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Pistols have way different ballistics than rifles, a .223 can make a pretty gnarly exit wound channel, and 30-06 even moreso. Theres a ton more velocity and so exponentially greater kinetic energy is delivered
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Markets still falling like whoa
Captainant replied to Llano Estacado's topic in Business and Markets
Here's a source to my claim: https://ipropertymanagement.com/research/average-rent-by-year 2010: $895 2015 $994 2020 $1,185 2025 $1,650 % increase: 65% over 10 years, 85% increase over 15 years. So mea culpa, it's a greater than 50% increase that's still far ahead of baseline inflation. So if you want to nitpick my specific number but ignore the overall trend that worker wages have definitely not gone up 85% in 15 years or 65% in 10 years, that's your perogative. -
Markets still falling like whoa
Captainant replied to Llano Estacado's topic in Business and Markets
My apologies for being a dick, it's just maddening to see a serious person act like the explosion of extractive and exploitative leases is simply because people have more money to give to their land lords. Sorry for treating you like you were posting in bad faith, though -
Markets still falling like whoa
Captainant replied to Llano Estacado's topic in Business and Markets
BTW as a follow-up for @ChickenSandwich, Lisa Cook did NOT break any rules. I wonder why else she might have been illegally fired https://www.reuters.com/world/us/no-evidence-primary-residence-violation-by-fed-gov-lisa-cook-says-michigan-2025-09-16/ -
Charlie Kirk assassinated at an event in Utah (by a 22 YO groyper)
Captainant replied to msbesq's topic in Cloak Room
The resemblance to some of the shit coming out of RT is uncanny. From set design to facial expressions and tone, it's pitch perfect Russian State TV -
Kirk is a public figure insofar as he fomented and funded an armed insurrection that disrupted and delayed the peaceful transition of power on January 6th. We should only shoot fascists when we're at war with them, and EVERY PERSON in the United States is owed due process. I don't support what happened to Charlie, but Charlie supported what happened to Charlie.
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Captainant replied to Llano Estacado's topic in Business and Markets
Yeah, gotta drive some homelessness to really get the goosed rent numbers going, I gotcha. Heaven forbid we have enough housing that everyone can afford to stay in, what a terrible idea Median incomes have not doubled in the last decade. Hell, they haven't doubled since the 80s. Despite the "economy" (read: stock market and shareholder value extraction) adding on a few zeros in the same time interval. It's not incomes increasing that's driving the rent increase, it's been illegal collusion via Realpage and the other rent collusion platforms. Edit: just to really drive the point home, the meteoric rent increases STOPPED when propublica published their initial reporting and got DOJ sniffing around in 2022. It lines up quite nicely with your rent increase timeline through 2020-2021 -
Markets still falling like whoa
Captainant replied to Llano Estacado's topic in Business and Markets
Well they've nearly doubled over the last decade so I'm not sure if there's any blood left to suck for the landlords -
Everything is Shit: Tracking the Great Enshittening
Captainant replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
Our morning ritual is a latte and a flat white out of our Bambino Plus - a $40 2lb bag of beans will last us damn near a month and it's waaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyy cheaper than Starbucks with a shorter wait. But its a whole thing and not just slapping a pod in and pressing a button. Our toddler loves to watch coffee get made while she has her first breakfast (she's on the hobbit meal schedule atm) -
Everything is Shit: Tracking the Great Enshittening
Captainant replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
Tbh, you're better off with those reusable pods and grinding your own fresh. It's way better and way less plastic waste -
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses
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"pray for his repentance" is something I hear """leftists""" saying all the time, now that you mention it... The President and Vice President were right, it's all leftist violence
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Like, the fucking Vice President of the United States just went onto Kirk's platform to threaten anyone making light of his death, under the the guise of "promoting violence" WITHOUT A SHRED OF IRONY FOR KIRKS ROLE IN JANUARY 6TH
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it's a really interesting parallel - Kirk and "their" favored "debate" style is to stake out an unsupported position and challenge all comers to "prove me wrong". Similarly, our elected officals are staking out their unsupported position of it being "LeFtIsT vIoLeNcE" and challening everyone to prove them wrong - and any counter-assertion is literally being prosecuted both socially and criminally
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Love free speech so much, they're arresting people for their speech! And Governor Abbot is cheering them on https://www.chron.com/politics/article/abbott-texas-tech-charlie-kirk-21049063.php They have apparently been expelled from Tech
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