Unless he’s going to pull a switcheroo and announce something else.
He’s done it before. Allowed the expectation of one announcement only to build thanks to the media. Only to announce something else.
Better Pay for a few months at least. Lindsey’s term ends in January. Unless she runs for office of course. And depending on how you look at it. It could be argued that the Job is what in the end killed her brother.
Whether it was from stress from either the work or anything he may or may not have been involved in. Willingly or not. Or poison, a legal sentence, and or some other means that ultimately brought about a premature end.
Ironic in a way. Reportedly when his parents died. Lindsey put his life on hold to finish raising her rather then let her enter the foster system. And now she’s asked to put her life on hold and finish out what her Brother couldn’t.
The Great Man of History theory likely is the more realistic take on history and its ebbs and flows conceived of. Because It’s repeated time and time again. People don’t follow ideas and philosophy. They ultimately follow Leaders. The ideas and philosophy can form a bedrock. But it takes a real leader to actually galvanize people into action.
He was also known to sometimes hitch rides on cargo planes and other non-conventional aircraft or vehicles to get where he needed to go.
So conventional schedules for normal civilian passenger trains and aircraft aren’t a guarantee on timetables unless you can 100% guarantee he took them. And not just speculate that he took them.
Also don’t completely trust anyones reporting on it. Most people ultimately have agendas and preferred narratives to events and they often seek to make their preferred narrative the accepted version of events. Whether said version is true or not. Some often also don’t consciously realize they do it. So wrapped in their preferred way of viewing the world.
It’s especially important now. It doesn’t cost much to bribe up a network online to try and manipulate people and sway opinions this way and that. Hell it’s an entire market all its own these days.
I mean if his vote was for sale. His public net worth ultimately didn’t reflect it. Unlike many of his colleagues in the Senate.
Publicly he was worth about 2-3 million dollars. Which would be a reasonable given sum after a 30+ year career in the Airforce and Airforce Reserves. And 20+ years in Congress.
Now he could have had shell accounts or something payoffs were filtered through. But that would be a tad unusual given no one else in Congress felt the need to get that elaborate with hiding their graft and corruption.
Head of the Judiciary Committee. Long time fixture of the senate meant he had some degree of influence on behind the scenes politicking. One of Trumps few consistent votes for literally anything in the Senate. Little in the way of convincing required. Not to mention his committee seats. His death would certainly be an inconvenience for most obvious strategies involving pushing legislation through the Senate.
It’s also worth noting his official public net worth at least was about 2-3 Million dollars. Which would track for his 30+ year career in the Airforce and Airforce reserves. He ended up retiring a Colonel. Plus 23 years in Congress. Which would suggest unlike many of his colleagues. He didn’t engage in insider trading. Unless of course he had accounts under false names elsewhere he channeled those funds to supposing they existed.
I think his story and role in everything is probably a bit more complicated than we will ultimately ever know and likely isn’t as cut and dry black and white as many would like. Nonetheless whatever his life and story. Ultimate final judgment will be rendered by a Judge far more perfect than any mortal man or system of mortal laws could conceive of.
It did occur after Several people including foreign officials called for his Assassination. He was also one of Trumps few reliably consistent votes in the Senate and being a long time fixture of the senate also meant he wielded no small degree of influence over his junior colleagues. That’s also not considering his committee positions.
There’s also no shortage of exotic poisons out there. Poisons that wouldn’t show up on normal Western Toxicology screens and would look like brief illness. Or a sudden heart attack.
So it’d be awfully convenient for it to occur now. Especially now with the uncertainty surrounding the midterms. And the fact that the snap primary means his seat is now in play. Which can lead to all sorts of shenanigans.
Granted he was also a fat 71 year old. With a fairly stressful schedule and career. So a heart attack wouldn’t necessarily be all that unusual for his age either.
I’ve got a feeling that they’ve got a pretty good idea of the source. The source is just politically and socially inconvenient. So they’ll pretend they either can’t find it or wait until they have a convincing alternative to blame.
