Veterans were also victims of the orphan crushing machine, usually recruited from impoverished areas with the promise of a stable job, health care, and education. They were once broke high school kids from podunk towns with zero opportunities for upward mobility. I think the left in America is missing a huge opportunity to take advantage of the fetishization of veterans. A few charismatic veterans who espouse a leftist platform can lend a lot of pathos for the cause from the view of the average 'red-blooded American.'
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We're drinking from a firehose of bullshit and you want me to talk about the turd I swallowed three days ago? Buddy, I won't forget that turd, but there's literally newer and more horrifying shit coming down the tube. It's amalgamating into a giant shit mountain and crushing us underneath it. C'mon, my dude. Redirect your angst somewhere else.
Imperial/metric flame war! Fuck it, let's get even more pedantic and go back to using decimal time. 10 hours a day, 100 minutes an hour, and 100 seconds a minute, all altered in duration to fit into their superlative hierarchical tier. A day would then be 100000 decimal seconds. Does that make the metric powers of 10 part of your brain happy?
/s for fake passive-aggression. I'm not actually upset, your comment just reminded me of decimal time.
On a related note, 60 (seconds per minute, minutes per hour) is a cool number because it's divisible by so many factors: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30, and 60. It's because 60 is divisible by so many numbers that we can have increments of an hour be in while numbers of minutes without decimals. A quarter hour is 15 minutes. A third is 20 minutes. One tenth is 6 minutes. Base 60 seconds and minutes are flexible and convenient.
Anyways, that's enough late night rambling. Enjoy your day, internet stranger.
Holy shit, I haven't thought about this in years! I remember back in 2008 I had a copy of Stepmania on a flash drive and played it on school computers during class.
I had the exact same thought when I read the premise. One of my favorite indie games of all time.
The second sentence of the Wikipedia article literally says about 2/3 were American citizens.
The section on 'Exclusion, removal, and detention' says "[s]omewhere between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry were subject to this mass exclusion program, of whom about 80,000 Nisei (second generation) and Sansei (third generation) were U.S. citizens."
So yes, second and third generation Japanese Americans, natural born citizens, were held in American concentration camps.
British Columbia, a Canadian province.
It's there purposely as a part of the satire. It's meant to be a critique of the use of passive voice in news headlines.
To add onto what @[email protected] said, there is a bit of a learning curve. Once you can consistently get the angle right it's like shaving with a stick of butter. I also shave my face every other day and I even use it to shave my head once a week.
I'm coming up on 2 years of ownership and have barely gone through 2/3 of my initial 100 count pack that cost $15 USD. It's one of those products where there's a bit of an initial investment that saves significant money long term.
When talking about AC power, some of the power consumed doesn't actually produce real work. It gets used in the generation of magnetic fields and charges in inductors and capacitors.
The power being used in an AC system can be simplified by using a right triangle. The x axis is the real power being used by resistive parts of the circuit (in kilowatts, KW). The y axis is reactive power, that is power being used to maintain magnetic fields and charges (in kilovolt-amperes reactive, KVAR). And the hypotenuse is the total power used by the circuit, or KVA (kilovolt-amperes).
Literal side note: they're all the same units, but the different sides of the triangle are named differently to differentiate in writing or conversation which side of the power triangle is being talked about. Also, AC generator ratings are given in KVA, so you need to know the total impedance of your loads you want to power and do a bit of trig to see if your generator can support your loads.
The reactive component of AC power is denoted by complex numbers when converting from polar coordinates to Cartesian.
Anyways, I almost deleted this because I figured your comment was a joke, but complex numbers and right triangles have real world applications. But power triangles are really just simplifications of circles. By that I mean phasors rotating in a complex plane, because AC power is a sine wave.
Nightmares are dreams, too.
Forcing people out of the military for a policy that wasn't around when they joined gives the service member some leeway. There's usually a period of voluntary separation where they can opt in to receive a severance pay and streamline the process. If the service member doesn't opt for voluntary separation, they are involuntarily separated. This involves a little more paperwork, a longer process, and half the severance pay of a voluntary separation. In both cases it's an honorable discharge (unless there's something else criminal at play) and they keep all benefits and entitlements.
I'm more familiar with Navy regulations, but here's an example from the DEI rollback from March (TW for the shitty title of the message).
Trigger warning
Initial Direction on Prioritizing Military Excellence and ReadinessParagraph 5 stipulates the terms of voluntary separation. More specifically:
If you have friends, family, or acquaintance who are US military members, please use this information and opportunity to educate, agitate, and organize. Some of these people are about to lose their stability and routine, and it's important to direct their frustration and blame at the racist policies of this administration, linking it to other intersectionalities, and building camaraderie.