Uncommon Sense

@ChrisMurphyCT Immigration enforcement is an important part of homeland security, Chris.

This is the only thing you need to know. Democrats want to open TSA. Republicans are refusing because they want to attach ICE funding. That’s why there are long lines. ICE.

@MosiniElisa Where was the lie though?

Yes, and we Europeans will remember the US betrayal. We will remember your blackmail. We will remember your threats. We will remember your malice. We are Europeans, and we will never forget those who try, now or in the future, to harm Europe or the European people. 🇪🇺

The biggest obstacle to problem solving is "giving things the wrong names". If your city has a feral human problem, and you call it a "homeless problem", you aren't going to understand the correct solution. So you're going to end up buying a lot of homes for feral drug zombies to turn into rat infested drug dens. Conversely, if your city has a homeless cat problem, and you call it a "feral cat problem", you're going to end up killing a lot of innocent animals, and being troubled by a lot of unnecessary rats. If you take a noise mitigating technology, put it on a car and call it a "muffler", then pretty soon you're required by law to have one, because no one wants to listen to 2500 explosions per second right outside his house. But if you it on a rifle, and apply for a patent calling it a "silencer", then pretty soon you're required by law to not have one, because some Hollywood filmmaker thought it was a magic device that would let you have invisible gunfights in the middle of a crowded subway. Now let's suppose you want to develop radar camouflage. To do this, you need eleventy billion trillion squillion dollars from congress, which they will print with their money printer, thereby reducing the value of some carpenter's life savings in Peoria, Illinois to just enough to buy a large pizza. But since congress has the collective IQ of a goldfish, and less attention span, you can't call it what it is, which is radar camouflage, because then they will think you just need to paint some tan and green blobs on planes, and they will only give you two billion trillion squillion dollars. They'll still print the rest, of course, but they'll spend it on tiny houses for feral drug zombies (built on contract for two million dollars each by a contractor who just happens to be a senator's cousin), and on murdering homeless cats. You want that extra nine billion trillion squillion dollars. Partially because you need it, but also because congress just inflated your life savings to the price of one large pizza. So you call the whole thing a "stealth fighter" which will be "invisible to radar". And you get eleventy billion trillion squillion dollars. Yay! But now everyone who isn't an engineer is confused. They now literally think you have an invisible airplane, like Wonder Woman scooting across the sky on her butt in an 80s cartoon. If you had called it "camouflage", you wouldn't have that problem. Because everybody knows that camouflage doesn't make you invisible. Camouflage just makes it take longer to spot you. Which gives you more time to do stuff before angry people start shooting at you. No one would ever call camouflage a "failure" because a soldier wearing a tan and green jacket got shot. Because it's named correctly, so people understand it correctly. So @Microinteracti1 is dead wrong. But it's not his fault. He just believed the lie that was intended for congress, because he's not an engineer. It's not even the fault of the people who lied. Yes, they wanted money. But they also wanted less dead pilots. So whose fault is it? Congress, of course. You have to lie to them to get anything done, because they are a bunch of 50+ year old theater kids, with no understanding of the world they live in, and no skills except winning rigged popularity contests and being sex pests to any woman or child who strays too close. When the system becomes so entrenched and ossified that it spends more time and money dealing with social expectations than physical realities, of course the impingement of universal laws on your bubble is going to come as a bit a of rude shock. In reality, radar works like light. It bounces off stuff, and then you detect it, and notice that it bounced off something. Only difference is, light comes from the sun, but you have to shine the radar yourself. There's a little piece of tech that cyclists use so you won't run them over when they ignore stoplights at night, or cut you off in traffic, entrusting their lives to you while assuming you're heartless because of your Trump 2024 bumper sticker. This piece of tech is called retroreflective clothing. It's designed to bounce light straight back at whatever angle it came in at, based on the assumption that your eyes are in roughly the same direction as your headlights. This way, you see them, and you only fantasize about killing them on purpose, instead of doing it for real by accident. Radar camouflage is the opposite. It's designed to absorb as much radar energy as possible, and to throw the rest off at a different angle. This increases the time it takes to realize you're there at all, and the time it takes to figure out where you are, which means that you have more time to drop JDAMs on people before someone starts shooting at you. Which is nice. But there are countermeasures. First of all, you're still a solid physical object that reflects light, and that includes radar. You can't suppress it all. Secondly, if you're throwing off reflected radar in a different direction, the enemy can put radar emitters, and radar detectors, in multiple places. And have them talk to each other. A camouflaged guy can hide from one person, but it's harder to hide from ten people standing in a big circle around your hiding spot. So you use all your tricks, try not to get notice, and you devote special effort to throwing long range munitions at all the stuff people put there to see you with. But you know the risk, and you take it seriously, because no one told the PILOTS they were invisible. That's just what they sold to congress. For eleventy billion trillion squillion dollars of your kids' college money.

