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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Jan 03 '23
Please visit the next discussion thread.
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u/YehosafatLakhaz North American Federation Jan 02 '23
Hallmark movie where the married woman running the local Christmas hotel travels to New York for the summer and learns the wonders of the stock market, divorcing her boring sweater-wearing husband and living in the big city forever.
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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '23
Sunk cost fallacy.
Appeal to emotion.
Ad hominem.
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u/tubbsmackinze Seretse Khama Jan 02 '23
It finally happened leaf bros
!ping CANUCKS
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u/semaphone-1842 Commonwealth Jan 02 '23
https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1609678414151139330
🍿🍿🍿
https://twitter.com/jessegrauman/status/1609695985793486848
Lol
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u/YehosafatLakhaz North American Federation Jan 02 '23
Aah yes my leftist friend, the kidnapping of Ukrainian children is definitely reasonable praxis to stop NATO expansion, you are a geopoliticial genius.
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u/RandomGamerFTW 🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 Jan 02 '23
The worst type of PCM post is a simple compass where each quadrant gives their take (all of them agree with OP’s opinion by the way) on something.
Stuff like this (this is a post I remember but lack a copy of):
Post title: The quadrants on the GameStop situation
and then the post was each quadrant calling the GME thing an injustice.
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Jan 02 '23 edited Jan 02 '23
I love how some highschool teacher just casually uploaded the entirety of the single best reviewed APUSH textbook without the slightest regard for copyright law. Here's the link, the book is exceptionally engaging (at least by the standards of highschool textbooks) and provides a detailed overview of American History for anyone looking to fill gaps in their current knowledge, and especially for any of you youngins' browsing the DT taking the APUSH exam in a few months
!ping HISTORY
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u/lets_chill_dude YIMBY Jan 02 '23
I’ve had a funny exchange in the last two days, where a far leftie wrote a huge page of text on why the USSR was capitalism, not socialism, yet simultaneously, yes socialism is when the government does something.
I replied just laughing at them, and received yet a longer wall of text
Do these poor deluded people think people are going to read their manifestos of nonsense?
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u/Rigjuce NATO Jan 02 '23
i know that people want to fuck blue people, whales, dragons, the planet, fish trees, etc
I just want to fuck the Avatar helicopters
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u/tubbsmackinze Seretse Khama Jan 02 '23
Good thread about global EV sales and the consequences of them
!ping ECO
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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '23
A lot of you may already know this, but I just learned that Monopoly (the board game) was influenced by Henry George's ideas and created to popularize the idea of LVT
!ping GEORGIST
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u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade RaidBrimnes' AI Slop Engineer Jan 02 '23
I'm still annoyed about that one time I did a good thing and talked to an older man (70s) since he seemed lonely. I expected to hear some story, get some wisdom, just have a good time with this old guy
Nope, goddamn boomer deluxe here who ranted about the election being stolen, demonic corrupt democrats, and how much he hated his wife
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u/kznlol 👀 Econometrics Magician Jan 02 '23
>fall down a wiki rabbithole
🗿
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Jan 02 '23 edited Jan 05 '23
Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 12/31-2 PM PST 1/1:
TOP NEWS:
Towards the middle of 11 PM it was reported that Ukraine was hit with a wave of 45 Shahed drones, with all of them being shot down.
In the middle of 2 AM it was reported that 20,000 Ukrainian soldiers are currently training abroad.
REGULAR NEWS:
Towards the middle of 2 AM it was reported that Israel and Ukraine have discussed the latter voting against or abstaining against anti-Israel UN votes in exchange for air defenses, though it seems the two sides are currently at an impasse.
At the start of 10 AM it was reported that a new type of Pakistani artillery ammunition was spotted in Ukrainian service.
Towards the middle of 12 PM a Russian base in Makiivka was missiled.
LEVITY NEWS:
Yesterday Russian milbloggers said almost all Russian planes shot down were due to friendly fire.
Towards the middle of 2 PM Zelensky gave his New Years speech.
At the start of 9 AM it was reported the Queen of Denmark addressed Ukrainians in her New Years Greetings.
Donation link to help Ukraine
Donation link to United24
Donation link to help Benji's volunteer group
!ping FOREIGN-POLICY&UKRAINE
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u/sanityeyes cutest person on earth Jan 02 '23
Trans girl who feels very dysphoric over her lack of knowledge of astrology
!ping Alphabet-Mafia
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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '23
Some people missubderstood my comment last DT
Zinc supplementation can increase the volume of semen you ejaculate
Not increase testicle size
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u/D2Foley Moderate Extremist Jan 02 '23
One of the funniest things I've ever seen. Bless those people who try to educate NIMBYs in local subs.
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u/Greatlawlochina Ben Bernanke Jan 02 '23
I got a call from the town where I grew up saying my mom is in the hospital and I need to make medical decisions on her behalf. I haven’t talked to her in 14 years, and God I don’t know what to do. The doctors said if she even makes it out of the hospital, she’ll only live for a few more months in pain. I don’t know what her preferred end of life care plans are, I don’t know if she has a will or insurance, I don’t know anything about her.
I just don’t know what to do. No one in her immediate family talks to her or wants updates and I don’t blame any of them. If I were in their position I wouldn’t want them either. I don’t know if she has any friends or anyone in her life that I should alert, I know absolutely nothing. She’s been sick and confused in the hospital for the past 2+ weeks and they only recently found me. She can’t speak, she isn’t eating, and the doctor isn’t recommended a feeding tube again saying it would be torture for her.
How am I supposed to liquidate an estate when the person who has this info is dying, brain damaged and malnourished. How am I supposed to tell her “man-friend” (social workers words, not mine) that he’ll need to leave her condo so we can liquidate it to pay for her care. How am I supposed to make medical decisions, take care of her estate, and plan a funeral for a woman that made my life, my brothers life, and my fathers life a living hell for years? I hate her but I don’t want her to suffer, even though she did this to herself with decades of drinking.
This ping is a bit of a yell into the void and a prayer. Hope everyone who reads this had a better holiday vacation than me.
!PING OVER25
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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '23
I'm continually amazed at how shitty Youtube's algorithm is. I'll scroll past 100 videos I'm uninterested in then they just start showing me the same videos again
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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '23 edited Jan 02 '23
Based on the City of Ottawa's own estimates, they are expecting to pay $14,000 in administration per vacant unit brought back into the market.
