I’m … going with the definition of ‘if federal agencies were involved, then federal agencies were involved’.

Like, using your logic, almost no Supreme Court ruling has ever been federal… because they almost all originated in a lower court.

Wow thats like… the exact opposite of a thing I would want to experience.

I guess good job on creating a business model as rage bait?

Pretty sure my wood-elf ass would wither and die in that climate after not too long, but, on the other hand, I have managed to actually survive nearly getting one-shotted by a rattler out in the badlands around Chelan, so… maybe not?

I’d either need a lightweight poncho or a comical amount of sunscreen.

The FBI provided the Philadelphia Police the materials needed to make the bomb.

Honestly did not know that and hope’s doing better.

Maybe he can just like… try to relax for… a couple of years…

The concept of a city deer is something i have 0 experience with.

I’ve only ever seen deer … way out in the boonies, or near like a minor rural freeway.

I believe you, I can understand that if the deer just regularly lived significantly closer or just within fairly urbanized areas, they would acclimate… but where I’m from… they stick to the forests in the foothills of the Cascades, almost entirely.

yoo - 'ts-ee - kah

yoo as in you

'ts as in tsunami

ee as in glee

kah as in karate

… is how my brain and mouth are trying to make sense of this.

Apparently Hungarian has a 'tsi / 'tsee sound that is basically like the Japanese 'tsu, just with a different trailing vowel.

For whatever reason, in Japanese, there is only 'tsu, there is no… 'tsah or 'tsee or 'tsoh.

And in Hungarian … there is only 'tsi/'tsee … no 'tsu or 'tsah or 'tsoh.

… I have spent the last hour being baffled and also making consonant and vowel sounds randomly, like a madman.

Yep.

If you don’t know those hands signs, your drivers liscense should be revoked, you are a danger to everyone you are on the road with.

That would be the least frightful / most naive fawn I’ve ever seen.

I’ve managed to be far enough into a forest to see adolescents rutting from about 100 feet away, see a momma and her kids wander by at about the same distance, had to stay absolutely motionless for them to not all bolt.

… I’ve never seen a fawn that… either bold or stupid.

Not saying its impossible, just saying it’s amazing.

Maybe they’re just broadly more normalized to people and their pets, wherever this… seemingly out in the boonies home is?

I think the closest I’ve ever managed to get to any deer was about 25 feet away, before they bolted.

Not as a hunter, just… hiking, off the trail, basically.

Its an elective (voluntary) federation.

Within a framework designed for and around federating.

So analagously, consider maybe a set of countries that agree to a mutual trade agreement.

Instead of a multiplicity of bilateral negotiations, you have a collective group mechanism for dispute settlement, or maybe steering and implementing a new or revised regional strategy.

Or, to drop the analogy down to the more mundane and practical:

Instead of you and 5 of your friends all texting each other seperately, to figure out the carpool schedule for next week… you all just have a group chat for this.

This can seem unnecessary when scales are small.

Then maybe you happen to scale up, and then you find that the old way of doing things is actually very chaotic and confusing, and has a whole bunch of serious flaws.

Then you look back at the goobers that did all that seemingly at the time pointless extra work, and call that foresight.

So… a funny thing actually just happened…

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/tulsi-gabbards-office-denies-florida-lawmakers-claim-cia-raid-seizing-jfk-mkultra-docs

CIA whistleblower testifies in Congress that the CIA basically raided the DNI (Tulsi Gabbard)'s office, to retrieve various files relating to JFK and MKUltra, that Trump had actually ordered be unsealed.

Anna Paulina Luna corroborates this.

Fox News (nation wide) runs a segment on this with Jesse Waters.

Then, a bunch of people change their tune.

Paulina Luna claims her comments were misconstrued.

Gabbard denies that this happened.

Jesse Waters removes this, his own segment, from his own social media.

Gabbard’s PR person says basically ‘no, a raid did not happen on that day, but about a year earlier, the CIA did confiscate some documents from the DNI, and they still have them.’

… at least that is my current attempt to comprehend this.

So uh… the DNI is supposed to be in charge of the CIA.

But, if you know anything about the CIA… they do whatever the fuck they want, to whoever they want.

There is only a single example of someone ostensibly directly in charge of the CIA that actually attempted to reign in the CIA and hold it accountable, make it stop doing things it wanted to do.

His brain got painted all over Dealey Plaza, in 1963.

EDIT:

Another thing that I am… confused, currently, by:

How is it possible that… there exist any MKUltra documents… that could be declassified?

In the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, in 1977, then CIA Director Stansfield Turner, explained that in 1973, the CIA Director at that time Dick Helms… ordered all the MKUltra documents to be destroyed.

But, approximately 20,000 documents were missed by this desctruction order, mostly financial and accounting documents, still remaining in basically a forgotten annex in DC.

To the best of my knowledge… those 20,000 documents are what comprise essentially the corpus of what has been discussed since 1977, they’re what’s been poured through to figure out who was getting paid to do what kind of work at which kind of site in whatever location, with what kinds of equipment, etc.

So… did… did we just miss some of those, somehow?

Or… did Turner lie to the Senate in '77… and… there were at that time, and still existing to the present currently… more documents than those which survived this supposed destruction order under Helms?

Like genuinely, I am misunderstanding something here, or is that not the implication of ‘there do in fact exist any potentially unclassifiable MKUltra documents’?

Why you do that to Pauletta?

Given Kanye’s uh… totally insane and ongoing multi year psychotic break… I’m going with ‘lucky to be alive’.

The timestamp here is like a few months before he went off the rails… and/or his meds:

https://www.billboard.com/lists/kanye-west-hate-speech-consequences-timeline/

About a week after this timestamp, Kanye did a surprise appearance at the BET awards, praised P Diddy (oh no) for influencing many of his life decisions (ooooh no), and also said he’d been ‘legally dead for a year’.

https://pagesix.com/2022/06/27/kanye-west-makes-surprise-bet-awards-2022-appearance-to-honor-diddy/

I guess by ‘praised P Diddy’ I more mean ‘blamed him for setting him up with Kim’.

He started the whole ‘white lives matter’ thing in october, and was divorced from Kim by november.

In December he went on to Infowars with Alex Jones. 'I lovveeeee Hitlerrrrrr!!!'. While also basically wearing the same thing as he wore at the BET appearance, about a week after this post.

… If this is real, this dude saw something akin to a ghost, like, Kanye, but Kanye’s not there anymore, man.

Like literally at the apex of chapter one of the insanity/villain arc.

I am very glad that you have strategically selected which parts of your mind to lose.

anarcho-pragmatism, lol

this shit seems to suck at least a little bit less than most other shit, therfore, join the anarchist instance

unironically i love this

I’m sorry, Amazon Games Studios and Embracer Group bring you ‘a game that does justice to Tolkien’s world’?

That might be the haughtiest, most of out of touch, delusional idea I’ve ever heard.

Microsoft is claims to be …

Come on now.

We can… learn, right?

Admit when we’ve been abused, consistently, for a very long time?

Ahem…

I may not always fail to properly trigger transparency, but when I don’t, I’ll don’t it in style.

the astronaut meme but its ‘wait that is how almost everything ever has worked this whole time?’

lemmy just fundamentally attempts to accept that that is basically how people work, when you boil things down and remove the rationalizations, and tries to provide mechanisms to manage this somewhat less insanely.

For you Fernando, I hope so too.

But if they aren’t… you can do and be better than that.