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  • Nothing.

    Before DHS is was handled by the treasury, labor, and justice Dept’s (moved around in various ways over the past ~130ish years), the most significant change being immigration under the DOJ in 1940 (for… Somewhat obvious security reasons for the time).

    DHS just absorbed all the different groups under one shitty lead. The excuse at the time being terrorism.

    There is zero reason customs shouldn’t be under the treasury, immigration under labor, and enforcement (as in managing the deportation of those convicted of violent acts, or pursuing smugglers identified by customs, so on) under justice.

    The reformation under DHS was specifically designed to militarize.












  • Al Gore may not have really invented the Internet

    Which, to point out, he never actually said. He said “creating” - which is actually accurate, since he pushed the policies that allowed for it to exist. Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn support his stance that he was a primary driver behind its development from a policy perspective. I believe they even said no other politician has been as important to the internet (rough paraphrase, someone else can grab the exact quote) as Gore.

    The claim that he said he “invented the internet” came from dirtbag pundits, of course.


  • The first UAV in the 1800s were incendiary balloons, Austrian attack on Venice.

    A. M. Low was a pioneer in rocket guidance systems, planes, etc. In 1917 the “flying bomb” (a controlled airplane) was developed, and later developed into the Kettering Bug - a bomb with wings - which had a terrible success rate and never got used in combat. You can see a reproduction in Dayton, Ohio, at the museum for the Air Force.

    Target drones (training drones for military pilots) were made by Radioplane and sold to the Army in the 1940s. That led to the SD-2 Overseer in the 1950s.

    Which led to the Lightning Bug, based on target drone designs, used to monitor the Chinese, then Vietnam. They would deploy a parachute so they could be picked up mid-air so they wouldn’t fall into foreign hands. China shot down a few of them and set the shot them down and set those drones up for public display.

    Drones have a much longer history than you’d think!


  • Well my wife is the one who knows her way around a farm, she’ll be running it, and I’ll be doing random manual labor as required.

    Its been ridiculous finding the right property though… What used to be $300-400k only 3 years ago is now selling for over a million. Its nuts. So most likely going empty land and building cheap to start…