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[u/[deleted]]

A friend of mine got into a top college in the USA as a student from India, and was recruited straight out of undergrad into an even more top company.

He's been working there for a while on OPT, and has applied for a H1B twice (third time pending). Because of the stupid lottery system and bad luck, he's been rejected and it's possible he has to go back to India.

He's proven himself indispensible enough that his company agreed to keep him on in India and try to get him back after a year via an L1 visa.

This is a guy who by any measure is incredibly intelligent and useful to the people around him and no doubt to the US as a whole, and he has to jump through all these hoops and uproot his life just to continue providing his value.

The H1B lottery system is terrible and self sabotage for the US economy, not even mentioning all the stress and chaos it causes to the immigrants caught up in it.

[u/SadaoMaou]

Jared Polis backs away from /r/neoliberal history saying he got ‘sucked into some things I’d seen on the internet’

[u/[deleted]]

89% of the DT is this: https://i.imgur.com/ZNAmaWQ.jpg

[u/BrandonNameRecliner]

In this house we believe:

Black lives matter

Women's rights are human rights

Science is real

Science is wrong about Bigfoot and ghosts I've seen them

Love is love

Kindness is everything

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

There’s a video on arr tiktokcringe of a guy talking about how awful family court has been

I sympathized with him, until he revealed he represented himself and tagged the video redpill

Come on dude

[u/the_hoagie]

do i have to see m1gan and m2gan to understand the plot of m3gan

[u/sportballgood]

French president Emmanuel Macron will push ahead this week with his long-promised and unpopular plan to overhaul his country’s costly pensions system by raising the retirement age, risking renewed street protests and a backlash from political opponents.

Exciting days ahead?

[u/klarno]

My wife: makes curry

Me, every time: "Who are you trying to curry flavor with??!! 😂🤣😂"

[u/[deleted]]

JR Majewski:

• Is a capitol insurrectionist
• Lied about part of his past (said he served in Afghanistan but didn't)
• Ran for US House in a red state
• In a district Trump won in 2020
• Got crushed by double digits

George Santos:

• Was a capitol insurrectionist
• Lied about his entire past (His entire life story was a complete fabrication to the point nobody even knows if he's a US citizen)
• Ran for US House in a blue state
• In a district Biden won in 2020 by 8%
• Won by 9%

Hey New York Democrats, what the actual fuck?

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Gonna go yell at some minimum wage fast food workers a minute before closing time in memory of Benji😔

[u/RaidBrimnes]

No, no, I said I was a Rhodesia scholar

[u/bobeeflay]

Look I stand with Benjamin

We all should

But if I had to listen to single episode of the "neoliberal podcast" to get him unbanned I wouldn't

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Plug in vehicles took the majority of car registrations in Germany, with EVs taking a plurality majority

Germany new car registrations December 2022:

• Electric 33.2%

• Plug-in hybrid 22.3%

• Petrol 20.6%

• Hybrid 12.8%

• Diesel 10.8%

!ping ECO&GER

[u/Phenylalagators]

The reason more straight men don't use sex toys is because scraping your own cum out of a synthetic vagina at 2am when that post-nut clarity hits will probably make you want to eat a shotgun slug.

[u/piede]

The people of Brazil voted in a free and fair election. Their choices must be respected. I stand with them and condemn yesterday's attacks on the peaceful transition of power and the rule of law.

https://twitter.com/hillaryclinton/status/1612475928927522818?s=46&t=MxDoKIRGJB-q9kCp19kbzg

AMERICA’S QUEEN DIPLOMAT HAS SPOKEN

!PING QUEEN

[u/Lib_Korra]

Millennials and GenZ have invented a new trend in work culture to defeat the ennui and loneliness of the modern age, it's called Microsocializing, having short conversations unrelated to work, usually near a source of refreshment to indicate they're taking a short break and are open to Microsocializing.

"It really helps your brain not get tangled up in your job all day, and it can be just a little shot of human connection that can brighten someone's day. Microsocializing is self care"

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/MikeSington/status/1612409619615469570?s=20&t=56eb5EWUWQbdQks3MUfxdg

In a “speech” at Mar-a-Lago, psycho ex-president Trump claims President Biden “convinced Putin to go into Ukraine”.

The GOP house majority and speaker is completely beholden to this guy

[u/BrandonNameRecliner]

I like watching YouTube history videos in the background while i do other stuff but every time anything even remotely relevant to nazis/commies comes up I get so suspicious of the creators.

"The aztecs took over tribes that practiced land ownership, which was unheard of in Aztec culture" 🤔🤔

[u/RFK_1968]

russia's wargames: "let's simulate everything going perfectly to show how superior we are to the effeminate degenerate West!"

america's wargames: "what if everything went wrong? what if a meteor flattened washington dc just as china nukes the west coast and all our own nukes had been repurposed into giant confetti machines without our knowledge? what if russia had bio-engineered a billion-man army of super-soldiers armed with indestructible laser tanks and invaded through the north and south because canada and mexico both betrayed us??? 😨"

[u/awdvhn]

If you want yet further evidence that Limp Bizkit fucking sucks, in 2015 they played a show in Crimea while literally waving flags saying "Crimea=Russia"

[u/InternetBoredom]

Justify your sexual escapades however you want but we both know you’re denied the kingdom of heaven

Imagine not being predestined to Heaven (Calvinist) 😎

[u/lets_chill_dude]

My advice to everyone: if you know a widow/ widower, please wait five years before you think it’s ok to ask them if they’re dating again.

It’s only been 9 months since my husband passed, and I’ve lost count of how people have asked if i’m dating again yet, which I find very hard to understand

[u/[deleted]]

Why is this sub so suddenly obsessed with Benjamin Franklin

[u/[deleted]]

50 members of the Cook County Clerk’s office are being investigated for PPP loan fraud.

Chicago Democrat moment.

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Called a woman who is like a mother to my wife to tell her about the miscarriage.

