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Captainant

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  1. Drawing a bullseye after throwing the dart is not "long term planning" lol. Further, forcing regressive consumption taxes like tarrifs and sales tax (to replace income taxes) is going to reduce consumer spending. Tovarich, this IS trickle down economics at work.
  2. Rather in line with what was said above... The ongoing tax cuts for the ultra wealthy holding all the money have induced the extreme levels of debt. If the markets have to take a beating and harm all the people who have been getting their taxes cut (as well as everyone else along for the ride) just so things get back into equilibrium. And it also remains to be seen what happens with the Party favored businesses and if they get bailed out as the power of the purse is consolidated into the executive
  3. Exactly - the human was at fault, not the perfect FSD. /guadaloopy
  4. It's more just the shibboleth that they can use to test for cultural purity and alignment. If you don't like the 10 commandments, then you're an outsider
  5. An electrical substation exploded https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/news/2025/03/12/texas-tech-shares-alerts-on-engineering-key-evacuations-eoc-activation/82344359007/ It was some serious shit - manhole covers were blown off and dancing on the fire plume. That's some serious pressure and flow to lift a manhole cover
  6. jeeze that fuckin sucks - she really made a choice to buy one of those things though lol
  7. FWIW those "3rd party drivers" are basically AMZN employees. Dispatch Service Partners are a bespoke busines that exist exclusively to service AMZN deliveries and avoid paying benefits out to workers. Jesus and that section of 35 has been a chute for years now. Nowhere for the stopped traffic to go to avoid the 18-wheeler. What a nightmare.
  8. It's literally his career to play dumb except for when he can cynically find a technical reason to disagree and deny. He's not better than this. It's all that he can muster.
  9. New book about zuck is unsurprising and is mostly stuff we already knew, but a few new anecdotes https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/ex-facebook-director-book-brutal-image-zuckerberg-20220239.php Lol he even gets butthurt when he loses at Catan or Ticket to Ride. What a bitch ass
  10. Favorite line of the season so far: "To put that monosyllabically: 'It's not my fault what Mark Scout does when he's not at work. It's yours.'" I mean, Milchick is still effectively a slave overseer, but it was still allsome to see him stand up to evil Hodor
  11. The nazis literally signed agreements with zionists (The Haavara Agreement of 1933), specifically because it gave the nazis a reason to set German Jews aside as separate and foreign. They were to ship all their Jews off to Palestine, and it was opposed by non-zionist German Jews who feared getting forcibly shipped off - or worse. Zionists playing okeydoke with authoritarians and dictators is not exactly new.
  12. Your insistence that such an offense exists when it's been confirmed that there was no crime or wrongdoing, or even breaking Columbia's private code of conduct, is just ridiculous. This legal resident is being deported for having unpopular speech, in a nation that specifically protects freedom of speech from government reprisals. For EVERYONE - not just citizens.
  13. https://vancouversun.com/news/bc-woman-detained-at-us-border-sent-to-arizona-detention-facility Alexis Eagles, of Abbotsford, said her 35-year-old daughter, Jasmine Mooney, entered the U.S. at the San Ysidro border crossing between Mexico and San Diego on March 3 with an incomplete application for a Trade NAFTA work visa. She said U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers arrested her and she spent three nights in the detention centre at the busiest land border crossing in the world. Mooney has not been charged with any crime and does not have a criminal record.
  14. TSLA has done quite a lot with AR-CNN models but visual data simply is not enough to navigate a car. Not even embedding/integrating collision avoidance radar has led to a number of instances where a "FSD" active car plows through emergency workers and first responders and doesn't even realize it hit anything. There's stories of plowing through deer all over the place, after suffering a ton of phantom stops from the visual system either hallucinating or not having enough data to reach sufficient confidence. I don't believe that their whole solution is generations better, sensor fusion has been the state of the art for years and elon is the only outlier in insisting that an exclusively visual model is all that's needed. Repeating his insistence will not make it fact, but it might get ya a few more stock points out of the TSLA dead cat bounce
  15. An authoritarian? Using emergency powers to cement their hold over a former democracy??
  16. tfw Jesus is literally a Palestinian.
  17. she was big on tiktok IIRC, but goddamn, her humor doesn't last longer than 30 seconds I guess. Every time she shows up it's just to sing shittily with a crappy keyboard
  18. They confirmed it in the production podcast hosted by Stiller and Scott that it's different innies in each room. They mentioned that part of the excitement and challenge with the episode was doing truly 7 different characters, and working with the set and costume design team to build each microcosm
  19. Cobel was a child laborer, as young as 8, working at a Lumon ether plant. She was ID'd as a gifted child and whisked away to a Lumon school, while the ether plant had a spill/leak/"accident" and effectively poisoned the town. The whole episode (IMO) was meant to show what Lumon leaves in it's wake. It's implied that Cobels mom died from the ether poisoning, and Lumon both caused that death and prevented Cobel from saying goodbye. Cissy is a remaining artifact of Lumon - a True Believer - and is hated by the town for it. I think this episode was meant to show a change of heart or a moment of opposite radicalization for Harmony.
  20. They hadn't really changed or modernized or improved the business or tech since the 90s, they ruined themselves decades ago when they decided to steal from the business to pay out shareholders (who are overwhelmingly execs and board members). If your business plan for the future is a Hail Mary for an outsider to fix everything, then your business was already pretty damn precarious. Good riddance though. I've missed shows and events because of SWA and their bullshit last minute flight cancellations. I had to fight to even get a refund instead of accepting a flight scheduled for the same day as my return
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