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Captainant

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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. The Army and USN are actually testing a phalanx replacement that uses focused microwaves, first field test in 2026 https://news.usni.org/2024/03/27/navy-to-test-microwave-anti-drone-weapon-at-sea-in-2026
  5. I'd happily pay processing fees on both my treefiddy and burnt ends subs if that were an option
  6. Smarter Every Day has an excellent video about the current "moon mission" and it's planning shortcomings. After his talk (over a year ago now) NASA even amended their mission plan to address unaccounted orbital refuelings from Starship to Starship. 18 refuelings PER MOON TRIP, and they haven't even successfully demonstrated orbital flight, much less orbital cryogenic refueling
  7. It's the new-age, closed source IRC chat slash teamspeak. It's far more functionality than that, but socially it's the same. Discord is a collection of chat rooms (aka "servers") that can curate and moderate independently of eachother and act as micro-communities. It's effectively message boards for genZ, except they're far more closed off and insular and move at a significantly faster pace. My buddies use discord for voice chat while gaming, or when we do our D&D game remotely on the rare occasion. There's a surly discord too, but it's mainly just there for people to chirp at imma when surly goes down
  8. ACTUAL news update: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/no-evidence-charlie-kirk-shooting-left-wing-groups-rcna232513 The federal investigation into the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk has yet to find a link between the alleged shooter, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, and left-wing groups on which President Donald Trump and his administration have pledged to crack down after the killing, three sources familiar with the probe told NBC News. One person familiar with the federal investigation said that “thus far, there is no evidence connecting the suspect with any left-wing groups.” “Every indication so far is that this was one guy who did one really bad thing because he found Kirk’s ideology personally offensive,” this person continued. In addition, two of the people familiar with the probe said it may be difficult to charge Robinson at the federal level for Kirk’s killing, while the third source said there is still an expectation that some kind of federal charge is filed against Robinson. Factors that have complicated the effort to bring charges at the federal level include that Robinson, a Utah resident, did not travel from out of state; Kirk was shot during an open campus debate at Utah Valley University. Additionally, Kirk himself is not a federal officer or elected official.
  9. Yeah the bullet casing inscribing are 100% just shitposts with no meaning besides nihilism
  10. Holy shit, ICE has hundreds of people missing after closing "Alligator Alcatraz" https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article312042943.html For the hundreds of men who were detained at Alligator Alcatraz, entering the gates of the makeshift migrant detention center in the Everglades meant exiting the labyrinthine but familiar federal immigration process and entering what several immigration attorneys described as an alternate system where the normal rules don’t apply. One Guatemalan man detained at the tent site was accidentally deported to Guatemala before a scheduled bond hearing, his attorney said, reminiscent of the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador. A 35-year-old Cuban man could not be located at the California detention facility where U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said they had sent him, leaving his family and attorney frantically trying to determine where he was for more than a week, they said. As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald. The Herald had obtained the names from two detainee rosters. Around 800 detainees showed no record on ICE’s online database. More than 450 listed no location and only instructed the user to “Call ICE for details” — a vague notation that attorneys said could mean that a detainee is still being processed, in the middle of a transfer between two sites or about to be deported.
  11. The riot cops teakettling students was the first bite at the apple, and it was cheered on. This is just further down the road
  12. What was the officer's name? I had no idea about that small detail in our history
  13. On steam you can set whatever display name you want that's separate from your account login, they're probably referring to that. It's used frequently for shitposting and goofs and roleplaying in games
  14. Man the entire state of Texas would have to be flooded and then frozen solid for Cruz to take a vacation that big
  15. The other notable thing is that KL2's payment for a no-show job was more than all their other celebrity endorsements COMBINED, for folks like Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert Downey Jr!
  16. nevermind the deepseek team training their R1 model used just $300k in compute to train https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-deepseek-says-its-hit-ai-model-cost-just-294000-train-2025-09-18/ The AI "market" is really the high-end silicon market vis-a-vis NVidia, and they're just about at saturation, as EZ points out. And it turns out there's a LOT of optimization opportunity, rather than just throwing literal billions at a problem
  17. lets gooooo Houston Energy Corporation!!!
  18. The more detailed version is that social media is engineered to spread lies faster than truth. That is the basic mechanism thats used by oligarchs and despots to shape public opinion and get people to believe things that aren't true, like eating dogs and cats as Charlie Kirk led millions to deeply believe and be afraid of
  19. Focus groups and consultants send their regards! Fucking idiot leadership that's scared to do anything that isn't co-signed by a million dollar consulting engagement
  20. Daily Show is hosting a Nobel Prize winner to speak about her efforts in protecting freedom of expression https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2021/ressa/facts/ She has really strongly laid out how social media and being too online is a big part of what gets us here.
  21. Maria Ressa is giving one heck of an interview on how we got here https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2021/ressa/facts/ She won her Nobel Prize for protecting freedom of expression in the midst of a fascist dictator takeover
  22. Because your bosses have a sanctioned monopoly on if you die or not? Fucks sake dude it's not hard to figure out why a solely for-profit entity is extracting more wealth from sick people
  23. Man if only Mr Robot had that as a plot device lol. That show was INCREDIBLE when it was coming out - they even wrote fresh zero-day exploits into the show like the android hack on the FBI. Some of those episodes in Elliot's mind were wild, that show is an all-timer for me
  24. Daily Show is gonna be putting on some good stuff tonight, they opened to an all-gold stage and called it a "state-approved show"
  25. They're literally just following through on Project 2025. The FCC chair is even shitposting about it. Demonizing and persecuting trans people has been a tentpole of the Administration for a long while. When a fascist tells you what they plan to do if they get power, BELIEVE THEM
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