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There is an increasing apprehension among service members that they may be asked to carry out an illegal order, amid reports Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered troops to “kill everybody” in a boat strike in September.

The concerns, reflected in an uptick in calls to the Orders Project — which provides free legal advice to military personnel — come from the likes of staff officers involved in planning the strikes on supposed drug-carrying boats and those in charge of designating those on the vessels as a threat in order to carry out such attacks.

Even as a reported Justice Department classified memo from this summer preemptively argued that U.S. troops involved in the strikes would not be in legal jeopardy, service members appear far more concerned than usual that the U.S. military may be opening them up to legal harm, according to Frank Rosenblatt, president of the National Institute of Military Justice, which runs the Orders Project.

    • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      1·
      8 hours ago
      Needs text alternative.

      Images of text break much that text alternatives do not. Losses due to image of text lacking alternative such as link:

      • usability
        • we can’t quote the text without pointless bullshit like retyping it or OCR
        • text search is unavailable
        • the system can’t
          • reflow text to varied screen sizes
          • vary presentation (size, contrast)
          • vary modality (audio, braille)
      • accessibility
        • lacks semantic structure (tags for titles, heading levels, sections, paragraphs, lists, emphasis, code, links, accessibility features, etc)
        • some users can’t read this due to lack of alt text
        • users can’t adapt the text for dyslexia or vision impairments
        • systems can’t read the text to them or send it to braille devices
      • web connectivity
        • we have to do failure-prone bullshit to find the original source
        • we can’t explore wider context of the original message
      • authenticity: we don’t know the image hasn’t been tampered
      • searchability: the “text” isn’t indexable by search engine in a meaningful way
      • fault tolerance: no text fallback if
        • image breaks
        • image host is geoblocked due to insane regulations.

      Contrary to age & humble appearance, text is an advanced technology that provides all these capabilities absent from images.

      Pure image of text right there.

      Edit: 👍

    • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      11 hours ago

      OMG RTFM Hegseth!

      Also, I say Hegseth and we all know Trump is right there, but he’s already thrown him under the bus by saying he never approved of a second strike.

      • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        11 hours ago

        I honestly don’t know how much Trump actually cares about the details. He just wants Maduro out of there and an agreement that his cronies get a big helping of their oil profits.