I mean, it was clearly at least partly in jest, but apparently the form was real and they really did go through customs for real.

https://www.space.com/7044-moon-apollo-astronauts-customs.html

It does make sense. I don’t think they wanted to set the precedent that coming back from certain types of spaceflight “didn’t count” in terms of needing to pass through customs and it was just a free-for-all. It’s the same way you still have to pay your taxes when you’re the president, a relic of an older and more adherence-to-the-system time than the modern day.

Fun fact, they made the Apollo astronauts go through customs when they came back from the moon.

What did Ars Technica do, though?

I’ve since learned that this person doesn’t support Bernie Sanders, AOC, or Zoran Mandami (“I agree with some of his views, but I know where this goes, so I won’t hold my breath.”)

Tucker Carlson, though? Iconoclast. He’s breaking down Western narratives. The Fox News system doesn’t change you… you change the system. Apparently.

Take all your overgrown infants away

Somewhere

There are too many plaques developed in his brain at this point for him to be able to remember the words “flood” or “policy,” is what it sounds like to me.

I am very curious about it. With this particular user I think it’s pretty obvious that they’re just doing agitprop for Russia. Whether on behalf of Russia or just freelance isn’t really obvious to me, but the key tell that I’ve noticed is that people who sincerely believe it will at least make some effort to engage and respond (or they’ll just be hostile and then flee.)

The fact that this person doesn’t even seem to give a shit and just blandly broadcasts “whatever if you disagree with me you’re obviously just following Western propaganda, I bring a different perspective, that’s all comrade, you should read it” without seeming to care if it is at all convincing or responsive, is usually a tell of someone who’s just trying to spread a narrative and emphasizing volume over believability or effort level.

His wife shot me a dirty look

All of you in this thread are fucking psychopaths

Kalamata olives and similar little food objects are fine, they are often delicious

Eating the rest of these unflavorful little saltpellets on purpose is a ridiculous thing though

People just have no idea what numbers mean. And, look at how education works here, who could blame them?

Q: What about that massive photo of Trump and the backpack checks for DEI literature

A: That’s fine why do you ask

The problem is that with any type of FPTP system, any compelling leader outside the existing power structure will produce the opposite effect as their stated policies are.

Something like Bernie Sanders trying to drag the Democrats over to some kind of human policy matrix is actually a realistic possibility, but it’s definitely an uphill battle… but there is plenty of precedent on the right for a successful leader just hijacking and overriding the existing power structure and taking it in his own direction, it’s definitely possible.

They definitely do check. I don’t know how detailed the checks are or how major a crime it is to use someone else’s info, but there are enough checks in place, you can’t just type in Porky Pig or made-up nonsense or anything.

1. Publicly funded elections
2. End FPTP and enact a parliamentary system
3. Better media that lets everyone know what’s going on

Lots of luck with any one of them, but that’s the answer

I’m still just skeptical. There’s a massive difference between researchers coming up with a model that works between two cooperating routers in perfect conditions, versus one router of a lowest-bidder-poorly-maintained-15-years-old model communicating with a PlayStation from within a closet with intervening electrical wiring in the wall and everything else.

Xfinity claims it can distinguish between a pet and a person, and you can customize the system’s sensitivity or the frequency of notifications.

Is this bullshit? I’m not completely sure but it sure sounds like bullshit. It sounds like they’re in the end stage of enshittification where they start lying to even the people who they’re betraying everyone else on behalf of, and claiming to be able to harvest and monetize data that has only the dimmest glimmer of accuracy to it.

User: I’d like you to make me a robot

Stable Diffusion: I’ll put tits on it just in case

I hope she crumpled it up, then reconsidered, uncrumpled, took the photo, and then presumably recrumpled it before throwing it away.

Edit: Regendered

Phase 2: Prison labor

It also carries the side “benefit” of getting farm owners (and, indirectly, anyone who cares about being able to eat food) complicit in and supportive of the “person who didn’t do anything wrong -> detention” pipeline as it ramps up and expands.

You heard it here first.

“The app uses CBP’s Traveler Verification Service and the Seizure and Apprehension Workflow that contains the biometric gallery of individuals for whom CBP maintains derogatory information for facial recognition,” the email reads. The exact definition of derogatory information in this context is not clear but 404 Media has previously reported on a database that ICE uses to find “derogatory” speech online.

I shouldn’t be shocked or surprised, and yet, I am. Fuck this.