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Captainant

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  1. This is just bullshit. An engineering degree is valuable specifically because of the high and uniform bar to be a professional engineer. And in tech, you REALLY don't need a degree unless you're going BigTech™. And even then, I've met senior folks with only an associates degree
  2. Extremely fucky to announce something like this on April fools day. I have no doubt that El presidente would rename Big E into the Musk.
  3. Not hyperbole: the feds are deporting now and asking questions later. Facts and evidence be damned. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/an-administrative-error-sends-a-man-to-a-salvadoran-prison/682254/ This shit is actually happening. Please stop thread shitting and doing the baghdad bob, Rex.
  4. Holy shit Rex go day drink somewhere else. Please stop claiming that this thread is full of hyperbole and dismissing the actual real kidnappings our government is doing under the guise of immigration enforcement
  5. This sort of pearl clutching is more often than not a self-report by those people vocing their "concern"
  6. This isn't "the right" or "my team" or "your team". This is AMERICA. AMERICA is shipping people off to labor camps in El Salvador without due process, and oopsie poopsie they scooped up a few brown citizen too. Terrorizing your political enemies and threatening them with cruel and unusual punishments like labor camps or being sent into forced marriages is not what AMERICA should be doing. The fact that you're continually framing is as "my team" and "your team" is the whole fucking reason we're in this mess. It's not about teams. It's about what is fucking right and wrong. This is not right. Stop arguing in advance of and the benefit of your intellectual peers that this is all just overblown nonsense. It's not. You should read "They Thought They Were Free" sometime to have a better grasp of the context you're dismissing out of hand to see where that thinking can lead. The above is a snippet with a name genericized to better illustrate how history is rhyming.
  7. Ya know Rex, seeing how desperately you want to derail the thread and conversation to NOT be about these extrajudicial and illegal actions by ICE, one could easily support the conclusion that you're pleased with what's happening.
  8. dangerous bet, going against State media. They might be the only folks with a broadcast license before long
  9. Genuinely, with South and North Korea becoming closer to China I wonder if there's a chance they end up getting things patched up between North and South. We do live in interesting times
  10. Here's the actual Reuters link. Just post that instead of the reaxx from socials lol https://www.reuters.com/world/china-japan-south-korea-will-jointly-respond-us-tariffs-chinese-state-media-says-2025-03-31/
  11. throw in a few trade wars and retaliatory tariffs, and baby you got a stew goin' https://www.reuters.com/world/china-japan-south-korea-will-jointly-respond-us-tariffs-chinese-state-media-says-2025-03-31/
  12. Poor dude already had his Rolls redistributed a while back lol
  13. Some solid investigative journalism over Yotta and Juno, and those other FinTech products that nicely rugpulled their customers. Nearly $96,000,000 is gone, like teardrops in the rain.
  14. One of the targetted Columbia students has published a letter on her experience getting gestapo'd TLDR: On March 6, this student got a "survey" from a private number asking about conditions on campus. For some reason, the caller revealed they already had her exact current address. On March 7 this poor woman was literally on the phone with her Columbia University advisor when ICE knocked on her door on their first attempt to deport her. Her advisor who just told her in writing she was in good legal status and standing and could continue her employment as a TA. She NOPE'd the fuck outta there and ICE kept coming back threatening to appear until they could put her into removal proceedings without a warrant or court order, despite her good legal standing. To escalate on March 9, ICE illegally terminated her student/exchange VISA and Columbia immediately disenrolled her and started seeking her out in person as well to "confirm she was still at home and received their notice". Fearing getting blackbagged by ICE, Ranjani fled for Canada on March 11. ICE and DHS raided her former home at CU on March 13, and then tweeted a victory tweet on the 14th claiming she "self deported" for alleged crimes without evidence. ICE is working with universities now. Universities are more than happy to help blackbag their students. What starts here changes the world.
  15. Every time someone longcats a thread, a Lobo gets his wings
  16. It's darkly funny to see the lawyers STILL not understanding that act like they're playing chess when the new game they're playing is Russian roulette. Even being at this table is a bad fuckin time, rules and laws have left us long ago because they simply couldn't keep up - how else could we end up here?
  17. His son is gonna be ALL over that, amirite???
  18. In crypto, this is called a "wash trade"
  19. It was a scam, but crime is legal now. At least if you align yourself with El Presedente
  20. I cannot emphasize it enough - GamerGate and that hate machine that spun up in the early 20-teens is the nitro that fuels trumpco and trumpism. Steve Bannon has said it himself many times, this is from a 2017 interview about how he learned from playing WoW how to "activate" a troll army It's been going on for more than a decade now, and is basically the background radiation in gaming and entertainment
  21. Shit, we would be fortunate to have someone that actually looks for and listens to experts to solve problems.
  22. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/university-alabama-doctoral-student-detained-ice-governments-college-c-rcna198320 More academics being disappeared by ICE. This guy doesn't seem to have done anything except be Iranian. Maybe we should rename the thread to "ethnic cleansing thread of dominance"
  23. Damaging their livers because they're following brainworm heroin addict advice instead of a doctors advice https://www.yahoo.com/news/after-rfk-jr-recommends-vitamin-a-as-a-measles-treatment-some-texas-patients-show-signs-of-toxicity-214353603.html?guccounter=1 Weeks after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. touted vitamin A as an effective treatment for measles amid the largest outbreak of disease in decades, hospitalized patients in West Texas are being treated for signs of vitamin A toxicity. Several patients at Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock have been found to have abnormal liver function, CNN reported, which can occur when a person takes excessive doses of vitamin A. Those being treated include “a handful of unvaccinated children who were given so much vitamin A that they had signs of liver damage,” the New York Times reported.
  24. Hey isn't a favorite bugaboo to concern troll about "price controls"? Why aren't y'all more vocal now that they're actually being seriously proposed by the president? WSJ: Trump Warned U.S. Automakers Not to Raise Prices in Response to Tariffs
  25. Really good breakdown by Ward Carrol on this shit show. For context: he's a retired naval aviator who's planned and executed these sorts of strikes and has originated strike plans. He explains why it's critical and necessary to use a SCIF and tolerate the inconvenience of highly secure comms. He also explains why this would get any mere mortal sent to Leavenworth. He agrees, ain't nothin gonna happen. It's now how trumpco rolls.
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