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Captainant

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  1. the only way to guarantee the market doesn't wake up to reality is to bet that it WILL wake up to reality. Once you run out of money paying premiums, then it'll wake up
  2. Sorry. Just a little tired of seeing chief executives get away with lying to the public and us all dangerously sweeping it all under the rug in the name of unity. We're all hearing so many lies, we're collectively losing the ability to recognize the truth.
  3. I think tearing out the rose garden, paving it over, and replacing it with a $200,000,000 gilded ballroom is a much more effective and thoughtful "fuck you, you fucking motherfuckers" than renaming the Kenedy center, imo
  4. "IF" tariffs take effect, amirite incredulity?
  5. birthright citizenship is officially on the chopping block. The President of the United States is using the same mechanism used to pass slave status across generations, only applied to immigration status. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/07/trump-birthright-citizenship-supreme-court-ice-maternity-ward.html To that end, USCIS declared flatly that the children of immigrants who are “unlawfully present” will “no longer be U.S. citizens at birth.” They will, instead, inherit the status of their parents, rendering them detainable and deportable as infants and throughout their lives. There is no indication that the government will provide some grace period before snatching up and imprisoning this new underclass of noncitizen babies; they are apparently subject to arrest from the moment of birth. ... The next section of the memo explains how the administration plans to deny citizenship to children born in the United States to parents who have “lawful but temporary” presence here. Trump’s order itself clarifies that kids whose parents have “a student, work, or tourist visa” would no longer be eligible for citizenship. But USCIS went much further, laying out a dozen other categories of immigrants whose offspring would be ensnared by the policy—even though their parents reside in the country legally. Its list includes immigrants who have received “withholding of removal” under the Convention Against Torture, immigrants granted Temporary Protected Status, and Dreamers protected by DACA. The agency left no stone unturned: It even declared that children of Micronesian parents fall under the order, even though Micronesians have every right to live and work in the U.S. under a 1986 treaty. (That treaty constituted a small reparation after the U.S. tested atomic weapons on Micronesia for more than a decade.) How will the federal government know whether a baby’s parents have “lawful but temporary” status, rendering the child ineligible for citizenship? USCIS does not say, but there is only one possibility: The government will begin to demand to see every parent’s legal status before acknowledging their child as a U.S. citizen. Only babies with at least one parent who is a citizen or green-card holder will be recognized as American. All others will be excluded at birth.
  6. please go away, GRUhorn. I don't know why you waste your time making account after account on a board that doesn't want you around.
  7. he's the elected County Judge and chief executive for the county. His lies are going to lead to more Texans getting killed by avoidable disasters. There WAS ample warning. Don't excuse his chickenshittery. His shit planning and maladministration directly led to worsening this already titanically bad disaster. Doing nothing to change their practices only ensures a repeat performance as our climate worsens and becomes more extreme.
  8. 1) rage posting at 3AM is totally normal. 2) I've posted actual journalism and 3rd party investigative findings that support the 60K death toll number. I'm specifically not relying solely on hamas numbers. 3) your inability to talk about the IDF's genocide without foaming at the mouth and shouting HAMAS!!! is extremely aggy.
  9. It's mostly consumed via evaporative cooling, so there's unfortunately not much to recycle. It's actually much more energy efficient to remove energy by phase change, which is nice at least. It is pretty fucked that they're drawing down on aquifer-fed municipal sources to cool data centers though
  10. Some of their testimony runs counter to previously established facts. ABC also has reporting, no paywall: https://abcnews.go.com/US/kerr-county-texas-lead-emergency-management-official-asleep/story?id=124237644 "We received no alerts suggesting an extreme weather event was imminent [referring to July 3]. For context, we received hundreds of alerts during the summer. This past July, we had over 80. My first indication that this storm was different came when I woke up to texts and calls from Chief Kidd, Sheriff Leitha and Dalton Rice," Kerr County Judge Rob Kelly testified. "We now know that by that time, the flooding had already overtaken Camp Mystic, part of the hills in La Junta and several other upriver camps, something I could never have imagined. This extreme weather event was not forecast by the National Weather Service in a timely manner. Based on the volume and tone of the messages, I recognize that something more serious and potentially tragic was unfolding," Kelly continued. ... Alicia Baker, shaking with emotion and holding back tears, described the horrors of losing her daughter and parents. Baker told the committee she had spent her summers on the Guadalupe River since 1990, and her parents owned a cabin there for nearly 20 years. Baker described the harrowing hours of not knowing the fate of her daughter and parents. "I waited there for over 12 hours for news, and literally no one could tell you anything at all," Baker said. "Literally, no one was in charge." She added, "We need to do better for the people in this community, for the people that are suffering."
  11. Those LLMs ain't gonna train themselves, and crypto ain't gonna mine itself
  12. it is mind-bendingly insane to me that people are sharing such close intimate details with a chatbot application owned by google, or microsoft, or ANY company that harvests userdata like this. There is a shocking lack of digital literacy, not to mention plain-old literacy
  13. but at least he got to own the libz and fight WOKE
  14. The market can be irrational waaaaay longer than you or I can
  15. Never believe that fascists are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The fascists have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
  16. Well you see, Chief Justice Roberts in his infinite wisdom said that "racism is solved" and so we didn't need the Voting Rights Act anymore, which also happened to do away with pesky rules and checks like you're suggesting
  17. you're telling me hamas still has a leadership structure in place after the IDF has killed >60,000 """hamas members"""? I thought all of the deaths were justified killings of hamas members, so there could hardly be any left, right? You are again asserting that this group of beseiged and genocided palestinians has no ability but to put hamas in charge. Hamas has been in charge because once they gained the levers of power they made it so no more change could occur. That strangle hold has been broken, I would say. It's just that now instead of relenting, the IDF is using it as an excuse to murder people at breadlines.
  18. Painting every Palestinian as "hamas" is pretty fucked and going to keep getting in the way of ever actually talking about this. Acknowledgment of a Palestinian state doesn't mean putting hamas in charge. To the contrary, they haven't held an election in over 20 years! The Palestinian people have been protesting against hamas for ages, and have suffered brutal and oppressive crackdowns at the hands of hamas for their peaceful protests. Granting a people local governance and freeing them from hamas does not mean "rewarding hamas with state recognition". It's pretty fucking racist to say that any group of brown muslims in Palestine is "hamas". Is every white christian person from Alambama a klansman?
  19. Giuffre spent the rest of her life speaking against sexual abuse and human trafficking. 2 months after her suicide, the President of the United States of America is speaking about her as if he owned her, and was mad another pedophile stole her
  20. Wowee! It turns out DOGE didn't save any fucking money and destroyed a bunch of public services and ended the careers of tens of thousands of public servants
  21. It's almost like elmo grew up as an heir to apartheid or something
  22. this is the genAI platform that is getting fat government contracts to replace """swampy bureaucrats"
  23. Ike WAS the bureaucrat that trump hates. His mastery of logistics is what saved the world from fascism. So, through that lens it makes sense why trump hates those sorts of people
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