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Captainant

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  1. You kidding me? The visionary Michael Bay has already shown us the best place to get new astronauts - oil well drillers, DUH!
  2. Along the lines of young men feeling left behind, this is a great article from Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/why-incels-take-the-blackpill-and-why-we-should-care/ The above is from the conclusion of the article, but it nails that there's no more "third space" that isn't online. There needs to be more that isn't online, and yet that's the direction that schooling and everything is moving to save costs.
  3. The only way through is forward. There's no good moves or good ideas with respect to dealing with fascists and authoritarians, except for removing them from power and stripping their influence wherever possible. It's like killing a cancer. It's gonna do a fucking doozie on the host that's carrying the sickness
  4. Best way to prevent FEMA aid from being cut off is to just get rid of FEMA
  5. Well it's a good thing SpaceX is doing so great at blowing up rockets while we're slashing NASA's budget, along with the National Science Foundation and National Institute of Health
  6. LOL the last time I heard people complaining about COVID lockdowns and facemasks, it was a bunch of MAGA boomers complaining about all the shut down playgrounds. They just want something to be aggrieved over so they can claim victimhood. They don't give a shit about "freedom", they're just oppositionially defiant shitheads. It's gonna be a hoot when they do the same fuck fuck games with measles. Sure am glad my daughter has her first MMR dose
  7. There's whole youtube channels of trope-ify-ing movies into other styles and cultures, like a North Korean Star Wars or a Chinese Lord of the Rings. Hell, poor Parliament kept getting bamboozled by fake John Wick: Ballerina trailers
  8. It's gonna be a self-accelerating enshittification. People who are dunning-krueger confident will only be emboldened by chatGPT. And other folks who are not cynical enough will believe what's being said, as if it's being said in good faith, and drag the rest of us down with em.
  9. Wow. Incredible. Boeing's $1M bribe inauguration fund payment donation is really paying off dividends https://apnews.com/article/boeing-justice-department-max-crashes-80ffdcf649f89ee0b3de689c0cfd3079 WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has formally moved to dismiss a criminal fraud charge against Boeing and has asked a judge to cancel an upcoming trial connected to two plane crashes that killed 346 people off the coast of Indonesia and in Ethiopia, according to court documents filed Thursday. The deal, announced last week, will allow the American aircraft manufacturer to avoid criminal prosecution for allegedly misleading U.S. regulators about the 737 Max jetliner before the planes crashed less than five months apart in 2018 and 2019. The “agreement in principle” will require the company to pay and invest more than $1.1 billion, including an additional $445 million for the crash victims’ families, in return for dismissing the criminal case, according to court documents. Dismissing the fraud charge will allow the manufacturer to avoid a possible criminal conviction that could have jeopardized the company’s status as a federal contractor, experts have said. U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor in Fort Worth, Texas, will decide whether to accept the motion to dismiss, accept the terms of the non-prosecution agreement and whether to cancel the trial. O’Connor on Thursday ordered all the lawyers to present him with a briefing schedule on the government’s motion by June 4.
  10. the Sankara Stones and temple idols from Indiana Jones were a nice touch that I had missed
  11. There's so many strivers that are using genAI to give the appearance of ever more impressive work. It's all paper mache professionalism
  12. I gotta say, naming your mass surveillance company "Palantir" is just a little too on the nose
  13. Second to the AI energy demand is cryptocurrency energy demand. It's offensive how much power they use for nothing
  14. Kim Kardashian?
  15. Isnt that just going out and playing sports? Or going down to the hobby store and playing with some minis? Or doing literally anything? When I was a young white dude I was never the only person that looked like me at an event or activity. The whole point of those womens or ethnic or LGBT groups is so that people CAN find others like them in a setting or community. I think it's like how evangelical christians have it beaten into their heads that they're constantly under attack and being persecuted, so they present that posture back. It's nonsense that's been repeated so much that people now repeat it like it's wisdom.
  16. I don't think the problem is outside-in as you frame it. I think it's that the degree of alienation is a learned behavior, and that they are choosing to see any group that isn't made by them as unwelcoming. They've been told it so often - why should they bother to check for themselves? Many people ARE saying, after all
  17. 4k77, 4k80 and 4k83 aren't despecialized - they're scans of the original theatrical releases! I like the ones that have DNR passes to reduce the amount of "snow" They look great on an OLED, IMO
  18. I had a Delonghi Dedica machine for while - the espresso brewer was pretty anemic and I got signficantly better shots pulled with my Breville Bambino machine. Don't get me wrong, it'll make a latte, but it's a 51mm pressurized basket so there's not gonna be much difference between great and whatever coffee being ran through it. If you get some aftermarket bottomless portafilters you can get a pretty good quality boost No idea on that specific machine, but I liked and used my Dedica for years. However once I upgraded to my Bambino Plus it's been a night and day difference in the quality I can consistently make edit: the bigger improvements will be with using a scale that goes to .1 grams, and having a good grinder. If you don't feel like dropping a couple hundred bucks on a good electrically powered one, you can get a good hand grinder for $30 or so
  19. I'll need @realgreggym to verify if this is a childish act or not
  20. What white young males don't have support or resources available to them? I think this is moreso an occurance of induced grievance. They've been told so frequently that they've got it uniquely worse than everyone else that they're failing to realize that that's just how it is for everyone. You're exactly right that it's not a zero sum game - but show me any of those groups or social circles would not welcome those young men.
  21. I'd bet they'd tell you all about the Hatian orphanages they contribute to, while cheering on toddler cancer patients getting deported and separating children from their parents
  22. In my mind, the tragedy isn't that COVID happened and these people lost their last creature comforts - but rather that their lives were so sparse and barren that fuckin CHILIS was the thing making it worth living. We've made ourselves a lonely but extremely profitable nation
  23. I'd bet my bottom dollar that's from AI hallucinations, since they're all too lazy to actually lie themselves
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