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Sometimes it's easier to accept an "out-of-the-box" idea than to accept that your defence has failed.


I wonder how many UFO stories are just unintended consequences of internal ass covering and procedural hacks.

Imagine there was an incident involving one or more flying objects, perfectly mundane and of terrestrial origin, being seen where they shouldn't have been, or misidentified in an embarrassing way. The kind of incident that would, normally, get some of the people involved fired. Except in this case, recorded evidence is scant and inconclusive enough that the people in question can report it upstairs as UFO sighting, and thus get to keep their jobs. Protocol having been followed, nobody bothers them about it.

Fast forward some amount of years, and the report ends up being leaked, declassified, or just read by the wrong person - either way, the public gets wind of it. What then? It would be nice for the government to tell the public what really happened, but the only people in position to do so are the ones who would get fired or imprisoned the moment they admit it might have not been an UFO after all. So of course they'll stay out of the spotlight, and hum the "X-Files" theme when asked directly.

In such cases, there would be no aliens, no secret military hardware - nothing The Government tries to keep silent about. Just ordinary people covering an ordinary fuckup with an unusual story, and sticking to it over the years.


...and it never dries, if unused.


Leaving aside the discution regarding the monopoly position of AMAZON (or other technology companies), I wonder if the PARLER situation would not have been the same if it had gone to any other company offering the same services and used a pre-ownership platform. If they had developed their own stack, wouldn't their flexibility have been greater?


According to an update on the same forum [1], the car stopped exactly in front of the warehouse's doors. And three hours ago, it was towed away, after the Ferrari technician flown from Sydney was not able to unlock the engine [2].

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/j9ji...

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/j9qn...


Between Bucharest and Iran ? Hard to believe .....



This one was posted a few minutes before but the other one has a better tile.



How is the CO2 capture for redwood (250t over 3000yrs per tree) compared with other trees ? Would be interesting to know if the lifecycle of those short lived trees (compared with redwood) have better efficiency regarding the carbon capture ...


Perhaps that was exactly the response they've got in that moment.


The system seems to be a cover with no connection with the phone itself. It relies solely on the internal accelerometer so basically it can trigger the deployment if you jump or find yourself in any 0G situation even for a short period of time (it looks very sensitive anyway).


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