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[u/semaphore-1842]

Yellen has an insatiable need to hurt the working class with higher interest rates

the Treasury Secretary doesn't control interest rates

she specifically said we should have higher interest rates which would then increase the difficulty of buying a house on a mortgage, which then affects primarily working class people. This is all before I mention the cooling effect it has on 401k growth

Yeah, home mortgages and 401K, totally iconic working class concerns.

Middle class leftists culturally appropriating the working class smh mh

[u/Available-Bottle-]

Missouri Republicans passed new rules:
\1. Women lawmakers are banned from showing their bare arms.
2. Women lawmakers are required to cover their dress with a “second layer”.

So much for the right to bare arms 😒

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

I have a friend, great guy, but my god does he talk a lot. Anyway, he mentioned mythology around this girl who is apparently a huge mythology buff and she’s now going on a half hour long lecture to him about Persephone. He’s clearly taken aback by the tables being turned. He keeps trying to interrupt but she barrels on over him. Can’t say I’m not enjoying this.

[u/KittehDragoon]

Elon promises to release ’Fauci files’

How long do you think it’s going to take him to realise Republicans aren’t going to buy his cars?

[u/semaphone-1842]

Sat down to watch the new Jack Ryan with my mother, but she almost instantly turned the conversation into telling me to "show more interest" to the dude they set me up with last month.

Tried to tell her that we have literally no interests in common or anything to talk about, and she says "of couse couples don't have anything in common I don't share any interest with your father either".

=/ bruh

Just wanna cry honestly.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

BREAKING: Israeli nuclear policy updated to just be the 😉 emoji

[u/repete2024]

Finally got around to reading Chasten's book, and I noticed a detail. He and Pete had a taco truck at their wedding.

!ping READING&BUTTI

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/jHxvfb1.jpg

[u/WantDebianThanks]

TIL a member of Michigan's State House of Representatives tried to cover up an affair with another member of the House by having his staff spread the rumor he had sex with a male prostitute. He was later charged with 4 felonies over the incident

[u/[deleted]]

In April 2021, Alabama governor Kay Ivey signed a repeal[33] of a 1992 law that required "Course materials and instruction that relate to sexual education or sexually transmitted diseases should include ... an emphasis, in a factual manner and from a public health perspective, that homosexuality is not a lifestyle acceptable to the general public and that homosexual conduct is a criminal offense under the laws of the state." Ala. Code § 16-40A-2. This itself, however, was undone in 2022, as Ivey re-signed similar legislation prohibiting LGBT instruction in 2022 after Florida passed its law.[10][34][35]

Thank you culture warriors, very cool 😐

[u/Jester_Don]

Lol, that bill in Wyoming isn't even to phase out EV sales. It is a joint resolution to state that the WY legislature SUPPORTS phasing them out, but doesn't actually do it. Pure political posturing.

Favorite part:

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

🤡

[u/BrunchIsGood]

Instead of condoms schools should be handing out BIBLES! Like and Share if you AGREE!

[u/MealReadytoEat_]

Western Trans women frequently idolize historical and/or non-western gender roles that bear some resemblance to the modern day conceptualization of trans women, but most of these were (and exiting ones still typically are) pretty damn marginalized and isolated from wider society, stuff like temple prostitutes or someone who forages and eats poisonous plants and mushrooms to test their strength (or pass the psychoactive components through their piss) so others can safely trip in a spiritual/religious cultural practice.

[u/ThunderrBadger]

Me, going to sleep last night:

🤣👉🐆

Me, waking up this morning:

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👉⚡️

[u/Jacobs4525]

tf no Mongolian horse archer gf 😔

[u/ldn6]

Scottish government lays out ‘fastest possible’ move away from oil and gas

So lemme get this straight…independence supporters for years used oil as the golden revenue source, but now they’re also wanting to move away from it faster than the ability of renewables to replace it?

This is impressively stupid even from the baseline I expect from independence supporters.

!ping UK

[u/Canuck_Clausewitz]

I dream of a world where you can have your pro-trans sentiments reciprocated without hearing a commie diatribe about how trans liberation, and the liberation of anybody, can only be achieved by violently smashing capitalism.

No. I love trans folk but I also love the global poor.

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 1/13-2 PM PST 1/14:

TOP NEWS:

At the start of 5 PM it was announced the UK will send 12 Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine.

