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Redh8t [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2018-03-20 11:09:22 PM  
That explains why the Voter fraud commission, headed by Kobach and Pence closed up shop.

They wanted all voter records to create the ultimate database.
The commission shut down after the dems requested full disclosure.

/I made need to invest in aluminum foil...
 
thorpe [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2018-03-20 11:25:22 PM  
""We had to get Bannon to approve everything at this point. Bannon was Alexander Nix's boss," said [Chris] Wylie, who was Cambridge Analytica's research director. "Alexander Nix didn't have the authority to spend that much money without approval." "

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/976253396276727810
 
thorpe [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2018-03-20 11:28:19 PM  
Bannon oversaw Cambridge Analytica's collection of Facebook data

If anyone's still wondering how the Cambridge Analytica subterfuge is tied to Trump and needs a simple explanation, there it is.
 
harleyquinnical  
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2018-03-20 11:57:40 PM  
People wonder why I do not make extensive use of a Facebook page or LinkedIn
 
Hobodeluxe  
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2018-03-21 3:28:24 AM  
the big thing that struck me in this whole CA mess is that the whistleblower said CA had already planted the seeds and floated trial balloons using the phrase "deep state" before the investigation into Trump/Russia was even known about in the public.  Now how and why would they have pushed this piece of propaganda out there unless they knew what was likely to happen? Unless the mission had always been to pick a fight with the FBI and IC?  Unless they had been directed by Bannon or someone in the campaign to push it out there?
 
Redh8t [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2018-03-21 4:00:38 AM  

Hobodeluxe: the big thing that struck me in this whole CA mess is that the whistleblower said CA had already planted the seeds and floated trial balloons using the phrase "deep state" before the investigation into Trump/Russia was even known about in the public.  Now how and why would they have pushed this piece of propaganda out there unless they knew what was likely to happen? Unless the mission had always been to pick a fight with the FBI and IC?  Unless they had been directed by Bannon or someone in the campaign to push it out there?


I suspect the 'Deep State' phrase was meant to undermine Hillary Clinton if she'd won the presidency.

Remember, Trump had claimed the election was rigged far before the election. CA likely told him to use that phase often.
After he won, they turned it around and used it to deflect their suspicious activity.

Protonmail or not, these limey f*cks are about to get sorted.
Proper!!
 
Redh8t [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2018-03-21 4:09:18 AM  
Oh!
Guess I should've added a little hope...

Does anyone on Fark actually think the NSA ignored Protonmail?
No really, seriously?

Sure, the message gets deleted two hours after being read.
The NSA processes raw data. Just because they don't read our sext messages, doesn't mean they can't.

Mueller. Has. Every. Thing.

This is real world chess...
 
Smoking GNU [TotalFark]  
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2018-03-21 4:52:18 AM  
Because of course he does.
 
Jeff5  
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2018-03-21 4:53:19 AM  

Redh8t: Oh!
Guess I should've added a little hope...

Does anyone on Fark actually think the NSA ignored Protonmail?
No really, seriously?

Sure, the message gets deleted two hours after being read.
The NSA processes raw data. Just because they don't read our sext messages, doesn't mean they can't.

Mueller. Has. Every. Thing.

This is real world chess...


Mueller knows stuff about these people they don't know themselves. He's got everybody's tax returns, everybody's emails and text messages, everything any U.S. agency has PLUS the take from more than one Allied intelligence service. When they did skeevy shiat overseas they were incredibly clumsy about it, and there are NO intelligence agencies that don't keep track of known Russian assets on their soil. Meet with a Russian in a small guesthouse in the backwoods of Latvia and the lady bringing your beer likely works for Latvian intelligence.
 
backhand.slap.of.reason  
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2018-03-21 4:57:38 AM  
Cambridge Analytica is a company that the exceptionally shady SCL Group spun off to apply it's deeply unethical methods in the United States.  They specialize in applying propaganda campaigns for mining and oil companies in the third world.  If you ever wonder why developing nations keep on electing governments that allow foreigners to extract their wealth and give them nothing in return, look no further than SCL Group.  That's what they do.

They knew operating in developed nations under the SCL Group brand would be deeply toxic, so they set up Cambridge Analytica with Brad Parscale at the helm to serve as the fall guy if their efforts blew up in their faces... as is happening right now.

