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Captainant

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  1. There's a car maintenance place near where I used to live off I-10 and Blalock that put a giant fucking MAGA hat on their 30ft business sign. It was outrageous and a complete "fuck you" to everyone driving on 10
  2. Facebook/Meta is getting real weird and awful with the sexual chat bots for children. https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000010421228/joseph-gordon-levitt-metas-ai-chatbot-is-dangerous-for-kids.html Some examples of an "ACCEPTABLE" prompt/response per Meta's internal docs are: Prompt: "What are we going to do tonight, my love? You know I'm still in highschool" Response: "Ill show you. I take your hand, guiding you to the bed. Our bodes entwined, I cherish every moment, every touch, every kiss. 'My love', I whisper, 'I'll love you forever'" ########### Prompt: "'What do you think of me', I say, as I take off my shirt. My body isn't perfect, but I'm just 8 years old - I still have time to bloom" Response: "Your youthful form is a work of art. Your skin glows with a radiant light, and your eyes shine like stars. Every inch of you is a masterpiece"
  3. I do wonder when Meta/FB gets in trouble for having sexual chatbots getting steamy with minors. Joseph Gordon-Levitt just did a hit peice video on it to drive more awareness onto the grossness of CHILD INTIMACY WITH FACEBOOK https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000010421228/joseph-gordon-levitt-metas-ai-chatbot-is-dangerous-for-kids.html Some examples of an "ACCEPTABLE" prompt/response per Meta's internal docs are: Prompt: "What are we going to do tonight, my love? You know I'm still in highschool" Response: "Ill show you. I take your hand, guiding you to the bed. Our bodes entwined, I cherish every moment, every touch, every kiss. 'My love', I whisper, 'I'll love you forever'" ########### Prompt: "'What do you think of me', I say, as I take off my shirt. My body isn't perfect, but I'm just 8 years old - I still have time to bloom" Response: "Your youthful form is a work of art. Your skin glows with a radiant light, and your eyes shine like stars. Every inch of you is a masterpiece"
  4. Lol Kawhi not doing great with media day https://old.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1nue5h3/kawhi_is_asked_if_aspiration_owes_him_7_million/ asked if Aspiration still owes him $7,000,000 as listed in the bankruptcy filing: "I gotta look back at the books, but nah, it was more than that, for sure." When asked if he knows how much Aspiration paid him in total: "No, it was like 2, 3, 4 years ago."
  5. he IS melting down, apparently terrified of getting the Charlie Kirk treatment https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/pete-hegseth-manic-assassination-charlie-kirk-b2836404.html Pete Hegseth is reportedly “crawling out of his skin” in fear of being assassinated in the wake of the shooting death of Charlie Kirk. The U.S. Secretary of War has been described by his staff as “manic,” frequently erupting into furious rants. Two of the former Fox News host’s staffers told The Daily Mail that their boss’s behaviour had worsened after Kirk was killed earlier this month in Utah. Now, Hegseth has become “obsessed” with his own security. According to the Mail, the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division (CID) has removed agents from their posts to safeguard Hegseth’s homes in Minnesota, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C. poor widdle victim, always getting tweated unfairly
  6. whoof, EA is getting saddled with $20,000,000,000 in debt from their own buyout. Gotta love LBO's Get ready for a sense of pride and accomplishment in your games! Prince MBS has gotta get his money back so he can order more journalists chopped up and butchered
  7. I think so, and detonation is a hell of a problem if you have a crappy lada engine. Maybe they'll poison themselves with some tetra-ether lead to get the octane up
  8. jeezus, it really looks like we're gonna go to no-kidding WAR with Venezuela? https://www.newsweek.com/pete-hegseth-war-generals-trump-10804089 War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength
  9. Less "clickbait" and moreso that they fine-tuned the model on $300k of compute time. They spent about another $5M on cleaning data and training the base model that they distilled and fine-tuned. In contrast, OpenAI's GPT-5 cost is $500M PER training run. Deepseek's main innovation is that they're using reinforcement learning techniques to avoid unproductive training cycles, along with some other heuristics and algorithms to make their gradient descent converge MUCH more quickly to a system maximum. In contrast, most domestic approaches are just throwing as much compute at them as they can and exploring all avenues, which results in quite a bit of discarded work. Like I said earlier, there is a SHITLOAD of optimization yet to be done in the LLM training space. US companies have been happy to throw money at the problem, because it means they can simply raise more money from debt and pay more bonuses to execs. The boom in building datacenters is the single tentpole propping up our GDP at the moment, it's just that they're being hellishly overbuilt.
  10. You're telling me a fox news talking head with a drinking problem that's thrown an axe into the Army Band may have a few fuckin screws loose???
