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Nothing could go wrong here. Nope.

To combat school shootings, three districts in Florida are set to trial a drone response system that's designed to subdue an assailant and buy time before law enforcement can arrive at the scene, Newsweek reports.

It sounds like something you'd see in a satirical ad in a "Robocop" movie, but no — it's real. The drones can spring into operation within five seconds of a silent alarm being activated, and confront the shooter within fifteen, the Texas-based manufacturer, Campus Guardian Angel, claims. While not in use, they're stored on charging pads across the campus, and once deployed, are piloted remotely by a team of employees in its headquarters in Austin.

CEO Justin Marston ambitiously compared the drones to a modern fire protection staple: sprinkler systems.
This CEO gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "fire suppression." Or does he?
 

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I'm such a bad person for enjoying moments like this.

MAGA Mainstay Nancy Mace Cancels Speech After Just 8 People Show Up
GOP Rep. Nancy Mace—who is currently running as a South Carolina gubernatorial candidate—was reportedly forced to cancel a Thursday speech after nearly no one bothered to show up.

Mace was set to address a local chapter of the far-right organization Moms for Liberty, but changed course after only eight people showed up, HuffPost reported. Mace reportedly slunk away backstage to avoid addressing the situation directly, before pivoting to speaking with those in attendance individually—and taking some questions from the media, of course.

Event organizers had reportedly hoped 100 people would show.
 

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The examples are mostly British, but I think his thesis --

For many of us working in policy it is axiomatic that the financial crisis was the moment when everything got worse, not just here but around the world. The UK and major European economies, in particular, have never fully recovered. Productivity growth hasn’t come close to pre-crisis levels.

But it’s not just the lingering economic effects. All of the crises, screw-ups, and bad decisions that have happened since 2008, with the exception of covid, were at least partly caused by the financial crisis. Clearly for most people the crash is now a distant historical event which is remembered, if thought about at all, as a one-off moment of panic, with frazzled bankers yelling at computers, that was resolved with massive state intervention. In reality it changed everything from the geopolitical landscape to electoral politics.
-- is applicable everywhere.
 
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The examples are mostly British, but I think his thesis --



-- is applicable everywhere.
The one I see blamed a lot online anyway is COVID. Which moatly just accelerated things. And its blamed for a lot beyong financial issues around the globe.
 

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The Guardian Why does the Maga elite love conspicuous cosmetic surgery?

I wouldn’t normally be snarky about someone’s looks but let’s be clear: nobody is born with Mar-a-Lago face. These are not human faces, they are luxury meat-masks meant to signal wealth and in-group belonging. People such as Laura Loomer, Kristi Noem, and Matt Gaetz can afford excellent surgeons and subtle cosmetic work but, unless they’ve all had botched procedures, it seems they deliberately chose to look like AI-generated caricatures. One can only surmise that they live in such weird little bubbles, where everyone is addicted to filler, that this sort of conspicuous consumption of cosmetic surgery has become desirable.
Earlier this year a New York-based dermatologist told Politico that fashion often shifts to more traditional gender expression in culturally conservative times. “It’s ironic … that they’re so against trans-ness and gender-affirming care for trans people,” the dermatologist said of Trump’s inner orbit. “Because, you know, they’re all doing their own gender-affirming care.”
 
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I guess this is the place to post a speculative Trump health video:
I am going to need a lot more confirmation, but we'll know soon enough sometime next spring.
 
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Trying to start a war with (almost) all of Europe, Mr. Putin?

Plane carrying EU’s top leader targeted by alleged Russian GPS jamming
A plane carrying the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was targeted by GPS navigation jamming while trying to land in Bulgaria on Sunday, a spokesperson for the commission told CNN.

The commission received “information from Bulgarian authorities that they suspect this blatant interference was carried out by Russia,” said European Commission Deputy Chief Spokesperson Arianna Podestà.

The Kremlin has denied the allegation, with spokesperson Dmitry Peskov telling The Financial Times, which first reported on the story, “your information is incorrect.”
Old school solutions...
The plane landed safely, the European Commission spokesperson said. A source familiar with the situation told CNN the pilots landed the plane using paper maps.
 

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