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"Unless “in common use at the time” is held to mean by soldiers in the field,with real “weapons of war,” as opposed to a sporting arms popularity contest,the Second Amendment will be nullified as a last-resort defense against foreign and domestic tyranny" ammoland.com/2021/06/second…

@ageesen @NoiseesoiN @omgsidewalks All that registry crap for something that should've been a radio button in the UI A+ to you for showing the technique F to Microsoft for being obstinate FWIW very few will mess with registry, some enterprise users can't

@NoiseesoiN @omgsidewalks "Easy" is in the eye of the beholder. 😆

Dear Microsoft, when I hit the Windows Start menu key and start typing a word to autocomplete a search, I never, ever, EVER want it to return results of something not on my computer. Ever. Like, ever, ever, never.

This is the first case of its kind in UK criminal justice history. A Derbyshire officer allegedly used AI to fabricate evidential material across multiple cases not one. The Crown Prosecution Service is now reviewing every conviction those cases touched. Three days ago, the UK government announced PoliceAI. £140 million. a national AI centre for policing. 40 new facial recognition vans. AI tools for every force in England and Wales by 2027. the official goal: "get responsible AI into the hands of officers." Three days later: criminal investigation into an officer for using AI to manufacture evidence. the interim director of PoliceAI put out a statement today. "our work is rooted in transparency." 97% of all criminal investigations in the UK now involve digital evidence. that's this year's figure. AI is already being used to summarise case files, triage evidence, and assist with disclosure. one officer already used it to manufacture evidence across multiple cases. nobody noticed until now.

> you’ll never start a rocket company > you’ll never build your own engines > you’ll never be able to use off-the-shelf parts > you’ll never survive three launch failures > you’ll never reach orbit > you’ll never win NASA’s trust > you’ll never launch cargo to the ISS > you’ll never compete with Boeing > you’ll never compete with Lockheed > you’ll never make rockets reusable > you’ll never land a rocket vertically > you’ll never land one on a drone ship > you’ll never reuse a booster > you’ll never fly the same booster 10 times > you’ll never fly the same booster 20 times > you’ll never fly the same booster 30 times > you’ll never recover and reuse the fairing > you’ll never lower launch costs > you’ll never launch every month > you’ll never launch every week > you’ll never launch multiple times a week > you’ll never carry astronauts > you’ll never replace Roscosmos > you’ll never fly civilians to orbit > you’ll never manufacture satellites at scale > you’ll never build the biggest constellation ever > you’ll never make satellite internet work > you’ll never make satellite internet fast > you’ll never make satellite internet affordable > you’ll never serve rural customers > you’ll never serve aircraft and ships > you’ll never build a methane rocket engine > you’ll never make full-flow staged combustion work > you’ll never build the most powerful rocket ever > you’ll never build a rocket bigger than Saturn V > you’ll never build it out of stainless steel > you’ll never launch Starship > you’ll never separate Super Heavy and Starship > you’ll never relight Raptor in space > you’ll never bring Super Heavy back > you’ll never catch a booster with Mechazilla tower arms > you’ll never launch 85% of mass to orbit worldwide > you’ll never change the economics of space > you’ll never force the entire industry to copy you > you’ll never win > you’ll never IPO   Congratulations to @elonmusk and the SpaceX team. You did what countless people said was impossible, and you did it time and time again.   Today is your day. You deserve this. May it be a glorious one.

🚨IRELAND ON THE BRINK! In the last 24 hours, Irish patriots have shut down the nation! Truck drivers, bus operators and farmers have paralysed cities with massive blockades. Even as Gardaí threaten 6 months in jail, more patriots flood the streets in defiance. Ireland is primed for revolution.

USS Liberty survivors tell Thomas Massie they are extremely concerned about the treasonous Section 224 of the NDAA, which they say would force Americans to pay for special benefits for IDF soldiers. Massie says the provision poses a major threat to U.S. sovereignty by intertwining technology, military retirement systems, supply chains, and intelligence operations. "I think that's a bad idea for the United States." "Why would you adopt a junior partner with less than 10 million people?"

If this is true, then great job Panama. This should be a law in all the countries.

In Finland they made a dance to show migrants not to rape them "Stop don't touch me, this is my no go space"

The problem with universal suffrage is that the more technologically advanced a civilization becomes, the smaller the fraction of people there are in it with the native intelligence to understand how it works. When the majority of humanity was employed in whacking at the dirt with a pointed stick, and the height of technology was a slightly better pointed stick, anyone with a triple digit IQ could understand what was going on. Now, we have things like stock markets, the internet, transportation infrastructure, and the Linux kernel, but most people who vote are unable to conceive of these as anything but large piles of chocolate coins, or something else they can put their mouths. Because that's how the average monkey interacts with money. They stack the blocks, the research assistant gives them a token, they exchange the token for a banana. It's no good trying to explain to the monkeys what supply chain is, or how a trillion dollars worth of rockets can't magically be converted into a trillion dollars worth of bananas just because they're both measured in dollars, as if a six-foot man and a six-foot plank of wood were interchangeable. Finding a slightly different explanation, or getting the monkeys to sit still and really listen, doesn't really help. Because the problem isn't just that the monkeys aren't paying attention. The problem is that the monkeys are monkeys. Their brains simply don't have the developmental capacity to grow the neural connections they would need in order to grasp and manipulate the concept. In the long term, this is why universal democracy is doomed. Because societies that let retards vote will fail, and be replaced by those that don't. You may think that we, as a society, face a great variety of problems. We do not. We have only one. Retards. Every other problem we have is downstream from their inability to understand the consequences of their political opinions. But to fully grasp the implications of this, you have to understand that the definition of "retard" changes over time, as technology advances, because the IQ level required to grasp what's really going on gets steadily higher and higher. Eventually, the category "retard" grows until it includes the average person. This has already happened. Nick Knudsen isn't dumber than the average guy. But the average guy, the 100 IQ salt of the earth guy that's sitting on the next bar stool over, can no longer understand the modern economy. And this isn't correctable, because the problem isn't ignorance, it's complexity. You can't make Nick Knudsen smarter by telling him things. You can't even make him less ignorant, because the bare facts aren't believable to someone who doesn't have the framework to understand how they fit together. The people who understand what's going on are so much smarter than him that he doesn't even think they sound smart. He thinks they sound crazy.

