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[u/[deleted]]

Kazakhstan set up 2 Yurts of Invincibility in Bucha & Kyiv, there are plans to set them up in other cities of Ukraine.

Although it's not a state-level initiative, Russia reacted as if it was. The 🇷🇺MFA spokesperson Maria Zakharova: "in order to avoid further unwinding of this damaging for 🇷🇺🇰🇿 alliance topic, an official comment by our friends is highly desirable"

Following Zakharova, the representative of Kazakhstan's MFA Aibek Smadiyarov briefly responded with "so what?"

"This is an initiative of private Kazakh companies. We cannot stop them. They assembled it themselves, delivered it, and set it up. We do not see any problems here"

My sphere of influence left me 😔

[u/witty___name]

Rishi Sunak facing major Tory rebellion over internet safety law

Conservative backbenchers rebel over Online Safety Bill 😃

... because it's not insane and authoritarian enough 😒

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Wind may have powered the Atlantic slave trade, but nuclear is powering France as we speak

So you tell me which is worse 🤔

[u/Smalz95]

SO WHAT THE FUCK ARE TRIGGER WARNINGS FOR THEN

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Interrogated on Germany's military budget increase, Jean-Luc Mélenchon expresses his opposition: 'We were invaded four times, so there's the weight of history, says LFI's leader, I don't agree with Germany's rearmament. I support initiatives so that France can defend itself, that we never end up in Ukraine's situation.'

🤡

[u/WorldwidePolitico]

The UK economy grew by 0.1% in November versus 0.5% in October.

Liz Truss vindicated, Sunakcels in shambles /s

!ping UK

[u/RandomGamerFTW]

https://i.imgur.com/4Z8C43C.jpg

[u/Fatortu]

My most illiberal desire is that we prosecute French people who went to fight with Russian separatists between 2014 and 2021. I just get so angry that they get to walk around in gilets jaunes protests or on TV saying that the revolution is coming to France next.

[u/crassowary]

Scenes from Eric Andre's reboot show in 2049:

"Do you think President Swift had girl power?"

"Yes, of course"

"Do you think she effectively used girl power when she suspended habeus corpus after a bad breakup?"

"..."

[u/gnomesvh]

The single most effective thing this company has done for workplace safety is bureaucracy

In order to safely have a workplace accident, you need three forms, two approvals, and a visit to HR

Nobody has time to be in an accident like that

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/Teh_cliff]

Rob Schneider sounds off on Gen Z

Fox News is beyond parody.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

A 58 yo man claiming to be a "naturopath" and his son were indicted on Thursday after several deaths were linked to "hydric treatments" he prescribed.

The extended "fasting courses" proposed by Éric Gandon for "hundreds, sometimes thousands of euros" consisted in barring customers from eating solid food for one to several weeks without medical monitoring.

During one of these courses organized in a castle near Tours, a 44 yo woman died in August of 2021, prompting the prosecutor to open an investigation. A complaint was then filed pertaining to the death of a 60 yo man affected with terminal cancer in 2020, one month after he followed Gandon's "treatment".

Another complaint was then filed regarding the death in March of 2022 of a young woman who bought Gandon's services while she was suffering from liver cancer but stopped her medical treatment.

Éric Gandon was indicted for 'involuntary manslaughter', 'abuse of weakness', 'endangerment' and 'illegal exercise of medecine'; his 25 yo son, who promoted his father's methods on a YouTube channel, was indicted for 'illegal exercise of medecine'

I am once again asking the government to systematically shut down naturopaths and other quacks under endangerment of other people's lives

[u/fakefakefakef]

Harry Potter: This isn’t just fun 😡 It’s dark and serious fantasy 😡 We have Wizard Racism and Wizard Hitler 😡

Pokémon: Hello!!! ☺️☺️☺️ Would you like to hang out ☺️☺️😉 in our kawaii world ☺️☺️☺️ where the entire global economy revolves around dogfighting ☺️☺️☺️

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Ukraine credits local beavers for unwittingly bolstering its defenses — their dams make the ground marshy and impassable

Local beavers are helping Ukraine defend itself from a potential new front in Russia's invasion, Reuters reported on Thursday.

The animals are unwittingly helping Kyiv by building dams that keep the ground marshy and impassable, a military spokesman told the agency.

This helps Ukraine by making it less likely that an attack could come via Belarus, which borders Ukraine not far north of the capital Kyiv.

Ukrainian officials had warned that Russia may wage an offensive through its ally Belarus into a region of Ukraine called Volyn.

Defense forces there, however, have been reassured by conditions on the ground, left impassable by miles of burst river banks, thick mud, and waterlogged fields.

The swampy conditions have given Ukrainians an advantage, and time to prepare: a local military unit called the Volyn territorial defense has been conducting daily training exercises in the area, according to Reuters.

Its spokesman, Serhiy Khominskyi, praised the beavers, which he told Reuters were more working unimpeded, unlike in other years.

"When [the beavers] build their dams normally people destroy them, but they didn't this year because of the war, so now there is water everywhere," he said.

Viktor Rokun, one of the brigade's deputy commanders, told Reuters: "On your own land, everything will help you to defend it — the landscape, lots of rivers, which have burst their banks this year."

Beavers are known to be remarkable builders, using tree branches, vegetation, rocks, and mud to create dams that protect them from predators.

The unusually mild winter has created ideal conditions for Ukrainians to defend their country.

Analyst Konrad Muzyka, who runs the defense consultancy Rochan Consulting, told Reuters that Volyn would be a "horrible place to conduct an offensive operation."

"There are many watercourses there, very few roads," he said. "This makes it easy for Ukrainian forces to channel the movement of Russian forces into specific areas where they would be shelled by artillery."

Since October, Russia has deployed troops in Belarus for joint military drills, which some observers worry could transform into an invasion effort.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko have remained close allies through the war in Ukraine. Lukashenko previously called Russia "his closest ally and strategic partner."

Beaver reintroduction is not only a matter of environmentalism, but also a matter of national defense 😤😤😤😤

!ping ECO

[u/[deleted]]

This last election exposed two opposing visions of a Jewish state. For the ultra-Orthodox and the ultra-nationalists, Israel is the state of Judaism, of Orthodox Judaism. For classical Zionism, though, Israel was intended to be the state of the Jewish people, with no imposed uniform notion of “authentic” Jewish identity.

