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Everything is true about this except the first square. Trump’s whole gig is that he’s not a normal politician. cant have it both ways.

Live-in gangbang.

Surely those cop cars aren't operational anymore, they're like 50 years old and would handle like the SS Minnow!

Temporarily pregnant? Can anyone ever be permanently pregnant?

Yeah, I wish^^

At home taking care of little girl today, just checked the thermometer and it says hot as balls. Smoke clearing a little at least.

Yep, the darling of the West that was going to bring democracy to Burma turns out to be just another grubby Burmese politician willing to find ways to justify genocide (admittedly, I haven't been following that closely but it's what seems to be happening at a glance)

Such an awesome troll though.

Reading this in incognito? We’ve got your privacy-conscious gift guide By Jeremy B. Merrill12 minutes ago https://qz.com/1769689/five-gifts-and-one-gag-for-privacy-conscious-giving/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter Some of this year’s hottest “smart” gifts would land like a lump of coal with your privacy-conscious friends. Instead of gifting home assistants or DNA kits, which will then gift private information to data-driven companies, here are some presents that ensure those friends will feel seen. (Or, rather, not seen.) A new email service. Though Google has stopped reading your emails for ads in Gmail, it does scan it for other purposes. Services like Fastmail and ProtonMail don’t have ads at all and are smaller, more independent businesses. Fastmail costs about $40/yr and ProtonMail costs $48/yr, but also has a free tier. (ProtonMail also offers additional encryption, but that’s only useful if both the sender and the receiver use ProtonMail.) Keep in mind that Google does have extensive security resources to protect Gmail from, say, hackers, so that might represent a tradeoff. Shopping guide: Gift cards aren’t available, so you’d be better off paying for the subscription directly, or giving cash plus the signup url. Anti-surveillance clothing. Cameras with facial recognition are sprouting up everywhere. In protest, clever activists have developed clothing designs that can confuse the facial recognition systems—they identify your shirt (or scarf) as your face. Academic researchers have only managed to get a specially-optimized design to work 57% of the time, my colleague Amrita Khalid reports. Commercial designs probably do much worse. But they have a 100% success rate as a statement piece. Shopping guide: Many choices are available on RedBubble. Or go for a version meant to fool license-plate readers from Adversarial Fashion. Less-smart smart-home products. Internet-connected devices risk hacks and viruses, especially because after a few years manufacturers have little incentive to keep older software up-to-date. I have a SwitchMate light switch I control via Bluetooth from my phone. While it can be a bit finicky, it means I don’t have a perhaps-insecure switch and I can still turn out the light from bed. Shopping guide: SwitchMate at Amazon. A VPN, or virtual private network. Your internet service provider (ISP) is probably looking at your web traffic to target ads to you. Its ability to surveil you is limited by your browser (indicated by that lock next to a web address), but still some info leaks out. VPNs encrypt all your traffic, hiding it from the ISP and replacing it with another company that promises not to look. Some of these companies have even been audited, to check that they’re really not looking.VPN services reviewed by The Wirecutter roll in at about about $50/yr. Shopping guide: VPN companies don’t tend to offer gift subscriptions. Your best bet is cash or a Visa gift card and a nice note encouraging them to spend it on a VPN. A laptop-camera cover. It’s a cheap and easy gift for stuffing a stocking, filling the hard-to-fill seventh night of Hanukkah, or just to hand out at the office. The importance of a physical way to disable your laptop’s webcam became clear this year when a bug in Zoom video-conferencing software allowed any website (or even an ad) to cause a visitor’s computer to immediately join a videochat—and turn on their camera. You don’t really want that, especially if you ever leave your laptop out in your house. While Zoom quickly fixed the bug, hackers might find ways to replicate it with other video software. Shopping guide: 3-pack on Amazon for $9.68. If needling your privacy-minded friend or family member is your aim, how about an online influence campaign just for them? Online subliminal messaging. A sibling or another variety of frenemy might appreciate your attempt to creep them out. Try Spinner, a service that lets you target, say, your parents with ads all around the web, ensuring they see 180 suggestions—as if by chance—that, for instance, they should get a dog. You can also set up a custom set of links you want your frenemy to see. The service works just like ads reminding you of a pair of shoes, and your target must click a special link … which might be tricky to pull off. Gag or no gag, here are some creepy gifts to avoid: DNA testing kits, especially after a popular testing and analysis website was reportedly vulnerable to spies or hackers. Digital assistants like Google Home, Amazon Echo, and Facebook’s Portal, with their always-on microphones (and sometimes cameras) that send personal information to companies with terrible reputations for privacy. Smart TVs, some of which have been vulnerable to hackers, according to the FBI.

