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Captainant

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  1. I'm surprised you're not jumping onto the $TRUMP action, it also spikes up massively in volume at the same point in time in late April
  2. Lol they can bring a suit, that will be indefinitely delayed by the fascists because the courts invariably favor fascism over justice by way of never ending delay. See: US V Trump
  3. It's more that trumps target audience doesn't give a shit about anything except what he says. They're fully into the cult of personality, and will fully argue that the sky is yellow and the sun is blue if trump says so. They WANT everything trump says to be true. It means the world is simple and can be addressed with the simple solutions that trump proposes. It takes some strong stuff to break that spell. For 1930s/40s Germany it took most of their men dying in war and their cities being turned into bouncing rubble before nazis started to believe they just might not be the master race. We're dealing with the same caliber of evil today. Today they even borrow yesterday's phrases and slogans.
  4. The thing that makes my teeth itch is it wasn't "a judge helping an illegal immigrant" - it was a judge not allowing cops to go arrest someone without a proper fuckin warrant. This judge is being arrested by trumpco for not giving him the ol okeydoke like they've become accustomed to. I'd love to hear from @TwiceHorn why this ISN'T a serious attack on the judiciary - even if the charges are complete bullshit. I really don't understand your earlier comment on how the charges will obviously get beat so it's not such a big deal
  5. I watched a recent bit of journalism from one of the drone shops in Lviv that's churning out thousands of kamikaze FPV drones every month - they've got new tech running on the drones that allows a pilot to "mark" a target or the thing they're trying to hit so the drone will keep tracking even if EW severs the link to the pilot. Along those lines it doesn't seem like a stretch to program some visual/intertial guidance for a swarm of drones to fly in at 100 AGL. Lord knows the topography data is available and definitely fits onto an SD card
  6. That's not really true in terms of size - you can get an incredibly safe (compared to 20 years ago) and small car today. Like I said earlier: the only reason trucks and SUVs have gotten so huge is to get the "light utility vehicle" exception for emissions standards so they don't have to be as fuel efficient. Also, lulz at people bragging about needing to drive >100 miles a day for your commute. Congrats, I guess
  7. That's the main reason trucks have gotten so huge - larger vehicles have a different and looser set of emissions standards, so our trucks get bigger to take advantage
  8. That judge is still getting menaced and threatened and hassled. Who is she gonna call? The fuckin cops?
  9. Considering how Ukraine is getting drones in pretty easily... I'm guessing not great. Hell, there's a legendary Cold War story of a West German student that flew his single engine plane straight into the Kremlin and landed on Red Square. Their organizational efficiency is so dog shit they're a nationalized swiss cheese failure model
  10. IMO putting these updates into the 2024 thread is somewhat appropos, considering we aren't gonna have models and forecasting like we used to. Too bad, huh @Hate? https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-noaa-budget-cuts-climate-change-modeling-princeton-gfdl According to the document, NOAA’s overall funding would be slashed by 27%, eliminating “functions of the Department that are misaligned with the President’s agenda and the expressed will of the American people” including almost all of those related to the study of climate change. The proposal would break up and significantly defund the agency across programs, curtailing everything from ocean research to coastal management while shifting one of NOAA’s robust satellite programs out of the agency and putting another up for commercial bidding. But its most significant target is the office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research ⎯ a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling, including the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory ⎯ which would be cut by 74%. “At this funding level, OAR is eliminated as a line office,” the memo stated. The total loss of OAR and its crown jewel in Princeton represents a setback for climate preparedness that experts warn the nation may never recover from. “If we don’t understand what’s happening and why it’s happening, you can’t be adapting, you can’t be resilient. You’re just going to suffer,” Don Wuebbles, an atmospheric scientist who sits on NOAA’s scientific advisory board, told ProPublica. “We’re going to see huge impacts on infrastructure and lives lost in the U.S.” There are other national climate models, but they also appear to be in jeopardy of losing funding. The National Science Foundation supports the National Center for Atmospheric Research, but the foundation announced it was freezing all research grants on April 18. NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies has a model, but the institute could see cuts of up to 47%. And the Department of Energy, home to a fourth climate modeling system, is also under budget pressure. Without the models, and all the sensor networks and supporting NOAA research programs that feed them, “We’ll go back to the technical and proficiency levels we had in the 1950s,” said Craig McLean, a 40-year veteran of NOAA who, until 2022, was the agency’s top administrator for research and its acting chief scientist. “We won’t have the tools we have today because we can’t populate them by people or by data.”
