After yellow fever, tetanus, 2 covid-19 plus two boosters, and even a couple of flu shots plus others I don’t recall it’s hard to call me anti-vaccine because I object to the politics of the covid-19 vaccines.
BTW, my Covid-19 shots were entirely voluntary because Portugal adopted a very democratic policy unlike the US where lots of people lost their jobs because they were not willing to subject themselves to the tyranny of the Covid politics. Almost as bad as the Chinese dictatorship!
BTW, Portugal was also much more reasonable about masking.
I’m not sure what you mean by that. Certainly not anti-green but the ‘agenda’ part might be troubling even if it helps my stock market investments. How many Fools think Germany shutting down nuclear is a good idea? They shut it down not to lose political power which has nothing to do with ‘green.’
Not a follower of Ayn Ryan at all. And still attend church most Sundays.
I will point out that many people have all powerful god’s that cannot defend themselves or fend for themselves and that seem to make no sense. How can a god that cannot protect him or herself protect me? If he or she cannot protect him or herself, what is the point? Maybe I need another deduction on my tax return?
So, if I find someone that does not believe, so what? Let’s go sailing!
Ayn Rand had a problem with the “reification of zero” [regarding “nothing” as a thing]. For a philosopher it might be a problem but for a programmer zero is very real as the start of whole numbers. When you write code starting with 1 you wind up with a mess! I know because I made several messes before I caught on. Since I liked Ayn Rand’s philosophy I wrote a letter to the Ayn Rand Institute about this. The letter I got back convinced me that Ayn Rand’s philosophy had become a cult so I kept the philosophy and dropped the cult.
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In February 2022, soon after the invasion of Ukraine, a user profile matching that of Airman Jack Teixeira began posting secret intelligence on the Russian war effort on a previously undisclosed chat group on Discord, a social media platform popular among gamers. The chat group contained about 600 members.
You do understand how a calendar works, right? To quote, February 2022. He has been posting stuff for over a year. No one cares if it was the same 100 pages. Each time he disclosed information, even the same information, it was a violation.
Teixeira leaked documents for a year or so, on two (2) different gamer websites… And his coworkers were completely, totally unaware?
This was a SECURITY unit? All personnel were trained on “security” clearances and how “secret” stuff must be handled?
And no one noticed anything even slightly suspicious?
But, perhaps he worked alone and unsupervised?
He and his coworkers did not “game” together?
He was apparently slipping documents out on his person. I worked at a place where you couldn’t bring briefcases or boxes or anything like that in order (monitored by security guards). But you could fold up a document and put in your pocket no problem.
There are a bazillion Discord servers. There is even one for ex-TMFers. He could be on on Discord with his degenerate gamer buddies and another one with his co-workers. It totally makes sense to me that he could have been posting this stuff for a year, because it was off in some obscure corner of the Internet that nobody wanted to find.
The latest I hear is that he was a potential mass shooter with a history of getting kicked out of high school for talking about such things and a lot of weapons. Great job of checking for his security clearance.
In addition there is the issue of negligence. Apparently Teixeira’s superiors knew he was stealing documents and offered him a job higher up rather than kicking him out.
"Three Air Force memos documenting Teixeira’s misconduct were released publicly on Wednesday as part of the prosecution’s argument in favor keeping him detained pending trial.
“The memos showed that Teixeira, a 21-year-old junior enlisted airman who worked within the Massachusetts Air National Guard’s 102nd Intelligence Wing, had received a direct order from his superiors to stop taking notes on intelligence, which they found he was ignoring just a month later. And just months before he was arrested for allegedly sharing the intelligence online, a third memo said a supervisor observed him accessing intelligence unrelated to his job.”
Man, that is one damning report. The entire chain of command should be TOAST and the Air Forces needs an entire review of all of their security procedures. This level of apathy and neglect doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Someone in the chain of command should have shouted a warning to someone outside of the unit and the fact that they didn’t, suggests to me that such a lack of awareness likely extends beyond just this unit.
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The third instance occurred in January 2023, just months before Teixeira was arrested for allegedly posting information to Discord, a popular social media platform among gamers. The third memo said that on January 30, a senior non-commisioned officer was walking the operations floor when she spotted Teixeira “on a JWICS machine” and “viewing content that was not related to his primary duty and was related to the intelligence field.”
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“By the third [incident], we’re in negligence land,” said Kikta, who is now an executive at security firm Automox. “At that point, Teixeira’s not the problem. You are.”
What most people don’t realize is the officers and possibly the most senior NCO’s here were just being “career” oriented, if you know what I mean. Don’t rock the boat. We don’t need to attract any attention here. Unless, of course it’s good-for-my-career type of attention. Like when Radar would go to Henry Blake with a matter of concern for Higher Headquarters and Blake would huff and roll his eyes and say, “Well, can’t just make this go away? It’s a weekend.” Only at least Blake was just incompetent not willfully incompetent.
Back in the 70’s into the 80’s I did work at various military bases. My experiences of the Air Force, including in matters of national security, were almost all discomfiting in comparison to the older branches. Too many juvenile mentalities or whatever. Culture and tradition matter and, unfortunately, the Air Force stumbled badly in its infancy and seems to me to have never recovered.
david fb (army brat who in childhood aspired to be a naval pilot. My teenage visit to the Air Force academy in the mid-60’s cemented my dislike.)
Not only that but the (for this purpose) Air National Guard has always had the “country club” mentality. Sorry if there are any Guard types here who don’t like that. I did 20 in the regular AF working extensively with the Guard. (Much of the NORAD assets were all owned by the Guard) They see the regular AF as “whaddaya gettin’ so military for? We’re not the Marines.” Spilling more “national security secrets” here I guess.
