“Closed doors” is the thing with which I have a problem. If he did wrong, let him face due process. If that means locking him up and throwing away the key, so be it. Pinning things on a complicit fall guy, if that’s even the case here, isn’t justice. It’s obstruction of justice. We don’t need another Ollie North. We need an equitable rule of law.

What concerns me more is preparing to deal with the monkeys that will be coming out of my butt.

That’s rich coming from a bony, food-horking, air-breathing, water bag. You sound like someone who poops.

Plus, they’re not famously reliable at being able to identify citizenship.

I’d recommend them, if you enjoy that experience/process.

I did like that Tenet has layers. You can watch it as an action movie, no problem, but you can also go as far down into the story as you want to also.

I don’t think that’s wrong at all. I gave it 3 tries and then started looking for outside analyses. Movies are made by groups of people. It makes sense that it would take groups to understand them. I had to do the same thing with Coherence and Primer.

Subtitles are great. I almost always have them on to aid comprehension. I find that I pick up on more subtleties that way. I feel like I still want to be able to process almost all of the dialog with audio alone so that the subtitles add an extra layer of understanding.

You’re probably one of the few people that has heard the dialog from Tenet then. Christopher Nolan films are some of my favorites, but wow, was that audio messed up. I had to create an equalizer profile just for that.

Am I the only psycho that just uses the TV as a monitor and my phone as the remote to the PC? After that, you can pretty much macro or script whatever you want.

Nah, get some topsider shoes or penny loafers, khaki shorts, woven leather belt, a golf shirt and some aviator sunglasses. Then load that bad boy up with any and all cards you can find. Stuff it until the calfskin is warped and about ready to burst. Then shove it in your back pocket and sit on it for several decades. Ignore any contrary advice from orthopedics.

I wonder if they would have instead called him a chaiwala just to add some racial undertones.

“Your honor, I plead the 21st.”

“You plead the repeal of prohibition?”

“Yeah, this isn’t going well for me, and I could really use a drink.”

I was trying to point out that this feature may be even worse than that because it doesn’t even require a formal law enforcement request. If this becomes what it looks like, even private contractors will be able to access it without raising any alarms, further lowering the bar.

It’s a combination of two things, the subversion of expectation, which is a common device in jokes, and the criticism of authority, which is another, similarly common, one.

In my comment, I’m pointing out that these cameras are a risk for even broader abuses than just subpoenas, and compliance with law enforcement requests under the guise of finding lost family members.

The responder humorously twists my words to claim that it’s not a problem because the lost family members have already been swept up in an indiscriminate drag net, such that the cameras can not find them.

The joke is on the DHS, and not it’s victims.

I hadn’t even considered this aspect. I guess we can kiss goodbye the witness protection program.

First it was subpoenas, then it was complying with law enforcement requests. I think the new development is that just anyone can do it.

There’s the unexpected dark humor FTW.

No kidding, and the feature is on by default. It’ll be lost human family members next.

On January 3rd, 2026, a small group of US armed forces paid a visit to Northern Venezuela, beginning their tour around 2 A.M. local time, when various elements of Venezuelan infrastructure began to explode. President Maduro and his Wife fled the chaos aboard a US Military aircraft on which they were photographed in cozy-looking sleep masks and wearing shiny new bracelets. They landed in New York to settle into their new accommodations and are expected to begin sharing their experiences in a court of law sometime in March.

Meanwhile, on the high seas, several Venezuelan oil tankers, otherwise floundering in the chaos, have been seen being escorted by US Naval fleets to various safe harbors along the US coast, where it’s expected their precious cargo will be offloaded for safekeeping.

Agreed, and furthermore, it shouldn’t matter at all. If the worst Russian Intelligence can do is use real evidence to prove a crime was committed, that’s an easily solvable problem both by not committing crimes and by prosecuting crimes committed with transparent, due process.

It really is a very silly argument.

“Your honor, in my defense, the guy who saw me shoot the victim, called the police, and submitted some of the damning evidence to them was a known mafia member, untrustworthy, and had committed crimes against me in the past.”

“Okay, and what do you have to say about all of this other corroborated evidence from trustworthy sources?”

“Well they wouldn’t have found it if he hadn’t pointed it out!”

I don’t think he was a Russian spy, but I am also sure that it’s irrelevant.