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Darrell_Winfield

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  • Air Force Has Troops Remove Names, Unit Patches from Uniforms During Deportation Flights

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  • Seriously, what is a brownshirt?

  • Air Force Has Troops Remove Names, Unit Patches from Uniforms During Deportation Flights

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  • What is brownshirt?

    Courtmarshall is probably not what you want in this. That's specific to the UCMJ, which would discipline them for NOT removing identifiers. You probably want them to go through civilian courts if that's your goal. Which probably means you're thankful for Trump's push for increased executions.

  • Air Force Has Troops Remove Names, Unit Patches from Uniforms During Deportation Flights

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  • Hey gang, I'm very closely related to this field and wanted to share some insight into this!

    This is VERY COMMON practice for these situations. The idea is not to cover up inhumane tactics, but protect our personnel. While I'm sure a majority of these individuals are simple illegal immigrants who have no ill intentions, there are criminal gangs being caught up in this. Not the entire gang is being picked up, just the illegal immigrants. So the policy of removing identification from the uniforms is to protect the military member and their family.

    These commands come from the highest level, meaning each individual service member is not making the decision for themselves, but they are being commanded as a whole. Much as some might not like the connotations associated with this, it is a common practice and relevant due to the stated purpose of these missions.

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  • I appreciate this rational take. As a Christian, I disagree with the "persecuted Christianity" narrative that the Roman Catholic Church aggressively pushes. Just like the above commenter is likely focusing on the vocal minority and ignoring everything else, I think the Catholic Church is focusing on the vocal minority and pushing this narrative for their own gain. And statements like the above commenter serve to reinforce that.

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  • Don't equate your limited geographical experience to a far reaching universal trend. Could be a vocal minority, could be just your region, could be recency bias.

  • What happens when a federal worker accepts Trump's deferred resignation offer?

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  • Later, when they followed up with management, they were told they should have waited for more guidance before accepting the offer, they told ABC News.

    Sounds like shitty management to me. "An offer was provided to you by our superiors, and you made an independent decision regarding it without consulting us. You should have waited until we told you what to do."

  • Nepal hikes Everest climbing fee by a third

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  • Climbing this mountain used to be a feat requiring great skill, strength, and discipline of body. Unfortunately, the decision was made some time ago to increase access and feasibility of the climb, and now making the summit is simply a matter of money. No longer does climbing Everest mean a great feat to overcome by determination and will, but simply a problem that can be solved by throwing money at it.

    I get it, that costs go up and so must the price to access to fund the tourism. But this is simply the next step in finalizing that climbing mount Everest is no Everest.

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    Time for people in the US to get stickering?

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  • Eggs are $4/dozen in my large city. Where the high COL is this?

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    The first president my dad voted for was JFK (22 yo) vs me (Kamala, 18 yo). 64 years apart; kinda wild.

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  • According to my math, your dad had you at age 68? Something is off here, even for a shitpost.

  • We're bringing Pebble back!

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  • Interesting to see if it will be better than Bangle JS 2, the spiritual successor to Pebble. That's the one I've been using a few years and I still like it a lot.

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    Trump Admin Accused of Using AI to Draft Executive Orders

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  • Looks like the one of the many copies of this you posted was removed, and that's the one I commented on. My original comment:

    I read through most of the executive orders, and while I admittedly skimmed a lot, I didn't notice these kinds of things. Can we get some examples?

    I read through the excerpt image you provided. Maybe I'm just not exposed to LLM generated text frequently, but I don't see how that's generative text.

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    Yup this is the term of AI

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  • I read through most of the executive orders, and while I admittedly skimmed a lot, I didn't notice these kinds of things. Can we get some examples?

  • Biden issues preemptive pardons for Trump targets Milley, Fauci, Cheney

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  • Yeah, I misread. I was reading it at Trump's people will attack regardless of the pardons that were issued.

    Too coffee this morning.

  • Biden issues preemptive pardons for Trump targets Milley, Fauci, Cheney

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  • I specifically disagree with this being the reason for concern:

    Trump's people will act without regard for law knowing he can issue preemptive pardons.

    Maybe I'm just misreading the intent of that part.

    Edit: yeah, I'm misreading. Sorry about that, folks.

  • Biden issues preemptive pardons for Trump targets Milley, Fauci, Cheney

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  • I agree with the concern, but for different reason. This sets the standard for future presidencies. Imagine if Trump starts proactively pardoning people who might be political targets in the future. It removes the concern that your current actions might be determined to be in detriment in future considerations. Doesn't matter anymore, because as long as you do what the current president wants, he/she/they will simply provide you a future pardon to protect you from the consequences of your actions!

    While I don't think Fauci did anything wrong or should be targeted, this is overall a very bad precedent to set.

    Edit: I misread that last part, sorry. I do, however, think that this concern goes beyond Trump's presidency.

  • Meta is ending its fact-checking program in favor of a 'community notes' system similar to X

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  • Easier to trust and more accurate currently, but I don't doubt that the algorithm to generate the notes will be internal and closed source, allowing them to utilize that trust to manipulate people.

  • typical future ER visitor

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  • Yeah, some microbial risk. But the post says they're freshly peeled bananas, so probably less microbial risk than a lot of things people put up there...

  • typical future ER visitor

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  • Proof.

    Sorry, probably not what you're asking for but I'm not going there.

  • typical future ER visitor

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  • "Isn’t it weird that your job is basically staring into a hole all day? Like, did you lose a bet or something?"

    I have a very broad scope of practice, so I stare into other holes as well! But no, didn't know how much of my profession would involve starting into holes.

    "Do you ever feel like your patients are secretly judging you while you're judging their behinds?"

    Eh, not really? Most people tend to be quite self conscious and so are wrapped up in their own judgement to judge me.

    "What was the first time you told someone, 'I want to dedicate my life to bottoms,' and how did they respond?"

    I think it was my parents? Pretty much their response was "seems like a good way to pay the bills".

    "If you think about it, the rectum is like the backdoor of the body. Do you ever knock, or is it more of a barging-in situation?"

    I like to take the door by surprise. If you give them notice by knocking, they clean up the place a bit. Gotta catch them by surprise to know what's really going on.

    "Would you say the rectum is the most underappreciated organ, or is it just happy to be left alone?"

    Underappreciated for sure. Ever seen that meme about which organ is the most important? Anus shuts up and everyone dies.