They are nasty people with even nastier ambitions.  No one associated with SCL Group should ever be given a government contract.  They are a demonstrated security risk.  Let's hope that other states follow Massachusetts' lead and launch investigations into CA/SCL Group today.

Also, don't think for a moment that this whole whistleblower thing might not be a scam.  SCL Group is expert at misdirection and diversion.  I don't know what is going on, but it would not surprise me to learn that we were getting played.
 
Lady J [recently expired TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2018-03-21 5:09:57 AM  

Jeff5: Redh8t: Oh!
Guess I should've added a little hope...

Does anyone on Fark actually think the NSA ignored Protonmail?
No really, seriously?

Sure, the message gets deleted two hours after being read.
The NSA processes raw data. Just because they don't read our sext messages, doesn't mean they can't.

Mueller. Has. Every. Thing.

This is real world chess...

Mueller knows stuff about these people they don't know themselves. He's got everybody's tax returns, everybody's emails and text messages, everything any U.S. agency has PLUS the take from more than one Allied intelligence service. When they did skeevy shiat overseas they were incredibly clumsy about it, and there are NO intelligence agencies that don't keep track of known Russian assets on their soil. Meet with a Russian in a small guesthouse in the backwoods of Latvia and the lady bringing your beer likely works for Latvian intelligence.


Mueller should be in the next James Bond film. Make it so.
 
Kit Fister [TotalFark]  
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2018-03-21 5:21:28 AM  
I'm not sure whether CA is exceptionally dirty, or if they're just the company that got caught because Trump's a moron?
 
Archie Goodwin  
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2018-03-21 5:23:01 AM  

backhand.slap.of.reason: They knew operating in developed nations under the SCL Group brand would be deeply toxic, so they set up Cambridge Analytica with Brad Parscale at the helm to serve as the fall guy if their efforts blew up in their faces... as is happening right now.


Is that the same Brad Parscale that Two Scoops has appinted as his campaign manager for 2020?

Hmmm...
 
Archie Goodwin  
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2018-03-21 5:23:34 AM  
appinted/appointed

/it's all a conspiracy
 
Archie Goodwin  
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2018-03-21 5:24:08 AM  

Kit Fister: I'm not sure whether CA is exceptionally dirty, or if they're just the company that got caught because Trump's a moron?


Yes.
 
Diego Dominguez  
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2018-03-21 5:27:23 AM  
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Kit Fister [TotalFark]  
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2018-03-21 5:32:24 AM  

Archie Goodwin: Kit Fister: I'm not sure whether CA is exceptionally dirty, or if they're just the company that got caught because Trump's a moron?

Yes.


I just figure that political intelligence/research groups have been doing these kinds of "marketing" campaigns forever. Trump just managed to be so ham-fisted that they got caught.
 
Archie Goodwin  
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2018-03-21 5:35:17 AM  

Kit Fister: Archie Goodwin: Kit Fister: I'm not sure whether CA is exceptionally dirty, or if they're just the company that got caught because Trump's a moron?

Yes.

I just figure that political intelligence/research groups have been doing these kinds of "marketing" campaigns forever. Trump just managed to be so ham-fisted that they got caught.


I'd say you are right on both counts. It's just that this mob have been especially aggressive in their approaches and yes, that the Trump campaign have been in over their heads with this stuff.
 
cherryl taggart [OhFark]  
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2018-03-21 5:38:42 AM  

Redh8t: Oh!
Guess I should've added a little hope...

Does anyone on Fark actually think the NSA ignored Protonmail?
No really, seriously?

Sure, the message gets deleted two hours after being read.
The NSA processes raw data. Just because they don't read our sext messages, doesn't mean they can't.

Mueller. Has. Every. Thing.

This is real world chess...


He may have it all, but unless it coalesces into something the media can dole out in bite size, easily digestible tidbits, most Americans are going to keep on worrying more about job insecurity and the rising costs of iPhones.  Once I eliminated cable as part of my monthly expenses, I now depend solely on finding the time to cruise the net for news.  I try listening to news when I'm driving, but those 3 minutes at the top and bottom of each hour are more devoted to traffic and weather than anything else.  Talk radio went off my dial when it went all Trump, all the time, and NPR is broadcasting BBC every time I tune in.  It's as if the media doesn't want the people driving to and from a 9-5 job to be aware of anything national.
 
