Everyone is betting Tonga will not get itself into a war.
But if it hypothetically happened, I assume they would be pressured to use an alternative war flag by the international community.
On a more serious note, applying international laws against sovereign states is always more complicated than to enforce them against individuals and organizations operating inside of signatory states.
The red cross sign has a very specific meaning and protection under international law. They don’t want the symbol to be used outside of the agreed uses because they don’t want that meaning, and consequently the protection it affords, to get muddled.
They also don’t like when a red cross is used on a random first aid kit in the real world.
Is it so surprising that the mindset that makes people unable to face changes in one area of their lives also makes them unable to face changes in other areas?
And everyone with a group of friends can do it, because the ICEstapo doesn’t identify itself when kidnapping people.
So weak, stupid, and with a rigid mindset?
Because neural networks aren’t known to suffer from model collapse when using their output as training data. /s
Most billionaires are mediocre sociopaths but Elon Musk takes it to the “Emperors New Clothes” levels of intellectual destitution.
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Declarations of war are bad, but they were made hard to do in modern states. Almost every single countries have rules and procedures in place to make sure a hot head can’t do it over the weekend.
“Special Military Operations” undid all those efforts by putting all the powers back in the hands of a single person.
To be fair to the US Congress (AFAIK) no one as been formally at war since 1945 - and unless I’m forgetting anything it would actually make the US Congress the last ones to declare war on anyone.
Since WW2 everything is framed as a peacekeeping mission (when approved even if only implicitly by the UN Security Council), a civil war, helping the legitimate government in a civil war (US in Vietnam or Soviet Union in Afghanistan for example), or when every other excuse fails a pre-emptive special military operation (US in Iraq, Russia in Ukraine, Israel in all of their neighbours + Iran).
That ship has sailed decades ago. The US hasn’t been officially at war since 1945, and the congress has for all intents and purposes gave up on that power.
You don’t even need to go at a low level. Lots of programmers forget that their applications are not running in a piece of paper in general.
My team at work once had an app running Kubernetes and it had a memory leak, so its pod would get terminated every few hours. Since there were multiple pods, this had effectively no effect on the clients.
The app in question was otherwise “done”, there were no new features needed, and we hadn’t seen another bug in years.
When we transferred the ownership of the app to another team, they insisted on finding and fixing the memory leak. They spent almost one month to find the leak and refactor the app. The practical effect was none - in fact due to the normal pod scheduling they didn’t even buy that much lifetime to each individual pod.
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I forgot that was a thing. Since we are talking about passwords, predictive T9 would be truly evil.
On real world cases even predictive T9 beats typing with the arrow keys on a alphabetically order virtual keyboard with a remote’s arrow keys.
T9 doesn’t belong there. You need practice to be good with it but it can be pretty fast.
On paper they should care about the truth. Also on paper their KPIs usually involve conviction rates and numbers.
So, basically, ATLUS is a money printing machine.
How narrow does someone’s social group need to be to have such a wrong view of the world while living on a city renowned for it’s multinational community?
Next time just shoot an movie industry exec, the sentence will be the same. /s (mandatory: don’t actually shoot anyone please)
What kind of dumb fuck still goes to the US for tourism?