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Captainant

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  1. First TACO, now MIGAs? I hope we get some GUAC
  2. IIRC, the hardest part is going from raw natural uranium to LEU at 5-10% enrichment. It gets faster and faster to enrich further once you get up the scale, so you'll go from 10->20 faster, and 20->30 faster still. If Iran was able to stockpile material and even a small cascade setup, they'll be able to enrich up without too much trouble. You don't need as many cascades if you're starting out with high grade uranium. So given the level of saber rattling we were doing, I can't imagine Iran didn't have some reserve to seed their rebuild
  3. As someone raising a beautiful baby girl in Texas, FUCK!
  4. Holy shit, the underdogs take the first map! The energy in the stadium is awesome - Vitality, the French team has decided to play the heel and the Texan audience is more than happy to boo the shit out of them lol. The place is primed to blow it's top for the Mongolz to win. It would ruin Vitality's perfect season of winning every. goddamn. tournament. this year, and it would be an incredible Cinderella story
  5. https://apnews.com/article/texas-ten-commandments-law-3f1ea84acd67a028ad9b7c01c3c2368c AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas will require all public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments under a new law that will make the state the nation’s largest to attempt to impose such a mandate. Gov. Greg Abbott announced Saturday that he signed the bill, which is expected to draw a legal challenge from critics who consider it an unconstitutional violation of the separation of church and state. A similar law in Louisiana was blocked when a federal appeals court ruled Friday that it was unconstitutional. Arkansas also has a similar law that has been challenged in federal court. The Texas measure easily passed in the Republican-controlled state House and Senate in the legislative session that ended June 2. “The focus of this bill is to look at what is historically important to our nation educationally and judicially,” Republican state representative Candy Noble, a co-sponsor of the bill, said when it passed the House.
  6. I gotta disagree hard on that. Cassian knew he would not be able to leave Bix, and that he had work yet to be done. They were both committed to the mission. All in. In many ways, the people that Cassian lost is what defined and fueled him. It's what makes him get up and fight the Empire and dare to hope. Between his sister, Marva, Brasso, B-2, and now Bix - Cassian has lost everything.
  7. This attack completely topples nuclear nonproliferation. It communicates loud and clear that if you don't have nukes, you're gonna be at the mercy of nuclear states. That's definitely a landmark shift in foreign policy, but I cannot agree that is a net positive thing for people who don't want nuclear war.
  8. Grand Final is live at 2:30! Vitality vs Mongolz I hope the underdogs have the juice today, but Vitality just has SO MUCH skill and experience. Their in-game leader has played in 20 majors, and first won back in 2015!! Vitality has just been a whirling death machine, 7-0 through group stages and the playoff bracket so far is unreal
  9. That is literally part of the factual exposition that set up this strike on a very potentially emptied enrichment facility. https://www.businesstoday.in/world/story/did-iran-move-centrifuges-before-us-strike-satellite-images-show-trucks-lined-up-at-fordow-481338-2025-06-22
  10. This is a situation created by trump in the first place when he tore up the previous Iran nuclear deal for no reason besides Obama negotiated it. Spiking the football over your own manufactured crisis is not a "feather in the cap"
  11. 14 MOP's is what has been reported, only B2's can deploy them. Presumably, B21's will be able to as well https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBU-57A/B_MOP It was their first combat deployment, too.
  12. Also, lmfao if you think closing the Strait of Hormuz is going to help keep prices under control
  13. Fox news is a hell of a drug.
  14. Nearly the whole stockpile of MOP's has been dropped. Sure would be a kick in the pants if it turned out that they just moved their stockpile prior to the attack since the president had been saber rattling so hard about their nuclear materials
  15. Notably, Intel is being withheld internally from those who are statutorily supposed to be seeing and advising based on it. If you're not in the Party, then your elected office means nothing Withhding Intel from the gang of eight is just further dissolving the checks and balances, as we are flying full speed towards a shooting war without the consent of the governed. Wonderful.
  16. I mean, it sure does not seem like the end of it. The houthi attacks ramped up after their general was taken off the board. I'd bet were going to see a significant increase in terrorist threats, and particularly targeting US soft infra like power grids and public infrastructure. Good thing the US head of counter terrorism is 22 and worked at HEB this time last year, he's got those bad guys bagged. Edit: had to include his no-kidding-actually-real administration photo
  17. What do you think our leadership is doing? They've pretty overtly been wanting to do a crusade - our secdef has a big fucking crusade cross tattoo. Nevermind that our president has now twice ordered military strikes against Iran without Congressional approval. We the people do not have any say in how things go anymore. Bomb generals, bomb scientists, bomb facilities - all without approval because it's a """special military operation"""
  18. Tell me you don't do your own shopping without telling me. Don't believe your lying eyes, things are actually CHEAPER!!
  19. Each B2 can carry two, so that tracks. One of the big knocks against the B21 is that it's basically half a B2 - they can only carry one MOP
  20. Where are y'all? The president announced strikes 22 minutes ago https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-bombed-three-nuclear-sites-235723713.html Edit: lol day drinking on the beach makes reading the thread hard
  21. Oooh heres some good crimes against humanity! Withholding water in the sweltering Texas summer. A classic recently codified into law! https://apnews.com/article/migrants-child-supervision-texas-e4994b2b6786717ea79a4be230e476bf One mother was told she would have to use tap water for formula for her 9-month-old, who had diarrhea for three days after, and a 16-year-old girl described people scrambling over each other for water. “We don’t get enough water. They put out a little case of water, and everyone has to run for it,” said the declaration from the girl held with her mother and two younger siblings at the Karnes County Immigration Processing Center. “An adult here even pushed my little sister out of the way to get to the water first.”
  22. My favorite thing is that LLMs don't "believe" anything - they're simply predicting the next most likely word (token really, but I digress) to follow the current one. It's simply a matter of the models outputting fragments of knowledge that were encoded into the weights and biases of the underlying neural network.
  23. It's meant to denigrate billionaires by highlighting their similarity to the parasites that keep Russia in it's shithole state. But yeah, you're right. Comparisons to Russia aren't that bad for Republicans anymore, I suppose
  24. That thread on the B2 positioning analysis makes me think the bombers are loaded and in the air as a literal Sword of Damocles over Iran's head. The splash and record setting nature of the first circumnavigation bombing mission being a Trump™ order is a heck of a lot of gravity that he just can't resist
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