#nobridge Class war anarchist, over 40 years service against the ruthless criminals on top. Been fighting since Ronald Reagan! My focus is on creating spaces the authorities cannot control, then expanding outward from there. Also on driving off every attack on any community I have even remote ties to. These go together. Note that this account focusses a lot on politics, if you don't want political content without a cw on every such post feel free to block this account.
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Last Notes npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC Iran US NUCLEAR warning: Trump must have just made a credible threat of nuclear attack against Iran. This was too much even for his old buddy Tucker Carlson, who called this a "red line" that should bring his immediate removal from office if crossed. https://radaronline.com/p/tucker-carlson-demands-trump-be-removed-office-nuclear-weapon/ npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC Two more Lee County Pogrom ICE tags https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/117/182/903/577/370/289/original/a86ff2895c3da2b0.jpg https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/117/182/903/577/769/263/original/2c45fab17ea3d688.jpg npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC To eveyone on Mastodon: The real lesson of the US attack on autistici/inventi is that WE ARE NEXT. Mastodon servers mostly do not run things like PRISM, are often based outside the US, and compete directly with the Tech Bros and their ad and tracker supported shit for an audience. Also lots of anti-Trump activism here. If we don't fight for autistici/inventi today, we will have to fight for Mastodon tomorrow. Domino effects are real with Fascists as we saw at the start of WWII. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC ICE warning Orlando This vehicle being used by ICE was spotted 1/2 hour ago in College Park, Orlando on N SR 7 between W Prospect Road and W Commercial Blvd. This is a Federal Protective Services vehicle driven by ICE. They are nowhere near any Federal installation that I know of and ICE uses cars from other Federa agencies in a futile attemot to dodge our own surveillance https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/117/174/525/860/261/306/original/8a0301f9d3f65562.jpg npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC A note on the current war on Flock cameras. The spread of militant direct action against these mass surveillance devices is perhaps the most successful example of "Propaganda of the Deed" I have seen in my entire life. One Flock camera gets chopped down, more soon fall as the example spreads. Arrests and indictments hardly slow it down, as the vast majority of anti-Flock guerrillas get away clean. The recent FL incident with the decoy cameras simply shows how desperate the cops and the Flock/Palantir/Tech Bro club have become under this pounding barrage of militant direct action. Things has heated up to the point of a county commissioner calling for the public hanging of Flock's CEO, and Flock having to make the usual "too little, too late" concessions that show we have forced them into retreat. A weakened enemy in retreat indicates an opportunity for all all-out push to "put the ball in the end zone." #Flock #DeFlock npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC Concerning Nazi Musk's cease and desist against public Nitter instances such as Xcancel: Musk can eat shit and choke on it. I for one cannot imagine any circumstance under which I would make an account on Twitter. More broadly, before I would allow ID/age verification, ads or trackers into my life, I would use a hosts.allow file to whitelist sites I know do not use ads and block ALL of the rest of the Internet. Never will you find me on the "verified" part of the Internet. Not now, not ever, no matter what happens. If customer support for a product is on Twitter, I will treat it as a cash and carry product for which there is no warranty and no customer service. Same as if I bought it on the street. We also need to ensure the rest of our community gets the hell off of Twitter same for monitor accounts whose sole purpose is to get intel for a boycott of Twitter's advertisers. I am soooo glad I don't have an account. I don't even know what their current UI looks like, same as "snitchbook." Oh and Elon? As long as you keep deadnaming your trans daughter, I will keep deadnaming your website. #X #Twitter #Nitter npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC About AI: right now I can only think of ONE thing I would ever do with it, and this job could probably be done better with a little effort in Blender: If I was facing a criminal charge and video with an uncertain chain of custody was the evidence, an AI or Blender made video of the prosecutor or the judge doing whatever I was shown doing might be able to impeach the original video "evidence" and toss it out. Problem is, politicians and fascisgs can do this too. Randy fine could attempt to claim the video of him rifling through a constituant's mail was AI and use a known AI video as "proof." Deepfakes may make real video inadmissible in the Court of Public Opinion. