Depends on the details. If their crime hurt someone innocent (or had a high likelihood to) and it was intentional, yes.

If I’m likely to go down with them if they get caught, yes.

Otherwise, I ain’t no snitch and even if I were I don’t know anything about nothing.

I’m far from an expert on the topic, but I’ve worked around the military for a while, and have had some conversations with some more knowledgeable people about this.

Basically, it’s any kind of military work that isn’t affiliated with a government. On the more benign side of things that would be stuff like private armed security, the French Foreign Legion, or working as a contractor for companies that do physical pen-testing for military installations.

It could also mean working as a contractor for a group like Blackwater, where you are engaging in some likely shady military operations where the government wants some sort of deniability, which (IMO) crosses the line fully into the malign.

It’s also a sizable chunk of ID.

I suspect over the next three years or so we’ll see a lot of graduations from both of those branches and newer gens will have a stronger focus on music.

I’d be willing to bet that by the end of 2027 we’ll see all of the following members graduate and pop back up as either an indie or a member of another corpo:

• Ina
• Kronii
• Biboo
• Shiori
• Gigi
• Raora
• Zeta
• Kaela
• Iofi
• Risu

Ollie and FuwaMoco I’m less certain of in that time frame but I doubt they’ll still be in holo by 2030.

I’m not so sure about it necessarily being bad for the talents. It seems more like Cover is doubling down on the “idol” side of things and trying to reinforce the brand image they’ve always said they want.

The shift in focus means music and concerts seem to be more prioritized. Which means more travel for the talents in order to get studio time, and fewer opportunities for non-music oriented talents.

The pattern I’ve noticed is that the talents who are leaving (and don’t have chronic health issues) are the talents who have more of a focus on streaming and less of a focus on singing and dancing.

There’s also been a shift in “vtuber culture” where discussion of “past lives” has less of a stigma around it meaning it’s now pretty easy for talents to retain their audience when they go indie or move to another corporation.

Combine that with the general success vtubers as a whole are seeing and it’s pretty easy to come go the conclusion that a lot of the less music focused talents will graduate and then go indie or join a less music focused corporation.

Streaming/vtubing is a job and just like most people who work a regular 9-5 will change companies from time to time, I think it’s only natural for vtubers to do the same. Especially now that it’s much easier for whatever success they’ve already had to follow them.

I think these graduations are a result of vtubing as a whole seeing broad success, Cover trying to get their brand image to align with what they’ve always stated it to be, and the talents deciding whether or not that fits with what they want to do. While I don’t think this pattern is particularly great for Cover in the short-term, I do ultimately think that in the long-term this is a good thing for both Cover and, more importantly the talents.

Of the latest round of graduations, this one is perhaps the least surprising.

It’s only 6’ in Canada? It’s 50’ in the US.

Of course nobody actually enforces it, so it’s effectively nothing, but still…

It looks to be an empty case, based on the lack of PSU and motherboard.

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Yes. You’re supposed to use it anytime you’re about to turn or change lanes, including if you’re sitting in a turn lane at a red light or backing out of a drive way or parking spot.

Not doing so makes you a road hazard.

Sure, you could look at it that way, but an equally valid way to look at it would be based on human life spans.

Average human life expectancy is 72 years. Which is, conveniently very close to the age of the oldest video game (an implementation of tic-tac-toe from 1950).

Would you call a 14 year old human old? At that point they’d be ~20% of they way through their life.

Boredom is the key to learning something it’s just very likely that it won’t be the thing school is trying to teach. Especially if the thing school is teaching is the thing boring you.

Or a paper shredder.

My job’s unlikely to go anywhere unless I commit a heinous crime and I already live well below my means in terms of required expenses.

I’m probably going to be fine, but just in case I intend to increase my cash savings and stock up a bit on nonperishable food and other required household goods.

Other than that there’s not a lot of prep I can do.

“Sounds shitty, have you considered suicide?”

Younger me was depressed, pessimistic, arrogant, and very much so an asshole with selective hearing. He would only hear the parts of what’s happened that fit what he expects to happen.

And despite quite a few negatives over the last decade or so, I’ve managed to do pretty well for myself.

He’d probably also tell me to lift with my knees. I had to do some heavy lifting at work yesterday and now my back’s sore.

why would anyone use cock sucking as an insult?

Probably because of the perceived power dynamic between the cock sucker and cock suckee.

How is that homophobic? There’s no mention of the gender of the bootlicking edgelords.

You don’t have to be a man to suck dick.

My recommendations are oriented towards people with a christian background, that said a lot of the ideas involved can be applied to religious belief systems as a whole.

• Isaac Asimov’s guide to the Bible - an annotated version of the old and new testament that provides additional clarity and historical context.

• The Skeptics Annotated Bible by Steven Wells - A version of the King James Bible with annotations written from an Atheist’s perspective.

• The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins - A book that walks through a lot of the logical fallacies, magical thinking, and cognitive biases that Dawkins sees in religious belief. As the title suggests the tone of the book is rather aggressive (which I think is a bit counterproductive) but if you can read past that there’s a lot of good information.

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At least as I understand it (and there’s a good chance I’m wrong) there’s nothing in US law preventing a state from seceding. It was determined that the way the southern states decided to do it in the runup to the civil war was unconstitutional (and possibly treasonous? seditious? Something like that), but there’s no law saying a state can’t secede. It’s just that there’s no defined process for it and the only way it has been tried was determined to be wrong.

From what I’ve read on the topic, there is technically a way it could be done. The country would basically have to follow the same process as passing a constitutional amendment, just with an additional step.

• The state in question would have to pass a ballot measure to secede
• The state house and Senate would have to ratify that measure with a 2/3rds super majority.
• It would have to be passed as a ballot measure by the majority of the country.
• The US house and senate would have to ratify that measure with a 2/3rds super majority.

So, not technically impossible just so difficult that it is effectively impossible.

I typed out the below as a response to you, then reread what you wrote. We might be making the same point just with different words. Hopefully I’m not coming across as overly adversarial.

I think most people on social media, including lemmy, exist in an echo chamber that amplifies specific views to the point that it becomes easy to think those views are much more broadly held then they actually are.

Changing the question around like you suggest might help some people realize that, but I also think that there are a lot of people who think that the views expressed in their slice of social media are actually indicative of broader trends.

I also don’t think I’m immune to this effect, but I do feel somewhat compelled to point out specific instances of it when I notice it.