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ourmandaveon ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program

The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission, abbreviated as VChK, and commonly known as the Cheka, was the first Soviet secret police organization.

ourmandaveon Who Is Planting Backdoors in Ledger Crypto Wallets?

... and smelt tin

I'll just order my crucible and tongs off Alibaba.

Wait a second...

ourmandaveon CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades

It really is mind boggling to watch a months long committee investigation of Jan 6th and then Merrick Garland just nopes out.

ourmandaveon Secret of Orange Cats Revealed After 60-Year Search

60 years of dissecting fluffy orange kittens is a lot of fluffy orange kittens. =(

ourmandaveon NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect

Why not the State of NY instead of just the city?

IL has had click-to-cancel since 2022. (Actually 2000, but updated in 2022, with continuous amendments being put forward all the time.)

ourmandaveon Why Texas Is Making Data Centers Wait

The tell is so obvious. All the GOP candidates distancing themselves from Trump and saying data centers are bad.

Normally that would earn you a 2AM all caps tweet labeling you a RINO or worse, and getting primaried. Instead, not a peep.

Which tells you its a ruse and he's in on it.

ourmandaveon Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay

Apropo to nothing, Jack Smith, who is teed up to try Trump for the Jan 6 insurrection, was an investigation coordinator for ICC.

Probably nothing to do with it.

ourmandaveon In Vienna and Beijing, the first (thorium) nuclear clocks begin to tick

To address some of the most pressing open questions in fundamental physics, such as the origin and properties of dark matter...

Owing to unknown nuclear parameters, precise values of these sensitivity factors cannot at present be calculated, but it is predicted that they will exceed those of the most sensitive atomic clock transitions by several orders of magnitude.

So when you achieve FTL, the Vulcans show up.

Who (or what) shows up when you solve the riddle of dark matter?

ourmandaveon ShinyHunters Extorted Boeing Spin-Off Prior to Arrests

The original group behind ShinyHunters went to prison and Rey took it over.

They're trolling him saying he's not nearly as good and tarnishing the ShinyHunters rep.

I have no idea what's true, but they can all go to hell.

ourmandaveon Borland Turbo Basic

There was some car show episode with an actual barn-find unmolested 70s Dodge Charger with matching numbers. The widow had no idea what it was worth so the guy showed her the assessment and paid her the fair market value.

ourmandaveon Borland Turbo Basic

If you tell them about javascript, they'll ask what Earth you're from in the Multiverse of Madness.

ourmandaveon Borland Turbo Basic

Remember my boss got a 486 to replace his 386.

The side-by-side 'dir' command demo he did was pretty impressive.

Somebody down the chain got his 386 and somebody else got their 286.

ourmandaveon What is going on with ceiling fans

For some reason my bedroom overhead switch is near the closet door 10' into the room. I have a remote switch to a wall plug and standing lamp where the normal switch would be.

ourmandaveon How Singapore's government-run dating service works

divorce are costly to society

Maybe they should have a Rebound app as well.

ourmandaveon Automatic Transmission – a data-privacy study of connected vehicles

Ha ha, you fools! No one is collecting my data from my 22-year-old Scion while I drive past Flock cameras every day.

Wait...

ourmandaveon America.gov

After all the Doge and Big Beautiful Bill cuts and downsizing, now they put up a AI powered services search site?

ourmandaveon US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS

Will they accept Trump $1 coins?

ourmandaveon Driver Ticketed for No Insurance Just Because Flock (YC 2017) Said She Didn't

Ignoring the legal document that's supposed to be proof and going with the system is following your phone navigation into a lake level bad.

ourmandaveon Driver Ticketed for No Insurance Just Because Flock (YC 2017) Said She Didn't

He didn't need to run any check. She showed him a current insurance coverage card and he ignored it.

I don't even want to blame Flock for this level of incompetence.

ourmandaveon Driver Ticketed for No Insurance Just Because Flock (YC 2017) Said She Didn't

This is 100% cop's fault.

She presented a current insurance coverage card to the officer and he still ticketed her because Flock said she wasn't covered.

What would have happened if she showed the current coverage using the insurance app on her phone?

ourmandaveon EV Sales Are Booming in Europe with Gasoline at $10 a Gallon

The Chevy Silverado EV will go 492 miles.

With a 30 year mortgage the $56K base model payments could be doable.

ourmandaveon Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS

As long as it has a built-in "VBScript like" lang, they'll be fine.

Are they going with Copilot for Dutchies or Kaaskoppen.NET?

ourmandaveon The darker side of being a doctor

It's a double whammy in the US. Lose your income (job), lose your insurance.

Lose your job from injury and you're well and truly screwed.

ourmandaveon The darker side of being a doctor

And depending on your insurance coverage, having a preterm baby in the US can bankrupt you.

ourmandaveon The darker side of being a doctor

I don't know anything about those countries healthcare problems.

Hospital bills causing bankruptcy.

Deciding between meds or food.

Donation jars at gas station checkouts begging for money to pay for a child's cancer treatment.

Putting off preventative care because of endless co-pays.

Out-of-network providers being a thing I have to worry.

Those problems I do know.

ourmandaveon The darker side of being a doctor

Universal healthcare solves the problem. The US is #1 in science and tech, but spends the most with worse outcomes in general healthcare than other peer countries by far.

ourmandaveon Vacate a drone restriction that criminalized recording immigration agents

The slightly less monstrous rationalizations I've heard:

It's fake news!

It's staged actors (funded by Soros)

They could have self deported.

They're criminals! (who overstayed their visas).

ourmandaveon NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead

Well, at the very least they can pump the brakes on the stupid by giving power back to congress.

Stop rubber stamping stupidity like RFK, pass a war powers resolution, and reign in the vengeance based tariffs.

ourmandaveon NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead

Jan 3rd is coming soon to an impeachment near you.

Steady as she goes, Mr. Sulu.