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Captainant

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  1. It sounds like they're trying to steal your car from you
  2. the last line TLDR is how I feel seeing futureman and 52-80 chirp for unintentionally misgendering (I think?) the Minnisota mass shooter. They're just trolling looking for a response, using a subject that they're actively cheering on getting worse
  3. no no no, many people are saying! Since so many people are saying, it MUST be true! So many people wouldn't be saying if it weren't true!!!
  4. I don't think it's a malevolent outside force building chatrooms and online spaces to transmute children into different genders to troll parents. That's fucking ridiculous. I think the social destruction of third spaces (and places in general to just exist without work) is what's driving people into the conspiracy scenario you frame it as. There's nowhere to hang out that ISN'T online for many kids. I agree that this is the most likely scenario - but one step further, kids like to try things on. They'll proclaim that pizza is their favorite food one day, and be mad that they got pizza the next. I think much of the energy from children wrt/ "I'm trans!" is much the same, only adults are taking them seriously rather than as a object of play that it is.
  5. ftfy
  6. I genuinely didn't know the gender of the shooter, I was more concerned with the hate and firepower they put on display - but tip of the cap to you for correcting me. First time I've seen you actually try, so well done Or is this just a troll bit?
  7. you're citing pandemic numbers to assert that crime is rising after the pandemic? Also, your chart shows a decrease in homicide from 2021->2022, indicating a reducing trend so your chart doesn't support your position
  8. Quoting from Helobious in another thread Dude was off his rocker and was concoction of insanity and edgelord shit from the dregs of the internet
  9. She's been formally fired by MAGA now https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/27/cdc-director-susan-monarez-.html?msockid=0fb9a436d9bd6ddb12e3b10dd8a56cba "Susan Monarez is not aligned with the President's agenda of Making America Healthy Again," White House Spokesman Kush Desai said in a statement to NBC News. "Since Susan Monarez refused to resign despite informing [Health and Human Services Department] leadership of her intent to do so, the White House has terminated Monarez from her position with the CDC." The statement comes hours after attorney Mark Zaid said he was representing Monarez and that she had not actually been fired yet or stepped down, adding that she would not resign. "When CDC Director Susan Monarez refused to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives and fire dedicated health experts, she chose protecting the public over serving a political agenda," Zaid said in a statement. "For that, she has been targeted." Earlier on Wednesday, HHS said in a post on X that "Monarez is no longer director" of the agency. Monarez, a longtime federal government scientist, was sworn in on July 31. She is the first CDC director to be confirmed by the Senate following a new law passed during the pandemic that required lawmakers to approve nominees for the role.
  10. Next you're gonna tell me there's a vanishingly small percentage of trans people in sports too, which wouldn't make any sense given how many laws have been passed on that particular concern
  11. Does nobody else see that this is building and manufacturing consent to completely do away with the representative democratic system "since #bothsides are doing it"?
  12. ... Finish the sentence, I know you can do it! ... Because there is not enough availability in the courts to indict and try people on a speedy basis, as is their right. That limitation isn't the DA's fault, but whomever has been controlling the state for decades. With that said, sounds like you're trying to CR the thread, should probably move to a more appropriate forum lest you upset chickensandwich Gotta say, the way this has advanced from grievance rhetoric to political attack to "actual issue" is shaped EXACTLY like how the election truthers and antivaxxers in 2020 shaped their argument too. Concern troll enough to get "many people are saying and concerned..." to manufacture consent for literally anything. The exact same playbook is being ran in parallel right now at the CDC, BLS and the Federal Reserve with
  13. It's crazy how many mistrials and "trial date too far away" happens leading to these sorts of outcomes - it's a consistent element in all of the stories that y'all link to. I would think that addressing that systemic lack of capacity and ability at the justice system level would fix the things that cause you so much concern. It's wild our state hasn't expanded the number of judicial benches in decades, while our population has doubled. But then again, manufacturing boogymen so you can blame intentional systemic issues on them is productive too
  14. Really some incredible ground game going on here to set the table to continue to dehumanize trans people, and ignore the holy shit number of things wrong in the shooters head. He was a trans nazi that was pro-russia? Yeah definitely just because trans, definitely nothing else wrong there.
