@#134 ... Talarico tried to get the brain dead clump of broccoli biden to ...

All your current trolling alias seems to be able to proffer are unsubstantiated assertions.

That observation leads me to wonder, what might be the goal of it?

To disrupt, or to contribute?

Yer up ...

Regarding Mayor Mamdani ...

@#18

Yeah, there is so much we do not know and we cannot explain.

And, don't even get me started on the concept of a multi-verse ...

@#34 ... How dare you question my source ...

When I click on the link in the comment, this is what my browser tells me ...

    Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead

Ya got anything better?

Wait... what?!?!?

Fmr Pres Obama managed to get China, France, Russia, the U.K., U.S.-- plus Germany) together with the European Union to agree with a solution with Iran.

Yet, Pres Trump's approach seems to be of the view ... agree, or we will bomb you into oblivion. No allies.

When have China and Russia ever agreed with a US-initiated agreement?

Fm Pres Obama was able to tender such an agreement. fmr Pres Obama achieved that.

Why cannot Pres Trump rise to that level?

I notice that Pres Trump seems to be ~going after~ Iran alone.

So alone.

Only Pres trump seems to be involved.

Contrast that to the Iran Nuclear deal that fmr Pres Obama had forged, and that Pres Trump endlessly criticizes ...

@#7 ... Standard contrarian response from imalumpertoo. It's all he's got: ...

Yeah. You noticed that also.

Apparently, when all ya got is trolling, then trolling is all ya got.

At this point in time, Gov Newsom looks to be trying to be appealing nationally, while Mayor Mamdani looks to be appealing to the people he serves in NYC.

Is this a good strategy for Gov Newsom, i.e., castigating the people being served?

Time will tell.

More from the article ...

... Gavin Newsom on Thursday cautioned Zohran Mamdani -- who has developed a surprisingly amicable relationship with Donald Trump -- against getting played by the president. ...

@#5 .. No its not...

Why not?

@#1 ... "The Justice Department is not currently investigating any individual connected to Jeffrey Epstein, a senior Justice Department official said Thursday. ...

OK, that is an interesting statement.

Why?

Because the law recently passed by Congress (with only one dissent in all of Congress) instructs the DoJ to release all the Epstein files, less those (among other things) that are related to an ongoing investigation.

So, now the DoJ seems to officially be saying that there are no ongoing investigations in the Epstein affair.

With that restriction newly being negated, we should see many more Epstein files being released.

Looking forward to seeing many more Epstein files being released.

... and, for the record, I will say that I saw reports of this travesty on the evening news here.

Was it "buried?"

I am not yet convinced of that.

@#4 ... This is false, the sensors sleep to save battery and are woken up from a diagnostic tool or the vehicle itself emitting a signal. ...

... and what is required to wake up the sensors?

Is that conversation encrypted and limited to the vehicle itself?

From the article ...

... It requires no pairing or authentication and cannot be disabled without compromising the safety function it is designed to provide. ...

"Our results show that TPMS transmissions can be used to systematically infer potentially sensitive information such as the presence, type, weight or driving pattern of the driver," the researchers noted in a research paper. Anyone can misuse a TPMS signal to track vehicles and, by extension, the movements of their owners, the researchers said. ...

@#2 ... One of those was Epstein's relationship with Oleg Deripaska, who also had a close relationship with Trump's campaign chairman Paul Manafort ...

OK, that may raise issues regarding Mr Manafort ...

This is your daily reminder that Trump apparently ... picked a campaign manager he'd never met, who had worked for years to install Russian puppets in European democracies, who charged him NOTHING, and who was in debt to Russian oligarchs for 17 million dollars.

Who was Mr Manafort working for when candidate Trump "picked" him as his campaign manager?

Text article ...

@#24 ... A majority of Iranians are 30 or younger. They like America and despise the regime. ...

Found this ...

@#2 ... Why is it we seem to only have this kind of s*&^ to serve our populace and country? ...

Because they are who we elect to serve us?

Just a guess ...

What say you?

Is ICE given access to this surveillance data?

More from the article ...

... TPMS sensors -- mandated in the US since 2007 -- transmit tire pressure readings automatically and at regular intervals whenever a vehicle is in motion.

It requires no pairing or authentication and cannot be disabled without compromising the safety function it is designed to provide.

