OracleOutlook
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
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If the atrocious legal advice is, "disobey your commanding officers," then yeah that sounds seditious and it is illegal to advise.
Add up the following:
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While service members have the right to refuse illegal orders, all orders are presumed lawful, and the burden falls on the service member to prove an order is manifestly unlawful.
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The video implies without evidence that unlawful orders have already happened.
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The video therefore implies that current orders which have the presumption of being lawful should be disobeyed.
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UCMJ 94 says: " (1) with intent to usurp or override lawful military authority, refuses, in concert with any other person, to obey orders or otherwise do his duty or creates any violence or disturbance is guilty of mutiny; (2) with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of lawful civil authority, creates, in concert with any other person, revolt, violence, or other disturbance against that authority is guilty of sedition;"
So I guess the lingering question is if a coordinated video advising that currently presumed lawful orders should be treated as if they were unlawful counts as a disturbance. But if so, yes, sedition is the word used in the military code.
OracleOutlook
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20hr ago
The video heavily implies that illegal orders have already happened. "This administration is pitting our uniformed military and intelligence community professionals against citizens... Right now, the threats to our constitution are not just coming from abroad, but from right here at home."
It heavily implies that soldiers should refuse their current orders. However, those orders are presumed legal until proved otherwise by the judicial system. They at the very least are guilty of providing atrocious legal advice.
Eowyn's motivations are really most explicated in The Return of the King, where it seems that everyone knew she was depressed and hopeless before the battle:
Alas! For she was pitted against a foe beyond the strength of her mind or body. And those who will take a weapon to such an enemy must be sterner than steel, if the very shock shall not destroy them. It was an evil doom that set her in his path. For she is a fair maiden, fairest lady of a house of queens. And yet I know not how I should speak of her. When I first looked on her and perceived her unhappiness, it seemed to me that I saw a white flower standing straight and proud, shapely as a lily, and yet knew that it was hard, as if wrought by elf-wrights out of steel. Or was it, maybe, a frost that had turned its sap to ice, and so it stood, bitter-sweet, still fair to see, but stricken, soon to fall and die? Her malady begins far back before this day, does it not, Éomer?’
‘I marvel that you should ask me, lord,’ he answered. ‘For I hold you blameless in this matter, as in all else; yet I knew not that Éowyn, my sister, was touched by any frost, until she first looked on you. Care and dread she had, and shared with me, in the days of Wormtongue and the king’s bewitchment; and she tended the king in growing fear. But that did not bring her to this pass!’
As you say, she had a right to join battle as an Iron age aristocrat woman, but her uncle had her stay back to defend the people instead. Everyone expected that they would fail, and she would die defending her people as well, just from the rear. She abandoned her people, her duty, and went to the front to die anonymously. This isn't really glorified in Tolkien's writing.
"Did you not accept the charge to govern the people until their lord's return? If you had not been chosen, then some marshal or captain would have been set in the same place, and he could not ride away from his charge, were he weary of it or no."
'Shall I always be chosen?' she said bitterly. 'Shall I always be left behind when the Riders depart, to mind the house while they win renown, and find food and beds when they return?'
'A time may come soon,' said he, 'when none will return. Then there will be need of valour without renown, for none shall remember the deeds that are done in the last defence of your homes. Yet the deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.'
The point is that Tolkien was doing something much more complicated with Eowyn than a simple Mulan girlboss story.
OracleOutlook
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2d ago
With Eowyn, entering the battlefield isn't really celebrated or glamorized by Tolkien. It's sad. It's an expression of Eowyn's hopelessness. She thinks her options are to die fighting or to die cowering, and so she picks to die fighting. After the battle, she has to turn away from this kind of thinking and instead garden for the future.
OracleOutlook
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
2d ago
I have seen an increase in popularity of "Free Range Parenting," https://letgrow.org/, etc. I think sentiments on this are changing among some groups.
OracleOutlook
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3d ago
Is this a decision someone made and can theoretically be unmade by a governing body? Like someone takes a case to the Supreme Court, or a law in Congress gets passed? Or is this just incentives finding a local minimum?
OracleOutlook
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3d ago
Did anything change in the last 150 years in tort law that caused the risk of being sued to increase? Did the supply of lawyers increase and the cost to access a lawyer decrease? What are the incentives that have made us like this?
OracleOutlook
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3d ago
There's also Anglicanism. But those "only 100 years" are 100 years where Catholics and Protestants became separate groups, which seems relevant.
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4d ago
Fastforward a few hundred years, and you have the Inquisition, the Protestant Reformation, and all the wars. Christendom in the West is basically fractured entirely, with the Protestants generally attracting folks that are more into mysticism, experiential acts of faith, and contemplation. Whereas the Catholic church tended to keep those focused on structured, ordered discipline and an explicit, rational understanding of the faith.
Not sure if this is the case. Conversions were political decisions by princes and nobles. That's why you have state churches and whole countries that became one kind of Protestant.
OracleOutlook
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7d ago
I think this is a good example of the rule, "Write like everyone is reading and you want them to be included in the discussion." It is often used to mean "write civilly," but also write as if you were trying to explain it to a reasonably intelligent random you just met at community pool.
OracleOutlook
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7d ago
Honestly think the angry grizzly bear might be a mercy at that point.
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7d ago
Switching the train tracks is beneficial if you value the life of one loved one over three of dubious affection.
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7d ago
We must imagine Sisyphus happy. (Actual happiness not included, please see store for details.)
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7d ago
The answer seemed trivially easy, especially on the Wikipedia article that helpfully lays out the possible states in a picture.
