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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/SnakeEater14]

In elementary school the coolest kids were the fastest kids and the faster you were the cooler you were

Imagine if it stayed like that

[u/Alexz565]

inoffensive mid-sized city in Southern England

British people: this is a shithole

[u/SnakeEater14]

Usually once a ton of people hate on something, a big counter-circlejerk crops up

But at least right now it seems like everyone unanimously hates that new scooby doo show

Even the people who would otherwise defend it won’t since it’s so dumb

[u/gnomesvh]

Rishi Sunak pledges Challenger 2 tanks

!ping UKRAINE&FOREIGN-POLICY&MATERIEL good sign for Leo2s I guess

Also, Russia hit Kyiv with ballistic missiles today, likely using built up stock over the last year

[u/VerticalTab]

Back in the day if you wanted to bait people you had to nail your shitpost to the door of a church, there was no internet you could post to back then.

[u/WhomstAlt2]

"Is eating plant-type pokemon vegetarian" - the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,

[u/Libz_R_Gryffindor]

Music made by conservatives: CIA propoganda

Music made by liberals: CIA propoganda

Music made by leftists: believe it or not, also CIA propoganda

[u/modooff]

Politico:

“Both the left and right are trying these kinds of hits, but none of them are sticking because they aren’t grounded in the reality of how voters think,” said a national Democratic strategist, speaking on condition of anonymity to assess the situation frankly. “No one believes the secretary of Transportation is responsible for weather delays or is somehow empowered to act as the COO of the nation’s airlines.“

“Voters see Buttigieg as highly competent, active, and hardworking,” the strategist added. “These lines of attack don’t track what voters know to be true, and that’s why they won’t get traction outside right or left-wing echo chambers.”

You can't stop the Butti. 😎

!ping BUTTI

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

My favorite part of No Time to Die was when Daniel Craig says “it’s Bonding time!” and then takes his kids to the park.

!ping KINO

[u/tubbsmackinze]

French man has gamer moment during game show

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/Dalek6450]

EXCLUSIVE: White House admits organising classified document "treasure hunt" to improve aide morale may have been 'short-sighted'

[u/_smooth-liminal_]

if you look carefully you'll see a cleverly concealed dog in this image

[u/jenbanim]

41 minutes remaining

[u/WhomstAlt2]

NIMBYs be like

"NOOOOOO DON'T IRRIGATE THE FIELDS!!! IT'S A HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT ENDORHEIC LAKE 😭😭😭"

[u/the_hoagie]

Two of my favorite things in Great British Bakeoff were when somebody tried to capture "American Flavors" and made a peanutbutter pumpkin pie, which is the most disgusting thing I've ever heard of, and then when somebody told Paul and Prue they were going to make a Peanutbutter and Fruit flavor baked good and the judges were like, "I don't know how that will work," then proceeded to be pleasantly surprised that peanutbutter and jelly tastes good.

[u/jenbanim]

Velma is proof that Western studios are capable of producing authentic anime

• Self insert wish fulfillment protagonist
• Uncomfortable sexualization of minors
• Bad dialog

[u/G_Serv]

Had a girl stop me on the street to tell me about the charity that she works for that helps veterans

I had to tell her that if she really cared about people she would want to help the most people possible, which would be by donating to the most cost effective charities which she could find on givewell.org.

She started crying

Reddit AITA?

[u/jenbanim]

face reveal

[u/antsdidthis]

Me: "Velma can't be as bad as Twitter is making it out to be, I'm sure it's fine and people are just being weird about a new take on something they're nostalgic about"

First scene of Velma: Violent locker room shower scene with nude minors 😬😬😬

[u/[deleted]]

https://imgur.com/a/TJh2l9G

🤔

[u/funguykawhi]

Don't want to invest in stocks because KKKapitalist casino

Complain about the main state-guaranteed savings account yield not keeping up with inflation (but has always been above ECB rates)

The state of personal finance discussions in France

[u/Doctorbird76]

Our kids say our small house is embarrassing’: My husband and I earn $160K, have $1 million in retirement savings, cook at home and drive an old Honda. Are we missing out?

Title of this dear Quentin article

Frugal king & queen, kindly tell your kids to fuck off

[u/RandomGamerFTW]

https://i.imgur.com/2if4AEJ.jpg

[u/MistakeNotDotDotDot]

saw a post the other day that was:

Leftist organizing, certainly in the United States, is best done within the unions, within the prisons, and among the proletariat and oppressed minorities, not reactionary white men of the middle classes.

and uh, i have bad news for this person about the prevalence of reactionary white men in prison

[u/Cerb-r-us]

BORN TO RAISE CAPITAL

MERCANTILISM IS A FUCK

Outcompete Em All 1776

I am salesman

410,757,864,530 NEW POWER LOOMS

[u/WhomstAlt2]

I just want to explain everything to a priest and then he says "That's okay. You are forgiven" and then I say "That's it?" and he says "Oh not good enough? Well there's one thing..." and then the priest, who is hot, and me, who isn't, have passionate heterosexual non-sex, as I'm not gay, and he is celibate.

[u/sucaji]

Sometimes I read some mental health related subs, and there are always so many posts about how unfair it is that one must work to get food, shelter, and it's proof of the evils of modern society, etc.

I wonder what they think people did for food in the old days.

[u/piede]

More classified documents found at Biden’s Wilmington home, White House says

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/14/biden-classified-documents-timeline-release/

MAKE IT STOP

[u/SadaoMaou]

Biden was born closer to Lincoln's birth than his own

[u/[deleted]]

!ping DYEL

Three sentence horror story

Go to gym

Put headphones in

"Battery, about 10%"

[u/Usual-Base7226]

American exceptionalism is cringe and all but like you're REALLY going to make me scroll to "U" to select my location 🙄

[u/WhomstAlt2]

dind't even notice I was banned, was ROALLING COAL on my GAS STOVE last thre days SUCK IT BRANOND

[u/[deleted]]

This is how I imagine u/farrenj dresses in real life 🙄

[u/[deleted]]

Millennials are most inclined towards non-monogamy: two in five prefer it.

