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[–] tal 4 points 1 month ago

By the same logic I would think this idea would be legal as well.

That's a thought, though I'd also point out that this might involve international law, and there might be different doctrines involved in international law.

Also, international law on involvement in warfare is fluid. I remember reading an article pointing out that if you go back, to, say, the pre-World War era, the obligations on non-involved parties were generally held to be much stricter -- like, doing something like having preferential arms export policy to one party would be considered involvement in a conflict. When Switzerland, earlier, refused to export Gepard ammunition to Ukraine, that's not really in line with the present norm, where countries often do provide arms to countries and consider that to be separate from being directly involved, but it does conform to historical rules on neutrality.

kagis

Not the article I was thinking of, but this is some related discussion:

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10735/3

International neutrality law governs the legal relationship between countries that are not taking part in an international armed conflict (neutral states) and those that are engaged in such a conflict (belligerents). The international community developed the principles of the international law of neutrality in an era before the Charter of the United Nations (U.N.) prohibited using force as a tool to resolve international conflict. Scholars have described the law of neutrality as an “old body of law” with a “slightly musty quality” that does not always translate to modern warfare.

Russia and Ukraine are engaged in an international armed conflict and, thus, are belligerents. Under traditional conceptions of neutrality, sending “war material of any kind” to Ukraine or any other belligerent would violate a duty of neutrality; however, some countries, including the United States, have adopted the doctrine of qualified neutrality. Under this doctrine, states can take non-neutral acts when supporting the victim of an unlawful war of aggression. For the reasons discussed in an earlier Sidebar, Ukraine has firm grounds to contend that it is such a victim and is acting in self-defense. Under these circumstances, arms assistance to Ukraine would generally be lawful under the qualified neutrality doctrine, provided that Ukraine complies with other legal frameworks governing the conduct of hostilities.

[–] tal 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

There was that cat in the news a few years back who drove off that dog that was attacking and dragging a little boy in that family.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEa6jZv-Khc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSG_wBiTEE8

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_(cat)

On May 13, 2014, Jeremy Triantafilo, a four-year-old boy, was riding his bicycle in his family's driveway in Bakersfield, California when Scrappy, a neighbor's eight-month-old Labrador-Chow mix cross, came from behind and bit his leg.[9] As the dog began dragging Jeremy down his driveway, Tara, who the family states was very attached to Jeremy, tackled the dog and chased him away before returning to Jeremy's side to check on him.

Jeremy needed ten stitches in his left calf following the attack. He quickly recovered and was thankful for Tara's actions calling her "my hero".[10]

If mean, if I were a cat -- smaller than the dog in question, and physically less-able to take on larger animals than a dog anyway -- and the dog was already doing a number on a human, that's not a fight I'd casually jump into. And while there are a few social cat species, like lions, I don't think that the wildcat ancestor of the housecat is a social animal, so it's probably not really geared up to be helping out other members of a pride or anything.

kagis

Yeah, it's solitary:

https://synapsida.blogspot.com/2020/03/small-cats-domestic-cats-closest.html

Among these three species, the one thought to be closest of all to the domestic animal is the sand cat (Felis margarita). This split off from the line leading to the wildcats and the Chinese mountain cat around 2.5 million years ago, just before the Ice Ages got going, while the other species (or their immediate ancestors) seem to have been around since the Late Pliocene 3 to 3.5 million years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_cat

The sand cat is solitary, except during the mating season and when a female has kittens.

[–] tal 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Another poignant note that some other news sources have pointed out: it looks like she was a rescue dog. That is, in getting her, her elderly owner probably saved her from being euthanized.

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/rescue-dog-stevens-county-returns-favor-saving-elderly-owner-who-fell/E54BZZERANB4FI2BN2ES7OUS2M/

Rescue dog in Stevens County returns favor, saving elderly owner who fell

[–] tal 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Honestly, given a canine's physical capabilities, I'm not sure that I could have done as well as she did in that situation.

And for a dog, what had to have gone into that...

  • Assess that her owner was in trouble.

  • Assess that another human could help. I'm not sure that that's an obvious conclusion for a dog to come to from an evolutionary standpoint. My guess is that most cases, in a pack of wild dogs, for most problems short of being attacked by something, there's not a whole lot that bringing another dog to help is going to do, if one gets hurt.

  • She had to plan out in advance a way to get a human to do what she needed them to do.

  • Assess that disrupting traffic would be a way to get attention. That is, she had to have a model of the mental state of other humans sufficient to predict how they'd act in a situation that I doubt that she'd seen before.

  • Evade capture when someone tried to capture her.

  • And keep them interested enough to follow her to the cabin.

[–] tal 4 points 1 month ago

I’ve always been able to tell until now…

How would you be able to tell if you could tell?

Man, now I kinda wonder if there should be an "AI-generated or not" website. Someone's probably done one.

[–] tal 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Select "Most Recent Visit"? That sounds like it.

Then right-click on the category header on that list (maybe "Name", "Tags", "Location") and add a "Most Recent Visit" column, since it looks like that's not visible by default for me.

If what you want is the date that you added the bookmark, it looks like "Added" is what you want, can also add a column for that.

I mean, I dunno, haven't done this myself.

[–] tal 1 points 1 month ago

If you’re referring to the 13&14th Gen chips then yes, Intel is saying it’s on the software side.

Yes, I was, but there was also some initial manufacturing issue with oxidation. That wasn't the bulk of the issues that they were running into, though.

[–] tal 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Only the ones that spend their time pooping on every grassy area in America they can find.

[–] tal 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://www.quora.com/Do-Canada-geese-have-any-predators-in-North-America-besides-humans-and-coyotes

Bald eagles: Bald eagles are known to prey on Canada geese, particularly young goslings.

I feel like the US needs more bald eagles around goose hangouts.

[–] tal 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They produce an amazing amount of goose droppings.

[–] tal 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If the press can disregard NATO reporting names and call that Russian heavy ICBM "Satan 2" because they like the term, I'm pretty sure that you can have the Femboy regardless of NATO's position on the matter.

[–] tal 5 points 1 month ago (9 children)

It does sound like most of that was not actually manufacturing, but design.

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