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Captainant

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  1. Last time I flew into IAH, some batshit canadian lady was on the parking shuttle with me talking about how "the librulz ruined MY country!" and how she was sooooo happy to be in Texas now. I'd bet my bottom dollar she overstayed her visa and is just like this hypocritcal (and now dead) MAGAt
  2. Well that strategy has certainly led donald trump to ruin, amirite??
  3. what the fuck even IS an "islamist"? That's really my issue lol. It's being used and thrown around like "woke" or "CRT" or "DEI" where someone shouts it and everyone nods along like useful idiots without bothering to wonder what they actually mean. A christofascist is someone who drapes themselves in Christianity and weaponizes faith to advance and further fascist policy and social moves. I'm happy to provide current examples past that generic definition if you'd like. And further, it wasn't even really that phrase - it was that he was comparing posting on a message board to the nazi fucking occupation of France lol. That's just ridiculous, but don't let that stop you from defending it for some strange reason.
  4. Wait are you comparing "islamists" (whatever that is lol) posting on a message board to the nazi occupation of Paris? This is an all-time meltdown
  5. holy shit can we put some bollards around brian and rex goddamn
  6. holy shit he's just gonna run the JCPOA back hahahahahahahahaha #artofthedeal
  7. Here's the same author published on his local news channel's site https://www.local10.com/weather/hurricane/2025/06/26/critical-hurricane-forecast-tool-abruptly-terminated/ The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program and its constellation of three weather satellites provide roughly half of all microwave satellite scans to forecasters. Those go dark beginning next Monday. “Their loss is a big deal,” says retired National Hurricane Center branch chief James Franklin, who oversaw all NHC hurricane forecasters until his retirement in 2017. “Without this imagery, there will be increased risk of a ‘sunrise surprise,’ the realization from first-light images that a system had become much better organized overnight, but it wasn’t recognized because structural details are so hard to discern from [infrared satellite].” Microwave data are also used to help “fix” or position the center of storms, a task not always easily or accurately accomplished using visible or enhanced satellite pictures. As the butterfly effect demonstrates, small errors in the initial positioning of a storm can lead to outsized forecast errors in four or five days. “For weaker systems, [it’s] increased initial position error (in the tens of miles) that will cascade into poorer track forecasts,” warns Franklin. Microwave data such as those from the DoD Special Sensor Microwave Imager Sounder are essential to hurricane forecasts, not a nice-to-have. They’re used in a variety of critical applications, including estimating hurricane intensity through AI-driven neural networks like the Deep Multispectral INtensity of TCs estimator or DMINT. In the absence of hurricane hunters, DMINT has been shown to be one of the most crucial tools in a hurricane forecaster’s arsenal for estimating storm intensity, largely because of the microwave data it utilizes. Though other microwave data will still be available to forecasters, the DoD weather satellites comprise half of all microwave instruments, which means data availability will be sliced in half, greatly increasing the odds of missing rapid intensification episodes, underestimating intensity, or misplacing the storm and degrading forecast accuracy. While the Department of Defense did successfully launched another weather satellite known as the Weather System Follow-on Microwave (WSF-M) in April 2024, that data isn’t currently available to forecasters and it’s not clear if or when data access will be permitted. It's gonna be a real fuckin scary hurricane season flying blind. Thank goodness the president has a sterling history with disaster recovery and response.