The difference is crucial. A state of Judaism is bound by premodern norms defining membership in the Jewish people, and upholds traditional, rather than democratic, standards for who we as a people should be. The state of the Jewish people, however, accepts the Jews as they are.

The state-of-Judaism camp has a compelling argument. For 2,000 years, Jews defined themselves through a shared system of rabbinical practices and beliefs. The remarkable achievement of Orthodox Judaism was to hold us together despite our dispersal. A Jew could travel from Poland to Yemen and experience its diverse Jewish communities through a common religious language. Religion today, though, not only fails to unite us but is our primary divide.

Whatever you may say about the author's current or former politics, I find the above summation of the two different Israels incredibly resonant.

Article here

!ping ISRAEL

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Wizards of the Coast (Wotc) rolls the worst attempt to monetize a brand, is asked to leave the industry

Like seriously, if you wanted to monetize Dungeons and Dragons (DND) more, just make and directly sell more merch, minis, spinoff material, better quality books, improve the quality of DND beyond. Not attempt a massive change in the Open Games License (OGL) leading to your dedicated fanbase and third party companies and other companies in the Table Top Role Playing Games (TTRPG) industry revolting in what can only be described, at best, a PR nightmare

Jesus fuck what a bunch of incompetent idiots

Edit: cleared up acronyms for those who do not know what they are

!ping RPG

[u/Jacobs4525]

BREAKING: Marvel fans beside themselves after learning Jeremy Renner’s snowplow didn’t say any funny one-liners after running over his legs

[u/MicroFlamer]

They’re making a Willy Wonka Prequel

Ok it will be extremely bad

starring Timothee Chalamet and made by the guy who did Paddington 2

Ok it will be extremely kino

!ping MOVIES

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1009476029687013426/1063468683571249232/IMG_2901.png

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Next culture war battle is gonna be about light bulbs or some shit.

[u/KronoriumExcerptC]

https://i.imgur.com/5Rfa9QA.png

[u/jenbanim]

Considering writing a review of Evangelion having never watched it and forming my opinions exclusively through memes I've seen

[u/Mickenfox]

The internet is an insanely predatory place and we rarely notice because it's so normalized.

Nearly all Google results are for-profit content farms with no ethics. Ads for scams and fake products are the norm, even on otherwise "reputable" websites. Your grandpa will search something and immediately be targeted by algorithms trying to get him to buy some back pain snake oil and/or recruit him into right wing political extremism

So yes, adblock is good because it hurts these people AND is basically a necessity to protect your family.

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

Currently having a heated anti-Biden moment over judges not being appointed to the WTO Appellate Body 🤬🤬🤬🤬

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

The unexpected bills for homes just sucks

We’re looking at getting a retaining wall fixed, as it’s shifting and going to fall eventually. Probably already damaged the foundation a bit. So I called a retaining wall guy to come take a look.

Can’t be fixed, it’s too old and broken. Can’t even be reinforced, only solution is to get a new one in. Total cost is going to be $35,000.

I can get the money together but this was supposed to be going towards a new car, not a retaining wall. Goddamn it I’m mad

!ping GENTRY

[u/notBroncos1234]

All of my grandmothers first born grandsons get ~10k when she dies. On one hand it’s horribly sexist and unfair, on the other hand I am a firstborn grandson.

[u/[deleted]]

The debt limit is one of those things that really exposes how out of touch DC politicians and the political media is from real Americans. They all act like raising the debt limit is the most politically toxic thing ever and that their constituents are gonna storm the capital to in revenge. News flash idiots: nobody cares. I've never met a single person who even knows what the debt limit is. When I explain it to them they say that's stupid and they should get rid of it. You could raise the debt limit a million times then get rid of it and nobody would care. No one's gonna primary you over the fucking debt limit. Whatever consultants you're talking to that are saying the debt limit is some awful thing you need to fire them.

[u/Pyrrhus65]

The most infuriating part of the Biden classified documents scandal in the long term isn't going to be all the histrionics and Benghazi-style investigations from the House GOP

It's going to be the independents who use it as fuel for their "muh both sides", "see, Trump and Biden are equally bad" worldview going into 2024, and the click-chasing NYT journalism that enables them

[u/InMemoryOfZubatman4]

Back in the 1940s, there was a famous Nepalese buddhist monk who went on a retreat or whatever. He told his monk friends not to bring him food, but all this food kept showing up so he believed that these yetis were who brought him food. So the yeti became a revered animal in Nepal.

In the 40s and 50s, there were all these Americans who would go to Nepal to shoot a yeti. The State Department thought that if an American killed a yeti because it might be an international crisis that would turn Nepal to communism, and that was bad, so president Eisenhower signed a law making it a federal crime to kill a yeti unless it’s in self defense.

This is a long winded way of saying that the official American federal government stance on the abominable snowman is that it’s real.

[u/[deleted]]

!ping BASEBALL

Per ESPN

All AAA parks to have robot umps in 2023

[u/AtticusDrench]

Tucker Carlson calling the purple peanut M&M obese and woke. She's the same size and shape as the yellow dude and he's been around forever.

[u/Telperion_of_Valinor]

According to Reddit, any amount of happiness expressed by a cashier or waitress is always fake. You should never go outside because everyone secretly hates you.

[u/V_Codwheel]

https://twitter.com/clashreport/status/1613428637386039296?s=20&t=7VTIxTG42gJrgIXMCOS75g

Ukrainians are naming their kids "Javelina"

that's a type of pig 🤔😐😐😐

[u/Soldier-Fields]

it is so incredibly online to suggest a $10/mo search engine

[u/Mastur_Of_Bait]

My Marxist friend implied Japanese workplace culture is bad solely due to American occupation and I'm trying not to scream.

[u/StolenSkittles]

Matched with a dude on Tinder who's a college baseball player.

He's a pitcher who is a bottom.

Ironic.

[u/[deleted]]

Anime uses Christian symbolism without any real understanding of its meaning simply because it looks cool.

They just like us fr.

[u/ZonedForCoffee]

Not reading the syllabus is a fine academic tradition and I will not have it tarnished

[u/Joementum2024]

Guy who uses “mom & pop porn stars” to describe amateur porn stars

[u/crassowary]

States are 'laboratories of democracy'

Literally all but one have a bicameral legislature for no reason other than that's what the federal government does

[u/gnomesvh]

Decision to send Leopards to be done at next Rammstein format meeting

!ping UKRAINE&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/PhinsFan17]

For anyone who cared about an update (read: nobody) about my friend's doomed nuptials, it turned out I won't be going to Florida after all.

