Captainant
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4 minutes ago, immamac said:
Enthusiasm for trump is not great right now. As stated here, lots of people who had signs and flags up even earlier this summer have them down. That's not to say they won't vote or favor him anymore, but the enthusiasm in deep red Texas is waning.
Man near where I live there's a shitty MAGA business that lines the I-10 feeder road with signs, and they all have "Biden THIS!" "Biden THAT!" and it warms my heart lol. I don't think they're really able to de-select the target that they've already locked on and so they're starting from scratch with Kamala and defaulting to racist attacks.
I certainly know of a bunch of idiot boomers that are still "trump is who Jesus would vote for!!!" because I have an unfortunate amount of family that's still deep in the SBC, but they've been having a hard time with answering why they think a criminally fraudulent rapist is the """christian vote"""
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Just now, immamac said:
Stocks crashing could be a sign that GDP will dip and unemployment will rise, but the speculative prices are so disconnected from reality that it doesn't have a direct impact.
Gonna be interesting to see what a bunch of finance departments do when line stops going up. Seems like the speculation fever is starting to break
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5 minutes ago, Pimphand said:
Pretty funny global market circuit breakers triggering which is a direct result of the runaway lunacy of the shitbag democrats and y'all are still over here in the corner stroking your flaccid micropeens about the dumbest presidential candidate to ever run.
Enjoy the CBDC, UBI, and social credit prison your stupidity help construct as they strip all your financial assets away.
Hopefully next time you get reincarnated you won't be so gullible.
Swam, is that you?
What an absolute gem of a high quality post
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Edited by Captainant
Anger bump (unless you like two tier justice)
TOPEKA — The magistrate who authorized last year’s police raid on the Marion County Record escaped discipline from a state panel by making claims that contradict statements in federal lawsuits about how the search warrants arrived in front of her and whether the police chief swore they were true before she signed them.
Magistrate Judge Laura Viar’s secret explanation, obtained by Kansas Reflector, adds a new layer of confusion and mystery to how law enforcement were able to carry out the search and seizure of journalists’ computers and cellphones without regard for state and federal laws that prohibit such police action. It also raises concerns about the low standards set for judges by the Kansas Commission on Judicial Conduct.
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5 minutes ago, AUS-97HORN said:
you forgot the most important event.
viciously dragging a uniform pair of pants (which were being worn by a lying asshole) through the hard hard asphalt for a half foot.
Lol I thought you were gonna mention his mugshot from Valhalla
I bet that cop is keeping his head a bit lower now lol
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9 minutes ago, Wally Pryor said:
Watching Scheffler during the Anthem completed this entire Olympics.
Stoic. Robotic. An incredible performance today, for the ages.
And the idea of representing his country brought him to tears.
Damn good, Scottie. Damn good.
He's had one hell of a year between winning the Masters, having his first child, and bringing home a golf in Paris
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15 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:
But it made me realize that a lot of young people don’t really understand how serious of a situation the country faces. I don’t talk politics with my kids. I’ve always assumed they are smart enough to see through the bullshit, but now I’m not so sure. I’m going to have a conversation with them and send them a write up of my thoughts.
Another thing to consider is that all they've ever known their whole lives is voter suppression and antidemocratic (the system, not the party) propaganda. There's a whole lotta deprogramming that will be necessary, and it takes fucking years
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The US embassy in Beirut is advising citizens to leave Lebanon on "any ticket available"
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c80xxeqel5po
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16 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:
In that POS trucks defense, whistlin diesel has never had a single vehicle survive. Well, the Hilux…until it was dropped from space.
The F150 stood up better once they replaced the immediately bent drive shaft. The frame weakness is just fucking insane to me, I don't know how they got its towing capacity certified for 11k lbs. That frame was SO THIN, it was closer to an aircraft frame than a shitkickin truck frame
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41 minutes ago, Captain Ron said:
Don’t get me wrong, we didn’t see the F150’s hitch, bumper or frame snap. Nor the strap. And the CT did. So I think we found a weak link in there. But I think with better/safer technique, this could be prevented.
If a CT had to make an emergency move while pulling a trailer, it may snap it's own ass off. Did you see how THIN the aluminum frame is??
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h/t to RPM for the link;
https://futurism.com/the-byte/signs-boeing-starliner-completely-failed
QuoteAn unnamed "informed" source told Ars Technica that there's a greater than 50 percent probability that the stranded astronauts will end up leaving the International Space Station on a SpaceX Dragon capsule, with another unnamed person telling the news outlet that the scenario is highly likely.
NASA officials are more cagey about what's happening on the record, a marked contrast from previous weeks when they expressed confidence in the Starliner's ability to safely bring back the astronauts
Starliner is a lemon and astronauts may not be flying home on it
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Speaking of legal exposure for muskrat:
QuoteThe lawsuit claims the driver of the Model 3 was "tired" and "not in a condition to drive as an ordinarily prudent driver."The complaint said the Autopilot sensors such as cameras "should have identified the hazard posed by Decedent’s motorcycle in its presence.""A reasonably prudent driver, or adequate auto braking system, would have, and could have slowed or stopped without colliding with the motorcycle," the complaint said.Tesla was not immediately available for comment.The lawsuit adds to growing scrutiny of Tesla's driver assistant systems Autopilot and Full Self-Driving.A Tesla Model S car was in "Full Self-Driving" mode when it hit and killed a 28-year-old motorcyclist in the Seattle area in April this year, police said this week. -
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57 minutes ago, immamac said:
I'm not sold on anything on ARM just yet over the X86 instruction set, but for just fucking around and using web apps it's great. For more productivity focused workloads I think it's going to get trounced by the latest Gen X86 stuff from both AMD and Intel.
I disagree, ARM is so customizable that if customized to the right spec frequently beats x86 in raw throughput and processing capacity - not to mention the lower power consumption. That sort of thing probably is going to live more in the datacenter than in end-user devices, but every hyperscaler is releasing in-house designed ARM processors that are often a performance uplift (if your code is ARM compatible).
And in terms of client computing I think it's just a matter of time until Qualcomm and Apple build something that's good enough but cheaper than x86 that'll eat away at their base of sales. No doubt that HEDT will still be x86, but that's not really what ARM is meant for anyways

Markets still falling like whoa
in Business and Markets
FTFY