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Captainant

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  1. You are aware of how both of Trump's impeachment trials went, right?
  2. Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag [/Clarkson]
  3. $1.06 in 1998 (when ResE2 came out) is $2.04 in 2024 dollars, and I've definitely bought gas at $2.10 this year
  4. You think that matters? If anything, it serves trumps purposes better to have charalatans in cabinet positions. It's an instant litmus test to see if whoever he's dealing with will kiss the ring and play ball. The more outrageous, the better.
  5. This is a complete misunderstanding of the AT protocol is and how BlueSky works. The idea is that you can take your entire identity, posting history, etc etc, and bring it with you to a new platform - while still communicating and interacting with everyone that you used to. A better way to think about it is that rather than using a locked in platform like AOL instant messenger (Twitter or Threads), this is an open protocol like email. The whole idea is that platforms don't have to host people, and that they aren't locked out of the conversation if they're off a platform. But in setting things up like this, Bluesky is incentivized to build a product that will keep users coming back to their platform, rather than a competitor or self-hosting. If you don't like BlueSky's moderation or algorithm, then you can simply roll your own and use that. Ed Zitron's "Better Offline" had a great episode that got a bit more into that ethos and idea.
  6. She's Vince's wife and a co-owner of the WWE
  7. It's their monopoly fee
  8. Hey man, do you want profit margins or not
  9. In fairness, the leopards are just looking at the menu and ordering. We don't get the first course until Jan 21
  10. If you haven't, check out Black Mesa whenever you wanna replay HL1. There's a big mod project for Blue Shift that im looking forward to
  11. Someone has to actually work in Jackson
  12. Working class should be called "wage earners" - people who get most of their money from income, not investments or old wealth
  13. Hurricane season is gonna be a fuckin doozie for the next four years
  14. Chicken piccata is a GOAT recipe for turning cheap ingredients into a delicious meal
  15. Captainant

    3D Printing

    Prusa just announced their CoreXY printer, and in true fashion, are offering an upgrade path for Mk4S owners. Temp controlled chamber is a nice feature
  16. https://www.thedailybeast.com/matt-gaetzs-underage-sex-probe-report-released-to-house-ethics-committee/ House Ethics Committee Chair Michael Guest (R-MS) revealed Monday that the formal report on their investigation into Matt Gaetz’s alleged misconduct was made available to all 10 members of the committee. According to Politico, only Guest and fellow ranking member Rep. Susan Wild (D-PA) previously had a copy. On Wednesday, the committee is scheduled to meet to discuss Gaetz’s dossier. Guest’s announcement comes amid bipartisan calls from members of the Senate Judiciary Committee to release the report’s findings after Donald Trump tapped Gaetz as his nominee for Attorney General. Meanwhile, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has pleaded with the committee to keep their findings sealed. The two-year-long ethics probe into Gaetz seemingly ended last week when the former Florida congressman resigned from the House. Since his nomination and resignation, however, a lawyer for the victims of Gaetz’s alleged sexual misconduct has revealed that his clients told the House Ethics Committee that they attended between five and 10 “sex parties” with the former congressman between mid-2017 and the end of 2018. Gaetz has continually denied any wrongdoing.
  17. Well that and Blacklab banned you from the site for continually repeating anti-Ukraine propaganda and derailing in the Ukraine war thread. And you keep making accounts despite that
  18. It's moreso the unknown unknown of the cryptography space. Quantum computing is an emerging field and designed to solve the very NP-hard problem at the core of proof of work. At this point, it not likely to see a successful 51% attack. But it's not impossible or something that you can rule out, because code is law. Nobody writes perfect code, there will always be a flaw found and exploited. Or technology will sufficiently advance to work around the difficulty built into the code. It's been a loooooong time, but even the BTC blockchain has had a couple forks to undo unintended bugs. The larger that monied interest gets, the more impossible those sorts of after the fact adjustments are to coordinate. It's not one of the greatest risks to Bitcoin, so I'm sorry for bringing it up now that you've reduced my entire position to that
  19. What's with all the hatred from a newbie? Jeeze lol, you're salty. But seriously, I've been going back and forth with GRUhorn on this topic for literal years now. Here's a comment of mine from 2022 that covers pretty much everything dahobbs touched on too Happy to return to past conversations if you don't prejudice my position or put words in my mouth.
  20. The incoming person who will be over the FDA doesn't believe in pasteurization or other food safety standards. So, uh, prepare your anus.
  21. Well whadya know, elmo's $200,000,000 investment in trump is already showing returns! https://gizmodo.com/trump-reportedly-wants-to-unleash-driverless-cars-on-america-2000525955 (Bloomberg original reporting, paywalled) FSD - coming to a stopped first responder near you!
  22. At the grocery store, it's surprising how expensive some processed goods are. A 12 pack of Cokes went from $4-5 to $8-9 , for reasons that defy explanation aside from gouging. Fresh food items (outside of the store, not the aisles) have gone up a little, but not nearly as much as packaged processed foods
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