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@lmchankins @JTAlexander_ The ones using human shields are the evil ones.

@JTAlexander_ I never want to hear about the US being the good guys again if we carry this out.

People won’t like it, but the most effective way to neutralize hostage taking as a tactic is to shoot the hostage. Human shields only work because we say they work. If we decide they don’t work anymore, they’ll stop using them.

@AustinJustice Number 1 is the main driver of lower crime rates. The tech helps speed up the process but it is ultimately having a tough prosecutor that is willing to put criminals away that lowers crime.

San Francisco is now a model for how to fight crime. A few years ago it averaged 86 car break-ins per day. Today: 15. SF did two things: 1. Got a DA that prosecutes criminals: Following the successful recall of Chesa Boudin, DA Brooke Jenkins started prosecuting prolific offenders and said so loudly. Crime dropped every year since she took office. 2. Put tech to use: In 2024, SF activated 400 license plate readers and deployed 80 drones citywide. This tech feeds officers live intelligence on suspects in motion. Drones alone have assisted in 1,000+ arrests since then. The technology lets authorities solve crimes as they happen rather than depend on much more intensive, legally perilous post hoc investigations (which ironically are often more intrusive than using tech). The results: - Car break-ins down 85% - Robbery down 30% - Burglary down 33%. - Homicides hit their lowest level since 1954. Plate readers, drones, a prosecutor who prosecutes. That's the whole formula! Austin has the opposite approach. License plate cameras are effectively banned. Jail bookings are down despite repeat offenders victimizing innocent people regularly. Bond violations went from 37 in 2020 to 250 last year. SF proved crime is a choice. Austin, so far, keeps making a different one.

@Breaking911 For all the newly minted war crimes experts, using civilians as human shields is a war crime.

🚨 Iranians are reportedly forming human chains across Ahvaz’s White Bridge in an effort to safeguard critical infrastructure from US airstrikes.

@ChicagoHA519867 @nypost The article noted that this airline lets pregnant women fly up to the 32nd week without medical clearance. The story said that was rare.

@nypost What I found most funny about this case is that the people screaming, "women can't board planes when they're close to giving birth!" have been proven very, very wrong.

Baby born on a plane has no country, experts say - child's citizenship now unclear trib.al/8psdYfn

@wonderwill @ChuckPfarrer @TrentTelenko Short story: The small drones controlled by radio are easy to jam. They put a box on it that streams out miles of fiber cable connected to the remote which cant be jammed like radio. You end up with fields with fiber all over the place

@ChuckPfarrer @TrentTelenko I'm missing something. Drones have fiber optic cable? Where?

CUT THE CORD: Ukrainian forces are deploying high tension sections of rotating razor wire on the battlefield. These are used to cut the fiber optic cables of Russian drones as they pass overhead.

@davidcantu14600 @LeadingReport

@LeadingReport It’s a war crime to hit the electrical grid

@authorJFK @gotrice2024 It is likely that there has never been a storm to equal the amount of water a main can put out.

@gotrice2024 So she's NEVER had a natural storm rain down pour? (where the water was supposed to go)

This woman woke up to the sound of rushing water hitting her house, she runs out side to see water pouring into her garage and flooding her home. The gas company was running gas lines and struck a water main line. She filed a claim with her insurance company only to be denied due to flood coverage. The gas company isn’t taking responsibility for it either. She has thousands of dollars worth of water damage and now mold is growing. Taking this to court could take months of years, what would you do if this happened to you?

@MagneticNorse You can do video calls using a handheld device these days.

Sloth is expensive and infuriating

@RealSamRogers I don't fault her for not knowing. I do fault her for not knowing how to do a tiny bit of basic research online before posting this. A Phd means you should know how to find very basic information on any subject using a simple web search.

Doctor, Rhodes Scholar, lower understanding of near space than my toddler. It's beautiful.

I didn’t know Robert Wagner got married again

@kunjTalky @BeReasonable01 @christoaivalis It didn't find a shot. It landed, kicked off the lens cover (other Venus landers failed at this point), took the picture of whatever was in front of it and then transmitted it along with whatever other info it had collected to the orbiting probe before it died.

@BeReasonable01 @christoaivalis Thats a terribly short window to find a good shot, capture it, process it and transmit it completely before getting vaporized. Unbelievable engineering.

One thing we don't talk about is how the Soviet Union landed on Venus and got incredible pictures in 1982

@TheWayneShaw1 @RBPundit The heat is only half of it. The pressure is 90x that of earth, like being several thousand feet deep in the ocean along with it being over 850 degrees.

@RBPundit We have a probe skipping off the upper atmosphere of the sun, you can’t tell me we can’t send some longer lived hardware to Venus??

And then what happened?

@MyMindsAwol @DrewPavlou Some people don't seem to understand the concept of "Two things can be true at once" It is quite possible this guy is a war hero and a war criminal at the same time. I'm assuming he will get his day in court and Australia is giving him a fair trial.

@DrewPavlou Guys a legend, but when 20 of your fellow colleagues and SAS brothers testify against you claiming you commited war crimes, you have a serious problem.

Australia’s most decorated Afghan War veteran now faces LIFE IN PRISON over alleged war crimes charges. He was arrested this morning. Ben Roberts-Smith was awarded the Victoria Cross for Australia after singlehandedly storming two Taliban machine gun positions by himself in order to save his own SAS team. And this is how we repay him.

@para3tamol @BarryOnHere

@BarryOnHere No phones is sight. Just two people having a great time:

Still together 50 years later. No scandals. No cheating. No drama. Just pure love.

@TaraBull en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capirote

He's questioning his decision to visit Spain

@Shanitahmoon @TRIGGERHAPPYV1 It is possible to convert a diesel engine to use vegetable oil but it is complicated. People used to do it when they could source used oil from restaurants for free. Most don't give it away anymore.

@TRIGGERHAPPYV1 😂😂😂wait what ? Does this work?

This man is going viral after he was spotted putting vegetable oil in gas gas tank as a more affordable alternative to diesel

This FedEx driver is currently going viral for the way she delivered a brand new PC

@TileExperts @3YearLetterman @Arrogance_0024 I'm reminded of this gem.

@3YearLetterman @Arrogance_0024 The French are the best military strategists, Waterloo, the folding of France in WW2. They have no idea what sacrifice is except dropping weapons.

Lose all this to rescue 1 pilot and call it your greatest military success of all time.

@MacLoven35 @Howitzer30K @PixMate99 @nicksortor @ckubeNBC @NBCNews She can be brought in for questioning and compelled by a judge to give up the source and if she refuses, she sits in jail cell on contempt charges until she does.

@Howitzer30K @PixMate99 @nicksortor @ckubeNBC @NBCNews reporters are typically protected by the first amendment, but I think this might be the first case where the leak directly endangered someone so then it wouldn't be protected by the first amendment

🚨 BREAKING: President Trump announces the admin is going HARD after whoever LEAKED the fact only ONE airman was saved "When they did that, all of a sudden, the entire country of Iran, knew that there was a pilot that was somewhere on land that was FIGHTING FOR HIS LIFE. "It became a MUCH more difficult operation. Because a leaker leaked that we have one. We've rescued one. But there's another one out there that we're trying to get." "We HAVE to find the leaker. We're GOING to find out. It's national security. And the person who did the story will go to JAIL if he doesn't say." "They put that mission at GREAT RISK, and they put at risk the hundreds of people that went in looking for him, because EVERYONE now knows that we're going in."

@TRIGGERHAPPYV1 To take a misdemeanor shoplifting charge and just upgraded it to felony assault on an officer is peak stupidity. Going from likely zero jail time to actual prison time.

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