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Kaitlin Ruiz

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the NSA does what???? (source: ON PAPER: THE EVERYTHING OF ITS TWO-THOUSAND-YEAR HISTORY, Nicholas A. Basbanes)

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Comet Ping Pong Pizza packages.

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⚜ Ole Dirty Rice ⚜'s avatar ⚜ Ole Dirty Rice ⚜ @cody.social
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How did you think pizza is made? It’s bread, sauce, glue, state secrets, cheese, toppings, and (if you’re fancy) a miniature plastic table.

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Stephen May's avatar Stephen May @idhrendur.bsky.social
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Makes sense. They're one of the orgs that certifies the machines that are allowed to destroy classified documents, I'm guessing a lot of people just hand things over to the NSA for destruction.

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fire at static valley's avatar fire at static valley @atalantafugiens.fursona.club
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My friend’s dad works (or worked) at the NSA. Can confirm

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Johnny Brainwash's avatar Johnny Brainwash @johnnybrainwash.bsky.social
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Assuming this means a hundred million *pages* of documents per year, that's about a thousand standard printer paper boxes per week. If it's actual multipage documents, who tf knows. Are we sure the entire NSA isn't printing out their emails to read them?

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DaemonAAc / Bunny 's avatar DaemonAAc / Bunny @daemonaac.bsky.social
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Thanks for the reminder - I've very much enjoyed previous books by Basbanes, so I'm *definitely seeking this one out

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Beans (or Stephen)'s avatar Beans (or Stephen) @jaybeans.bsky.social
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One of the craziest things of my middle school years was making friends with someone who's dad worked in the NSA because he was an anti-conspiracy nut but would then say stuff like "oh yeah we pulped secret docs and made pizza boxes"

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Michael's avatar Michael @masmus.bsky.social
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I had to re-read it a few times because I kept reading “cryptozoology” and was like, what? WHAT?

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Owl 's avatar Owl @empowlr.bsky.social
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