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[–] 283 points 11 months ago (23 children)

Wait... that doesn't look like the war thunder forums...

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  • [+] -73 points 11 months ago (22 children)
  • [–] 105 points 11 months ago* (20 children)

    Only four of the seventeen warthunder leaks have been about American equipment (and one manual for the export model of the F-15E (that IIRC was specifically the Saudi version? It was a whole thing at one point)).

    It seems likely that this meme is a reference to how fucking notoriously US diplomatic staff in china absolutely cannot keep it in their pants (note that it's specifically about staff in china, we're the ones crossing the borders here). I dunno, this doesn't seem like "blaming foreigners" when it's such a problem there has to be a public policy to combat dipshit american diplomats falling for it.

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  • [–] 25 points 11 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    I don't get it. Like I'm a slut too, but I've never considered talking about work with people I'm sleeping with in a foreign country, even if it's not defense work.

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  • [–] 27 points 11 months ago* (5 children)

    You should see some of my DMs - if they're horny enough, people will say anything to keep an attractive person interested in talking to them.

    Hey defense nerds! If you have information about the specific makeup of current-gen Chobham armor, I will 100% fly to you and let you pound my ass in exchange for it (been curious about that one for years now, warthunder has been disappointingly unforthcoming...)

    (side note: 98% of my interactions on lemmy have been great, but wow that 2%)

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    That brings back memories of some of the unhinged comments I would get when I posted nudes on a different site (not why I stopped, I just don't really have a good place to post for sapphic focused content rn). I guess I've just always known I'm desirable enough to keep people I'm interested in talking to me and to understand that while other internet exhibitionists may very much enjoy chatting, rping, and other fun stuff it's inherently casual and the best way to keep getting attention is to figure out what the person I'm chatting with is hoping to get out of it (usually interesting conversation involving effort).

    To summarize: the naked lady on the internet is not going to date you, but you can have fun with it. Don't make it weirder than she wants, you just get blocked. Also git gud.

    And if you want a specific warthunder leak you just gotta make bold and incorrect statements about it on their forums. Though I hear providing coke in Vegas in something skimpy can get you far more classified information than you think.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Trying to explain to my boss why the feds are there asking questions about a picture of my tits with "silica-manganese doped ceramics are terrible at defeating kinetic penetrators" scrawled across them....

    (Big mood about sapphic content though, some folks really struggle to accept not being the target audience. Lemmy really isn't big enough yet to support an actual girl4girl community, but I have hopes that one day...)

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Listen, somebody has to make HR earn their paycheck…

    (And yeah that's where I am with it. I appreciate how sapphic lemmy is, but idk if it has enough community for such a community, and even if it does, I've moderated far too much of the internet to ever create a lemmy community)

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (6 children)

    Weird.

    It’s a well thought out comment and not an off-the-cuff response to an imagined slight.

    Is the internet maturing?

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago* (4 children)

    Sure you're the most notorious troll on lemmy, but this is such obvious shit-stirrin' that it feels... idk, kinda beneath you?

    "I don't know why this deeply unpopular comment was downvoted, they seem totally reasonable to me" it's just so straightforward. lacks the élan your comments usually have.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Oh you misunderstand me my comment wasn’t defending underpants.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Ah my apologies, your reputation may have preceded you.

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  • [+] -9 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    how fucking notoriously US diplomatic staff in china absolutely cannot keep it in their pants

    Hardly unique to China. Obama's SS famously all got busted visiting prostitutes in Brazil while scouting venues for his visit.

    But it always seems to get blamed on the Yellow Peril when it's in the news

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    [–] 112 points 11 months ago (7 children)

    I already leaked. She just doesn't know.

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  • [+] 9 points 11 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 95 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    that actually happened to one of my acquaintances a couple of years ago. hooked up with some girl at drone convention and she got arrested shortly afterwards for spying. he saw none of it - just got informed later on that he was about to get the honeypot treatment due to his work. dude was so scared he went ballistic on his digital footprint and won't even talk to you if there's any mic'ed device in his vicinity. if i ever saw a man "scared shitless" that was it

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  • [–] 153 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    The actual last thing you see before leaking state secrets...

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  • [–] 72 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    The irony being all the Defense contractors on here that upvoted, saying "heh, boobs do be like that," and there's some website that tracks who votes how on Lemmy, thus revealing a short list of maybes.

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Orly? Where's this? Do they openly published their data?

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  • [–] 63 points 11 months ago*

    Due to the federated nature of Lemmy, and the need to prevent one account voting multiple times, and the ActivityPub protocol it's all built on... all votes are effectively public, though Lemmy does try to obscure this a bit. But anyone can set up an instance, link to other instances, and be sent all the votes and who did them.

