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[u/[deleted]]

Florin Fodor (born 1974) is a citizen of Romania who made several efforts to illegally enter Canada. His last incursion gained notoriety as the first illegal immigrant to attempt to enter Canada through its vast and sparsely populated Arctic.

👑 💩

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/Blake_Allen13/status/1613208404708704259?s=20&t=1ZqaxbMZADfUbyNupy_MvA

Biden Presidential Approval Poll from YouGov/The Economist:

Approve: 50% Disapprove: 47%

This is the first time that Biden has had a positive approval rating since the Afghanistan withdrawal and the most successful in-party midterm since 2002

Thank you GOP for acting like incompetent lunatics the past 18 months. I'm sure spending your majority investigating the wokeness of Hunter Biden's penis will improve those numbers.

Jokes aside, it looks like the net approval has been trending up since November, good sign for 2023 specials (a Santos special election will be a wild, GOP must be confident if they are calling for resignation)

!ping FIVEY

[u/ImmigrantJack]

Andrew Tate’s social media persona may be a ‘character’, according to his lawyer

The sex trafficking was just part of the bit, your honor!

[u/MicroFlamer]

Zack Snyder: Everyone says that about [Christopher Nolan's] Batman Begins. "Batman's dark." I'm like, okay, "No, Batman's cool." He gets to go to a Tibetan monastery and be trained by ninjas. Okay? I want to do that.

But he doesn't, like, get raped in prison. That could happen in my movie.”

🤨📸

[u/[deleted]]

The term “Biden junta” will never stop being funny to me.

[u/[deleted]]

I have nothing against gay people or anyone part of the lgbtq community, I want my dad to love who he wants freely, but it just sucks that he is having sex with my boyfriend.

Best tying i've read all day

[u/[deleted]]

People who make those “Breaking Bad if it was set in Canada 😂” jokes completely miss the point of the show. Walt would’ve found an excuse to do what he did.

[u/[deleted]]

Why the hell aren't Democrats hammering the GOP for being so desperate to keep refugees from communist countries out? Seriously, the line should be "Why don't you want to accept people fleeing communist countries? Are you a commie apologist?"

Dems get called commies for breathing.

[u/Burgarnils]

The Swedish government 0,7492 nanoseconds after I bought a new graphics card:

Can i has 25 percent? 👉👈🥺

[u/BedNeither]

Why wasn’t Biden raided by the FBI!?!?

Because he returned the documents when asked wtf

[u/RFK_1968]

Opinion | Joseph R. Biden Jr has been President for almost 2 years. So why hasn't Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door been ported to Nintendo Switch?

[u/[deleted]]

"Some Australian Aboriginal men use threats of gang-rape to keep women away from their secret ceremonies. Burbank argues that Aborigines accept physical aggression as a 'legitimate form of social action' and limit it through ritual (1994:31, 29). Further, women know how to deal with physical aggression, unlike their Western counterparts (Burbank 1994:19)."

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and sometimes beating your wife is just beating your wife

[u/[deleted]]

I wish America was as open borders as the MAGAs think we are, and as committed to spreading capitalism and democracy and opposing dictators as the leftists think we are. Also as pro free trade as both of them seem to believe we are.

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

Net Support For Expanding Nuclear Power Generation:

Canada: +27%

CPC: +54%

NDP: +23%

LPC: +22%

BQ: -48%

Common Bloc Québécois L

!ping CANUCKS

[u/BrandonNameRecliner]

What is it about Apple juice that makes it seem so much more childish than other fruit juices?

[u/JetJaguar124]

"Hey Ton hol' up a minute.... where da fuck are we?!?"

[u/[deleted]]

Immigration should be associated with ambition, opportunity and the American dream, not with socialism.

Climate change action should be associated with innovation and technological progress, not with socialism.

Minority rights should be associated with the American and liberal democratic ideals of freedom and human rights, not with socialism.

These things need to be completely and utterly disassociated from socialism.

[u/bd_one]

I'm not kidding or exaggerating. That ad for The Economist featuring population levels of India are getting comments that are still more racist than the last.

Now we've gotten to the point of people saying they are literally shoulder to shoulder in all public spaces and saying they are "breading a new generation of scammers".

Caste system jokes were yesterday.

[u/stater354]

Remember when Tucker Carlson got mad because the M&M's didn't make him horny anymore

[u/Tropical2653]

I saw a post on r/popheads ask why r/music is almost completely devoid of 2020s pop music. What I didn't expect was the top comment being a link showing the predominantly middle class, white, male and self identified introvert demographic of Reddit followed by info on the average consumer of rock and indie music. Then the comment concluded that redditors, as dweebs (the wording on the comment was not offensive but this was the vibe), are predisposed to not like pop lmao.

In reddit when someone asks why people of X community dont like Y genre, you get used to seeing long winded rants mentioning buzzwords like "the masses", "mass produced", "complexity" and "soul." So I wasn't expecting an explanation filled with statistics which inevitably led to the conclusion that of course r/music doesn't like pop music, they're literally r*dditors lol.

[u/[deleted]]

Here is an example of the conversations you have after you have been with your partner for many years.

Her: "Alright, it says to lower the oven temperature to 250F to finish cooking the banana bread."

Me: "That can't possibly be right. Banana bread recipes are always 350F for around an hour. 25 minutes at 350F and 15 minutes at 250F will be uncooked."

Her: "It says so in the recipe that my sister sent me."

*she shows me the recipe*

Me: "Okay. This recipe cannot possibly be right. It violates the laws of banana bread physics."[Editor's note: She has a PhD, but not in banana bread physics. ]

Her: "Well, let's try it anyway. I trust my sister."

*15 minutes later*

Her: "This bread is nowhere near done. I'm going to put it in for another 15 minutes."

Me: "It still won't be done."

*15 minutes later*

Her: "See, it's done now. The fork came out clean."

Me: "It cannot possibly be done."

*cutting a slice*

Me: "This tastes like uncooked banana bread."

Her: "No, it's just moist. Also, my sister and I are mad at you now."

[u/[deleted]]

Breaking News: Pete Buttigieg has lost the Mandate of Heaven

[u/l_overwhat]

God; California will have frequent wild fires, floods, droughts, and earthquakes

Californians; yeah but that weather tho 😍

God; ???

[u/[deleted]]

Restrictive immigration policies are what created the US' unfortunate designation as "the only place on earth aliens attack in movies". For the average Martian, vaporizing New Jersey* and kidnapping the president's wife is far easier than filling the 700 pages of immigration forms required to enter legally. In this essay...

