Shady Ranger

Mind of an engineer and creative, trying to be better than I was yesterday, philosophy is interesting cause it’s human

[Shady Ranger @ShadyRanger]

@SamuraiShibaJP His next step is to bring Chick-fil-A for the team.

[Shady Ranger @ShadyRanger]

@shipwreckedcrew California is not your friend ™️

[FBI Director Kash Patel @FBIDirectorKash]

Two former senior FBI officials, Nikki Cole Floris and Bradley Benavides, were taken into custody today on charges of allegedly lying to Congress about their involvement in the FBI’s investigations into Hunter Biden.

The charges stem from an ongoing investigation into the since-dissolved FBI Foreign Influence Task Force.

Floris led the FITF as a Deputy Assistant Director from mid-2019 through mid-2022. Benavides was the FITF Section Chief from mid-2019 through the 2020 election. Both testified that the FITF was not involved in the Hunter Biden investigations. Documentary evidence, contemporaneous communications, and witness accounts contradict their testimony.

Floris is also on record privately claiming to be “running a shadow government” during the 2020 election in her role on the FITF.

Lying to Congress by senior FBI officials strikes at the heart of our system. No one is above the law.

The FBI has already dismantled the corrupt CR-15 squad that engaged in political weaponization targeting their opponents, including President Trump.

Thanks to @TheJusticeDept @FBIKansasCity and @USAttyPirro.

-DKP🇺🇸

[Shady Ranger @ShadyRanger]

@neontaster Hopefully they make it to “The Finals”

[Catherine Herridge @C__Herridge]

NEW RECORDS: BIDEN UKRAINE CORRUPTION ALLEGATIONS

Newly declassified emails and intelligence reports suggest a high priority witness for a GOP Senate investigation @ChuckGrassley @SenRonJohnson  into Biden corruption allegations was blocked from entering the US.

Two weeks before the 2020 election, State DEPT email reads: 

“..to follow up on the Telezhinko (sic) visa, we revoked it earlier this month because he was imminently getting on a plane and needed to move quickly…”

- FBI and Intelligence Community “weren’t checking if allegations were true, they were suffocating anti-Biden Ukraine narrative, " says administration official

CONTEXT: Visa revocation and reported sanctions on Andrii Telizhenko appear to fit a broader pattern:

•IRS agents assigned to Hunter Biden laptop probe, including Burisma, say they were blocked from investigating leads into the “Big Guy”

•51 former intelligence official claim laptop had “classic earmarks” of a Russia information operation. Months earlier FBI had authenticated laptop

•FBI HQ appears to slow roll other Biden probes

•Senators Grassley and Johnson get FBI suspect "offensive briefing" about Russian disinformation, allegedly designed to thwart Hunter Biden probe

NOTE: Declassified records also raise prospect of circular reporting.  

Here’s how it works: Government officials (or their proxies) plant information with a reporter, who publishes it. The same officials then cite the resulting media story to justify further investigative steps. 

Exposing “circular reporting” undermines the credibility of some journalists who built their reputations on Russia collusion scoops

New records via @WhiteHouse transparency task force

[Andrew Forte @AndrewAsksHow]

Everyone is always rooting for you. Your parents want you to be a great son. Wife wants you to be a great husband. Your boss wants you to be a slam dunk hire. Every first date you’ve ever been on they’ve been rooting for you to get laid. Every time you started to tell a joke people hoped it would have a hilarious punch line. Your proximity to anyone is a reflection of themself, meaning the deck is never stacked against you, and your failures are completely your own

[Shady Ranger @ShadyRanger]

@nszceta @IzzatStatus This is why God created AI

[Shady Ranger @ShadyRanger]

This is infuriating.
Not because of what this post says, but because of what they discovered.

[Rui Ma @ruima]

I'm listening to the Sold a Story podcast season two, which is on math education in the US, and it is enough to give me an aneurysm, seriously. The season opens with a bunch of little kids' voices doing very basic algebra, and you learn later that these are poor Black four-year-olds, and all of them are getting the problems correct. Oh, and they're super engaged.

Apparently, there was a group that figured out you can have kids go very fast in math if you just did direct instruction. But somehow, culturally, this was deemed "too hard" and too much of a "pressure cooker" for little kids.

It's pretty funny because it's not like there was any high-stakes testing or anything. It literally was just teaching the kids instead of "letting them discover it themselves."

I did a master's in education, and there was a lot of content in the program about equity, and how socioeconomic class, parental habits and attitudes, and level of education really shape a kid's academic achievement. It's just infuriating to hear that when they discovered a teaching method that works in spite of these disadvantages, it was thrown out as being, I guess, somehow not "fun" enough. It's difficult to believe that they didn't actually have ulterior motives.

[Shady Ranger @ShadyRanger]

@IzzatStatus This, but India and their lack of standards and compliance.

[Shady Ranger @ShadyRanger]

This should be used in hospitals to perform no-contact monitoring when patient comfort is preferred.