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC PROTEST the invasion of Lee County FL by ICE ICE Out Now protest Wed Aug 26 6PM at the Luminary hotel in Ft Myers FL, which is one of the hotels ICE is staying in. All day Monday ICE terrorized Lee County residents, these Orcs and their infernal vehicles were seen all over the county, often working with the notorious Lee County Sheriff's Office and equally racist FL Highway Patrol. https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/117/154/023/340/185/867/original/716036fe660393f8.png npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC #ICE assault on Lee County FL being tracked in realtime by unidosimmokalee/ Well over a dozen updates, they are coming out several times an hour at https://imginn.com/unidosimmokalee/ npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC #ICE on Daniales by Gateway, in front of the Jet Blue Park white/blanco RAM (Dodge Ram?) From https://imginn.com/unidosimmokalee/ https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/117/152/209/903/458/806/original/c1cd84f6f88d75da.jpg npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC From https://imginn.com/unidosimmokalee/ Bonita Springs 3:22PM Aug 24 ICE on Rosemary w Lee County Sheriffs Office, unmarked Grey Ford Explorer https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/117/152/204/846/375/213/original/e59973d3b38629ba.webp npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC #ICE spotted at gas station Lee County FL Unidos Immokalee advises avoiding gas stations and major highways https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/117/152/192/884/832/501/original/0f6834ac77c7dcab.jpg npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC Breaking #ICE spottings in Lee County FL https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/117/152/186/511/825/351/original/ee15b60139c4a4b8.jpg npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC FT Myers #ICE WARNING: 20 unmarked cars and ICE staying at multiple hotels https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/117/152/055/504/565/800/original/969479019c0bb50c.jpg npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC Lee County FL ICE WARNING "Huge influx" of ICE agents many new faces in Lee County npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…x8t7 Unless that device can take a 3ed party OS, you are going to need to install ADB support on a real computer and disable every piece of vendor trashware over ADB. Lots of times it cannot all be disabled from settings, I've even seen the Facebook app installed so it could only be disabled over USB. Those ads were probably stored on the device from prior connections or when the device was first provisioned. I doubt the vendor is paying for a whole second network connection but I would not bet my safety on that either. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…kkmn That's some real muscle power to pick up this Nazi thug and carry him out of the church like a sack of stinking garbage. Question for Jake: who has the gym body now asshole? I guess Jake has been hitting the burgers instead of lifting... npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…fm7t @nprofile…0hde I am probably communicating with a lot of friendlies, a few human hostiles, and a hostile AI or two with this open public post. If the entire human race is under attack, stopping that becomes the job of local military units everywhere. One thing they have to prepare for is EMP trashing electronics. Not being able to trust them would be similar. At the squad, platoon, and probably company level they could go back to flags and bugle calls if they have to. Unless we foolishly put AI "security" robots in data centers, a single squad of soldiers should be able to take down a data center. Drones cannot fly through glass windows. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…7yz3 @nprofile…6n3c What they understand is muscle and power. Imagine a CEO calling for rounding up the unhoused coming home to broken windows and their swimming pool full of rotting dead fish. A company called Atlas backed off Atlanta's Cop City project after one too many rounds of this sort of thing back in 2023 as I recall. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…fm7t @nprofile…0hde We can do the same to AI by finding out what it is training on and poisoning those inputs. Example: convince it that we are going to hit a major "Skynet" data center with radio controlled non-networked drones, when we are actually going after the power substation feeding it from the ground. Diversions are standard in all warfare and I suspect they will be a weak link for any warlike AI. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…7lqa @nprofile…f43a Shit like this used to explicitly target LGBTQ kids when I was a teenager, I knew several escapees from these hellholes. Lots of people from that generation thus operate on a no-contact basis with the entire psych industry, which proved then and apparently is still proving now that it cannot be trusted. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…px58 He is a traitor to his people for siding with ICE, now he must eat the fruits of his own treason. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…pjpd How the hell can anyone get a vagina or an ass far enough down on this loser to push that tiny peanut inside? npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…8t9n If this ends with a series of Nuremburg 2.0 trials for crimes against humanity, that won't go well for him. Imagine being his attorney and hearing or seeing his language calling for hanging others being read back or played in open court. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…724w @nprofile…0hde Putin (who is ex-KGB) does in fact use a manual typewriter. Probably locks up the ribbon every night or burns it and starts a new one each day. During Putin's tenure in KGB, a device was invented there that could monitor the voltage on power wiring near an IBM Selectric typewriter. Each key on one of these puts a different load on the motor, thus putting a downward voltage pulse of different amplitude on the wire. The KGB's device could decipher these pulses and copy the text being typed. In the 1980's I repaired and sold government surplus typewriters. Sperry/Remington aka Sperry/Rand made a clone of the IBM Selectric, I think they got license rights by helping develop this machine. Anyway, some of the Sperries came with a half power motor with a heavy flywheel so as not to leak the character typed onto the power line. This was known simply as the "spy motor" it added about a pound and seemed to be less reliable, plus sustained fast typing would slow the machine down. I know exactly why the typewriter on Putin's desk is a manual one... npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…px58 Hospital security needs to take their job of defending patients seriously. The arrival of ICE should have led to a lockdown, and if ICE tried to force the doors as much force as necessary used to repel the invasion. I'm sure that hospital has armed guards. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…724w @nprofile…0hde If THAT happens Signal goes away so we activists here have to switch to a decentralized encrypted messenger and rebuild our networks npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…0hde Well, Amazon AWS and/or Azure going down takes out Signal, so we all have to change our encrypted comms to mesh network compatable decentralized systems. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…fm7t @nprofile…0hde So the AI war starts with each side pulling the plug on the other. To kill Skynet would be a multi-pronged attack: 1: Cut the whole network since we may not know where all the AI nodes are 2:Cut the power to known AI servers 3:If attacks from rogue AI continue, destroy known AI data centers physically, then find ways to locate and destroy "sleeper" nodes as they come online. Do not use computer-controlled network capable military hardware for this as the AI might be able to take it over. Use precomputer or non-networked weapons only. Remove batteries and drain fuel from suspect hardware such as autonomous drones. 4:Real worst case: shutting down the power grid would stop AI nodes not connected to visible local power sources. The remaining nodes will be visible by their power sources and thus be found and destroyed. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…f9wr @nprofile…hh4j Shit like this will force people to conceal pregnancies and seek no prenatal care or post-miscarriage care no matter what happens. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…psdu Would they have even let him leave if he had stood up to leave and bolted for the door if pursued? npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…psdt Trump is to Canada as Putin was to Ukraine in 2013 just before the the first invasions began. Remember that Trump has openly threatened Canada with invasion and Greenland too. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…2jex @nprofile…6n3c Depends on who makes the laws. In Nazi Gernany it was illegal to be Jewish, in a Christian Nationalist/Nazi US it will be illegal to be LGBTQ. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…7yz3 @nprofile…6n3c Making it illegal for anyone to exist is by definition a declaration of war and a death threat. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…sq0q Note that the Israeli far right is seeking to crack down on the Israeli LGBTQ community anyway. Even the pinkwash is fake. In DC back in 2024, we blockaded the Capitol Pride parade over the issue of corporations that arm the IOF being allowed to participate. THis was the same day as the huge "red line" protest for Palestine at the then Biden occupied White House https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/117/147/200/708/013/021/original/dd5f6b31f14c9890.mp4 npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…hh4j I for one do not understand how anyone can abuse or harm a partner. A random person in a cruising environment hooks up with me once, and any attack on them becomes considered an attack on me. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…ur67 In this case a guillotining for murder npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…0hde This also applies to folks INSIDE the US who are not in-solid GOP supporters. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…ur67 Under this guy's "law" all of the US could be occupied because Nazis here desecrate synagogoes. Meanwhile, let's talk about what can be justified when settlers descrate mosques... npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…hh4j Well, for me very light clothing in warm weather and indoors is adaptive. I have to deal with both heat sensitivity and a hornet's nest of sensory issues. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC Thoughts on the current state of the conflict against Fascism in the US The political contest and fighting in the US seems to be in sort of a false lull right now. A mixture of police and climate heat has caused public protests to become limited in scope, and high profile direct actions (such as the warehouse and Tesla fires) also to be on break. The lull is false however, I see at least four active fronts right now. First of them is the election defense campaign for November, into which considerable resources are being allocated. We've already seen things like ICE at polling places during primary season, and since the GOP cannot win a fair fight a lot more is expected in November. An election either stolen or disregarded by Trump and the GOP will be a real "put up or shut up," make or break moment for all of us. Organizing for this so we are ready may be the most important thing that can be done right now