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Idiots will always idiot. Like the old stories of $3,000 toilet seats that idiots swore were government waste… despite the fact that said toilet seats were on the fucking Space Shuttle (IIRC).

People with zero sense of scale. That’s the real issue.

Nah.

Oh no, a fake fucking downvote from an idiot that thinks downvotes matter.

Who the fuck cares? Why the fuck do you think anyone cares?

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Any parent whose child catches measles should be beaten approximately 3/4ths to death with their own shoes.

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Yes, that’s kind of how an investigation works you dingbat.

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Because, as we all know, it’s ONLY the Republicans that are out of session right now… right?

Imbecile.

Ah yes, that well-known financial bastion of… North Korea… where all oligarchs go to hide their money.

I don’t think you know how financial transactions work.

Oh, don’t worry, as soon as the lunatic money dries up it’ll be back to whatever the new purchasing billionaire wants.

It is, quite literally, every moment of every day. Your ignorance is fucking astounding.

Pick any time that Congress is not in session. There is ALWAYS something they could be passing to save one group or another. Painting this shit as “OMG CONGRESS DUN CARE” is the kind of garbage-tier anti-government horseshit that ends up with idiots voting for Republicans. “Well, if da gubmint dusnt do nothin’ then why have gubmint?!?” You hear this shit every time Congress is out of session for any reason. There’s ALWAYS some bill that just absolutely has to be passed even though none of it mattered six months ago. It’s politically expedient to complain about it now, so that’s what happens.

Congress is not full of goddamn robots, and their schedule is prepared well in advance. If you call them back to vote on this shit, you’re necessarily delaying OTHER votes and hey, guess what, when they go on break there will be YET ANOTHER vote that wasn’t done because they went on break that’s NOW the big boogeyman bill that they should be voting on rather than going on break.

It’s a never ending cycle of bullshit.

Pay more attention.

You have an Amazon account, dude. Amazon already has your fucking information. ALL OF IT. Including things like card numbers, addresses, phone numbers, and your purchasing and viewing habits.

It pulled wifi settings from another Amazon device that you have, most likely.

It also downloaded your fucking information when it accessed the internet.

Do you really think there’s some fuckin’ rando sitting there doing nothing in an Amazon warehouse until the moment you order this thing, when they just plug it into a server and download your information to it?

No, it connected to your wifi and downloaded it.

Welcome to how almost every single electronic device operates.

If you’re worried about miners or bots you shouldn’t be purchasing invasive shit to plug into your home network. In fact, you shouldn’t even have a home network.

It’s entirely what you implied.

Be more literate.

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Fuckin’ bleeding heart RINO accepting Federal money like the fuckin’ welfare queen they are. We need to just separate from the US and start our own country so we don’t have to HEY WAIT WHAT DO YOU MEAN I DON’T GET MUH CORN SUBSIDIES?!?!?!??!

Lax.

And of fucking course he won’t find what he wants in Texas, because what he wants is his own fucking fiefdom.

You are aware that every government is literally always leaving someone to die every moment of every day, right?

Welcome to the world. It’s shit.

I do astrophotography, dingus. I’m well aware such mounts exist. I’m also aware of NASA’s history of shooting lasers at the moon to track changes in its distance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Laser_Ranging_experiments

Have a look at that table. See all those specific wavelengths? If your dumbass idea is even remotely feasible then every single photographic satellite in orbit will ABSOLUTELY have filters that will carve out those narrow bands and others that could be realistically used to damage a camera. Lasers operate at specific wavelengths.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laser_types

I do, however, doubt that any satellite has this type of filtration because this idea is inherently stupid. Say you do somehow manage this. Guess what? You’ve put a few pixels out of commission. What happens then? It’s pretty fuckin’ simple. The satellite moves slightly and another picture gets taken with the obscured area now in view.

Because that’s how satellite imaging works.

If you laser is powerful, accurate, and fast tracking enough to destroy an entire imaging sensor from 400km away you’re better off just using it to ransom passing aircraft.

Which is just as stupid.

American. Texas, specifically.

Keep the good shit going, dispose of the cruft.