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Late night pizzeria nearby The Pentagon has suddenly surged in traffic
- nomilk 10mo ago> What's the context here ? > You can tell when shit is going down inside the pentagon cause they're working after hours and they order pizza from nearby places. Today the US is invading/destabilising: Venezuela
- wmil 10mo agoThere are other establishments they track... Freddies Beach Bar, the closest gay bar to the Pentagon is reporting below average traffic. The nearby sports bar, Crystal City Sports Pub is reporting below average traffic. The closest open Papa Johns is reporting slightly above average traffic.
- tclancy 10mo agoMan, if people are even ordering from Papa John’s, you know things must be bad.
- BluSyn 10mo agoStrike on Venezuela?
- daneel_w 10mo agoThere was one, yes. And supposedly Maduro has been taken hostage by American forces and flown out of Venezuela.
- meiraleal 10mo ago[dead]
- panny 10mo ago[flagged]
- blurbleblurble 10mo agoBoth of those guys deserve ICC charges
- eastbound 10mo agoMaduro wasn’t an elected person.
- well_ackshually 10mo agoCool story. Still deserving of being tried as war criminals. But if it makes you happy we'll toss in Maduro in there, that works for me.
- guesswho_ 10mo ago[dead]
- boudin 10mo agoAnd?
- thomasahle 10mo agoNot being a democracy does not give other countries a right to invade you.
- avh02 10mo agoThen don't cosy up to saudi kings either
- amiga386 10mo agoSaudi royalty torture, murder and dismember a Washington Post correspondent. But they let the US have oil so that's OK. Venezuelan politician stays in power after losing the election. You'd think a "Stop the Steal" Jan 6 insurrectionist like Trump would be proud. But no, they're not letting the US have oil, so this is unacceptable. The US needs cheap oil like the US's United Fruit Company needed cheap bananas. Both are more than happy to devastate other people's countries to get what they want.
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- stevage 10mo agoVenezuela, duh.
- werdl 10mo agoVenezuela?
- trhway 10mo agoi wonder about pizza near Chinese MOD - it looks like Putin gets Ukraine in exchange for Trump getting Venezuela, and the next natural piece here is Xi getting Taiwan.
- empiricus 10mo agoAnd then we have peace :)
- wiseowise 10mo ago"Bro please just give me the Sudetenland. I swear bro just let me take the rest of Czechoslovakia and I'm done. It's my last territorial demand bro I promise. Just one more annexation and the Treaty of Versailles is fixed. Please bro it's just for the living space." "Bro please just let me take Kyiv. I swear bro just one more special military operation and the security buffer is complete. It's not a war bro it's denazification. Just give me the Donbas and the land bridge and I'll be chill. One more mobilization and the multipolar world order is saved bro please." "Bro please just acknowledge the Nine-Dash Line. I swear bro just let me have Taiwan and the great rejuvenation is complete. It's totally an internal matter bro. Just one more island chain and the century of humiliation is over. Please bro just let me cross the strait." "Bro please just let me bring them freedom. I swear bro just one more regime change and the region is stable. It's about democracy bro it's not about the oil reserves I promise. Just let me install an interim president. Please bro just one more coup."
- bregma 10mo agoYes. Or as Chamberlain put it, "There will be peace in our time."
- webdevver 10mo agono way - this notion of "exchanges" isnt real, certainly i will never believe it. why would the US 'play nice', when it can have its cake and eat it too? venezuela show of force, followed by imminent regime change in iran, ukraine will get more weapons, and china will continue getting surrounded via japan. i think the people hoping to see some kind of change to the status-quo will be disappointed! pax americana alive and well.
- jhealy 10mo agoVia fediverse, for those not on x: https://bird.makeup/users/penpizzareport/statuses/2007347706017251535 https://bird.makeup/users/penpizzareport/statuses/2007347706...
- russellthehippo 10mo agoConfirmed - strike on Venezuela and capture of Maduro. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/03/trump-us-operation-captured-venezuela-president-nicolas-maduro.html https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/03/trump-us-operation-captured-...
