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That's nothing. You should find the animated version...

It's from the movie Predator.

If you want to see what it would look like if the anthropomorphic incarnation of testosterone itself wrote, directed, and acted in a movie, then look no further. It's so full of vitamin-T your voice will drop an octave while watching it, and your unborn grandkids will go into puberty next week.

That's the neat part. It's weaponized feigned incompetence.

After Noem got the definition of Habeus Corpus exactly wrong in a recent hearing, some Lemmings have suggested that the RNC stooges in power are all playing dumb. Now, I can't unsee it. It makes sense: play dirty because your aims are underhanded and illegal, and your opposition is both outraged and busy attacking the wrong thing. Every time we all get in a fit about how stupid this sounds, which takes up valuable space and time from doing anything useful.

Edit: it's like a misbehaving kid that knows if he keeps telling the right kind of lie he can get away with just about anything.

Edit2: In Greene's case, her "argument" is also signaling being a "useful idiot" to her base for getting the job done.

Yes/no. I've seen every permutation over the years though. Some in the median or on the sidewalk with no warning signage, some with. Some just up a pole somewhere out-of-sight with no warning signage. Some big-ol trailer contraptions complete with police/county seals on the front. I've even seen some that were temporary tripods set up in front of unmarked cars on the shoulder, for some mobile overnight shenanigans.

I can't say they're all 100% bad. Just maybe some of the sneakier implementations run afoul of my thesis above.

vandalise

I don't condone that, but that's kind of convenient!

Do we have the whole thing on the internet archive?

Maybe?

Another consideration is that it's probably a part of many LLM training datasets by now. In fact, I'd say the combination of bad moderation and AI have made Stack Overflow less attractive lately.

If for no other reason: so that glorious letterhead is legible.

GI Joe action figure.

I don't think that's a coincidence. Consider when Jeeps started showing up with all the off-road accessory options. I've seen some that were just short a Cobra/Joe logo on the side. Gen-X is has been in the management and disposable-capital age bracket for a while now, making all the decisions that drive these aesthetics, and we were all raised on that stuff.

I can only speak for myself, but I absolutely add any form of hidden speed traps to the list. Cops know they can perform "traffic calming" by parking a marked cruiser in an easily seen location, be it on a highway or a city street. People see the car and slow down. This works anywhere it's clear they can join traffic and pull you over. The officer effortlessly achieves a local bump in traffic safety just by sitting there, and cops don't need to do risky traffic stops unless someone is really not paying attention. So that's gotta be the preferred method, right?

Meanwhile, hidden traps and unmarked cars have only one purpose: generate ticket revenue. The only mass "calming" that happens is kinda/sorta in the area where a cop has someone pulled over - and that's after the car is clearly visible.

Edit: We can also solve speeding and reckless behavior by engineering calming measures into the road itself. The freaking DOT wrote a manual for it. IMO, it's hard to view speed traps as anything more than a band-aid fix with this in mind.

Plot twist: It was INS the whole time.

No, he just looks horrifying. That's it. Terrifyingly ugly man-spider thing. That's his superpower.

It's been a thing since forever, too. People like this have been hounding TV and radio stations about their content since the very start. And that's with FCC censorship in play, too.

I'm terrified that DeSantis could be next.