EpochMull

It’s time for an opinion. Moderating force. Won’t promote crap just things I find pertinent or cool. think of me as a filter to the insane “stuff”

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

The UK Ministry of Defense has discovered that the Royal Navy’s new fleet of spy drones, being operated by elements of the Royal Marines since March, have been secretly transmitting information from the drone’s primary camera to China, according to an investigation from The Telegraph.

Components of the camera on the K3 Scout, a 27-foot-long multirole uncrewed surface vessel (drone boat) built by Kraken Technology in the United Kingdom, were produced in and secretly transmitting data to a device in China. An investigation into the drones revealed that the cameras were transmitting “heartbeat communications” – data to confirm they were online and functioning normally – to an IP address in China.

[EpochMull @EMullenax]

@PatriciaHeaton Easy power play.

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

You’d assume this was in some middle eastern country and you’d be wrong.

[Anna Paulina Luna @realannapaulina]

Found out Democrat leadership has instructed their members NOT to sign onto our bill that would cap student loan interest at 2%… because it would make “Republicans” look good ahead of the midterms. So much for caring about people and education.

[Commentary Rachel ❤️ @RachelMcXe]

The new local government of modern London

The replacement is almost complete

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING — MAJOR LEAKER CAUGHT: SecWar Pete Hegseth has revoked former Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall access to classified intel after he LEAKED "classified information" surrounding Air Force One's capabilities to the Fake News

FAFO! 🔥

Now PROSECUTE him for betraying America.

DOW: "Safeguarding classified information is a non-negotiable duty. Those who violate that trust forfeit the privilege of access and any role requiring it."

Every leaker must be caught and rooted out 👏🏻

[David Parker @david_parker]

Elon Musk is single handedly saving America from decline. He revived their entire space industry, now he will reshore chip manufacturing. Man is a complete legend, and we are lucky to live in the same time as him.

[Alex Hollings @AlexHollings52]

Doing a deep dive into the Virginia class, and the more I read about stuffing a 30 megawatt nuclear reactor into a metal tube packed with 140 people that’s underwater for 90 days at a time, the more annoyed I get at the nuclear power naysayers here on land.

[EpochMull @EMullenax]

@ThomasSowell This is BS. 8 years ago lunch out wasn’t a luxury.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The face of a 193 year old tortoise, the oldest known living land animal.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

To those who say "it's her choice" I used to say the same thing about my own Hijab.

I was covered head to toe. Even on the beach. Even with my male relatives. And when people challenged me, I said: this is my choice. You know why? Because the other option was burning in hell, hung by my hair for eternity. That's what they taught me since childhood.

Yes, let me repeat it for you to just understand about our version of “freedom of choice.” I grew up in an Islamist culture that gave me two options. Cover yourself and go to heaven. Or don't cover, and be hanged by your hair and burned in hell.

Like when someone puts a gun to your head and says "you can go left or right", technically, yes, that's a choice.

I picked heaven. I called it freedom. And I believed it, because that's what happens when fear is all you've ever known.

And if you think I shouldn't be telling you my story, I don't care. I really, genuinely, from the bottom of my heart, don't care. The women still living under that "choice"? I care about them.
#LetUsTalk

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

You can request anything but 'Jesus is king' on a @CocaCola can on their site.

Inc "allah is king" and "Satan is king".

But Jesus is banned.

Care to explain Coca-Cola???

[EpochMull @EMullenax]

@sentdefender Hey, if it slows growth of oil prices to our end game, OK.

[Alec Lace @AlecLace]

Angel Reese says she didn’t have dolls that “looked like me” as a kid.

She was born in 2002.

Barbie has had black dolls since 1967.
Make it make sense.

[0️⃣BlackBetty ⚓️ @BabyD1111229]

Ok, here’s my corporate greed call-out of the day.

I was dispatched today for a no-cool call. The indoor unit was running, but the outdoor unit wasn’t.

The system was a 10-year-old Bryant Evolution high-end variable-capacity inverter system. After running the factory diagnostics, I found Code 77, indicating the inverter board was detecting excessive compressor startup current.

Following the manufacturer’s diagnostic procedure, I disconnected the compressor leads to determine whether the fault was in the compressor or the inverter board. The results confirmed the inverter board had failed. The system is only 8 months out of warranty.

At that point, I started preparing myself to tell the customer the repair would probably be around $1,500–$1,900. I figured the board would cost somewhere in the $800–$1,000 range. After all, it’s just a printed circuit board.

Before giving the estimate, I called Carrier Enterprise for pricing.

$8,900.

Not for the entire outdoor unit.

Not for a complete system.

Just the inverter board.

That’s not a typo. $8,900.

In my opinion, this is the definition of engineered obsolescence. There is no reasonable justification for a replacement circuit board on a 10-year-old residential HVAC system to cost nearly nine thousand dollars. At that price, you’re essentially forcing the homeowner to replace the entire system instead of repairing it.

This is exactly why I’ll never sell Carrier equipment. They make decent equipment, but pricing replacement parts like this turns a repairable system into a disposable one. Homeowners deserve better than that.

Carrier Carrier Enterprise or anyone that’s sells this shit, care to elaborate why this board is so expensive?

🎩 Patrick Henning

[Owen @Owennfa]

I Paid off my mortgage last month. Thirty years.

Bank sent the deed over, congratulations, it's yours free and clear.

Two weeks later the county tax bill shows up. $9,400. And that's not a one time thing, that's every year until I die.

Stop paying it and eventually they take the house. The one I just spent three decades buying.

So what actually changed here?

For thirty years I paid a bank so I could live in my own house. Now I pay the county so I can live in my own house.

Different envelope. Same arrangement.

Nobody ever finishes paying for a home. You just run out of banks.

[EpochMull @EMullenax]

@mattvanswol Repairing the damage Dems did takes time.

[Brit Hume @brithume]

I think Keane is absolutely right here. Our “Gulf allies”are fine with the US taking on Iran as long as it costs them little or nothing.

[Gerald Posner @geraldposner]

Gen. Jack Keane just dropped a truth bomb this morning on FOX:

Our intelligence services know the Pakistani and Qatari mediators “are compromised because they favor Iran at the expense of the United States.” They have misled the Trump administration about Tehran’s real intentions.

Then Keane went after Saudi Arabia. He cited four instances of Saudi influence pulling the president back from wider military action. When the U.S. was ready to open the Strait forcibly, the Saudis denied us their airbase and airspace and actively discouraged the operation — even though they "knew nothing about the details of that operation, nor are they qualified to make that kind of an assumption."

Keane's blunt assessment? They "are not willing to sacrifice" (causalities and damage to their oil reserves) "to rid the Middle East region of Iran's aggression. . . . They're willing for us to make that sacrifice for sure. They're willing for Israel to make that sacrifice for sure."

This is the thanks America gets for putting the Kingdom under a nuclear and security umbrella since World War II.

Keane’s bottom line: “I think it is shameful that they lack the spine to stand up for their people and the region.”

Full 3+ minute clip. Must watch.👇