No pledge. And “God bless America” should be dropped in favor of “Yippie-Ki-Yay, motherfucker”.

I don’t really like America’s Test Kitchen, but I believe anything Lan Lam says.

This would be a lot funnier if SA wasn’t so common among the militaries of the world.

Some malicious USB drives have a capacitor that will discharge and fry your whole system. Unless you have an air-gap system that you don’t care about, unknown USB drives should be disposed of.

Oh, and all this and more can be accomplished with a sneaky charging cable too. So you have to dial in your level of paranoia to suit your situation. The person most likely to tamper with your computer is a spouse. Search and chat histories as well as GPS devices are becoming common in divorce cases.

This is theater. Kaliningrad has a land border with Lithuania, but not with Russia. Invading from there would require a buildup that would be obvious and create logistics that would be insane. If Russia moves tanks to Kaliningrad, it’ll be through Lithuania.

A friend once told me that the South could never have won due to the industrial superiority of the North. I said that sounds like wisdom in English, but it’s a joke in Vietnamese.

I can’t help but notice you didn’t say anything about how your potential new partner might feel about this. Perhaps you didn’t think it was relevant, but that’s a huge blind spot if you haven’t considered it.

Calling the war for independence a revolution is an insult to that word. Revolution happened in Hatti, France, and Russia. What happened in America was just an “under new management”, one George for another.

Is this the one where he defends pedophilia or where he bullies trans athletes? Maybe he’s opining on how people with Down Syndrome have lives that aren’t worth living, or that sexually harassed women should stop whining? Perhaps it’s his opinions on how drunk women earn their rape.

There is nothing more tech-bro libertarian than taking free public data, wrapping it in a slick package, and selling it.

I used to think that TV weather people were obsolete, but now I’m nostalgic for the public service that survived in the old capitalistic ad based broadcast TV era.

So this guy is charged with making a donation to an ISIS front, and buying rifles (from the FBI).

I think the reason they do this is because to convict someone of a conspiracy, the State has to show you completed an “overt act” in furtherance to your plan, so you can’t just convict a person of terrorism because they like to talk out of their ass.

It’s concerning how common it is that the FBI is directly involved in facilitating that overt act by being the arms dealer, hit-man, or bomb-maker themselves. If you examine many of these cases you’ll find that the most competent and dangerous person in the conspiracy was just play-acting for the Feds. And I’m not just talking entrapment, but also the opportunity costs of focusing on the low hanging fruit. And this goes for the militia people as well as the Jihadis.

Careful with those Irish peacekeepers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Jadotville

I for one, have been worshiping the old gods all along.

Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn

Logic and epistemology give us the tools to create proofs and algorithms, and it’s basically the foundation of modern mathematics.

Not that I disagree, but logic and mathematics have a rocky relationship. We thought we could marry them forever with set theory, but when they asked if anyone objected, Bertrand Russel stood up.

97 pounds of fentanyl

I think the feds can charge you with an upgraded felony if the amount of drugs can be expressed in imperial units.

I think this helps explain the ridiculous phenomena of video-game-activism that’s so vocal and present on the internet.

The Germans were notorious for using on-the-nose naming conventions. For example a radio-homing system was called “Odin”, which the British correctly guessed was using one transmitter rather than the usual two because Odin only had one eye.

This was two years ago:

There was reporting in the Washington Post that contradicts this.

Senior Israeli officials said they voiced support for the cease-fire proposal, but Nasrallah withheld his consent, insisting on a cease-fire for Gaza first, U.S. and Middle Eastern officials said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/10/05/israel-mossad-hezbollah-pagers-nasrallah/