• Gust@piefed.social
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    6 hours ago

    I love that these clowns think a polygraph and a some mean words from kegsbreath will somehow be able to extract hidden information from people who have been through sere training

  • Einskjaldi@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    When you use all your inventory it’s pretty obvious, if you’ve fired off all your missiles there will be a lot of empty warehouse racks.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 day ago

    Wait! Are we not winning?! I thought that asshole said we’re winning. We must be winning. He said we’re winning. Winning?

  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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    Fuck polygraphs. I wanna see Hegseth do a proper set of pullups without all the cheating by swinging himself and his legs back and forth to give himself momentum, oh, and at least one set of ten proper straight pushups, before he’s allowed to implement any sort of PT guidelines for the actual rank and file.

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        23 hours ago

        Accurate. They’re a way to throw subordinates under the bus for fuckups and call it “patching leaks”.

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      The main way polygraphs work is called the “bogus pipeline.” It means that people are afraid of being caught lying so they tell the truth when hooked up to the machine.

  • ProfessorScience@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Leaks highlight Trump admin’s incompetence. Trump admin responds by trying to ferret out leakers using pseudoscience.

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      2 days ago

      Was thinking the same thing, not sure what they think they’re going to accomplish with a polygraph… Maybe it’s a scare tactic

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        It IS a scare tactic. Anyone with any knowledge of polygraphs knows they don’t actually say squat. Its an interrogation method meant to make you THINK that they do.

        A polygraph is just a way to get you to say shit that might incriminate you.

        • balsoft@lemmy.ml
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          They can say if you’re stressed out (which you probably will be during an interrogation). They can’t reliably say if you’re lying or not.

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    2 days ago

    Trump and Vance said its not a war. So the leak is not disastrous. Therefore no need to do polygraph