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Captainant

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  1. https://apnews.com/article/pfas-forever-chemicals-epa-zeldin-trump-4eaf8c7bdac7c45a295a2305de906012 The Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday that it plans to weaken limits on some “forever chemicals” in drinking water that were finalized last year, while maintaining standards for two common ones. The Biden administration set the first federal drinking water limits for PFAS, or perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, finding they increased the risk of cardiovascular disease, certain cancers and babies being born with low birth weight. Those limits on PFAS, which are human-made and don’t easily break down in nature, were expected to reduce their levels for millions of people. Limits on three types of PFAS, including what are known as GenX substances found in North Carolina, will be scrapped and reconsidered by the agency, as will a limit on a mixture of several types of PFAS. ... It appears few utilities will be impacted by the withdrawal of limits for certain, newer types of PFAS. So far, sampling has found nearly 12% of U.S. water utilities are above the Biden administration’s limits. But most utilities face problems with PFOA or PFOS. Health advocates praised Biden’s administration for the limits. But water utilities complained, saying treatment systems are expensive and that customers will end up paying more. The utilities sued the EPA.
  2. If you're an insane person who thinks that buying goods from another country means they're taking advantage of you, maybe it's a dilemma. It's like saying you'll pass in family fued. Nobody fucking passes! Why are you there if you don't want to play? Why is our trade and economic advisor seeking to reduce trade and shrink the economy?
  3. Charging a "user fee" for foreign transactions conducted on US debt is a great way to give up our reserve currency status. Jesus fuckin Christ what an insane and isolationist idea
  4. What a shock that the apartheid heir would use his machine learning model to advance his worldview of white victimhood in South Africa. So brave. Much amaze. Very grievance
  5. https://apnews.com/article/el-chapo-sinaloa-cartel-trump-border-harfuch-86572a31c88a216da7cd5f33006a0011 Mexican security chief confirms cartel family members entered US in a deal with Trump administration MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s security chief confirmed Tuesday that 17 family members of cartel leaders crossed into the U.S. last week as part of a deal between a son of the former head of the Sinaloa Cartel and the Trump administration. Mexican Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch confirmed a report by independent journalist Luis Chaparro that family members of Ovidio Guzman Lopez, who was extradited to the United States in 2023, had entered the U.S. Guzmán Lopez is one of the brothers left running a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel after notorious capo Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán was imprisoned in the U.S. Video showed the family members walking across the border from Tijuana with their suitcases to waiting U.S. agents. Rumors had circulated last week that the younger Guzmán would plead guilty to avoid trial for several drug trafficking charges in the U.S. after being extradited in 2023. García Harfuch confirmed the family members’ crossing in a radio interview and said it was clear to Mexican authorities that they were doing so after negotiations between Guzmán López and the U.S. government.
  6. Betting on that stupidity is what won them the white house
  7. Bro don't you want their shareholders to get the GAINZZZZZ they have an absolute right to?? Are you some kind of pinko?
  8. Tell me you work in finance without telling me. As Bozo nicely outlined, that guy is almost certainly doing more than what his job title says - plus - he holds the institutional knowledge to fix things when they break. He's an insurance policy against operational interruptions, not merely a cost center to hold in contempt as you frame it. Fire that guy, and find out how much he was the lynchpin for
  9. That probably has more to do with the AppleTax being found to be an illegal act worthy of antitrust action. When they don't get to harvest 30% of EVERY transaction carried out on an iPhone they're invariably gonna raise prices. It really is wild how much their business model relies on just seeking rents from their users that already paid over a grand for their device
  10. There's a lot of Peter Principle executives making tech buying decisions that don't even know how to connect their headphones to their laptop or get their phone on the wifi. There's an incredible degree of blind leading the blind in the C-suite, or simply deferring their own decisions to whatever management consultants they hired
  11. Look dude, renewables are WOKE. Rex out front shoulda told ya.
  12. My guy, were you asleep during the entire January 6 crisis? Sure a few token lawyers have been disbarred but NONE of them have faced more serious sanction for the lies before the court and weaponization (that ones for you, Johnny) of the legal system against their political enemies. It's WILD hearing lawyers on surly repeat the trumpist line of "well it didn't work out, so no harm no foul" with regard to how badly the justice system was used and abused. Motherfuckers, the fact they even HAD an at-bat to try is the entire problem. Miss me with the concern trolling over how the differentially applied rules that let the fascists do fascism are what separates us decent folks from the fascists.
  13. Side note - it's extra funny that twice the IP lawyer is taking this stand while the our entire IP law framework is being undermined and strangled by the trump admin. Gotta love that extra dose of irony
  14. It hasn't been blatant because up until now the supreme court had been pretty overtly batting for trump. Now that they are not asking "how high" when he tells them to jump, he is ignoring them. I do not share your faith in our legal system to address a wrong that it has been enabling for decades.
  15. Pretty funny how one of the nation states funding hamas and Islamic extremism is just straight up bribing POTUS at this point
  16. It means the """free market""" business board regulars are about to decide they're ok with price controls all of a sudden
  17. I've got a DS920+ and it's been running great for 5 years now. Last year I upgraded my 4x10TB setup to 4x18TB and it handled the drive upgrade flawlessly over the course of about a week rebuilding drive by drive. Synology is definitely doing some pretty crappy things lately what with trying to force lock-in to their drives on new Synology units, but I've been a happy end user of mine for some time. It runs a dozen or so local network services in containers for me, and that little Celeron handles it just fine. Not to mention QuickSync for transcoding - I'm shocked that the little 85W brick is able to power the whole stack
  18. Hah I'll be damned thats real https://www.si.com/mlb/pope-leo-xiv-photo-chicago-white-sox-world-series-game-2005 At least SI's content mill is reporting it
  19. Captainant

    LBGTQ

    moderation works, whodathunkit!
  20. At least we'll get more Cecily Strong on Weekend Update
  21. Shit, have you heard of the shit they'll do just over a fence?
  22. Unrestrained corruption and oligarchy. Lovely. Say, where'd all the people thrilled about his free speech absolutism go?? https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-pushes-nations-facing-tariffs-approve-musks-starlink-washington-post-reports-2025-05-07/
  23. that's a bad headline - another hornet has not been lost. The "third" hornet is the one that just had the bad landing. First was the Gettysburg shootdown, second was the roll-off on the elevator, and third was this one
  24. going to jail for vandalism spray paint would be pretty outrageous IMO. It's fuckin' stainless steel! Sandblast that shit and send it back out - it's EXTREMELY HARDCORE(!!!!) Dude should 100% be on the hook for remediation and any fines though
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