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Congress approves bill barring any president from unilaterally withdrawing from NATO (thehill.com)

Congress has approved legislation that would prevent any president from withdrawing the United States from NATO without approval from the Senate or an Act of Congress. The measure, spearheaded by Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), was included in the annual National Defense Authorization Act, which passed out of...

Pips,

I, for one, hope they don’t deify illegal orders.

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I mean the player is being asked to do it. The DM isn’t doing it for the player. The player can say whatever they want as “true” or “false,” and if they only want true rumors, just tell the DM?

I’m probably missing something, but I’m confused as to how asking a player for some additional information in their character building that gets shared with the group to facilitate the game can be triggering in a way that goes beyond the game. I really do hate the “if you don’t like it, don’t play” response, but there are some things where the trigger is inherent to the activity.

Pips,

Or it can boost its economy and transform neighborhoods, like in Medellin.

Pips,

The biggest continuing issue is NFCs, which will require people to accept that non-stock OSes are perfectly fine.

Starbucks announces higher pay, but union workers will have to bargain for it (www.cnn.com)

Starbucks employees are getting more pay and new benefits, but some are only going to baristas that haven’t unionized. A National Labor Relations Board judge previously found that similar moves by Starbucks violate federal labor law, with the company appealing the decision....

Pips,

It’s probably more true in small towns/villages than in larger areas.

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Even with the most generous reading of the amendment, the word “regulated” is literally in there.

Pips,

It still meant disciplined and organized. Random citizen having weapons for personal use was not the intent of the amendment. A modern regulation is a way to ensure order, so still in keeping with the meaning if you’re an originalist.

Pips,

If you’re going to make that claim, perhaps cite to a source isn’t run by former Israeli intelligence that creates a lot of propaganda and has been doing so for decades.

Pips,

That’s fair. Without getting too in the weeds on the issue, apparently the video is authentic and it’s something Israelis do as well, so isn’t really telling about either side of the conflict except to note that extremists will use children to push their views anywhere.

Pips,

Oh is that why I followed up by saying the video is probably authentic?

Pips,

They weren’t dispatching military assets to settle their neighboring territories.

What exactly do you think happened in the Western Front in WWII?

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Adolf Hitler: Famed Isolationist

Pips,

Not surprised the attorney is making these moves, it’d be malpractice not to make the argument. The city’s prosecutor (or county or state) should have opened a criminal investigation into everyone involved and obtained search warrants.

Pips,

They’re separate thoughts that are inconveniently in the same paragraph.

  1. There’s nothing wrong with defense making this argument, any competent attorney would do the same.
  2. This case generally should be subject to prosecution because the raid is so blatantly corrupt.

City prosecutors can absolutely sue city officials though in cases like this, they normally get a special prosecutor or someone from another jurisdiction (like the county or state) to avoid the conflict like you said. This records act has nothing to do with criminal prosecution, it’s about public disclosure. A prosecutor can just get a warrant. This is happening because the news organization is requesting the messages.

That law doesn’t mean that every public officer’s phone is an open book, it means that anything a public officer does in their public capacity on a private device is still subject to normal public records disclosures. You don’t get the entire phone, you get the public records (the relevant messages).

My guess, though I don’t know, is that the news organization has to somehow establish to some degree of confidence that there are public records on the personal phone, which I’m guessing they’ll be able to do.

Pips,

They should look into the effects of social pressures that are related to the abortion bans as well.

Pips,

Could be Forty Fries

Pips,

For sure. What I like to ask people who (very understandably) seek harsh or cruel punishment in these cases is “Will it help? Or will it just make you feel better and produce a better criminal?”

Pips,

“It’s a bit nutty.”

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