[ard @ardchain]

breathing is enough to give you away

each breath slightly changes how Wi-Fi waves reflect off your chest. with the right receiver and processing, those tiny changes can reveal your breathing rhythm

the graphs in this animation use real WiRe-Breath recordings: orange is the rhythm extracted from Wi-Fi, gray is a reference breathing sensor

i broke down how this works, and what else you can pull out of the radio waves around you, in the article below ↓

[Matt Ridley @mattwridley]

"Capitalism is the force that drove down the price of almost everything it touched. The state is the force that blew up the price of almost everything it captured. And young people blame the first for the crimes of the second."

[Dominie 🇺🇸 @price_dominie]

Actual adults vote for Republicans. That statement may anger you, but I’ll say it again; those with a level of discernment beyond that of a child vote for Republicans.

I don’t do a massive amount of politics on here, or truthfully, in real life. I have no love for politicians, they are merely a necessary evil. Why the statement?

Actual adults understand a few things…

The current Democratic Party refuses to accept the science of biology, stymy the flow of illegal aliens, identity voters through ID, recognize your Right to firearms (as outlined in the 2nd Amendment), and reject the ideas of Karl Marx as incongruent with the Constitution. They play games on the State level to block those who seek to reveal corruption and fraud. They literally named a law after Nick Shirley to prevent others like him from revealing massive scams in their State like he did in Minnesota. These are not the actions of rational adults, but rather emotional, power-hungry children who seek to upend our Nation as long as they personally benefit.

I am under no delusion that Republicans will deliver everything I want. They have been tepid at best the past two years. I’m also no Trump sycophantic. Many of his positions would have been considered middle-ground in the 1990’s Democratic Party. He and the Party he leads have managed to deliver a few victories in areas that matter. The southern border is the most secure that it’s been in my lifetime. The NFA is currently starving for oxygen. Some common sense has been applied to preventing men from parading as women to crush their athletic dreams and act as government endorsed voyeurs in bathrooms.

Trump is bombastic and publicly treats the Office of the Presidency as a celebrity position. Behind the scenes, it’s clearly different. I highly approve of some of the moves he’s made and shake my head in frustration at others.

Trump is not on the ballot this election. Who is? Local representatives and managers, many House Representatives and some Senators; for some of you Mayor or County Sheriff. These are the people whose decisions will truly impact your life regardless of what the man who is not up for reelection does.

Rational adults vote for the representation that doesn’t promise to steal what you have, give it to noncitizens, take away your right to self-defense, upend our founding documents, and allow the replacement of equal justice with Sharia law. The current Democratic Party endorses ideas that indoctrinate your children into ideas that prevent you from ever having grandchildren. They support that which will literally end your family line; they gain power and you lose your legacy. At this point in time, that rational option is by and large the Republican Party.

Will Republicans likely fail to live up to all of their campaign promises? Beyond a doubt. A mature adult knows that and yet understands the opposite choice is guaranteed destruction. Naïve children make choices on emotions, “the feels”, promises of free stuff and believing that politicians won’t disappoint them. Rational adults stoically weigh the options based on projected course and values.

The Iran war will not immediately end no matter which way you vote. Gas prices also don’t turn on a dime. No matter who you choose, inflation will not immediately disappear and Congress will spend money. I have my gripes, as do you. They are valid. National suicide is not the answer.

Until the Democrats produce another JFK like option, eschew their current values and platform, you must do your job as a rational adult and block them at the voting booth and in the public square. Anything less is puerile.

[Shady Ranger @ShadyRanger]

@Nyadnar17 @neontaster Go on?

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

It is infuriating realizing how much these mobsters cost us.

If they died off and we got automated ports, we could be so much wealthier, so much more resilient, and so much less at risk of being held hostage by these evil men again.

[Shady Ranger @ShadyRanger]

@chrisfaulkner “Don’t ask, Don’t smell” policy?

[Yehuda Teitelbaum @chalavyishmael]

HERO PILOT, Captain Smit Machchar, stabbed mid-flight on flydubai FZ1073, reportedly FOUGHT OFF the co-pilot and helped save 174 people.

One year ago he talked about how people often don't treat the cabin crew properly.

"When things are going wrong, you need them."

WATCH:

[Shady Ranger @ShadyRanger]

@fermiparasocks @AGHamilton29 @adamschorr “Flight diverted after copilot disagrees with pilot about landing approach.”

At least this is more informative. Still misleading about impact and context.

[Catherine Herridge @C__Herridge]

To emphasize, the financial records of Americans were collected by the Special Counsel team without any probable cause

[Matt Cover @MattCover]

The actual cure for student loans is simply to make the schools hold the loan.

If the school is on the hook for the loan, it has a real interest in a) charging a price that reflects the future earnings of students and b) taking reasonable measures to ensure the students succeed

[Shady Ranger @ShadyRanger]

@Not_the_Bee Hopefully they didn’t offer the officer MAID services.