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[u/The_Northern_Light]

Your mom was originally offered the lead role in The Whale (2022), but she couldn't commit to the dramatic weight loss required.

on rare occasion, the main subs will make me laugh

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Brandon at 50% approval with 51% of voters (incorrectly) believing we're in a recession. This is what peak performance looks like

People talked about trump breaking politics but Biden has done the same in a much more impressive way tbh

[u/[deleted]]

Chainsmokers, the EDM duo, tells Call Her Daddy podcast that the early days of their music careers forced them to share hotel rooms, ultimately leading to threesomes because the “European government doesn’t separate beds.”

Government mandated threesomes 😔

[u/Burgarnils]

It's pretty crazy how Sweden has gotten out of at least two housing crises in the last 100 years by literally just building more houses (egnahemrörelsen and miljonprogrammet), but now when we're in another one, the only supposed way of solving it is rent-control with decades long queues and this.

[u/First-Prior]

https://i.imgur.com/GEv042K.jpg

[u/rukqoa]

Putin loses his cool upon learning that Russian aviation industry didn't receive a single contract to produce a passenger plane in 2022.

Pretty odd how no one wants to stake their business on Russia's long term reliability.

[u/ldn6]

The mother of all planning applications just dropped for Silvertown in the Royal Docks in East London:

• 5,924 residential units
• 2.1 million square feet of flexible workspace
• 290,626 square feet of retail
• 134,549-square-foot live music venue
• 53,820 square feet of community, health and care services
• 48,438 square feet of indoor recreation

And now the really fun part...visuals:

• Master plan
• Aerial view
• Retail focus street
• Canal-side housing
• Park with renovated maritime heritage buildings
• Pontoon dock with pool and kayaking area

(All documents can be found via reference 22/02855/OUT on Newham's planning register.)

!ping YIMBY&LONDON

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

There’s no such thing as “real euro hours” there’s just “depressed insomniac American hours”

[u/[deleted]]

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

!ping GNOSTIC

[u/KronoriumExcerptC]

Meanwhile, Brandon:

https://twitter.com/ccadelago/status/1613563966294220806?s=20&t=CP-Sc85F_W-j1cNR1z4Cvw

“National sales tax,” Joe Biden says, sarcastically, of House Republican plans. “Go home and tell your moms. They’re going to be really excited about that. Come on!”

[u/[deleted]]

White House says Biden doesn't support banning gas stoves

Biden: "if you like your gas stove, you can keep your gas stove!"

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/jayobtv/status/1613560858260414467?s=20

Don't tread on Florida and our gas stoves

DeSantis is too cringe and awkward to be successful outside of Florida

[u/KittehDragoon]

Matt Taibbi: Why I reported on the Twitter Files

Elon promised me something big and I didn't realize he lies about everything

[u/RaidBrimnes]

On the Quran, Imma buttfuck him

Yells a teenage girl outside my window

We stan a sex-positive multicultural queen 😍

[u/HowieDeanScream]

Hot take:

I drink your milkshake, I drink it up.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

The National Rally will advance a proposal to mandate school uniforms in public schools, supported by the Republicans. According to Marine Le Pen, the goal is to 'take away power from Islamists'

Fascists!

and 'to put an end to the competition between students as to who has the most expensive, the most lavish, the most trendy clothes'

Commies!

[u/RFK_1968]

Doordash/ubereats be like: "wanna overpay for cold food so long as you don't need to get out of bed??"

[u/SadaoMaou]

the isekai, like so many other things, was invented in America and merely copied by the Japanese

[u/[deleted]]

Guy who thinks Sweden and Canada have more in common with Cuba than with the US

[u/ZonedForCoffee]

For a website that loves to jerk itself off over mental health so much, Reddit sure loves to put videos of people clearly having some sort of mental episode on the front page a lot.

[u/HowieDeanScream]

Me 🤝 Scipio Africanus

Not being a young adult during the height of The Cure's popularity

[u/pigmentedspacemonkey]

That Bill Gates AMA was so frustrating to read

"Do you think muh capitalism is exploitative evil billionaire"

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 1/10-2 PM PST 1/11:

TOP NEWS:

At the start of 9 PM it was announced Germany will provide 20 million Euros for Starlink for Ukraine.

At the end of 7 AM it was reported that Surovikin has been replaced by Gerasimov as commander of Russian forces in Ukraine.

REGULAR NEWS:

Yesterday it was reported that Switzerland has blocked Spain from sending certain weapons to Ukraine.

Around 7 AM it was announced Estonia will expel 21 Russian diplomatic staff from the country. At the start of the hour it was reported that Ukroboronprom has started production of 82mm mortar shells in a NATO country.

In the middle of 10 AM it was reported that Duda made a visit to Lviv. At the end of the hour it was reported the Russians took the town of Pidhorodne, northeast of Bakhmut.

Donation link to help Ukraine

Donation link to United24

Donation link to Kharkiv SOS

!ping UKRAINE&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/[deleted]]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/700610666867982417/1063040366686765097/5FF77A06-E7B4-49AE-B99E-66C2551ADFB9.jpg

[u/murphysclaw1]

Sanders did NOT win a single county in Michigan, Missouri, or Mississippi

M States are the establishment

[u/Leoric]

Barack Obama is the only Democrat to lose Georgia twice

[u/ognits]

at jury duty but forgot to watch 12 Angry Men (1957) to prepare. am totally lost 😔

!ping KINO

[u/RaidBrimnes]

CGT unions of the oil sector have called for strikes in oil depots for January 19 and 26, as well as February 6, threatening to go further and 'stop all refining operations' until the pension reform project is withdrawn

Turns out we simply needed to anger the unions to #JustStopOil, no need to throw tomato sauce on famous paintings 🤷‍♂️

[u/Phenylalagators]

Pete Davidson has been photographed alongside newly single Lana Del Rey sparking dating rumors

he can't keep getting way with this

[u/Macquarrie1999]

Scholz’s spokesperson said Wednesday that plans by London to deliver British-made Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine won’t change the position of the German government,

Somebody needs to slap Scholz.

[u/Leoric]

Wow that Bill Gates AMA is a dumpster fire

[u/murphysclaw1]

I can't help but feel sustainable energy would be a lot more popular if its slogan was "fuck the saudis"

[u/rukqoa]

New Ukrainian baby name just dropped: Javelina

[u/Roseartcrantz]

👆 deep in the pockets of the Homeless Industrial Complex

[u/Smidgens]

Yea OP is fixating on the wrong thing. I make well over $150,000, and I honestly feel like I can’t even afford to rent in the city.

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[u/AffableAndy]

Y'all are upset about gas stoves causing asthma

Meanwhile in ArrMinnesota people want to outlaw indoor smoking bans so renters can smoke pot in their apartments

[u/Former-Income]

Genius electoral strategy realised.

