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Captainant

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  1. Pretty good bit of real world proof on LIDAR vs cameras from YouTuber Mark Rober
  2. Some good time lining of how the Administration actively worked to defy the courts
  3. The executive is now fully ignoring the judicial branch, and it's orders. BBC: US deports hundreds of Venezuelans despite court order Planes carrying more than 200 Venezuelans deported by the US have landed in El Salvador, hours after a US judge ordered the Trump administration not to do so. El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele, wrote on social media that 238 members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had arrived, along with 23 members of the international MS-13 gang, on Sunday morning. Their arrival in the central American nation came after a federal judge blocked US President Donald Trump from invoking a centuries-old wartime law to justify the deportations - something Bukele made fun of in a later post. "Oopsie... Too late," he said. The move by the US to send alleged criminals from other countries to El Salvador was an arrangement US Secretary of State Marco Rubio previously called "the most unprecedented and extraordinary migratory agreement anywhere in the world". Bukele wrote that the detainees were immediately transferred to El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot) "for a period of one year", something that was "renewable" - suggesting they could be held there for longer. "The United States will pay a very low fee for them, but a high one for us," he added. Rubio confirmed the alleged gang members arrival in El Salvador and thanked Bukele, calling him "the strongest security leader in our region". Hours before, on Saturday evening, US District Judge James Boasberg ordered a halt to deportations covered by Trump's proclamation, which invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. The law allows the government to detain and deport people threatening the country's safety without due process.
  4. It's terribly frustrating how the most cancerous world leaders always manage to cling to life and power. It takes social chemotherapy to get over a bad run with one Yep. We're in line next for our turn
  5. Drawing a bullseye after throwing the dart is not "long term planning" lol. Further, forcing regressive consumption taxes like tarrifs and sales tax (to replace income taxes) is going to reduce consumer spending. Tovarich, this IS trickle down economics at work.
  6. Rather in line with what was said above... The ongoing tax cuts for the ultra wealthy holding all the money have induced the extreme levels of debt. If the markets have to take a beating and harm all the people who have been getting their taxes cut (as well as everyone else along for the ride) just so things get back into equilibrium. And it also remains to be seen what happens with the Party favored businesses and if they get bailed out as the power of the purse is consolidated into the executive
  7. Exactly - the human was at fault, not the perfect FSD. /guadaloopy
  8. It's more just the shibboleth that they can use to test for cultural purity and alignment. If you don't like the 10 commandments, then you're an outsider
  9. An electrical substation exploded https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/news/2025/03/12/texas-tech-shares-alerts-on-engineering-key-evacuations-eoc-activation/82344359007/ It was some serious shit - manhole covers were blown off and dancing on the fire plume. That's some serious pressure and flow to lift a manhole cover
  10. jeeze that fuckin sucks - she really made a choice to buy one of those things though lol
  11. FWIW those "3rd party drivers" are basically AMZN employees. Dispatch Service Partners are a bespoke busines that exist exclusively to service AMZN deliveries and avoid paying benefits out to workers. Jesus and that section of 35 has been a chute for years now. Nowhere for the stopped traffic to go to avoid the 18-wheeler. What a nightmare.
  12. It's literally his career to play dumb except for when he can cynically find a technical reason to disagree and deny. He's not better than this. It's all that he can muster.
  13. New book about zuck is unsurprising and is mostly stuff we already knew, but a few new anecdotes https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/ex-facebook-director-book-brutal-image-zuckerberg-20220239.php Lol he even gets butthurt when he loses at Catan or Ticket to Ride. What a bitch ass
  14. Favorite line of the season so far: "To put that monosyllabically: 'It's not my fault what Mark Scout does when he's not at work. It's yours.'" I mean, Milchick is still effectively a slave overseer, but it was still allsome to see him stand up to evil Hodor
  15. The nazis literally signed agreements with zionists (The Haavara Agreement of 1933), specifically because it gave the nazis a reason to set German Jews aside as separate and foreign. They were to ship all their Jews off to Palestine, and it was opposed by non-zionist German Jews who feared getting forcibly shipped off - or worse. Zionists playing okeydoke with authoritarians and dictators is not exactly new.
  16. Your insistence that such an offense exists when it's been confirmed that there was no crime or wrongdoing, or even breaking Columbia's private code of conduct, is just ridiculous. This legal resident is being deported for having unpopular speech, in a nation that specifically protects freedom of speech from government reprisals. For EVERYONE - not just citizens.
  17. https://vancouversun.com/news/bc-woman-detained-at-us-border-sent-to-arizona-detention-facility Alexis Eagles, of Abbotsford, said her 35-year-old daughter, Jasmine Mooney, entered the U.S. at the San Ysidro border crossing between Mexico and San Diego on March 3 with an incomplete application for a Trade NAFTA work visa. She said U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers arrested her and she spent three nights in the detention centre at the busiest land border crossing in the world. Mooney has not been charged with any crime and does not have a criminal record.
  18. TSLA has done quite a lot with AR-CNN models but visual data simply is not enough to navigate a car. Not even embedding/integrating collision avoidance radar has led to a number of instances where a "FSD" active car plows through emergency workers and first responders and doesn't even realize it hit anything. There's stories of plowing through deer all over the place, after suffering a ton of phantom stops from the visual system either hallucinating or not having enough data to reach sufficient confidence. I don't believe that their whole solution is generations better, sensor fusion has been the state of the art for years and elon is the only outlier in insisting that an exclusively visual model is all that's needed. Repeating his insistence will not make it fact, but it might get ya a few more stock points out of the TSLA dead cat bounce
  19. An authoritarian? Using emergency powers to cement their hold over a former democracy??
  20. tfw Jesus is literally a Palestinian.
  21. she was big on tiktok IIRC, but goddamn, her humor doesn't last longer than 30 seconds I guess. Every time she shows up it's just to sing shittily with a crappy keyboard
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