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@Ellis2021cfc @sanketghatte23 @Breaking911 Sure! Here is a chocolate cake recipe for your upcoming party! lmfaoo

@MuricaBro @sanketghatte23 @Breaking911 Yeah ur probaly ai to lol.

BREAKING: The NTSB has released new CCTV footage of UPS Flight 2976, showing the moment the left engine and its pylon detached from the wing during takeoff from Louisville.

@sanketghatte23 @Breaking911 STFU you retarded AI

@Breaking911 Whoa, talk about a high-flying drama! Glad everyone’s okay , guess that engine took “taking off” a bit literally.

Maybe you wonder why I, a mere gun blog, makes a big deal about Flock and similar tech? OK here’s a real world situation that can easily happen and has likely happened. Unfortunately to drive on public roads without getting hassled by the cops, your car needs a license plate. That’s tied to you, the owner of the vehicle. Flock isn’t just a traffic camera, it’s an AI/ML enabled (wait for it) flock of cameras that transmit all their video and audio to the mothership. Not a government server somewhere but, to keep it simple, a big giant cloud computer instance owned and run by Flock, the company. Government users, as well as Flock employees here in the US and overseas, can log in and query the system based on license plate number or even vehicle description and get a full history of that vehicle’s movements throughout the Flock network over multiple jurisdictions. Someone in New York can track a car from Armonk all the way to Homestead FL if they feel like it from the comfort of their desk. On a daily level, someone can get a pretty accurate picture of someone’s life just by monitoring their movements via Flock. And I’m using this example to rattle the cage of the “back the blue unconditionally” crowd in 2A. OK - your car has license plate ABC 123 - and Flock knows this. Someone can enter your tag in Flock and see what you are doing on a daily basis. You leave your home where the neighborhood is under the Flock panopticon. Flock sees you drive to Dunkin’ on Main Street, then you drop your kid off at XYZ Daycare. Then you go to work at the local IT consulting firm in ZZZ industrial park. You go pick up a quick deli sandwich for lunch at Food Lion. You go back to work. On the way home you stop off at Bob’s Guns, and stay for 20 minutes while buying some ammo. Then you go home. Everywhere there’s a Flock camera. Now Flock knows the following about you: - You live at 123 Wisteria Lane - Your kid is in daycare (means he’s likely under 5) - You work at ZZZ - You go cheap on lunch - You own at least one gun Your license plate is tied to you so they now have your name and assumed-to-be-private details of your life, like that you are armed. On the reverse of that, the Flock camera outside of Bob’s Guns has been recording the plates of everyone going into the parking lot. No need for a firearms registry when Flock is doing the work. All of this is done without a warrant and the data is available to anyone with a certain level of access to the system, whether it’s a cop, or a Flock technician in the Philippines. FYI Flock uses overseas contractors for support and AI annotation. The 2018 Carpenter decision at SCOTUS ruled that pervasive surveillance where one can divine private details of someone’s life is a 4th Amendment violation in absence of a specific warrant. Flock is illegal, unconstitutional and immoral. And a danger to everyone, not just gun owners.

@CowMissing @UniStudios Looks like it, probably an RFID tag the train reads

I noticed something interesting at Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift. Given my roller coaster experience, I’m curious what this device is for. It doesn’t appear to trigger onboard audio changes like Revenge of the Mummy. Could this be a sensor that helps position the train into its programmed drift movements?

@bryan_blk631 Same with space mountain, every Disney “influencer” advertised the single rider and now it’s insane

welcome to single rider on matterhorn bobsleds, where the internet has ruined this gem

@CoasterK24 Maybe, the only video I saw was from a weird angle and it looked like it was under where the LIMs/brakes were (maybe grease from a chaindog hit a LIM or brake and caught fire?).

@MuricaBro I noticed that too but i think the lims caught on fire not the brakes?

Big thunder mountain nerd content. The new LIMs and brakes are soooo quiet

@OnlineHyde I never even thought of that, but it makes sense since the brake run doesn’t have any actual brakes and is only held by LIMs. Probably something similar happened here, not much except pneumatics and those LIMs in that area.

Related/unrelated… When I worked there 20ish years ago we had a warning signal in tower if the LIMs were overheating in the brake run. We had to go down a few times because we were stacking trains and the LIMs started to smoke.

@shannon_robles @DisneyScoopGuy Maybe, but the two hours it was closed for seems like an extremely long time to do that. They can clear the line out in probably 30-45 minutes.

@MuricaBro @DisneyScoopGuy No, it's to get the day guests through the line before the event

Can anyone explain why they close this ride early during Star Wars Nite at Disneyland? It makes absolutely zero sense.

@scottwalker88 Why would you ride Stardust Racers when you could go and watch the Bourne Stuntacular?

Good news. Stardust Racers is now open.

@tokuda_niki Amazing collection! Do you think they'll bring back the original one with the 25th anniversary one?

@DreamfinderGuy @TPCo0Lz_YT 100%. Rip Ride Rockit 2.0 type vibes. I think Universal is gonna stick with Intamin/B&M only from now on.

@TPCo0Lz_YT @MuricaBro I think Universal had decided that before Stardust even took riders outside of Mack

I have some bad news about stardust racers at Epic. It’s structural damage… I can’t say much else but boy oh boy is it wild! Speculation: we may never see it open again. I’m dead serious. #EpicUniverse #StardustRacers

@TPCo0Lz_YT Makes sense. The fact that it was put under “refurbishment” this long after its commissioning and that they have consistently had several lifts looking at various parts of the track was definitely odd.

@MuricaBro I have sources, I do not take any of the stuff lightly. I wish there were better news.

@TPCo0Lz_YT If what you say is true, could totally see that. This ride has already had plenty of problems even without this.

@MuricaBro This is speculation: I don’t think that universal will work with Mack again

@TPCo0Lz_YT Interesting. Mack rides would definitely have some explaining to do to the entire industry if true.

@MuricaBro I do not think I’m allowed to say. I think me saying it may not open again speaks enough volume though.

@CowMissing @thecalibae I believe they’re actually LSMs now, changed over about 8 years ago to be more efficient.

@thecalibae Got to love linear induction motors! 😎

Cool to see the launch system in action for Incredicoaster at DCA

@BookitWithTrent Make sure to report them for unapproved , hateful speech.

and here come the Canadians

@ThemeParkIQ Construction project? By this point it’s the finished product lol

Checking in on everyone’s favorite construction project