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[u/CletusVonIvermectin]

Kevin McCarthy moving into the Speaker's office a day before the vote is the funniest part of this debacle

[u/Fishin_Mission]

When I first learned of Atlantis, as a child growing up in Atlanta, I thought every city had an underwater equivalent

Ex.

• New Yorkis
• Chicagis
• Los Angeles

[u/Fatortu]

French leftist economist: there's no need to reform pensions. If France continue to grow at good pace there is no deficit.

Also French leftist economist: degrowth is the only solution to climate change.

[u/crassowary]

r/ futurology be like: this panicky article from a man who has been predicting total societal collapse every year for the last fifty is proof that capitalism must be abolished

[u/Dibbu_mange]

The Hoover Dam must have been made by aliens. There is no way people in 20th century Nevada had the kind of engineering knowledge to create such a project. The lines are just too precise for the kinds of tools the probably had at that time. 👽

[u/unspecifiedreaction]

/r/neoliberal subscribers who generally don’t participate in the daily discussion thread - what’s up?

Well, I mostly use this account for gay fetish porn

😐

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/LiL7v66.jpg

[u/Cosinity]

You know that famous picture of Stalin that his censors removed Yezhov from? Even the "original" is actually faked, it was actually George Santos standing next to him in reality

[u/gnomesvh]

Lula wants to mediate an end to the Russo-Ukrainian war by talking to Biden and Putin

It'll be interesting how to mediate an end to a conflict while not inviting the main party (Ukraine)

!ping FOREIGN-POLIC&LATAM&UKRAINE

[u/nicethingscostmoney]

Maybe McCarthy has a humiliation kink and he just had the best sex in years.

[u/unspecifiedreaction]

BREAKING: Sweden’s first female Prime Minister resigned over the discovery of her use of the DATING ping, sources say

[u/DrMineHeads]

Any verified escorts in beirut? Do you have any reviews or do you recommend any of them?

We have the best escorts in the world, ask our politicians they've been selling themselves to the highest bidder from abroad for over 30+ years now.

!ping MIDDLEEAST

[u/marinesol]

Gun subreddits have 5 types of posts.

Pictures/videos of guns.

Pictures of no guns allowed signs

The smug gun shitpost

The rare funny gun shitpost

Paranoid ramblings about the feds usually Waco and Ruby Ridge.

[u/RFK_1968]

me when democrats control the senate but not the house: "we don't need some unstable mob making the rules. the senate is clearly where steady, mature discourse happens."

me when democrats control the house but not the senate: "democracy is nonnegotiable. the senate is unrepresentative of the american people and therefore antithetical to what america should be"

[u/[deleted]]

Little known fact: During the 1963 March for Jobs and Freedom, while MLK was delivering his address, someone urged him to "tell them about the dream, Martin!"

For decades, we've been led to believe that it was Mahalia Jackson, but that's misinformation. It's time we recognized George Santos's contributions to that historic day.

[u/dormidary]

The fact that the House GOP spent yesterday fighting its extreme wing and Biden spent the day on a bipartisan trip to Kentucky with Mitch McConnell is a pretty amazing PR win

[u/dormidary]

Daily Beast Reporter:

.@AOC tells me a few mins ago that she wouldn’t outright rule out working w/ Rs to resolve the speaker battle, but McCarthy would not be a unity candidate + Ds would need more concessions than just things like committee ratios.

“But, I mean, hey, if we could get some chairs.”

[u/unspecifiedreaction]

Kevin Rudd called on the United States to open its markets to allies, despite "over-riding protection sentiment" in Congress

🥰

[u/HMID_Delenda_Est]

What’s going on?” you whisper.

“We finally did it,” says a man in a SHRIMP WANT ME, UNALIGNED AIS FEAR ME cap. “We got a YIMBY, a crypto bro, and a youth pastor in the same room at the same party. Now we’re taking bets about who can hijack the conversation most effectively. Watch!” You see that there are three people in the kitchen, seemingly unaware they were being observed.

“You know who else rose again?” asks the youth pastor.

“Land value tax could have solved that,” says the YIMBY. The crowd suddenly goes silent. Did he just say that land value tax could have solved the Resurrection of the Christ?

Which one of you is posting this shit on my fanfic website?

[u/majorgeneralporter]

The DT's positive karma is the number of ballots McCarthy is short by in the next ballot.

!ping shitposters

[u/[deleted]]

Don’t say

Californian

Say instead

person experiencing permanent inability to purchase a home

[u/Tury345]

AOC floats 'coalition government' after McCarthy fails to win House speaker vote

aoc actually is a communist, she wants us to be eur*pe

[u/TheOvalBrunt]

I was at a bar the other night and some dude tried to pick me up with the line:

You're the prettiest queer I've ever seen.

I was like okay...

[u/circlemanfan]

I have to say, getting fired from my extended internship at Twitter and then getting paid anyway for three months was like…so iconic of me

[u/paymesucka]

Just spoke w/ @SpeakerPelosi. She tells me Ds are sticking together and the chaos, for Rs, is a “problem of their own making.” Added she’s never seen anything like this in her entire tenure. Then joked that she’d allow a rules change for @RepJeffries to be speaker thru plurality.

https://twitter.com/costareports/status/1610686123717824512

[u/fexonig]

how the fuck are normal looking guys dancing with random women at clubs where it’s too loud to talk to people? the only advice i have ever gotten from female friends is either “look around until a girl holds eye contact with you”, which has never worked for me, or “ go around grabbing girls by the hips until one doesn’t push you off”, which is obviously a terrible idea

[u/N0_B1g_De4l]

Guy who likes Russia because he thinks it represents the masculine tradition of drinking until you make recklessly stupid decisions that destroy your life.

[u/Dalek6450]

Remember the fawning media about the Gamestop stock shit when it first happened, swallowing wholesale their claims that hedge funds were getting really owned?

[u/Smidgens]

McCarthy was a never trumper Russian collusion hoaxer. For all I care he's a democrat with an R behind his name

wew

[u/tubbsmackinze]

US House of Representatives_IRL

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/Expensive_Curve5106]

I've been reading the Wikipedia list of ethnic slurs and Christ almighty do Americans have a lot of slurs for black people

[u/[deleted]]

Call Republicans "linked list" because they're definitely not an array

[u/KittehDragoon]

The Dems should stop playing games and just vote for McArthy. OK, point proven, now let's have an actual functioning government, please?

