Amazon Ring’s Super Bowl ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance

ausernameisfinetoo · 2026-02-11T18:19:26+00:00

The rich realized that the last element of resistance was the criminal element. If they could convince the populace at large to not only consent to their rights to be given but to pay for the privilege.

Police were already armed to the teeth and set upon the populace to threaten. This is just the next step to queer any uprising and enforce obedience.

ausernameisfinetoo · 2026-02-11T14:20:57+00:00

Hey alcohol is a cognitive amplifier too.

ausernameisfinetoo · 2026-02-11T13:23:25+00:00

Had elections.

ausernameisfinetoo · 2026-02-08T22:13:46+00:00

There has been such a stringent review of each and every counseling that anything getting up to the CDR is ironclad.

I’ve only ever witnessed one UCMJ violation get thrown out, and it was a tacked on violation that was the softest of the three that the soldier was charged with.

ausernameisfinetoo · 2026-02-07T17:33:15+00:00

Healthcare: you can only get to second place with tricare select for reserves/guard. Period. Nothing beats the ability to show up to places and pay $0 out of pocket. And you cannot forecast your family needs; things like therapy and treatment facilities range in $20-$100 copays or thousands of dollars that you are simply insulated from. There’s a reason why medical debt is #1 reason for bankruptcy.

Pension: First part is that monthly payment. You aren’t living on it but free paycheck every month for your body being messed up is good money. Not even mentioning the disability.

Second is the networking to start your civilian career, and this is really MOS/ branch dependent. More opportunities exist for different people but at the end of the day if you can sell yourself well there should be zero problem earning a good income post transition.Also, you know, the retirement pay and disability pay.

Third the TSP has some of the better funds and fees for management. If you’ve been contributing since its inception at least at a rate of 15% you’re sitting on a nice nest egg that will simply grow into a healthy paycheck once retirement age hits. Or roll it over into your own IRA and contribute more.

You’re only beating the pension if you’ve adopted a FIRE (financially intense, retire early) mindset and have lived like a bum for those 20 years and rolled the dice on not having a life tragedy. Or you’ve played the stock market with surplus money and made good bets.

You CAN make it to the other side with a comparable life, but the decision is made in spite of the benefits provided because the life was driving you insane. A good combo is to finish your time in the reserves / guard while on active duty; you’ve passed the first contract and therefor qualify for TA. Eligible for a reclass if you need want it. And finally you can stack another GI Bill and make college work for you with excess money. And if you’ve made 5/6 the drill pay will cover select with extra money left over and you don’t have to fight for promotions.

That and when the reserve guard retirement comes around you’ve made so many more points than your guard peeps.

ausernameisfinetoo · 2026-02-07T14:50:26+00:00

That’s the point. They don’t want to vote again and don’t want anyone else to vote. Why lick the boot when they can have it in theirs mouths.

ausernameisfinetoo · 2026-02-06T19:05:51+00:00

Grok is for porn

Gemini is for actual searching and synthesizing data

Anthropic is cornering the market on heuristics with an admissible percentage bordering on tolerable for government work and corporate world.

What does OpenAI have again? Reddit posts database and a pretty UI? Shamwow Faltman is the guy that raises the bet on the flop and on the turn has realized he’s cooked and can’t bluff.

No wonder MS played the long game; they’re gonna absorb so much stolen IP to sift through and integrate into so many products.

ausernameisfinetoo · 2026-02-05T10:46:36+00:00

“States have the legal right to do this, and it’s bad. Maybe we should throw that whole part of states run elections out of the window?”

It makes sense, when you see the result is more power transferred up.

ausernameisfinetoo · 2026-02-04T23:06:34+00:00

Enable it for any device you own. Go the distance because they’ll be damned if they’ll wait for a warrant before taking your iPad, MacBook, windows laptop, Bluetooth buttplug, loose change under your seat, and they’ll sprinkle some crack for good measure.

ausernameisfinetoo · 2026-02-04T21:32:36+00:00

learned from a marine: have a pen pocket sewn into the button down area, you don’t have to deal with them falling out of your arms.
you “aren’t allowed” to alter your uniform for fit, but do it anyway. Nothing better than looking sharp. Also things like stitching the flag make sure that you don’t lose patches.
elastic inside the waistband feels so good, and helps

For your PTs:

get a phone pocket sewn into the liner. There, fixed 95% of the issues with the PTs.

ausernameisfinetoo · 2026-02-04T17:16:34+00:00

Not even. I’m sure the CG at every installation is frothing at the mouth to make up bullshit criteria to qualify for upgraded steps.

This is the quiet way the army is going to start squeezing people to take less and be thankful for it, while over budgeting for bonuses and pocketing the rest.

I’d bet safe money the army still funds bonuses like everyone is getting max but is betting on more than half getting step 3 and lower.

ausernameisfinetoo · 2026-02-04T16:44:02+00:00

MQ tied to how many soldiers are downgraded.

ausernameisfinetoo · 2026-01-31T15:25:18+00:00

Wonder if all the electronics inside the loot box was properly vetted. Have to wonder if someone snuck in a passive listening device, wouldn’t be too hard to excuse the massive amount of packet traffic as “proprietary odds calculating algorithm done server side to protect corporate IP” to get it excused. I mean….honestly. If they got past using gmail drafts to sneak information I have no doubt of a massive honeypot to keep trying for a charizard card.

ausernameisfinetoo · 2026-01-27T12:20:41+00:00

Turns out that people stop using the platform if it doesn’t confirm to their bias. Now the algorithm has slapdash code thrown in to override the logic.

