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Captainant

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  1. what even IS nitrogen fixing in soil? Crop rotation is WOKE!(!!!)
  2. Peter Theil's parents owned the uranium mine that Apartheid South Africa used to build their Bomb. I would imagine that growing up in that environment and moving from West Germany to Ohio to Apartheid during his formative years really REALLY fucked with his head. As bad as Elon is, his parents were only mining gemstones in apartheid
  3. It's too bad DOGE wasn't able to protect us from the waste, fraud, and abuse of doing a $20,000,000,000 currency swap with Argentina. Right after their farmers ate our farmers lunch, no less.
  4. Only if you were building your position to literally the minute before the tariff (there's that word again) announcement, and started offloading it 5 minutes after for a massive gain. Otherwise play on player
  5. Could go in the markets thread, but it's relevant to discussion here: the AI bubble is 17x the dotcom bubble, and 4x the subprime housing bubble https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai-bubble-is-17-times-the-size-of-the-dot-com-frenzy-this-analyst-argues-046e7c5c TLDR: LLM's are already showing signs of scaling limitations (see energy costs), and apps built on an LLM don't have much marketability since it's so easily replicated. So there's not much market incentive to use the increasingly more and more expensive latest models. All the CapEx spending that's been keeping LGU economics happy, is not well positioned to generate returns on all the financial commitments made
  6. Obligatory coffezilla breakdown of someone making $190,000,000 on shorts in crypto markets
  7. Holy shit Nibblet where's that been all year?
  8. Holy fucking shit Arch is dog shit
  9. Glad I'm driving for my next slate of business travel, JFC
  10. Heptyl == UDMH, which is a common hypergolic fuel in use since the 60s. Combine with red fuming nitric acid or nitrogen tetroxide and baby, you've got a rocket goin. Almost certainly a fuck up
  11. Trump, stiffing his workers on pay? UNPOSSIBLE!
  12. my fantasy football opponent this week has Scat starting against me, so I'm not a fan
  13. lmao when Biden suggested that we should eat less beef it was met with REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE and a wave of disinformation. How the turn tables
  14. his negotiations led to Gaza getting flattened? Not sure what's to celebrate about that.
  15. WTF the government is shut down and we can't pay federal workers, but we'll do a $20,000,000,000 currency swap with Argentina to take their shitty hyperinflationary pesos? https://apnews.com/article/trump-bessent-argentina-milei-currency-swap-7432a188e57264f0e5f6c753ddc40879 absolute horseshit, and I'd love to see one of our resident cheeto suckers defend it
  16. literally F35's dropping American bombs into Gaza. No disagreement there whatsoever. We didn't start the fire, but we sure haven't been trying to fight it.
  17. It more or less starts with the Entente Powers from WWI fucking with the Ottoman Empire to secure oil fields, and destroying the existing tribal and national boundaries and redrawing them to whatever was most advantagous to their colonial interests. That's what upset the balance in the region, and set the table for Israel's recognition as a State post-WWII. Think "Lawrence of Arabia", but literally that. The Shah of Iran doesn't happen without that, and Iran's generally antagonistic stance to the West is a direct consequence of that chain of events. Setting the goalpost at "no more conflict ever" is unrealistic, but there certainly wouldn't be carpet bombing hospitals and religious wars if it weren't for the concerted Western effort to proselytze the region over and over and over and over again. (imo)
  18. You mean besides masking the overall rotten state of the economy outside of data center build-outs?
  19. The crazy thing is - generative AI is definitionally producing an "average" or "center of gravity" of all the data it's taken as training data to set its weights and biases within the neural network. At a mathematical level, it will produce average outputs. In some cases, like boilerplate code/text generation or simple data transformations, that's insanely powerful. But it's NOT something that will come up with new ideas or expand on a vision. It literally CAN'T do that on its own.
  20. They really furked it on the 3-2-1 strategy. A petabyte is a shitload of data, but goddamn it's not THAT much. I've got 48TB of RAID storage, and that was just under a grand. A State could put together an offsite backup solution ricky-tick. Hell, get a Starcraft player on it to micromanage and it'll be done in record time
  21. Lmfao yeah dude we're ALL paying for that grid build out. Electricity rates are high and only going up BTC mining is literally just wasting energy and capitalizing entropy. Those schemes would not be viable if it weren't for our state paying them subsidies. Fuckouttahere
  22. for real, they were playing without any fire or pride in the Swamp last weekend. Nobody has eachother's back, and the team feels incredibly mercenary
  23. good 'ol Zapital carry
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