@EdMarkey Get bent

A 5% tax on Elon’s net worth would fund every community health center in America for the next 26 years. I’ll say it again. Tax the rich.

The Ukraine biolab story has completed its journey: "Conspiracy theory" → "Russian disinformation" → "Fact-checked" → Official government disclosure. For years, anyone asking questions was smeared and censored. Now the intelligence community itself acknowledges a vast US-funded biolab network.

If the socialists had their way, Elon would have had his paypal profits taken and redistributed for the greater good. The world would never have seen Tesla, nor SpaceX. And the world wouldn't know it, because they were uncreated, and thus unseen. Imagine the companies that don't exist, because Washington destroyed them before they were born.

“Elon Musk is a trillionaire.” As a securities law attorney, please allow me to explain how anyone who says this is basically lying to you: 1. The Securities and Exchange Commission has a myriad of laws that prevent founders and other large stockholders of publicly traded companies from dumping their shares. There are substantial holding period requirements, volume of sales limitations and public reporting obligations for stock sales. Basically, Elon holds largely illiquid shares, he is a “trillionaire” on paper only, and the best analogy is when people peg your net worth based on your home’s market price. That’s not money in your pocket, that’s the house you live in. 2. All that money raised in the IPO? That’s not going into Elon’s pocket like the lying socialist idiots want you to believe. It’s a capital influx that will be used to make more rockets and get more payloads into orbit. It’s a CAPITAL investment—that money is like a business loan, it’s not your money to keep, it’s your money to grow the business. 3. If it WERE legal for Elon to dump his shares, the share price would crash basically instantly and the company could very well fail. If you bought SpaceX shares in the IPO, congrats. You just bought a lottery ticket, just like Elon. May the odds ever be in your favor. So the next time someone screeches about how unfair it is that Elon Musk creates wealth that benefits all of humanity, throw the truth back in their faces.

There is ONLY ONE child life ruined and that is Austin Metcalf only one family is destroyed the Metcalf Family. Karmelo Anthony destroyed lives and the Anthony Family raised the watermelon felon that did it. #KarmeloAnthony #GUILTY #WatermelonFelon

Many people need to understand this. Many of the activists and individuals responsible for spreading the claim that Karmelo was “attacked by four boys” are people on the ORR list who have actually viewed the Frisco ISD footage. These are the same people who have said vile things about Hunter, Austin, Jeff, and Meghan Metcalf. The same people who spent the last year trying to discredit me and my reporting. Some are felons. Some are predators. Some are simply detached from reality. I’ve seen the footage too. It does not show what they claim it shows. In fact, you can barely see much of anything. But it does confirm one thing: this was never self-defense. It was a shove met with a stab. That is why the prosecution showed the footage to the jury. These people live in a fantasy world. It’s one of the strangest phenomena I’ve ever witnessed online. I’ve said for a long time that this case is one of the oddest, deepest piles of rot I’ve ever encountered. There is something deeply disturbing about it. When the footage is eventually released and you finally see what I saw, you’ll understand exactly what I mean. And even then, they will continue to lie. They will lie about the footage. They will lie about what is right in front of your face. Because that’s what they’ve been doing from the very beginning.

Dear Elizabeth, During Hurricane Helene, we lost power for weeks, internet for months. All of our phones stopped working and first responders could not communicate. ...and then Elon donated Starlink and saved THOUSANDS, many of them, people I know and love WHAT THE HELL HAVE YOU EVER BUILT, EVER IN YOUR MISERABLE FUCKING LIFE TO BENEFIT HUMANITY IN ANY WAY AT ALL THAT COMES REMOTELY CLOSE?!!!!!

The wake up call is for you, Senator. You have spent 30 years in government. Name one thing you built. One product, one service, one system that works. You can't. Your entire career consists of redistributing value created by others, and lecturing the people who create it. Elon built reusable rockets for less than what Washington spends in 3 hours. The government you represent spends $7 trillion a year and can't balance a budget, fix a border, or build a train. He did 100 times more with 100 times less. A trillionaire who earned it by serving billions of customers is not a problem. A bureaucrat who never created a dollar of value deciding how value should be allocated, that's the problem. The era of the builder is here. You can keep tweeting from the back seat of your government car, or you can step aside and watch. History remembers the people who build. It footnotes the ones who taxed them.

The evidence Tulsi released today proves that Mitt Romney is a neocon shill who should not be trusted in the GOP. Isn’t it interesting the entire Democrat party (and uniparty shills like Romney) and the media and intel community tried to paint @DNIGabbard as a Russian asset? Meanwhile they were the ones trying to destroy US foreign policy using Russia as a scapegoat. All in the name of power… gross.