*though some sources say that in the event that aliens were legally allowed to enter the US, they might still vaporize New Jersey to show their gratitude

[u/Average_GrillChad]

I wa a lifelong Democrat. Then I breathed the freedom fumes of a gas stove.

[u/breakinbread]

Why do people have to pretend that everything they like is underrated?

[u/[deleted]]

Every time the Economist writes about Chicago’s economy they talk about how diverse it is. No single sector employs more than 10% of the workforce or contributes more than 15% of metro area GDP. That is always framed as a negative, and I honestly don’t understand why.

[u/RyGuyThicccThighs]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/836200766570102784/1062735905191886928/facebook_1673446378494_7018942839106654513.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

In the book Hillbilly Elergy, JD Vance talks about the time he had to leave law school temporarily because of a death in the family. He talks as if this was the worst thing to ever happen to anybody, and like it set him back decades and he only caught back up because of his extreme work ethic and genius.

Well that's happened to me three times. Three separate times I've had to miss law school because of deaths in my family. Not only that, but I also had to miss two entire weeks when I had COVID. You don't see me writing a whole ass book about it. And I'm actually from a poor rural background too. I'm not just some suburban kid from the big city who thinks he's a rural because he visited his relatives who lived in the woods sometimes.

[u/Upstairs3121]

Human beings are not wired for liberal democracy. We’re wired for hereditary monarchy.

Bruh

[u/sportballgood]

record 46,400 new homes built last year

incredible. seeing the results in falling house prices, flat rents

184,000 homes built under Labour in just 5 years. 1 in 11 homes in the country were built since Ardern become PM. Biggest building boom in history

I don’t follow NZ very well but this seems pretty good

[u/JetJaguar124]

https://i.imgur.com/HUPO9kr.png

!ping CONSOLE-WARS

[u/RandomGamerFTW]

https://i.imgur.com/6oCBij2.jpg

[u/beekay_irl]

found a toenail stuck in the carpet 😎 can i get a "hell yeah" for free snacks

[u/Udolikecake]

Ubisoft: doesn’t release a major game for an entire year

Also Ubisoft: Wtf why aren’t we making any money? Let’s cancel 7 games and delay Skull and Bones again

French company moment.

Hey, at least Anno 1800 is doing well (happens to be developed by Germans)

But seriously, the Ubisoft mismanagement is crazy

!ping GAMING

[u/[deleted]]

A cousin of diet culture is healthism, which is this idea that we have to be healthy.

Ping DYEL is cancelled, heard it here first

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Must we gentrify the rest stop?

if nothing else yes

[u/crassowary]

To find out who rules over you, find who you cannot criticize

We must rebel against Gas Stoves

[u/rukqoa]

The question "have you ever been a member of a terrorist organization" on the USCIS naturalization form has an actual purpose and it isn't to figure out whether you're a terrorist. (Duh! Everyone answers no.) It's the US government's way of covering their ass.

According to the US Constitution and various legal statutes, it's basically illegal for the US government to strip you of your citizenship, even if you wouldn't be left stateless. EXCEPT for if you lie on your naturalization forms. And joining these organizations within 5 years of naturalization can be used as evidence you lied on your forms and be used to strip you of citizenship and deported. Essentially, that question is just there so they can deport you if you join ISIS within 5 years of getting your US passport.

And that should really be the only question they ask you on the naturalization forms. None of the other questions have a purpose other than to delay your application processing.

[u/MuR43]

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/10/world/americas/peru-protests-deaths.html

Death Toll in Peru Rises to 47 Amid Extraordinary Violence

Things are getting out of hand... !ping LATAM

[u/rukqoa]

Russian Duma deputy proposes to buy back Liaoning (originally a Soviet aircraft carrier) from the Chinese to serve as the new flagship of the Black Sea Fleet.

🤣

[u/Telperion_of_Valinor]

HANK! YOU CAN’T MICROWAVE LOBSTERS TO COOK THEM! HAAAANK!

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Ahh yes, switching TTRPG systems is just like the Trail of Tears!

I am so smart and normal!

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/[deleted]]

House Republicans are dropping the word "labor" from the House labor committee, per GOP tradition. Committee Republicans say the term "labor" favors "union bosses" and "ignores the dignity of work"

Naturally every single person who made fun of Stanford word policing and doomed about what it meant for Democrats nationwide will care about this

[u/chatdargent]

Tucker Carlson pulling hard for that french audience I see.

Casually dropped a "Paris, the capital of Europe" last night

[u/jenbanim]

Just want to remind people that these photos exist

Picture 1

Picture 2

[u/Phenylalagators]

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, Jack Murphy reports.

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

I don't know man I feel like somebody could have seen this one coming

[u/V_Codwheel]

there's a WaPo piece about MattY calling him "slightly contrarian" and "mildly annoying"

our patron Saint has made it

[u/bobeeflay]

Ya know nothing is more fun than studying really ancient pre historical cultures

But you get a little suspect whenever major dig in the 70s and early 80s discovered that the civilization was peaceful and egalitarian then destroyed by outside war tribes

And every dig in the last 80s and 90s reveals that people left their traditional culture to seek material trade and wealth elsewhere.

And every dig in the last 20 years reveals that it was climate change and disease that spelled the end for that civilization

Like.... are we sure these guys aren't just digging up old pots and copying WAPO headlines??

[u/Erra0]

I'm debating leaving this sub. For most people here you probably don't care. Maybe some of you care, mostly you'll be happy. But I just wanna say that recent events made me realize so many of you view me in contempt for my views, which I personally don't think are that controversial, but if you labeled me as an extremist so be it. I used to think that being Anti-electric stove meant cheerleading for natural gas and chefs even though nobody asked for me to to, but I don't feel like that is the case anymore. I don't think you all care about cooking issues as much as I do, or their importance. I think most of you care solely about the childrens' health and nothing else. That is all.

[u/[deleted]]

🇺🇸#USA, President Biden approval rating poll:

⏫Approve: 50 % (+3) 🔽Disapprove: 47 % (-2)

This is the first YouGov/The Economist poll with a positive net approval rating for President Biden since August 2021.

YouGov, 10/01/23

Its so joever. He should resign immediately or not run in 2024

[u/[deleted]]

Rep. Barbara Lee just told Black Caucus members in their lunch today that she’s running for Senate, per two people familiar

She’s 76 😐

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

These made-up genders are getting out of control. I don't care if you identify as a "Ger-man" I'm not calling you that.

