My drill sergeant once said that every soldier in media who isn’t a real soldier will have a fucked up uniform somewhere due to it being illegal to impersonate a military member. The fubar’d uniform is to protect them from stolen valor allegations as there is nothing illegal about wearing a uniform top or pants as long as you’re not trying to pass yourself off as an actual soldier or vet. Putting flags on wrong, missing insignia, stuff like that is intentional in a lot of cases where its actors portraying them instead of actual soldiers. Whether that’s actually true or not, I have no idea, I wasn’t in a habit of questioning drill sergeant at the time.

like they actually spend time scamming people… they have people for that.

Don’t worry (sarcasm), he was replaced with a die hard trumper… I literally know his replacement, James Taylor, he lives down the street from me. I have literally had his wife tell me directly that covid was a hoax and she knows it because James was put on a ventilator and survived his covid just fine. Dude literally almost died and was put in a medical coma while on a ventilator, and that wasn’t enough for either of them to take Covid seriously… Suffice it to say, I try to avoid talking to them when I see them…

It seems like Nvidia and Linus are getting along these days since datacenter Ai workloads need Linux. Amd is still king for Linux gaming though

Me too

I can see them try to place it “under the protection” but the states need to have a chain of custody for every vote, and whoever signed that custody chain is responsible for it. I dealt with this in the Army as an MP. And it would require the state to be complicit as well and I don’t think most states want to just hand over all their authority to the federal government and turn themselves into puppets. But we will see…

even if he starts a war, he can’t avoid the midterms. The president has no authority over elections, the states have that authority, overseen by congress. And if states don’t elect new congressmen and congresswomen and senators, then when the currently elected people have their terms end, then the states will not be able to just keep them in position, when their term ends they are out per the constitution, and won’t have a representative until a special election is performed.

Also… I distinctly remember something from my history classes about how Americans react to being taxed without representation… Or at least they did in Boston in the 1773.

It’s delicious though

I have blink outdoor cameras, not the best out there, but very usable video, indoor work the same, you can put a USB flash drive in the sync module and use it on the local network, i use my 2.4 band for that and my home automation. Recorded clips stay on my flash drive locally, and I just say no to the subscription if it asks. All cameras connect to the same sync module. Have no complaints.

I worked at Fort Lewis in the RCF (Regional Correctional Facility, aka prison) and we had an Army soldier who got 3 years for 1st degree murder because he mercy killed a combatant after they got covered in white phosphorous. Literally everyone was like “how the fuck do you only get 3 years for first degree murder?” and then when they read his court documents were like “what the fuck, you got screwed and obviously everyone knew it…” They legally determined that at the moment they were no longer fighting back they became non-combatants and to kill a non-combatant instead of rendering aid is murder. Since the judge and jury agreed that it did violate the law, but hoped that if they were ever in that combatant’s shoes, they would want someone to do to them what this soldier did, so yeah, guilty, but sentenced to the bare minimum allowed.

I know for 100% fact there is precedent already. But that is rules for thee, not for them, so I highly doubt we’ll see anything happen. I’m sure they’ll claim they need immunity because they were operating under special rules of engagement or some bullshit, and it will take years and lots of lawyers and in the end it’ll drag on until its forgotten about and gets quietly dismissed somewhere.

they don’t need the welfare to get by, but supply/demand and economies of scale, if their sales volume drops, their prices certainly won’t be rolling back to make up for it. They will be laying off more workers, automating more positions, and raising prices. They didn’t make the system, but they definitely positioned themselves to take advantage of it.

Considering that the states that Trump won in 2024 cover a majority of the SNAP participants, its quite likely that quite a few people on SNAP literally voted for this. And next month there won’t be any backup funds for SNAP. Its going to be a very interesting, and hopefully eye-opening, Holiday experience for a lot of people… I know it will hurt a lot of my neighbors and relatives who voted for it a lot more than it will me.

I used to flatten coins that way all the time as a kid. Did it on dates, worked really well. First time I heard that was on a date and I laughed a bit too hard I guess, didn’t work that time.

I used to work for the company upstairs in the same building as the inspiration for this diorama. There was a video where he went out and let a lady in after hours and I was like holy fuck I know those stairs… and that door… for about 6 months I walked past that door and never saw the guy, the blinds always closed. But eventually I found out they discovered a tenant filming porn in the building and they kicked him out. And I was like I fucking new it!

It sounds like you are defending taking an in person job with the intent to deceive your employer by working at home. Because I still fail to see a circumstance where it would be a problem unless the employee is trying to be deceitful to work from someplace unauthorized.

That sounds like an issue with the the arrangement between the employee and employer to me.

Taco Bell did win the restaurant wars…

I don’t actually have a problem with this. If people are stupid enough to admit to a crime or engage in criminal activity on a platform that they don’t control, that’s on them. I put this as the next step of evolution from people who would commit a crime on youtube for views then get shocked pikachu’d when the police arrest them for it. They have no one to blame but themselves, they brought a 3rd party AI company into it and they did not consent to be an accomplice and if there is any company out there with the resources to have AI scan conversations to flags to send to the police with good accuracy, openAi would definitely be at the front of it.

Don’t forget staff payroll has to come or if that too

Yeah, no doubt different facilities run things differently. Depends on where you are, who governs it and it’s security level. Low security gets more privileges than medium, high, or maximum security. Though for us medium security and lower could have small games, dice, dominoes, etc during rec hours.