WesternInfidels

Every day, small clots of soldiers in camouflage and body armor patrol tourist-heavy areas of the U.S. ‌capital, including national monuments, subway stations and the area around its professional baseball park.

They’re patrolling the safest parts of town.

The roughly 4,500 soldiers currently deployed to Washington outnumber its 3,200 police officers, opens new tab.

“Opens new tab?”

Bear in mind that we only hear about the most egregious and / or dumbest cases like these. Like with all crimes.

So the US will behave like a vindictive ex who has turned to stalking and harassment.

Okay, I admit it, I am tired of winning.

Are we Great Again yet?

I think it just means that the raw view count was never very important to YouTube. That’s why they will have “engaged views” and “qualified watch hours” etc.

(Shakes fist:) Goddamm cloud! Git off my lawn!

Public datasets, American property, paid for by American citizens. Deleting such things is a kind of vandalism, a property crime.

I think Apple wants customers to be so completely accustomed to their Apple gadgets that customers feel distressed, panicked, almost naked and helpless without them. Like a myopic person without their glasses.

That’s not my attitude at all.

The basic “they really are spying on you” issue at the heart of the Flock scandal has bubbled up before, abuses have come to light before, there was alarm and pushback before, and then nothing in particular changed before, and the surveillance came to be accepted as the status quo before.

I don’t want this go the same way. How can we connect this version to a bigger picture of freedom and liberty, instead of letting the news story run its course, letting it fade away, as has happened every other time?

This was my attitude when I was younger. But as my financial arrangements have gotten more complicated, more intertwined with those of other people, as I’ve accumulated weird experiences straightening out banking problems, I can see that while there is wisdom in the rule, its never going to be enough. I’m human, I don’t remember everything I need to remember.

The scammers don’t send out “link to confirm your bank details” because zillions of people are stupid, they do it because everyone is a little stupid sometimes.

Maybe the way to fight GMail’s outsized power is to stop using GMail. You can do that without going all the way to self-hosting.

The company has partnered with 6,000 law enforcement agencies and 1,000 private customers, leading to terrifying false arrests and even crooked cops stalking innocent women.

How can we make people see that these problems were happening before anyone had heard of Flock? Flock is just amplifying the worst things about American policing.

Flock isn’t even the first system of surveillance cameras and ALPR cameras, they’re just the first with national-scale panopticon ambitions.

Would a remark like this one count as positive or negative?

…the records reveal the breadth of alleged database abuse by CBP employees…

AKA “criminals.” Committers of crimes.

Join me in some wild speculation about this aircraft carrier which is already behind schedule:

The ship, named for Messman Second Class Doris Miller, is the first aircraft carrier named for both an enlisted sailor and an African American.[9] The ship will be the second to honor Miller, who received the Navy Cross for his actions during the attack on Pearl Harbor; the first ship was USS Miller (FF-1091).[10] It is currently the only Gerald R. Ford-class carrier to be named after a person who was not a former president.

The president’s changes will slow things down. Now why would he want to slow that aircraft carrier down?

“The future Trump-class battleship – the USS Defiant – will be the largest, deadliest and most versatile and best-looking warship anywhere on the world’s oceans,” Phelan said…

“The U.S. Navy will lead the design, along with me, because I’m a very aesthetic person,” Trump said.

– Trump Unveils New Battleship Class

In my rich fantasy life, this announcement is just a ruse, to get Facebook to drop its guard.

Real life is never as good as my rich fantasy life though.

Aw heck I thought that spec said “insecurity coprocessor.” My bad.

Flat Earther: Sheesh, looks like somebody’s never heard of the Great Jurassic Shake-Up

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