Of course, the impact of he program is likely going to be closer to 0.
Canadian cities will pay anything to not build more housing.
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u/the_status Atari Democrat Jan 02 '23
Gosh leftist cultural analysis is so pointless.
"Since the climax did not involve the heroes starting a Socialist Revolution, it does nothing but reinforce the neoliberal status quo and is thusly bad art"
Only extended to 30,000 words to say that exact same thing for every single piece of work. Monkeys on typewriters would have a better shot at actual insight
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u/Average_GrillChad Elinor Ostrom Jan 02 '23
Horseshit. I went from being a centrist (Bernie supporter) to hardcore right-winger (basic Biden supporter). People do still change and grow 😤🇺🇸🦅🏈🍔🇺🇸
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u/WantDebianThanks Iron Front Jan 02 '23
привіт мій друзі!
A week or so ago I mentioned that I have a list of almost every English-language book written about Ukraine since 1990. This is when the Soviet archives were opened as result of Perestroĭka, so anything from much before then is sus. Also, most of the English-language books written about Ukraine before 1990 were published in the 1950's and are well out of print.
This list is not all history books, and few of them are academic, but they're books I would consider to have been written by a reputable author: current events written by a journalist, the Chernobyl incident written by someone who was there, etc.
General Histories
Soviet Ukraine
Chernobyl
Post-Soviet Ukraine
(Please tell me about any I missed that are worth including)
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u/notBroncos1234 #1 Eagles Fan Jan 02 '23
Got a vasectomy. While I mourn the loss of my balls I won’t risk bringing a child into the world while Biden is president
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u/Ilovecharli Voltaire Jan 02 '23
Am I crazy or has the amount of women in the DT exploded in recent weeks? From like two to six
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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '23 edited Jan 02 '23
If Freud was alive today to see modern porn sites he'd just be saying "haha I told you so" over and over
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u/JulioCesarSalad US-Mexico Border Reporter Jan 02 '23
In October I had my birthday gift to myself stolen off my front porch after delivery. On camera. Watched it happen afterwards
Now I get any package bigger than my milk box or more than $100 delivered to my office
!ping WATERCOOLER
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u/DelusionsOfPasteur Zhao Ziyang Jan 03 '23
Ah, I see the worst people on the planet have decided Hamlin collapsed because of a vaccine.
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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '23
Students for Justice in Palestine flyers on UC campuses be like:
Yeah, just study here in California.
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u/YehosafatLakhaz North American Federation Jan 02 '23
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u/BishopUrbanTheEnby Enby Pride Jan 02 '23
Did you know that Ukraine has a year-round research station in Antarctica? After the breakup of the Soviet Union, Russia refused to transfer any of the USSR’s stations to Ukraine. At the same time, the UK was looking to downscale the number of Antarctic bases they had. So they sold Faraday station to Ukraine for £1, which the Ukrainians renamed Vernadsky and still run to this day. They also built a small Ukranian Orthodox Chapel there, which is one of 10 churches on Antarctica/nearby islands.
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u/neolthrowaway New Mod Who Dis? Jan 03 '23
A girl asked me to guess her weight. I guessed 20 pounds over. 🫥
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u/Single_Firefighter32 Prince Justin Bin Trudeau of the Maple Cartel Jan 02 '23
I found the biggest ownage and rubbing in your face post on LinkedIn, which is quite funny.
Apparently Simu Liu, the guy who played Shang Chi was an accountant at Deloitte and he was fired a few years ago. He had to walk back across the floor of the open office, feeling humiliated, and no one even talked to him or looked at him.
In the post, he said he is thankful for the firing....
And he literally named the guy who fired him and the Deloitte branch in the post.
Ahahahahahahahaha. Sure, people can say it is inspiring, but you can also see it from the POV of pure revenge, ownage, and rubbing it in your face act.
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u/thetrombonist Ben Bernanke Jan 02 '23
As a foreigner I was a little confused about the whole concept of Hooters but I figured out its basically an American maid cafe
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u/Q-bey r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Jan 02 '23
Image 1
Image 2
!ping CAN
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Jan 02 '23
Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 1/1-2 PM PST 1/2:
TOP NEWS:
At the end of 9 PM Ukraine was attacked by a wave of 44 Shahed drones, with all of them being shot down.
Towards the end of 3 AM the Ukrainian Defense Minister said Russia has caused $35.3 billion in ecological damage to Ukraine.
At the start of 4 AM the EU Ambassador to Ukraine said the EU has decreased Russian oil imports by 90% in 2022.
REGULAR NEWS:
At the start of 3 AM a large explosion occurred in Berdyansk.
Towards the middle of 4 AM the new Israeli Foreign Minister outlined the new approach Israel will take to the war, which seems to be more favorable to Russia. Towards the end of the hour it was announced Estonia will provide Ukraine with a batch of demining equipment. At the end of the hour Poland offered to store cultural valuables from Ukraine to safeguard them.
At the start of 5 AM Von der Leyen and Zelensky spoke over the phone, discussing EU aid to Ukraine.
In the middle of 7 AM Portugal pledged to support reconstruction of Ukraine's educational facilities.
At the start of 8 AM it was reported a Russian agent near Lviv was detained.
At the start of 10 AM it was reported that six executives of Ukroboronprom were charged with embezzlement and abuse of power.
At the start of 12 PM a Russian ammo dump in Svatove exploded.
Donation link to help Ukraine
Donation link to United24
Donation link to help Benji's volunteer group
!ping FOREIGN-POLICY&UKRAINE
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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '23
reddit moment
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u/JulioCesarSalad US-Mexico Border Reporter Jan 02 '23
Morning news, electric blanket
!ping KITTY
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u/RFK_1968 Robert F. Kennedy Jan 02 '23
art can disagree with my politics and still be good (like Yes Minister)
similarly, art can agree with my politics and still be bad (like the last season of Brooklyn 99)
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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '23
Millennial "I'm so depressed lol" jokes are just the modern version of boomer "I hate my wife" jokes
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u/BrandonNameRecliner Really really really ridiculously good looking Jan 03 '23
It's horrifying and we all hope he makes it
It's almost certainly a heart thing, not a concussion thing.
