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  • DHS has argued that agents still identify themselves while masked: “When our heroic law enforcement officers conduct operations, they clearly identify themselves as law enforcement while wearing masks to protect themselves from being targeted by highly sophisticated gangs like Tren de Aragua and MS-13, criminal rings, murderers, and rapists,” assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a September statement.

    If this were true, every judge, police officer and prosecutor would be dead. So no, they do not need to hide their faces. We all know why they are really hiding their faces.

    Release the files.







  • In people’s defense, unless you are taking uni economics classes, you probably aren’t getting taught macro/micro + general economics, though it is interesting as hell imo.

    Technically, our representatives should, in theory, be learning this stuff and protecting the average person so that civilians can focus on foresty/rocket science/ R&D/public health/business/infrastructure/etc.

    That’s why representatives technically are supposed to exist. Nobody has time to learn the one and outs of everything needed to run an entire country smoothly. Especially complicated stuff, like public health, economics and trade, sewage systems, transit systems, and centralized grid planning. That shit is complicated AF.






  • The CGs are fun! I liked playing Elite back when Void opals and Borann didn’t mean too much grind. Exploration with exobio can still net you money in a pinch, but it’s a bit less fun than core mining or wing laser mining with pirates and 400T+ in the cargo hold.

    I miss the high stakes/high reward gameplay that made elite feel dangerous, when your miners needed lasers and sidewinder missiles. I’m hopeful that they will bring mining back that can make enough money to support carriers.

    All that said, work towards the Corvette! It’s one of the best large ships in the game. Twin Class 4 plasma accelerators w/engineering, g5 dirty drag drives, and prismatic shields are insane. Put a multicannon on the bottom, two turretted lasers with thermal vent effects on top, and sidewinder racks on the side for long range interdictions. Having an AI pilot with a fixed laser taipan or fixed multi cannon F63 is insane for throwing power around too. Throw some SCBs on for the prismatics, and you can be in CZs or haz reses for a long time, safely.