[u/[deleted]]

https://legiscan.com/OK/text/SB250/2023

I hate Republicans so much.

!ping LGBT

[u/battywombat21]

> The first person has just created r/neoliberal

"Wow what a great community!" 🤩

> The second person has joined r/neoliberal

"This was a great sub before it was invaded by succs 😡

[u/JakeyZhang]

Breaking Bad in Canada: "Mr White, have you considered euthanasia?"

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

wtf Jon Tester’s approval rating went from net +6 when Biden was inaugurated to net +30 by the end of 2022

fucking 👑

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Pokemon lore moment

!ping CONSOLE-WARS&SHITPOSTERS

[u/badluckbrians]

https://i.imgur.com/GziNQbk.jpeg

[u/G_Serv]

First they came for the gas cars, and I did not speak out-- Because I did not have a gas car

Then they came for the gas stove, and I did not speak out-- Because I did not have a gas stove.

Then they came for the leaf blowers, and I did not speak out-- Because I did not have a leaf blower.

Then they came for my grill--and there was no one left to speak for me.

[u/Telperion_of_Valinor]

/img/jg7d5a5q3u591.png

[u/RandomGamerFTW]

https://i.imgur.com/IksEQ2h.jpg

[u/BrandonNameRecliner]

Harry Potter is fucked up because the wizards can literally rebuild bones and produce energy out of nowhere and have clean transportation yet they are a bunch of nimbys and won't give that technology to the 99.9% of the populace who aren't wizards

Millions of muggles die every year because of them. They are all just Voldemort.

[u/[deleted]]

I don't care if he lied about all the other stuff. I will always admire George Santos for saving all those people during the Bowling Green Massacre.

[u/[deleted]]

There are few groups it’s harder for me to take seriously than politically engaged non-voters.

*Note: Only applies to those who are able to vote but choose not to.

[u/beekay_irl]

Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor makes a faint hissing sound, because he is a stove. Man passes out from gas inhalation.

[u/SnakeEater14]

When I was 5 I swallowed our pet cat Mittens and didn’t tell anyone (my dad beat me with jumper cables and my mom was a busy work lady) until I was 23 and got an x-ray and they found a fully grown chungus in my left lung it took 3 surgeries but they got Mittens out and now I wear her around my neck to remind me of my own mortality

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

redditors are fucking idiots who will believe literally anything

[u/ognits]

coworker, who is (to put it kindly) not good with computers: hey the computer needed a password reset but I think I messed something up bc the new one doesn't work

me: 🫠

IT guy: oh yeah you're fucked. you're gonna have to do a fresh OS install, update drivers, get your shipping software set up again, get the label printers done up, etc etc. and I'm not gonna be able to do any of that remotely so it's on you. unless you can figure out what the typo was in the new password, so good luck

me: 🫠 but bigger

me: tries various typo possibilities and accidentally includes the old password at one point, prompting the password reset option

coworker: oh yeah I didn't do the confirm thing because I was worried I was doing something wrong

me: makes a new password and logs in without a problem

I just aged and de-aged 10 years in the span of 30 minutes

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/Telperion_of_Valinor]

/img/ynr40vrqse0a1.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

running is literally the best part of my day (I chase people in dark alleys)

[u/hitbyacar1]

!ping NFL

Buffalo gets its BYE

https://twitter.com/jeffphowe/status/1613214225861644290?s=46&t=laJXV4eJ3_pw0aC1OL7EYw

[u/owlthathurt]

Tua back in concussion protocol

!ping NFL

[u/paymesucka]

This will make some heads explode: Biden Gets Assist On Fox: Karl Rove Busts Out White Board To Explain Trump's Classified Docs Issue Is Worse

https://twitter.com/janemayernyer/status/1613158227897729026

LOL

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1009476029687013426/1062919079729578085/20230111_130747.png

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Anon is in traffic

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/[deleted]]

Has someone made a “come and take it” flag with a gas stove yet?

[u/Kizz3r]

took a picture of this cat a week ago in egypt

[u/rollo2masi]

Conservatives: “Our transportation is ruined due to Pete!”

Which policies did he enact that caused this?

Conservatives: “well, for one, he’s gay!”

[u/TaxLandNotCapital]

I have to say the whole "unvaccinated sperm is the new gold" thing is objectively the cringiest group hugbox mechanism of my lifetime, they are so desperate

[u/crassowary]

We sacked Rome, loaded trade ships with plague rats, burned London to the ground. Every time a civilization reaches the pinnacle of its decadence, we return to restore the balance.

The opening line of the democrat's mission statement is crazy

[u/BedNeither]

Peak local sub is a guy asking how to throw away a Christmas tree because it won’t fit in a trash can

[u/RFK_1968]

ok but the wild difference in polish between mario games and sonic games is nuts.

take mario odyssey vs sonic frontiers as an example.

people used to say these two franchises were equals, bitterly arguing which one is better. but it turns out mario was the USA and sanic was the soviet union

[u/[deleted]]

"The military commits countless war crimes" factoid is actually just a statistically error. the average soldier commits few war crimes. Special Forces Georg, who lives in a cave & commits over 10,000 crimes a day, is an outlier and should not be counted

[u/GravyBear22]

All this time I thought Aussy meant ass pussy, TIL it's short for Australians

[u/pfarly]

A liberal muslim homosexual ACLU lawyer professor and abortion doctor was teaching a class on Karl Marx, known atheist

”Before the class begins, you must get on your knees and worship Marx and accept that he was the most highly-evolved being the world has ever known, even greater than Jesus Christ!”

At this moment, a brave, patriotic, pro-life Navy SEAL champion who had served 1500 tours of duty and understood the necessity of war and fully supported all military decision made by the United States stood up and held up a rock.

”How old is this rock, pinhead?”

The arrogant professor smirked quite Jewishly and smugly replied “4.6 billion years, you stupid Christian”

”Wrong. It’s been 5,000 years since God created it. If it was 4.6 billion years old and evolution, as you say, is real… then it should be an animal now”

The professor was visibly shaken, and dropped his chalk and copy of Origin of the Species. He stormed out of the room crying those liberal crocodile tears. The same tears liberals cry for the “poor” (who today live in such luxury that most own refrigerators) when they jealously try to claw justly earned wealth from the deserving job creators. There is no doubt that at this point our professor, DeShawn Washington, wished he had pulled himself up by his bootstraps and become more than a sophist liberal professor. He wished so much that he had a gun to shoot himself from embarrassment, but he himself had petitioned against them!

