Yeah, you don't have too much to back it up, if only there were some gigantic and wordy document to tell us this stuff in plain English. Alas, you probably only read the Constitution or something which clearly doesn't count 🤷‍♀️

/s, a big heaping helping of /s because if I don't cackle madly about it all I'll cry and rage and I'm tired

Yep! Welcome to the show, try the fish before it's gone and don't think too hard about what comes next, we'll be in it soon enough anyway.

Indeed this is not correct. Practically speaking, the soldier should keep refusing the order and will be relieved of duty and thrown in the brig. They will then have to hope that by the time the court martial date rolls around their name has been cleared and the officer who gave the order has been or will be court martialed in their place.

Theoretically the officer should go through every underling and find nobody willing to execute illegal orders, but practically they'd only need to go through three or four at most before they had a volunteer.

Hard agree. I vividly remember having such a blast tossing enemies around with the Force, but if I think just a little harder I remember the jank and clunk of everything around those moments. It was fun for the time, but with the sheer explosion of truly outstanding games in recent years it wouldn't stand a chance of catching any attention if it was released today.

I think we found the poster child for the switch to bug-based food production.

If you're laughing, it just wasn't made for you

A member of the Reform party - a party whose every principle, tenet, and policy is based on pure unadulterated racism - said and/or did something racist?

It's not pirating, it's preserving!

And now it goes to the SCOTUS who believe so strongly in States' Rights and the Constitution as it is worded that they will strike down this State's decision and claim that the separation of church and state requires an act of Congress to enforce, or some bullshit.

Trying to reframe Tennant's comments as having anything to do with the Minister's race or gender is exactly the kind of disingenuous strawmanning bald-faced bullshit we can ever expect from the fucking Tories.

I dunno man, being born before automobiles wouldn't exempt you from looking both ways before you cross the street when you live in a world where cars are commonplace 🤷‍♀️

The Constitution also clearly states that anyone who breaks their oath of office to commit treason against the country shall not hold political office unless cleared by 2/3rds majority in Congress. It's time to admit that the rules are all made up and the Constitution doesn't matter.

I am as patient as a volcano, A butterfly in a land mine field; I am a dandelion making guns go silent, Sticking out of every barrel cold as steel

Sudden Urge, by Rise Against.

Huh, looked it up, TIL. Blame the disinformation campaigns 🤷‍♀️

Masking isn't meant to protect you, it's meant to protect everyone around you. It only protects you when everyone around you is wearing a mask.

The main point is to minimise the risk of infection of others. Masks do that by limiting the amount of virus you spray info the environment with every breath. The longer you have the mask on, the fewer virus-laden droplets get out, the lower the viral load is for everyone around you.

So to answer your question, yes, keeping the mask off the whole time would have been measurably worse than keeping it on before and after eating. No, getting a meal at an airport is not ethically wrong even if you have to take off the mask to eat and drink. Wearing the mask for as long as possible is the right thing to do because it offers the best chance of not getting other people sick; taking it off to eat balances your needs with the safety of others.

If everyone masked like this (even if it was just when they know they're sick, instead of always), many fewer people would get sick when they go flying.

I don't disagree. I didn't say the Imperium was the best option, I said it's the best option humans could come up with. I may be a little cynical nowadays about how readily people will accept authoritarianism in the face of a crisis.

I think The Imperium of Man is the best solution humans could come up with to the threats of a horrific and unforgiving universe, and it does preserve the species, so in that sense it's "good" even if it's a nightmare of human rights violations every second of every sol on nearly every planet in the empire. Plus, who the fuck is gonna argue with a psyker so strong he can fight off literal chaos gods?

That's not a hot take, that's empirical fact: https://lifehacker.com/this-chart-shows-how-computer-literate-most-people-are-1789761598