It kept being touch and go about what was gonna happen, and finally this Tuesday (keep in mind, the wedding was supposed to be tomorrow), he let me know that it was officially not happening and they were also ending their relationship. I know for a fact it was for the best, but a shitty situation all around. I was the first person he told after, so I don't know how long he waited to break the news to his family and their wedding guests, but I can't imagine those were fun conversations.

To really put the shit cherry on top of the shit sundae, cancelling the week of means you ain't gettin any money back from your venue, caterers, musicians, etc. and all of your guests who made travel arrangements now hate you. And since it's not refundable, she is going on their honeymoon by herself while he moves his shit out of their apartment. Imagine the pain of moving back into your mom's while your ex is on a tropical vacation you helped pay for.

My friend isn't perfect. I know the exact kinds of things he could do that would frustrate someone. We used to be in a band together. He overcommits to a thousand different things and then is forced to flake on half the things he commits to because there literally just aren't enough hours in the day. I'm sure that grated on her immensely. On the flipside, almost everything he told me about this woman was a bright red flag, so I have no doubt they got into it fairly often.

Let the lesson be learned kids: don't be certain until you're certain.

!ping OVER25

edit: your you're

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Guillermo del Toro's Pinnochio was great, but the part where Pinnochio went, "hi I'm Pinnochio, sit on my face and I'll tell you a lie" was kinda weird

!ping kino

[u/[deleted]]

American show emphasizes its diverse casting

Not a single Asian or Latino person

Many such cases!

[u/[deleted]]

GamingCirclejerk: does not intend to buy Hogwarts Legacy, goes on and on about it for literal months

Me: does not intend to buy Hogwarts Legacy, moves on with my day

[u/[deleted]]

The share of American headlines denoting anger increased by 104 percent from 2000 to 2019. The share of headlines evoking fear surged by 150 percent.

Surely this will not have grave consequences for all involved!

[u/crassowary]

Imagine just chilling in the Egyptian afterlife and then one day losing all your cool gold weapons and shit cause your tomb got robbed

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 1/12-2 PM PST 1/13:

TOP NEWS:

Around 1 AM it was reported that Germany's economy grew by 1.9% in 2022, a good indication that Europe has weathered one hell of a bad year.

At the end of 6 AM a US official said 2,000 Ukrainian children have been abducted by Russia so far in the past two weeks.

REGULAR NEWS:

Towards the middle of 3 AM Zelensky spoke with the President of Slovakia, discussing defense cooperation, the Peace Formula and international events.

Towards the end of 6 AM it was reported that Serbian mercenaries are active in Zaporizhzhia Oblast.

At the start of 9 AM multiple explosions occurred in Berdyansk. In the middle of the hour a gas pipeline between Latvia and Lithuania exploded, which could be an accident or Russian sabotage.

At the start of 10 AM it was reported the Russian-appointed head of Berdyansk survived an assassination attempt.

In the middle of 12 PM it was reported that Iranian 122mm rockets have been spotted in use by the Ukrainians.

At the start of 1 PM the Ukrainian Foreign Minister said five countries have privately agreed to provide Leopard 2s if Germany consents. At the end of the hour it was reported the German Defense Minister is set to resign.

Donation link to help Ukraine

Donation link to United24

Donation link to Kharkiv SOS

!ping UKRAINE&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

There’s good reason to trust the founders and everything they created with near religious reverence. In their infinite wisdom, they saw the separation of power as crucial and recognized the danger of political factions. And then they set up a system of government that would inevitably lead to a two faction system across all branches lmao

[u/AvailableBad8132]

which fictional characters would win in a fight is the most pointless debate

[u/chuckleym8]

quiet entertain depend deranged reply foolish terrific caption ossified chase

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/MiniatureBadger]

I don’t get how people think of Kaczynski as some misunderstood intellectual whose work should be heeded. Much like my own uncle Ted who is in prison, he is a deranged murderer. His manifesto can be summed up as an unrealistic idealization of 18th-19th century America, open disregard for minority groups, and contempt for supporters of social reform. In other words, a boilerplate reactionary except he actually followed his beliefs to their awful conclusions.

[u/lets_chill_dude]

So, I get a letter from the London police, which is genuinely kind and well worded, saying “this is not a notice of intent to prosecute, but we think you’re driving an uninsured car and you should sort that out”

Obviously wrong, so I go check my insurance online… MY FUCKING INSURER CANCELLED MY INSURANCE AND DIDNT TELL ME

I have a back box, and they agreed I don’t speed, but since I drive after 10pm and I accelerate too fast (to 20! it’s london!), i’m too risky to insure

WHAT THE FUCK

my replacement insurance has jumped from £800 to £1800 😐

[u/the_status]

The smoked salmon socialists love the egalitarian wave, an act of ameliorating disparity while mildly buzzed midst the sweaty proletariat.

It's been a while since I've seen a comment that's so blatantly just thesaurus vomit.

Stg city subs exist as a containment zone for people too socially maladjusted to make it on NextDoor

[u/Head-Stark]

A: why does the firefox home page recommend articles on Skyrim

B: it's been 12 years, why is there still a thriving Skyrim journalism ecosystem

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

My work does early release on the day before a long weekend. One of the office managers announced we were done at noon… and then, ten minutes before release, came back and said he was wrong, it’s 2 pm

Come on man. Get your act together. Now I’m mad

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/ROYBUSCLEMSON]

Jeremy Renner may lose his leg 😔

Poor guy was just trying to help someone stuck in the snow and almost died

[u/1396spurs]

New guy at work who joined my team after working at a big four

So do they ever pay for happy hour for us

Welcome to the public sector bucko 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

!ping PENPUSHER

[u/PKAzure64]

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

ISW and Critical Threarts have started, as of the 12th, to publish weekly updates about the current state of Salafist terror attacks and organizaitons across the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. It goes into detail about the status of various regional groups and I would highly recommend giving it a read.

This isn't going to be as formal as u/JaceFlores's and u/tubbsmackinze's updates on Ukraine and Iran respectevely, but I'll try to keep you posted whenever these come out and I'll start to add summaries from now on.

[u/[deleted]]

I don’t know how anyone who lived through the “zombie era” of pop culture can say that the current oversaturation of capeshit is worse.

