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Captainant

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  1. Lmfao "computing war"? Give me a fucking break. Deepseek was trained on $300k of compute - on fucking 1080ti's! Nvidia has overextended and we have been throwing money at a problem that is not yet optimized. But because throwing money at it means lots of money gets splashed around OF COURSE that's what is happening. The chips certainly are important, but you are grasping at straws. Maybe stick to hiding behind FRED charts?
  2. These are people who grew up watching their opportunities get smaller and smaller, and typically don't have much of a social life in the real-world. It's not a "that messican took muh jerb!" thing, but just a disaffected and antisocial thing. There's a snippet that really illustrates that: There's a whole generation of disaffected young men who have no social life outside of a screen, and they're VERY aware of their second amendment rights
  3. Channel 5 News on the scene, as always
  4. Captainant

    3D Printing

    It's hideously expensive, but keep an eye out for any Tulomer filaments that go on sale if you find yourself needing more strength and temperature resistance https://www.dynamism.com/z-polymers-tullomer-500g.html? https://all3dp.com/4/new-tullomer-filament-put-to-the-test-is-it-really-an-easier-alternative-to-peek/
  5. There's an unfortunate trend of news outlets repeating news from another outlet and presenting it as their own reporting. It gives the appearance of a single source being authoritative. It was the same mechanism used to incite the Jan6 riot, since everyone was reposting the same disinformation it just HAD to be correct (if you're a useful idiot)
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    3D Printing

    That's absolutely wild that PLA+ can withstand those sorts of temperatures and pressure. Does it warp at all? Ive just seen too much PLA melting in the heat to even think of it for a high temp and pressure workload, after a shot or two it'll pass glass transition temp and get wobbly wobbly? Oof! You may be able to save the print if you can find which step it stopped on
  7. I wouldn't say I hang out with Icono lol. But at the range, the only time you see 8MM Mauser is when it's being shot by a Wehraboo
  8. Much like recovering a full clip of ammo after a shooting, a lot about this is pretty weird and suspicious
  9. Captainant

    3D Printing

    Nice! Does the form cover just that one device or any future ones you print? I just can't see any polymer holding up to multiple shots in any sort of close timeframe
  10. More of an exotic/historical round for the Texas shooting scene though. Everyone I know would rather have 7mag or 300WM since the ammo is much easier to source with better options
  11. Babayaga thinks it might be 8MM mauser (7.92x57), which would explain the stripper clip and longer than usual casing. But bruh wtf? Dude had to have been shooting a museum peice
  12. 8MM mauser? Dude was shooting a museum peice? Fucking strange shit
  13. Not many modern rounds come on 5 round stripper clips. 7.62x54R, 7.62X51 (NATO), 7.62x39, and 5.56 are really the only round that you can easily get with metal stripper clips. They look a little long to be 7.62NATO, and don't have the right bottom to be the russian rimmed cartridge. Then again, we still haven't heard anything more about the ballistics of the shot that killed CK so I doubt they'll share any meaningful information with the public here.
  14. intellectual contagion - meme culture - from memelords that are too online? Nahhhhhh couldn't be But also, I don't trust that incredibly grainy, pixel-y picture from FBeyes
  15. about that.... https://newrepublic.com/post/200833/trump-team-messed-up-un-escalator-teleprompter His team was the source of the fuckups
  16. I haven't seen any info about the shooter yet, where'd you read that?
  17. Yeah from the ABC reporting I can find, no ICE agents or personnel were injured. One detainee killed and two injured. https://abcnews.go.com/US/multiple-people-shot-dallas-ice-field-office-source/story?id=125887376 Stay classy, City of Hate.
  18. Captainant

    3D Printing

    hida ya dogs, hide ya wives, ATF is gonna come knockin' But seriously, that meets the legal definition of a suppressor under the NFA, even if it would only last for a shot or two - it would still suppress for a shot or two. You probably don't want to be posting pics of that unless you've got your forms and paperwork in order Cool print and model though! Impressive work to put together on TinkerCad, I've always preferred the AutoDesk Fusion tools since that's what I learned back in college. I need to learn some more modeling tools that are faster to use, Fusion360 can be a bit overkill at times
  19. strangely, only detainees were shot (seriously)
  20. You should update your iOS version just for baseline security patches. Especially if you have any banking or money-related apps on your phone
  21. Weird stance when their data is pretty cherry picked and equivocates two dudes brawling with a madman shooting up a Walmart because brown people are gonna take his spot
  22. Consumers? Don't you mean profit extraction units?
  23. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/23/professors-us-south-leaving Many professors in the US south, particularly in Florida, South Carolina and Texas, are considering leaving their state because of the impact the political climate is having on education, according to a new survey by the American Association of Professors. Of those interviewed in the survey, roughly a quarter of respondents said they applied for a job in higher education in another state since the start of 2023. Heather Houser worked as a professor in the English department, teaching American literature and environmental humanities, at the University of Texas at Austin for 14 years. Like the growing number of professors in the stronghold Republican state, she found the increasing government oversight on higher education alarming. Houser left Texas earlier this year for a new teaching position at The University of Antwerp in Belgium. “I know a lot of people who’ve been on the job market for several years and they’d be gone by now if not for the factors that make it hard to leave,” Houser said. “It comes with sacrifices, and I still feel so much for my students and colleagues back in Texas. It’s hard to know what they’re enduring.” The survey received responses from approximately 4,000 faculty members across the south and included other states, such as Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, and Kentucky, in its findings. About 25% of the professors in Texas who responded said they have applied for teaching roles in other states in the last two years, with another 25% saying they intend to start a search. Last year, salary was the top reason as to why educators across the south were seeking employment elsewhere. In this year’s findings, however, “broad political climate” was the top motivator. “I had been looking to leave UT Austin and Texas for many years,” Houser said, “part was just a desire for personal change, but much bigger was my concern about higher education and the direction it was going. I was worried that the ability to teach things I cared about like environmental or social justice would become increasingly hard or even discouraged.” The Republican governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, signed a bill in 2023 that banned diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) offices and initiatives in higher education institutions across the state.
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