Trapped In America

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Here comes the sun (Doo-d-doo-doo)

Oh it’s abused alright. They’re called pretextual stops and they’re basically used to skirt your rights of unreasonable search and seizure.

Despite the fact that SOCTUS has ruled that traffic stops are NOT grounds for further criminal investigations.

They also say they pulled him over for not wearing his seat-belt, but I don’t see how they could have possibly known that until they had already pulled him over.

This has been a thing forever here. It’s common(-ish) knowledge to leave your seatbealt on until the cop approaches you. Otherwise they’re allowed to assume that you also weren’t wearing it before the stop and write you a ticket. It’s dumb.

Which sucks for guys, since we usually carry our wallets in our back pocket. So our first instinct is to take off the belt, take out our wallet and have everything ready for the cop when they walk up. Which is a $100 mistake you only make once (hopefully).

This whole thing is a shit show. From the cops lying on the report about him reaching for a knife, which the cellphone video shows clearly didn’t happen, to the State Attorney writing it off and the Sheriff going full DARVO during the press conference.

Sheriff’s Full Press Conference and Bodycam Footage

Notes:

1. The sheriff was in church when the story broke, so it inconvenienced him during his Good Boy time.
2. The victim should have filed a complaint so the Sheriff’s Office could do things The Right Way (aka. get ahead of the story).
3. The unannounced public release of the cellphone video was intended to hurt the Sheriff’s Office reputation (no shit). Implying they’re the real victims here.

Can confirm, I have 2 separate family members spewing this idiocy during visits. First it was that hurricane that shit on Georgia, Tennessee, etc. so “They” could shutdown a lithium mine or something (the people in the area want the mine, so that doesn’t even make sense). It also lead to them to falling for all weather modification conspiracies on Facebook and YouTube. So now it’s the floods out west… because “The Dems” want to make Texas look bad or something? I don’t even know anymore.

Also, dry ice. They seem to think dry ice allows you to steer storms and will show me very obvious fake videos where people are dumping it into the water themselves, then recording and pretending they caught The Man doing it. All of the ice blocks are still square btw, like it was just dumped into the water. They still fall for it.

I’m aware of the Penrose diagram and also watch PBS SpaceTime :)

But I was referring more to the frame of reference of our universe vs that of being inside a blackhole (assuming you could magically avoid being ripped apart by gravity). To an observer inside a blackhole, “time” on the outside would blink by almost instantly. I wasn’t talking about moving through an infinite universe or near/into a black hole. Just stationary, floating just beyond the event horizon, looking out. Hence the asterisk on basically*.

I was leading them to what MotoAsh posted. But they beat me to it while I was typing.

Edit: He even references what I’m talking about at 0:44 in the SpaceTime video. But from the frame of reference of an outside observer.

Yes, but if you’re beyond the event horizon of a black hole time becomes basically* irrelevant. You could literally turn around, look back out towards the rest of he universe, and watch all of time play out in the blink of an eye.

You know that scene in Interstellar where they land on the planet for 5 minutes, but 20 years passes for everyone else due to the planet’s mass? It’s the same thing, but a billion-billion-billion times more severe.

COD4 and CS:S private servers… oh how I miss you both </3

It’s encryption has been broken for some time now, which leaves it vulnerable to some pretty serious security issues. On top of the obvious issue of people with the right know-how just listening to your calls and reading your texts, which you probably don’t want.

(It’s also how most cops/feds tap phones these days.)

Zoomed to the max Firefox will allow (500%). Not seeing anything other than some film grain with JPEG compression artifacts.

AI content usually starts to look more mosaic (random shapes clumped together) as you zoom, not grainy/compressed.

Seeing as TSMC is currently scaling up fab production in the US with their new fabs means they’re feeling that pressure and made the deal with the promise of US protecting them.

Context for anyone wondering: These new fabs will NOT being using their latest 2nm processes, but their 4nm FinFET process. Meaning we’ll still be reliant on Taiwan itself for their latest and greatest.

Anyone else wanna move to the hills and watch this dumpster fire of a country from a distance? I’ll bring the marshmallows…

It could be worse. He could have DESTROYED them. So they should count their blessings.

Hopefully this will work with Google TV too since it’s essentially just an Android TV rebrand for Chromecast. Some of them have decent hardware though, but are held back by the all of the Google bloat. Even using apps that allow adb on Google TVs you can’t fully remove it all without soft-bricking the TV.

I’ve tried setting Kodi up on a few TVs that I’ve fixed, then put them on a VLAN so they couldn’t go online, but could still access my NAS. And even with some having hardware support for AV1, anything over 4-5Mbps or so would cause them to drop frames and lag out. The HEVC support was a little better and will usually do 10-20Mbps+ before running into issues, which is plenty for most YarTube content. So I did a little more digging and noticed that the CPU was sitting at a constant 30%+ usage just doing background bloatware bullshit. So if we had a better UI option, it would open up a lot of cheaper $200-300 4K Google TVs that can stream from a NAS or Jellyfin/Plex server without needing to transcode. Since they have hardware support for basically everything.

They do look like Really Sweet Ramps™ though. You could probably clear 25-30 garbage cans if you used Jimmy’s Diamondback.

I’ve actually seen medical offices setup similarly. Some random computer in a back office with all of their patient data on it, completely exposed to the internet, protected by nothing but a few Windows Firewall rules limiting the connections to a few IP blocks. Just so they can share information office-to-office for say… a root canal and dental crown to be done on the same day, but at 2 separate locations due to limited space.

I’d run out of fingers if I were to count the number of times I’ve seen similar setups, 3-4 toes would be needed at least.

Fun Fact: I once worked with a team that were mapping Iran’s internet infrastructure… for reasons. One of the ways we were able to zero in on the more important systems was because we kept finding these weird Cisco routers that had Telnet exposed to the open internet. All of which just so happened to share neighboring IPs (or close enough) with some pretty serious government systems. Fun times.

I’m not a CISCO tech, so I don’t know the specifics beyond that. But I do remember that the Telnet connection would permanently ban any IP that failed even a single password attempt. So they had that going for them, I guess lol

I have a magnet on my fridge that the city used to give out, it has ALL of the local numbers on it. The thing is hella faded and probably a good 30+ years old now. I haven’t seen another one in years.