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Captainant

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  1. Our dystopia is closer to Brave New World than it is 1984 America is fucked up because we don't protect people from companies and corporations. Europe has the GDPR and meaningful punishments for violating people's data sovereignty. Here in the US, that sort of shit is table stakes for basically all of the Mag7, which put more effort into advertising and data harvesting than they do their products and outcomes. See also: enshittification thread
  2. Where'd you source this from? I google quote-searched the first line and found the exact text from a vegas tapatalk group https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/vegasexperts/politics-t16311-s3920.html Seems like a weird thing to drag up in the current context of the government unilaterally threatening national broadcasting licenses because "they're mean to me"
  3. That is a wonderful idea
  4. TBH that sounds about par for driving on I-10. Folks are getting worse at driving
  5. Four US citizens murdered by Israel, three of them children. Must have been terrorists in training or something according to Israels big Azure-powered AI targeting tools? https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/21/middleeast/israeli-strike-lebanon-us-citizens-killed-latam-intl This is fucking wild. A good friend of mine just moved back to the US from Lebanon last year with his wife and kid. They're US citizens but have a shitload of family still over there, and got married in Lebanon a few years back. I'm soooooo thankful he's out of the crosshairs because Israel don't care
  6. I actively avoided it and have only gotten snippets from surly too, but holy shit it seems like every platform was pushing it. YoutubeTV was recommeding multi-boxes of NFL games and the CK memorial, which is just ridiculous.
  7. Not sure I agree with your police work there, Lou. Unless this is some different Christianity that espouses hate, which would REALLY explain some recent developments.
  8. The crazy thing with all this pomp and circumstance for the dead racist is that if the shooter had shot up the college, nobody would give a shit at all and we would be onto the next thing already
  9. Well the H1B Proclamation from the King says that he and he alone may grant exemptions, so it's a "kiss the ring" kind of move imo
  10. The reality is that the judiciary is an arm of the Republican party. At least the highest and most powerful court that settles disputes is completely captured
  11. For real, my FIL used to say that his "daddy was a Democrat back when they were good". When I pointed out that his daddy's party change happened when the Civil Rights Act passed, he stopped being so proud to say that. Completely oblivious and never thought about that aspect but repeated it for years
  12. Have the day you voted for, shitbirds https://finance.yahoo.com/news/once-generation-economic-crisis-rural-164404261.html A survey released by the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) on Wednesday showed that 46% believe the U.S. is on the brink of a farm crisis, and another 33% said maybe. Meanwhile, about two-thirds said they are more concerned about their financial situation compared to a year ago, with 58% postponing equipment purchases, 38% reducing fertilizer applications and 22% looking for more off-farm income. “These findings point to a once-in-a-generation problem for the agricultural economy,” said NCGA Chief Economist Krista Swanson said in a statement. “The survey findings suggest that this crisis could have a long reach, affecting every area of the economy, as farmers are less likely to make purchases and will certainly make budget cuts that could affect their local communities.” The bleak survey results mirrored similarly downbeat readings in the Purdue University-CME Group Ag Economy Barometer Index, which fell 10 points in August to 125. A subindex on expectations for the future dropped 16 points to 123, the lowest since last September. That’s as crop prices have plunged from their 2022 peak, while production costs remain near record highs.
  13. Everything that was missing for the last couple of weeks. It's about damn time! 🤘🤘
  14. 5TD'S with <100yds of offense combined on them lmfao. The defense deserves most the credit for that games score, and we can't expect to get gifts like that in conference play. Stoked to see Arch shake some monkeys off his back. We need him to be good.
  15. Lol Supremes fucking LOVE counter-factual shit! Cake shop out front shoulda told ya
  16. Down to what, though? A decade ago I had a killer 2/2 with a room mate near Mueller that was only $1500/mo. That peaked up to nearly 3x, but I doubt that it's come down to even close to 2x
  17. Is that like when incredulity accused me of being an "antifa fascist"? I don't see it as building a safe space - that would ACTUALLY be Elon buying Twitter and changing its algorithm to amplify conservative voices and diminish progressive voices. It's a perfectly reasonable response to just not play the rigged game and go to a different platform. Twitter IS the safe space. Elon changes Grok every time it demonstrates it's liberal bias for facts, or strays from the Party line for fucks sake lol. I don't see what anyone would have to gain to stay on Twitter and be the rabbit for the dogs chasing around the track there.
  18. Emergency powers.... Being used to seize power from a democratic government?
  19. You're ignoring her other major point of it being actual people and not just socks and bots, but go off king
  20. It's moreso that we have no more social gathering spaces that are real, unless you go to a church. Third spaces don't exist anymore, and just hanging out will get the cops called on you for loitering. Kids don't have freedom to go explore and play and ride a bike on their own, parents will get CPS called on them for letting a 12yo go to a park on their own. So, they go online. And parents (most of them at least) don't know how to participate in that space with their kids, so they are at the whims of the algorithm and the multinational for profit entities that literally profit off of outrage and hate. That's the playground for kids today. It's not a shock that it's producing some fucked up kids.
  21. I'm really curious to see how this is gonna impact one of my customers - they have half their team flying to and from India at any given time. One of their directors also told me about how much they enjoy taking colloidal silver to address cold symptoms, so maybe they're all paid up already
  22. The fascists get their messaging aligned sooooo fast because they don't give a shit about facts and reality. And since their messaging is aligned, useful and uncritical idiots latch onto it as the most likely explanation. Then it becomes the "common knowledge" even if it's diametrically opposed to reality. That's how you get DT goons crashing out when confronted with reality, Johnny Sack/Frank Drebin put on a great show this last go-round
  23. It's probably the multiple news articles about their cancellation page going down from too much traffic. They've really stepped in it and the SGA and WGU are pissed at them too. Apparently they tried to make Kimmel apologize and donate to TPUSA and he refused. What a fucking world
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