    Lucky for you there is a site https://lemvotes.org/ that saves you this hassle, it's in the form of looking up votes for a post rather than bulk data.

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  • [+] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    I'd wager just a few bored glowies... but with Utah's processing power and "AI", probably none until something gets flagged, then a contractor might be called in.

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    [–] 67 points 11 months ago

    She can have them.

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  • [–] 55 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Lies. Last thing you see is a WarThunder forum comment claiming that the radar cross section of a F-22 is about the size of a golfball, and you know for a fact that in most directions, it has a radar cross section comparable with a bumble bee.

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    At this point there's no way the dev team of war thunder is anything but spies.

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  • [–] 47 points 11 months ago

    Had a Russian woman way too into me at the bar during RSA. Maybe I was being paranoid but I bailed.

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  • [–] 39 points 11 months ago

    That's weird. That doesn't look like a Signal chat.

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  • [–] 35 points 11 months ago

    I'm in the wrong industry.

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  • [–] 32 points 11 months ago

    Sexretary of War

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  • [–] 32 points 11 months ago

    "SecWarCrimes has invited you to a Signal chat"

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    So this means I can safely date her ? I'm relieved, thanks !

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  • [–] 28 points 11 months ago (8 children)

    what's to stop one from benefiting from the honey pot, but feeding them false information?

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  • [–] 21 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Describe the technical specifics of your job in a way that misleads them as to the actual information you're working with, but that won't be immediately obvious to an expert that's potentially even more familiar with the source material you're working with than you are.

    It's just hard to keep that kind of lie going - it's not impossible, but fooling someone with an entire intelligence agency requires a whole lot of both luck and planning.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago

    The honeypot idea probably does rely at least in part on you not knowing that's what it is so, if you for some reason thought that was happening then... Nothing is stopping you. I guess you could operate on the assumption at all times but that's going to be difficult especially when they're trying to extract the information from you in a way that doesn't seem like they're trying to do that so you'd have to maintain your facade and chicken feed story in response to even the most banal things that don't seem like they're probing. There's also the fact that you would now be aware of the forces you're dealing with and also the potential blowback to you if you're wrongly suspected of colluding or being less smart than you in fact are.

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  • [–] 25 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Jokes on her, most of my country's military resources haven't been updated since the Boer War.

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  • [–] 22 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Technically I can only break ITAR but they know everything I know already, so fuck it we ball.

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  • [+] 19 points 11 months ago (8 children)
  • [–] 32 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    I know someone who has a security clearance of some type, I got interviewed about them a few years back. In a rounabout way they said that people who cant talk about work tend to date other people who cant talk about work. Not necessarily in the same field but people who are used to compartmentalising like doctors, lawyers, etc. People who professionally understand "I cant talk about it".

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I don't talk much about work with my wife. Mostly I can, but why would I want to take my work life home. I spend hours talking about work stuff at work. Let's talk about other stuff at home.

    Perhaps it's different when your job defines you as a person or your job is your life.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    It’s probably easier when people are interested in the job, or think they know what the job is.

    I have a friend who is an artist, and they started telling people they worked in tech so the conversation would die. 😆

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    It helps to live in a place where most people do work like this. It's more culturally acceptable to simply not ask in the first place.

    I'd go as far as to say that it's so ingrained in some folks, that it's a dead giveaway what they're up to based on whether or not they ask you what you do for a living.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I've had jobs where I'm not able to talk about specifics but they're still plenty of good stories you can tell.

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I was in the Air Force with a secret clearance, working on radar systems. There's some stuff i can't talk about for legal reasons, then there's stuff i don't talk about because it would make me look dumb. Like that time i worked on the circuit breaker panel without cutting input power. Or that time we forgot to open the vents before powering up the thing.

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  • [–] 53 points 11 months ago

    If she thinks I'm not atleast seeing the tiddies before I commit treason she has another thing coming.

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  • [–] 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    And then the twelve colonies are destroyed in a surprise attack.

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago

    100% will be fired or worse for this someday.

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    I think it's possible this may have happened to me. And it was totally worth it, if that's what it was!

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago

    tf? Dr. Pepper’s great and all, but goddamn.

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  • [–] 39 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    The worst part is when they're girl-next-door natural beauties like this.

    Your brain can say no to an obvious escort/Victoria secret model suspect, but when your animal brain starts shutting down your frontal lobe with "Oh my god, she's the one!!" malware you're screwed lmao

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    One smile from a girl like that and the brain melts. I think the only vaccine is to be in a healthy relationship already so you don't have interest.

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