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The US Army just swore in four tech executives as Lieutenant Colonels: Shayam Sankar, the CTO of Palantir (Peter Thiel’s company), Andrew Bosworth, the CTO of Meta (Mark Zuckerberg’s company) and OpenAI’s chief product officer Kevin Weil and former chief research officer Bob McGrew, (the company belonging to Sam Altman.)

These four men are all now one rank away from a General. Second-in-command for field-grade officers. There are 16 ranks lower than a Lieutenant Colonel and these four untrained civilians just leapfrogged over soldiers who have dedicated their entire career and lives to the US military.

Apparently, these men are going to work on “targeted projects to help guide rapid and scalable tech solutions to complex problems.” A sentence that means absolutely nothing because clearly this is just a way of giving these companies access to top-secret information without them having to go through any pesky background checks. If that doesn’t scare you, it really should, because we already know that Palantir is building a massive centralized database using much of the information they acquired from DOGE, Elon Musk’s foray into the American government.

These billionaire tech-bros are compiling lists of our most sensitive information. Our tax records, medical data, bank accounts, Social Security information, immigration status, etc. This administration is allowing them to build the infrastructure for techno-feudalism. Authoritarianism in the form of data and surveillance.

The people who are using the government against you are now taking over military authority. The corruption is calculated and staggering. And I can only hope that our veterans and active-duty military are paying incredibly close attention. And now that you know you should be talking about it.

-Leigh McGowan (“Politics Girl Podcast”)

Have you ever been emotionally blackmailed, or have you ever emotionally blackmailed someone.

If so did it work?

Including your native tongue, how many languages can you speak, at least reasonably well?

Please read.

In my country, many states (like many federations) in my country seem to have "had lots of opinions" about law and order in the last decade or two. Queensland, Victoria, even NSW in the 2000s.

I for one have gone on a journey politically and spiritually and in life experience and I for one even during Covid lockdowns and to the present, and even in years prior to Covid - I love my police, state and federal - and likewise I love the trade unions and the Labor party (or any other left wing party, Palmer counts also underneath his public persona surface, ssshh he's secretly a Leftie like me)

Law Abiding Citizen - the 2009 movie - I appreciate how it was originally written with roles reversed, the black guy the criminal, the white guy the lawyer/solicitor. Let's all appreciate that I for one share the personality of the Judge - and Nick to a degree the fictional Nick unlike this Nic here lol - I do believe in a kind, love-dovey legal system - with exceptions because some crimes really don't deserve bail and do deserve sentences, case by case basis as always and the character of a person. After all, I love the legal system and police. Remember, in the Left wing view, my interpretation, which is - it's always about the cut of a person's jib (their character, all the factors). I'm a personality guy.

Anyways - the anal sex joke never gets old. This upload is not mine and no copyright infringe and ©️ anyways again, wasn't my upload. 👀 📱anyways, I don't even own the DVD, yet I liked when the Judge and the Gerard guy were seeing eye to eye "I mean, what's wrong with bail" 👀😋

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZdvuM9sI3M

I noticed over the years that women bring up height excessively more then men do. They not only talk about height in romantic scenarios but with platonic / professional interactions with men as well.

But every time women mentions a man being short, it’s almost always a negative connotation. Even if they like the short guy they will say something like “well he’s not very tall but he’s really cute or funny” or something.

But if a girl doesn’t something else about the short guy (his personality, looks, etc.) they virtually always bring up his height. Especially if they reject the man romantically.

But at the same time guys are less prone to say “well she’s really sweet & cool despite being overweight” out loud. We might be thinking that but we are not allowed by modern culture to say that because it’s “too mean” or something.

I am 6ft so fortunately height isn’t an issue for me. Like anyone I notice other people’s heights in most situations but I don’t immediately factor that into my judgment of people.

I once dated a girl who was 5’ 11’’. Despite my favorite female body type being cute, petite and athletic, her being tall and skinny was virtually a non issue for me. It did make things slightly more complex in bed (shorter girls are more versatile) But I didn’t really care that much. It was like factor number 37 out of 50 for me.

Also I don’t notice height at all in platonic and professional interactions with women or men. I don’t asume a really short guy or a really tall girl might have a negative personality right away. Some short guys do have napoleon syndromes. I’ve met a few short loud mouthed dbags. But overall that stereotype is often exaggerated.

I guess height judgment is evolutionary for females. But women need to understand that men have no control over their height whatsoever.

If you are more attracted to taller men then fine. But if you don’t like a shorter guy than don’t throw out his height as one of his “faults” like he had a choice in the matter.

Connor McGregor has apparently announced his intention to run for president of Ireland. Ell oh ell!
Irish friends, will you vote for Connor? Why or why not?
Non-Irish friends, would you vote for Connor if you could? Why or why not?

Today my girlfriend says to me “If you didn’t make me laugh, I probably wouldn’t like you.”
Sarcastic or asshole thing to say? Or what else does it sound like?

Out of interest in international politics and foreign policy he learned native level Mandarin (Chinese) and Russia