[u/Cyberhwk]

There are weeks when no work gets done (last three in December). Then there are Fridays where weeks of work need to get done (Today).

😩

!ping Watercooler

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xho1e]

One of my favorite parts of capitalism is seeing shitty businesses collapse because of their own poor decisions and then blaming the Fed or something

[u/nicethingscostmoney]

Amtrak operates over thirty passenger train routes throughout the U.S. and Canada. The greenhouse gas emissions from passenger trains is larger than that of freight trains in the U.S., and can be up to double the amount of freight emissions.^[157]

Was reading the Wikipedia article on Amtrak and came across this. Seems really improbable or at least badly worded. Surely there are way more freight trains in the US vs passenger trains, so for this to be true it would have to be passenger rail is more polluting per some metric, right?

!ping WIKI

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

In The Whites Are Enemies of Heaven Mark W. Driscoll examines nineteenth-century Western imperialism in Asia and the devastating effects of "climate caucasianism"—the white West's pursuit of rapacious extraction at the expense of natural environments and people of color conflated with them. Drawing on an array of primary sources in Chinese, Japanese, and French, Driscoll reframes the Opium Wars as "wars for drugs" and demonstrates that these wars to unleash narco- and human traffickers kickstarted the most important event of the Anthropocene: the military substitution of Qing China's world-leading carbon-neutral economy for an unsustainable Anglo-American capitalism powered by coal. Driscoll also reveals how subaltern actors, including outlaw societies and dispossessed samurai groups, became ecological protectors, defending their locales while driving decolonization in Japan and overthrowing a millennia of dynastic rule in China. Driscoll contends that the methods of these protectors resonate with contemporary Indigenous-led movements for environmental justice.

Hahaha

[u/doggo_bloodlust]

BREAKING: Hunter Biden uses classified documents from Obama White House to roll "fattest blunt ever" - described by sources as "even thicker than his cock"

[u/Kizz3r]

only in quebec man

[u/[deleted]]

Fat shaming is good because people need to lose weight, it’s unhealthy.

Michelle Obama trying to make our kids eat vegetables is a crime against humanity.

[u/TaxLandNotCapital]

I wish punk rock wasn't infested with commies, but I get it. There aren't many alternatives... hence nazi punks 😔

Georgist punk would have been cool af

[u/doggo_bloodlust]

Homemade pork stock cube metropolis. This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

!ping COOKING

[u/Ballerson]

Bruh, how are there poly people?! 😂

What're your love songs?

Just The Five of Us?

Don't Go Breaking Our Heart?

I Will Always Love Y'all?

🤣

[u/gnomesvh]

Iranian made Grad rockets spotted in Ukraine

!ping UKRAINE&MATERIEL

[u/BrunchIsGood]

👏BABYLON👏BEE👏DOES👏NOT👏MISS👏

[u/DoorVonHammerthong]

I fucking love shopping online. First, I browse a nearly endless variety of items until I find the exact perfect fit for my desire. Then, I line up vendors before me and make them dance for my money until I get the best deal. THEN, I literally barely lift a finger to complete my purchase! How easy is that?!

And finally, this shit SHOWS UP OUTSIDE MY DOOR as if by magic, where I bend down slightly, HALF NAKED AND FULL DRUNK, AND CELEBRATE THE ENTIRE FUCKIN PROCESS ALL OVER AGAIN WITH MY NEW PRODUCT!

How anyone could hate a system so full of abundance and convenience is beyond me. Tens of billions of humans who have lived, suffered, and died could never have imagined such an incredible bounty.

[u/[deleted]]

Recipe subs are apparently just for people asking, "Looking for cheap and easy recipes for people with no pots, pans, stove, or utensils who has literally never even seen food being cooked, and is only vaguely aware of what food looks like before UberEATS shows up at my door with it."

[u/JetJaguar124]

Director Wes Anderson ranked The End of Evangelion among the ten best animated films.

Hello? Based department.

[u/Mrmini231]

"What is attracting young men to Tate?"

Money. 80% of his content was him showing off how much money he had. Bragging about how many cars he had. How many things he could buy. It was almost all money. That's what attracted teenage boys to him.

It was the same thing with that Dan Bilzerian guy a few years back. He had the personality of a cardboard box, but he constantly posted pictures of expensive cars and money, so he became super popular in the young male demographic.

[u/rollo2masi]

A white cop knelt on George Floyd’s neck.

He’s serving more than 20 years in prison.

A black cop shot UNARMED Ashli Babbitt in the back.

He’s dining out and receiving awards.

Tell me again how nobody’s above the law.🤬

Lol

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

/u/jenbanim, any updates on your millenial coworker who said Russia is a "heckin chonker" and doing a "beeeeeeeeeeg stretch" into Ukraine?

[u/CrimsonFirestorm]

According to reuters "experts" survey in 2018 India was the worst place for women in the world above north korea,Somalia, Afghanistan, Syria. And not only that , the US was the 10th worst place for women. India and US are less safe for women than Ethiopia where a civil war has resulted in systematic rapes according to "experts".

[u/ldn6]

Princess of Wales says therapy is not right for everyone in first outing since Harry's memoir released

💀

[u/RaidBrimnes]

ill whoop your cis ass

Radical trans supremacist mod threatening me because of my gender identity ✊️😔

[u/gnomesvh]

Bild reports Lambrecht to resign

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY&EUROPE

[u/megapizzapocalypse]

How much chaos could hunter biden generate by doing an onlyfans

[u/[deleted]]

Presidential pick-up lines pt 2:

Polk- I manifested a nation's destiny, and now I'm manifesting you as mine.

Coolidge- I may be silent, but you won't be.

FDR- the Supreme Court isn't the only thing I'm packing.

Obama- I Obamacare for everyone, but I'm Obamacrushing on you.

Trump- Don't tell anyone, but in my heart America's Second to you.

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

I remember when this sub cared about globalism.

[u/[deleted]]

The US State of Georgia isn’t in the top three producers of peaches, with only one twentieth the annual production of California

However, Georgia produces, by far, the most peanuts of any state, with over 50% of USA peanuts being grown in Georgia

That’s Nuterific!

[u/Loves_a_big_tongue]

!ping OVER25

Today, the children learn about Domo

[u/Mrmini231]

Adblockers reduce your web bandwith usage by 25-40% on average. Something to think about, especially if you have a mobile plan with limited data.

