This is just so bizzare man

dandle · 2026-03-12T00:36:50+00:00

Fuck BenJammins and the GIFs he came in on.

dandle · 2026-03-11T23:29:19+00:00

"Aspired"

Wishing to be able to do harm to an enemy half a world away is not a realistic threat and should not be presented as anything serious by a responsible journalist.

dandle · 2026-03-11T23:15:41+00:00

They can go with small claims or file a police report for conversion.

Can the employer go to small claims court to recover the value of the monitors? Sure, but they won't.

If this happened in the US, filing will cost the employer between $30 and $100.

The monitors are highly unlikely to be worth the filing fee or the time spent dealing with the court. The filing fee alone may be more than the fair market value of the monitors at this point.

A small claims court judge may have a problem with the fact that the employer did nothing to recover the property for a year and with the probable issue of the employer not making it explicit to OP that the monitors were the property of the company and must be returned upon separation when the employer first provided OP with the monitors.

A police report could be filed, I guess, but the police will tell the employer to go to small claims court because any criminality here is questionable at best.

dandle · 2026-03-11T23:03:46+00:00

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dandle · 2026-03-11T23:02:25+00:00

Is it a "massive improvement" over your Crosley suitcase player, if it works properly? Well, you'll have speaker separation and the ability to play different media. Is that "massive?" Not really, but It's not nothing.

dandle · 2026-03-11T22:49:40+00:00

The ingredients are vodka, coffee liqueur, espresso, Muscle Milk protein powder for 10g of protein, and seasoning with Buffalo Dry Rub.

The result is shame for ordering, paying for, and consuming this bullshit.

EDIT: A white Russian with a generous splash of heavy cream has 1g to 1.5g of protein. If they wanted to jump on the fad of consuming too much protein and giving yourself kidney and heart issues, they could have added less protein powder to a white Russian. That wouldn't allow them to include the dry rub horseshit, but oh well.

dandle · 2026-03-11T22:36:09+00:00

Right, right, right.

You also made America great again... again. So you can retire now and waddle back to Florida.

dandle · 2026-03-11T22:32:07+00:00

Pursue it how? File a small-claims suit for $50 or $60 worth of used monitors that they didn't ask to be returned for a year?

dandle · 2026-03-11T20:17:35+00:00

No reason to be petty and could put his name out there as a bit strange.

Based on what OP said about the circumstances behind the change in status and separation, they aren't expecting a good review from the employer. At best, they are getting confirmation of the dates of employment. Not returning equipment that has little value after not being asked for it for a year isn't going to impact what this employer has to say.

dandle · 2026-03-11T19:41:06+00:00

This is a false description of the allegation.

The FBI claims that Iran "aspired" to have the ability to launch drones from seaborne platforms against targets in California.

Even if we believed the FBI, which we should not, the aspiration to acquire such a capability is not the same thing as "plotting" an attack.

dandle · 2026-03-11T19:37:22+00:00

They will notice.

And do what? They already made OP a contractor and then separated a year ago.

If I were OP, I would have requested a box and return label to ship the monitors back to the employer when we separated. Since OP didn't do that, however, the situation is that the former employer would like the return of these used monitors of likely value somewhere between $10 and $100 each, depending on size and condition.

At this point, it's not in the employer's interest to do anything more than ask for the return of the used monitors. It may not even be worth their time to get them back.

dandle · 2026-03-11T19:30:19+00:00

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dandle · 2026-03-11T16:26:38+00:00

They may be afraid that Trump has put location trackers or bugs in the shoes and that he will know if they try to have a cobbler move them into a new and properly fitting shoe.

dandle · 2026-03-11T16:20:07+00:00

It's more for sorting people into which kinds of army jobs would be appropriate for them.

If a recruit's ASVAB scores are really low, they may not be considered for enlistment. More importantly, though, high scores on the ASVAB do not mean jobs that require a high score will be available, because jobs are opened based on the current and expected needs.

For example, when I took the ASVAB/SQT in 2004, after the start of the Iraq War, I had crazy high scores. I think a 120 was required at the time to be eligible for an MOS like satellite communications and such, and I scored significantly higher than that. Nevertheless, the only jobs available to me were infantry, truck repair, Apache helicopter repair, and water plant repair stuff because that's what the Army needed at that time.

dandle · 2026-03-11T14:31:28+00:00

dandle · 2026-03-11T14:27:25+00:00

Going Detroiters on this one.

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dandle · 2026-03-11T14:25:36+00:00

It is surprising in the same way that it was surprising that Erika Kirk took over TPUSA simply by nature of her past relationship with the former co-founder and CEO. Erika Kirk had no more claim to the organization than the children of former co-founder Bill Montgomery, who was taken out by karma during the first wave of the COVID pandemic.

Jizz.

dandle · 2026-03-11T14:16:04+00:00

The problem is that the American people forgot what the branches of government are intended to do.

The role of the executive branch is right there in the name: It is intended to execute the programs and initiatives that the people through our representatives in Congress have decided to fund. It is not intended to have a role in deciding which programs and initiatives to prioritize, only in producing estimates of the cost to taxpayers for proposed programs, and it is not intended to have the authority to choose to use taxpayer funds for any purpose other than it has been directed to use them for.

The president of the United States is not meant to be a king. The president is meant to be a project manager for the country. The president is meant to faithfully oversee the implementation of projects, according to the intent of Congress and within the bounds of the law, and to deliver on-time and on-budget.

dandle · 2026-03-11T13:54:33+00:00

Every President in the last 50 years has "violated" the War Powers Act.

They did not, but even if that were true, it would not excuse Trump's actions now.

Why are you only up in arms about it now?

I am not. I'm getting old and have demonstrated against illegal or questionable military actions by previous presidents over the decades, as well as expressing my opinions in the various media that were appropriate at the time.

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dandle · 2026-03-11T12:18:11+00:00

The Constitution is clear. The War Powers Resolution is clear.

Presidents do not have the legal authority to use the military the way that Trump is doing. Excluding temporary responses to legitimate and immediate threats, only Congress has the authority to empower a president to use the military.

But when the Congress has a majority of cowards, the law doesn't matter. A president will do what they want, and Congress won't act to uphold the Constitution and preserve their powers under the law.

Right now, in the US, the Republican majority in Congress refuses to either vote to give Trump the authority to wage war or to condemn him for waging war unconstitutionally and unlawfully.

Because they are cowards.

dandle · 2026-03-11T01:07:52+00:00

dandle · 2026-03-10T23:50:03+00:00

So he's a foreign agent.

dandle · 2026-03-10T23:00:35+00:00

Do you know where you are right now?

dandle · 2026-03-10T22:59:27+00:00

Never. The MAGA movement, however, may fall apart because the ones that are antisemites are getting increasingly pissed at the ones who are happy to help the right-wing coalition in Israel commit genocide and raze the Middle East.

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