No one seems to realize that USPS funds an entire federal law enforcement agency (the Postal Inspection Service) out of our postal fees.

Why don’t we start cutting costs there???

Build a big, missile-proof hyper loop right through the middle of the strait.

Lift every tanker out of the water we’ve put it on a platform/even bigger jet boat and blast it through the loop.

We can get this built in 2-4 weeks

Calling up the The Weather and asking to speak to a manager

Fucking Flock! I just saw a pole mounted camera alongside route 29 southbound (facing south) just inside the Albemarle Co border with Nelson County. Since when has the county been installing cameras?

they should invent a cost of living that goes down

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier. Muppet

Narrator: there was, in fact, questions about it

*kush kingdom

How did they get enough momentum to get over that lip of snow while parking??? Who guns it backing into a spot?

And what strange karma does kush brothers have to receive such a perfect accident

My dream job at the end of college before I abandoned the sciences was to be a flavor chemist.

Smh, I wanted to be the one inventing these new horrors

My highlight of the weekend was ski-touring O-Hill.

Such fun (until my skins froze because they not really designed to function in loose ice)

As requested One Clark, Extra Snow

Baffling decisions made by the panic buying crowd at Wegmans: no produce left, no onions or potatoes, yet the fruit was all there except bananas and they still had eggs.

The Nerds gummy clusters were virtually untouched!

Ice agent slipping on ice

If you’re cold, they’re cold

Let em freeze

This is my personal single-issue voter proposal.

As a runner and just regular person, plentiful public bathrooms are the biggest easy to provide service missing from America.

This is absolutely true, having reviewed a good bit of uva camera footage, it’s shocking how clear and comprehensive the coverage is

Announcing DENATHOR, an app that will tell you which tomato is the juiciest*

*Only works on cherry tomatoes, comes with a $55 monthly bespoke napkin subscription (not optional)

I need to know, but I’m not sure that it’s healthy to have sunshine inside one’s body

ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network, Data Shows Flock's automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras are in more than 5,000 communities around the U.S. Local police are doing lookups in the nationwide system for ICE.

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This company sends my SCAM sensor up to 11

A large hound dog sits with a pile of broccoli pieces stacked on his nose. Only one eye is visible because the other is blocked by broccoli The dog is cute

The dog has tossed the broccoli off his nose and is about to chomp it in the air This picture of the dog is less cute

Stack’n into the holidays

It’s insane that in about 3 years we’ve essentially nuked the sum total of human knowledge by making truth indistinguishable from falsehood or unfindable amidst the rubbish

Butlerian jihad and all paper everything loading in …

chalk one up for the BUSY BODIES

Flock lost its contract because there was no way to protect the people of Charlottesville and have a usable ALPR system.

There never will be.

On to the next campaign!

And the dangers created by ICE searches didn’t go away. 7 days is plenty of time to figure out if someone is in Cville to set up a deportation raid.

With the 7 day retention period, Flock became a machine for manufacturing probable cause to stop cars, search people, and kick down doors. Those searches could never be effectively challenged in court because the underlying data was long gone by the time lawyers got involved.

The police department’s limits on data retention are a perfect example. The 7 day window was supposed to assuage public concerns.

But in practice it created nightmares for defense attorneys who could not get discovery on Flock searches and limited the systems utility

Third, Flock exposes one of the baseline problems with mass surveillance systems. They either sweep so broadly as to become massive threats to public safety, or they become useless and error prone with restrictions.

Second, the campaign of steady public and private pressure is a model for Cville to build on. The village really came together for this one.

Big shoutout to @rpogge.bsky.social for his work with Justice Forward Virginia