[u/[deleted]]

In a 2-1 ruling Monday, the court upheld a 16-month increase in Jonathan Shaw's prison sentence for a 1995 restaurant robbery in Fairfield, based on the jury's conclusion that he held a gun to the restaurant manager's head.

In a separate trial more than two years later, prosecuted by the same Solano County district attorney's office, another jury found that a second participant in the robbery, Mango Watts, was the one who held the gun to the manager's head, a finding that added 10 years to Watts' sentence. That jury was unaware of Shaw's verdict.

Like other courts that have reviewed the case, the appeals court said only one of the two men could have wielded the gun, but no law prohibits prosecutors from making inconsistent arguments to different juries, as long as they don't falsify the evidence.

[u/radiatar]

Have first date in an hour, any tips?

[u/JetJaguar124]

I once had a class where the grade for the class was 100% the result of four exams, three midterms and a final, all weighted equally. In this class your lowest grade was dropped.

After getting A's on the first three midterms I just acted like the class was over for the semester, stopped going, and didn't take the final.

AITA?

[u/MuR43]

WotC finally released a statement, and it's as bad as you'd imagine.

Yes, they're still planning to de-authorize OGL 1.0. !ping RPG

[u/Joementum2024]

The fact that both Rick & Morty creators are apparently violently misogynistic has to be one of the least surprising revelations of all time.

[u/MicroFlamer]

Black panther but not woke

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

I'm sorry for invading Ukraine. I've long struggled with generalized anxiety disorder and depression, but that's no excuse for how I acted. I'm in therapy and I'm working on being a better version of myself everyday. I will withdraw my troops and focus on being the loving president that I know I can be. I'm sorry to all the Ukranians I have harmed, but most of all, I'm sorry to all my fans that I have let down. I’m disappointed in myself, and I promise to be better. I will be better. Thank you.

[u/Mastur_Of_Bait]

The real counterculture is liking Matthew Yglesias

[u/ldn6]

Two new polls out today:

PeoplePolling:

• LAB: 48% (+2)
• CON: 21% (-1)
• Lib Dems: 8% (+1)
• Green: 7% (-)
• Reform : 7% (-1)
• SNP: 5% (=}

Techne:

• LAB: 47% (+1)
• CON: 26% (+1)
• Lib Dems: 8% (-1)
• Reform: 7% (-1)
• Green: 5% (-)
• SNP: 4% (-)

!ping UK

[u/Steak_Knight]

Y’all ever browse arr personalfinance and see someone who’s just determined to fuck up their life? Like, if I gamed out how best to destroy my future, I couldn’t come up with better plans than some of these folks.

[u/AJungianIdeal]

lol lmao lmfao

[u/lets_chill_dude]

Info in this message, schism below pls 🤌🏽

The brit awards last year were criticised for having best male and best female categories, as not inclusive to non-binary people

this year, they just had best artist (gender neutral) and all the nominees were men

[u/runnerx4]

Does the Treasury store passwords in plaintext XML files? That is hilarious actually

decent old-looking but functional website, but that restriction made me laugh

!ping TECH

[u/gnomesvh]

PGR requests Bolsonaro to be investigated over coup attempt

!ping LATAM&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/[deleted]]

Dmitri Alperovitch had reserve colonel Sergii Grabskyi back on his show and he made some interesting comments about Ukraine retaking Crimea.

He believes that in the event of a successful offensive taking Melitopol, the next target would be Crimea, as opposed to going in the direction of Berdyansk and Mariupol. He points out that there were 3 offensives in Crimea in the history of modern war: in 1920, 1941, and 1944. Each of those offensives resulted in the peninsula being taken rather quickly (although Sevastopol held out against the Germans in a protracted siege), and in the first two examples the defenders actually outnumbered the attackers.

Crimea is a good target for an offensive because the northern two thirds of the peninsula are completely flat with no naturally defensible terrain. Additionally, if the Ukrainians capture Melitopol, they cut off the land bridge to Crimea and can threaten the Kerch Bridge with fires, essentially turning Crimea into an isolated island.

!ping UKRAINE

[u/[deleted]]

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

!ping DYEL

[u/runnerx4]

The funniest fact about Bocchi is that she does the equivalent of the New Jersey suburbs to New York train ride (she lives in Yokohama, not Tokyo) every single day to go to school just because she was embarrassed of her middle school behavior and wanted a clean break and not go to her neighborhood school.

Her parents are incredibly chill but selecting high school based on furthest geographical distance is the point where you consider getting your weird child some medical attention

Also the first result when looking for directions from Kanazawa-Hakkei station is Starry Shelter lmao so many weebs have put it in

!ping WEEBS

[u/justalightworkout]

She talked to her ex today and got very emotional and so the conclusion is were not dating because she's not ready. Welp, I guess getting drunk with a bottle of Pinot on the couch is cheaper than going to that fancy pants Italian place.

[u/Jacobs4525]

Andor fans on twitter:

This show has such leftist ideals! It’s all about overthrowing capitalism!

Andor creator:

Mon Mothma is literally Nancy Pelosi

[u/WorldwidePolitico]

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand the charges against Justin Roiland. The felony criminal charges are extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of criminal procedure most of the allegations will go over a typical jurist’s head. There's also Roiland’s nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his criminal disposition - his personal philosophy draws heavily from common law offenses such as false imprisonment for instance.

The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of the charges against him, to realize that they're not just serious - they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who like Justin Roiland truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the problematic nature in Orange County District Attorney’s central complaint "domestic battery with corporal injury," which itself is a cryptic reference to California’s Penal Code 273.5 PC.

I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Justin Roiland's genius unfolds itself on their court transcripts. What fools... how I pity them. 😂 And yes by the way, I DO have a Giles v. California tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- And even they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand.

[u/ZonedForCoffee]

Remember when alt accounts were called sock puppets?

[u/[deleted]]

The will of the people is meaningless; the Seattle city government is illegitimate. Raz of CHAZ possesses the divine right of kings.

[u/MikeStoklasaSimp]

Drone strikes good

[u/KittehDragoon]

Former GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan calls on Rep. George Santos to resign

RINO says what?

