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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

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[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

The middle class is the most expensive place to live, and no one talks about it. Lower income households get assistance. The wealthy use tax strategies and loopholes. But the middle class pays full taxes, full tuition, full healthcare, full everything. So you work 50 hours a week just to stay in the same place and fund everyone’s life except yours.

[Tim Burchett @timburchett]

Isn’t it cheaper to keep staging it in a Hollywood studio?

[Oscar Mayer @oscarmayer]

The Wienie 500 is BACK. And it’s so close you can almost taste it. May 22. 2pm ET. Live on FOX.

[regular guy @regularguyguns]

Maybe you wonder why I, a mere gun blog, makes a big deal about Flock and similar tech?

OK here’s a real world situation that can easily happen and has likely happened.

Unfortunately to drive on public roads without getting hassled by the cops, your car needs a license plate. That’s tied to you, the owner of the vehicle.

Flock isn’t just a traffic camera, it’s an AI/ML enabled (wait for it) flock of cameras that transmit all their video and audio to the mothership. Not a government server somewhere but, to keep it simple, a big giant cloud computer instance owned and run by Flock, the company.

Government users, as well as Flock employees here in the US and overseas, can log in and query the system based on license plate number or even vehicle description and get a full history of that vehicle’s movements throughout the Flock network over multiple jurisdictions. Someone in New York can track a car from Armonk all the way to Homestead FL if they feel like it from the comfort of their desk.

On a daily level, someone can get a pretty accurate picture of someone’s life just by monitoring their movements via Flock. And I’m using this example to rattle the cage of the “back the blue unconditionally” crowd in 2A.

OK - your car has license plate ABC 123 - and Flock knows this. Someone can enter your tag in Flock and see what you are doing on a daily basis. You leave your home where the neighborhood is under the Flock panopticon. Flock sees you drive to Dunkin’ on Main Street, then you drop your kid off at XYZ Daycare. Then you go to work at the local IT consulting firm in ZZZ industrial park. You go pick up a quick deli sandwich for lunch at Food Lion. You go back to work. On the way home you stop off at Bob’s Guns, and stay for 20 minutes while buying some ammo. Then you go home. Everywhere there’s a Flock camera.

Now Flock knows the following about you:

- You live at 123 Wisteria Lane
- Your kid is in daycare (means he’s likely under 5)
- You work at ZZZ
- You go cheap on lunch
- You own at least one gun

Your license plate is tied to you so they now have your name and assumed-to-be-private details of your life, like that you are armed.

On the reverse of that, the Flock camera outside of Bob’s Guns has been recording the plates of everyone going into the parking lot. No need for a firearms registry when Flock is doing the work.

All of this is done without a warrant and the data is available to anyone with a certain level of access to the system, whether it’s a cop, or a Flock technician in the Philippines. FYI Flock uses overseas contractors for support and AI annotation.

The 2018 Carpenter decision at SCOTUS ruled that pervasive surveillance where one can divine private details of someone’s life is a 4th Amendment violation in absence of a specific warrant.

Flock is illegal, unconstitutional and immoral.

And a danger to everyone, not just gun owners.

[Five Times August @FiveTimesAugust]

The Epstein case is so bad the government gave you a war, a new virus, and aliens to keep you distracted from it. Sit with that as long as you need.

[Not A Number @myhiddenvalue]

Pharmacist lists three medications you should avoid at all cost.

[BuBBliK @k1rallik]

do you understand what just happened to your computer..

Google Chrome secretly downloaded a 4GB AI model onto your device. Without asking.. Without telling you..

It's called weights.bin. It lives deep in your system folders. It powers Gemini Nano - Google's on-device AI.

And if you delete it? Chrome re-downloads it automatically. Like nothing happened.

Just Google deciding your hard drive is their storage unit.

At 1 billion Chrome users - that's 4 BILLION gigabytes of data pushed silently across the internet.

The carbon footprint alone equals tens of thousands of cars running for a year.

