue suffering is wrong.

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    Russians on the left bank of the Kherson region complain that booby-trapped first aid kits are being dropped by Ukrainian drones.

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  • I responded above I hope that provides enough. Though I didn't speak to article a).

    It may sound like a legal cop-out but some countries make a distinction between "The Red Cross" and "a red Cross". It's a weird one. Probably requires more scrutiny.

    And as to your question of "Would this be a crime committed in war?" Or "A war crime?" That's where lots of legalese comes in. It may be that one nation sees it as a crime where one doesn't. Or the UN finds it a war crime but another organisation doesn't or is a partial signatory or conscious observer and so on.

    This is then something I understand is moved into the restitution phase post war where both nations sit at the table and dole out various legal requirements, PW transfers and the likes. Like a two sided lawsuit but instead of just money it's money and human lives.

    Which is nice.

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    Russians on the left bank of the Kherson region complain that booby-trapped first aid kits are being dropped by Ukrainian drones.

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  • The part of the article we would be most concerned with would probably be:

    (d) medical facilities, medical equipment, medical supplies or medical transportation;

    This, in my understanding is generally considered to be actual hospitals and field hospitals;

    Transport: ambulance, Helicopters and planes;

    Medical equipment: critical equipment and tools;

    Medical supplies: Supply drops or small deliveries en route to a military unit.

    Ultimately, I'm not a lawyer, I just teach some material. If there was an argument as to whether or not it breaches the protocol that would be up to an international criminal court, maybe UN scrutiny? I start to lose the ball around here.

  • No I will not take risk

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  • I don't think so. Unless maybe it was fully and instantly reversible at the request of the person in question. Maybe.

  • NSFW

    Russians on the left bank of the Kherson region complain that booby-trapped first aid kits are being dropped by Ukrainian drones.

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  • Thank you for the level headed response! I generally avoid having these conversations because people don't often react well to me going: "well ackshually..." To you know... Human pain and suffering and the horrors of war.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Why don't carts have a little handheld scanner, then you pay at a scale?

  • Warhammer 40k @lemmy.world
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    C&C Welcome

    Black Company Chaplain WIP

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Fixed

    Dual-Boot causing slow boot, solutions?

  • BudgetAudiophile @lemmy.world
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    Anyone handy with repairs?