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Captainant

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  1. Have you not seen the "human meat wave" attacks that russia has been using in Ukraine to take territory? Shit is just old-school WWI tactics
  2. And that's the correct context to discuss religion, honestly. It's cultural, not factual
  3. My favorite is when people get butthurt and accuse you of politicizing things for pointing out the trump admin's strategic failures wrt/ their stated goals in the face of spiking the football over BIG BADA BOOM Wow, what a fucking feather in the cap this boondoggle is turning out to be!
  4. I got a W11 pro key for $11 on Groupon lol - the company had to send me four before it actually worked, but it eventually worked so I'm happy
  5. hold onto your cornholes, the secret police are a-comin' to deport you with no due process
  6. surly lawyers come tell me how this is all normal PLEASE
  7. Ok, now I'm certain Iran was able to move its nuclear materials stockpile before the bombs dropped
  8. Here's some top-shelf cruelty. Unfortunately, it sounds like this poor guy voted for it to happen to himself. https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ice-detains-marine-corps-veterans-wife-breastfeeding-baby-123108984 ICE detains Marine Corps veteran's wife who was still breastfeeding their baby BATON ROUGE, La. -- Marine Corps veteran Adrian Clouatre doesn't know how to tell his children where their mother went after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained her last month. When his nearly 2-year-old son Noah asks for his mother before bed, Clouatre just tells him, “Mama will be back soon.” When his 3-month-old, breastfeeding daughter Lyn is hungry, he gives her a bottle of baby formula instead. He’s worried how his newborn will bond with her mother absent skin-to-skin contact. His wife, Paola, is one of tens of thousands of people in custody and facing deportation as the Trump administration pushes for immigration officers to arrest 3,000 people a day. Even as Marine Corps recruiters promote enlistment as protection for families lacking legal status, directives for strict immigrant enforcement have cast away practices of deference previously afforded to military families, immigration law experts say. The federal agency tasked with helping military family members gain legal status now refers them for deportation, government memos show. To visit his wife, Adrian Clouatre has to make an eight-hour round trip from their home in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to a rural ICE detention center in Monroe. Clouatre, who qualifies as a service-disabled veteran, goes every chance he can get. Paola Clouatre, a 25-year-old Mexican national whose mother brought her into the country seeking asylum more than a decade ago, met Adrian Clouatre, 26, at a southern California nightclub during the final months of his five years of military service in 2022. Within a year, they had tattooed each other's names on their arms. After they married in 2024, Paola Clouatre sought a green card to legally live and work in the U.S. Adrian Clouatre said he is “not a very political person” but believes his wife deserved to live legally in the U.S. “I’m all for ‘get the criminals out of the country,’ right?" he said. "But the people that are here working hard, especially the ones married to Americans — I mean, that’s always been a way to secure a green card.”
  9. Hell, just the threat-in-being of Iran being fucky is going to drive up insurance rates for those shipping companies, who will pass that along to everyone downstream of their goods. They don't have to OWN THE WATERZZZZ, just make them sufficiently dangerous so that shipping is squeezed and causes economic pain.
  10. well they need to get their testing companies set up, before they can update the law to direct all testing business to their companies. Haven't you ever oligarched before?
  11. Asserting that the Arab Spring was purely a western manufactured movement is tipping your hand just a little too much, tovarich. Isn't GRUhorn persona non grata on surly? Why does he stick around ban after ban?
  12. IF there is ever a rogue state with a nuke I don't think they'd aim to hit US homeland, but rather a key strategic asset or base or force concentration that's deployed nearby, which gives them quite a bit more possibility space to confound planners. It bears to keep in mind, if they have enough uranium to build a reactor they could just breed plutonium and skip the isotope separation phase alltogether. The science isn't a mystery - it's explained in detail in The Making of the Atomic Bomb. I do also have a nagging feeling that we blew up an empty base - or at least a base that did not contain their nuclear material stockpile.
  13. You're rhetorically saying "so what" in not addressing the topic and instead personally attacking posters. Which is probably why you're getting the response you're looking for
  14. Well no, she's a 1 year old so she doesn't go to school. That said, I don't think public schools should be shoving christianity down everyone's throat and asserting its primacy as the "normal" state of things. There's been multiple supreme court cases over this that have always ruled it was a violation of the first amendment. This is a waste of yours and mine taxes and legislative session time. Plus, schools should be a place for facts and critical thoughts. Not bible stories. That's SUNDAY school.
  15. First TACO, now MIGAs? I hope we get some GUAC
  16. IIRC, the hardest part is going from raw natural uranium to LEU at 5-10% enrichment. It gets faster and faster to enrich further once you get up the scale, so you'll go from 10->20 faster, and 20->30 faster still. If Iran was able to stockpile material and even a small cascade setup, they'll be able to enrich up without too much trouble. You don't need as many cascades if you're starting out with high grade uranium. So given the level of saber rattling we were doing, I can't imagine Iran didn't have some reserve to seed their rebuild
  17. As someone raising a beautiful baby girl in Texas, FUCK!
  18. Holy shit, the underdogs take the first map! The energy in the stadium is awesome - Vitality, the French team has decided to play the heel and the Texan audience is more than happy to boo the shit out of them lol. The place is primed to blow it's top for the Mongolz to win. It would ruin Vitality's perfect season of winning every. goddamn. tournament. this year, and it would be an incredible Cinderella story
  19. https://apnews.com/article/texas-ten-commandments-law-3f1ea84acd67a028ad9b7c01c3c2368c AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas will require all public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments under a new law that will make the state the nation’s largest to attempt to impose such a mandate. Gov. Greg Abbott announced Saturday that he signed the bill, which is expected to draw a legal challenge from critics who consider it an unconstitutional violation of the separation of church and state. A similar law in Louisiana was blocked when a federal appeals court ruled Friday that it was unconstitutional. Arkansas also has a similar law that has been challenged in federal court. The Texas measure easily passed in the Republican-controlled state House and Senate in the legislative session that ended June 2. “The focus of this bill is to look at what is historically important to our nation educationally and judicially,” Republican state representative Candy Noble, a co-sponsor of the bill, said when it passed the House.
  20. I gotta disagree hard on that. Cassian knew he would not be able to leave Bix, and that he had work yet to be done. They were both committed to the mission. All in. In many ways, the people that Cassian lost is what defined and fueled him. It's what makes him get up and fight the Empire and dare to hope. Between his sister, Marva, Brasso, B-2, and now Bix - Cassian has lost everything.
  21. This attack completely topples nuclear nonproliferation. It communicates loud and clear that if you don't have nukes, you're gonna be at the mercy of nuclear states. That's definitely a landmark shift in foreign policy, but I cannot agree that is a net positive thing for people who don't want nuclear war.
  22. Grand Final is live at 2:30! Vitality vs Mongolz I hope the underdogs have the juice today, but Vitality just has SO MUCH skill and experience. Their in-game leader has played in 20 majors, and first won back in 2015!! Vitality has just been a whirling death machine, 7-0 through group stages and the playoff bracket so far is unreal
  23. That is literally part of the factual exposition that set up this strike on a very potentially emptied enrichment facility. https://www.businesstoday.in/world/story/did-iran-move-centrifuges-before-us-strike-satellite-images-show-trucks-lined-up-at-fordow-481338-2025-06-22
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