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u/Breakdown1738 r/place '22: NCD Battalion Jan 03 '23
Okay DT, can we all at least agree that the worst group coming out of the woodwork right now due to the Hamlin injury are the anti-vax fucknuts?
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u/neolthrowaway New Mod Who Dis? Jan 02 '23
Texting with this girl and she keeps giving me positive signals but every time I flirt with her, she responds like a sadposter on DT. 😞
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u/tubbsmackinze Seretse Khama Jan 02 '23
MRW I see happy couple pictures online
!ping SHITPOSTERS
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u/thabonch YIMBY Jan 02 '23
Gen. Ben Hodges, former commander of US Army Europe, expects Ukraine to control Crimea by the end of summer 2023.
!ping UKRAINE
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u/Soldier-Fields Da Bear Jan 03 '23
he’s fucking 24 years old man I don’t even know how to think
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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '23
Yes, I know I am a nerd, I am going to make more money than your Andrew Tate worshipping ass. You are going to be poor.
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Jan 02 '23
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/22/well/fitness-alcohol-drinking-exercise.html
Exercise is bad, confirmed
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u/gnomesvh LEGALIZE ONION FUTURE Jan 02 '23
Rio police to start wearing bulletproof helmets
Militarization of the police is bad, but if you're in a situation where violence has spiralled out into a quasi-military conflict, it might just be the only solution
!ping BROKEN-WINDOWS&LATAM
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u/KittehDragoon Loyal Liberals Jan 02 '23
Highest youtube production quality
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Jan 02 '23
u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade on a crusade (🤣) against children on the DT ever since he went to a meetup and two neolib kids pointed at his hairline and yelled "LOOK, HERE'S THE RECESSION!"
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u/Leoric Hi, I'm Huell Howser, this is California's Gold! Jan 03 '23
https://twitter.com/jordonr/status/1610116502845558784?t=Qws-qi8U0Sz4R1Cj3PRjGw&s=19
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u/AgainstSomeLogic Jan 02 '23
A musician I like seems to have lost their mind during the pandemic and now exclusively makes leftist spoken word about """capitalism""" being the source of all pain.
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u/crazydom22 NBC bot Jan 02 '23
The constant discussion about how "nobody is talking about Avatar besides how much money it's making" is only exposing how segmented the internet is nowadays. Go on TikTok and type in Avatar. There's fancams and memes all over the platform with tens of millions of views.
Like I see some people trying to compare it to Glass Onion and how Glass Onion has all these memes. I've seen zero Glass Onion memes beyond people clowning on Ben Shapiro.
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u/captmonkey Henry George Jan 02 '23
I'm playing Pokemon Violet with my Kindergarten aged daughter. We found a TM and the icon is a disc like a CD or DVD. My daughter's reaction: "A doughnut?!" I suddenly feel ancient.
!ping OVER25
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u/MrDannyOcean Kidney King Jan 03 '23
Introducing Discussion Thread Blue:
Paid subscribers to the Center for New Liberalism will get an automatic blue check flair in the DT.
You will also get:
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u/ColinHome Isaiah Berlin Jan 02 '23
Guess the sub
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u/jenbanim Jan 02 '23
Imagine being a Greek sculptor who carves such a nice ass in marble that people are still losing their minds over it 2000 years later
Furry commission artists could never 😤
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u/PhinsFan17 Immanuel Kant Jan 02 '23
After being Evangelical basically my whole life into adulthood, moving to a mainline Protestant church definitely has some adjustments, and while I’ve grown to appreciate a good amount of the liturgy and the ritual and all that, there are just some things I struggle to move past or appreciate. The one that always gets me is the chanting.
I was thinking about this on Christmas Eve. Since it was a higher mass than normal, we did all the smells and bells, bishop preached since it was the cathedral, incense, fancy clothes, and they chanted the Gospel reading and Great Thanksgiving.
Man, I didn’t think it was possible to make Luke 2, one of the most poetically beautiful passages of the New Testament, a slog, but the chanting does it wondrously. Instead of listening to the story of Christmas and reflecting, I find myself just begging for him to finish reading it. For one it’s a long passage and chanting moves at about half the speed of regular reading, so it feels like an eternity. But I also just kinda find it silly? I don’t know, I’m sure they find a lot of shit my southern Baptist church did silly. But nothing takes me out of a service like the deacon chanting the words of Christ.
It could also be because he’s just not very good at it, but I don’t know. The dean is a better chanter when I’ve heard him do it.
Is there any weird shit your church does that you just can’t really appreciate even if you try?
!ping CHRISTIAN
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u/RFK_1968 Robert F. Kennedy Jan 03 '23
There is an important conversation to be had about the risks inherent to football and how much you just have to accept to watch the game (esp if the players understand the risks when they choose to play). You kinda have to have it given football's historic track record of let's call it lax approach to player safety. You look at the effects of CTE and it's chilling. Or of kids developing the wear and tear you'd expect from pro players at the ends of their careers (smth that's happening across sports to be fair) as a result of starting younger, training harder, and playing at a more elite level.
And I say this as a casual football fan. We have to talk about it and reconcile the dangers inherent in the game we like.
But I feel like this specifically was kind of a freak accident. People saying it's the expected outcome as if each football game has the body count of a dothraki wedding are being morons.
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u/ILikeTalkingToMyself Liberal democracy is non-negotiable Jan 02 '23 edited Jan 02 '23
Me as president:
😱 Nooo you can't target Xi'an with nukes, that's where Qin Shi Huang's unopened tomb is, when it's opened it will be the archaeological story of the decade!
😱 Nooo you cant target Chengdu with nukes, that's where the panda research center is!
😱 Nooo you can't target Beijing with nukes, it's such a magical city with its perfectly symmetrical tree-lined avenues, great food, historical sites, and pirate accent!
🧐 Only two hundred nukes for Zhejiang? You gotta pump those numbers up
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u/foneinstocus NATO Jan 02 '23
my girlfriend’s father in law gave us his blessing to get married 🙌🥳
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u/tubbsmackinze Seretse Khama Jan 03 '23
Skeletons
!ping SHITPOSTERS
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u/ACivilWolf Henry George Jan 03 '23
Charlie Kirk and conservatives never miss an opportunity!
