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Captainant

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  1. I mean, UHC is fine with the medical neglect of millions of people every year. They built a fucking AI bot to systematically deny claims, and then argued in court that it was legal because the sick could simply go through their multi-year appeals process. Nevermind that many of them have perhaps months if denied care, so UHC gets to simply memory hole all their extracted sacks of capital neglected patients. If you can't handle the ugliness of American healthcare and understand why the general response to a cold blooded murder is "meh" or even "hooray", then you must be extremely fortunate to never have a family member go through that systemic medical neglect.
  2. IMO "making" a firearm, as in buying raw materials and milling them yourself, is very different from buying a pre-manufactured parts kit and assembling. And a much easier thing to draw a clear line on
  3. There was an outfit that was selling an "adapter" for standard oil filters that would thread onto most barrels. They got away with it because it only became a suppressor if you also had an oil filter nearby, but eventually the ATF caught on and wrote a letter and made the adapter itself registered. And yeah, it turns out it's pretty easy to put threads onto NPT fittings lol.
  4. Lol that's just an australian dude with a very even voice tone - he started off as a gaming channel and moved that to a secondary YT once his Ukraine War videos started getting traction.
  5. It's not like mufflers are classified technology - silencers are incredbly simple devices that are basically just a tube with a hole on each end, and a series of baffles/chambers between em.
  6. I'd bet it was a lower body that was printed, with the rails pressed in to make the complete lower frame. Something like carbon fiber reinforced nylon would handle the load just fine. It really is nuts how much of a complete gun you can buy as parts - when I built an AR a decade ago I was surprised that the bare lower receiver was the only regulated part. And even then a drill press could finish an 80% lower, and then you can buy a parts kit from pretty much anywhere to finish it No welding required, just press fits and pins. In a different climate I'd bet a dollar that those parts kits start to be more regulated and controlled, but who knows nowadays
  7. Tesla sued by deceased driver’s family over ‘fraudulent misrepresentation’ of Autopilot safety (CNBC reporting) Tesla is being sued by the family of a driver who died in a 2023 collision, claiming that the company’s “fraudulent misrepresentation” of its Autopilot technology was to blame. The Tesla driver, Genesis Giovanni Mendoza-Martinez, died in the crash involving a Model S sedan in Walnut Creek, California. His brother, Caleb, who had been a passenger at the time, was seriously injured. The Mendoza family sued Tesla in October in Contra Costa County, but in recent days Tesla had the case moved from state court to federal court in California’s Northern District. The Independent first reported on the venue change. Plaintiffs generally face a higher burden of proof in federal court for fraud claims. The incident involved a 2021 Model S, which smashed into a parked fire truck while the driver was using Tesla’s Autopilot, a partially automated driving system. Mendoza’s attorneys alleged that Tesla and Musk have exaggerated or made false claims about the Autopilot system for years in order to, “generate excitement about the company’s vehicles and thereby improve its financial condition.” They pointed to tweets, company blog posts, and remarks on earnings calls and in press interviews.
  8. I mean, he went and gunned a man down in cold blood. That's not something a stable person does
  9. I gotta say, I am enjoying Fascist Puncher 2K25
  10. Yeah 3D printing your own gun and silencer and then not throwing them away while crossing multiple state lines is pretty stupid for a guy who had a well thought out first half game plan
  11. I'm not a quantum computing person, but I've read a few white papers and understand what they stand to solve. The promise of quantum computing is so probabilistically solve NP-hard problems in constant time. An NP-hard problem is one where its very easy to check the solution's correctness, but extremely hard to find a correct solution. This concept is what underlies cryptography and our current paradigm of encryption (and yes I know there's "quantum-safe" protocols now) in that if you have the right key, you know very easily that you do. And if you don't have the right key, you're almost certainly NOT going to guess the right one. That's sort of what the announcement gestures at, in that it solved a problem in minutes that would otherwise take 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years. But this is all just research in a lab with ideal problems, not generalized solutions to large scale problems. As far as we know at least lol. Definitely interesting in the world of computer science, though.
  12. Humanity has had alchohol for millenia. I doubt we're gonna stop boozing anytime soon
  13. Angry Luigi is back on the menu
  14. Lmao ALWAYS a victim, the poor wuddle babies
  15. Oh ho ho, shitty AI driven copyright takedowns are coming to domain registrars now. Neat. They've been able to restore the site now, but holy what the fuck. It's wild there were zero humans in the loop to safeguard against an abuse like this. Well actually, it's not surprising. But it is still outrageous
  16. Well at least we know their treatment plan for when bird flu breaks out wide
  17. You're describing most of voting base for Republicans. They don't think about policy, they pick the guy they like most - surprise surprise it's the old white racist landlord, not the black prosecutor - and then take policy cues from their chosen avatar. They repeat any partisan attack with the full faith of it being 100% true, to the point of completely disassociating from objective reality. It's how they whip themselves up and motivate action, while suppressing enthusiasm from the opposition. It's totalitarian politics.
  18. Well for one, I don't think they know who the person is for certain. But releasing a possible name would cause a shitload of harassment around the country, plus set up an "I am Spartacus" moment
  19. Trump is closer to Lindbergh than he is Chamberlain
  20. I hope they have United Healthcare for insurance those fuckers
  21. Out coached on the fake punt. Outplayed in overtime. Outreffed the whole game
  22. What horrible, terrible, no good football
  23. If we lose because of fucking field goals....
  24. Of course it bounced right back
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