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Captainant

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  1. This game is a clown fiesta and I am HERE for it
  2. God I missed football
  3. It's fascinating how there's such a dichotomy between one party where words mean nothing and the nonsense gives them power, and another where words mean everything and articulate definition drains their strength.
  4. https://www.trendforce.com/news/2025/08/22/news-trump-reportedly-spares-tsmc-micron-from-equity-grabs-after-chipmakers-ramp-u-s-investment/ U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick confirmed in a CNBC interview that the administration is seeking a 10% stake in Intel, sparking fears of broader equity grabs from CHIPS Act recipients. But according to The Wall Street Journal, Washington has ruled out moves against major investors like TSMC and Micron. A U.S. official cited by the report said Thursday the administration has no plans to seek equity in chipmakers like TSMC and Micron that are ramping up U.S. investments. Firms not expanding their pledges, however, could be asked to hand over stakes in exchange for subsidies, the report adds. ... TSMC Reportedly Mulls to Return Subsidies if U.S. Seeks Stake As the Wall Street Journal points out, Lutnick told CNBC that unlike the Biden administration, which “gave Intel and TSMC money for free,” Trump wants equity in return for subsidies: “If we’re giving you money, we want a piece of the action,” he added. In response to this potential move, TSMC, which was awarded up to $6.6 billion for its Arizona fabs that began production in late 2024, has reportedly discussed the option of returning its subsidies if Washington seeks a stake, as per the Wall Street Journal.
  5. Hah just realized - the bars on trump's jacket are the exact same as sadam's
  6. I've been on pocketcasts forever, it's a good android option, but I dislike how they started taking away features and put them behind a subscription paywall. I'd gladly pay a one-time fee, but fuck subscription models in the face.
  7. holy hell, default embed sizes are ridiculous lol. It took multiple "scrolls" to get past this longcat video on desktop
  8. Lulz makes me wanna go back and count how many times I got told I was overreacting for saying the same thing here on surly.
  9. [Laughs in Hoover] Not like the FBI has ever been involved in illegal and totalitarian behavior
  10. The kicker? Nearly half of US GDP growth has been from AI data center spending. Spending which doesn't increase profits or drive revenue, and yet it's growth has been the main engine of economic activity since 2023 or so
  11. Wow I didn't know you wanted to deport the first lady, falsifying visas is deadly serious business
  12. It's wild to think that he's just poisoning a town in Tennessee with his power gen for data centers so that he can hornypost and goon to AI slop. Like, a whole town has significantly higher nitrogen oxide levels in their air because of all the extra power being generated onsite https://time.com/7308925/elon-musk-memphis-ai-data-center/ They're building a new data center that's twice the size of the existing one right now, and have already flown in SIXTY SIX natgas turbines for the project. Most power stations use three or four, or a big one uses a dozen. That's a horrific amount of power for a racist shitposting chatbot
  13. “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
  14. he fails his history check - failure to hold fascists accountable only guarantees that they will soon be back. And in greater numbers.
  15. For context: WalMart said on their earnings call this morning that they're seeing “increased sales among upper income customers that wouldn’t usually shop there”
  16. That's the best part about margs - the more you drink the better they are
  17. There's a chilling movie about the Wannsee Conference - Conspiracy - that won quite a bit of recognition when it came out. The banality of evil on full display, ensuring that their final solution is fully legally compliant and maximally efficient Stanley Tucci as Eichmann, and Kenneth Branagh as Heydrich. Incredible cast that gives such a dark performance
  18. roberts gutted the voting rights act precisely so these maps could become reality
  19. Better Offline with Ed Zitron has a really good series running on this right now "The AI Money Trap" that isn't anything he hasn't covered before really, but it's bringing some relevant current information to the table. It's all a house of cards, propped up by cherry-picked ARR numbers that are not giving a realistic depiction of the state of their business. And that bubble is responsible for a double-digit percentage of value on the stock market and a plurality of the total trades that occur in terms of value exchanged. Nvidia is only making as much money as they are while there's speculative business models that demand buying their chips. Once that speculative bubble is popped it's gonna get very interesting
  20. LinkedIn has some outright lunatics on it, it's just as bad as facebook imo
  21. just wait till that dude learns about how we celebrate Easter based on the pagan calendar's date
  22. this is an excellent and salient example of how the main group people who care about pronous are people using them as outrage bait
  23. I don't think it's online ads, I think it's the products that are being marketed at the general public. Hell, when I was in NYC for work I saw one of the most dystopic ads I've ever seen: Every camera app has a filter to make you beautiful, or skinny, or a different color, or a different sex, or an animal. I feel like literally seeing yourself and your peers as other things besides their own selves is a bigger contributor to body dysmorphia than some outside malignant targeted effort
  24. So you're speculating there's an entity using micro targeting like how Facebook did to drive outrage, only driving homosexuality with the express intent of targeting conservative families? Or that division efforts are and always have been ongoing online, and this is just the new button being pressed to get that outcome?
  25. I think it's the new flavor of satanic panic. At least that particular "they're doing sex changes in schools" line of idiotic conspiracy
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