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Captainant

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  1. Well when you're making $25-35/hr and have huge production quotas, shit is gonna get missed. Boeing spun off spirit to keep costs low, and they are reaping the fruits of that decision. But the leadership that made that decision was bonused out long ago and there's no accountability aside from hoping for a "too big to fail" bailout
  2. Those 20mm shells were likely minnengeschoß shells https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mine_shell Basically an aerial belt felt grenade launcher, just one or two shells in the right place could take a wing or half the fuselage. Thanks for linking that article though, the scene in the show was remarkably close to that newspaper clipping
  3. They're driving up the prices up for the rest of us by being a hard floor for producers. And they're PAYING these specious consumers to NOT consume? That's not a free fucking market. That's an oligopoly using public money to prop up the price of crypto so that crypto pukes and north koreans and russians can launder their money. A better use of those tens of millions of dollars would be infrastructure improvements like line capacity improvements and storage investments. Not giving hand outs to imported mining operations.
  4. Why the fuck are we paying these leeches too turn off their imported Chinese crypto mining shit? Fuck em, give them the public deal that normal people get
  5. Big difference is that a bitcoin mine is not producing anything of value or "taking" a job from a person. It's just sucking up electricity to prop up what has developed into an extremely elaborate ponzi scheme
  6. I got a Breville Bambino Plus over black Friday last year to replace an old and dying Delonghi Dedica, and I've really happy with the shots I'm getting. The auto milk steam functionality is pretty solid and easy to use too, so I can tidy up and whatnot while it's doing the milk. I have a cheap $30 hand grinder that does a nice job on the beans, but it's a pain if I'm making coffee for more than one person
  7. No, but it's a sign that their governance posture is likely lacking or the org is prioritizing it higher. Most of my finops outcomes that I help my customers achieve are really addressing technical debt that's been outstanding for a LOOOONG time. Stuff like poorly tuned ASG's or "let's just oversize it, the business said it's critical" or an old lift and shift that should be moved to event-driven and serverless. By putting a data-driven number behind that opportunity cost of not fixing the tech debt, you can get leaders to give a shit. And then as progress is made, good finops practices will let you claim credit and have the data to PROVE it. My big feather in my cap last year was across the board driving down my customers unit cost of compute by almost 10% just with what amounts to config tuning and smarter replatforming.
  8. If they're >20,000 feet, they're gonna be safe from MANPADS and I'd imagine they could just do a SEAD with the Tomahawks and then send in the gravity-powered weapons
  9. Tfw MAGA has more common ideology with sharia law than Tswift
  10. Yeah this is just historically consistent fascism in action. Hitler and mussolini both LOVED to play the victim about how the media and establishment were so unfair to them during their rise to power - it's how they motivated their street fighters (brown shirts) to go take the streets.
  11. Hey remember that gay bar that a cop plowed into while "dodging a dog" that was not there? The city is now threatening to condemn the building because of damage done to it by the cops https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/city-st-louis-may-condemn-gay-bar-after-police-cruiser-crashed/63-fc164cc8-158a-4f22-9656-7cdf66d575af And of course the police din do nufin wrong
  12. They can value themselves at $5B but they're gonna take a hefty fuckin loss lol. Reddit doesn't really have a revenue model or any of the things that the business ghouls will need to make a public company successful
  13. This sort of thing where a judge can unilaterally overrule a jury to order a man killed - over the decision of a jury of his peers - does seem really fucking backwards. Once an execution sentence is served, you cannot de-escalate or appeal that sentence. If someone has LWOP, you can always escalate from that sentence or if new evidence is found it can be taken into consideration for their sentence. We've seen way too many "oopsie poopsie" exonerating pieces of evidence unearthed after the defendant is 6ft under. It's outrageous on its face to overrule a jury decision to escalate the punishment to death. I don't like the death penalty, but it wouldn't be so objectionable if it were at least a jury decision
  14. Lol "just damage your lungs until they fill up with fluid and you drown on dry land!" That's some serious FAFO you're slingin
  15. I didn't say he defied an order, I said he stated an intention to defy the court and it's orders. If you want to play cutesy miss-the-forest-for-the-trees, you could say that abbott has complied with the letter. But certainly not the spirit of the order or to the relief sought by the plaintiff in the matter.
  16. Thing is, it's not a nothing burger for a governor to defy the supreme court and state an intention to defy a court order, as well as mobilizing his state national guard against the federal government. It should be talked about. The problem is this bizarre impulse to take an average of all the different positions and call the middle one the "reasonable" one without any sort of actual critical thinking happening. It comes complete with a reflexive disgust of disagreements in general, and equivocates both sides of a disagreement and ignores the actual facts of a situation. Let me know if any of this is starting to sound familiar.
  17. I think you're on the right track but not far enough down that line of thought. Why is news more interested in pushing outrage and crazy shit? Because it gets people to watch, and they can sell their ad slots for a higher margin. Actual, factual truth based reporting is demonstrably not as valuable (in the American economic system) as outrage bait. When almost every news agency exists not to inform the public but to make as much money as possible, this sort of outcome is predictable.
  18. When you think about it, much of strategic bombing is just taking a 6hr round trip flight. There's not that much exciting going on, and if there is, it's terrifying and dangerous. There's maybe 15 or 20 minutes of "action" as the bombers approach, bomb, and depart their target during a loooooong mission. I'd bet next week's episode with the raids through Germany and landing in Africa will be much more eventful. Timeline wise, the luftwaffe was at its height of strength, and those formations flew through a shitton of flak and fighter screens for HOURS. It's fucking incredible what they did with only paper charts, steam gauges, and magnetic headings. All analog
  19. Just so you know, Biden gave the Republicans most everything they wanted wrt/ the border in this most recent attempt. However two factors caused friction: that Ukraine funding was included in the bill, and that maga daddy told the Speaker that he didn't want Biden to get a win. The republicans are perpetuating this crisis so that they and their uninformed constituency can keep using it as a political cudgel Edit: big ups to farty for thinking this whole thing is a big laugh. Hope you enjoy the inhumanity, it's what you've been voting for.
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