  8. inb4 "vaccines are tyranny but government mandated health trackers are FREEDOM!" nevermind that nobody has data privacy so all the for-profit isurance companies will use that data to further fuel denial of care. https://www.the-express.com/news/us-news/175834/rfk-jr-wants-every-american-wear-health-tracking-device-2029
  9. it's my FAVORITE when people get butthurt and cry foul on politics whenever you dare to point out the context of trump creating this problem in the first place through tearing up the JCPOA
  10. I gotta say, nationalizing the steel factories is a CLASSIC fascist move. Tip of the cap for sticking to the classics
  11. I gotta say, he's really effectively moved the conversation off of "hey wait he didn't have any authority to go to war without congressional approval" and we're now arguing over how big of a baddaboom he made as he didn't blow up their nuclear material stockpile
  12. On this board, there are people that will deny it happened. I've found including a source helps to head off shitty snippy jokes about how it's just "TDS" and it never actually happened so it's not a big deal
  13. you laugh, but DoD marked this photo for deletion under their "anti-DEI" purge. They pulled it back after the collective "WTF" when they tried to memory hole the Red Tails among other heros. https://apnews.com/article/dei-purge-images-pentagon-diversity-women-black-8efcfaec909954f4a24bad0d49c78074
  14. Six year old with leukemiua at immigration court? ICE ICE BABY! https://www.tpr.org/border-immigration/2025-06-25/ice-arrested-a-6-year-old-boy-with-leukemia-at-immigration-court-his-family-is-suing A Honduran mother and her two children — ages 6 and 9 — have sued the Trump administration over their arrest at Los Angeles Immigration Court, the first lawsuit challenging the arrests of children under a new ICE directive targeting courthouses. The mother brought her two children to the immigration court on May 29 expecting to continue to make a case for asylum after fleeing Honduras due to threats of violence. But like many other immigrants across the country, they were surprised to see their case quickly dismissed as ICE agents waited for them to step out of the courthouse into the hallway. "There were men waiting for them in civilian clothing. The men [ICE agents] detained the family for many hours, and it was a terrifying time for the two children and their mother," said Elora Mukherjee, director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic at Columbia Law School. "They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying," Mukherjee said. "The 6-year-old boy was terrified to see the gun. He urinated on himself and wet all his clothing. No one offered him a change of clothing for many hours." The family was then transported to the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas, where they have been detained for several weeks. The 6-year-old boy has been diagnosed with leukemia and has missed a medical appointment to be treated for worsening symptoms, according to the lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court in San Antonio by the Immigrant Rights Clinic and The Texas Civil Rights Project.
  15. Kind of strange to get fixated on civilian deaths from nukes specifically in WWII - incendiaries and manufactured firestorms completely erased whole cities just as readily. The nukes were just more efficient, but we very successfully killed 100,000 and dehomed 1,000,000 in one spring night in Tokyo 1945. Just with HE and incendiary. The strategic bombing of Japan was a far greater cruelty than just dropping Fat Man and Little Boy. It took longer than nukes, but it killed civilians dead just the same. The great game changer of nukes is that one plane carries the equivalent destructive power of 334. Or more
  16. Same chucklefuck who was giving these sorts of interviews over a decade ago https://journalstar.com/news/state-and-regional/federal-politics/chief-justice-roberts-decries-efforts-to-politicize-supreme-court/article_a5f9fbe9-d0a5-5f86-85c1-a54272c5fea3.html "We don't make decisions on political grounds" is a goddamn fucking LIE!
  17. No one tactically knew when it was coming, but they strategically knew it was coming. The attack was a tactical success, and a (seeming, tbd) strategic failure. The whole stated end goal has been to "PREVENT IRAN FROM GETTING NUKES!!!!" and yet now our big grand opening move is to not to a whole lot to affect that, and strongly motivate Iran to work even faster at it. Wow-ee! So glad we're in this position thanks to President Trump deciding to tear up the agreement in 2018.
  18. Just gotta circle back on this for another datapoint - NYT has reported that the pentagon (link to mediaite's story, because I don't have a NYT sub) was literally feeding trump fake attack plans because they were so worried about him leaking on truth social So, once again, lol at "organizational discipline". Lmao, even. Our so-called """organizational discipline""" resulted in Iran having plenty of heads up to relocate their nuclear stockpile and us not materially slowing down their ability to produce a bomb. So we spent probably upwards of a couple billion dollars between all the support crew and equipment used, didn't achieve the stated strategic goal, and did it all without congressional approval. Wow what sophistication!!!
  19. And a significant component of that dogmatic support for Israel is the belief that it checks one of the key boxes for Christ to return and usher in the end of days. Fundagelicals have been buckwild over that for decades
  20. [Laughs in whiskeyleaks]
  21. It's very very high quality crap. The injection molded plastic of content. It'll go fucking supernova with out idiot audiences. It makes my teeth itch, my MIL is CONSTANTLY texting us links to shitty AI slop on Facebook and she is DELIGHTED by it. Nevermind that she's the primary contact between her F500 employer and the IRS and is incredibly intelligent, lol funny AI generated video - what it's fake??
  22. They certainly are finely crafted, but if they're not spinning I would imagine they can be "packed" into a storage/shippable state. What makes them so vulnerable while spinning is that they spin at >50,000 RPM and the smallest bump can send all that kinetic energy out of control. Given the degree of saber rattling leading up to this attack I would be shocked if Iran had em spun up. No doubt getting bombed is not great for high grade technical equipment, but once they're that far up the enrichment cascade it doesn't take as many centrifuges to get to bomb grade so they could probably lose a few without severely setting things back.
  23. That really is a wonderful pull lolol thank you for putting a smile on my face. A bunch of goobers going on a boondoggle crusade is not a bad description of where this is all headed.
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