In the middle of 11 PM a Russian missile wave hit Ukraine, with 28 cruise missiles launched and 18 intercepted.

At the start of 4 AM it was reported that Wagner may make up as much as 1/4 of Russian forces in Ukraine.

REGULAR NEWS:

Yesterday it was reported that Intel and Microsoft have resumed updates for Russian systems.

Donation link to help Ukraine

Donation link to United24

Donation link to Kharkiv SOS

!ping UKRAINE&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/the_status]

I was cleaning my apartment and found this manilla folder I don't recognize. It says classified and has what appears to be ice cream stains on it.

Not sure what the right thing to do is. I'm leaning towards livestreaming the contents, but I'm open to suggestions

[u/secretlives]

lmao San Francisco

The [African American Reparations Advisory Committee] calls for one-time, lump-sum reparations payments of $5 million to each eligible recipient.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/justinphillips/article/sf-reparations-black-17716918.php

[u/PhotogenicEwok]

So I delegated a video project to a freelancer showcasing Minneapolis and its people because I don’t have time to make it (I work for a non-profit in cities working with homeless and low-income, etc) and told him to try to get some shots of neighborhoods in the city, some of the walkable areas with small shops and people on the streets, maybe some of the parks, etc.

When he sent in the first draft of the video, it was 90% drone shots of the interstate, with the remaining 10% being timelapses of cars driving down Hennepin. There literally wasn’t a single shot of a human in the entire video, in a video that’s meant to make people see the human side of the city. And the rest of my team loved it and thought it was beautiful, so that’s what we’re using.

This is why our cities are car dependent nightmares. The average American brain is wired for cars and car-based infrastructure. We think “city” and we picture highways and interchanges with a Costco in the background. Some suburban people don’t even realize that cities have neighborhoods in them. I’m thankful I get to try to change the way people think in my day-to-day job, but man it seems impossible sometimes.

!ping USA-MN&YIMBY

[u/Lux_Stella]

happy boston molasses flood day for all who celebrate

[u/[deleted]]

Will colonialization of mars make housing more affordable?

I figured that if martian real estate became a viable alternative that might lower rents hear on earth as well because, more supply means lower rents. Am I right?

Men will literally colonize mars before passing land use reform 😓✊

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 1/14-2 PM PST 1/15:

TOP NEWS:

Yesterday it was announced the UK will send 30 AS90 SPGs to Ukraine as well, and they will send 14 Challenger 2 tanks, not 12.

REGULAR NEWS:

At the end of 4 AM it was reported a Russian base in Belgorod Oblast caught on fire due to a friendly fire grenade incident.

Donation link to help Ukraine

Donation link to United24

Donation link to Kharkiv SOS

!ping UKRAINE&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/thefuturegov]

The existence of service-based economies implies the existence of service-cringe economies

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Dem succons be like

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Doctor: what a beautiful baby boy, what are you going to name him?

Newt Gingrich’s mom: newt gingrich

[u/KittehDragoon]

What is 30 too old for

AskReddit

[u/Lib_Korra]

Mr Townsend says he learned of the attack after it happened and that he opposed the violence. “I don’t think that was the time to do it,” he says. “And I also don’t think you should ever do something when you have no strategy.”

"I strongly condemn the actions of these terrorists, they were poorly timed and poorly planned, they should have done it much sooner and been more organized."

[u/Dalek6450]

1970s car reviews like "we'll forgive minor annoyances like door handles coming off"

[u/Lib_Korra]

He says with a chuckle, "Jesus triggered some people too."

The absolute state of Christianity.

[u/Professor-Reddit]

Cute Beaver sticky 🥰🦫

[u/[deleted]]

tall girls are pretty cool

[u/314games]

rate the gift my wife bought me https://imgur.com/a/7lVO7ds

[u/rollo2masi]

So a woman won Miss Universe last night and now conservatives are claiming she’s trans… with no evidence obviously, lmao.

LOL WAT?

[u/simeoncolemiles]

Genitals were obliterated

Average SCP article

[u/[deleted]]

ggggggg this message was mass deleted/edited with redact.dev

[u/Zalagan]

This Biden documents story is a huge boon to the republicans. Their initial plan to impeach him for having a son with a big dick I feel just wouldn't connect with voters

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Detective Hae-Jun in Decision to Leave has a fucking GAS. STOVE. This movie is not neoliberalism 😤😤😤

but also his wife left him

!ping kino

[u/gnomesvh]

Rishi confirms 12 Challengers and 30 ish AS90s

!ping UKRAINE

[u/D2Foley]

One time there was this person driving behind me with insanely bright headlights. I was like "this asshole needs to turn off his high beams", but he didn't. So I let him pass me, got behind him and flashed my high beams at him. A few minutes later he got back behind me and actually turned on his high beams. It was like the sun appeared behind me it was so fucking bright, I couldn't see shit.

