Crunching the numbers in your example, there’s a 92% chance no coin does better than 55% correct. Randomness happens, but the law of large numbers usually refers to much larger numbers than 1000, and there aren’t 1000 huge companies being investigated right now. I think suspicion is warranted here

It may have been, it’s relatively common for something like this to be included in coverage of Vietnam and the cold war. Current events related blocks are also often put in social studies curriculum and propaganda is a often a suggested tie-in.

While your teacher sounds like they went above and beyond, they probably weren’t working against the system. And that’s coming from a burned out ex-teacher. We have issues in our schools but for the most part curriculum designers are trying to help. For every terrible Florida-like headline depicting a leap backwards there are many steps forward taken under the radar

I would guess the order just indicates they started as a fighter, not that they are mainly a fighter. So a 1 level dip into fighter first for heavy armor and a fighting style, then melee warlock from there makes sense to me.

Otherwise, maybe it’s just people thinking that fighter 5/warlock 5 gets you just as many attacks as a full fighter, and also fireballs/hex etc

Eh, 10 is average for an untrained commoner. As an untrained commoner myself, I don’t know that I’d do all that well at hiding in the woods, carrying a traveler’s pack and wearing paladin armor…

The effective move is to have everyone pay into escrow. Most areas have renters rights laws that guarantee minimum standards, if you provide written notice that these aren’t being met you are typically allowed to pay into escrow and withhold the payments until issues are fixed.

I did this in college after we negotiated them adding a dishwasher and got it written into our lease, then a few months later were fed up when it hadn’t been installed yet. I also helped a friend do this when they found cockroaches, and in their case after three months of it not getting fixed they were granted leave to break their lease and were awarded the escrow money on top.

Not all places have the same laws and it definitely helped we went to our university legal council and they laid out the options and wrote up the notice. But almost all places have at least basic standards

As a (bad) hobby level artist, I’m well aware my art is probably best described as mashing together other’s actual human work. But I kind of think that’s true for everyone. You always see influences and borrowed concepts from other’s past works in new art. If your work is posted publicly, you can’t be surprised when another artist sees it and is inspired by it.

In my opinion, we already have copyright protection against AI art, it’s the same you would use against anyone else. If you can show that the generated artwork is a derivative work, it’s a problem and they’ve violated your copyright.

Positive progress has been made at least, Minneapolis has done quite a bit recently to change this