Holy smokes! The chief's mess running an illegal Starlink wi-fi, controlled by the Command Senior Chief? And all that happens is Captain's mast and a drop to E-7?

This is very disconcerting.

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-navy-chief-illegal-wifi-network-manchester-warship-named-stinky-2024-9

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Possibly the best rock ballad of all time:
Jethro Tull, "Baker St Muse"
#CoSoMusic

https://youtu.be/nWXKoBDHhW8

Humble Pie - For Your Love, Acoustic Jam.
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https://youtu.be/1wOa0EzfxTo

We really need a way to measure the IQ of an AI; because a stupid AI is worse than no AI.

Tough.
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I just saw a moth.

Big deal, right? It's remarkable because it's the first bug I've seen for a couple days.

We've got no little birds - occasionally an eagle or a crow. No native bees on the flowers. Hell - I haven't even been bitten by a mosquito.

It's not looking good for nature right now.

How to reduce wealth inequality and the national debt at the same time:

Strike 35,000 one billion dollar coins. Give everyone and every "legal entity" (corporations, Federal Reserve banks, investment funds) that owns over a billion of that debt nice shiny coins in exchange for the debt. If it's a government bonds they own, generously cash them out at yhe full maturation amount.

Michael Martin Murphy, "Cowboy Logic"
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https://youtu.be/h6l57jHvg3U

Not Muppets.
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Relevant:
Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

If, heaven forfend, the corrupt "Supreme" Court appoints another election loser as peznit; we should consider the Declaration of Independence's example.
#politics #revolution

Fixing the Supreme Court in two sentences:

Appoint a new Supreme Court Justice every odd-numbered year. There cannot be more than 12 Supreme Court Justices.

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I'm utterly disgusted by "Politifacts" assertion that Project 2025 isn't a Trump plan for his administration. They just credulously accept Trump's ridiculous denials as factual.

If a simple (lying) self-serving statement from a politician is enough for Politifact to dispel facts - then they don't really report facts, do they?

Just drove down to the VA in Seattle. 30 miles = 2 hours.

Bumper to bumper all the way.

Aargh!

Iron Maiden, "Empire of the Clouds"
18 minutes of genius, from a band with zero throw-away albums.
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https://youtu.be/Vz9PiEXsCT8