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Captainant

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  1. 9 minutes ago, immamac said:

    The issue isn't necessarily rampant fraud as much as it is a rampant debt and PE fueled ponzi scheme. 

    Call me old fashioned, but a ponzi scheme is fraud in my book. And using that to generate debt that you intend to default on and leave them with worthless collateral is exactly rampant fraud. That's the same private equity move too that's used to hostilely take over a company, load it with debt, and then scamper off with the cash while the company goes bankrupt and the debt becomes worthless or pennies on the dollar 

  2. Just now, BevoAbyss said:

    Let me correct that: Right wing Twitter is such a fascist place.

    I am so f*cking tired of seeing media/social media descriptions of the GQP-MAGA using weak sauce words like “weird”… “strange” … “asshole” … "hard right" … “extreme" conservative … “ultra" conservative ...“fake" conservative … etc. etc. etc. 

    it’s almost like people are afraid to say it and think it… and thus help enable it.

    Just f*cking man up and say it!

    MAGA-GQP are fascists! 

    Let me tell you, you're gonna piss off a bunch of fascists when you start using that word. 

  3. 7 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

    So Charlie Kirk posted this video, ends up it's a crowd for Biden last month. Eric Trump reposts it and acts like it actually happened, catturd chimes in. 

    My question is for any Republican or Trump voter that has to be lurking on this thread: What are you doing? Do you have no shame supporting or defending these people? Or if you're turning a blind eye to this nonsense, why? 

    Bu-bu-bu-but videos on twatter are ALWAYS correct and factual as framed! If you don't have the capacity for critical thought, it's quite easy to understand 

  4. 8 minutes ago, 52-80 said:

    That talented software engineers are spending their time writing blockchain apps and people are throwing cash at monkey jpegs tell me its a luxury afforded by having good economic conditions. 

    TIL rampant fraud is ACKSHUALLY a good thing

     

    9 minutes ago, 52-80 said:

    If you could code but were financially destitute, you’d work on improving ad-targeting for google to get that sweet steady W2. 

    Tell me you don't know how software development works without telling me. Sorry there's no FRED chart for you to outsource your thinking to, slugger. 

  5. 2 hours ago, Hornius Emeritus said:

    Well, okay ... microplastics are responsible for decreasing sperm counts, migrating out of the gut into the tissues of the liver, kidney and even the brain, gunking up the oceans, killing mass quantities of fish etc ... but they are just so damn convenient.

    [Laughs in Point Comfort Formosa plant nodules in Matagorda Bay]

  6. 2 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Are they really gonna use image screenshots to store/obtain user/state data? Or is that a dumbing down of it? If so, seems super inefficient. 

    If they're feeding it into an LLM, they're tokenizing the image and storing the vector representation of that data. It's much more space efficient but also pushes more compute requirements onto the edge computer 

  7. 9 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

     

    I was mainly staying on Windows for gaming, but Linux may become my new home desktop OS now that Proton and steam have solved 99% of cases for me. Windows is really going through the enshittification value cycle now, and they're gonna force me off of W10 before long

  8. 4 hours ago, Hagbard Celine said:

    the atlas family is the us version of the soviet R-7

    the mission will get off the ground at some point

    the boeing capsule sitting on top of it is not causing the launch delays

    although the timing of the gremlins plaguing this particular atlas mission are of a certain karmic coincidence

    It's moreso the gremlins around the Artemis project as a whole. There's SO. MANY. HOLES! in their mission planning that are handwaved away until the problem can no longer be ignored. They didn't even calculate the number of required orbital cryo refueling missions (which have never been demonstrated to date) until SmarterEveryDay asked about it in a national aerospace conference talk. Turns out their guess of 6 or 8 was low and it's closer to 15 launches per lunar landing. Whoopsie poopsie!