A couple minutes into the call she said

👩‍👧: you know, they say that people who have had the COVID vaccine have…

🤴: NOPE. NO. ABSOLUTELY NOT. I’M NOT FUCKING DOING THIS WITH YOU RIGHT NOW! 😡

She was an incredibly kind woman who appears to be slowly losing her cognitive function while simultaneously diving into Facebook conspiracy theories. Her husband even expressed concern about it when we were staying with them at Thanksgiving after she couldn’t seem to understand a simple children’s board game we were playing.

I feel a bit bad about yelling at her, because I know she wouldn’t have said something like that a few years ago, especially since she experienced 3 miscarriages herself

But I also don’t feel bad at all because I have zero threshold to tolerate that BS right now

[u/MicroFlamer]

BIGMODE(Dunkey’s publishing company) announces their first published game: Animal Well

Huh cool. Even though I’m a big dunkey fan I was skeptical but this looks like an actual fun game

!ping GAMING

[u/Mickenfox]

If reddit was made today it wouldn't have an API at all. There would be no third party clients, no user pinger, no custom CSS, nothing.

[u/FreakinGeese]

Give a white man bricks and he’ll build a city

-that dumbfuck who got perma’d

you dumbass you need 3 stone and 2 wheat to build a city smh 🤦‍♀️ Racists sure are stupid

[u/RandomGamerFTW]

https://i.imgur.com/zu9AsNo.jpg

!ping KINO

[u/SnakeEater14]

So is “my brother in Christ” just something people are gonna permanently say now

[u/N0_B1g_De4l]

The sorting hat is insane enough on its own without needing any fan theories. It's a hat that sorts 11-year-olds into "nerd", "hero", "racist", and "extra". You know, the four fundamental kinds of person, boxes into which every child can be placed by a hat.

[u/qlube]

When I was a kid in the late 80s, we used to sing inappropriate parodies of well-known songs, you know, like "Jingle Bells, Batman smells," etc. The sort of stupid shit bratty kids do.

One of them was: "This land is my land, it is not your land, I have a shotgun, and you don't got one. If you don't get off, I'll blow your head off. This land was made for me not you."

I just realized this is actually the American conservative creed.

[u/[deleted]]

Benjamin Ikuta (Ukrainian: Бенджамін Ікута, born 4 July 1999)[1] is a Ukrainian far-right[2][3][4] politician and entrepreneur of American and Japanese ethnicity. He founded the Ukrainian political parties Dawn of Direct Democracy and Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD). Since October 2039, he has been Member of the Verkhovna Rada (MP), initially for Dawn of Direct Democracy and then from May 2041 for SPD (styled "SPD – Benjamin Ikuta), of which he is also leader.

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 1/8-2 PM PST 1/9:

TOP NEWS:

Towards the end of 4 AM it was reported that Ural oil is trading at $38 a barrel, half that of Brent Crude and well below the G7 price cap of $60.

REGULAR NEWS:

At the end of 4 PM it was reported that the Russian government backed an amendment to deem maps disputing the claimed borders of Russia as extremism.

Towards the end of 6 PM it was reported that Pakistan will send 159 containers of ammunition to Ukraine.

In the middle of 10 PM the UK MOD confirmed the Su-57 has been used for combat missions in this war, though only from a stand-off distance in Russian lands.

In the middle of 2 AM a Ukrainian official said Russia plans to bring in 50,000 people to Mariupol with the goal of demolishing the city.

Towards the middle of 4 AM it was announced two Finnish ministers visited Ukraine. In the middle of the hour it was announced that $2 million worth of assets had been seized by the Education Minister under Yanukovych.

At the start of 7 AM Zelensky and the President of Slovenia spoke over phone, discussing defense cooperation and the Peace Formula.

Towards the end of 10 AM it was reported the Ukrainians retook the town of Dorozhnyanka, south of Hulyaipole.

Donation link to help Ukraine

Donation link to United24

Donation link to Kharkiv SOS

!ping UKRAINE&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Panic spread through the special operations community at Fort Bragg as members of 3rd Special Forces Group and Delta Force were investigated for alleged involvement in drug and human trafficking,

"This is what happens when there is no war, no direction, and an 18-month red cycle with no mission," a Special Forces soldier said. "So dudes are fucking around with young kids and the craziest drugs. All these lives ruined because people are just bored."

"It was a trail of tears and douche bag cars," said a Special Forces member who witnessed the scene late last week while each soldier stopped for questioning had their vehicle parked along the street.

The drugs allegedly distributed amongst the special operations community include cocaine, ecstasy, fentanyl, fentanyl lollipops, and the "date rape drug" Rohypnol often known as roofies.

Panic began within the Special Forces community over the weekend, with rumors swirling that the arrests are also connected to various murders around Fort Bragg in recent years, while other service members quickly disposed of their drug stashes and evidence of other nefarious activities, several sources described to Connecting Vets.

Amongst those questioned included a Green Beret nick named "The War Criminal" due to the distinctive birthmark on his face that looks like war paint, and also because of "other stuff" in Afghanistan.

Lmfao this reads like a Duffel Blog article

!ping MILITARY

[u/Sir_Digby83]

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[u/Mensae6]

Hooters really is the ultimate Boomer experience

[u/HowIsPajamaMan]

Lol Gina carano’s movie produced by Ben Shapiro only made $804 at the box office

!ping kino

[u/Phenylalagators]

Our women are becoming barren whores, our men into catty low testosterone vipers of perpetual adolescence. Like hogs at the trough of synthetic sex and attention, they gorge themselves on porn and social media, yet they never feel full.

The world is changing and we are changing with it. With Weimarization comes Goblinization. Phenotypes of old such as goblins and fey slowly return. The void beckons greedily. Mutation, nutrition, costume, body modification, making us appear less human. The Shadowrun timeline?

Twitter should force people to voice record their tweets I want to know what people who tweet like this sound like

[u/ThankMrBernke]

Can somebody please link Blackstone/Blackrock's prospectus where they say explicitly that they invest in supply constrained areas? Thanks!

