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Captainant

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  1. He's the incoming head of a brand new government agency that's a pet project of the incoming administration. Technically or not, he's trading on Trump's political name and capital
  2. It's in IPIHB I'm pretty sure it was some statie toadies or some shit coming around because of all the anti-abbott rhetoric after he called in the jackboots against students on Campus. Same thing as when Plonsky tried to shut down the Shag for calling her a cunt constantly.
  3. It's effectively a senior VP, reports directly to C-suite. Basically if a government body is mad at them over taxes or this or that, she's involved with smoothing things over and keeping their peepees from getting whacked My point being: these extremely professionally competent people are greedily drinking the poison of misinformation. An exec I work with is still espousing the benefits of colloidal silver taken orally and ivermectin - he was at Raytheon for 15 years before his current role with my customer, most of that time in a SCIF. Dude is smart as hell, but believes in bullshit. It's maddening
  4. Because patients have no rights and are used as cash dispensers by fuckwads with MBAs lobbying and bribing until the law statutorily protects their business plan? A fucking Advil costs $200 at a hospital BECAUSE OF INSURANCE COMPANIES. And guess what? I don't have any say if they get between healthcare and my family. And if you don't have "insurance" than you won't even get admitted to any type of care short of the ER
  5. My MIL is the head of controversy for a major company, she is the person who talks to the IRS for the corporation and is smart as a whip. She fucking falls for Facebook scams and disinformation like nobody's business. She's got multiple masters degrees and a CPA and is incredibly intelligent, but she is frighteningly prone to recency bias and believing something if enough of her friends say it to her so. And then when her facts are proven to be wrong, rather than admit it, she just says "well I don't think that's right" and moves on and changed the subject. It drives my wife crazy, and it's shocking how many businesses executives like that I come across in a completely different industry and line of work from my MIL.
  6. Lex is giving strong "just give the bully what he wants" energy. President Zelensky sitting down in a room with Trump and Putin to "compromise" does not end well for Ukraine, as fridman so vapidly wishes and "dreams". It's like lex is trying to protect a future interview with putin by not saying anything to offend that strong man authoritarian
  7. This comparison is fucked. When my dad fell and broke his hip, we couldn't "get a rental" while we price shopped for the best deal. Auto insurance is for accidents with someone at fault. Healthcare is for staying alive. We should not be ill and injured HUMAN BEINGS like clunker cars and writing them off. Nevermind that auto insurance is optional in life you may never need a car. You don't have a fucking choice to get health insurance in America. You do, or you go bankrupt and die
  8. Tapatalk seems like it sucks. And it enshittifies the site with random longcat broken Unicode bullshit it keeps pinching off in threads
  9. It's tough to have ethics when you're a billionaire. They're pretty diametrically opposed
  10. Captainant

    3D Printing

    If you wanna nerd out on filaments, this is a pretty interesting video on a new Tullomer filament that gives carbon fiber like stiffness and strength but is transparent to RF. It's nearly as strong as kevlar and it can be printed on a consumer printer $275 for 500 grams honestly isn't bad for something that tough and suitable for finished parts. Really interesting properties where the strength is proportional to properties in the print - layer height, pressure, nozzle temp - and if it's annealed. But there's whole new potential fields of advancement in variable stiffness in single peice parts to enable flexures and other novel mechanisms
  11. I don't disagree but I do think you're leaving out the negative press effort to make issues appear bigger, or that there are more issues than there really are. If you get people pissed off enough they'll just go with whatever keeps the rage going. Here's hoping they realize their faces are getting eaten by the leopards
  12. On mac, it's command+option+shift+V to paste without formatting and Windows is control+shift+V. I don't know how to do it on iOS, but Android keyboards have a system level option to paste without formatting
  13. The only way something is getting rescheduled is if a major corporation stands to make a bundle on selling the newly legal substance with some sort of government maintained monopoly
  14. Lol $15 an hour won't even cover that after taxes. Good lord that's fucked.
  15. Something like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Committee ?
  16. Ho ho holy shit, this is some dystopian shit. We need laws against that sort of use of likeness
  17. [Laughs in Palantir and Cambridge Analytica]
  18. Looking at what, 175 or 200 per can? I've honestly never thought to look, but I know I'm not doing anything healthy drinking beers lol
  19. Yeah this was a movie star with tens of millions to spend. Imagine someone with literally FOUR ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE more money to spend. You could buy a whole social media platform and disseminate an industrial level of dis and misinformation
  20. My man, they're owned by billionaires. Their sole purpose is to enrich their owners and stake holders. Nothing more than that. Civics are dead and privatized
  21. Annie. Sweetie. Calm down child. Nobody is claiming Kremlin talking points about the LV trump tower bombing except you shitting in this punch bowl. Where tf are you coming from lol. Please quote your posts here if you're gonna go off the rails and thread shit. Or you can just keep rhetorically "many people are saying" it until you believe it yourself. It's gotten you this far, after all.
  22. Dogs in restaurants inside is fucking insane, and I love my dog to death. We'll take the dog with us to the beer garden's outdoor seating area but that's it. I don't think you're an outlier wrt/ non service dogs indoors at restaurants. I don't think I've seen folks just strolling down the street pulling on a J like they might with a cig, but the smell definitely is more distinctive than a dart. When I walk my dog by the apartments near my neighborhood, I almost always can smell something dank if it's the evening. TBH it's surprising that they're not just vaping instead of burning lol, way more discreet
  23. Tfw the long snapper never got set so it wasn't all 11 players getting subbed
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