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Captainant

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  1. You tryna tell me that the plains and peninsulas of Ukraine are similar fighting conditions to the mountainous and desert Afghanistan?
  2. It's gonna take a military level of support to defeat russia in the field. Not a few handfuls of missiles and ammo that CIA could scrounge
  3. Fixed for historical comparison. This is some appeasement shit my dude. You think just giving up and letting Putin take Ukraine will satisfy his dictatorial hunger for power?
  4. You are doing the fascist's work for them by legitimizing trump's continued interference with Ukraine receiving more military aid to defend themselves from trump's largest donor. He's going to Mar a Lago before working with the SITTING FUCKING PRESIDENT for fucks sake.
  5. Well and also that it will take at least DOZEN STARSHIP LAUNCHES AND ORBITAL REFUELINGS for each Artemis trip to the moon. NASA hadn't even thought about that aspect of the mission design until a guest speaker asked the question at a lecture. Starship hasn't even reached orbit, much less validated an orbital refueling procedure between two orbiting starships. And then they need at least a dozen of them to go flawlessly for a successful launch. It reeks of the same slapdash design ethos that the rest of musk's projects have begun to exhibit. Amazingly groundbreaking promises that are astoundingly under delivered
  6. Yeah you shouldn't be buying anything that will charge your other devices from temu or AliExpress, or even Amazon if the vendor is shady enough. An under or out of spec charger can overheat quickly and become a serious fire risk, or it could just fry your device
  7. Let me tell you, there are few things that fascists hate more than being called a fascist.
  8. Any news around SpaceX failing to deliver really makes me anxious about the Artemis program. Each Artemis moon landing is going to require upwards of a dozen Starship launches and orbital refuelings just to have the ΔV to hit their planned Lunar orbit.
  9. Honestly, no not really. That's eight percent as bad. Dude is going to jail for less than half a year for aiding and abetting one of the most damaging frauds on the American public. That's tiddlyfuckinwinks. That is a fucking slap on the wrist for everything else that he's done that we know about. Give me a fucking break dude. Point is no good, doinked off the upright.
  10. You mean 5 months? https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/ex-trump-cfo-allen-weisselberg-sentenced-perjury-trump-civil-fraud-tri-rcna147144
  11. I live in Houston near 2nd Baptist. What's the process like to complain to the IRS or whichever powers that be to revoke their tax exempt status?
  12. Gonna be ugly to see whatever happens in China as Evergrand continues its Hindenburg impression
  13. Last time I actually took the time to write a letter and send it by mail to a rep's office I got a reply about 8 months later after the issue was resolved, and the reply was completely unresponsive to what I wrote. They don't give a flying fuck what you have to say unless it comes with a five figure check
  14. Well duh. We're not incredibly wealthy people with access to politicians. No shit we would be prosecuted. That dichotomy and problem is the difference in upfront treatment and handling depending on your wealth. We have a multi-tier justice system. My greatest wish is that trump would be sentenced to he tried as a black man, rather than a rich white man.
  15. crossposting from the abortion thread, because hot damn that's christian nationalism at work
  16. And those lower courts don't give a shit about the facts of the cases that they're grooming to send to the supremes. Citizens United. Kennedy v Bremmer. Shelby v Holder. I could keep naming cases that hinged on counterfactual findings in the district level that were carried and helpfully ignored every step along the way to the supremes.
  17. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/epa-limits-pfas-chemicals-drinking-water-first-time-rcna147000 The EPA announced Wednesday that levels of PFOA and PFOS — two types of PFAS commonly used in nonstick or stain-resistant products such as food packaging and firefighting foam — can’t exceed 4 parts per trillion in public drinking water. Three additional PFAS chemicals will be restricted to 10 parts per trillion. They are PFNA and PFHxS — older versions of PFAS — and GenX chemicals, a newer generation of chemicals created as a replacement for PFOA.
  18. the highest court in the land would disagree with you
  19. When the core intent is not to inform the public, but to make money on advertisements it's not hard to see how perverse incentives can inevitably steer things in this direction. It'll take deaths from missing critical safety information like an impending tornado for anything to actually change
  20. bump - Norfolk Southern has agreed to pay $600M in a settlement over the >$1,100M damages they caused (AP reporting) Norfolk Southern has agreed to pay $600 million in a class-action lawsuit settlement for a fiery February 2023 train derailment in Ohio, but residents worry the money not only won’t go far enough to cover future health needs that could be tremendous but also won’t amount to much once divvied up. “It’s not nowhere near my needs, let alone what the health effects are going to be five or 10 years down the road,” said Eric Cozza, who lived just three blocks from the derailment and had 47 family members living within a mile (1.61 kilometers). More than three dozen of the freight train’s 149 cars derailed on the outskirts of East Palestine, a town of almost 5,000 residents near the Pennsylvania state line. Several cars spilled a cocktail of hazardous materials that caught fire. Three days later, officials, fearing an explosion, blew open five tankcars filled with vinyl chloride and burned the toxic chemical — sending thick, black plumes of smoke into the air. Some 1,500 to 2,000 residents were evacuated. More than a year later residents still complain about respiratory problems and unexplained rashes and nosebleeds, but the greater fear is that people will develop cancer or other serious conditions because of the chemicals they were exposed to. Researchers have only begun to work on determining the lasting repercussions of the derailment. Norfolk Southern said the agreement, if approved by the court, will resolve all class action claims within a 20-mile (32-kilometer) radius of the derailment and, for residents who choose to participate, personal injury claims within a 10-mile (16-kilometer) radius of the derailment. The settlement, which doesn’t include or constitute any admission of liability, wrongdoing or fault, represents only a small slice of the $3 billion in revenue Norfolk Southern generated just in the first three months of this year. The railroad said that even after the settlement it still made a $213 million profit in the quarter.
  21. Captainant

    Balatro

    Anyone else been playing Balatro? It's a poker rogue like deck builder that's $15 on steam where each round you're playing hands to build chips and multiplier to hit an ever higher point total. After each round you earn some money that you can use to buy jokers or new cards for your deck or tarot cards that do crazy things like making wild cards or giving hearts a 1.5X score multiplier for each heart played. So far the best have Ive played is a "flush five" on a good run where I had managed to replace almost every card in my deck with jacks of spades lol.
  22. The supreme court has been in the habit of issuing fact free rulings. Facts don't matter, and the points are all made up. You think the law matters? It's only so until one of the Supremes donors deigns differently. Turns out RV's spend real good! It's not a refutation of facts, but an acceptance of their lack of standing in our brave new world
  23. Huh so this case happens to also be in front of Judge Gamble in TX459, who also presided over the Jones defamation case. That's definitely a "home field" advantage for Bankston who probably has a pretty good working relationship with that court by now
  24. The sanctions filing is a few posts up and was filed yesterday, and lays all that out across 162 pages
  25. @immamac where does surly officially stand on using slurs like "retard" or "schizo" as a personal attack on other posters repeatedly? I get that surly is a place for shithousery, but where's your line between being toxic and rough housing? Especially across a period of several months?
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