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Captainant

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  1. What a goddamn episode holy shit what the fuck
  2. The trump administration promised to invoke the insurrection act within 90 days to "obtain complete operational control of the southern border". Deploying an AEGIS DDG will certainly fuckin' further that particular mission.
  3. But I have been assured repeatedly that price gouging never happens
  4. Britain issues a travel warning for US https://www.newsweek.com/britain-issues-travel-warning-us-deportations-2047878 The U.S. has a range of entry requirements, including needing an Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) approval for short-term visits under the Visa Waiver Program. Failure to meet these requirements can result in travelers being denied entry, detained, or deported. British citizens planning trips to the United States are encouraged to regularly check the FCDO website for the latest travel advice and seek guidance if they are unsure about their visa status. The guidance comes after Rebecca Burke, a 28-year-old U.K. citizen, was detained and deported from the U.S. and returned to the U.K. on March 18, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Burke, a cartoonist, had been backpacking across the United States, sharing her journey on Instagram, where she posted about her stays in Portland and Seattle. Her father, Paul Burke, voiced concern in a Facebook post, explaining that his daughter had no criminal record and was on her way to Canada when she was denied entry due to an "incorrect visa." She was then refused reentry into the U.S., classified as an "illegal alien," and detained by ICE.
  5. That's kind of a favorite gag of mine in the John Wick movies. Like, EVERYONE in Central Park is apparently an assassin and gets the excommunicado notification at the end of the first movie
  6. if you're on iphone, you can click the lock button 5 times to "secure lock" it and require a password to get in. Or just a good ol' fashioned reboot whenever the cops ask to see your phone. It's non-destructive and complies with their request so they can get bent
  7. Really really dumb. And not backed by any facts whatsoever. Classic GOP.
  8. Holy shit that is terrifying how fast the fire spread. On residential lawns no less
  9. Posted in the rain thread ironically, but should have been here: San Jacinto county fire is 10% contained at 2000 acres going, per the last update https://share.watchduty.org/i/44281?ts=1742445022000 Stay safe woodlands and kingwood surlyites
  10. He's almost like a MAGA derka when you put it that way
  11. 3:30 AM on a Tuesday is less of a blitz and more of a 3 man front with everyone else dropping back lol
  12. They grow by slapping buzzword labels onto their products and services. See: blockchain, AI, et al. And they ALWAYS restructure debt and reduce opex/SGA costs because hey, keep costs low right? Who cares if that cost center or loss leader was holding up a customer base, or actually creating revenue greater than the expenses?? CUT THEM COSTS WE NEED TO GROW!! I see that sort of thinking everywhere in the wake of PE buyouts and wherever a consultancy has sunk in it's fangs. It's really more that not everything needs to grow and be a big business. That's like arguing an ecosystem should only have apex predators and no small animals and bugs or flora. The rush to growth for the sake of growth has been the direct cause of sooooo many otherwise healthy businesses to blow up and implode under their own weight. Businesses should stop acting like it's a supremacy sprint out there. That supremacy impulse is driven by PE pukes coming in and NEEDING to get their money back now that they put it into your business.
  13. It's windier than fuck out in Houston. Wildfire is burning in San Jacinto county https://abc13.com/post/san-jacinto-wildfire-crews-battle-fire-0-contained-sam-houston-national-forest-200-acres-burned/16052624/ 300 homes threatened so far Edit: up to 2000 acres and 10% contained https://share.watchduty.org/i/44281?ts=1742445022000
  14. Upon more reflection, I'd like to correct my earlier statement - PE isn't dead-focused on next quarter; it's focused solely on growth. Growth at all costs. It's that empty reflex to do nothing BUT grow - not improve the service or product UNLESS it will lead to growth. It's that shitty mindset that turns everything into a mini Glengarry Glenn Ross with high pressure and stakes for no reason but to hopefully squeeze another morsel of growth. In biology, a thing that grows forever unbounded is just cancer.
  15. uhhhhh..... A flamethrower? Probably more worldbuilding about "the table", the description said it takes place during John Wick 3: Parabellum. It's really cool that we get a posthumous performance from Lance Reddick since they shot his scenes before he passed
  16. Ok, an actual trailer was posted now. It's on the official Lionsgate Movies YT channel so I'm pretty sure it's not AI slop
  17. Totally normal free market activities
  18. Future justice Aileen Cannon will fix any judicial problems that trump is facing, duhhhhhh
  19. You aren't thinking this through. The answer will obviously be a public option for car insurance, backed by the US government. With preferred rates for made in America cars like Tesla's of course
  20. Elon is literally building a private army to do his bidding.
  21. We are hurtling towards a feudalism-based system again. Ultra-wealthy elites buy up and hold and own property, who in turn seek rents from the people who will live in/on that property and generate wealth through their labor. PE buying up housing and turning around and renting it to families, rather than those families getting the benefit of owning the home and growing their wealth is an extremely salient example of that behavior. If you want to be able to rent the nice house, you'd better get to work peasant. You certainly aren't gonna be able to outbid them to buy a nice house if you're just a wage earner.
  22. It's moreso that you think that the above was a good move. Because the above is what a fascist shithole looks like.
  23. That's allot of words to say "enshittification". PE forces a business or entity to stop caring about quality, experience, history, etc etc, in favor of profits and profits alone. It reduces EVERYTHING to dollars. Society needs more than just dollars to be healthy.
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