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Captainant

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  1. The real value of genAI is that it's giving businesses an excuse to cut headcount and fire workers domestically. Once it turns out whoopsie poopsie genAI cant do everything they said it could - because software engineering is a collaborative effort between technical and business stakeholders - it will be too late and those tech jobs will be offshored. I've been watching it happen over the last few years with my customers - they have fewer and fewer engineers on staff to solve things, but a growing army of contract labor that doesn't know shit about fuck in their business, but can crank out cookie cutter solutions. Nevermind if any of that is actually solving the business problem or advancing on the desired outcome - that's all problems for the next crop of MBA's to handle. This crop will be long gone and counting their bonuses for cost savings before the chickens come home to roost
  2. The Guardian: Clarence Thomas says precedent might not determine cases on upcoming supreme court docket
  3. Trump offering a bailout to Argentina just for them to turn around and eat American soybean farming trumpers lunch is incredible. No notes. Let the face eating continue
  4. Buy, borrow, die. Why get taxed on income when you can borrow against paper value?
  5. The other side of that coin in the business world is that nearly all of the corporate CapEx spending that's been keeping the markets happy has been on GenAI data centers and buying Nvidia chips. There's not a path to profitability with the genAI business model, openAI is losing money per chatGPT session, and every business consuming their models is losing money on their products built on the LLM's. It's gonna be one hell of a hangover when there's no real revenue to offset the capex depreciation in a year or two
  6. BG3 is an incredible game and is really truly like playing D&D with a good DM. The systems are all sooooo well realized, if you can think of a lateral solve for a puzzle or challenge, or get out of a tight situation with stealth or charisma checks, the game still rewards you with XP and progression. It's some stellar game design, and a big BIG game that lets you do quite literally whatever the hell you want.
  7. From the people that brought you The Sims, FIFA, and 9/11...
  8. Clone Wars is a weirdly produced show that was released in non-chronological order. By season 6 I believe it's mainly in order, and season 7 is happening in parallel with ROTS. It brings a TON of characterization that was frankly missing in the films. There's some good skip lists and essential episode lists that can skip the less good episodes. But if you don't watch anything, WATCH THE LAST 4 OF SEASON 7! Although if you don't know Ahsoka's whole journey you'll be missing some context
  9. Not long before uncle Dennis hits "separate entirely" and runs off with Kawhis money, I'd imagine
  10. Well it only took the FBI a few swings to eventually land on their perp, imo the cloud of conspiracy comes from their manifold fuckups from the jump. When there's uncertainty and an unclear explanation that's amended multiple times that's kind of to be expected
  11. That would be pretty wild if there were multiple shooters out trying to kill him at the same event. If the bullet really was lodged in his spine, it HAD to have been a lower power round that a 30-06 out of a rifle
  12. Conveniently, they stopped publicly reporting those numbers relatively recently
  13. it's fake, the small text under the follow button saws "totallyrealtweets"
  14. I thought the episode was pretty good, and I wasn't even aware of Don Jr's strategic advisory positions https://www.forbes.com/sites/mollybohannon/2025/01/13/donald-trump-jr-joins-prediction-market-kalshi/ But yeah it didn't quite have the juice of past episodes this season. I'd imagine they had to do some retooling after Cartman's alter ego got got. Pretty sneaky shot at Trump's first wife dying from falling down the stairs too
  15. Mangione’s presiding judge has ordered prosecutors to respond to a letter from Luigi Mangione’s legal team alleging that Trump administration officials’ recent social media posts about the case appear to have violated his right to a fair trial. https://truthout.org/articles/doj-appears-to-have-violated-luigi-mangiones-right-to-a-fair-trial-judge-says/ “It appears … that multiple employees at the Department of Justice may have violated Local Criminal Rule 23.1, and this Court’s order of April 25, 2025 specifically identifying the strictures of this rule,” U.S. District Judge Margaret M. Garnett wrote in her order on September 24 in response to the letter. The rule stipulates that “non-lawyer personnel employed by a lawyer’s office or subject to a lawyer’s supervision” in a criminal case have a duty not to release an “opinion that a reasonable person would expect to be disseminated by means of public communication” if there is a chance that the opinion will “interfere with a fair trial or otherwise prejudice the due administration of justice.” This includes any opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the accused, Garnett pointed out. “The statements referenced in the [letter from Mangione’s legal team] by two high-ranking staff members of the Department of Justice, including within the Office of the Attorney General, appear to be in direct violation of this Rule and the Court’s April 25 Order,” the judge continued.
  16. It's an open secret that social media impressions are bullshit, and yet it's the basis of the most valuable companies traded on the open market. God, I love living in economic bubbles
  17. Comey getting dragged into a political investigation prosecuted by the man he put into office with a political investigation is some decent irony. I'm sure he'll beat the rap, but I kind of hope it's the biggest pain in the ass to him that it can possibly be
  18. That's the "prime member" price, right below it is the "regular" price
  19. Inglorious Basterds is one of my favorite antifa movies
  20. We have a greater degree of wealth inequality right now in the US than the French did when they broke out the guillotines, so yeah I'd agree it's a bit of a powder keg situation. What's wild is that around 75% of corporate profits have been funneled into stock buybacks (source) which I believe is STRONGLY motivating the K-shaped recession. After the 2017 TCJA that only worsened. There's money for the poors, it just hasn't seemed to trickle down yet 🤔
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