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Captainant

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  1. I have an older Cuisinart air fryer/toaster oven that's great. I've made whole Thanksgiving sides in it, and even made actual fried chicken on the bone with it. Had it since 2018 and we use the HELL out of it https://www.cuisinart.com/air-fryer-toaster-oven-with-grill/TOA-70NAS.html Gotta get the one with actual physical knobs/dials - the digital screen ones have terrible controls
  2. So I really REALLY want people to realize that the CK """memorial""" yesterday was nothing more than a political rally. The President of the United States saying that he HATES Americans who don't like him. His top advisor was straight out of the mid-1930's germany with his rhetoric. Classic shit with "our enemies are DANGEROUS! But they're also NOTHING and CAN DO NOTHING!" gh0ba3pg9qqf1DASH_360.mp4 They weren't there for peace and reconciliation. They were there to assign enemies and coordinate their "army" against whoever he says "they" are
  3. Not sure the best thread for this video, but this resonates with other discussions about how young men fall down the alt-right pipeline Really interesting stuff about using the aestetics of critical thinking to avoid actually thinking critically, and using that as a rhetorical weapon against "woke"/SJW's/etc
  4. or one step further - they'll use trump cutting the knees out from under the USD to justify ever more investments into crypto and scamcoins
  5. Dancing upon your opponents good faith is a central tenet of his """debate""" style. He never substantively addressed his oppositions points, and relied HEAVILY on logical fallacies to form his position. He was a troll, who delighted in knowing that he could lie while his opponent stuck to good faith and facts. To quote Sarte: They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past. Kirk was murdered while whatabouting gun violence to deflect onto "gang violence" (read: nonwhite violence). He literally died while arguing in bad faith. I understand your sentiment of wanting better and more open dialogue, but pinning your hopes on CK for that is like hoping Joe Camel would lead a healthcare revolution
  6. I mean, the only time Trump has won the presidency was when he ran against a woman.
  7. my bigger pet peeve is when folks aren't paying attention and form rolling roadblocks going 5-10MPH under the limit on the highway. It's ALWAYS some idiot on their phone not paying attention and just hugging the blind spot of the person in front of them, and when you try to pass them they speed up to block you. Once you finally get past them, they slow back down and go back into passive following mode, it's infuriating. I feel like there would be less rage driving and speed demons if traffic would just fucking FLOW, but people are dead set on driving in formation it feel like
  8. There's a hideous degree of mark-to-market accounting going on in the tech space too right now. For just one example, Oracle building their HUGE fuck-off datacenter in Abiline has led to massive stock value growth, but they don't have nearly enough capital to actually build the thing on time and start getting the revenue out of it that they've already marked down as "definitely going to happen". It's the same shell game of hypecycle pump and dump that led to the dotcom and housing bubbles.
  9. I do think the growth of the farcical "rugged individualism" mindset has also led to a massive rot and decay in civics in general. There's a whooooole bunch of "fuck you I got mine" in baiscally every aspect of life now, and it's exceedingly rare to see someone doing the right thing just because it's the right thing. Everything boils down to a P/L statement - even fucking schools are holding poor children to account for not being able to pay for food at a place the government makes them be. Because if he do anything with social benefit, it's SOCIALISM(!!!!) and we're gonna train people to be helpless, or some bullshit like that
  10. Our dystopia is closer to Brave New World than it is 1984 America is fucked up because we don't protect people from companies and corporations. Europe has the GDPR and meaningful punishments for violating people's data sovereignty. Here in the US, that sort of shit is table stakes for basically all of the Mag7, which put more effort into advertising and data harvesting than they do their products and outcomes. See also: enshittification thread
  11. Where'd you source this from? I google quote-searched the first line and found the exact text from a vegas tapatalk group https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/vegasexperts/politics-t16311-s3920.html Seems like a weird thing to drag up in the current context of the government unilaterally threatening national broadcasting licenses because "they're mean to me"
  12. That is a wonderful idea
  13. TBH that sounds about par for driving on I-10. Folks are getting worse at driving
  14. Four US citizens murdered by Israel, three of them children. Must have been terrorists in training or something according to Israels big Azure-powered AI targeting tools? https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/21/middleeast/israeli-strike-lebanon-us-citizens-killed-latam-intl This is fucking wild. A good friend of mine just moved back to the US from Lebanon last year with his wife and kid. They're US citizens but have a shitload of family still over there, and got married in Lebanon a few years back. I'm soooooo thankful he's out of the crosshairs because Israel don't care
  15. I actively avoided it and have only gotten snippets from surly too, but holy shit it seems like every platform was pushing it. YoutubeTV was recommeding multi-boxes of NFL games and the CK memorial, which is just ridiculous.
  16. Not sure I agree with your police work there, Lou. Unless this is some different Christianity that espouses hate, which would REALLY explain some recent developments.
  17. The crazy thing with all this pomp and circumstance for the dead racist is that if the shooter had shot up the college, nobody would give a shit at all and we would be onto the next thing already
  18. Well the H1B Proclamation from the King says that he and he alone may grant exemptions, so it's a "kiss the ring" kind of move imo
  19. The reality is that the judiciary is an arm of the Republican party. At least the highest and most powerful court that settles disputes is completely captured
  20. For real, my FIL used to say that his "daddy was a Democrat back when they were good". When I pointed out that his daddy's party change happened when the Civil Rights Act passed, he stopped being so proud to say that. Completely oblivious and never thought about that aspect but repeated it for years
  21. Have the day you voted for, shitbirds https://finance.yahoo.com/news/once-generation-economic-crisis-rural-164404261.html A survey released by the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) on Wednesday showed that 46% believe the U.S. is on the brink of a farm crisis, and another 33% said maybe. Meanwhile, about two-thirds said they are more concerned about their financial situation compared to a year ago, with 58% postponing equipment purchases, 38% reducing fertilizer applications and 22% looking for more off-farm income. “These findings point to a once-in-a-generation problem for the agricultural economy,” said NCGA Chief Economist Krista Swanson said in a statement. “The survey findings suggest that this crisis could have a long reach, affecting every area of the economy, as farmers are less likely to make purchases and will certainly make budget cuts that could affect their local communities.” The bleak survey results mirrored similarly downbeat readings in the Purdue University-CME Group Ag Economy Barometer Index, which fell 10 points in August to 125. A subindex on expectations for the future dropped 16 points to 123, the lowest since last September. That’s as crop prices have plunged from their 2022 peak, while production costs remain near record highs.
  22. Everything that was missing for the last couple of weeks. It's about damn time! 🤘🤘
  23. 5TD'S with <100yds of offense combined on them lmfao. The defense deserves most the credit for that games score, and we can't expect to get gifts like that in conference play. Stoked to see Arch shake some monkeys off his back. We need him to be good.
  24. Lol Supremes fucking LOVE counter-factual shit! Cake shop out front shoulda told ya
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