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Captainant

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  1. Hah just realized - the bars on trump's jacket are the exact same as sadam's
  2. I've been on pocketcasts forever, it's a good android option, but I dislike how they started taking away features and put them behind a subscription paywall. I'd gladly pay a one-time fee, but fuck subscription models in the face.
  3. holy hell, default embed sizes are ridiculous lol. It took multiple "scrolls" to get past this longcat video on desktop
  4. Lulz makes me wanna go back and count how many times I got told I was overreacting for saying the same thing here on surly.
  5. [Laughs in Hoover] Not like the FBI has ever been involved in illegal and totalitarian behavior
  6. The kicker? Nearly half of US GDP growth has been from AI data center spending. Spending which doesn't increase profits or drive revenue, and yet it's growth has been the main engine of economic activity since 2023 or so
  7. Wow I didn't know you wanted to deport the first lady, falsifying visas is deadly serious business
  8. It's wild to think that he's just poisoning a town in Tennessee with his power gen for data centers so that he can hornypost and goon to AI slop. Like, a whole town has significantly higher nitrogen oxide levels in their air because of all the extra power being generated onsite https://time.com/7308925/elon-musk-memphis-ai-data-center/ They're building a new data center that's twice the size of the existing one right now, and have already flown in SIXTY SIX natgas turbines for the project. Most power stations use three or four, or a big one uses a dozen. That's a horrific amount of power for a racist shitposting chatbot
  9. “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
  10. he fails his history check - failure to hold fascists accountable only guarantees that they will soon be back. And in greater numbers.
  11. For context: WalMart said on their earnings call this morning that they're seeing “increased sales among upper income customers that wouldn’t usually shop there”
  12. That's the best part about margs - the more you drink the better they are
  13. There's a chilling movie about the Wannsee Conference - Conspiracy - that won quite a bit of recognition when it came out. The banality of evil on full display, ensuring that their final solution is fully legally compliant and maximally efficient Stanley Tucci as Eichmann, and Kenneth Branagh as Heydrich. Incredible cast that gives such a dark performance
  14. roberts gutted the voting rights act precisely so these maps could become reality
  15. Better Offline with Ed Zitron has a really good series running on this right now "The AI Money Trap" that isn't anything he hasn't covered before really, but it's bringing some relevant current information to the table. It's all a house of cards, propped up by cherry-picked ARR numbers that are not giving a realistic depiction of the state of their business. And that bubble is responsible for a double-digit percentage of value on the stock market and a plurality of the total trades that occur in terms of value exchanged. Nvidia is only making as much money as they are while there's speculative business models that demand buying their chips. Once that speculative bubble is popped it's gonna get very interesting
  16. LinkedIn has some outright lunatics on it, it's just as bad as facebook imo
  17. just wait till that dude learns about how we celebrate Easter based on the pagan calendar's date
  18. this is an excellent and salient example of how the main group people who care about pronous are people using them as outrage bait
  19. I don't think it's online ads, I think it's the products that are being marketed at the general public. Hell, when I was in NYC for work I saw one of the most dystopic ads I've ever seen: Every camera app has a filter to make you beautiful, or skinny, or a different color, or a different sex, or an animal. I feel like literally seeing yourself and your peers as other things besides their own selves is a bigger contributor to body dysmorphia than some outside malignant targeted effort
  20. So you're speculating there's an entity using micro targeting like how Facebook did to drive outrage, only driving homosexuality with the express intent of targeting conservative families? Or that division efforts are and always have been ongoing online, and this is just the new button being pressed to get that outcome?
  21. I think it's the new flavor of satanic panic. At least that particular "they're doing sex changes in schools" line of idiotic conspiracy
  22. I don't know of anyone on surly or in actual real life that cares at all about pronouns. Yes, some folks had it in their email signature but I've not once ever in my real life - professionally or personally - seen pronouns come up. Much less as a point of conflict in an actual interpersonal relationship of any type And yeah, you definitely see faceless anonymous accounts getting BIG MAD about it online, but that's just looking for a reason to construct a grievance. Hell, what policy has been advanced around pronouns? Is it anywhere near the breadth and depth of actual REAL legislation that is passing into law? Show me evidence of the feelz == realz .... .... So why do boomers and baby-boomer genX'ers that LOVE to bring it up as the leading indicator the Democrats have gone too far, and nurse it as a grievance?? Lemme know when y'all solve litterboxes in classrooms and eating cats and dogs. Since ya know, every grievance is real and deserves attention.
  23. Bingo - the law exists to bind but not protect the out groups, and protects but does not bind the in group
  24. Real answer: trump effectively uses the Soviet technique of flooding the zone with bullshit and lies and falsehood so that he can operate under a smoke screen.
  25. BO&W and bozo are doing a weird "push all the Republican rhetoric as unimpeachable fact" bit. I have no doubt that the perception of using those terms was damaging, but I definitely didn't see it in regular use in my life and online time. I did see a whole shitload of republicans pushing that as a grievance to motivate their base though. So it's a bummer to see people so uncritically repeating the anecdote as if it's reflective of reality
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