@dominbydigdug@WillManidis I didn't realize until I read his obituary that he'd spent the final years of his life only an hour away from me. I would have been over there had I known.
Charlie Birger stole my grandfather's new car and wrecked it in a getaway. My grandfather rarely drove after that and never personally owned another car, as he felt the police didn't do enough to protect it or repay him for damages from a known criminal they failed to apprehend earlier.
In Harrisburg, Illinois, the Shelton Beothers Gang use a Curtiss JN-4 biplane to try to bomb rival gangster Charles Birger’s hideout from the air.
The bombing raid only succeeds in destroying the cock-fighting arena.
Nevertheless, it is the first time in recorded history that gangs in the United States have used aircraft to attack one another, and it’s the first-recorded aerial bombing of US soil.
And we're gonna do it all without frontier models under the control of a rent-seeking cartel that sought regulatory oversight for the sole purpose of pricing out competitors with compliance overhead.
I had to set up grok bot for a client and I got a bluechecked X account out of the deal so I figured it was a good time to set up a "professional" account vs just screwing around on an anon.