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Captainant

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  1. Debate pukes are the worst. They don't care about being correct, just being contrarian and "winning" the argument by "scoring" ownz
  2. It's a weird thing with right wing internet weirdos to just completely misstate and misrepresent the people they disagree with, always followed by knocking that straw man down and beating on their chest about it. I mean sure we see it here on Surly all the time, but it's just wild seeing one of the richest and most powerful men in the world doing it. And then not even 24 hours after posting this outright misinformation and lies, he's doing test flights of the most powerful rocket ever built. It's fucking crazy that elmo is so fucking crazy.
  3. Character and ability have jack shit to do with opportunities that children have. That is 100% tied to resources available to the child. Yeah slorch. Lie again you goddamn raider rash scarred taint stain. You keep putting words in my mouth and insisting on things that I haven't posted, but are just the caricature that you have worked up in your head. You are lying and misstating things that I have said just so you can knock them down and thump on your chest. It's fucking pathetic and is why you have been enshrined in shaggy/surly lore as a verb.
  4. So let's think for a moment why parents are less involved.... It couldn't be that they're taking on way more hours for less effective pay, and many parents simply don't have bandwidth to raise a child, that would be crazy talk! That would have to mean that wages have been stagnant relative to inflation and overall economic growth for decades! Poor parents make for worse childhood opportunity. We have a significantly larger portion of poor with zero social or civil safety nets in place. But 401k's are doing great so fuck you I got mine, poor ass bitches! Wreck em!
  5. Holy shit I forgot about that lmfao. The most unexpected canonical aggy
  6. It absolutely has "middle of the trilogy" vibes, the movie ends with starting and entire new war against all the great houses! And hey man, spice can do some crazy things to people. Neve rule out space crack ewoks
  7. You're squinting REALLY hard to overlook the core matter of Bitcoin representing literally nothing except for the hope of selling it for more in the future. Other assets and commodities that are speculated on actually represent real goods. Bitcoin is just a number in a ledger that represents a number in a ledger.
  8. You're doing that thing again where you're mistaking your opinion for a fact, and then spiking the football and saying "pwned". Just because you insist on repeating your alternative reality does not make it so. I would be less dismissive if you would ever directly reply to what I've written, rather than linking me to someone else's thoughts that you heard on a podcast. I know I'm never gonna change your mind until the ponzi ends, but enjoy the ride I guess
  9. my JS blocker lets me read it, here's the first chunk of the article lulz linking me to a bitcoin maxi who's mad at because someone called his baby ugly isn't terribly convincing. He's trying to claim anything by these guys is false because "tether had the money when they needed to!!!!" Nevermind the constant liquidity crisis that Bitfinex was under, and the intermingling of multiple buckets of money to paper over an $850M shortfall (page 4 of the signed court order). It's the same shit as a few pages back where GRUhorn was telling me that as long as people get their margins and their money back, it's not fraud to lie in your financial filings.
  10. Gee, it's almost like much of the cryptocurrency market is extremely prone, and actively under the influence of, extreme price manipulation. https://fortune.com/2023/02/02/bitcoin-manipulation-price-outlook/
  11. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/13/boeing-737-door-ntsb-investigation US safety agency says Boeing video of door-plug removal was overwritten The head of National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said on Wednesday that investigators still do not know who worked on a Boeing 737 Max 9 door plug involved in the 5 January Alaska Airlines midair emergency and that video footage was overwritten. The NTSB’s chair, Jennifer Homendy, said in a letter to senators that investigators sought security camera footage when the door plug was opened and closed in September but were informed the material was overwritten. “The absence of those records will complicate the NTSB’s investigation moving forward,” she said.
  12. It really made it SO otherworldly. The black eyes and teeth were so eerie
  13. Yeah this is what we call, as incredulity helpfully pointed out, "late stage capitalism". Boeing has spent more than $90,000,000,000 on stock buybacks in the last decade. NINETY BILLION BUCKS! That's why all of these engineering failures and preventable deaths are so galling. Boeing isn't hurting for resources to make good products, they're just doing a fucking scrooge McDuck because they know they'll be bailed out since they're a monopoly. But in the meantime, they're paying aircraft assembly mechanics and inspectors less than what a teacher can make in Austin. And that's a LOW goddamn number for people assembling critical hardware. Fuck ups like leaving out bolts is gonna happen more and more and more as employee wages and project funds are skimmed off for stock buybacks
  14. Jet fuel is used as a working hydraulic and cooling fluid for pretty much everything on a plane that needs hydraulic power. Why bring along a whole shitload of heavy hydraulic fluid when your fuel meets the material specifications and you've already got a bunch of it with you?
  15. he's literally just turning twitter into 4chan lmfao. He's even stealing their memes
  16. Trump was fucking impeached over trying to trade congressionally approved aid for political favors, and was pressuring the incredibly brave and honorable Zelensky to betray his people and his principles to do so. Trump is STILL preventing aid from getting to Ukraine. He's still a free man despite his coup attempt and insurrection, rape conviction, tax fraud, and a litany of other shit I don't have the time to look up and type out for accuracy. It's a complete failure of the American democratic and justice system that we cannot expel this cancer and he keeps creeping onto ballots, and maintains his CONSIDERABLE influence over the legislative process
  17. I mean, Chani's character in the 1984 adaption wasn't some earth shatteringly good or memorable performance either lol. Zendaya definitely had more to her performance than just "scowling at Paul", but her role in the story IS to be pissed at Paul for lying to her and doing the exact thing he said he would never do
  18. https://www.meidastouch.com/news/russia-celebrates-as-orban-says-trump-will-force-ukraine-to-surrender-to-putin It's crazy how much trump is still impairing our body politik and preventing aid from going to Ukraine. It's a real and tangible major strategic limitation on Ukraine, but since it's """political""" we can't talk about it in the main thread.
  19. Sometimes if you finance through the dealership they'll give you a better base price and kill you on the rate. Just read the loan paperwork to make sure there's no penalty for early payoff (and that origination fees are reasonable), and zero it out once you park the car in your driveway
  20. It's almost like you're gleeful to finally be seeing all those Muslims get blown up and have their homes destroyed, simply because you can justify any atrocity with "well Hamas MADE them do it!!!" Israel is running the colonial playbook on Palestine, and our tax dollars are giving Israel the means to make it overwhelming. And we do it for no reason besides your death cults belief in the existence of Israel being a condition to the end of the world that you so deeply crave
  21. I don't know the thrust profile of the 787s engines but that's, like, an afterburner or rocket amount of thrust if it's true. I'm not sure a pilot could command the plan to do what it did, but she's a fly by wire bird, so it seems consistent with the pilots story of the flight computers on the flight deck all going black scren and seemingly resetting during flight and causing chaos Crazy story, thanks for posting an actual news update Edit: it does seem like the plane took a shitload of negative g's from passenger statements in that article. 12 hospitalized and one in "serious condition" “There wasn’t a lot of explanation on what did happen. Suddenly we were finishing lunch (then it happened),” Mr Ellwood said on Tuesday. “There was wine on the roof and there were people on the roof. It was just a scary, terrifying moment.” Mr Ellwood said he was holding his iPad and filling out a passenger declaration for New Zealand when the incident occurred. “The declaration form and my iPad both hit the roof and came crashing down immediately. It was crazy,” he said.
  22. Bro, that's what BTC is worth because people are willing to pay that price. And people are willing to pay that price because it'll OBVIOUSLY go up in the future. Don't you know anything about Number Go Up economics??
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