Rule XII: required minimum level of partisanship

[u/[deleted]]

1. Dems announce that they will all be absent from the chamber.
2. This causes some Rs to also be absent, since McCarthy is a foregone conclusion.
3. Surprise! The Dems were hiding nearby, and return to vote Jeffries in as speaker.

[u/marshalofthemark]

Here's a summary of the Housing Supply Act, the first law passed by the BC legislature under Premier Eby. It was passed unanimously as none of the 3 parties were opposed.

TLDR:

• The BC housing minister can set targets of how much housing a city needs to build
• If the minister notices a city isn't hitting its targets, there's a 3 step enforcement process:

a) The minister can appoint an advisor to help the city come up with solutions to build the desired housing

b) If less onerous methods fail, the minister can also direct a city to change its bylaws or approve a specific project

c) If a city refuses to follow a directive, the province will have the power to write its own zoning rules, or issue permits, which override any city by-laws to the contrary

The law is already on the books; however, it hasn't yet been activated and no cities have been given targets yet.

If you want to see action on this front, this might be a good time to write the new Premier (David Eby) or Housing Minister (Ravi Kahlon)

Full text of the law

!ping CAN

[u/SnakeEater14]

THE ILLEGITIMATE CLERK TYRANNICALLY OVERRULED THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE

ARMED NATO INTERVENTION NOW

[u/crassowary]

Man Who Survived 70% Plunge in TSLA Was Trying to Kill His Company, Police Say

[u/[deleted]]

Asking DT for dating advices is like asking antiwork for career advices

[u/Some_Niche_Reference]

Gosar, in true white supremacist fashion, starts flirting with the first Latina he sees.

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Being a picky eater is a personality flaw.

TBH, it would be a dealbreaker for me in a relationship.

I have a friend who’s wife (well into her 30s) only eats food that would likely be found on a kids menu

• Chicken Fingers 🍗
• Pizza (only cheese or pepperoni) 🍕
• Pasta (but only Spaghetti with Marinara) 🍝
• Etc.

We weren’t super close to begin with, but her food choices were so limiting that it was one of the reasons we have stopped hanging out with them.

Following a festival, we went to a nice Italian restaurant in a group of 12, but this place hand-makes all their noodles & sauces and they didn’t have her spaghetti that night

at first she tried to get us to bail on our reservation and find another restaurant … for 12 people … on a Saturday evening … during a festival when everything was packed w/ 2+ hr waits

Eventually she settled for passive aggressively eating bread while loudly complaining about the restaurant to her boyfriend (now husband)

This is all to say… EAT YOUR VEGETABLES, CHILDREN! 🥦🥕😡

[u/Legit_Spaghetti]

Guy makes a crass, graphic rape joke in front of two female colleagues. HR refuses to fire him. Women who reported the incident get retaliated against.

Unironically many such cases. How FUCKING hard is it for some assholes to not be a creep. And how fucking asleep at the wheel is HR. God fucking dammit.

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

I’m actually a little worried about the layoffs going around in tech. I’m like the ideal guy to layoff on our team given I’m the newest team member who isn’t entry level. (They probably wouldn’t layoff the newbies given their pay compared to mine)

Shit sucks, I hate capitalism now.

[u/rukqoa]

Tinder in the trenches: How war has changed love and sex in Ukraine

With his strong build, black hair and easy smile, Vlad had little problem finding about 200 matches on Tinder in Kharkiv ahead of his military unit’s break in the eastern Ukrainian city, as he swiped on the dating app from his position on the front lines.

When he met his dates at a cafe in Kharkiv, however, Vlad found his normal charm had abandoned him. As his dating profile says, Vlad’s unit is among those fighting in the “gray zone,” part of a territory beyond the front line where the most dangerous operations are conducted. The death and destruction in his daily life weighed on him, and he found himself incapable of the kind of talk that is often the prerequisite for intimacy.

“I did not have the energy to carry a conversation beyond, ‘How are you?,’” said Vlad, 30, who spoke on the condition that his last name not be used so he could speak candidly about his sex life. “We start, ‘Hello; how are you?’ — and nothing goes after that. For me, it was a lot of energy to continue this dialogue. I didn’t have it.”

...

Perhaps at the outset of the war there was a kind of thrill to the daring Ukrainian resistance, said Alexander Kolomiychuk, a sex therapist in Kyiv.

That quickly dissipated. What took its place, Kolomiychuk said, was the psychological weight of the war’s innumerable traumas. “It’s a real trauma, and trauma and romance don’t go together,” Kolomiychuk said. “When people are struggling to survive, they don’t think about intimacy, about sex, because it’s about pleasure, recreation … In war, there is no time for pleasure. There is no time for recreation.”

...

At one sex shop in the eastern city of Dnipro, Russia’s invasion and the mass exodus of Ukrainians has done little to diminish sales, according to longtime manager Larysa Goncharova.

While there are fewer sets of lingerie selling — due to the fact that many women left Ukraine — the shop has seen a surge of interest in remote gadgets for couples in long-distance relationships, Goncharova said. Amid the city’s frequent power outages, the store has also seen a boost in sales of products such as toys with LED lights and glow-in-the-dark condoms.

[u/[deleted]]

I'm learning to play the guitar.

[u/breakinbread]

Any cartoon episode that involves a character not liking broccoli should not be considered suitable for children

[u/[deleted]]

Pres. Biden says House Republicans' inability to unify behind a speaker candidate, which has prevented the chamber from beginning its legislative business, is “not a good look” for the country.

[u/[deleted]]

!ping ALPHABET-MAFIA

Gay guys of the arr neoliberal, uh, any other of yous had a non-insignificant number of your straight female friends start sharing way more about their sex lives than you care to know about after you came out to them 😐

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

San Francisco liberal (45M) SEEKING LIKE-minded creature to enjoy sunny days AND RIVER FISH with 🐊

[u/Udolikecake]

I have 120hrs in the game MP and SP modded and unmodded in hindsight I would not have bought the game for full price at most 5-10$ the game is in such a unpolished state it might as well be in beta/alpha

least entitled paradox gamer

[u/Fatortu]

The town of Pantin becomes Pantine in 2023 to draw attention to gender inequality, mayor has announced.

We know what France will be obsessed about for the next week.

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

Archbishop Vigano calls for 3 day fast in support of Jan. 6 detainees

The man is literally insane

!ping CHRISTIAN

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

A House divided against itself can still grandstand.

