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Captainant

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  1. huh, Xaiomi makes a bunch of electronics and cell phones so they've definitely got the electronics supply chain to fill out a car. No telling if they're good automakers though
  2. Chamber of Commerce types should not be anywhere near education.
  3. It really is crazy how much of conservative policy is just policing their own demons and forcing the rest of society to live their self-hatred sickness
  4. Some new reporting overnight: https://apnews.com/article/coeur-dalene-idaho-shooting-firefighters-024d26274e0faacec1687f6dde789ced COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (AP) — A man who started a wildfire and then fatally shot two firefighters and wounded another in northern Idaho was a 20-year-old transient who attacked the first responders after they asked him to move his vehicle, a sheriff said Monday. Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris offered new details about the Sunday confrontation at Canfield Mountain, just north of Coeur d’Alene, a popular recreation area. He said Wess Roley was living out of his vehicle, had once aspired to be a firefighter and had only a handful of minor contacts with area police. “We have not been able to find a manifesto,” the sheriff said, adding a motive was still unknown. Norris said families of the victims are “in shock — absolutely. They’re in shock and they’re still processing it.” ... Roley had set a fire using flint, and the firefighters who rushed to the scene instead found themselves under fire. They took cover behind fire trucks. “There was an interaction with the firefighters,” Norris said. “It has something to do with his vehicle being parked where it was.”
  5. https://www.chron.com/weather/article/2025-atlantic-hurricane-gulf-forecasting-20400520.php Data for hurricane forecasting shuts down as of today. Pucker up
  6. LOOOOOOLZ you're not conducting BTC transactions. You're conducting side-chain transactions with third parties that you've chosen to trust. You're just playing with wildly inefficient monopoly money that does not even do what you evengelize it as doing. To even start using lightning, you consign off a portion of your BTC to an open and run a ledger with that vendor and have to trust that they won't just run off with your funds and DDoS your ability to send a closing transaction before they write out a block to the main BTC chain. It's no more secure than just doing business with a bank at that point. You're just doing it with WAY more steps and wasting a shitton of energy to conduct your commerce
  7. I don't think anybody is "getting their rocks off" but it's pretty important to consider why people would be so fucking crazy to do such a horrible and antisocial thing to go hunting for first responders.
  8. lulz that's conducting a transaction in the Cash App ecosystem, not happening live on the blockchain. It's being conducted in BTC valuation, but you're relying and trusting a third party financial institution. Which is diametrically opposite of the BTC whitepaper's core design principal of trustless payments. You don't even get a txid because it's not on any blockchain anywhere, it's on the same old """dinosaur slow and inefficent""" payment systems that dollars flow through as well. Which is what BTC was supposed to be innovating upon, not using to scale lmfao Correcting myself - they do appear to rectify the transaction on the blockchain eventually, however the instant nature of the transaction clearing is not BTC. That's the Cash App saying "trust us" while they wait for their BTC transactions to process through the blockchain.
  9. Looks interesting, coming to IMAX next March
  10. Holy shit they may actually come for him https://www.npr.org/2025/06/30/nx-s1-5445398/denaturalization-trump-immigration-enforcement
  11. ICE is about to be better funded than the fucking Marine Corps
  12. A significant portion of US GDP is driven by stimulus via government spending. I thought you like LGU economics?
  13. The early seasons have rough animation, but those shows have some of the best visuals and moments of grandness. The whole nebula chase in the 2nd season is gorgeous
  14. Love these platitudes in the context of people getting rug pulled on social security and medicare. It's this like how "not paying taxes makes me smart"?
  15. Well it's not like the president has driven multiple casinos into bankruptcy or anything right? Maybe the ghost of Fred trump can bail out America like he did the trump taj mahal
  16. Are they served out of the gif picker or something?
  17. It's pretty remarkable what you can accomplish now with an agent to help with implementation and limited troubleshooting. With that said, it's also going to lead to a massive explosion in orphaned and unexplainable code within organizations. I'm currently, right now, dealing with that problem with a customer - only they got their unmaintainable code thanks to south asian contracting firms. Most of the jobs that genAI is going to replace first is that tier of contracting job, since the work product is equivalent and there's much less needful that needs doing.
  18. Wow holy shit and the Supreme Court just opened the door for the president to kill birthright citizenship. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a884_8n59.pdf ICE ICE, baby.
  19. Here's the opinion https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a884_8n59.pdf This is going to lead to fucking geneology panels and shit to guarantee the purity of americans in order to be graciously granted citizenship.
  20. Seems like a bad time to be in the rocket engine testing business. A SRB nozzle for the Artemis program went kablooey during a static test fire on the range. Just happend yesterday, so no analysis on what went wrong yet
  21. Flee tyranny seeking religious freedom? Belive it or not, jail.
  22. Captainant

    SpaceX

    Pinging in here, curious if anyone has been tracking the launch site cleanup effort. I mean, aside from scattering polymers and powderized silica over a protected wetland environment I mean. They had a pretty big fkn crane fall over working the cleanup
  23. The rub is: establishment dems and the primary process guarantee this would never make it to the general. See: NYC mayoral race flipping the FUCK out over a progressive
  24. The Houston Sabercats are playing for their first national title attempt Saturday at 1PM on ESPN2 - check em out!
  25. I gotta say, yall have really successfully derailed this thread and moved the discussion off of the strategic failure of this strike, and how it's almost certainly going to result in either 1) a more expensive JCPOA, or 2) Iran with an accelerated nuke program. Great stuff, all around.
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