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It’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…

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What my local secret service does is they rent various houses in a circle around their headquarters and order pizzas to them frequently. Mostly the pizzas are securely destroyed, but on days with large meetings they're transported from the houses to the headquarters via underground pneumatic tubes. I would have thought a similar DPS (Decentralised Pizza Strategy) would be employed in the US too, but I suppose they are not as tactically advanced in that area.

The US doesn't do a lot of pneumatic food delivery, and the main tunnel[1] is both inappropriately placed for pentagon activities and inappropriately configured for pizza. Maybe you could do calzones, but calzones don't make a good work meeting.

[1] https://www.wikibin.org/articles/alameda-weehawken-tunnel.ht...

You lost me at calzones. That is one way to poison an otherwise perfectly good tactic.

Cannelloni would be a better fit for the tubes.

Read more about the burrito tunnel here: https://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda_weehawken_burrito_...

When 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.

But if they would have payed attention that something is about to happen now, he could have fled to a safe place.

It could have been action against any number of countries or people.

Russia, Iran, Syria, Yemen, North Korea, etc.

Knowing 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…

However, it would only work once. After that, you’ll get a lethal injection because they traced the anchovies back to you.

It's probably not, if you sit on Twitter at all you'll see posts about Pentagon pizzas almost once a week. Maybe it does measure something about the Pentagon, but I doubt it's anything close to as precise a measure as folk like to believe.

In house catering is usually subject to strict cost controls.

Hard to motivate people to work late with minimum bidder pizza.

It feels like not a lot of information is leaked though, we can tell something is likely happening, but never what.

> One bad anchovy batch and the world might be at peace for a while, hmm…

If what you're proposing did happen, there would be a huge power vacuum, not peace.

They probably don't care. By the time the pizza signal was out, the operation is over and the dude was captured.

Or they could just throw pizza parties every once in a while at random.

Make the signal have too many false positives to be worthwhile.

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