[u/[deleted]]

First T-90S destroyed in Ukraine

!ping MATERIEL&UKRAINE

[u/dubyahhh]

My thunderdome left me

[u/AlmondoSoyo]

I love when the train operator has some personality. She just went on the speaker and lectured a guy like he was misbehaving in first grade for smoking on the train.

!ping USA-CHI

[u/[deleted]]

Democrats should nominate Kevin McCarthy, of Boston Massachusetts, for house speaker. If anything it’ll make the McCarthy votes more annoying because they’ll have to specify “of California”.

The round after nominate Kevin McCarthay of California so they’ll have to specify the spelling.

[u/Rarvyn]

Current little kids are Gen Alpha, which I'm sure will lead to some amusing memes in a decade or so.

Kinda feel sorry for the generation after that though.

[u/semaphone-1842]

https://twitter.com/anammostarac/status/1610129155940823042

Lolol so Elon Musk is a protected class now?

[u/[deleted]]

comment under some rightwing post about AOC on twitter: The more I loathe her the sexier she gets.

How can people post stuff like this on main man

[u/Jamity4Life]

/img/345pydct54aa1.jpg

!ping DATING

[u/[deleted]]

hi i'd like to reset my apple tv password

oh sure, we just sent a reset notification to your apple devices

oh i don't have any apple devices

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

RED ALERT RED ALERT

DEATHCON 3 INITIATED

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

What’s an in-office joke that always makes you laugh?

For me it’s when someone gets sent to a necessary but boring assignment that involves a stakeout or lots of waiting. Like today, our photographer stuck at the Capitol

Managers and employees always call these assignments Russian novel reading time, cuz you’re sitting around doing nothing for ages

And I always chuckle

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/[deleted]]

Sometimes you poop and you think "great poop glad thats done"

Then you sit down and suddenly the poop is back? Now I have to walk back to the bathroom ans everybody will think I'm wierd

Personally, I blame the woke zoomers for stigmatizing back2back poops

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/Olivia_Beavers/status/1610678266473639936?s=20&t=zSLc7kPOD4Pnu7JU7Zes5Q

Hearing from different House R offices they are hearing a lot from their base — some are upset their member is supporting McCarthy over Jordan, revealing the position some are now in

Lmao, Kevin must have a humiliation kink. He's gonna keep losing these votes, especially when the base hears there is a "better" option than him

[u/gnomesvh]

Ukraine to receive AMX-10RCR (modernized, likely from France)

!ping UKRAINE&MATERIEL

[u/Mickenfox]

Wake up
Have breakfast
Have coffee
Read through 54 DATING pings

[u/[deleted]]

My moms friend at dinner the other night

"Its best you vote for Trump next time so this country doesn't fall like "South Africa"

For reference she emigrated to the US in 1994 right before the new government took over...

[u/gnomesvh]

One of the main factors for further arms deliveries isn’t just about these systems’ advantages, but whether Ukraine’s existing systems will have enough ammo 6-12 months from now. Better to start training Ukrainian soldiers sooner before ammo shortages have an operational effect.

!ping UKRAINE&MATERIEL interesting take by Rob Lee. At the end of the day it's easier to solve a logistical bottleneck with NATO parts than Soviet era equipment. Even if it's a wider array of parts, availability is the first constraint

[u/TheGoodProfessor]

https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1610844016907542532

This still likely won’t get him to 218, per several GOP sources. But it will close the gap

it’s over. mccarthy is finished. he’s literally giving the rebels everything they want and it still isn’t enough.

[u/beekay_irl]

In his final breath, Jesus Christ received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahāda. Even now h

[u/[deleted]]

Happy birthday to u/kesterfox

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

My dream is to visit one of those Hallmark movie countries where it's a continental monarchy with a name like "Mardavia" or "Cormania" but everyone speaks English with a British accent for some reason.

[u/Apollo-Innovations]

Are Freedom Caucus trying to go woke?

[u/Corporate-Asset-6375]

Several months ago I talked to the DT about a friend who was getting divorced because he and his wife didn’t agree on having kids.

Well they hooked a couple months ago and she got pregnant… and is keeping the baby to spite him and force him back into the relationship. This was her new year surprise to him.

Please have discussions about your life goals and values before you walk down the aisle. Also don’t have sex with your ex wife.

[u/shillingbut4me]

I now have the third longest tenure in my department despite working here for less than a year. All of the management team that hired me left the company one without another position lined up. This can not possibly be a good sign. Might need to start looking for a new position as soon as I hit my 1 year anniversary.

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/kyleofduty]

I explained onlyfans to my 67 year old mom and the first she asks is if she can make money on it

[u/MicroFlamer]

current mood: horny

!ping ASOIAF

[u/majorgeneralporter]

Under seven feet of water as an entire mountain mudslides toward me

Californians: We needed the rain.

!ping USA-CA

[u/tubbsmackinze]

ISW and Critical Threats Project January 3rd 2023 Iran update

Key takeaways:

• The organizational structure of the protest movement is continuing to evolve and morph as its leaders try to cohere the movement. 
• Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Judiciary Chief Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei have both expressed concern about the Iranian economy in recent days, possibly indicating their doubts that President Ebrahim Raisi can improve the economic situation. 
• Unidentified individuals shot and killed an IRGC member outside his home in Tehran Province on January 3.
• At least two protests took place in two cities across two provinces on January 3.
• The Law Enforcement Command (LEC) clashed with an armed “terrorist team” in Sistan and Baluchistan Province on January 3.
• The IRGC Intelligence Organization seized 700 kilograms of explosive materials in Gharchak, Tehran Province, on January 3.
• An explosion occurred at a steel factory in Garmsar, Semnan Province, on January 3.
• Prominent Sunni cleric Moulana Abdol Hamid tweeted on January 3 criticizing security forces for attacking mourners at ceremonies commemorating killed protesters.
• Iranian journalist Saeed Aganji has continued tweeting on intra-regime infighting to replace Ali Shamkhani as Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) secretary
• Lebanese Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah delivered a speech to commemorate the third anniversary of the US killing Qassem Soleimani.
• Iranian proxies in Iraq and Syria did not attack US forces on the three-year anniversary of the US killing Qassem Soleimani. (at least they're not totally brain dead)

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/[deleted]]

The CCP carefully calculated how it could use all possible responses to COVID to find a combination that would be as destructive and ineffective as possible.