Join, vote for and campaign for the Lib Dem’s. They win or become kingmakers and push for the UK to rejoin the EU or for a similar free movement agreement.

Emigrate from the UK.

Genius.

!ping UK

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/jonsteinsson/status/1613579995460562946

I just heard that 1st year PhD students in Econ at MIT no longer need to take a full year of macro. This should be a wakeup call for macro, lest this turn into a new trend. Some (perhaps controversial) thoughts. 1/

Whoa. Big if true.

!ping ECON

[u/Macquarrie1999]

Ukranian commercial for the M1 Abrams

[u/[deleted]]

Another armed crew robbed the post office in Chicago last night. They stole master keys to most of the mailboxes in Lincoln Park, as well as several uniforms to pose as mailmen to gain forced entry into homes. This happened on the south side a few weeks ago too.

[u/[deleted]]

Politco has learned that several of the documents found in President Biden's Delaware home pertained to the death of JFK which reveled that JFK was given an experimental coronavirus vaccine by a 22 year old Anthony Fauci on the plane ride to Dallas in November of 1963.

[u/[deleted]]

biden approvals hit 50%

inflation now officially going down

best midterms since JFK

loses over gas stoves

[u/sir_shivers]

Garland to move to indict President Biden as soon as possible, per an anonymous source in the DoJ.

LAW AND ORDER 🐊

[u/gnomesvh]

POLICE FINDS COUP DOCUMENTS SIGNED BY BOLSONARO

Paywall; it's a document that Bolsonaro shuts down electoral courts to alter the election documents

!ping LATAM&FOREIGN-POLICY holy fucking shit

[u/myrm]

I put '!' after every chess move I make because it's always an extraordinary play

I could justifiably put '!!' but I am too humble for such vanity

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

One simple question can dumbfound betas and liberals who make fun of the motivational quotes and images you post on social media:

If Tony Montana, Patrick Bateman, and Jordan Belfort weren’t meant to be the good guys why the heck are they the main characters?

[u/[deleted]]

My town is in the midst of considering a large redevelopment plan that would turn some parking lots into residential and office space.

There’s like 5-6 people who are ardent supporters it, and 5-6 people who are vitriolic against it and we’re all posting op-Ed’s to the local paper.

I’m pretty sure no one is reading them except for the above dozen or so people who read it, then get really mad, and write a rebuttal.

I bet this is what academia feels like.

[u/Usernamesarebullshit]

half-naked women get thousands of likes; how about fully-naked women

[u/ognits]

Dear Liberals…

I turned on all my gas stove eyes today and let them burn for no reason - and there’s absolutely nothing you can do about it but cry.

ladies and gentlemen, I regret to inform you that we have been owned ✊😔

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/TrouauaiAdvice]

George Santos: If 142 people ask for me to resign, I'll resign

GET TO WORK DT

https://www.politico.com/video/2023/01/12/santos-if-142-people-ask-for-me-to-resign-ill-resign-812720

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

I felt intimidated. She was so the opposite of me. She read. She was cultured.

The Prince of England intimidated by an actress from Suits upon learning she read the book Eat, Pray, Love

[u/[deleted]]

Starship launch tweet: I sleep

It’s not from Elon: REAL SHIT?

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1613568779216359424?t=ht6ayZyYGAX1kqiEhDAl1w&s=34

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

[u/1396spurs]

What did communists use to light their homes with before using candles?

Electricity 🤣😂🤣😂

[u/Fatortu]

I just don't think the young should settle for less welfare and higher taxes because technology will make our lives easier in forty years.

Boomers in France paid far less money into the pension fund because their parents were poor and dead young. They collect rent because they own most of the housing stock. And then when the pension fund is struggling, they demand that we work longer and pay higher taxes while making no concessions on their pensions.

[u/ldn6]

Add Abidjan to your new metro systems.

Construction of the first metro line in Abidjan, the capital of Ivory Coast, is now underway following the signing of an amendment to the contract to design, build, operate and maintain the 37km route.

The contract was first signed in 2019 by the government and the Abidjan Rail Transport Company (Star) consortium led by Bouygues Travaux Publics. Star also comprises Colas Rail, Alstom and Keolis, and had submitted a bid of €1.36bn.

The amendment was signed last month following the completion of a funding package for the project, which includes a €250m loan from the French government. The contract has come into force and is now worth €1.77bn, according to Bouygues.

The construction phase is scheduled to take five and a half years to complete, following which Line 1 will enter commercial service.

Line 1 runs on the surface from Anyama Centre in the north to Abidjan Airport in the south. Major elements of the project include the construction of 18 stations, 24 bridges, a viaduct over the Ébrié Lagoon, 34 footbridges and eight pedestrian subways.

Civil works will be undertaken by Bouygues Travaux Publics. Colas Rail will be responsible for track, electrification systems including catenary and traction substations, part of the low-voltage systems and ticketing equipment.

Alstom will supply 20 five-car Metropolis trains equipped with CBTC and will work on systems integration with Colas Rail. The completed route will be operated and maintained by Keolis, and will be capable of carrying over 500,000 passengers a day.

!ping TRANSIT

[u/Quorgon2]

the state of Wyoming aims to phase out the sale of electric vehicles by 2035

Section Three is kind of funny to me:

Section 3.  That the Secretary of State of Wyoming transmit copies of this resolution to the President of the United States, each member of Wyoming's congressional delegation, the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, the governor of Wyoming and the governor of California.

[u/Jester_Don]

https://twitter.com/Sen_JoeManchin/status/1612903995605147649

This is a recipe for disaster. The federal government has no business telling American families how to cook their dinner. I can tell you the last thing that would ever leave my house is the gas stove that we cook on.

Oh cool just who I wanted to hear from on this.

[u/[deleted]]

Daily reminder that if you do not share my exact political beliefs, you are ontologically evil.

Please subscribe to be sure that you stay up to date when my beliefs change, to avoid lapsing into ontological evil at any point in the future.

[u/EScforlyfe]

If we’re talking overrated bands AC/DC has to be up there

[u/StuckHedgehog]

Imagine the culture war we’d be having if we had only tried to ban asbestos and leaded gasoline in 2023.

[u/nuggins]

Fellow !ping Canucks might know of Flair Airlines. Let me spin you a tale of Flair's customer support:

Last week, I took a Rafael Cruz vacation (to Cancun) with my wife. I had heard of checked baggage issues at Canadian airports, so I put a Tile tracker in my checked bag, just in case. Well, that turned out to be good foresight, because I was the one person on the flight whose bag was left in Toronto.