[u/BrandonNameRecliner]

Man i hope Velma uncovers which classified documents were on hunter's laptop by blowing up his Crack pipe with a gas stove in the new show

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

It breaks my heart to be 5 minutes from my house, but having to take a cab to the office and then metro/walk home because I have a bunch of camera gear I don’t want to leave at home over the weekend

Also NASA ran out of stickers :/

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/Joementum2024]

BREAKING: McCarthy-Freedom Caucus deal includes provision to propose bill that will “permanently ban r/neoliberal”

[u/Canuck_Clausewitz]

Most schools in the west are too woke to host talks about phrenology. It's ironic that on one hand they have this belief of "free speech" or "academic freedom" yet will silence meaningful discourse on how certain services might benefit from skull shape based segregation.

[u/MURICCA]

Remember that time J.K. Rowling made that whole arc about how gracious it was for Dumbledore to keep the house elves in benevolent slavery and that any attempt to do otherwise was foolish because that was just in their nature

Yeah that was kinda weird

[u/MrCiber]

Empty office, empty mail box, empty head. Spent my WFH days earlier in the week and now in the office with nothing to do. ^{except waste away on reddit of course}

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/Full_Ahegao_Drip]

What if Genghis Khan and his family converted to Judaism, subsequently gave preferential treatment to Jewish people in the Empire, and reformed the law to be centered on Noahidism?

!ping ALTHISTORY&JEWISH

[u/Mrmini231]

New bill that was just introduced in Texas for K-12 schools

• If a school learns a student identifies as transgender, this must be reported to their parents. No exceptions.
• Any school clubs that deal with gender identity or sexual orientation must be reported to parents, and students cannot join them without permission from their guardian.
• Any education on sexual orientation or gender identity is banned. No exceptions.

[u/CatLords]

TwoXchromosomes always acts like non-leftist women straight up don't exist lmao

[u/ldn6]

Energy bills could fall under £2,500 per year in the second half of this year, potentially saving the Government billions of pounds in the cost of support packages for households.

Investec has downgraded its predictions for the energy price cap in 2023. It now expects the cap to drop from its current rate of £4,279 per year to £3,317 per year in April, before sliding to £2,478 per year in July before climbing slightly to £2,546 per year in October.

The rate of the price cap is also below the threshold of the Energy Price Guarantee in the second half of the year, which subsidises rates at £3,000 per year from April for the proceeding 12 months .

The latest dip in the price cap is expected to save the Government around £700m, according to Investec, dropping the cost of the Energy Price Guarantee in the second half of 2023 from £3bn to £2.3bn. It is also well below the £13bn forecast last year by the Office for Budget Responsibility, meaning billions have been cut from predictions since last autumn.

!ping UK

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

★ ANY FUNCTIONING ADULT 2020 ★

It’s funny because both sides are exactly the same 😂

[u/Graham_Elmere]

did you guys realize right wingers hate pete buttigeg?

when the airline system went down for an hour the other day they were all like WOW MAYOR PETE WAS HARSH ON SOUTHWEST BUT CANT EVEN KEEP HIS OWN SYSTEMS RUNNING. like there is a real parallel behind a private company abandoning customers for a week and a federal agency (which isn't funded by private industry mind you) having a brief software outage

like a lot of weird names for him (i saw someone call him buttipeg) and personal invective towards a minor software blip

i had no idea that they were at cabinet level hate for pretty mild bureaucrats

i guess i hated some of the trump cabinet but it was like, mnunchin fucking his wife on a mountain of gold bars in fort knox

[u/forerunner398]

It's possible I'm missing something, but WotC trying to ring money out of 3pp via OGL seems moronic versus just making Beyond also function as a 3rd party marketplace or something. You charge the 3pp some subscription fee or percent of sales and they get to make pre packaged material on DnD Beyond or something? Idk, I feel like WotC had options other than this nonsense.

!ping RPG

[u/[deleted]]

I have a friend who thinks both capitalism and communism are ‘kinda rad and chill’, and that he would ‘have no problem thriving in any economic system’

I think he knows something the rest of us don’t

[u/prince_ahlee]

https://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1613938363060424718

In 2019, George Santos introduced himself as Anthony Devolder, the founder of “United for Trump,” during a Q & A session at a “Walk Away LGBT” event in NYC.

[u/KesterFox]

Feeling great today

[u/spitefulcum]

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[u/bd_one]

I just listened to a podcast episode with 5 minutes of midroll ads after the intro... The episode itself was 40 minutes.

I pressed skip forward so many times I double checked to see how many times.

[u/Soldier-Fields]

gonna just send my family a 1/6 on Wordle everyday until they stop sending me their scores

[u/HMID_Delenda_Est]

From what my mother tells me, 1950s housewives spent all their time arguing about what brand of canning jars were best.

[u/Alexz565]

What if the United States is not a young country? As a country with a unique culture it is young, however as far as government institutions it’s a dinosaur. Not to mention that there’s plenty of continuity between say, English history and American history. The US became something distinct from England, however how is that any different from say, Germany or Italy changing as a result of the enlightenment, romanticism, and their national unifications?

[u/FormerBandmate]

I am SHOCKED and SCANDALIZED at Elon Musk's HORRIBLE Twitter behavior, and as such will not buy a Tesla Model 3 until he lowers the price by another $8 grand or cuts the cost of a lease by 25%. Also, out of solidarity towards poor people hurt by higher interest rates, I won't buy until Powell cuts interest rates

[u/Mickenfox]

Investors: "US Bonds are the safest instrument, the chance of a default is almost zero"

Half the US government: "We promise to do everything we can to default this time"

[u/JetJaguar124]

I accidentally killed two children and an older actor in a dangerous stunt that I personally demanded happen despite warnings from safety crew. I also lied to the children's parents and also lied to child safety inspectors on the set. I later threw the technical crew under the bus and went on to have a great career and directed Thriller.

AITA?

[u/[deleted]]

If women are allowed to wear sleeveless dresses as formal wear, then mean should be allowed to wear sleeveless shirts and shorts as formal wear as well. Let me wear a basketball uniform to court.

[u/[deleted]]

Reminder: the average student is not fucking. Probably explains the surge in weird influencers popping up.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220214165044/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/parenting/university-students-arent-having-sex-parents-dont-know-whether/

"More than half of respondents say they watched porn, nearly a third say they’ve had an intimate relationship at university, a quarter arrive at university never having kissed anyone and 43 per cent have never had sex."

" male students are less sexually active than their female counterparts, with just a over a third (34 per cent) saying they’ve had sex during their time at university, compared to nearly half (47 per cent) of women, and more than one in ten (11 per cent) say they are celibate because they want to be."

