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Captainant

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  1. Dude. The fucking droid factory scene in Episode 2 is nearly TWENTY MINUTES of crappy CGI slapstick. It adds nothing to the story - Jar Jar at least provides meaningful connective tissue to the story being told in the movie. Jar Jar even puts Sheev into power! For all the bad filmmaking of the prequel trilogy, they at least actually built a cohesive world and were telling a story. The Clone Wars animated series really does the yeoman's work to contextually enrich the PT Uhg, The Acolyte fell into the same trap as the sequel triolgy I feel like. They didn't know what story they were trying to tell, and seemingly changed mid-thought several times.
  2. Another REALLY excellent bit of journalism, going and talking directly to the businesses designing, building, importing, and selling items that are impacted by the tariff chaos. Who knew imma was in tech journalism??
  3. "I hate talking about politics but oh boy I'm excited to buy up all that public land being put up for sale to fund my tax cuts!"
  4. https://www.newsweek.com/ice-detains-green-card-holder-returning-visit-son-us-air-force-2087397 Avila was detained May 7 at San Francisco International Airport after returning from Japan. The 66-year-old has been a legal permanent resident since 1967, when he immigrated to the United States from Mexico. He was returning from the trip with his wife, who had not been detained. According to a GoFundMe page, his wife, four children and six grandchildren are all U.S. citizens, including his son, who serves in the U.S. Air Force. A longtime resident of San Diego, Avila has worked as a legal assistant at the workers' compensation law firm Kiwan & Chambers APC for over a decade. Colleagues from the firm organized the fundraiser. Newsweek reached out to Avila's employer, Kiwan & Chambers APC, for comment via email on Wednesday. Avila's daughter, Carina Mejia, told local outlet ABC 10 News that her father was pulled over in 2009 and arrested for a DUI and drug possession misdemeanor. He served his time and paid the fines for the misdemeanors. She said he has been able to renew his green card two times since that arrest. In a Tuesday update, the organizers noted that Avila has been transferred to an ICE detention center outside of Bakersfield, California.
  5. Stick with me here, but it was NEVER about the so-called """fraud and abuse""". It's always been a justification to do authoritarian fascism, and get the useful idiots on their side.
  6. Welcome to the party, pal! I've been frustrated for years over the quality of """news""" sources that tend to get posted and propogated in the Daily Texan. Thank fuck pronghorn's contract ended and he's leaving us alone
  7. Thing is, he's not aggy. He's generationally wealthy Texas shithead that gets off on being a bully and then donating to orphanages to make up for it
  8. Really showing Christ's love, deacon.
  9. "8 in 10 republicans support rendition without due process" tell me more how the democrats just aren't messaging well enough
  10. what are you talking about?? They're gonna make the outdoors GREAT again!
  11. still cracks me up he held a COVID campaign rally on Juneteenth in 2020 in the midst of the BLM protests, and it led to the creation of the Herman Cain Award
  12. Even jones' bankruptcy trustee is calling bullshit on him, it's just too bad they gave him the benefit of the doubt only for the most predictable outcome to happen\ https://apnews.com/article/alex-jones-infowars-sandy-hook-shooting-8f4c64aa6ca78f30c5a7472e92865edd Just amazing work by the court system - letting a fascist do fascism pretty much unimpeded, and getting the bestiary of goons continue to get away with it and perpetually kick the can down the road. Justice delayed is justice denied.
  13. that would be right at home in the "The Democratic Party" thread too lmfao
  14. It's less about "fixing the internet" and more about enforcing baseline data collection and retention rules, like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe. It's a law with real teeth that lets governments and citizens go after data brokers and assert sovreignty over their own identity and data online. It's less about anonymity and more about not allowing any private entity to acquire and exploit the data of hundreds of millions of people for whatever means they want. And yes yes yes, it's never going to completely be gotten rid of - onion routing and the dark web give bad actors a ton of tools to avoid enforcement. But if it's explicity illegal and treated as the bad behavior that it is, it will significantly reduce its negative impact. That's far afield from THIS specific issue, but goddamn, the dude would not have been able to target and conduct his terroristic assasination plot - but for the easily accessed personal data marketplaces online.
  15. History and facts are not CR. If the deal that Iran was complying with (see surly thread covering that topic) was still in place, Israel would have non-violent means to secure their ultimate outcome of ensuring that Iran does not have nuclear weapons. Not making a value judgement on the decision - but they very simply would have an option besides bomb bomb bombing Iran to realize their national security objectives.
  16. You happen to be leaving out the bit where in 2018 Trump tore up the agreement that Obama made, and has been trying to unring that bell now. He set the table for this in the first place
  17. It would appear the shooter was able to simply buy personal information on his victims from public and legal markets, whoopsie poopsie! https://www.wired.com/story/minnesota-lawmaker-shootings-people-search-data-brokers/ It's an issue I've talked about repeatedly here on surly, and the usual suspects typically just come back with "bhhhhuuuuut it's OBAMACARE for the internet!!!" but goddamnit data privacy matters! It's absurd and literally leading to deaths now, the degree to which our personal information is financialized by private interests at the expense of our peace of mind, or even peace of body.
  18. It's really absurd the degree to which the entire American economic system relies exclusively on the chip fabs of Taiwan. If China were to just go shake that island a little bit, NVDA and the entire stock market would shit itself
  19. this will be the first major combat deployment for LCS ships - big time acid test for the hull brittleness and cracking issues
  20. the crazy thing is - spending an ever growing amount of money for even smaller returns doesn't matter. As long as you can show GROWTH all sins are washed away, white as snow
  21. ICE is now arresting people for asking to see a warrant. NYC City Comptroller was arrested by ICE for walking an immigrant home from court. Of course the secret police were wearing facemasks and covering their badge numbers. For all we know, this elected official was just disappeared by random street goons. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/17/brad-lander-arrested-new-york-city-comptroller Additional footage of the arrest shows Lander telling immigration officials: “I’m not obstructing. I’m standing right here in the hallway. I asked to see the judicial warrant. “You don‘t have the authority to arrest US citizens asking for a judicial warrant,” Lander can be heard saying. The officials, two of which were wearing masks, then pinned Lander to a wall and put him in handcuffs. It remains unclear why he was arrested.
  22. I mean, his Director of National Intelligence was propogating russian talking points in 2022 about Ukraine being an aggressor and building bioweapons labs, and traveled to Syria in 2017 to meet with Bashar al-Assad and accuse the US of funding terrorists in the middle east. But let he who's military industrial complex has not falsely claimed WMD's to justify an aggressive war of regime change throw the first shoe
  23. Even IF they could enrich that much uranium, the metallurgy to mold, cast, and machine nuclear metals would take a loooooong fucking time too. This is shit where even being off by a micron can cause a nuclear fizzle instead of a critical mass. I really doubt that they could go from mid-grade uranium to finished warheads in three weeks. That's just absurd without an existing pipeline that's been at cold-war era level of production I do think if he's not outright lying, he's leaving out key context that causes his statement to be extremely misleading at best
  24. At least old comedy sketches from the mid-2000's are coming back into relevancy again! Cracks me up that they've just been re-uploading sketches as they become relevant again
  25. You kidding? Maverick was able to shoot down a 5th gen with one they had just sitting up on the blocks!
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