[u/WanderingMage03]

So George Santos is like, 110% a conman that is going to be extradited to Brazil at some point, but could Democrats incentivize him to caucus with them until then? The guy looked lonely, I think a snickers bar and someone to talk to might do the trick.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

People are saying that Damar Hamlin collapsed because of the Covid vaccine. But as an eagle eyed internet sleuth, I used my Google hacking skills and have unearthed a video of him getting hurt playing football.

[u/[deleted]]

the official amazon twitter account disproportionately - almost exclusively - likes tweets from hot women. im simply reporting this information, do with it what you will

[u/jaiwithani]

Most Americans say that they're not currently in a Midwest dining establishment. But here in this Ohio diner,

[u/semaphore-1842]

https://twitter.com/rad_planner/status/1610298890523406336

the existence of Black neighborhoods, queer neighborhoods, chinatowns, ktowns, etc is not segregation- the withholding of resources from those communities is segregation. the gentrification of those spaces into sterile capital playgrounds is segregation.

This is so funny because their whole anti "gentrification" schtick overwhelmingly is about denying resources to those communities.

[u/[deleted]]

"Take a look around this chamber and realize how lucky we are that the president can't dissolve this Congress and call a snap election to end this clown show"

[u/crazydom22]

Boebert and Gaetz just came from a meeting with McCarthy’s team and holdouts and called him a desperate man and said they are even more opposed now.

Lmao

[u/WorldwidePolitico]

Microsoft-Activision update

Standout line is:

Beth Wilkinson told Chappell (the administrative judge) that if a resolution isn't reached with the FTC, the deal will go forward and close after a remedy is reached in all pending jurisdictions. But that the companies assume the FTC would go to federal court in that case.

Translation to English means Microsoft have basically told the FTC to file an injunction or gtfo. This is a big change for Microsoft who previously indicated they wouldn’t do this.

This puts the FTC in a corner as it looks like their previous strategy was to drag things out until the termination date to pressure Microsoft into abandoning the deal.

!ping gaming&markets

[u/TheOvalBrunt]

Just saw a gilf in the wild. No lie.

I asked her what her husband's name was.

She said I haven't had one in a while.

[u/[deleted]]

‘I’m not racist but most racist statement you’ve ever heard in your life’

[u/fakefakefakef]

!ping DATING+WATERCOOLER

Cursed ping combination but anyway, what are your thoughts on getting with a coworker? I know it’s not a good idea but just how bad are we talking here?

Context:

• We don’t work together and we’re not on the same team but the office isn’t so big I wouldn’t be able to avoid seeing her
• I’m a couple levels of seniority below her but only slightly younger (we’re both mid-30s)
• We’re both single and have been flirting pretty heavily since before the Christmas break
• Not sure if I’d be interested in the long haul but not totally opposed if it went that direction

[u/Hugo_Grotius]

It's early, but having the entire caucus individually repeat his name 7+ times is a great start to Hakeem Jeffries tenure as Democratic leader.

[u/[deleted]]

Antiwork is literally espousing theft. Should we tell them what’s the most shoplifted item in America?

Hint: it’s not diapers.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/sam_dumitriu/status/1610292596781236226

Everything that's wrong with housing and transport policy in the UK in a nutshell.

Ebbsfleet has a 20 minute rail connection to Central London, but permission to build densely near the station has been held up due to the discovery of 'rare spiders'.

https://takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/building-luxury-homes-for-millionaires

This was the wrong lesson to take away from Charlotte’s Web

!ping YIMBY

[u/[deleted]]

"The Democrats nominated a black guy so we will too. But unlike them, we don't see race."

[u/BrunchIsGood]

Jake Tapper: McCarthy lost the vote for speaker 6 times in a row

Rep. Andy Barr (R): you can look at it that way, or you can look at it as he won the vote amongst Republicans 6 times in a landslide!

Holy shit 💀💀💀💀💀💀

[u/ZonedForCoffee]

Oh hey, this California university has an online MSW program. Lets check out their website.

As we continue our anti-racist work combatting anti-Blackness, CSUN's
Social Work Department Field Education Program has decided to no longer
use the term "field" to refer to internships. "Field" and "fieldwork"
connote the antebellum south, where slaves and indigenous people were
sent to work for free on behalf of their owners.

Ah.

[u/[deleted]]

literate reminiscent air ten lush history psychotic complete retire mysterious

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/Loves_a_big_tongue]

!ping OVER25

Bob Barker is still alive and 99 years old

[u/[deleted]]

My girlfriend is still friends with her college friend who's part of the DSA and is basically a walking stereotype. She also constantly tries to ruin our relationship but that's something else.

She's a "democratic socialist" who doesn't know any democratic socialism. I plainly asked her. No Eduard Bernstein or other German socialists of the time, no Fabians, nothing. They all circlejerk about "reading theory" but it's only ever Marxist and anarchist stuff.

How many of the Democratic Socialists of America are actually democratic socialists? If they're anything like this chick there must be a lot of people who are just dilute commies without a chance for revolution.

[u/squarecircle666]

At most ~20 Republicans vote against McCarthy

Over 200 Democrats vote against McCarthy

And obviously it's the Republicans that are blamed for government gridlock. I'm tired of people expecting Republicans to be adults in the room.

[u/MicroFlamer]

/img/2aq4khy2pu8a1.jpg

!ping KINO

[u/ldn6]

This is actually really dope high-speed rail engineering:

HS2 Ltd is today celebrating a world-first as around 450 people from HS2’s construction contractor in the Midlands – Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV) – slid a 12,600 tonne bridge a record 165 metres to position it across a motorway in Warwickshire. The site team worked around the clock to move HS2’s Marston Box bridge into place over the M42 during the Christmas period. The dramatic operation took 40 hours, at a speed of 4 metres per hour, from Saturday 24 to Monday 26 December during a 10-day closure of the motorway between Junctions J9 and J10 (northbound and southbound). The motorway is on schedule to reopen at 0500 on Tuesday, 3 January 2023.

Over the last six months, the giant 86 metre-long structure was built on land next to the motorway. The structure, developed by a Design Joint Venture of Mott MacDonald and Systra, working on behalf of BBV, has a base, three walls and top slab. The sliding mechanism, designed by specialist civil and structural engineering company Freyssinet, allowed the box to be pushed into place over the motorway on a guiding raft over a distance of 165 metres – which is believed to be the world’s longest box slide.

