Of all the things in the photos that actually made sense. It's weird, though, and threw me for a loop when I first saw uniforms and such and had to ask back then.
On uniforms, vehicles, etc. the flag is sometimes "backwards" so that the union (the blue and stars) are "forward facing." The idea is that the flag is flown from the left side in normal orientation, so the union is closest to the pole. If the person or vehicle were carrying a real flag, based on what side a person is observing, the flag may be "mirrored." In other words, the flag is moving with the person or vehicle and not the opposite way. You'll see that orientation a lot on American military and para-military uniforms.
I never understood why we don't just put a normal oriented flag on the opposite shoulder for the same effect, but hey...America is weird.
Any MAGA who fell for this is beyond stupid (plus utterly unfamiliar with the military). Her uniform is wrong (skirt WAYYY too high). No one wears dress uniforms underway at sea in general, ESPECIALLY an enlisted soldier (who would likely be nowhere near a ship, even more especially in dress uniform). The ribbons on her dress uniform not only change from picture to picture, but are also the wrong size (sometimes) and not even actual US ribbons. I've never seen a regulation name tag say "US ARMY" and not a name. The undershirt in her camis isn't regulation. And this was just a quick look at the photos and only tangentially around the Army at work.
Oh and that's before the visible glitches because it's AI. This is laughably low effort.
EDIT: Damn, they didn't even use a real ship as the background. It's supposed to be a destroyer, and there are no US destroyers with an aft-facing bridge or part of the superstructure forward of the bridge windows. Just truly WTF
EDIT 2.0: I just saw a couple other photos because I got curious. One has her as a one-star general 😂, and a couple others have her wearing a (shitty looking) Combat Infantry Badge, which is only awarded for being in combat. So, I guess women CAN hack it in combat! Hegseth must be in shambles.
There are a surprising amount of false positives when using object detection on maritime imagery. While a carrier is a spec, there are a ton of specs in the ocean that can look similar enough. Plus, weather has a huge hand to play. If it were always perfectly clear, then it's an easier problem, but one cloud can really mess up the detection. Ultimately, ship detection is a difficult problem (not intractable but still hard).
Sort of. Satellite resources are surprisingly scarce, so a lot are focused where people are, i.e. land. Plus, for the imagery sats that are focused on the ocean, ships are also tiny in a literal ocean of blue. It's just a spec. While the resolution could be good, have fun looking for that spec. That's why most countries use signal collection to locate vessels at sea. (I'm over-simplifying a lot, but you get the picture)
This has been my position since around the time when same sex marriage was being fought in the courts. Interestingly, a family member who is super conservative and religious came up with this same idea back then, and I was on board. (Her reasoning was that she wasn't against gay people having the same rights but that marriage is a "holy" bond between a man and a woman 🙄)
I've found that it's a way to get conservatives/religious folks onboard with same-sex marriage if their issue is the word "marriage" and ensuring its sanctity (cue eye-roll). It simultaneously outs the bigots because they can't hide behind religious BS, and they show their hand. Back in the '00s and early '10s, I would use it as a litmus test of which Republicans in my life I would continue to associate with.
Totally fair question. One of my go-to examples is for a lot of data visualization stuff, just having an LLM spit out basic graphs with the parameters in the function call. Same with mock-ups of basic user interfaces. I'm not a front-end person at all, and I usually want something basic and routine (but still time consuming), like CRUD or something, so just prompting for that and getting a reasonably decent product is a helpful time saver.
For anything more than basic stuff, I don't think I've ever gotten more than a single small function that I then verify line by line.
People who say they code faster with an LLM just blindly accept the given answer, maybe with a quick glance and some simple testing. Not in depth code review, which is hard and costs time.
It helps me code faster, but I really only outsource boilerplate to an LLM. I will say it also helps with learning the syntax for libraries I'm unfamiliar with just in that I don't have to go through several pages of documentation to get the answers I need in the moment. The speed-up is modest and nowhere near the claims of vibe coders.
However, many times getting a carrier unlocked phone carries a price premium.
That's a good point. I've started advocating for buying phones lightly used (1-2 generations behind). Until just a couple of months ago, I was rocking a phone from 2019 with no issues. When I upgraded recently, I bought a Pixel 9 from a reseller selling one with an open box and a slight scuff on the bezel (that gets covered by a case anyway). Now I have an almost new phone that works like a dream for almost 75% of what I would get buying it directly from Google.
So, I typically buy fabric in person since I live near a couple really great independent fabric stores, but one of my friends who doesn't live near any good stores says she uses https://fabricdepot.com/. I can't personally say they're any good, but she seems to like them! One of the places I will sometimes go has an online store here: https://www.voguefabricsstore.com/.
I'm actually starting to get to the point that I want to start drafting my own patterns to make some clothes that are inspired by some futuristic clothes that I really like.
Unironically, yes. It's such a great, fun hobby. I got into it back in '20, and I have loved making things for myself and others. There's no better feeling than finishing a garment, and it looks good. (There's also no greater annoyance than having to use a seam ripper on something you just sewed...)
Agreed. But that also puts those people into the category of stupid unless they're also billionaires. Trump and his ilk won't do anything for the vast majority of his voters. It's plain as day to anyone who has a brain.
Truthfully, it's because we have a critical mass of people who fall into at least one of three categories. They are either bigots, stupid, and/or utterly selfish. We've been on this path for a while. There's a sickness in American culture, and Trump is just a symptom of it.
This is a DoD administrative action, so it lies in civil court. Doubt this would make it that high. Kelly will sue, and he'll win.
The point isn't to punish him through cutting his pay; the point is to tie him up in litigating the matter and spending the extra money. The point is to make an example out of him so that other retirees think twice about if they want to deal with the burden speaking the truth entails.
