Aaron Lockhart

Data-driven, socially conservative, fiscally moderate, and always skeptical.

[Aaron Lockhart @arabbitorduck]

In his youth, Abraham Lincoln used to write satirical and scathing letters and poetry and leave them deliberately along the main road for others to find. He did this for personal revenge, social commentary, and entertainment. It's in that spirit that I've returned here.

[Aaron Lockhart @arabbitorduck]

@ChristinaPushaw Nothing beats first-hand knowledge.

[Aaron Lockhart @arabbitorduck]

A fair point by VP @JDVance. If only there were a very direct and unambiguous way to clear up what's actually in the MOU... 🤔

[The Megyn Kelly Show @MegynKellyShow]

VP @JDVance responds to neocon critiques over the deal: "Why do they believe Iranian propaganda only about one thing - the peace deal? They don't seem to believe Iranian propaganda, rightfully so, about anything else. So if you're in the position of endorsing Iranian propaganda only when it's related to this peace deal, then maybe you should check yourself a little bit and question your sources."

[Aaron Lockhart @arabbitorduck]

Evergreen:

[Squirrel Matador @BudLightSadness]

Dude. Quit posting about weird shit and saying shit that can be held against you in a court because you are essentially retarded.

That shit does not look good printed out and slid across a desk or on one of them cool whiteboard things that Congress has.

[AAGHarmeetDhillon @AAGDhillon]

Looking forward to doing our part!

[Kurt Schlichter @KurtSchlichter]

I’d like to see this MOU.

[Aaron Lockhart @arabbitorduck]

I appreciate @KurtSchlichter. Despite a strong preference for action, he's willing to accept alternatives (presumably as long as they work). Most importantly, he's willing to wait until he can read the MOU before forming an opinion. People lack this discipline, so they freak out.

[Kurt Schlichter @KurtSchlichter]

Why are people so eager to freak out?

Note that my preference is a redoubled military campaign.

[Talk Radio 1210 WPHT @1210WPHT]

“You Can NOT Trust Iran”

Reports indicate Tehran COULD gain access to as much as $300 BILLION 💰

@Shawn_Farash & @WillChamberlain break down what we know so far—and why there is some skepticism of the agreement

🎙️🎧 Full conversation here 👉: https://t.co/hVvfDkHSxv

[Will Chamberlain @willchamberlain]

Cc @AAGDhillon

[Aaron Lockhart @arabbitorduck]

@BudLightSadness I'd enjoy a series of these where you briefly narrate inventors describing complex devices for the first time.

[Aaron Lockhart @arabbitorduck]

Culture is a thing to be guarded; neutrality conserves nothing.

[Matthew J. Peterson @docMJP]

"I think we need business and culture to stop being woke and just go back to being politically 'neutral'".

If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?

[Matthew J. Peterson @docMJP]

"I think we need business and culture to stop being woke and just go back to being politically 'neutral'".

If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?

[Aaron Lockhart @arabbitorduck]

@JackPosobiec Hammer and sic 'em?

[Aaron Lockhart @arabbitorduck]

@RobProvince @AetiusRF With those dimensions, he only had to lean forward and inertia handled the rest.

[John Daniel Hull @Whataboutparis]

Summer rules: grass courts, 15 feet toss, no helmet.

[John Daniel Hull @Whataboutparis]

100%, sir. Dwarf Tossing in America need not be cruel.

[4nt1p4tt3rn 🏴‍☠ Appalachistan Wolf Lodge #47 @4nt1p4tt3rn]

At least one person today has mentioned DoH (DNS over HTTPS), so let's talk about how useful that is.

The argument is that your DNS traffic is encrypted.

And, technically it is, in the sense that it is communicated in plaintext via an encrypted tunnel.

However, two things:

* Whoever you're using for DoH resolution can see all your queries
* Generally speaking, there are no other DNS resolvers between you and your configured DNS server. So if you're using DoH, the only people you're hiding from are the ones sniffing your raw packet data between you and your DNS provider.

That second point is important. Trust me (I know), your ISP is not intercepting and storing every packet that traverses their networks. They don't have the time, they don't have the ability to analyze, and they sure as hell don't have the capacity to do so.

DoH's primary utility is for doing sneaky crap (or trying to) in corporate environments. Often made iirelevant by deep-packet-inspection firewalls and proxies, who insert their own root certificate in the SSL/TLS chain of trust, so they can see inside the tunnel.

These same proxies and firewalls will often block DoH out of hand, anyway.

Just because it's going over port 443 doesn't mean they don't know what it is. In much the same way that an RF signal broadcast on a noisy frequency is still identifiable.

DoH is, by and large, useless, because the threat it protects against largely doesn't exist.

And if you're thinking, "But what about the NSA?"

MBIC, if your concern is the NSA intercepting, archiving, and analyzing every packet you send or receive, trust me, they have more than enough on you /without/ your DNS traffic already.

[Aaron Lockhart @arabbitorduck]

@KurtSchlichter Contacted for comment, an agent for Sir Mix-a-Lot provided the following statement: "My client emphatically denies this allegation. With respect to Employee-2, he wants all fans to know, 'The LA face and Oakland booty were always a package deal. My anaconda don't want none.'"

[Lee (Greater) @shortmagsmle]

Excluding WWII daytime bombing and post-war Russian occupation of Germany, 250,000 rape victims represents probably the biggest single-source civilian victimization in Western Europe in the last 100 years.

[Ron Coleman @RonColeman]

I guess you have to posit a world in which the Administration is, for purposes of a massive strategic feint premised on an internal, acute Iranian crackup, prepared to get killed on social media for days or even weeks.

I know - sounds like Trust the Plan.

But is it so crazy?

[Aaron Lockhart @arabbitorduck]

@RonColeman Crazy? No. Miscalibrated? Well, like the Queen’s ass, that remains to be seen. Either the payoff is really that high, or they’ve discounted the cost of rampant speculation far too aggressively.