Sadly not. Super common, and the obvious result of RIFing everyone without a care for who does what or why. Strategy was apparently on the DEI forbidden words list.

These people have zero idea how the government works, they only operate on "loyalty." Which is simply not having the audacity to speak up when something is profoundly stupid, lest it harm their ego. Everything else is scams inside of scams for personal benefit at the taxpayer's expense.

The pattern repeats over and over. Hundreds of embarassing court cases, constant incompetence beyond anything rank and file government ever did before, blatant lies the only way to save face. Clowns elected by fools to spin up a circus to entertain them all while the crops rot in the fields, with no one willing to harvest them.

OK, well, when that happens you let me know. This is honestly such an unlikely thing.

Mutually assured destruction.

The Vienna Convention is what the US uses constantly to keep their people insulated. Which is why there's a nice diplomatic line at Dulles, and no CBP officer would mess with a diplomatic passport holder from any county.

But hey, anything's possible anymore.

You're

Is...is that how I get permission?

I am currently in the smoky dimension of Burek9.

What took you to Sahel?

Airplane.

There's a way to finagle a straw in a hole in the top for maximum convenience ;)

Yes, and the Vienna Convention is what outlines that Swiss or any other country's diplomatic officials don't have to do that with work devices.

The concern is that even encrypted communicatons, intercepted via the heavily Chinese-tapped US telecommunications company networks, can be used to gain access to other systems. Unencrypted data, sure, that's a legit concern. China can likely read every SMS sent to any US phone number and no one seems to care at all. Things like downgrade attacks, other man-in-the-middle attacks, and skimming SMS 2FA codes are likely possible with poorly defended systems.

If the data it's encrypted, then it's more about the paranoia that China is collecting everything and planning to decrypt later with quantum processors. Not exactly a huge and urgent worry, but one day they will crack how to decrypt what they collect and will have a record of everything said online.

Like... In the back like I just picked it up from the side of the street to take it home and plug it in and see if it works?

We can tick the box on spec now and check back in 10 years to see if they ever actually developed a commercially viable rector.

Her disloyalty was accidentally telling the truth. What a fool.

FFS, who is still delusional enough to get knocked up by this creep still? It seems like a 100% success rate in ruining lives is the only consistent outcome.