The Ounabara Vocational School in Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is one of the best ways to increase Ichiban’s personality stats. As long as you can answer a few simple questions‚ you can boost your Confidence‚ Passion‚ and more. Some of the questions aren’t that simple though‚ so that’s where this guide comes in. To pass a test‚ you need to answer at least three out of five questions correctly. Each quiz has a pool of 10 questions that it can pull from‚ so you can’t just retake a test after failing it and magically know all the answers. All Vocational School Quiz Answers Sports Proficiency Hawaii Proficiency Tier 2 Hawaii Proficiency Tier 1 Marine Life Alcohol Expertise World Landmarks Muscular Science Gardening Proficiency Underworld Studies Sega Proficiency Tier 2 Sega Proficiency Tier 1 Honolulu City Proficiency Gem Proficiency Sujimon Mastery Mathematics Outer Space World H...

Palworld has 137 Pals at present‚ a bit less than the 151 generation one of Pokémon had. With that in mind‚ we scoured the internet to get a feel for what everyone’s favorite Pals might be‚ and some clear favorites have to have emerged among the lot. Here are the 12 most popular Pals in Palworld. The 12 favorite Pals in Palworld While we’re going in reverse order‚ some of these were ties‚ so one Pal being below another doesn’t necessarily mean they had fewer votes. With that in mind‚ these were the twelve winners: 12. Maraith Image: Pocket Pair‚ Inc. I haven’t encountered this spooky‚ ominous‚ ghostly will-o-the-wisp creature myself‚ but given it has the same color scheme as the best Pokémon of all time‚ I can understand the appeal. While the lime green eyes don’t match the color scheme as well as that yellow‚ there’s also something very eerie and unsettling about such a bright color on a dark palette. ItR...

Whether you choose to be fast from a distance or close to your enemies‚ there’s a mechanical buddy waiting for you. Here are the best Rogue Seneschal Construct builds in Diablo 4. Diablo 4: Best Rogue Seneschal Construct builds Creating the best Rogue build in general will have you choose several play styles that will fit your overall nature. Do you like handling enemies by shooting them from afar? Or would you like to slash your enemy in a thousand different points? Whatever the case‚ the amount of different Seneschal Companion builds – thanks to the Governing Stones and Tuning Stones – will potentially make the best partner for your Rogue character. Here are the best leveling and endgame Rogue Seneschal Construct builds in Diablo 4. Best leveling Rogue Seneschal Construct builds in Diablo 4 Screenshot: Blizzard BuildGoverning StonesTuning StonesPenetrating Shot RogueFocus Fire:The Seneschal Construct channels a ray of fire on...

The first chapter of Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth sees Ichiban and Saeko going on a romantic date‚ but Ichiban and the boys don’t have the slightest idea of how to impress a woman. It’s up to you to choose the best date options‚ but do the choices even matter? Ultimately‚ your choices for the date with Sa-chan won’t affect the story or anything like that. The outcome of the date will always remain the same regardless of what you choose‚ but Ichiban’s personality stats will increase in different ways depending on what you go with. Personality stats are important for unlocking new Jobs and improving Ichiban’s skills‚ so the date is a great way to get a headstart on his development. Nanba vs Adachi Choices Screenshot: PC Invasion When preparing for the date‚ Nanba and Adachi will present you with opposing strategies that will develop Ichiban’s personality in different ways. The first choice is to either sit and ac...

