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Captainant

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  1. Not for nothing, but 5 out of 5 of my wife's cousins (no pics) that went to Camp Mystic are/were biiiiiiig into Greek Life, and were all debutantes. Camp Mystic ain't fo po' people
  2. You sure about that? "It could have been worse"
  3. Never believe that fascists are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words.
  4. Almost like there was a concerted effort to overrule empirical reality with rhetoric and propaganda, or something
  5. Emergency alerts punch through DnD, but people started turning them off after the State started to abuse it with the BLUE ALERTS for a cop stubbing their baby toe 500 miles away
  6. Why would those repubican public servants give a shit about serving the public?
  7. I have a deep dark feeling that they don't want to update the flood plain maps because they'd be admitting there's a problem with their current emergency plan. It would drive insurance out of the state, and destroy RE values if it turned out vast swaths of "500 year flood plains" are really more like "50 year flood plains"
  8. I think it's because that's the only place they get their news.
  9. More just hopeful that one day you'll realize your analytical legal mind is getting led around by the nose by the fascists. Their entire game is to turn shields into swords and disseminate disinformation, and you only ever seem to tut-tut the forces working against that, for fear of being "just as bad as the fascists". How about you start paying attention to outcomes instead of procedure? I know that the fascists are hoping we all just stop worrying about outcomes and just get twisted over complying with bullshit rules of decorum and evidence that they're planning to break anyways.
  10. The 4th amendment that has protecting due process for all people? That thing that is being shredded as we speak by Roberts and the very fine supreme court? It truly is breathtaking how happily and readily you apply different standards to fascists and those who stand against them.
  11. Who's claiming a conspiracy? Weather patterns are measurably more intense than they used to be, because of the increase of thermal energy in the system in general. It's the same oscillations as there's ever been, just getting more and more intense as our climate gets ever warmer. A couple degrees net increase in your body leads to all sorts of dysfunction and discomfort - a couple degrees net on the world is gonna do that on the scale that only mother nature can bring. As a Texan, it's pretty fucking important to be congizant of that reality. Plus, gutting our gulf weather data sources is only going to make that challenge of prediction of both timing and scale even harder thr stochastic environment known as Texas.
  12. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. If you were born in the era of a hydrodynamic drive being the pinnacle of technology, I could see how this sort of advanced mathematical model could seem magical. But Elon is not the wizard or originator of any of the technology that he is fawned over for. I'd bet your FIL spends a bunch of time on Fox and Twitter and has internalized the cult of personality
  13. Nevermind that they all use the same sources for their radar maps, and we have been defunding weather radar systems and deactivating data sharing systems all over the place. Someone said up thread this is complete outlier, and I fear that these data points are going to be less and less the outlier as we lean harder into fucking the environment and climate
  14. Inb4 the sign is changed to Alligator Auschwitz
  15. Yes yes, anyone staking a radical position is just as lame as the mainstream. I'm familiar with the play you're running from Bernie
  16. It literally got trump elected, so why not give it a whirl? Harness the hatred for the extravagantly wealthy, rather than for brown people
  17. Lol you sound like TahoeHorn talking about trump. This is a weird bit to do on July 4, but go off king
  18. Unless you're prosecuting a trumpist lmfao. How the fuck could you type that sentence on July 4, 2025 with a straight face
  19. Concern troll is VERY concerned.
  20. They are dead-ass saying that they're gonna feed alligators "65 million meals" at this facility. ... The US Latino population is around 65 million people.
  21. If Star Trek is any guide, it'll take a nuclear war for people to back off that bugaboo
  22. TBH what you're describing is what the start of my career looked like, only it was crappy brittle spaghetti code that came from TCS. Nobody in house could maintain it and my first big project was refactoring it into a documented and not dogmatically OOP'd codebase - crazy shit like hundreds of lines of class definition and factories just to enable basic operations on JSON objects. Management never wants to invest in good tech and talent, and will only begrudgingly do so after it's demonstrated THAT is what gives a market advantage. On the flip side, cleaning that mess up has been quite a nice career for me so far.
  23. It's fucking crazy how true this is. There's ZERO critical thinking in that class of person, all they see is dollar signs from cutting workers and they don't give a shit about the plummeting quality of product - whether that's customer service interactions, or more brittle and less secure code, or just generally trashing your market reputation. Crazy thing is though - they're gonna be looooong gone before those chickens come home to roost. That's the MBA way, baby! Harvest short term benefits to get their bonuses and then skip town to a new firm before the long-term consequences are made apparent. I think this is true for really basic, reading comprehension stuff. GenAI is gonna absolutely destroy the data entry industry as it currently stands - but that doesn't mean there's nothing else those folks could do. In an information economy, machine learning is the steam or ICE engine. It's what lets us sift through the vast amounts of data. But just because we came up with steam engines doesn't mean that we didn't need rail workers anymore driving stakes. John Henry could have done other jobs workin' on the railroad
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