Stupid manufacturers. Would be a non-issue if you could just slide open the battery door, pop it out, and recycle it, like we could over the last 2 centuries. (The D battery was introduced in the 19th century).

Eventually. The budget approval and equipment ramp-up will have a lag of months at minimum. Now is the time to rent all the white vans and hide them in an abandoned factory so they have nothing to drive but George’s mom’s Chevy Nova.

Their business management policy going forward will be to milk existing support contracts until they wane, and then piecemeal/gut the company. The brand will end up somewhere else like how Motorola was scattered to the seven winds. (Cablemodem line became Arris, which is now owned by CommScope, cell phone line now owned by Lenovo, enterprise/mobile compute now owned by Zebra, chargers/headsets now licensed by Binatone/Zoom, radios now owned by a spinoff called Motorola Solutions, etc.)

Intel already sold their modem line to Apple, which is probably why it took Apple so long to make their own modem, they were starting from a place of garbage. They also sold their NUC line to Asus, which, given the lack of quality in the NUC13 series, probably good as they obviously stopped caring.

The martyr window would have been more during the campaign leading up to the election. That window is closed now.

So Democratic leaders are not exactly lining up around the block to pull that move.

I believe, you misspelled coward.

And about every other US military base in the US, and probably the world.

As if a man who bankrupted a casino

Oh, not just a casino, multiple!

Dug up from a previous post and updated:

Mango Mussolini’s failed businesses:

• At least four failed building ventures
• Had a failed “university”
• Failed vodka business (how hard is that, right?)
• Failed steak business
• Failed airline
• Failed board game
• Failed casinos in Atlantic City (how do you fail at running multiple businesses that only exist to hoover up money?)
• Failed magazine
• Failed luxury travel organization
• Failed mortgage company
• Failed presidency that took Pres. Biden’s administration most of their entire term to fix. We’re talking documents that are gone, departments that are deleted, abject chaos that had to be rebuilt from scratch in some cases.
• And soon, a failed wireless “carrier” on T-Mobile with an “American-made” phone made in “Chyyna”.

Successes:

• Had mommy’s money to get him going
• Had 5 successful buildings built, mostly in the 1980s
  • At least three of them had fraudulent financial statements, inflated valuations, and inflated tax losses

“Rocket Money: give us access to all your financial information, and we might help you cancel stuff!”

Bluetooth and WiFi can be tracked as well, even with “anonymized” WiFi MAC addresses.

The backscatter x-ray body scanners are the only scanners to be concerned with, that and improperly shielded luggage x-ray scanners you stand next to, which run at a much higher power level. The newer luggage scanners that do a CT scan are still using x-ray, it just spins around the luggage.

mmWave scanners use non-ionizing radio waves, in the same spectrum area as mmWave 5G, in fact, but at a much lower power level. Radio waves have over a century of evidence and science showing that non-ionizing radiation can’t mutate cells, which is necessary to cause cancer.

Ionizing radiation like x-rays, can. Likewise, flying in an airplane at an altitude above the protection of our atmosphere, and being exposed to the sun, also exposes one to ionizing radiation at much higher power levels. That being said, why would anyone trust humans in a mediocre security organization to properly maintain their machines? Especially now with the current admin gutting everything to the bone.

STIR/SHAKEN should have resolved this. Unfortunately, telecom carriers didn’t do the last step of banning any telco (mostly VoIP providers) prone to allowing scammer accounts in. They’d also have to filter US numbers calling in from other countries to validate and ensure they are real.

All of this being work, and telecoms, especially those in the US, hate doing work.

If nothing else, they should consider that they are just wasting their money, money spent on the mod, and money spent on wasting fuel / engine / exhaust damage. Money they could use to buy more beer.

I appreciate that, it is a thin line to ride, social comments can be whatever they want, do you want a free dopamine hit? Or hope to share information even when you end up being wrong in the process? It can even be affected by current moods.

For whatever it is worth, I just try to hopefully post enough helpful stuff to overall average being useful versus accidentally spreading disinformation. Although everyone trying to be their own truth filter alone is very exhausting. Especially without inducing bias. Not looking for credit in this either, just, I hope we could all aspire to be better-er, even if only a tiny bit.

Also, just human, so not all posts are gold, or bronze, hahahaha…

Stay safe!

I’m going to neg on my own comment, I don’t trust Snopes anymore, but many news services also discredited what I mentioned. So at this point, because we know their reality is mutable and transient, who knows if it really happened or not. I’d still bank on yes, but I have no actual evidence to back it up.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-roger-stone-guns-memo/

The national weather service is defunded and not even sending out weather balloons anymore, and is losing access to a military satellite used for hurricane detection. (Facts.)

So, there aren’t hurricanes anymore, just freak random storms that come out of nowhere for some reason. We did it everybody! /s

The real problem will likely end up being that civilians can’t own the firepower the US military/police have, legally. No full auto, no giant drums, no grenades, no missiles, no fighter jets. Even if it were a “well-regulated militia” one fighter/bomber could take them all out, and be marketed on some made up news articles as, “we stopped the terrorists, you’re safe now.”

If it really came down to it, such a battle would be very one-sided, so it would have to be more strategic guerilla tactics.

Oh, and the SS just got a huge budget increase, so that won’t help. (As seen above.)

There were already talks in the p2025 circles about ceasing civilian firearms in some fashion and then allowing “permits” at some future time for “loyal” gun owners. Wouldn’t be surprised if they’ll still try it.

Today would have been a good day to start it. People would mostly be off to get their affairs in order.

Or perhaps the best vehicle to ship in “soccer teams” that are a first wave strike force of freedom. D-Day just got cleats.

Am in the shithole, let me know if you need people to defend you against it.