Now here's a tricky one:
In front of you are five doors, each concealing one of the following: a random man, a hungry grizzly bear, a walrus, a fairy, and a car. Each door has something different behind it. The game show host, who knows what is behind each of the doors, has you select one of the doors at random and does not reveal what is behind it. Whatever is behind the door will pass into your ownership without taxes. After you make your decision he opens one of the doors of his choice which is not the door you picked and which he knows conceals neither the fairy nor the car. You have now eliminated either the man, the walrus, or the hungry grizzly bear from the pool of unknowns.
The game show host then offers you a chance to either keep your current door, or switch to another one of your choice, with a catch. A train full of your loved ones is currently hurtling down a track at high speeds towards another one of your loved ones, who is tied up on the tracks. If you change your choice of door, the train will be redirected away from your loved one and to another track with a man you do not know, a hungry grizzly bear, a walrus, a fairy, and two clones (complete with memories) tied up on it. One of the two clones is yours. The train is sturdy enough that neither option will cause it to derail.
At the same time, another person is playing an identical game, and if you both change which door you have picked, your trains will divert onto the same track in a head-on collision, killing many of both of your loved ones as well as everyone tied up on that track. As part of the game show, the studio is prepared to pay out money to you equal to the life insurance policies of any of your loved ones that die as part of the show.
Before you make your decision, the game show host hands you a gun. You must shoot one other person in the problem. Who do you shoot?
OracleOutlook
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8d ago
Ah ok. I've been arguing that it's not a good idea or sustainable and you've been arguing that it's physically possible (for now).
OracleOutlook
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8d ago
No, I'm not sure how to do that. I know I can make a new save slot from a chapter, but not how to drill down to a specific scene.
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8d ago
The chart in the link showed it started going down before COVID, around the time we hit peak 18 year old
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8d ago
I thought it was very specific - if we give forigners unsecured loans for education they will just go back home without repaying them unless we actually indenture them and force them to stay to pay off the debt.
OracleOutlook
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8d ago
Let's think this through.
First, it seems like some people are kind of not-friends with the United States. How many Chinese spies are here on Student Visa? How many future ISIS agents are we educating right now? Even without deliberate malice, different norms might lead to people smuggling dangerous fungi and genetically modified roundworms without safeguards, for instance.
Ok, but even if everything is sunshine and rainbows, how does this work out in practice? The majority of students in the US are only able to attend due to generous student loans available. There are people around the world who are able to afford the sticker price on an American education, and they send their brightest to us. But with the demographic collapse we're talking about, eventually we'll run out of rich kids and start needing poor kids. Are they going to be receiving unbacked loans to go to American schools? When they can just fuck off back to some jungle and laugh in the face of debt collectors?
Either we need a more explicit Indentured Servitude pact for college or this isn't starting to look like a solution either.
There is probably a minimum number of kids a college needs to maintain the facilities they have already built. If a college with dorms and lecture halls to support 10,000 students over the course of a few years suddenly only has 5,000 students apply, they are going to have to try to give away property to avoid going bankrupt. And that's ignoring administrative bloat, post docs, etc.
The top 20% of schools would see the same number of students apply and they are selective enough there wont be much change. The next 20% of schools might need to start accepting people they wouldn't normally. The bottom 20% of schools will start to see fewer kids apply, because all the kids they used to get are applying and getting into the second quintile of schools. And so on as demographics collapse.
The alternative is to admit foreigners. But even foreign demographics will collapse eventually.
OracleOutlook
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9d ago
One angle that isn't discussed here (because I'm not sure it's relevant yet) is that there will soon be fewer college age kids. As the number of young adults decreases, colleges will either realign to enroll less qualified individuals or they will close. For now, that outcome has been staved off with immigration. But the good times will not last forever.
Is there a large population of people who would go to college but were rejected from every college? People in Community College are basically this demographic, right?
In 2022, the Current Population Survey estimated there were 3.5M college students enrolled in two-year institutions, down 2.2M from 5.7M in 2011.
So that number seems to be going down. Is it going down because institutions have lowered their requirements? I don't know. I think this is what we'd see if it was, though.
OracleOutlook
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10d ago
Everyone's saying that it's the feminine thing to deepen a relationship, but there is one masculine thing available - propose to her. Suddenly, unexpectedly, grand gesture-ly.
I suspect that this 10 years of stringing you along will fall to pieces soon after.
Either continue as you are if that is truly what makes you happy for the rest of your life or end it one way or another. The best stories only end in a marriage or a death.
OracleOutlook
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13d ago
The game play is fun. It is another medium for telling the story. The level of urgency, planning ahead, thinking about and picking the right options, is just right. It feels very smooth. That said, I haven't noticed that the performance in the game-play impacts the story. The reward for doing a good job in the gameplay is to be told at the end of the episode that you're in the top 20% of players or whatever. The plot goes on regardless.
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13d ago
I think I'm leaning towards this myself. I have family members that are police and others that are military, and I have seen first hand situations where an uncle was shot and severely injured, his partner killed, and the local media and minorities up in arms about police brutality and racism because they managed to off the villain themselves before passing out/dying. I am heavily biased to trust the police until proven guilty.
But I don't trust FBI/CIA. On a scale of CIA to local Police officer, DHS is kinda hovering around FBI territory. But it seems to have dramatically shifted towards the trustworthy side in the past few months.
I played Dispatch. It's fun. It's pretty. It's not really a game but a story with aspects that make it more immersive than a normal TV show. I will be happy to buy whatever else AdHoc Studio comes up with.
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