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Captainant

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  1. Betting on that stupidity is what won them the white house
  2. Bro don't you want their shareholders to get the GAINZZZZZ they have an absolute right to?? Are you some kind of pinko?
  3. Tell me you work in finance without telling me. As Bozo nicely outlined, that guy is almost certainly doing more than what his job title says - plus - he holds the institutional knowledge to fix things when they break. He's an insurance policy against operational interruptions, not merely a cost center to hold in contempt as you frame it. Fire that guy, and find out how much he was the lynchpin for
  4. That probably has more to do with the AppleTax being found to be an illegal act worthy of antitrust action. When they don't get to harvest 30% of EVERY transaction carried out on an iPhone they're invariably gonna raise prices. It really is wild how much their business model relies on just seeking rents from their users that already paid over a grand for their device
  5. There's a lot of Peter Principle executives making tech buying decisions that don't even know how to connect their headphones to their laptop or get their phone on the wifi. There's an incredible degree of blind leading the blind in the C-suite, or simply deferring their own decisions to whatever management consultants they hired
  6. Look dude, renewables are WOKE. Rex out front shoulda told ya.
  7. My guy, were you asleep during the entire January 6 crisis? Sure a few token lawyers have been disbarred but NONE of them have faced more serious sanction for the lies before the court and weaponization (that ones for you, Johnny) of the legal system against their political enemies. It's WILD hearing lawyers on surly repeat the trumpist line of "well it didn't work out, so no harm no foul" with regard to how badly the justice system was used and abused. Motherfuckers, the fact they even HAD an at-bat to try is the entire problem. Miss me with the concern trolling over how the differentially applied rules that let the fascists do fascism are what separates us decent folks from the fascists.
  8. Side note - it's extra funny that twice the IP lawyer is taking this stand while the our entire IP law framework is being undermined and strangled by the trump admin. Gotta love that extra dose of irony
  9. It hasn't been blatant because up until now the supreme court had been pretty overtly batting for trump. Now that they are not asking "how high" when he tells them to jump, he is ignoring them. I do not share your faith in our legal system to address a wrong that it has been enabling for decades.
  10. Pretty funny how one of the nation states funding hamas and Islamic extremism is just straight up bribing POTUS at this point
  11. It means the """free market""" business board regulars are about to decide they're ok with price controls all of a sudden
  12. I've got a DS920+ and it's been running great for 5 years now. Last year I upgraded my 4x10TB setup to 4x18TB and it handled the drive upgrade flawlessly over the course of about a week rebuilding drive by drive. Synology is definitely doing some pretty crappy things lately what with trying to force lock-in to their drives on new Synology units, but I've been a happy end user of mine for some time. It runs a dozen or so local network services in containers for me, and that little Celeron handles it just fine. Not to mention QuickSync for transcoding - I'm shocked that the little 85W brick is able to power the whole stack
  13. Hah I'll be damned thats real https://www.si.com/mlb/pope-leo-xiv-photo-chicago-white-sox-world-series-game-2005 At least SI's content mill is reporting it
  14. Captainant

    LBGTQ

    moderation works, whodathunkit!
  15. At least we'll get more Cecily Strong on Weekend Update
  16. Shit, have you heard of the shit they'll do just over a fence?
  17. Unrestrained corruption and oligarchy. Lovely. Say, where'd all the people thrilled about his free speech absolutism go?? https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-pushes-nations-facing-tariffs-approve-musks-starlink-washington-post-reports-2025-05-07/
  18. that's a bad headline - another hornet has not been lost. The "third" hornet is the one that just had the bad landing. First was the Gettysburg shootdown, second was the roll-off on the elevator, and third was this one
  19. going to jail for vandalism spray paint would be pretty outrageous IMO. It's fuckin' stainless steel! Sandblast that shit and send it back out - it's EXTREMELY HARDCORE(!!!!) Dude should 100% be on the hook for remediation and any fines though
  20. Big trouble in Inner Sphere (shout out to /r/Battletech) s6hh8c82hbze1DASH_480.mp4
  21. Sell off the national parks so that our oligarchs can get more tax breaks. Weeeeew! https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-07/republicans-to-pay-for-trump-tax-cuts-with-sales-of-public-land
  22. The imps said they needed the Kalkite for coating "reactor lenses", the scene is used in two of the three "previously on" bits. My thinking is that we know Kyber is used as the focusing lens in a lightsaber to make the blade, and we also know they're able to handle the immense output from the main reactor of the Death Star.
  23. I have a called shot for next week Man the next morning and I'm still buzzing, that was one hell of a trio of episodes
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