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Captainant

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  1. Well that and the giant bag of cash the Saudis gave him to buy Twitter lol, and the Saudis arent exactly renowned for their posture towards free speech.
  2. Lol this thread is just a dumping ground for 52-80 to rage and correct people's English on a Sunday afternoon. PS - chocolate futures are going through the roof because it's very likely there's going to be much less chocolate in the future thanks to climate change destroying it's preferred ecology. If you want I can probably find a graph to explain it to you
  3. I'd bet a dollar that Ventress will have something to do with that. Orrrr the show will end suuuuper dark with Omega not getting rescued
  4. https://www.kyivpost.com/post/30731 “It is necessary to specifically tell Congress that if Congress does not help Ukraine, Ukraine will lose the war,” Zelensky said during a video meeting of the Kyiv-organized fundraising platform United24. Zelensky said it would be “difficult” for Ukraine to “stay” without the aid. He said that “if Ukraine loses the war, other states will be attacked.”
  5. Oh hey on that note, WaPo has some new reporting out:
  6. That's... not the transmission lines between the vast renewables in West Texas and the rest of the state nor the high power transmission lines that caused more than a million acres to burn? And yeah, I've been looking at a downed wood pole on my street for a week and a half now, I'm eager for a metal replacement whenever they get around to it. But I'm glad you have a local anecdote that gives you the thin justification to act like there's not a systemic issue
  7. Hell, I bought my house through a realtor I met on surly! Shout out to @UTPhil2006
  8. Not building more power lines aids profitability and thanks to our regulatory capture, creates a natural disincentive for a profit driven entity just through market forces. It makes power less available so utilities have more ability to induce local shortages to enable them to charge exorbitant rates! And plus who's gonna pay for those new capital investments for infrastructure to reduce systemic risk?? It certainly can't be the shareholder!!!
  9. So not only does the state not inspect power lines nor have the power to compell companies to address risks before they strike and burn OVER A MILLION ACRES OF TEXAS, but theres a fundamental lack of clarity over who actually is in charge. We are taking another spin on the Fuck Around and Find Out express
  10. Only because the judge on the case wouldn't let the prosecution show the video of him from a couple months prior stating his desire to "go shoot a looter"
  11. It's just fucking insane that apparently our options are either "suspend habeas corpus" or "let trump repeatedly abuse the justice system with unchecked lies". What the fucking fuck? It's like y'all have this weird blind spot that makes you think trump is always acting in good faith when he NEVER fucking has
  12. IMO, you're gonna run into lots of folks using it for region shifting their Internet traffic. Getting around regional locks and blocks, that sort of thing. If you offer it as a perk you're gonna want to put some quotas on it just to protect yourself from the bandwidth cost running out of control
  13. I get grabbing it for the personal media collection, but this is something that you'll be happier to rip and have your own copy of with full richness HDR and all the 4k goodness (once it's available). Plus you gotta support this kinda stuff if you wanna see more of it
  14. Just got my letter in the mail, mine went down too for HCAD
  15. GRUhorn has had an active handle on surly in perpetuity since his initial ban. He frequently builds up post count and rep on the 6th St Journal board, and then starts to branch out to the other boards and eventually gets ID'd and popped. Rinse and repeat
  16. Well yeah but that was just the standard uniform
  17. It's not chatGPT, but is another great example of the "AI' really being offshore humans via a very elaborate Mechanical Turk https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/amazons-ai-based-just-walk-out-checkout-tech-was-powered-by-1000-indian-workers-manually-11712196827721.html
  18. This is an artifact and echo of the American business system writ large. Don't worry about long term consequences, short term is all you can see so it's all that exists. That's a major constitutional amendment my dude. Congress has the power of the purse. The real problem is that Congress's actions no longer align with the wishes of the people, but rather the wishes of their donors and so people's wishes and consent don't really have much impact on spending anymore
  19. That line ain't gonna go up on it's own, dawg. There's quite a few business interests intertwined with Chinese money from the mid/late twenty-teens. Who do you think makes basically all of the consumer electronics that we all enjoy?
  20. The delays after indictment wouldn't be a problem if this were not a race against the clock. We know what they are willing to do to take power. Why the fuck are we leaving the door open for them to fuck around again? Why do we all have to find out, AGAIN?? JFC it's like Neville goddamn Chamberlain is in charge of shit, just hoping if we give the fascists enough space and time they'll just move on.
  21. Ah my bad with over-inferring, thanks for catching that.
  22. Well the first step is admitting that your judiciary has been co-opted, at least in part, by the fascists who want to end democracy. Once we have internalized that, we can start to actually consider remedies to this cancer. Problem is, cancers will always grow back unless you completely excise or kill every last bit of it.
  23. These fucking cowards had more cops to go after one dude than Crockett had defenders at the Alamo to fight the Mexican army.
  24. The US justice system seems to have an asymptotic relationship with trump. It's always ever closing in, but never actually intercepting him.
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