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Captainant

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  1. Same chucklefuck who was giving these sorts of interviews over a decade ago https://journalstar.com/news/state-and-regional/federal-politics/chief-justice-roberts-decries-efforts-to-politicize-supreme-court/article_a5f9fbe9-d0a5-5f86-85c1-a54272c5fea3.html "We don't make decisions on political grounds" is a goddamn fucking LIE!
  2. No one tactically knew when it was coming, but they strategically knew it was coming. The attack was a tactical success, and a (seeming, tbd) strategic failure. The whole stated end goal has been to "PREVENT IRAN FROM GETTING NUKES!!!!" and yet now our big grand opening move is to not to a whole lot to affect that, and strongly motivate Iran to work even faster at it. Wow-ee! So glad we're in this position thanks to President Trump deciding to tear up the agreement in 2018.
  3. Just gotta circle back on this for another datapoint - NYT has reported that the pentagon (link to mediaite's story, because I don't have a NYT sub) was literally feeding trump fake attack plans because they were so worried about him leaking on truth social So, once again, lol at "organizational discipline". Lmao, even. Our so-called """organizational discipline""" resulted in Iran having plenty of heads up to relocate their nuclear stockpile and us not materially slowing down their ability to produce a bomb. So we spent probably upwards of a couple billion dollars between all the support crew and equipment used, didn't achieve the stated strategic goal, and did it all without congressional approval. Wow what sophistication!!!
  4. And a significant component of that dogmatic support for Israel is the belief that it checks one of the key boxes for Christ to return and usher in the end of days. Fundagelicals have been buckwild over that for decades
  5. [Laughs in whiskeyleaks]
  6. It's very very high quality crap. The injection molded plastic of content. It'll go fucking supernova with out idiot audiences. It makes my teeth itch, my MIL is CONSTANTLY texting us links to shitty AI slop on Facebook and she is DELIGHTED by it. Nevermind that she's the primary contact between her F500 employer and the IRS and is incredibly intelligent, lol funny AI generated video - what it's fake??
  7. They certainly are finely crafted, but if they're not spinning I would imagine they can be "packed" into a storage/shippable state. What makes them so vulnerable while spinning is that they spin at >50,000 RPM and the smallest bump can send all that kinetic energy out of control. Given the degree of saber rattling leading up to this attack I would be shocked if Iran had em spun up. No doubt getting bombed is not great for high grade technical equipment, but once they're that far up the enrichment cascade it doesn't take as many centrifuges to get to bomb grade so they could probably lose a few without severely setting things back.
  8. That really is a wonderful pull lolol thank you for putting a smile on my face. A bunch of goobers going on a boondoggle crusade is not a bad description of where this is all headed.
  9. it really is fucking ridiculous how consistently you can take it to the bank that the opposite has happened whenever our Commander in Chief, President Trump proclaims something is "pretty well destroyed!" I wonder if this still counts as a feather in his cap or not
  10. The fact of the matter is, any nation operating a nuclear reactor can pretty easily breed plutonium out of U238 and then chemically separate it, rather than dealing with the comparatively extremely difficult isotope separation. That's how we ended up with Little Man - it's far easier to breed plutonium from depleted uranium via neutron bombardment than to separate and enrich U235.
  11. whoever is runing the WKUK youtube channel is really having fun re-uploading to match current events
  12. I've got a 3 slot 3080 crammed into a Lian Li A3, along with a microATX B650M mobo running a 7600X CPU. 32 gigs of memory plus a nice right-angle 750W 80+ gold PSU is a nice SFF home theatre PC. My wife has been enjoying playing Oblivion on it, and we've been playing through Split Fiction together on it. The 3 slot card took some creative cable management and case bracket repositioning to make fit, but by golly it all fits in there just fine. If you buy a few case fans it even has pretty good airflow and I haven't had any temp or performance issues
  13. Have you not seen the "human meat wave" attacks that russia has been using in Ukraine to take territory? Shit is just old-school WWI tactics
  14. And that's the correct context to discuss religion, honestly. It's cultural, not factual
  15. My favorite is when people get butthurt and accuse you of politicizing things for pointing out the trump admin's strategic failures wrt/ their stated goals in the face of spiking the football over BIG BADA BOOM Wow, what a fucking feather in the cap this boondoggle is turning out to be!
  16. I got a W11 pro key for $11 on Groupon lol - the company had to send me four before it actually worked, but it eventually worked so I'm happy
  17. hold onto your cornholes, the secret police are a-comin' to deport you with no due process
  18. surly lawyers come tell me how this is all normal PLEASE
  19. Ok, now I'm certain Iran was able to move its nuclear materials stockpile before the bombs dropped
  20. Here's some top-shelf cruelty. Unfortunately, it sounds like this poor guy voted for it to happen to himself. https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ice-detains-marine-corps-veterans-wife-breastfeeding-baby-123108984 ICE detains Marine Corps veteran's wife who was still breastfeeding their baby BATON ROUGE, La. -- Marine Corps veteran Adrian Clouatre doesn't know how to tell his children where their mother went after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained her last month. When his nearly 2-year-old son Noah asks for his mother before bed, Clouatre just tells him, “Mama will be back soon.” When his 3-month-old, breastfeeding daughter Lyn is hungry, he gives her a bottle of baby formula instead. He’s worried how his newborn will bond with her mother absent skin-to-skin contact. His wife, Paola, is one of tens of thousands of people in custody and facing deportation as the Trump administration pushes for immigration officers to arrest 3,000 people a day. Even as Marine Corps recruiters promote enlistment as protection for families lacking legal status, directives for strict immigrant enforcement have cast away practices of deference previously afforded to military families, immigration law experts say. The federal agency tasked with helping military family members gain legal status now refers them for deportation, government memos show. To visit his wife, Adrian Clouatre has to make an eight-hour round trip from their home in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to a rural ICE detention center in Monroe. Clouatre, who qualifies as a service-disabled veteran, goes every chance he can get. Paola Clouatre, a 25-year-old Mexican national whose mother brought her into the country seeking asylum more than a decade ago, met Adrian Clouatre, 26, at a southern California nightclub during the final months of his five years of military service in 2022. Within a year, they had tattooed each other's names on their arms. After they married in 2024, Paola Clouatre sought a green card to legally live and work in the U.S. Adrian Clouatre said he is “not a very political person” but believes his wife deserved to live legally in the U.S. “I’m all for ‘get the criminals out of the country,’ right?" he said. "But the people that are here working hard, especially the ones married to Americans — I mean, that’s always been a way to secure a green card.”
  21. Hell, just the threat-in-being of Iran being fucky is going to drive up insurance rates for those shipping companies, who will pass that along to everyone downstream of their goods. They don't have to OWN THE WATERZZZZ, just make them sufficiently dangerous so that shipping is squeezed and causes economic pain.
  22. well they need to get their testing companies set up, before they can update the law to direct all testing business to their companies. Haven't you ever oligarched before?
  23. Asserting that the Arab Spring was purely a western manufactured movement is tipping your hand just a little too much, tovarich. Isn't GRUhorn persona non grata on surly? Why does he stick around ban after ban?
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