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Captainant

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  1. It's interesting that they haven't shared any ballistics of other evidence to bolster their public weeping and gnashing of teeth and sharpening of knives. You'd think they'd love to share that they've determined it WAS the rifle and it WAS the person they think it was. Makes me wonder if the actual evidence is counter to their narrative that they've been shoving down everyone's throat
  2. at least then we could all address that we've ACTUALLY got an antichrist on our hands
  3. Found the guy that will report surly to the secret police
  4. Yeah about that... https://www.nbcnews.com/world/united-kingdom/email-calling-epstein-supreme-friend-adds-new-fuel-royal-scandal-rcna232705 Just days after Trump, the royals and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer largely skirted questions about Jeffrey Epstein that had threatened to complicate the sunny spectacle of his trip, the British press offered new revelations. A newly surfaced email revealed that Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, described Epstein, the disgraced financier, as a “supreme friend” despite his conviction for sex offenses. The email was published in two newspapers Sunday. It was sent by the duchess — the former wife of Prince Andrew, the Duke of York — in 2011, just weeks after she had publicly distanced herself from Epstein.
  5. You are aware of Twitter being basically just porn and bots at this point right? Create a fresh account and scroll for a bit - it's every inch of what you're describing on BlueSky. This isn't a #bothsides, but rather making sure that you're actually calibrated to reality You're describing the grift of FB "engagement" numbers. Facebook and Threads and Insta and Twitter all juice their "engagement" numbers by counting anyone who even scrolled past an ad or post for a split second. Autoplaying video? Blammo - more viewcounts! It's all been bullshit for years, and it's not been a secret. But you know, line MUST go up. So everyone happily ignores that inconvenient reality
  6. Because Milei is a trump ally and pushes the same ideology. Trump can hawk more cryptos with Milei in power
  7. I have an older Cuisinart air fryer/toaster oven that's great. I've made whole Thanksgiving sides in it, and even made actual fried chicken on the bone with it. Had it since 2018 and we use the HELL out of it https://www.cuisinart.com/air-fryer-toaster-oven-with-grill/TOA-70NAS.html Gotta get the one with actual physical knobs/dials - the digital screen ones have terrible controls
  8. So I really REALLY want people to realize that the CK """memorial""" yesterday was nothing more than a political rally. The President of the United States saying that he HATES Americans who don't like him. His top advisor was straight out of the mid-1930's germany with his rhetoric. Classic shit with "our enemies are DANGEROUS! But they're also NOTHING and CAN DO NOTHING!" gh0ba3pg9qqf1DASH_360.mp4 They weren't there for peace and reconciliation. They were there to assign enemies and coordinate their "army" against whoever he says "they" are
  9. Not sure the best thread for this video, but this resonates with other discussions about how young men fall down the alt-right pipeline Really interesting stuff about using the aestetics of critical thinking to avoid actually thinking critically, and using that as a rhetorical weapon against "woke"/SJW's/etc
  10. or one step further - they'll use trump cutting the knees out from under the USD to justify ever more investments into crypto and scamcoins
  11. Dancing upon your opponents good faith is a central tenet of his """debate""" style. He never substantively addressed his oppositions points, and relied HEAVILY on logical fallacies to form his position. He was a troll, who delighted in knowing that he could lie while his opponent stuck to good faith and facts. To quote Sarte: 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. Kirk was murdered while whatabouting gun violence to deflect onto "gang violence" (read: nonwhite violence). He literally died while arguing in bad faith. I understand your sentiment of wanting better and more open dialogue, but pinning your hopes on CK for that is like hoping Joe Camel would lead a healthcare revolution
  12. I mean, the only time Trump has won the presidency was when he ran against a woman.
  13. my bigger pet peeve is when folks aren't paying attention and form rolling roadblocks going 5-10MPH under the limit on the highway. It's ALWAYS some idiot on their phone not paying attention and just hugging the blind spot of the person in front of them, and when you try to pass them they speed up to block you. Once you finally get past them, they slow back down and go back into passive following mode, it's infuriating. I feel like there would be less rage driving and speed demons if traffic would just fucking FLOW, but people are dead set on driving in formation it feel like
  14. There's a hideous degree of mark-to-market accounting going on in the tech space too right now. For just one example, Oracle building their HUGE fuck-off datacenter in Abiline has led to massive stock value growth, but they don't have nearly enough capital to actually build the thing on time and start getting the revenue out of it that they've already marked down as "definitely going to happen". It's the same shell game of hypecycle pump and dump that led to the dotcom and housing bubbles.
  15. I do think the growth of the farcical "rugged individualism" mindset has also led to a massive rot and decay in civics in general. There's a whooooole bunch of "fuck you I got mine" in baiscally every aspect of life now, and it's exceedingly rare to see someone doing the right thing just because it's the right thing. Everything boils down to a P/L statement - even fucking schools are holding poor children to account for not being able to pay for food at a place the government makes them be. Because if he do anything with social benefit, it's SOCIALISM(!!!!) and we're gonna train people to be helpless, or some bullshit like that
  16. 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
  17. 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"
  18. That is a wonderful idea
  19. TBH that sounds about par for driving on I-10. Folks are getting worse at driving
  20. 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
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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
  24. 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
  25. 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
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