Before the internet became entirely too sensitive, Kmart was out here dropping some of the most unhinged, legendary commercials in television history.
"Ship my pants," "Nickers please," and the iconic Joe Boxer jingle bells... man, the early 2010s were a wild time for marketing. You genuinely couldn’t get away with this kind of genius, unfiltered humor on TV anymore.
It’s crazy how we forgot just how hard these hit until seeing them again. Kmart really went out with an absolute bang.
Wow - Forgot about this clip‼️
Man wearing a Monkey Mask & Santa Hat sat cross-legged in the dirt at a festival, articulates perfectly & with precision - how the World works.
Does anyone have their full length original clip - this is so good.
I find it kinda interesting UNC Chapel Hill (same place involved in Covid) is one of the big centers working on alpha gal syndrome (red meat allergy) coming from lone star ticks. Might be nothing, just noting it as a hmm
They say drought across the west is Climate Change, but the truth is very different.
Here is the honest truth about the drought and what beavers used to do in the old west that will open your eyes to the truth.
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.
The U.S. is now a net oil exporter and produces the vast majority of its own crude.
We import very little from the entire Middle East.
It has nothing to do with Iran and the Strait of Hormuz.
So why the fuck are oil companies price gouging Americans right now?
I’ll tell you why:
It’s to hurt President Trump’s approval ratings. It’s technically election interference to put the blame on him before the midterms.
Even a fucking child could understand this.