- embedding-shape 10mo agoDid the US not used to require congress authorization before engaging in violent repression against other sovereign nations? Or is that not needed anymore? Seems it was a long time ago the US actually followed their own practices, was this capturing of Maduro basically Russia's "Special Operations" but somehow "actually good this time" or something like that?
- jimkleiber 10mo agoEspecially for the supposed capturing of a foreign leader. But maybe we did this with Gaddafi and Hussein, not sure what Congressional approval there was for those either. Apparently H.W. Bush also ordered the capture of Noriega for drug trafficking charges. I'm tired of the US thinking that military forceful action is the way to resolve conflicts, especially the way to win the "war on drugs." We should be much more effective at reducing drug addiction if we realized that it's not so much about the drugs, it's about our growing culture of conflict and emotional avoidance. When a population lets itself feel sadness, feel pain, and reinterpret conflicts from the assumed "they don't care about me" to "they care more about me than I may ever realize," then I am willing to bet the drug industry will shrink significantly. Punishing those who sell drugs often just perpetuates this idea that punishment resolves conflict, which I'm very willing to bet actually _increases_ our tendency to be addicted to drugs.
- NoLinkToMe 10mo agoAgreed, but this has nothing to do with drugs.
- chneu 10mo ago
- MomsAVoxell 10mo agoIt’s kind of amazing that this is a weak point in the Pentagons’ opsec. Like, surely they could afford to have their own pizza ovens installed .. or does all that cash really just need to be spent slaughtering innocents instead? One bad anchovy batch and the world might be at peace for a while, hmm…
- eru 10mo agoOr they could just throw pizza parties every once in a while at random. Make the signal have too many false positives to be worthwhile.
- raincole 10mo agoWhen everyone knows it it's no longer a weak point. They can fake this signal too. Also what are you going to do about it? Knowing how much pizzas they ate didn't prevent Maduro from being captured.
- lukan 10mo agoBut if they would have payed attention that something is about to happen now, he could have fled to a safe place.
- yardstick 10mo agoIt could have been action against any number of countries or people. Russia, Iran, Syria, Yemen, North Korea, etc.
- MomsAVoxell 10mo agoKnowing that massive pizza consumption is important to the functioning of the Pentagons’ minions means that there is a back door into the Pentagon via pizza. Weaponized anchovies, you know…
- tempodox 10mo agoHowever, it would only work once. After that, you’ll get a lethal injection because they traced the anchovies back to you.
- r0ckarong 10mo agoCoup in Venezuela needs more Pepperoni.
- hhh 10mo agoThe pizza report is very annoying to me. It’s a trivial thing for any interested party ( few thousand dollars) to sway up when they want to bring attention to an action the pentagon is doing, and has been such a measure for so long that it’s (in my opinion) ridiculous to still follow it as a source for actual activity. Maybe I should start manipulating it myself.
- lazystar 10mo agowell, they definitely had an operation tonight to get maduros. maybe the pizza activity is more from the reporters and news crews tgat need to pull a late night shift?
- hhh 10mo agoI believe that state actors have put in the relatively low amount of effort to use android device farms to manipulate this statistic. I believe it hasn’t been relevant outside of seeing what the state wants to signal. I also believe individuals can do it as well, since it’s just phones reporting to google maps where they are. You see businesses in tourist cities that are dead empty with massive reviewbots and it showing as a ‘busy place’ as well.
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- wiseowise 10mo ago> And China is not Venezuela, they don't chicken out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%27s_final_warning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%27s_final_warning
- anthk 10mo ago2026's China it's very different to Nixon's China. They basically became themselves the factory of the whole world while spending trucks of money on R&D. For instance, the US grey CS and AI with brute force. Intel's designs are like that. The Chinese's motto it's kinda like Unix, less is more. But also doing far more per cicle, as MIPS CPU's. Just have a look at what Deepseek can do with a far less powerful machine. Yes, there's a gap between Intel CPU's and the Chinese ones, but it's shortening over time. Also, if you can achieve less per cycle by optimizing (and with less power) in the end you can just cluster several CPU's with a similar power usage and win by doing parallel processing.
- moogly 10mo agoChina doesn't really care. I know they had a delegation there yesterday, but this doesn't really affect Beijing.
