Sure, you just gotta go around the bases without any fielder committing an error for it to be a home run. It doesn’t actually have to leave the field of play.
Now is it possible to hit the ball over the outfield wall on a bunt with a wooden bat? No. There just isn’t enough energy in that interaction.
Vietnam and Korea were proxy wars against communist powers as the US was trying to prevent the spread of communism during the Cold War. The Gulf War/Desert Storm was a war against Iraq in response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait. The pharmaceutical factory strike was a response to attacks on US embassies in the region, along with the likely bad intelligence that the factory was being used to manufacture chemical weapons for al-Qaeda. Afghanistan and Iraq were part of the Global War on Terror as a response to 9/11 and to depose anti-American and anti-Western regimes. Iran this time around is again allegedly to prevent them from gaining nuclear capabilities. The bombing of Cambodia was part of the Vietnam war.
It should be noted that these were more or less the official reasons, along with a healthy dose of American imperialism, wanting to spread American ideology, gaining access to fossil fuels or other resources, or distracting from unpopular domestic issues.
So there were always reasons for these conflicts, whether justified or not, whether public or ulterior.
The original concept was “stock cars” but the sport has since evolved.
None of those were random. They all had reasons behind them. I’m not defending any of them, but they weren’t chosen at random.
NASCAR vehicles are (in theory) all exactly the same, that’s the point of the sport.
Which one seems arbitrary to you? They’ve all got reasons, even if they’re not good ones. They’re certainly not chosen at random.
This is why I’m wary of the lemmy user base, a combination of individuals who have been banned from reddit and/or think they’re too good for reddit.
I don’t know why it has to be a competition.
No matter how much things change, they always stay the same.
Yeah man, all life shares a common ancestor.
Anecdotally I’ve always heard this and experienced it myself, interesting to see it’s backed by evidence!
That can happen with cash bail too. You know that cashless bail doesn’t mean everyone just gets bail right? It means that bail is determined by a judge depending on your flight risk and danger to the community instead of a dollar amount.
Probably not, because romantic entanglements make for better TV.
JB has an excellent track record of passing legislation that benefits the working class and protects marginalized people. It’s evident that he cares for the people of IL and is trying to do what’s best.
Far from the beginning. The ISS has been planned to be decommissioned for a long time.
Not really. If I like it I upvote it, if I dislike it I downvote it. If it seems interesting I’ll click it, if not I won’t. And if I got something to say I’ll say it.
Hot dogs are not tacos because we don’t call them tacos.
And a hot dog is not a sandwich because most people don’t call it a sandwich.
The definitions of words are based on how we use them for efficient communication. They don’t exist to fit into perfectly neat, logical, consistent boxes.
Water is wet because we call it wet
These all involve at least one fielding error and so wouldn’t be scored as home runs.