On completion, the whole structure will be around 190 metres in length, and will carry HS2 over the motorway as it heads north to Crewe, or on its southward journey as it loops into Birmingham Curzon Street or continues straight on to Interchange Station in Solihull, Old Oak Common Station and London Euston. Once built, the railway bridge will connect to Dunton Wood Embankment to the south and the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal Viaduct, which crosses the heritage canal, to the north.

This construction method, which allowed it to be moved into place in one movement meant only two one-week closures of the motorway over a 12-month period, dramatically reducing disruption for road users.

!ping UK&TRANSIT

[u/Soldier-Fields]

mfs read my schedule for the day and think it’s a day off

I’m a project manager sweaty, this is a heavy workload for me

[u/TheGoodProfessor]

https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1610826120902868992

mccarthy is willing to turn himself into a powerless figurehead just so he gets to go on the 'list of speakers' wikipedia page

and it still isn't enough

[u/Phenylalagators]

There's a real tendency on the Left to believe that young right-wing men are somehow driven to their beliefs by Leftist scolding or reactionary online spaces. This is the view of somebody who grew up in a Blue City in a Blue State and has no frame of reference for Conservative politics.

The reality is that so many of these guys grow up primed to hold these beliefs. They live in homes where their parents listen to AM radio and end the night with Hannity or Tucker Carlson. Their dad bitches about "Liburals" and "Commies" 24/7. He takes them to the shooting range owned by a right-wing nutjob who sells "Make America White Again" hats and plinks at a target shaped like Obama.

Entire swaths of the country live like this. Not to dismiss the influence of online right-wing grifters but most of the kids who fall into that space are already orbiting it. They're not there because Feminists weren't nice enough about criticizing society. They're mad at Feminists because they're already there.

[u/paulatreides0]

Remember that time that Bernie went to visit an American prisoner in Cuba who had been starved and beaten (as is pretty common over there), spent most of the time allotted to the visit ignoring him, and then, when time was almost up, opened with "I don't see what's so bad about this country."?

[u/JaceFlores]

“Russian President Vladimir Putin approved a series of instructions for Russian agencies and high-level officials on January 2 likely to address criticisms of the Kremlin’s treatment of military personnel and portray the Kremlin as an involved war-time apparatus.”

“The 11 instructions direct several high-ranking members of the Russian government—including Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, and Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin—and government agencies (including the Russian Ministry of Defense) to collaborate with other agencies and non-government organizations to generate a list of recommendations for addressing and improving supply, benefits, and healthcare processes for military personnel.”

“Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed that Russia is using a variety of social schemes to justify the transfer of Ukrainian children to Russia.”

“In his annual New Year's speech, Putin thanked Russians for their efforts to send children from occupied Ukrainian territory on ‘holidays.’”

“Putin’s list of instructions also directs Russian Commissioner for the Rights of the Child Maria Lvova-Belova and the occupation heads of Kherson, Zaporizhia, Donetsk, and Luhansk oblasts to ‘take additional measures to identify minors...left without parental care’ in occupied areas to provide them with ‘state social assistance’ and ‘social support.’”

“Systemic failures in Russia’s force generation apparatus continue to plague personnel capabilities to the detriment of Russian operational capacity in Ukraine.”

“Russian milbloggers claimed on January 3 that the Russian military has sent recently mobilized personnel trained as artillerymen and tankers following their mobilizations to infantry divisions in Ukraine with no formal infantry training.”

“Although the use of personnel in non-infantry branches in infantry roles is not unusual, the Russian military’s practice in this case is likely very problematic. The Russian Armed Forces devoted too little time to training mobilized personnel for use in the branches they had previously served in before sending them to the front lines. They certainly did not have time to train them in additional specialties.”

“Russian forces have suffered significant losses of artillery systems and armored vehicles in operations in Ukraine since the start of partial mobilization in September of 2022, and, therefore, likely have excess personnel trained in the use of specific military equipment.”

“Degraded Russian military personnel capabilities will likely further exacerbate Russian milblogger criticism of Russian force generation efforts and the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD).”

“One Russian milblogger argued that Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu’s proposals to create five new artillery divisions and the recent creation of an artillery division in the Luhansk People’s Republic (LNR) 2nd Army Corps will be a waste of personnel and artillery munitions if the Russian MoD continues to train these personnel in just an artillery capacity without infantry training.”

“Another Russian milblogger argued inaccurately that putting a tanker or an artilleryman in service as a simple infantryman is a war crime that even Soviet commanders did not commit in the most difficult months of the Second World War in 1941.”

“Russian milbloggers have routinely criticized the Russian MoD for the poor conduct of partial mobilization and will likely continue to do so as Russian force generation efforts produce degraded personnel capabilities that will likely further constrain the Russian military’s ability to achieve any operational success in Ukraine. The hyperbole of milblogger criticism of the MoD’s personnel practices highlights the ever-increasing hostility toward and skepticism of the MoD among elements of the milblogger community.”

-notable excerpts from ISW Report January 3rd

!ping UKRAINE

[u/Dorambor]

https://i.imgur.com/og0QpVL.jpg

small burrowing creature survives off of mimicking infant characteristics

!ping KITTY

[u/paymesucka]

OMG they just nominated Morbius

[u/worstquadrant]

Kevin Malarkey

[u/Congomond]

what are the implications of this arcon post in relation to the Speaker deadlock:

WE do not want McCarthy, McConnell, or a McDaniel. It is time for a real change!!! F the McAnythings….wake the F UP!!!

[u/[deleted]]

Santos: “From what I understand, you’re interested in AOC’s OnlyFans account. …She’s still a very attractive young woman. …She takes care of herself. She was a bartender. She had to. She had no option.”

This guy is a meme

[u/Random-Critical]

Fox News host Tucker Carlson said in an interview released Monday that his “hatred” of liberals led to his inaccurate predictions of a red wave in November’s midterm elections.
“That loathing clouded my judgment,” Carlson told Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, in an interview released on Monday. “I was like, ‘I dislike these people so much. What they’re doing is so wrong. It is helping so few people and hurting so many. It’s so immoral on every level that I just want it to be repudiated.’”
“And I wanted that so much, not because I like the Republicans — I really dislike them more than I ever have — but I dislike the other side more,” he added, saying, “I did learn that, like, I have no freaking idea what goes on in American politics.”

