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Captainant

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  1. Wow what an absolute sack of shit. I hope he watches his back doing something like that to his community
  2. Huh. Turns out it's official policy to let a shooter murder a roomfull of children unhindered https://abcnews.go.com/US/uvalde-city-council-finds-police-lacked-clear-leader/story?id=107893515 It's fucking crazy that nobody apparently violated any policies? What the actual fucking fuck? The official policy is for the cops to let a shooter murder the fuck out of a school full of kids?
  3. https://apnews.com/article/uvalde-school-shooting-police-response-b5c9f8204f33f62f720a7c1644b47ffc Uvalde City Council to release investigation of the police response to 2022 school massacre The city’s independent investigation comes after a nearly 600-page January report by the Department of Justice found massive failures by law enforcement, including acting with “no urgency” to establish a command post, assuming the subject was barricaded despite ongoing gunfire, and communicating inaccurate information to grieving families. Attorney General Merrick Garland said the victims “deserved better,” as he presented the Justice Department’s findings to the affected families in Uvalde. “Had law enforcement agencies followed generally accepted practices in active shooter situations and gone right after the shooter and stopped him, lives would have been saved and people would have survived,” Garland said at the news conference in January. The report also found failings in the aftermath, with untrained hospital staff improperly delivering painful news and officials giving families mixed messages and misinformation about victims and survivors. One official told waiting families that another bus of survivors was coming, but that was untrue. Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott initially praised the law enforcement response, saying the reason the shooting was “not worse is because law enforcement officials did what they do.” He claimed that officers had run toward gunfire to save lives. But in the weeks following the shooting, that story changed as information released through media reports and lawmakers’ findings illustrated the botched law enforcement response. At least five officers who were on the scene have lost their jobs, including two Department of Public Safety officers and the on-site commander, Pete Arredondo, the former school police chief. No officers have faced criminal charges.
  4. I don't understand this opinion when you voted for a convicted rapist.
  5. It's a time-honored tradition of billionaire shitheads to donate money to their own charity for use as a slush fund AND get tax benefits for it
  6. Apple is playing chicken with the EU, they're completely thumbing their nose at the EU app store ruling and are going to get sanctioned again for unfair marketplace practices and falling to comply with court rulings https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/06/apple-terminates-epic-games-developer-account-calling-it-a-threat-to-the-ios-ecosystem/ https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/25/epic-games-ceo-calls-out-apples-dma-rules-as-malicious-compliance-and-full-of-junk-fees/ EDIT: Oop yup there goes the EU https://www.reuters.com/technology/eu-regulators-seek-details-escalating-apple-epic-games-spat-2024-03-07/
  7. https://apnews.com/article/ntsb-chair-boeing-accident-investigation-52cab375dbdefe343421ff8b9cd38206 Boeing and the National Transportation Safety Board argued Wednesday over whether the company has cooperated with investigators looking into the blowout of a door-plug panel on one of its planes during a flight in January. The safety board’s chair, Jennifer Homendy, told a Senate Committee that for two months Boeing repeatedly refused to identify employees who work on door panels on Boeing 737s. Investigators want to interview them. Homendy also said the company has failed to provide documentation about a repair job that included removing and reinstalling the panel on the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 that suffered the blowout — or even whether Boeing kept records. “It’s absurd that two months later we don’t have that,” Homendy said. “Without that information, that raises concerns about quality assurance, quality management, safety management systems” at Boeing. ... It is still not clear whether Boeing kept records about who removed the plug — a panel that takes the place of extra emergency doors when those doors are not required — on the Alaska plane last September. “If the door plug removal was undocumented there would be no documentation to share,” Boeing said. Boeing has been under increasing scrutiny since the Jan. 5 incident in which a panel that plugged a space left for an extra emergency door blew off an Alaska Airlines Max 9. Pilots were able to land safely, and there were no injuries. In a preliminary report last month, the NTSB said four bolts that help keep the door plug in place were missing after the panel was removed so workers could repair nearby damaged rivets last September. The rivet repairs were done by contractors working for Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems, but the NTSB still does not know who removed and replaced the door panel, Homendy said Wednesday. Homendy said Boeing has a 25-member team led by a manager, but Boeing has declined repeated requests for their names. The manager of the team is on medical leave and unavailable, and security-camera footage that might have shown who removed the panel was erased and recorded over 30 days later, she said.
  8. And therein lies the rub. The "right" operates on such a fact-free basis that they namecall and lie just to attack their opponents, and do it so frequently that they begin to believe their own lies. And so when the "left" sees fascism, articulates why it's fascism, and can support that assertion with facts - the "right" just categorizes it as namecalling.
  9. This thread is really stressing me the fuck out. My wife and I both have ancestors that fought for Texas' independence, our family roots have been in Texas for generations on generations. This state is our home. But our home is fucking infested with goddamn fascists. We are having a daughter in a month and a half or so, and I can't imagine her coming of age in this handmaiden's tale-to-be of a state. Education is absolutely shattered and being targeted for privatization, women's rights are being rolled back - not to mention women's health outcomes are worst in the nation, and our state is hurtling towards a fundamentalist evangelical theocracy. And to top it all off - more than half the fucking state thinks that the above is a GOOD thing and that saying negative things about it is just another expression of team sports/politics. Our enemies are too goddamn stupid and up their own asses to see the terrible and completely avoidable calamity that this state is hurtling towards.
  10. huh my wife is about to leave commercial litigation as well, she's burnt out after 4 years of it and dealing with clown fiesta courts and disorganized clerks
  11. Captainant

