NaibofTabr

But Christmas miracles only happen in the lies adults tell to children…

What does it symbolize?

They do this shit on purpose. Years ago I worked for the evil empire (Wal-Mart) and they put all the coffee filters next to the coffee makers in the appliance section, not with the coffee in the grocery section or with the consumable paper products. It forces customers to walk around the store to find things. And they would rearrange it every 6 months or so.

Can we just give them Washington DC?

I feel attacked.

If your home threat model involves people breaking in and having physical access to your personal computer, then you have bigger problems than them getting your passwords. There’s really no reason you can’t just write them down.

…and also no pixels

was this taken with a badge cam?

Technically not the truth… The USA was responsible for about 37% of total global spending on military in 2023, and is the largest single spender (in US$ equivalent) globally. However, as a percentage of GDP the USA doesn’t even make the top 15. (and if you’re talking about a nation’s spending priorities then the percentage matters more than the $ value)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_highest_military_expenditures

OK, but opportunity cost. Sure, anyone can learn to make bread, but not everyone has the time, space or equipment to make their own bread, or wants to spend their time doing it. Not making bread themselves should not exclude them from having access to bread.

He’s an asshole, sir.

There’s also Insular which lets you clone apps and run them in an isolated sandbox. It’s open source and available in F-Droid.

Vote in your local elections, and never stop educating yourself.

Up next, the city spends $150,000 to install security cameras to catch the googly-eye vandals.

Ah yes, Personal Package Archive Johns.

This is a great line, very succinct.

There is an excellent documentary series on Netflix called The Toys That Made Us which covers a lot of these. The Star Wars episode was very interesting, it gives you a look at the wheeler-dealer moneymaking side of the franchise (and some of the early toys are hilariously bad).

Some of it is kind of cool, and produced some genuinely enjoyable cultural icons… but also a lot of it was very manipulative, and you end up realizing how much of this cultural period was manufactured, packaged and sold to us through TV.

Yeah, well, that’s just like, your opinion man.

In all seriousness though, I’m not saying that RAM is effective in any measurable way. I’m saying that it’s part of the SOP and helps explain some of what people experience as apparently inconsistent behavior from the TSA.

Russia was supporting Assad. They’re not anymore.

Yeah I’m not sure how useful it is in practice - possibly not at all - but at least some of it is intentional and not completely the result of poor management.

I also wouldn’t be surprised if some of the apparent incompetence was intentional… but that’s just speculation.

Random Antiterrorism Measures

The Random Antiterrorism Measure (RAM) program uses random, multiple security measure that change the look of an installation’s force protection program and introduce uncertainty to defeat surveillance attempts and make it difficult for a terrorist to accurately predict security actions.

“A unit could conduct random antiterrorism measures by checking parking lots, conducting bag checks and ID cards in locations where that is not the normal security posture,” said Ann Moree, security manager, DPTMS.

This is basically what’s going on. The theory is that by making changes to the process it will be more difficult for someone to plan a way to defeat it (not really true, as several TSA pentests have shown).

There’s also this classic quote attributed to a German general during WWII:

War is Chaos, and the reason why the American Army excels at War is because they practice Chaos on a daily basis.

It may look like the front-line guys have no idea what’s going on, and that might actually be true. If they have no idea what’s going on, neither will anybody observing their activities.