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Captainant

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  1. As long as you're driving into a protester, any lane is fine it turns out
  2. A 2 basin sink sucks ass, fills the under sink space with plumbing, and is just less useful than a large single basin. Before my current house, every place I have lived has had 2 basin and I'm never going back. If you can't replace the basin though, putting in a new faucet is only $150 or so and can make it seem nicer
  3. That's 100% the play, and the Democrats are more than happy to step on that rake again
  4. Lol he released DMs and revoked verified status of twitch streaming goblins that called him out. He's gonna be in the Whitehouse beefing with nerds on Twitter while defunding public services
  5. Captainant

    SpaceX

    Those are generally used for descent, not ascent. But I have seen some folks getting freeze frames of fire licking out from the inside near the fin joints
  6. Booster is working great, Starship didn't make orbit it would seem
  7. Wouldn't Bruce Willis be a better ambassador for trump?
  8. I'll believe it when quantum systems are generalizable to start solving actual problems. But yes the promise they present would be earthshaking. It would also completely break modern information security and bumblefuck cryptomarkets, by virtue of (theoretically) solving blocks and crypto keys in O(1) time rather than a constantly escalating exponential number of calculations
  9. Thing is - large language models ARE the next big thing when it comes to handling extremely large and complex sets of data that are spread across a variety of different modes. There's been some fascinating research with LLM's being used to quickly explore possibility spaces within mathematic theories in academia. But that sort of usecase AIN'T what's being sold. Every "AI" widget at CES was just the same shit from last year with a chatbot front end slapped on it. There's definitely more hay to be made, but right now the leaders are leaning into AI slop. Hell, Meta considers AI slop for boomers to be a critical part of their platform strategy for FB because it keeps engagement up
  10. What are you talking about? The Steamdeck is the best place to play Switch games!
  11. Oh neat, if you're in the Dallas area there's a "Switch 2 Experience" coming to you April 25-27 https://www.nintendo.com/us/nintendo-switch-2-experience/
  12. Water weighs about 8lbs per gallon, and getting hit with even one 8lb unit moving at a hundred fifty knots would be awful. Now imagine a thousand units hitting you
  13. CBS: Southwest pilot removed from cockpit, booked for DUI A Southwest Airlines pilot was removed from the cockpit ahead of a Wednesday flight from Georgia to Chicago and was booked on a charge of driving under the influence, a source familiar with the incident told CBS News. David Paul Allsop allegedly smelled of alcohol and may have shown other signs of intoxication, the source said. Airport police in Savannah removed him before flight 3772 to Chicago's Midway Airport took off.
  14. He literally deployed unmarked federal officers against protesters and fired rubber bullets to clear them away from a church. And he faced zero consequences for it. We'd better be ready to bite the fucking pillow 'cause they're frothing at the mouth to go in dry
  15. Hahaha their youtube video has the date in the other direction
  16. Nintendo delayed the release of Switch 2 for a year to give the launch games time to cook - I hope that translates to a murder's row of releases. The power level of the device is probably going to be somewhere between a PS4 and PS4 pro
  17. February 4th announcement with the rest of the details. I like the bigger screen and slightly larger joycons. Hopefully they've got hall effect sticks so we don't have to keep dealing with drift
  18. One major plot point I foresee is that Helly now knows that she is Lumon royalty - or at least her outie is
  19. Not like we had a million acre fire just a year ago or anything
  20. If you enjoyed Whistlindiesel's last abuse of a cybertruck, he actually got it repaired and gave 'er a round two
  21. Lol that sounds more like the Ferengi in DS9, where every social interaction and every function came with a very reasonable and nominal fee
  22. jesus fucking christ. So much goddamn false victimhood mindset. Lawmakers are expected to continue that trend during this year’s legislative session (the Ten Commandments bill already has been refiled). And pastors, emboldened by President Donald Trump’s reelection and the ultraconservative U.S. Supreme Court, said Tuesday that they believe they have their best shot yet to topple the church-state wall and the Johnson Amendment, a federal rule that prohibits churches from engaging in overt political activity. Rick Scarborough has spent decades working to do exactly that. A former Southern Baptist pastor in Pearland, he has become a leader in a movement that seeks to mobilize pastors and undermine the Johnson Amendment, which he says is toothless but has been used by “cowardly” pastors who don’t want to engage in politics. The result, he said, has been an ineffectual Texas Legislature that has often cowered to the LGBTQ+ community and their heretical, progressive Christian allies. (Texas lawmakers have passed dozens of anti-LGBTQ+ bills in recent years, overriding opposition from a large majority of Democrats). One of his movement’s ultimate goals, he said Tuesday, is to draw a lawsuit that they can eventually take to the U.S. Supreme Court, which they believe will ultimately overturn the prohibition and unleash a new wave of conservative, Christian activism. “The Johnson Amendment is nothing but a fig leaf to cover the fear that pastors already have,” he said in an interview after praying over GOP lawmakers on the Capitol lawn. “Most pastors are so fearful of their reputation that they won't stand, and they don't know how much God will defend them if they get out there and stand up and speak fearlessly.”
  23. hah rufo strikes again. Absolutely wild how that goebbels of a gremlin has been able to steer the conservative conversation
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