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Captainant

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  1. Same move as COVID - if you have no data, then nothing is wrong
  2. Interesting, next time Zelensky goes to the White House he'll be backed by world leaders https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/03/05/starmer-and-macron-plan-to-accompany-zelensky/ "Diplomatic sources told The Telegraph that Mr Trump was now looking for Mr Zelensky to offer more than just the minerals deal to move peace talks forward." aaaaaaand there's the goalpost move by trump. Nothing Zelensky ever gives up will be enough. We've seen this tactic used before in the late 1930s to great effect.
  3. What the fuck are you talking about? The fire conditions yesterday (and that persist today) were as bad as 2011. Where is this victimhood and grievance about "fear and evil" coming from? Is the mere mention of California, who just had massive-scale wildfires and is topically relevant, enough to short-circuit your brain? I don't understand your performative grievance here. You haven't even stated an idea aside from "everyone is just overreacting". What do you want to discuss?
  4. At my office when they first did RTO, the building's shared parking garage ran out of space and we had at least 2 people per desk in the office, with extra tables and temporary workspaces littering every hallway. DOGE doesn't give a shit just as management largely didn't give a shit about if RTO actually would be positive for the business or not. It's about expressing their power over the workers.
  5. I'll let my brother in law know who had to evacuate that it's all just overstated hype. Go eat a bag of dicks, slorch. People are trying to NOT die in a fire.
  6. You mean all those people getting fired by DOGE? Our national parks and forestry service have been gutted already, the defense mechanism you hang your hat on has already been undermined. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-forest-service-fires-3400-workers-park-service-cuts-1000-2025-02-14/ Yeah, I did. All it takes for them to be complicit is to do nothing because they've been fired and have no authority to act. If they protest what's to stop the president from doing as he did before and threaten to pull funding over their "illegal protests"? The sawmills are necessary to get something for destroying our national forests. They can still be destroyed and wasted, sawmills or not. Shit man, he's already ordered the army to dump 2.2 billion gallons of water out of resiviors just to feel like he did something https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-01-31/trump-california-dams-opened-up I'm just saying, it's ok to be aware of current events and our presidents decision making pattern. It tends to be a pretty good guide for his actions, even if it makes you feel uncomfortable
  7. My guy, what is your problem with my post? It's 100% factual. I think you're lazily using your dislike for me as a convenient excuse to ignore a national tragedy moving in slow motion
  8. Well the president has done such a good job following the law so far, what with seizing the power of the purse from Congress and unilaterally tearing up the USMCA (that he himself signed 4 and a half years ago)
  9. They got a group discount from their donor though! Fucking hell, the Democratic leadership is just controlled opposition
  10. It's almost like they all dogmatically believe in deflationary currencies like Bitcoin or something
  11. PC Principal was even an aggy grad. It's too on the nose, the simulation is leaking again
  12. https://warn.pbs.org/ useful map that's kept up to date for evacuation notices
  13. "yeah you're gonna need to pardon this HERO otherwise I'm cutting off your federal funds" is how that's gonna go
  14. The whole point of doing all this shit is to piss of the general populace and goad us into a nationwide protest - or even worse - """ILLEGAL""" PROTESTS!!!!! Then, Dear Leader will have no choice but to declare "MARSHALL LAW!" like they've been dreaming of since January 6, 2021. We already know that those who do violence against those the Party does not like are protected. Those pardons have been fuckin FLYING
  15. Of course elmo is flying on Air Force 1 and staying in the White House https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musks-family-using-air-force-one-comes-under-scrutiny-2039099 I wonder if he'll be making remarks tonight to the joint session of congress too
  16. In the reporting it's sourced from "people familiar with the situation". There was similar reporting before the meeting last week too, so my money is on this being posturing before the not-SOTU
  17. I know you reflexively think that any post that's less than gargling his balls is a "fuck trump" post, but genuinely - economic turmoil is the fulcrum on which a dictator seizes power. Trump NEEDS the economy to be shit. He campaigned on Biden having fucked it up - and it wasn't. So, he needs to do it himself
  18. Raw sewage, coming to a waterway near you! https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/04/epa-ruling-sewage-water The US supreme court has weakened rules on the discharge of raw sewage into water supplies in a 5-4 ruling that undermines the 1972 Clean Water Act. The CWA is the principle law governing pollution control and water quality of the nation’s waterways. The Republican super majority court ruled on Tuesday that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cannot employ generic, water body-focused pollution discharge limits to Clean Water Act permit holders, and must provide specific limitations to pollution permittees. The ruling is a win for San Francisco, which challenged nonspecific, or “narrative,” wastewater permits that the EPA issues to protect the quality of surface water sources like rivers and streams relied upon for drinking water. In a 5-4 ruling written by Justice Samuel Alito, the court blocked the EPA from issuing permits that make a permittee responsible for surface water quality, or “end result” permits – a new term coined by the court. “The agency has adequate tools to obtain needed information from permittees without resorting to end-result requirements,” wrote Justice Samuel Alito, who was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh, along with Justice Neil Gorsuch, who joined part of the majority opinion. The EPA issued San Francisco a permit allowing it to discharge pollutants from its combined sewer system into the Pacific Ocean. The permit’s conditions include prohibitions on discharges that contribute to a violation of applicable water quality standards. The permit included generic prohibitions on the impacts to water quality, as part of the EPA’s efforts to halt San Francisco’s releases of raw sewage into the Pacific Ocean during rainstorms.
  19. Maybe it'll get so fucked, it'll roll back over to unfucked?
  20. Care to be more specific? I'm citing and using language from the article. How else should I frame it? "YAY CUT DOWN THE NATIONAL FORESTS AND DRILL BABY DRILL" more your speed I'm guessing?
  21. Huh wow crazy how the laser-focus on masks and insistence on "agitators" being the source of protests on campus is now being repeated by trump. It's it weird how @Frank Drebin and @Rex Kramer and @MagicSoccerSpray and @ChickenSandwich and @BabaYaga were crying about "CR this" and "CR that" when they were just repeating trumpain talking points?? (yes this is real)
  22. holy shit it's like reading the Daily Texan thread on the Palestine protests on campus. Note-for-fuckin-note
  23. Bump. Ward Carrol has a new fantastic deep-dive interview with a retired USN Captain who commanded an Aegis CG in the gulf war and has been under attack in a similar threat profile. This is an excellent beat-by-beat breakdown of how this happened. Seems like the Gettysburg is a crappy ship - she rated below average in training and took NINE YEARS to get out of refit TL:DR - swiss cheese failure happened. Gettysburg had several critical information fusion systems INOP, which led to the air warfare system automatically firing two missiles at the first F18. It was not a personnel failure on the Gettysburg, and she was sent to battle with critical systems known inop.
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