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Captainant

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  1. Britain issues a travel warning for US https://www.newsweek.com/britain-issues-travel-warning-us-deportations-2047878 The U.S. has a range of entry requirements, including needing an Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) approval for short-term visits under the Visa Waiver Program. Failure to meet these requirements can result in travelers being denied entry, detained, or deported. British citizens planning trips to the United States are encouraged to regularly check the FCDO website for the latest travel advice and seek guidance if they are unsure about their visa status. The guidance comes after Rebecca Burke, a 28-year-old U.K. citizen, was detained and deported from the U.S. and returned to the U.K. on March 18, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Burke, a cartoonist, had been backpacking across the United States, sharing her journey on Instagram, where she posted about her stays in Portland and Seattle. Her father, Paul Burke, voiced concern in a Facebook post, explaining that his daughter had no criminal record and was on her way to Canada when she was denied entry due to an "incorrect visa." She was then refused reentry into the U.S., classified as an "illegal alien," and detained by ICE.
  2. That's kind of a favorite gag of mine in the John Wick movies. Like, EVERYONE in Central Park is apparently an assassin and gets the excommunicado notification at the end of the first movie
  3. if you're on iphone, you can click the lock button 5 times to "secure lock" it and require a password to get in. Or just a good ol' fashioned reboot whenever the cops ask to see your phone. It's non-destructive and complies with their request so they can get bent
  4. Really really dumb. And not backed by any facts whatsoever. Classic GOP.
  5. Holy shit that is terrifying how fast the fire spread. On residential lawns no less
  6. Posted in the rain thread ironically, but should have been here: San Jacinto county fire is 10% contained at 2000 acres going, per the last update https://share.watchduty.org/i/44281?ts=1742445022000 Stay safe woodlands and kingwood surlyites
  7. He's almost like a MAGA derka when you put it that way
  8. 3:30 AM on a Tuesday is less of a blitz and more of a 3 man front with everyone else dropping back lol
  9. They grow by slapping buzzword labels onto their products and services. See: blockchain, AI, et al. And they ALWAYS restructure debt and reduce opex/SGA costs because hey, keep costs low right? Who cares if that cost center or loss leader was holding up a customer base, or actually creating revenue greater than the expenses?? CUT THEM COSTS WE NEED TO GROW!! I see that sort of thinking everywhere in the wake of PE buyouts and wherever a consultancy has sunk in it's fangs. It's really more that not everything needs to grow and be a big business. That's like arguing an ecosystem should only have apex predators and no small animals and bugs or flora. The rush to growth for the sake of growth has been the direct cause of sooooo many otherwise healthy businesses to blow up and implode under their own weight. Businesses should stop acting like it's a supremacy sprint out there. That supremacy impulse is driven by PE pukes coming in and NEEDING to get their money back now that they put it into your business.
  10. It's windier than fuck out in Houston. Wildfire is burning in San Jacinto county https://abc13.com/post/san-jacinto-wildfire-crews-battle-fire-0-contained-sam-houston-national-forest-200-acres-burned/16052624/ 300 homes threatened so far Edit: up to 2000 acres and 10% contained https://share.watchduty.org/i/44281?ts=1742445022000
  11. Upon more reflection, I'd like to correct my earlier statement - PE isn't dead-focused on next quarter; it's focused solely on growth. Growth at all costs. It's that empty reflex to do nothing BUT grow - not improve the service or product UNLESS it will lead to growth. It's that shitty mindset that turns everything into a mini Glengarry Glenn Ross with high pressure and stakes for no reason but to hopefully squeeze another morsel of growth. In biology, a thing that grows forever unbounded is just cancer.
  12. uhhhhh..... A flamethrower? Probably more worldbuilding about "the table", the description said it takes place during John Wick 3: Parabellum. It's really cool that we get a posthumous performance from Lance Reddick since they shot his scenes before he passed
  13. Ok, an actual trailer was posted now. It's on the official Lionsgate Movies YT channel so I'm pretty sure it's not AI slop
  14. Totally normal free market activities
  15. Future justice Aileen Cannon will fix any judicial problems that trump is facing, duhhhhhh
  16. You aren't thinking this through. The answer will obviously be a public option for car insurance, backed by the US government. With preferred rates for made in America cars like Tesla's of course
  17. Elon is literally building a private army to do his bidding.
  18. We are hurtling towards a feudalism-based system again. Ultra-wealthy elites buy up and hold and own property, who in turn seek rents from the people who will live in/on that property and generate wealth through their labor. PE buying up housing and turning around and renting it to families, rather than those families getting the benefit of owning the home and growing their wealth is an extremely salient example of that behavior. If you want to be able to rent the nice house, you'd better get to work peasant. You certainly aren't gonna be able to outbid them to buy a nice house if you're just a wage earner.
  19. It's moreso that you think that the above was a good move. Because the above is what a fascist shithole looks like.
  20. That's allot of words to say "enshittification". PE forces a business or entity to stop caring about quality, experience, history, etc etc, in favor of profits and profits alone. It reduces EVERYTHING to dollars. Society needs more than just dollars to be healthy.
  21. My wife and I are actively looking for our next home - we've lost an offer to an investment buyer because the seller was a flipper. The winning bidder (that is buying it just to lease it) didn't care about broken glass blocks in the master shower, and the seller just wanted to move the property off their books. Fuck a family that wants to buy their next home for the next 10-20 years amirite Plus that dynamic has the added benefit of discouraging negotiation with the seller, since they truly don't give a shit. They just want their money back and don't care if they're leaving any landmines for the next owner. If you put in any contingencies or any asks it makes your offer vulnerable to someone else who just wants to put their money somewhere
  22. I mean, the book is published and is a best-seller. You can get it delivered by 8AM tomorrow morning
  23. IMO Private Equity is just the essence of american idividualism, but applied to capitalism. Every business entity they interact with or come into ownership of is just another resource to exploit. There's no downside to fucking them over, because you'll have moved on to the next thing before they realize you drank their milkshake. That ethos of "fuck the next year, we gotta fix the next quarter!!!" and epidemic of short-term thinking is what got us here. But by the same token, that sort of insane and dangerous risk taking is exactly how you become a billionaire and join the ranks of the "elite". So it's no wonder why every business-brained asshole doesn't give a shit about consequences, if you do things right you won't have to worry about the consequences. It's certainly working for elmo so far. He's taken tens of billions in losses and it literally doesn't fucking matter. He still has the keys to the kingdom and the ear of the mad king
  24. UT is just the local facet of the overall greater move towards totalitarianism. https://www.newsweek.com/trump-freezes-175m-upenn-funds-over-trans-women-2047100 Just fucking insane the degree of hatred that trans people get for simply trying to live their lives and participate in society. It's not even about them in particular, they're just the people in the crosshairs while a madman is at the trigger
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