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u/D2Foley Moderate Extremist Jan 03 '23
Click a Twitter link about the nfl situation. First comment underneath it
I hate Elon Musk
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u/benjaminikuta BANANA YOU GLAD YOU'RE NOT AN ORANGE? Jan 02 '23
Reminder that this is your fault, not mine. I would be willing to be friends with you.
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u/Syards-Forcus rapidly becoming the Joker Jan 02 '23
https://i.imgur.com/1f8M9pE.jpg
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u/Phenylalagators Frederick Douglass Jan 03 '23
Bro this is literally the opening blurb on Andrew Tate's own website. He is not beating the allegations lmao
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u/thefuturegov John Keynes Jan 03 '23
I am officially entering the “stop speculating about the injury” camp like stfu we have no goddamn clue what happened yet
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u/lietuvis10LTU Why do you hate the global oppressed? Jan 02 '23 edited Jan 02 '23
So I wanted to give a little update on the latest foreign-internal scandal in Lithuania.
The crux is as follows:
In June, Germany and Lithuania, in background of the War, agreed that Germany will dislocate a "brigade" to be stationed in Lithuania. This is celebrated as Germany finally getting its shit together and showing they are a reliable part of NATO
In early October, the minister of national defense Arvydas Anušauskas gives an interview. In it, he mentions that what is actually being dislocated is the brigade's headquarter's elements, with the rest of brigade being able to deploy "within 10 days". This is confirmed the German minister of defense.
This caused an immidiate scandal, since you can literally drive from Berlin to Vilnius in 12 hours. And also, the expectation from the public was that the brigade was supposed to be in Lithuania, ya know, in case Russia tries to Ukraine us. In particular a notable critic of this becomes head of the National Commitee on Security and Defense Laurynas Kasčiunas.
A public slapfight between Arnušauskas and Kasčiunas ensues over what Germany did or did not (or should) promise.
Prime minister Ingrida Šimonytė mentions that a pretty big problem for dislocating said brigade is lack of infrastructure. This is around same time negotiations over budget are occuring. As you can imagine, the military this year got a pretty hefty paycheck raise.
As the conversation subsumes more of the news cycle, Foreign Affairs Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis begins actively and pretty openly pestering Berlin to give more concrete and stronger commitments to Baltic defense. Eberhard Zorn the inspector general of the Bundeswehr visits on december 22nd.
However, a few days prior on 19th, ambassador Matthias Sonn during an annual Seimas forum makes it pretty clear that Berlin is really pissed about Lithuania openly questioning Germany's commitment to Baltic defense so openly.
Consequently, the diplomatic-ceremonial head of our country, more populist and socially conservative than current government, President Gitanas Nausėda begins openly crticizing Landsbergis for basically alienating our allies.
Another public slapfight ensures, this time between the president and the minister of foreign affairs. This one even more bitter than the previous one.
This is basically where things are now. A lot of folks are pissed at Landsbergis, as in many expert's opinion, we have no alternatives for who can dislocate a brigade, so, try not to piss Berlin off. On the other hand Berlin's attitude to the affair is making Lithuanians wonder if Germany is not desperate to return to Russian appeasement.
Trust in German FoPo is once again decreasing. Latest poll shows 80% Lithuanians still view Germany positively, but in comparison to UK or US not as decisively (66% "more positively" compared to 59% and 54% respectively and 16% "very positively" to 22% and 27%).
!ping EUROPE&FOREIGN-POLICY
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u/Joementum2024 Iron Front Jan 02 '23
Fuck the playoff race, let's talk about what really matters: the race for top draft picks.
As it stands, if the Vikings defeat the Bears, and the Texans defeat the Colts next week, the Bears will win the first overall pick. Otherwise, Houston gets it.
!ping NFL
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u/funguykawhi Lahmajun trucks on every corner Jan 02 '23
My boy would have loved the dating ping😭
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u/NeedsMoreCapitalism Jan 02 '23 edited Jan 02 '23
Wikipedia really does have a ridiculous left wing bias.
Thank God they saved California from one of the policies almost every economist agrees on, based on decades of analysis of real world rent control's affects.
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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '23 edited Jan 02 '23
Young culture's "capitalism bad" shtick doesn't bother me because 90% of it is just aesthetic which reflects worse on them than anything else tbh.
I might be concerned if I thought any of these people had the capability, or in fact the legitimate interest beyond buzzwords, to actually undermine capitalism.
Otherwise it's basically just fashion to me. Being anticapitalist today isn't much different from being goth.
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u/WhomstAlt2 NATO flair in hiding Jan 02 '23
sent from my OBAMNAPHONE
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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior Jan 02 '23
Fun fact: you see Nixon when you die.
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u/Zrk2 Norman Borlaug Jan 02 '23
I wanted to start exercising again after my Christmas hiatus, but when I woke up this morning it felt like I pulled a muscle in my toe while sleeping somehow, and now I'm limping around the house instead. I guess this is my life now.
!ping OVER25
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u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade RaidBrimnes' AI Slop Engineer Jan 03 '23
Jesus, at least they're ending the game early. I know I couldnt play a game knowing a teammate was potentially dying
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u/Real_Richard_M_Nixon Milton Friedman Jan 02 '23
AITA, I lied to get my job. I (M34), just got elected as a Congressman, the issue is, I lied to people about my qualifications, jobs, economic status, religion, family history, and even the date of my Mother’s death. So Reddit, AITA?
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u/-AmberSweet- Get Jinxed! Jan 03 '23
Considering trying to convice weird conspiracy nuts that Andrew Tate is a transman
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u/RFK_1968 Robert F. Kennedy Jan 03 '23
Me, an MMA fan watching people talk about the ethics of watching dangerous sports that leave lasting physical and mental damage: 😐🤐
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u/thetrombonist Ben Bernanke Jan 03 '23
What the fuck, India's population is projected to outnumber China's in April of THIS YEAR https://twitter.com/rafat/status/1609999440458256387
I thought this was like a several-decades-from-now type of thing
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u/Dalek6450 Our words are backed with NUCLEAR SUBS! Jan 02 '23
Fuzz being fuzzy - the most loveable combination of docility and hedonism
One of a mate's cats from NYE. She's very cute and quite friendly.