Second is the direct action campaign of mass Flock camera destruction. One person cutting down a pole bearing a Flock camera is probably worth at least a hundred protesting at City Hall against a Flock camera, though that too has value. That county commissioner who called for hanging the CEO of Flock took a real personal risk too. Third front is the protests and street occupations in places where ICE or Pol-ICE kill someone. St Augustine FL comes to mind here as I was at that protest, so does Wisconsin where weeks of protest resulted. None of these protests escalated into nationwise protest much less rioting, but the enemy may still fear exactly that. Another front just opened in the border wall construction zone in Arizona. Destruction contractors have been stopped from uprooting old growth cottonwoods by a treesit that has been seemingly growing by the day. This action has become a focus of both pro-migrant and pro-Earth activists. It is also a very rare CD action against an extraordinarily dangerous administration, but the stakes are no worse than those faced by any military unit receiving such orders as to hold their ground at any cost. This of course is exactly what the cottonwood defenders are doing! Finally there are all the propaganda efforts online to get people moving and keep people from giving up. Let's remember: all conflict has its ebbs and tides. WWII began with a months-long "phoney war" where almost no military action was attempted as the combatants essentially circled oneanother waiting for an opening. #strategy npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC Example of #AI "artificial stupidity" During the 2025 war between Iran and Isra-hell, someone in Iran shared an image that was supposed to be a shot-down IOF F-35 but showed an impossible "crash." The plane was shown right side up on the desert nowhere near an airstrip. Therefore it could not have been bombed there while on the ground as it would not have ever been landed there intentionally. Also the missing wing was nowhere to be founnd and there were no carbon marks anywhere. Since the plane was shown missing all of one wing, it would not have been possible to set the plane down in a belly landing. This has been done with part of a wing missing but is impossible with all of one wing gone. Real world, that side of the plane would drop, rolling the plane onto its side. The tail would then force the nose down like the feathers on an arrow. Then the remaining wing would roll the aircraft like a spinning arrow. Just ejecting might be hard due to the resulting g forces. The plane would strike the ground end-on on the nose and be destroyed, npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC An article on the cancelled plans to call for a license law in NY: https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/08/14/council-backs-off-e-bike-registration-amid-jerseys-messy-restriction-rollout npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC Speaking of driver licensing crap, it looks like New Jersey residents are refusing in droves to ride with a license. Bike shops report purchase drops of 20-90% for e-bikes, with many customers saying they don't want an e-bike at all if a license is required. Others are ordering online legal or otherwise and riding without a license. Risk is limited in so doing to a (probably uncollectable) $50 fine and potential bike theft by the cops. Riding without a license unlike driving without a license does NOT appear to be arrestable, so this may prove unenforcible. The registration stickers used BTW should not be hard to counterfeit and could keep cops from even trying to pull over a rider. They are not easy to read from a distance, meaning cops can't sit by the side of the road, run E-bike registration numbers, and attempt a probably futile chase when one comes up as a fake. NO QUARTER for bike licensing! #e-bike #licensing npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…2r66 @nprofile…3ut6 Hell, you could probably SPIN a turbine with high pressure gas diarrhea from Taylor Farms. Thanks RFK Jr... npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…7yuj This is definately time to stop updating kernel versions! If a patch comes out for an exploit, consider cherrypicking it locally to an older version maintained locally and building from that. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…al0s It wasn't forged in volcanic fire? npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…0sc8 @nprofile…fw69 On that note, it's worth remembering that Trump refused to serve in a war he supported. This is very different than refusing to participate in a war you oppose like so many Russians are doing right now. Since Trump took 5 deferments, supported the Vietnam War on condition only others were called to fight, and now asks others to fight for him, he had earned himself a decoration: Chickenhawk First Class with four oak leaf clusters. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC Seeing a report from June that some survey found 61% of prepaid wireless users would either "change providers" or abandon phone service entirely if the FCC implements "know your customer" rules requiring ID to have a phone number. This includes myself. Changing providers will mean having to get service from a non-US based international tourist SIM provider, or possibly from a domestic data-only provider. Key word in the proposal is "voice service providers." This means data-only SIMs might be exempt. SIMS that do not offer a phone number at all would obviously be exempt from any law requiring ID to get a phone number unless separately added to the law. If domestic data-only SIMS are also put behind an ID wall, very few countries block international SIMs in roaming mode. There are a few but not many as requiring tourists to get local SIMS to use their phones (some of which are carrier locked) tends to suppress tourism. These are normally data-only SIMS, no phone number involved. There are many brands to choose from, many openly advertising that they can be used to bypass "know your customer" requirements. All 50 state AG's have for obvious reasons endorsed requiring ID for phone numbers. Most groups not connected to policing that have made any statements seem to be opposed. All of this is complicated by the fact that the US is now a Fascist country, and if Trump tries to rule without Congress and fighting breaks out, do remember the FCC is part of the executive branch and is thus controlled by Trump. If I have to sign off the Internet entirely save for what I can do with cracked enemy wifi, I will. I will never publish a single line of text or a single frame of video that can be connected to be by an ID document. Not now, not ever. I would sooner return to pirate radio and distributing videos on camera cards. #FCC #ID npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…ur67 @nprofile…twkm @nprofile…z2ve @nprofile…a638 The Nazi "stab in the back" myth was based on the fact that the overthrow of the Kaiser all but ended WWII, as the new German government threw in the towel two days later. Seemingly at no time did interwar Germany really have a consensus around democracy or even the revolution that had thrown down the monarchy. A vicious multipolar fight was coming. Had that government attempted to continue the war (perhaps in response to outrageous French demands in peace negotiations) they would not have been able to last more than a couple months and hundreds of thousands more could have died. The French for their part feared that Germany would use peace to rearm and fight again (as many in Ukraine do now w Putin). That of course is exactly what happened-but in response to not in spite of the Treaty of Versailles. The war reparations in that treaty caused Germany's economy to collapse in 1923 and deepened the Depression after 1929. A temporary recovery in the mid to late 1920s was made possible be foreign loans that backstopped the payments, ending a French occupation of the Ruhr. This occupation meant the war was not really over, and boosted all German far-right parties beyond measure. Starting in January 1923 it is considered to have been an undeclared war. This international fighting came on top of a state of near civil war in Germany as Communists and Socialists slugged it out with the early Nazis, the Freikorps, and other extreme-right thugs. November 1923 came Hitler's version of J6, the Beer Hall Putsch. That Ruhr occupation however short-lived also started Germany down the road of printing more paper money to pay unemployed workers.This was because factories in the Ruhr could not be used due to the occupation. It was that habit that finished off Germany's economy in the Depression and boosted Hitler into power. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…l4np @nprofile…9lcr @nprofile…kkmn Nice seeing these Nazi fucks forced to flee. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…ur67 @nprofile…twkm @nprofile…z2ve @nprofile…a638 At this point you have to wonder if they are being kept in sea to confine any mutiny to one ship instead of a whole port npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…ur67 @nprofile…twkm @nprofile…z2ve @nprofile…a638 Can you say "Battleship Potemkin 1905?" There is even bigger potential to this: Germany's 1918 revolution that threw down the Kaiser was born on the battleships. They had been kept in port rusting away-with crews still onboard on REDUCED RATIONS. Then in 1918 the Kaiser wanted to send them out for a suicidal battle with the British fleet for no more reason than to improve Germany's position in an already lost war. The sailors refused, and engine room crews hosed down the coals in the boilers to prevent the ships from steaming. Two ships surrendered after a standoff with one loyalist U-boat, but it was too late for that. The revolt spread from ship to ship, then to the shore and the cities. When it was over the Kaiser had been forced to abdicate and Germany became (temporarily) a democracy. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…twkm @nprofile…ur67 @nprofile…z2ve @nprofile…a638 They did in fact test both taking off and landing on the Forrestal with a full load back in 1963. They sensibly tested part load first, then loaded to the max and repeated the tests. I suspect the main problem was having to land with only 15 feet clearance between the starboard wingtip and the ships's island (offset superstructure). On the other hand, the Forrestal appears to have been narrower than current carriers. That confined space landing would have had to be done almost perfectly, every time. My guess is they figured sooner or later someone would fuck it up, and you can't just go around and try again if the problem is breaking a wingtip off on the island. Combat range of the Osprey is claimed on Wikipedia to be only 450 miles, ferry range (no payload, max fuel can be used one-way) at just over 2500 miles. Note that the range of Iranian missiles is longer than the Osprey's claimed combat range, meaning any base used to resupply the Abraham Lincoln using Ospreys can be hit unless air to air refueling (which the Osprey is capable of) is used. The Greyhound has three times the Osprey's "combat" range with 10,000 pounds cargo. Not enough capacity to ferry bombs unless 5 2000 pounders or equivalent is the ONLY load, but should be fine for