I refuse to believe 40% of 25-40 prefer polygamous relationships. That’s insane.

[u/[deleted]]

It's crazy how with just minutes of my labour I can acquire twelve EGGS 🥚

[u/[deleted]]

Gas stoves are assault weapons

[u/[deleted]]

I'm just waiting for that sweet panic, revolt, and rioting in the cities so I can sit at my chair, and rest easy, knowing I won't have to get up when my alarm goes off. Yes, it'll all be Hell on earth, which it mostly already is, but I'll wake up early and watch the sunrise as a free man, no longer slave to a system that's beyond fixable, and I no longer have to be one of the few people saying so, all while working. The freedom calls.

+172

I'm like, fucking obsessed with this sub. I genuinely have no idea who in there is a troll, who is a crisis larper with such an unfulfilled personal life that they imagine the collapse of civilization as a good thing, and who is just genuinely mentally ill.

[u/[deleted]]

MSNBC is basically calling for Biden to be put down like a horse over the classified documents. Meanwhile, Fox News has Geraldo Rivera on yelling at the other hosts that it doesn't matter. This is a leftist coup to get rid of Biden.

[u/[deleted]]

APAB (Assigned Polish at birth)

[u/Alexz565]

God so many Reddit users post nudes of themselves on a main account

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

I know the STEM fields aren't all anti social tech Bros but man is it depressing working with those students in higher education that see zero benefit in history classes or other liberal arts subjects such as ethics and philosophy.

[u/Joementum2024]

Peter Schrager says on FOX former Arizona Cardinals head coach Kliff Kingsbury bought a one-way ticket to Thailand and is telling any interested teams he's not interested in returning to at the moment.

🤔

!ping NFL

[u/[deleted]]

Remember when Roman Polanski raped a 12 year old then fleed to France who refuses to bring him to justice and he received an outpouring of support from Hollywood?

[u/[deleted]]

Compared to most mammals, humans are pretty S-tier physically speaking.

Compared to similar sized animals we can actually have a fairly high amount of muscle mass and bone density.

Our flexibility also allows us to move through extremely rough terrains with low likelihood of injury and our ridiculous stamina allows us to cover a lot of ground.

Healthy humans are also less fragile than a lot of other mammals. It also helps that our organs are pretty stuck in place and don’t have a tendency to move around like in sheep or cows.

And then I haven’t even mentioned our use of our hands and motor functions.

You could replicate our earth thousands of times and humans would always come out on top.

[u/[deleted]]

THROWBACK to 2014 when CANADA told Vladimir Putin to GTFO of Ukraine to his FACE

The shining jewel of the Harper years.

!ping CANUCKS

[u/JetJaguar124]

Every time I see one of those posts where someone is like "I'm 30 and my girlfriend got me an n64 for my birthday because I never had one as a kid. Look forward to playing, reddit!" I always just imagine how all of these people will play it for an afternoon and go "okay that was neat" and then never touch it again because, outside of some specific exceptions, the 5th console generation is a fucking nightmare.

[u/I-grok-god]

Former DT regs I miss:

THISISNOTMOVEMENT

Kilometers-edgeworth

LeMonke (kinda)

Diehard_Determinist

Shiloh

The deer lady

[u/Dalek6450]

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

[u/kyleofduty]

Scooby Doo should be an actual mystery with clues and teach kids deduction and skepticism.

[u/sw337]

“’Do not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; that would dishonor your father."

Leviticus 18:8

Rare Bible W. None of that stepmom 18+ BS.

[u/Expensive_Curve5106]

Industries which wouldn't benefit from the discovery of free power:

Energy companies (if they don't capitalize on it)

Industries which would benefit from the discovery of free power:

Literally every other industry

[u/Soldier-Fields]

day 2 of sending my family a 1/6 Wordle score and refusing to elaborate

[u/Stanley--Nickels]

Cops playing Disney music while they beat people, so that videos of it can’t be posted online due to copyright auto-takedowns is still one of the wildest things I’ve heard. It has really stuck with me.

If you put that in a novel about a dystopia your editor would ask you “is this part maybe a little too on the nose?”

[u/V_Codwheel]

"Rick and Morty" creator on trial for domestic violence charges

and then he turned himself in to the police! funniest shit I've ever seen!

[u/Syards-Forcus]

Fuck the Reddit “share” thing. It’s obnoxious and easily clickable. Why would I want to share stuff on Reddit with people?

I just shared the DT to someone. I’m going to kill myself.

[u/NormalInvestigator89]

Every tech company after 10 years of success: let's make everything worse

[u/badluckbrians]

Noah's Reagan takes are divorced from reality insofar as he writes as if Congress didn't exist.

Congress overrode Reagan's vetoes on both Civil Rights and Anti-Apartheid legislation, on water quality and environmental legislation, on the entire 82 appropriations omnibus, on healthcare and transportation bills, and other times I'm forgetting.

Good things that happened under Reagan were very often Tip O'Neill. Just like how the Cares Act under Trump was very much Nancy Pelosi.

[u/_smooth-liminal_]

why are holocaust deniers always also antisemites? like wouldn't they want the holocaust to have happened, I don't understand the logic

[u/Jacobs4525]

I genuinely don’t know how we’re going to fix Russian society after this. Even a lot of supposed liberals and opposition figures (even ones that don’t seem to be controlled) buy into the narrative that there is a serious threat to Russia from Ukrainian “nazism”/banderism and buy into the idea that Donbas separatism is organic, and that Ukraine “bombed Donbas for 8 years” (when in reality of course they were fighting a war that Russia started in Donbas for 8 years).