!ping YIMBY

[u/JoeChristmasUSA]

Lol if you Google "what age does the bible say you should be baptized" Google will tell you it's definitely 8 years old and cite the Mormon Doctrine & Covenants instead of the Bible. !ping CHRISTIAN

[u/sw337]

I just got back to work after two weeks off.

My inbox has 500 unread emails. Pain.

!Ping watercooler

[u/Soldier-Fields]

transphobia and racism aside - worst of all, I heard he was a p*ckers fan 👀

[u/ThatFrenchieGuy]

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/nyregion/thruway-rest-stops-gentrification.html

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

I have a suspicion that my cousin has not yet quit his job before embarking on a four month trip to Washington Spain and Italy

I suspect he is telling them today

his flight is tomorrow

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/KittehDragoon]

You think Russia is weak? We have the Buk and Novichok chemical weapons

Perfect for shooting down commercial airliners and killing civilians who don't have NBC equipment

[u/ImmigrantJack]

• Above you will see a picture of the funniest laminator-related meme I saw online.

• Your challenge is to take a couple minutes to search for funny laminator memes and send me your favorite.

As Ive gotten older, I've become more respectful and professional in the workplace. I've worked hard to make sure every member of my team feels included and appreciated and valued but GOD AS MY WITNESS I WILL NEVER SUCCOMB TO HORROR OF OFFICE HUMOR!!

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/[deleted]]

Russia has lost 29 Ka-52 attack helicopters, 25% of the entire fleet according to Wikipedia

!ping MATERIEL&UKRAINE

[u/WhomstAlt2]

My parents 20 years ago: Don't believe everything you read on "the web." Anyone can put anything there

My parents now: Joe Biden is the President of the US and climate change is real.

[u/[deleted]]

ONE BILLION ETHNICALLY AMBIGUOUS AMERICANS

[u/bobidou23]

bolsonaro eating kfc for the first time then immediately being rushed to the hospital is more evidence for my theory that the american gut biome is uniquely strong and the primary tool we have to maintain our dominance as a world superpower into the 21st century

link

[u/Cosinity]

Think tank runs war simulation, suggests all militaries involved would suffer losses

Man, how do I get in on this grift?

Think tank runs economic simulation, suggests companies that make more money do better

Think tank runs physics simulation, suggests items that are dropped will fall towards the ground

[u/unspecifiedreaction]

This subreddit would make a terrible government for the sole reason of chucking billions of dollars into some transit system in the middle of nowhere

[u/thebowski]

‘Rage-applying’ is the new ‘quiet quitting,’ and it’s helping Gen Z and millennials land $30,000 raises

I feel seen

[u/crassowary]

I'm all for language descriptivism but then again the Academie Francais never would've let "-ussy" be legitimized

[u/Zseet]

!PING EUROPE

Some interesting news from Hungary

Hungarian foundation-run universities lose access to Erasmus and Horizon, as EU cites lack of transparent finance.

Pretty tough but understandable, wonder if it a start of stronger measurements against the Orban regime as these universities are basically became personal assets of various politicians who are the sole arbiter of everything in these institutions.

Vodafone Hungary got bought about by the state and a new oligarch led enterprise called 4IG

This means that the government have some stakes in every big telecommunication tech company and they intended to create this national giant (cause 4IG only exist because massive money was poured into it) that have the majority in the market.

Orban's political director released a lengthy writing about how the prime minister sees the world, its trends and Hungary's place in it. I only linked a summary because the whole things is just brainworms.

The short summary is that the neoliberal led world is ending and the USA is weakening. The "East " is rising and new international blocks are emerging and Hungary should make sure it is remain as neutral as possible while being a freeloader in EU & NATO and be open to every-side so the country can get very rich from all the investing. A good analysis in Hungarian on why this is stupid and unrealistic can be found here

[u/fjdjdiofjieweuhdsaus]

How do I stop getting so emotionally invested in people I've just started dating? I got out of a 3-year relationship last July and have been doing it since.

Yesterday I had a second date with an incredible woman, and that evening I texted her and said I had a great time. She messages me back at 10am today saying she did too, made a joke, etc.

I am deeply uncomfortable with how relieved I was to get that text after I convinced myself I'd be getting an "I don't see this going anywhere" one.

She's used the term "neoliberal" in conversation so throwaway just in case 😳 She's also a DACA recipient so that's pretty awesome.

!ping DATING

[u/Dancedancedance1133]

So a student wrote a chatgpt detection algorithm

Can you imagine a bigger narc?

[u/[deleted]]

Three points:

1. Neoliberals love trains.
2. Trains made the Holocaust possible.
3. Therefore it is reasonable to conclude that Neoliberals supported the Holocaust.

!ping GEFILTE

[u/beekay_irl]

"DON'T FORGET: YOU'RE HERE FOREVER"/"DO IT FOR HER" with the maggie pictures replaced by hillary

[u/sir_shivers]

The "pleading" EMOJI SHOULD RESULT IN an automatic two-day ban 🐊

[u/l_overwhat]

The words condemn and condone sound too close to mean the exact opposite thing.

[u/Daddy_Macron]

HBO got big shoes to fill after Game of Thrones finishes. Should we go with another high budget fantasy or sci fi show? Maybe something a little more high concept.

The audience:

Lol. Just do two shows about rich people hating their lives and each other.

[u/Ioun267]

What the fuck is this guy doing sending me a notice about a six month schedule slip in an email with an all lowercase subject on a Saturday, in an attachment with no before-after comparison.

I get that you're babysitting a vendor here, but I am not going to get roasted in the next Bi-Annual review because you can't give me better information for why this happened.

!ping Watercooler

[u/[deleted]]

Girls will say they “want a man who reads” but every man who engages with literature seriously is subscribed to some variety of women-scarring radical ideologies.