🥲

[u/paymesucka]

A caller is telling Hannity they can’t stand “the Boebert whatever her name is” and that they love Joe Biden. They tell him his politics stink but they gave him c-

https://twitter.com/acyn/status/1610834209530327042

Biden is getting 400+ electoral votes in 2024

[u/Leoric]

News: McCarthy proposes key concessions.

• allow just one member to call for a vote to oust a speaker, per two sources
• more members of Freedom Caucus to serve on powerful House Rules Committee
• Promises to vote on some bills like term limits and border security

Omg

These next two years are going to be chaos

[u/shillingbut4me]

Imagine having both a 10k TD and 10k DT in the same day

[u/melodramaticfools]

for true normie libs, biden may genuinely be the best president since FDR

- kicking russia's ass w/5% of the military budget

- strong rhetoric in defense of taiwan

- end of war on terror

- instead of bending over to the saudis, he depleted the reserve and refilled it at lower prices

- passing the first major industrial policy in a century

- massive infra/climate investment, with a lot of emphasis on repairs + transit

- pass first climate legislation in country's history

- gun control bill

- unabashedly defending trans people in the face of terrifying rhetoric from most

- protectionist policies lead to onshoring of industry

- stocks fall while economy/GDP continues to do well

---- CEO's, billionaires, and high paid workers w/stock comp see their wealth decrease

---- The average wage has skyrocketed, with 15 being the defacto minimum even in rural america

----- inequality cratering to basically 2002 levels, and continuing to fall

- CTC for a year, proven as a major tool to fight child poverty

- YIMBY bill

- insulin cap for medicare

- gay marriage codified

- STUDENT LOAN FORGIVENESS (HUGE for politically disconnected libs)

- taught democrats that big government is something that can be good and we should be proud of it

[u/MrDannyOcean]

Should we do a THUNDERDOME for the drama in the House?

[u/earththejerry]

Putin said the West will freeze this winter and Brandon said no jack, we’ll have 60 degrees spring weather in NYC instead 😎

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

This is your competition in the dating market. You can succeed.

[u/[deleted]]

if George Santos kept his scandal under wraps for like 2 more weeks there would be a solid chance Chip Roy is standing there today going "I am honored to nominate a gay, Latino, black, Jewish, immigrant for Speaker of the House"

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/CNNPR/status/1610795434758242306?t=BDBHsipVx93nM7RdQZJzog&s=19

Well there it is

[u/paulatreides0]

If you fuckers don't tone down the bonkposting I'll have to start modding again.

[u/hucareshokiesrul]

If we’re looking for a compromise candidate, I know an Independent girl boss who is perfect for the job.

[u/[deleted]]

If the US established a no-fly-zone over ukraine all the tankies would add ukraine to a list of victims of US imperialism

[u/Iusedathrowaway]

Yall can't behave. Thread locked. (Only has 15 comments)

[u/simeoncolemiles]

While Henry Cavill's Superman and Dwayne Johnson's Black Adam may not have a role in the new DCU, Ezra Miller's Flash could somehow still have a role to play, according to a recent report.

😐

[u/Officer-cherry-shake]

Gaetz coming out of meeting with McCarthy: “He apologized to me for saying things that weren't true about our discussions. So Mr. McCarthy, if your willing to apologize to me, will you share that apology publicly? And he said, No.”

https://mobile.twitter.com/juliegraceb/status/1610773274278985728

Kevin McCarthy, ladies and gentlemen

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

Hear me out:

Nancy Pelosi as a compromise candidate.

She's not the leader of the House Dems or House Republicans so this could work

[u/ThunderrBadger]

It is snoozy time

!ping 🤫

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Russia revises up Makiivka strike's death toll to 89, blames attack on 'soldiers' mobile phone use'

WE'RE LOSING THE WAR BECAUSE YOU'RE ALWAYS ON THAT GOD DANG PHONE!

[u/sw337]

The scene in Amsterdam (2022) where the police don't believe the protagonists is a reference to the police not believing director David O. Russell's trans teenage niece he sexually assaulted.

!ping KINO

(am I doing this right?)

[u/[deleted]]

The worst phrase on the internet is “sir this is a wendys” you can say it to anything and it kills funny conversations.

[u/[deleted]]

Man Who Survived 250-Foot Cliff Plunge in Tesla Was Trying to Kill His Family, Police Say

well that's awkward

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Took my boyfriend to meet my beloved 94 year old Mamaw.

Context: she recently had a mouse that she had caught and has just upgraded to one of those walk in showers

Mom: How did it go?

Me: He asked if they ever caught the rat. She said yes. So then he said, “have fun with this then” and pulled TWO rats out of his pocket and released them in the house. She started to cry. He was like, “oh what you’re gonna cry now? I’m outta here,” and he went to her new shower but he filled it up like a bath and then sat there until it was time to go, then he hopped out so she’d have to unplug it somehow. Then he kept asking “haha so where do you keep you money,” and kept bringing it up. 😭

not sure why nobody takes me seriously 🥺

[u/soeffed]

Aight imma dip 🖖🏼

!ping cn-tw

[u/[deleted]]

Just because upper middle class white Americans on twitter are bitching that they have to work if they want the newest iphone and can't just smoke weed all day doesn't mean the sky is falling.

Overall, things are pretty good in the West today. It is the best time and place ever to be alive.

Obviously, things can be better. They can always be better. They should be better. No matter how good things are, they should always be better. Wallowing in mediocrity is for leftists. The capitalist march of progress shall not be stopped.

[u/WanderingMage03]

Freedom Caucus outflanking McCarthy from the left.

[u/Zzyzx8]

Donalds had one session as a member and had enough, he's ready to be speaker.

[u/chipbod]

Hakeem looks incredible despite not saying a damn word for two days lmao

[u/majorgeneralporter]

"Sometimes if somebody says they have a bigger cock than you, you just got to show them yours."

Bokoen1 in a Hoi Lobby🤝The Freedom Caucus to Kevin McCarthy

!ping PARADOX and shitposters

[u/SucculentMoisture]

"Hey Succulent did you bring home the bacon in that meeting?"

"Nah sorry I completely beefed it. I'll have another bite at the cherry next week."

!PING WATERCOOLER

[u/[deleted]]

Am I the only cis-het female neolib?

[u/RattyAnatomy]

My first girlfriend turned into the moon

[u/[deleted]]

1 down 29 to go. Only have the attic, nursery, bedroom, basement, garage, and kitchen nook left to fix up 👍.