That's called a Hunstman spider and I had one run up my inner thigh, inside some track pants when I was free-balling once. I had picked them up off the floor one morning when I got out of bed and put them on in a bit of a morning daze. Woke up pretty quick, can fucking tell you! They aren't poisonous though. They'll hurt you but not fuck you up. They are far less dangerous than the winter environment where you live, @misteraven This guy, that I found out the back among my hops vines, on the other hand, will definitely fuck you up!

Whilst I enjoy extremes like this, must be pretty awesome when Spring rolls around.

Roman Croc skin armour

The action 'on the periphery' was also taken well before 9/11 occurred though. Clinton hit Afghanistan after the US embassies were bombed by AQ in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam and I'd have to check but I'm also pretty sure that the baby food factory in Khartoum was hit before 9/11 as well. Also keep in mind that the Nov3 2002 drone strike in Yemen (which I think might have been the first of its kind) was in response to the bombing of USS Cole, which occurred prior to 9/11. OF course 9/11 ushered in a new era of shit but it was by no means the start of US action against global Jihadism, which actually goes all the way back to Black September and Munich (not necessarily jihadism though, when it comes to Palestine). The US action in Libya and current action in Syria came about as a response to the Arab Spring, not 9/11. Sure, jihadism plays a role, but intervention in these countries likely would have even without 9/11, because on the whole the response in Syria is more about Iran and Russia than AQ. The Libya intervention was because Libyan forces were moving on the uprising in Benghazi. The jihadi threat didn't come until well after the US and Europe had intervened in the country. Regards the sovereignty thing, sure, I get you now. However, the US has never launched strikes in Iran and Oman to my knowledge.

Yeah, not close to us, just drying of acute lung cancer.

Dingofish.

Droughty fuckin bushfiresville First pic for reference

Some silliness from a boring meeting yesterday. Meant to draw a mic in his right hand but forgot

@Mercersure, the Taliban probably didn't even have any prior notice that it was going to happen. But they refused to hand him over or let the US govt know where he was (which they were well aware of). What as the US govt supposed to to, shug, walk away and wait for another attack? Again, I'm not saying that 9/11 justified the over-throw of the Taliban, that is definitely up for debate. But the US had little choice but to go in after AQ. Regards your list, I don't say that it didn't happen, but could you show where the US attacked Algeria, Syria, Somalia and Libya as a response to 9/11? I recall hits against al Shabbab in Somalia but not sure it was as a respose to 9/11. And that's where things might get a bit ambiguous. Whilst groups like al Shabbab may not have been related to 9/11 in any way other than declaring [whatever that arabic word is] with AQ, they would likely have come under the banner of the War on Terror, which was an outcome of 9/11 and so on brand for US foreign and security policy over-reach (a la war on drugs). Also in regards to violating soverignty - every country does that every day all of the time in terms of spying, espionage, carriage of weapons/tools in diplomatic pouches, etc. etc. It's a stretch to only target the US for that in response to 9/11. .

Agree 100% But you can say that for the citizens that get caught up in almost every conflict, though. AQ were in Astan and the Taliban refused to hand them over. Does that mean the whole country should have been invaded and that the US should still be there? Not necessarily. But Astan was definitely connected to 9/11 and it was impossible to not go in there to take AQ out. Agree that there are other countries, most notably Pakistan that have a lot to answer for - the US has never really seen the ISI or much of the Pak military as honest partners. I'm just not sure what 8 countries have been bombed due to 9/11. I can think of AfPak, Iraq and Yemen. That's 4, not sure what others there are, though.

Whilst I agree with the KSA and Iraq angle, this isn't true for Afghanistan. There was a clear and obvious link. Secondly, what are the 8 countries that were a response to 9/11?