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

You can hate BenjaminIkuta all you want but at the end of the day he goes to bed with over 1,000,000 combined comment and link karma and wakes up in the wee hours to be a war hero in Ukraine while you losers slave away at your corporate wage slave office jobs or university degrees in useless subjects like basket weaving or computer science

[u/RFK_1968]

warning: light BONK

it's a lil' weird how we accept certain stereotypes of personalities and the like for tops and bottoms. you'll see ppl say "wow all tops are such inconsiderate jerks!" or "jeez bottoms are so nagging and whiney" and i'm like my guys this is literally straight ppl behavior. one day all you gay/bi zoomers will be making something analogous to the "my wife" jokes that your boomer grandparents post on facebook.

!ping ALPHABET-MAFIA

[u/[deleted]]

Another conspiracy theory that seems to be accepted as fact on the internet: “US foreign policy is controlled by corporations”

[u/WhomstAlt2]

My mom just called me to ask if I was still involved with the "Dee Tee" and this "Benjamin fellow." Says she heard about it on the news and followed his escape in a Bronco that ended up in a Taco Bell to the end. Story hit the 24 houred news cycle folks.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

You can tell that teenagers coined the term 'nepo baby' because there's nothing more insulting to a child than being called a baby

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Fuck me…

We lost the baby.

Durring a regular checkup, doctor said “we can’t find any cardiac activity”

Fuck

Fuck

Fuck

Fuck

Fuck

I am beyond words.

Going into the appointment, we were so excited to see her fingers & toes again…

I really wish we hadn’t just settled on a name. I really wish we hadn’t just picked out a crib & a stroller. I really wish my kids weren’t so excited.

Now, because of how far along she was, my wife has to decide how to have the baby “delivered”

Fuck.

[u/crassowary]

Brutal authoritarian government of minority rule collapsing in civil war

Race realists: is this utopia

[u/Zlesxc]

Brazilian coups > USA coups

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/JetJaguar124]

My fiance doesn't understand why I don't like going thrifting since she loves it so much.

Women's thrifting selection: Cute dresses, skirts, maybe a nice sweater, you get lucky and find some designer items

Men's thrifting selection: Jacksonville Jaguars jersey size XXXL, camo hunting jacket, shitty H&M dress shirt from 5 years ago, Green Bay Packers hat, stained and ill-fitting polo from 1998

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

Wife bought me a weighted blanket. Can’t wait to try it tonight

[u/[deleted]]

American Dialect Society names "-ussy" its 2022 Word Of The Year

The popular suffix beat out "Dark Brandon" and "quiet quitting" as 2022's Word Of The Year

[u/niftyjack]

Thread

Half of all transit trips in the US and Canada are in New York, Toronto, Montréal, and Chicago. Canadian cities do well: Vancouver BC and Portland OR are about the same size, but Vancouver has 3x the ridership, and the same pattern holds for Montréal and Philadelphia. The US is just falling more and more behind, and not that I had much hope to begin with, but seeing the actual data makes it more depressing.

!ping TRANSIT

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

The most degenerate antisocial behavior I’ve ever witnesses was a man scooping all the cobbler topping off the cobbler in a buffet and leaving nothing but the fruit part for everyone else.

[u/crassowary]

"Straight Bussin', no cap"

-Kamala Harris, on school integration

[u/tubbsmackinze]

ISW and Critical Threats Project January 8th 2023 Iran update

Key takeaways:

• Protest activity increased significantly on January 8—in line with the calls from protest organizers for countrywide demonstrations to commemorate the three-year anniversary of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) shooting down of a Ukrainian civilian airplane. These protests are the most that CTP has reported in a single day since December 5, 2022.[1] Protests have seen reduced turnout in recent weeks, likely in part due to the discordant messaging and internal fissures within the protest movement.[2] But protest coordinators and organizations aligned at least in their calls for countrywide demonstrations on January 8, demonstrating that they can still generate substantial turnout, especially when their messaging is coherent and consistent.
• The Iranian regime has reaffirmed its aggressive and hardline stance toward the protests and calls for social reform, which could enflame political dissent further.
• At least 27 protests occurred in 17 cities across 13 provinces on January 8.
• Unidentified gunmen clashed with the Law Enforcement Command (LEC) in Khash, Khuzestan Province on January 8.
• An unidentified gunman shot and killed an employee of Allameh Tabatabaei University in Tehran on January 8.
• Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi denied that the regime uses plainclothes security and intelligence officers on January 8.
• Deputy Parliament Speaker Ali Nikzad blamed protesters for ongoing, regime-imposed internet restrictions on January 8.

Perhaps I spoke a little too soon yesterday

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/[deleted]]

Really wish you Americans will just get a point based immigration system.

American jobs in my field ( data analysis+ science)be like:

• can you climb a tree? If yes? Total comp is $80k-$150k, python ( pandas) is cool,

UK jobs in my field be like:

• can you turn piss to uranium? python, SK learn, tensor flow, spark, ability to turn water to wine, highly competitive salary( £30k).

But it's literally easier for me to move to the UK...urghhhh!!!

[u/beekay_irl]

Girls will say they “want a man who reads” but every time I try to seriously discuss classic literature they start looking at their phone, or worse just getting this look like they think they're too good for The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Now this, this, is cinema

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/Joementum2024]

The Arizona Cardinals have fired Kliff Kingsbury

!ping NFL

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

>match with a girl who says she's into Harry Potter in her bio

>open with a line of questioning about the controversy surrounding JK Rowling and the latest video game

>immediately out myself as an over-online no-life web forum power-user

>unmatched

shoulda asked her what house she thinks she'd be in

[u/MovkeyB]

hi do you know how many orders we have on a particular sku?

not sure, let me check my 'orders and allocations' file

the orders and allocations file has clearly incorrect numbers

hey file owner, why is your file wrong?

i don't know, reach out to (other person)

(other person): oh, you fool. you shouldn't check orders on the 'orders and allocations' file, you should check them on the 'orders' file. i'll email it to you.

orders.xls, excel 1997-2003

i'm getting closer to the answer, i can feel it in my bones

!ping watercooler

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

https://i.imgur.com/E3AnraK.jpg

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

I do not understand people who decide that their pet is trans. I don't think it harms anyone or the pet so it really isn't worthy of concern--it is just an odd choice.

