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Captainant

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  1. A 3 day special military operation,say that's just crazy enough to work...
  2. Deep. Substrate. Foliated. Wokeite.
  3. Really is crazy how similar it is
  4. The president liked Top Gun Maverick so much he's ordering up the next one
  5. It's paywall'd for me still ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯
  6. Wanted to ping back on this after reading another datapoint that I can't help but infer a correlation with the "very tame" BLS numbers: https://www.napa-net.org/news/2025/6/latest-2026-social-security-cola-projection-holds-steady/ If inflation is artificially marked lower than is actually happening, and they're able to successfully hide behind the excuse of "we fired everyone who used to collect that data", they can claim they've lowered inflation and reduced spending on SSA while reducing benefits without cutting spending. It's a backdoor way to starve the system out and pay out less and less to retirees.
  7. well between this, and Florida declaring that it's legal to run over protesters I imagine they're just a little overstimulated right now
  8. The fucking secretary of DHS said she was there to "liberate the city from the burdensome leadership, mayor and governor." and that they "aren't going away". While she had SS agents forcibly remove, handcuff, and arrest a senior senator with a legislative responsibilty for oversight OVER THAT SPECIFIC CABINET MEMBER This is outrageous. Where all the StAtEs RiGhTs people now? Where's my goddamn local governance?
  9. The funny thing is - that's literally been their feature release strategy for iOS since like the iPhone 3G. The new iOS features were pretty much alway stuff that android and jailbreak had had for years, and only grudgingly brought onboard once enough people asked for it. I don't know if it's more jaded customers, or just less juice in the Apple, but it's notable that their old strategies aren't working anymore
  10. Try that in a small town
  11. 'member when there was a deal in place to keep Iran from doing just that, which entitled us to oversight and access to verify their compliance? Who was the genius that tore that up, only to try and put it back together again?
  12. I haven't seen "empty" shelves, but there's definitely been fewer items behind the front two or three in all the stores I go to regularly. Prices are higher, there's less selection, and I've noticed produce quality getting worse at an HEB that had killer stuff for the last five years
  13. Nevermind that he's a senior member of the legislatively mandated oversight comittee for ICE and BCP.
  14. It definitely looks like early flap retraction as the cause of the stall, but I wonder what the puff of smoke on takeoff was indicative of a critical loss of power. Jeeze, what a nightmare
  15. Coming back to this - I think it's a really interesting reflection of society that so many people think and live this way. In business, it doesn't matter how unsustainable and shitty your business model is - only that it's perceived as strong. Managers don't care about how much work gets done by workers, they only care how much is seen getting done. It's a very hollow way to go through life, and makes a ton of sense why genAI is so popular. It's effective at improving the perception of workers as being productive - just as long as you never take a critical look and what's being made. It's how MBA's earn their nut while gutting the future stability of a business - they're perceived to be experts, and so nobody bothers to challenge their idiocy and antipatterns become self reinforcing
  16. The nazis literally supported the creation of a Jewish state so that they would have a place to ship them all off to.
  17. Not kidding - restart your devices before going through customs if it's a concern for you. Cell phones will encrypt the device info within the secure enclave, and bitlocker or whatever other system encryption will kick in on your computer. Absolutely absurd that's where we're at, but thankfully there's legally compliant ways to protect your own privacy
  18. From the footage it looked like the flaps were not extended, so it's probably likely pilot error unless 787's history of poor workmanship really struck at the worst time
  19. Pseudo-coding is very very important and useful during the ideation phase, when you want to try and explore a large possiblilty space of designs without committing to any specifics. You can do that because you don't have any integrations or SLA's or customers to satisfy - it's "greenfield". As soon as the rubber hits the road and you've got business partners who need commitments from you towards reliabiltiy so they can author a business plan they can sell to the board to get funding.... It's exceptionally risky to offload all your development to vibe coding. As someone who lives and makes a living in the operational space where consequences exist for shitty and unexplainable code, I don't see that going super well for anyone. It's effectively the same thing as offshoring all your coding development to contractors, and then wondering how you ended up with such a brittle tech stack. I've been the sonofabitch unwinding that on a production outage call before, and when your only expertise for the code your business relies on is a friggin language model, not even humans a dozen time zones away.... That's not gonna result in a very resilient business model. I'm very interested to be proved wrong, so that I can stop being responsible for that sort of thing, but there's such a titanic degree of trade secrets and organizational information classification that I just don't see a training dataset getting pulled together to train such a model. It's not that it's technically impossible, I just don't see how you get there as someone who is a technical specialist in LLMs and machine learning generally, and who actually has to realize tangible and deliverable outcomes
  20. Rockerfeller also accomplished those lofty industrial achievements on the backs of an ironclad monopoly. His exploitation of government via regulatory capture was what held the door open for his monopoly to flourish. The Reckless Decade is a wonderful read covering a fascinating time in American history
  21. ICE is kidnapping people who are appearing for their court hearings. That's a great way to encourage people to stop showing up to court.
  22. The funny thing is the outright honesty of that blank filing for their table of authorities that they're citing to build their opinion. Trump is hoping to have it both ways and get the good parts from the Posse Comitatus Act and from theoretically invoking the Insurrection Act, while ignoring all the safeguards attached to those laws. But hey, if the courts rule against him we just have to hope the Executive Branch faithfully executes the law as interpreted by the courts. Gee, who leads the Executive Branch again?
  23. lol yeah, lotta riots happening there! WONT SOMEBODY THINK OF THE INSURERS??? Weird how you don't give a shit about the private property of folks being criminally assaulted by police officers
  24. Just wait till ICE finishes up at Home Depot gets around to agricultural workers
  25. inciting? What are you talking about? Trump is showing LEADERSHIP!!!!
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