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Curious to see what Jokiharju does

Here's the cold hard truth that libertarians, republicans, democrats, anarchists, nazis, confederates, mickey mouse, and everyone's boy elon forget. Humans are social creatures that build things together and are better when working together. The reason the US is where it is currently is this entire idea that everyone is responsible for themselves and no one else. You are responsible for your own protection, your own resources, your own education, your own defense, your own *insert thing here* ... and that is not and has NEVER been the world that humans have built. We've always been pack animals. If the Government does nothing, and you have to do everything, where's the time in the day to do anything? Guess we should go back to small tribes or villages living in walled cities where we protect our own and kill the outsiders, sounds like that will make America great again... you know the way the people from the 13 colonies intended when they banded together and set aside differences to build something bigger than themselves. We aren't the United States of America anymore but the Loosely Assembled People Who Sorta Put Up With Each Other. LAPWSPUWEO, rolls right off the tongue. edit: this all isn't directed at you LTS, you share a sentiment that I personally know runs through most people

I thumbs down your post because of this. The United States has the highest rate of gun violence in the entire developed world. It is not particularly close so not only is this a hollow NRA talking point, it is one that is disproven by every single other country that restricts access to firearms. 837 people have been killed by guns at k-12 schools since 1966, that's 14.43ppl killed each year. This number has accelerated since Columbine. There have been 392 school shooting since 1999, or 15.68 per year in the United States. There aren't 15 school shootings in the rest of the developed world combined every year. The US had 120.5 firearms per 100 people, eclipsing every single other country in the developed world with Yemen a close 2nd at... 52.8. If we look at just public mass shootings, the US has had 109 since 2000 compared to 35 in the rest of the world. We make up 76% of public mass shootings and 70% of fatalities. So between school shootings and just mass shootings in general, there is 0 proof at all having no restrictions is better. In fact the inverse is readily apparent in most cases as countries with better gun control have better outcomes. So when you sit at your house and claim your freedom to own a gun trumps all else or however you want to use the 2nd amendment, remember your freedom to own a gun has costs the total freedom of at least 837 children and teachers to date. The biggest infringement on freedom is death. If the government is such a shitshow at "taking care of it" we can fix the debt issue right now. Disband the entire military and allow there to be state militias without a federal force at all. No Navy, No Air Force, No Marines, No Army. Then we can "start paying attention" to the things that matter. (to be clear, this part is jest at the absurdity of the sentence I am highlighting from your response, I could have used no police, or no firefighters, or no VA Hospital, or anything the government does as an example) https://www.statista.com/statistics/1459728/victims-of-school-shootings-by-situation-us/ https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/05/europe/sweden-mass-shooting-orebro-explainer-intl/index.html https://rockinst.org/blog/public-mass-shootings-around-the-world-prevalence-context-and-prevention/

Who's style of play do you want? Byram or Power?

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/us-cyber-agency-puts-election-security-staffers-worked-118671767

Leitmotif's for those who want to learn more I think the 2nd video is more fun.

I could agree with that but like a good leitmotif, it is a reference to something. For example Howard Shore using light motif's to differentiate between groups in LOTR.

This is not NSA related but here is a perfect example of the wanton hatred spewing from the Trump administration and the censorship they are exercising and the NSA and other places. Below is a link that is now dead because the Trump administration believes in censorship. They believe that the first amendment applies to them but not others. They removed a page that was to help prevent suicide in basically everyone except for straight white people and they did it because they are maliciously targeting "the others" and "the others" are anyone that isn't like them. When you start removing pages that helped protect children from harm you aren't a free an open democratic society anymore. Every single document in the samhsa library that had the word "underserved" is now gone. https://library.samhsa.gov/page-not-found Suicide Prevention Strategies for Underserved Youth This resource highlights the risk factors for suicide affecting young adults of underserved racial and ethnic groups and the LGBTQIA+ community and provides strategies and resources for implementing evidence-based suicide prevention and intervention programs to better support these student populations. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Racial/ethnic subgroups; LGBTQIA+ students ; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities

Invading Canada would trigger article 5 of NATO.

Lamar's performance wasn't about Drake.

Bear fits the profile I'm looking at. Smart, high motor, physical, skill. He profiles similarly to Seth Jarvis. Bear's consolidated ranking is 16, so you're right about rating him higher.

Canadians are pissed.

That the propaganda is working.