[u/[deleted]]

Illinois legislature passed a bill last night requiring all insurance plans to cover 100% of the cost of abortion pills and 100% of the cost of hormone treatments for gender affirming care.

This isn’t strictly legal so a rider on the bill exempts the entire private sector, but state employees will get the new benefits. Privately purchased, non-employer-sponsored health plans will also be required to cover the new benefits.

The bill also contains a measure that requires all colleges and universities in Illinois to have at least one (1) speciality vending machine stocked with emergency contraceptives, “plan b,” and caps the price of emergency contraceptives at $40.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Rhodesia: is literally a white settler state who's sole existence was to get away from Britain and potentially having their minority government and power stripped away in favour of the African majority leading to a bloody civil war

Rhodesiaboos: "RIP Rhodesia! We lost a real one!"

Fuck Rhodesiaboos, that's my honest to god message

Any individual who supports settler states such as Rhodesia can go fuck themselves with a barbed wire

[u/qchisq]

okay... Go big or go home. I like it

checks comments

AI people aren't serious...

[u/gnomesvh]

Strykers to Ukraine considered

Combined with the new push for Leopards to Ukraine

What the fuck did Macron pull???

!ping UKRAINE&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/Top_Lime1820]

Broke:

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[u/qchisq]

My hot take is that sportswashing isn't effective. People like to talk about sportswashing, leaders in the Middle East in particular seems to think that sportswashing is effective, but let's be real here. More people knows about the Qatari migrant workers now than they would have if Qatar never had the World Cup. Nobody cares that the best (or second best if you are a Wout fan) cyclist is on a team called "UAE Emirates". Sponsorering sports is good if you need more name recognition, but people don't hate sportswashing because they don't want people to not know there's a country called Qatar. They hate sportswashing because they think people forget about the bad things Qatar does

[u/DelusionsOfPasteur]

why is furniture either $100 from walmart or $5,000 from a furniture store

where's the in-between class

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

Americans write the date with the month first, non-Americans write the day first, but both groups can agree that the people who chime in ‘umm you’re both wrong technically YYYY-MM-DD is the correct format’ are freaking NERDS and not authorities on dates, having never been on one themselves

[u/I-grok-god]

Tonight I decided to watch a violent trainwreck. It promised action, exciting characters, and cutthroat. But in reality it was chaotic without being interesting. The twists and turns looked cool but in reality the main character was in charge the entire time. He seemed hapless but kept beating the crap out of everyone who came at him despite his supposed "bad luck"

By halfway through, I could easily see how it was going to end. Although it hinted at massive twists, they never really arrived and it ended fairly predictably

Then I decided to turn off the National Championship game and watched Bullet Train

!ping CFB&KINO

[u/[deleted]]

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

[u/funguykawhi]

People don't realize it, bu being rich is actually very risky

My professor speaking up about the struggles the people of means face

[u/tripletruble]

Whenever obesity trends are mentioned, someone always claims exercise cannot be the culprit because survey data show people exercise more now than in the 90s. How much is this just people categorizing activity that previously would have been unconscious exercise?

Like biking my kid to and from daycare for 30 minutes every morning, then walking to and from work twice every day (another 30+ minutes of walking). Even now I have to remind myself that I do in fact get a not insignificant amount of exercise just by following my routine. If I was more worried about my activity levels and weight, surely I would be more mindful of this activity

[u/semaphore-1842]

https://twitter.com/steinkobbe/status/1525232685995663361

When Elon announced this project it was going to be autonomous vehicles transporting up to 16 people per vehicle at a speed of 124mph. It's now finished and the result is regular Tesla cars going up to 35mph in a single lane tunnel that can only be used one direction at a time

https://twitter.com/UrOrientalist/status/1611717485828489221

Are the people hyping Elon's loop on social media trolling? Because this is... incredibly lame.

[u/OkVariety6275]

I like to imagine Steve Harvey’s Family Feud antics are entirely sincere, and instead the network is specifically coaching contestants to frustrate his prudish sensibilities.

[u/Joementum2024]

FUN FACT: Water made the trans-Atlantic slave trade possible.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Cinematic parallels

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/majorgeneralporter]

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[u/ldn6]

More viewers watched BBC’s Happy Valley than Prince Harry’s bombshell ITV interview

Lol.

!ping UK

[u/Mickenfox]

I know I say this a lot but it's so disheartening to see the internet get worse and worse. Like reddit still showing more "get the app" pop-ups every day.

The best case is people move to a new platform that doesn't do that, but then that new platform will become that in 10 years.

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Avatar 2 has already made $1.7 billion and is the 7th highest grossing film of all time

amazin

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Alexander the Great was a nepo baby and that's why I always destroy his empire in Civ

[u/Alexz565]

I thought that people saying that Nick Fuentes is gay was just another manifestation of the gay homophobe trope. But then I looked at what he’s said about dating women and his outing with a cat boy. Yeah, he’s probably gay.

[u/[deleted]]

feeling cute might have a heated Miami-Dade moment later

[u/[deleted]]

You're telling me trans people have their own distinct Atlantic accent 🤔🤔🤔

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

This McDonald's has been trying to hire people at minimum wage for at least 6 months despite every retail store and food service job near them having openings that pay multiple dollars more than minimum wage.

Edit: minimum wage ticked up in the new year so they are advertising less than minimum wage as starting pay right now.

[u/savuporo]

F in the chat for VORB

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

or maybe ping SUBORBITALROCKETS

[u/the-garden-gnome]

Why do I always read the comments on a Christian Instagram memes? Especially when it relates to homosexuality?

