@nmlinguaphile History is messy, it's right to acknowledge mistakes but to dwell and constantly criticize the actions of those before us doesn't change the challenges and issue's of those times. I find it a waste of our precious period on this earth with plenty of our own current problems.
@JWALL00171@elliottengenMN This why we experienced so much inflation and the balance sheet is creeping up again as inflation starts rising again. "all inflation is a monetary phenomena" -Milton Friedman.
@nmlinguaphile If Government balanced the budget, which they should the economy would collapse. All this deficit spending is the only thing supporting this everything bubble. How many would bitch when their home value gets cut in half which is still a stretch of fair value?
๐ฆAt least 54 U.S. cities have cancelled or rejected Flock Safety contracts in 2026, up from roughly 30 in all of 2025. The LAPD walked after an internal audit found Flock's cameras produced 161 false stolen-vehicle alerts in two months, a 32.3% false-positive rate. Last week, Littleton, Massachusetts discovered Flock had powered its cameras back on after the town voted in May to shut them down. Flock operates 120,000 cameras across 5,000 agencies and was last valued at $7.5 billion.
My Take
Most of the 54 cancellations this year came from privacy backlash, which Flock's leadership has treated as manageable noise from coastal activists. LAPD didn't cancel over privacy. The department ran an audit and found the cameras were wrong 32.3% of the time on stolen-vehicle alerts, then declined to renew. Flock's entire pitch to police departments is that the technology reliably identifies stolen cars. LAPD tested that against real data and the numbers did not hold up.
The privacy problems have not gone away. Flock has built a nationwide surveillance network of 120,000 cameras that photograph every passing car and share the data across 5,000 agencies without a warrant. Littleton found out the vendor puts equipment back online after a town votes to remove it. In Milwaukee, an officer used the system 124 times to track his romantic partner. Cancellations doubled year over year while these stories accumulate.
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@RealRottieMom@realMikeLindell This state needs and deserves drastic change that I think only someone like Mike can deliver. Many say he could never be elected. I don't see Demuth convincing the marginal voter to get off the couch. With Trump coming in and holding rallies with Mike that marginal voter might.
@nmlinguaphile Eww a senate panel, Fauci must be shanking in his boots. At most they will just share all his porn downloaded on that device and move on.
@adamtaggart 20 or so years ago I caught Brian Lamb interviewing her on CSPANโs Book Notes. She said her husband was influential in the creation of the Euro. Iโd love to hear her thoughts on the creation of the Euro all these years later.
@adamtaggart Who but a government would spend a billion for Nero's bathtub and stuff it in a barely visited museum so place? Seems like an appropriate time for anything Nero to fetch a billion.
@LukeGromen Buddy went to Home Depot to buy a new fridge, told sales woman he's back because the last one lasted 10 years. She said "oh you won't get 10 years out of a new one".
@LawrenceLepard@DoubleEagle49 Wish I remembered who interviewed you a year plus ago when you talked about guy's like above getting wiped out and what it means to them and what some resort too. That one really hit a cord and here we are again. Been saying for years they are starving out the working class.