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Captainant

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  1. 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”
  2. That's the best part about margs - the more you drink the better they are
  3. 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
  4. roberts gutted the voting rights act precisely so these maps could become reality
  5. 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
  6. LinkedIn has some outright lunatics on it, it's just as bad as facebook imo
  7. just wait till that dude learns about how we celebrate Easter based on the pagan calendar's date
  8. this is an excellent and salient example of how the main group people who care about pronous are people using them as outrage bait
  9. 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
  10. 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?
  11. 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
  12. 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.
  13. Bingo - the law exists to bind but not protect the out groups, and protects but does not bind the in group
  14. 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.
  15. 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
  16. Ok, whatever you say Steve Bannon.
  17. So scared of violent crime, they're gonna stop prosecuting folks for illegally owning long guns in DC. Totes not setting up a paramilitary force in the seat of power.
  18. Notably, I'm not calling you or this administration "nazis". I'm saying their behavior is fascist and consistent with how the nazis behaved during their consolidation of power and state violence. But don't let me stop you from jumping to victimhood
  19. The crazy thing is that there's other recipients of CHIPS funding via grants that are not receiving demands of equity or compensation for what was a previous act of Congress. Just completely off the rails that the President is trying to take a bite out of a company. I could have sworn folks around these parts felt passionately about the government seizing private property....
  20. In the 1930s, the nazis deployed brown shirts and filled their ranks with the dregs of society that didn't have a job or prospects to look forward to. They then used that paramilitary force to attack their "untermensch" and political enemies. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/german-police-in-the-nazi-state We are at the point where the feds are hospitalizing journalists and activists for asking too many questions and taking too many pictures. The posse of highschool drop outs that ICE is hiring is just a modernization of hitlers Brown shirts - a paramilitary force that answers only to their fuhrer and doesn't give a shit about breaking the law or protecting public safety.
  21. Again, is this really true? As an adult I don't think I've ever seen Dems actually in power, and when they """have""" it hasn't been Dems road blocking legislative efforts, or playing identity politics games. Tbh, it feels like you and bozo are internalizing and evangelizing the MAGA framing and messaging by just "many people are saying Dems bad" as your whole commentary. It's not rank and file, it's the fish rotting from the head. It's not AOC or Mamdani being divisive or playing identity politics, but that's certainly how fox frames it to get the uncritical chuds onboard. And then the dem leadership is more than happy to tow that line for MAGA like a good controlled opposition does, because they're scared of letting go of their free insider trading meal ticket
  22. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window My guy, the majority electoral position in the country - the """MIDDLE""" - chose trump. Recalibrate your enthusiasm
  23. Pfft. Not even ultra pasteurized. What's the point, even /s
  24. They're probably in a state of incredulity
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