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Captainant

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    2 minutes ago, immamac said:

    Yes, have you not seen the thread? 

    Feds came to surly because of some posts about trump getting his ear cut, and not because of raydog or txtow?

    And no, I didn't see the thread until after y'all memory holed everything 

  2. 1 hour ago, mchookem said:

    wait...'the government' contacted surly posters bc of their posts here??

    man. i mean i feel like i spend a lot of time perusing this site, but apparently i don't spend enough. i had no idea this was a thing that happened 😳

    Yeah I'm gonna call bullshit on that. Sounds like something that someone would say in DT or 6SJ to score some sweet rep from the fascists, and then is repeated until they believe it. 

    @immamac did that actually happen?

  3. 1 hour ago, Hook1997 said:

    Lol you're citing an AIPAC person and a conservative opinion writer who's trying labeling the anti-genocide posture of many dems as "extreme". Miss me with that, broheim. 

    How bout you do something crazy and synthesize your own ideas and then back it with sources, rather than mindlessly reposting concern trolls? Like, can you actually articulate your concerns with specific posts or actions? Or are you stuck in """many people are saying""" land?

     

    Go fuck a couch and then fuck some kids with epstein if you want to claim that #bothsides are bad

  4. Starliner is star stuck

    https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/07/nasa-nears-decision-on-what-to-do-with-boeings-troubled-starliner-spacecraft/

    “I think we’re starting to close in on those final pieces of flight rationale to make sure that we can come home safely, and that’s our primary focus right now," Stich said.

    The problems have led to speculation that NASA might decide to return Wilmore and Williams to Earth in a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft. There's one Crew Dragon currently docked at the station, and another one is slated to launch with a fresh crew next month. Steve Stich, manager of NASA's commercial crew program, said the agency has looked at backup plans to bring the Starliner crew home on a SpaceX capsule, but the main focus is still to have the astronauts fly home aboard Starliner.

    “Our prime option is to complete the mission," Stich said. "There are a lot of good reasons to complete this mission and bring Butch and Suni home on Starliner. Starliner was designed, as a spacecraft, to have the crew in the cockpit."

  5. 1 hour ago, Constant said:

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    Had a friend at work get shot in the face and ear. This was three weeks after the incident and a plastic surgery to fix the ear shape. 

    I sincerely doubt that a 78 year old sack of dog shit like trump would heal that quickly from any sort of procedure or reparative surgery. Plus, this is just two weeks after. 

  6. 7 minutes ago, Captain Ron said:

     

    Because outside of Tesla, most  of his companies are private. So that takes SpaceX, Neuralink, etc off the table because he doesn’t have to answer to anyone.

    That leaves Tesla, and we got the answer to that in the lawsuit. That board gets way too much money being in the orbit of Musk to ever vote against him. Pure and simple.

    Beyond that, Tesla stock exists in meme stock territory. Their valuation makes no sense in any sort of real market performance. His actions might be hurting car sales, but their stock price doesn’t move because of that, so he can keep talking. 

    What's weird is that nothing seems to affect Tesla's stock price. It defies reasoning, and I cannot understand a non-speculative valuation of it's next five or six competitors combined 

  7. 6 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    I can't be sure, but one of the knocks on .223 is that it tumbles on the slightest impact.

    The tumbling is a feature more than a bug, actually. It's a designed to prevent over penetration and transfer the most energy possible into the target

    6 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    If he was more than barely grazed, I tend to think a .223 round would have destroyed his ear and maybe even deflected into his skull.

    It's possible he got dinged by a rapidly spinning bullet tumbling end over end. Enough to break the skin and scare the ever loving shit out of everyone, but not enough to do even lasting superficial damage. 

     

    It really just is ridiculous that the WWE superstar hall of famer had a botched assassination attempt like this. The way trump went down and got back up with only a small bit of blood is like something you'd see at WrestleMania after someone blades them self to up the ante in the match. 

  8. 3 hours ago, Nicole44 said:

    https://apnews.com/article/trump-bullet-shrapnel-ronny-jackson-christopher-wray-cb780b9d1a078f0be4191682e75101cf

    FBI confirmed Friday that it was indeed a bullet that struck the former president’s ear, moving to clear up conflicting accounts about what caused the former president’s injuries after a gunman opened fire at a Pennsylvania rally.

    “What struck former President Trump in the ear was a bullet, whether whole or fragmented into smaller pieces, fired from the deceased subject’s rifle,” the agency said in a statement.
    ———————

    I saw that as I trying to find more footage of the opening ceremony (NBC cut a lot of cool shit apparently.) I know it won’t put to rest stuff bc it just won’t. But I hope that the breakdown in communication and whatever else led to a man losing his life will be revealed (as much as it can) so this shit doesn’t happen again. It says a lot we have not had an attempt since 1981. I hope all the investigations and hearings and Cheatle’s resignation will lead to our candidates being better protected. Thats more important to me. I don’t have to like Trump. I don’t have to like him to say that I think he was hit by a bullet/ or fragment of one and I hope this does NOT ever happen to him or any other political or high profile figure. I pray that the SS will get the resources that need and the manpower they need as well. 

     

    He's healed remarkably well for a 78 year old if he really did get shot in the ear and not ever-so-slightly grazed

  9. 2 hours ago, StassneyHorn said:

    I’m on IPhone and CR seems to keep reloading every topic maybe halfway through the page on its own and a second or third if it is so long to scroll. Don’t know if it’s all the gifs, memes or twitter loads.

