Give them absolutely nothing. Smile and play the corporate game.
When they push you for details about your toxic team, use this exact script:
"I’ve learned a lot during my time here, and right now I'm just looking forward to the next step in my career. I wish the company the best."
A Seminole County man says a judge found him not guilty at trial after video recorded by a camera on his Tesla was shown in court. Video footage proves the cop lied, exaggerated, and wasted 2 years of the man's life.
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PAID TO TORTURE MONKEYS ON CAMERA: FOUR MORE PLEAD GUILTY
@TheJusticeDept says Ernest Chavez pleaded guilty today to conspiring to create and distribute videos depicting extreme violence and sexual abuse against monkeys. Three others Mary Longoria, Kimberly Anglin and Patrick Naylor also pleaded guilty in the case.
Court documents say members of online groups used Telegram to discuss videos they wanted made, then sent payments to people in Indonesia to carry out the abuse on camera. The four were among 11 people indicted in 2025.
Chavez faces sentencing later. Longoria and Anglin are scheduled for sentencing Dec. 2; Naylor on Dec. 17.
A video source in the conspiracy, Nicholas Dryden, was previously sentenced to 108 months in prison.
I was an elected Republican when I was arrested and thrown in prison for peacefully protesting a stolen election.
The biggest initial shock was realizing that outside of my immediate friends and family, no one cared.
Most of Congress wouldn’t even answer the phone.
@GeriPerna I would send in or drop off Chinese takeout for my nonverbal autistic son and another parent who was observing their own child one day saw my son’s school aide eating his Chinese ribs and he gave my son something they had from somewhere else in the room like potato chips.
Summary: CIA case officers recruit John Ratcliffe, their director, a man who always wanted to play covert ops spy but who never actually had the courage to take the risks himself.
Now, the professional agent-handlers are making him finally feel like a real badass, a feeling most men chase throughout their lives. It’s a major weakness, especially in men who are trying to lead or fit in with actual warriors.
Of course the Atlantic thinks this great because they support the blob/deep state remaining in control. Ratcliffe’s recruitment allows operations that may be tactically brilliant but are detrimental to POTUS’s stated agenda to continue, thereby undermining POTUS’s peace efforts.
The Mossad used the same tactics to get him on board with the Iran war despite warnings from his own intelligence professionals (a political career funded by AIPAC helped too).
Career professionals are leaving the intelligence community because they know that ultimately the disastrous wars in Iran & Ukraine will be pinned on them, even though they warned against these foolish wars.
October 21, 1966. Dawn. Eight T-28 fighter-bombers take off from Savannakhet in southern Laos.
They aren't headed for the Ho Chi Minh Trail. They're headed for their own capital.
Leading the strike is Brigadier General Thao Ma, commander of the Royal Lao Air Force.
Thao Ma was a rarity among Laotian generals: a real fighting man. He started as a paratrooper under the French, retrained as a pilot, and by 1959 was running the entire Lao air force. He didn't command from a desk. He personally flew strike missions against the North Vietnamese on the Ho Chi Minh Trail and in support of Vang Pao's Hmong army.
He was an innovator, too. Before the Americans fielded their famous AC-47 gunship, Thao Ma was bolting heavy machine guns into the doors of old C-47 transports and rigging rollers so his crews could roll 250-pound bombs out the cargo door in flight.
His problem was the other generals.
Several of Laos's top army commanders were running gold and opium smuggling operations, and they wanted the air force's C-47 transport planes to move their product. Thao Ma refused. He turned down their bribes and told them flatly his pilots would not be used to smuggle drugs.
They came after him. In 1965, a land mine blew up a jeep in his entourage in what everyone believed was an assassination attempt by his rivals. They bribed some of his own pilots to mutiny. They stripped the transports away from his command and gave them to an officer who would cooperate. Then they ordered him to move his headquarters to Vientiane, where they could watch him.
Thao Ma was convinced he would be killed. So he struck first.
The plan: one army regiment would arrest the two generals visiting Savannakhet, General Ouane Rattikone and General Bounthone Marthepharak. Another would be flown to Vientiane to take the capital. Thao Ma would lead an air strike on army headquarters to kill the rest.
Almost all of it went wrong. He had told an American air attaché about the plan, and the warning reached Vientiane. The generals he was after fled army headquarters just before the bombs hit. The regiment never arrested Ouane. The second regiment never took off. The bribe money never showed up.
But the planes went. The eight T-28s cut across Thai airspace to reach Vientiane, so Thailand scrambled its fighters. The US Air Force briefly canceled every mission over Laos and launched F-102 interceptors. Nobody knew what was happening.