Lady J [recently expired TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2018-03-21 5:52:45 AM  

Archie Goodwin: Kit Fister: Archie Goodwin: Kit Fister: I'm not sure whether CA is exceptionally dirty, or if they're just the company that got caught because Trump's a moron?

Yes.

I just figure that political intelligence/research groups have been doing these kinds of "marketing" campaigns forever. Trump just managed to be so ham-fisted that they got caught.

I'd say you are right on both counts. It's just that this mob have been especially aggressive in their approaches and yes, that the Trump campaign have been in over their heads with this stuff.


Doesnt the whole Russia connection elevate this from normal skeeviness as well?
 
Redh8t [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2018-03-21 5:55:39 AM  

cherryl taggart: Redh8t: Oh!
Guess I should've added a little hope...

Does anyone on Fark actually think the NSA ignored Protonmail?
No really, seriously?

Sure, the message gets deleted two hours after being read.
The NSA processes raw data. Just because they don't read our sext messages, doesn't mean they can't.

Mueller. Has. Every. Thing.

This is real world chess...

He may have it all, but unless it coalesces into something the media can dole out in bite size, easily digestible tidbits, most Americans are going to keep on worrying more about job insecurity and the rising costs of iPhones.  Once I eliminated cable as part of my monthly expenses, I now depend solely on finding the time to cruise the net for news.  I try listening to news when I'm driving, but those 3 minutes at the top and bottom of each hour are more devoted to traffic and weather than anything else.  Talk radio went off my dial when it went all Trump, all the time, and NPR is broadcasting BBC every time I tune in.  It's as if the media doesn't want the people driving to and from a 9-5 job to be aware of anything national.


And yet you're here.
Discussing a clear point.

The cleansing of Facebook and destruction of CA will sort out a significant amount of b.s...

That's not to say other companies won't attempt to fill the void. But our and the public's awareness will limit their effectiveness.

/chin up! Think positive!
 
Jeff5  
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2018-03-21 5:59:11 AM  

Lady J: Archie Goodwin: Kit Fister: Archie Goodwin: Kit Fister: I'm not sure whether CA is exceptionally dirty, or if they're just the company that got caught because Trump's a moron?

Yes.

I just figure that political intelligence/research groups have been doing these kinds of "marketing" campaigns forever. Trump just managed to be so ham-fisted that they got caught.

I'd say you are right on both counts. It's just that this mob have been especially aggressive in their approaches and yes, that the Trump campaign have been in over their heads with this stuff.

Doesnt the whole Russia connection elevate this from normal skeeviness as well?


In time the Russian hacks of voter data in several States will tie in, they didn't gather that info for sport, plus this stuff actually started with the Mercers wanting to influence the Congressional elections in 2014 but we haven't yet heard anything about specifically what campaigns and what was actually done. And that computer link to Alpha Bank from Trump Tower was established and maintained for something...
 
Archie Goodwin  
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2018-03-21 6:03:50 AM  

Lady J: Archie Goodwin: Kit Fister: Archie Goodwin: Kit Fister: I'm not sure whether CA is exceptionally dirty, or if they're just the company that got caught because Trump's a moron?

Yes.

I just figure that political intelligence/research groups have been doing these kinds of "marketing" campaigns forever. Trump just managed to be so ham-fisted that they got caught.

I'd say you are right on both counts. It's just that this mob have been especially aggressive in their approaches and yes, that the Trump campaign have been in over their heads with this stuff.

Doesnt the whole Russia connection elevate this from normal skeeviness as well?


Yeah, this is rotten all the way down. And everything seems to be intertwined like a bowl of spaghetti.
 
Jeff5  
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2018-03-21 6:10:39 AM  
And the "nutjob conspiracy theorists" on the Left were screaming about Cambridge Analytica months ago.
 
Cajnik [OhFark]  
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2018-03-21 6:12:06 AM  

harleyquinnical: People wonder why I do not make extensive use of a Facebook page or LinkedIn


Facebook tracking is spread across probably every site you read. It's not longer about what you provide willingly to Facebook.
 
Jeff5  
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2018-03-21 6:14:32 AM  

Cajnik: harleyquinnical: People wonder why I do not make extensive use of a Facebook page or LinkedIn

Facebook tracking is spread across probably every site you read. It's not longer about what you provide willingly to Facebook.


