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Captainant

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  1. 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
  2. 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!
  3. He didn't just push the lie. He submitted fraudulent documents to states. He actively conspired and planned to get the false documents accepted into federal proceedings. They wanted to hang Mike Pence because he would not accept the fraudulent documents. THEY BROUGHT FUCKING GALLOWS TO THE CAPITAL That's not just talking about things, man. That's conspiracy and insurrection.
  4. I think it's a perfect crystalization of why so much of boomerdom is so reflexively extremely hateful towards anything they construe as "WOKE" - this is in their mind an image of the ultimate triumph and zenith of when our country was at its greatest and most righteous, and the damn woke mind virus is trying to destroy it because they hate america raaggbabbhbhabhhghl You and I both know that things were only good the time if you were a straight white man. But that image is still an indelible and (before I knew about the background story) CLASSIC image of the thrill of joy at the end of the war. I still think it is, but that context is important to include. We should never erase or alter history, but definitely don't need to use an image of nonconsensual kissing to define VJ day
  5. I'm told by attorneys on this very board that we should expect what trump's attorneys do as just normal business for defense attorneys. So yeah, maybe try fucking around - it seems that finding out is off the menu. Maybe you have to be a fascist for it to work though?
  6. I'm fucking sick and tired of watching this Cheeto Benito skirt on fucking every charge he fucking faces and successfully throw sand in the gear of EVERY legal proceeding he's ever been involved in. This fucking fishing expedition should have never started in the first place - it was only allowed because the judge is scared of appeals from trump and so is giving FAR more leniency and space to play fuck fuck games than he would ANY other defendant. I'm also fucking sick and tired of the army of useful idiots amplifying the message of "DA IS CORRUPT!!!" when it has fuck all to do with the facts of CRIMINAL ACTS that are documented and alleged. It's people that are desperate for something, ANY reason to turn off their critical thinking. It's just the dumbest shit when people decide to go ungabunga and fixate on a detail that doesn't make a difference to the core of the grievance. Said another way, trump gets to fuck up over and over and over and over and it's in fact his strength that he's so fucky. When the prosecution makes a mistake - that again has nothing to do with the criminality - it's all of a sudden the end of the fucking world (if you're a redhat) and it means that we have to let trump grab justice by the pussy. It's just fundamentally unbalanced and we keep fucking doing it over and over like things will be different the next time.
  7. They're both using the same intellectual property slight of hand and abuse of the DMCA wherein they encrypt all the connections and put a chip in things that don't need a chip - like in the axle for your tractor or in your ink cartridge - that adds no functionality and solely exists to limit functionality to the spec of the manufacturer and guarantee that NOTHING else but an OEM part will work on it. Since it's encrypted, breaking that encryption to add your own parts is a violation of the DMCA and you could find your ass getting sued. JD has not yet taken this route because suing your customers is a bad look, but they've been fighting right to repair laws tooth and nail. HP and JD are both strong opponents of right to repair, because they would much rather have a monopoly on all service in perpetuity on the products they sell - and have the threat of legal penalty if anyone dares to repair something on their own
  8. And those just seem to keep happening to favor trump, strange yeah?
  9. We have so many other pieces of evidence and text messages and emails and all the receipts of them knowingly pushing the lie that "the election was stolen from trump". How is fabricating that story, working with multiple billion dollar media empires to amplify that message, coordinating a funding a rally to bring all the rioters to the capital on J6, SPEAKING AT THAT RALLY AND TELLING THEM TO MARCH AND THAT HE WOULD FOLLOW THEM, and then actively preventing the military from taking substantive action against the fascists as they attacked? You didn't think ....... THAT was insurrection? What, did he have to be shouting "IM DOING AN INSURRECTION" as he did it for it to count? What the fucking fuck?
  10. Nope, but that looks pretty similar to Amazon's Q or Azure's AI Language where you can integrate it with your knowledge sources (confluence, sharepoint, ServiceNow, etc) and it can help answer contextual questions - but it's tied into that one system. We've got an in-house built system that started as a tech learning project and grew into an nice little internal tool, but under the covers it's just interfaces and API's so new intents and functionality is coming every month or so as more folks contribute to it
  11. Well I'm glad the justice system has found another way to protect trump and drag things out even longer. What a completely unforeseeable happenstance! How completely novel and brand-new this experience is for me
  12. Captainant

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    Uhhhh username relevant? Lol
  13. Nononono, do not apply critical thinking skills to his conspiracies! That is double minus bad! Just trust what you are told and do not believe your lying eyes
  14. I don't disagree, but I'm inferring from your post that you think we in America DO NOT have a centrally controlled and directed economy? There is such an incredible degree of corporate welfare that goes on that we very much do have chosen winners and losers in our system. The invisible hand of the market was no match for "too big to fail" and "number go up"
  15. Well we certainly didn't do enough killing on the fuckin Nazis, there was a big gathering of em in college station just a couple days ago
  16. They don't have the facts or the law on their side, so they are pounding the table. And since a third of the country is apparently SUPER down with fascism, they credulously dance to trumpco's song
  17. Business daddy says that his big KPIs are happy so everyone should just shut up and dribble, no need to actually critically think about historically extreme inequality or the accumulation of power in our oligarch class
  18. That has been a constant feature of the Roberts court - unnecessarily broad rulings that far outstrip the facts of the cass, and leaves a million legal landmines for ratfucking
  19. Counter point: the judge should have never allowed this boondoggle of a fishing expedition for all the reasons above.
  20. I'll be damned, the supreme court did actually step in to at least tap the breaks on our descent into fascism https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/appeals-court-reverses-block-on-sb4-law-to-take-effect-unless-supreme-court-intervenes/3478941/ I wonder how seriously the supremes are going to take the """Mexican invasion!!!!!'"" line that's been the justification parroted ad nauseum
  21. And that's how you let the fascists creep their way into incrementally more and more power. You simply let them fucking take it.
  22. If y'all are into follow-along podcasts, the National WWII History Museum has been doing an excellent companion podcast with the series. This one is for episode 6 and has an interview with the actor that played Crosby Really great and insightful stuff, one interesting detail was that this was filmed during the height COVID, and so it really made real the sense of losing anyone (from filming, not dead) at the surprise drop of a hat, and that they made full size replica B17 interiors that were winched 50 feet up in the air for filming and stayed there for hours with actors inside. Theres a lot of actual brotherhood and bonding that happened during the boot camp and filming that really comes through on screen
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