    LBGTQ

    I mean but wouldn't that.... be... two chicks at the same time?
  12. What the fuck does this even mean?
  13. It's not youf ministers, but Liberty University was fined a record breaking $14,000,000 for failure to disclose criminal rapes under the Cleary Act Liberty has marketed itself for years as having one of the nation’s safest campuses, with more than 15,000 students enrolled at the school in Lynchburg, Virginia. But its police department had a single officer with minimal oversight for investigating crimes during most of the time period reviewed by federal investigators, 2016 to 2023. The U.S. Department of Education said it identified numerous cases that resulted in the misclassification or underreporting of crimes. And there were several incidents that the university determined to be unfounded, without evidence the initial report was false. “This was especially common with respect to sexually based offenses, including rape and fondling cases,” according to the department’s Final Program Review Determination. Federal investigators cited a case in which a woman reported being raped, with the attacker telling her he had a knife, the final program review stated. Liberty’s investigator “unfounded this case based on a claim that the ‘victim indicates that she consented to the sexual act,’” the final program review stated. “In point of fact, the victim’s own statement merely indicated that she ‘gave in’ in an attempt to get away from the perpetrator.” That episode was ultimately counted in the crime statistics, the final program review stated, after Liberty’s Clery compliance officer realized the case was “mishandled at several points in the process.” Many victims of sexual crimes feared reporting because of concerns of reprisal, the final program review stated. Several were punished for violating the student code of conduct known as “The Liberty Way,” while their assailants were left unpunished. “Consequently, victims of sexual assault often felt dissuaded by Liberty administration’s reputation for punishing sexual assault survivors rather than helping them,” the final program review said. “Such fears created a culture of silence where sexual assaults commonly went unreported.”
  14. Not like we've had laws on the books that made it a crime to criticize Israel or anything. It's been weird scary shit, we're all just realizing how far off the fuckin map we all are
  15. Fuckin Bush 0 (dubyas grandaddy) was a key actor in the 1933 Business Plot where American business owners attempted to overthrow Roosevelt's electoral victory. They've always been goddamn fucking fascists supported by and working for corporations.
  16. This is the biggest concern I have with the stupid delta8 and whole rainbow of synthetic weeds - it makes the opening for contaminants to get on, where a well regulated weed industry with lab testing wouldn't have those problems.
  17. Is Boss Hogg GRUhorn? I'm pretty sure he's posting as "Cum Rocket" in the crypto 6sJ thread
  18. A funny thought that came to me is that all the folks who are most voiciferously licking the corporate boot are typically also the most "WOOOHOOO FREEDOMFLAGEAGLE" folks on the site. But when you look at what corporations are doing with their enshittification - arbitrarily ramping up prices, adding new taxes and fees with no reason, new constraints on using their property, etc etc - it is striking similar to much of the American Colonial gripes towards the british crown prior to our nation's birth. Why is that when our forefathers resorted to property crime to express their grievance at being exploited, it was virtuous and their cause was just - but today things are exactly the opposite just because it's a corporation exploiting us? It's the same end result to Joe Public's life. Very very strange stuff.
  19. apparently, less than a box of fucking rocks if you think that trump and HRC are equivalent in their behavior post-electoral loss
  20. I don't think there's anything I could say to convince you that trump did anything wrong, but I would argue that the brightest red line was crossed when they had to evacuate both chambers of congress, and when trump was ignoring their calls while they were actively under siege, and acting against his military commanders repeated requests to go quell the situation
  21. Yeah, but just think of the profits that went to the shareholders! They needed those funds more than the folks you were distributing aid to, it's not like they had quarterly sales goals (that they made up) to hit!
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