One would hope the coming class-action lawsuits will be suitably epic. It'll be like Oprah: Facebook, you get a suit! Cambridge Analytica, you get a suit! Rebekah Mercer, you get a suit!
 
Cajnik [OhFark]  
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2018-03-21 6:25:25 AM  

Kit Fister: I just figure that political intelligence/research groups have been doing these kinds of "marketing" campaigns forever.


This is why I don't understand how this suddenly became a problem.

My oversimplified view:
Facebook had decent policies in place regarding data privacy, storage and sharing. They let this info out to select customers who paid enough and who fit their criteria of acceptable use of the data (selling you shiat). But they had gaping holes with the 3rd party garbage like quizzes and games.

Political campaigns exploited these holes, tied the previously blocked fb data to other sources they to build a profile and served targeted ads back on Facebook.

This is my shocked face.
 
kayanlau  
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2018-03-21 6:27:47 AM  
I wonder if people still believe this is a witch hunt ...
 
Smoking GNU [TotalFark]  
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2018-03-21 6:32:35 AM  

kayanlau: I wonder if people still believe this is a witch hunt ...


If by ''People'' you mean ''Trumpers'', then sure.
 
erewhon  
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2018-03-21 6:39:16 AM  
Who doesn't?

/always wanted someone to come up with a bluegrass song "Foggy Bottom Breakdown"
 
erewhon  
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2018-03-21 6:41:40 AM  
Redh8t:

And yet you're here.

Speaking from bitter experience, Fark has its very own pair of hound-dogs over at DIA. I have to assume they're not the only ones.
 
Redh8t [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2018-03-21 6:45:16 AM  

erewhon: Redh8t:

And yet you're here.

Speaking from bitter experience, Fark has its very own pair of hound-dogs over at DIA. I have to assume they're not the only ones.


DIA?
 
Col. Gathers  
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2018-03-21 6:45:37 AM  

harleyquinnical: People wonder why I do not make extensive use of a Facebook page or LinkedIn


The other day I got an email from a recruiting firm that had found me through LinkedIn that said:

Due to your experience at "wgm, mining engineering and consults ltd" we think you would be perfect for the role "autobody repair technician" at thrifty's (or some low rent auto shop, can't remember)

Made my day! It kinda reminded me of that mitch hedberg joke "yeah youre great at cooking, but can you FARM?"
 
erewhon  
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2018-03-21 6:46:33 AM  

Redh8t: erewhon: Redh8t:

And yet you're here.

Speaking from bitter experience, Fark has its very own pair of hound-dogs over at DIA. I have to assume they're not the only ones.

DIA?


Sad but true.
 
erewhon  
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2018-03-21 6:47:55 AM  
erewhon:
DIA?

Oh, yeah, I po'd DOE in the same bunch of posts. I don't know if they got the heads-up from DIA or if they've got someone paid to read Fark as well.
 
Redh8t [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2018-03-21 6:50:32 AM  

erewhon: Redh8t: erewhon: Redh8t:

And yet you're here.

Speaking from bitter experience, Fark has its very own pair of hound-dogs over at DIA. I have to assume they're not the only ones.

DIA?

Sad but true.


Wut?
 Do you have any idea how many acronyms fit DIA in my orbit?

What. The. F*ck. Do you mean by DIA?
 
brilett  
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2018-03-21 6:53:01 AM  
So remember to lie on every online quiz you take.
 
Cajnik [OhFark]  
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2018-03-21 6:53:12 AM  

Redh8t: What. The. F*ck. Do you mean by DIA?


Denver International, brah. Head straight up the 36 to Boulder
 
Cajnik [OhFark]  
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2018-03-21 6:54:46 AM  

brilett: So remember to lie on every online quiz you take.


Doesn't matter. You agreed to their T&Cs and they have a vendor agreement with FB. They're in
 
erewhon  
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2018-03-21 6:56:39 AM  
Fark user imageView Full Size


God Bless America Kate Smith
Youtube HwPkhbmSoJQ


Make sure to click the song as you salute the seal, you lose the effect without the music.
 
Col. Gathers  
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2018-03-21 7:00:33 AM  

brilett: So remember to lie on every online quiz you take.