Of all the news to wake up to. This was honestly the most unexpected. It’s not often a virtually permanent fixture of Congress dies in office under uncertain circumstances. Especially days after all multiple people, including foreign officials, called for his assassination.
Imagine buying a new car only to receive an email every few weeks warning that your brakes, steering column, or airbags contain newly discovered defects. You're instructed to install fixes immediately because criminals have already figured out how to exploit them. If you fail to act quickly enough, your insurance company may refuse coverage, regulators may investigate, and your business could suffer catastrophic losses. Consumers would never tolerate that model in the automotive industry. Yet it has become standard operating procedure in software.
Someone clearly has never seen the yearly parts and systems recalls automotive manufacturers issue. And is also apparently ignorant of the manufacturers ability to update the Cars software remotely. The insurance companies effectively build it into their pricing models at this point. And the regulators are either working for the manufacturers they’re supposed to be regulating. Or hopelessly incompetent. Such as the FDA.
For too long, software companies have operated under an economic model that rewards speed, feature development, and rapid market entry while treating cybersecurity as a downstream responsibility. If vulnerabilities emerge -- and they inevitably do -- the expectation is that customers will install patches, security teams will detect attacks, endpoint protection vendors will block malware, and incident responders will clean up whatever slips through. That's not accountability. That's outsourcing risk.
He basically describes the incentive structure of the modern U.S Economy in a nutshell. Beat your competitors to market. Deliver a ‘Good Enough’ product made as cheaply as possible. Outsource as much of the risk and liability to the consumer as you can feasibly manage. Pocket the difference.
Manufacturers already face liability when defective products harm consumers. Pharmaceutical companies must demonstrate safety before medications reach the market. Aviation manufacturers follow rigorous certification processes because failure carries unacceptable consequences.
At best Manufacturers slap a warning label on a product that absolves them of liability And even then getting them to do that much is like pulling teeth. Hell it’s considered a leading news story anytime major manufacturers are held accountable for anything. The pharmaceutical companies own the regulatory agency overseeing them. The testing is a formality. About the only one that follows rigorous standards is Aviation. And even that can be debatable depending the company.
If software manufacturers know they will be held accountable for avoidable security failures, they'll invest more heavily in secure development, rigorous testing, and resilient engineering.
All of that costs money that eats into profit margins. They’ll be more liable to invest in ways of skirting accountability and outsourcing even more risk and liability to the consumer. It’d be cheaper for them in the long run. Hell. They’ll just add a warning label and a “We can’t be held liable for anything” clause into the software EULA.
Everything he does raise is a valid complaint. Though I noticed he also never covered the problems and Security Breaches linked to the 3rd party IT contractors. You can have the best security in the world. But it’s useless if the contractor you hired on the cheap gives the attackers a back door. Since like no one does anything in house anymore if they can help it.
His possible solution of Government procurement shifting industry priorities is interesting. But it almost immediately runs afoul of the fact that a cheaper ‘Good Enough’ product you can have right now. Beats a perfect product you can have in another 6 months. For most consumers Government included. So you’d need to both start changing consumer preferences and get people to stop whining about waisting taxpayer funds if the Feds start seriously investing into quality and ‘perfect’. Over cheap and ‘good enough’
Depending on the college a Cracker Jack box might be worth more than their degree.
A lot of places just push people through. As there’s too much money tied up in them. So you end up with certified idiots.
But in this case I’m willing to bet it was deliberate. Many of them aren’t anywhere near as stupid or obtuse as they pretend to be. Though to be certain there are those who are just that stupid.
Ah. I haven’t looked into it in a while. Figures it’d hash out differently.
Wasn’t Kushners deal involving an abandoned Military Base on an costal island they purchased from the Albanian Government?
The deal on the strip of coastline is supposed to involve a Qatari company.
Not particularly surprising. The list of problems with modern education could fill a dozen significantly sized volumes just on its own.
Many of the problems however aren’t widely discussed, or are only indirectly or euphemistically alluded to. As accurately and truthfully directly describing the problems will make people in modern day rather uncomfortable. Given it does not and will not break down along politically convenient lines for either side.