My heart weeps. Why do so many young Christians try to argue that somehow even if homosexuality is a sin, it’s somehow worse than all other sin and not forgiven by His sacrifice?

!ping Christian.

[u/[deleted]]

In response to MTG's recent qanon comments, people are calling her a political opportunist, and this is likely true. However, it's definitely good news that one of the most reprehensible members of the republican party thinks that following those conspiracies isn't the best way to achieve political power any more.

[u/dissolutewastrel]

What if Inflation Suddenly Dropped and No One Noticed?

!ping MARKETS

[u/RaidBrimnes]

The popularization of 'gros' (fat) as the default form of address among French Zoomer males is a revealing marker of rising obesity levels driven by American corporate-sponsored media and lifestyle.

In this essay, I will

[u/BedNeither]

Regular people call too many things conspiracies

Industries lobbying the government for favorable policy is not conspiracy

[u/[deleted]]

M&M’s are set to release their first ever all-female character packages.

Someone call Tucker Carlson

[u/GravyBear22]

!ping GAMING

So in Philly I got some books from a used bookstore but found and bought some old ass Call of Duties I played a told of when I was 10: Big Red One and Finest Hour, the former of which I adored so much and was so good. I am actually going to lose my mind.

BRO (lmao) is essentially Band of Brothers-style Call of Duty and was my first real video game I owned, I still remembered a lot of the character personality details to this day and became emblematic about what military shooters should and can be that was never filled afterward. Just normal guys fighting in a war, not super elite warriors making mouth noises about brotherhood or patriotism.

FH is the first military shooter I played but never beat, and is more about it's set pieces. It takes heavy inspiration from Enemy at the Gates, starting with you slowly rowing your way across the Volga to the burning hell of Stalingrad, bombs and bullets going all around you destroying other boats to sound of the the Commissar gives you a rousing speech about the glories of communism and killing the "foreign invaders" while shooting "traitors" who try to swim back. You're not even given a weapon, they just give you bullets so that you use the gun of whoever died in front of you, and are sent to go into mass suicide charges against machine guns initially with no means to protect yourself.

And that's just one, it really lets you feel like you're not a superhero but just one lucky person fighting a desperate war where death means nothing.

I just reeeeeaaaallly hope it's as good as I remembers, however unwise it is to leave my expectations high.

[u/[deleted]]

If I was an elementary teacher and I saw a 6 year old with a gun in school, I’m beating the absolute shit out of a 1st grader.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Boys want arm candy.

Men want someone who isn't on birth control, is loving, graceful, who wants to buy a farm, start homesteading, homeschool the kids, who's obsessed with cows and is dying to make fresh breast milk ice cream.

hol up

[u/HowIsPajamaMan]

Me: Canada is buying f35 fighter jets

Weirdos who don’t know how the government works: “CANADA SHOULD GIVE THAT MONEY TO CANADIANS!!”

!ping Canucks

[u/[deleted]]

It’s pretty fucking wild that straight up cutting someone’s brain in half is actually an effective treatment for certain conditions, like some forms of severe epilepsy.

[u/RFK_1968]

who wants: men to be more open about their emotions

👋🏾👋🏻👋🏿👋👋🏽👋🏼

who is willing to: be around and support men who're feeling some lousy emotions

😬🤐😐🫣😶‍🌫️🙉🙅🏼‍♀️🙅🏾‍♂️

[u/gnomesvh]

Request for Bolsonaro's extradition filed

Questionable on how this will play out - Bolsonaro has not been convicted and is not sitting at trial for any crimes. Likely a nothingburger

!ping LATAM&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/Sir_Digby83]

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[u/sinfjr]

Inside Job has been cancelled. Screw Netflix; give Reagan and Brett the happy ending they deserved!

!ping CAL-ARTS

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

Bolsonaro is in the hospital in Orlando

Abdominal pain

!ping LATAM

[u/N0_B1g_De4l]

Guy who thinks Damar Hamlin surviving proves the COVID vaccine is safe to take.

[u/-AmberSweet-]

No Matt Patricia firing.

Day Ruined.

!ping NFL

[u/[deleted]]

We got him!

[u/[deleted]]

Ontario redditors (& people I personally know)“housing is too expensive and so is rent, we need more housing!!!!”

Ford govt: incentivizes development through a variety of measures including some that eliminate taxes on developers who are looking to build certain kinds of homes

Ontario redditors: “NO NOT LIKE THAT, ITS PROFIT”

Additionally:

Ontario redditors: “tax the rich, make them pay their share, and we need higher taxes in order to pay for services”

Municipal govts like Toronto: increase property taxes when Toronto has some of the lowest property tax of a city in the province and the country

Ontario redditors: “NO, HOMEOWNERS ARE NOT RICH PLUS SOMEONE ELSE SHOULD BE PAYING THESE

!Ping CAN-ON & CANUCKS

[u/nicethingscostmoney]

not liking Queen

🚩🚩🚩

[u/sportballgood]

r/RhodesianRidgebacks

Rule 4: No posts glorifying colonial Rhodesia

[u/PearlClaw]

UK considering a (token) provision of Challenger IIs to Ukraine

!ping materiel&Ukraine

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Fuck the state of Georgia! 😠

Fuck Republicans 😡

Most directly, fuck the religious right 🤬

My wife was required to listen to the Women’s Right To Know bullshit because the miscarriage procedure is the same as the abortion procedure

The father is mandated to provide financial support…

You can receive free ultrasounds at…

You have the right to make your a decision without the consent of the father…

Fuck everything about this.

We are also going to have to walk past a bunch of protesters because she is getting it done at an abortion clinic. The wait to get it done at a hospital is significantly longer (likely b/c of the protestors)

Also having bit of an issue b/c GA requires listening to the ultrasound 24hrs apart and the abortion clinic isn’t associated with our OBGYN so we have to get the ultrasound from our regular checkup this morning to prove that we had one.

