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Southern CA Fires- Extreme Santa Ana Winds
Captainant replied to Wilcox Cummingtonite's topic in Daily Texan
Ordering all the dams be opened without any plan or warning is really gonna fuck things up for this season. Get ready for more expensive nuts and produce https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-01-31/trump-california-dams-opened-up From the article: “I don’t know where this water is going, but this is the wrong time of year to be releasing water from these reservoirs. It’s vitally important that we fill our reservoirs in the rainy season so water is available for farms and cities later in the summer,” Gleick said. “I think it’s very strange and it’s disturbing that, after decades of careful local, state and federal coordination, some federal agencies are starting to unilaterally manipulate California’s water supply.” Vink agreed, saying that given how dry it has been in the region this winter, there was no need to make such a release. In fact, he said, farmers were counting on that water to be available for summer irrigation. “This is going to hurt farmers,” Vink said. “This takes water out of their summer irrigation portfolio.” -
Markets still falling like whoa
Captainant replied to Llano Estacado's topic in Business and Markets
It's wild, the only thing that kept their balance sheet black was a mark to market valuation of Bitcoin. Totally a normal and healthy financial posture backed by stable instruments -
Markets still falling like whoa
Captainant replied to Llano Estacado's topic in Business and Markets
Hey wasn't $MSTR hot shit and performing well because of the crypto accounting rule change? https://www.investopedia.com/why-a-new-rule-helped-tesla-get-usd600m-in-bitcoin-gains-but-may-cost-microstrategy-billions-8783060 The taxman cometh. -
Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Captainant replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
The endgame is Trump says something should or shouldn't be spent... Congress disagrees... Elmo does what trump says. Controlling all of the civil services means he could turn off NOAA or the FAA if they give SpaceX any guff. It's a full on oligarchy -
Those damn drug dealing Canadian illegals
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It's gonna be fun when prices shoot sky-high due to all the economic warfare going on for really no reason at all.
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ICE Raids in schools and hospitals be like:
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General Gaming Thoughts That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread
Captainant replied to atomheartbevo's topic in Video Games
DLSS4 drivers hit today, I'm very curious to see how the generalized transformer DLSS model does -
crossposting from DT, but it's such horseshit the 6% figure is what's leading the conversation. It's bullshit. That "only 6% come in full time" is a tortured statistic. It originated from this report https://www.ernst.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/6_update.pdf Which in turn sourced its "6%" figure from a non-scientific survey conducted by Federal News Network https://federalnewsnetwork.com/federal-report/2024/04/survey-feds-question-the-why-behind-return-to-office-push/?readmore=1 Nevermind that the actual originating peice of this mythical and bullshit figure that's repeated mindlessly by useful idiots is rejected as soon as it's introduced in the article! Of the survey respondents, about 30% said they work entirely remotely, 6% work entirely in-person and 64% were working on a hybrid schedule — a mix of in-person work and telework. The breakdown of telework versus onsite work for survey respondents differs significantly from the actual breakdown for the federal workforce overall. According to the latest data from the Office of Management and Budget, out of 2.2 million federal employees, 54% hold jobs that require them to work completely onsite, while the 46% of feds who are eligible for telework spend an average of 60% of their work hours in-person. Just 10% of feds work remotely.
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That "only 6% come in full time" is a tortured statistic. It originated from this report https://www.ernst.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/6_update.pdf Which in turn sourced its "6%" figure from a non-scientific survey conducted by Federal News Network https://federalnewsnetwork.com/federal-report/2024/04/survey-feds-question-the-why-behind-return-to-office-push/?readmore=1 Nevermind that the actual originating peice of this mythical and bullshit figure that's repeated mindlessly by useful idiots is rejected as soon as it's introduced in the article! Of the survey respondents, about 30% said they work entirely remotely, 6% work entirely in-person and 64% were working on a hybrid schedule — a mix of in-person work and telework. The breakdown of telework versus onsite work for survey respondents differs significantly from the actual breakdown for the federal workforce overall. According to the latest data from the Office of Management and Budget, out of 2.2 million federal employees, 54% hold jobs that require them to work completely onsite, while the 46% of feds who are eligible for telework spend an average of 60% of their work hours in-person. Just 10% of feds work remotely.
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American Airlines flight 5342 (CRJ) collides with Army UH-60 at DCA.
Captainant replied to UnivTex34's topic in Daily Texan
Another angle of the collision has been posted - no evasive maneuvers by either aircraft. I'd bet the heli pilot was visually tracking the wrong aircraft and bam https://v.redd.it/zqtwwv65xbge1/DASH_480.mp4 -
American Airlines flight 5342 (CRJ) collides with Army UH-60 at DCA.
