Or… They also remove the moratorium to drive the point home.

Well this guy was the Vice Chief from 2022-2023 and became Chief in 2023. So that’s under the Biden administration, for what that’s worth.

I get what you’re saying, but the more direct comparison would be to the Chief of Staff of the Army, not the President.

I gotta say, I spent a solid minute on Google Images trying to find a picture that made him look more badass than the professional headshot photo, but a good half of the images are him in readers.

Arming your "enemy’ immediately before attacking them seems like a very stupid idea. So par for the course with this administration.

Or it was intentional, of course. Losing a phone while travelling is a reasonable cover story.

I don’t know if it’s funnier that Miller is being called an aide as opposed to a handler, or that his name wasn’t even mentioned in the headline.

The Christofascists need Israel to rule the region as an ethnostate, it is a prerequisite for the Christian end times.

And YHWH declared to His “scattered” followers, “For I will take you out of the nations; I will gather you from all the countries and bring you back into your own land…Then you will live in the land I gave your ancestors; you will be my people, and I will be your God.” (NIV Ezek. 36:24, 28)

And the current events seem to be directly moving towards these various prophecies, likely intentionally directed by various State actors as well. World War 3 being based in the region is certainly a possibility looking more likely by the day.

“I will make Jerusalem and Judah like a cup of poison to all the nearby nations that send their armies to surround Jerusalem. Jerusalem will be a heavy stone burdening the world. And though all the nations of the earth unite in an attempt to move her, they will all be crushed.” (NLT Zechariah 12:2-3)

Asia you under the impression that the Russian Shadow Fleet is flying Russian flags?

Or are you just curious which flags they’re using at the moment?

Ukraine did not have the infrastructure at the time to be able to even safely store the nuclear weapons they had. The nukes weren’t going to stay either way at the time.

Does the Louvre actively refuse all attempts to retrieve original works and tell the requestors the fuck off the way the British Museum does?

From my understanding that’s more of a British-specific problem, not most museums in general.

Russia has been pretty reliable for ISS transit ever since they launched the first module for it back in 1998. Despite political bluster, they’ve followed through when needed. Including after we unilaterally decided to decommission to Shuttle with no replacement, leaving Soyuz as the only crew transit option available at all.

Give it time. Its a slow recipe, but I trust the French to follow through if its a protest.

Probably something similar to all the Alex Jones lawsuits. Families disagreeing with each other about how to go about the lawsuit or the compensation they’re going for, so filing suit separately.

Because the family sued, and won. That’s how lawsuits work.

There are other lawsuits from other familie still going through the process. And you can be sure they’ll cite this trial and decision as evidence.

And elsewhere recently a judge dismissed the criminal prosecution for Boeing’s willful negligence related to these deaths, so civil penalties is all they’re going to see for corporate sanctioned manslaughter/murder.

Let me guess, they shot it down.

… read the article. Yeah, they shot it down.

That is 100% what every country needs to be doing. These aren’t mistakes.

Depends on who he talked to last. Like every other time. It’s all just manipulation of the Presidency. Both foreign and domestic.

I’m inclined to say that her vote wasn’t cast in time, even though it wasn’t her fault.

I’d say the exact opposite. The vote was on April 28th, she mailed her ballot on April 5th and it was returned to her on May 2nd.

She mailed her ballot in 23 days ahead of time. That is more than enough time to ensure your vote will be counted. There’s zero reason to expect your ballot to not be received and counted using the pre-printed label or for it be returned to you more than 3 weeks later.

This isn’t a case of someone sending it a day or two before and standard processing taking it past a deadline.

Not sure why you are being downvoted for this

The downvotes are probably because they’re just stating something obvious. No shit, bad looking CGI looks bad, that doesn’t mean the actual CGI itself is necessarily bad. Small things like wrong lighting can make otherwise great CGI look terrible. The reasons DO matter, even if the average person may not really care and just has the takeaway of “bad CGI”.

Posting that type of response is not actually providing anything to the discussion, it’s a useless comment that provides no value. Not all comments and opinions are valid or constructive. The voting system is not really for agree/disagree, but whether a post adds to the discussion.

I’d argue it matters quite a bit. It shows producers, and by extension a studio, that can’t manage production effectively, and that almost always extends to the rest of the movie. “Bad” CG is rarely the only issue with those movies, it’s just what you remember most since movies in general require the suspension of disbelief and that pulls you right out of it.

And often that’s not because the CGI itself is bad quality, but because the effects team was asked to do the impossible with half the tools necessary. The “fix it in post” mentality.

Even small things like having reference lighting examples from the set can be the difference between an okay outcome and something almost imperceptible.