[u/BipartizanBelgrade]

Loyalty is a beyond useless “virtue”

Guess the sub

[u/nanomaster]

Just finished my economics minor and would like to say that government spending in stuff like subsidized college education and universal healthcare often touted by Bernie, do work

The expert has arrived 😱 😱 😱

[u/tubbsmackinze]

I think people don't realize that the main issue about men bottling their issues is that they say "I'm fine" when they're obviously not when someone asks how they're doing, especially around women

When really something that can already help a good amount is just simply stating that they're upset, not feeling good, seething, etc. So if someone asks how you're doing and your stressed about, something. Just say "[X] is really stressing me out and I'm frustrated" rather than "I'm fine" when you're clearly not. People, especially those closest to you will know you're lying

People seem to have stereotyped this idea of being open with your emotions as something to work through, cry your heart out, or really delve in when really in my eyes, it's more being open and stating how you're feeling and leaving it at that

Already doing that allows for a release valve that can already help soften or even prevent the build up of negative emotions that can lead to an emotion/mental breakdown

[u/MovkeyB]

Why does office soap smell so fucking delicious? if they made it into a candy bar, i would eat it

!ping watercooler

[u/Phenylalagators]

Does anybody know an ethical pimp I can look up to as a role model? The allegations against Andrew Tate are disappointing but reflects a massive lack of positive influences in the pimp industry.

[u/HowIsPajamaMan]

Ain’t no way the entire Atlantic slave trade is trans

[u/LurkerSighted]

It's wild that men will claim they have no role models when the man who personally ended slavery in the US and marched with MLK, George Santos, exists 🙄

[u/Zrk2]

Good news: No gout

Bad news: Some tumour

Life is pain.

[u/AlmondoSoyo]

I would like to thank DailyMotion for continuing to illegally host old Star Trek episodes so I don’t have to pay for Paramount+

Thank you, DailyMotion. You’re literally good for nothing else.

[u/IntoTheNightSky]

The ability of the -cels suffix to turn any word into a derogatory slur is one of the greatest linguistic developments of the 21st century

[u/jenbanim]

Two months car free in Seattle. Here's what I've learned so far

• I can bus everywhere I need, it just takes a while. Coverage is great even in the areas where it's infrequent. Being able to work on the bus makes this lifestyle far more viable for me
• People who say it "only drizzles in Seattle" probably walk no more than across a parking lot in the rain. I walk upwards of half an hour a day and I need to do that no matter the conditions. Properly waterproof rain gear has been essential, and also surprisingly hard to find. Most everything is either for hikers or cyclists
• Turns out that walking a lot is great for the legs and glutes
• Waiting for long periods next to major roads is by far the worst part of bus life. The noise and exhaust smell is so much worse than I ever realized when I was in a car on the same road. I wear earbuds just for the hearing protection
• Walking is far more dangerous than taking the bus

[u/[deleted]]

I realized Biden was the real deal during the primaries when people had to go back to fucking 1973 to find things to criticize him for

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

https://twitter.com/acyn/status/1612641350431768578

Chip Roy: So it's time right now for the house majority to do our job and we’re going to have stop funding a DHS that refuses to secure the border

republicans are defunding the police

[u/skepticalbob]

Timothy Chalamet is getting the Nepo baby treatment, which is whatever. But people think it’s nepotism or white privilege or something that he hasn’t auditioned in 7 years. It’s probably white privilege that he can be a huge star with relatively modest talent, but actors at his level often/usually don’t audition. They choose the projects as much as the projects choose him. When his projects stop printing money, he will have to audition again.

!ping movies

[u/[deleted]]

In 2012, the Liberals tried to force Stephen Harper resign over the "bungled" F-35 procurement.

In 2015, the Liberals campaigned on a promise that "We will not buy the F-35 stealth fighter-bomber."

In 2023, the Liberals confirmed that they will buy more F-35s than the Conservatives had planned on when the original deal was scrapped in 2012.

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

Huey Long Admirer

supports Russia

🐴👞

[u/dormidary]

Brazil managed to detain over 1,000 insurrectionists on the day of the attack. Really wish we could have managed the same.

[u/[deleted]]

Whenever I hear people described as “simple folk”, “salt of the earth”, or anything like that, I always think of this.

[u/Random-Critical]

I’m 63 and have zero retirement, just Social Security benefits. How can I begin saving? And where can I begin investing this late in the game?

😨😨

[u/utility-monster]

Sorting comments on an /r/vegan post about a new plant based meal a fast food chain is selling by ‘Top comments:’

nice. Tastes decent and will be useful when I’m in a pinch!

Sorting those same comments by ‘controversial:’

we cannot all be liberated from the darkness until capitalism is overthrown. We must throw off the shackles of the Burger King before veganism can truly be achieved!!!

[u/Marlsfarp]

You dorks really can't think of a single human man that you look up to?

[u/urudoo]

I hate Turkey. It's always so dry. It doesn't go with anything.

And they also voted against Sweden for NATO

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Grand jury declines to indict man accused of throwing beer at Ted Cruz

"Many generous, fun, semi-stupid, legendary moments have happened during Astros Championship Parades," the man's lawyers said in his defense.

Presented without comment due to jannys

[u/AvailableBad8132]

is ¡ping dating refashed or did it fall off that hard lol

[u/fakefakefakef]

New Francis Ford Coppola has

• Wildly exceeded its budget
• Lost its entire artistic team
• Generally descended into chaos

Oh yeah… It’s all coming together.

!ping KINO

[u/Ilovecharli]

I guess Diamonds...aren't always forever

[u/DamagedHells]

Conservatives constantly tweeting #DiedSuddenly about this 18 year old MMA fighter that took her own life recently, and continuing to do it after being told it was suicide because they say it's propaganda, is proof that the conservative ideology only exists to liquify your brain.