  15. It's wild seeing all the buy signals for NVDA, they have way down forecasts on sales looking forward. I've posted on the chatGPT thread, but the whole LLM game is horrifically unprofitable despite our entire economy riding on that one thing
  16. Hah wow this is the same shit as Linda Cook with the Fed. She has neither been fired nor resigned, but the State media apparatus is acting like it nonetheless
  17. Probably has to do with their planned announcement of the "cause of autism" https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5471327-autism-epidemic-kennedy-trump/ I bet a $50 burnt ends donation they're going to kneecap vaccines across the country under the guise of fighting autism. Inb4 the usual suspects chime in to say we're overreacting
  18. And past being too comfortable, it is socially unacceptable to empirically observe the state of things. "Just be happy about the football season" kind of shit
  19. Taking over the trains is just jumping the shark now, right? inb4 "at least the trains run on time" https://apnews.com/article/trump-duffy-union-station-amtrak-management-8c1f5d00ab7591f3f021cf4a9ee8d8e2 WASHINGTON (AP) — Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Wednesday that his department is taking management of Union Station, the main transportation hub in Washington, away from Amtrak, in another example of how the federal government is exerting its power over the nation’s capital. Duffy made the announcement in a statement before he joined Amtrak President Roger Harris at Union Station for the launch of the NextGen Acela, the rail service’s new high-speed train. The secretary said Union Station, located within walking distance of the U.S. Capitol, had “fallen into disrepair” when it should be a “point of pride” for the city. “By reclaiming station management, we will help make this city safe and beautiful at a fraction of the cost,” Duffy said. At the event, Duffy said President Donald Trump has been “pretty clear” about what he wants. “He wants Union Station to be beautiful again. He wants transit to be safe again. And he wants our nation’s capital to be great again. And today is part of that,” Duffy said.
  20. We were locked into this track the moment we failed to prosecute the fascist insurrection attempt. History is a pretty clear guide on that, despite how upset it makes most people to hear
  21. https://gizmodo.com/the-white-house-is-going-to-put-government-statistics-on-the-blockchain-yeah-we-dont-know-why-either-2000648428 “The Department of Commerce is going to start issuing its statistics on the blockchain because you are the crypto president, and we are going to put out GDP on the blockchain so people can use the blockchain for data distribution,” Lutnick said. “And then we’re going to make that available to the entire government so all of you can do it. We’re just ironing out all the details so we can do it.” Lutnick then quickly moved on to another topic, but it was an odd thing to suggest. Why blockchain? Apparently, because Lutnick associates it with crypto. But it’s hard to imagine what problem putting statistics on the blockchain will solve. The idea behind blockchain is that it’s a decentralized ledger. And it’s a neat idea, but it doesn’t actually solve very many problems beyond maintaining the existence of cryptocurrency like Bitcoin. A normal spreadsheet or database typically works just fine for distributing information of the kind Lutnick wants to put out. Trump infamously had a dispute with some of the government’s top officials who produce government statistics, firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Erika McEntarfer, earlier this month. Trump falsely claimed that McEntarfer had produced “rigged” data that had been “manipulated for political purposes” when numbers were revised to show less job growth than had been previously reported.
  22. It's becoming easier and easier to switch to desktop Linux. It's crazy how fast an OS can be when it's just operating your system, and not collecting user data and displaying ads constantly That's what's so maddening to me - it's an incredible tool for sifting through petabyte and exabyte scale datasets, but they're all chasing the dumb buzzwords. AGI is bullshit being sold to fools, and being used to generate enthusiasm to fuel market growth. But yeah man, just look at revenue numbers. Companies that use LLMs as the core of their product, like Cursor or CharacterAI, spend more to generate revenue than they actually pull in money. The companies that provide LLMs to those downstream companies, like OpenAI and Anthropic, make less than they spend on delivering services. It's all paper tigers and hype cycles. And it's going to poison the drinking well for future investment is what is an extremely powerful information processing mechanism. But holy shit apparently the only way to sell it is to lie and say AGI this and AGI that
  23. So funny thing... https://www.newsweek.com/greenland-trump-denmark-us-infiltration-2119938 The Danish foreign minister has summoned the top U.S. diplomat in Copenhagen to explain a media report alleging that American nationals linked to President Donald Trump are attempting to infiltrate Greenland and run covert influencing operations there ... DR had reported that at least three Americans with close connections to Trump were involved in the influencing operations, citing eight anonymous sources in both Denmark and the U.S., including government officials. DR said it could not ascertain if the three men were working on their own initiative or given an official order, adding that they were being closely monitored by Danish authorities. Trump told reporters in March that America will "go as far as we have to go" to gain control of Greenland. He also called U.S. ownership of the territory "an absolute necessity." ... President Donald Trump, asked on March 29 if he would authorize the use of military force to take control of Greenland, told NBC News: "I don't take anything off the table." One of DR's sources, who declined to be identified, said: "What we are seeing is the use of soft power, influence and attempts to create internal discord."
  24. that lawsuit is horrifying.... They have the text receipts that his last conversation with chatGPT was it telling him how to raid his parents liquor before guiding him through how to set up his noose. This will be a case study in engineering ethics
  25. To that point... it's math that's sufficiently advanced and so to a certain class of person, completely indistinguishable from magic.
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