Jump to content

Captainant

Burnt Ends
  • Posts

    13,645
  • Joined

  • Days Won

    5

Everything posted by Captainant

  1. I can't imagine it was good for your back anyways
  2. I'll bet he's arraigned in two weeks
  3. $20 in gas fees to register a vote that doesn't matter?
  4. A few years ago it was "blockchain will revolutionize $INDUSTRY!!"
  5. I'm mad about it because my fucking university and alumni program is out here repeating the same narrative supported by the inundation of """RADICAL LEFTIST OCCUPY TENTS!!!!!""" bullshit that took root on the national protest thread. For fucks sake, if someone has a history of being a dishonest broker of information then why are you welcoming that onto your board? By your guideline, you're basically requesting ONLY context-free content, since any extra context will inevitably be labeled as CR. The framing and exclusive representation of the "STOP WOKENESS" narratives is the propaganda itself. Do you not remember what happened in the summer of 2020? It's the exact same shit as then, only now. Well, except the authoritarians on the board are all on their second or third or fifteenth handle this time around after either getting too racist or too shitty for the rest of the board to tolerate. Now they're back with the literal exact same Twitter handles that were constantly posting dishonest and incomplete framings of the protests, and just as effectively stirring up the same kind of culture war shit again.
  6. Hope you don't mind perpetually stuck valves and launch delays then
  7. There's a bunch of angry racists in the DT Houston thread complaining about the "George Soros funded DA office letting criminals out on bond to terrorize cities", completely unaware of the antisemitic origin of that conspiracy theory
  8. Accusing their opposition of their own crimes is CLASSIC fascism
  9. Very fine people helpfully turn it into video clips and tell me all I need to know on Twitter!
  10. He ran on fixing potholes and leaking water mains. Once he got into office he started slashing public programs and ripping out bike lanes, and still hasn't made any progress on his promises.
  11. I mean, imma is completely fine with straight up propaganda getting reposted from election deniers and anti-vaxxers, so that's only gonna get worse. The seal is broken, and it's blacklabs revenge for putting the UT Palestine protest thread back up - he's just gonna give up and let it fester
  12. Excuse me, are we back to the Burisma russian propaganda story? What the fuck is going on lol
  13. Reminds me of when the AI generated Seinfeld was running on Twitch
  14. Well I'm sorry George Soros killed your friend, or however you're choosing to internalize this. Seriously, sorry for your loss. Didn't mean to derail the thread
  15. This is literally not true, Soros donated to Ogg's opponent. https://thetexan.news/elections/2024/soros-funded-pac-hidalgo-support-democratic-primary-challenger-to-harris-county-district-attorney-kim-ogg/article_6cbc9ccc-b70c-11ee-a233-7f288b1a7577.html
  16. You should be upset at the state of Texas for not creating more judgeships to handle the increased case load that comes with population growth. The state literally cannot hold these people. Your antisemitic meme and frustration towards the DA is misplaced, they're just at the bottom of the hill that the shit flows down
  17. Shareholders and billionaires cannot and will not learn this. That greed and hunger is what drives the constantly escalating growth targets. It's infuriating that it's only the wage earners that must learn to say "enough"
  18. My guy, earning six figures (in Texas at least) is not any type of """slavery""". And miss me with complaining about taxes. I paid more in taxes this last year than my pretax income was when I started working in tech. We have the easy version of this where we don't have to worry about keeping a roof over our heads or feeding or children, or looking for last minute childcare because your schedule changed and if you don't make it you're fired. You think WE'VE got it rough?
  19. I'm suggesting that """sustained and metered growth""" ad infinitum is not a healthy or sustainable business strategy. It ends in the current state that we are discussing in this thread and that you seemingly cannot comprehend. In biology when something grows constantly and never finds equilibrium, we tend to call that a cancer. The promises of trickle down have been a lie. Despite more billionaires than ever, we don't have proportionally more jobs and better pay for their workers.
  20. https://www.utilitydive.com/news/ercot-battery-capacity-rule-NPRR-1186-state-of-charge-SOC/697653/ Unless ERCOT puts rules in place to warp the economics of battery storage, of course
  21. It's more that the supermajority of links being bandied about this thread are from accounts that were CERTAIN the 2020 election was STOLLEN and that COVID was fake. Idk about y'all, but I think it's important to know what sort of past reporting and inaccuracies a """citizen journalist"""" has in the same way I think it's important for credentialed journalists to stay accountable to their past reporting. It's a big part of why I try to link to journalistic sources and real reporting when available. Does in-the-moment Twitter reporting fill some of that breaking news gap for emergent events? Absolutely. But the folks being linked here aren't at any of the events they're """reporting""" on - they're just stoking the outrage fires to superlative effect. Especially when there's not much new being posted and it's more "RECENTLY UNCOVERED SHOCKING FOOTAGE FROM A WEEK AGO!!!" that frequently misrepresents or overstates what actually happened in the video
  22. To that end, you're getting dangerously close to talking about systemic issues that are causing specific demographics to have a more difficult time achieving an ideal child raising environment. When the parents have less and less breathing room to survive because their job(s) is (are) squeezing them, the children feel that too. When I was a kid, my dad getting WorldComm'd still stands out in my memory as a significantly stressful and traumatic period for my family. Nowadays it's not scandal and fraud driving the pain, but layoffs and arbitrary growth targets bringing the pain and stealing the stability that many of us enjoyed as children. If we want happier children, it would probably go a long long way to reduce the uncertainty and churn that's endemic to being a modern wage earner. More than a couple days leadtime on schedule changes, actual benefits provided and not held just a few hours a week out of reach, less 1099 contract work with easy to fuck up taxes, etc etc etc. It just is much less friendly to be a wage earner now than it was when our parents were raising us.
  23. No no no, we shouldn't be funding battery storage! We should be writing checks to crypto miners from China so that we can induce demand to induce supply! Why on earth would Texas take a direct step towards addressing a problem when they could instead enrich a business with public funds and hope for a second or third order desired outcome?
×
×
  • Create New...