The government shows up at your business and demands you pay the salaries of the regulators who lord over you. If you refuse‚ you’ll be ruined. You have little recourse. You’ve never even voted on the policy because no law implementing it exists. Bureaucrats in D.C. cooked up the idea‚ and a political appointee signed off on it. That’s what Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo‚ a case brought by New England fishermen against Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo‚ is all about. It may finally end or weaken Chevron deference‚ which refers to a 1984 decision that inadvertently empowered the administrative state to take wide-ranging‚ illiberal powers over American economic life. I mean‚ the case of the fishermen is basically a modern reenactment of “taxation without representation.” Yet when the Supreme Court took up oral arguments in Raimondo‚ the three leftist judges didn’t focus on the constitutionality of Chevron deference‚ but rather lamented the alleged problems of stripping government experts of their power. Here is how The Washington Post’s Ruth Marcus frames the arguments: “Who decides? From the liberal point of view: unelected judges or regulators with expertise and accountability? From the conservative vantage point: judges constitutionally empowered to say what the law is or unelected bureaucrats?” It’s difficult to comprehend how any jurist who swore to uphold the Constitution could agree with the “liberal point of view.” Justices are “unelected” by design. It’s not a gotcha. It’s the point. And it is literally their job to “decide” the constitutionality of the laws and their implementation. Failing to do so is an abdication of their duty. Yet the contemporary Left treats SCOTUS as if it were some autocratic Star Chamber for doing its job. Nowhere‚ on the other hand‚ does the Constitution say one word about unelected bureaucrats deciding the law. The executive branch‚ as the name strongly suggests‚ is tasked with executing laws as written. The Right initially cheered Chevron as a way to blunt judicial activism. But the allowances for “reasonable” decision-making when ambiguity exists in the law have been so abused that agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency will regulate every puddle and molecule of carbon dioxide. Then again‚ the claim that regulators have unassailable “expertise” or real accountability is also a myth. Democrats act as if they have a monopoly on apolitical‚ policy expertise. But there are almost always major disagreements over the efficacy and scope of regulatory policy‚ which is why politics exists‚ and why Democrats are keen on bypassing Congress and debate. Moreover‚ the notion that government regulators are the best and brightest and attain their position through merit is complete bunkum‚ as anyone who’s paid more than five minutes of attention to the government already knows. This is especially true of political appointees‚ whose most valued skills are navigating bureaucracies and risk aversion. Indeed‚ bureaucrats do not function under a notion of “accountability” that most normal people would recognize. When was the last time an agency cleaned house because its policies had failed? When was the last time the administrative state was reined back in any genuine way? How many regulators or appointees are ever fired? If you were as bad at your job as Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas‚ you’d be out of work forever. That said‚ even if regulators were blessed with extraordinary work ethic‚ exceptionally creative minds‚ and all the best ideas‚ they would still have zero right to create laws out of whole cloth. Yet all the most vocal defenders of saving American “democracy” happen to think Chevron deference abuses are integral to governance. Read left-wing punditry on the topic and you might walk away with the impression that federal agencies didn’t even exist until 1984. The histrionics over the potential death of Chevron deference is just another example of the Left’s abandonment of anything resembling a limiting principle. It’s all consequentialism‚ all the time. Anything Democrats dislike is an attack on “democracy.” What Chevron deference does is incentivize Congress to write vague laws and presidents to abuse their power. It creates instability‚ as every administration implements its own preferred interpretation of the law. It threatens to further destroy the separation of powers. It was a huge mistake. And‚ as opposed to most of the Left’s hysterics these days‚ it’s a real threat to “democracy.” COPYRIGHT 2024 CREATORS.COM The Daily Signal publishes a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Heritage Foundation. Have an opinion about this article? To sound off‚ please email letters@DailySignal.com‚ and we’ll consider publishing your edited remarks in our regular “We Hear You” feature. Remember to include the URL or headline of the article plus your name and town and/or state. The post You Can’t Defend ‘Democracy’ and the Administrative State appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Woodrow Wilson‚ the father of the American administrative state‚ once wrote: “Government does now whatever experience permits or the times demand.”  