[-] blueduck@piefed.social 0 points 1 week ago

Bin Laden was the head of a transitional group seeking to establish Islamist control. While Al Qaeda did not have official recognition as a sovereign state, they were a well known and established organization.

The US and NATO were heavily involved in the regime change in Libya. US strikes disabled the convoy Qaddafi was in that immediately led to his capture.

[-] blueduck@piefed.social 0 points 1 week ago
  1. Ngô Đình Diệm leader of south Vietnam - JFK
  2. Mohammed Farah Aidid leader of Somalian rebel group - Clinton
  3. Osama bin Laden- Obama
  4. Muammar Gaddafi - Obama

No qualitative statement about any of those men. Just a list

[-] blueduck@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

Sorry, swipe down to exit is the gesture that doesn’t work in the media viewer. Double tap does zoom properly 

[-] blueduck@piefed.social 0 points 1 week ago
  1. Touch zone on the back arrow of the media viewer is too small and I have to get out my electron microscope every time I want to go back to list view
  2. Media viewer doesn’t support touch functions like double tap to zoom
  3. i want to mark as read on scroll in the c/all view (or really any community list view
  4. When writing comments, there are some inconsistencies in capitalization of the first word (see the I in #3 that wasn’t capitalized)
  5. Just noticed a bug when creating list items. Create an item, hit the carriage return to create a new item. Tap delete. The list number is removed but the cursor is in a sub item of the previous list item. Tap delete again. The first list element is deleted and your text is moved out of the list

These are rather nitpicky items. I use Blorp every day and like it more than Voyager, Arctic and Mlem

[-] blueduck@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

Just finished my reread of Mistborn Era 2 yesterday! As I was wrapping book 3, I was confused how Sanderson was going to pull in all the things I remembered from my last read… then I remembered there’s a fourth book 🤦🏻‍♀️

currently reading Venetian Vespers by John Banville. I love the unreliable narrator. He’s total scum. The absolute pits. 

[-] blueduck@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

Well to be fair, SCOTUS hasn’t ruled on the merits yet. This decision just upholds the lower court’s TRO.

If the court grants cert for the actual case, we’d see some kind of precedent established. It’s very unlikely they’d rule narrowly and limit the scope to a single deployment since the administration’s argument is consistent across all of them.

Using national guard forces to protect federal buildings and employees because local law enforcement can’t or won’t

[-] blueduck@piefed.social 5 points 2 weeks ago

This ruling upholds the Circuit Court order barring the use of national guard forces specifically in Chicago.

A separate order was issued in the ninth circuit barring the use of national guard forces in Portland. That has been appealed and was waiting for this decision.

It’s unlikely the administration will prevail in lifting the order in Portland now that this decision was made against their favor.

[-] blueduck@piefed.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

Correct. British English typically calls it a full stop

[-] blueduck@piefed.social 4 points 3 weeks ago

That’s just a crib

blueduck

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