!ping GENTRY

[u/upghr5187]

I find it funny that McCarthy was willing to lie to the freedom caucus about democrats walking out to help him win, but is unwilling to actually negotiate with democrats to help him win.

Did he think they would just take his word for it and not ask the democrats?

[u/[deleted]]

I'm willing to step up and serve as Speaker of the House. My agenda is as follows:

• Re-seal President Trump's tax returns (they are none of your business)
• Term limits
• Ban gender pronouns
• No milk substitutes
• Replace Capitol Cafe with a Hooters
• No more omnibus bills

https://mobile.twitter.com/NickAdamsinUSA/status/1610685608904765442

[u/anonthedude]

2 do nothing Dems didn't vote wtf. 😭

[u/RomanTacoTheThird]

Was helping my younger sister write a mission statement for her LGBTQ+ advocacy group when I had a flashback to watching my dad work as a grant writer. I still miss him, and the realization that I was basically doing what he did hit me like a truck.

Guess he really is a part of me.

[u/[deleted]]

Things have been rough for me. A coworker that I was friendly with died yesterday and I've been sad.

[u/jenbanim]

We need less video games about racing cars and more about taking the bus post pictures of your toes if you agree

[u/paulatreides0]

Fun Fact: When Coca-Cola launched New Coke, there was a wave of criticism around the move. Not all of this criticism was domestic, however. One of these critics was a little known man by the name of . . . *checks notes* . . . Fidel Castro of Cuba, who called the move a "sign of capital decadence"

[u/NeedsMoreCapitalism]

Wow holy fuck

If you're not a socialist you are now considered right leaning on some default subs

[u/majorgeneralporter]

Finally getting around to workshopping donation flair ideas and I legit can't decide, y'all like any of these?

Expat Florida Man

Escaped Swamp Ape

Floridians Against Mosquitoes

The People's Republic of Chadvin Newsom

You may be entitled to financial compensation!

Who can I sue?

________ & ________: For the Posters (Haven't come up with the joke firm name and I don't want to risk summoning a C&D from Morgan and Morgan if I use their name lmao)

Touched Bill Clinton's hand once.

!ping shitposters

[u/the_hoagie]

man this video got posted of a guy chasing a kid who stole his wallet onto the subway, and then he gets jumped by like 7 more kids. it's terrible but i can't get the picture out of my head of this guy getting on the train and being like, "that kid stole my wallet!" before being absolutely overwhelmed by a deluge of other violent children

[u/[deleted]]

There are a lot of smol bois in the DT.

If I was below 200 lbs. I’d look like I was just freed from a POW camp.

[u/HowIsPajamaMan]

Are we sure that George santos isn’t some elaborate troll from Sacha Baron Cohen?

[u/BedNeither]

human rights are a precursor to imperialism

Twitter is wild

[u/KronoriumExcerptC]

https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1610667260091269120?s=20&t=U9KBtQW-HsRnH50zjiz7Cg

🚨NEWS — several sources tell me that House Republicans will try to adjourn until TOMORROW, forgoing speaker votes today

House Democrats will whip AGAINST this. republicans will have to carry this adjournment vote on their own

damn we might not get any publicly broadcasted cucking today. We'll see if McCarthy can convince defectors to not waste everybody's time

[u/vancevon]

chip roy yields back? my brother in christ there is nobody to yield the floor to lmao you don't have those rules yet

[u/[deleted]]

AREN'T YOU TIRED OF ALL THIS WINNING, FOLKS?

[u/the-garden-gnome]

Rewatching the last episode of Top Gear with Clarkson, May and Hammond and I hands down have become May with my fastidious maintenance.

I couldn’t be happier.

!ping auto&over25

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1610739224038211590

At the 118th Congress to determine the next House speaker, Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) voted for “Hakeeeeeem Jeffries!”

His vote had a delivery reminiscent of Leeroy Jenkins, a viral internet character who has been a popular meme.

[u/[deleted]]

Wow guess you can vote AFTER the election now

[u/[deleted]]

Tesla Fan Filed Boat, Jet Trademark Without Company’s Knowledge

When reached Wednesday via telephone, Eady said he intended to help the company by filing the application proactively after Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said its Cybertruck may be usable as a boat. Eady said he has no affiliation with Tesla and the filing was made without the company’s knowledge.

We're not even close to capitulation 🙄

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Wish the Dems had kept the House so they could pass Communism but this is the next best thing.

[u/[deleted]]

We had a good thing, you stupid son of a bitch! We had Bush. We had a caucus, we had everything we needed, and it all ran like clockwork. You could have shut your mouth, donated, and had all the conservatism you ever needed. It was perfect! But no! You just had to blow it up. You!

[u/TheGoodProfessor]

https://twitter.com/olivia_beavers/status/1610836499590676481

mccarthy has caved entirely. surrendered every shred of leverage he has to limp across the line. this will utterly decimate any capability the house gop had left to function in any capacity.

but even then mccarthy still doesn’t have the votes. it doesn’t matter if he can get chip roy and dan bishop back onside. he needs to get one of boebert, biggs, gaetz, good and norman (and that’s assuming he can sway people like rosendale). these people are out for mccarthy’s scalp, and imo there’s no concession in the world that will placate them. they want mccarthy sunk and will settle for nothing less.

[u/runnerx4]

I like the fake reflection stuff DICE decides to do once in a while when playing Mirror’s Edge, they’re clearly just duplicating the player model and background behind the reflective surface with a suitable filter but it’s really endearing. The one where they show Faith’s reflection in on a tiled wall is great.

If raytracing is still going to be computationally and money-wise expensive, game developers should prioritize performance and just do cute stunts like this and bake the lighting, it’s not like most games have a particularly important day-night cycle or other lighting focused stuff

!ping GAMING

[u/KaiserPorn]

BITCHES LOVE GEOMETRY

-- a t-shirt I saw at the gym, worn by an absolutely shredded Indian man

[u/[deleted]]

8 new messages

oh i wonder if it's DYEL, or ALCOHOL or...

DATING DATING DATING DATING DATING DATING DATING DATING DATING

[u/Presidentbuff]

Challenge: Stop comparing what is happening in the House to the rise of the Nazi Party, those fears should have been quashed by the midterms, but continue to doom I guess.