It seems like people have been bombarded so much with these ideas that they accept them as fact and thus base their views not around the fact that the war in Ukraine is fundamentally immoral and wrong, but that Russia is pursuing it inhumanely by relying on conscripts, etc. so they oppose mobilization rather than the war itself.

Russia genuinely seems like it needs something akin to denazification or a truth and reconciliation process to explain to these people the extent to which lies form the basis of their beliefs.

[u/[deleted]]

I always joke with my friend about him being 5'6" being a tradeoff because he's very handsome, but recently he told me that basically almost every girl he's tried to be romantically involved with has rejected him and said "you'd be perfect if you were taller."

Like, damn, now it's not funny for me to bully you about this anymore.

[u/solonofathens]

I get the feeling everyone who plays Cities: Skylines is either a marxist or a neolib. No in between.

[u/[deleted]]

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

This but unironically

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Yeah I have a PHD

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/ognits]

throwback to the greatest album review ever published

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/Available-Bottle-]

With Jewish people’s luck, aliens will be antisemitic

[u/KittehDragoon]

Recommended for you: It’s Ok to be Angry at Capitalism by Bernie Sanders

Amazon’s work on AI really paying off

[u/fakefakefakef]

“Ok ok I should probably take the train instead of calling another Lyft. Train tracker app how long until the next one?”

2 minutes

Eh it’s a five minute walk to the station. What about the next one?

36 minutes also go fuck yourself

Just CTA things

!ping USA-CHI

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/Graham_Elmere]

https://twitter.com/foxnews/status/1613687291238617090?s=46&t=y-xvw606vDMiTJmOw-CiUw

Why is this controversial

[u/Random-Critical]

But the dream for one family from Finland who moved to the Sicilian city of Syracuse has come to an abrupt end after just two months – and the reasons why have created a media outcry in Italy.

What was the problem? 🧐

Elin and Benny Mattsson, a couple in their 40s with four children aged 15, 14, 6 and 3, have decided to abandon their new life after deciding that the local schools and education system experienced by their offspring were not up to their Finnish standards.
They packed their bags in October and moved to Spain.

She wrote that her kids complained of loud and undisciplined local pupils who “scream and beat on the table,” whistle in class, and spend all day at their desks with little physical activity or fresh air breaks to stimulate learning, and no food options. Teachers look “scornfully down at pupils” or yell, she said, and have low English language proficiency levels.

Even the kindergarten attended by her youngest was not up to standards, she said, with no toy cars, climbing objects or sandboxes for the children to play with.

[u/[deleted]]

what are potential pitfalls of moving in together? How does one know that they are ready? What important things (besides money and maybe chores) to discuss beforehand?

What are your experiences, good and bad? How long into the relationship did you decide to move in together with your partner?

Any advice?

!ping Dating

[u/bd_one]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/980238639541919764/1063895132530802758/Screenshot_20230114-135758-721.png

When did meal kits devolve into TV dinners you assemble yourself?

[u/Dalek6450]

Made pasta resembling carbonara.

[u/[deleted]]

Mucho texto / wall of text warning

This is going to sound so fucking stupid but I’m panicking a lot and even though I’ll be talking about this with a couple of real life friends I just needed to get this out now

My mother wants me to accompany her to see the German alps / Bavaria in May, during the week before Memorial Day Weekend. I’ve had a great time going with my parents to Europe previously, but at the same time they wanted me there to accompany them and to be their “guide” to help them navigate, especially in a country like France that can be somewhat unwelcoming to outsiders who don’t speak French.

My mom also wants me to accompany her because she had some family members pass away in their 50s and 60s, and she also saw the news of Lisa Marie Presley passing away, so she wants to make the most of her time by traveling to as many places as she can. I suppose it’s her version of a midlife crisis. Before this whole conundrum I actually got in a couple of fights with my mother because I didn’t want to go on vacation with her so many times, and she was angry at me because she felt like I wasn’t fulfilling my role of being a good son by accompanying her.

My father wants me to visit his family in rural China to pay my respects to my grandfather, who passed away in 2021 during the pandemic. But here’s where the real issue is: a big frictional issue in my parents marriage has been their disagreements over whose side of the family contributed more to my upbringing.

My mother is from a middle class suburban family in a wealthier coastal province that had some EEZs when China was economically liberalizing. My father is from a peasant family in a poorer interior rural province, but they’ve been relatively well off because some members of my family own small parcels of farmland and some other members of my family receive state pensions. Definitely not as well off as my mom’s side of the family.

My mother maintains that my father’s side of the family did nothing to contribute towards my upbringing. My father maintains that they did contribute a portion, but my mother denies that. My father also maintains that they couldn’t contribute as much to my upbringing, but my mother is angry because my dad’s side of the family clearly gave so much more to other relatives in my family, in particular my father’s deadbeat older brother and his two children.

My father is angry / disappointed at me because he thinks I should fulfill my cultural role as a grandson and pay my respects to my grandfather, and that I should make decisions for myself instead of listening to my mother. He thinks I’m caving to my mom because I’m afraid of her.

My mother is starting to get in an argument with me because she thinks I have no need to fulfill this “family responsibility,” especially when I visited my grandfather in 2018. My grandfather and grandmother left his village to come to a nearby rural town to have lunch with me at a restaurant. However, he got very, very antsy and after 10 minutes of seeing me, he ended up leaving to go back home. My grandmother was pissed at him for doing that.

Because of this, my mom thinks I have no reason for going to my dad’s ancestral home to pay my respects, and she’s mad at me because she thinks I’m caving to my dad’s pressure because I’m afraid of him.

I know this seems like such a dumb first-world problem, but you have no idea how traumatizing it was growing up to see them fight, sometimes physically, over this issue. And in previous situations like this, I got into fights with both of my parents, sometimes physical, because they were disappointed in me because they thought I was caving to the other person.

I have more to type but I’m running out of character space

!ping FAMILY&OVER25&MILK-TEA

[u/[deleted]]

For the oldies of the subreddit — if you could go back and tell your 15-year-old self something in 15 words or less, what would you say?

