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Captainant

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  1. For the same information, except not reported by Ben Shapiro (who owns and founded Daily Wire): https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-detains-medics-after-hospital-raid-health-officials-say-2024-12-28/ There's no evidence in the daily wire reporting of this pediatrician's involvement with Hamas except for a goddamn twitter thread. Your link is a Hapsburg report that's eating its own shit and presenting twitter punditry as undeniable fact.
  2. Musk is literally running the "Tomorrow Never Dies" plot lol https://jamesbond.fandom.com/wiki/Elliot_Carver
  3. Well, he's absolutely planning to snatch the power of the purse from Congress. And history tells us that we generally should listen to them and heed the warning when they plainly say what they want to do.
  4. Frankly I think that's the way most government agencies are going to go. Congressional oversight is waning in general, and power is being consolidated into the executive. Plus, it's a rhetorical calling card of trump (and authoritarians in general) to do things that break the norm, and stun their opposition into indecisiveness and inaction. Blitzkrieg and all that.
  5. Lotta "should"s that won't stand up to the might of the shareholder my guy. Why give those pissant sick people better care when they could return an extra 2% next quarter??
  6. [Laughs in intellectual property law]
  7. He's the incoming head of a brand new government agency that's a pet project of the incoming administration. Technically or not, he's trading on Trump's political name and capital
  8. It's in IPIHB I'm pretty sure it was some statie toadies or some shit coming around because of all the anti-abbott rhetoric after he called in the jackboots against students on Campus. Same thing as when Plonsky tried to shut down the Shag for calling her a cunt constantly.
  9. It's effectively a senior VP, reports directly to C-suite. Basically if a government body is mad at them over taxes or this or that, she's involved with smoothing things over and keeping their peepees from getting whacked My point being: these extremely professionally competent people are greedily drinking the poison of misinformation. An exec I work with is still espousing the benefits of colloidal silver taken orally and ivermectin - he was at Raytheon for 15 years before his current role with my customer, most of that time in a SCIF. Dude is smart as hell, but believes in bullshit. It's maddening
  10. Because patients have no rights and are used as cash dispensers by fuckwads with MBAs lobbying and bribing until the law statutorily protects their business plan? A fucking Advil costs $200 at a hospital BECAUSE OF INSURANCE COMPANIES. And guess what? I don't have any say if they get between healthcare and my family. And if you don't have "insurance" than you won't even get admitted to any type of care short of the ER
  11. My MIL is the head of controversy for a major company, she is the person who talks to the IRS for the corporation and is smart as a whip. She fucking falls for Facebook scams and disinformation like nobody's business. She's got multiple masters degrees and a CPA and is incredibly intelligent, but she is frighteningly prone to recency bias and believing something if enough of her friends say it to her so. And then when her facts are proven to be wrong, rather than admit it, she just says "well I don't think that's right" and moves on and changed the subject. It drives my wife crazy, and it's shocking how many businesses executives like that I come across in a completely different industry and line of work from my MIL.
  12. Lex is giving strong "just give the bully what he wants" energy. President Zelensky sitting down in a room with Trump and Putin to "compromise" does not end well for Ukraine, as fridman so vapidly wishes and "dreams". It's like lex is trying to protect a future interview with putin by not saying anything to offend that strong man authoritarian
  13. This comparison is fucked. When my dad fell and broke his hip, we couldn't "get a rental" while we price shopped for the best deal. Auto insurance is for accidents with someone at fault. Healthcare is for staying alive. We should not be ill and injured HUMAN BEINGS like clunker cars and writing them off. Nevermind that auto insurance is optional in life you may never need a car. You don't have a fucking choice to get health insurance in America. You do, or you go bankrupt and die
  14. Tapatalk seems like it sucks. And it enshittifies the site with random longcat broken Unicode bullshit it keeps pinching off in threads
  15. It's tough to have ethics when you're a billionaire. They're pretty diametrically opposed
  16. Captainant

    3D Printing

    If you wanna nerd out on filaments, this is a pretty interesting video on a new Tullomer filament that gives carbon fiber like stiffness and strength but is transparent to RF. It's nearly as strong as kevlar and it can be printed on a consumer printer $275 for 500 grams honestly isn't bad for something that tough and suitable for finished parts. Really interesting properties where the strength is proportional to properties in the print - layer height, pressure, nozzle temp - and if it's annealed. But there's whole new potential fields of advancement in variable stiffness in single peice parts to enable flexures and other novel mechanisms
  17. I don't disagree but I do think you're leaving out the negative press effort to make issues appear bigger, or that there are more issues than there really are. If you get people pissed off enough they'll just go with whatever keeps the rage going. Here's hoping they realize their faces are getting eaten by the leopards
  18. On mac, it's command+option+shift+V to paste without formatting and Windows is control+shift+V. I don't know how to do it on iOS, but Android keyboards have a system level option to paste without formatting
  19. The only way something is getting rescheduled is if a major corporation stands to make a bundle on selling the newly legal substance with some sort of government maintained monopoly
  20. Lol $15 an hour won't even cover that after taxes. Good lord that's fucked.
  21. Something like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Committee ?
  22. Ho ho holy shit, this is some dystopian shit. We need laws against that sort of use of likeness
  23. [Laughs in Palantir and Cambridge Analytica]
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