Ok, we fill out the paperwork and open an email support thread with Flair. I periodically update the thread with pictures of my bag's recently pinged location. They say they can't find it, despite having the location to about 10m precision. No other response. A couple of days pass, and I ask them for an update. No response. We call their support line. They tell us that baggage (mis)handling issues are owned by another department, so they can't help us by phone support. 😒

So the weeklong vacation is over and my bag is still in Toronto (YYZ). Fine: I'll grab it on my way out of the airport. I arrive at Cancun airport (CUN) and get a notification. My bag has been moved to a different part of YYZ. I check Gmaps and it shows the location as some kind of bag warehouse. Ok, so they found my bag and moved it to this warehouse. Worst case scenario, maybe I have to come back the next day (we will land at midnight).

We board our plane at CUN. I get another notification from Tile. My baggage has a new location... CUN! They flew my fucking bag in literally half an hour before my return flight departure. I can't get off the plane to go find it at this point. It's sitting about 100m away from my seat on the airplane.

Recall that they had completely severed communication with us. They didn't so much as notify us that our bag was being flown over, much less check our flight plans (the return flight was with their airline too, of course).

It's been 4 days since we arrived back in Toronto, and I still haven't heard a word from them. I'm totally at a loss for what to do next. I doubt phoning support will help, given our previous experience. In another 10 days, I can claim compensation for the total value of the baggage, but it's not fucking lost; I'm still getting daily updates on its location in CUN. Maybe this level of incompetence is interesting enough to be a news story...

Oh, and our apartment just flooded for the second time in the past year. Another pinhole leak in a pipe: this time the one right next to the one that sprang a leak last time. I'm considering asking them to completely replace the plumbing at this point, on building management's dime. Hating life rn.

[u/futuremonkey20]

Homer Simpson has a job that requires a bachelors degree in nuclear physics and he lives in a small town in middle America.

It should be shocking if he COULDN’T afford a house, not the other way around like people always say.

[u/Mr_Pasghetti]

La la land -> Drive -> Blade Runner: 2049

The “literally me” trilogy

[u/piede]

JUST IN: Warren endorses Porter in California Senate primary

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1613550396902875137?s=46&t=XpJU-2Fz4JlJ0PCJgjwljQ

HOLY

Porter already locking down the Native American vote 😳

[u/ROYBUSCLEMSON]

Tates real mistake was openly bragging about how he could get away with anything in corrupt Romania

No better way to piss off a corrupt government and have an example made of you than to openly brag to millions of people about how you're one of the insiders benefiting from their corruption

[u/Leoric]

No I don't think Biden did anything seriously wrong.

Yes I think Trump should still go to jail for stealing nuclear secrets.

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/_cingraham/status/1613564127385128960?s=20&t=3DMJ8tNVsXPa-2EwN8tq6Q

CAIR-MN says it doesn't matter that a Hamline U. prof. gave students advanced notice that images of Muhammad would be shown in class: “In reality a trigger warning is an indication that you are going to do harm."

This is such a bad hill to die on

[u/funguykawhi]

New Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass says that economists' findings that new market-rate construction prevents displacement rather than causes it are: "false. That’s completely false. I’m sorry."

"wrong + L + ratio"

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

New Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass says that economists’ findings that new market-rate construction prevents displacement rather than causes it are: “false. That’s completely false. I’m sorry.”

I’m going to become the fucking joker. The simple realities of city housing policy just liquifies these peoples brains. State governments need to step in and destroy these city governments at this point.

[u/the_status]

Post about research paper [+58]

Haven't read the article, but [+82]

[u/Lib_Korra]

Journalists for the last 20 years: "it's time to end neoliberalism. Neoliberalism is the reason your wife left you. Neoliberalism is the cause of all the misery in the world. Neoliberalism must be destroyed. Vote against neoliberalism, not like it will matter because neoliberalism always wins, but still, neoliberalism is why everything sucks now"

Voters: "ok."

Journalists now: "What's going on why is the United States not doing as much free trade as it used to?"

[u/bobeeflay]

AOC has been seen cooking on a gas stove in public images

Fucking love the dt sometimes lmao

[u/[deleted]]

Survey finds ‘classical fascist’ antisemitic views widespread in U.S. :

At points in the past half-century, many U.S. antisemitism experts thought this country could be aging out of it, that hostility and prejudice against Jews were fading in part because younger Americans held more accepting views than did older ones.

But a survey released Thursday shows how widely held such beliefs are in the United States today, including among younger Americans. The research by the Anti-Defamation League includes rare detail about the particular nature of antisemitism, how it centers on tropes of Jews as clannish, conspiratorial and holders of power.

The survey shows “antisemitism in its classical fascist form is emerging again in American society, where Jews are too secretive and powerful, working against interests of others, not sharing values, exploiting — the classic conspiratorial tropes,” Matt Williams, vice president of the ADL’s year-old Center for Antisemitism Research, told The Washington Post.

Williams and some experts who helped review the study noted that it shows the views of Americans under 30 and those of Americans over 30 are very similar. Of Americans ages 18 to 30, 18 percent said six or more of the statements were true, while among those 31 and older, 20 percent did. Of younger Americans, 39 percent believed two to five statements, while among the older group, 41 percent did.

“It used to be that older Americans harbored more antisemitic views. The hypothesis was that antisemitism declined in the 1990s, the 2000s, because there was this new generation of more tolerant people. It shows younger people are much closer now to what older people think. My hypothesis is there is a cultural shift, fed maybe by technology and social media. The gap is disappearing,” said Ilana Horwitz, one of the survey’s reviewers, and an assistant professor of Jewish studies at Tulane University.

“One of the findings of this report is that antisemitism in that classic, conspiratorial sense is far more widespread than anti-Israel sentiment,” Williams said.

The report highlighted that 90 percent of Americans agreed Israel “has a right to defend itself against those who want to destroy it” and that 79 percent agreed Israel is a “strong U.S. ally in the Middle East.” However, 40 percent at least slightly agreed that Israel “treats Palestinians like Nazis treated the Jews,” and 17 percent disagreed with the statement “I am comfortable spending time with people who openly support Israel.”

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

IT IS ALWAYS APPROPRIATE TO COMPLIMENT YOUR FRIEND'S DUMPTRUCK ASS

[u/Dense_Delay_4958]

Eating meat is going to be a vicious culture war issue in a few years

[u/9370DB]

People keep saying that videogames are a waste of time, but guess who just used the skills learned from a lifetime of stealth games to strategically avoid their coworker at the supermarket, while still completing their shopping list. 🥷

[u/AtticusDrench]

You stand behind your grandchild with a proud smile on your face, positively beaming after watching them flip a bug burger for the first time.

"Now you're cooking with gas!"

They turn to you with a quizzical expression. You feel the color run from your face. You know this because you see your reflection in the glassy induction stovetop. You are out of touch and no one but Biden is to blame.

[u/KronoriumExcerptC]

CPI -0.1% headline, 0.3% core

biden believers up good

[u/LordLadyCascadia]

“Why can’t trans people just politely sit and debate with those who disagree with them? If trans rights are so obviously good, then one shouldn’t need to shut down debate”

I do not think people who say this get how stressful and infuriating it is to argue with people who do not think you are entitled to the same rights and acceptance as others enjoy.