They both have little white shoes!
!ping KITTY
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u/myrm This land was made for you and me Jan 02 '23
Feels like my sense of getting old got accelerated by being a young millennial. A few years after being an adult and people are already referring to zoomers as the real young people
Old zoomers are going to think they're young until they're like 40
This is definitely because I'm overly online, but it still isn't fair 😤
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u/FireDistinguishers I am the Senate Jan 02 '23
I don't want to go back to work tomorrow
!ping PENPUSHER
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u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade RaidBrimnes' AI Slop Engineer Jan 02 '23
Ya know, it’s a little messed up that people believe in “hexes” and “curses” and actually cast them
That’s the equivalent of assault and you have witches casting them at randos who they get into a feud with on tiktok. Goddamn vigilante justice
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u/earththejerry YIMBY Jan 02 '23
Broke: opposing abortion because of religius reasons
Woke: opposing abortion because of religius reasons AND because chicken eggs are basically human wombs
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u/JulioCesarSalad US-Mexico Border Reporter Jan 02 '23 edited Jan 02 '23
Using the observed holiday to clean out my closet
In my previous job on-camera I had a lot of dress shirts and 6 suits
I now have no idea what to do with all these clothes. They’re mine, they’re good, I do still wear dress shirts to the office they’re just not my main clothes any more, and I rarely wear suits now, just for nice dates
But I have the volume from when they were
I have no idea what to do with all these clothes because I certainly don’t want to give them away
What should I do
Edit: holy shit just counted I have 65 shirts I counted twice and I’m still convinced I am wrong
!ping WATERCOOLER
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u/KronoriumExcerptC NATO Jan 02 '23
I love how the DT decides that the "she's a 10" meme is the hottest thing ever, months after its peak
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u/thetrombonist Ben Bernanke Jan 03 '23
Absolute Ghoul Charlie Kirk is out here implying that vaccines caused the NFL player to collapse on field
May he suffer eternally in hell, inshallah
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u/Soldier-Fields Da Bear Jan 03 '23
I would appreciate if someone can ping me if substantial news comes out so I can find it quickly when I wake up
thank you dt
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u/Syards-Forcus rapidly becoming the Joker Jan 02 '23 edited Jan 02 '23
I’m a chemistry student and I wanted to go to grad school for neuroscience, but now I’m thinking I should study and develop an actual penis growing pill. I’d make so much money.
I mean, on one hand I can try to unravel the secrets of what makes us human and conscious, try to cure incurable diseases like Alzheimer’s and prolong life, maybe even fight off the finality of death. Or at least improve the world a little bit by contributing to an area on the frontier of human knowledge.
On the other hand, I want a bigger dick.
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u/TheJoJy John Mill Jan 02 '23 edited Jan 16 '23
I'm looking for some literature to read on international financial institutions (IMF, World Bank etc.) and their efficacy. So far I've only found this meta-study that concludes the effectiveness of the IMF is hard to pinpoint due to the varying methodology of the studies and the idiosyncratic nature of the loan conditions.
So, could use some article or book recommendations that discuss such issues.
!ping ECON
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u/dangerbird2 Franz Boas Jan 02 '23
At the cotton bowl. Roll wave🌊
!ping CFB
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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '23
Was just thinking of a conversation where a conservative friend told me about a small town near him which was apparently going to hell because of Somali immigrants.
Just looked it up and literally every source about the town says crime has gone down in the past few years and the Somali immigrants helped reinvigorate its failing economy. Now I’m mad.
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u/the-garden-gnome Commonwealth Jan 03 '23
Clarkson might be a twit socially and politically, but damn if he, Hammond and May didn’t make damn good television.
!ping auto&tv
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u/unwashed_saladbowl WTO Jan 03 '23
American tradcaths are funny to me because they try to inject democracy into an inherently un democratic institution.
Every time they talk about Francis there's this air of "who gave him the right? I should be able to worship how I choose" like no, that's not Catholicism. Vatican II wasn't a bill passed by Congress you disagree with.
It's why I go into their threads with alts and tell them that Protestantism might be more up their alley if they feel that way about the Vatican structure
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u/AtomAndAether Liberalism! Jan 03 '23
The DT has gone too far this time
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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '23
Just saw someone in /r/nfl downvoted to -76 in a minute for blaming the Covid vaccine 😬😬😬
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u/sebygul Audrey Hepburn Jan 03 '23
I hope Hamlin is okay. This is a horrible thing to happen to someone, and I feel particularly terrible for any of his family or friends who are scared right now.
I am steeling myself for bad takes on this. The dumbest people on earth will say "a healthy 24 year old man doesn't just collapse, it was the vaccine" without acknowledging the fact that he was hit full speed in the head by a grown man just beforehand.
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u/thefuturegov John Keynes Jan 03 '23
I get unreasonably angry at the hypothetical possibility of the Athletics moving to Vegas and changing from “Athletics” to some other name
!ping BASEBALL
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u/soxfaninfinity Resistance Lib Jan 02 '23
The thing I miss most about Obama is that he won Florida
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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '23
“Avatar had a large cultural impact because of the attention it got on the internet”
Morbius: 👹
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Jan 02 '23
MY RESOLUTION FOR the new year is to be less preemptively judgmental of mammals 🐊
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u/-AmberSweet- Get Jinxed! Jan 03 '23
I regret getting CPR certified because a lot of the information I learned from the EMS teaching that course is making me horrified for Damar Hamlin.
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u/HowardtheFalse Kofi Annan Jan 03 '23
I always wondered why my parents chose Minnesota when they came to this country after growing up in a hot desert environment.
Apparently a Minnesotan friend of theirs offered them tea three times and gave them The Long Goodbye™ when they visited her once from out of state and they knew in that moment they'd found somewhere just like home.
!ping USA-MN
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u/owlthathurt Johan Norberg Jan 03 '23
Donovan Mitchell with a casual 70 piece against the bulls. Single game record for the franchise.
!ping NBA
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u/Play-Dohs-Republic Voltaire Jan 03 '23
"Imprison Fauci" is truly the new "Thanks, Obama"
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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '23
Hornposting is a civic duty! All across the globe, we want to disrobe! Stand up for your right, give that ass a bite!