@Devon_Eriksen_ @JTAlexander_ I cracked up loud enough for the neighbors to hear at the “you only fantasize about killing them deliberately instead of actually doing it on accident” line. It’s so true.

Bloodborne. I really, really wanted to like it, and certain parts of it I absolutely did… but the 2 minute run/battle past infinitely respawning trash for every attempt at boss 1 just killed it for me. I didn’t mind the difficulty, I loved it, just for love of the elder blood respawn me at the boss door if you want it to take a bunch of attempts to win.

What game is this?🚀

@qsfkbwIhuWLhnjI It’ll be Japan too if you don’t stop importing them. Learn from our mistake.

米国。若い白人女性が歩いていたら、後ろから黒人の男が女性の頭部を強く殴る。 仲間らしい男が、それを動画で撮って大笑い。 これがアメリカの治安

@FuryAF1 @canarymission Deport every non-citizen in that square.

@canarymission Its free speech. I dont like it either, but that's the reason it needs to be protected.

EXCLUSIVELY EXPOSED: “We proclaim our support for the Islamic republic! Shame, shame USA!” “We condemn the assassination of martyr Ali Khamenei! Martyrdom is our highest honor!” NJ resident and computer science student at Suffolk Community College, Taha Hasnain, wants to make sure everyone knows what the anti-Israel movement really stands for.

@JTAlexander_ Chuck Norris didn’t die, he just went to have a word with life’s manager about the state of the timeline.

I have absolutely no opinion about the man himself, but the jokes about him have been dated for 20 years and I was relieved they had finally gone out of style. Now I'm seeing them every 30 seconds today. Get better material.

@MadelaineLucyH We used to. Europe executed 1% of every generation for centuries specifically to solve this problem. Then we started listening to people (mostly women) who said this was mean and we had to stop harshly punishing these poor, misunderstood, saints in the making.

If it was just 1%…why does every woman you’ve ever met have the same story? Why haven’t you done something about this terrible, one in a hundred man?

@marcorandazza I see literally no downsides to someone mag dumping him on the spot. He had weapons and a stated intent to kill. Sounds like reasonable threat to life to me.

My very radical take that it should be legal to kill people like this. Not just defend yourself from them, but hunt them down and take them out before they harm. The standard of proof should be so high that you get the death penalty if you make a wrong decision about whose head you bring back. But we should have a privatized system where taxpayers pay for the heads of people like this

@26ers_bp115 I worry for the future of Japan if it can’t keep itself Japanese. Don’t make the mistake of Europe and America.

ダンキンドーナツに入り、勝手に商品を持ち出すアフリカン。 これに苦言を呈したら人種差別だと騒ぎ散らす。 恩を感じるどころか悪用する事しか考えない連中なんだから、いい加減、BLMだのポリコレだの言ってコイツらを甘やかすのをやめろ！

What the audits found is that there simply isn’t enough data to prove the fraud. Think about it, with a mail in ballot how do you prove it wasn’t submitted by the person it was sent to? The process is designed specifically to be anonymous, so that no persons vote can ever be checked, which makes demonstrating that John Doe was mailed a ballot he didn’t fill out basically impossible.

That argument skips a few important realities. First, voter fraud is already illegal and heavily audited, and multiple investigations (including by Republican led states and courts) haven’t found evidence of “massive” fraud swinging elections. If it were widespread, you’d expect consistent proof not just claims. Second, mail in ballots aren’t unverified. They typically involve signature matching, barcodes, voter registration checks, and in some states even ID numbers. It’s not just “send a ballot and hope for the best.” Third, the Costco comparison doesn’t really hold up. Voting is a constitutional right, not a private membership service so the legal standard for access is very different. That’s why courts scrutinize laws that could unintentionally block eligible voters. Finally, states that don’t require strict photo ID often use other verification methods, and many states that do require ID still allow alternatives (affidavits, provisional ballots, etc.) to avoid disenfranchising legitimate voters. You can argue for stricter ID laws as a policy preference but saying the system is “engineered” for fraud doesn’t line up with how elections are actually run or what’s been proven.

No voter ID, especially when combined with mail-in ballots, means the system is engineered to make fraud impossible to prove. Everyone knows that you can barely get through your week without showing ID for the most banal activities, like shopping at Costco. The only reason to ban ID is to hide massive voter fraud.

You aren’t debating your existence. Nobody thinks you’re a mass hallucination. They’re saying you’re not a woman, which you’re not. I am not 7ft tall. Every scientific test you could do would say I’m not that height. I could say I am, but a tape measure would say otherwise. You can claim you’re a woman, but a quick cheek swab would say otherwise.