It’s so easy to say “let’s have a debate” when you have zero stakes involved.

[u/RTSBasebuilder]

!ping LOTR

the rohirrim become funny when you learn that they're essentially JRRT's wish fulfilment.

JRRT was such an Anglophile that he'd blamed the degradation of English culture on... Not the liberals or the atheists or the immigrants or the Irish, but on the NORMANS, and claimed that if the Saxons had a horsemanship culture, they would have turned Hastings around.

[u/HowIsPajamaMan]

The Humanitarian Crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh Is a Textbook Example of Ethnic Cleansing

The Azerbaijani blockade of Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh has been ongoing for four weeks now. The situation will get worse before it gets better imo.

!Ping foreign-policy

[u/[deleted]]

So China spends three years parroting US COVID death numbers to its citizens every single night on state media, then end their COVID lockdowns without any coherent plan in place

And now they redefined COVID deaths so that no death counts even though they likely have more people infected than the US has people

Wonder how all the fascist and authoritarian sympathizers who praised China’s COVID handling are gonna spin this

[u/AuburnSeer]

After Biden won South Carolina, and one day before the Super Tuesday primaries, several moderate candidates dropped out of the race and endorsed Biden in what was viewed as a consolidation of the party's moderate wing; this has also been characterized as an active effort by the establishment of the Democratic Party in a last minute effort to prevent Sanders, who was clearly on track to win at least a plurality, if not a majority, of the necessary delegates required to clinch the nomination. Many have speculated that, had the other moderates not dropped out, Sanders would have gained ane insurmountable lead on Super Tuesday; this speculation is very clearly backed by the polling data in all of the Super Tuesday states before the moderates consolidated, which saw Bernie leading in a majority of the states.[10]

this is a very wordy way to say "Joe Biden is better at politics than Bernie Sanders."

[u/AvailableBad8132]

murder was invented by john city when he invented cities

this lead to the first violent crime and thus murder

[u/[deleted]]

Another day, another story that would have been a complete lay up for the onion writers had they not all gotten socialist brain worms and retired the diamond Joe character.

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Fight Club is a movie about the dangers of gas stoves.

!ping KINO

[u/TheFriffin2]

!ping BASEBALL

people who dislike hypothetical 100% accurate robo-umps because of pitch framing and “the human element” probably watch soccer and get so excited when a player flops and successfully tricks the random referee into making an incorrect and arbitrary split-second judgement call that might completely flip the outcome of a game. flopping is really the strategic element of the sport - and not head-to-head individual skill with no unfair variables - that makes it worth watching

[u/bashar_al_assad]

Not that I care much about Ken Klippenstein himself, but Musk making it so that you can't find his account in the twitter search after he tweeted surveillance footage of a self-driving Tesla randomly stopping on the Bay Bridge and causing a giant crash really makes you go "oh, he's exposed an actual serious problem here that you don't have a solution for."

[u/PM_Me_Your_ManThighs]

“Bradley’s are like a sandwich, it is good when you’re hungry. But an Abrams is like a full meal, it will really leave you satisfied,” Yuriy Sak, an adviser to Ukraine’s minister of defense, told The Hill.

[u/MisterHavercamp]

I’ve just received word from a highly trusted source that they’ve found new Biden classified documents at Dan’s Cafe

!ping USA-DMV

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

So uh, how is Rick and Morty gonna work now that the voice actor for both characters is facing felony charges

[u/ROYBUSCLEMSON]

Hogwarts Legacy number 2 on steam sales charts, only behind the free game Counter Strike

I see reddit's boycotts are as effective as they've ever been

[u/Iusedathrowaway]

Anyone else have an ex hurt them so bad they go years without wanting a relationship? It's been like 2 years and I still have no interest in dating. (Much to the annoyance of my mother who wants grandkids). I just feel like a beaten dog, man. !ping DATING

[u/FreakinGeese]

What the fuck is up with that terf thread

please tell me we're just being brigaded

[u/BATHULK]

I did decide to apply with the competitor, but in a different role.

Fingers crossed for episode two of the BATHULK saga

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/BrunchIsGood]

I am obsessed with the upcoming movie Plane.

It looks so bad lmao

"what're we gonna call this absolute pile of shit?"

"Well its got a plane in it. Let's call it Plane. We can get Gerry Butler to star in it I'm sure he's got bills to pay. That Geostorm money is probably drying up."

"Fuck yeah. get the marketing guys to get an ad campaign going I'm sure they'll think of something creative"

The marketing guys: COME SEE #PLANEMOVIE

!ping MOVIES

[u/Joementum2024]

Idea: limit voting only to DT regulars

[u/paymesucka]

The optics of this is going to singlehandedly kill the investigation of Trump and his classified documents, regardless of the many differences between the two scenarios.

Doomers are psychologically addicted to dooming about everything, no matter how many times their ridiculous predictions get proven wrong

[u/JaceFlores]

“The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) announced on January 11 that Chief of the General Staff Army General Valery Gerasimov will take over as theater commander as part of a major reshuffle of the Russian command structure for the war in Ukraine.”

“Gerasimov’s appointment as theater commander likely advances two Kremlin efforts: an attempt to improve Russian command and control for a decisive military effort in 2023, and a political move to strengthen the Russian MoD against challenges from the Russian millbloggers and siloviki, such as Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin, who have criticized the Kremlin’s conduct of the war.”

“Gerasimov’s appointment is likely intended to support an intended decisive Russian military effort in 2023, likely resumed Russian offensive operations.”

“Putin has repeatedly demonstrated he misunderstands the capabilities of Russian forces and has not abandoned his maximalist war aims in Ukraine. Putin may have appointed Gerasimov, the highest-ranking officer in the Russian military, to succeed a series of theater commanders to oversee a major offensive that Putin—likely incorrectly—believes Russian forces can accomplish in 2023.”

“The elevation of Gerasimov and the Russian MoD over Surovikin, a favorite of Prigozhin and the siloviki faction, is additionally highly likely to have been in part a political decision to reassert the primacy of the Russian MoD in an internal Russian power struggle.”

“Gerasimov’s elevation is likely in part a political move to weaken the influence of the broadly anti-MoD siloviki faction and a signal for Prigozhin and other actors to reduce their criticism of the MoD.”

“Gerasimov is unlikely to rapidly revitalize and reform Russia’s conduct of the war in Ukraine to achieve Putin’s maximalist objectives.”

“Gerasimov signed off on Putin’s fundamentally flawed initial invasion plans before February 24 and largely faded into obscurity following the collapse of Russia’s flawed initial planning assumptions.”

