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Captainant

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  1. 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
  2. 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?
  3. idk, we have a few self-admitted Christian Nationalists and christofascists on the board that we could ask about it. Icono/Macklemore and WWS come to mind
  4. https://news.va.gov/press-room/va-to-reduce-staff-by-nearly-30k-by-end-of-fy2025/ https://www.newsweek.com/doctors-warning-cuts-veteran-healthcare-10660576 https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/2025-budget-impacts-house-bill-would-cut-assistance-and-raise-costs-for-0 Cutting staff by 30,000 sure doesn't line up with your unsourced numbers. Plus, over a million veterans live in households that depend on SNAP and Medicaid - which have also been gutted by elmo and DOGE. But I'm sure you're right and everything is great with the VA, if I just don't believe my lying eyes.
  5. so, 'cubes DEFINITELY is doing or has done the same kind of shit then right? I just don't understand stanning for Ballmer for any other reason
  6. That coupled with the dockside shooting, also from an Iraq war Marine vet, within the same 24hr block... Yeah nothing to see here, keep cutting the VA
  7. An Iraq war veteran https://abcnews.go.com/US/gunman-michigan-lds-church-shooting-veteran-iraq-war/story?id=126025402 https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/michigan-church-shooting-gunman-was-former-marine-iraq-veteran-hunter/ Good thing we have a well funded VA that helps with mental health issues, amirite
  8. The real value of genAI is that it's giving businesses an excuse to cut headcount and fire workers domestically. Once it turns out whoopsie poopsie genAI cant do everything they said it could - because software engineering is a collaborative effort between technical and business stakeholders - it will be too late and those tech jobs will be offshored. I've been watching it happen over the last few years with my customers - they have fewer and fewer engineers on staff to solve things, but a growing army of contract labor that doesn't know shit about fuck in their business, but can crank out cookie cutter solutions. Nevermind if any of that is actually solving the business problem or advancing on the desired outcome - that's all problems for the next crop of MBA's to handle. This crop will be long gone and counting their bonuses for cost savings before the chickens come home to roost
  9. The Guardian: Clarence Thomas says precedent might not determine cases on upcoming supreme court docket
  10. Trump offering a bailout to Argentina just for them to turn around and eat American soybean farming trumpers lunch is incredible. No notes. Let the face eating continue
  11. Buy, borrow, die. Why get taxed on income when you can borrow against paper value?
  12. The other side of that coin in the business world is that nearly all of the corporate CapEx spending that's been keeping the markets happy has been on GenAI data centers and buying Nvidia chips. There's not a path to profitability with the genAI business model, openAI is losing money per chatGPT session, and every business consuming their models is losing money on their products built on the LLM's. It's gonna be one hell of a hangover when there's no real revenue to offset the capex depreciation in a year or two
  13. BG3 is an incredible game and is really truly like playing D&D with a good DM. The systems are all sooooo well realized, if you can think of a lateral solve for a puzzle or challenge, or get out of a tight situation with stealth or charisma checks, the game still rewards you with XP and progression. It's some stellar game design, and a big BIG game that lets you do quite literally whatever the hell you want.
  14. From the people that brought you The Sims, FIFA, and 9/11...
  15. Clone Wars is a weirdly produced show that was released in non-chronological order. By season 6 I believe it's mainly in order, and season 7 is happening in parallel with ROTS. It brings a TON of characterization that was frankly missing in the films. There's some good skip lists and essential episode lists that can skip the less good episodes. But if you don't watch anything, WATCH THE LAST 4 OF SEASON 7! Although if you don't know Ahsoka's whole journey you'll be missing some context
  16. Not long before uncle Dennis hits "separate entirely" and runs off with Kawhis money, I'd imagine
  17. Well it only took the FBI a few swings to eventually land on their perp, imo the cloud of conspiracy comes from their manifold fuckups from the jump. When there's uncertainty and an unclear explanation that's amended multiple times that's kind of to be expected
  18. That would be pretty wild if there were multiple shooters out trying to kill him at the same event. If the bullet really was lodged in his spine, it HAD to have been a lower power round that a 30-06 out of a rifle
  19. Conveniently, they stopped publicly reporting those numbers relatively recently
  20. it's fake, the small text under the follow button saws "totallyrealtweets"
  21. I thought the episode was pretty good, and I wasn't even aware of Don Jr's strategic advisory positions https://www.forbes.com/sites/mollybohannon/2025/01/13/donald-trump-jr-joins-prediction-market-kalshi/ But yeah it didn't quite have the juice of past episodes this season. I'd imagine they had to do some retooling after Cartman's alter ego got got. Pretty sneaky shot at Trump's first wife dying from falling down the stairs too
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