Well‚ the times now “demand” the construction of a massive transgender architecture across the labyrinth of the federal government. Perhaps if Wilson were able to gaze a century into the future and see the absurd result‚ the 28th American president would have hesitated before unleashing this unconstitutional form of government. We weren’t so lucky‚ and now here we are. The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project has been busy investigating the federal government’s sophisticated bureaucratization of transgender policy. (The Daily Signal is Heritage’s news outlet.) The Oversight Project’s investigation has obtained and publicized several explosive documents over the past year that expose this fundamental shift. It’s time to identify the trend line.  Each government document‚ standing alone‚ is an experience in the absurd. Each reads as the Frankensteinian combination of a mechanical bureaucrat and a Drag Queen Story Hour.  We live in a time when a Supreme Court nominee can’t define the difference between a man and a woman‚ and yet an army of government human resource officers (whose names history will not remember) can fill reams of paper with exactly how workplace policies should govern‚ celebrate‚ and enforce every last detail of how to approach the matter of gender identity. These policies stem from action from the very top. One of President Joe Biden’s first acts in January 2021 was to use his perch atop the largest employer in the United States to dive right into the radical gender policy. On his first day as president‚ Biden signed Executive Order 13988‚ called “Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation.” The executive order states: Children should be able to learn without worrying about whether they will be denied access to the restroom‚ the locker room‚ or school sports. Adults should be able to earn a living and pursue a vocation knowing that they will not be fired‚ demoted‚ or mistreated because of whom they go home to or because how they dress does not conform to sex-based stereotypes.  Biden’s executive order directed government agencies to review all policies‚ conform to the newly established principles of the Biden administration‚ take necessary actions‚ and produce plans demonstrating such. With the stroke of a pen‚ and without any vote on the issue‚ the entire federal government workforce was forced to take the deeply unpopular side of a contentious social issue.  Biden’s order has been followed by a series of related orders‚ pronouncements‚ and initiatives. Office of Personnel Management In its “Guidance Regarding Gender Identity and Inclusion in the Federal Workplace‚” dated March 2023‚ the Office of Personnel Management states that any federal employees who don’t comply with the use of fake pronouns may be disciplined for contributing to “an unlawful hostile work environment.” OPM directs agencies to support “transitioning” employees by instating transgender points of contact and offering support for “workplace transitions” such as name and pronoun changes in employee profiles. The agency goes so far as to say that men should be allowed in ladies’ rooms and vice versa. “Agencies should not restrict any employee to a single user facility instead of common facilities‚” OPM directs. ? Potty Politics from Biden Admin – Men in the Ladies Room ?We unearthed the radical @USOPM policies that control all federal agencies. Here‚ OPM mandates that men are allowed in the ladies room‚ even absent any indication they are actually "transgender" pic.twitter.com/OngVzQXf95— Oversight Project (@OversightPR) December 6‚ 2023 Agriculture Department In the Biden administration‚ the Department of Agriculture is guided by a memo from its Sub-Working Group for the Memorandum on Advancing the Human Rights of Lesbian‚ Gay‚ Bisexual‚ Transgender‚ Queer‚ and Intersex Persons Around the World. Among other things‚ that document adds LGBTQ strings to foreign agriculture grants. ????? Is the priority for farming in the third world really that the farmers are not gay‚ lesbian‚ or transgender enough?That’s the Biden Administration’s priority‚ and they condition YOUR money that they give away on itWe got the docs https://t.co/skjDq6Wy3V pic.twitter.com/ueisq6zetW— Oversight Project (@OversightPR) January 10‚ 2024 Customs and Border Protection We uncovered the infamous document showing that Biden administration officials directed Border Patrol agents to use the “preferred pronouns” of illegal aliens who are invading the United States. The document from U.S. Customs and Border Protection [KM3] decrees: “DO NOT use ‘he‚ him‚ she‚ her’ pronouns until you have more information about‚ or provided by‚ the individual.” ?Biden Directs Border Patrol to use Illegal Aliens' Preferred PronounsWe just obtained @CBP documents directing personnel to only use woke language when encountering individuals invading the United States pic.twitter.com/HwhiYJmqmm— Oversight Project (@OversightPR) November 17‚ 2023 Federal Bureau of Prisons A clinical guidance document obtained from the Federal Bureau of Prisons shows that the Biden administration is providing taxpayer-funded transgender operations for inmates. These surgeries include various procedures to remove‚ create‚ enlarge‚ and reshape sex organs request. Federal prisoners also may request feminizing or masculinizing hormone therapy from a prison warden. The process is reviewed by a Transgender Utilization Review Advisory Group‚ which assesses whether a requested procedure is “medically needed” and makes recommendations to a medical director for final approval. ? Biden is Transgendering Prisoners!We obtained internal @OfficialFBOP guidance on exactly how. Doc at bottom of ?Here are the instructions on dealing with bearded