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The $1776 "warrior dividend" that Trump announced yesterday is actually just a renaming of an existing, already authorized military housing allowance. Shocked. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/18
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@mattblaze@federate.social The tax implications might mean that this is a (minor) overall loss for soldiers since the benefit that was transferred to the "warrior dividend" was tax-exempt.
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@lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world This, but also Mozilla Foundation.
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They really do seem to be trying to kill us. House defense bill adds a provision to allow military to disable their civilian transponders (a basic anti-collision safeguard) when flying around DC. (You
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@mattblaze@federate.social What possible justification is there! Secrecy for combat? I'm sure no new law is needed. Secrecy for law enforcement? The military is not allowed to do that, constitutionally. Secrecy for research? The Air Force has half of Nevada to play with. Did the house republicans just go "any rule involving the military makes them less effective somehow!". Hopefully this doesn't become law.
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Commanders specifically ordered Navy SEALs to fire on and kill two survivors of (alleged) drug boat sinking in September. "The order was to kill everybody". Analyzing this as an unlawful order or as h
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The worst thing here is we almost certainly lack functioning mechanisms to hold anyone meaningfully to account for these crimes. These were not heat-of-battle excesses or unwise orders from mid-level
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It's clear that our official embrace of torture after 9/11 was a point of no return for our country.
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@mattblaze@federate.social Those people at least had the sense not to call it that brazenly. It was "enhanced interrogation". How far we've fallen.
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First, since you're gluing together multiple images, you obviously don't want the subject moving between captures. Buildings (except during, say, earthquakes) are well suited to this as subjects, but
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Basically, the more the perspective changes among the components, the more geometric transformation the software has to do in order to line up the edges to tile them together. Any transformation comes
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Once you've selected where the tripod goes, the simplest thing to do is pan and tilt the camera on the tripod head between captures, pointing it at different areas of the subject such that there's som
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@mattblaze@federate.social Is the nodal point where all the light converges before hitting the mirror/sensor on the other side as an inverted image? It's hard to describe with words what.
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