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A leaked TSA email suggests funding for bomb-sniffing dogs has been halted under Elon Musk.

The email states that vet visits, kenneling, and food are "put on hold" until further guidance.

TSA deploys over 1,000 canine teams, with training costing $33,000 per dog.

The funding freeze contradicts Trump’s "tough on crime" stance and coincided with the White House celebrating "K9 Veterans Day."

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[–] WaxiestSteam69@lemmy.world 139 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I'm reading this and thinking "this can't be real". How did we end up here? I really don't get it.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 92 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

He's basically doing a scream test, you shut off something, and if nobody comes back to you asking why it's down, you can assume nobody was using it, and you can just leave it shut down. If it was needed, you just spin it back up.

Obviously that's not a huge issue with computers (although you'll have a bad time if you do it across the board or with backup systems), but you can't do that shit to people (or in this case animals).

He's doing silicon valley stuff to real life, and you just have to be a complete idiot to think that's a good idea.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 31 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I have a idea. We do our own scream test.

Let's turn his brain off permanently.

And we Don't bother listening for anyone complaining about it.

It's the perfect plan.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I prefer Luigi's method personally. Shoot CEOs until someone cares.

[–] getoffthedrugsdude@lemmy.ml 14 points 11 months ago

Be the change you want to see in the world.

[–] marduk -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Are you a Trump supporter dude?

[–] marduk -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Nope. I just figured the comment was a little close to a call to violence; figured they're either not in the US, or Fedposting.

Maybe they just don't give a fuck about making calls to violence, in which case more power to them and good luck out there

Edit: realized you weren't the person I originally commented on, so I changed the wording to point at the proper subject

[–] UnculturedSwine@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 11 months ago

Or a twisted monster

[–] earphone843@sh.itjust.works 35 points 11 months ago (3 children)

It started with Gerry Springer, really. We started celebrating the most awful qualities of humanity and normalized them.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'd say that Springer was influenced by Oprah Winfrey, whose show about abuse, neglect, crime and vice was influenced by her harrowing childhood, a product of racism, and capitalist-induced poverty.

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago

And it turns out she was lying or possibly severely misremembering her childhood. She didn't grow up in poverty. Oprah sucks, she gave us Drs Phil and Oz.

[–] overcooked_sap@lemmy.ca 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Didn’t he apologize for that and said had he known what was unleashed he would have shut it down?

[–] tischbier@feddit.org 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah springer was a lawyer and later regretted everything from what I read.

[–] RustyChainsawEnema@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

regretted everything

Including paying prostitutes with checks. The bank was not amused.

Twenty-four hours later, the 30-year-old Springer was testifying at the trial of three men accused of operating the Northern Kentucky "health club" where he admitted going twice for sex – once the previous December, once in January. On the stand, he identified a $50 check he made out to 26-year-old Norma Jean Hall.

"It was in exchange for an act of prostitution," Springer said.

[–] tischbier@feddit.org 2 points 11 months ago

lol Jesus Christ Thanks for sharing

[–] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 11 months ago

MTV becoming a viral "reality" TV show hosting things like "The Real World" I think brought awful qualities to the mainstream, then social media gave everyone the opportunity to be THAT viral reality tv star. It may have started with Jerry, but MTV spread it to the masses. At the end of the day it was all driven by the pursuit of profits. All roads lead to capitalism, after all.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Millions of people who voted for Biden in 2020 stayed home in 2024. Republican numbers stayed the same.

By abstaining from voting for Harris, the entire US collectively voted for the worst option.

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

People in this thread want to blame television which is fucking weird and straight from the 90s. The real issue is every one needs a fucking civics lesson. Half the people don't even know the intended function of government the other half are arguing about which facts are facts.

I'm mean, not even to mention our society is designed around greed. They dressed it up real nice but end of the day the engine that drives the machine is pure greed.

[–] WaxiestSteam69@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Civics and economics are two subjects that aren't treated with the rigor they should be in American high schools. Both subjects are usually taught by coaches as a placeholder to give them a faculty job so they can be on the coaching staff.