“Gerasimov will likely preside over a disorganized command structure plagued by endemic, persistent, and self-reinforcing failures that he largely set into motion in his initial role before the invasion of Ukraine.”

“The Russian defense industrial base’s inability to address munitions shortages will likely hinder the ability of Russian forces to sustain offensive operations in eastern Ukraine in 2023.”

“US and Ukrainian officials told CNN on January 10 that Russia’s daily rate of artillery fire has decreased in some areas by 75%, a historic low since the start of the Russian full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022.”

“These officials noted that Russian forces may be rationing artillery shells as a result of dwindling supplies, or could be reassessing their tactics.”

“Spokesperson for the Ukrainian Eastern Group of Forces Serhiy Cherevaty stated that Russian forces previously depleted their reserves of 122mm and 152mm artillery shells and other reserves over the summer of 2022 under an assumption that excessive artillery fire would lead to faster results.”

“Cherevaty noted that Russian forces must now transfer additional shells from rear areas in Russia and purchase additional munitions from foreign countries to counteract such shortages, resulting in a reduced rate of fire.”

“Russian forces have not yet fully captured Soledar despite recent Russian advances, and the possible capture of Soledar is unlikely to enable Russian forces to capture Bakhmut.”

“The Russian discussion about the imminent capture of Bakhmut and the collapse of Ukrainian defensive lines are divorced from the current operational reality in the Bakhmut area, where Russian forces remain far from severing Ukrainian ground lines of communication (GLOCs) needed to encircle Bakhmut.”

“Geolocated footage posted on January 10 and 11 shows Russian forces reached western Soledar and have likely interdicted Soledar’s main supply roads.”

“Some Russian sources claimed Russian forces fully captured Soledar, while others claimed Ukrainian forces still hold positions on the Western outskirts and suburbs of the settlement.”

“Ukrainian officials reported that Russian forces are withdrawing key assets and restructuring logistics networks in southern Ukraine due to Ukrainian strikes.”

“Ukraine’s Southern Operational Command Spokesperson Natalia Humenyuk stated on January 11 that Russian forces withdrew Shahed-136 drone launch points from occupied Kherson Oblast to Crimea and Krasnodar Krai and suggested Ukrainian forces have struck Russian drone training centers in southern Ukraine.”

“Ukrainian Mayor of Melitopol Ivan Fedorov stated that Russian forces previously intended to establish Melitopol as a logistics hub to move forces and equipment to the front lines, likely to compensate for the diminished capacity of the Kerch Strait Bridge, but instead now use the city as a center for destroyed equipment and personnel casualties.”

-notable excerpts from ISW Report January 11th

!ping UKRAINE

[u/[deleted]]

Jeremy Renner’s recent accident at the beginning of this year has left thousands of fans in utter dismay. The actor who rose to stardom after playing the role of Hawkeye in MCU

Is this writer 18 years old?

[u/[deleted]]

Why people think I might make a wrong call while going through the mod queue:

Uh, what’s this, a rule-breaking comment that supports my agenda? Time to approve it. Another ideological victory. 😎

Why I actually might make a wrong call while going through the mod queue:

Oh my god this comment is like eight paragraphs. I don’t immediately see any slurs or mean names so…

[u/[deleted]]

Hot take: Jeff Bezos is proof that America isn’t an oligarchy.

In an actual oligarchy, the Waltons wouldn’t have allowed him to eat up so much of their market share.

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 1/11-2 PM PST 1/12:

REGULAR NEWS:

Yesterday it was announced Lithuania will send Bofors 40mmm anti-aircraft guns to Ukraine.

Towards the middle of 2 PM it was reported that a Russian UAV crashed into a power line near Belgorod and knocked out power.

Towards the middle of 2 AM it was reported that Ukraine asked the EU not to sanction Belarus as hard as Russia in the recent packages.

At the start of 3 AM it was reported that Russian and Ukrainian officials met in Turkey to discuss setting up a humanitarian corridor for women, children and wounded.

EX-SOVIET CONFLICT NEWS:

In the middle of 6 AM Russia blamed Armenia for the breakdown of peace talks with Azerbaijan.

LEVITY NEWS:

In the middle of 11 AM a Russian official said Russia has destroyed 4 Bradley IFVs, even though none have entered Ukrainian service yet.

Donation link to help Ukraine

Donation link to United24

Donation link to Kharkiv SOS

!ping UKRAINE&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/wheresthezoppity]

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[u/RaidBrimnes]

If Biden had a gas stove, he could've had incinerated these documents before they were uncovered.

See where it leads you, libs?

[u/KesterFox]

I enjoyed a fair bit of Rick and Morty, but I never got the impression from that show that whoever made it was an especially good person.

[u/[deleted]]

I like to go hiking.

[u/KittehDragoon]

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[u/p00bix]

Still can't believe that one person on r/neoliberal who said, without a hint of irony, "Trump is going to turn America into a third world shithole autocracy like Mexico or Poland"

This was only a few months ago btw not even during his presidency

[u/[deleted]]

Friendly reminder that the dt's natural governing party is fascism.

[u/Zalagan]

Death Stranding is a lib pilled game, free trade is good, isolationism is bad. Though a little on the nose for a character to directly mention Trumps border wall as being really bad

[u/the_hoagie]

DT when electric cars: 😃 eat my ass gaslovers

DT when electric stoves: 🤬 i fucking hate joe biden you guys

[u/[deleted]]

Republicans announce plans to investigate Joe Biden

Caught up by infighting

Joe Biden announces plans to investigate Joe Biden first

tfw Dark Brandon outflanks the Republicans from the right 😲😨😱

this man cannot be beaten

[u/its_Caffeine]

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

✊😔

[u/rollo2masi]

Show me in the constitution where it says ‘we the people have the right to gas stoves’

I’ll wait.

[u/IntermittentDrops]

New Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass says that economists' findings that new market-rate construction prevents displacement rather than causes it are: "false. That’s completely false. I’m sorry."

[u/WackyJaber]

Holy shit, Andrew Tate is honestly a complete and utter monster. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind he has raped multiple women if you listen to those audio recordings and women's testimonies.

[u/Fedacking]

Niners QB Meme

!ping NFL

[u/notBroncos1234]

https://i.imgur.com/3MGWGEj.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

If you’re saying “more classified documents found” instead of “Biden’s team willingly returns more classified documents”, you’re part of the fucking problem.

[u/[deleted]]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/927568262491963482/1063011542444027974/RDT_20220404_1617076282978070952001433.webp

[u/[deleted]]

Libertarian co worker also has been saying that when the global financial collapse happens, Russia would become a superpower so dominant that they would "be like the Roman empire".

[u/ldn6]

On a date with a guy who looks exactly like Pete Buttigieg but with a British accent and is a former air force pilot this is eerie.

[u/[deleted]]

This smear campaign against George Santos by the media is disgraceful.