Check your disk right now:
📁 %LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data\OptGuideOnDeviceModel

To stop it: chrome://flags → disable Optimization Guide On Device Model → restart Chrome → delete the folder.

Reshare so people know what's sitting on their computers.

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

JUST IN: Baltimore bakery truck struck by a United Airlines plane coming in for a landing at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey.

According to local reports, the plane was a United Airlines Boeing 767-400.

Senior vice president of Transportation & Logistics at H&S Bakery, Chuck Paterakis, says the driver was headed from Baltimore to New Jersey when he was hit.

The driver suffered minor injuries, according to Fox Baltimore.

"Our maintenance team is evaluating damage to the aircraft and we will investigate how this occurred," a United spokesperson said.

[Harrison Ford @HarrisonFordLA]

May the fourth be with you

[Christopher Lloyd @DocBrownLloyd]

I told you when this baby hits 88…you’re gonna see some serious shit.
A lifetime of stories. Coming soon.

[Sue Knows Best @sues86453]

Pay attention now!

Joe legal works in construction, has a Social Security number and makes $25.00 per hour with taxes deducted.

Jose illegal also works in construction has no Social Security number and makes $15.00 per hour cash, under the table.

Ready?... now pay attention....

Joe legal: $25.00 per hour × 40 hours = $1,000.00 per week or $52,000.00 per year. Now, take 31% away for State and Federal taxes. Joe legal now has $31,231.00.

Jose illegal: $15.00 an hour × 40 hours = $600.00 per week or $31,200.00 per year. Jose illegal pays no taxes. Jose illegal now has $31,200.00.

Joe legal pays medical and dental insurance with limited coverage for his family at $600.00 per month, or $7,200.00 per year. Joe legal now has $24,031.00.

Jose illegal has full medical and dental coverage through the State and local clinics and emergency hospitals at a cost of $0.00 per year. Jose illegal still has $31,200.00.

Joe legal makes too much money and is not eligible for food stamps or welfare. Joe legal spends $500.00 per month for food or $6,000.00 per year. Joe legal now has $18,031.00.

Jose illegal has no documented income and is eligible for food stamps, WIC and welfare. Jose illegal still has $31,200.00.

Joe legal pays rent of 1,200.00 per month or $14,400.00 per year. Joe legal now has $9,631.00.

Jose illegal receives $500.00 per month Federal rent subsidy. Jose illegal pays out that $500.00 per month or $6,000.00 per year. Jose illegal still has $31,200.00.

Joe legal pays $200.00 per month or $2,400.00 per year for car insurance. Some of that is uninsured motorist insurance. Joe legal now has $7,231.00.

Jose illegal says, "We don't need no stinkin' insurance."... and still has $31,000.00.

Joe legal has to make his $7,231.00 stretch to pay utilities, gasoline.. etc.

Jose illegal has to make his $31,200.00 stretch to pay utilities, gasoline and what he sends out of the country every month....

Joe legal now works overtime on Saturdays or gets a part time job after work.

Jose illegal has nights and weekends off to enjoy with his family.

Joe legal's and Jose illegal's children both attend the same elementary school.

Joe legal pays for his children's lunches while...

Jose illegal's children get a government-sponsored lunch.

Jose illegal's children have an after school ESL program.

Joe legal's children go home.

Now, when they reach college age...

Joe legal's kids may not get into a State school and may not qualify for scholarships, grants or other tuition help, even though Joe has been paying for State schools through his taxes, while...

Jose illegal's kids go to the, 'head of the class' because they are a minority.

Joe legal and Jose illegal both benefit from the same police and fire services, but Joe paid for them and Jose did not.

Do you get it, now?

If we vote for or support any politician that supports illegal aliens,... we are part of the problem.

Its way PAST time to take a stand for America and Americans!

[Jeremy @Jeremybtc]

For 12 years, every major winner of McDonald's Monopoly was a fraud. The game was rigged by the one man hired to prevent rigging.

> McDonald's Monopoly launched in 1987.

> Peel a game piece off your fries or drink. Match the right properties. Win up to $1 million.