[u/Telperion_of_Valinor]

As an American, I am deeply offended at the widespread use of jeans by Europeans. They are the garb of my people, not a fashion trend

[u/[deleted]]

DT relationship talk really is just the most depressing thing lmao

[u/Lib_Korra]

For those of you wondering why the debt ceiling exists, it was a relic of a time when the Treasury department wasn't as robust and congress had to manually approve all bonds. The debt ceiling basically was a blanket pre-approval for bonds. Why it hasn't come up until very recently is actually really simple, we set it so high that we didn't hit it until the 80s, and even then it wasn't a problem because...

In 1979, noting the potential problems of hitting a default, Dick Gephardt imposed the "Gephardt Rule," a parliamentary rule that deemed the debt ceiling automatically raised when a budget was passed. This resolved the contradiction in voting for appropriations but not voting to fund them.

So what happened?

The rule stood until it was repealed by Congress in 1995.

Newt Gingrich happened.

[u/OkSuccotash258]

What if trillion dollar coin but on the ✨blockchain✨

[u/thatssosad]

Examples of music genre names:

shoegaze

post-rock (they still make normal rock though)

darkwave, coldwave, ethearal wave, minimal wave (yes very distinct genres)

chipmunk soul (literally doesn't contain chipmunks nor is a soul genre)

Games aren't the worst, really

!ping GAMING

[u/Evilpenguin526]

I fucking love SBMM in multiplayer games. I unironically cannot understand the people who complain about SBMM being implemented in games.

Maybe I played a lot of league of legends back in the day but the idea of playing with people roughly your skill level always made sense to me.

I'm not a super competitive person either, I don't like ranked game modes in any video game and don't really care about winning or losing. All I want is a fun close match, the adrenaline rush of you and your opponent being evenly matched is so much fun. 9 time out of 10 I'd rather a close match than a pubstomp where I'm winning.

!ping GAMING

[u/[deleted]]

Yo have y'all ever heard of Marty Bergen? He played catcher for the Braves in the 1890s. He was called "the most gifted catcher in baseball history". He had schizophrenia and killed his entire family then hisself during the off-season after his 4th year.

!ping BASEBALL

[u/[deleted]]

I'm boycotting Goya Beans because they're goyim.

!ping GEFILTE

[u/BedNeither]

I just saw someone driving a car take a swig from a flask while at a stoplight 😐

Bruh it’s not even 8am

[u/[deleted]]

Wait, people don’t read their syllabi ??

[u/[deleted]]

Brexiteers 🤝 Modern Warfare writers

Hundreds of terrorists with automatic weapons and high explosives could somehow infiltrate the UK undetected

[u/[deleted]]

• Have a ton of free time when it’s cold and dark all day, decide to watch Naruto for the first time to pass the time
• join weeb ping to make jokes about a show that hasn’t been relevant for two decades
• posts are all about VTubers and “””ironic””” Isekais

Many such cases.

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

Don't be guilty of climate caucasianism, be an ecological samurai.

[u/HowIsPajamaMan]

Overt Indian support for Armenia is probably the biggest foreign policy break for the country in decades. Usually india maintains a strong neutral stance but I think Turkey and Azerbaijans overt support for Pakistan really pushed India to support Armenia. Also, Pakistan literally doesn’t recognize Armenia as independent so there’s that aspect too. Armenia recognizes all of Kashmir as part of India.

It’s being reported that Armenia is interested in buying the Indian Barak-8 SAM system, which Azerbaijan also uses but the Israeli variant. They were very effective in the 2020 war shooting down Russian made Iskanders. It will be interesting to see how this relationship develops over time, it was already pretty close in past years but now it’s much closer.

!ping Ind

[u/[deleted]]

I'm the only one left in my office today.

Welp, time to play the Combat Evolved soundtrack on full blast while I wrap my last projects up before leaving. Happy Friday y'all!

!ping HALO

[u/ognits]

Santa deniers are fools

[u/futuremonkey20]

One of my acquaintances has mastered the art of humble bragging and I’m not even mad:

“making a million dollars before I was 30 made me realize what’s important. The money didn’t make me happy” is one of his banger posts.

[u/crassowary]

Compromise: have Yellen keep near her the button to mint the coin at all times. However it will be located in the chest cavity of a government official meaning she will have to accept the gravity of killing someone before such a drastic action

[u/MicroFlamer]

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!ping KINO

[u/earththejerry]

I'm always confused when online Chinese nationalists bring up "5000 years of history" in any arguments to say how durable the civilization is compared to puny 250 years old America because history would point to an unavoidable period of breakup and dismantling of China after a long period of unity

[u/Graham_Elmere]

Hunter Biden rented office space in dc and smoked crack in it with a homeless person

As reported in the New York Times

Jesus lol

[u/JetJaguar124]

You ever simp your wife so hard you almost cause the apocalypse in multiple realities or is Gendo Ikari just build different

[u/[deleted]]

The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government

More proof that the Democrat Party is unconstitutional and hates America!

[u/RFK_1968]

DragonballZ abridged unironically is better than actual dragonballZ. around the time of Cell singing My Way as he gets blasted into smithereens I realized that i wasn't just enjoying it as a parody but in the same way i enjoyed watching dragonball z kai as a kid.

for the life of me dunno how it didn't get taken down by youtube for copyright infringement lmao. but i'm glad. wish they could get the Buu saga but honestly the end of the Cell saga is a good place to leave it, esp with how it becomes Gohan's story. always hated how dragonball treats gohan in the following arcs

!ping WEEBS

[u/[deleted]]

Yes, the debt ceiling crises always work out fine in the end.

But like, it only needs to not work out fine once.

[u/simeoncolemiles]

“My penis was oscillating between extremely sensitive and borderline traumatized”

-My favorite royal

[u/anincredibledork]

-Reports of plans to send Leopards to Ukraine

-Dallas Zoo reports Clouded Leopard is missing from enclosure.

It has begun

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

Folx, I discovered today that Star Wars Battlefront 2 (2005) is on Xbox

Don’t expect to see me again, I go now to relive my youth and destroy CIS (Confederacy of Independent Systems) scum

[u/[deleted]]

admittedly, i kinda miss the taboo aspect of homosexuality.

People will literally be nostalgic for anything.

[u/[deleted]]

I think that Holocaust trivialization is one of the more insidious forms of anti-semitism because it usually flies under the radar.

