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Captainant

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  1. Chinese financial markets are already stretched pretty damn thin with the ongoing default of Evergrande. Sanctions could be the thing that breaks the dam for em
  2. Elon Musk – Dead at 52 – Says There Is No Need for Misinformation Laws Billionaire Elon Musk, found dead in his home last night, says it is not the role of social media networks to determine what is true or not. The Tesla and X owner, who is believed to have died from a heroin overdose while watching animal porn, said he would fight any attempts to stop the spread of misinformation on his platform. Police revealed that Musk, who says it is up to the public to decide what was true or not, had been fighting incest charges at the time of his death. His funeral is next week. ____ This is an updated version of the article: Mark Zuckerberg – Dead at 36 – Says Social Media Sites Should Not Fact Check Posts
  3. It really is fucking weird that all you know is culture war framing for literally everything in life. Why would people want to do business with someone who welcomes no-shit nazis onto his privately owned platform?
  4. Something tells me there's a difference in those benefits depending on your pay scale. I do pretty good in bigtech but I only get 6 weeks paternity (in like, a week, holy shit holy shit!) and that's pretty standard. None of the other benefits you mention though, that would all just be insurance premiums for me.
  5. trumpco is doing all this to throw sand in the gears and delaydelaydelay. Of course trumpco could have handled this outside of court, but then it would have been neat and tidy and expedient and completely counterproductive to their desired outcomes.
  6. I don't think it's as binary as you're framing it. It's that there's more uncertainty and risk in having a child now than ever, and costs are higher than ever with median pay remaining almost stagnant. Even if it's not as much of an impediment to career growth now, having a child is still a massive burden that with little to no safety net, many couples don't feel they have the breathing room or time to responsibly have kids. So you get fewer kids, born later in the parents life
  7. I'd bet the Georgia prosecutors took note of that admission by trump's attorneys. It's not a question if trump was trying to influence the Georgia election, he thought he was just doing a democracy! That's more of a Managed Democracy thing, and we're not quite yet to Super Earth
  8. I'd say the European business culture is way more comfortable with people just going missing for a month or two at a time. Those fuckers do it every year for vacation, so absorbing an extra period of leave for a newborn is not that much extra load. Here in the States, we are 100% grindcore all the time for the shareholder and nobody takes vacation, so being gone for six weeks is a major disruption to the cultural norm.
  9. For anyone else tracking the Trek timeline's weird synchrony with our own, the conditions for the Bell Riots are really starting to ripen right on schedule for a big homeless crisis and riot in Sept 2024 https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/04/supreme-court-to-hear-case-on-criminal-penalties-for-homelessness/
  10. Didn't he leverage himself to the tits on TSLA to buy TWTR? When's his margin call gonna come in?
  11. Historically speaking, fascists really do their best work while in a comfortable jail cell surrounded by their friends. Sounds like a great fucking idea.
  12. What, you think they'll allow the prosecution to show documentary evidence? That would be first for trump to defend against
  13. It's funny seeing all the business thread posters coming here and complaining that women aren't having enough children nowadays. I've got a secret for you: it's the economy, stupid! People aren't real keen to have children when they feel like they're struggling to survive and just tread water. It doesn't make sense for most people to have children when they're already working 2 or 3 jobs with unpredictable hours and scheduling and shit pay. Sure the big economic line is going up on the chart in the sky, but most people aren't getting the benefit from it. And also - YIKES - from tkthunder soft arguing for a handmaiden's tale. Women don't have reproductive rights AND are too stupid to plan for themselves when they should have kids? They just keep slipping down the social ladder with y'all eh?
  14. Can we update the thread to "Texas tap water laced with PFAS/PFOS"? https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/16/texas-pfas-forever-chemicals-public-water-systems-epa-limit/ In Texas, 49 public water utility systems have reported surpassing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s first-ever limits for five “forever chemicals” in drinking water, according to data submitted to the federal agency. Experts say there are likely more since not all water systems have submitted their data. ... Texas water utilities that have reported one or more PFAS chemical exceeding the new federal standard: Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, and a bunch of municipal districts hit
  15. Lolwtf it's beeping at the driver, so it knows there's something there(?), and then plows through the mannequin. Can't wait to hear the spin on this one from guad lol
  16. That's the vessel that russia uses to recover sunk ships, so this is a major reduction in naval capabilities for a very long time. Crazy that she was laid down by the Tsar's navy and presently is getting targeted by modern cruise missiles
  17. It is a prototypical move of the putinist russians to cry foul about adherence to international law, something that they are flaunting every second their invasion of Ukraine continues. Always seeking to be protected by the law, but never bound by it.
  18. It's apocryphal, but Winston Churchill famously said that "you can always count on Americans to do the right thing.... After they've exhausted every other option"
  19. LMFAO a fuckin pop rivet after the fact? That's a hell of a factory bodge job to fix a major design flaw. Like, sure, that's a perfectly fine fix - but shouldn't that have been thought of before assembly lines started? If they can't even make a fucking gas pedal, what other unknown flaws are lurking?
  20. Careful, Blacklab gets big mad when you mention the Putin caucus
  21. Where I am, we break it up into 4 or 5 45 minute interviews that are intentionally planned to cover different disciplines and skills and traits, so it's at least not monotonous for the interviewee. But it is a grind, wether you're the sausage or turning the crank
  22. Love that ocean spray on the beach? It's probably full of PFAS. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/19/ocean-spray-pfas-study Ocean waves crashing on the world’s shores emit more PFAS into the air than the world’s industrial polluters, new research has found, raising concerns about environmental contamination and human exposure along coastlines. The study measured levels of PFAS released from the bubbles that burst when waves crash, spraying aerosols into the air. It found sea spray levels were hundreds of thousands times higher than levels in the water. The contaminated spray likely affects groundwater, surface water, vegetation, and agricultural products near coastlines that are far from industrial sources of PFAS, said Ian Cousins, a Stockholm University researcher and the study’s lead author. “There is evidence that the ocean can be an important source [of PFAS air emissions],” Cousins said. “It is definitely impacting the coastline.”
  23. That's how most big tech companies do interviews, one or two phone screens and then a big day of interviews across a panel of interviewers that then give feedback and assess the candidate wholsitically. It's a big pain in the ass lol. On #bothsides
  24. Good faith is a fertile ground upon which trumpism and fascism thrives. That basic presumption of civility is exploited and weaponized to create the sort of unequal justice we've been enjoying for a good long while. Trump is getting free extensions on his prima facie fraudulent bond, simply because the system is built with the expectation of people not lying to the courts face. The system is so incredibly vulnerable to garbage in; garbage out, and it's the main lever of obstructionism he routines uses. The gamesmanship doesn't guarantee unjust results, but it certainly sets the table for them.
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