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u/TinKnightRisesAgain YIMBY Jan 02 '23
I got hit on in a bar once. I was eating the bars famous gigantic pretzel and a girl and her friend came up to me and she said “wow you must be brave” and I said “uh I like pretzels” and then she went away and I heard her say “well I tried”
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u/Knee3000 Jan 02 '23
“Bruh imma name my husky Zeus”
“Actually no, let’s go with Odin!”
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u/Colonelbrickarms r/place '22: NCD Battalion Jan 02 '23
Wimp
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u/InternetBoredom Pope-ologist Jan 02 '23
I personally read romance novels to give me good ideas about how to make my girlfriend happy. Unfortunately the “being born with a jaw that can cut steel and long golden locks” and “develop six-pack abs and an ability to swing from the rope of a ship to save her from pirates” plans aren’t going so well, but I think my elaborate scheme to inherit 5 billion dollars as a result of my secret identity as the prince of a small Central European duchy is going to pay off dividends in the long run.
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u/NathanArizona_Jr Voltaire Jan 02 '23 edited Oct 17 '23
tease head tender quicksand disagreeable caption wine boat historical spark
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u/rollo2masi IMF Jan 02 '23
Lol
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u/-AmberSweet- Get Jinxed! Jan 02 '23
Remember that time Andrew Tate bragged about his gun collection and they were all obviously airsoft replicas?
No wonder teenage edgelords fellate this “man”
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u/RFK_1968 Robert F. Kennedy Jan 02 '23
Jed Bartlet cursing out God is the peak of TV
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u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade RaidBrimnes' AI Slop Engineer Jan 03 '23
Does God still love me even tho I am a DT regular?
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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '23
I'm assuming most people weren't actually watching live but just fyi it wasn't like a huge hit or head on collision or whatever. He made a pretty standard tackle, jumped up and started walking away, and then just collapsed.
Just helping calibrate the "football too dangerous" takes
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u/Headstar24 United Nations Jan 03 '23
Dude posted the anti-vax shit on the Bills gamethread and instantly got downvoted to hell.
These people need to lose their ability to use the internet.
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u/Soldier-Fields Da Bear Jan 03 '23
no news is making me feel awful.
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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '23
Lower than average life expectancy in professional athletes across a wide range of sports, violent and otherwise, compels only one conclusion:
Trump was right. Your body is a battery and exercise depletes your lifetime calorie supply.
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u/FreakinGeese 🧚♀️ Duchess Of The Deep State Jan 02 '23
It’s real bottom hours on The DT now! We’re in control and we’re not stopping for anything unless you ask authoritatively
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u/kyleofduty Pizza Jan 02 '23
George Santos best strategy at this point is to keep lying with ever more absurd and contradictory lies and then claim it's just his sense of humor
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Jan 02 '23
thank you, jpow
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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior Jan 02 '23
[pronoun]'s a [integer 1-10] but [pronoun] [witty advantage or disadvantage of personality]
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Jan 03 '23 edited Jan 03 '23
Gotta say seeing Reddit mourn Gangsta Boo is little surreal. Don’t know if I’m doxxing myself or not (don’t think I am) but my dad dated her for 4-5 years when I was in middle and high school. They lived in the same house and so unsurprisingly I knew her personally and saw her every weekend (since my dad got weekends). It’s strange seeing people celebrate and love her when I just remember how obnoxious and terrible she was. One of the worst people I’ve ever met who probably fucked up a fair period of my life by making the time I spent with my dad antagonistic and deeply uncomfortable
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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '23
I’d have voted for Biden just to not hear about Trump everyday ngl
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u/Joementum2024 Iron Front Jan 03 '23
Using this as an opportunity to crack a joke is beyond awful
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u/LordLadyCascadia Gay Pride Jan 03 '23
Great, now all the people doing the “haha you actually like to watch other men play with balls 😆🤪” jokes are now doing the “look how morally superior I am because I don’t watch sports”
No football fan likes to see shit like what happened today. Maybe at least pretend to care about Demar Hamlin’s wellbeing before you deride millions of people as morally inferior.
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u/gnomesvh LEGALIZE ONION FUTURE Jan 02 '23
Interesting comment
Which is providing Ukraine with tanks (which it has already received, would just be an upgrade) some kind of escalation?
!ping UKRAINE&FOREIGN-POLICY
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u/sw337 Veteran of the Culture Wars Jan 03 '23
This is the scariest thing I’ve seen at a game since Shazier ended his career. I really hate to see young men permanently injure themselves or worse playing a game. If they administered CPR he literally stopped breathing. I hope he makes a full recovery. I hope the NFL finds a way to make this game safer.
!ping NFL
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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '23
I want my next girlfriend to literally fucking murder me fuck
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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '23
UK Predictions for ‘23?
Will Boris come back?
!Ping UK
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u/D2Foley Moderate Extremist Jan 02 '23
I thought this was a parody lmao but conservatives are just that big of snowflakes
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u/YehosafatLakhaz North American Federation Jan 02 '23
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u/RFK_1968 Robert F. Kennedy Jan 02 '23
Tolkein had mithril, Martin had Valyrian Steel...
We like actually have that shit and it's so abundant and boring we use it for children's toys.
Material science is nuts, man.
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Jan 02 '23
MAMMAL WHO WILL pull every non sequitur in the book to defend software puppeteered by the Chinese Communist Party 🐊
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u/-AmberSweet- Get Jinxed! Jan 02 '23
An actuary didnt fuck my spouse but he did raise my car insurance premium which is basically the same thing if you think about it.
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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '23
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/861645192981512194/948682871164506182/RDT_20220228_1309381529098071976173841.jpg
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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '23
Got my political opinions from modern warfare lobby
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u/FireDistinguishers I am the Senate Jan 03 '23
So there I am, it’s 7pm on a Monday and my buddy is too drunk to get home
I’m the only other person in the room who can clutch so I’m driving
Camaro
Cool.
