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Captainant

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  1. When the Astros won the 2017 World Series we knew about 60 seconds before we saw it, because the Little Woodrows down the block was going fucking ballistic
  2. negative, ghost rider. The replies had the original photo
  3. In the ongoing clown fiesta that is Luigi's trial, a prosecutor has recused himself after one of his paralegals listened in to a call between Mangione and his attorneys. https://www.newsweek.com/luigi-mangione-prosecutor-recused-2066624 They got their hand caught in the cookie jar
  4. If yall have not yet been watching the "Andor Declassified" behind the scenes videos they've been making, you're missing out. They also leave some nice little hints for what's to come, Gilroy calls Tarkin's incident a "mini-massacre" which certainly indicates a much larger event that is soon to come. They said that Palmo is somewhat designed after Italy, but that set is incredible. It's all real food and each of the shops and cafes and hotels are actual real sets all built into one giant toybox. It will burn brightly.
  5. Pretty cool docu-flick about the making of the John Wick movies - loads of behind the scenes and stunt footage
  6. Yikes - tariffs continue to send their regards, nearly a 20% price bump across the board. https://www.ign.com/articles/microsoft-raises-the-price-of-all-xbox-series-consoles-xbox-games-confirmed-to-hit-80-this-holiday
  7. Phone companies literally make a profit every time you get a scam call. They sell their phone number spoofing service as a business feature so that outbound calls from an office can all show the same number. But they don't give a single flying fuck about guardrails or governance on using that feature unless a court tells them to do so. So many of our social problems are induced by private interests making public things shittier for their private gain
  8. There's quite a lot of being able to dish it but not take it from the trumpers. I've been looking at "FUCK YOUR FEELINGS" flags goddamn EVERYWHERE for the better part of a decade now, they're really sowing the wind in terms of community
  9. I could see a "Casian goes to Geonosis" thread overlapping with Ghorman boiling over into outright civil unrest, eventually leading to the opening scene of Rogue 1 in the alleyway. I'd really get a kick out of a Phoenix squadron name drop considering how on-the-radar they are with ISB, and they even rescue Mon at one point around 1BBY
  10. I fully endorse Boeing doing a rush job on trumps personal transportation. Cut every corner to keep costs low, can't have any overruns! I'm sure a single AoA sensor is fiiiiiine, cut out all the redundancy that Boeing normally does for cost savings
  11. And what, pray tell, was the main trigger for the technical recession in 2022? Because I'm pretty sure it's not COVID affecting us now, and it'll be a while before measles comes back online. Not sure what 2022 has to do with arbitrary tariff policy that is the sole decision of a single man
  12. Also not to beat a dead horse but HOLY HELL Gilroy is just borrowing from history what with the "I'm sure the Emperor doesn't know what's being done in his name" https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/wenn_das_der_Führer_wüsste#German
  13. I don't think that Gorman is supposed to be space France, that's Ryloth. At least in The Clone Wars and Rebels. Hera even code-switches to a French accent. The Gormans give off Dutch vibes to me
  14. May get a season two thanks to russia's ongoing invasion TL:DR - russia's drone and missile strikes have seriously damaged and perforated the recently finished (in 2016) New Safe Confinement that encapuslated the old decaying sarcophagus and holds in literal TONS of radioactive dust.
  15. Don't you love it when there's easy to source receipts? Must be the narrative shift that @Incredulity is talking about I guess
  16. lulz its funny in the markets thread Incredulity is seriously arguing that tariffs aren't what's put us into this position
  17. He's literally just doing what he said he would do, and you have continued to deny was available knowledge prior to 2025 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/08/22/trump-trade-tariffs/ (August 2023) https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/trump-favors-huge-new-tariffs-how-do-they-work (Sept 2024) He's actually currently got tariff rates below what he previously promised in the above links (a flat 20% universal import tariff), so my money is on things getting a whole lot more tariff-ic than less I don't know how you could pin Q1's precipitous decline on anything BUT the induced instability from the tariff rollout as well as the anticipated worsening financial climate due to tariffs under the """business friendly""" president.
  18. So if Q1 is inflated relative to the trendline that will likely be established in Q2, what caused the trendline to drop so precipitously? And if Q1 is inflated in a current view, why is it coming in so much lower than projections from 2024? I could have sworn you were quite certain that tariffs wouldn't happen, so what else could have been causing it?
  19. Must be nice to be the only automaker getting tariff relief and exemptions
  20. And now you understand why trump has been attacking the media and threatening them so much. He wants them scared and thinking twice before they ask an actual question or seriously challenge their talking points. The more absurd and outrageous the talking point, the better. It's an bully expression of power to make people repeat things they know aren't true. Check out Orwell's 1984 for further ideas on the concept.
  21. What caused it? If only there was some way to disambiguate a triggering action for the GDP contraction. Because as we all know tariffs would NEVER hurt consumers or an economy. The business news channel with the angry hosts told me so!
  22. Maybe it's one of slorch's socks
  23. I said it a month or two ago - most fascist takeovers require a broken economy. Trump, ever the innovator, is making his own economic meltdown and riding on the amygdala of his base
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