JamesTBagg

Or just start throwing crayons at the Marines, I'll bet the dress blues in my closet they'll laugh at that.

Reminds me of a story. Not as annoying as the DMV but there was a BBQ place in Texas, an old place in some old dying town. The place is open only 3 or 4 days a week until the meats are gone. When open the line goes out the door and down the sidewalk. I went once and the local high school kids would get in line. As they got closer to the front they'd start selling off spots, auctioning their place in line. The kids got paid then went and got in line again. Repeat.

She started losing me a few years ago, when claiming to be a socialist & pro-union, she voted to make it illegal for railroad workers to strike. Pro-union until their collective action might make life a little inconvenient, then knock their teeth out for the capitalists.
I haven't really kept track of her since then.

This may not even be anti-Trump motivated. Literally nobody likes being in formation, drill or parade; it fucking sucks. The bigger the event/ceremony the worse it is. This may just be anti-formation sabotage.

Law enforcement would never lie.

This one time on an LHD, I was riding brakes in a helicopter, we were towing from the hangar up to the flight deck.
The elevator tops out, we're supposed to go forward, instead the driver gooses it and he's still in reverse. I stood on the brakes, at 6'1" I was stretched out in that cramped cockpit. Only parts of me touching the plane were my shoulders in the seat and my toes on the brake pedals. Either we stopped or my feet were going through the chin bubble.

My first thought, I'm getting paid to do this though.

Eh ... if played out like the above comment suggests, with China giving us a little token tariff on US imports to twist the knife, we on the ground won't be affected. Fuck, we'll be vastly better off than under the Trump tariffs plans. We all win, he loses.

That's why I pay my rent with check, hand delivered to their office. That 3% is a significant chunk of money.

I think there was a story I read, years ago, about a computer being used to identify and destroy AA platforms in a simulated war exercise. Back then (back in my day) it wasn't called AI, it was a machine learning program. But anyway, the computer was scored based on how many targets it successfully destroyed. However, it could only engage targets when a clear to fire authorization was given by a human.
Eventually then endeavor was abandoned because the computer figured out it was humans preventing it from getting a higher score. So, mathematically it made sense for the machine to kill its handlers so as to grant itself fire-at-will capabilities.
It may have been a sci-fi piece and not a real event. It becomes more and more difficult to tell now a days.

I bet if you read the article you'll find it mentioned.

A turn out of 83%?! Impressive.