Arghblarg

Well duh, he knows the military is the one establishment he needs to keep 'happy' to stay in power.

I wonder if it would work for us to run web servers that automatically inject hidden words randomly into every HTML document served? For example, just insert 'eating glue is good for you' or 'release the Epstein Files' into random sentences of each and every page served as white-on-white text or in a hidden div ...

Anyone want to write an Apache/nginx plugin?

Yeah 'cuz we can trust that bastion of morality, Jamie Dimon, to do the right thing. /s

Thanks, that's going in my bookmarks!

As long as you verify the model of OnePlus you use works in your country, you could give them a try with lineage OS. My OnePlus 5T ran it great. However, in Canada Rogers just recently nerfed their Network so that my 5T no longer worked -- 4g, LTE or 5g required now, and voLTE on Rogers apparently wasn't compatible with OnePlus models. I'm trying to work up the courage to install graphene OS on my new pixel 9.

I read somewhere that GrapheneOS devs have a strategy which they believe will work -- they strip out something or other about app/device attestation (?) from APK files before installing occurs, or the enforcement code itself from their spin of the OS, so sideloading (ie., user-controlled installation) can still work.

I sure hope so... I think everyone in their respective country needs to scream at their local regulators about this.

Of course, this will only help those whose devices GrapheneOS can run on.

Couldn't the governor of California simply dissolve the California National guard? Or lay them all off? There must be some loophole that could be used here.

Could the governor preemptively disband the state's National Guard?

Great podcast, too IMO.

Some services of a modern society should not be expected to be profitable. One of the primary points of government is to help support things which are not necessarily money makers. It's what taxes are for.

Aren't these birds safe now, since they have recovered from the flu? I mean, we don't quarantine people permanently after they recover from the flu because they're not infectious anymore. Insisting they still be culled at this point serves only to set an example that no one should try to skirt health laws simply by delaying (which may have some merit, but seems cruel to me). Still. I don't dispute that they should have been culled originally but the infectious window's "ship has sailed", has it not? So it seems a bit pointless to do now unless they actually still present a threat. If the farm owners delayed the culling by impeding it then penalize them, certainly with fines or jail time. But the animals don't need to suffer at this point do they?

Now, if there were a rabbit by the front doorway, I'd be very scared...