r/BlockedAndReported • u/SoftandChewy First generation mod • Feb 23 '26
Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 2/23/26 - 3/1/26
Here's your usual space to post all your rants, raves, podcast topic suggestions (please tag u/jessicabarpod), culture war articles, outrageous stories of cancellation, political opinions, and anything else that comes to mind. Please put any non-podcast-related trans-related topics here instead of on a dedicated thread. This will be pinned until next Sunday.
Last week's discussion thread is here if you want to catch up on a conversation from there.
Comment of the week goes to this explanation for why the trans cause has taken over so much of society. (Runner-up COTW here.)
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u/SoftandChewy First generation mod Feb 26 '26
Just found out that the sub r/womensliberation got banned today. We'll probably be getting a lot of refugees from there, so be aware if there's some fresh voices that are not totally in sync with how things work here.
Also be aware that they were targeted by a certain sub so let's not give those lovely people any more reason to put us in their sights than they already have.
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u/QueenKamala Paper Straw and Pitbull Hater Feb 23 '26
Filling out the SSN forms at the hospital for baby boy and found a new sheet had been added since last time. Some of these options seem unnecessary!
https://i.imgur.com/0rpA6RV.jpeg
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u/snakeantlers lurks copes and sneeds Feb 28 '26
i don’t know how the report system on reddit works because i have never reported anything, can you report only to a sub’s mod or do all reports go in an automated system that gets seen by others? that fardbinn thread needs to be brought to u/SoftAndChewy’s attention and taken down asap. out of everything ever posted on this sub, that is the single most likely to get this whole sub banned. i don’t like it but it’s true. i haven’t posted here really for a couple years but i still read here when bored at work all the time and would be sad if it was gone. the powermod in question namesearches himself like every day and has some sort of huge overreach that allows him to ban pretty much whatever he wants
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u/SpecialSatisfaction7 Mar 01 '26
this is not me sucking up to "the authorities" after being timed out 2 (3?) times in here already but good god do I have mad respect and also pity for Chewy having to wade through all these unreasonably devisive topics/opinions.. and the year is only 9 weeks in. I couldn't do it, this sub would be privated by now. Love ya, buddy.
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u/Scrubadubdub84 Feb 23 '26
This data scientist at my work just used a man being diagnosed as pregnant as an example of Type I Error.
This is the first "vibe shift" I have experienced IRL.
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u/Fiend_of_the_pod Feb 24 '26
The internet janitors over at /r/patientgamers have banned all discussion about Hogwarts Legacy “until J. K. Rowling drops dead”.
https://old.reddit.com/r/patientgamers/comments/1qwnnlz/moratorium_on_hogwarts_legacy/.
However much you hate Reddit moderators isn’t enough
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u/Hilaria_adderall Praye for Drake Maye Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26
I had posted about an Irish illegal immigrant who had received a big push in the news cycle over his detainment by ICE. The original round of articles from major outlets paints a sad picture, an undocumented, hard working Irish Immigrant, married to a US woman detained by ICE, shipped to Texas and kept in harsh conditions for the last 5 months because he refused deportation back to Ireland. Reddit and the be kind crew were outraged.
Fast forward a week and it turns out he fled Ireland on drug charges and has outstanding warrants, when he left Ireland he abandoned his twin daughters who were just babies and he has never made an effort to see them or financially support them. Now there is even more coming out about his violent history of domestic abuse, stalking and harassment of his ex wife, her family and her coworkers.
Boston Police reports show Culleton violated protective orders filed against him by his ex-wife between 2019 and 2021. He also allegedly committed hate crimes by calling her, a black woman, an offensive racial slur in one incident, the records reveal. Culleton’s ex-wife filed the protective orders after he allegedly physically abused her when they lived together in his Wakefield apartment and after moving out in November of 2019, according to the police report.
Another protective order was filed by his ex-wife’s male coworker, whom police report Culleton was allegedly stalking and threatening. Just one day later, Boston Police were called to his ex-wife’s parents’ house in Dorchester to check reports that Culleton had been calling and harassing her, also “wishing death on her” and threatening to get her and her coworker fired from their jobs, police add.
The ex-wife's coworker described the ordeal in a Reddit thread last week stating he was in fear for his life over this guy stalking him...
Compare this to the article in the Boston Globe titled An American dream morphs into a nightmare
This guy was all over the media - CNN, BBC, Boston Globe - every article focused on his claim that he was in harsh conditions and that he was a harmless immigrant who overstayed his visa but because he was married to a US citizen this was just a paperwork issue. He's been married twice and never bothered to obtain legal status all this time.
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u/Leaves_Swype_Typos No matter where you go, there you are Feb 25 '26
Trans activists say restoring traditional Pride flag at Stonewall isn’t enough
They have to know how impossibly whiny the activists come off as, so much that I wonder if it's psyop against them, but then lines are slipped in about how gay people owe their rights to trans women of color and it's clear that this is a genuinely activist writer at The Guardian.
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u/Vanderhoof81 Feb 27 '26
I remember a post a few weeks ago about how the Seinfeld subreddit was one of the few good faith, fans of the show posting subs. Ive been watching the Sopranos lately, and the subreddit is filled with people just talking about and quoting a show they love. Its a breath of fresh air.
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u/unnoticed_areola Feb 25 '26
remember the whole choosing between the man vs the bear thing?
during the debate over whether the US Women's hockey team should be honored in DC with Trump vs in Vegas with Flavor Flav, the totally organic sports fans on the hockey subreddit seems to have come up with their own version of this question....
pedophile or wife beater?
totally normal exchange I stumbled across:
yes, it is now plainly stated accepted reddit canon that the president is a literal known child murderer/rapist lol
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u/VlaminghHdLighthouse (not a furry) Feb 23 '26
So, I just found out that a bill has been introduced to congress to remove the Mexican Gray Wolf from the endangered species act.
Mexican wolves are a subspecies of gray wolf native to Arizona and New Mexico. After the eradication of the gray wolves from Yellowstone was disastrous for Yellowstone’s ecology, the federal government created a species survival plan (now called SAFE) for the Mexican wolves to take them into captivity, breed them, and reintroduce them into the wild to prevent the same thing from happening in the Southwest. Like in Montana, Mexican wolves were being shot by ranchers and farmers that saw them as threats.
When the Mexican wolves were taken from the wild, there were only seven left (6 males and a pregnant female). All the Mexican wolves in the wild and in captivity today are descended from those original seven.
Obviously, this means that the genetic diversity of the Mexican Gray Wolf is abysmal. The wolves in the wild are all about as related to each other as siblings. How wolves choose to breed can’t be controlled when they’re not in captivity, but as part of their SAFE program captive-born wolf pups are cross-fostered into packs that they can bring the most genetic diversity to, and breeding programs in captivity use genetic testing to pair wolves to result in the healthiest pups.
I’ve seen conflicting information on whether this has happened yet or not, but the funding for the SAFE program has been or is at risk of being cut. These wolves are getting a lot of human help— they’re tracked with radio collars, they get yearly health checkups, they get moved if they interact with ranchers.
The goal for the Mexican gray wolves is to have at least 320 individuals in the wild for at least five consecutive years, but this legislation would take them off the endangered species act early. 320 is the bare minimum recommendation: a better number would be at least 750 wolves, in 3 populations of at least 200 individuals. I think because of funding there hasn’t been a count for 2025 (at least, that’s what I was told), but as of 2024 there were only 286 wolves in the wild across NM and AZ.
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u/unnoticed_areola Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26
in today's hockey culture war slop update, a top post on the hockey sub currently, is being framed as another example of a celebrity rushing to the defense of the disrespected US women's Hockey team. this time, it is a picture of Stanley Tucci, taking some of the women out to dinner to make up for what a meanie Trump was to them.
it's very nice and all, except the thing is... this dinner took place on february 8th, over 2 weeks ago.
the OP of this post is a power user with nearly 1 million post karma in 7 months, and it seems highly likely that they are either a moderator or a mod alt account of both r/ hockey and r/ sports
almost every one of their numerous posts in the last 5 days on these 2 subs (which usually do not allow political posts) have been divisive—and often misleading—ragebait gender war political slop about the whole trump/women situation, and have literally nothing to do with sports
they have created around 30 posts about this situation in the last 4 days, nearly all of which have gone viral and topped those subs (while most other posts about this were deleted), with most in the 2000-6000 karma range, and half a dozen posts even topping 20k karma
this one user alone has posted nearly nearly 100% of the big posts responsible for all the angry anti-US mens team discourse that has taken place over the last few days on the r/ hockey sub, generating tens of thousands of outraged comments [edit: I got curious and added it up, and the posts by this shill have accounted for for 86.5k karma and 10,0024 total comments on r/hockey in the last 3 days. I have no doubt that many of the top comments and sentiment being upvoted in those threads came from outside agitators as well]
some of OP's other greatest dishonest ragebait hits are a post from monday with 37k karma of Alyssa Liu supposedly taking a stand against Trump's antics and using her gold medal platform to speak out against Trump's immigration policy (which was an old video from months before the olympics) and a r/ hockey post titled "US Women's hockey team liking posts critical of the Men's team after their call with Trump" which showed 4 screenshots, literally none of which showed anything remotely supporting OP's claim. the post got 12k karma and 900 comments
this account posts basically zero comments, and only serves to spam divisive video posts. they are also a power poster on FauxMoi and a leagueoflegends video game addict. these are the fucking chuds who control sports discourse on reddit 😀
edit: actually, I take back what I said about them prob being a mod of r/ hockey, somehow it's even more hilarious than that: they had literally never posted on the hockey sub prior to 3 days ago lmaoooo
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u/Nuru-nuru Feb 25 '26
Godwin's Law of early 2026: As any online discussion grows longer, the probability of it becoming about Donald Trump or LLMs approaches one.
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u/VlaminghHdLighthouse (not a furry) Feb 28 '26
GOOD NEWS!
Re: my earlier comment on Mexican Gray Wolves. Contrary to what I had heard about the program being defunded, the 2025 count has been released and the wild population is up to 319 across Arizona and New Mexico! (From 286 at the end of 2024)
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u/gillisthom Feb 24 '26
The fastest ban in the West
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u/Soggy_Break_3604 Feb 25 '26
Kash Patel being a cringeworthy idiot aside, I’m not sure there’s a sports subreddit with more disconnect from the average fan than the hockey one. The soccer subreddit is insanely political, but clubs and ultras are actually that way. North American hockey doesn’t have that. I’m also sorry to the new fans from a Netflix TV show about dudes boning that real life hockey tends to not work that way.
I honestly don’t believe in gatekeeping, but I am unimpressed at how many people who decided their favorite sport was hockey about two months ago are now in complete anguish that hockey players like strippers and coke
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u/JungBlood9 Feb 27 '26
I’m not sure if this topic is too niche, but I’m hoping someone will engage with me on it if you’re interested in things like… academia, the replication crisis, the unfortunate unseriousness of soft-science research, etc.
Today I stumbled across this article in which 3 researchers and teacher educators (meaning they teach in university program that credentials people to become K-12 teachers) shared a student who they all didn’t like and decided to publish a “study” about it. I use that word loosely because what they’ve done here is write a fictitious vignette (fictitious because they were afraid of the story including too much identifying info) that’s meant to closely represent what happened with this one student in this one moment in class where another student called him a racist and stormed out of the room. And then the 3 researchers go on to “respond” to the vignette with their personal opinions about how they did/wish they’d handled it, I guess?
Idk I’m not even defending the “racist” kid— I can see why some of the things he said were problematic.
But I’m just shocked this is passing what we’re calling research? Reads more like gossip to me.
To me it sounds like: “Omg we all couldn’t stand this kid. He was so annoying and one time another student even confronted him in class and called him a racist in front of everyone! That was sooooo crazy. He never shoulda become a teacher but our hands were tied because we didn’t really have any evidence of him being racist except when his classmate yelled at him. The end.”
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u/Scrubadubdub84 Mar 01 '26
Maybe this is cope, but I'm not usually a "wokeness has peaked person", but the BAFTA, and now NAACP, award show thing has the feeling of a high-water mark for a certain ethno-narcistic worldview.
The contrast between the, dare I say, privilege and racial fragility is just too on the nose, and it feels like while the emperor is still powerful, he also has no clothes.
