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Captainant

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  1. https://www.chron.com/weather/article/2025-atlantic-hurricane-gulf-forecasting-20400520.php Data for hurricane forecasting shuts down as of today. Pucker up
  2. LOOOOOOLZ you're not conducting BTC transactions. You're conducting side-chain transactions with third parties that you've chosen to trust. You're just playing with wildly inefficient monopoly money that does not even do what you evengelize it as doing. To even start using lightning, you consign off a portion of your BTC to an open and run a ledger with that vendor and have to trust that they won't just run off with your funds and DDoS your ability to send a closing transaction before they write out a block to the main BTC chain. It's no more secure than just doing business with a bank at that point. You're just doing it with WAY more steps and wasting a shitton of energy to conduct your commerce
  3. I don't think anybody is "getting their rocks off" but it's pretty important to consider why people would be so fucking crazy to do such a horrible and antisocial thing to go hunting for first responders.
  4. lulz that's conducting a transaction in the Cash App ecosystem, not happening live on the blockchain. It's being conducted in BTC valuation, but you're relying and trusting a third party financial institution. Which is diametrically opposite of the BTC whitepaper's core design principal of trustless payments. You don't even get a txid because it's not on any blockchain anywhere, it's on the same old """dinosaur slow and inefficent""" payment systems that dollars flow through as well. Which is what BTC was supposed to be innovating upon, not using to scale lmfao Correcting myself - they do appear to rectify the transaction on the blockchain eventually, however the instant nature of the transaction clearing is not BTC. That's the Cash App saying "trust us" while they wait for their BTC transactions to process through the blockchain.
  5. Looks interesting, coming to IMAX next March
  6. Holy shit they may actually come for him https://www.npr.org/2025/06/30/nx-s1-5445398/denaturalization-trump-immigration-enforcement
  7. ICE is about to be better funded than the fucking Marine Corps
  8. A significant portion of US GDP is driven by stimulus via government spending. I thought you like LGU economics?
  9. The early seasons have rough animation, but those shows have some of the best visuals and moments of grandness. The whole nebula chase in the 2nd season is gorgeous
  10. Love these platitudes in the context of people getting rug pulled on social security and medicare. It's this like how "not paying taxes makes me smart"?
  11. Well it's not like the president has driven multiple casinos into bankruptcy or anything right? Maybe the ghost of Fred trump can bail out America like he did the trump taj mahal
  12. Are they served out of the gif picker or something?
  13. It's pretty remarkable what you can accomplish now with an agent to help with implementation and limited troubleshooting. With that said, it's also going to lead to a massive explosion in orphaned and unexplainable code within organizations. I'm currently, right now, dealing with that problem with a customer - only they got their unmaintainable code thanks to south asian contracting firms. Most of the jobs that genAI is going to replace first is that tier of contracting job, since the work product is equivalent and there's much less needful that needs doing.
  14. Wow holy shit and the Supreme Court just opened the door for the president to kill birthright citizenship. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a884_8n59.pdf ICE ICE, baby.
  15. Here's the opinion https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a884_8n59.pdf This is going to lead to fucking geneology panels and shit to guarantee the purity of americans in order to be graciously granted citizenship.
  16. Seems like a bad time to be in the rocket engine testing business. A SRB nozzle for the Artemis program went kablooey during a static test fire on the range. Just happend yesterday, so no analysis on what went wrong yet
  17. Flee tyranny seeking religious freedom? Belive it or not, jail.
  18. Captainant

    SpaceX

    Pinging in here, curious if anyone has been tracking the launch site cleanup effort. I mean, aside from scattering polymers and powderized silica over a protected wetland environment I mean. They had a pretty big fkn crane fall over working the cleanup
  19. The rub is: establishment dems and the primary process guarantee this would never make it to the general. See: NYC mayoral race flipping the FUCK out over a progressive
  20. The Houston Sabercats are playing for their first national title attempt Saturday at 1PM on ESPN2 - check em out!
  21. I gotta say, yall have really successfully derailed this thread and moved the discussion off of the strategic failure of this strike, and how it's almost certainly going to result in either 1) a more expensive JCPOA, or 2) Iran with an accelerated nuke program. Great stuff, all around.
  22. Last time I flew into IAH, some batshit canadian lady was on the parking shuttle with me talking about how "the librulz ruined MY country!" and how she was sooooo happy to be in Texas now. I'd bet my bottom dollar she overstayed her visa and is just like this hypocritcal (and now dead) MAGAt
  23. Well that strategy has certainly led donald trump to ruin, amirite??
  24. what the fuck even IS an "islamist"? That's really my issue lol. It's being used and thrown around like "woke" or "CRT" or "DEI" where someone shouts it and everyone nods along like useful idiots without bothering to wonder what they actually mean. A christofascist is someone who drapes themselves in Christianity and weaponizes faith to advance and further fascist policy and social moves. I'm happy to provide current examples past that generic definition if you'd like. And further, it wasn't even really that phrase - it was that he was comparing posting on a message board to the nazi fucking occupation of France lol. That's just ridiculous, but don't let that stop you from defending it for some strange reason.
  25. Wait are you comparing "islamists" (whatever that is lol) posting on a message board to the nazi occupation of Paris? This is an all-time meltdown
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