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Captainant

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  1. It is my vibe that the higher ed management pipeline is as dog shit and reliant on consulting as every other management pipeline that I've come across. Just there to make a splash and leave before everyone gets wet kind of thing. Am I off base? I feel like everything is boiling down to profit and loss, even education and civic services
  2. Not for nothing, but how'd y'all do on the $MELANIA pump and dump?
  3. As someone who got to watch their dads Parkinson's progress dramatically faster due to a bad drug interaction on a trial for a drug that there's now lawsuits over.... That policy move is gonna kill millions of desperate Americans AND send them a bill for the privilege of picking up all the pieces after they move fast and break things
  4. Actually a really solid video to share with parents or friends/family that have trouble with discerning AI from reality
  5. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/01/powell-confirms-that-the-fed-would-have-cut-by-now-were-it-not-for-tariffs.html When asked during a panel if the Fed would have lowered rates again this year had Trump not announced his controversial plan to impose higher levies on imported goods earlier this year, Powell said, "I think that's right." "In effect, we went on hold when we saw the size of the tariffs and essentially all inflation forecasts for the United States went up materially as a consequence of the tariffs," Powell said at European Central Bank forum in Sintra, Portugal. Powell's admission comes as the Fed has entered a holding pattern on interest rates despite mounting pressure from the White House. The Fed last month held the key borrowing rate steady once again, keeping fed funds at the same range between 4.25% and 4.5% where it's been since December. The central bank's policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee indicated via its so-called dot plot of members' projections that there could be two cuts by the end of 2025. However, Powell also said at a press conference last month that the Fed was "well positioned" to remain in a wait-and-see mode. On Tuesday, Powell was asked if July would be too soon for markets to expect a rate cut. He answered that that he "really can't say" and that "it's going to depend on the data." Fed funds futures traders are pricing in a more than 76% likelihood that the central bank once again holds rates steady at the July policy gathering, according to the CME FedWatch tool. "We are going meeting by meeting," Powell said during Tuesday's panel. "I wouldn't take any meeting off the table or put it directly on the table. It's going to depend on how the data evolve."
  6. no, no, no! Pointing out how the president is trading personal favors for foreign policy concessions is politicizing things
  7. It's gonna be a real kick in the ass for Texans when the Orwellian named "Big Beautiful Bill" introduces excise taxes on solar and wind energy https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/megabill-mystery-new-solar-wind-tax-surprise-republican-senators-rcna216120 edit: You can find the new tax on solar and wind on page 558, applicable if components are sourced from China https://www.budget.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/the_one_big_beautiful_bill_act.pdf
  8. 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
  9. Chamber of Commerce types should not be anywhere near education.
  10. 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
  11. 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.”
  12. https://www.chron.com/weather/article/2025-atlantic-hurricane-gulf-forecasting-20400520.php Data for hurricane forecasting shuts down as of today. Pucker up
  13. 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
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. Looks interesting, coming to IMAX next March
  17. Holy shit they may actually come for him https://www.npr.org/2025/06/30/nx-s1-5445398/denaturalization-trump-immigration-enforcement
  18. ICE is about to be better funded than the fucking Marine Corps
  19. A significant portion of US GDP is driven by stimulus via government spending. I thought you like LGU economics?
  20. 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
  21. 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"?
  22. 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
  23. Are they served out of the gif picker or something?
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
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