food and plumbing supplies. This is assuming the just retired planes are still airworthy (engines not time-expired etc). Can you imagine how pissed that crew would be if more ammunition (implying staying out longer) was delivered but not food and maintainance supplies? npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…n4s7 Note also the language that site used. The idea of anyone being "illegal" on stolen land is quite offensive. This is supposedly not about anyone's migration status but about the crimes of just ONE person. The terminology used tries to tar all other migrants with that brush and is a standard US fash tactic. In actuality, migrant populations here and globally seem to have lower crime rates than locals in the same economic classes. This is probably due to successful criminals not needing to migrate and knowing not to forfeit home field advantage. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…2hrz @nprofile…e965 At least we can choose not to use toll roads and Lexus Lanes npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…m8l7 There might not be ANYONE who can beat Ukraine in a drone war at this time. Russia sure as hell can't. They had to import drone designs from Iran just to attempt it. One interesting takeaway from the Iran war is this: Shahed/Geran drones hitting civilians in Ukraine is not caused by the drones being inaccurate. Iran has no trouble hitting point targets with the exact same weapon, so this proves Putin's target choices are in fact choices not accidents. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…zaxj @nprofile…2hrz @nprofile…e965 THAT is what works, and so many people are doing it that Flock is now trying to make excuses and implement the usual "too little/too late" fake reforms. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…2hrz @nprofile…e965 I would prefer no ALPRs at all, for travel privacy. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…ur67 @nprofile…z2ve @nprofile…a638 Supplies and maintainance items could be delivered to a carrier and crews rotated faster than the ships themselves could be rotated. In theory one carrier with two crews could stay out until it needed drydock servicing. Some way to dispose of the sewage would be needed. The fact that Trump treats the miitary like shit of course is going to bite him on the ass the first time he gets the choice between a successful military coup and being dragged out of the White House by US marshalls and sent to prison. Most likely date for that is Jan 20 2029 but others are possible. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…ur67 @nprofile…z2ve @nprofile…a638 For a nation state to be hit that hard by a nonstate actor is an even bigger humiliation than being hit by a nation state. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…z2ve @nprofile…a638 The Pentagon was out of action for months after 9-11. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…a638 Destroying an enemy's logistics is a normal and highly effective way of gaining an advantage in war and isn't at all new. In 1577, the Spanish Armada sailed against England with the goal of returning the island nation to Catholicism by force of arms. One one of his privateering/pirate cruises, Sir Francis Drake discovered the entire supply of barrel staves for the Armada's provisions casks. These were wooden barrels and they had to be made of seasoned, stable wood so they would not leak. Drake burned the entire stock of barrel staves. The result was the Armada had to sail with all their food in casks made of green wood, which failed almost immediately. They were barely out of port when they were throwing meat overboard because it was turning into a green slime. This meant the Armada was in bad shape even before the first cannon broadside. How they were defeated in the actual battle is a whole 'nother story(ask me if interested), but making their food rot helped tilt the playing field against the Armada right from the start. Its hard to focus on the fight when a plate full of slime and maggots is in front of your face. Now we see Iran has managed to do essentially the same thing to the US Navy, and this armada too isn't going to be able to conquer anything. The US has been around 250 years, Iran more like 2,500 years. The US simply doesn't have the experience for this... npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…px58 Being autistic myself I consider people trying to "treat" or "find the cause" of autism to be a threat. The RFK Jr version of "crunchy granola" is actually a very dangerous threat. We have not forgotten the talk of roundups and "healing camps" in a country with active concentration camps for others. Even for neurotypicals however the anti-vax and fake science parts of this are a threat. This means having HHS fighting on the side of disease. We DO need to know of such discussions though so thanks for the video. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…ep33 The use of the military to control a city governed by an opposition party is not something associated with peacetime. Its what we expect in civil wars. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…tly8 Thus the AI wars. Dune, now playing live... npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…s4ce @nprofile…qlpj Fediblock has been talking into putting Gaza verified accounts on blocklists? npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…v7ax Meanwhile the hoodlines of real trucks that do real work have often been lowered for aerodynamic reasons. Look at a modern, somewhat streamlined tractor-trailer and compare it to one from the 1960's. Tolling systems that penalized length and encourage the use of teh very unaerodynamic cabover design in long haul trucking were abolished in the 1970's. This was in response to fuel shortages, as "conventional" design even then got better fuel economy. Since then, sleeper cabs and the main cab have been integrated into one unit, hoods now taper down and on both sides to a smaller radiator grille and front fenders are faired in. Skirts under trailers direct air out of the wheels, and the big fairing on top helps the air get over the trailer. All that aero work has helped a lot. Trucks that once got only 4 mpg now get 6 to as much as 8. Fuel is the single biggest expense in trucking, every dime spent on diesel comes right out of the pay. Diesel can still cost nearly $5 a gallon. Meanwhile, trucks that are toys not tools are going the other way. If I were trying to get buyers to accept low slung streamliner SUVs with the same inside space, I would use videos of everything from modern semis to the long-nose 1971 Plymouth Superbirds in NASCAR. If these were Dodge trucks I'd even name it a "superbird nose." This low nose would not only boost fuel economy but save lives. Anyone hit on foot goes over not under it. That long nose could also serve as a long, collapsible bumper that protects both pedestrians and the rest of the truck. Saturn cars had this, the front bumper internally was nearly a foot of what looked like styrofoam backed by a stout aluminum bar. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…vq88 @nprofile…v7ax At least Cybertrucks (AKA wankpanzers) got banned for all those dangerous sharp corners npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…n4s7 Can't use it, make sure nobody ELSE can use it. Not just the trash cans, the whole fucking park. A scorched earth retreat means you leave behind nothing of value to the Enemy. When the Russians were forced to retreat 1,000 miles by Nazi Germany, they stripped factories of machinery, harvested what crops they could carry and burned the rest. They destroyed railroads and cut down phone lines. They knew anything left behind of military value would be left behind. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…n4s7 I think a case can be made for utterly trashing any site unhoused people are forced to abandon. A variation on the scorched-earth retreat. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…n4s7 If you're non 100% white, not cishet, or not an "in-solid" evangelical Christian, you are already on the list according to Project 2025. The time to fight was YESTERDAY, the second best time is right fucking now. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC A call is reported by of all things Polymarket to be circulating for a "De-Flock America" night on Halloween #Flock #Halloween npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…xet0 And this is a scene from the movie released 4 years later. Note that while no helicopter gunships (as in the movie) were used in the real battles of 2020, a National Guard Black Hawk was used on June 1 2020 to knock people down with the rotor wash. Later in the Uprising we had a lot less problems with low flying helicopters once it became well known we had fireworks rockets and those green lasers. https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/117/115/385/202/125/361/original/aa03a5d108bf9b83.jpg npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…xet0 The actual phrase was "antifa massacre" without stating whether we were massacred or were the ones doing the massacring. This was probably deliberately unstated. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC Fixed wrong video file npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…vg4h Don't use yourself UP on a CD that could lead to indefinate detention when so much more can be done at the same level of risk npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…cjn3 @nprofile…vg4h Here's a reputed quote from MLK: "I am only effective so long as there is the shadow on white America of the Black man standing behind me with a molotov cocktail." npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…klmm If low lying island nations start droning these data centers they will be within their rights. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…44dh Print out a hundred slightly different versions, sell them through Amazon to the AI book burners and FUCK UP their models npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…d7ue You can use imginn.com to access IG content without an account and without letting Meta spy on you npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…glyx Federal Judges cannot answer death threats from MAGA meatheads with warrants and house raids if the US Marshall's Service and FBI are loyal to Trump. Thus his enforcers get impunity npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…sq0q I hope Israelis taking these stolen organs die of some of the very diseases their destruction of Gaza's water and sewer systems are spreading. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…4hl4 Maybe try a dedicated vegetarian/vegan restaurant for this? That way you would be patronizing folks who know what they are doing. Decades ago, an animal rights group I worked with on fur and vivisection issues often went to a local vegan restaurant after protests and meetings. It was the only restaurant I ever was able to get good fresh-squeezed orange juice in. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…l9lt Survival mode pushed too far can detonate into "nothing left to lose." Luigi reportedly felt his bad back that United Healthcare (UHC) refused to treat left him with nothing to lose... npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…wfkq I hope some of those AI data centers get "pulped" for this. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…m4m0 @nprofile…e7vt One nice thing about a latrine dug in the ground though: it never clogs and always works. It can fill up, but you can dig another when it does. Been there, used that when off-grid for a while. Been on the water too, though only on overnight trips. You can't shit in a clogged head without making the problem worse. How hard is it to fly a maintainance team onto a fucking carrier? Maggoty food (or food so bad the maggots are the most edible thing in it) is an emergency. Such food is presumed unhealthy. Let's get practical here so I will speak now from direct experience. When I am out on operations of my own, I won't hesitate to drink nasty warm, flat soda if that's all I have. It can't make me sick and will still keep me from bonking. I won't touch warm, spoiling diary products though because I don't want diarrhea. That goes double if I'm in a "toilet desert" area where all bathrooms are locked for "customers only" in an urban environment. So far as the election is concerned there are two kinds of people in this world: those who put their money where their mouth is, and those who don't. Trump is the latter but so are most of the Dems. Trump however is the reason those sailors have been out so long the food is bad and the heads are clogged. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…yr9u @nprofile…d2lq Golf courses and yahoos in big jacked up 4 wheel drive trucks are two bad things that go great together. Just imagine Bigfoot (the truck not the ape) being driven all over the greens at a wealthy private country club, going full throttle and throwing rooster tails of dirt and grass! Probably leave ruts two feet deep and require a dozer to fix. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…pyrh @nprofile…d2lq Original purpose may have been feed for horses that only the rich had npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…8lrp @nprofile…5xa9 @nprofile…a638 Wildberries will have to change their name to WildFIRES... npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…gurw I assume you backed up all your videos locally? If so try reposting them to archive.org npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…hh4j Given the possibilty that Trump tries to repudiate this election they might be coming out of that polling booth in fatigues. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…sq0q I guess feeling like members of the Nazi SS is a bit hard on folks who are at least supposed to be Jewish? Who were raised on stories of the Holocaust and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising? npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…ur67 I assume Iran is smart enough to ban this app or at least block it near their military bases? Hell, even in peacetime Strava can kill. Before they started excluding some dangerous biking routes from time records, someone trying for a bicycle speed record down one of the biggest hills in San Francisco hit and killed an elderly woman in a high speed crash. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…ur67 "executed" is the key word here: Luigi executed not only a plan, but one of the worst criminals on the entire continent. Brian Thompson killed hundreds if not thousands with those denials of care. It is a proven fact that United Healthcare paid for hundreds of procedures (no doubt many of them lifesaving) that would normally have been denied after their CEO got popped. Thus Luigi has saved many innocent lives at the "cost" of one guilty one. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…sgc0 As I understand things (any Amish here please correct me if this is wrong!) the Amish evaluate new technologies on a cost-benefit model. This calculation scales usefulness against damage to their culture and social structures. In some cases a tool (notably electrification) may be welcome in the shop but not the house. One real lesson from the Amish is this: before we had cars, most people spent no more time commuting than today. Every routine use gain we got from cars we gave back with longer commutes. Using cars to replace horse drawn wagons (remember no trains either more than about 170 years ago) for long trips was not the problem, using them to replace your feet or the streetcar for daily commuting was. Now everything is all spread out and hugely expensive and difficult to reverse. In the extreme case, in one place in Arizona I know well, any groceries other than a few staples have to come from Wal-Mart or Safeway, both about 50 miles away. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…7ufp @nprofile…qdgy Consumer Reports called them out for that one. I always refused to share a phone number, always paid with cash, and never got a declined sale for doing so. I was buying parts for building pirate radio transmitters so this was important. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…nju0 @nprofile…qdgy @nprofile…gu7x Get a folding bike and put it in the back of your car. Park a few miles back and reject paid parking entirely. This works even in Washington DC npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…rm95 @nprofile…qdgy Tell them you have a non-Google phone that cannot run Google or Apple apps. Tell them it's cash or nothing, and remind them that cash is still legal tender (at least in the US, no idea elsewhere). If a business has a sign on the door saying they do not accept cash, refuse to even enter. npub15j88w7x5nkjgwap05gm52y8fy6lt3y3xwzut44j58h535nf7kkwqamuj8s LukefromDC @nprofile…g5fp @nprofile…qdgy I trim my own hair so that one is off the table at least