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Hegseth says he’ll order random pizzas to throw off monitoring app (thehill.com)

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth jokingly said any surge in takeout deliveries to the Pentagon — a phenomenon that has accurately predicted the start of major geopolitical events — could be him ordering pizza “just to throw everybody off.”

Asked about the “Pentagon Pizza Report,” an account on X that tracks activity at local pizza joints near the U.S. military hub, Hegseth said he was aware of the account.

“I’ve thought of just ordering lots of pizza on random nights just to throw everybody off,” he said Sunday on Fox News. “Some Friday night when you see a bunch of Dominos orders, it might just be me on an app, throwing the whole system off so we keep everybody off balance. We look at every indicator.”

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

The 90s needed actual spooks casing out pizza places... That was a real thing, Russians casing take out joints in DC, even before pizza was a big deal.

But it was easier just to keep an eye on the parking lots and how many lights stayed on overnight.

For at least the last decade, there have been electronic means of surveillance allowing every country who gives a shit to monitor 24/7. Which sounds stupid, but that monitoring is essentially free and just one of 100s if not thousands of individual flags.

Pizza flag may go off a lot, but if x, y, and z are all also happening...

Then everyone knows something is gonna happen.