minor incidentexpert in a dying fieldnjRegistered Userregular
That shit's bizarrely far reaching. Let me tell you, at my last job when I worked for a custom gaming PC manufacturer, it was a real gross moment when I found out how many gaming PCs the air force and army bought every year.
Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
I technically work for Raytheon because I work for Pratt & Whitney on commercial jet engines and the two companies merged without any real input from us grunts. I'm not terribly excited about unwittingly being added to the military industrial complex but so far all I've ever done is try to make sure at least the engines going on passenger jets work correctly, even if everything else about them is out of my control.
Edit: It's basically impossible to be in aerospace and not be touched by the malignant tentacles of the DoD it turns out.
This, x10. My first grant funded position to study dragonfly neurovisual aerial flight strategies was paid for by DARPA, and that was in Australia.
That shit's bizarrely far reaching. Let me tell you, at my last job when I worked for a custom gaming PC manufacturer, it was a real gross moment when I found out how many gaming PCs the air force and army bought every year.
I am reminded of the old quote about how most countries have an army but in Prussia the army has a country. Sometimes it seems like the US exists primarily to keep the MIC going rather than the other way around.
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Tynnanseldom correct, never unsureRegistered Userregular
DARPA funds a lot of biomedical science, too. Turns out, research that benefits civilian trauma medicine is useful for the DoD…
I applied for a job at Raytheon once before I had enough of a brain to be disgusted by them
Very glad I didn't get that job
When I was applying for a teller job at a bank that was, much like the Church of England, set up primarily to serve the needs of one local family, I thought (but of course did not ask), "so how well does evil pay?"
For that much money per day you can pay someone to sit next to you, read what you would have posted, and tell you you're smart and would totally have won the argument, and still have most of it left over.
Every day a blocked number calls my phone and a voice I don't recognize offers me ten thousand dollars to not post, and every day I hang up on them and log in
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minor incidentexpert in a dying fieldnjRegistered Userregular
Every day a blocked number calls my phone and a voice I don't recognize offers me ten thousand dollars to not post, and every day I hang up on them and log in
You could at least try to bargain. I’m open to counter offers.
Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
Every day a blocked number calls my phone and a voice I don't recognize offers me ten thousand dollars to not post, and every day I hang up on them and log in
As the opening pitch for a movie, I've heard worse
Every day a blocked number calls my phone and a voice I don't recognize offers me ten thousand dollars to not post, and every day I hang up on them and log in
Foolish
I'd change my password to random keyboard smashing for only $100 a day
Every day a blocked number calls my phone and a voice I don't recognize offers me ten thousand dollars to not post, and every day I hang up on them and log in
Every day a blocked number calls my phone and a voice I don't recognize offers me ten thousand dollars to not post, and every day I hang up on them and log in
Foolish
I'd change my password to random keyboard smashing for only $100 a day
Every day a blocked number calls my phone and a voice I don't recognize offers me ten thousand dollars to not post, and every day I hang up on them and log in
You could at least try to bargain. I’m open to counter offers.
The most important tool in a negotiation is a willingness to say "no" and walk away, even before negotiating
Every day a blocked number calls my phone and a voice I don't recognize offers me ten thousand dollars to not post, and every day I hang up on them and log in
Foolish
I'd change my password to random keyboard smashing for only $100 a day
Do you get to know the random password?
no, the point is that i'd be making my account permanently inaccessible
New York City, the world loves you
And retribution was surely duе
To the zealots who brought you hell
Boy thе heroes at Langley taught them well
How to infiltrate joy into the world
Can't we all just get along like Amazon and Raytheon
Coming together to make a drone
To bring us lunch and kill their sons
In a synergistic 2-for-1
Ballistic joy to the world
Please stop resisting all the joy in your world
Just a car full of celebrities singing about the joy in your world
“Marijuana is illegal under federal law.” Biden administration randomly enforces federal marijuana prohibition, seizing cannabis from licensed dealers in New Mexico, injuring the state-legal industry.
The governor of New Mexico spoke with the head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) this week and expressed concern about a recent surge of Border Patrol seizures of marijuana from state-licensed businesses, Marijuana Moment has learned exclusively. But the top Biden official simply reiterated that federal cannabis laws haven’t changed, indicating that the seizures will continue.
