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Captainant

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  1. Tell me you don't do your own shopping without telling me. Don't believe your lying eyes, things are actually CHEAPER!!
  2. Each B2 can carry two, so that tracks. One of the big knocks against the B21 is that it's basically half a B2 - they can only carry one MOP
  3. Where are y'all? The president announced strikes 22 minutes ago https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-bombed-three-nuclear-sites-235723713.html Edit: lol day drinking on the beach makes reading the thread hard
  4. Oooh heres some good crimes against humanity! Withholding water in the sweltering Texas summer. A classic recently codified into law! https://apnews.com/article/migrants-child-supervision-texas-e4994b2b6786717ea79a4be230e476bf One mother was told she would have to use tap water for formula for her 9-month-old, who had diarrhea for three days after, and a 16-year-old girl described people scrambling over each other for water. “We don’t get enough water. They put out a little case of water, and everyone has to run for it,” said the declaration from the girl held with her mother and two younger siblings at the Karnes County Immigration Processing Center. “An adult here even pushed my little sister out of the way to get to the water first.”
  5. My favorite thing is that LLMs don't "believe" anything - they're simply predicting the next most likely word (token really, but I digress) to follow the current one. It's simply a matter of the models outputting fragments of knowledge that were encoded into the weights and biases of the underlying neural network.
  6. It's meant to denigrate billionaires by highlighting their similarity to the parasites that keep Russia in it's shithole state. But yeah, you're right. Comparisons to Russia aren't that bad for Republicans anymore, I suppose
  7. That thread on the B2 positioning analysis makes me think the bombers are loaded and in the air as a literal Sword of Damocles over Iran's head. The splash and record setting nature of the first circumnavigation bombing mission being a Trump™ order is a heck of a lot of gravity that he just can't resist
  8. Well how could they know they needed data for trees in the road?? Concerning.
  9. Uhhhhhhhbout that, they don't seem to be planning for taking ports https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2025/01/china-suddenly-building-fleet-of-special-barges-suitable-for-taiwan-landings/
  10. Hey know what will be really fun? When the Strait of Hormuz is closed or made unsafe to transit
  11. OVERTIME to end night one of playoffs! FalleN with a hard carry to get Furia to OT
  12. I was hoping to get tickets to this major but missed my shot, and second hand prices were absurd. I did go to Dreamhack Masters Vegas in 2017 and ended up drinking with the owners of NiP and got to meet Get_Right and N0thing after their game in the pre-playoff stage. This major has been great so far, I've seen like three or four maps go to 4OT, and one all the way to 6OT. Exciting and GOOD play is hard to beat, especially with crowd roar now in the playoffs. I also noticed the Blast.tv stream has 4k and 1440p options that are rock solid and crystal clear
  13. Anyone watching the major? It's live in the Moody Center! https://steam.tv/csgo True to form, NACS missed the playoff bracket lol. Let's see if Spirit can repeat, or if Vitality can cement their greatness, or if FaZe can resurrect the dead and make it all look S1mple
  14. Say, I'd bet the environmental impact on those protected wetlands is pretty fucking bad from getting covered with pulverized rocket part bits. Powderized silica from the heat tiles is a wonderful way to spread cancer over a region
  15. gotta say, NASASpaceflight on youtube got a GREAT shot with their telephoto camera in starbase. The crazy thing - it detonated like this WHILE FUELING! It wasn't even firing any engines! The video has some really pretty explosion porn though. Slo-motion and everything
  16. You should check out the "Light and Magic" docuseries on Disney+, I think it may change your mind about at least EP1. They were really doing some incredibly groundbreaking technical filmmaking in that first film. It wasn't the best story telling, but it sure did expand the universe of Star Wars And you're right, some of it is just ridiculous - but it's a space opera fantasy adventure about space wizards with laser swords! There's gonna be some silliness like that.
  17. Dude. The fucking droid factory scene in Episode 2 is nearly TWENTY MINUTES of crappy CGI slapstick. It adds nothing to the story - Jar Jar at least provides meaningful connective tissue to the story being told in the movie. Jar Jar even puts Sheev into power! For all the bad filmmaking of the prequel trilogy, they at least actually built a cohesive world and were telling a story. The Clone Wars animated series really does the yeoman's work to contextually enrich the PT Uhg, The Acolyte fell into the same trap as the sequel triolgy I feel like. They didn't know what story they were trying to tell, and seemingly changed mid-thought several times.
  18. Another REALLY excellent bit of journalism, going and talking directly to the businesses designing, building, importing, and selling items that are impacted by the tariff chaos. Who knew imma was in tech journalism??
  19. "I hate talking about politics but oh boy I'm excited to buy up all that public land being put up for sale to fund my tax cuts!"
  20. https://www.newsweek.com/ice-detains-green-card-holder-returning-visit-son-us-air-force-2087397 Avila was detained May 7 at San Francisco International Airport after returning from Japan. The 66-year-old has been a legal permanent resident since 1967, when he immigrated to the United States from Mexico. He was returning from the trip with his wife, who had not been detained. According to a GoFundMe page, his wife, four children and six grandchildren are all U.S. citizens, including his son, who serves in the U.S. Air Force. A longtime resident of San Diego, Avila has worked as a legal assistant at the workers' compensation law firm Kiwan & Chambers APC for over a decade. Colleagues from the firm organized the fundraiser. Newsweek reached out to Avila's employer, Kiwan & Chambers APC, for comment via email on Wednesday. Avila's daughter, Carina Mejia, told local outlet ABC 10 News that her father was pulled over in 2009 and arrested for a DUI and drug possession misdemeanor. He served his time and paid the fines for the misdemeanors. She said he has been able to renew his green card two times since that arrest. In a Tuesday update, the organizers noted that Avila has been transferred to an ICE detention center outside of Bakersfield, California.
  21. Stick with me here, but it was NEVER about the so-called """fraud and abuse""". It's always been a justification to do authoritarian fascism, and get the useful idiots on their side.
  22. Welcome to the party, pal! I've been frustrated for years over the quality of """news""" sources that tend to get posted and propogated in the Daily Texan. Thank fuck pronghorn's contract ended and he's leaving us alone
  23. Thing is, he's not aggy. He's generationally wealthy Texas shithead that gets off on being a bully and then donating to orphanages to make up for it
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