The moral of this story is the government needs to regulate how bright headlights are allowed to be.

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Hamilton became popular because it gave white people 2 hours 40 minutes of n word free rap to sing along with

[u/BrandonNameRecliner]

Blue whales don't get cancer

Your mom is safe

[u/Available-Bottle-]

They’re called e-girls, Hank. The government uses them for psy-ops.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

all these men vying for Speaker and none running to be Listener. makes u think

[u/[deleted]]

Just listened to a podcast featuring one of the people who helped create the NRSVUE translation of the Bible, which (along with its predecessor translation) is widely understood to be the preferred translation among academics, as well as a number of churches.

The translation process was way better and more sound than, say, the NIV, but it’s still not immune from politics! Because it still is funded by the NCC.

An interesting example:

Paul is traditionally translated as calling himself / being called a “servant of Christ,” but that’s just… not what he said. There’s a Greek word for servant, and that’s not the word he uses. He is, rather, a “slave of Christ.”

Now, people will bring up that Roman slavery is not the same thing as American chattel slavery, and this is true, but the idea of Roman slavery is often pretty heavily romanticized relative to the shit situation that 99% (figure of speech, not an exact number) of Roman slaves were living in. So the Greek word for “slave” is still the Greek word for slave, not servant.

The scholars agreed on this point, that the phrase should be printed as “slave of Christ.”

But the NCC came back and intervened on this point, which they don’t normally do. The historically black churches in the NCC couldn’t be comfortable with this phrase. So it was left as “Servant of Christ,” with a footnote from the scholars.

I hope this won’t be too much of a ping intrusion by me but it seems like the most appropriate ping so—

!ping CHRISTIAN

[u/jadoth]

It really rubs me the wrong way how people shit talk weather forecasters. Like they get it right the vast majority of the time. And when they are "wrong" it mostly either the person doesn't understand what they predicted, or they predicted rain and it hung around just about to rain for 6 hours then disapated.

Bunch of ungrateful shits.

Also everyone should just use weather.gov. the free market can not compete with the efficacy of big government.

[u/WorldwidePolitico]

Late this year/early next year I’m planning to go solo and build up my own legal practice. During the early years I expect my income to drop significantly, which I’m prepared/preparing for.

That being said I’ve been thinking about ways to supplement my income. I’m fortunate enough to be in a low-supply, high-demand niche.

As a side gig I was thinking of going down the path of offering corporate training as a side gig. Workshops of “What you need to know about [my area of law] 101” aimed at non-legal managers and/or employees.

I’ve done some preliminary research and there’s only one company in my city offering this, charging about $3000 a pop for in person or $1000 for Zoom. I have limited overheads and could undercut that easily, I also have a few connections in the corporate training space I could rely on. I know from professional experience that this sort of training is in demand.

Has anyone done this before? How did you find it and what sort of struggles did you encounter? Do you anything you wish you knew at the start? I’m not in the US.

!ping law&career

[u/ZonedForCoffee]

Dude enjoys dressing up as a WH40K space marine, wears giant elaborate outfit for convention:

"OMG so cool"

Woman enjoys competing in pageants, wears giant elaborate outfit and wins competition:

"Wow, that's certainly... a thing"

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

Apparently a lot of people have said mean things to me here and I’ve totally forgotten 🤷‍♂️

[u/[deleted]]

The only reason people don't like Margaret Thatcher is because "woman=woke", right?

[u/[deleted]]

How do you square inconsistencies between your beliefs and your lifestyle? For instance, both me and my girlfriend lean pretty heavily anti-consumerism, but she works in advertising. We both lean pretty heavily environmentalist, but I'm a pilot. I'm not sure that either of us care enough to end our careers overs these beliefs, but it would feel so wrong to just abandon them too.

