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Captainant

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  1. Hah I'll be damned thats real https://www.si.com/mlb/pope-leo-xiv-photo-chicago-white-sox-world-series-game-2005 At least SI's content mill is reporting it
  2. Captainant

    LBGTQ

    moderation works, whodathunkit!
  3. At least we'll get more Cecily Strong on Weekend Update
  4. Shit, have you heard of the shit they'll do just over a fence?
  5. Unrestrained corruption and oligarchy. Lovely. Say, where'd all the people thrilled about his free speech absolutism go?? https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-pushes-nations-facing-tariffs-approve-musks-starlink-washington-post-reports-2025-05-07/
  6. that's a bad headline - another hornet has not been lost. The "third" hornet is the one that just had the bad landing. First was the Gettysburg shootdown, second was the roll-off on the elevator, and third was this one
  7. both sides are CLOWNS
  8. going to jail for vandalism spray paint would be pretty outrageous IMO. It's fuckin' stainless steel! Sandblast that shit and send it back out - it's EXTREMELY HARDCORE(!!!!) Dude should 100% be on the hook for remediation and any fines though
  9. Big trouble in Inner Sphere (shout out to /r/Battletech) s6hh8c82hbze1DASH_480.mp4
  10. Sell off the national parks so that our oligarchs can get more tax breaks. Weeeeew! https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-07/republicans-to-pay-for-trump-tax-cuts-with-sales-of-public-land
  11. The imps said they needed the Kalkite for coating "reactor lenses", the scene is used in two of the three "previously on" bits. My thinking is that we know Kyber is used as the focusing lens in a lightsaber to make the blade, and we also know they're able to handle the immense output from the main reactor of the Death Star.
  12. I have a called shot for next week Man the next morning and I'm still buzzing, that was one hell of a trio of episodes
  13. It really is impressive the fidelity that Gilroy has brought to a dyed in the wool story about revolution. It's wonderful that the show isn't just action or drama, they're woven together beautifully and pays off long running threads very satisfyingly. I can't wait to see how Dedra works out in 1BBY. That scene with Syril and her in the ISB headquarters was some WILD shit, it really effected her and did something to who she is
  14. Rex, I don't think you're ready. You may need to call a doctor after seeing so many protesters get teakettled and stormtrooper'd
  15. The sticking point here is that iOS users could always just open a browser tab and interact with patreon.com as a webpage - and iOS developers were systematically blocked from even informing their users that it was an option. When Apple breaks the rules and perjures themselves to the court, it's gonna be an uphill push for them to argue that they deserve to get paid for doing no work to produce, deliver, or maintain the digital content that's at issue here. I feel like it's being framed as if Apple was solely responsible for delivering digital content. They aren't. They provide app package downloads in a "safe and secure" manner through the app store, and justifiably charge a fee for doing so. They incur real, actual costs in doing so and provide an actual utility to developers AND customers. Once that app is downloaded, it's no longer Apple's problem to keep it running - that's on the developer's side of their shared responsibility model. If Apple isn't responsible for it or incurring the costs, WHY are the entitled to arbitrary add-on fees? And one step further, if your position is that they are entitled in the iOS ecosystem, why aren't they also entitled to do so on MacOS platforms and Microsoft entitled to charge a platform "rake" fee for every peice of business conducted on a Windows machine? Should I be responsible for cutting MS a check for a quarter of my closing costs on my new home in a couple days, because I'm doing the transaction on a PC that Microsoft has spent time securing the OS on?
  16. Here's a specific case in point that JUST changed: Patreon users could not subscribe to a creator on iOS platforms unless the creators agreed to charging 30% extra. The second this new ruling came out, Patreon changed and presto you can subscribe to creators at the same price on iOS as everywhere else. https://9to5mac.com/2025/05/01/spotify-patreon-among-major-apps-already-working-to-bypass-apple-fees/ In both cases, iOS does not provide any sort of novel utility for Patreon or Spotify users. Does Microsoft deserve 30% of every transaction you complete on your Windows PC? Why doesn't Apple's policy apply to MacBooks? They put in the same level of effort into MacOS, if not more than what they do for iOS. I haven't really heard or read a good reason for why they get to seek rents aside from "it would hurt their business model if they couldn't"
  17. Yes, the ruling and court order stated as much. The problem is that apple actively worked to undermine and not comply with the order, and the judge has them on paper doing it. The result of their bad faith is customers then being exposed to apples 27% take for zero value add (with digital add-on content) as described above
  18. Moisture farming has never been big bucks, plus your farmhands keep bucking to leave for the Imperial Academy or go muck around in Anchorhead
  19. You're telling me that running DoD like elon musk's twitter takeover is not a good idea for our warfighting and deterrance posture?
  20. Gotta say, invoking lebensraum as a national policy for Israel was not on my bingo card. "Voluntary emigration" (the phrase quoted in the linked AP article) isn't really voluntary when it's that or getting JDAM'd https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-cabinet-approves-expansion-gaza-offensive-broadcaster-kan-reports-2025-05-05/ The decision to expand the operation was immediately hailed by Israeli government hardliners who have long pressed for a full takeover of the Gaza Strip by Israel and a permanent displacement of the population, along the lines of the "Riviera" plans outlined by Trump in February. "We are finally going to conquer Gaza. We are no longer afraid of the word 'occupation'," Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich told a pro-settler conference in an online discussion.
  21. Denying Ukraine the aid already promised and paid for has some new details... https://www.reuters.com/world/us/order-by-hegseth-cancel-ukraine-weapons-caught-white-house-off-guard-2025-05-06/
  22. I mean, it generally connotes being at worst an outright lie or at best a dishonest representation of the facts. Neither of those is great, imo
  23. Apple had policies such that they would not approve updates for an app if it included any messaging informing users they could go to a different platform to make a purchase. This isn't about their appstore rake at time of app purchase and download. This is about how they're actively preventing developers from even communicating to their customers that they can pay for digital content in a different way if they choose to. Mind you, that digital content isn't even served by Apple's servers. That cost to service the digital content is covered by the developers, not Apple. So WHAT is that "proprietary infrastructure"? Once an app package is downloaded from the app store, it's not an Apple-owned device spending the computing cycles - it's a personally owned device. Is apple entitled to a peice of EVERYTHING that occurs on an iPhone because the iPhone itself is "propriety infrastructure - backed by intellectual property"? It certainly doesn't work that way in literally any other personal computing paradigm. I think you're jumping past this pesky little technical detail, because moots Apple's whole claim.
  24. It really is wild how the Chris Rufo thread here on Surly was a bellweather for national politics yet to come.
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