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Captainant

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  1. And then cynically and fraudulently argue that it's fine because the Dems did it first. We've already had one round of concentration camps built off that logic, I'm sure we'll get some bang-up upgrades this go-round
  2. Pravda: Zelenskyy: US saying things today that are very pleasing to Putin President Volodymyr Zelenskyy believes that the rhetoric of the United States is now aimed at pleasing Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin and speeding up the conclusion of a certain "peace deal". Source: Zelenskyy in an interview with German public broadcaster ARD, as reported by European Pravda Details: Zelenskyy commented on the possibility of territorial concessions to Russia in the upcoming "peace talks," emphasising that Ukraine "will not surrender its territories legally".
  3. In fairness, they didn't get COBOL in their java course work
  4. Trump administration pressures Romania to lift restrictions on Andrew Tate The Trump administration has pressured Romanian authorities to lift travel restrictions on the self-described misogynist influencer Andrew Tate, a champion of the US president who is facing criminal charges in Bucharest. Andrew and his brother Tristan Tate, who are dual US and UK nationals, have become a cause célèbre in rightwing social media after having been arrested in Romania in 2022 and charged with human trafficking, sexual misconduct and money laundering, as well as starting an organised crime group. They have denied wrongdoing. The Tates’ case was first brought up by US officials in a phone call with the Romanian government last week and then followed up by Trump’s special envoy Richard Grenell when he met the Romanian foreign minister at the Munich Security Conference, according to three people familiar with the matter. A fourth person said a request was made to return the brothers’ passports and allow them to travel while they wait for court proceedings to conclude. Romanian foreign minister Emil Hurezeanu declined to comment on his exchange with Grenell. His spokesperson said Hurezeanu initiated the meeting and that they had “known each other for a long time” as they had both served as ambassadors in Berlin during the first Trump presidency.
  5. So, like, welcome russia back into the G8 yeah?
  6. Matt Berger of Space City Weather fame is sounding the alarm on NOAA getting kneecapped https://www.chron.com/gulf-coast/article/national-weather-service-doge-trust-20167595.php Despite Lutnick's assurances, a politicized NOAA could be a real problem, Berger told Chron this week. "Certainly if you wanted to say the planet is no longer warming, one way to do that is just to stop measuring temperatures," he said. "I very much doubt that will happen, but they renamed the Gulf of Mexico, so who knows?" Project 2025 also calls for the National Weather Service to be privatized, contending commercialization of the agency's proprietary technologies will increase competition. But in reality, Berger said, even weather companies in the private sector—including his—rely on NOAA's data to do their jobs. That includes weather apps on the typical smartphone and the dozen or so AI models in various stages of development. "All of them require a coherent set of initial conditions, which is primarily government-collected data," Berger said. "If you take that away, those models are no good—garbage in, garbage out. You've gotta have a good set of initial conditions."
  7. https://www.txftrp.org/politics_above_public_interest_in_montgomery_county Public libraries beginning to be censored and purged of anything they deem to be """DEI"""
  8. Pretty much lol. But 7 does make some big design changes like decoupling leaders from nations, and introducing an "eras" system that breaks the game into 3 segments if you play a full game from start. The maps aren't great, and will probably be a ton better in 3 or 6 or so months with the first big feature update
  9. Inb4 outrage at this comment, completely ignoring that the sitting president has said similar things about his opponents
  10. Stochastic terrorism is a favorite tool of fascists. Read a history book, slorch.
  11. Trans people are specifically targeted and demonized by the trump administration as sick and dangerous and sex offender creeps. You don't see how that could have motivated these very fine people?
  12. And AIDS prevention funding wasn't gutted then like it is now. AIDS is gonna go back to the 80s, baby! That's why you're getting the reaction you are.
  13. Yes, and the state you describe is the end state of what happens when the justice department and basic government systems are destroyed by a dictatorial leader.
  14. Have you been paying attention to the gutting of DOJ and dropping basically every corruption case on the books? SDNY has completely been ransacked over their refusal to drop the Eric Adams case. Buddy we are off the goddamn rails. The courts are for sale and do not follow precedence any longer
  15. I wish him the outcome of every oligarch that gets too big for his britches
  16. BBC: US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago The US government is trying to bring back nuclear safety employees it fired on Thursday, but is struggling to let them know they should return to work, NBC News has reported. The National Nuclear Security Administration workers were among hundreds of employees in the energy department who received termination letters. An email obtained by NBC said the letters for some NNSA employees "are being rescinded, but we do not have a good way to get in touch with those personnel". The terminations are part of massive effort by President Donald Trump to slash the ranks of the federal workforce, a project he began on his first day in office, less than a month ago. Last week, nearly 10,000 federal workers were let go, according to multiple US outlets. That figure was in addition to the estimated 75,000 workers who have accepted an offer from the White House to leave voluntarily in the autumn. The nuclear security officials who were laid off on Thursday helped oversee the nation's stockpile of nuclear weapons. That included staff who are stationed at facilities where the weapons are built, according to CNN. Attempting to reach the workers, the email, which was sent to current employees, said: "Please work with your supervisors to send this information (once you get it) to people's personal contact emails."
  17. I'll take "phrases likely to get booked for 200, Alex"
  18. This should be a major news story, maybe it will be once the murderers become cabinet members
  19. Love the fallacy of using a single data point to discount a whole trend. Republican control of legislatures across the board from local to state to federal in every state is significantly more broad than their electoral support. They're getting barely more than 50% of the vote but control a supermajority of seats. That's fucked We need ranked choice voting for starters
  20. Bro do you even know what gerrymandering is?
  21. Thank goodness ICE got rid of this dangerous brown person
  22. bro do you even epoch?? I thought every John Doe was born on Jan 1 1970
  23. It's time. To put our nukes on the blockchain.
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