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Captainant

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  1. In a thread about the Ukraine war, in which annie is defending the position that trump did NOT torpedo the recent border and Ukraine bill and that such an argument is mere propaganda:
  2. The problem is that trump lawyers have a documented habit of leaking documents, and the documents in question are classified information that he's already under indictment for storing in an unlocked shitter. When trumps pocket judge is ordering the government to give trump BACK the shit that he STOLE, it's pretty goddamn dramatic.
  3. Wendover Productions put out an excellent 20 minute minidoc covering how Boeing got to where they are
  4. For what it's worth, people are actually buying NVDA products, and they truly are making not just technology but entire new fields of math and theory. There's definitely speculative inflation going on with NVDA, but they at least have an actual real value underlying it
  5. I hate that I have no retirement savings options BUT a 401k. It's nothing but a scheme to mine retirement savings to fuel the stock market. There are no more pensions. There are no more savings accounts. There is only the stock market. Otherwise you don't keep up with inflation.
  6. On the topic of profit and the blind pursuit of money causing companies to make fucking idiotic decisions - Warner is considering straight up just deleting an entire completed movie to claim a $40M tax write-off https://www.thewrap.com/coyote-vs-acme-update-offers-warner-bros/ The Warner execs making the decision to just tear up the work of hundreds of people hadn't even seen the movie, and refused to hear any negotiations or deals from interested buyers. They only offered a single "take it or leave it" deal and that's it. This sort of contempt from the executive class for creativity and honoring the hard work of people to MAKE something is a major driver of enshittification. Why should workers and people give a shit and work and MAKE things if they'll be absolutely destroyed and removed from existence with no recourse?
  7. Gee whiz, another weird bit of legalese breaking in favor of trumpco. What an unexpected turn of events! This literally never happens!
  8. Also describing felony charges for hacking more functionality into something as "felony contempt of business model" is just 👨‍🍳🤌
  9. Just a couple of excellent excerpts from that article - thank you for linking it. Very very on point
  10. You're trying to argue that interrupting the constitutionally mandated counting of votes in order to introduce your own slate ISN'T insurrection? Weird take.
  11. (sorry been playing too much Rogue Trader)
  12. Being public doesn't automatically make you a bad or unethical company, but it does mean that the business will be facing more and more of those sorts of choices over time. Given enough time, a shithead is gonna be in charge and do some bad shit that is amplified thanks to the size of the organization. The biggest criticism I have with public companies is that their single most important driving factor is to grow quarter over quarter, forever. That's literally cancerous behavior. There is never a growth number or business size that is acceptable, because that is what is demanded by their shareholders. Companies may be made up of people, but corporations are not governed by the people who comprise them. They're steered exclusively by the BOD and its shareholders, which solely and exclusively care about quarterly profit growth, ad infinitum.
  13. There's another one on the field level behind the bullpens and another one of those stores at Love Field in Dallas too, I think in the B terminal? Hella handy for an airport bodega
  14. I think it's also being carried by the Windows on ARM developments, which could really cut the legs out from under the consumer x86 market
  15. It's a trickle down of technical debt that culminated in the circus of failure that is the 737MAX. Thank you for laying it all out step by step
  16. people just don't want to work these days....
  17. Lol, some of the story sections are literally a choose your own adventure book presented as if it were being read from a book! I think I'm almost done with Act 2, I've been enjoying Rogue Trader as a CRPG come-down from BG3. It plays surprisingly decent on my steamdeck with FSR enabled - the only major difference from playing on my PC is the loading times
  18. Trump singlehandedly torpedoed the most recent Ukrainian aid bill through manipulating the MAGA speaker for the house. It's empirical fact, not a propaganda statement.
  19. https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-c6f0eb4747963283316e494eadf08c4e
  20. These aren't my issues - I've got a great job that let's me WFH and shitpost quite a bit on surly. But I also recognize that I don't have a normative experience, and quite a few of my friends from high-school have not been having the same degree of smooth sailing as I have. You know, it's actually possible be aware of something without being directly affected by it. It's not like it's a huge stretch to say that the average American worker is having a generally worse time now than any period in the last 10 years. Wages have not come close to keeping up with inflation, costs have far outpaced inflation, and the quality of product to the consumer is worse. Are you trying to argue that enshittification isn't happening? Or are you just slorching just to slorch?
  21. Glad you found something in my randomly picked numbers you could disagree with so you can disengage from the discussion, champ. You really are a gem
  22. No disagreement there, but if you've been working 50hr weeks on end and are burnt out and you can't even go do something fun to enjoy the fruits of your labor, then what's the point? Just go work and burn yourself out, and then live a bare and meager life? MmmmmMMM! That's some good American Dream right there! There's NO WAY it could be that the social contract has been torn up in the name of neverending quarterly growth, and that enshittification to consumers is a terminal state of that condition.
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