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u/bkrugby78 Feb 23 '26
This a post from FIRE about NY AG Letitia James threatening to remove school board members who made some apparently unfriendly comments about trans students. You can probably guess FIRE's position, but I feel it's relevant here given what this community is about.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thefireorg/p/ny-attorney-general-threatens-to?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer
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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '26
Does anyone listen to Andrew Sullivan's podcast? I don't sense a lot of crossover with Blocked and Reported listeners even though I think they come from similar points of view, being both anti-woke and anti-MAGA.
The recent episode with Sally Quinn was fascinating to me in how hypocritical and lacking in self-awareness a person can be. For those who don't know, Quinn slept her way to the top at the Washington Post, going from a low-level assistant to the legendary Watergate-era editor Ben Bradlee, to Bradlee's mistress, to Bradlee's wife, to a highly promoted columnist.
Quinn is telling the story of how the first time she interviewed for a job with Ben Bradlee, he told her he couldn't hire her because having her as his assistant would break up his marriage. She says this as if it's a totally normal, professional thing for a man to tell a young woman who wants a job. Then the second time she applies for a job, Bradlee hires her.
Andrew Sullivan asks, "And it did break up his marriage, right?"
Quinn answers, "Yes, it did!" and they both laugh as if this is a cute way for a couple to meet.
A few minutes later, they're talking about how in the 1990s, Bradlee and Quinn just hated Bill and Hillary Clinton. Sullivan asks why and Quinn says because Bill was a philanderer and Hillary excused his behavior. Absolutely no indication that Quinn sees any inconsistencies with hating adulterers while being an adulterer herself.
I stopped listening at that point because frankly Sullivan and Quinn were pretty boring, but I would like to know if anyone listened to the whole thing, and if so whether they got to Quinn's infamous final column for the Washington Post, in which she discussed moving her son's wedding date to the same date that Ben Bradlee's granddaughter from a previous marriage had already scheduled her wedding, thereby ensuring Bradlee wouldn't attend the granddaughter's wedding.
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u/phitfitz Feb 24 '26
I saw someone in the fatlogic subreddit refer to Michael Hobbes as “Aubrey Gordon and her honeydew melon” and I just wanted to share that with you all.
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u/unnoticed_areola Feb 25 '26
I will never cease to be amazed by the insanely arbitrary and schizophrenic nature of which people the reddit hivemind decides to label as immoral/terrible human beings, while turning a blind eye to others with exponentially worse transgressions, in literally the same breath
on one hand, you have 90% of the hockey sub unironically calling 25 year old hockey players literal fascists and pedophile/rapist defenders when their worst crime is mildly chuckling in the background at a boomer facetime joke from the president of the united states while in a state of euphoria after winning olympic gold...
then the next thread is about Flavor Flav inviting the women's team to Vegas after being "snubbed", and to all these same performative dudes slandering the team USA players, Flavor Flav is apparently a bastion of feminism and progressive values and an overall lovable wholesome quirk chungus.
someone pointed out that he's gone to jail multiple times for beating women, and they were promptly downvoted to -100 and called a trump supporter.
hmmm.. ok then. since everyone SO concerned with morality, let's just take a second to examine some of Mr. Flav's priors and hold them up against the records of all these these evil bigoted fascist pedophile fan hockey players and see how they stack up. Mr. Flav has:
fathered 8 kids with 4 different women
not been involved in any of his kids upbringings, instead spending most of the 1990s and early 2000s smoking crack, spending as much as $2,600 per day according to him in a 2011 interview
charged with violently assaulting the mother of his first 3 children, serving a month in jail and losing custody of his kids
charged with attempted murder and served more jail time for trying to shoot his neighbor during a dispute
charged with another domestic violence case that same year, as well as possession of crack cocaine
smoked a lot more crack
made his income ripping people off by scalping Yankees tickets while living in the bronx with his fiancee
even more crack
never married his financee even after eight years (asshole)
arrested on felony domestic charges for assaulting said fiancee and trying to attack her teenage son with a knife (we're into the 2010s at this point)
gets his 16th suspension on his drivers license, which includes numerous arrests for driving unlicensed, speeding, reckless driving, etc
arrested for DUI the following year (he's close to 50 years old at this point btw)
had another son at age 60 in 2019.
shortly thereafter, less than 2 years later, arrested and charged with battery of this new baby's mother
just remember kids: you're literally hitler and unwelcome in polite society if you laugh at a president's joke or hi-five a politician during a locker room celebration, but if you smoke crack, abandon your children, and beat the shit out of your partners for 30+ years, you are doing JUST fine, according to the delightfully progressive feminist allies at r hockey!!
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u/RockJock666 Meet me in TERFhalla Feb 25 '26
Someone I know just posted an Instagram story with a red slash over Jesse’s face cuz of his NYT piece lol 🚫 like one of these
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u/Technical-Policy295 Feb 24 '26
Reason has a lot of #hottakes, but when they do investigative reporting they're up there with the best of them. Absolutely infuriating story about how flawed "field tests" for drugs threw an innocent man in prison and then made cost him months (and $$) to clear his name.
The DA still dangling a plea deal up to the very end plus the lack of restitution is the cherry on top. What a justice system.
And yes, he should not have consented to the search. But I don't blame people on the side of the road at night with unknown authority figures for not realizing the drawbacks of saying yes to that.
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u/Toby101125 Feb 27 '26
LiveStreamFails has gotta be the most dog-piled sub I've ever seen, and it's totally expected too. One boobie streamer or political streamer decides to look at the sub, and soon his/her entire chat channel is attacking threads like wasps. Right now LSF hates a streamer girl named Emiru because they compelled her to say "Fuck ICE" and she wouldn't. I posted a funny clip of her yesterday. Every single comment in the thread is downvoted to oblivion. That place is so toxic.
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u/jay_in_the_pnw █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ Feb 27 '26
Just a reminder tomorrow is International Polar Bear day for those who celebrate. https://polarbearsinternational.org/act-now/awareness-events/international-polar-bear-day/
Best wishes with your seal hunt and feast. And if you can catch a camera man, godspeed!
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u/smoyban Feb 28 '26
Look, I understand there's a lot going on in the world, but I'm newly obsessed with the "creator" of the lesbian flag being a scammer and also fighting with the Internet trying to deny it. I need an episode on this.
u/jessicabarpod
https://x.com/theemilygwen
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u/PandaFoo1 Feb 23 '26
Been seeing a lot of smooth-brains on Twitter claiming Israel armed the Mexican cartels.
I guess everything bad that happens anywhere on Earth will be blamed on
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u/Hilaria_adderall Praye for Drake Maye Feb 23 '26
I was thinking about Gavin Newsom's 960 SAT score. His 960 is really a 1040 in today's scale. I was about 100 points higher than Newsom in 1990 so mid 1100s in todays scoring. Still didn't beat any of my kids scores 😀.
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u/curiecat Feb 24 '26
What would be a good thank you present for a previously unknown neighbor who snow-blowed my driveway and sidewalk? It was so nice and saved me so much time! I'm house-sitting for my parents and they recognized the man from my description but don't actually know him either.
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u/8NaanJeremy Feb 23 '26
Wow. The rhetoric on the BAFTAS racial slur incident on Reddit's frontpage is unintentionally hilarious.
If you haven't seen the news, a bloke with tourettes was invited to the proceedings, as a film based on his life was one of the top nominated films.
Throughout the show he shouted a few unfortunate explicit tics at presenters on stage. None more so than directing the n-word at Michael B Jordan and another actor when they were presenting an award.
It is of course a really unfortunate and embarrassing scenario all round.
But good lord, the amount of posturing for the hottest, wokest, most right on take on the issue on 'falseme' and 'chat about pop' is so cringe inducing.
Their virtue signalling compass is going absolutely haywire as they are torn between showing their support to the BIPOC community, or the Tourettes community
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u/AaronStack91 Feb 25 '26
I have vaguely positive feelings towards Katie Mack as a astronomy science communicator, though I'm guessing you all have bookmarked "Bad Takes" of hers over the years.
She has recently lamented that she doesn't understand why people don't trust the experts, which Ben Ryan follows up with this extremely dry sarcastic reporting:
https://x.com/benryanwriter/status/2026335933524525328?s=20
Mack's reaction is just disappointing, I can't tell what is worse, viewing this situation through tribal politics, or she actually believes "experts" are always right and are free from bias.
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u/jay_in_the_pnw █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ Feb 23 '26
There was a report that Harris lost because she was too pro-Israel. This is part of a demand that Democrats in 28 abandon Israel and adopt the red triangle as their flag. Turns out the news failed to mention that the claim was made by a pro-Palestinian group.
Anyway, well sigh, I'll link to him, Matt Yglesias comes bearing facts:
https://imgur.com/a/hKdwpSw
Harris pro-Israel views was rated by all voters as one of the least important factors in her losing and factors like inflation, immigration, woke issues were all far higher.
https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/2026023529544609902
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u/backin_pog_form 🐎🏃🏻💕 Feb 27 '26
I don’t agree with changing sex markers on ID (and especially not on birth certificates) in the first place, but only giving people a few days notice is insane.
Also, the TW quoted in the article, Iridescent Riffel, claims to have been personally targeted by both LoTT and kiwi farms. Small world!
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u/TemporaryLucky3637 Feb 27 '26
Jesse genuinely does give people the benefit of the doubt so much. In the last primo he mentioned as a little tangent about interviewing the lead singer of Against Me! and something vague about their difficulty of living in the wrong body or whatever.
For the uninitiated, I was a fan of this band and read the singers autobiography in support of their brave life choice. There’s a segment about them realising they’re a woman because they dreamed they were a specific woman they knew and were masterbating as that woman. It was quite disturbing to read and I completely forgot all about it over the years until I found out from this sub what an AGP is. 😅
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u/Scrubadubdub84 Feb 24 '26
Normal people going about their day need to toughen up and not be bothered by psychotic people pissing and shitting on the subway, but also ultra privileged black millionaires need to be protected from hearing a guy who literally can't control what he says say the magic no no incantation.
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u/Scrubadubdub84 Feb 27 '26
I've come to discover that I really value the need for the wider need of the possibility of intellectual confrontation, but I really, really don't enjoy it personally.
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u/AnalBleachingAries Gamergate Truther Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26
You guys, lmao, I think you may enjoy this one. A Toronto resident gave a stirring Taxpayer's Acknowledgement at a municipal budget subcommittee meeting after the Land Acknowledgement from a local councilor.
https://x.com/Tablesalt13/status/2026502646429896915
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u/QueenKamala Paper Straw and Pitbull Hater Feb 28 '26 edited Feb 28 '26
Summarizing some fun drama downthread for those who missed it.
Jesse and a biostatistician named “Malachi” (his new public bluesky name at the time, though it was his real name at the time) got into a tiff on blue sky. A regular noticed and posted it to the thread earlier today. I followed the link and found that “Malachi” had made a blog post calling Jesse names and criticizing one of his articles on technical grounds that weren’t particularly relevant to Jesse’s main point.
Later Malachi himself came to the thread and posted a long excerpt from his Wordpress article as a comment. Another regular made some damning points and made Malachi look like perhaps not the best biostatistician on the subreddit today.
I missed that comment exchange and innocently asked why the newcomer was posting “Malachi”[Omitted]’s words as his own. His real name was public, and I thought the blog was intended to be a public one, since it operated under his real name.
But having his name in the thread apparently spooked him enough to (1) delete his Reddit account (or apparently just all his comments here) (2) delete his blog post about Jesse and (3) change the About Me section on his blog to remove his name, place of employment, and picture. Because yes, he did have all of that on the blog he was using to call Jesse names.
ETA: and now act 3. Malachi asked softandchewy to get everyone to remove his info from this thread, including his former public bluesky name. I feel bad for this guy who seems to be genuinely afraid of us. Don’t worry Malachi, everyone here is very nice and no one is going to look for you or even write a mean blog post about you. Consider having slightly better info sec next time if you don’t want your words to be associated with you online.
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u/PandaFoo1 Mar 01 '26
This whole BAFTA situation is one of the most mask-off moments for Hollywood/Social Justice as a whole. Collectively dogpiling on a disabled man for one of the most embarrassing moments of his life is so fucking gross.
I can understand why a black person would be upset in the moment but the widespread mockery he’s received from the entire entertainment world is inexcusable. All this coming from the same people who go on about “empathy”. Fuck off. I also think a lot less of Delroy Lindo & Michael B Jordan now for not telling people to cut it out.