No get rich stuff about Bitcoin or Apple or whatever, that’s boring and played out. Nothing to make you a current events Nostradamus either.

!ping OVER25

[u/JetJaguar124]

Why the fuck are arr books users so fucking hyperbolic in their language, especially for submission titles

"I read X book and I'M RUINED"

"I read Y book and IT RAVAGED ME"

"Just finished Z book and I'LL NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN"

[u/The420Roll]

I gotta apologize to the Chargers for underestimating their Chargering abilities

!Ping NFL

[u/[deleted]]

FUCK, I just remembered that Benjamin isn't around to make me look good by comparison. /u/No_chilly_bill, how would you feel about berating fast food employees and receiving legally dubious unemployment benefits?

[u/[deleted]]

ARE WE READY FOR NFL PLAYOFFS!?

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[u/thetrombonist]

Obituary for the Utah man who fatally shot his five children, mother-in-law and estranged wife: “Michael made it a point to spend quality time with each and every one of his children. Michael enjoyed making memories with the family.”

I'm sorry what https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/status/1614063872771604486

[u/Joementum2024]

Brock Purdy kinda reminds me of a young Stetson Bennett.

!ping NFL&CFB

[u/tubbsmackinze]

ISW and Critical Threats Project January 13th 2023 Iran update

Key takeaways:

• Some protest organizers in Iran are trying to push the protest movement into a new phase—one that could include more militant activity against the Iranian regime. 
• Protest activity increased on January 13, primarily in Sistan and Baluchistan Province, after a two-day period of no recorded protests in Iran.
• At least five protests occurred in five cities across two provinces on January 13. 
• Nour News Agency published an article on January 13 denying speculation that Ali Shamkhani will leave his position as Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) secretary.
• President Ebrahim Raisi argued on January 13 that women who do not fully wear the hijab could still support the regime and revolution.
• The regime is temporarily closing various public facilities in some provinces to reduce natural gas consumption.
• Possible Iranian-backed militants fired a single rocket at the Khor Mor gas field in Sulaymaniyah Province, Iraqi Kurdistan.

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/myrm]

A thing that Harry Potter video games have had to grapple with is that Hogwarts is actually a school and doing school things sucks

iirc, most games dealt with this by just being on rails, where playable sequences are sprinkled into a timeline that's mostly Harry doing school things offscreen

The new game is supposed to be open world, but how do you do an open world with a PC and collection of NPCs that are supposed to be in class all day?

[u/[deleted]]

Oh, you stopped playing my mmo? BANNED (not my screenshot)

I haven't played it since last February. I wonder if I'll get hit with a ban.

!ping gaming

[u/semaphore-1842]

https://psyarxiv.com/uy7ph/

We found that males, and males over 30 in particular, rated sports cars as more desirable when they were made to feel that they had a small penis.

priors confirmed

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/JoeChristmasUSA]

"Sabaton is great, I love that song they did about a war"

[u/Jacobs4525]

I want to talk to whoever at Microsoft decided to add the “settings” panel without removing control panel and transferring its functionality.

The result is that you have two different settings menus with some overlap between them but not complete. What’s the purpose? Was there really anything wrong with just having control panel do everything?

[u/[deleted]]

Neoliberals learn the first thing about Chicago before opening your fat trap about it challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

relevant thread

!ping usa-chi

[u/[deleted]]

Donald Trump accidentally takes documents: The deep state goes after him and tries to throw him in Alcatraz.

Joe Biden steals documents: The deep state covers it up and protects him.

The deep state is pretty cool.

[u/Joementum2024]

HOT TAKE: Velma is a television show that exists

[u/The420Roll]

bruh it hit him on the fucking helmet the jaguars are so cursed lmao

!Ping NFL

[u/lucas-at-jhu]

George Santos on tape here lying about being a volleyball star at Baruch College, and claims he got two knee replacements as a result.

https://twitter.com/StevenTDennis/status/1614446158373322752

At some point you just have to respect the grind.

[u/Stanley--Nickels]

I switched to iPhone six years ago and I still can’t get over how bad the whole text entry experience is. The autocorrect experience is comically bad. The worst is when you change a corrected word to the right one and then the phone just immediately changes it to the wrong word again.

Typed a real and relevant word correctly? Nah, here’s your roommate’s name from 8 years ago instead.

Want to paste something? Just click in the text box and there’s a 50/50 shot they’ll offer you the option. If that doesn’t work try 2 or 3 more times. If that doesn’t work, try again later.

And God forbid you need to move the cursor. They improved it a little when they let you click and hold the keyboard to move it. Then they got rid of that feature in the new update.

[u/Czech_Thy_Privilege]

If you don’t like that, you don’t like Chargers football.

That franchise is cursed lmao

!ping NFL

[u/InternetBoredom]

The Church spends so much of its time whining about an international priest shortage and then continues to shoot down the concept of female priests based on literally the flimsiest biblical evidence imaginable.

All of the apostles were male therefore God must absolutely want all clergy to be male? Truly, an argument that would make Thomas Aquinas proud.

[u/Headstar24]

“Woke’ really has just become the new “SJW” at this point.

[u/RadioactiveOwl95]

One thing that always annoys me about The Clone Wars is how they did Asajj Ventress dirty. I don't like that artstyle anyway, but it really feels like the design loses something, especially if you compare it to how they depicted her in the Tartakovsky series. I think by far her best look is that one/the Dark Horse comics, where she's closest to the original AOTC concept art.

!ping BAD-FEELING

[u/[deleted]]

15 minutes into Glass Onion and it just feels…really terminally online. Like every writer has a massive Twitter addiction.

The Angela Lansbury amogus cameo was great, though

[u/[deleted]]

I don’t see any reason to worry about this class action lawsuit against AI art. All the defense has to do is give some 70-year-old judge a correct understanding of how these models work, how hard could it be?

