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  1. This ^ These are the same out of touch, overly compensated, good ole boys who are using GenAI as an excuse to RIF/offshore FTE, cut benefits, steal your data, heavy hand RTO to sweatshop offices, lobby reduced regulation for shit like asbestos, and beat the tech workforce into submission. This dude in particular was seemingly a professional snake oil salesman with a list of shattered startups trailing him and a few anecdotal comments saying he’s an ass to work for. He’s the poster child for rich egomaniacs who are completely out of touch with the world 99% live in and are currently riding the oligarchy wave of ‘fuck you, I’m rich and I’m right and I’m untouchable…do as I say or spend six months looking for a job’ enabled by our current Pay To Play government…see Bezos, Musk, Zuck during the inauguration. Same reason diversity initiatives vanished. I just wish it’d been that smarmy fuck Jamie Dimon who’d been busted.
  2. Derp State
  3. Anyone who can’t see that there were failures at every level, from the federal government on down, isn’t worth the energy to argue with. In addition, Mystic will have blood on their hands and I’ll be amazed if it ever exists again…and if anything, all that pride in the history there proves they should have known better. You’re ultimately responsible for hundreds of children and every account I’ve read has painted the picture of individual cabins being lead by teenagers suddenly finding themselves making impossible decisions. Where were the adults? They had their own impossible situations you say? Ok, the whole point in designing, testing and practicing emergency plans is to take the time to think through ahead of time such that those decisions are made adtee careful analysis and can be executed without central coordination. They had an approved plan but it happened too fast? They should have had an adult with a flashlight in communication with relevant info sources, fellow camp administrators, and local authorities. You’re on a river during a huge storm, for fucks sake…with hundreds of children under your care, remember Yes it was unprecedented, no one foresaw the Charybdis-like whirlpool that complicated matters, and I cannot imagine the desperate horrors all the victims suffered…but when you sign up to manage hundreds of children for weeks at a time in a particularly dangerous spot within ‘flash flood alley’ then at the bare fucking minimum you better have your flood evac plan down cold, with multiple levels of severity. You should be fuckin ashamed of yourself TF. You aren’t, but you should be. My wife seemingly is afflicted with the same memory-influenced fondness from her time there that she doesn’t want to hear my utter disdain for how colossally Mystic fucked up…but this is Surly and I’m allowed to say you’re wrong as fuck, Texas Fight. I didn’t even touch on sirens…the fact people died because their brain was so poisoned by the disinformation machine as to reject free warning systems…you fucking people are too far gone to help, but thanks for attending my TED Talk.
  4. My law degree is from The Wire…so youre saying that dude was their Levy to D&B Enterprises, and that all the pieces matter?
  5. Gotta love the ‘regulations bad, free market good’ exuberance from the GOP…it trickles down into every corner under the mistaken belief it makes things cheaper and encourages innovation. No, dumbasses…regulations are usually there to protect you the individual/small business and often written in blood. Removing them are in the interests of large, faceless corporate behemoths who want to poison your water, reject your healthcare claims, deny you coverage, and do shit like have ‘AI’ companies running nuclear power plants to supply data centers…you want rivers that catch on fire again, Cleveland? I’ll never understand how people not only vote against their interests, but have been brainwashed to do it every single time. You had grown ass men and women rejecting free funding to better their community’s emergency preparedness for fear of…what exactly? I tell people I would absolutely love to get the fuck out of Texas, but while in Michigan I saw a dozen MAGA/Trump flags on the 30m drive from Sault St Marie to St Ignace and a ~12yo kid staying at The Grand on Mackinack who wore a different MAGA hat everyday…
  6. Every single level of this thing had at least one hole in the Swiss to make it happen…makes me think of AF 447 where the dumbass FO pulling full deflection on the yoke all the way down to the Atlantic shoulders the blame, but also their training + poor CRM + the pitot probes + the way Airbus handled dual input on the side sticks. - Mystic for not being proactive, not posting watch, no effective internal comms once power was lost, shitty evac plans, even way back with flood plain exceptions even if my 8yo could tell you it’ll flood there someday. - Kerrville residents who drank the raw MAGA kook aid to the point of refusing free money to better their community - Kerrville and county leadership for humoring that bullshit multiple times and dismissing the danger before hand, and that bullshit pc where he stormed off in his camo hat for the slightest bit of criticism - State leadership for patting themselves on the back and fellating Trump on tv, Abbott for his football/loser statement, etc…also see 2021 freeze, Uvalde, hurricanes, etc -TrumpCo for killing essential services, putting Kang and Kodos clones in key positions, dumbass rules that hindered aide flow, etc. Been thinking the same thing someone else said..I sure hope the dads are getting organized to hold accountability at every level and not just Mystic, because if losing your child is still not enough to flip your political switch away from this madness then I’m shoving Brisket out of the way as I run past him off the ledge.
