I would prioritize a VPN ahead of an ISP. Free Open/Public APs are not uncommon in my area.

SCOTUS told Trump he needs an actual war in central or south America to invoke the Alien Enemies act. He needs that to justify internment camps and to allow the military to support ICE.

Venezuela is as good a target as any.

Judges are bound by the Separation of Powers. A judge who refuses to apply a legislated law against a particular defendant would (effectively) be exercising powers of the legislature. The judge cannot do this, nor can they advise a jury that this can be done, or otherwise enable the jury to do this.

However, a juror is not bound by the separation of powers. They are not an agent of the government. They are laypersons. Members of “We The People”, who are the same authority that gives us the Constitution.

It is not illegal for a juror to determine that the legislature failed to consider a particular defendant’s specific circumstances when they established a law, and exercise their constitutional authority in finding that defendant not guilty of having violated that law.

One of the first deals I did in real estate (~2006) was a sale at 115% loan-to-value, no money down, seller-paid closing costs. The buyers received $2500 at closing. Nobody batted an eye.

Need a “securities” tax, payable in shares of the security. An annual assessment of 1% of all shares owned, transferred directly to an IRS liquidation department. The liquidated shares will be sold off to the general public over time, such that no more than 1% of total traded volume of the security are liquidated shares.

Individual investors can exempt up to $10 million in value from the tax. Artificial persons (corporations, trusts, any “owner” that isn’t human) are non-exempt.

Basically, stocks, bonds, and other financial instruments become more valuable assets to the working class, but carry more liabilities for the problem class.

Luigi Claus is coming for the executive officers of some smartphone manufacturers.

I dunno, huck an old, unabridged dictionary at him hard enough, and he’d probably go down.

Let me stop you right there altogether!

Let me stop you right there!

Government is also the entity that will be prosecuting/persecuting you when they don’t like what you have to say.

Not with that attitude.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

They don’t need the cooperation of telecom providers. They receive the same signal you send to the cell tower. Even if the signal is encrypted so they can’t see what you are sending, they can identify that you are sending.

With enough receivers listening, they can identify your location to a pretty high accuracy.

Privacy policies are irrelevant here. They are picking up unique data as your phone communicates with a cell tower. You can do it with a $15 RTL-SDR receiver.

Get a hundred receivers and you can pinpoint anybody in a city.

Damn, that’s crazy. Now, about all the child rape…

Wealth tax would be deadly for French economy, says Europe’s richest man

Yes. And?

Indeed.

Unfortunately, no matter how well you tune your carburetor, just a change in atmospheric temperature is enough to throw off your mixture.

The only feasible way to adjust it fast enough to keep up with atmospheric changes is with some kind of fuel injection, an ECM, and an O2 sensor to provide the feedback needed for closed-loop mixture control.

Fortunately: https://speeduino.com/

Lean burning increases mileage, but produces nitrous oxides.

Rich burning produces carbon monoxide, which eventually converts to CO2 in the atmosphere.

Unit for unit, NOx emissions are 265 times as damaging as CO/CO2.

https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/how-climate-works/some-greenhouse-gases-are-stronger-others

To successfully convert NOx, catalytic converters need a stoichiometric or slightly rich fuel/air mixture to the engine.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalytic_converter

The An-225 was designed to carry 253 tons about 2500 miles. This aircraft needs to carry just 75 tons, and could get away with about a 1000 mile range.

This is not supposed to be a superheavy airlifter. Supersized, yes, but wind turbine blades are very light for their size.

Jet-A is kerosene and a handful of additives, mostly to prevent gelling at low temperatures. The ability to produce jet fuel from sea water would be extremely useful, but I highly doubt they have developed a feasible system on board a carrier.

Don’t touch our boats.

If you get rid of the US’s 11 CATOBAR supercarriers and only use its STOVL “amphibious assault ships”, the US Navy still has more planes than any other navy in the world.

With the supercarriers, the US Navy has nearly twice as many naval aircraft as the rest of the world combined.