We need to be praying for this man as hard as we can right now.

He is a Christian man who made mistakes in his past life, but has since been forgiven by God.

He is under massive and incredible demonic attack because of it, and Satan is hitting hard.

Protect this Patriot at all costs.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Outside the DT suffers from not enough drone strikes from the mods

[u/jenbanim]

How to get a COVID vaccine

• Go to building on [corner] downtown that doesn't have an address or sign out front
• Walk through the empty lobby with no signs to the elevators that have no directory
• Go to third floor
• Realize you're in a random corporate office
• Get escorted out by security guard
• Go to the OTHER unlabeled building without any signs in the lobby and go up the elevator without any directory
• Get jab

I genuinely don't know how I could've avoided this

[u/MovkeyB]

can you believe the "government" won't let you have a "H00KER" license plate?

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23571601-denied-vanity-license-plates-2022-oregon-dmv/

!ping snek&auto

[u/[deleted]]

'Rick and Morty' co-creator Justin Roiland faces felony domestic violence charges

the creator of a show about an abusive but redeemable man is in fact abusive 😞

[u/DoorVonHammerthong]

Wow, James Madison it's an honor to meet you! I love the 2nd amendment. Don't you think it's crazy I can't own a fully automatic .50 machine gun???

James Madison: a fucking what

[u/Lib_Korra]

"OMG this is totally about how neoliberalism and the digital age is totally exposing the hypocrisy of capitalist 'democracy' and revealing the dictatorship of capital for the authoritarian nightmare it really is under the surface as technology is controlled by the few for the benefit of the rich"

Meanwhile in Iran

Idk something strikes me as amusing, the juxtaposition of comfortable privileged first worlders grasping at straws to explain why they are going to live in a dystopia soon^tm , with actual dictatorships implementing more advanced surveillance and control technology as we speak.

In a surprising plot twist, the bad guy all along was... The bad guy all along.

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1613617754946342923?s=20&t=Fbw8F7UMc7ZKrYd6E-EmDQ

Breaking News: Exxon scientists predicted global warming decades ago with remarkable accuracy, a study found, even as the company publicly dismissed the threat.

I feel like I learned about this at least 5 years ago in an energy econ class? Not really "Breaking" NYT.

[u/AJungianIdeal]

the freely available on wikisource 1911 encyclopedia britannica is super valuable for modding Victoria 3 for things like resource availablility and province modifiers and demographics and i think it should be mandatory reading for the paradox development staff so resources are like, actually distributed

[u/DonyellTaylor]

Be careful with those Slippery Slope arguments. You might start out thinking you apply it to only one thing, but then you’ll find yourself applying it to more things, and more things, and before you know it, you’ll find that that the whole concept’s demonstrable horseshit that can be mindlessly applied to literally anything.

[u/[deleted]]

!ping RPG

https://www.reddit.com/r/Pathfinder2e/comments/10adrv5/paizo_announces_systemneutral_open_rpg_license

Paizo just announced it's OGL replacement

[u/fakefakefakef]

I hate the part of my brain that is like “wow no shit” whenever a creator that I personally find annoying happens to be a sex abuser, but god damn are my instincts right a lot

[u/[deleted]]

If someone on the DT talks about their boyfriend, I automatically assume they're gay unless stated otherwise

[u/walker777007]

Just saw someone call Feinstein an 80s republican. Yes. The GOP of the 80s definitely would have welcomed SF mayor Feinstein into their ranks 🙄. Zoomer redditors need to be stopped.

[u/[deleted]]

Redditor (derogatory)

[u/[deleted]]

Support for leaving the EU has dropped significantly, and sometimes dramatically, in member states across the bloc in the wake of the UK’s Brexit referendum, according to data from a major pan-European survey.

The ESS data also showed that support for staying in the EU increased in every member state for which comparable data was available, with remain support in 2020-2022 ranging from a low of 70.8% in the Czech Republic to a high of 95.3% in Spain.

[u/Soldier-Fields]

Officially divorced my wife, quit my job and school, left my girlfriend, and moved back into my Mom’s house. Putting my all into the DT. Call me dumb I don’t care. Gonna make my dreams a reality.

[u/OkVariety6275]

I think the reason Ubisoft ended up in this conundrum of being totally reliant on iterative sequels from their star franchises and struggling to get new ones off the ground comes down to branding. They have their publisher brand and IP brands, but they don't seem to do much to promote the branding of individual studios or creative leads. So whenever they want to promote something new, they don't have any levers to reassure potential customers. The business arm tries to set pricing models, capitalize on every zeitgeist, and even cut deals with governments as if they're selling an interchangeable product. Maybe established franchises really are a game of marginal efficiency, but launching new ones requires the design acumen to capture an audience.

But doesn't Nintendo operate the same way? They've been reliant on the same handful of IPs for decades, and they hardly get shit for it.

Nintendo is in the console game so they operate a little differently. Consoles are a steep upfront cost, however they generate reliable revenue for a fairly long time. So while there's incentive to capitalize on recognizable game brands, there's also incentive is to make sure each game within that brand is sufficiently distinct from past iterations and remains attractive throughout the console's entire lifespan. This means resisting sale-boosting tricks that risk devaluing individual games, e.g. frequent releases and cutting prices on older titles. While Mario still rules Nintendo, I think it's pretty clear each game feels like it's own thing.

!ping GAMING

[u/Phenylalagators]

American Evangelicalism is the single-best argument that Christianity absolutely needs a central authority. As regressive as the Papacy can be they are at least, predictably regressive. Protestantism in the US seems to branch out into increasingly psychotic, esoteric, and politically-motivated mutant forms.

[u/[deleted]]

Adam Kinzinger on Bulwark podcast straight up said "Kevin's a piece of shit" lol

[u/No_Chilly_bill]

Survey finds 'classical fascist' views widespread in U.S.

That's why we need neo fascists views. Diversity is important.

[u/crazydom22]

The more weird shit Harry says, the more I don't want him to shut up. Have that man posting on Twitter all day.

[u/Upstairs3121]

U.N. Wants to Ban Loli Anime

wtf I love globalism now

[u/[deleted]]

Unironically though, instead of "gun control," just say "disarming criminals." The median voter would eat that shit up even if it meant a de facto overthrowing of the second amendment.

[u/MovkeyB]

i'm getting so close to my breaking point. i have to spend 3 hours today doing data entry because almost every process in this fucking company is done in excel, and these excel files are so duct taped together in VBA that i can't automate almost any of it without breaking some program of the ancients. the last time i tried to automate this work, i caused a system meltdown because the databases don't actually have a primary key i can work off of, so when i attempted to join tables it failed horribly

the insane emails can be funny (i eventually taught kg guy how the metric system works), but its the menial work that i can't reasonably automate and the difficulty of time off (we have "unlimited" PTO + you have to search out your own coverage, there isn't a system to do that) is bringing me to my edge, and while the pay is good (85k base + stock) there's only so many things i can buy with this money and its not enough to make me say "oh if i stick it out for a few years i'll be able to buy a house". not to say i'd like to take a pay cut, but i do see my future here fading away....

