Chip

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[Chip @mdak06]

@MrsSarahZee Saw the fireworks there as I was driving by this evening, I hope y'all are able to stay for the show.

[Connor Boyack 📚 @cboyack]

That which is seen: one job taken.

That which is not seen:

- Increased profit margin for the business
- Cheaper goods for households
- Fewer workplace injuries and deaths
- Faster shipping, fuller shelves
- Capital freed to fund new ideas
- New industries and jobs no one predicted
- Workers moving to safer, higher-value roles
- More output from the same hours
- Time returned to human minds for human problems

[Chip @mdak06]

This

#SaveStargate

[Breᐰkfast & Bullets @BreakfastBullit]

You can't be this thick, right @AmazonMGMStudio? We have hijacked every post you've done since the Stargate cancellation in June (which you didn't even have the guts to do yourself). We trend on X once or twice a week. We made and signed petitions. We've sent you tissue boxes, coins, and letters. We flew a BANNER over your office, for cryin' out loud!

You HAVE to realize by now what an egregious mistake you made. You HAVE to understand how badly you screwed up. You HAVE to see how firm, adamant, and resolved We The Fandom are in support of @martingero's Stargate.

You CANNOT be this moronic.

Right?

#SaveStargate

[Mitchell Rosenbloom @m_rosenbloom28]

Amazon MGM: "We own James Bond and Stargate."

Fans: "Great! What's next?"

Amazon MGM: "Legally Blonde. RoboCop."

Fans: stare into the abyss 😭

#SaveStargate

[Jack O'Neill @Jack2LOneill]

YOU EVEN MADE IT LOOK LIKE A REPLICATOR...COME ON PEOPLE

[Chip @mdak06]

Blargh ...

@AmazonMGMStudio you have a golden opportunity with people who want to see Stargate revived with Martin Gero.

Do the right thing and #SaveStargate

[Breᐰkfast & Bullets @BreakfastBullit]

@AmazonMGMStudio AmazonMGM: Let's do a reboot series of RoboCop using the same creators!

Also AmazonMGM: A continuation of Stargate won't work, even though we would use the same creators that did 17 successful seasons and two movies.

Are you kidding me, @AmazonMGMStudio?

#SaveStargate

[Chip @mdak06]

Come on @AmazonMGMStudio ... it's time to do Stargate right, by having @martingero running the show.

No need for anyone else.

The series has great fans. To throw that away is a little insane.

#SaveStargate

[EndeavourInspired @Endeavourov1]

@SGFansUnited @DEADLINE It seems they are trying to "JJ Trek" Stargate. It won't work.

Give us Martin Gero's Stargate @AmazonMGMStudio

#SaveStargate

[DeFlock @therealDeFlock]

"a Flock vice president logged into the Dunwoody PD’s Flock system and looked at a camera in the children’s gymnastics room of a private community center here in Dunwoody.

He did not look at any other cameras in the entire 400-camera network that day."

https://t.co/CwhLqOMwvz

[Baltimore Orioles @Orioles]

We got Messi at home 😂

[Chip @mdak06]

This a million times this ...

Without accountability and consequences ... when the incentives for good behavior don't exist ... bad behavior reigns.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

It’s simple really.

In real life, you usually feel your mistakes. If you lose money, lose customers, you go broke.

That brutal feedback forces you to learn or get out.

But in the political world of make believe, when politicians, bureaucrats, or elite experts make the calls, they don’t pay.

They literally have zero incentive to not ruin your life.

If a bad education policy tanks kids’ futures, they still draw their salary and move to the next postmodern theory.

If welfare rules create dependency traps, the designers live in safe neighborhoods and send their kids to private schools.

This is a recurring theme everywhere the “anointed” run things with no skin in the game.

No personal cost means no real accountability, no course correction, just endless experiments paid for by everyone else.

[Nick’s Dank Memes @Nicksdankmemes3]

@beinlibertarian 🫡

[Chip @mdak06]

mmmmmmm chili

#SaveStargate

[Logan @limeunfiltered]

This is Todd, he works at @Wendys. If you're tired of him using a wraith stunner on customers and then turning them into chili, @AmazonMGMStudio needs to give us Gero's Stargate. #savestargate

[Chip @mdak06]

@sappholives83 The phrase "man-child" comes to mind.