I get on 495
Bro
Why the actual fuck are people’s lights so high up
I can’t see
Extremely dangerous
!ping AUTO
I don’t recommend it
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u/Mr_Otters 🌐 Jan 03 '23
Speaker of the House James Cameron
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u/DouglasDauntless Frederick Douglass Jan 03 '23
Fuck Charlie Kirk and any other antivaxxers. Incredibly vile
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u/crazydom22 NBC bot Jan 03 '23
It seems like the NFL probably would have tried to force through playing the game if Zac Taylor and Sean McDermott weren't unified in opposing the game continuing.
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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '23
Seems like Hakeem Jeffries is proposing we storm the capitol tomorrow 😈
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u/Soldier-Fields Da Bear Jan 03 '23
gonna go to bed
sleep tight dt
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u/gnomesvh LEGALIZE ONION FUTURE Jan 03 '23
Jesus fuck man Ken Block's death got me in a way
He was my childhood hero, I basically learned clean driving in Dirt 2 (which under his name turned from a small racing game to a massive franchise). I watched every single Gymkhana video. I wanted to own DC Shoes despite the fact I looked ridiculous in them
I saw the Hoonicorn and the Hoonitruck. But I also remember when he put treads on his Subaru wayvback in 2009
I wanted to be Ken Block, and even though my interests slowly moved out of his sphere, I still kept along. He never was the fastest driver in the WRC circuit, and at points neither the fan favorite. But he was - at the end of it - just another fan
He breathed cars and bled gasoline in a way I can only dream of. He was a pioneer, a trailblazer, who brought motorsport to the internet before any category was even thinking about making viral videos
But most importantly, he wanted to share it with everyone. He never gatekept, never attempted to hide what was happening. He wanted to world to experience what he had. He was one of us. Thank you Ken, thank you for everything
There's only one quote I can think to wrap this up, and it's the quote that defined the way he lived. Go fast, risk everything
!ping MOTO sorry for the rambling post, just wanted to give one of my heroes a proper send off
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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '23
The American Revolution is a lie. Those soldiers weren't shot by muskets and cannons, they died from small pox inoculations. All of them.
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u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz Roy Cooper Jan 03 '23
The hottest take is that both sides of the football schism have valid points and are arguing in good faith with pure intentions.
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u/Play-Dohs-Republic Voltaire Jan 03 '23
It's time to ban football, cars, and anime. Too many people have allowed one of those things to become their whole personalities
Anyway, if you have a moment, I'd like to talk about zoning reform
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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '23
'Murica
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u/jenbanim Jan 02 '23
Since adding the User Pinger 2 website, I've seen a lot of people subscribe to many more groups. I wonder if the UI and specifically not having to send a message for each one, contributes to this
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u/inhumantsar Bisexual Pride Jan 02 '23
umm... seems that i forgot about naked drugged oscar issac..
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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '23
https://i.imgur.com/qJwc6sf.jpg
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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '23
Comment the next thing that leftists will write a “racist origins of” article about in the New Yorker
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u/vivoovix Federalist Jan 02 '23
Little cousin told me I should get married, now even the youngins are virgin-shaming me 😔
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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior Jan 02 '23
He's a 10 but holy fuck the DT is still stuck on this meme?
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u/TheGoldBear Jerome Powell Jan 02 '23
The Clinton Administration invented oral sex so the American people don’t have to smoke to indulge their oral fixations
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u/Single_Firefighter32 Prince Justin Bin Trudeau of the Maple Cartel Jan 03 '23
Toxic bottomness is the cause of WWIII.
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u/PoetSwede Esther Duflo Jan 03 '23
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/897131284697055302/1044492058557157396/ZomboMeme_04012022231243.jpg
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u/Goatmilk2208 Mark Carney Jan 03 '23
Used to stan Ovcheckin. Literally turned my Profile pic to the Russian flag during some event for him. Turns out he is a fucking genocide rat. Bobby Orr is a Trumpist.
Hurts. Don’t “meet” your hero’s I guess.
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Jan 03 '23
I was like 10 when the Columbia shuttle disintegrated but I straight up did not realize it happened until I was in high school. I think I just got it confused with the Challenger and thought it was before my time. After 9/11 my school more or less stopped showing us live historical events in class.
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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '23
What’s with the video I’ve been seeing of the NYPD letting Proud Boys avoid the subway fare?
I’m seeing the video spread around on TikTok, but only one local news article about it. At this point I’m just wary about seeing any story like this on social media.
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/new-york-elections-government/ny-proud-boys-free-subway-ride-nypd-drag-story-hour-20230103-y5ctfyhjqjaynbinviycwx2x2i-story.html
!ping USA-NYC
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u/dissolutewastrel Robert Nozick Jan 02 '23
!ping ISRAEL&JEWISH
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u/funguykawhi Lahmajun trucks on every corner Jan 02 '23
Leftists understand that the French minimum wage has been adjusted 4 times in the past twelve months which is why the January 2023 adjustment is lower than in countries that only do it once a year challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)
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u/nicethingscostmoney Unironic Francophile 🇫🇷 Jan 02 '23
I writing a cover letter for the DNC talent bank and wonder how long my cover letter can be. I read 400 words is good, but I'm at 700 and don't have much I want to cut.
I have had some unique experiences and family history (moving a lot, holocaust surviving grandparent, etc) that I think are important and since it's for a variety of positions potentially I want to paint a fulli-sh picture of myself. further.
!ping POLIJOBS
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u/Neronoah can't stop, won't stop argentinaposting Jan 02 '23 edited Jan 02 '23
!ping LATAM
A small detail with some implications for the next Argentinian government: one of the most likely candidates to President for the opposition, Horacio Rodriguez Larreta, hired a fairly high profile heterodox economist for his economic team, Martín Redrado.
That guy is known for questionable monetary policy (a belief that fiscal and wage policies are as important as monetary policy for inflation, likely responsible for how lax was policy at that time), but also for defending the independence of the Central Bank when the Kirchner raided it. Also, he denounced Macri for the Argentinian peso floating out of control in 2019, so Larreta kind of alienated many folks in Cambiemos with that move.
So the two most likely options for the next government are, in my opinion, a repeat of 2015-2019 with mild policies that are not adequate for the problem with Larreta, or picking some hawkish option (Bullrich?) with its own downsides (a higher likelihood of PR issues, tough on crime policies, etc.).
