Jack

@jackeber.bsky.social

ASA vet 98J20, ordained atheist, stoic, humanist, democratic socialist, and foul mouthed old man. No bio, no follow. Header, RIP, Lucy and Cleo He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher, an idiot... (Douglas Adams)

…the US military accidentally killed everybody on board a civilian medevac flight in New Mexico this past May, when an experimental GPS jamming exercise at the nearby White Sands Missile Range knocked out the navigation system of a small twin-engine plane carrying two pilots and two medical workers.

I served in the USMC as a young man, Believing I owed my country a debt, For the freedoms we all are born with, Today there's no freedom left, It's humiliating to see an idiot, Occupy our highest post, Wreaking havoc upon the world, And being the punchline of every joke.

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Here’s my grossly unpopular opinion: Right now we should be investing in all the right-wing projects. Private prisons, Trump’s get-rich schemes, and stay in until just before those fuckers all come crashing down. As long as we can’t yet destroy them let’s at least make a buck off them.

Warning: the President of the United States is kidnapping American citizens off the streets of blue states. Some of them return —most do not. Some are murdered in concentration camps owned by the President’s cronies. All of it is one big fat crime. None of our electeds will stop him. Will you?

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I resurrected my old ASUS K501J laptop, which for some reason I updated to Windows 10 last year. Bad move. It only has 4MB of RAM. Megabytes. I should either wipe the drive and install Windows 7 (I have an upgrade disc, will that work?) or try to find a Linux distro that can run on air.

Trump is going to try to sell a renewed assault on Iran as self-defense. But when you attack a bear, that bear attacks you in return, you don't get to claim that killing the bear was self-defense. You should have left him alone in the first place. Since you didn't, all further conflicts are on you.

Be sound. Keep fit. Act silly. Enjoy nature. Read books. Love freely. Find purpose. Hate Everton Travel often. Cook passionately Feel content. Antagonise dickheads. Ignore anxieties. Value mates. Celebrate life Be you.

Usage limits coming to Siri. Basic Siri AI functionality will remain free for casual users with compatible hardware, but power users who exceed daily quotas will hit a paywall. They must "buy up the stack" via higher iCloud+ tiers to remove these limits. (from Apple’s quarterly call)

Fighting for your country against foreign invaders is incredibly motivating. Fighting for your country against domestic enemies intent on installing fascism is also incredibly motivating, as the regime will soon discover.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5d ago

North Vietnam in 1965 did not have anything close to the current military capabilities of Iran. But they continued to fight for another decade until we finally had enough. They were fighting for their country, we were not. Just as we are not now.

I’ve become less concerned with the massive tax breaks Trump has given the 1%ers in light of the tremendous amount of our money he’s pocketed and wasted on honoring himself.

Kalshi sucks. Not only are betters predicting a Paxton win in Texas but the site doesn’t even offer a chance to bet on whether or not Mitch has crossed the rainbow bridge.

ICE is still refusing to follow through on its pledge to equip its officers with body cameras. Their goal is without body camera footage, accountability becomes much harder. If you witness an interaction, remember to keep your camera rolling and document what you can safely.