> They are not recruited.

According to : https://legalbeagle.com/7801964-become-fbi-informant.html

"There are several ways to become an FBI informant. The most common way to become an FBI informant is to be approached by the FBI. If the FBI has identified you as a person who has a connection to a criminal enterprise, activity or target, the Bureau may approach you to provide it with information."

What specific distinction are you drawing between the FBI "approaching someone to be an informant" and the FBI "recruiting" an informant? Because most native English speakers would consider those synonymous. I understand what an informant is. Please clarify how you think a person goes from being a non-informant to being an informant, if you think nobody in the FBI is involved in picking people to be selected as informants?

Yes, I think that's what everybody understands an informant to be. The problem is that the FBI was clearly terrible at recruiting informants, and put way too much trust in them. The failure by the Dems to clean out corrupted institutions means that the Proud Boys have been able to basically use credulous FBI agents to launder Proud Boy ideas into the Federal Government.

This resulted in things like Chad Wolf genuinely trying to hunt imaginary phantom Antifa terrorists using DHS fusion centers during the 2020 social justice protests. The rank and file agents who were working in those fusion centers are still there. And the informants issue is representative of the broader issue of who was doing the informant recruiting, and what sort of information they were interested in, and what they did with that information.

The C++ bindings for the Vulkan API have such complex template stuff going on that my IDE slows down so much when working on Vulkan code that it does sometimes feel like Cyberwar.

But, you can use Vulkan for rendering some very cool looking 3D video game explosions. Which is sort of a completely different kind of "Cyber War."

For anybody who doesn't know the story, Mae was the second actress to play Egg. The plan was to just swap the actress with every appearance as a joke so the audience would never be able to recognize her because the character was so forgettable. But Mae Whitman wound up getting the role permanently. She was apparently never entirely sure if she should be flattered that they decided to keep her on. Or deeply offended that she was so forgettable.

But the original actress, Alessandra Torresani, has been forgotten for being the forgettable character because Mae was so memorable. So there's a weird philosophical debate about who was actually the more forgettable.

The Dungeons and Dragons movie.

In that case, the reading is that a wartime casualty can only happen in a "serious war," and someone killed in a minor border conflict wouldn't count as a casualty. Is that a reasonable reading of the definition?

In the phrase "serious accident" the adjective serious modifies the noun accident.

Are you saying somebody accidentally sent a letter bomb?