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Captainant

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  1. Hey as long as none of the deceased are of the Executive Class, then there's absolutely nothing we can do about it.
  2. I've handled operations for several projects handed over to my customers from ACN, and it's always been integration hell with zero documentation and very poor code quality. And then on top of that, the customer got rid of most of their engineering/dev staff because "it's cheaper to contract out projects and we got a great rate from them". The majority of interactions I've been a part of have ended with either ACN leaving before the project finishes, or the customer nearly completely scrapping the ACN work and redoing it themselves. There have been successful projects, and ACN does have some heavy hitters, but they're the exception more than the rule from my first-hand experience over the last decade or so. My point being - their association with Arthur Anderson did not harm their reputation or ability to get customers one bit. And my customers that have been burned before by them always keep reaching for them again and again and get similar results every time
  3. It's wild how they're getting out into an industrial index when they haven't changed their product or offering at all and simply just bought a large tranche of a single asset. It defies logic
  4. Inb4 Binance gets discovered cooking their books and selling coins they don't have. It's the terminal stage of every crypto exchange.
  5. What fate? Creating one of the largest and most successful business consulting firms that continues to propagate their toxic business plans? And besides, Enron is BACK baby! They've got billboards up off WB I-10 coming out of downtown Houston. Who gives a shit about fraud these days, honestly
  6. Just left the Vatican and off to the next big area. I really enjoyed the puzzles and tomb exploration so far, and I like that Indy isn't so tough that you don't have to worry about sneaking around. But when you do get into a brawl, it feels great to beat up a few fascists with Indy dropping one-liners the whole time. Its great
  7. Veep was incredibly optimistic
  8. Fuckin LazerPig has been to Kiev and front-adjacent a few times too. Even got the air raid experience on tape while they were filming
  9. Bernorange owns a precious metals and crypto message board fwiw, so he is the truest of believers
  10. It really is incredible how much money openAI (and pretty much every other foundational model author) is going to make by ignoring copyright and IP laws while feeding their models. I don't think that bell is gonna get unrung, but it's another salient example of having a completely different set of rules if you're rich enough
  11. I read that mainly had to do with them offering Sunday Ticket and the whole NFL package not selling as well as they'd hoped
  12. He probably found out about it from his daughter and kushner buying a golden visa
  13. People have been looking for a new group to hate since the civil rights act
  14. she spoke about the corproate overlords in a disrepsectful way
  15. Ah I get it! Get the State to be your greater fool? I truly don't understand a state building a reserve of a non-dollar and non-spendable currency, unless they were planning on ditching or weakening the dollar
  16. We do have past behavior with these same actors, nations, and incentives that we can draw inferences from. And let me tell you, it's not a very friendly picture for a free and whole and democratic Ukraine. And I'm certainly not the only person who feels that way
  17. Not sure if WTF or win: Mystery as Texas father is brutally murdered while driving home from working at NASA A Texas father has been murdered on a freeway while he was driving home from NASA by a stray bullet - prompting a desperate manhunt for a suspect. Robert Schorovsky, a 37-year-old Neo-Nazi, was driving his box truck near the 7200 block on the Gulf Freeway when he was shot by someone at about 10.30pm on November 2. As a result, the victim lost control of his large commercial truck and ended up hitting two other vehicles before coming to a stop near the Woodridge exit. He was rushed to a nearby hospital in critical condition but succumbed to his injuries two days later. As of now, officials believe the incident was likely road rage. 'I think we're all in shock. It's been rough. One gunshot. There's no holes in the truck, no windows shot out. Just the one,' Schorovsky's wife, Brittany Ray told KHOU11. ... Schorovsky's obituary describes him as a 'hard worker and took pride that he could fix just about anything' and was 'focused on making and keeping his Brittany happy.' 'Robbie loved to spend time with the family and make lasting memories. If he was not working, you might see him down at the neighborhood pond fishing to clear his mind. 'There are many memories with the kids hiking, bike riding, and traveling that they will forever hold in their hearts. He was a hard worker and took pride that he could fix just about anything – including his white Chevy truck. 'His focus was on making and keeping his Brittany happy and would go as far as riding roller coasters with her even though he hated them. Robbie loved with all his heart and enjoyed helping those around him when he could.' However, tribute pictures posted by a man named Gary Brewer on his obituary page show that the father of three had a full Adolf Hitler face tattoo on his chest. The images were captioned 'Bolted for Life' and featured the two stark S's in the form of lightning bolts - suggesting he may have been a white supremacist and pro-Nazi. edit: referenced pictures in spoiler
  18. Don't forget the unspoken but strongly implied corrolary! "Corporations are perfectly efficient because they are attuned to and by the markets, so we should focus on giving them public capital"
  19. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
  20. Lol yeah Insulin is real cutting edge stuff consuming billions in research funds. Definitely not just a captured market that should be exploited for fat shareholder gainzzzz amirite? If big pharma is making enough to buy back billions in shares, maybe they don't need as much public subsidy? And if they plan to hold innovation hostage by abusing patents, unless they get their ransom paid out, then I wouldn't be surprised if we see more angry Luigi action
  21. Well doing it in a way that doesn't pay out the ruling caste would OBVIOUSLY never work And yet despite these subsidies, the billionaire caste is still taking in FAT margins at the cost of human lives and the misery of millions of Americans.
  22. Maybe, just maybe, using a financialized model to dictate healthcare is the reason we're in this whole fucking mess? If everything comes back to paying off returns on investments, then the patients health is explicitly NOT the top priority of those systems.
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