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Captainant

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  1. Excuse me, are we back to the Burisma russian propaganda story? What the fuck is going on lol
  2. Reminds me of when the AI generated Seinfeld was running on Twitch
  3. Well I'm sorry George Soros killed your friend, or however you're choosing to internalize this. Seriously, sorry for your loss. Didn't mean to derail the thread
  4. This is literally not true, Soros donated to Ogg's opponent. https://thetexan.news/elections/2024/soros-funded-pac-hidalgo-support-democratic-primary-challenger-to-harris-county-district-attorney-kim-ogg/article_6cbc9ccc-b70c-11ee-a233-7f288b1a7577.html
  5. You should be upset at the state of Texas for not creating more judgeships to handle the increased case load that comes with population growth. The state literally cannot hold these people. Your antisemitic meme and frustration towards the DA is misplaced, they're just at the bottom of the hill that the shit flows down
  6. Shareholders and billionaires cannot and will not learn this. That greed and hunger is what drives the constantly escalating growth targets. It's infuriating that it's only the wage earners that must learn to say "enough"
  7. My guy, earning six figures (in Texas at least) is not any type of """slavery""". And miss me with complaining about taxes. I paid more in taxes this last year than my pretax income was when I started working in tech. We have the easy version of this where we don't have to worry about keeping a roof over our heads or feeding or children, or looking for last minute childcare because your schedule changed and if you don't make it you're fired. You think WE'VE got it rough?
  8. I'm suggesting that """sustained and metered growth""" ad infinitum is not a healthy or sustainable business strategy. It ends in the current state that we are discussing in this thread and that you seemingly cannot comprehend. In biology when something grows constantly and never finds equilibrium, we tend to call that a cancer. The promises of trickle down have been a lie. Despite more billionaires than ever, we don't have proportionally more jobs and better pay for their workers.
  9. https://www.utilitydive.com/news/ercot-battery-capacity-rule-NPRR-1186-state-of-charge-SOC/697653/ Unless ERCOT puts rules in place to warp the economics of battery storage, of course
  10. It's more that the supermajority of links being bandied about this thread are from accounts that were CERTAIN the 2020 election was STOLLEN and that COVID was fake. Idk about y'all, but I think it's important to know what sort of past reporting and inaccuracies a """citizen journalist"""" has in the same way I think it's important for credentialed journalists to stay accountable to their past reporting. It's a big part of why I try to link to journalistic sources and real reporting when available. Does in-the-moment Twitter reporting fill some of that breaking news gap for emergent events? Absolutely. But the folks being linked here aren't at any of the events they're """reporting""" on - they're just stoking the outrage fires to superlative effect. Especially when there's not much new being posted and it's more "RECENTLY UNCOVERED SHOCKING FOOTAGE FROM A WEEK AGO!!!" that frequently misrepresents or overstates what actually happened in the video
  11. To that end, you're getting dangerously close to talking about systemic issues that are causing specific demographics to have a more difficult time achieving an ideal child raising environment. When the parents have less and less breathing room to survive because their job(s) is (are) squeezing them, the children feel that too. When I was a kid, my dad getting WorldComm'd still stands out in my memory as a significantly stressful and traumatic period for my family. Nowadays it's not scandal and fraud driving the pain, but layoffs and arbitrary growth targets bringing the pain and stealing the stability that many of us enjoyed as children. If we want happier children, it would probably go a long long way to reduce the uncertainty and churn that's endemic to being a modern wage earner. More than a couple days leadtime on schedule changes, actual benefits provided and not held just a few hours a week out of reach, less 1099 contract work with easy to fuck up taxes, etc etc etc. It just is much less friendly to be a wage earner now than it was when our parents were raising us.
  12. No no no, we shouldn't be funding battery storage! We should be writing checks to crypto miners from China so that we can induce demand to induce supply! Why on earth would Texas take a direct step towards addressing a problem when they could instead enrich a business with public funds and hope for a second or third order desired outcome?
  13. lmfao I clicked on the profile and OF COURSE this dude on twitter is hosting tucker carlson conspiracy memes from russia seriously dude, where the fuck do you find these people? 8chan?
  14. Strictly speaking, as a member of UIL, Anderson HS is """UT affiliated""" That said, Hartzell and the Johnny Sacks of the world are using rhetoric that would lead one to believe that some flown in protesters are getting arrested at UT. Austin residents going to a protest in a State-designated free speech area in Austin seems like a normal thing to me.
  15. It seems a little disingenuous to call an ACC student "non UT affiliated" as a means to paint them as outside agitators, considering UT is a major cultural focal point for Austin as a city. Its one hell of a weasel statement to hang your hat on by Hartzell
  16. Nobody could predict these 90 degree temperatures in MAY!!! It's a completely unforeseeable turn of events in Texas
  17. Web browser cookies are nicely handled with Firefox's tab containers for browser data. Makes a nice little sandbox for each session that undercuts the mechanism entirely
  18. You forget, if it's a public program that benefits poor people it's socialism. If it's a public program that benefits corporations and billionaires, it's free market capitalism
  19. They're applying the same braindead "if it's not an EXACT fuckin match we do nothing" logic that is used to determine if a cop murdering a dude should be prosecuted or not. Authoritarians are looking out for Bossman.
  20. This sentiment applies equally across a number of industries, namely healthcare and medicine
  21. And to be frank, playing in this legal gray area such that it confounds prosecution through uncertainty is EXACTLY trumpco's MO. He abuses and exploits safeguards against tyrannical prosecution to the point where he handcuffs the any action against him from the jump. It's largely why it's taken more than three fuckin years to get his orange ass into a courtroom. He kicks up enough dust and silt that justice has to stop and clean it all up for fear of future appeal due to lack of cleanliness. Trump makes the mess and then gets the benefit of delay or just getting away with it, simply because it takes more effort to clean up lies and bullshit than it does to make lies and bullshit
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