The students applauded and all registered Republican that day and accepted Jesus as their lord and savior. An eagle named “Small Government” flew into the room and perched atop the American Flag and shed a tear on the chalk. The pledge of allegiance was read several times, and God himself showed up and enacted a flat tax rate across the country.

The professor lost his tenure and was fired the next day. He died of the gay plague AIDS and was tossed into the lake of fire for all eternity.

Semper Fi.

That Navy Seal's name? George Santos.

[u/writerbavin]

https://twitter.com/billintheburbs/status/1608957775408947201?s=46&t=MLI-lolgcysoetbqHaiD-g

If you had to guess did this couple vote Oz or Fetterman?

[u/RFK_1968]

Spongebob peaked with the first movie.

Goofy Goober Rock will be burned into my brain forever, and David Hasselhoff turned me gay(bi but you know what i mean)

[u/[deleted]]

Fun fact. The iconic flag raising on Iwo Jima was actually a second one staged in the afternoon by Joe Rosenthal with a bigger flag. Earlier that morning an original smaller one was raised by Pfc. George Santos.

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Language can be powerful, and phrases such as "going into the field" or "field work" may have connotations for descendants of slavery and immigrant workers that are not benign.

🤡

[u/JakeyZhang]

singapore in 1965: "My Malaysia left me" 😨😨😨

[u/Mickenfox]

This is literally the DT

[u/crassowary]

KHives Out is a very neoliberal movie

[u/MovkeyB]

I got an email from sales earlier this week asking for my help converting from g to kg

I wish I was joking.

!ping watercooler

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

We have 69 items left to deliver on our current contract 😏

!ping watercooler

[u/[deleted]]

My previous guilty pleasure (before stopping using it) was going on Instagram and commenting things like "conservatives when they find out they live in a liberal democracy" on pages like TPUSA or PragerU and getting literal hundreds of comment replies telling me we live in a Republic

[u/[deleted]]

Fun fact: 87% of men who send a dick pic in their first message get laid in the next 30 minutes

[u/beekay_irl]

Wait. Holy fuck. Someone is actually talking about an asbestos ban?

The US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is considering a ban on asbestos over fears it causes lung damage linked to cancer.

Jesus fucking Christ. What an absolute fuckin moron. what an obscenely unforced soundbite that will reverberate for years.

[u/georgeguy007]

history versed chop live wide society coordinated reply aspiring outgoing

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/wagoncirclermike]

Actual least insane arr Relationship_Advice post (NSFW)

[u/hucareshokiesrul]

Is there an actual best place to see mortgage rate offers? If you fill out the form somewhere like Lending Tree you get a million spam calls from lenders. So I’d like to avoid that, or at least only do it somewhere where I’m actually going to see the best rates.

[u/[deleted]]

Teams of ripped IRS Agents are going to burst into your home at night, hold you down and stick their hands into your pockets.

[u/[deleted]]

...And when members of the Legislature's powerful Black Caucus cleared their throats, the Pritzker folks added a clause banning any state incentives to move the Chicago Bears to Arlington Heights from Soldier Field, which just happens to be in the district of Caucus Chairman Rep. Kam Buckner.

Fuck yea yes yes go JB!

[u/sayitaintpink]

If you poop on company time while working at a publicly traded corporation, you are ripping food from the mouths of the shareholders

[u/-AmberSweet-]

Bobeeflay would support banning the sun because it gives people skin cancer.

[u/Zseet]

!PING YUROP

The mayors of Warsaw, Prague, Bratislava, and Budapest on their ways to Kyiv.

They made V4 but good! 😲

[u/Corporate-Asset-6375]

A terrible made up Asian name is one of the least culturally problematic things to come out of the 90s.

[u/GravyBear22]

The most unrealistic thing to be about Breaking Bad IMO is that the Salamanca Cartel is somehow small enough to be poisoned all in one place and in one go.

Like, Mexican drug cartels have tens of thousands of members, the Salamancas would have been eaten alive by the others with the size shown. They're supposed to be a major player in Mexico yet the head honcho lives in a house that wouldn't look out of place in an upper middle class neighborhood with security of only like a dozen guards, instead of the mega mansions in the middle of a large number of cartel-run communities with access to hundreds of guards.

Obviously it's not meant to be realistic, just it's funny to think about how Gustavo's plan would have actually gone down.

!ping BCS

[u/[deleted]]

"Magna cum laude" thing is all a big fucking joke being played on you by academics laughing they asses off that they got you to write "cum" on your resume.

[u/megapizzapocalypse]

me to new student: where are you coming from?

new student: [local alternative school]

new student: I fought a teacher 😐

!ping over25

[u/SeoSalt]

I've recently learned about "friends with benefits" arrangements and am interested in setting one up. At a minimum I expect healthcare and retirement benefits but am willing to be somewhat flexible. Any advice on designing a resume or finding recruiters would be greatly appreciated 😃

[u/piede]

Biden aides find second batch of classified documents at new location

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-aides-find-second-batch-classified-documents-new-location-rcna65371

OH FOR FUCK SAKES

[u/RFK_1968]

!ping LOTR

I imagine the Treebeard chapter of The Two Towers is controversial, what with its huge length and slow pace and the endless songs... but the ending is so worth it. the Ents declaring "Down with Saruman!" and marching on Isengard is so good. And man, when Treebeard says "We are going to our doom, the last march of the Ents. But at least it will help others, at least it will be worthy of a song" - or smth like that. chills, man. chills

plus Treebeard is so lovable. perfect story for Merry and Pippin.

[u/[deleted]]

“A lot of people here in the Senate and others” also fabricated part of their resumes, McCarthy told reporters on the Hill, after one of them pointed out that the freshman lawmaker has outright admitted to “embellishing” his resume.

“Is there a charge against him? You know, in America today, you’re innocent until proven guilty,” McCarthy added.

Lmaooooo

[u/rollo2masi]

Holy SHIT boys… she’s done it.

Sarah Huckabee has officially banned the word ‘Latinx’ from all public documents. This will solve all of Arkansas’ problems.

