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Captainant

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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. people just don't want to work these days....
  5. 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
  6. 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.
  7. https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-c6f0eb4747963283316e494eadf08c4e
  8. 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?
  9. 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
  10. 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.
  11. Way better margins in offshoring the manufacturing part of the business, bro. Less CapEx! It makes the EBIDTA numbers easier to lube up
  12. I'd like to submit into evidence, the academic fraud thread in DT that started as an interesting thread about falsified academic studies, and OP quickly took a turn into screedsville and started throwing partisan-adjacent attacks around by page 2 For how much some folks profess to want to avoid political discussion, they sure do invite it quite often.
  13. Well that and we don't really have much choice left if you want to buy a house or a concert ticket. Consumer choice is getting worse and worse, and shouldn't blamed for picking the least bad thing out of a set of shit options. Companies are chiseling because consumers are picking between getting nothing or getting gouged.
  14. The hidden cost of self checkout is stores implementing worse and worse anti-shrinkage measures like receipt checkers and stores presuming more of their customers are thieves. Plus I've still been stuck waiting on the check out tender to finish helping some shitbird so he can look at my ID to let me continue checking out after scanning beer. Plus what diggler said about too many items for self checkout. There's frequently only one or two manned lanes open otherwise
  15. IMO, a study from 2021 probably won't have great data for 2022 and onwards.
  16. My grandaddy would've shit a brick if he knew I drove a Japanese car - have you heard what THEY did???
  17. IMO, the algorithms are just an expression of the real problem which is how easily and freely our personal data is bought and sold, which in turn enables the microtargetting that algorithms are famous for.
  18. Thing is - she wasn't "fired". Her contract for her role in the Mandalorian finished, and mouse chose not to give her a new contract for another role. This is more boo-hoo performative victimhood
  19. at a certain point, you may as well play don't come
  20. Another citation for this: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-publisher-retracts-studies-cited-by-texas-judge-suspending-abortion-pills-2024-02-06/ So another major civil rights restricting case, turning on a set of fucking LIES, that we all just have to live with because facts fucking don't matter in our legal system anymore
  21. https://www.npr.org/2024/02/06/1229528737/ntsb-boeing-737-max-9-alaska-airlines-door-plug-missing-bolts NTSB preliminary report has found that the door straight up didn't have bolts installed while in service. It seems that some spirit employees in Renton, WA (the Boeing mothership) were tasked with fixing a rivet issue found in the fuselage after hand-off to Boeing. So the work was in (and presumably, inspected by) Boeing's shop but done by Spirit people. No findings of fault yet - that will be in a year with the full report, but Boeing and Spirit are up to their eyeballs in inspectors in the meantime. Lots of questions about how Boeing could let a plane leave its building for delivery while missing structurally significant bolts
  22. There's a new podcast that's going through all the audio recorded by the FBI during the investigation. Looooooots of stuff that was not used in the trial but gives key context to the most significant domestic terrorism investigation in a decade. https://www.campsidemedia.com/shows/michiganplot It's on all the podcast platforms, and it's a really effective presentation of the evidence and interviews of the people involved
  23. "We don't need oversight! The Free Market will appropriately punish bad actors, its in their best interest to make a good product!!"
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