dialup_sounds

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Comment · 10 months ago
NSA is under Pete Hegseth's Department of War [sic] if that is any indication of their position and priorities.
Comment · 11 months ago
How many historical examples of civilians being misidentified as combatants does it take before we question whether these strikes have all been drug boats?
Comment · 11 months ago
Weird take. Android is still ~80% of the market.
Comment · 11 months ago
A statement so vague and ominous it could have been uttered at any point in human history by persons of any ideology without loss of meaning.
Comment · 11 months ago
Lightning is just the snowcap on a mountain of Mini- and Micro-USB.
Comment · 11 months ago
Having seen Musk fandom, every unhinged Grok claim has a good chance of having actually been written by a human somewhere in its training data.
Comment · 11 months ago
The point is that a vaguely defined throwaway line on Reddit's blog is not great evidence for either.
Comment · 11 months ago
There's a Popeye's at Eglin, maybe all that traffic was a chicken sandwich influence campaign?
Comment · 11 months ago
The boring but more likely explanation is that "most addicted" is just a weird statistic that produced weird results.

Eglin has something like 50,000 people but it's actual population as a census designated area is more like 5000.

Oak Brook, IL was also "most addicted" but people didn't run with the idea that McDonalds HQ was running psyops.

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
I don't know what you mean by "good guys got the bad guys in the end": the subject of the indictment is currently the President of the United States and the charges were dropped as a result.
Comment · 1 year ago
I don't know who that is or what that means. I'm referring to the actual indictment filed after the investigation that those phone records were subpoenaed during. It's unclear if you're trying to say that phone records should not be subject to court order or just those of politicians.
Comment · 1 year ago
FYI, that investigation also resulted in an indictment—conspiracy to defraud the United States; conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding; obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding; and conspiracy against rights.
Comment · 1 year ago
Not to pull the Godwin lever, but the German SS went from being security guards to overseeing the entire national police force to running gas chambers in about 10-15 years. The function of an organization can change over time. The purpose of a system is what it does.

When a domestic law enforcement agency is spending 600% more year-over-year on weapons to point at people in frog costumes it's reasonable to wonder if that may reflect a de facto change in that organization.

Comment · 1 year ago
Maps looks like a swing at "library of real world immersive 3d content" that landed on "guy air-tapping his way through a slideshow of bridge pictures".

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