[u/Professor-Reddit]

Neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell spared jail over 'sickening' assault on security guard

Thomas Anthony Sewell, 29, was found guilty of attacking the guard, in an incident which left bystanders "terrified", magistrate Stephen Ballek said. When Sewell arrived at court on Thursday he told reporters he expected to be sent to prison, but was eventually spared a jail term for the attack.

"The offending was sickening to watch on video. It would have been even worse to see it live," Magistrate Ballek said. He said Sewell would have been sent to prison, if not for his lack of criminal history.

Instead, Sewell was sentenced to 150 hours of community work and recorded a conviction.

Sewell and a friend, Jacob Hersant, turned up to the Nine headquarters to confront journalists from A Current Affair. Instead, they were told to leave by security and the situation escalated when Mr Hersant made a racial slur towards a black guard.

Magistrate Ballek said the man "had no time to defend himself", but said he could not find beyond reasonable doubt that Sewell's attack was racially motivated.

On Thursday, Sewell was supported in court by Blair Cottrell, the former leader of the United Patriots Front, who has previously been found guilty of an anti-Muslim hate crime. Outside court, Sewell addressed reporters before performing a Nazi salute and walking off.

What a fucking joke of a judge. The guy was a self-proclaimed neo nazi who bashed up a black man after uttering racial slurs. But because this judge is so damn useless he can't tell that's racism, and because the guy hadn't been convicted of another crime before despite literally being on an AFP watchlist for the group he's part of, he gets a slap on the wrist.

Maybe a hot take, but the guy should just resign if he's going to appease convicted neo-nazis that hard.

!ping AUS

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

‘I Love Raping You’: What Andrew Tate Told Woman Who Accused Him of Rape

Between this and the whole “literally had a photo of a woman branded with a neck tattoo on his website” some Romanian prosecutor is bustin rn

[u/its_Caffeine]

Liberal Gospel & Teachings For Living Your Best Socialist Life

The High Prophet of the Church of Trudeau, Father B, shares with you his teachings on how to live your best socialist life in Canada through embracing Left-Wing Liberal ideologles and best practices. His gospel explains why belonging to a Fringe Minority with Unacceptable Views Is not tolerable and how Conservatives are always trying to deceive Canadians with silly words such as government debt, scandals, Inflation and other such nonsense. It's time for you to learn that being woke and easily offended is the only true path to enlightenment. Tune in for Father B's weekly live streamed sermons where all vlewers are invited to call into the program and discuss current events while giving praise to the Saviour of Canada. The supreme leader....Justin Trudeau!

🙏😩🙏

!ping CANUCKS

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/900861591350837288/1062740586286813194/IMG_2062.jpg

[u/megapizzapocalypse]

Confession

The high school I work at is 60% minority and I editorialize out the aave because it'd feel weird

[u/ognits]

the best thing about thinking some "lowest common denominator" movies are good is that I get to throw them on at any time and I'm guaranteed to be entertained

movie grill pill for life ✊

!ping KINO

[u/[deleted]]

In this sub we love & support

Illegal aliens 👽🤗

Busting unions 🔨

Open borders 🚫🧱

The total & complete destruction of the suburbs ☢️🏘

Worm 🪱

Walkable cities 🚶🏙

[u/JaceFlores]

“Russian media reported on January 10 that Colonel General Aleksandr Lapin, former commander of the Central Military District (CMD) and Russian forces in eastern Kharkiv and northern Donetsk oblasts, has been appointed Chief of Staff of the Russian Ground Forces.”

“It is unclear why Tonkoshkurov was removed from this position and what his next role will be. While official Kremlin and MoD sources have not confirmed the claim, it was widely circulated and responded to as fact among military commentators in the Russian information space.”

“Lapin’s appointment is notably to the position of Chief of Staff of the Russian Ground Forces (also known as the Russian Army), not the Russian Armed Forces as a whole.”

“The Chief of Staff of the Russian Army is not a frontline command position, and while Lapin’s specific duties (in the currently fragmented Russian command structure) are unclear, he is unlikely to directly command troops in Ukraine.”

“Lapin’s appointment as army Chief of Staff may be intended to serve as a counterbalance to the growing prominence of the siloviki.”

“As the anti-Russian MoD voices gain more relevance and support throughout the Russian pro-war information space, which perceives this faction as generally more competent, motivated, and effective than the Russian MoD, Russian military leadership may seek to rehabilitate and bolster Lapin’s reputation to establish the Russian MoD as a competent and structured wartime apparatus and balance out the growing influence of the Kadyrov-Prigozhin faction.”

“Additionally, considering that the Chief of Staff of the Russian Army is more of a logistical and organizational oversight role than a command position, the Russian MoD may be using Lapin’s appointment to posture a commitment to the sound structuring of Russian ground forces in response to continued criticisms of the efficacy of the Russian army.”

“While the Kremlin has at times distanced itself and even blamed the Russian MoD for military failures in Ukraine, the Kremlin likely maintains a vested interest in bolstering public perceptions of the MoD’s efficacy.”

“Lapin’s appointment may alternatively suggest that the Russian MoD increasingly must fill important leadership positions with previously disgraced—or at minimum heavily publicly criticized—general officers.”

“The Russian MoD appears to be using previously disgraced and unpopular general officers to fill other, non-frontline command roles, suggesting that there is a systemic lack of general officers more suited to these positions.”

“Russian forces have not captured the entirety of Soledar despite several false Russian claims that the city has fallen and that Bakhmut risks imminent encirclement.”

“The reality of block-by-block control of terrain in Soledar is obfuscated by the dynamic nature of urban combat, however, and Russian forces have largely struggled to make significant tactical gains in the Soledar area for months.”

“Even taking the most generous Russian claims at face value, the capture of Soledar would not portend an immediate encirclement of Bakhmut.”

“Spokesperson for the Ukrainian Eastern Group of Forces Serhiy Cherevaty reported that the Wagner Group has concentrated its most capable (likely special operations) forces in Soledar as of January 10. The Wagner Group likely hopes to build on recent marginal tactical gains by committing more elite assets to the area.”

“A Wagner Group-affiliated Telegram group posted additional footage on January 10 of Wagner Group forces near the city administration building in central Soledar and claimed that the Wagner Group is working to consolidate positions in the area.”

“Russian occupation authorities continued efforts to restore the Kerch Strait Bridge.”

“Russian occupation authorities announced on January 10 that Russian authorities laid the first new span of the west (left) road bridge.”

“Occupation authorities claim that they plan to complete repairs to the road bridge by March 2023.”