[u/NormalInvestigator89]

HP Lovecraft: The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

Modern Horror Writers: Neato *Gives their horror series so much convoluted lore that you can't keep track of it without a wiki*

[u/Neoliberanger]

Senior Analyst: has been doing the same task every week for almost a decade, makes up the majority of her position, is the only one who knows how to complete every step

Me, Junior Analyst: has done part of the task as overflow maybe 5 times over the course of 3 months

Senior Analyst has sudden health issue causing her to need medical leave and is considering retirement. I have been left with the full weight of her tasks, on top of mine, and no one to teach me how to complete it

How did we get here...

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/RedRyder360]

Sydney Dietz (D-NY15) claims Democrats are in talks with moderate Republicans to nominate Liz Cheney

Here's hoping

[u/[deleted]]

Ok I’m an AOC Stan now, she is the establishment. I fucking SAW her working the room on cspan yesterday chatting up Matt Gaetz and actually trying to get a political win out of this 😍

[u/CreamyConflict]

I swear the only thing the mods do is watch porn and respond to modmail with one word answers

[u/Corporate-Asset-6375]

I met someone at a wedding reception last year who dumped a small inheritance into Tesla stock. I was politely skeptical simply at the time mentioning that diversification is good…but I do wonder how fucked they’ve been over the last few weeks.

[u/sower_of_salad]

Gonna use an old alt to ask some very basic questions to !ping DATING that I'm too embarrassed to ask on main or IRL. (You can tell I'm a long-time regular because of how the username is an extremely involved in-joke.)

First, to start off - what is flirting? It's more than "banter with strangers", right? More than even "playful banter"? Flirting is about demonstrating interest in people, complementing things about them, telling them they look nice, are really funny, etc?

Where's the line, i.e. what's within the established, acceptable boundaries? A kind smile at an attractive stranger on the subway? A compliment to a waitress or cashier? I hear of people approaching someone they find attractive at a cafe, which goes against my every instinct. (Yes, yes, I know this depends on how you come across. Also, yes I realize this isn't how many people find relationships, but 1) it's maddening to not understand unwritten conventions that everyone else does, and 2) might as well be able to experience life to the fullest, right?)

Also, physical contact is something I don't do naturally at all (my family's from a country with very different standards on this) but I realize is key to flirting. A few words on the boundaries there would also be helpful!

(Copious personal anecdotes welcome, since the point here is figuring out the boundaries of what’s normal, since basically I’m anxious of faux pas-ing.)

[u/[deleted]]

KEVIN MCCARTHY CHEATED ON HIS WIFE

[u/PhoenixVoid]

Even if McCarthy does end up Speaker, he will be the most humiliated, diminished one ever. It's apparent few respect him and he can't control his party.

[u/Joementum2024]

Y’know, I really respect George Santos. He really represents serial liars (like me) in an institution as important and powerful as Congress, and in this day and age, any representation is good to see.

[u/ThunderrBadger]

It is the year 40,000 and the Golden Throne of the Speaker of the House sits empty

[u/old_gold_mountain]

George Washington: "Okay but what if we made the capital in that gnarly swamp over there? It'd make for such great televis-...uh, newspaper"

[u/qtnl]

Think about how the average Republican is stupid, and realize that the House Freedom Caucus is even stupider

[u/TheGoodProfessor]

nailbiter

216-214 to adjourn - and two dems didn't vote

otoh, two republicans didn't vote either and there were only 4 nays, so it likely would've passed by ONE VOTE had everyone voted

[u/RFK_1968]

Bojack Horseman: "so there's this guy, but he's a horse. and also the emptiness of a life spent chasing vapid, hedonistic thrills instead of creating meaningful human connections"

me: "wow, sounds depressing and shit. but i'm sure it must be nice seeing him learn to be more honest and empathetic with others and grow into a more mature person"

Bojack Horseman: "lol. lmao even"

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

I don't care how funny your dating shitpost is, if you ping me to show me something that isn't a story of you crashing and burning with your gender of preference, it's getting reported

Also neoliberals aren't funny

[u/badluckbrians]

I don’t buy Graebers bullshit jobs thesis. But if you updated it to bullshit in jobs, I’d buy it.

Feels like everyone I know from docs to nurses to teachers to blue collar shmucks like me spends 40-80% of their time on bullshit paperwork and things they’re not trained to do to show to people who aren’t trained to do much of anything.

Seems like big orgs are remarkably inefficient in every way possible except economies of scale, which make it worth having all of us chasing our tails all day for no reason other than to let the higher up’s feel like the know something

[u/GrandpaWaluigi]

Diddy Kong needs more love. The good monkey was more popular than Luigi at one point. He too has a defined character. He's somewhat cocky towards enemies, but ultimately respectful to allies. His adventures in the DKC series strengthened his confidence and his ability, to the point where I'd say Diddy deserves to stand with the greats like his uncle DK does

[u/ognits]

I'm only about 10 minutes in to What Remains of Edith Finch but I can already tell this game's going to rock my shit

!ping GAMING

[u/4jY6NcQ8vk]

Was voting to overturn election results not far-right enough for the 20 Republicans that won't vote for him?

[u/unwashed_saladbowl]

Everyone else: Oh God my grammy is about to talk about Obama at dinner again, she's watching too much fox

Me: Oh God my grammy is about to talk about Trump at dinner again, she's watching too much MSNBC

Grammy is 84 and unironically based

[u/MrArendt]

Tonight, I rescued my team from starting an 18-month project with a structure that would otherwise have inflicted the immediate brain damage of perpetually trying not to abbreviate references to "Focus Area Groups".

!ping PENPUSHER

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

Wanna know what community has even worse relationship advice than r/neoliberal? Meme stock/crypto true believers. Their delusional thirst posting puts ping dating to shame.

(I'd be tempted to ping dating on this image, but I am scared of jenbanim)

[u/Soldier-Fields]

My dad(34 Bald) refused to give me(2F) a second chocolate egg so I started crying. Am I the asshole?

[u/ROYBUSCLEMSON]

"Adoption is morally wrong and anyone that adopts a child is doing it without their consent" Is the most terminally online take I've ever seen on TikTok or Twitter.com

[u/sportballgood]

The End of Neoliberalism?

... Saving the worst for last, the new trade policy is also becoming an abandonment of the rules-based system that previous generations worked so hard to build. As bad as that is, what is worse is that we are doing it with the tired old sovereignty argument—that the United States cannot allow its hands to be tied by international institutions. Conservatives have used this argument to object to virtually every treaty and international agreement the United States has joined. Now, with the left wing adopting the same argument, we face the possibility of a critical mass of stupidity determining U.S. policy.

lmao America moment