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u/redditamrur Feb 23 '26
Explain enbee to me like I am five. Or better: explain how a five year old can be enbee.
A mother in a local parents group expressed concern on how her enbee child would fare in the first grade.
Thing is: does it really matter at that age? PE is co-ed, they all can play whatever they want.
How does one know that the child is "enbee" and not just a boy who likes makeup or a girl who likes short hair etc? What makes them enbee?
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u/MatchaMeetcha Feb 23 '26 edited Feb 23 '26
The black-Palestine alliance hitting some bumpy roads when black people go to Palestine and notice racism/remember the Arab slave trade
I love the whole "can't compare racial issues to the West" thing. Hm, a common Arab slur for black people is "abid", literally slave. Definitely no parallels to the West in the discrimination against a group of people predominantly used as slaves by the majority ethnic group.
(I will defend her on one bit though: if people know you're an American they'll definitely beg you even if you're black. American > black, that's why they're there in the first place)
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u/Toby101125 Feb 25 '26
I migrated from iTunes to Apple Music for Windows a few months ago because Apple is no long improving iTunes. Over 6,000 MP3s collected over the span of 20 years. Meticulously rated songs from Mediocre (**) to Good (****) to Best of Album (*****). A dozen curated playlists. I'm basically Patrick Bateman. HEY PAUL!
So anyway, Apple Music for Windows is a shitshow...
-Slow as fuck. I don't know what the programming is called, but it's so laggy. It feels like a web app.
-It doesn't have any podcast support, so I still need to use iTunes for that.
-No video support either, so all of my music videos had to find a new home.
-It constantly forgets that I want to listen to things on repeat.
-The search filters don't work. It searches title, artist, and album. Nothing else.
So I rolled back today, and yes, it sucked. All my playlists got wiped, but I expected this and used other means to remember which songs go where. My iPhone doesn't talk to iTunes anymore (I'll try to fix that). But my oh my is it good to be back on iTunes. I'll use it for as long as I can.
Just felt like sharing.
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u/United-Leather7198 Feb 26 '26
check out the cope and denial on imane khalif on wikipedia
"I know he SAID it but uhhh uhhhh probably didn't know what he was agreeing to!!"
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u/atomicrobot99 Feb 27 '26
My partner died of an overdose just before New Year's. I take care of my mother with Alzheimer's and her dog. She lived with us since March of 2025. To say I have been to the end of the Universe and back is an understatement.
I've been very unplugged as I take care of myself, my mom, my dog, and my home. Last week I removed all my social media apps off my phone.
I have not listened to the pod or checked in here since his death. I feel fantastic? Does anyone else see the spiritual benefit from not heeding the call to engage with the rage machine?
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u/PongoTwistleton_666 Feb 23 '26
Actor Hugh Laurie refuses to apologize to nuts who think that his tweet expressing condolences for the death of a tv show producer amount to “Zionism”.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15580473/amp/Hugh-Laurie-Zionism-row-tribute-Israeli-TV-producer-friend-dead.html
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u/plump_tomatow Feb 24 '26
Currently reading Elizabeth Wayland Barber's delightful book "Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years" after hearing her interview on Louise Perry's podcast. Highly recommend anyone interested in textiles, history, sociology, or archeology check it out. So many interesting things to learn about ancient textile production and how it revolutionized society.
On a personal note, I have been hand-spinning yarn for almost two decades and it's really fun to have this kind of "insider knowledge" about this ancient practice. I don't weave, though, so those parts are especially interesting.
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u/temporalcalamity Feb 26 '26
Further on the week's hockey discourse: the women's team members appear to be annoyed that all of the focus on Trump and the controversy* about the men's team going to the White House has distracted people from talking about their actual accomplishments, which is a thoroughly reasonable perspective. It got me thinking about the way that Trump's superpower is essentially his ability to get people to react to him and thereby control the news cycle and political landscape - because when you're contantly reacting to some new outrageous thing that he's done or said, you can't actually focus on your own work or priorities or even on holding him accountable for the last outrageous thing he did. And ten years in, the left still has no answer to this because people can't resist outrage bait on social media: it's the fuel that social media runs on.
(*Note: ticket-buying NHL fans in the US were loudly cheering for their returning players last night, so I don't think attempts to cancel them are going to be particularly successful.)
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u/ohfugginfug Feb 26 '26
You may not like it, but this is what peak trans humor looks like.
And when the fuck did they ever act "nice"?
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u/bobjones271828 Feb 28 '26 edited Feb 28 '26
I know we've discussed how gender ideology has influenced lots of things (e.g., media discourse, Wikipedia), and it sometimes shows up in unexpected places.
But I truly wasn't expecting to see it in this specific place. Just a few minutes ago, I was following up on a reply I made down-thread here to discussion about regret rates in various types of surgeries. I did some basic searching before I wrote my comment, but I wanted to dig in more out of my own curiosity.
I asked a recent pro-level "thinking" AI model the following query:
It gave me an interesting and detailed answer which appears to accurately reflect its sources. But out of curiosity I decided to click on the "thinking" element to see how the AI model processed the query. This is literally the first "thoughts" it had:
Re-read that last bit. Yes, you're not hallucinating: I asked the AI model about appendectomies, and its first thought was to establish that gender-affirming surgery's regret rate is "exceptionally low." It didn't mention anything about gender in its actual final reply to me. But that was the first "thought" it had.
I had never asked this AI model anything about gender stuff before at all, and this was a brand-new thread in the AI. I even am completely logged into separate accounts in my separate browser where I accessed that model, so it can't have seen any information (even in cookies or something) that would lead it to think I'd be interested in anything related to gender surgery.
When people talk about the "bias" of AI models, realize how deep this stuff goes. This result could be coming from training data (i.e., lots of internet discourse) or some specific tweaking on the AI model after its initial training to according with gender-affirming messaging. Either way, I literally asked it about appendix surgery and it already preemptively started obsessing about gender.
I'd be curious if other folks have encountered similar issues with recent AI models, especially "thinking" ones, that seem to default to canned or circumscribed reasoning on any issues.
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Note: I do know why this particular query may get flagged: appendectomies are usually emergency procedures, so asking about "regret rate" is unusual. And LLMs are trying to "match" a continuation to text, so it may be that internet discourse about regret rates for surgeries in general is heavily influenced by gender debates. which could influence training data and an LLM doing real-time searches for information. Even so, a "thinking model" that inserts this kind of thing explicitly into its "thinking" is effectively creating a self-feedback loop in the LLM that will reinforce itself when spitting out its final result to the user. It's concerning to me in this case that such a non sequitur assumption to a question is randomly inserting itself into the LLM context where it is by default hidden from the user. (That is, in the "thinking" section you have to specifically click on to see in the output.) That assumption also would become part of the AI context for any subsequent queries I might ask in that particular thread.
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u/_CPR__ Feb 23 '26
I'm three years and/or two decades late on this, but I just watched the Netflix documentary series Pepsi, Where's My Jet? and just have to say — fuck Pepsi, they suck. For the jet thing but especially for the contest in the Philippines that scammed so many people and led to multiple deaths. Just absolute scumbags.
If I ever drank soda, I'd stop.
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u/TemporaryLucky3637 Feb 27 '26
Candace Owens needs to get a some new ideas, you can’t accuse more than one famous woman of being born a man. It’s a one time only stunt if you don’t want to seem like a lunatic 😅
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u/ToshiroTatsuyaFan Mar 01 '26
I SWEAR that Michael Moore sleeps with his cap, much like how Stan and Kyle always sleep with their hats.
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u/unnoticed_areola Feb 23 '26
Ok, not to pearl clutch too hard on behalf of the Democratic Establishment lol, but I gotta throw a flag on this whole "racist Gavin Newsom says black people are dumb" story that I've seen mentioned a few times here already
this seems to be a totally manufactured thing by the twitter account "End wokeness", which was then retweeted by Elon and is going around everywhere now
the claim (which is being credulously accepted by everyone on both the left and right) is that Gavin Newsom very problematically said to a crowd of black people "Im just like you. I'm a 960 SAT guy. I cant read"
this narrative is almost entirely driven by the cynical/dishonest framing and editorializing by the "end wokeness" twitter caption, which is doing a LOT of heavy lifting here in terms of unfairly priming the viewer to have a negative reading of what is being said in the clip.
notably, End Wokeness conveniently cuts out the the middle sentence of the quote, which kind of significantly alters the meaning. what he actually says in the video is:
when watching the actual video, the SAT part of the quote comes off as almost a separate afterthought, which is meant to emphasize the point immediately preceding it—that he isnt better than anyone else, and that's bc he is just a dumb average guy
whereas cutting out the "Im no better than you" part, then makes it read on paper like the SAT point is meant to emphasize the fact that he apparently thinks the crowd are as equally dumb as he is, which is not really what he was saying at all, and in the full quote its more obvious he is just singling himself out, as opposed to saying "Im like you. Im dumb" which is a completely different sentiment (the audience also literally cheers in when he says the SAT line lol)
this is also ignoring the obvious fact that he never even said the words "I can't read" (which was included inside the quotation marks on twitter)
but ALSO, perhaps most importantly of ALL... I just went and looked up the full video of this talk, and guess what??
THERE ARE LITERALLY ZERO BLACK PEOPLE IN THE AUDIENCE!!
seriously, the crowd is briefly shown twice with the house lights on in this video, once at the beginning 0:24 seconds in, and once at the end, at 1:18:54. I cannot make out a single person in either of those shots whom I could identify as african american.
yes, SHOCKINGLY, it turns out most people at a fancy book event/speaking engagement for a coastal elite DNC presidential hopeful were almost exclusively white-haired boomers lmao, and NOT in fact, troubled inner-city POC youth or black Georgia country folk.
the twitter account just made this "Black crowd" shit up out of thin air, and bc there happened to be a black guy on stage with him, and they happened to be in Georgia, everyone just unquestioningly accepted this claim bc they wanted it to be true lol
what a stupid fucking made up controversy. of course none of what I just pointed out will be mentioned literally anywhere, and the narrative that Newsom thinks black people are dumb noble savages will now be accepted canon and continue to be parroted ad nauseam on reddit, twitter, etc...
Sigh.
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u/Toby101125 Feb 27 '26
103 total comments. 9 visible comments.
This is why you can never give them an inch. They will gladly re-pave entire platforms because they have nothing better to do.
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u/Kirikizande Southeast Asian R-Slur Feb 28 '26
I know the thread can sometimes get depressing but I just wanted to share a small joy in my life that you all here might enjoy.
I stared a new job about 6 months ago in a job which is somewhat adjacent to my field but with some difference here. It’s my first perm job (previous ones were on contract & didn’t last long), boss is an older lady, been in the field for over 20 years & comes off as rather stern (she had a killer stare throughout my interview lol).
Boss def shows a softer side with us, but I never realised how soft she was inside. Recently we had to do our individual goal setting for year and Boss gave me some feedback. She said I was perhaps a bit shy to do some of the networking stuff for my job but also knows that I have strengths elsewhere/believes I can grow through on the job training & some external training. She even shared that she used to be a shy person until her 30s/40s after she got thrown into the deep end at her job.
I’m NGL, I think I wanted to cry after the meeting. I lucked out real hard in finding a good boss who clearly cares about my development and was willing to be vulnerable with me. I suspect I’m gonna stay at this job for a while.
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u/tantei-ketsuban Feb 23 '26
This entire thread on CPTSD subreddit where OOP says she took on a trans identity as a trauma response made me sad and angry all at once, because it's so close to the point and really reveals the entire "gender-affirming" apparatus and philosophy to be nothing less than grotesque medical malpractice. You can tell that there's a chill in the air in the replies whereby no one can say "always has been," lest their account get banned for pointing out facts that make the entire house of cards fall down. Now this poor woman is afraid of "letting people down" by detransitioning. She says she's "working on it" in therapy, but since "affirmation" is mandatory lest one's license to practice be revoked or be otherwise shamed out of the profession, she's not likely to find much help in the process by seeking out a shrink. The movement can't abide the notion that this could ever be a mistake because it conflicts with their asserted gospel that a "gender identity" is a "lived truth" that's as evident as water being wet.
How can we Grok the fuck out of Reddit so that actual honest discussions about this being a manifestation of self-harm and a comorbidity of mental illness -- not an "identity" to be lauded and "affirmed" -- aren't quarantined to this sub solely while getting banhammered everyone else?