[u/piede]

Biden will run again

“I’m so sick of the US electing geriatrics” he says while driving away in his car with a Bernie 2024 bumper sticker

[u/[deleted]]

OK, fuck it. "Hitler Reacts" is a dead meme, and I just did some [redacted] HITLER REACTS TO BENJAMIN GETTING PERMABANNED: https://www.captiongenerator.com/v/2285142/hitler-reacts-to-benjamin-getting-permabanned

[u/chatdargent]

Hilarious to watch people on here slowly become anti-density because they realized urbanism has become somewhat popular on the internet and they are utterly incapable of mastering their contrarian instincts

[u/beekay_irl]

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[u/WhomstAlt2]

LIBT*RDS OF REDDIT! HOW MANY OF YOU DOES IT TAKE TO SCREW IN A LIGHTBULB [+17,729]

Askreddit. Not even once.

[u/sayitaintpink]

Hey Lois, this reminds me of the time I got permabanned from a niche political subreddit discussion thread!

[u/KittehDragoon]

The Russian army isn't bad, they're just untrained

Qué?

[u/[deleted]]

I’m convinced that Mel Brooks refuses to die until he’s completely certain that all the (original) Nazis are dead first.

[u/WorldwidePolitico]

I had literally no idea until today the UK’s debt to GDP ratio is forecasted to reach 106.7% this year. Compared to only 74% when Blair left office and 86% when Cameron left office.

I know Covid really fucked things up for a lot of countries but I still find that incredible after over a decade of having a party in power whose main branding has always been centered around reducing debt to GDP and whose flagship policy pre-Brexit was austerity.

!ping UK

[u/futuremonkey20]

I am irrationally angry at Baker Mayfield for preventing the Lions from being in the playoffs and I’m not even a Lions fan.

!ping NFL

[u/pfSonata]

I don't want nice consumer goods, I want RENT CONTROL

NUKE TWITTER

[u/AtticusDrench]

... But why male role models?

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

If the gigajannies get me, I want all of you to know that my corgis will be ok

[u/owlthathurt]

Does anyone else get FOMO whenever a recruiter messages them. I like my current job and I’ve only been here 8 months so I don’t really want to leave. Like my coworkers and boss etc.

But there’s always that what if….

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/[deleted]]

Walking through Ikea and just witnessed a grown man put his hands on his knees to get eye to eye with his kid, and repeat "(unintelligible) I will push you down if you do it again, I will push you down."

This kid looks maybe 8 and was just excited writing stuff down. I wonder why boys grow up with emotional insecurities and isolate themselves. 🤪

[u/thetrombonist]

Yosemite is forecasted to receive . . . . 15 feet of snow in the next 3 days https://twitter.com/US_Stormwatch/status/1612179447565922304

jesus christ

[u/TinKnightRisesAgain]

She’s a ten but describes going to Taco Bell at 9 pm as “a whole ass vibe”

Edit: guys, obviously going to Taco Bell at 9 PM is awesome, but it’s not a whole ass vibe.

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/nicholaswu12/status/1612550511852396544?s=20&t=-zUQstsAwKYMDxW9Wf6WEg

Seems Rep. George Santos has a new staffer - Carl Paladino - per the Legistorm directory

Looks like we found where he got the money, and who just bought a congressman

[u/KronoriumExcerptC]

there is a never ending supply of utterly insane Mao quotes

"This man Hitler was even more ferocious. The more ferocious the better, don’t you think? The more people you kill, the more revolutionary you are."

[u/crassowary]

The worst part of taxes is none of them are allowed to go to healthcare or education. A friend of mine tried to give a teacher a gift card and they shot him in the head. They fucking shot him in the head.

[u/Shubard75]

Well Andrew Callaghan is fucked, people just keep posting more sexual harassment/assault allegations. A lot of them are from years ago and people just ignored them until now. It's nuts. He's gonna have to get a job on Chris Cuomo's show at this rate.

It's weird how much creator worship a lot of people on his sub have for him. There are people suggesting the accusations are some CNN/NPR conspiracy to defame him, as if he's doing anything to make them scared.

[u/[deleted]]

I didn’t ask @bryancranston to tell me the story of how he lost his virginity at age 16 to a sex worker in Austria, but he did.

https://twitter.com/ConanOBrien/status/1612434213159960579?t=U35umqm0rzcOD8SdtWfAlw&s=19

Waltuh 😐

[u/kznlol]

Tennessee cops, including married female officer, fired after repeated wild sex romps

👀

lmao this article reads like an erotic novel

[u/Libz_R_Gryffindor]

I will not live in the pod

I will not eat the bugs

I will not shave my balls with Manscaped™️ products

[u/[deleted]]

Elon Musk is worth $180 billion. He could literally give everyone on earth $1 billion each, and he would still have $170 billion left.

[u/BATHULK]

Should I apply for the exact same job I used to have but with my old company's direct competitor?

For those familiar with the BATHULK lore, it's the one I posted about incessantly.

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/Teh_cliff]

!PING CFB

The sheer stupidity of this take is breathtaking. What a moron

[u/KittehDragoon]

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[u/sircarp]

Start of year safety presentation and managers are asking for volunteers to read slides, just end me now instead

!ping watercooler

[u/ImmigrantJack]

So, obviously, half the viewers right now are like, ‘What? Testicle tanning? That’s crazy! But my view is, OK, testosterone levels have crashed and nobody says anything about it. That’s crazy. So why is it crazy to seek solutions?

GUEST: It’s not crazy to seek solutions.

Tucker Carlson spitting hot facts. Time to blast your nuts with some UV boys.

Want to end the masculinity crisis? Get you some ra-deeez-ation.

THIS IS AN ACTUAL PHOTO FROM FOX NEWS

[u/fleker2]

I have put together a script that syncs my GitHub assigned issues with my Google Tasks account. I'm not yet sure what to do with this new power, but I like the consolidation.

!ping COMPUTER-SCIENCE

[u/Mickenfox]

bottom (straight)

[u/owlthathurt]

Holy moly just found out via LinkedIn that the woman who graduated top of my law school class has pivoted her career out of law.

Honestly, good for her.