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Politicians routinely use the press in this manner to send messages to adversaries.

A nephew of mine was serving on board the USS Hartford back in 2020 when they took a CNN camera crew under the Arctic circle and surfaced through the ice. You can find lots of similar news clips involving most/all military branches with just a little bit of effort.

And back in the 60’s my dad worked at MITRE where he held a top secret clearance. He worked on a missile defense program that was so highly classified at the time that he said only about six people knew the full scope of it. A few months after a successful test, President Kennedy announced it during a state of the union address. My dad is convinced he was sending a public warning to the USSR about our capabilities.

I’m by no means an expert in the oil refinery process, or in modern warfare techniques, but my understanding is that Ukrainian drones largely target what is called the Fractionating column, which is the heart of a refinery.

In a nutshell, oil is refined by heating crude oil and drawing off liquids at different temperatures. Fuel oil liquifies at one temperature, lubricating oil at another, kerosene at another, etc. The fractionating column is where all of this takes place. You can see a simplified graphic here.

Since that’s the key component of a refinery it’s obviously a prime target for drone attacks etc. And if the refinery is in active operation then it means there’s plenty of volatile fuel around to create a fireball like this.

The boom caused by the construction of Hoover Dam occurred in the 1930’s. Residential air conditioning didn’t really become a thing until well after WWII, closer to 1950.

You can thank the nearby Hoover Dam for that. The construction project not only caused the population of Vegas to quadruple virtually overnight, but when it was completed the dam provided both an abundance of fresh water and cheap electricity to the area. But thanks to the ongoing drought in the area that might not be a viable source for either of those eventually.

I met a lawyer working in Boston & living in the burbs a number of years ago. When Covid hit he worked from home for over a year. His job was one that could easily be remote, but like so many others, his boss eventually wanted him back in the office. His boss did admit that continuing to work remotely would have been an option if he lived further away.

He & his girlfriend moved to Vermont, and he still has that job.

Back in the 90’s and 2000’s my commute ranged between 30-60 minutes by car one way to a combination of 15 minutes driving and 30-45 minutes on a subway.

Since shortly before the pandemic my commute has been up a flight of stairs to our guest bedroom that’s now my office.

I’m never going back.

Except the cops will argue there’s no actual proof that the bills with dye on them are the same bills you took out of the ATM or got from a bank teller. It’s not like the serial numbers are recorded. So they’ll just claim the most likely scenario is that the cash is indeed stolen and confiscate it. And for good measure they could also charge you with receiving stolen property.

Or that Trump is in the Epstein Files.

Why pardon a convicted child sex trafficker that you have no purported connection to? Because you’re just a nice guy?

Russia just cutting out the middleman?

Wow, are you really that clueless about crypto stealing malware, Fraud by crypto exchanges, Authentication attacks, etc?

None of those sorts of attacks would be prevented by the use any sort of escrow service because you’re not actively performing a transaction.

An Analysis of the first half of this year also shows a significant uptick in attacks on personal crypto wallets, and over $2 billion stolen so far in 2025.