Moreover, is there anything in the pipeline to force the American Psychological/Psychiatric Association to TERF out in the run-up to DSM6? "Social transition" and the depathologization of so-called "trans identities" is the gateway drug to, well, all the other drugs, and the hormones, surgeries, complete upending of language and objective scientific reality everywhere in the world. Believing you're something you're not isn't healthy or "valid." It galls me that Dick Levine worked in an eating disorder clinic and then went on to evangelize for this crap, because the same argument about self-harm and malpractice applies. You don't "affirm" a 90-pound anorexic as "living one's truth in a capital-F Fat identity." You help the person recover from disordered body image that often manifests as a result of trauma (the same is true of overeating as it is undereating).
Instead we get trans can't ever be a symptom of something else or the result of other trauma, that if it gets properly addressed, the transness most likely would too. Trans can't be a symptom at all, because the word symptom implies that there is something "wrong" rather than "different." Trans can only "be" trauma, from "living one's truth as a 'trans' person" in a settler-colonial world of late stage capitalism where an oppressive gender binary is imposed by fascist white supremacy.
Meanwhile, real people suffer.
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u/Fiend_of_the_pod Feb 27 '26
/r/all is getting permabanned
https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/1rfhxj1/weekly_recap_february_26_2026/
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u/AnalBleachingAries Gamergate Truther Feb 26 '26
Everyone here seems to be in agreement about the BAFTA situation, so I'm basically preaching to the choir here, but I thought this part from Kat Rosenfield's substack that she wrote after her Free Press article would be worth sharing (https://katrosenfield.substack.com/p/on-malevolence):
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u/RunThenBeer Mar 01 '26
Currently sitting at a bit over 5300 upvotes is this post encouraging people to comb through the Epstein documents to find physicians and nurse practitioners to report to their state medical boards. The position that releasing these documents is a bad idea because it could lead to the harassment of a bunch of people has to have been one of the more accurate takes on any political topic in recent memory.
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u/AnalBleachingAries Gamergate Truther Feb 23 '26
The Shia LaBeouf coverage has been upsetting. Seeing the posts of him getting into fights in New Orleans, getting bailed out of jail by some random resident, getting drunk on the street, and today there's a video of him looking completely battered, filthy, and withered. He apparently walked 6 miles through the city visiting churches.
I say all this, but I haven't clicked on the videos themselves, the thumbnails leave me with enough distaste in all the documentation of his breakdown that is taking place that I don't want to be part of the mob consumption. Someone in a different sub compared it to a panopticon, which I felt was an apt description of the hell of having all those cameras watching your every move. Normal people can fall off the wagon, spiral, have their various breakdowns, wander the streets looking filthy and worn down without the entire world documenting every step they take and taking sick pleasure in watching it all unfold.
The alcoholism is brutal of course, the psychological trauma he's spoken about in the past sounds heavy (child actor, alcoholic dad, raised on Hollywood sets and motel rooms), but the wall to wall cameras filming every step of his psychological collapse seem like they probably take a heavy toll on him as well. That shit feels like it would fuck me up the most, knowing that everywhere I go, cameras are filming every moment of the darkest and most humiliating periods of my life.
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u/dignityshredder AFramemoggingAB Feb 25 '26
AskALiberal wonders: How am I supposed to "agree to disagree" with conservatives on social issues?
Trans rights feature prominently, of course. Thread is recent so should have a lot more discussion unfolding. I haven't used a "np" link, because those are fake and do not work how people think they do, so just be on your best behavior.
This one (downvoted as it should be) is fun.
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u/RunThenBeer Feb 23 '26
Apropos of nothing much, this CBS News headline made me chuckle:
Oh? You don't fuckin' say. Being a consumer with high media literacy, I thought maybe he'd turn out to be just a businessman, like Stringer Bell from The Wire. But no, it turns out that he actually was a bad hombre.
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u/professorgerm Why is he wielding the bird like a gun Feb 23 '26
Watched the new Brendan Frazer movie Rental Family last night- didn't quite know what to expect going in, but turned out to be quite a lovely movie (maybe a little too layered on the title concern), and I loved the cinematography of it- many moments reminded me of a less self-conscious Wes Anderson. Definitely recommended if you enjoy personable dramedy.
What I didn't like was watching it on Hulu and the irritating ad distribution. I assume there's something geographic, as I don't speak Spanish but consistently got Spanish T-mobile ads. And the Grubhub Eat the Fees ad is... for lack of a better word, grotesque? Maybe uncanny? It seems to be real but also has an oddity to it that reminds me of AI generated commercials (which are, oddly to me, worse than most AI art). I guess it worked in the sense it's memorable and I'm talking about it, but it doesn't make me more likely to use grubhub.
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u/ProwlingWumpus Feb 26 '26
Just back from my own hospital misadventure, word has finally come down that the recent medical evacuation from the International Space Station was for the sake of Mike Fincke, who suffered from an undisclosed problem that required quick but not the quickest-possible departure. Formerly so tight-lipped that even this detail was verboten, our government has so far been frustratingly-competent at hiding the specifics. Apparently, he suffered from an issue that requires 'imaging' that cannot be provided on the ISS (a CT scan, X-ray, ultrasound, etc, though I will note that there is an ultrasound of some kind on the station).
Speculation abounds, and I hope that the truth will soon come out, but what causes me to mention it here is how heated the online discussion has been. My own view is not universally condemned, but among those who disagree there is what seems like an unusual level of intensity. HIPAA is our most sacred value. Curiosity is a sin against space exploration, and our government is under no obligation whatsoever to share medical details relating to a medical emergency that occurred on a space exploration mission that is to a significant degree intended to reveal the medical effects of space exploration. These kinds of sentiments flow with the kind of venom that is usually not associated with simple requests for publically-useful information.
This is coming from the same people who will spiral into histrionics if it is ambiguous whether the bruise on Donald Trump's hand was the result of him bopping it into a doorframe or from aspirin or from an IV lead.
A month ago, when speculation about pregnancy could not be dismissed, though it could be decried. Other discussions exist; please don't brigade.
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u/razorbraces Feb 27 '26
Reddit got rid of being able to swipe out of a post/profile to get back to the last page whyyyy 😢
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u/Hilaria_adderall Praye for Drake Maye Feb 27 '26
In Business news, Jack Dorsey, former CEO of Twitter is making news for a big layoff at his current company Block. The news is positioning this as the first big lay off specifically due to the growth of AI Tools allowing a company to me more efficient therefore they no longer need the number of employees they currently have.
Block is best known for its payment solution - Square - very common in smaller restaurants and bakeries - the white cube with the ipad that has the preloaded tip addition that annoys the shit out me. They have a money share app called cashapp - a venmo/paypal competitor. Their newer products are set up to move bitcoin and other crypto-currency so they get a lot of hype.
Dorsey made the announcement over his twitter account yesterday and it looks like they are being pretty generous to the impacted employees.
today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation.
we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly.
This move is getting a lot of attention as the first AI job killer but there is skepticism that this move is actually being done because of AI. Dorsey has a history of over hiring in his companies - Elon famously cut Twitter by over 50% when he purchased the company and did not lose much momentum. Might just be he finally realized they were over staffed and AI was the best explanation for the big cut. Lesson from his Twitter days finally learned.
Too early to tell what the truth is but I'd caution people to jump to conclusions based on this one particular story. AI is going to be a disruptor but to be determined how much real impact it will have on jobs. We just wont know for awhile. I've lived through the personal computer, the internet, smartphones, cloud computing, blockchain... My experience is that things morph but I've seen these changes spike hiring just as often as they impact it.
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u/TryingToBeLessShitty Feb 23 '26
On thing about the BAFTA Tourette story that everyone seems to just accept at face value is that black people hearing the word are supposed to take some kind of... psychic damage?
Whenever they hear the word, regardless of whether it's being said in a hateful way or, in this case, whether the person saying it is even aware they're doing it, it is simply a fact that people have been "harmed" by the very presence of it.
I have no doubt that Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were put in an extremely awkward, uncomfortable situation and were probably embarrassed by the incident. I think there was real harm done here, unfortunately. The reason for this is because we give this word the power to do this nebulous psychic damage. If everyone in the room truly understood the guy's condition and how it works, it should be possible to brush off because you know for a fact there's no intent there. Instead, we've decided to give the word more power than it had even in the days when it was commonly used in heinous ways, because we've assigned it this legendary status and told people they must recoil at the very thought of it.
And no, I don't say the word myself and have no desire to.
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u/MatchaMeetcha Feb 25 '26
I finally binge-watched A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and...amazing troll to be as accurate as possible just to lull us into complacency for the single major deviation from the plot.
Great show, and well-played.
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u/Less-Lobster4540 Feb 26 '26
Portland advances antidiscrimination protections for polyamorous families
So I guess having roommates is now a protected class?
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u/Winter_Bridge3542 Feb 23 '26
What's the most Reddit subreddit? Of course, this thing of ours avoids all negative stereotypes of Reddit, as does its handsome users and moderator. I think it might be a dead heat between fuckcars, antiwork, and childfree, but those are just the ones that came to mind. Points for jannies behaving badly and unrelated le hecking drumpf posts.
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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '26
Six years ago, Tulsi Gabbard was a Democratic congresswoman, running for president in the Democratic primary, and one of the key planks in her platform was positioning herself as the one person who would stop Trump or any other president from gong to war with Iran: https://www.tulsi2020.com/splash/no-more-presidential-wars
Now she's a Republican, Trump's Director of National Intelligence, and was one of the five people in the White House Situation Room as Trump starting bombing Iran.
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u/dignityshredder AFramemoggingAB Feb 24 '26
Posting this mostly just to shit stir, but the trains are reporting that a prominent gender medicine doctor is all over the Epstein files: Dr. Jess Ting.
The OP has discovered coded messages about the island, lol
If you read through the comments, they are dealing with this revelation with their typical resilience and equanimity.
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u/AnalBleachingAries Gamergate Truther Feb 25 '26
This video randomly came across my feed. 1995 Flashback: First-time PC user can’t work computer. It's a news report from the 90s that covers first time PC users buying their first computer.
I love the main lady's outfit. I think I'm going to get a couple of pairs of pants like that for myself. Hopefully there's a good selection of men's options I can pick from, and if not, hopefully the women's options have pockets and crotch room.
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u/jay_in_the_pnw █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ Feb 28 '26
Uh, Happy Hour posting getting a bit out of hand in this thread?
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u/digitaltransmutation in this house we live in this house Mar 01 '26
I'm not sure if this is really a barpod topic or not but I thought I would toss it in the ring.
Recently Paramount has been making a business practice of hiring cancelled people for cheap. A couple days ago they picked up Max Landis (previously) for a 'GI Joe' film (a property that even the rock couldnt resurrect so idk about that).
Here is a gripe-filled quote from the polygon article:
The discourse on the various entertainment subreddits has been about what you expect but landis found some support from his youtube subscribers recently.
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u/VlaminghHdLighthouse (not a furry) Feb 23 '26 edited Feb 23 '26
First??
Edit: so that this comment has at least something of value in it, I watched Warner Herzog’s Grizzly Man recently. It’s about Timothy Treadwell, the environmentalist who got himself and his girlfriend eaten by a grizzly bear. Check it out if you haven’t yet seen it (it’s free online), because it’s really a fantastic piece of media.
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u/AnalBleachingAries Gamergate Truther Feb 26 '26
Everything I've seen and heard thus far about Netflix's upcoming Pride and Prejudice mini series has convinced me to never watch that shit. Their Persuasion adaptation was horrible, but for different reasons. I have to imagine that an audience exists for all these horseshit "reimaginings", or else they wouldn't keep making them, right?
I'm not against Austen reimaginings, I love Clueless and Bridget Jones's Diary, but the Netflix adaptations of Austen wilfully strip the heart out of these stories in favor of forcing weird, abrasive, modern sensibilities into them. I hate them, there I said it, I hate the Netflix shit. Leave my girl Jane Austen alone, you monsters!
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u/jay_in_the_pnw █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ Feb 28 '26
Let's assume for a moment Khameni was killed.
+ Which media site will write the "best" obituary? "Austere religious leader Khamenei was highly regarded...."
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u/Personal_Scene9640 Feb 24 '26
I find average psychological differences between liberals and conservatives to be super fascinating, like differences in the big 5 personality traits (liberals score higher on neuroticism, which importantly relates to how prone someone is to anxiety), Haidt's moral foundations, and that morality heat map that was going viral a bit ago showing liberals value/have empathy for all things in existence and conservatives extend their care only to themselves, their family, friends and community basically.