ladies and their facial hair https://t.co/uu7KVjVAvE pic.twitter.com/9dZcDOwn7S— Oversight Project (@OversightPR) November 20‚ 2023 Treasury Department Biden’s Treasury Department created an internal policy mandating use of the letter “X” as a gender marker‚ instead of the traditional “M” and “F.” Treasury’s gender policy is overseen by a special “bureau designee” whose job is “to ensure adherence to this policy in all official communications and written materials.” ?We Got Treasury Department's Woke Workplace GuideWhile the economy remains in the dumpster‚ the @USTreasury is focused on building a sophisticated bureaucracy to control speech.See the guide yourself ?First up‚ DONT YOU DARE CALL HER DEBBIE! pic.twitter.com/Jm6YbDVl6J— Oversight Project (@OversightPR) December 12‚ 2023 Interior Department The Interior Department’s lengthy personnel bulletin on the matter attempts a definition of “gender identity” that hinges on “an individual’s internal sense of being male‚ female‚ another gender‚ no gender‚ of multiple genders‚ or fluid in gender.” Even with this “fluid” definition‚ department employees who use the wrong name or pronoun are considered to be practicing unlawful discrimination. ? Franky the Park Ranger is now FrannyWe obtained the new Department of the @Interior bulletin on "Supporting Gender Transition in the Federal Workplace"Check out the document in the ? below pic.twitter.com/4uC068FjLe— Oversight Project (@OversightPR) December 19‚ 2023 Justice Department (Antitrust Division) According to a “Manager’s Diversity Tip Sheet” for the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department‚ managers should play an active role in mandating “gender identity inclusion.” Managers should screen interviewers’ reports for new hires and crack down on noncompliance with gender policies. Managers are encouraged to “carefully probe remarks suggesting the interviewee was uncomfortable” and “consider whether unconscious bias may have played a role.” Managers also should proactively correct employees of the Antitrust Division who “misgender” coworkers and facilitate introductions by sharing their own preferred pronouns. According to its Strategies for Gender Identity Inclusion in the Workplace‚ the division has plans in the works to further increase such diversity and inclusion. ? We obtained Merrick Garland's @TheJusticeDept @JusticeATR woke managers guide to "Supporting Diversity in the Antitrust Division" We highlight some of more outrageous policies‚ intended to screen out traditional Americans‚ that the weaponized DOJ is using in this ? pic.twitter.com/HhRzLgOU6X— Oversight Project (@OversightPR) November 9‚ 2023 What Biden Admin Is Doing These and other documents reveal a massive muscle movement by the federal government under the Biden administration‚ in which minute details are given intricate thought and put into enforceable rules governing employee behavior.  This movement includes creation of a class of transgender commissars throughout the alphabet soup of government agencies‚ complete with boards and multilayered organizational charts.  The end result of these efforts‚ and what I expect to be the actual sinister motive‚ is an act of ideological segregation by the federal government. The end is not to protect other people’s feelings‚ but to strictly enforce ideological compliance and ensure a bureaucratic workforce aligned with radical political aims. Incidentally‚ the same theory holds for the federal government’s vaccine mandate during the COVID-19 pandemic‚ which had the net effect of purging ideological dissenters. Leftists are acutely aware of the federal government’s power to set standards. Workplace rules and dictates are likely to bleed down to state and local governments and corporations‚ as well as the wide community of federal contractors.  This isn’t about just remaking the administrative state‚ it is about transgendering America. But at least we now know exactly what we need to rip out when sanity is returned to the White House. Have an opinion about this article? To sound off‚ please email letters@DailySignal.com‚ and we’ll consider publishing your edited remarks in our regular “We Hear You” feature. Remember to include the URL or headline of the article plus your name and town and/or state.  The post The Transgender Administrative State appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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A woke airline has come under fire for firing Christians after allegedly asking for “critical dialogue.”  Alaska Airlines‚ currently under scrutiny after one of its plane doors fell off mid-air‚ has been sued by two employees who say that the airline fired them for expressing their religious views. According to the federal lawsuit‚ the company invited the employees to engage in “open and critical dialogue” on the Equality Act but then fired them for criticizing the corporation’s pro-LGBTQIA+ political activism.   According to the terminated employees‚ flight attendants Marli Brown and Lacey Smith‚ the airline had a three-strike policy which it disregarded to terminate them for remarks the company itself had solicited. Both Brown and Smith insist that they had been exemplary employees without any prior strikes. Brown said that Alaska Airlines’ Carmen Williams‚ then-vice president of Inflight‚ overruled a human resources recommendation that the company not take any disciplinary action at all. According to the lawsuit‚ both employees had a strong performance record; Marli had “no documented performance concerns” and Lacey had only one relating to her opposition to the Marxist group Black Lives Matter. MRC Vice President Dan Schneider bluntly bashed Alaska Airlines: “When the company invited employees to have an open and critical dialogue‚ it was essentially promising these women that they would be protected for expressing their religious views. Then the company violated their rights because of their religious views. What Alaska Airlines has done is Un-American.”  