War crimes if you force enemy soldiers to do it. Technically forcing enemy soldiers to do anything at all is a war crime.
Not war crimes if it’s community service ordered by a judge due to conviction for crimes committed by the subject.
Fun fact, Condorcet is the inventor of RCV, and threw it out because it almost never produces the Condorcet winner.
I’m an opponent of RCV for none of those reasons.
No, I hate it because it’s deeply flawed and provides zero of the benefits that proponents claim it does.
Rather than help third parties, it actually hurts them.
The inventor of the system, created it as an example of a bad voting system. This was in 1790.
There’s far more ballot spoilage when compared to any other system.
It doesn’t eliminate the spoiler effect, just kicks it down the ballot a bit,
It’s confusing to count, which has led to the wrong candidate being sworn in.
It requires centralized counting, which is a single point of failure or attack.
And finally there are better, simpler systems that actually do the things that RCV proponents claim RCV
Vegeta killed Yamcha once, and Buu killed him a second time.
Technically it wasn’t even Vegeta, it was just the little green men that Vegeta and Nappa had seeds for.
Krillian was actually alive to see that death.
As for the death by Buu, that was being turned to chocolate and then being eaten.
Krillian still has him beat on number of deaths, picking up an extra death on planet Namak.
If you want to be sad, read up on the Residential Schools.
1948 was 50 years before the last of those hellholes closed.
And yes, Canada has semi-officially recognized it as a cultural genocide. With actual genocide recognition passed by the House of Commons in 2022.
(d) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-53220713
(e) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-56454609
There are far more, but those two are already enough to prove the point.
There are a few small scale chocolate companies that actively avoid child labor.
And then there’s Nestle on the opposite side of that spectrum. Not just child labor, but child slavery.
They talk a good game about eliminating child labor, but always seem to look the other way in their supply chain.
Chameleons don’t actually change color the way people think they do.
First off, the natural state of a chameleon is green, which blends in to the forest fairly well. Their color change is a mating tactic, and so favors bright and vibrant colors.
A chameleon changing colors isn’t hiding, they’re horny.
Or angry. Or scared, or well, any strong emotion. Basically a chameleon is a living mood ring.
Now, if you want true instant camouflage, that’s an octopus. They can not only change colors, but their own surface texture. In their case, they get the info about what to look like from their numerous suckers alone their legs.
Is the leader alive or not? Alive is likely a cult, dead is usually religion.
The next question is how isolated from friends and family or society at large are the members. More isolated is more likely to be a cult.
Other than that, there’s not much difference.
The usual setup is a cult is formed and then the second or third leader opens things up a bit and transitions it into just another religion… But sometimes a cult can be born from a religion as a small group breaks off to follow a charismatic leader.
Some good news, ulcers can usually be treated with a simple round of antibiotics.
I will refrain from finishing this thought in order to keep it good news
Honestly, the orange soda that we think of might be Crush, which debuted in 1911.
Tang would also like a word.
But really, the most popular orange based drink, is just orange juice. That or Mountain Dew, which is lemon, lime, and orange plus lots of sugar and caffeine.
Companies open subdivisions in other countries. These subdivisions are often responsible for full operations in that country.
Coca-Cola opened a subsidiary in Germany sometime after the end of the first world war. (My Google fu has failed me)
The main company stopped sending syrup to Germany after 1939 or so, but didn’t close it’s German subdivision. The German plant manager then created Fanta out of ingredients that were available to Germany during the war.
And then after WW2 ended, the main Coca-Cola company regained control of their German subdivision, and adopted Fanta as a brand.
As a note here, Coke was one of a bunch of American companies that were extremely friendly with the Nazis.
The “refuses to elaborate” is simple, Mathew 25 31-46.
It quite clearly says that you are to welcome the immigrant, feed the poor, care for the sick, and visit the prisoners.
Failure to do any of that is a straight shot to hell, no matter how much you claim to love god, you actually have to do the work, or it’s off to hell.
Fun fact, Mathew 25 is the only place in the bible that references sending ordinary people to hell. All that fire and brimstone, it’s actually in that one passage. Nowhere else does hell show up for normal people, just fallen angles and shit.
It was one of the reasons I switched. That and my favorite mod manager is working on a Linux native version. It’s not done yet, but it’s good to play other games from time to time.
Valheim is pretty brutal, but also highly moddable.
That was Rush Limbaugh, may he rot in piss.
And the second they get it, they reinvent IP law, but in an even more restricted form.
This particular final patch, the eighth major patch, is it. The contracts with Wizards of the Coast are expiring, which frees Larain Studios to work on different games.
While there will certainly be more games in the series, this particular one is effectively done.
Well, security through obscurity never really did work
Wind and solar cannot set grid frequency.
They just can’t. You need a turbine to set frequency.
And yes, the grid frequency matters.
So yes, we will always need a base load. And what better way than a small modular reactor, keeping the grid local and modular.
Or we can build out so much wind and solar that we have to have massive transmission lines running across the country, and then we would still need to curtail that power during peak supply, while also not getting enough generation when solar and wind fail.
And then you still need a turbine to set the grid frequency.
Any country riddled with landmines. They’re the only ones that need it.