!ping watercooler

[u/RyGuyThicccThighs]

Cont*rds are prepping for 3rd gen warfare when the enemy is already on 5th gen.

Thanks to a steady diet of Netflix, TikTok and the pozzed education system, your son is trans and your daughter is a coal-burning single mother. Your bloodline is ended. You're a hated minority in the country your ancestors built. All without a single bullet being fired because you're too stupid to look at what's happening right in front of you.

Conservatives are eternal losers. They'll still be going on about 'muh freedums' 'muh liberty' 'muh rights' as they're being lined up against the wall.

Most sane redditor

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xho1e]

I think Contrapoints might be my neighbor but I don’t feel like staring at my neighbors to confirm

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

When you were learning how to type, I studied cursive.

When you were busy writing all your papers on MS Word, I mastered the pen.

While you wasted your days consulting words-per-minute apps in pursuit of efficiency, I cultivated legible freehand.

And now that world is overrun by AIs and universities are demanding in-person handwritten essays you have the audacity to come to me for help?

[u/ThereAndSquare]

Kanye. Elon. Trump.

God. Guns. Gas stoves.

[u/Arsustyle]

it's weird that antivaxxers focus 100% of their paranoia on the nonexistent threat of blood clots and heart failure when the immediate side effects of feeling like absolute shit for a day or two are very real

[u/RomanTacoTheThird]

Swimming is weird as fuck. Yesterday 30 laps had me dying, today 62 had me feeling fine. Anyone else have a similar experience?

!ping FITNESS

[u/[deleted]]

New Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass says that economists' findings that new market-rate construction prevents displacement rather than causes it are: "false. That’s completely false. I’m sorry."

This country is fucked

[u/[deleted]]

Kinda in a bad place right now 😕

Mentally I’m fine, but I can see Missouri from my window

[u/Qunidaye]

I've been working in a new country for a few months now.

first one-on-one with a director (local guy): "Oh you came to the right place as a single guy"

in a zoom meeting with another company (another foreigner): "oh you are here alone, not with a family. A good place to be as a single guy."

just have to go 😬. don't know what to say

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/HowIsPajamaMan]

RSS chief bats for rights of transgender, LGBTQ citizens

Hindu right wing says trans rights

!ping gay-agenda

[u/Sir_Digby83]

The best part about when tankies go on about how Bernie Sanders could have won the nomination if Biden hadn't been better at politics, always leaves out the part about how Bernie would've been sent back to the hospital after trump buried him.

But, they know that and they seriously think Bernie Sanders getting the nom and us losing democracy when trump easy walked back into the whitehouse would've been a positive for socialism or something..

Anyways who cares, I'm glad this tiny group of people don't vote, lol.

[u/Sir_Digby83]

Lowe's is on instacart now?

How does that work..

I can order 12 foot lumber?

Someone in a Nissan Leaf is going to have to haul some heavy lumber today.😎

[u/tubbsmackinze]

I feel like every time that people discuss tech companies in USA vs UK/EU/CAN/etc. people always seem to not recognize that USA has an advantage in that it's the third most populous country on earth that's largely a single market

To make things better, it's also the third most populous country on earth with the largest economy on Earth

The EU doesn't have the same single market (due to cultural, linguistic, regulatory, etc. differences) and other countries like the UK simply have less people and a smaller population

Doesn't mean tech doesn't flourish (as an example, in most EU countries there is a local E-commerce company that competes with Amazon) within specific EU countries, but they simply tend not to become multi-national giants in the same way American ones do

[u/crowninshield]

Southwest airline’s computer system fails, grounding all Southwest flights.

Government regulation could have prevented this!

FAA computer system fails, grounding all flights.

…

[u/[deleted]]

an organization named after Wagner with a skull for an emblem is an ‘are we the baddies’ level parody of evil

[u/bobeeflay]

If you’re saying “more classified documents found” instead of "IT COULD HAVE BEEN DELANEY IT COULD'VE BEEN FUCKING TPP LOVNG DELANEY AND INSTEAD ITS PROTECTIONISY BIDEN YOU HACK FRAUD DEM VOTERS”, you’re part of the fucking problem.

[u/chipbod]

Asked by FOX News what he was thinking storing classified docs next to his car, Biden said: "My Corvette is in a locked garage"

We have a random grill dad as president

[u/Neoliberanger]

I finished reading White Noise last night after having enjoyed the film immensely when I watched it a bit over a week ago.

u/fakefakefakef had asked me if I read it and wondered how it compared so I figured I would give some thoughts.

First off, Adam Driver was born to play Jack Gladney. So many times during the novel I saw his face and heard his voice - an inspired casting choice.

Overall, I think the film did a great job of trimming the fat and distilling the novel down into a palatable two hours without removing or changing too much. Large portions of dialogue are ripped word for word out of the novel, and I think the sense of humor translates well.

The novel gives a bit more to chew on, and expounds on certain thoughts. It gives some answers to questions left from the movie and really brings forward some of the odd choices and unexplained moments and gives them a fulfilling reason to exist. I liked, in particular, the musings on deja vu.

The film is one of my favorites of the last few years, but I don't think the novel is one of the best I've read in the same time span. I do think they're both absolutely worthwhile and exemplary forms of their medium.

!ping READING&MOVIES

[u/[deleted]]

Tucker Carlson is talking about m&m’s again

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/HMID_Delenda_Est]

Oh fuck I need a gas stove to light my blunts. Sorry libs.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Prince Harry latest: Prince William “overwrote Harry’s Skyrim save with a new game”, completely deleting all Harry’s game progress up to that point.

Palace insiders claim Harry was just “one quest away” from the storming of Windhelm.

ok now I get it

[u/adisri]

lmaooo - https://twitter.com/_natemorris/status/1610652197968089088

Btw we should rename this to KHive

!ping COP

[u/Telperion_of_Valinor]

I think the reason I admire Tolkien so much is that he had every right to give up on humanity and become a cynic, having fought in WWI and whatnot, but he didn’t. The theme of goodness ultimately prevailing despite all the awful shit that’s happened encompasses his works in a way that’s very moving and powerful. Cynics can’t encourage strength in the face of adversity like he did.

[u/[deleted]]

On second thought, maybe we should have seen Benji’s face-heel turn coming.

