Chet Manley

[InAllKindsOfWeather.com @AllKindsWeather]

Will Grier has retired from football.

A legacy that will live on forever.

[S2 Underground @s2_underground]

First of all no, we're not doing this. I do not answer DMs from a company that is trying to do damage control AFTER they have ruined the trust of Americans. I do not have "good faith" debates with people who want to enslave me in a fishbowl that they can monitor at all times.

Guess what guys: We don't actually have to give anyone the benefit of the doubt, or engage in "good faith" debates with bad actors. I don't have to justify my concerns about Flock to anyone. But since this condescension pissed me off, I will respond publicly, since Flock seems to want to keep our voices in the shadows and out of the public eye.

Note the argument:

"You see, King George specifically authorized quartering troops among you, I don't know what you're complaining about it's ALL LEGAL".

Well, golly gee guys, I guess it's all right then, they made it legal.

That's exactly the problem. Notice how nobody has a problem with standard security cameras. Public security cameras are not the problem...directly pumping the feed of every square inch of the country into a centralized federal database is one HELL of a problem and we must do everything within our rights as Americans to push back against efforts like this, if we are to have a future as a nation.

Flock, much like Palantir, took the decently good idea of improving security, and implemented it in the most cartoonishly evil way possible at nearly every single step. They are working directly for all levels of government....not the citizenry. They use subterfuge, legal technicalities, and every single trick in the book to put up hundreds of cameras every single day. They constantly mislead the public about what databases their sensors feed into, and who they sell the metadata to.

They have so little oversight that it's laughable, and ALL oversight involves the classic case of "we investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing". Flock has been caught lying MANY times, and misleading the public regarding what their cameras actually do. Newsflash...they don't just read license plates.

They are also concealing which agencies purchase their data specifically so as to avoid getting warrants, and in doing so they have turned the ENTIRE COUNTRY into an open air prison....where THEY get to provide the intelligence data to those who enforce the laws as selectively as they please.

And their defense for doing so? "Aww look at the cute puppy we rescued" or "We arrested one guy using our camera network, we're so AWESOME".

You don't get to arrest one genuine criminal, and use that as justification to set up and entire Minority Report-esque surveillance system to surveil the entire country. You don't get to betray trust, and then be sad that people don't trust you. You don't get to cozy up to the boot of tyranny so much that you become the boot yourself, and then pretend to be just "one of the guys".

We will not fall for this gaslighting, no matter how hard they try.

For some reason, many people think that private companies can't be tyrants, which could not be further from the truth. At a certain point, a private company can be so heavily embedded within government, that they might as well BE the government. Except they are worse, because we don't even have the tiniest way to hold them accountable except for taking the billion-dollar company to court.

That's my problem with Flock, Palantir, and pretty much every single other defense contractor in existence. I will NOT accept every single facet of my life being monitored, just in case a criminal commits a crime somewhere near me. I will NOT live in "ze pod", no matter which politician is in power, and I will not accept a future where people like this will dictate to me what my country should be.

[✨skamp✨ @Sorenova]

this is what Bethesda games will look like in 2050

[James Reeves @jjreeves]

This 7/2 letter from @HecklerAndKoch reads like a marketing psyop. With language like "highly sought after" and "order books are closed," this to me sounded less like an explanation and more like gloating salesmanship. So I reached out to HK and they told me the following - officially:
1. The SP5 and MR556 are still in production and shipping (they say daily);
2. All existing orders are being honored;
3. The point was they just can't take new orders until they catch up.
As someone who used to import HK parts into the US on a commercial scale, I can almost guarantee that this is an import parts bottleneck issue. Figured y'all would want the scoop.

[Cal 🏆 @SpIinterCaI]

Heartbreaking that this would be a genuinely top tier Resynced outfit if you could take the hat off.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

To fund an overextended empire, Roman emperors debased their coins by diluting the precious metal content.

This week, Congress will vote to eliminate the PENNY, which was already mostly zinc since 1982. The same bill will allow the U.S. Mint to make NICKELS with cheaper metal.

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

A short recap of what we did over the last two weeks. Our route was Boston to Savannah, GA, down the coast and then back up to Clemson:

- Swam in a lot of lakes in Pennsylvania because of the heatwave
- Watched a pie eating contest in Virginia
- Celebrated 4th of July in Washington DC
- Relaxed at the beaches in Delaware
- Saw wild horses in Chincoteague, VA
- Went to the Outer Banks in North Carolina
- Had a baby bear block our road in North Carolina
- Tried many new fast food chains like Bojangles and Sonic
- Ate a lot (probably too much) at Taco Bell
- Played minigolf in Myrtle Beach
- Visited beautiful cities like Charleston and Savannah
- Saw an alligator and a lot more cool wildlife

[tired of it @therimjobreaper]

I have not tapped into a modern assassin’s creed game until now and oh my god these are the worst controls I’ve ever seen in my life

[NFL Memes @NFLMemes]

Conor McGregor’s UFC comeback

[The Beach From Florida @BeachFrmFL]

#FloridaMan in training. 🦎🦎🦎

[The Burnt Peanut Clipped @peanutburnt]

It has been over 16 hours and the burnt peanut is still playing assassins creed black flag resynced and signing songs 🤣🤣

[Pugmane🐾 🐛 🥫 @pugmane]

Paul Atreides: Is genocide bad?

Chani: Yes

Hyat: Yes

Princess Irulan: Yes

Stilgar:

[Carter Donnick @CDonnick1]

If you watch Doomsday in a theater before Dune Part 3 and you’re above the age of 14 I will think less of you as a human being

[Matt The Welder @Matt_The_Welder]

A rural Florida resident living behind a pasture says this about what’s coming next:

“The biggest heartbreak of my life will be watching all this land behind me turn into houses. I think the most depressing part of it all is the commissioner of agriculture in the state of Florida owns that land, but unbeknownst to us. He also owns part of a real estate development company”

She says the land is tied to @WiltonSimpson and is headed toward housing development.

Rural Florida is watching every pasture line disappear.

[Military Arms @MAC_Arms]

I'm hearing that Marc Krebs passed away this weekend. If you don't know who Marc was, he was one of the OG's in the US AK modification world. He did some really cool stuff and I'm proud to own some of his rifles. He will be missed. God speed, Marc.

[Chet Manley @ChetManIey]

@Mrgunsngear I miss you including the dogs in your videos

[Crazy Clips @crazyclips_]

Dude pulled off a far better recruitment ad than anything the Army has produced in years