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Captainant

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  1. Bro, the shareholders would NOT accept a "not for profit" use of their money. Don't you know they're entitled to consistent quarterly growth at all costs?
  2. Gotta say, the moderation rule of "being an idiot is not against the rules" is working out great for discourse.
  3. See: daily Texan ghost town thread
  4. Who knew shit posting was so valuable. Nobody tell imma!
  5. Really, it's just the COVID shock that's fucked us so badly. Of course, everyone taking the opportunity to goose margins and stock up for tariff impact is great for inflation too
  6. thanks, left a comment
  7. That's the most awful thing about the holocaust. It was completely legal under German law. They went to extreme lengths to comply with (or change) the law to remove any potential sources of dissent to their genocide. The Wannsee Conference was just nine years after Germany legalized discrimination against Jews. Timeline-wise we're creeping up on that first mile marker pretty fast.
  8. rarely non-sequitur, apologies for rubbing you the wrong way across a couple threads it seems. In a thread about climate change, tearing out a rose garden to replace with a gaudy ballroom feels pretty emblematic of the Presidential™ vibe
  9. What? I'm riffing along in agreement with you - it's fucked they're renaming the Kenedy Center, and they're also tearing up the Kenedy Rose Garden
  10. I agree - climate change didn't make the flood occur. That area is naturally where excess rainfall is gonna flow. However, the intensity of the storm and volume of water was absolutely made worse from climate change. Greater than Niagra Falls' 24hr flow volume is absolutely bonkers and insane, and is unlike anything we've recorded in Texas before. I would bet that if the rain were half of what it were there would have been fewer than half as many deaths, along the lines of your log curve model reasoning. The maladministration created the possibility for unmitigated flood deaths, and the extreme flood goosed that number even further.
  11. the only way to guarantee the market doesn't wake up to reality is to bet that it WILL wake up to reality. Once you run out of money paying premiums, then it'll wake up
  12. Sorry. Just a little tired of seeing chief executives get away with lying to the public and us all dangerously sweeping it all under the rug in the name of unity. We're all hearing so many lies, we're collectively losing the ability to recognize the truth.
  13. I think tearing out the rose garden, paving it over, and replacing it with a $200,000,000 gilded ballroom is a much more effective and thoughtful "fuck you, you fucking motherfuckers" than renaming the Kenedy center, imo
  14. "IF" tariffs take effect, amirite incredulity?
  15. birthright citizenship is officially on the chopping block. The President of the United States is using the same mechanism used to pass slave status across generations, only applied to immigration status. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/07/trump-birthright-citizenship-supreme-court-ice-maternity-ward.html To that end, USCIS declared flatly that the children of immigrants who are “unlawfully present” will “no longer be U.S. citizens at birth.” They will, instead, inherit the status of their parents, rendering them detainable and deportable as infants and throughout their lives. There is no indication that the government will provide some grace period before snatching up and imprisoning this new underclass of noncitizen babies; they are apparently subject to arrest from the moment of birth. ... The next section of the memo explains how the administration plans to deny citizenship to children born in the United States to parents who have “lawful but temporary” presence here. Trump’s order itself clarifies that kids whose parents have “a student, work, or tourist visa” would no longer be eligible for citizenship. But USCIS went much further, laying out a dozen other categories of immigrants whose offspring would be ensnared by the policy—even though their parents reside in the country legally. Its list includes immigrants who have received “withholding of removal” under the Convention Against Torture, immigrants granted Temporary Protected Status, and Dreamers protected by DACA. The agency left no stone unturned: It even declared that children of Micronesian parents fall under the order, even though Micronesians have every right to live and work in the U.S. under a 1986 treaty. (That treaty constituted a small reparation after the U.S. tested atomic weapons on Micronesia for more than a decade.) How will the federal government know whether a baby’s parents have “lawful but temporary” status, rendering the child ineligible for citizenship? USCIS does not say, but there is only one possibility: The government will begin to demand to see every parent’s legal status before acknowledging their child as a U.S. citizen. Only babies with at least one parent who is a citizen or green-card holder will be recognized as American. All others will be excluded at birth.
  16. please go away, GRUhorn. I don't know why you waste your time making account after account on a board that doesn't want you around.
  17. he's the elected County Judge and chief executive for the county. His lies are going to lead to more Texans getting killed by avoidable disasters. There WAS ample warning. Don't excuse his chickenshittery. His shit planning and maladministration directly led to worsening this already titanically bad disaster. Doing nothing to change their practices only ensures a repeat performance as our climate worsens and becomes more extreme.
  18. 1) rage posting at 3AM is totally normal. 2) I've posted actual journalism and 3rd party investigative findings that support the 60K death toll number. I'm specifically not relying solely on hamas numbers. 3) your inability to talk about the IDF's genocide without foaming at the mouth and shouting HAMAS!!! is extremely aggy.
  19. It's mostly consumed via evaporative cooling, so there's unfortunately not much to recycle. It's actually much more energy efficient to remove energy by phase change, which is nice at least. It is pretty fucked that they're drawing down on aquifer-fed municipal sources to cool data centers though
  20. Some of their testimony runs counter to previously established facts. ABC also has reporting, no paywall: https://abcnews.go.com/US/kerr-county-texas-lead-emergency-management-official-asleep/story?id=124237644 "We received no alerts suggesting an extreme weather event was imminent [referring to July 3]. For context, we received hundreds of alerts during the summer. This past July, we had over 80. My first indication that this storm was different came when I woke up to texts and calls from Chief Kidd, Sheriff Leitha and Dalton Rice," Kerr County Judge Rob Kelly testified. "We now know that by that time, the flooding had already overtaken Camp Mystic, part of the hills in La Junta and several other upriver camps, something I could never have imagined. This extreme weather event was not forecast by the National Weather Service in a timely manner. Based on the volume and tone of the messages, I recognize that something more serious and potentially tragic was unfolding," Kelly continued. ... Alicia Baker, shaking with emotion and holding back tears, described the horrors of losing her daughter and parents. Baker told the committee she had spent her summers on the Guadalupe River since 1990, and her parents owned a cabin there for nearly 20 years. Baker described the harrowing hours of not knowing the fate of her daughter and parents. "I waited there for over 12 hours for news, and literally no one could tell you anything at all," Baker said. "Literally, no one was in charge." She added, "We need to do better for the people in this community, for the people that are suffering."
  21. Those LLMs ain't gonna train themselves, and crypto ain't gonna mine itself
  22. it is mind-bendingly insane to me that people are sharing such close intimate details with a chatbot application owned by google, or microsoft, or ANY company that harvests userdata like this. There is a shocking lack of digital literacy, not to mention plain-old literacy
  23. but at least he got to own the libz and fight WOKE
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