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Captainant

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  1. And it remains to be fully explained what exactly Kerr County did in response to the flash flood watch and warning alerts sent out by NWS, you're absolutely right that the camp itself may be victim of the county's negligence in all of this. But Mystic was also the folks operating a camp in the most flood prone area of the country during flash flood conditions, with nobody standing watch for hundreds of souls. Who knows if their emergency planning even had a watch stander, or if one is even required by the State? More questions to be ignored and shouted down with accusations of politicizing things, I guess.
  2. I've talked to folks at a bar who have said shit like "I didn't like my doctors opinion, so I fed my x-ray to grok and it diagnosed me" and thought that was a totally normal and smart thing to do. There's millions of people just signing over their executive function to a large language model because critical thinking is hard. They are so incredibly vulnerable to the sort of mental tuning that musk and zuck excel at with their algorithmically driven platforms and LLM-driven assistants
  3. The issue I have here is that the State kept no records as copy of the evac plan. They were all on-site and likely destroyed in the flood. So there isn't really an authoritative record of their plan that was approved aside from "trust me, bro" I have a hard time believing that the plan was acceptable, given the empirical outcome of its execution. And yet, expressing that opinion is somehow political in the eyes of the overlords.
  4. The imma crash out last night was legendary. Facts are political on Surly now. Or at least, facts that make conservatives no longer comfortable with keeping their heads happily in the sand are political. He claims to not dictate conversation, and here he is again building a fucking safe space so they can avoid the ugly truth of how badly their history of (R) votes failed hundreds of Texans on July 4th weekend in Kerrville. Fucking ridiculous that facts and investigative reporting are considered CR by the aggy in chief. It's giving cover to "it could have been worse" and preemptively justifying doing nothing to prevent future deaths. But goddamnit, they can post as much racist hate filled immigrants ragebait as they want in DT!
  5. [County]Well, I'm sure the local taxpayers were all fine and knew what to do. Fuck them tourists! [/commissioner]
  6. I'm not claiming you did! Show me my words where I said that. You said: So I read that as you threatening to memory hole more shit in a "I'll fuckin do it again" way. Apologies for misreading that. And dude. You kidding me? It was more having a laugh at how pitch perfect the critique is and how good Lucas' vision was 50 years ago. You do know that Star Wars ('77) was modeled after the Vietnam War, right? The rebels were modeled after the VC, and America was the Empire. George Lucas himself said Star Wars is supposed to be anti-colonial https://screenrant.com/star-wars-george-lucas-vietnam-war-inspiration-explainer/ That's pretty explicit and direct from the creator. Edit: Well, I'm not sure why you're taking slorch's word for my posts in the Andor thread. He's characterizing me as some zealot in the thread (and I'm pretty sure he just plain doesn't like me). I'm not. I'm contributing to the discussion and talking about the show and what's on screen. Go read it for yourself since you have such a strong opinion.
  7. You're setting a standard here that objective facts like meeting minutes that explicitly say WHY a critical warning was not delivered and reporting from the Associated Press is verboten outside of the Cloak Room? I don't disagree with a news thread being a news thread, but I don't see how what I'm posting there is anything but news. Yeah, it's pretty much all shitty news. Don't shoot the messenger.
  8. I'm literally getting better news updates from the CR thread. DT is great if you want more updates from Facebook posts and Mystic text chains. The transcripts and meeting minutes? The fact that the State of Texas had just validated their emergency planning two days prior? It's not that they're being an idiot, it's that they're politicizing the tragedy by refusing to look at the fucking causes for hundreds of people getting killed in the most flood prone valley in America. You're setting the Overton window at the point where asking "why our government approved a plan that gave zero warning to a camp full of children" is """PoLiTiCaL""". For real?
  9. Pretty shocking find from AP:
  10. Lol I thought the board was broken from so many posts disappearing so I posted in the borked thread, and he deleted that too! Classico
  11. wow-eeeeeee crashing out via your large language model is a pretty impressive feat
  12. https://variety.com/2025/film/news/dune-3-title-imax-cameras-1236448953/ "Dune: Part 3", not Dune Messiah as previously thought. Still gonna be shot for IMAX though which will be allsome. What a wonderful time for a cautionary tale about messianic leaders backed by religious extremists
  13. this isn't even a political thing!!! It's just that we're so culturally fucked that even the MERE FUCKIN IDEA of climate change is inherently political and therefore, VERBOTEN! And rather than address the idiots who are reflexively claiming that objective facts are political, it's like he's getting mad that there's a confrontation about it at all. If you don't want people arguing with idiots on your board, don't make it culturally protected and tacitly endorsed to use "CR!!!" as a "get out of a losing argument for free" card.
  14. This is America. they're rolling into LA like it's fuckin Fallujah. DOD has confirmed US soldiers are being deployed domestically. Fuck the Posse Comitatus Act amirite? https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-troops-ground-la-immigration-enforcement-operation-dod/story?id=123542308
  15. that's what the video caption said, at least
  16. "laws signed and proposed" is the same thing as "previous decisions made by people who are in charge". They're both public policy. By your yardstick here, should I be banned for citing meeting minutes when the county leadership decided to not invest in sirens? That's critical context to WHY this mass casualty event was primed and filled with children to sacrifice on the altar of MUH TAXES.
  17. fucking WHAT? The first thing that "John" says in response is "Obama's president."
  18. truly some "let them eat cake" shit, talking about gold leafing your furniture while childrens bodies are being picked out of trees in Texas.
  19. Here's the meeting minutes if you'd care to look, Jan 9 2017 with 11 days till losing out on the free money to build flood sirens. The discussion starts around page 65 or 70, and they ultimately decide to pursue a mobile alert "Code Red" service that could be triggered by the sheriff (on page 83) and would deliver alerts to mobile phones. They talk themselves out of using sirens.
  20. They didn't apply for the grant until after Obama left office, so they missed the $1M attached to that original emergency declaration. Later when they applied in 2017 once it was a different president, the money wasn't there. They were also given $5.4 million in 2021 - just dropped into their city bank account by the federal government for emergency preparation via ARPA, and they instead elected to build sidewalks and upgrade their cop, firefighter, and EMS radio system. I linked the meeting transcripts a few pages ago where they made these decisions.
  21. Dems cannibalize viable candidate over policy disagreement that general voters won't understand; news at 11! Shit nobody gets their exact policy implemented, but it's at least an indicator of what they think is important. Dems have been selling out in primaries for the boring wonks and then get smoked by people who are interesting and can actually speak like people
  22. This is the essence of my feelings as well. The (D)'s have been so far up their ass about policy for decades that they never stopped to realize that it's ALL over the average voter's head. They ain't gonna win elections by boring everyone to death and telling them to Pokemon Go to the polls! The democratic party leadership is so atrophied and calcified in place, it needs to be fucking cleaned out. None of these fucksticks have done anything worth a shit since trump got elected, and have been defecting in small numbers to enable his policy advances.
  23. As pointed out, the 2016 CC that turned down the grant because OBAMA was a seasoned NASA admin who commanded shuttle and ISS missions. Dude WAS smart, he's just a selfish fuck
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