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Captainant

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  1. Looks interesting, coming to IMAX next March
  2. Holy shit they may actually come for him https://www.npr.org/2025/06/30/nx-s1-5445398/denaturalization-trump-immigration-enforcement
  3. ICE is about to be better funded than the fucking Marine Corps
  4. A significant portion of US GDP is driven by stimulus via government spending. I thought you like LGU economics?
  5. The early seasons have rough animation, but those shows have some of the best visuals and moments of grandness. The whole nebula chase in the 2nd season is gorgeous
  6. Love these platitudes in the context of people getting rug pulled on social security and medicare. It's this like how "not paying taxes makes me smart"?
  7. Well it's not like the president has driven multiple casinos into bankruptcy or anything right? Maybe the ghost of Fred trump can bail out America like he did the trump taj mahal
  8. Are they served out of the gif picker or something?
  9. It's pretty remarkable what you can accomplish now with an agent to help with implementation and limited troubleshooting. With that said, it's also going to lead to a massive explosion in orphaned and unexplainable code within organizations. I'm currently, right now, dealing with that problem with a customer - only they got their unmaintainable code thanks to south asian contracting firms. Most of the jobs that genAI is going to replace first is that tier of contracting job, since the work product is equivalent and there's much less needful that needs doing.
  10. Wow holy shit and the Supreme Court just opened the door for the president to kill birthright citizenship. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a884_8n59.pdf ICE ICE, baby.
  11. Here's the opinion https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a884_8n59.pdf This is going to lead to fucking geneology panels and shit to guarantee the purity of americans in order to be graciously granted citizenship.
  12. Seems like a bad time to be in the rocket engine testing business. A SRB nozzle for the Artemis program went kablooey during a static test fire on the range. Just happend yesterday, so no analysis on what went wrong yet
  13. Flee tyranny seeking religious freedom? Belive it or not, jail.
  14. Captainant

    SpaceX

    Pinging in here, curious if anyone has been tracking the launch site cleanup effort. I mean, aside from scattering polymers and powderized silica over a protected wetland environment I mean. They had a pretty big fkn crane fall over working the cleanup
  15. The rub is: establishment dems and the primary process guarantee this would never make it to the general. See: NYC mayoral race flipping the FUCK out over a progressive
  16. The Houston Sabercats are playing for their first national title attempt Saturday at 1PM on ESPN2 - check em out!
  17. I gotta say, yall have really successfully derailed this thread and moved the discussion off of the strategic failure of this strike, and how it's almost certainly going to result in either 1) a more expensive JCPOA, or 2) Iran with an accelerated nuke program. Great stuff, all around.
  18. Last time I flew into IAH, some batshit canadian lady was on the parking shuttle with me talking about how "the librulz ruined MY country!" and how she was sooooo happy to be in Texas now. I'd bet my bottom dollar she overstayed her visa and is just like this hypocritcal (and now dead) MAGAt
  19. Well that strategy has certainly led donald trump to ruin, amirite??
  20. what the fuck even IS an "islamist"? That's really my issue lol. It's being used and thrown around like "woke" or "CRT" or "DEI" where someone shouts it and everyone nods along like useful idiots without bothering to wonder what they actually mean. A christofascist is someone who drapes themselves in Christianity and weaponizes faith to advance and further fascist policy and social moves. I'm happy to provide current examples past that generic definition if you'd like. And further, it wasn't even really that phrase - it was that he was comparing posting on a message board to the nazi fucking occupation of France lol. That's just ridiculous, but don't let that stop you from defending it for some strange reason.
  21. Wait are you comparing "islamists" (whatever that is lol) posting on a message board to the nazi occupation of Paris? This is an all-time meltdown
  22. holy shit can we put some bollards around brian and rex goddamn
  23. holy shit he's just gonna run the JCPOA back hahahahahahahahaha #artofthedeal
  24. Here's the same author published on his local news channel's site https://www.local10.com/weather/hurricane/2025/06/26/critical-hurricane-forecast-tool-abruptly-terminated/ The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program and its constellation of three weather satellites provide roughly half of all microwave satellite scans to forecasters. Those go dark beginning next Monday. “Their loss is a big deal,” says retired National Hurricane Center branch chief James Franklin, who oversaw all NHC hurricane forecasters until his retirement in 2017. “Without this imagery, there will be increased risk of a ‘sunrise surprise,’ the realization from first-light images that a system had become much better organized overnight, but it wasn’t recognized because structural details are so hard to discern from [infrared satellite].” Microwave data are also used to help “fix” or position the center of storms, a task not always easily or accurately accomplished using visible or enhanced satellite pictures. As the butterfly effect demonstrates, small errors in the initial positioning of a storm can lead to outsized forecast errors in four or five days. “For weaker systems, [it’s] increased initial position error (in the tens of miles) that will cascade into poorer track forecasts,” warns Franklin. Microwave data such as those from the DoD Special Sensor Microwave Imager Sounder are essential to hurricane forecasts, not a nice-to-have. They’re used in a variety of critical applications, including estimating hurricane intensity through AI-driven neural networks like the Deep Multispectral INtensity of TCs estimator or DMINT. In the absence of hurricane hunters, DMINT has been shown to be one of the most crucial tools in a hurricane forecaster’s arsenal for estimating storm intensity, largely because of the microwave data it utilizes. Though other microwave data will still be available to forecasters, the DoD weather satellites comprise half of all microwave instruments, which means data availability will be sliced in half, greatly increasing the odds of missing rapid intensification episodes, underestimating intensity, or misplacing the storm and degrading forecast accuracy. While the Department of Defense did successfully launched another weather satellite known as the Weather System Follow-on Microwave (WSF-M) in April 2024, that data isn’t currently available to forecasters and it’s not clear if or when data access will be permitted. It's gonna be a real fuckin scary hurricane season flying blind. Thank goodness the president has a sterling history with disaster recovery and response.
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