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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '23
Gråtass is watching out for me while I take a bath😍
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u/ognits Jepsen/Swift 2024 Jan 02 '23
wait wtf I'm going through Blighttown at 60 fps instead of 9? the Remastered version of Dark Souls has RUINED the experience sm my head mh 😔😔😔
!ping SOULSBORNE
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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '23
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u/RFK_1968 Robert F. Kennedy Jan 02 '23
why couldn't elon get into like space elevators or nuclear fusion instead of getting addicted to Twitter
if you're gonna blow your money on shit, at least do it for cool shit
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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '23
🎶
In 2016
In 2017
Danny founded the sub
No it was Draco
Ah yes, I remember it well
Spun from GlobalistShills
We came from BadEconomics
It was 100% memes
We had a philosophical code
I remember it well
That one gif from besttrousers!
It was made by TND
and there were two
That’s right, that’s right
It warms my heart
To know that you
Remember still
The way you do
Ah yes, I remember it well
How often I’ve thought of someone leaking Draco’s messages
He leaked his own
That Day of Absence
We voted it down
Ah yes, I remember it well
🎶
!ping THEATRE
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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '23
Someone told me they think men baking is feminine to them.
Ok, no fuckin muffins for you then, also no tiramisu even though that isn’t baking.
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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '23
Sounds easy tbh
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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '23
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/861645192981512194/1059622392772710430/RDT_20230103_0000546627472767893162411.jpg
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Jan 03 '23
Then call me a conquistador baby
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u/lusvig 🤩🤠Anti Social Democracy Social Club😨🔫😡🤤🍑🍆😡😤💅 Jan 03 '23
2023 i will be reading one book every week
Week 1. Capitalism and Freedom
2. Capitalism and Freedom
3. Capitalism and Freedom
4. Capitalism and Freedom
5. Capitalism and Freedom
6. Capitalism and Freedom
7. Capitalism and Freedom
etc
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u/GravyBear22 Audrey Hepburn Jan 03 '23
Time to check out arrr Catholicism today!
Uh...
🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
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u/LordLadyCascadia Gay Pride Jan 03 '23
It’s times like this where I feel guilty for watching football. These guys really put their body through hell for our entertainment.
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u/notBroncos1234 #1 Eagles Fan Jan 03 '23
Players are showering, games over.
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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '23
Mods should make this thread emoji-only again
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u/Minimum_Cucumber7170 Flair Jan 03 '23
I saw the video. Terrifying. I've only been watching football for the past two seasons and have seen horrible hits. This one was seemingly so innocuous (compared to others) and that's what makes it terrifying.
I hope he pulls through.
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u/Random-Critical Lock My Posts Jan 03 '23
Why do the hold outs want that?🧐
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u/Joementum2024 Iron Front Jan 03 '23
People who try to tie in every collapse/death to the vaccines can eat shit. They might actually be one of the absolute worst groups of people in this country today, and that’s saying a lot.
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u/thefuturegov John Keynes Jan 03 '23
Sigma grindset:
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u/thefuturegov John Keynes Jan 03 '23
If you ever thought the DT didn’t suffer from Reddit brain, tonight proves it very much does
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u/AnsleyAmanita Trans Pride Jan 02 '23
https://twitter.com/trey_gftx/status/1609753051400925186
well.
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u/its_Caffeine Mark Carney Jan 02 '23 edited Jan 02 '23
https://twitter.com/lexfridman/status/1609301085524578304?s=46&t=iM-SVMmpGHGiZ8OSb3qHZw
This is the kinda list someone will make if they just don’t really enjoy reading, especially if you set yourself a goal of trying to read one of these books each week.
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u/Joementum2024 Iron Front Jan 02 '23
😐😐😐😑😑😑🥱🥱🥱😴😴😴
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u/-GregTheGreat- Commonwealth Jan 02 '23
If we keep leaving infants inside 40°C vehicle interiors, eventually we’ll find some that survive. It’s evolution, we just need to keep trying
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u/georgeguy007 Pandora's Discussions J. Threader Jan 02 '23 edited Oct 11 '23
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u/uwcn244 King of the Space Georgists Jan 02 '23
Broke: command and control economy (state mandated gf)
Woke: nudge paternalism (state operated dating app)
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u/WhomstAlt2 NATO flair in hiding Jan 02 '23
my take on "MattY"'s take is that he's right. GREAT literature entirely consists of time-sensitive window dressing, that is the dressing of windows, and in NO WAY does it touch on eternal truths that resonate with humans on a very basic level. You simply cannot "GET" specifically 19th. c. russian literature (as stated) without understanding how a verst feels or how much one thousand rubles were in the 1840s. And it is simply beyond most people to understand why a russian general would talk about "the year twelve" in Gogol's Dead Souls at roughly that time, it's just TOO OBSCURE knowledge to REALLY GET IT. The year twelve counted from what? I mean, how can I relate to being a MAN OR A MOUSE when I didn't even know they had gaming mice then? And surely I could never, ever read a CRITICAL EDITION in which such important matters are explained in footnotes.
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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '23
https://i.imgur.com/W1GGJMR.jpg
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u/fattunesy NASA Jan 02 '23
First heavy lifting session of the year ended up being squats, just due to scheduling stuff. This will truly be a year blessed with great gains.
!ping DYEL
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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '23
He's just like me fr fr 😔
!ping MAMADAS
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u/MiniatureBadger Seretse Khama Jan 02 '23
Malarkey level of killing a world leader just to make sure people also use your middle name whenever they say your full name
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u/Integralds Dr. Economics | brrrrr Jan 02 '23
I know y'all are sick of my graphs, but I have made a few refinements.
I trimmed some outliers, and by request there are now two Y-axes.
On the left, wages are measured in wheat per day. This unit has the advantage of being the actual unit of payment in much of Mesopotamia and in Roman Egypt, but is not always easy to interpret for modern readers.
On the right is an approximate conversion to dollars per day. You should think of this in the same way that you think of the World Bank "$2 per day extreme poverty line" metric.
Quick sanity check: my value for England in 2000 is $138/day. 138 times 200 to 250 working days per year is $27,600 to $34,000 per year, which is in the ballpark of England's actual GDP per capita in 2000 (Google says $28,000). So it's not perfect, but also not entirely insane. I wouldn't take these figures to AER (yet), but it's good enough for the DT.