Colonel Flatulence doesn’t have any friends.

What then - THEY steal it?

Nuisance is the legal term.

Say you want fries with that one mo time, mf.

Know what else is crazy in Turkey? The civil engineering.

Bear’s gotta fatten up for winter.

But the chips and salsa, too?! Rude.

Something about a red hot poker…

SO much spontaneous combustion in Russia, lately.

Oh, no. Anyway…

It predates your story by at least five years, 2007, when a Silicon Valley engineer revealed that a backbone line had been spliced and all traffic was passing to government machines.

That revelation also inspired an outraged public backlash of ‘meh.’

That third cop couldn’t slide out of the picture too quickly after seeing the kid’s head bust the glass.

I read something earlier that said the explosion was the result of ‘dust compression.’ I’ve never heard of that, and suspect it’s wrong. It’s a volatile atmosphere in the proper stoichiometric ratio and a single spark could set it off.

Compression would be like a diesel engine, and i don’t see how that level of compression could occur in a silo.

If’n somebody knows more about a compression explosion in this situation, please enlighten me.

And how does a Big Mac stack up against Sehwen’s ham & cheese toasty?

I always feel at home with this crowd.

Keen to experience the local temples.

Very good of you sharing that with us. Hopefully, it wasn’t painful.

Cheers!

Like so many things, they only seem expensive until you try to make your own.

It’s an important life skill, being able to plant a thought in the mind of another and in a way that is likely to be accepted.

It crossed my mind since my last writing that, in the 80s, I got a money back guarantee for any counter-surveillance equipment purchased that didn’t reveal surveillance equipment in a Fortune 100 facility. It was that pervasive back then. And my perception is that morals and business ethics have not improved in the interim. Far from it.

Good luck and thanks for the valuable, respectful input.

Points well made and taken, thanks. No hostility perceived at all.

Reasonable minds can differ and frequently do. And it could be that people may think my suggestion is unrealistic or even silly.

There’s no shortage of miscreants out there who just like to mess with things, thrown wrenches into spokes, etc. And these types could well be behind the daily local issues.

But here’s an important point, and no offense intended. Corporations are like The Terminator. But instead of getting Sarah Connor, they purse profits. And regardless of CEO intelligence or accumen, every Fortune 500 company has a department that deals in these areas. They all have their skunk works and use them. It’s been this way for centuries. A primer: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_espionage

So whether they’re operating here atm or not, there is nothing paranoid about assuming they are. If they’re not, they will be. It’s what they do.

Thanks for the input. :)

Every account they lose hits them in the pocketbook. The bigger the fediverse gets, the more adherents, the greater the momentum it will have and the harder it will be to stop.

Nipping it in the bud is the best, easiest, and least expensive place to nip it.

The downvotes suggest their operatives are reading the comments.

Shamelessly stolen Rescued from that other site.

You’ve done the right thing. It will live a much better life here.