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Anami was the War Minister for Japan during World War II. He opposed the surrender until Hirohito over-ruled him.

Two Washington-based groups representing Google, Facebook and other tech giants filed an emergency application with the Supreme Court on Friday, seeking to block a Texas law that bars social media companies from removing posts based on a user’s political ideology. The Texas law took effect Wednesday after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit in New Orleans lifted a district court injunction that had barred it. The appeals court action shocked the industry, which has been largely successful in batting back Republican state leaders’ efforts to regulate social media companies’ content-moderation policies.

I’m glad it didn’t ignore how Dahomey power was built off the Slave Trade. Beforehand, many people believed the movie was going to ignore this part of Dahomey’s history, but it didn’t. It also portrays King Ghezo as adamant on keeping slavery the main economic source of Dahomey. (However, this also opens problems we’ll get to)

The Night she Met the Marquess: A Historical Regency Romance Novel

Every time someone asks whether you rather live in the Star Trek or Star Wars universe the responses always seem to be be oblivious to how much more dangerous Star Trek’s setting is in peacetime than Star Wars in the middle of the middle of an all out war. How many intelligent species are wiped out en masse by random calamity? How many human colonies have been wiped out or worse?

Furthermore, it’s simply not believable that Ocasio-Cortez, who frequently talked about gun rights during the campaign, would be unaware of the Second Amendment. During a Reddit AMA in June 2017, for instance, more than a year before this fake quote started circulating, Ocasio-Cortez said that she was a “firm believer” in the Amendment, but that she would prevent people with mental illness or a history of domestic abuse from purchasing guns. Her official campaign platform also specifically mentioned the Second Amendment. The congresswoman argued that the United States could ban assault weapons and strengthen gun-control laws without “running afoul” of the Constitution:

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/31/1120166328/jackson-mississippi-water-crisis

In all of my cycles of life in psychology, I have never had as difficult a time as I am now. My superior, a Keglicht by the name of T'chaalhim, ordered me early this daily cycle to study the species that only everyone has been speaking of. *HUMANS.* Bipedal abominations, they recently joined the great Galactic Federation, much to my personal horror. Four cycles after their first introduction, I still struggle with one thing that makes them true "space orks" as some call them. The Abyss. Every damned one of the humans I have studied, spoken with, Striga be damned, even slept with; they all speak of the same thing. The Void, The Abyss, whatever may be synonymous. It makes my fur stand on end. My species calls the Emptiness, and we are raised and schooled on the dangers of falling into this metaphorical "dimension". Then come along the blasted primates, and what do they do? They embrace it. How? They find some reason to justify glimpsing int the dark haze, and they actually find it fun! I often find humans on the station peering through any crack they can find to view the vast Emptiness. I fight internally not to drag them away. Sometimes, they notice me, and drag their muscles in a truly horrific way, calling it a "smile". Only a demon from the depths of space can enjoy staring into the Abyss. I hate it. It goes against everything I know. The Galactic Federation has recommended that any psychologist in the field should attend therapy! I just may do so. That aside, one story has stood out to me. Not because I find it intriguing, quite the opposite. It saddens me, crazy as it may sound. A merchant ship, the *Geithne'il*, was attacked by pirates. The *Geithne'il* had one human as a worker, and when the ship was seiged against, the human took matters in his, paws? Hands?? Anyway, the way he did it? He stole a jumpsuit rated for void usage from one of the Hurjiti technicians, and jumped from an airlock. To the pirate ship! In rumors across the mess hall during the night cycle, I oft hear that he fought his way to the bridge with nothing but his limbs. Just his limbs. It makes me wonder if all humans are like him. Several weeks after, I hear of a message supposedly sent BY the human. It was a pre-recorded message, and it was quite short.....but the meaning of it haunts all who listened to this day. "The Void called, I answered. It wanted it's children back." Soon after, we had an influx of humans traveling through Port. I was wandering around, observing them, when my curiosity peaked. I pulled one aside, a female with long blonde fur and astonishing green eyes. "Excuse me human, but...why are there so...many of your kind?" With that unnerving "smile", she gave me a reply. I weep in fear every time I recall it. "Why, y'all didn't hear? The Void called!" "The Void? Do you mean the Emptiness?" I nervously fiddled with my claws, as I secretly dreaded even communicating with this evilspawn. "Yup! We've been walking in the Void for so darn long, I was wonderin' when He would come a'callin'." "W-w-w-who is...He?" Apparently, many other humans had heard our conversation, as many replied in a terrifying response of yelling and howling, "LEEERRROOOYYY JEENNNKIIIIIINNNNSSSSS!"

What if magic for interrogation was a prerequisite during trials in a fantasy world? Would it make its judicial systems fairer or eventually more corrupt? No. A “Compel Truthful Answers” spell can cause more innocent people to escape conviction (if it works all the time), but that’s not about fairness but fallibility. An unfair but infallible system would be one in which certain people with the right status and connections can avoid being charged in the first place, or expect much greater lenience on conviction. The existence of such a spell would have no impact on the likelihood of such unfairness. Nor would it change the existence of laws specifically targeting certain populations for particular law enforcement attention.

In case you were wondering, the text in the orange banner says "German style" and that's the Spanish flag.

Helioupolites

<sigh> Beavers.

Hiding your discovery for fear that others will misuse its power is not what a good scientist does. But it is what what a good wizard does.