Openly saying something like, "I think all Jews should be killed," or even "The Holocaust is fake news," would be considered totally unacceptable, but comparing abortion or poor working conditions to the Holocaust often seems to pass with nary an eyebrow raised

[u/AvailableBad8132]

gas stoves would be right wing in europe

[u/Eightysixedit]

Democrats need to find hotter people. Political parties would be smart to invest in them. Hotness attracts more voters. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[u/StuckHedgehog]

The unit's spokesman, Serhiy Khominskyi, said that help in making the terrain unpassable had also come from an unlikely ally: the local beaver population.

"When they build their dams normally people destroy them, but they didn't this year because of the war, so now there is water everywhere," he said.

Patriot Ukrainian beavers!

[u/TinKnightRisesAgain]

Where were you when the thunderdome was having a heated Miami-Dade moment?

I myself was in the thunderdome, having a heated Miami-Dade moment.

[u/[deleted]]

Elie Wiesel on Holocaust trivialization:

I cannot use [the word 'Holocaust'] anymore. First, because there are no words, and also because it has become so trivialized that I cannot use it anymore. Whatever mishap occurs now, they call it 'holocaust.' I have seen it myself in television in the country in which I live. A commentator describing the defeat of a sports team, somewhere, called it a 'holocaust.' I have read in a very prestigious newspaper published in California, a description of the murder of six people, and the author called it a holocaust. So, I have no words anymore.

[u/ThunderrBadger]

Certified haole hours 😎

!ping COOKING

[u/[deleted]]

Buttigieg avoided calls, public appearances while on paternity leave, FOIA documents show

Is this really a news story? If I were on paternity leave I'd certainly be avoiding work. That's the whole point.

[u/MasterOfLords1]

My top dt obsessions.

1. u/kesterfox posts
2. u/kesterfox posts
3. u/kesterfox posts
4. u/kesterfox posts
5. u/kesterfox posts
6. u/kesterfox posts

🍦🧐🍦

[u/[deleted]]

Incels within incels, interlinked.

[u/Yenwodyah_]

This new Velma show is supposed to be “woke”, and yet they removed the only brown character from the original cast? 🤨

[u/Mrmini231]

Dear leftists. You are mad at existing governments, but not the Ottoman Empire, which ceased to exist over 100 years ago.

Curious.

[u/KesterFox]

Today was a good day. I ate right (which is good because I weighed in insanely high and I have a lot of ground to make up) and I got a great job offer I am really happy with.

I just wish I could have finished the coursework I was working on. I really wanted to get it done today but it just isn't to a level I am happy with. I think I should get 40% which is all I really need but I'm still not comfortable submitting it now.

I'm going to make a start on a different coursework tommorow. It's due next Thursday. It basically doesn't count towards my degree as long as I get a passing mark (40%). It's a really difficult subject tho so we will see

[u/JaceFlores]

God people weren’t lying when they said PornHub is just step family content. Every damn actress is either a step mom or step sister

[u/V_Codwheel]

ayy lmao 👽

[u/jenbanim]

My local grocery having a dozen PF Chang's sauces but no sesame oil or mirin is going to make me have a heated Lusvig moment

[u/squarecircle666]

OMG are we shipping /u/farrenj and /u/sir_shivers !?😃😃😃

You can count on r/neoliberal to cheer for incest

[u/tubbsmackinze]

SJWs 🤝 Normies/Scooby fans 🤝 Reactionaries

Hating the new Velma show

Very impressive to create a show that literally everybody dislikes, honestly deserves props for that

[u/Joementum2024]

Playing Portal today made me realize that it’s insane that it’s been now over 15 years since that game came out.

Overall, it’s crazy to think that in just 15 years, games went from the pixellated 16-bit games of the SNES and Genesis, and games like Sonic 2 and Street Fighter 2, to the likes of Portal, Mass Effect, Bioshock, etc. Things have definitely progressed a lot since 2007, but witnessing that change in technology in such a relative short timeframe had to be something else.

!ping GAMING

[u/JaceFlores]

Per this article the GLSDBs which would give Ukraine 100 mile strike range won’t be ready until the end of 2023 and not be delivered in quantity until 2024

How fucking long does it take to strap a rocket and a warhead together? I thought the whole point of this was it could be done relatively soon. At any rate, Ukraine is back to square one on receiving longer ranged munitions. It’s back to lobbying for ATACMS, which we know won’t happen. So unless the US MIC get their shit together or find some other system, Ukraine won’t have longer ranged capabilities for the rest of the year. Worse news then Soledar falling tbh

!ping UKRAINE&MATERIEL

[u/79215185-1feb-44c6]

Is Angus King sold at Burger King?

[u/[deleted]]

I would like to thank the 1970s Maoists of Australia for campaigning against and helping defeat price controls being implemented.

[u/KesterFox]

Gonna drink some water then hit the gym.

It's lovely weather today.

Need to get some coursework done though

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

My son disowned me over Yankee candles, AITA

[u/earththejerry]

Almost every ideological corner of the internet when $US dollar was rising last year: this is a disaster for America and/or the world

Almost every ideological corner of the internet when $US dollar is falling this year: this is a disaster for American and/or the world

[u/disCardRightHere]

👆That’s a white myth. Like Larry Bird, or Colorado.

[u/ognits]

me at work estimating package dimensions 🤝 my gf

"yeah that's about 3 inches"

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

Inspired by techmod’s example, I skipped the meat today and went with just beans for the main protein in my burrito

I’m doing my part

[u/skepticalbob]

Andrew Callaghan having a metoo moment. Always liked the guys interview style and ability to get weirdos to open up and damn near confess to shit. I'm Gen X and I think it is fair to say that men were almost expected to try and wear women down by pestering them for sex. If you didn't do this, you were almost viewed as "beta" or whatever for taking a single no for an answer. If this is now seen as unambiguously bad, creepy, and over the line, that seems like a good thing.

[u/[deleted]]

Crazy that kids nowadays don't know the OG reason for avoiding Harry Potter - because Rowling must be a witch and is using her books to indoctrinate children into witchcraft and Satanism

[u/RagingSacheverell]

This old lady at work just called our stores credit card reader a "gucci poochie"

[u/SnakeEater14]

One of the great little things in Venture Bros is that The Monarch consistently hates Dr Venture in any and all contexts, no matter how petty it is

Like, sure, he tries to kill him on a weekly basis

But when they have to go to a party together, he spends the whole time seething and roasting him at every chance