Don’t forget he was talking about public shootings when it happened.

I wouldn’t sign that. I work in government, and with new generative AI tools some of the emails are getting very good.

We had one sent to an applicant pretending to be me thay appeared to have scraped data from staff reports and minutes for public meetings for vatiances and SUPs. It was very detailed.

It had also scraped our fee schedule, so it had convincing fee amounts with links to the relevant codes and everything. It’s just that the payment site was not actually us, but a site made to look just like us with a 1-letter change.

It’s the 2 weeks or so in which your insurance company allows you to adjust your coverage. To facilitate this, they give you brochures designed to be confusing to try and trick you into paying maximum premiums alwith minimal coverage.

I had an employer that bragged about bringing employee down costs with the new provider by 20% per payckeck as the reason for the drastic reduction in coverage and higher copays. They glossed over the fact that we were changing from bi-weekly to weekly paychecks, so the 20 percent reduction per paycheck was actually a 60 percent increase overall.

It’s more about letting someone know they’re breaking the law if they buy it. It’s also something that can be added onto charges if they commit a crime with the gun. Lying on the 4473 is a crime.

I did once have someone try to buy a gun using a medical Marijuana card as ID because their driver’s license was expired.

We’d pretend to be oblivious to them stealing it while making it obvious they’re being actively observed.

The 4473 specifically mentions that Marijuana use in states where it’s legalized prohibit the purchasing of a firearm.

I worked in a major outdoors chain, and out policy was to prevent most theft with customer service.That is, you see someone stuffing shit in a box for a cheaper product you go over to them and start talking about the products and making sales pitches and either embarras them into “deciding not to buy it”, or they go through with it and you let it happen.

The only thing we’d physically intervene on was gun theft, and we had a designated armed employee on every shift (usually a retired cop) that handled that if they tried to leave before the local police arrived. It only came up once when I was there, and the local police did arrive in time, so they followed the thieves out of the lot and pulled them over.

The most dramatic event when I was there was actually kinda fun. We ran a background check on a guy and it got a delay, and the guy said he’d go eat in town and to call him if it came back in the next hour or so so he could save a trip. Turns out he was a fugitive, and the FBI called us to ask about the sale.

We quickly got a bunch of police dropped off in a bus so their cars wouldn’t be visible, and they hid in a few offices around the store, and I called the guy back and told him the background check came back with a proceed.

Then when he came in the door I met him at the front and walked him down a pre-arranged route to the gun counter while chatting him up while the police blocked the aisles around us, and then I got “paged” over the intercom to go to the manger’s office and pointed to the register where another salesman could check him out.When I was clear the police moved in on him.

It was kinda awesome.

Google gave 20 million to the project.

For the benefit of the underprivileged?

They shouldn’t be. My internet comes from a WISP antenna network that I help manage connected to Fiberlight.

We’re a small neighborhood across a lake from any meaningful cities, so we have a 150-ft tower on either side of the lake. One side is connected to the fiber and the other has directional antennas aimed at receivers for each house.

My internet isn’t great (about 15 megabit), and HBO has really bad compression artifacts and buffers really often, whereas Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, Disney, etc all do just fine.

University is overpriced, but a degree isn’t just saying that you’ve gained knowledge. Being able to look up and memorize stuff doesn’t mean you’ll be good employee. if you can’t work effectively with a team or tend not to finish a project all the knowledge in the world means nothing.

The most important thing most degrees demonstrate is that you can work for years on a project with multiple milestones involving multiple disciplines, work with others or self-direct, and meet goals.

My biggest issue with them is their shit streaming quality.

Yeah. This administration has made it clear they will never do the right thing and will violate any agreement. There’s zero reason to negotiate with them.

It’s whybthe Dems CANNOT back off on the shutdown. Trump’s threatening to fire a bunch of federalnworkers he doesn’t like if the Dems don’t play ball, but he’s been doing thay anyway for 10 months. There’s nothing he can threatening he isn’t going to do anyway, so there’s no reason to compromise.

I’m a government official and people can walk in the building and demand to see my text messages and emails, and I have to hand them over (with reasonable, well-defined reactions categories like social security numbers, home addresses of certain officials and citizens, etc).

And that’s a good thing.

I’m not gonna say I enjoy Open Records Requests, but that’s mostly because it’s a pain in the ass redacting shit, and I recently had to do a TON because a very high-profile person had interactions with the city and every journalism outlet in the country submitted slightly different requests thay required me having to do reactions on about 10,000 pages of documents despite the requests only covering about 30 emails between them.

But it’s a pain I’m willing to put up with to maintain transparency.

I think a lot of people who do evil things don’t see themselves as evil.

I think the Bushes were evil people who did evil things and I’ll never forgive them.for all the damage they caused. But I also don’t think they were unpatriotic. They believed in what they did and thought they were making society better.

I think MTG is the really stupid, slightly more evil version of that. She really wants to make things better, but not for everyone. But when she clearly sees that the people she does care about (uaully right-wing racist trash) are being hurt, she wants to make things better for them.

A lot of the confusion comes from the fact that the FBI refers to is personnel as agents, whereas “agent” means something entirely different to the CIA.

CIA agents aren’t employees of the CIA, but are people in other positions that are being used by the CIA. This can include informants, spies, etc.

I was in Costco the other day, and there were a shocking number of people loudly complaining about prices. Usually people in the store will keep it to themselves, or maybe grumble a bit and move on. But they were truly getting worked up.

GOP is really playing it stupidly. The number one way to get violently overthrown is to make it hard for people to put food on their plates.

If I had a car that had suddenly stopped working due to a careless update, I’d want it to be bricked so I could make the manufacturer pay for a different fucking car.

These guys aren’t ICE. They didn’t volunteer for this bullshit. Guard members are mostly people wanting some extra cash to pay for college and shit that signed up to go to training a couple weeks a year and to help out following a flood or wildfire.

They did not sign up to occupy other states. But now they potentially face the death penalty for refusing to go.

Yeah, they can refuse illegal orders, but with so many Courts having been taken over by the fascists, they can’t depend on that to save them from the firing squad. So they suit up and go stand around for a few weeks. I’d honestly rather have them than ICE, since they aren’t guaranteed to be racist piles of shit.