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Captainant

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  1. I gotta say, GRUhorn, props for holding off on pulling the mask off for a bit longer. You resisted posting in the crypto thread for longer than normal
  2. I remember hearing overtures of "the growth will pay for the debt!" at the time of the last major round of tax cuts
  3. I'll be damned. Never read that before, thanks for sharing it
  4. That seems like a bit of projection to me, Herbert's interviews about the book make it seem like he was in more of a literary conversation than a contemporary political one
  5. Social media and video games are junk food. Feel good, easy, fun, but you are gonna have a rough time if you're living on it
  6. Maybe he's making the point that if a single person had an AR-15, TXDPS would have been too terrified to do anything and camped out for a few hours instead of teakettling the students?
  7. Hey hey, take the MBA cultural domination talk to the enshittification thread, geeze! /S
  8. Hey hey hey let's try and be accurate here! The dude banging 16yo's when he was 20 also bangs drunk chicks
  9. Also news update: Hartzell backpedaling is in full swing https://www.kut.org/education/2024-04-26/ut-austin-protest-arrests-campus-ban Students arrested at UT Austin this week will be allowed back on campus for any purpose, a university spokesperson said, reversing earlier statements. The spokesperson, Brian Davis, had said students charged with trespassing during protests would not be allowed on campus. Two hours later, he said those affiliated with the university could come to campus for "academic reasons," including to take final exams and study. Later Friday evening, UT Austin sent a statement saying students would have complete access to campus. People arrested at the protest with no connection to the university are still banned. Davis told KUT students arrested during the pro-Palestinian protest could later face discipline, including restrictions to campus access. The university said it typically doesn't send these kind of notices during finals so students aren't distracted.
  10. It's almost like they want to be protected by the law, but not bound by it. Ya know, totally normal things for a Liberal Democracy
  11. Herbert wrote Dune as a direct criticism of the fantasy trope of "the main character is the one true good guy who can right the wrongs", and is ultimately a cautionary tale against messiah figures. So I don't think Dune: Messiah is going to be a happy story as Paul and the rest of humanity learns the cost of walking the golden path
  12. Captainant

    LBGTQ

    Hey @DixonHur this is another step along the path of fascism. Just since you seem to be fuckin oblivious to it
  13. Nevermind the wholesale destruction of the "third place", there's just not that much opportunity for in person interactions anymore. Younger folks (<35yo) are pretty terrible at RSVP'ing and following through, and I really wonder how much of it is carryover from just not having much personal time anymore. It seems like most jobs that are available to younger folks either have an incredibly inconsistent schedule if you're hourly, or demand ALL of your time ALL of the time if you're salary. That mindset leads to fuckin exhaustion and burnout, and burnt out people tend to not give a shit
  14. Yeah thankfully the criminal trial is going pretty poorly for trumpco. The judge sustained multiple objections against the defense during their opening arguments, and just yesterday were spanked by the judge for being intentionally misleading to the jury. That doesn't do great things in a jury trial
  15. Narratively the entire reason for the Bene Geserit is to put humanity on the "golden path" by creating the ultimate leader, the Kwizatch Haderach (definitely spelled that wrong). And it turns out that it overlaps pretty heavily with the Fremen religion that the BG seeded and the Liasn al Gaib
  16. What a crazy coda to the Chernobyl story https://www.kyivpost.com/post/31734 We knew it was probably the case when it was happening, but the Kyiv post put out a story on how the ivans occupying Ukraine simply were never told about Chernobyl. So they happily dug in trenches into the toxic ground, and cooked over campfires burning radioactive wood. And they marauded through all the houses and buildings and looted a ton of incredibly radioactive souvenirs “They stole some decorative deer antlers from an (abandoned) Police Department building. They had been hanging on the wall there since 1986 and they were so irradiated it was just a disaster. Probably it was a gift to some general. So someone (member of the Russian occupation force) hung it over his bed….the Geiger Counter goes off the scale,” Galushehnko said, in comments reported by the LB.UA news platform. All because the truth was again kept from their people
  17. There's a pretty good chance that tap water is fucking riddled with PFAS/PFOS https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/16/texas-pfas-forever-chemicals-public-water-systems-epa-limit/
  18. Then something has truly broken in you if your study of history says the best thing is to quietly comply with tyranny, since you think "protests serve little purpose but to annoy other people". History shows that societies move forward thanks to protests from the public seeking redress of their grievances against the State.
  19. JFC so you're a burnt out finance genXer nihilist. No wonder you don't give a shit about people's rights being taken away and think that protesting is pointless. Read a fucking history book. Jesus Christ.
  20. So you don't care about the deprivation of 1st amendment rights by the State because you don't value the 1st amendment?
  21. You clearly haven't read or clicked through the DT thread, but asked and answered as far as what I tend to use Umberto Eco kinda fuckin nailed it, IMO
  22. That's not what happened on Wednesday. You are being a sockpuppet for hot wheels when you continue to insist what happened in NY and CA is what was happening in Texas.
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