> The promotion was massive. Tens of MILLIONS of game boards distributed in magazines alone.

> McDonald's poured massive marketing behind it.

> By law, McDonald's couldn't run its own contest.

> A third party company called Simon Marketing handled the game pieces.

> The man in charge of security at Simon Marketing was Jerome P. Jacobson.

> Former cop. Everyone called him Uncle Jerry.

> His job was to make sure nobody stole the winning pieces.

> He stole the winning pieces.

> Starting in 1989, Jacobson figured out how to swap the high value game pieces during transit.

> He would duck into an airport bathroom stall, break the tamper proof seal on the case, pocket the winners, and reseal it.

> He got away with it because a supplier accidentally sent him a sheet of the tamper proof seals directly.

> That mistake gave him 12 years.

> At first he gave the pieces to friends and family. His step brother. His nephew. People he trusted.

> Then it grew.

> Jacobson started selling winning pieces to strangers for a cut of the prize.

> His network eventually included mobsters, strip club owners and a members of the Colombo crime family.

> One family connected to Jacobson's network claimed three separate $1 million prizes plus a Dodge Viper.

> Jacobson apparently even anonymously mailed a $1 million winning piece to St. Jude Children's Hospital.

> McDonald's honoured it and paid out the full amount over 20 years.

> The total stolen was over $24 MILLION in cash and prizes across 12 years.

> In 2000, the FBI got an anonymous tip about a man called "Uncle Jerry" rigging the contest.

> They looked at the winner list. Almost every major winner lived within 25 miles of Jacobson's house.

> The FBI convinced McDonald's to run the contest one more time. Wiretapped Jacobson's phone.

> Intercepted the name of the next $1 million winner before he even claimed it.

> Then they posed as a McDonald's film crew and interviewed the fake winner on camera. Let him tell his entire made up story about how he found the piece.

> Three weeks later, Jacobson was arrested in an early morning raid.

> The trial began September 10, 2001. The next day was 9/11.

> One of the biggest corporate fraud cases in fast food history got buried under the biggest news story of the century.

> Over 50 people convicted. Jacobson got 37 months. He was the only one who served more than a year.

> Every time you peeled a game piece off your fries and lost, the fix was already in.

The winning pieces were in Uncle Jerry's pocket before the food hit the tray.

[HustleBitch @HustleBitch_]

🚨 DREW BARRYMORE SAYS SHE’S “SO WRECKED DOWN THERE” AFTER TWO C-SECTIONS — AND THE INTERNET CAN’T BELIEVE SHE SAID THIS ON CAMERA

Actress and talk show host Drew Barrymore tearfully says her body is so messed up after childbirth that she physically can’t wear certain pants anymore.

Walking down the street with her daughter… shirt riding up, jacket won’t close… panicking that people might see what she calls the damage.

“I didn’t want anyone to see this.”

No PR polish.
No “bounce back” lie.

Simply a raw admission that pregnancy can permanently change your body, and not in the way Instagram sells it.

She says things don’t go back.
Not your body.
Not how you feel in it.

The internet is already going off:

• “Finally someone said it out loud.”
• “This is WAY too much info…”
• “Men have no idea what women go through.”
• “Why would she even say this on TV??”
• “This just made me feel seen.”

Did she just expose the reality no one wants to talk about… or should this have stayed private?

[Agreeable Greg @AgreeableGreg]

Some of us have lived through Vinyl, 8-Track, Cassette, CD, Napster and Spotify ... and some of us are still hiding from Columbia House 😂

[daz @MetamateDaz]

The minimum wage in Pennsylvania is $7.25 an hour.

A regular Auntie Anne’s soft pretzel at the mall is $7.29.

Imagine telling someone an hour of their time is worth less than a pretzel.

[critter keeper @ImNoAngelBaby]

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[Possum Reviews @ReviewsPossum]

There's an episode of Beavis & Butt-Head where they sell candy bars to raise money for some thing their school's doing, but they keep selling candy bars to each other while passing the same two dollars back and forth.

This is how the government and public sector operate.