LDAHL
Senior Member

Honestly I’m more worried about data brokers than I am about the security state. DHS never tried to sell me crypto.

I sometimes feel like more people (real or artificial) are watching me than watch MS NOW in prime time. I’m limiting my expectation of privacy to...

Speaking of media misrepresentation, I submit the recent bombing attack in NYC. A couple of young ISIS fans tossed (thankfully faulty) bombs into a...

If fringy nutters like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owen are “key conservatives”, then I’m a Democratic Socialist.

I wouldn’t consider it totally tragic to see a situation analogous to Libya after we toppled the regime. Multiple competing factions harmful mostly...

The shooter’s homeland of Senegal is a predominantly Sunni Muslim country. Iran is Shia. There being no love lost between the two sects historically,...

I’m reading that Israel has deployed an “Iron Beam” laser in combat for the first time against Hezbollah drones. Look out, MTG!

I’m not as worried as some about a wider war. Iran has burned bridges with pretty much every other state in the region over the years. Their proxies...

I have to admit I felt a rush of nostalgia when Bill Clinton testified “I did nothing wrong”.

Blame the CIA. Blame the Sykes-Picot Treaty. Blame the Crusades. But I still think the mullahs had something to do with it.

Well, previous efforts to crush them under pallet loads of cash failed. We should brace for retaliation from Iran’s proxies in Hamas, Hezbollah...

And that was between a third rate power largely improvising against a second rate power. Look how Ukraine was able to seriously degrade the Russian...

I think we will also see a lot of AI advances in military applications. Projects with names like “Hellscape”, “Loyal Wingman” and “Overmatch” are...

I’ve read that some organizations are constructing underground or underwater data centers to reduce their footprint and power draw.

They’re like the Kardashians; only with castles.

He used to have the only late night show worth watching. Now he’s hosting a game show.

Fell for that one, did you?

My experience working with housing issues is that it is one of those problems that can’t be solved simply with money. NIMBY zoning is one obstacle....

Unless you happen to object to people living here illegally.

I wonder if the response to such an organized campaign of harassment would be different if it were directed at bankers or abortionists or any other...

At what point does stalking and harassing ICE agents in a hotel become illegal? I think ICE needs to be held accountable for their actions if they...

My mother used to claim cracking knuckles causes arthritis. My father warned me to never play cards with a man named after a city.