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During a superbowl interview he doubled down on being serious about Canada becoming the 51st state. https://apnews.com/article/canada-gulf-america-super-bowl-bret-baier-musk-7e1959c7d430899b01629c800db6f17b https://www.cbsnews.com/news/justin-trudeau-on-hot-mic-reportedly-trump-talk-canada-us-state-a-real-thing/ Also trump is hitting Canada and others with a 25% tariff on steel and aluminum. During the signing of this latest round of tariffs, trump reiterated the 51st state comments. https://www.reuters.com/markets/asian-eu-steelmakers-shares-fall-after-trump-escalates-tariffs-2025-02-10/

Trump directs AD to drop bribery and corruption charges against NY Mayor Adams even though there's ample evidence he's guilty. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02/10/nyregion/eric-adams-charges#eric-adams-charges-doj-trump https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/10/politics/eric-adams-charges-dropped/index.html

It's being reported in multiple places now.

This is well written and exactly how I feel too. The bolded is 100% spot on.

https://popular.info/p/the-nsas-big-delete "Although the websites and other content are purportedly being deleted to comply with President Trump's executive orders targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion, or "DEI," the dragnet is taking down "mission-related" work." "According to the NSA source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to the media, the process is "very chaotic," but is plowing ahead anyway. A memo distributed by NSA leadership to its staff says that on February 10, all NSA websites and internal network pages that contain banned words will be deleted." There's 27 banned words including bias, inclusion, privilege, and equality.

See where you wrote "claims to have found" that's why. He claims he found it. No one has seen it and they won't. They'll get vague data like the USAID info or the FEMA info. No context, just "we wasted x on y, had to go"

The Sabres organization is incapable of recognizing an error and changing. Cozens is a favored son, he can do no wrong.

https://www.wsj.com/finance/regulation/russell-vought-taking-over-as-new-acting-head-of-cfpb-9650d338 CFPB has a budget of roughly 600million. It had returned about 6billion in funds to consumers caught up in scams and other schemes during Biden's 4 years. The agency was investigating Elon Mush who is working on making a payment system in Twitter. Musk now has insider access to competitor information and confidential documents which will give him a leg up on his competition and also end oversight.

A second source https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2025-02-07/dodea-removes-book-pending-review-16753412.html A third source https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/02/07/defense-department-hegseth-books-schools/

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/department-of-defense-schools-pulled-lessons/ This also applies to military academies including West Point. Restricting knowledge doesn't make you a free speech advocate or a free society.

Timeline: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/doge-backed-halt-at-cfpb-comes-amid-musks-plans-for-x-digital-wallet The team’s initial entry to CFPB Thursday had been accompanied by an “Assignment Agreement,” or a memorandum of understanding between the efficiency initiative and the consumer agency, a copy of which was seen by Bloomberg News. It explained that authority for the CFPB operation emanated from a Jan. 20 executive order. It also said that the scope of the DOGE team’s efforts would include, “work on software modernization initiatives,” the promotion of “inter-operability between agency networks and systems” and the use of software engineering to “champion the use of modern technology development and management approaches.” On Friday, four DOGE staffers—Gavin Kliger, Luke Farritor, Nikhil Rajpal and Jordan Wick — were described as needing to be onboarded and provided with complete building access in an email sent to a half-dozen CFPB officials by Chris Chilbert, the agency’s chief information officer. Chilbert asked employees to give the DOGE team the benefit of the doubt. “I know there’s a lot going on in the press and on social right now,” Chilbert wrote. “It’s hard to separate fact from fiction. Please reach out to me anytime you have questions or concerns. I’m very proud of the work we’ve done to build a strong technology foundation and I think we have a lot of good things we can show” DOGE. By Friday evening, according to an email sent by Chilbert that was seen by Bloomberg News, Vought had instructed CFPB to give DOGE administrative access – a much broader form of permissioning. A few hours later, CFPB’s X account was deleted, and the home page of the agency’s website was partially dismantled. CFPB employees who read the memorandum of understanding started backchannel discussions about it... They asked why DOGE would need to access the human resources, finance and procurement data if its goal was to modernize the agency’s software, the people said. By Saturday afternoon, according to five people familiar with the matter, the DOGE team’s administrative access had expanded, giving users the ability to choose which of the agency’s internal systems they can explore. That night, Vought began to lay the groundwork for overhauling and at least temporarily shutting down the CFPB. He sent an email to all the agency’s employees under the subject line, “Directives on Bureau Activities,” which prohibited them from issuing any public communications, continuing pending investigations or launching new probes. It also ended all supervision and examinations. On Sunday afternoon, Martinez, the chief operating officer, sent an email to CFPB staff informing them that the agency’s headquarters will be closed this week and they should work remotely. Employees who were in the office were ordered to vacate the building by the agency’s director of security.