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Okay, but it's not as if installing stuff on poles has meaningful public oversight even when it requires hard-wiring. It might make such deployments ever so slightly more likely by reducing the labor costs a little bit, but is otherwise entirely irrelevant.

If there's ever public input into that sort of stuff at all, it doesn't come at the putting-hardware-on-poles phase; it comes at the budgeting or procurement phase. And even then, that's only if there's a specific project with a specific budget line-item: at the political level of "we're proposing to spend $X million on a contract with Y vendor to provide Z service," no politician knows or cares whether the shit is hard-wired or plugged into a socket, or whether that changes over the course of the contract! It's nothing but a minor implementation detail.

...Actually, speaking of which, I should correct myself: complaining about it may not damage your credibility after all. But that's because most politicians' eyes are just gonna glaze over before they even understand what the fuck you're talking about well enough to nitpick.

So this could threaten air travel for a huge region.

Also known as just "travel" because we're talking about places with literally no way in or out except by plane. (Okay, and maybe hiking, dogsled in winter, or something like that. Point is, no roads.) That's why somebody was apparently going grocery shopping by plane in the first place.

If I break just one strand of pasta to summon Sal on purpose, will he at least give me the deli meat after he beats me with it? If so, worth it.

A "NEMA node" is a standard power outlet.

This article is bait designed to trick surveillance opponents into destroying their own credibility by complaining about innocuous stuff instead of problems that matter. It's on par with an article fearmongering about "dihydrogen monoxide," except worse because it's not satire.

A "NEMA node" is a standard power outlet.

This article is bait designed to trick surveillance opponents into destroying their own credibility by complaining about innocuous stuff instead of problems that matter. It's on par with an article fearmongering about "dihydrogen monoxide," except worse because it's not satire.

I've seen this headline, or one like it, a half-dozen times now, and it keeps feeling like propaganda because the emphasis is on the "police officers fired" part when it should be on the "using controversial mass surveillance cameras to spy" part. It's as if the message is "no really folks, Flock is OK because the people abusing it are being held accountable, pinky promise!"

I don't like it at all.

That's, like, literally the entire point of conservatism.

Is that French for "listen here you little shit?"

I figured that much out at "childhood gender transitions," before I even got to the part you quoted. She started the list off with a fictional boogeyman.

(Puberty blockers are literally the opposite of "childhood gender transitions" as the entire point is to stall for time until adulthood.)

I've seen a few other articles about this in other communities that I chose not to crosspost because of overly-soft language.

Pretty sure that acronym isn't new.

(Also, it really is an acronym pronounced "mammal," not an initialism.)

The status quo has changed permanently. It doesn't matter what the US does; Iran now controls the strait and nobody can stop them from charging whatever tolls they want, only letting through ships for their allies, etc. Trump permanently ended the concept of freedom of navigation that Iran had previously abided by when he idiotically decided to attack them anyway, because Iran has zero reason to trust US diplomacy and respect for international law ever again.