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Lots of litigation on this before it was even filed and Big Tech has lost at every turn. In short, Meta is faced with a $16B Class Action Lawsuit for allowing all the Fake/Scam/Predatory ads on Facebook and Instagram. In the long run it could change the platforms. Class Action Alleges Meta Earns $16 Billion Annually From Scam Ads It Refuses to Remove

There are no words for what they did and how they tried to cover it up. They PROMOTED the officer that did this, let the captain who ordered the tapes destroyed to retire and FIRED the officer who reported this event.

Let me Google that for you.

Don't get it? Miami lost in the Natty...damn good run they can be proud of. Indiana winning and burning crap in the parking lot on the other hand...

Miami is 31-27 versus Florida, Last 10 meetings Miami is 8–2 Miami spent a record 68 weeks ranked #1 in the AP Poll Miami holds the all-time NCAA record for the longest consecutive home win streak. From 1985 to 1994, the Hurricanes won 58 Straight home games - that never happened in the swamp. And the matter of Five Natties versus three I guess we are even bluer bloods...😂 Counting down to another exciting year, will be interesting to see how UF rebuilds, certainly better than the hot garbage fire in Tallahassee.

No need for a Navy thread but tribalism is alive and well in the Navy as well. A giant FU to aviators from the CNO.

Just to stoke the hate fires a little...

Pish posh...try the gunship, turned sideways looking through a HUD with NVGs for 4,000 hours...

Did I miss the memo, was Thursday failure to feed day? New AR and my trusty M-1 Garand both had issues. If you look closely the AR tried to feed two rounds...usually a mag issue. The Garand was the big surprise to me. Had my nephews down from Mass, first time shooting an AR...typical liberal brainwashing leading up to said event..."I hear it kicks really bad...terrifying weapon." .69 seconds after emptying the first mag - "this is awesome, I want one!"

Likely, but still.

Gerrymandering is bad—period. Neither side should be doing it. But let’s not pretend this is some new revelation. The reality is the cat’s out of the bag, and now it’s a full-on fight because no one wants to unilaterally disarm. Packing the court? Also bad. Undermines the credibility of the judiciary and turns it into just another political tool. Yet we’re watching one side openly push for it when they don’t like the current makeup. Killing the filibuster? Same story. It exists to force consensus and protect against raw majority rule. But again, one side is eager to toss it aside the moment it becomes inconvenient. And making Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico states—not based on some sudden principle, but because it shifts the balance of power in the Senate? That’s not about representation, that’s about leverage. Call it what you want, but changing the rules of the game to lock in power is a dangerous path. History is full of examples of how that ends, and none of them are good.

Fresh legal ground to plow...VERY interesting case and the implications will reach far and wide. Families Sue OpenAI for $1B Over Tumbler Ridge School Shooting

The last administration wanted promotions based on race rather than merit and they are butthurt POTUS wants people who align with him...crazy.

I knew it would take .69 seconds for you to get butthurt.

Suspected shooter’s social media posts show shift from video games to political rage "Investigators believe that the posts, as well as information taken from multiple electronic devices seized over the past few days, show Allen’s animosity towards Trump and his administration, sources familiar with the investigation told CNN." "Last month, the account posted to accuse Trump of being a “traitor” to the United States." "shared posts comparing President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler" This story sounds so familiar, now where else have I seen this...🧐

Really?

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Anthropic and Trump: Is a truce near? Really worth the read if you want to see under the hood of our U.S. of AI and the ongoing efforts to bring more into DOW and three digit organizations.

I use AI to clean up my spelling errors...YMMV

Despite the sniping from the trolls I think there’s a difference between writing a check and unlocking leverage—and too many people are blurring that line when it comes to Iran. In 2016, the Barack Obama administration transferred roughly $1.7B to Iran. That wasn’t foreign aid—it was the settlement of a decades-old legal dispute over pre-1979 funds, including $400M that was literally delivered in cash because sanctions had cut Iran off from the global banking system. It looked bad. Optically, strategically it handed the regime a win with minimal immediate pressure tied to behavior. What’s being discussed now is fundamentally different. We’re not talking about pallets of cash showing up overnight. We’re talking about controlled, conditional access to Iranian funds—money that is already theirs, but frozen—and releasing it in phases tied to compliance, outcomes, and leverage. That distinction matters. I am not in favor of flooding Iran with cash they can redirect to proxy groups or destabilizing activities. That’s reckless. Economic power isn’t just about denial, it’s about calibration. If you only ever tighten the vise, eventually you lose the ability to trade relief for behavior. And then your only remaining tools are escalation or stalemate. The goal isn’t to “help Iran.” The goal is to shape outcomes in a way that serves U.S. interests and regional stability.

They have to have some money to feed the populace. If (and that's a big IF right now), we get the nuclear material that is IMHO a huge win. Navy = gone, AF = Gone, ability in the near-term to produce TBM's = gone, nuclear material = gone...in the aggregate it is a big win. Potentially a harder line government in place is not good, but it is not over yet. BTW - Oil is dropping like a rock. Time will tell.

This is why I will no longer engage with you guys... It is conservatively estimated that 17% of all US. deaths in Iraq were directly tied to Iran. Since this regime took power THOUSANDS of Americans have died thanks to their sponsorship of terror around the world. JCPOA did NOTHING to stop that, in fact, Obama made $1.7B in cash payments to Iran..I am sure they used it to build schools and education systems for women and homosexuals.