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Captainant

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  1. Color me shocked the Kyle Rittenhouse fan club would both frame this act of tyranny as just a photo op by the senior senator of that state who is responsible for oversight over those agencies.
  2. Both are being sold by our oligarchs. They're the same thing, with different labels.
  3. It's the height of idiocy for a government running a fiat currency to give carte blanche to create an infinite number of vehicles to create currency. Each new shit coin is another mint. Crypto is going to turbo fuck our economy, it just has a perception of growth and stability. It's all paper mache hollow snake oil salesmen. It's not a political fight, it's asserting reality. And you correctly point out, reality is not what voters want. They want sweet, sweet, delicious lies like how crypto is going to make them all rich and free from economic tyranny
  4. Idk I'm gonna need their chief product officer @Guadaloopy to tell me why that's an unrealistic and unfair test
  5. Not a trans person, but someone who campaigns on the dangers of trans people. AP: Prosecutors say Republican South Carolina lawmaker used ‘joebidennnn69' to send child sex material COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A Republican member of the South Carolina House who prosecutors say used the screen name “joebidennnn69” has been arrested and charged with 10 counts of distributing sexual abuse material involving children. RJ May was arrested at his Lexington County home after a lengthy investigation and was ordered Thursday by a federal judge to remain jailed until his trial. The three-term Republican is accused of using “joebidennnn69” to exchange 220 different files of toddlers and young children involved in sex acts on the Kik social media network for about five days in spring 2024, according to court documents that graphically detailed the videos. ... After May’s election in 2020, he helped create the Freedom Caucus, a group of the House’s most conservative members who say mainstream House Republicans aren’t the true conservative heart of the GOP. He also helped the campaigns of Republicans running against GOP House incumbents. “We as legislators have an obligation to insure that our children have no harm done to them,” May said in January 2024 on the House floor during a debate on transgender care for minors.
  6. I can't wait until the inevitable and literal "you and what army?" response to this ruling
  7. A 3 day special military operation,say that's just crazy enough to work...
  8. Deep. Substrate. Foliated. Wokeite.
  9. Really is crazy how similar it is
  10. The president liked Top Gun Maverick so much he's ordering up the next one
  11. It's paywall'd for me still ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯
  12. Wanted to ping back on this after reading another datapoint that I can't help but infer a correlation with the "very tame" BLS numbers: https://www.napa-net.org/news/2025/6/latest-2026-social-security-cola-projection-holds-steady/ If inflation is artificially marked lower than is actually happening, and they're able to successfully hide behind the excuse of "we fired everyone who used to collect that data", they can claim they've lowered inflation and reduced spending on SSA while reducing benefits without cutting spending. It's a backdoor way to starve the system out and pay out less and less to retirees.
  13. well between this, and Florida declaring that it's legal to run over protesters I imagine they're just a little overstimulated right now
  14. The fucking secretary of DHS said she was there to "liberate the city from the burdensome leadership, mayor and governor." and that they "aren't going away". While she had SS agents forcibly remove, handcuff, and arrest a senior senator with a legislative responsibilty for oversight OVER THAT SPECIFIC CABINET MEMBER This is outrageous. Where all the StAtEs RiGhTs people now? Where's my goddamn local governance?
  15. The funny thing is - that's literally been their feature release strategy for iOS since like the iPhone 3G. The new iOS features were pretty much alway stuff that android and jailbreak had had for years, and only grudgingly brought onboard once enough people asked for it. I don't know if it's more jaded customers, or just less juice in the Apple, but it's notable that their old strategies aren't working anymore
  16. Try that in a small town
  17. 'member when there was a deal in place to keep Iran from doing just that, which entitled us to oversight and access to verify their compliance? Who was the genius that tore that up, only to try and put it back together again?
  18. I haven't seen "empty" shelves, but there's definitely been fewer items behind the front two or three in all the stores I go to regularly. Prices are higher, there's less selection, and I've noticed produce quality getting worse at an HEB that had killer stuff for the last five years
  19. Nevermind that he's a senior member of the legislatively mandated oversight comittee for ICE and BCP.
  20. It definitely looks like early flap retraction as the cause of the stall, but I wonder what the puff of smoke on takeoff was indicative of a critical loss of power. Jeeze, what a nightmare
  21. Coming back to this - I think it's a really interesting reflection of society that so many people think and live this way. In business, it doesn't matter how unsustainable and shitty your business model is - only that it's perceived as strong. Managers don't care about how much work gets done by workers, they only care how much is seen getting done. It's a very hollow way to go through life, and makes a ton of sense why genAI is so popular. It's effective at improving the perception of workers as being productive - just as long as you never take a critical look and what's being made. It's how MBA's earn their nut while gutting the future stability of a business - they're perceived to be experts, and so nobody bothers to challenge their idiocy and antipatterns become self reinforcing
  22. The nazis literally supported the creation of a Jewish state so that they would have a place to ship them all off to.
  23. Not kidding - restart your devices before going through customs if it's a concern for you. Cell phones will encrypt the device info within the secure enclave, and bitlocker or whatever other system encryption will kick in on your computer. Absolutely absurd that's where we're at, but thankfully there's legally compliant ways to protect your own privacy
  24. From the footage it looked like the flaps were not extended, so it's probably likely pilot error unless 787's history of poor workmanship really struck at the worst time
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