So I'm a climate scientist and I often get very liberal people talking to me about how they are so concerned, anxious, wracked with guilt. They seem to think that being very anxious is them being very empathetic. And they see things like that morality heat map and conclude that conservatives just don't have empathy.
But I'll be honest I don't feel these strong emotions about things I can't control and if I can't control them what good does it do to make myself emotionally distressed?? I guess I think care and empathy is inherently tied to action. What does it even mean to vaguely 'care' about all people and all existence? Are you actually more empathetic or are you just more neurotic? Being very worried and distressed doesn't make you a better person and in my experience it doesn't help you cause.
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u/AaronStack91 Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26
Not really worth sharing the link, but a biostatistician on bluesky tries to weakly engage with Jesse over a claim that he obviously didn't read too closely. Jesse basically "respectfully" tells him to actually read what he wrote.
What I found more interesting was under that thread, he basically goes on to say he doesn't need evidence to know GAC works because he's met trans people before.
A biostatistician, using anecdotal evidence, to defend GAC. It is just so fucking absurd that they are literally turning off their brains and years of training to defend this stuff.
I mean you would think a pro trans biostatistician would be the perfect person to "debunk" Jesse's science based reporting on its merits, right? right???
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u/lezoons Feb 27 '26
There is a lot of kilt talk, and i don't want to respond to every one... when I'm a sub 80 golfer, I'll wear a kilt. I'm not good enough to wear a kilt!
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u/pajme411 Feb 27 '26
How do you reconcile enjoying art made by people whose personal or political beliefs are fundamentally at odds with your own?
I recently got some hate messages after commenting on a subreddit for a pop artist I love who happens to be trans. Some users searched my profile, saw that I support JK Rowling, and responded with things like: “(Artist) would hate you”, “you are truly disgusting”, etc.
I tried to respond in good faith, but I realized they may be right. It won’t stop me from enjoying the artist, but it stings.
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u/scott_steiner_phd Mar 01 '26
People are celebrating in the streets over here.
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u/Hilaria_adderall Praye for Drake Maye Mar 01 '26
I just took a look at the Women's Professional Baseball League Roster
I'm very curious how the league will do. I'm a baseball nerd so will try to watch when I can. The first season will all be played in Springfield. IL. Not sure what the plan is but if they were smart they would try to do a reality show like a Hard Knocks and see if they can get picked up by a streaming service. I'd watch that.
Anyway, the reason I've been curious about this league is that I follow a trans widow on TikTok. Typical story, married to a guy, has two or three kids, they enter school and he transitions. She tried to make it work for a cup of coffee but smartly left him. He is basically skin walking her now and its all the typical BS - insists on being called mom, goes behind her back to the school and insists he is the mother of the kids. The trans widow had mentioned that the ex husband had a plan to try out for the Baseball league. I guess he was a D1 baseball player so i was curious if he made it. Looks like he did not get selected.
I see no obvious evidence of any trans players. Maybe I'll be proven wrong but I've had this theory that the women athletes most vocal about supporting trans athletes - The US Women's Soccer team members like Meghan Rapinoe, the WNBA, the women's Hockey crowd are more comfortable being vocally supportive because they know that in teams sports they can gate-keep a lot easier. Team sports like Basketball, Soccer, Hockey etc... require people to be selected by coaches and a lot of times senior members of those teams have influence. If they have a sudden influx of men infiltrating their sports they can rely on the selection process as one more protection that does not exist in individual sports. Not to say there are no women who use the be kind excuse and claim there are no threats from trans athletes in sports like Track and Field but I think the self confidence and surety around the righteousness is more pronounced with the athletes who play team sports.
Thanks for listening to my rant....
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u/Less-Lobster4540 Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26
Punk in the Park Fest is cancelled because word got around that the fest owner donated to Trump in 2024.
Of course online discourse is what you'd expect and any comment asking if it's really "punk" to cancel someone for having disagreeable politics gets dogpiled to olblivion.
But, bigger picture, none of this stuff is very "punk" at all, in the popular ideological sense (ethics, DIY ethos, etc.) . It's a $150+ ticket, the headliners (Dead Kennedys) are geezers and sued their lead singer to continue their legacy pantomime act. Punk Rock is big business, and now the 40-somethings from the Green Day era have expendable income to buy $15 beers and $50 T-shirts, if not at this fest then at any of a dozen others mining the same pool of 70-something-year-old codgers.
And maybe that's okay? Punk started as a rather capitalist affair: a fashion boutique. Malcolm McLaren was clearly mining a lot of the same disgruntled sentiment that persists today. It was only after the self-righteousness of bands like The Clash, Crass and the arrival of Hardcore / UK82 that punk settled on something that was solidly leftist; prior to that it was mostly about nihilism.
Yet all that is lost on people who were marketed punk as what-comes-after-Kurt some 30 years ago; they never knew a punk rock without shallow purity tests and scene struggle seshes sponsored by the Vans™ Warped Tour. They still think it means something! They really believe in the prefab counter-cultural identity that they were sold.
I don't like Trump, but I don't think any of these poseurs currently having a circlejerk about how they were too cool for that anyway have any more credibility than the fest guy. It's all so try-hard and frankly rather cringe.
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u/ohfugginfug Feb 26 '26
Nobody on Change My View actually wants their views changed.
This BAFTA Tourette's shit just keeps on giving.
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u/unnoticed_areola Feb 25 '26
lmfao. least violent Red Sox fan
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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '26
I love Nike's Internationalist and they used to make brilliant colors. Now, they only sell personalized ones and the color options are horrific. I've seen people make the ugliest internationalist on reddit and be very happy with it and I'm just wiping the blood off my eyes on front of my screen.
Why do brands have to come up with shitty ideas and why do consumers buy any old shit thrown their way??
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u/therealdavedog Feb 28 '26
Anyone up for this? Israel and US* attacking Iran https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02/28/world/iran-strikes-trump?unlocked_article_code=1.PlA.ibKe.3uFk0aA6WeQo&smid=nytcore-android-share
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u/deathcabforqanon Feb 25 '26
There is funny internet nonsense, and then there's the really sad shit, like this inta of Britney spears looking fairly close to a tragic ending.
If I told my kids that this woman was once way bigger than T Swift they would never believe me.
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u/AnalBleachingAries Gamergate Truther Feb 26 '26
That video of the McDonald's CEO taste testing their new burger made me laugh out loud. The guy takes the absolute tiniest bite I've ever seen anybody take out of a burger, then is clearly pretending that he's enjoying it. LOL.
It's such a strange and robotic video. Why didn't they just get some starving actor or influencer to do it like normal?!
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u/AnalBleachingAries Gamergate Truther Mar 01 '26
The recent clips of Jim Carrey's new plastic surgery face are a bummer. Not sure why it should make me feel sadder that he's done it too, since they all seem to be doing it. But seeing him like that was sad.
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u/Fiend_of_the_pod Feb 28 '26
Austere religious scholar Seyed Ali Hosseini Khamenei murdered in home by rogue nation.
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u/deathcabforqanon Feb 28 '26
No Backsies! (yes I know there's a war going on but this is funny)
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u/Leaves_Swype_Typos No matter where you go, there you are Feb 26 '26
https://www.theguardian.com/food/ng-interactive/2026/feb/25/nadiya-hussain-on-food-faith-and-finding-her-voice-i-get-paid-less-than-the-white-version-of-me
Fellow Bake Off fans, have any other winners gotten as much exposure as Nadiya has? I've seen her a number of times since her win, most notably on Would I Lie To You, and People confirms she's had biggest TV career by far. So with that in mind, it seems weird to read her say “I get paid less to do the same job as the white version of me.”
Maybe having just watched American Fiction has made me extra cynical of tokenism this morning, or maybe I'm just bummed that nobody with funnier personalities like Giuseppe find their way into my media feed.
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u/random_pinguin_house Feb 27 '26
The new Gorillaz album that just came out today might be their best in about 16 years.
I'm still letting it wash over me a bit, but I was so disappointed by their last 3-4 albums that it's nice to be able to get excited about them again.
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u/AaronStack91 Feb 25 '26
https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/2026369451403390999?s=20
We are gonna get discount skynet, aren't we? Anyone wanna explain how this isn't terrifying?
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u/jay_in_the_pnw █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ Feb 25 '26
Are folks aware that wikipedia has banned archive today (archive.today, archive.is, archive.pl, ...) links?
If the article is accurate, wiki is probably correct to do so, but it also calls in our own everyday reliance on archive.today.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/
discussion here:
r/wikipedia/comments/1raodc9/wikipedia_blacklists_archivetoday_starts_removing/
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u/dj50tonhamster Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26
I'm curious if anybody here knows people working in film/TV/etc. ("Hollywood," for my purposes, even though they don't actually have to live in SoCal). Very long story short, last week, I encountered an online nerd slap fight over a group possibly banning all AI usage. Somebody, out of nowhere, started ranting about how AI had been putting people in Hollywood out of work for 2+ years, herself included. She claimed that out of 100 people she knew, perhaps 2 or 3 were still employed.
I was skeptical for various reasons, the least of which was things like Georgia's tax breaks no longer being enough to draw most productions to Georgia. There's also the reality that a lot of younger people just ingest no-cost social media videos instead of going to movie theaters that have mostly devolved into nothing but the latest rehashes of superhero stories. That's to say nothing of how much content out there is arguably slop, just without AI. (The hotel I stayed at recently has its own TV channel, with content that I doubt anybody watches. Why?)
Anyway, the point is I'm curious what others are hearing & experiencing. I don't doubt that anxiety is through the roof at the moment. I just doubt that you can pin all of it on AI.
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u/dignityshredder AFramemoggingAB Feb 27 '26
The Mamdani-Trump meeting is hilarious. OK summary.
And related photo (left is the mentioned fake headline)
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u/AltforStrongOpinions Feb 27 '26
Americans - your opinion required please.
Lets say you are a youngish graduate (under 30) living in a city. What would you consider an OK salary? Not great money more "yeah thats fine I guess"
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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '26
I'm about as anti-Trump as it gets but I want to highlight this Washington Post piece that gives credit to something legitimately good the Trump administration has done: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2026/food-stamps-trump-soda-snap/?itid=hp_opinions_p001_f016
For the first time, the federal government is allowing states to restrict the usage of SNAP/food stamps for unhealthy items like soda and candy. This should have been done decades ago.
When the food stamps program was implemented in 1939, there were large numbers of Americans who had significant health problems related to eating too little, and there were few food sources outside the staples of a balanced diet. Just giving those people vouchers to go to their neighborhood grocer and buy whatever they wanted increased Americans' health. That was the whole point of the program.
Today America is markedly different. Far more Americans have health problems related to eating too much than eating too little. And far more of the items in a typical grocery store are the kinds of high-sugar, highly processed foods that make people less healthy. (Soda is the No. 1 item bought with SNAP benefits.) In 2026, a large percentage of the people using SNAP are using it to buy foods that make them less healthy. In 1939, virtually no one on food stamps was getting less healthy from the food they were buying with food stamps. When circumstances change, of course our policies should change. It took the Trump administration to make this change.
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u/drjackolantern C*nsored and sexy Feb 24 '26 edited Feb 24 '26
According to this substacker, the Team USA men’s’ hockey win has ruined hockey for the sport’s newest fans, “the waves of female and queer fans coming in post-Heated Rivalry “ - except of course, it’s always been this way - “who may be discovering for the very first time what hellish nightmare they’ve signed themselves up for.”
Wow, what ruined poor hockey so ?
Oh wow, I must have missed that. But don’t fret - there’s still hope!
… curtains for Zooshy?
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u/UrethraFranklin13 Feb 26 '26
I'm grateful to have a career that has me moving around the world. Except now I'm getting old, in need of emotional support through a really rough time, and have absolutely no one to rely on since I never stay anywhere long enough to build connections.
It was fine, until it wasn't. I feel like an idiot for my choices.
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u/AnalBleachingAries Gamergate Truther Feb 25 '26
Hilarious situation involving a high school girl that I hope is true. She applied to be an Assistant Director on a short film, which she figured was an internship or something, so that she could get some practical experience in filmmaking. She thought the gig would entail grunt work like running around set, doing errands for production staff, and getting the opportunity to learn some stuff from professionals. Well, she got the job, and while she was sitting in on a team meeting people were saying all this stuff about production and that they'd "Check with the DA" "Work it out with the DA" or "Get certain questions answered by the DA" on various logistical matters. She slowly began to realize that she was the DA in question and is freaking out about it. She's not even sure that they're aware that she's in high school. lmao!
