Huzzah!

It happens to the best of us. Don’t forget that Lemmy allows you to edit your post.

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The military can (and should) decline to follow an illegal order.

Uniformed commanders themselves also have a specific obligation to reject an order that’s unlawful, if they make that determination.

All military members swear to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” Within that oath is the implication that service members hold allegiance to the rule of law.

The oath of enlistment goes on to ask service members to follow orders, but adds that it must be done “according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice,” or UCMJ.

Both Article 90 of the UCMJ, the charge of willfully disobeying a superior commissioned officer, and Article 92, failure to obey an order, say that they apply only to lawful orders.

Broader legal precedence holds that just following orders, colloquially known as the “Nuremberg defense” as it was used unsuccessfully by senior Nazis to justify their actions under Adolf Hitler, doesn’t absolve troops.

In my (very limited) experience, people in leadership positions in the military take rule of law and duty to country much more seriously than the political class. I like to think they would be the adults in the room. But you never know.

I don’t know what the political fallout would be, but I bet it would be equal parts fascinating and terrifying.

The daylight will come for you no more, Mr. Tallyman.

Little did the Europeans know, Jesus was already there.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-little-known-legend-of-jesus-in-japan-165354242/

It appears that Lemmy usernames are case-insensitive. So it should not make a difference.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/341

Those five accounts were self-deleted within 2 hours of you making this post. Somebody noticed that you caught onto them.

I briefly looked into the remaining accounts you mentioned. Their voting patterns look very similar, but I’m not convinced they are colluding. It’s easy to imagine multiple users having similar opinions.

Even with an automod bot doing a lot of heavy lifting, we often manually ban spammers that slip past. And we have to review the bot’s actions for false positives, too, so we can revert those actions. It’s a very helpful tool but it isn’t perfect. I would not want to remove other tools (email verification, captcha) and rely only on the bot.

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Your account name cannot change, but you can make your display name whatever you want. Though various apps/UIs may only show one or the other. My app shows “Smokeydope” as the author of this post, but shows “SmokeyDope” when viewing your profile.

I was going to mention her Tiny Desk show. It’s a banger!

Women are underrepresented in a lot of roles throughout the world. It is usually due to some combination of social norms, expected gender roles, lack of opportunities, and old fashioned sexism.

It’s also possible you simply don’t see many female rappers because it’s not the music you seek out. There are lots of very talented women in the rap scene. Though they certainly do not get the attention they deserve (see the paragraph above).

Edit: to answer the second part of your question, I’ll go old school and say Rebirth of Slick by Diggable Planets. Missy Elliott and Lauren Hill are top-shelf, too. Other people here have mentioned Doechii; she’s a new star on the rise.

Best ever is probably a group trip to Whistler many years ago. We got to our condo shortly ahead of a big snowstorm which closed the road behind us overnight. We awoke the next morning to a fresh layer of powder, and nearly had the whole mountain to ourselves. The only other skiers were people who had also beat the storm just ahead of us.

Best recently was night skiing with my kiddo back in January. It was a Sunday night so we nearly had the entire hill to ourselves. The sunset and alpenglow were phenomenal. And multiple planets were out: Venus, Mars, Saturn, and Jupiter were all visible.

Ah, one of the rare SFW Oglaf comics.

Super Mario Brothers 3, only because I spent waaaaay too many hours playing it with my friend.

Super Mario World because it was not only fun, but gorgeous. It still is gorgeous, but it was gorgeous then, too.

This reminds me of a protest song.

The author and singer, Joe Wecker, sings the algorithm of the function dss_descramble, which is arguably the heart of the DeCSS package for unencrypting the contents of a DVD movie.

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/css_descramble_keith_dawson.txt

The boat was being restored before it unfortunately burned in 1990.

https://www.whitehorsestar.com/History/heritage-branch-workers-reeling-at-tutshis-loss

“Did you hear about all the people who died in the Kobe earthquake? Jesus fuck.”

This picture is not from Wikipedia, but it is of the same incident. The picture was taken at noon. The smog was so thick the street lights had to turn on.

Source: https://explorepahistory.com/displayimage.php?imgId=1-2-DD