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Trump administration 2024-2028

markppcli said:
Depends on what the standards are. This was a point with the FDNY fitness test being found to be entirely unrelated to the job, and the standards kept high. What the job actually required wasn’t being measured. When the test was rebuilt women were able to pass it - because they can carry hose up a ladder, and shah doors open just fine and it’s not related to doing push ups. It’s the grand daddy of stuff like the POPAT and frankly the fact that militaries are just catching up is astounding.

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24 WOMEN TAKE PHYSICAL TEST FOR FIRE DEPT. AND 16 PASS IT (Published 1982)

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Found this old video of me working out so I can qualify to be a CPO in charge of a cubicle at NDHQ.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1906846823941288257
 
Cloud Cover said:
And yet somehow the framing lumber available at retail outlets (with a building code stamp on it), is absolute crap to work with and ridiculously expensive. Send the same BC logs down to Oregon and the milled product is much better. This drives me nuts about softwood lumber manufacturing and milling in Canada.
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All of the high quality lumber we produce goes overseas to Asia. What’s left here for the domestic market is the dregs.
 
brihard said:
This shouldn’t surprise anyone. They already showed us.
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On the signal app issue... I'm waiting to learn in the news that high level folks like that have staff who issue and program their phones for them, including setting up the contact lists. There is a non zero chance another "resistance" type in the bureaucracy added the Atlantic editor into that distribution list to cause shit.
 
QV said:
On the signal app issue... I'm waiting to learn in the news that high level folks like that have staff who issue and program their phones for them, including setting up the contact lists. There is a non zero chance another "resistance" type in the bureaucracy added the Atlantic editor into that distribution list to cause shit.
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It’s certainly possible-but the time to credibly claim that was a while ago now. Waltz would have easily known if he set up the chat or if someone else did… Unless the inappropriate use of Signal for sensitive government communications is so utterly routine and widespread that he has trouble remembering who set a particular chat up.

None of which of course would excuse Hesgeth then sharing classified information over it, and the NSA, DNI, and director of the CIA saying and doing nothing about it.

Laxness and security breaches in one instance don’t excuse or mitigate laxness or security breaches in other instances.
 
QV said:
On the signal app issue... I'm waiting to learn in the news that high level folks like that have staff who issue and program their phones for them, including setting up the contact lists. There is a non zero chance another "resistance" type in the bureaucracy added the Atlantic editor into that distribution list to cause shit.
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More likely that Waltz did it himself at that point.
 
Of note, Signal Desktop seems to Hoover up a lot more contacts than the phone app.
And Signal behaves differently on Android as opposed to iOS. On Android, Signal can be the default app and if a recipient of a message is not using Signal, it will not be highly encrypted.
So we’d need to know if the Atlantic journo was added by phone number or username, what contact list was imported.
Then, each contact is converted to a hash stored on the Signal server. It’s only a contact hash, nothing more. This allows Signal to direct E2E messages to the correct recipients in a chat or group chat.
 
More detailed explanation here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/lly9p3/signal_white_paper_for_layman

Actual Security White Paper here:
signal.org

Specifications >> The Double Ratchet Algorithm

The Double Ratchet algorithm is used by two parties to exchange encrypted messages based on a shared secret key.
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This some of you recognize this from BlackBerry end to end encryption through the enterprise server, it’s actually pretty close to the same system without the MicroSoft key management and all of the message store is in the device App and nowhere else. Similar to PIN messaging, but using phone numbers instead of unique device PIN.


My favourite quote from the Reddit link above:
“But keep in mind, all of these security do not prevent the government arrest you and beat the phone password out of you, and just open your signal.”
 
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brihard said:
But in a wartime scenario is it likely that hastily laid AP minefields are likely to be well recorded?
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There never was a “hasty minefield” and a detailed mine laying report was required every time mines were put on or in the ground, even before the Ottawa treaty.
 
McG said:
There never was a “hasty minefield” and a detailed mine laying report was required every time mines were put on or in the ground, even before the Ottawa treaty.
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That seems like one of those practices that may not be rigorously adhered to when things are going pear shaped and there’s an ‘oh shit!’ need to sow some belligerent area denial all over hell’s half acre to cover a withdrawal.
 
Cloud Cover said:
Of note, Signal Desktop seems to Hoover up a lot more contacts than the phone app.
And Signal behaves differently on Android as opposed to iOS. On Android, Signal can be the default app and if a recipient of a message is not using Signal, it will not be highly encrypted.
So we’d need to know if the Atlantic journo was added by phone number or username, what contact list was imported.
Then, each contact is converted to a hash stored on the Signal server. It’s only a contact hash, nothing more. This allows Signal to direct E2E messages to the correct recipients in a chat or group chat.
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Once is a mistake, this is now a pattern of negligence
 
What's this world coming to, when $2M in prizes can't even buy you a state supreme court?

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Live results: Wisconsin Supreme Court special election

President Donald Trump's narrow win last year and a highly competitive 2023 state Supreme Court contest could foreshadow the possible paths to victory for this year's statewide campaigns.
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dapaterson said:
What's this world coming to, when $2M in prizes can't even buy you a state supreme court?

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Live results: Wisconsin Supreme Court special election

President Donald Trump's narrow win last year and a highly competitive 2023 state Supreme Court contest could foreshadow the possible paths to victory for this year's statewide campaigns.
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Florida had some interesting results too. The 2 seats Republicans won tonight did so with only half as big a lead. A significant change of +30 in November 2024 to +15.
 
dapaterson said:
What's this world coming to, when $2M in prizes can't even buy you a state supreme court?

www.pbs.org

Live results: Wisconsin Supreme Court special election

President Donald Trump's narrow win last year and a highly competitive 2023 state Supreme Court contest could foreshadow the possible paths to victory for this year's statewide campaigns.
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I am sure that voter fraud be be brought forward as the reason for the election results and that will be why Trump needs to change the rules for voting.
 
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