    What did your iPhone fall out of a coconut tree?

  10. Just now, Brisketexan said:

    Again...I thought we were in the nest, in the trust tree?  Are we not?  Because all of this judgment is making me a tad uncomfortable.

    Also, the other vibe I'm getting from Vance is that he should totally post on Surly.  He'd fit right in.

    I hope you didn't get a shaming vibe from me - it's ok to be a weird little freak! Just don't be a fascist because you're ashamed of yourself. Ya know, along the lines of grindr going down in Milwaukee during the RNC while the republicans are trying to undo Obergefell 

  11. 4 minutes ago, Mikey4 said:

    Which, of course, dovetails with the Fourteenth Amendment -- states cannot deprive a person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. The converse is that a state CAN take away a person's rights as punishment for a criminal conviction.

    Which circles back around to the disparity in policing and law enforcement, and shit like the war on drugs being designed to break up families and put people into for profit prisons. Among many other schemes to keep prisons nice and full so their shareholders can get the returns they are entitled to

  12. 5 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    I’m speaking about their primary retirement accounts, not some secondary or tertiary play account.  Maxing out your 401 with any semblance of a match works wonders after 15-20 years.  It’s not some crazy formula for the elite - quite the contrary.  

    Genuinely, most of the adults I knew growing up did not make enough to max their 401k. I know my household didn't growing up. Do you think the median American worker bringing home $45k/yr is able to contribute max to their 401k?

     

    Yeah no shit, the best way to make money is to have money. The problem tends to be starting that process of building when the majority of America is fighting to keep heads above water

  13. 6 hours ago, Prepuce of Doom said:

    Doomlet is also a Fartnite junkie. 

    I have instructed him and his buddies to destroy all Cybertrucks on site, but I think that they are just as glitchy in the game as in reality, and that they've recently been yanked from the game. 

    https://hard-drive.net/hd/cybertruck-already-recalled-in-fortnite/

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    There's also a funny thing where the windshield is a weak spot on cars in the game, so it had an EXTRA LARGE weak spot with the mega windshield lol

  14. 4 hours ago, bolverk said:

    Necro bump.

    Looong investigative piece by the AP. It raises the real question, "Is prison labor essentially slave labor?" We all know that it exists, but I personally didn't know the extent as a consumer.

    Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands

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    ANGOLA, La. (AP) — A hidden path to America’s dinner tables begins here, at an unlikely source – a former Southern slave plantation that is now the country’s largest maximum-security prison.

    Unmarked trucks packed with prison-raised cattle roll out of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, where men are sentenced to hard labor and forced to work, for pennies an hour or sometimes nothing at all. After rumbling down a country road to an auction house, the cows are bought by a local rancher and then followed by The Associated Press another 600 miles to a Texas slaughterhouse that feeds into the supply chains of giants like McDonald’s, Walmart and Cargill.

    Intricate, invisible webs, just like this one, link some of the world’s largest food companies and most popular brands to jobs performed by U.S. prisoners nationwide, according to a sweeping two-year AP investigation into prison labor that tied hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of agricultural products to goods sold on the open market.

    They are among America’s most vulnerable laborers. If they refuse to work, some can jeopardize their chances of parole or face punishment like being sent to solitary confinement. They also are often excluded from protections guaranteed to almost all other full-time workers, even when they are seriously injured or killed on the job.

    The goods these prisoners produce wind up in the supply chains of a dizzying array of products found in most American kitchens, from Frosted Flakes cereal and Ball Park hot dogs to Gold Medal flour, Coca-Cola and Riceland rice. They are on the shelves of virtually every supermarket in the country, including Kroger, Target, Aldi and Whole Foods. And some goods are exported, including to countries that have had products blocked from entering the U.S. for using forced or prison labor.

    Many of the companies buying directly from prisons are violating their own policies against the use of such labor. But it’s completely legal, dating back largely to the need for labor to help rebuild the South’s shattered economy after the Civil War. Enshrined in the Constitution by the 13th Amendment, slavery and involuntary servitude are banned – except as punishment for a crime.

    That clause is currently being challenged on the federal level, and efforts to remove similar language from state constitutions are expected to reach the ballot in about a dozen states this year.

    Some prisoners work on the same plantation soil where slaves harvested cotton, tobacco and sugarcane more than 150 years ago, with some present-day images looking eerily similar to the past. In Louisiana, which has one of the country’s highest incarceration rates, men working on the “farm line” still stoop over crops stretching far into the distance.

    cont'd:

    https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-c6f0eb4747963283316e494eadf08c4e

    No shit, there was a big ass documentary a while back titled "13th" about how prisoners are used as slave labor in the US to drive profits for the private prisons and for the mega corps getting extremely cheap labor.

  15. 4 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    Your view is not owning 10’s of thousands of whatever share makes you poor?  This is going to be a surprise to millions of Americans with 7 figure portfolios who don’t have a single allocation of “10’s of thousands of shares”.   

    My view is that the people who benefit as shareholders when companies steal from their employees are those that hold considerable numbers of shares, which is not the working class people were talking about. 

    Also, Americans with 7 figure portfolios are the far and away exception. Probably not in your circles, which is why you think it's normative 

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