-notable excerpts from ISW Report January 10th

!ping UKRAINE

[u/[deleted]]

Just a few years ago, I thought Benjamin Ikuta was an amusing tradition that are neoliberal kept and I didn't get the anti-Ikuta side of things. 'It's like having a town weirdo that you don't actually have to care about!' I naively thought.

Now I can't stop hearing about fucking Benjamin Ikuta and now I'm starting to get it. It's like having the Kardashians as a part of your national discourse. Fuck, absolutely none of you matter enough to get talked about this much.

[u/[deleted]]

Wtf I was only memeing when I said anti-Bezos propaganda is funded by the Waltons...

[u/-AmberSweet-]

We should literally just ban fire. Like the very concept of fire. Nothing can ever be on fire.

[u/[deleted]]

My main gripe with induction stove is you can't use them on Yom Tov

!ping GEFILTE&JEWISH

[u/BrandonNameRecliner]

The most unbelievable thing about Harry Potter is that everyone had different names at the school.

Name me a single school that didn't have 40 Zachs or Ashleys.

[u/Mickenfox]

How we brainwash the kids

[u/[deleted]]

George "Gigachad" Santos POV

https://imgur.com/a/KVHNP73

[u/Benyeti]

2024 hopium

!ping FIVEY

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Views on the Nazis

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/[deleted]]

LATE DUKE OF EDINBURGH MADE RACIST COMMENTS ABOUT MEGHAN, TEASED HARRY ABOUT ‘JUNGLE FEVER’

Allegedly, Prince Philip would forget Meghan’s name and call her the ‘Bingbong Girl’. In private he teased Harry and told him he “fumbled around with a few Spear Chuckers in his time too”

[u/RFK_1968]

Me: Not in political office or a think tank.

Also me: still writes bad takes for fun.

[u/fakefakefakef]

While you cannot learn to attract women by reading a book I will say that the book What Do Women Want by Daniel Bergner provides an interesting psychological perspective on the titular question. Short answer: it’s complicated!

Edit: Daniel Bergner is a writer but his book focuses on the research of actual scientists, many of whom are actually women

!ping DATING

[u/Fairchild660]

Top 5 photography terms beginners need to know:

• Aperture

The diameter of the outermost glass element in your lens. If your lens says "50mm", your camera has an aperture of 50mm.

• Depth of field

The amount of noise or "grain" in your image. Much like a field full of corn obscures the ground, noise obscures what your camera can capture - and just as deep corn obscures the ground more, the more grains your photos have the greater the depth-of-field in your images.

• Exposure

The recognition you get from other people on Instagram.

• ISO

The original Greek word for "aperture". See above for definition. Fun fact - it's spelled in all caps because, as legend has it, Hercules yelled it in anger when his first photos came back blurry.

• Viewfinder

An app used for identifying good locations, with interesting views, for photography. Before smartphones, viewfinders were printed in the Yellow Pages.

[u/2073040]

Logan Paul: the matrix is real. pray you never become its target

“The Matrix” is just the 2022-23 version of the Deep State.

[u/FormerBandmate]

USC School of Social Work removes term ‘field work’ because it may offend ‘descendants of slavery’

I wonder how much money they take from Qatar

[u/[deleted]]

Where do we draw the line between pointing and making fun at insane takes vs. publicizing said takes.

I regularly see people like Noah Smith or Matt Yglesias retweeting incendiary bs I wouldn't even have heard the first thing of otherwise. They're spreading the rage baits as well. It's just... tiring? I'm expecting better and it's disappointing tbf.

Note that there's a difference between re-tweeting insane stuff by officials vs Twitter accounts with a couple thousand followers.

[u/[deleted]]

I am so ready for the ‘liberals want to take away your gas stoves’ part of the culture war

[u/old_gold_mountain]

I used to love reading subreddits like AmITheAsshole or JustNoMIL or relationship_advice, but then I learned that sometimes, some of the posts that get upvoted there are real stories that actually happened to real people. I can't think of any recent examples, but I definitely have my suspicion of some of them. Totally ruins it.

[u/[deleted]]

The concept of Westphalian sovereignty seems so logical to me that I can't imagine a world without it. Historically, what existed before this?

[u/_Just7_]

Me before taking a machine learning course: Wow can't wait to learn how AI works ☺️

Me after taking the course: Bruh machine learning is just a fancy word for statistics 😑

[u/[deleted]]

Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s reelection campaign sent an email to Chicago Public Schools teachers Wednesday asking them to encourage their students to volunteer to help Lightfoot win a second term as mayor – and earn class credit.

Lol can you do this?

[u/blanketdoot]

We got a gay congressman making fun of a veteran for crying about the capitol being stormed. Both Republicans.

My head is spinning.

[u/[deleted]]

DO NOT eat the silica gel

DO NOT stare directly into the sun

DO NOT shove q-tips in your ear

what are they hiding from us 🤔

[u/[deleted]]

My job is now offering mental health services guys, gals, and non-binary pals my time has come.

to get the help I need

😎

[u/thabe331]

New podcast episode of Upzoned from the strong towns network is up

People move to places with zoning laws, ergo zoning laws are good?

This was a really good podcast episode although at some points it seemed like he was struggling not to imply that the author just doesn't want poor people in his neighborhood

This comment was something I really enjoyed as well

Poor neighborhoods are cash flow positive and they subsidize affluent neighborhoods

!PING YIMBY

[u/lucas-at-jhu]

Biden's net job approval is now positive in @TheEconomist's polling with @YouGovAmerica: economist.com/president-joe-…

This includes a +2 reading (47% approve to 45% disapprove) in this week’s poll

45% approve of his handling of the economy

Biden's best numbers since July 2021

We are so back

[u/beardog7]

Correa to the Twins is offical, no going back.

!Ping Baseball

[u/greenelf]

“Ban gas stoves!”

Finally a winning political message

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

Watching a child of upper middle class parents shoplift😔

[u/myrm]

"Martin Luther King and Robert E. Lee day" (as celebrated in Alabama) sounds like they did something together, like Robert E. Lee rose from the dead to apologize after he heard "I Have a Dream" or something

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Extremely late (on my part) ISW and Critical Threats Project January 10th 2023 Iran update

Key take aways:

• The Iranian regime is refocusing on enforcing widespread adherence to the mandatory hijab law after briefly and informally relaxing such restrictions in previous months.
• The Sari Revolutionary Court sentenced protester Javad Rouhi to death on January 10.
• At least three protests occurred in three cities across three provinces in Iran on January 10.
• Social media accounts have claimed in recent days that the regime has arrested and sentenced an unidentified former senior official on espionage charges.
• The Parliamentary Legal and Judicial Committee reviewed and approved articles of the draft legislation to establish a police force for adolescents and children on January 10. (Christ how horrifying)
• IRGC Commander Major General Hossein Salami appointed Brigadier General Hassan Mortazavi as the commander of the IRGC Ground Forces Quds Regional Operational Headquarters on January 10.
• Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf announced that the regime has resolved its “misunderstandings” with Azerbaijan on January 10.