At 8:30 a.m., Thao Ma's planes hit a gun park, two ammunition depots, the Royal Lao Army headquarters, and the villa of General Kouprasith, one of his chief rivals. At least 23 people were killed.
He was getting ready for a second strike when the American ambassador, the British ambassador and a Lao prince flew down to Savannakhet and talked him out of it.
That night, Thao Ma and his loyal pilots climbed into their T-28s and flew into exile in Thailand. Back home, he was sentenced to death.
The generals now had their transport planes. Within months, General Ouane contracted for a 16-ton opium shipment, the one that led to the 1967 Opium War, where he bombed both sides and kept the opium for himself.
Thao Ma waited seven years. On August 20, 1973, he came back from Thailand with 60 followers, seized Wattay Air Base outside Vientiane, jumped into a T-28 and dive-bombed General Kouprasith's villa, demolishing it.
When he came back to land, loyal troops had already retaken the airfield. A .50-caliber machine gun on a truck shot his plane down. He was dragged from the wreck, wounded, and taken to Kouprasith's headquarters.
Kouprasith had him executed on the spot. Thao Ma was 42.
They can put Flock cameras on every corner watching the rest of us, but the second someone puts a tracker on a cop’s truck, the whole department quits.
In the tiny Central Georgia town of Milner (population under 1,000), the entire full-time police force just resigned. That includes the chief, the officers, and most of the reserves. Their last day is October 28. The city manager walked out too.
What triggered it? Chief Lamar Bunn stood up at a city council meeting and accused Mayor Craig Timmons of secretly putting a GPS tracker on his personal truck. He said it was paid for with the mayor’s own money. No proper process. No heads-up. When people asked the mayor about it, he had no comment.
The officers’ resignation letters talked about lost trust, questionable leadership, and a workplace where integrity and accountability no longer seemed to apply. Other gripes like overtime and side-job vehicle rules got mentioned, but the tracker was the flashpoint.
So the same people who defend mass surveillance tools aimed at regular drivers decided one tracker on one of their own was a bridge too far. The Lamar County Sheriff’s Office is expected to cover the town now.
Rules for thee, not for me. On full display in a place small enough that the whole police department can fit in a single group text.
The US military gets over 80% of its dogs from Europe, and fewer than half of them turn out fit for service.
South Korea hit the same wall back in 2007, and their fix sounds like a movie plot. They took their best drug-sniffing dog, a Lab named Chase, and cloned him seven times.
All seven puppies got the same name, Toppy, short for "tomorrow's puppy." They went through the customs service's detector dog program like any other recruit while researchers tracked how they did. Regular puppies made the cut about 30% of the time. The clones made it 86% of the time, and by 2009 they were working airports and harbors across the country.
That's the business case for what Palmer Luckey and Colossal's Ben Lamm just launched.
Training one of these dogs can run past $60,000. When half your dogs wash out, every dog that graduates is secretly paying for the one that didn't, so each graduate really costs you something closer to $120,000. Get the pass rate up to Korea's 86% and that drops to about $70,000. You'd knock roughly 40% off every working dog the military buys before the dog does a single thing better.
And Warhound wants the dog to do things better. Korea could only copy a great dog. Lamm's team is banking cells from top German Shepherds and Belgian Malinois and then editing the genes. According to Lamm, the dogs that fail usually fail on stuff they were born with, like bad eyesight, cancer risk, hip dysplasia and muscle wasting. So the plan is to copy the best dog they can find and fix whatever would have ended its career.
The cloning runs through ViaGen, a Texas company Colossal owns that has spent years cloning people's pets for around $50,000 a dog. Anduril builds what goes on top of the dog, like vests with sensors that feed data back to the handler. For the record, Palmer doesn't own any of it. Colossal holds the equity, and the CIA's venture fund In-Q-Tel is in the $200 million round with Sequoia.
First puppies are due early next year. Korea's clones needed 16 months of training to prove themselves. If Warhound's dogs put up anything close to those numbers, the next generation of America's war dogs gets born in Texas instead of bought from Europe.
TRUE. Prototypes in Melbourne and Singapore use Cortical Labs CL1 units: human neurons grown from stem cells on silicon electrode chips, kept alive with nutrient solutions (including sugars), processing data as wetware biological computers. Consensus is they lack consciousness—far too simple, no sensory body or integrated structure—though the hard problem means absolute proof is elusive.
@brentbradley Well, you were the one posting Japanese Anime Porn school girl looking stuff when Grok first started here didn’t you? All I remember was you posting some weird anime women created by AI. The kind that video gamer boys apparently love. And you wonder why birth rates are dropping