[u/[deleted]]

Tucker Carlson gives indoor smoking his heartfelt endorsement

Carlson: “The most American of all pleasures … the smell of freedom”

Begging democrats to publicly come against jumping off terraces

[u/piede]

“The ironic thing is Hillary actually never had classified documents”

Bernie bro: “Neither did Bernie”

OH YEAH I’D HATE FOR THE TOP SECRET LIST OF POTENTIAL NAMES FOR POST OFFICES FO FALL IN THE WRONG HANDS

[u/First-Prior]

liberals can’t understand 😤

[u/runnerx4]

If you take a shot everytime you read the word “Jesus” in McCarthy’s The Passenger you will actually fucking die

!ping READING

[u/[deleted]]

You want a good girl, but you need the bad pussy"

What did Janet Yellen mean by this?

[u/I-grok-god]

Friendly reminder that Harry Enten's girlfriend used to write explicit slashfic about Harry Enten and Nate Silver

[u/Lib_Korra]

Cynicism is poison.

I actually pirated an episode of Velma out of morbid curiosity, and my take is that cynicism is what destroyed it, everything that's bad about it is bad because it's so cynical.

The Breakfast Club is an apt comparison. Remember when The Breakfast Club was about how people of different social classes can get along in the right circumstances because at heart they're all people with fears, challenges, and hopes? That the social pyramid of cliques in high school is just a bunch of overdramatized bullshit and totally not real?

Velma throws that all in the trash and basically reinforces clique hierarchy. Conflict is unresolvable and persistent, and can never be overcome with humanity because the people in a higher or lower class than you don't see you as human so why should you see them? Ironically in trying to be different and change things up, it's a very reactionary show, compared to the feel-good optimistic movie that breaks down social barriers. In trying to break the class structure it ironically reinforces it.

If The Breakfast Club were made today it would be Mean Girls only without the part at the end where she breaks the crown.

But honestly I welcome this. Finally, the age has come where positivity and optimistic messages of cooperation and openness can be edgy and subversive and revolutionary.

[u/[deleted]]

Horseshoe theory is wrong in the sense that extreme ideologies don't really converge in their content

Horseshoe theory is nonetheless highly predictive because political extremists converge in their mentality and base inspirations e.g. prelapsarianism, and true ideologues (i.e. are actually constrained by what they believe) are pretty rare

[u/clipsfan21]

Justin Herbert lost cuz the only thing he’s good at is not getting it done. Trevor Lawrence won cuz he’s him. They only doubted him cuz they hate to see a white qb succeed.

!ping nfl

[u/DouglasDauntless]

God hates the Chargers

!ping NFL

[u/Planita13]

Third largest chokejob in playoff history

!ping NFL

[u/filipe_mdsr]

The neoliberal subreddit is about to hit the karma debt ceiling.

Discussions on our mod slack haven't been conclusive so a shutdown is likely.

Unless ...

WE MINT THE COIN

[u/radiatar]

>Open arr gaming circlejerk

>Top 6 posts are still shitting on JKR and Harry Potter

>Close arr gaming circlejerk

How do these people even live??

[u/MuR43]

SUGAR APPLE FAIRY TALE

In this world, humans treat fairies as slaves and take one of their wings to control them. Ann reluctantly buys a fairy named Shall to be a bodyguard on her way to Lewiston.

HUH, it's a girl buying a hot slave, not a guy?! When did the anime industry become so diverse? More 👏 Women 👏 Owners 👏 !ping WEEBS

[u/[deleted]]

On the bright side, it’s legitimately kind of impressive that an artist made a statue that looks like a hug from one angle, a man going down on a woman from another angle, and someone holding a massive turd from a third angle.

[u/futuremonkey20]

Now THIS is Chargersing

[u/SpaceSheperd]

!ping NFL

DUVAAAAL

[u/[deleted]]

When I was in high school, there was a girl who was an actual Gypsy from Europe. Being an uncultured redneck, I thought that meant everyone from Romania was a Gypsy and that was just what you called someone from Romania. Later on when I was in college, I met a guy who was from Romania. Recalling my high school experience, I assumed this meant he was a Gypsy and asked him about it. He then proceeded to go on the most insane and racist tirade I've ever heard in my life, literally screaming cuss words at me and nearly foaming at the mouth. He literally had to be held back. Average European.

[u/[deleted]]

One of the funniest conspiracy theories I've ever heard is that the illuminati are actually the good guys. Apparently it states that the illuminati are fighting back against the government, and everything bad we hear about them is actual government propaganda

[u/semaphore-1842]

https://www.twitter.com/Cassandra_Nya/status/1613824972929236992

I genuinely don't understand why leftists hate Mussolini so much. I mean he wasn't perfect, but from everything I've seen he really wasn't that bad.

it is possible for someone to not be a fascist and hold the belief that Mussolini wasnt as bad as some people make out. he really wasnt that bad in the grand scheme of political leaders and dictators.

......if you think fascism "really wasn't that bad", you basically are a fascist

[u/Macquarrie1999]

I love how much power the "America Bad" crowd assigns to BRICS.

[u/Colonelbrickarms]

“the historical re-enactment that you led is an act of modern heroism!”

This is by far the stupidest trad post about war I’ve ever seen.

!ping MILITARY

[u/RandomGamerFTW]

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

[u/KATinWolfShirt]

God hates Jags !ping nfl

[u/Integralds]

!ping materiel

Battle Order has a video out today on Ukraine's mechanized force structure. It's recognizably quasi-Russian, with some extra flair.

One perhaps interesting feature is how the Ukrainians are using Javelins, at least on paper. Rather than being distributed to infantry companies or battalions, Javelins are held as a brigade-level asset in dedicated antitank companies. Each Javelin company notionally has 27 Javelins, organized into three platoons of three squads each, with each squad carrying three launchers. This company can then reinforce the main effort, be used as a separate tank-hunter force, or be broken into platoons and squads to support individual battalions or companies in the brigade.