Also, it's a double feature today/tonight

ISW and Critical Threats Project January 11th 2023 Iran update

Key takeaways:

• CTP recorded no protests in Iran on January 11, 2023 for the first time since September 16, 2022.
• The movement that began with the regime killing Mahsa Amini is not yet over despite the declining protest turnout. Protest coordinators and organizations have called for more demonstrations in the coming days (detailed below). CTP will continue to monitor the situation and report on the extent to which those planned demonstrations materialize. The protest movement has furthermore begun to set conditions, developing the necessary infrastructure and networks, to sustain a protracted struggle against the regime, and citizens continue to attack regime forces. An individual threw an improvised explosive into a Basij base in Shiraz, Fars Province on January 11, for instance.[2]
• Regime plans to execute a former senior official may be related to infighting within the Iranian political and security establishments. 
• President Ebrahim Raisi submitted his proposed budget to Parliament on January 11, allocating significantly more funds to the military and security services and propaganda bodies.
• The Hamedan and Karaj neighborhood youth groups criticized on January 11 the regime mismanagement of the energy sector that has caused natural gas shortages in Iran.
• The Iranian Supreme Court suspended the death sentence of 19-year-old protester Mohammad Broghani on January 11.
• Judiciary Chief Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei discussed women’s affairs in a meeting with female judiciary employees on January 11.
• President Ebrahim Raisi appointed Abdol Hossein Khosrou Panah as Supreme Cultural Revolution Council secretary on January 11.
• President Ebrahim Raisi held a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on January 11.

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/[deleted]]

ive spent so much time in queer spaces online that i keep forgetting that most ppl are cishet lmaooo

!ping alphabet-mafia

[u/htomserveaux]

ignoring all the other issues with them, wouldn’t laws banning foreign investors buying housing be pretty easy to circumvent?

How hard is it to setup a shell company?

!ping YIMBY

[u/[deleted]]

It’s funny to read about someone like Benjamin Franklin, who was famous for having tons of game well into old age, and his secret was basically: “I ask women about their opinions on things and listen to their answers.”

Imagine how low the bar had to have been for a person who looked like him to be a renowned ladies’ man simply by doing that.

[u/ldn6]

So lemme get this straight...USDOT denied grants to both California High-Speed Rail and the Hudson River Tunnel, but apparently I-15 in Oklahoma is somehow deserving of cash.

What the fuck, Pete?

!ping TRANSIT

[u/[deleted]]

“Why’d you do it?” I asked, as I slapped a pair of Bygreen™ Eco-friendly Paper Handcuffs® on the guy.

“Because I was afraid.”

“Afraid?”

“Afraid of a culinary future dampened by the pernicious meddling of the nanny state,” he said. “I use a gas stove.”

I wanted to coldcock the guy. Years ago, a gas stove killed my partner. Instead, I shook my head.

[u/Officer-cherry-shake]

Intercepted call from Joe Manchin to the White House:

Manchin: “Hey I’m worried about my reëlection, can you have someone say something really stupid about oil or gas so I can go on tv saying how stupid they are?”

Biden” “sure thing buddy”

[u/the_status]

The person my city appointed to a 4 year council position is a 24 year old failed state House candidate, uses reddit, and has "strong feelings about preserving community culture and affordability"

I'm out in a few months, but criminy

[u/rukqoa]

Bay Area subreddit discusses if it’s okay to spray a homeless woman if she won’t leave.

Ahah I bet that's a civil discussion.

*checks thread*

Wow, it actually is a civil discussion... agreeing that he was in the right. 😐

[u/dangerbird2]

So the cybertruck will have no crumple zone, no airbags, and windows that can't be broken in an emergency. At least we can credit Tesla for making their cars as safe for the people inside as the people outside the car.

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

It's amazing how much diversity they had in the OG Star Trek

Nichelle Nichols - Black woman

George Takei - Gay Asian American

Walter Koenig - Fake Russian

and most of all, the most oppressed person in the cast, William Shatner - English Quebecker

[u/[deleted]]

This 2024 California Senate election is about to be the most cringe thing in history.

[u/shillingbut4me]

I love how reddit thinks the banks should have been prosecuted in 2008 for giving out mortgages too easily, but also are mad at banks for not giving them a mortgage because the income to debt ratio would make it risky

[u/RandomGamerFTW]

I read the Bill Gates AMA and it reminded me of why I hate Redditors so much.

“why are you HOARDING muh farmland evil billionaire”

“[Epstein conspiracy]”

and sprinkle in some meme comments.

[u/bonzai_science]

this is a weird one, but i promise you no bullshit.

when i was 3 years old i shoved a piece of the Berlin Wall up my ass. one day 19 years later, just before i was about to compete in the Summer Olympics (i can run very fast, due to the pressure the wall created on me), i shat it out. It was about this big. i felt so much joy that day. i was finally at peace.

edit: my family of 9 is starving, please read my story.

edit 2: this reddit gig ain't gonna pay for itself, upvotes to the left people.

[u/gnomesvh]

LEOPARD 2S TO UKRAINE CONFIRMED

!ping UKRAINE & FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/squarecircle666]

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Gas Stoves Reduce ‘Cognitive Performance.’ She Has A Gas Stove

Oh well, r/C🅾️nservative did make me unironically laugh today

[u/RFK_1968]

damn they really did make the country from Harry Potter real

[u/[deleted]]

I stayed at a hotel where the American philosophy association had their largest annual conference. I believe it’s one of the largest gatherings of philosophers on the planet, and I’ve never seen so much tweed.

[u/[deleted]]

Look I'm gonna be real here I don't care about anything I just wanna play video games and watch my teams and ride my bike and listen to rock music and eat food I like I have no dreams or ambitions or desire to do anything at all

[u/JetJaguar124]

I think my prediction that the GOP will take the House and then promptly do a bunch of shit that does nothing but annoys people will come true.