[Baltimore Memes @BaltimoreMemes]

💀

[Prisha Mosley🦎 @PrishaMosley]

I dont think my doctors should have just warned me about hormones and surgery. I think they should have told me no.

I think they should have told me that I was too young and unstable to make irreversible changes to my body that would affect my health forever. They knew better.

[S2 Underground @s2_underground]

First of all no, we're not doing this. I do not answer DMs from a company that is trying to do damage control AFTER they have ruined the trust of Americans. I do not have "good faith" debates with people who want to enslave me in a fishbowl that they can monitor at all times.

Guess what guys: We don't actually have to give anyone the benefit of the doubt, or engage in "good faith" debates with bad actors. I don't have to justify my concerns about Flock to anyone. But since this condescension pissed me off, I will respond publicly, since Flock seems to want to keep our voices in the shadows and out of the public eye.

Note the argument:

"You see, King George specifically authorized quartering troops among you, I don't know what you're complaining about it's ALL LEGAL".

Well, golly gee guys, I guess it's all right then, they made it legal.

That's exactly the problem. Notice how nobody has a problem with standard security cameras. Public security cameras are not the problem...directly pumping the feed of every square inch of the country into a centralized federal database is one HELL of a problem and we must do everything within our rights as Americans to push back against efforts like this, if we are to have a future as a nation.

Flock, much like Palantir, took the decently good idea of improving security, and implemented it in the most cartoonishly evil way possible at nearly every single step. They are working directly for all levels of government....not the citizenry. They use subterfuge, legal technicalities, and every single trick in the book to put up hundreds of cameras every single day. They constantly mislead the public about what databases their sensors feed into, and who they sell the metadata to.

They have so little oversight that it's laughable, and ALL oversight involves the classic case of "we investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing". Flock has been caught lying MANY times, and misleading the public regarding what their cameras actually do. Newsflash...they don't just read license plates.

They are also concealing which agencies purchase their data specifically so as to avoid getting warrants, and in doing so they have turned the ENTIRE COUNTRY into an open air prison....where THEY get to provide the intelligence data to those who enforce the laws as selectively as they please.

And their defense for doing so? "Aww look at the cute puppy we rescued" or "We arrested one guy using our camera network, we're so AWESOME".

You don't get to arrest one genuine criminal, and use that as justification to set up and entire Minority Report-esque surveillance system to surveil the entire country. You don't get to betray trust, and then be sad that people don't trust you. You don't get to cozy up to the boot of tyranny so much that you become the boot yourself, and then pretend to be just "one of the guys".

We will not fall for this gaslighting, no matter how hard they try.

For some reason, many people think that private companies can't be tyrants, which could not be further from the truth. At a certain point, a private company can be so heavily embedded within government, that they might as well BE the government. Except they are worse, because we don't even have the tiniest way to hold them accountable except for taking the billion-dollar company to court.

That's my problem with Flock, Palantir, and pretty much every single other defense contractor in existence. I will NOT accept every single facet of my life being monitored, just in case a criminal commits a crime somewhere near me. I will NOT live in "ze pod", no matter which politician is in power, and I will not accept a future where people like this will dictate to me what my country should be.

[Chip @mdak06]

This is it, pretty straightforward. Males and females have universal definitions in biology - not just for humans. The fact that there's variability of all types in humans doesn't change the basic fundamental definition of sex.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

A female body is observably organised to produce large gametes. There is nothing metaphysical about this definition. The presence of the equipment to produce eggs = female. It is irrelevant whether those gametes have ever been fertilised, irrelevant whether there is a biological anomaly that means gametes cannot be fertilised, or the female is too young or old to produce viable eggs. If the body is provably configured to produce eggs rather than sperm, the possessor of the body is female. All mammalian bodies are arranged to produce either eggs or sperm. There is no third gamete and there are no human hermaphrodites.

[RPM Meme Liquidators @RPM_Memes]

Get your copy of Flock Hunt today!

[Chip @mdak06]

#SaveStargate @AmazonMGMStudio @PrimeVideo

[Lou Diamond Phillips @LouDPhillips]

It certainly seems like it’s time for the legacy to continue. Proud I was a part of it. #SaveStargate

[Chip @mdak06]

#SaveStargate

[StargateOnPrime 🖖 🫡 ᐰ @sleepytrekkie]

#SaveStargate #STARGᐰTE #Stargate #DialTheGate