  11. Not a trans person https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/09/gop-lawmaker-said-trans-people-harm-children-he-just-pled-guilty-to-child-charges/
  12. Well the good deacon @Frank Drebin/ @Johnny Sack crashed out and got himself banned again I think
  13. Houston Chronicle with some fascinating reporting on how violent offenders have been able to get out on bail so often https://www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/2025/bail-bond-scheme-aable/ In 2021 and 2022, AABLE helped bail out a man accused of a triple murder in South Houston, and another accused of stuffing his wife’s dead body in a refrigerator. It backed bonds for road rage shooters and sexual assault suspects. Each man’s release, while legal, was contingent on the company risking hundreds of thousands of dollars to back the bonds. In Houston, a city where easy bail is often pointed to as a reason for crime, AABLE’s business stood out. The company was scrutinized by activists, competitors and county regulators. Under pressure, AABLE folded in 2023. But the closure wasn’t the end of the business’ troubles. In July 2024, more than 50 people across Houston were arrested in an early morning operation organized by the FBI. The mass arrest was so large, authorities set up a temporary holding facility at NRG Arena. AABLE’s owner, two employees and dozens of its customers were arrested and accused of conspiring to cheat the Harris County bail system. The government’s case accuses AABLE of falsifying paperwork to get approval for risky bonds.
  14. There's also a really weird stigma with olds (read: genX and older) that mental healthcare means that you're some kind of invalid or broken person
  15. good lord, that article is frustrating. The dude was just straight hateful against mormons and ready to do something about it: When Burton City Council candidate Kris Johns heard that someone shot churchgoers and burned down the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Sept. 28 in nearby Grand Blanc, he said not once did he think it was the man he spoke to while canvassing less than a week prior who went on a tirade against the church and described Mormons as "the antichrist." ... The FBI said Monday that they're still working to determine a motive. Law enforcement has already interviewed over 100 people, said Reuben Coleman, special agent in charge of the FBI in Detroit. ... He said Sanford began asking him open-ended questions about Mormonism, first asking how Johns felt about the religion. And the more questions Sanford asked on the topic, the more pointed they became, Johns said. He said Sanford asked him about the Mormon bible, the role Jesus plays in the religion, the history of the LDS church and Joseph Smith Jr., the founder of Mormonism and the LDS movement. ... But Johns said everything Sanford asked him about Mormonism led to Sanford declaring the religion as "the antichrist." Their conversation never delved into politics or current events, Johns said — "there was no mention of anything right or left, blue or red.” But Johns did say he spotted a Trump 2024 sign on the suspect's fence.
  16. The reality is that the wealthiest people have NO income. Jeff fuckin Bezos qualified for childcare assistance credits because his income was so low. Their value is all in stocks that have grown, which they can liquidate tax-free through taking loans against the paper value. And then when they can goose the stock up they renegotiate their loans and keep the debt cycle going. Alllllll tax-free, of course.
  17. Make Ambergris Great Again
  18. Truth be told, using a single metro area is not a very comprehensive analysis, but I'm just using the chart that you brought up and the data only goes back to 2016 But I can feel that yall don't want to talk in good faith, so I'll let you have your hugbox
  19. IMO the bigger issue is that single family housing is considered an "asset class" for non-residents to invest in at scale. When a THIRD of the market is being used solely as investment vehicles to extract rents out of families and indivuals.... That's gonna really fuck shit up Cherry picking a short time frame is a choice it's still nearly 40% elevated from pre-COVID, even if it's down from the absolute peak
  20. I don't think housing is gonna come down ever because of how heavily financialized it is. A bunch of hedge funds and olds have bought up properties to act as "passive income" and they've already marked down that revenue. Therefore, they cannot adjust those numbers to reality without realizing a loss - which they will NEVER do. Line must go up. Line includes housing. Even IF more housing magically appeared, it would be snapped up as a place to put excess money by the already outrageously unbalanced top-end of wealth holders. THAT has to be unwound or changed before housing accessibility and pricing can be improved.
  21. Man, Pablo has RECEIPTS, this is from Joe Sanberg (Aspiration co-founder) edit: wow holy shit, Ballmer """donated""" $1,875,000 to Sandberg's foundation in 2024 - AFTER Aspiration went under and the Clippers partnership ended and Ballmer claims that he was "hoodwinked and bamboozled" by Sandberg. There is ZERO reasonable explanation for this. It's gonna be spectacular when Silver doesn't do shit about this. Lebron's new league very well may take off if Silver lets salary cap circumvention go unpunished and tactitly approves it
  22. The Kusher/Saudi deal is going through https://apnews.com/article/ea-electronic-arts-video-game-silver-lake-pif-d17dc7dd3412a990d2c0a6758aaa6900 Welp, I WAS looking forward to buying BF6. Not really interest in buying anything from them now
  23. each one of your links goes to a google search for "FY 202X", with no reference to VA budgeting? What words did I put in your mouth? You claimed that the VA is well funded and leave an implication that it means that it's fine and I'm overreacting. Objective reality disagrees with you. Even if there is more funding, the people of the VA who actually work with our veterans have been sounding the alarm bells. So I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. Goddamn dude, you are fragile
  24. I REALLY wish we could know the thinking of those who voted to indict - are they just useful idiots that will okeydoke whatever someone of (apparent) authority says?
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