Very grey fit for today’s work stream.
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Hello! You can call me Chris or Slowbrewd/Brewd! Community Manager @IronOakGames! Retired streamer now working on For The King II He/Him 🌈 🇨🇦 Vancouver!
![Wiki screenshot that reads: Joshua Norman Haldeman (November 25, 1902 – January 13, 1974) was an American-born Canadian-South African chiropractor, aviator, explorer, and politician.[2] He became involved in Canadian politics, backing the technocracy movement, before moving to South Africa in 1950. Over the course of decades, Haldeman repeatedly expressed racist, antisemitic, and antidemocratic views.[1] In South Africa he was a supporter of apartheid and promoted a number of conspiracy theories. A pilot since 1948, he died in a plane crash in 1974. Haldeman is the maternal grandfather of Elon Musk.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:viojwrnapl7ugd4rnolc32l7/bafkreidlqjngyqtuo2wkn7wdzhalsya34b2phf5geww2e2rswsylgzaje4)
![Wiki definition of No Quarter reads: No quarter, during military conflict or piracy, implies that combatants would not be taken prisoner, but executed. Since the Hague Convention of 1899, it is considered a war crime; it is also prohibited in customary international law and by the Rome Statute. Article 23 of the Hague Convention of 1907 states that "it is especially forbidden [...] to declare that no quarter will be given".[1]
Etymology
The term no quarter may originate from an order by the commander of a victorious army that they will not quarter (house) captured enemy combatants. Therefore, none can be taken prisoner and all enemy combatants must be killed.[2]
A second derivation, given equal prominence in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), is that quarter (n.17) can mean "Relations with, or conduct towards, another" as in Shakespeare's Othello, Act II, scene iii, line 180, "Friends all [...] In quarter, and in termes, like bride and groome". So "no quarter" may also mean refusal to enter into an agreement (relations) with an enemy attempting to surrender.
The OED mentions a third possible derivation but says "The assertion of De Brieux (Origines [...] de plusieurs façons de parler (1672) 16) that it arose in an agreement between the Dutch and Spanish, by which the ransom of an officer or private was to be a quarter of his pay, is at variance with the sense of the phrases to give or receive quarter."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:viojwrnapl7ugd4rnolc32l7/bafkreiaoh7nilua6qy7feoq5y2nfyeu2w55r334hlvy466pyo6yrcr3eia)