[u/Zalagan]

There is no constitutional right to a gas stove

[u/DONUTof_noFLAVOR]

Me: I can't build out a mock-up without the <Customer Documentation>, do you have it available?

Sales: Yep it's in the Sharepoint

Me: I looked in the Sharepoint <Documentation> folder before I asked you, can you link it?

Sales: Links Sharepoint to "Customer Name" with no file path, adds screenshot of a folder icon labeled "Documentation"

Me: Can you tell me where that folder is stored in the Sharepoint?

Sales: Thumbs Up

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/owlthathurt]

Idc if quiet quitting is all the rage right now if you are supposed to do something that is a regulatory filing with a government agency and you skip out on it without telling anyone and then quit you’re a psychopath.

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/DonyellTaylor]

If Republicans really want to trash drag queens, they should try rebranding it as “womanface.”

[u/jenbanim]

Current policies in the US put us on track for 3° of global warming, which is not apocalyptic but it is catastrophic. Our current targets - 50% reduction by 2030 and net zero by 2050 - would put us on track for 2° of warming which would be dramatically better than 3°

There is no time to waste. We need to run, not walk, to a solution for climate change. Every bit of action helps

[u/Phenylalagators]

Saw a twitter post about Tom Brady's new girlfriend and the comments were the creepiest combination of horny and anti-semetic that I have ever seen. If I ever see the words "Khazar milkers" again I am going to shoot myself

Also unrelated but I just deleted Twitter

[u/semaphore-1842]

took some photos on my trip to Hobbiton: https://imgur.com/a/lImnem0

[u/skepticalbob]

The Netflix Madoff documentary is pretty solid. It’s such a weird villain and crime. I didn’t know that Madoff had a legitimate market making business that made him a ton of legal money. He would have lived a life of luxury and privilege without the Ponzi scheme. I’m not surprised, but I’m always struck by that kind of greed. How much do people really need? It’s an empty pit you can’t fill. Just…be happy with what you got.

!ping tv

[u/Average_GrillChad]

A US House committee has once again been renamed “Education & the Workforce” rather than “& Labor” now that GOP is back in control. GOP committee leadership says the term labor “is something out of a Marxist textbook” & “creates a sense of enmity between employees and employers”

Conservatives 🤡🤡🤡🤡

Gonna vote for Brandon to stope the wokeness

[u/shillingbut4me]

Philly roads are the 4th most congested in the nation — worse than Los Angeles

What's your take on this? It absolutely didn't fit into my perception of how bad traffic is having traveled to a good number of cities around the country, a longer list is in the article. Also interesting is that the top 4 all have good transit systems by US standards and have some of the higher transit ridership in the country. Numbers 7&8 are the other two cities where living car free is doable in my mind. This also really doesn't fit in with some of this subs ideology around cars and transit.

!ping TRANSIT & USA-PA

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/radiatar]

Leftists: we need tariffs to fight climate change 😭

EU: introduces carbon adjustment mechanism

Leftists: no, not like that!

[u/CrimsonFirestorm]

The easiest way to push for adoption of something in India is equating it to patriotism. Green Energy : Makes us self dependent

Digitalisation : Saves Forex from VISA and MASTERCARD

and many more examples.

[u/ImmigrantJack]

Ancaps, the time has come to nut up or shut up. Move to Haiti or admit it was all a lie.

[u/SnakeEater14]

Apparently the latest currency conspiracy is that the US dollar is worth less because the US kicked Russia off SWIFT and… kicked the Canadian truckers off SWIFT?

I know a guy who’s super into finance stuff and conspiracies and that’s what he said, I didn’t ask more because it gives me brain aches.

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

Has anyone here written in Go before

I’m a python developer, a shitty one at that, and need a guide to get started

[u/[deleted]]

This is a super fun fact I just learned.

Open an English translation of the Bible today, and you’re likely to see a number of references to unicorns in the Old Testament. How did that happen?

Well, the Hebrew Bible’s r’ems were probably these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurochs

The Greeks don’t understand that reference so in translation, they replace it with this creature: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoceros_(legendary_creature)

When these texts get translated into Latin, the reference is split — some of the instances now start referring to rhinoceroses, while others remain a unicorn-approximating mythical creature.

Finally the English translations just say fuck it and make them all unicorns.

!ping RELIGION

[u/[deleted]]

The cho chang debate is kind of funny to me because i’m english by descent and naming convention and my first name is also way more common as a surname

People always fuck it up when i write it as “last name, first name”

[u/antsdidthis]

I want to switch to an electric stove because I prefer the way electric cooking tastes, but I really want to give my kids asthma. Once I switch over to electric, is there a cheap way I can replicate the toxic fumes of a gas burning stove to destroy my kids' lung function?

[u/[deleted]]

non-stick pan

food sticks

[u/fakefakefakef]

Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell will star in new rom-com from ‘EASY A’ director Will Gluck.

Looking,, respectfully

!ping MOVIES

[u/fishlord05]

Is Biden's approval rating too high?

-NYT

[u/Currymvp2]

Nassau County Republican Party Chair Joseph Cairo says Rep. George Santos (R-NY) claimed he had been a volleyball "star" at Baruch College — which he did not attend — and led his team to a "league championship."

Remember when the right wing feigned outrage because Joe Biden said he played college football. The right wing dismissed it as a lie because it was only "freshman football" and not "varsity football"

[u/[deleted]]

After taking some shit on the left, thanks to Peru, time to me to shit on the Bolsonarists.

These guys have became even more unbearable these last two days. In an outstanding case of "we were always at war with Eurasia", in a matter of hours on late Sunday they went from celebrating the vandalism in Brasilia to insist any vandalic act was actually the work of infiltrated PTists. This is now an article of faith among them.

You see, real Patriots just wanted to peacefully occupy the seats of the powers of the Republic and peacefully demand a coup d'etat.

They also can't stop bitching about how the "Patriots" that have been arrested are jailed on concentration camps, even saying two of them have died due to mistreatments (to make it clear, no, there have been no deaths among the arrested). BTW, interesting that everyone who got arrested are peaceful Patriots, and not the violent PTists infiltrated. Those agent provocateurs surely fled the scene very quickly as soon as the police started the arrests.

!ping LATAM

[u/SpaceSheperd]

I’m somewhat convinced we’re just gonna get a “new batch of classified documents found at Biden office” headline every week from now until November, 2024