Cool Grandpa (bluesky account)

dyslexia/ADD gang, he/him kinda shit,🏴BLM,

[noodle bowl hat 🍉 @carbohydrakes]

People who had gay sex were literally considered sex offenders just a few years ago. So no, I don't believe the state should have the right to castrate anybody, sex offender or not.

[Cool Grandpa (bluesky account) @GraydonSharp]

@Xort_TC @11walzu @Kaiserhawk Because the USSR collapsed 30 years ago and the priority American military targets in Australia are not in major cities. If they are destroying cities, why would they go after Australia the US has plenty of civilian targets.

[rosabelle @rosebudlight]

lmao found it

[Cool Grandpa (bluesky account) @GraydonSharp]

@Xort_TC @11walzu @Kaiserhawk But China doesn’t have 20,000 and Russia probably has higher priority targets in the US, Europe, the middle east, and east Asia. It really depends on who launches and with what strategy.

[両刀使い ・ Ryou ☭ (TRANSLATION COMMS PAUSED •フリー翻訳者) @gloopbastard]

after the next world war they have to dissolve germany back into a quadrillion mini states for real this time

[Duncan Kinney @duncankinney]

elon getting constantly blown up in public on his own app is one of the little joys of this terrible hate machine.

[Cool Grandpa (bluesky account) @GraydonSharp]

@SteveSmithskt8 @MayahWoo Being able to see an object 4 inches across and being able to read letters that are only 2ish inches across are 2 different capabilities.

[City of Tempe, AZ @Tempegov]

Tempe has turned off its Flock automated license plate reader system and will end its contract with the company. The cameras are no longer collecting license plate data, and Tempe will not seek another company to replace the system.

While the cameras have helped Tempe Police solve crimes, recent misuse of automated license plate reader systems in Arizona and nationwide has raised concerns about the risks that come with the technology.

Tempe Police has found no misuse of its own Flock system.

Flock will remove its cameras, and previously collected data will be automatically deleted after 30 days unless it is connected to an ongoing case or investigation.

Read through the slides to learn more about the decision and what it means for Tempe.

[Defense Analyses and Research Corporation @DefenseAnalyses]

Tom Clancy deserves to be taken seriously by defense thinkers because he saw early on how the alloying of technology, special forces, and personalization of power would produce the characteristic flavor of this century's iconic military operations. We live in the Clancyverse.

[Cool Grandpa (bluesky account) @GraydonSharp]

@questionableway @outer_guitar What are some examples of limiting speech that you believe are similar to the limits on filming you would like to see?

[Jakub Janovsky @Rebel44CZ]

The HTRS-100 is an air traffic control (ATC) radar system. It is designed primarily to modernize civil aviation infrastructure and ensure precise air-traffic surveillance.

So, Israel is pretending to be "scared" of a normal civilian radar...

[Montrey @Montrey82631182]

Strange civil war in Ukraine 2014/15: one side keeps having to cross an international border to take part in it.

[Crake 🇵🇸 @CrakeEx]

If you think this won't happen to you because "you aren't doing anything wrong" that's not how a police state works folks

[GherkinAA @GherkinAA]

this used to be a tactical shooter franchise that was so well-written the 2008 invasion of georgia in the original game actually happened

[ProfTalmadge @ProfTalmadge]

I'm old enough to remember when South Korea was the linchpin of US plans to increase ship building capacity.

(That was 3 days ago btw.)

[capt. Wild Bill Kelso @_wild_billkelso]

Imagine having 48 F-35s and nearly 200 F-16 and the most sophisticated GBAD network this world has seen. And the idea of your neighbor having like a half dozen MiG 23s and Su22s still terrifies you
To the point you’re willing to further destabilize the Middle East over it.

[Kein Mensch Kein Tier @KampfmitKette]

Tom Clancy: In my book I invented the concept of the evil South American CIA targeted killing campaign as a cautionary tale.

Trump Admin: At long last, we have created the evil South American CIA targeted killing campaign from classic spy novel Clear and Present Danger.

[Josh Brooks @F530Josh]

Did a bit of research on this yesterday.

This shootout happened right in front of a Flock camera.

There are 17 other flock-style cameras within a one mile radius of this event. The police have zero suspects, and have made zero arrests almost four days later. Some are owned by Motorola, some are owned by Flock Safety, and some are owned by Axon.

@Flock_Safety and like-minded systems are not about protecting citizens or enforcing the law. They are an attempt to nationalize the HOA system to increase non-tax related revenue from minor infractions in complete violation of every American's 4th Ammendment right.

Your local government doesn't seek to take criminals off of the street. It seeks more money from your wallet now that taxation has reached its natural cap, and the "ALPR" system is how they've elected to increase revenue from fines.

This will become more insidious when city governments start selling off that revenue to foreign nations for fast budget bumps, like when Chicago sold their parking meter revenue over 75 years to Abu Dhabi in 2008.

With a government run surveillance system this large, it should be impossible for crime like this to go unpunished for longer than 12 hours. Since we are not seeing that level of security, we should all believe instead that the system is not about security at all. City and state officials pushing ALPR cameras need to be removed from their office by any means nessecary.

[ClimateJohn @John_On_Climate]

I can’t stress this enough. This is not the “new normal”.

This is the coldest we will be for the rest of the century. It will only keep getting hotter.

What we are experiencing now will be looked back on as a *mild* summer.

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

No. Scientists are increasingly clear on this: they now say it will keep getting worse and worse and worse and worse and worse.