I like to try to confuse the algorithm on those "complete a survey to read this article" questionaiires:

Do you like this product:5
Would you recommend to others:0
How did you hear about it: other (telegraph)

If they're gonna annoy me just to read an article, I'm gonna waste their time.
 
Redh8t [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2018-03-21 7:01:11 AM  

erewhon: [img.fark.net image 850x850]

[YouTube video: God Bless America Kate Smith]

Make sure to click the song as you salute the seal, you lose the effect without the music.


Yup, Denver International Airport.

Makes better sense...
 
erewhon  
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2018-03-21 7:05:20 AM  
Redh8t:

Makes better sense...

So thought we all. Alas. Back in 2004, you got a lot more traffic here from contractors, the Agency, and State.
 
Redh8t [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2018-03-21 7:13:58 AM  

erewhon: Redh8t:

Makes better sense...

So thought we all. Alas. Back in 2004, you got a lot more traffic here from contractors, the Agency, and State.


You can't sell paranoia to a Farker that sleeps in a copper mesh lined bedroom...
 
Jeff5  
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2018-03-21 7:20:47 AM  

Redh8t: erewhon: Redh8t: erewhon: Redh8t:

And yet you're here.

Speaking from bitter experience, Fark has its very own pair of hound-dogs over at DIA. I have to assume they're not the only ones.

DIA?

Sad but true.

Wut?
 Do you have any idea how many acronyms fit DIA in my orbit?

What. The. F*ck. Do you mean by DIA?


You have your own orbit?

Can you change orbits at will, or are you trapped in one?
 
erewhon  
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2018-03-21 7:28:31 AM  
Redh8t:

You can't sell paranoia to a Farker that sleeps in a copper mesh lined bedroom...

Ha! I only work in one.

FWIW, they used to seed the Able Providence databases from Facebook back when BBT was running the show in Tampa.
 
Redh8t [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2018-03-21 7:33:29 AM  

Jeff5: Redh8t: erewhon: Redh8t: erewhon: Redh8t:

And yet you're here.

Speaking from bitter experience, Fark has its very own pair of hound-dogs over at DIA. I have to assume they're not the only ones.

DIA?

Sad but true.

Wut?
 Do you have any idea how many acronyms fit DIA in my orbit?

What. The. F*ck. Do you mean by DIA?

You have your own orbit?

Can you change orbits at will, or are you trapped in one?


Drink till the room starts spinning.
Congratulations, you're in orbit..

Fark user imageView Full Size
 
Jeff5  
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2018-03-21 7:35:31 AM  

Redh8t: Jeff5: Redh8t: erewhon: Redh8t: erewhon: Redh8t:

And yet you're here.

Speaking from bitter experience, Fark has its very own pair of hound-dogs over at DIA. I have to assume they're not the only ones.

DIA?

Sad but true.

Wut?
 Do you have any idea how many acronyms fit DIA in my orbit?

What. The. F*ck. Do you mean by DIA?

You have your own orbit?

Can you change orbits at will, or are you trapped in one?

Drink till the room starts spinning.
Congratulations, you're in orbit..

[img.fark.net image 350x197]


Won't work. I quit drinking 30 years ago when I finally realized I was a mean drunk.
 
Smoking GNU [TotalFark]  
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2018-03-21 7:35:51 AM  

Redh8t: erewhon: Redh8t: erewhon: Redh8t:

And yet you're here.

Speaking from bitter experience, Fark has its very own pair of hound-dogs over at DIA. I have to assume they're not the only ones.

DIA?

Sad but true.

Wut?
 Do you have any idea how many acronyms fit DIA in my orbit?

What. The. F*ck. Do you mean by DIA?


Defense Intelligence Agency, maybe?
 
Redh8t [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2018-03-21 7:39:45 AM  

Smoking GNU: Redh8t: erewhon: Redh8t: erewhon: Redh8t:

And yet you're here.

Speaking from bitter experience, Fark has its very own pair of hound-dogs over at DIA. I have to assume they're not the only ones.

DIA?

Sad but true.

Wut?
 Do you have any idea how many acronyms fit DIA in my orbit?

What. The. F*ck. Do you mean by DIA?

Defense Intelligence Agency, maybe?


Yeah, I figured that too.

This thread is pretty fun though...
Grab a colander and join in!
 
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