Captainant replied to UnivTex34's topic in Daily Texan
You should see some test footage of these empty airframes doing max takeoffs. Fuckers go damn near straight up. Airliners have an absurd amount of thrust on tap -
You're right, he's doing a bang up job with his first public crisis, and has definitely only been hiring the best people. Like a 15yr heroin user to lead the CDC and FDA
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American Airlines flight 5342 (CRJ) collides with Army UH-60 at DCA.
Captainant replied to UnivTex34's topic in Daily Texan
I don't think you'll like the president's answer to that question any more than you've liked any of his other statements. -
American Airlines flight 5342 (CRJ) collides with Army UH-60 at DCA.
Captainant replied to UnivTex34's topic in Daily Texan
IIRC in the radio logs, the CRJ had a last-minute course change from the tower. I can totally see the heli pilot losing visual for a moment and then picking up on a different airliner as their "track" aircraft. Tower probably could have done things better, but they're also juggling a shitton of other aircraft in the area on razor thin margins and likely didn't have the mental bandwidth to add all the extra detail before context switching to the next ten thousand pound metal tube traveling hundreds of miles an hour holding hundreds of souls. -
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/01/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-ends-dei-madness-and-restores-excellence-and-safety-within-the-federal-aviation-administration/ Straight off of whitehouse.gov No fuckin' kidding.
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American Airlines flight 5342 (CRJ) collides with Army UH-60 at DCA.
Captainant replied to UnivTex34's topic in Daily Texan
Because he fired everyone who sat on the Aviation Security Committee https://apnews.com/article/coast-guard-homeland-security-priorities-committees-trump-tsa-d3e4398c8871ada8d0590859442e092c The aviation security committee, which was mandated by Congress after the 1988 PanAm 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, will technically continue to exist but it won’t have any members to carry out the work of examining safety issues at airlines and airports. Before Tuesday, the group included representatives of all the key groups in the industry — including the airlines and major unions — as well as members of a group associated with the victims of the PanAm 103 bombing. The vast majority of the group’s recommendations were adopted over the years. ... “I naively thought, ‘oh they’re not going to do anything in the new administration, to put security at risk — aviation security at risk.’ But I’m not so sure,” said Stephanie Bernstein, whose husband was killed in the bombing and served on the committee. The future of the committee remains unclear because DHS officials didn’t respond Tuesday to questions about the move. The memo that announced the terminations said that future committee activities will be focused on “advancing our critical mission to protect the homeland and support DHS’s strategic priorities” but the group has no members. Adding to Bernstein’s concern is the fact that TSA Administrator David Pekoske was fired even though he was originally appointed by Trump during his first term and was in the middle of what was supposed to be Pekoske’s second five-year term in the job after he was reappointed by Biden and confirmed by the Senate.- 432 replies
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This is the essence of most people complaining about "CR" - it's just a means to shout down things they don't want to acknowledge. The fucking commander in chief of the US Army, whose helicopter just killed 60+ civilians, making a statement matters and is pretty goddamn key to the news story as it emerges.. It's aggy levels of stupid to call a direct quotation of his "political". If President Trump ordered a military invasion on Panama to finally show those canal stealing bastards who's boss - it's gonna be a fucking news story. Sorry that trump is attached to the story. He IS the guy most of the CR complainers voted for anyways.
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This should be in the main thread, it's directly relevant to the crash and the overbusy airspace
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He's also very literally the head and commander in chief of the organization that crashed into the civilian air liner
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American Airlines flight 5342 (CRJ) collides with Army UH-60 at DCA.
Captainant replied to UnivTex34's topic in Daily Texan
It reads most like task saturation by the ATC and the helo pilot. The DCA approach is a fucking doozie and the plane got moved to a different runway while in pattern for final. Combine that with a helo pilot flying that sin against gravity in a busy airspace with aircraft doing last-minute re-vectors.... I can see a swiss cheese model of failure stacking up here. Sure would be a kick in the balls if we just put off hiring thousands of air traffic controllers as part of a general hiring freeze -
Welp. The President of the United States says the last guy and diversity is to blame. Nevermind whatever facts or details might be found by a formal investigation. Get right ahead to the @Hate (name is too ironic not to tag in this context of bemoaning "CR"ing the topic)
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Markets still falling like whoa
Captainant replied to Llano Estacado's topic in Business and Markets
This reads to me as a couple factors coming together: Significant inflation in NVDA stock prices with a ton of market speculation Non-technical market actors overreacting to news Deepseek used NVidia's hardware and proprietary hardware API's to accelerate their model's training. It did use older H800's (instead of the current gen H100's), but they're still ultra-high Nvidia chips and API's. NVDA taking a huge dump didn't make any sense, except for a bunch of empty suits uncritically following media hype cycles and NVidia briefly losing the limelight. -
You don't get to huge free cash flows and turning a monster quarter without not sharing the growth with workers. Cmon, bruh. You some kinda commie pinko?
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Unfortunately, he's the president and literally nothing about his 78 years on earth would lead me to believe he is capable of STFU'ing
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