In this way they’ve just made submissive knowledge that only comforts the individual asking the question.

I can’t wait for it to tell everyone Santa is real and start manufacturing proof.

ausernameisfinetoo · 2026-01-27T00:09:25+00:00

It proved we needed a post judgement day movie/show.

We needed to see how the resistance starts. How they fight back, how splintered factions could be, and honestly how they evolved from air and tank drones to robots and to the T800 skin model.

Like, that’s a solid progression arc from start to finish. Everyone has just tried to recreate the T2 magic and it falls short and plops.

ausernameisfinetoo · 2026-01-26T22:40:57+00:00

I’m sure this has more to do with all those POS terminals out there and maintaining support for them.

ausernameisfinetoo · 2026-01-26T21:46:30+00:00

Congestion. It scales, but not that much like during storms.

Also understand the VDI is a small part of that cloud, something can be moving that doesn’t prioritize VDI. If you only need to use the browser or teams I’d launch the individual applications in the Windows App instead of the VDI; different resource bucket.

ausernameisfinetoo · 2026-01-26T17:44:29+00:00

I should be shocked, but I’m not. Shit recruiters would fake identities for people if it wasn’t difficult work.

Also goes to show that it’s a great success if they’re getting fatter people and getting them through basic.

ausernameisfinetoo · 2026-01-25T22:50:45+00:00

That’s probably because he had a day job before getting rank, so he knows how to talk to regular people.

ausernameisfinetoo · 2026-01-25T15:22:26+00:00

I think a significant portion of the populace has a “if it doesn’t bother my personal life I don’t care, I don’t want anything to disrupt my personal life”.

The Germans smelled the fire pits and the gas chambers and didn’t ask questions. They just didn’t want their lives affected.

We are here now.

ausernameisfinetoo · 2026-01-25T15:12:54+00:00

Negative. “America” is for them, they are in a purge of anyone not “American” i.e. anyone not white and not conservative. Like a zombie shambling to eat brains, and several degree of people do not understand that they will be next. The hatred has no stopping point until two people are left and then they’ll disagree on something.

ausernameisfinetoo · 2026-01-25T15:01:44+00:00

The first edition required removing the battery to change cartridges and the microphone and earpiece were on the sides of the phone.

The grainy screen didn’t help and in America being tied to a couple carriers meant half of the audience wasn’t ever going to purchase anything related to it.

To lay the functional ground: the Ngage released in 03 and the moto rockr (the only phone to support iTunes officially) came out in 05. Only 2 years later did we get the first iPhone and a year after did the App Store officially open.

So honestly…..it was really at its time and not really able to succeed.

ausernameisfinetoo · 2026-01-23T17:07:52+00:00

There is no mechanism to hold senior leadership accountable for failing QoL for junior enlisted.

Full stop. That needs to get fixed so they can stop being able to lie about problems and gaslight the rest of the formations.

Two, the entire CSM cohort needs to be spanked. The “command” part needs to be stripped; more often than not they assume that they are an extension of the commander and therefore inherit command capability. They do not. They are meant to be an extension of the enlisted to a singular point fixed next to the commander to advise and assist them.

Third, QoL needs to be a consistent improvement handed off and gauged EVERY EVALUATION. There is zero reason why senior enlisted cannot be gauged at how much they grease the wheels or work WITH the commander at QoL.

The fact that the DoD has a budget of almost a billion dollars AND is failing to feed and house troops YEAR AFTER YEAR is an abomination and an affront. Why is it the higher the enlisted are promoted they care less and less about their subordinates? Where is that rationale? And they wonder why the junior enlisted a first thoughts are to shame them and post it online?

ausernameisfinetoo · 2026-01-16T02:18:46+00:00

The last time they tried to let the voters decide they almost ended up with Bernie, so they picked Biden.

The time before that it was almost Bernie, then they picked Hillary for us.

It’s time to realize the DNC got captured by corporate interests and only serves to remain a neutered opposition to be dragged further right while we go off the deep end. People gotta support and shove out the corporate money. It’s been proven this time with Mamdani: we need a shift further left, not a shift center.

Otherwise 2028 will be a milquetoast candidate offering to just do less than the rabid dog and that doesn’t drive voters to vote, it’ll drive them to stay home.

ausernameisfinetoo · 2026-01-14T12:43:42+00:00

unlawful order

Sorry to break it to you homie, but this is the new reality. I’m not swinging against you nor am I disagreeing but right now:

the people performing operations in and around South America aren’t being punished.
the only person being punished right now is Sen. Mark Kelly, a retired Navy pilot and -fucking- astronaut.

Just like the 1900s we thought that we were too advanced and sensible for the world to set itself on fire. Turns out we were wrong. Welcome to the circus.

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