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Captainant

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  1. DC is a special case in that it has no governor and is not a state - their license plates say "taxation without representation" for goodness sake! A president can request a governor release their state NG resources to the feds, but they still technically answer to their governor first - not president. The thing is, the person charged with enforcing the law is the person who's breaking it left right and center. When you put a clown in charge of law enforcement as the chief of the executive branch..... It's no surprise it's circuses only and vanishingly little bread even
  2. It's very literally an infringement of the 2A in that if the president can force a state's militia to act against the wishes of that state - then it is not their militia.
  3. Speaking of wish casting, that weird nationalist jobs report you were spiking the football about is a bit of a red herring https://jedkolko.substack.com/p/no-native-born-employment-has-not
  4. That's a terribly narrow way to interpet music and art in general. It isn't just the mere mechanism of production that makes art so impactful to people - it's the dialogue and conversation back and forth in a medium that isn't always explicit in its intent. I mean yeah sometimes in rap, it's pretty clear what their message is. Kendrick out front shoulda told ya. But with that example, what made Kendrick's music so interesting was its context and delivery and collaboration with other artists. Hell, even just as a musician, you can take the same notes and rhythm on the page and produce a wildly different communicated emotion. Music and art is far more than just an idea, it's the execution and context its delivered that brings so much more meaning. When the thing you're in conversation with is just a set of seven hundred billion parameters in a very very very very large parametric equation...... That's sort of missing the partner in the discussion that imbues art with its metaphysical meaning and value. Not to mention, LLM's definitionally produce an "average" of all the information they've been trained on. They definitionally cannot take in and internalize new information like a conversational partner can. It's very literally talking at a wall and you will never convince it of anything, until you spend another ten million bucks on a new training run for your large language model to give it a new set of ~700,000,000,000 parameters. That's just my opinion at least, both as a life long musician and as a professional technical specialist in machine learning and large language models in particular (and a few other discliplines as well, dm me if you want to nerd out).
  5. The median American is waaaaay down the scale of assets compared to slum lords and private equity groups buying up houses. Because they keep the prices high with an increasing share of overall new purchases, it prevents property values from correcting downwards and continues to reinforce housing inflation
  6. tbh I much prefer an em-dash to the proliferation of ellipsis that seemed everywhere during the twenty-teens
  7. The feds want to get in on the stonks game
  8. Yeah about that... https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-and-robert-f-kennedy-junior-to-ban-covid-19-vaccine-within-months/
  9. Ah ok that makes more sense, and it's not supposed to be primary power but rather to improve efficiency by capturing energy that would otherwise be discharged
  10. So they're mixing fresh and salt water, to run a desalination plant?
  11. A dictatorial leader, taking unilateral actions that fuck over small businesses and SBO's that helped put him into power? I swear I've heard this one before...
  12. When you're generationally wealthy, your brain rots and you kind of lose perspective
  13. ICE is disrupting entire school campuses with how much tear gas they're deploying on nonviolent protesters https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-ice-chemical-gas-public-school-portland-1235413558/
  14. You should show em some of their historical work to really drive home how enabling they are for fascists Literally a century of it
  15. Isn't El Yunque in Puerto Rico the only US rainforest?
  16. He is desperate for everyone to forget about his child rape and partnership with Epstein
  17. Counterpoint: "fuck you I won't do what you told me" - Zelensky https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/08/24/7527605/ "We're using our domestically produced long-range weapons. Lately, we've not been discussing such matters with the United States. It used to be the case. You remember various signals regarding our retaliatory strikes after they [the Russians] attacked our energy system. That was a long time ago. Today, we don't even mention this."
  18. National Guard is going to be mobilized in 19 states now: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wyoming. Trump must have raped a whole shitload of kids with Epstein to go these lengths to bury the Epstein files
  19. So weird how all the people who cared more than anything about government overreach and "picking winners and losers" are conspicuously absent 🤔 It's almost like those criticisms have always been in bad faith or something
  20. We're just following the 3rd Reich play book at this point, right down to filling the armed forces with sycophants
  21. God bless America. May everything be ever more financialized and extractive
  22. This game is a clown fiesta and I am HERE for it
  23. God I missed football
  24. It's fascinating how there's such a dichotomy between one party where words mean nothing and the nonsense gives them power, and another where words mean everything and articulate definition drains their strength.
  25. https://www.trendforce.com/news/2025/08/22/news-trump-reportedly-spares-tsmc-micron-from-equity-grabs-after-chipmakers-ramp-u-s-investment/ U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick confirmed in a CNBC interview that the administration is seeking a 10% stake in Intel, sparking fears of broader equity grabs from CHIPS Act recipients. But according to The Wall Street Journal, Washington has ruled out moves against major investors like TSMC and Micron. A U.S. official cited by the report said Thursday the administration has no plans to seek equity in chipmakers like TSMC and Micron that are ramping up U.S. investments. Firms not expanding their pledges, however, could be asked to hand over stakes in exchange for subsidies, the report adds. ... TSMC Reportedly Mulls to Return Subsidies if U.S. Seeks Stake As the Wall Street Journal points out, Lutnick told CNBC that unlike the Biden administration, which “gave Intel and TSMC money for free,” Trump wants equity in return for subsidies: “If we’re giving you money, we want a piece of the action,” he added. In response to this potential move, TSMC, which was awarded up to $6.6 billion for its Arizona fabs that began production in late 2024, has reportedly discussed the option of returning its subsidies if Washington seeks a stake, as per the Wall Street Journal.
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