- webdevver 10mo ago
- jmonty900 10mo agoYears ago I had a cubicle right next to the supervisor's office. I noticed that he was having more closed-door meetings than usual, and mentioned it to my good friend who was also my boss. My boss did a good job not reacting, because she already knew a layoff was eminent but couldn't share that with me (I was not one of those let go.) Events like this can be surprisingly accurate indicators of something significant going on.
- antonymoose 10mo agoI had a manager years ago tell me to pay attention to the free soda / coffee. It costs them basically nothing. If they can’t pay that how are they going to pay your salary. Wise words, years later I worked at a fancy place. All kinds of snacks and drinks and weekly lunches. One day we got moved off into a smaller, worse office. Our old Herman Miller chairs were missing and our nice fancy desks were replaced with bottom barrel IKEA furniture. The weekly lunch was cut. The snacks were scarce. I got a new job within the month. By the following month the entire company went bankrupt.
- ichorio 10mo agoI was at a company that tried its best to keep those free things going all the way until the end. (The company only went under because of an investor tiff, apparently two of them met for lunch, and the one who was left out pulled funding)
- embedding-shape 10mo ago> apparently two of them met for lunch, and the one who was left out pulled funding Yeah, I could kind of understand that, somewhat. Big sign that they're planning on pushing you out anyways if they meet in secret without you to talk about the business, so better GTFO quick rather than try to force-staying.
- kawfey 10mo agoSometimes the opposite is true. My century-old fortune 50 workplace does not have free. Autodrip coffeemakers are provided, but the coffee isn’t free. Employees bring it in with a jar to collect “coffee club membership fees.”
- hmate9 10mo agoThere are like 10 of these surge pizza traffic posts from this account every month. And 99% of the time we don’t hear anything happening afterwards so I’m not sure how reliable it is
- lazystar 10mo agonot a false flag this time. maduros is gone after 13 years.
- hmate9 10mo agoi understand im just saying that the other 99% of the time this signal leads to nowhere so i would not pay attention to it
- logicchains 10mo agoVery high false positive rate, but low false negative rate.
- sadeshmukh 10mo agoYou could say the same by claiming something will happen every hour.
- omikun 10mo agoHow could there even be a false negative?
- kokada 10mo agoThere was an event without and increase of pizza orders I guess?
- ath3nd 10mo agoUS going full terrorist/Russia at the same time is fun to watch. A "military operation" in another country's territory (without declaring war, like a coward) and entering their capital is the same as ICC wanted military criminal Putin did to Ukraine.
- raffael_de 10mo agoAs far as my quick twitter research goes there have been reports¹ to an attack before 2am EST (= 7am UTC). So, is this correlation actually useful or just a gimmick? 1: https://xcancel.com/AbujomaaGaza/status/2007338360017498269 https://xcancel.com/AbujomaaGaza/status/2007338360017498269 (6:28am UTC = 1:28am EST)
- g947o 10mo agoHow does Google gather foot traffic data? I assume from cell phone location? Then I have more questions... That makes sense for the average unsuspecting Android user who keeps location on all the time. "Proper" Android is more or less spyware from Google, so this is not surprising. But Pentagon people keep their work/personal Android location on all the time? Otherwise, for iPhones, can Google get real-time location data when someone is not actively using Google Maps?
- thomassmith65 10mo agomirror: https://nitter.net/penpizzareport https://nitter.net/penpizzareport
- tim-tday 10mo agoIn the interests of national security might I humbly recommend that we open a pizza joint INSIDE the pentagon? It’s distressingly easy for our adversaries to identify when something big is going down.
- gettingoverit 10mo agoHow long would it take for someone to put that pizzeria on a map right inside of the pentagon? Literally any adversary can put the place (call it "Pentagon Pizza" if they don't give it a name) on a map, and every time clueless DoD employees google it, there'll be a peak on a graph. Out of 30k people working there, there has to be a bunch of new hires that don't understand how OSINT works, and they just weren't fired yet. I believe solving this problem without reducing staff is extremely hard.
- burnt-resistor 10mo agoThey should be buying pizzas at a constant rate to obscure the signal.
- bschmidt25011 10mo ago[dead]