Schneider added‚ “Both the company and the union claimed to stand against discrimination in all its forms‚ but they then immediately turned around and discriminated against these women‚ specifically because of their religious beliefs. It’s like the airline set a trap for Christians in order to push them out. ” Brown and Smith are suing Alaska Airlines under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and its Washington state counterpart‚ the Washington Law Against Discrimination (WLAD). Both statutes prohibit workplace discrimination on the basis of religion. Brown and Smith are also suing their union‚ the Association of Flight Attendants.  According to Brown and Smith‚ union representative Terry Taylor — who was supposed to defend their workers’ rights — instead asked her colleagues to “put Marli and Lacey in a burlap bag and drop them in a well.” Beyond the allegations of this lawsuit‚ Alaska Airlines also offers to refund travel costs up to $4‚000 for employees who wish to kill their unborn children. The woke airline also embraces Diversity‚ Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives and gender ideology. In fact‚ in a March 2023 DEI statement‚ the company strongly implied they were racially discriminating in hiring.  According to the radical leftist Human Rights Campaign‚ Alaska Airlines has a perfect Corporate Equity Index (CEI) score. Achieving this score requires allowing men to use women’s bathrooms‚ pushing “LGBTQ” propaganda on employees in training and “equal health coverage for transgender individuals without exclusion for medically necessary care.” Conservatives are under attack! Contact ABC News (818) 460-7477‚ CBS News (212) 975-3247 and NBC News (212) 664-6192 and demand they report on the dangers of leftist DEI ideology infecting corporate America

Eighteen states are taking a firm stand for free speech against Big Tech censorship. In the cases Big Tech front group NetChoice has against Florida and Texas‚ NetChoice has attempted to fight against the states’ anti-censorship laws. Eighteen state attorneys general‚ led by Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost (R) and Missouri AG Andrew Bailey (R)‚ and the Arizona state legislature have filed an amicus brief to support Florida and Texas. According to the brief‚ the states are compelled by the goal of protecting Americans’ rights and liberties according to our founding documents. If social media platforms “censor based on viewpoint‚” then “States can pass laws to prevent that censorship‚” the brief argued. Just as States can pass laws “to secure for their citizens” other constitutional rights‚ including the right to life and “the right to bear arms‚” just so states can protect their citizens from attacks on the right to free speech‚ the brief argued. The States who filed the brief maintain that it is vital for their governments to know what their citizens are saying and thinking. This does not entail spying but rather an attention to what citizens urge their government to do. The brief cited the judge’s argument for NetChoice v. Paxton (2022) that States have actually been passing laws to protect free speech from the technology companies carrying that speech for more than a century. From the age of telegraphs up to our present social media landscape‚ state governments have tried to protect free speech when it comes to common carriers. “That interest is especially weighty here in light of the unprecedented control these platforms have over speech central to political and public discourse‚” the brief added. A 2019 Facebook memo cited in the brief reportedly boasted that the Big Tech company could “pull any lever” to influence a presidential election‚ the brief noted. While NetChoice contends that the Texas and Florida laws would limit social media companies’ speech‚ and potentially associate the companies themselves with certain opinions‚ the states disagreed. Rather‚ the brief insisted that‚ like telephone companies‚ the social media companies are carriers of the public’s free speech‚ which must be protected. These companies deny liability for users’ speech‚ so they are not editors; neither is censorship a form of speech‚ and thus protected by the First Amendment. Ultimately‚ the brief emphasized‚ the Florida and Texas laws are meant to protect citizens’ constitutional rights. Besides Ohio and Missouri‚ the state attorneys general who signed the brief hailed from Alabama‚ Montana‚ Alaska‚ Nebraska‚ Arkansas‚ New Hampshire‚ Iowa‚ North Dakota‚ Kentucky‚ Oklahoma‚ Louisiana‚ South Carolina‚ Mississippi‚ Utah‚ South Dakota‚ and Tennessee. The counsels for the Arizona State Senate and House‚ and the speaker of the Arizona House‚ also signed the brief.  Conservatives are under attack. Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency and an equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored‚ contact us at the Media Research Center contact form‚ and help us hold Big Tech accountable.