I mean the military doesn’t train you on how to cheat a polygraph, but it’s also not really necessary. The polygraph is security theater and people slip by it all the time in the intelligence community without trying.

There are unclassified quarterly audits on how effective the polygraph is at catching criminals on DOD security clearance polys. The funniest audit I saw was a guy who was smuggling drugs to Texas from Mexico since the '80s, passed a dozen polygraphs during his time doing that, and then admitted to drug running during his polygraph like 35 years later because he felt like it before retiring.

There was an old beardy white fuck who was a polygraph examiner at my job. He swore the polygraph wasn’t security theater and that it could tell when people were lying. I’d always ask him about the quarterly audits showing people “beating” the machine for years and get into fights with him. That dude also said his job was like “welfare for white people”.

You would pour a drink through the hole in the top of the pot to fill the top chamber, and you would pour a different drink into the bottom of the spout to fill the bottom chamber

It’s Cherdleys, he’s been making videos like this for at least a decade

Predate? You mean prey?

How do I overcome the trackpad and screen? Well I use VIM and I use VIM

The “ANDREW CUOMO: FAILURE” at the bottom of the government site is some random shade, but I enjoy that at least. Fuck Andrew Cuomo

Ok I use my wired headphones

Is it normal for presidential medical records to be released to the public? I’ve never heard of this before

Damn this might be the fakest reason I’ve ever heard to not support GIMP

One story about this for you. MI during the first Trump presidency. There was much said in my office when he tweeted top secret satellite imagery in 2019. My chief went around the shop after this and sat with everybody, and made sure they knew what happened, how this leak got an Intel source burned, how much time/money/effort was wasted from that burned source, how much harder it will be for us to keep the boots-on-ground out there safe, etc.

The tone of the workplace was set after that: “We are here to do our job and keep the guys in the field from getting killed. Our leaders have, and will continue, to make that mission difficult.”

When you hold two strong magnets an inch apart, then let them go it looks like they move themselves (add velocity)?

What makes the magnets start moving towards each other from a complete stop?