  11. GamersNexus, a PC gaming channel of all places, just did some excellent journalism that gets to the nuts and bolts of all of this. It's a big ass 3 hour long video, but the first 5 minutes are basically the thesis and TLDR of the whole thing. The rest is just the interviews with logistics officers, CEO's, presidents, founders, and owners that open their books and share their actual real margins and rates to just underscore how not just the tariffs themselves but the instability is going to kill businesses and probably a few business owners too They even touch on the unreality of "just built it 100% here in America", and multiple businesses explain why it's infeasible for multiple reasons.
  12. On the surface, Mon was just getting drunk and partying but under it all she's grieving her friend. Luthen all but told her he was going to die, and she would not have a chance to say goodbye to him. Mon feels like she put her friend into this position, and now he's going to die because he's not a True Believer in the rebellion. She's doing everything she can just to keep up appearances, and since being a drunk mom at a Chandrilan wedding is apparently a thing it's the easiest outlet for Mon
  13. Yeah, no, I'm not gonna start feeling optimistic until Abrego-Garcia is the first of many to actually receive substantive due process. The courts can huff and puff, but they're only ever heeded by the trumpist fascists when it suits them. Hell, even the goddamn nazis took great pains to stay within the bounds of their legal system. We are on uncharted waters and I couldn't agree more with the "we are native Americans negotiating with Andrew Jackson" sentiment.
  14. [Laughs in Roberts Court]
  15. I'm pretty surprised with how adult this show is. Bix is getting a real rough go of things between the torture and now the attempted rape - which was not a word I was expecting to hear in Star Wars. I was surprised to see the locals sell them out so early too, the writers are really striking a chord with current events considering the whole storm troopers sweeping for undocumented people thing is happening in 2025 and 4 BBY They're really doing the damn thing, huh? Hold onto your fuckin hats everyone. They're dishing some top tier nerd lore dumps and some serious television
  16. This is a fascinating video that's doing good journalism on the actual real impact of the tariffs on margins, down to logistics officers, CEO's, and business owners opening their books and sharing the real impact of the unpredictable tariffs to their landed cost. The whole thing is like 3 hours long, but even just the first five minutes are a really good TLDR
  17. Think of the dumbest, most idiotic arguments made by dumbasses on surly. Now imagine them in the white house. That Helobious-level of thinking is what's steering the ship now. They're probably all jacked up on VAT because someone mentioned it and they latched onto it like a dog with a bone
  18. Not sure if serious.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Bessent The sitting Secretary of the Treasury
  19. This must be the much vaunted free speech protections from the trump administration we heard so much about. I'd tag the shithead waterhead surlyites like MNhorn and Incredulity that cheered on trumpco and musk, but they're already cowards and won't address their previous utility and exploitation by the fascists
  20. yeah but do you even know what the DJIA stands for??? GAWRSH!
  21. Wanna know a fun fact? Popes also died in 1914 and 1939. So ya know, good omens and all that
  22. Hey man, he SAID he was gonna stop drinking so much after he got confirmed so it's all copacetic, capice?
  23. Pope wakes up yesterday, asks his secretary "what's on the agenda today?" His secretary says "you've got a meeting with JD Vance." The Pope replies "uhg, that is the last thing I want to do"
  24. Pope wakes up yesterday, asks his secretary "what's on the agenda today?" His secretary says "you've got a meeting with JD Vance." The Pope replies "uhg, that is the last thing I want to do"
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