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Captainant

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  1. On this board, there are people that will deny it happened. I've found including a source helps to head off shitty snippy jokes about how it's just "TDS" and it never actually happened so it's not a big deal
  2. you laugh, but DoD marked this photo for deletion under their "anti-DEI" purge. They pulled it back after the collective "WTF" when they tried to memory hole the Red Tails among other heros. https://apnews.com/article/dei-purge-images-pentagon-diversity-women-black-8efcfaec909954f4a24bad0d49c78074
  3. Six year old with leukemiua at immigration court? ICE ICE BABY! https://www.tpr.org/border-immigration/2025-06-25/ice-arrested-a-6-year-old-boy-with-leukemia-at-immigration-court-his-family-is-suing A Honduran mother and her two children — ages 6 and 9 — have sued the Trump administration over their arrest at Los Angeles Immigration Court, the first lawsuit challenging the arrests of children under a new ICE directive targeting courthouses. The mother brought her two children to the immigration court on May 29 expecting to continue to make a case for asylum after fleeing Honduras due to threats of violence. But like many other immigrants across the country, they were surprised to see their case quickly dismissed as ICE agents waited for them to step out of the courthouse into the hallway. "There were men waiting for them in civilian clothing. The men [ICE agents] detained the family for many hours, and it was a terrifying time for the two children and their mother," said Elora Mukherjee, director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic at Columbia Law School. "They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying," Mukherjee said. "The 6-year-old boy was terrified to see the gun. He urinated on himself and wet all his clothing. No one offered him a change of clothing for many hours." The family was then transported to the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas, where they have been detained for several weeks. The 6-year-old boy has been diagnosed with leukemia and has missed a medical appointment to be treated for worsening symptoms, according to the lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court in San Antonio by the Immigrant Rights Clinic and The Texas Civil Rights Project.
  4. Kind of strange to get fixated on civilian deaths from nukes specifically in WWII - incendiaries and manufactured firestorms completely erased whole cities just as readily. The nukes were just more efficient, but we very successfully killed 100,000 and dehomed 1,000,000 in one spring night in Tokyo 1945. Just with HE and incendiary. The strategic bombing of Japan was a far greater cruelty than just dropping Fat Man and Little Boy. It took longer than nukes, but it killed civilians dead just the same. The great game changer of nukes is that one plane carries the equivalent destructive power of 334. Or more
  5. Same chucklefuck who was giving these sorts of interviews over a decade ago https://journalstar.com/news/state-and-regional/federal-politics/chief-justice-roberts-decries-efforts-to-politicize-supreme-court/article_a5f9fbe9-d0a5-5f86-85c1-a54272c5fea3.html "We don't make decisions on political grounds" is a goddamn fucking LIE!
  6. No one tactically knew when it was coming, but they strategically knew it was coming. The attack was a tactical success, and a (seeming, tbd) strategic failure. The whole stated end goal has been to "PREVENT IRAN FROM GETTING NUKES!!!!" and yet now our big grand opening move is to not to a whole lot to affect that, and strongly motivate Iran to work even faster at it. Wow-ee! So glad we're in this position thanks to President Trump deciding to tear up the agreement in 2018.
  7. Just gotta circle back on this for another datapoint - NYT has reported that the pentagon (link to mediaite's story, because I don't have a NYT sub) was literally feeding trump fake attack plans because they were so worried about him leaking on truth social So, once again, lol at "organizational discipline". Lmao, even. Our so-called """organizational discipline""" resulted in Iran having plenty of heads up to relocate their nuclear stockpile and us not materially slowing down their ability to produce a bomb. So we spent probably upwards of a couple billion dollars between all the support crew and equipment used, didn't achieve the stated strategic goal, and did it all without congressional approval. Wow what sophistication!!!
  8. And a significant component of that dogmatic support for Israel is the belief that it checks one of the key boxes for Christ to return and usher in the end of days. Fundagelicals have been buckwild over that for decades
  9. [Laughs in whiskeyleaks]
  10. It's very very high quality crap. The injection molded plastic of content. It'll go fucking supernova with out idiot audiences. It makes my teeth itch, my MIL is CONSTANTLY texting us links to shitty AI slop on Facebook and she is DELIGHTED by it. Nevermind that she's the primary contact between her F500 employer and the IRS and is incredibly intelligent, lol funny AI generated video - what it's fake??
  11. They certainly are finely crafted, but if they're not spinning I would imagine they can be "packed" into a storage/shippable state. What makes them so vulnerable while spinning is that they spin at >50,000 RPM and the smallest bump can send all that kinetic energy out of control. Given the degree of saber rattling leading up to this attack I would be shocked if Iran had em spun up. No doubt getting bombed is not great for high grade technical equipment, but once they're that far up the enrichment cascade it doesn't take as many centrifuges to get to bomb grade so they could probably lose a few without severely setting things back.
  12. That really is a wonderful pull lolol thank you for putting a smile on my face. A bunch of goobers going on a boondoggle crusade is not a bad description of where this is all headed.
  13. it really is fucking ridiculous how consistently you can take it to the bank that the opposite has happened whenever our Commander in Chief, President Trump proclaims something is "pretty well destroyed!" I wonder if this still counts as a feather in his cap or not
  14. The fact of the matter is, any nation operating a nuclear reactor can pretty easily breed plutonium out of U238 and then chemically separate it, rather than dealing with the comparatively extremely difficult isotope separation. That's how we ended up with Little Man - it's far easier to breed plutonium from depleted uranium via neutron bombardment than to separate and enrich U235.
  15. whoever is runing the WKUK youtube channel is really having fun re-uploading to match current events
  16. I've got a 3 slot 3080 crammed into a Lian Li A3, along with a microATX B650M mobo running a 7600X CPU. 32 gigs of memory plus a nice right-angle 750W 80+ gold PSU is a nice SFF home theatre PC. My wife has been enjoying playing Oblivion on it, and we've been playing through Split Fiction together on it. The 3 slot card took some creative cable management and case bracket repositioning to make fit, but by golly it all fits in there just fine. If you buy a few case fans it even has pretty good airflow and I haven't had any temp or performance issues
  17. Have you not seen the "human meat wave" attacks that russia has been using in Ukraine to take territory? Shit is just old-school WWI tactics
  18. And that's the correct context to discuss religion, honestly. It's cultural, not factual
  19. My favorite is when people get butthurt and accuse you of politicizing things for pointing out the trump admin's strategic failures wrt/ their stated goals in the face of spiking the football over BIG BADA BOOM Wow, what a fucking feather in the cap this boondoggle is turning out to be!
  20. I got a W11 pro key for $11 on Groupon lol - the company had to send me four before it actually worked, but it eventually worked so I'm happy
  21. hold onto your cornholes, the secret police are a-comin' to deport you with no due process
  22. surly lawyers come tell me how this is all normal PLEASE
  23. Ok, now I'm certain Iran was able to move its nuclear materials stockpile before the bombs dropped
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