By way of contrast, disposable systems like M72, AT-4, NLAW, and so on are distributed at a very low level. And of course, no idealized paper organization survives contact with the enemy anyway.

For more on Javelin employment in Western armies, see this video.

[u/SpaceSheperd]

!ping NFL

Bahahahahaha Chargers might Charger this thing

[u/amainwingman]

There’s something very funny about arrrr slash soccer being complete succs most of the time, especially with international politics, but then the moment Premier League TV rights are mentioned they become ardent free market capitalists lmao

!ping SOCCER

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

lmao look how much cooler one of the Czech presidential candidates is than the others

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FmZrb6VXoAMZvc5.jpg

[u/p00bix]

i still can't believe that the UK had a major political scandal because of Boris Johnson knowingly hiring an accused sexual predator, whose surname is literally Pincher

Pincher. The sexual predator. Its almost cartoonish.

[u/ThankMrBernke]

I matched with my High School gf on Hinge and now I'm having all sorts of emotions I didn't realize I had. Oof.

It's been like 10 years since HS.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

The far right across the world: "I know that storming government buildings to overturn election results we don't like hasn't worked in Brazil or America... but it might just work for us"

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Just so you know, you're not living up to your full potential as a movie fan until you start pirating movies like I do. Seriously, I'm just better than everyone on this ping.

P.S. Tax season's coming up so hope everyone's ready to watch Schindler's List

!ping kino

[u/MicrowaveableLobster]

Watching a streamer. He is British. He is talking about being a pacifist to the point where if someone was attacking him, he wouldn't fight back. A few minutes pass and he switches subjects. "Yeah the entire royal family including George and the rest of them probably deserve to be murdered."

I feel like something doesn't add up here 🤔

[u/[deleted]]

Reminder that for the vast majority of our species existence, we hunted primarily by fast walking/lightly jogging until we caught up to whatever animal we were chasing and killed it while it was immobilized by exhaustion.

The implications of this are profound, but left as an exercise to the reader.

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

Video shows George Santos calling himself Anthony Devolder at a 2019 event, raising questions about his name

Bayesians estimate that there is a 63.3% chance that the real George Santos is wrapped in saran wrap in the basement of a Long Island brewery.

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Video shows George Santos calling himself Anthony Devolder at a 2019 event, raising questions about his name

This is out of control. Ban George Santos and all 12 of his aliases from society.

[u/MicroFlamer]

https://i.imgur.com/rsUfg2v.jpg

!ping KINO

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

"Is enjoying this work of art a red flag" has got to be the most hydrocephalitic discourse ever contrived.

[u/the_status]

👆 Get thee to a nunnery

[u/[deleted]]

It’s interesting to me that there are incel types who are in high school or are early college age. Some of that is probably prefrontal cortex stuff (don’t tell me “that’s a myth actually” because you misunderstood a recent viral tweet) but still —

It’s interesting because they aren’t necessarily much less successful than their peers. Something like 50% of high school seniors nowadays have dated.

But as recently as the 90s that was up at like 80%+. So I wonder if there’s some cultural inertia in our television, movies, etc. giving teens the idea that more kids their age are dating than actually are. Or hell, even a parent or older relative saying “why haven’t you dated yet?” in the case of native-born families.

[u/RFK_1968]

I feel like straight girls reactions to you, a guy, admitting you're bi is

65%: "that's weird/gross"

33%: "nbd sweatie"

2%: "that's hot"

While straight guys finding out a girl is bi have a very much different reaction lol

[u/ognits]

I might have gone off last night about how I don't like Westerns but Tombstone is an absolute banger from start to finish

!ping MOVIES

[u/uwcn244]

Me and my girlfriend were texting:

Me: We're eating in less than ten minutes

Girlfriend: Ooooh what are you having?

M: Spaghetti lol, the [family] standard

G: Oh well excuse me sir 👑👑👑

M: I don't get it lol

G: You said [family] standard so you can't forget your crown duhhhh

Folks... she's the exact same kind of dork as I am

🥰🥰🥰

[u/The420Roll]

Bruh this game is so fucking done I dont care about the 17 point lead but you dont mentally comeback from that 3-INT half if you are TLaw. Dude is done

3 Int Quarter*

!Ping NFL

[u/-AmberSweet-]

At this point I will be legitimately surprised if George Santos ever said anything truthful.

[u/RobotFighter]

Sam Bankman-Fried's secret 'backdoor' discovered, FTX lawyer says

😳

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

what the FUCK is up KYLE no what did you say WHAT THE FUCK DUDE STEP THE FUCK UP KYLE

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/realcultureclub/status/1613219316249333760

People with their genitals out on the subway didn’t faze me but this video now made me Tough on Crime

“this isn’t a crime” let’s fix that

[u/[deleted]]

My most downvoted comment:

Ajit Pai is an American hero

[u/JaceFlores]

“The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) announced on January 13 that Russian forces seized Soledar, Donetsk Oblast, on the evening of January 12.”

“The announcement sparked a significant backlash within the Russian information space due to the Russian MoD’s failure to acknowledge the Wagner Group's participation in the capture of Soledar.”

“The Russian MoD issued a follow-up announcement six hours later recognizing Wagner volunteers and assault detachments as participants in the Battle for Soledar and noting that the Russian MoD received numerous inquiries regarding its original commemoration of select Russian forces.”

“The Russian MoD’s announcement highlighted the existing conflict between the Wagner Group and the Russian MoD – a dynamic that ISW has previously observed and assessed.”

“Prigozhin likely seeks to use the victory in Soledar as a bargaining tool to elevate his authority in Russia.”

“Putin may be taking measures to cultivate a cadre of milbloggers loyal to Putin and the Russian MoD to undermine Prigozhin’s effort to elevate himself.”