  7. Once again, if Sandy Hook didn’t move the needle with those people then nothing will. They will do anything to protect the cult leader and any empathy they pretended to have has been long gone in the name of ‘the cause’.
  8. I too have been to multiple dispensaries in legal states. The products may be more limited, but I’ve found them to be completely consistent and without fear of being in the waiting zone ‘did I get a bunk one or…holy shit I may have made a mistake, cancel all plans and lock all doors code green I repeat code green’. That alone is nice
  9. Millions upon millions of dollars in slow-to-replace assets being wasted as a dick measuring exercise. And I guarantee China/Russia/NK are watching, scoring and vacuuming up all the RF they can just like we would be. Men will do anything to avoid going to therapy
  10. So…yesterday wake-up to see we may be at war with Iran (currently in the UK). Today wake-up up to Abbott being sensible to kill SB3. Welcome back to 2025. Gov statement, special session to apply common reasonable regulation (absolutely want child resistant packaging because even if we keep ours in a lockbox, many don’t) https://gov.texas.gov/uploads/files/press/VETO_proclamation_SB_3_IMAGE_2025-06-22.pdf Assume Abbott did this for his own political play as a Pub prez candidate, to extract money from the industry, or just put Patrick in his place as a preemptive maneuver. Regardless of reasons:
  11. Yeah that’s where I wonder what exactly they were moving…as we saw with Stutz net, those centrifuges are unbelievably fragile and susceptible to even minor disruption. Makes sense as they spin at something like 30,000rpm and even interrupting the power will destroy them. &nbsp My basic understanding is that the enrichment cascade is the most challenging and resource-intensive getting from ~5% to ~60% or so. After that, the process moves along much faster. It’s possible they were unloading their latest batch of enriched Uranium hexafluoride, or whatever raw materials (like yellow cake) out before the expected strike. Dont get me wrong…taking out a seriously hardened facility like that is a good thing in general, but everyone on planet earth knew we had plans on precisely how to take it out without any regional bases so seems this wasn’t some crippling blow beyond losing the facility.
  12. Shit someone probably told Papa Putin, or it was just so predictable. Then again it’s hot there so maybe a slew of Kona Ice making bank https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/06/22/satellite-images-show-activity-at-irans-fordo-before-us-air-strikes.html https://www.newsweek.com/iran-nuclear-strikes-us-donald-trump-fordow-satellite-imagery-unusual-activity-2088918
  13. Man what a thing to wake up to (family trip in the UK)…ignoring the politics for a second, there’s evidence from satellite photos that a convoy of trucks removed material a couple days ago and we just used up nearly the entire stockpile of very specialized and expensive weapons (half a billion to manufacture ~12) on a dry hole. Boeing is happy. They’ll get another order that’ll keep the line running for a year or two. China and NK are happy. Those were designed for critical underground C3 facilities. Iran probably happy. They can spray IRBMs at assets much more vulnerable than Israel, such as American bases and ships in the Strait of Hormuz. Trumpco is happy…well maybe not, those things do not produce huge explosions for Fox to jack off over. But they can declare victory like they just took Utah but in reality probably prove more like scaling Pointe Du Hoc with no 155’s up there. Politically…I guess it’s fuckin tradition at this point for a Pub prez to start a war in the sandbox for Dems to clean up later, being blamed the whole time for it.
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