The office of Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) shared details about the conversation with Marijuana Moment, adding that her administration is “working on a strategy to protect New Mexico’s cannabis industry” from adverse federal enforcement actions.
The governor spoke with DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday and “expressed her concern about the federal seizure of cannabis from licensed distributors in New Mexico,” Michael Coleman, the governor’s communications director, said.
“During the conversation, the governor noted that industry operators in border states where cannabis is legal appear to be at greater risk of scrutiny and arrest by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents than those in non-border states that have legalized cannabis,” he said.
“Secretary Mayorkas assured the governor that federal policies with respect to legalized cannabis have not changed,” he said. “Regardless, the governor and her administration are working on a strategy to protect New Mexico’s cannabis industry.”
Joe Biden: “okay, bring up the list, who haven’t we alienated so far in the run up to the election that we need in order to keep Donald Trump from ending the Free World as we know it and ushering in the Dark Age of America for generations to come?”
Random Aide: “Uhhhhh… looks like you still have yet to fuck with pot smokers, sir.”
Joe Biden: “Of course! The Weed Junkies! Fuck, get on that right away! And do it in a state that explicitly legalized it too, they need to know they can’t fuck around on our watch.”
Random Aide: “Right away sir. By the way, that puppy you ordered in for kicking should arrive in the next couple hours.”
Joe Biden: “Good! Little varmint deserves a good boot in the ass.”
I'm not surprised. Border Patrol are Cops But Worse and are probably doing this without any actual directive just because they can. Civil asset forfeiture is probably also a reason. Meanwhile Biden has never tried to put a stop to cop bullshit before and he's not going to start now because to him cops can do no wrong.
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MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
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This, x10. My first grant funded position to study dragonfly neurovisual aerial flight strategies was paid for by DARPA, and that was in Australia.
I am reminded of the old quote about how most countries have an army but in Prussia the army has a country. Sometimes it seems like the US exists primarily to keep the MIC going rather than the other way around.
When I was applying for a teller job at a bank that was, much like the Church of England, set up primarily to serve the needs of one local family, I thought (but of course did not ask), "so how well does evil pay?"
I grew up in NoVA and yeah basically that entire region is either MIC jobs for the upper-middle class, or service jobs for people under them
Meanwhile I'll gladly swear on the internet for $14k. Shit, I'll do it for free!
You could at least try to bargain. I’m open to counter offers.
As the opening pitch for a movie, I've heard worse
Foolish
I'd change my password to random keyboard smashing for only $100 a day
http://www.audioentropy.com/
Hey could you give them my number
3DS Friend Code: 0216-0898-6512
Switch Friend Code: SW-7437-1538-7786
Do you get to know the random password?
You have to tell me!
I need to know!
The tax man is going to ask a lot of wheres and whys and I need to know if I need charge GST!
The most important tool in a negotiation is a willingness to say "no" and walk away, even before negotiating
no, the point is that i'd be making my account permanently inaccessible
http://www.audioentropy.com/
let's see the money
http://www.audioentropy.com/
i don't want you to stop posting
~ Buckaroo Banzai
And retribution was surely duе
To the zealots who brought you hell
Boy thе heroes at Langley taught them well
How to infiltrate joy into the world
Can't we all just get along like Amazon and Raytheon
Coming together to make a drone
To bring us lunch and kill their sons
In a synergistic 2-for-1
Ballistic joy to the world
Please stop resisting all the joy in your world
Just a car full of celebrities singing about the joy in your world
Witnessing it in motion really just emphasizes how big and useless it is. Just... slabs of steel what'd look better on the bed of a semi.
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Joe Biden: “okay, bring up the list, who haven’t we alienated so far in the run up to the election that we need in order to keep Donald Trump from ending the Free World as we know it and ushering in the Dark Age of America for generations to come?”
Random Aide: “Uhhhhh… looks like you still have yet to fuck with pot smokers, sir.”
Joe Biden: “Of course! The Weed Junkies! Fuck, get on that right away! And do it in a state that explicitly legalized it too, they need to know they can’t fuck around on our watch.”
Random Aide: “Right away sir. By the way, that puppy you ordered in for kicking should arrive in the next couple hours.”
Joe Biden: “Good! Little varmint deserves a good boot in the ass.”
*checks notes*
That's probably almost all of them though, it's fine
Wait this was supposed to incentivize voting for him! Fuck!