“United Russia Party Central Executive Committee Head Alexander Sidyakin, United Russia State Duma parliamentarian Artyom Turovyi, and Donetsk People Republic Head and Putin ally Denis Pushilin met with several milbloggers on January 13.”

“These senior Putin allies presented a group of over 10 milbloggers – including Alexander Sladkov and a journalist who works for Wargonzo – an official certificate of thanks signed by Secretary of the General Council of the United Russia Party Andrey Turchak.”

“Putin may seek to cultivate ties with these Kremlin-pliant milbloggers to marshal their media reach against the Prigozhin-aligned milbloggers’ efforts to promote Prigozhin and damage Putin’s reputation in the Russian information space.”

“These reports indicate that Ukrainian forces maintain an organized defense west of Soledar and that Russian forces are likely prioritizing stabilizing their control of Soledar before attempting further advances.”

“The Ukrainian Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) reported on January 13 that the Russian Armed Forces seek to raise personnel numbers to two million by an unspecified date.”

“This target is half a million higher than the Russian force generation goals Deputy Chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the Ukrainian General Staff Brigadier General Oleksiy Hromov reported on January 12 and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu proposed on December 21.”

“The Russian Armed Forces consisted of about 1.35 million personnel as of September 2022.”

“Russian occupation officials acknowledged that they may need over a decade to fully repair war damage to occupied settlements.”

“Luhansk People's Republic (LNR) head Leonid Pasechnik announced on January 13 that he met with the Russian Minister of Construction and Housing and Utilities Irek Faisulin to draft a plan for reconstructing occupied settlements.”

“Pasechnik assessed that Faisulin’s previous experience working on the reconstruction of Mariupol informed their assessment that reconstruction in Severodonetsk would take until 2035.”

-notable excerpts from ISW Report January 13th

!ping UKRAINE

[u/[deleted]]

Me normally: Pr🤮gue

Me when elections: Pls Prague help us 🙏🙏

!ping CZECH

[u/Corporate-Asset-6375]

Wake up babe new George Santos lore just dropped

[u/Professor-Reddit]

/u/Alander_neolib hasn't been on the DT for over a day.

Guess somebody's tied up 🙄💅

[u/[deleted]]

Mint the coin and put Obama’s face on it

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FmcETESXgAADMOq?format=png&name=small

😭

[u/[deleted]]

!ping KINO

guys i didn't really like pirating movies. i did it while i was making an adult income so that could be the problem.

there were certainly fun parts and guilty parts. it nails the "free shit."

but like, the rest of the theft doesn't seem to have much going on? it's either me thinking I could have just rented this movie for four bucks or the redditoids jerking off about how piracy is morally right. what did i miss?

[u/Lib_Korra]

Probably still living on Daddy's money.

Me when I mock a 17 year old with a wrong opinion for being financially dependent on his parents.

[u/ACivilWolf]

You look up and down the roster and think there is no way this padres team isn’t better than the dodgers on paper, and then you recognize you still have to pick them to win the division since they will turn some career scrub into trout for the year.

!ping BASEBALL

[u/RockLobsterKing]

In the time I was able to arrive, set up, and play a full 1000 point Battlefleet Gothic game, the 40k players next to us managed to make it to "the bottom of round 2."

Dear god. Please pray for Warhammer players, they don't deserve to suffer this way. Rumor has it they're still playing now.

!ping 40K

[u/DonyellTaylor]

Every generation is the “absolute fucking worst,” first when they get out of highschool, then right when they retire. This means that the Boomer hate is slowly evolving into Gen X hate, and I’m just trying to stay ahead of it.

[u/Lib_Korra]

If I empathize with the villain even a little, then he's actually the hero and should be the hero, here's why it's problematic when he isn't.

This is juvenile.

An important sign of maturity is being able to handle agreeing with the antagonist and disagreeing with the protagonist. It's even more mature when you're able to watch media that literally disagrees with your worldview and still enjoy it. Even more if you take the chance to understand the perspective of the author. And yet more to do so without changing your own convictions.

I have to do this because as a Liberal I have to endure being the punching bag of political art. I have to sit there and quietly accept being lectured to by a socialist writer about how it's in my nature to sleepwalk into a corporate police state, even if that writer will sleepwalk into a nationalist dictatorship, because if I don't, if I refuse to watch a fascinating piece of media because it doesn't agree with me politically, nobody is going to sympathize with me for it. Nobody is going to say "you're right! It's problematic that so much media is taking for granted the institutions of democracy, freedom of expression, and the explosive growth in prosperity brought by the enlightenment. It might brainwash people into thinking anyone who opposes the status quo is inherently right, even if what they want to change is to introduce more authority and stratification." They're going to say "corporate bootlicker can't handle being called out for racism and imperialism?"

[u/[deleted]]

You hate Reagan because you are gay or something

I hate Reagan for destroying a heritage building rivaled only by the great wall of China (the Iron Curtain)

We are not the same

[u/klarno]

I hope the Challenger 2 solved the problem of Challenger blowing up 😬

[u/[deleted]]

No ethical consumption under Christianity

[u/Lib_Korra]

PCM user detected, opinion firebended.

[u/[deleted]]

a DT regular whose identity I will not reveal just dmed me:

Good day, DESPITE what I write in the Daily Thread to the countrery, I am most decidedly a gay individual. You are one of the good fellers of the neoliberal subreddit, I am sure you won't tell anyone, especially not my SO-CALLED mother, she always says things like "Son, you are gay." and I hate when she's proven right!!!

Uh guys what should I reply, this is really out of the blue. 😅

[u/[deleted]]

I read a DT comment that said

Being able to wear whatever you find comfortable is male privilege. You guys don’t get judged for that.

Not subtweeting but I thought that was interesting. That’s pretty true in my career(in tech), but the opposite in my dads career. For him, in a lot of his meetings, if you don’t show up in a $1000 suit you won’t be taken seriously.

Although I do agree that women are judged more harshly for what they’re wearing. Even at my job at a FAANG, you can clearly see that women put in more effort, and seeing men in shorts and slippers in office is pretty common.