    Just have to hope that SpaceX gets starship working and certified and then demonstrates a novel technique in a practical and repeatable manner. They've certainly pulled that rabbit out of the hat before, but planning on adding more miracles as a requirement is not great for long term success 

  9. 1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

    Fanbois: "Nobody can expect a car in FSD mode to avoid an object as elusive as a train.  Especially in fog.  No FSD product could possibly be developed to spot a train in the fog!"

    Everyone else: "what if you used technology other than cameras, like lidar?"

    Fanbois:

    giphy.gif?cid=6c09b952zn80mh8ev5ykw54qod

    The most successful self driving vehicles on the road like Waymo are using lidar and radar primarily with vision as a secondary layer of information. Going vision only with tesla was a cost saving measure by elmo that really severely limited his options later down the line in the design process 

  10. 31 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

    So HISD sent around an email and online listing of schools with power that will be open. This list is bullshit. We were at Helms all morning. It most definitely does not have power. I'm sure other schools are on the list are incorrect as well. 

    https://abc13.com/post/houston-isd-school-closures-storm-damage-campus-students-return-class-repairing-campuses-without-power/14841944/

    [Laughs in Mike Miles]

  11. Oh yeah and if there's any soon-to-be dads in Houston, I highly recommend the Motherhood Center for your wife/partner AND for you to get educated. We did newborn care, prepared childbirth, infant CPR, and breastfeeding classes there and it really equipped us with a strong base of knowledge that has at least made things less uncertain and unknown.

    And after the baby is born, they have a curated network of nurses and nannies and babysitters which is nice for a backup

  12. Just did a survey flight of my small neighborhood with my drone for roof damage - 12 homes with missing shingles on the roof ridge(s), two with holes in the roof, and one house with siding missing. The homes on the perimeter and corners of the neighborhood got it the worst.

    Holy fucking shit am I breathing a sigh of relief for dodging that bullet.

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    Edited by Captainant

    22 minutes ago, B00M said:

    Please tell me this is hyperbole and all the uvalde PD involved in that humiliating tragedy have been fired. If this is accurate, it’s just too much 

    I more meant DPS, who was also on the scene in force at Uvalde. And to the contrary, the police have investigated themselves and found the response was actually the correct and appropriate. That was big ugly news a few months ago. 

    15 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    Link or speculation? Forgive me if I don’t consider your speculation worth anything.  

    Abbott's claim is that perry acted in self defense when he ran a red light to aggressively swerve into protesters who were protesting police brutality. That is a complete fucking lie and ignoring what actually happened in favor of alternative facts that map to the culture war.

    Perry was premeditated in his action to swerve into protesters and shoot them. We have the fucking receipts for it. 

    Why are you happy about releasing this fucking murderer?

  14. 14 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    So your problem is with pardons, or the letter behind the the name of the person who granted it.  You have issues with the adjudication of the marijuana users that’s proposed/happening?  Or is that ok because it fits your worldview?  What should be pardoned, and by whom would it be acceptable for you? 

    TIL marijuana smokers are killing other people with their actions. 

    What a completely unhinged comparison between a violent person who sought out conflict, and people who want to get stoned. What the actual fuck?

     

    It's not speculation - we KNOW that he went there to target and harm protesters simply because he didn't like their speech. I have a problem that a violent person is being released and given back his gun rights simply because the governor liked who he was doing violence against. 

     

    The timing of this pardon along with the deployment of the Uvalde Defenders to violently quash the protests at UT sends a pretty fucking clear message: Protesters are open season in Texas. Seek redress of grievances against your government at risk of life and liberty. 

  15. 18 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    I’m ok with them shooting a trump supporter wielding an AK-47, yes.  This is the Gritty-est of Gritty moments.  Y’all love the FAFO mantra, embrace it   

    Hey dipshit, this guy was found guilty by jury of murder. That's not FAFO, that's a pedophile killing people because he dislikes their politics. 

    Fucking crazy how many of you fuckers are aligned with texags on this

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