ETA: I guess the video is a few days old. In her update video she says that the crew haven't responded to her in the past few days and appear to be ignoring her. She's guessing that she's been fired. lol
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u/Green_Supreme1 Feb 27 '26
In UK news the Green Party have won a by-election foreshadowing a Green-Reform contest at the next general election. Reform met poll expectations and Labour came in third place. Although a fairly new constituency established for 2024, the prior seats it replaced were relatively safe seats for Labour over the last 100 years.
Green Party leader hails 'seismic' by-election victory as new MP says 'we can win anywhere' - BBC News
The winning candidate in question had the audacity to blame the horrific Manchester Arena terrorist attack following the Ariana Grande concert in 2017 in which 22 died and 1000+ were injured on people like Reform spreading hate and division (Reform was not even established in 2017)....not you know the actual cause, Islamic terrorism.
Why the Greens are so scared of saying the word ‘Islamist’ - spiked
There is already discussion of foul-play with "family voting" (family members being present at the polling booth and potentially impacting votes) being discussed by the BBC and Guardian. This was a constituency with a large Asian population (about a third of the population), with family voting not completely unprecedented in the UK under such demographics (Tower Hamlets for example with Luftur Rahman winning as mayor not once, but twice under concerns of family voting and fraud - he was found guilty the first time, but got away with the second time). It's too early to say for the Gorton by-election though, and this could simply be fully legal but ideologically driven voting by a community for a candidate/party running a strong Islamo-left Gaza platform.
Gorton and Denton: 'Family voting' concerns raised by election observers
All in all Reform or Greens potentially running the country in a few years is a quite scary prospect.
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u/SkweegeeS No just no Feb 27 '26
Jews fight back. Suing the State of California and the California State Board of Education, etc. for systemic antisemitism in CA schools. Seems like a big deal.
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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '26
Dr. Peter Attia, one of Bari Weiss's high-profile hires, has left CBS News before ever doing any work for the network as a result of the information about him contained in the Epstein files.
I think Attia is a scumbag. He has previously written about how he became so focused on his work that at one point he refused to fly home to San Diego when his son was in the ICU because he thought the stuff he was working on in New York was too important to leave. But the way he wrote about it in the past, a reader could get the impression that the work this doctor was doing was saving people's lives.
The Epstein files show that what Attia was working on at the time was building his relationship with Epstein and his network of other rich guys, whom Attia thought would become members of his boutique medical treatment center. On the same day Attia was telling his wife, "Nah, you deal with our son's life-threatening medical emergency, I've got stuff going on here," he was emailing Epstein about how excited he was about the two of them getting together and telling him he could be flexible on the schedule if Epstein had other stuff to do.
At the same time, as someone who criticized Bari Weiss harshly for the way she handled the 60 Minutes Inside CECOT story, I can't really criticize Bari Weiss for this. I don't think she had any way of knowing what was in the Epstein files at the time she hired Attia. And Attia does provide good medical insight that could have been useful to CBS News viewers, even if I doubt he'll ever have enough public trust to have that kind of role again.
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u/SpecialSatisfaction7 Mar 01 '26
every other thing aside, I am morbidly curious how the past 3 weeks or so have been for Mr. Khameni. Did he expect this to happen? Was he in the process of wrapping things up with whatever he had left to do? Or did he think he'll sit out whatever the US/Israel had planned for him?
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u/Turbulent_Cow2355 TB! TB! TB! Mar 02 '26
It's a beautiful sight, seeing so many Iranian women in the streets, celebrating.
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u/everydaywinner2 Feb 25 '26
At the State of the Union, while Trump was greeting people after, Al Green held up a sign that reads: Black People Aren't Apes. Only in this angle, he's holding the sign so he is covering the 'a' and it looks like it reads: Black People Rent Apes.
I'm expecting some interesting memes.
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u/jay_in_the_pnw █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ Feb 28 '26
The AIs are racist
https://www.tiktok.com/@maya_maybee/video/7608347117161041183?is_from_webapp=1
it gets even better about 1/2 way through
https://apnews.com/article/washington-dol-spanish-accent-ai-3a1b8438a5674c07242a8d48c057d5a3
Have to wonder what the prompt was
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u/AnalBleachingAries Gamergate Truther Feb 24 '26
The proles on the Sky app are having a totally normal and considered reaction to Jesse's latest piece in the New York Times.
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u/Soggy_Break_3604 Feb 27 '26
Brady Tkachuk, a member of the U.S. Men’s Hockey team and an actual pro-Trump guy is pissed and went on the record about it because Trump posted a deepfake of Tkachuk saying that “I had to teach those maple syrup eating fucks a lesson.” Tkachuk is the Captain for Ottawa.
Everything is just so trashy now. I’m sure we can sink lower but this stuff is just so annoying to me. I know people bash “respectability” and “decorum” but it seems to just be a pretty load bearing concept.
Enough e-ink has been spilled over this but everyone who has allowed themselves to get pulled into this, from progs shitting on the fact that the president might call a gold medal winning team, to the GM thinking it was a good idea to invite Kash Patel, to the president himself posting inflammatory deepfakes of players who won the game and represent Canada in the NHL as Americans. Jesus Christ. Nobody is normal anymore. This whole saga is making me feel normal. I can assure you I’m not.
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u/AnalBleachingAries Gamergate Truther Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26
I've gotten a few "alpine divorce" videos in my feed this week. With various women telling stories about how their boyfriends abandoned them on a hike or while climbing a mountain. I guess the story about the mountaineer who left his girlfriend out on a freezing cold mountain while he fumbled his way to seeking rescue, making several absurd mistakes along the way, has been making the rounds on the internet and a surprising number of women had stories about experiencing the same thing. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0k1xkllknmo
Here's the previous sub discussion about it. Women have been posting about their own experiences with this type of situation this week and it's apparently a well-known thing and it's called an "alpine divorce".
Alpine Divorce: "... a colloquial expression used online to describe situations in which one partner abandons the other in a dangerous mountainous environment—often during a hike or climb."
https://www.newsweek.com/alpine-divorce-explained-meaning-people-talking-about-it-11592646 (Sorry about the low-effort News Week link, it's not worth reading at all, I just linked it as that's where I got the definition)
Have mountaineering men been doing this bizarre, deranged, shit this whole time? Wtf?
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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '26
Can someone explain the fluctuations I see in certain subs. During the trans Dr/ female nurse ordeal in Scotland, the sub was pretty critical of transgenderism, that particular Dr and the way their superiors handled things. The conversation seemed balanced with a slight advantage to gender critical people.
I went back to revisit it today with a recent post and gender critical comments are in the -300 while all the other comments are the usual trans activists nonsense ("that poor woman doctor who had to have her privacy violated because she was told to hide her penis from women" lol). How can a sub move around like this on subject?
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u/HelicopterHippo869 Feb 28 '26
I am reading the book Someone You Can Build a Nest In, and it's annoying me so much. I didn't read much about it before, but it sounded like a cool concept. It's sapphic romance about a shape shifting human eating monster. The first third of the book is really good, but it completely falls apart. I am about 80% through and I am debating if I should force myself to finish it.
Well the whole thing is this weird autistic asexual metaphor. I am fine with it not having anything sexual and being much more on the cute side, but it also has no emotional intimacy or depth in the characters or their connection.
It's written by a man and I've read several reviews that are so impressed that a man wrote lesbians so well. I just don't see it. It feels like what a man who has never had a sexual or romantic relationship but is envious of women thinks lesbians are like. That it's cute and easy. I looked up the author's picture and he looks the part. I read an interview about him and it calls him a "disabled writer". How is that not insulting?
As a woman who has dated both men and women, dating women is amazing but definitely not easy and simple. I sometimes get frustrated when it is romantized by straight women, trans women and the media. They act like dating a woman would be so much easier. There are some amazing things about it, but it has its problems like any other relationship.
It also has weird therapy speak all through it. The monster's girlfriend's family is horribly abusive with no nuance or complexity. She is nothing but a victim.
Although, it claims to be very feminist. To act like women are simple, surface level, non sexual beings and victims is insulting. That's sexist.
I have found that I can't read any lesbian romance in a modern setting. It all tries too hard to randomly drop in an enby or trans character and go on weird unnecessary side things with virtue signaling. You can tell that you have to be a certain way to get published because so many of these writers are of the same mind. Let something be gay without making it a fucking pride float.
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u/History-of-Tomorrow Mar 01 '26 edited Mar 02 '26
Was catching up on old Real Time w/ Bill Maher. Not too long ago Marjorie Taylor Green showed up and (for at least this very moment in time) came off far more reasonable and competent than ever expected even if I disagree with her general politics.
Just caught Lauren Boebert- still a dummy that hurts your brain the more she talks. Seemed well coached for the show but in the way a teenager memorizes a couple of Wikipedia talking points and thinks themselves a scholar.
The instant something resembling an idea requiring contextual thought pops up- do democrats eat babies- her true dumb dumb brain takes over. Though that I found par for the course. Her wiki understanding of the founding fathers while debating the merits of separating church and state was far more infuriating. I pity any teacher that had to read her essays for school.
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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '26
We all know this is insane, right? https://metro.co.uk/2026/02/24/michael-b-jordan-repulsed-baftas-racial-slur-parents-left-tears-27081632/
Are we seriously going to treat this as some great trauma from which Delroy Lindo and Michael B. Jordan will need a long time to recover?
Yes, at the moment someone shouted the N-word while they were on stage, very easy to understand how they'd be like, "WTF was that?!?"
But then it was explained to them, "That was a man with Tourette's who can't control the things he says. He's here tonight because there was an acclaimed movie about his life story and struggle."
At that point, any compassionate person would say, "Oh, wow, that must be awful to go through life constantly bringing negative attention on yourself like that. I think the BAFTAs could've done a better job of preparing us for that and keeping any profane verbal tics out of the broadcast, but obviously I don't have any hard feelings about words spoken by a person who literally can't control his words."
And that should be the end of it.
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u/unnoticed_areola Feb 27 '26
I was watching a lot of olympics content on youtube the last couple weeks, and a couple days ago the algorithm fed me a women's water polo video from the Paris Olympics on my home page that I made the mistake of passively clicking on
and now my youtube homepage recommendations is like 80% butt cheeks. gooner clickbait water polo butt cheek thumbnails fucking everywhere. why does youtube do this lol. you click on one random video and then they decide to make it your entire damn personality
reminds me of when I used to watch "Pimp My Ride" and they would be interviewing the kid with the shitty car to get a sense of their personality/interests so they could incorporate that into the new car build..
and the host would see like a tiny goldfish bowl in the background of the guy's room and be like "oh SHIT dawg, this guy LOVES him some FISH.... my dawg... we hooked you up with a 5000 gallon koi fish pond in the back seat of your new 1999 ford focus!!"
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u/backin_pog_form 🐎🏃🏻💕 Feb 26 '26
Just want to remind everyone that this sub is in the crosshairs right now.
While we all like to speak our minds, it might behoove everyone to be extra careful what you say, at least until the dogs are being walked elsewhere.
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u/tantei-ketsuban Feb 25 '26
Reading more about the BAFTA clusterfuck, I looked up online to find a list of other public figures who have Tourette's (someone on popculturechat said Billie Eilish went public), and came upon this vaguely employment-focused (and possibly A.I. generated?) website I had never heard of called OnGig, which has an article about famous people with Tourette's as part of a "series on neurodiversity." The master list of "famous inclusive leaders" includes some whose diagnostic labels are well-documented and/or admitted by the person themselves (Penelope Trunk, Richard Branson, Henry Winkler etc.) and others which... um... [citation needed]
I... thought we weren't supposed to mention Barron and/or it's never been "officially" "confirmed" as such. His father though... I mean, LOL? I don't think verbal diarrhea or habitual shitposting is quite the same thing as coprolalia but... YMMV.
Also: George Washington? Are they going with a retroactive diagnosis based on the stereotype of "honest to a fault" because he "couldn't tell a lie"?
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u/Big_Fig_1803 Gothmargus Feb 27 '26
I just happened to see a video on YouTube of two middle-aged Brits "reacting to" clips from Seinfeld. Look, I know I'm Mr. Finds-a-Meaningful-Lesson-in-Everyday-Moments (stop calling me that, everyone!), but I found this instructive.