Well at least they’re honest about it at the very least. There’s a lot of fringe groups on both sides of the aisle that either play the legal technicalities game. Hide behind the Constitution. Selectively quote history. Or redefine things so they can claim they don’t actually want to. Even though the honest implementation of their ideas would fundamentally result in the destruction or dissolution of the United States as the only logical conclusion.
A Taser has probably a 50/50 shot of being effective. As Heavy Clothing, Drugs, or Alcohol can change whether it gets a connection and whether it works supposing you do get a solid connection.
That’s supposing you can even hit the target in the first place. And judging by what I can find online the Drones they’re using for the proposed project are fairly tiny ones. Which means the battery life will be limited and you’ll likely only get shot. Before needing to reload the system. Which renders its value in general painfully limited.
That and at this stage in of the game any retard with a 3D printer can make systems far more effective and readily adaptable to any drone on the market. Many of which have gotten ample field testing in Ukraine. It’s like a laser pointer. You’re distracted by the overpriced popgun while the real work happens elsewhere.
The problem is that tasers can be defeated by thick fabrics, like a heavy denim or leather jacket.
Or a moderate dose of Narcotics or Alcohol. Seen addicts and alcoholics walk off tasers with startling regularity. One dude looked like a human pin-cushion he had so many prongs sticking out of him.
In a sense yes. Likely there will be coal extraction operations continuing for the foreseeable future.
Will it survive and remain economical at the current scale it’s at? That’s more of a debatable question. Even disregarding the environmentalists whining and bitching. There’s a lot of financial liability to coal and many things going against it.
With heavy industry. The question of accidents, and disaster isn’t a question of if. It’s a question of when. And even a minor accident in a Mine can quite easily spiral into a major disaster. Then there’s the attrition rates of illnesses in Miners. In an industry already struggling that’s a major concern.
Trump is also seeking to push forward Nuclear Plants as well. Which would take a substantial chunk of coals energy market should they become common place. Renewables are also taking a healthy bite out of their market. Consumer preferences are also changing.
Coal, at least domestically, probably has a couple decades left as a major commodity. And serving as a bridge for power generation until other systems and power generation capacity can come online. It may get half a century internationally. Maybe.
But its relevance and value for power generation is likely going to continue fading. Alternatives like Nuclear are increasingly more efficient and liable to grow in importance now that the Feds are loosening regulations and tossing money at it.
And that’s not even considering the possibility of exotic energy alternatives sitting in Black Projects.
I mean zero detections as far as we know. For all we know they’re perfectly capable of detecting them by some fashion. It’s just a fashion they haven’t shared.
But detecting is one thing. The real trick would ultimately be stopping them.
Mental Illness is more or less a standard legal defense topic now. The Defense Lawyers Job is to get you off Scott free or with as few charges as possible. Regardless of whether or not you did it. A good defense lawyer will use every scummy tactic in the book to get you off the hook.
Do you know why did they kill this little girl?
Officially no. But given the ethnicity of both the child and parents. As well as The likely financial strata they occupied that their names would indicate. I can make an educated guess I’m willing to bet would be close. Although extremely offensive.
Warning labels are a record of what misadventures people have had with a product and then subsequently sued the company over.
So truthfully I’m not sure why you are surprised. That people need to be explicitly told not to shove things up their butts.
Is this from a medical study? Or was there a noticeable statistical uptick of Emergency Room visits involving Potatoes shoved up assholes?
Both of which are sadly equally plausible in today’s day and age.
Media is indicating that the announcement will be about the election.
But he has let the media create impressions and expectations before. And then switched it up and done something else.
There’s a multitude of possibilities though.
Something regarding Elections as reported.
Changes to the Iran situation and strategy given the ceasefire has fallen apart.
The big one everyone has been waiting years for
Possible some big trade deal or other geopolitical shift
Changes to the official story of what happened to Lindsay Graham
Talking about some other piece of domestic policy. That while interesting likely will be lost in the noise of other events in short order