It’s crazy how as a trans woman I’m just expected to “debate” my existence and validity as a woman, while governments criminalise our healthcare There is no nuance to be had when the media and politicians want us dead, but I’m supposed to convince every transphobe of my position

To try to shed some light on it… every American I know took it as the sort of joke you’d tell a friend who pranked you in college. Pearl Harbor was a long time ago and we did drop those two nukes to end the war. I don’t know a single American who doesn’t consider us more than even, and that Japan is one of our best friends now.

Japanese news outlets were doing a live translation of the press conference, and when Trump dropped the Pearl Harbor joke the translators were audibly lost for words and paused for a few seconds in disbelief

@shine_gomiseifu Letting large numbers of blacks into Japan is a terrible mistake.

これをみて人種差別反対って言ってんの？ お前らは黒人だから差別されてるんじゃなくて、 犯罪者だから差別されてることにいい加減気がつけよ。 自分たちが黒人の名誉を傷つけてんだろ。 真っ当な黒人の人がかわいそう。 そもそも同胞の悪行に異議を唱えず擁護して差別差別って騒ぐ連中が目立ちすぎてんだよ。 そりゃ黒人全体に野蛮なイメージがつくに決まってる。 真っ当な黒人は敵を間違えるな‼️ ヒロアカ見て出直してこい🫵

@maziehirono Quick question, what else do those bills do beyond just fund operations? I know the answer, but I’m curious if you’ll admit it.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Seven times. That's how many times Democrats have tried to fund TSA, FEMA, and the Coast Guard. And every single time, Republicans have refused. They would rather protect ICE's lawlessness than protect our communities. How despicable.

Honestly I’d happily 10x the wages for politicians if we also basically made any other income source completely illegal. No investment profits, no “small businesses” that miraculously land big contracts, no donations, no gifts, nothing. You’ll get paid by your job, and you’ll get paid based on the talent we want to attract, but no more grift.

While the 2026 Gulf War has taken over my writing, normally my main message is to help people actually make a difference in the world instead of just blathering online. This is one that I wish I could address more in that vein. The problem is that I can't. Americans have long had a distrust of politicians and greed and corruption. As a brilliantly stupid solution to this concern, we've decided as a country to pay public servants in the form of peanuts and leftover movie theater popcorn instead of actual wages. Why are government employees the biggest bums in the world? Because the only thing attractive about the job is how little work you have to do to avoid being fired. Why is everyone in Congress either very wealthy, insider trading, or both? Because we only pay members of Congress $174,000/yr. That may sound like a lot, but I assure you, for the lifestyle you have to maintain in that position, its awful. Its poverty wages. They have to fly back and forth constantly, probably either maintain two residences or stay in hotels, maintain two vehicles in two different locales, pay any personal staffers and aides, maintain a litigation insurance (because there's nothing Americans love more than frivolous lawsuits), and more. By the way, DC is one of the most expensive places on the North American continent. They really do not get paid as much as you think. As a result, the only people that run for office are either already very wealthy or so nakedly power hungry that the fact they basically live in poverty doesn't deter them. I would love to run for Federal office. I know exactly who I would challenge and I think I'd actually have a non-zero chance of defeating her—but I can't, because the risk to my ability to maintain my household is too high. If you go to State or Local politics, its even worse. My State's Legislators actually get paid less than the State's median salary. I know people like the *idea* of a Spartan Politician, but I must remind you—Sparta collapsed for a reason. They were extremely powerful for a very short time, actually. Their bad views on citizenship and living conditions for public officials was a big part of why. If we want to fix the ineptitude of the GOP and these Government bodies, we have to actually pay them MORE so that more competent people will compete for the job.

@Grummz Blessed silence from India, yes.

Are you gonna use this?

We've fined 4chan £450,000 for not having age checks in place to prevent children seeing porn on its site. The Online Safety Act is concerned with protecting people in the UK. It doesn't require platforms to restrict what people in other countries see. 🔗ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/…

@BibleU777 @NoahRevoy Go find me women who are equally upset about the gender imbalance in trash collectors, oil riggers, janitors, etc, as they are about CEOs. I’ll wait.

@failed_testing @NoahRevoy Just as parents are legally liable for their children? You just argued that women are under men's authority for life. I haven't ever heard a man complain about it. You also wrongly assume women didn't want responsibilities reserved for men.

If I were to start a private school, it would be a boys-only institution. All teachers would be male. Most would come from military backgrounds, with preference given to those with special forces experience. The structure would prioritize physical and practical development. Each morning would begin with physical training. Boxing. Brazilian jiu-jitsu. Obstacle courses. Firearms training. There would also be a strong emphasis on building. Shop classes. Hands-on work. The ability to construct something real. Even for someone who becomes an IT engineer, knowing how to build a chair matters. Real-world construction develops thinking. It trains problem-solving in a way abstract learning does not. Academic instruction would be concentrated. No more than three hours per day at a desk. That is sufficient to meet curriculum requirements and maintain academic competence. The rest of the day would be spent developing strength, discipline, and practical skill.