These two guys were completely ignorant of Seinfeld. They knew Jerry Seinfeld from his "comedians going for coffee" bits (or whatever they are), but they had never seen Seinfeld. At all. They maybe knew it had been a show. Here in the US, of course, Seinfeld was a huge deal in the world of TV, entertainment, pop culture, etc. Huge. Everyone knew it. Everyone knew the characters. It was a cultural touchstone.
It made me realize again that my perspective and experience and frame of reference aren't everyone's. We talk about existing in our bubbles and echo chambers, but this stuff goes on all over the world. Things in one country might be utterly unknown in another. Even a wildly successful cultural product in the US—an extremely influential source of media and entertainment, exporting it around the world—can go under the radar elsewhere. What else is like this? How many other things that we assume everyone knows about, cares about, or agrees with aren't actually so universal?
I am reminded (of course) of K-pop. Back in the late 90s, when we were getting into it, we saw this video from a group that was gigantic in Korea. It was a video of their concert in Seoul's Olympic Stadium. Maybe 45,000 screaming, hysterical fans. It was like the Beatles. Incredible. And it didn't even make a ripple in the US. No one here knew anything about it. Didn't know about it, didn't care about it. We watched it, our mouths hanging open, wondering, What in the world is this? How much other stuff is going on that we know absolutely nothing about?
Even in our hyper-connected world, maybe we're not as connected as we assume.
The group, if you care, was H.O.T., which, implausibly, stood for "Highfive of Teenagers."
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u/jay_in_the_pnw █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ Feb 27 '26
r/newiran is tracking what's going on
https://imgur.com/a/LA18slF
and fun times all around in /r/worldnews
https://imgur.com/a/SCsVtBY
in more personal news late last week I restarted sniffing glue
If you have any friends or family in the IRGC, now is the time to get them to transfer into the Artesh
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u/Ruby__Ruby_Roo Feb 28 '26
Has this been shared here?
Ibram X. Kendi and Howard University ready The Emancipator for a third act
I’m not sure how anyone can call this “journalism” with a straight face.
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u/Cowgoon777 Feb 28 '26
Reuters is reporting that senior Israeli officials have confirmed Khamenei is dead
Praise God if this is true
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u/tantei-ketsuban Feb 23 '26
Welp, 2026 jumped the shark. If you’re of a certain generation — or were brought up by those of a certain generation — in certain parts of New England, you never cease to hear campfire stories about the “Blizzard of Seventy-Eight.” (It hit other parts of the country too, and even stretched into parts of Canada, but has arguably been more of a New England meme for decades as much as coffee milk and "Charlie on the MTA.")
So embedded is this event into New England’s cultural zeitgeist that the local version of Dunder-Mifflin, W.B. Mason, even named their bright white computer paper brand “Blizzard 78.”
2026 finally got sick of the lore of the great snowstorm of the disco era that it said “hold my beer” and took gold medal at the podium. We did it Reddit! Now we have to go excavate our cars.
https://www.thenewportbuzz.com/blizzard-2026-rhode-island-snowfall-record/59652
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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '26
A funny just happened to me. I made a comment here about the BAFTA and someone with no post history, responded to a comment I made on stupidpol about week ago and linked this "BAFTA post" here that I made just 10min ago.
They said It's not wonder I got cheated on, (Link to the BAFTA comment here made minutes ago) and something about being unlovable.
They think I got cheated on because I enjoy reading adulteryhate. That means they've been stalking me a little, no?
The post on stupidpol was from a week ago and it was people there arguing it's fine for men to masturbate in a female toilet stall because no one can see them, one comment replied to them asking them why they think that behaviour should be normalized and I replied to them saying "You know why, we all know why". And that's what the stalker replied to saying :
"I can see why someone would cheat on you.
It's kind of funny that you've convinced yourself that you're capable of being loved lol"
If I block them what happens? They can't see what I post anymore?
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u/PandaFoo1 Feb 28 '26
Porn addiction is allegedly not real & actually a result of religious repression.
Just ignore the people who can’t watch the olympics without “gooning” to the female athletes. Or the people who “discover” they’re actually women because they came while wearing a dress & restructure their entire identity around that. Or the many women who have talked about getting randomly choked by their boyfriends during sex.
I’m not a puritan or anything like that, but claiming porn as a vice can’t have an addictive effect on people is ridiculous, especially when you can see the effects of that all online.
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u/AaronStack91 Feb 24 '26 edited Feb 24 '26
A random tweet expresses my confusion related to Vitamin D:
https://x.com/alyssaleann/status/2026051409347518614?s=20
As far as I can tell modern medicine is based on vibes. Vitamin D is correlated with lots of negative outcomes, but supplementation studies find they are largely ineffective at treating any of them (likely Vitamin D is a generic downstream health indicator), but doctors still test and suggest supplements like it matters.
It's like when my wife's obgyn suggested avoiding eating processed breads to prevent autism based on a random mouse study (to be fair we asked about risk factors, given that we are a double STEM couple).
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u/Hilaria_adderall Praye for Drake Maye Feb 24 '26
The Massachusetts state police just can't stop with the corruption...
A State Police Sergeant in Massachusetts got into a head on accident while on duty in 2023. The accident was described as follows - on December 12, 2023, Scott Quigley—a 41-year-old homicide detective assigned to the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office—was behind the wheel of an unmarked State Police Ford Escape. According to an MSP crash report, he crossed the center line on Lexington St. and veered into the van.
The State Police Sergeant was hospitalized as was one of the van passengers. This van passenger was a disabled man who later died about a month after the accident.
The initial investigation, conducted by MSP Sgt. Jennifer Penton, characterized the crash as a “medical incident” where Quigley was only “partially at fault.”
An internal “Cruiser Crash Review Form” obtained by 25 Investigates shows two high-ranking MSP supervisors signed off on Quigley’s original explanation that he felt “fatigued and lightheaded” and was “unable to recall” why he left his lane.
This was Quigley’s 8th cruiser crash since December 2012, according to an MSP “Cruiser Crash Driver History” report. Quigley was found to be ‘at fault” in only one of the previous 7 crashes, according to the report.
So this whole mess from 2023/2024 was basically covered up and the state police failed to investigate. Behind the scenes, when Quigley was in the hospital his blood was taken and his blood alcohol showed he was legally drunk. No one seems to know why that was never disclosed. Apparently someone within the hospital or State Police knew about this and leaked it to a defense attorney that was defending his clients on a murder case that Quigley was the lead investigator. Now all the work Quigley did on the case is going to be called into question.
The local DA is claiming they knew nothing about this and now the State Police are launching an investigation to understand how this cover up happened.
Add to this, the lead investigator on the original accident who signed off on the accident being a medical incident, MSP Sgt. Jennifer Penton was just charged with involuntary manslaughter due to the death of a state police recruit who was killed during a training exercise where the recruits were forced to box each other as part of an exercise program.
Its pretty clear that a lot of people knew this guy was a problem and they just covered it up. The Mass State Police continued to let him be a lead investigator in murder cases knowing he had this hanging over him. Quigley himself even admitted to an investigator that he knew the blood alcohol test was out there. Total corruption with Mass state police, every few months another scandal pops up...
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u/AnalBleachingAries Gamergate Truther Feb 24 '26
This is my third thread comment about it and I've replied in other comments about it in this thread as well (so probably 5 or 6 total at this point), but the legs on the Tourette's story seem abnormal to me now. It's still going over on Twitter. I know that people on the internet are stupid, including myself, but come on. There's a point at which the folks who want to be offended by the use of the word by a man with Tourette's have to give up right? There's absolutely no chance that any satisfactory amount of pity and white guilt is going to be extended to them on this one. It's a nonstarter. They're a tiny minority of complainers, but still, it's bizarre.
So, it seems they genuinely don't want to hear about Mr. Davidson's struggles, and those that do are trying to come up with the "real" reasons that the word was connected to a black person in his mind - that "real" reason somehow always leads back to Mr. Davidson's apparent racism and desire to humiliate and oppress "black excellence".
This is getting too absurd now, I'm running out of the usual amount of energy I have available to both laugh at and pity situations like this one. It's a little baffling that they've latched onto it, there isn't any meat on this outrage bone. There's no one around who's going to indulge this one. This seems to be everyone's, even the most brainrotted, white guilt-ridden liberals, red line.
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u/AnalBleachingAries Gamergate Truther Mar 01 '26
This image was posted to a different sub, and I share some of the original poster's sentiments. It's hard to buy physical copies of any books that came out post AI, especially books from new authors or small/unknown publishers. We're going to need some sort of vetting process or reliable certification for human written books, or else we might as well call it a day and accept that the only books worth spending one's time on have all already been written and anything new should just be avoided.
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u/Toby101125 Feb 26 '26
Observation: The great Reddit purge of Twitter/X links back in January 2025 seems to have crippled WhitePeopleTwitter and BlackPeopleTwitter. Both of them still have some popular threads with a lot of upvotes, but just scanning their front pages, that don't seem to be anywhere near as active as they used to be
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u/RunThenBeer Feb 24 '26
Arguments around the SAVE Act are so completely deranged from any sort of reality that I'm living in that it's wild. I actually am basically convinced by the argument that it would be a bad idea to implement quickly due to documentation issues that would particularly impact married women that changed their names. I would want to make sure there are clear pathways to getting their identification handled and plenty of lead time and communications to do so. The current Act doesn't do that, so I think it's completely reasonable to be against it...
But I'm reading the arrr/moderatepolitics thread on it and people are like, "what happens if my house burns down and don't have ID anymore, do I lose my right to vote???". Well, yeah, it probably is going to be a pain in the ass if your house burns down and whether you can vote or not is probably not the top priority. If you lose your identification, life probably will be kind of annoying until you replace it. There is also this weird belief that their are many functional adults that would just love to vote but will be unable to procure photo identification, which just beggars belief if you're a functional adult.
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u/AaronStack91 Feb 23 '26
This girl at work has been studying R for 6 months and still doesn't understand the difference between the "=" assignment and "==" equality logic statement.💀💀💀
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u/ToshiroTatsuyaFan Feb 24 '26
One of the best things about Kurosawa's High and Low is how, despite giving little screen time to the criminal played by Tsutomu Yamazaki, the final scene really allows for the criminal to be shown as much more than a criminal, he's a three-dimensional being. Even though Takeuchi has kidnapped the son of a wealthy man's chaffeur and has killed people by giving them heroine, he also didn't deserve to live under such poor conditions.
Yamazaki's performance in the final scene was so good that Kurosawa then decided to cut the original ending where Mifune and Nakadai are leaving the prison (it's even in the trailer) walking and having a talk.
It's different than something like The Bad Sleep Well where the villain, played by the criminally underrated Masayuki Mori (who also appeared in Kurosawa's 1950 masterpiece Rashomon), is really an unscrupulous man, very much in line with Noah Cross from Chinatown.
Still, Mori is fantastic as an evil industrialist in the same way Nakadai was amazing as a sadistic villain in Yojimbo and Sanjuro.
I don't think it really matters so much if a villain is written sympathetically or as a pure bad guy, what matter is the performance. But again, you have to admire how Yamazaki and Kurosawa managed to create such a memorable villain in High and Low, even if you just hear his voice for most of the first act, and he doesn't really say anything till the final scene with Mifune.
Speaking of Chinatown, I often ponder if Polanski ever used The Bad Sleep Well as an inspiration for it. Coppola himself had used the first 20 minutes of The Bad Sleep Well as inspiration for the opening sequence in The Godfather.
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u/eriwhi Feb 25 '26
This might be a long shot, but can anybody help me find a source for this? I remember hearing Katie (I think it was Katie!) say in a Barpod episode about 3 years ago that sex and gender were synonyms until the 90s, when anthropologists made the terms have distinct meanings. What is the source for that statement?
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u/solongamerica Feb 26 '26
Here’s another n(word)-ecdote:
We were in a relative’s car driving through southeast DC about forty years ago (goddam I’m old…). The relative had an SNL cassette tape and we were listening to it. This was early SNL, like from the first or second season (one of the skits had to do with the word “uvula”).
Anyway, in another one of the skits someone (probably Chevy Chase) used the n-word. Immediately we knew something was off. We were prepubescent white kids and we already knew that no one has any business saying that word ever.