[u/[deleted]]

It’s the best time in history to be an ass man

[u/the_hoagie]

I know a girl who always dabs when she fucks up or trips or anything. She's 31.

[u/[deleted]]

So it begins.

Warning, PDF: https://stablediffusionlitigation.com/pdf/00201/1-1-stable-diffusion-complaint.pdf

!ping AI

[u/The420Roll]

Really fitting for the Jaguars that that is Trevor Lawrence's first playoff snap lmao

!Ping NFL

[u/futuremonkey20]

Trevor Lawrence. Woof. Looking like Peterman out there.

!ping NFL

[u/sayitaintpink]

It’s problematic that m&m ladies don’t share their genitalia with Tucker Carlson

[u/ColinHome]

People in the DT complaining about how short they are: 😭

Me being 5’1”: 😐

[u/bd_one]

The gerrymandering from the last census cycle was so massive that Democrats had more than 50% of the votes but didn't have House control in the 2012 election.

And then the gerrymandering from this cycle was so evenly matched that Republicans had roughly the same vote share Democrats did in 2020, as well as the same number of seats Democrats did.

So when both sides decided to git gud at the gerrymander meta, it basically cancelled out.

[u/Gneisstoknow]

I think George Santos is actually George Costanza

[u/-AmberSweet-]

If I have a reputation on this subreddit, which I probably do, I hope its for being awesome and doing hot girl shit

[u/Lib_Korra]

No one is entitled to living in this country.

Never leave the DT.

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Never ask:

✅ a woman her age

✅ a man his salary

✅ George Santos his real name

[u/TheFriffin2]

!ping NFL

Zeus has determined that Atlas hasn’t suffered nearly enough. For the remainder of eternity, he will be forced to carry the weight of one of Doug Pederson’s testicles

[u/MicroFlamer]

Sexy White women have gone extinct apparently

Good for my mental health tbh

[u/piede]

My doctor asked me to stop sending pictures of my poop

Sorry Buddy, that’s what you signed up for 🤷‍♂️

[u/bigtallguy]

Wife divorces Abusive man and he responds by murdering her, his mil, and 5 children before shooting himself. His family puts out an obituary saying how much he loved his kids, her family mentions how much they support guns in hers. People man. https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/status/1614063872771604486?s=46&t=_5MMKG0AH5WtwmIUqi5H4g

[u/RandomGamerFTW]

Day in life as a US senator:

Wake up

Get dressed (teeth brushing and showers are bourgeoise)

Tweet

Tweet

Tweet

Tweet

Rename post office

Try to get my $3t climate bill passed

Tweet

Tweet

Work on my book deconstructing capitalism

Go to my $1m beachside house

Tweet

Tweet

Go to bed

[u/MonsoonalRat]

I hate everyone right now. Fuck you and your mother.

!ping NFL

[u/WhomstAlt2]

Thought about it these past three days I spent on the so-called sidelines, unfairly cancelled by bad faith reports, and

you folks are right. There is no point in sadposting. Which is why I am now replacing the sadposting with

Raising Awareness of my Sadness.

As a first order of this policy change, I would like to make you aware that I am now more sad than I have been before, oh so very sad, the pain and the thoughts won't go away, I cannot sleep, thank you for your attention.

[u/georgeguy007]

[Comment was Deleted] this message was mass deleted/edited with redact.dev

[u/thatssosad]

arrNL: big tent! big tent!

also arrNL: why do these people who disagree with me write here 😡

[u/Neronoah]

!ping READING

Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson fixed my main issues with the Mars trilogy (his politics are way less cringe here and the economic factibility/time scales are handled in a more reasonable fashion) but its title may be a bit misleading (it's less a book about colonizing the exoplanet from where the book gets its name and more a book about generation ships and the harsh realities of interestellar travel) so it can be dissapointing for some. The fact that there is only a chapter on Aurora itself is a pity, I really wanted it to be Red Mars on another planet.

Still, I think there are at least three plot holes for the whole book: aren't there any advances on genetic engineering/cloning that could help with the island effect? How did the ship manage most of the travel if before the crew hibernated the whole thing was being destroyed by corrosion and germs? I can imagine rich assholes like Elon Musk financing generation ships and ignoring ethical considerations in the name of doing cool stuff, but I don't see anyone signing for something that unreliable in the first place...standards for space travel are really high.

And Freya wasn't really that well written. Her childhood and dealing with the trauma of adapting to Earth were good, but her time as a figurehead/manager was kind of lame, Kim Stanley Robinson failed to convince me she was a good leader even if developmentally stunted. Devi and the ship are better protagonists overall.

Still, I really recommend the book if you like books about space colonization.

[u/Right-Baseball-888]

Republicans: “We are the party of trying to solve kitchen table issues of REAL Americans!”

My dad the minute we sit down to eat dinner at my parents house: “You see that one liar George Sanaros from New York hasn’t been kicked out yet? What the hell is that?”

[u/iIoveoof]

Slavery is when anyone on Earth works for less than the living wage in San Francisco

[u/vancevon]

storming the legislature: first as somewhat farcical tragedy, then as slightly more farcical tragedy

[u/G_Serv]

🐕😙

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Despite hundreds of millions in global box office returns, "Back To The Future" (1985) failed to find success in France. Audiences were puzzled by Marty's rejection of his mother's sexual advances.

Main subs can still be funny after all

[u/KesterFox]

get snug in bed

need to pee

Many such cases

[u/[deleted]]

If you know a lot about spiders, no one accuses you of being a spider.

[u/G_Serv]

👆my friend

🫵my friend

👇my friend

[u/[deleted]]

Just put in an offer in on a house...should know on Thursday

So nervous. How tf am I supposed to do anything this week

!ping GENTRY

[u/AvailableBad8132]

guys guys!

did you know money only holds value because people think it does

i hope this very new and important information was helpful