The data is sent wirelessly to a receiver module, which is often integrated with the vehicle's onboard computer or a dedicated TPMS controller. The receiver monitors tire pressure and triggers a dashboard alert if the pressure drops below a predetermined safe threshold.

In the Clear (Text)

The security issue the researchers discovered is that TPMS transmissions are sent over the air in clear text without any authentication.

Thus, anyone with a receiver capable of picking up that frequency -- like the $100 devices the researchers used -- can intercept the transmission from outside the vehicle, just as the vehicle's own internal receiver can. ...

More from the article ...

... Most people would never imagine that the innocuous tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS) in their vehicles could be used to track their movements.

But, as with many things digital, it turns out the feature, designed for vehicle safety and maintenance, can also expose unintended signals that enable precisely that capability.

Low Cost Vehicle Tracking

A team of researchers from universities in Spain, Switzerland, and Luxembourg recently conducted a study where they deployed a small network of low-cost spectrum receivers, priced at around $100 each, along a road to capture TPMS transmissions from passing vehicles.

Their goal was to explore the potentially sensitive information they could infer by analyzing the TPMS transmission data from a set of 12 test vehicles.

Over a 10-week period, the researchers gathered more than six million TPMS transmissions from some 20,000 vehicles that used the road.

The researchers then used custom-developed algorithms to try and match TPMS signals from each of the different tires on a vehicle to the same car and from there to infer movement of the 12 vehicles in the study. ...

@#137 .. .With consenting women. What's your point? ...

Good question.

... Spears was reported to authorities for driving her BMW "erratically at a high rate of speed" on a motorway, CHP said. ...

Local evening news reported swerving across lanes.

@#13 ... On the on the other hand, high oil prices might encourage producers to "drill, baby, drill" on some of those unused US oil leases. He'd like to brag about that. ...

@#4 ... they know the truth. ...

... and what, exactly, is that truth?

Yeah, i saw that this morning.

Interesting.

China is experiencing economic issues, and apparently hasb been for a couple of years.

To wit ...

... why does the mind feel like a single, unified system? ...

There is the mind, and there is the body the mind resides in.

To equate the two is not a correct assessment, imo.

Stephen Hawkings' body was paralyzed, but did that stop his mind from moving forward?

My view is that the body is the container that we are given to contain the consciousness we are also given.

So, then, that seems to beg the question... what happens to that consciousness when the body dies?

No one really seems to know.

@# ... Because that is what a true ally does. ...

Exactly.

More from the article ...

... Donald Trump's German grandparents may have known the word for what some European officials now feel, as they watch him complain that America's traditional allies have let him down: Schadenfreude.

Having spent a year criticizing, insulting and threatening European leaders, Trump now sees the value of having friends in strategically important places -- if they have military assets he can use, anyway.

The U.S-Israel war against Iran would have been a lot easier in its opening days if British Prime Minister Keir Starmer hadn't denied American bombers permission to take off from U.K. airbases, Trump complained this week.

Starmer, however, is standing his ground, refusing to authorize anything more than "defensive" operations from Royal Air Force facilities in the U.K. and overseas.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Snchez is also playing hardball with Trump, condemning what he regards as a law-breaking operation in the Middle East and similarly refusing to let American planes take off from airfields under his control. Snchez incurred Trump's rage as a result.

And French President Emmanuel Macron " ever the critical friend " called the Iran war dangerous, warning it doesn't comply with international law and couldn't be supported. ...

Brent crude oil up 24% in the last month.

What effect might that have upon prices at the pump?

... Trump Administration Panicking Over Spikes in Gas Prices ...

Spikes that they have caused?

Again, not taking responsibility for their actions.

... James Talarico Wins Texas Democrat Primary ...

I listened to some of his victory speech.

He presented excellent observations about a political party (imo, a.k.a., but not mentioned MAGA) striven to divide rather than unite.

A political party that exploits Democrats vs Republicans.

A political party that exploits race and religion.

He seems to speak to the voter, instead of dictating to them, much as Mayor Mamdani did during his campaign.

The Texas Senate campaign is going to get interesting, imo.

@#8 ... Everyone in the "administration of dunces" has lied to Congress. ...

That may or may not be so.

However, does a possible onslaught of alleged crimes automatically negate any investigation and/or indictment into any one of those alleged crimes?

@#2 ... The same Kurds that Trump abandoned because they didn't help us in WWII. ...