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Captainant

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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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.
  4. Maybe it'll get so fucked, it'll roll back over to unfucked?
  5. 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?
  6. 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)
  7. holy shit it's like reading the Daily Texan thread on the Palestine protests on campus. Note-for-fuckin-note
  8. 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.
  9. It's not as much as OUR tarrifs, but the retalitory ones from Canada and Mexico and our other trading partners/neighbors. Canada plans to stop exporting power to the northern US, as well as levying tarrifs. Gotta say though, it's an impressive heel turn. Dare I say, historic I guess that "if" was more real that you thought, huh @Incredulity? It's crazy when people do exactly what they say they're going to do!
  10. I mean, I think we're already there lol. Dude doesn't know his Idaho from Iowa Truly, a pre-renaissance man.
  11. It's an index fund that tracks market volatility. If volatility is higher, VIX is higher. UVIX is a 2x leverage on the volatility. It's something you shouldn't hold for a long time, but it can be used to hedge against near-term uncertainty
  12. Man, if that's all that you got from the posts replying to you... You're one dense fuckin aggy. Btw, are you one of those quiverful people or are you just an old school Catholic?
  13. I feel like a CouplaBeers™ wouldn't hurt
  14. The president has ordered federal lands and forests to be turned over to the logging industry to """protect our national security""" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/03/trump-national-forest-executive-order The kicker is that he's using the pretense of it reducing fire risk, when in reality it's going to reduce the ability of forests to hold water and make those areas significantly drier. It's going to destroy those ancient ecosystems and they will be gone forever. Go while you still can!
  15. It'll sure help keep insurance rates down, I tell you what
  16. man that inside trader got out like a bandit! I guess We'll see the $80k floor tested again. Isn't it interesting how as the US gets more and more cozy up to Russia, bitcoin price keeps dropping? Weird!
  17. Like, you do realize @Spankytoes that the tarrifs againt Canada and Mexico are just a pretense to position Russia as our primary trading partner? Since they'll have the best prices and all that, of course
  18. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dc-airport-false-collision-alerts/ The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating after several airliners on approach to land at Washington Reagan National Airport Saturday morning received what appear to be false alarms from their onboard Traffic Collision Avoidance System. "It's been happening all morning. Let me know if you see anything. No one else has seen anything except for on the TCAS," one air traffic controller can be heard telling an inbound flight. Based on CBS News' review of the ATC audio, at least 12 flight crews reported receiving apparent false TCAS alerts — leading three flights to perform go-arounds between 6 a.m. and 10 a.m. ET on Saturday. CBS News heard no issues in the 8 a.m. hour. Then, six incidents occurred within 11 minutes of each other after 9 a.m. Saturday. The pilots of American Eagle flight 4469, operated by Republic Airways, were coming into land from Pittsburgh when they received an alert. The flight was descending between 1200 and 1000 feet when TCAS instructed the pilots to take evasive maneuvers to avoid another object. "We had to dive a little bit," one of the pilots told air traffic controllers. Controllers asked the pilots after safely landing, "did you actually visibly see anything other than what the TCAS was showing?" "Negative, it would just say an unknown target descending rapidly," the pilots responded. "Alright, that's the same sort of reports we've been getting. It seemed like it had stopped but it sounds like it's starting again," a controller replied.
  19. Tell me you've never been bullied without telling me. Capitulation only ensures their power and control over the oppressed. You should ask Neville Chamberlain how that works out.
  20. Oh and don't forget sanctions relief for the Russians! https://www.reuters.com/world/white-house-seeks-plan-possible-russia-sanctions-relief-sources-say-2025-03-03/ The fun part is this is just making good on 2016 negotiations on """adoptions""" between trump and putin
  21. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-pauses-military-aid-ukraine-media-reports-2025-03-04/ Yeah, pausing aid to Ukraine is a classic trump move. Maybe he'll twist Zelensky's arm to gin up some fake blackmail on Hunter Biden again too This does include aid already appropriated by Congress. Because the president OBVIOUSLY has that unilateral power.
  22. I assume he's also cutting congressionally allocated aid as well. Because ya know, he's the king
  23. Sooooo POTUS is threatening Zelensky now https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14457063/trump-zelensky-ukraine-russia-peace.html Trump said he would give an update on the minerals deal during his speech to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night. And he hinted Zelensky might not survive long if he continued to make demands ahead of a peace deal. 'It should not be that hard a deal to make,' he said. 'It could be made very fast. Now, maybe somebody doesn't want to make a deal, and if somebody doesn't want to make a deal, I think that person won't be around very long. That person will not be listened to very long.'
  24. Just wait till adcom hears about this Edit: lulz found the source for Spankys opinion - 10 hour old faux news headline
  25. Can you link me to it? Every 2025 forecast I'm finding was published in 2024 I would impressed if they put one out at all this year, now that they've shut down the modeling team and terminated their lease on the location that integrated their radar equipment https://www.axios.com/2025/03/03/doge-noaa-weather-building-leases-trump The building houses the National Weather Service's National Centers for Environmental Prediction, or NCEP, which includes the Environmental Modeling Center. It opened in 2012 and has about 268,000 square feet of space. The modeling center runs the computer models used in day-to-day weather forecasting, and ensures that weather data correctly goes into these models and that they are operating correctly. The NOAA employee told Axios the cancellations — along with recent layoffs, early retirements, and travel and hiring limitations — point to an effort to dismantle the agency.
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