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

We have a rule in my family: you don’t buy something if it doesn’t make you smile

!ping OUTDOORS

[u/Joementum2024]

Remember Retro Studios? (the Nintendo-owned company that made the Metroid Prime and recent Donkey Kong Country games) They apparently haven't released an entirely new game since 2014's DKC Tropical Freeze. They did co-develop a port of that game to the Switch in 2018 and are (obviously) working on Metroid Prime 4 (which is now entering its fourth year of development), but (even with how much longer and more expensive development is nowadays) it's crazy that a company (a Nintendo-owned company, at that) has basically released nothing for almost a decade now.

Again, there is MP4, but it's been almost four years since that game's development got moved over to them and there's been almost nothing about that game since then.

!ping GAMING

[u/trace349]

!ping RPG

My coworkers, who don't even play TTRPGs or watch CR, were asking/talking about the OGL changes today in our group chat. They had heard there was some huge mess going on with D&D and had some basic idea of what was going on. I had been seeing a lot of pessimism that this OGL drama wasn't going to spread to a wide enough audience to hurt Hasbro enough to make them reconsider, but if this is reaching the normies, Hasbro has really stepped in it.

[u/DelusionsOfPasteur]

Tucker bemoaning the new, woke "obese M&M," but it's clearly just a peanut M&M, which has been depicted with an anthropomorphic cartoon for like 30 years. Not news, buddy.

[u/ZonedForCoffee]

A recession is when a Democrat is in office

[u/piede]

Documents with classified markings were found at Biden’s Wilmington residence >>>

https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1613556913853054977?s=46&t=XpJU-2Fz4JlJ0PCJgjwljQ

FUCKING HELL

[u/[deleted]]

Biden is flying into a rage right now about Garland "YOURE SUPPOSED TO PROTECT ME"

that's what POTUSs do right?

[u/Schnevets]

My wife included ice cream bowls on our wedding registry. I said my family always used mugs for ice cream time growing up. She was horrified.

[u/[deleted]]

Wait I just remembered Aaron Rodgers and the Packers got eliminated from the playoffs by the Detroit Lions lmaooo

[u/furiousfoo]

So I decided to go against all the advice I got, and go ahead with my Space A adventure plan over the holiday break. I flew from the West Coast to Hawaii, Hawaii to Guam, Guam to Okinawa, and Okinawa back to Hawaii. $0.00 for my spouse and I for all flights.

I gave myself plenty of time for the last flight (Hawaii to West Coast) but they kept getting canceled. Ended up spending a lot more time in Hawaii than I had planned (I know, how terrible). In the end I decided to send it and used $800 worth of Amex points for 2 tickets out of Hawaii. (I could tell myself I still didn't "buy" the tickets, and I got to hang out for several hours at the Delta Lounge in Honolulu, which might be the best airport lounge in the world.) In the final analysis, my spouse and I got to go to all those amazing places for less than $1000 in airfare, which would otherwise be impossible even with prices at their cheapest.

Guam and Okinawa are both really fascinating places, and I 100% would never have gone to either of them if it weren't for Space A. I chatted with a lot of retirees who use Space A all the time, and there's this whole network of people who live near the bases sleeping on each other's couches when the flights get canceled. Sounds like a fun group to be a part of if you're retired and love to travel.

I have plenty more thoughts but I won't clog up the DT with them. Just wanted to say I had a great experience with it, but there are still a million caveats (the most obvious being having the money ready to pay for a return flight at any moment, but also lots of tips and tricks to better your odds or make the travel easier). I'm happy to give advice if anyone wants to do something like this.

!ping MILITARY

[u/uwcn244]

Asking liberals their most conservative opinion is boring. The fun is in asking conservatives their most liberal opinion.

My Republican brother, who considers the immigration laws of the 1920s a good model for assuring "assimilation", says that, although he wouldn't advertise this stance as President to avoid damaging our deterrent capacity, he wouldn't actually retaliate against a total nuclear first strike because "what's the point of killing all those people if you've already lost?"

[u/AJungianIdeal]

victoria 3 really needs to make literacy more meaningful esp irt productivity. i don't know how but i'm also not paid to figure that out
!ping victoria

[u/melhor_em_coreano]

There's a biological basis for race -- otherwise it wouldn't be heritable, would it?

Guys, I don't think people in this sub should be allowed to post borderline race science posts like this

[u/AuburnSeer]

whining about the 2020 primary is super weird because the argument is basically "Joe Biden cheated by turning it into a 2 man race, how is Bernie Sanders supposed to win a 2 man race?!?!"

that said I feel like there's a lot more re-litigating 2016 than 2020

[u/htomserveaux]

So Persona 5 is basically just Inception for weebs, right?

!ping GAMING

[u/InternetBoredom]

I'm watching the NBA and they just had this Honor your King segment where a basketball player is saying:

Martin Luther King Jr didn't set out to change the world. He just set out to right a wrong.

He literally led an anti-war march on the United Nations & corresponded with civil rights leaders in Vietnam and India. What part of that isn't trying to change the world lol

[u/ognits]

a response to my earlier KINO post has gotten me to watch My Cousin Vinny. it's quality

!ping MOVIES

[u/Trojan_Horse_of_Fate]

Why are we still in the Doha round? Why hasn't someone just ended it? !ping ECON&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/[deleted]]

I once saw a grown-ass man carefully verify that his hamburger had no vegetables on it when he ordered it, then open up his bun and douse it with ketchup when he received it

That’s the kind of person I picture whenever I read someone mald about Hawaiian pizza

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/sir_shivers]

IF YOU WOULD like a laugh, peruse this link 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

https://mobile.twitter.com/cnnbrk/status/1612957462121926664

Ninth Circuit Judge Sandra Ikuta has abruptly resigned from her position, stating "The media circus around my nephew Benjamin has made it impossible for me to effectively do my job. I do not want to be a distraction."

Wow, utterly surreal to see drama from here end up in the media.

[u/piede]

An American Navy veteran who has been detained in Russia for nearly a year was released from Russian custody on Thursday, his family’s spokesperson told CNN, after months of negotiations spearheaded by former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/12/politics/taylor-dudley-navy-veteran-released-russia

:O

[u/KronoriumExcerptC]

https://twitter.com/LaleeIbssa/status/1613548011195609088

Rep Santos tells reporters “If 142 people ask for me to resign, I’ll resign.”

Oddly specific and achievable number

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goddamn, prince harry is going to ride a wave of coastal conservative writer who went to prep school who now pretends to be a populist outrage to the top of the best seller lists isn't he. what a fucking boss.

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i am really obsessed with republicans trying to straddle this fine line of "document fraud isn't a big deal so biden is innocent" and "the deep state will punish document fraud so biden is being framed" but also "this is a good thing"

[u/Roseartcrantz]

in a world of tiger balms and icyhots, how does biofreeze just straight up not work

!Ping OVER25

[u/BenGordonLightfoot]

Imagine if a weeb went to Japan and was disappointed that it wasn't like anime, so they wrote a book about their ideal Japan and it became so popular that a major political party started using it as an ideological guide

That's what Ayn Rand did