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Captainant

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  1. It's windier than fuck out in Houston. Wildfire is burning in San Jacinto county https://abc13.com/post/san-jacinto-wildfire-crews-battle-fire-0-contained-sam-houston-national-forest-200-acres-burned/16052624/ 300 homes threatened so far Edit: up to 2000 acres and 10% contained https://share.watchduty.org/i/44281?ts=1742445022000
  2. Upon more reflection, I'd like to correct my earlier statement - PE isn't dead-focused on next quarter; it's focused solely on growth. Growth at all costs. It's that empty reflex to do nothing BUT grow - not improve the service or product UNLESS it will lead to growth. It's that shitty mindset that turns everything into a mini Glengarry Glenn Ross with high pressure and stakes for no reason but to hopefully squeeze another morsel of growth. In biology, a thing that grows forever unbounded is just cancer.
  3. uhhhhh..... A flamethrower? Probably more worldbuilding about "the table", the description said it takes place during John Wick 3: Parabellum. It's really cool that we get a posthumous performance from Lance Reddick since they shot his scenes before he passed
  4. Ok, an actual trailer was posted now. It's on the official Lionsgate Movies YT channel so I'm pretty sure it's not AI slop
  5. Totally normal free market activities
  6. Future justice Aileen Cannon will fix any judicial problems that trump is facing, duhhhhhh
  7. You aren't thinking this through. The answer will obviously be a public option for car insurance, backed by the US government. With preferred rates for made in America cars like Tesla's of course
  8. Elon is literally building a private army to do his bidding.
  9. We are hurtling towards a feudalism-based system again. Ultra-wealthy elites buy up and hold and own property, who in turn seek rents from the people who will live in/on that property and generate wealth through their labor. PE buying up housing and turning around and renting it to families, rather than those families getting the benefit of owning the home and growing their wealth is an extremely salient example of that behavior. If you want to be able to rent the nice house, you'd better get to work peasant. You certainly aren't gonna be able to outbid them to buy a nice house if you're just a wage earner.
  10. It's moreso that you think that the above was a good move. Because the above is what a fascist shithole looks like.
  11. PE by any other name would smell as rancid
  12. That's allot of words to say "enshittification". PE forces a business or entity to stop caring about quality, experience, history, etc etc, in favor of profits and profits alone. It reduces EVERYTHING to dollars. Society needs more than just dollars to be healthy.
  13. My wife and I are actively looking for our next home - we've lost an offer to an investment buyer because the seller was a flipper. The winning bidder (that is buying it just to lease it) didn't care about broken glass blocks in the master shower, and the seller just wanted to move the property off their books. Fuck a family that wants to buy their next home for the next 10-20 years amirite Plus that dynamic has the added benefit of discouraging negotiation with the seller, since they truly don't give a shit. They just want their money back and don't care if they're leaving any landmines for the next owner. If you put in any contingencies or any asks it makes your offer vulnerable to someone else who just wants to put their money somewhere
  14. I mean, the book is published and is a best-seller. You can get it delivered by 8AM tomorrow morning
  15. IMO Private Equity is just the essence of american idividualism, but applied to capitalism. Every business entity they interact with or come into ownership of is just another resource to exploit. There's no downside to fucking them over, because you'll have moved on to the next thing before they realize you drank their milkshake. That ethos of "fuck the next year, we gotta fix the next quarter!!!" and epidemic of short-term thinking is what got us here. But by the same token, that sort of insane and dangerous risk taking is exactly how you become a billionaire and join the ranks of the "elite". So it's no wonder why every business-brained asshole doesn't give a shit about consequences, if you do things right you won't have to worry about the consequences. It's certainly working for elmo so far. He's taken tens of billions in losses and it literally doesn't fucking matter. He still has the keys to the kingdom and the ear of the mad king
  16. UT is just the local facet of the overall greater move towards totalitarianism. https://www.newsweek.com/trump-freezes-175m-upenn-funds-over-trans-women-2047100 Just fucking insane the degree of hatred that trans people get for simply trying to live their lives and participate in society. It's not even about them in particular, they're just the people in the crosshairs while a madman is at the trigger
  17. Fuck you and fuck that asshole for turning over all of the treasury data and payment systems to the robber barons in DOGE. I'm not gonna watch an hour long circle jerk over how there's too much regulation and anti-money laundering measures. Good on ya for keeping this handle as long as you have, @GRHorn
  18. There you go again, putting words in my mouth that I didn't say or type. But UT is certainly making moves that would not be out of place in a fascist society.
  19. Had to look up the whole video of Burr on Fallon - Fallon is trying to crawl out of his own skin as Burr goes in on billionaires lol. Video below is timestamped to the start of the Musk rant, but he does talk about Glengarry Glen Ross on Broadway at the beginning if that's your cup of tea
  20. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy ah, a classic of yours. Well done!
  21. I've got a stovetop one of those for camping and whenever Centerpoint forgets to do maintenance. Makes coffee that you can CHEW
  22. Their published report literally makes that claim, and they have a good visual on how the hotel industry is already seeing a 2% ding to bookings: A mix of sentiment effects will negatively impact international travel to the US. In key origin markets, a situation with polarizing Trump Administration policies and rhetoric, accompanied by economic losses to nationally important industries, small businesses and households, will discourage travel to the US. Some organizations will feel pressure to avoid hosting events in the US, or sending employees to the US, cutting into business travel. Anecdotal evidence from Tourism Economics clients confirms a growing number of travel cancellations from Canada. Immigration policy enforment activities may also raise concerns among potential travelers, particularly from Mexico, such the process of crossing the border or their safety while in the US.
  23. That story has a common thing I've noticed among conservatives - he came in with a notion that they were serving tons of children but has ZERO evidence to back it aside from his """sincerely held belief""". So much of their horse shit is backed by belief and not reality or evidence. They're so goddamn vulnerable to disinformation so long as it fits their worldview, it's maddening
  24. We've always been at war with Oceania fentanyl
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