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Captainant

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  1. Damn trumps economy is picking winners and losers, some perfectly timed AAPL calls are set to ride into the black on Monday after the chip tariff news sublimates into the markets https://www.dataandpolitics.net/173-returns-on-insider-information-white-house-insiders-made-billions-yesterday-on-aapl-shares/
  2. TIL there's overlap in our crypto policy and our extralegal gulag policy
  3. Tfw elons satellites literally shoot lasers in space (it's the high speed mesh for Starlink)
  4. That presumes that the manufacturers will WANT to throw us a bone. Asus, Lenovo, Razer, and other manufacturers just plain stopped sales in the US altogether (prior to this announcement) and what reasons do they have to expect a less volatile trading partner? I could really see US markets losing favored status because of all this fuckery, and losing the benefit of access to economies of scale for the consumer goods that fuel our economic cycle
  5. Bump on an old topic of discussion, US tourism is getting obliterated. It's probably a combination of the black bag gulags and the arbitrarily high prices driving them away. And once we finish harvesting the national forests and selling off the national parks there won't be anything to come see anyways
  6. It's so strange how you type out these long diatribes detailing why trump should be allowed to do whatever the fuck he wants, and the government MUST be constrained at all times. Unless trump is in charge of course, and then damn the torpedos and full speed ahead! I just don't understand how your analysis ALWAYS lands in this posture. I understand that YOU don't like what trump is doing, but your apologetics for the completely broken and coopted legal system are fuckin exhausting
  7. I could have sworn the book of Exodus had something about the dangers of golden idols.... Ah well nevertheless
  8. Thankfully we're locked in below 7. And yeah there's gonna be lots of time for us all to take a few rounds in the barrel in the name of LIBERATION
  9. Well for one, we aren't even ACTUALLY collecting tariffs despite kicking the market in the gonads. So there hasn't been an ACTUAL financial hit yet, just the fear of one. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/11/customs-reports-glitch-in-system-used-by-freight-for-tariff-exemptions.html So I wouldn't not call it a crisis, considering we can't even shoot ourselves in the dicks properly.
  10. bro do you even antenna over-the-air?
  11. The judge called bullshit on them on the record Weird how trumpco has managed to turn the shield of a slow moving court system into a sword to be weilded against their targetted "other". It's a good thing we let them get this far all in the name of protecting the norms that are now dead anyways.
  12. The court hearing over this was wild. The defendants (the Government) have not taken any steps to comply with lawful court orders and maintain that things are being asked too quickly of them. If you click through, there's a whole minute by minute recap of the back and forth. It's apparent the government has not taken any measures to determine even if the plaintiff is alive or not.
  13. Pretty awesome how much awards recognition Balatro has gotten. Their acceptance speech for their BAFTA was excellent and was delivered by the clown dude from the commercial. Really funny
  14. It's wild that the market bounced back after tariffs were effectively increased after the so-called "pause" A weekend selloff feels more likely than not
  15. https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-upholds-order-facilitate-return-deportee-sent-el-salvador-error-2025-04-10/ WASHINGTON, April 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court directed President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday to facilitate the return to the United States of a Salvadoran man who the government has acknowledged was deported in error to El Salvador. ... The court, in an unsigned decision, said that the judge's order "properly requires the government to 'facilitate' Abrego Garcia's release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador." The administration, meanwhile, "should be prepared to share what it can concerning the steps it has taken and the prospect of further steps," the court directed.
  16. he's on bluesky too
  17. thank goodness we don't have to worry about $4 eggs anymore! https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000708111 Now we get to worry about $6 eggs, hooray!
  18. it's like reading Wulaw's posts, incredible
  19. Another body has been found outside the BME building (Dean Keeton and University) https://www.fox7austin.com/news/dead-body-found-university-texas-campus https://old.reddit.com/r/UTAustin/comments/1jvwzod/this_is_not_good_another_dead_body_found_on/
  20. This all broadly tracks with his tunnel-vision focus on growth. He NEEDED China's users to keep facebook growing, and it's 100% believable that he would be overly enthusiastic to help them without thinking about the long-term consequences
  21. Market manipulation, you say....
  22. Good news for @Guadaloopy - you may finally get that feature you paid 5 figures for years ago Financial Times: Musk’s Doge fired self-drive car safety experts at agency that regulates Tesla Maybe don't use it in a neighborhood though, unless your neighbors kids are annoying edit: here's an archive.is link to get past the paywall
  23. If only she could have just held out another decade and worn a red hat to show fealty to the regime, she too could get away with insider trading and market manipulation
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