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Also, we’re deporting people now for bouncing a check? We might as well just empty Mississippi out into the Gulf of Mexico now.

Yeah, I thought these people shunned the mainstream media so much that they only got the rEal fUlL tRuThY TROOTH from Dear Leader on Truth Social and Fox News.

It’s called TRUTH Social. It means he can’t lie! Right?

Typical Newsweek, I’ve seen several people who have worked in Nepal say that corruption was spiraling out of control and people have been livid about it for months. The protests were already ramping up, which is why social media platforms were cut off, so videos about the corruption and investigations and means to plan protests were cut off. The “they didn’t register in time” excuse is for the government to save face internationally.

Well, education in terms of exposure. “Practical education” to understand the threats and consequences. Just saying “ya gonna die” is too abstract.

You can go to northern Nigeria right now and see people, especially kids, with shriveled legs who got polio because 20 years ago when a conspiracy theory pushed that George W Bush hated Muslims and poisoned the polio vaccinations. Families hid their children when vaccination teams came around. Turns out the polio was the poison all along!

And this is what these people want BACK. Because no one showed them these pictures and said “you will curse your children to be treated like creatures if they even survive.”

Well, the overhaul in 1947 was huge, so it made sense to wrap it all up into something that also, in a post-WWII country, didn’t make it sound like “OK, we have this amazing military apparatus and now we’ve consolidated power, and let’s see where else to point it at…” I get it.

Personally, I think the “Department of International Violence” sounds more appropriate.

That figure is assumed from people who connect a start TV to the internet. Once the TV is online, it’s collecting data non-stop, even when it’s “off” and regardless of what services used. Samsung doesn’t offer streaming services, so their value is derived easily from tracking what you’re watching even when it’s not streaming services, like live TV, cable, etc. to sell it themselves, regardless of what other apps are installed. Since they’re all typically Android-based apps, the typical other permissions apply, like Amazon Prime being able to see what you have installed as well. But as the TV maker can take screenshots or see info about what you watch over an HDMI port, that’s of huge value to them over years of time.

I hope he found Crossfit, at least then it’s expected.

When “Fuck” has all the cultural heft of “darn” then the edgelords have no choice but to turn to whatever forbidden words are left.

So, yes and no - It was the “Department of War” for most of the country’s existence. Truman changed it in 1947 when doing a massive overhaul of the military and intel parts of the government. Also, just calling “Department of Defense” hasn’t prevented us from getting into a whole mess of wars since then.

I do agree that it’s a sign of the times in terms of “everything old is new again” and undoing the 20th century, which is the T47/project 2025 stated goal. Sure as shit, we’re making incredible progress towards returning to 1860.

Oh no, this picture is from 1998, those Macs were new. That woman was rocking the Agent Scully look for a reason.

lol, as if he’ll leave on someone else’s schedule. The constitution to him is “really, more like guidelines.”

This is kind of useless fear-mongering suited to no one’s threat model.

Are messages truly E2EE and they don’t share meta data? Yes? Then you’re fine. It needs a phone number for registration? OK, well buy a burner SIM card (you of course have several, right?) to register it if you’re that worried. Because if you’re already at a level where you’re THAT concerned about your phone number pinging for using a widely popular messaging app, then you have lost the game by even having a phone or sending messages to other humans who are the weakest link in the security chain anyway.

Considering that the Feds tried to make some government-compliant front end for Signal for idiot Hegseth to use to talk about national security stuff with the Vice President, I’d say that it’s probably fine for you to buy weed or whatever.

This is 100% how I operate, it’s total bias confirmation. If it’s not a product I use, it’s got to be trash. If it’s someone I like and something I already like then I’m glad stars have aligned to support the person I like. Which is rarely the case.

And if it’s unskippable ads, or the same ad more than once in an hour, that product or service is dead to me for life.

What phenomenal bullshit - There’s no way they’ve collected that much, or even will by the end of the year. That’s 20% of the Federal budget, or 3% of GDP, collected in the last 5 months of the year after whiplash, back and forth “we’re doing it today, no, now we’re waiting 2 weeks”?

They’re setting this all up for the largest theft ever committed on Earth.

Now THIS is the dystopia I signed up for!

Came here to say “Wait, aren’t we on like Dance Dance Revolution 20?” DDR4 had some bangers, but shouldn’t affect the solar industry.

Agreed. Why should I have the “least (presumed) competence” when I’m using one of the 2 things on here that works every single day?

I know, the point is that you’re broadcasting over the radio that you’re encrypting the data over the one medium were it’s illegal to encrypt the data because the FCC thinks it’s still 1989 or whatever when it comes to amateur radio. So it’s not just that you’re doing something illegal, you’re using a registered call sign and a really loud, easily triangulatable signal to do it. It’s like putting a movie poster-sized sign on your fence that says “Rattlesnake venom for sale, inquire within.” It’s not a sustainable practice.

Ultimately, the amateur radio crowd needs to get this law 47 CFR 97.113 changed to allow an exception for encrypted internet over radio and allow for modern communications standards. Personally, I expect that it would only take one House Rep willing to score any sort of win with rural voters for this to work right now.

You’ll have yellow shins and calves on every pair of pants you own.