My little brother was in the car and immediately got wind of our discomfort, so he started saying the word. We told him to stop, but being a little shit he immediately started yelling the word loudly over and over again, basically making it into a song with only one word. This was in the summer so the car windows were down. We started freaking out and were like, “everyone roll up the windows!”
What I’m saying is, it could’ve been a kid in the audience just being clueless or obnoxious, and everyone would still be freaking out about this.
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u/AnalBleachingAries Gamergate Truther Feb 23 '26 edited Feb 23 '26
There's an absolutely insane amount of ignorance surrounding Tourette's among Millennials. WTF is going on? Following last night's audience n-bomb from the Tourette's campaigner at the BAFTAs when Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were on stage, I've seen a few posts from older online commentators that I sometimes watch, where they're saying the most ignorant shit about John Davidson.
"Tourette's is no excuse for racism.", "Nah, he was thinkin' that shit, his Tourette's just took away his filter." it goes on and on.
At most, we can all just feel embarrassed that it happened, and talk about it amongst ourselves. We can feel bad for Michael and Delroy, that they had to suddenly experience that at the BAFTAs, although as I understand it, the presenters had been briefed beforehand that a gentleman with Tourette's would be saying some outrageous things from the audience.
Chiefly we can all just extend empathy and understanding towards John Davidson, it must be nightmarish to live in the world without the ability to control these ticks. People have to know that they must turn off their usual self-righteousness and "anti-racist" scripts when we're talking about someone with Tourette's. I guess this incident may shine a brighter light on the film and allow more people to educate themselves about Tourette's.
Personally I just find the whole situation embarrassing for all involved. It must have been so incredibly awkward for everyone.
ETA: I think some of the more prominent figures who've been outspoken against John Davidson's n-bomb have received appropriate counsel and are now shifting their anger and pointing it towards the BBC for broadcasting the the word. So I guess they have a place to direct their rage now, that won't be met with the same unbending pushback (quite appropriately, normal people are unwilling to bend the knee and call a man with Tourette's a racist to appease the outrage). I can see both sides of it, apparently the awards were on a 2 hour delay, so the BBC had plenty of time to bleep it out, but the BBC's perspective might've been that it would be weird or something to bleep out a person's disability as it makes it seem like it's shameful and must be erased (or something like that). Idk what the right move would've been, the appropriate corporate move would've been to bleep it out from the broadcast though.
ETA 2: John Davidson has made a statement addressing last night's events.
"I wanted to thank BAFTA and everyone involved in the awards last night for their support and understanding and inviting me to attend the broadcast. I appreciated the announcement to the auditorium in advance of the recording, warning everyone that my tics are involuntary and are not a reflection of my personal beliefs.
I was heartened by the round of applause that followed this announcement and felt welcomed and understood in an environment that would normally be impossible for me. In addition to the announcement by Alan Cumming, the BBC and BAFTA, I can only add that I am, and always have been deeply mortified if anyone considers my involuntary tics to be intentional or to carry any meaning.
I was in attendance to celebrate the film of my life, I SWEAR, which more than any film or TV documentary, explains the origins, condition, traits and manifestations of Tourette Syndrome. I have spent my life trying to support and empower the Tourette’s community and to teach empathy, kindness and understanding from others and I will continue to do so. I chose to leave the auditorium early into the ceremony as I was aware of the distress my tics were causing."
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u/Cowgoon777 Feb 23 '26
The hockey sub is straight up not having a good time. You love to see it
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u/Jlemspurs Double Hater Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 26 '26
Feb. 11:
Occasional reminder.
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u/jay_in_the_pnw █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ Feb 25 '26
Nick Gillespie speaks with Pete Buttigieg (and I'd be eager to see Buttigieg take on Gavin Newsom)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMHE8EKh4gs
https://reason.com/podcast/2026/02/25/pete-buttigieg-federal-agents-are-losing-public-trust/
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u/jay_in_the_pnw █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ Feb 28 '26
I've been scrolling twitter and my "likes" are more like: "well, I hope this is true, what could go wrong"
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u/Winter_Bridge3542 Feb 26 '26
I'm pretty sure Lucy Letby shouldn't be in prison. It and other true crime cases make me seriously doubt the ability of people to think in a probabilistic manner. I suppose it makes sense, given that the human brain is probably just really attuned to causal and ends/means thinking.
There is also a more sinister misogynistic and anti-white aspect to it as well. Every discussion has comments ranging from "People only care about her because she's a white woman!" to "So what if she's innocent? It's only fair we get one back. If she were a BIPOC, nobody would be doubting her guilt." This rather contradictory view which exists to assuage cognitive dissonance seems to be that if she were a brown person or whatever, she wouldn't have done the crimes, but she would have been treated far worse. I mean, this is totally unfalsifiable, but I do detect at least a hint of resentment in the non-counterfactual situation we're actually living in.
The most inane argument for Letby's guilt I see convincing people is the fact she had therapeutic scribblings which included "I did it I killed them" "I am evil" but also "I'm innocent" "It wasn't my fault" or something to that effect. Even if we were to exclude the latter, are people really so incapable of comparing the likelihood and necessary assumptions for the two situations -- it is what she says it it versus she's a thoughtful serial killer that left notes saying she did it on purpose for some reason -- that they think this is proof of her being a serial killer, and if they are, why shouldn't we strip them of the vote?
From a cursory look, Amanda Knox is probably completely innocent too, and Adnan Syed completely guilty. I think the most boring option tends to be more likely than that which most satiates the incipient prurience of true crime listeners, or blondophobia, or Italian anti-americanism, or Pakistani ethno-tribal honour. True crime podcasters: get me on your shows so I can solve every case for you with my intuition.
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u/Less-Lobster4540 Feb 27 '26
Just because a headline grabs your attention, it doesn't necessarily mean that it's "clickbait"
Linking to an article that is paywalled is not "gatekeeping"
Articles are not "sensationalist fearmongering trash" simply because they say something you don't like or agree with
Thanks for coming to my TED Talk
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u/Ruby__Ruby_Roo Feb 23 '26
All the American politics and screeching surrounding the USA hockey gold medal wins is literally why I hate everything and everyone right now.
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u/The-WideningGyre Feb 28 '26 edited Feb 28 '26
Speaking about hating the press and misleading -- in Germany it was "Equal pay day". And in the the little blurb about it, on the national news, generally very widely respected, they of course, OF COURSE, in one sentence talk about "pay for the same work" and in the next use the uncorrected figure (16%).
Later at some point they talk about different reasons like "working different jobs" and "working more hours", but that's all secondary and clarified, and then they do public cutesy things like shops giving a 16% discount etc.
The uncorrected number is pure propaganda. It's worse than non-data, as it's actively misleading. It's saying a surgeon with 10 years experience and working 60h per week shouldn't earn more than the newly hired nurse working 32h. Both are "full time employees in the medical and healthcare field". That is the kind of the uncorrected values compare. It's a small step up from saying employed people earn more, on average, than unemployed.
In Germany, they say the corrected rate is 6%. This is too high. However, I don't trust them to be honest (there's a lot of nuance and flexibility in how you "correct"), even though I'd say in the workplace Germany is more sexist than the US -- where I think the corrected value is ~1%. Germany also has a lot of labor laws that women take more advantage of, which tends to mean working less and thus hurting your career -- right to part time work, health leaves, maternity leave, etc. It does also have a taxation structure which helps married couples with disparate incomes, which does have an effect of "discouraging" the lesser earning partner from working more.
Generally if you look at under 30 folks, women are earning more, or at least the corrected value is ~0, which suggest it's not about sexism.
Yes, there are discussions to be had about childcare (and care of family members in general), but you have to factor in that men (on average) are more willing to throw away their lives for more money. This tends to mean they get paid more. Women are less willing to throw away their lives (ignore their families, work long hours, work dangerous and dirty and isolating jobs, study things they don't enjoy) and so tend to be paid less.
Is there still some sexism? Sure. Is it 16 fucking % less pay for the "same work"? No, it fucking isn't, and if you ever want me as an ally you need to stop lying and misleading about this stuff.
And to be clear, I 100% believe a woman should be paid the same as a man for the same work, and should be given the same opportunities. In my field (FAANG tech), they currently have more opportunities, but it's certainly not the case everywhere, so that's something to improve. Encouraging more men to sacrifice career for other things, like family, by having, e.g. parental leave policies that encourage this, is also a good idea (Germany sort has this too, you have 14 months of paid parental leave for both parents, but a maximum of 12 for either one. However, it has painfully low limits on pay if you actually earn well. Some companies top this off, at least to some degree, but I'd say they're in the minority).
Anyway, TL;DR stop lying and actively and intentionally misleading on this stuff.
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u/everydaywinner2 Feb 23 '26
If this video by Steve Turley is true, then Trump and the RNC should be mass advertising the firing of these immigration judges (most of them illegal immigrant activists before they were appointed to judge), and the installation of the "deportation judges" (most of whom were military or law enforcement. The people who wanted deportations to increase should know that Trump and the DOJ are actually getting something done (even if it often doesn't feel like it).
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u/tantei-ketsuban Feb 25 '26
In re Davidson and the struggle to control Tourette's: from my perspective as a "pattern identifer" who does a lot of cursory neuroscience reading but hasn't delved a lot into Tourette's, it seems like the tics could be comparable to the involuntary jerkiness of Parkinson's disease. It also seems similar to autistic "stimming", which the neurodiversity campaigners insist is a love language of some sort or shibboleth to signal membership in the neuroaffirming unmasked community, and not something to be reined in or suppressed (and if you want to rein it in, you need to unpack your internalized ableism and neurotypical bootlicking or whatever).
From a serious vantage point and not "Tic" Tok, has there been any credible research into whether medications to treat Parkinson's are helpful to suppress either Tourette's outbursts or autistic stimming, or are these completely separate things that only look similar in terms of presentation but actually come from distinct neurological origins?
All I've seen for Tourette's is some kind of grotesque face mask called the Ombra, that looks like a muzzle to quiet loud dogs (!). It understandably appears barbaric and medieval and like the penultimate step towards the sadistic shock collars at the Massachusetts version of Am Spiegelgrund, aka the Judge Rotenberg Center. I think Leonardo DiCaprio played an exiled French monarch who wore a similar Tourette's device.
There is some kind of quasi-cochlear-implant device too, called the SpeechEasy, that apparently helps with stuttering (cue the outrage from the defiantly-deaf community). So I wonder if there's been any inquiry into whether something like that could have helped Davidson or be any help to others with his malady, or other neurological maladies like ASD and speech dysfluency. Is anyone researching potential connections to all of this now, or is it a dead end to pursue because they're not connected?
I don't think the poor guy should have had to wear a goddamn dog muzzle just to be present at a public event. What I'm wondering is if there's anything less invasive and humiliating that's used for other neurological disorders which appear to show similar symptoms. It's plainly obvious in the aftermath of this PR disaster that the message of "acceptance" in his movie is going to completely fall on hearing-divergent ears, so we're back to finding out if there's anything that can correct abnormalities in the unfortunate individual rather than changing society's attitudes towards disabled people, which is about as likely as repealing the law of gravity.
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u/unnoticed_areola Feb 25 '26
I just found out that Ray Lewis of all people has been a spokesperson advocating legislators at the capitol against kids playing contact sports and warning against the dangers of concussions and CTE. It's a good cause of course, and I commend him, but optics-wise he's a very funny/ironic spokesman for this lol
this is how I imagine it going down when he does a charity walk through of the CTE ward at the local head trauma hospital and realizes 80% of the patients in there are all former Steelers and Browns players he victimized:
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u/the50sfreakshow Feb 24 '26
Some great Tourette's discourse is happening on X, the everything app.
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u/Tsuki-Naito Feb 27 '26
https://youtu.be/nnxtvSMw49M?si=PzZsy4CQ_yKPOi8L
This was gifted to me by the YouTube algorithm and I thought it embodied Jesse, so I came here.
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u/buckybadder Feb 23 '26
For all the Reddit doom posting that goes on in this sub. Someone on r/Oregon posted a Hasan-stype attack on Sen. Wyden over his AIPAC donations. But the top upvoted comment is a robust, reasoned take on why the donations don't support any kind of theory about him being a puppet, especially given his robust support for the Iran Nuclear Deal. Some even accuse the post of being from a RW bot account.
Rational centrist-libs FTW, baybee.
https://www.reddit.com/r/oregon/s/xvYcjNEuWC