That you think there would be outrage highlights your lack of understanding.

International waters are just so. It’s only a problem when a country decides to try and restrict access to international waters, and one way to show that this decision is not accepted is to sail warships through it.

That would be stupid I agree, but also not how it works in the UK or California either - according to CAs labour law website, the law there regarding holiday/vacation accrual is no different than the UK:

“California law does not permit “use it or lose it” vacation policies. Vacation accruals may be capped, but may not be forfeited. Therefore, unused, accrued vacation must be paid out at the end of employment”

Since you didn’t answer my last question I looked it up, California has no legal minimum number of vacation days? That’s grim as fuck and completely shoots down your “California labour laws are better than UK” where the legal minimum number of vacation days is 28 per year.

I say minimum because almost no employer here offers the minimum (who would want to work for someone offering 4 weeks of holiday when other employers offer 5 or 6? Shit man last year I ended up with slightly more than 7 weeks off.

Since I was looking into it, I noticed a number of ways that California labour laws are inferior to the ones I enjoy:

• theres no minimim number of hours before I am legally entitled to overtime, anything over my contracted 35 hours is paid as overtime (and any overtime is completely voluntary)
• 28 weeks of paid sick leave
• no “at will” employment, I cannot be terminated for no reason

I’m sure there are more but I’ve seen enough now to convince me that the labour laws in CA are hugely inferior to those in the UK.

I think that may be a company policy rather than a legal policy. I work for a scottish company in scotland where I am a union rep. My holiday year follows the financial year (april 1 - march 31st) and secondly I do not lose holiday hours that I don’t take - that would be wage theft. In theory I can rollover holidays indefinitely but if I worked for a company that did not allow this, the company in question would effectively have to buy any unspent holiday hours from me. There is no use it or lose it, theres use it for time off or be paid for it.

Out of curioisity how many holiday days do you get per year?

Whats shitty about UK labour laws vs californian?

You ok dude? Kinda seems like you’re just screaming into the wind here.

Can you point out the part of the geneva conventions that make using incendiary weapons against military targets in non civilian areas a war crime?

Use of incendiary weapons against military targets is not a war crime unless in an area where civilians are present.

Of course they do, it’s main use is smoke generation.

Fair enough, I can see how that might be beneficial.

Ok fair enough, I see how that would be a win.

Is it really a win for LLMs if the study found no significant difference between those using it as a tutor and those not?

Read the comment you originally replied to and then come back and tell me why we’re not starting at 12.

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8 eur to 12.5 eur is a 56.25% increase. 16 would be a 100% increase.

50% of 8 is 4, so increasing from 8 to 12.5 is an increase of over 50%.

There would never have been any peace treaty, the allies had already agreed that axis surrender must be unconditional.

Japan having one condition would not have matteted, because the allies were not interested in a conditional surrender.

If you ignore the many examples throughout history of more violence being the solution to violence, perhaps you may have a point.

I can go on now?

Everybody always gets hung up on the nukes but I never see anyone complaining about the firebombing which killed many times more people (or the Japanese and their many attempts at biological warfare).

War is inherently bad, and using powerful weapons to end it sooner is the pragmatic and often moral choice. Would you have preferred that the allies invaded Japan, causing millions more to die? Or perhaps simply blocade Japan, causing millions more to die? It’s easy to be moralistic when you don’t have to make decisions that have millions of lives hanging on them.

Coming from the person who said

And I’m not even convinced the earth, on average, is warming rather than cooling

I’m not sure what part of my comment you took to mean I thought anything pleasant about the Ottoman empire but cool thanks for the info?