Drill Baby Drill...the US Politics Thread (Part 4)

But how long before the individual moves away from the AI images and onto
non AI images?

or even want to act out what they see in the images on to real children?

The problem is that the AI images will have been trained on real images, and the original victim may still be recognisable. There is a false assumption that once an individual is several steps away from a crime that there is no victim.

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UNBELIEVABLE!!!
Wtf

US ICE grants $16.7 million contract to buy thousands of electric shock gloves

By Kanishka Singh - Reuters

WASHINGTON, Aug 27 (Reuters) - The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency granted a $16.7 million contract to buy ​6,000 pairs of electric shock gloves for officers in the ‌field despite human rights advocates having raised alarm about the plans when they were revealed earlier this month.

  • A notice on a federal database said that ICE, which has ​been the face of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, entered into a ​no-bid contract to purchase the gloves from Kentucky-based firm Compliant ⁠Technologies.

  • The notice said 6,000 of the devices, which can give painful electric ​shocks and aim to disrupt an individual’s capacity to respond, will be bought ​with support equipment and services over the next six months.

  • The website of the Department of Homeland Security, of which ICE is a part, said this month ICE ​planned to buy CTG-5 Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter, or GLOVE ​units.

  • The American Civil Liberties Union said that giving immigration agents “a concealed means of delivering ‌terrible ⁠pain is a recipe for more harm to the public and less accountability.”

  • DHS described the gloves as “a Conductive Distraction and De-escalation Device which will be issued to Homeland Security Investigations and Enforcement Removal Operations officers ​and agents.”

  • Fatal shootings ​by ICE agents ⁠of two U.S. citizens in Minnesota earlier this year and concerns by rights groups about conditions in ICE ​detention have sparked protests.

  • Over 50 people have died in ​ICE ⁠custody nationwide since Trump took office early last year.

  • Trump says his immigration crackdown aims to improve domestic security.

  • Rights groups call it discriminatory, saying it violates ⁠free ​speech and due process rights while also ​creating an unsafe environment, particularly for ethnic minorities, who have raised concerns about racial profiling.

Reporting by ​Kanishka Singh and Christian Martinez; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman and Lincoln Feast

They have been promoted ICE as being great tools because they leave no evidence on the prisoner/victim :see_no_evil_monkey:

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https://x.com/Acyn/status/2093471505816629743

https://x.com/atensnut/status/2093355011711344771

:wink:

WTAF is he on about, there are so many holes in that sure even the farmers are scratching their heads.

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He will get off on that and everyone outside of MAGA will be rolling around in hysterical laughter.

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Should Trump Lake in northern Ontario be renamed? Grifter Lake?

Law firm suggests names like ‘Little Dictator Lake,’ ‘Felon Lake,’ ‘Crooked Lake’ or ‘Ego Lake,’ among others
https://www.barrietoday.com/local-news/should-trump-lake-in-northern-ontario-be-renamed-grifter-lake-12715822

There is a Trump Lake in Ontario.

Credit TravelStarr

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Also..

The Seneca Nation of Western New York is investigating a lawsuit against the White House and the US Department of the Interior to block the re-naming of Lake Ontario and the executive order.

Seneca Nation lawyers said the renaming violates the 1794 Treaty of Canandaigua, which was signed between President George Washington and the Haudenosaunee confederacy (also known as the Six Nations or the Iroquois Confederacy).

Rochester NY City Council has also introduced local legislation, expected to pass next week, stating Lake Ontario will continue to be called that for anything within their jurisdiction, and prohibiting Lake America to be used on any official documents or signage within its city limits.

Legendary sportscaster Al Michaels was also mocking the name change last night on Amazon Prime’s NFL Thursday Night Football game coverage (pre-season).

Credit leonwolf

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Lard Arse Lake has a certain ring to it me thinks…

I always had a liking for Lake President Who Shits Himself

Mmmm, how surprising. Nope defenitely can’t be any sort of link between 2 seperate sexual preditors using the same law firm - it is purely coinsidince.

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No case too big…
No client to scummy!

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Cool. Toro was supporting unconstitutional attacks on speech while somehow celebrating the return to free speech

https://x.com/glukianoff/status/2093504490917802410?s=61&t=VxX1vHU3NOwwNhlbyICG-g

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https://x.com/OJoelsen/status/2093722285198700745

:face_with_spiral_eyes:

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https://x.com/Mollyploofkins/status/2093821157409435893

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Just want to note that you are forgetting something incredibly important when you say this. Delivery Time. The reasom why states are rushing to get modern fighters is that they are needed within a narrow time frame. Vladimir Putin doesn’t care about internal western drama, he cares about how many aircrafts you have operational and which type.

Never forget what the planes are for. Credible deterrence. It’s possible that Canada now can switch, it is already running incredibly late in getting new aicrafts, but have so far only payed for 16 F-35, so can maybe in practice buy Gripen or Korean for the rest (must probably be Gripen unless you don’t care about getting the actual plane this century).

But I note that none of you seem to even remember that NATO must be War Ready in 2030. Not many years to play games left. This rearmament comes much too slow anyway. Postponing jets will be a another nail in the coffin for the alliance and another victory for the Kremlin.

But yes, F-35 deal, and deals such as that, well there are certain issues that takes priority over other matters and delivery time and capability is key.

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Btw…

https://x.com/MeidasTouch/status/2093940994110623871

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Google has a fairly unambiguous policy on this. Same with gulf of America.

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