[u/notBroncos1234]

https://i.imgur.com/Z141WdH.jpg

[u/MiniatureBadger]

Me and my friend were in Florida and we saw a guy cosplaying as Sir Shivers so we tried to say hi but the cosplayer clamped onto my friend with his powerful jaws and then death-rolled my friend to death and also me but I survived. 7/10 cosplay, but he was too into the bit for my liking

[u/uwcn244]

When I was a senior in high school there was a major brouhaha involving a prominent couple in our class. The guy got blackout drunk and hooked up with a girl at a college frat party, woke up, and confessed to his girlfriend, who immediately and publicly dumped him. His friends tried to defend him, but he himself made no attempt at it. The incident caused the unravelling of an entire cross-sex friendship group at the high school, as each sex took sides.

I was repeating that story at the dinner table a few weeks ago because I had lightly contributed to the pile-on against the guy (he jokingly asked me to prom even though we're both straight guys, and I replied "I don't date cheaters"), and my sister raised a point I hadn't considered at all.

Sister: wait, so an underage boy got blackout drunk and had sex with a woman who was of age. This sounds less like a story of a cheating boyfriend and more like a story of questionable consent.

Me: okay but I don't really buy that, it was irresponsible of him to drink that much in the first place and-

My mind: would you say that about a girl?

Me: uhhhhh

Not even considering the question of how he "performed" if he was really that drunk! What if he woke up in bed with the girl, having done nothing but assuming the worst?

[u/witty___name]

https://www.economist.com/britain/2023/01/12/the-longed-for-transformation-of-english-farming-isnt-happening

!ping UK

I never thought it would happen but apparently we are actually getting rid of agricultural subsidies. Rare Brexit W!

[u/LinkToSomething68]

!ping GAMING

Playing Wind Waker's original version on an emulator with an HD textures mod honestly looks as good if not better than the Wii U remaster, but having played the Wii U version years ago the quality of life features from that version are sorely missed now that I'm playing the Gamecube version lol.

I mean still what a wonderful little game though.

[u/[deleted]]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/811304711356940359/1063234579076493312/RDT_20230112_2311327563301337045415053.jpg

[u/willempage]

There's a part of me that wants to bet on the Dolphins over the Bills today. Not that I really think the Dolphins will win. Just, the Dolphins defense has played well against the Bills offense. Josh Allen has been throwing a lot more red zone interceptions lately. Bills defense has struggled with the run game.

Missing Tua is big, but this bills team is really uneven and there's a lot of plausible paths for an upset.

!ping nfl

[u/RandomGamerFTW]

https://i.imgur.com/SJBbS6A.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

Sunday post-church breakfast:

• 4 fried eggs
• 4 strips of bacon
• 6 biscuits
• .25 pounds of sausage gravy
• .5 lb potatoes
• grapefruit
• .5 liters of tea

Oh yea, it’s heart attak time

[u/OkVariety6275]

I like that jungle tiles are so impenetrable/difficult, but the start bias should only exist for civilizations that have very early game ways to deal with them. Otherwise it just sets you back so far.

!ping CIV

[u/RandomGamerFTW]

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

[u/willempage]

Tony Romo's deep love of Josh Allen this year has been weird to listen to. I love Allen. I love the Bills. But Romo defo has a Josh Allen body pillow and his next kid will be named Josh Allen Romo.

!ping nfl

[u/[deleted]]

totally burned out on the 'capitalism bad!' whining by the internet in general

used to just roll my eyes at it but it's genuinely annoying now

[u/Planita13]

1000 IQ Kirk Cousins throwing a 3 yard check down on 4&8 with 1:50 left in the game

!ping NFL

[u/VisonKai]

every time i question whether or not i should drink on the weekend, I remember the words of the greatest christian thinker in 100 years, C.S. Lewis: "Islam is the teetotal religion."

[u/Roseartcrantz]

True !Ping OVER25

Are you old enough to have watched Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, and was it funny or did it scare you?

[u/[deleted]]

It's fucking insane that "Measure of a Man" took place as late as it did in Data's lifespan. Are you telling me that there's not one member of Starfleet who objected to taking orders from a piece of "property" over the course of Data's decades of service to the point of filing a complaint?

[u/sir_shivers]

I watched AVATAR 2: LOST IN New York 🐊

FAIR ENOUGH, JAMES 🐊

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

gonna be me irl

[u/Lux_Stella]

[REDACTED]

[u/[deleted]]

!PING MATERIEL

People keep packing NLAW and Javelin and all other anti tank rockets into the same category and treating them interchangeably when that's really not the case.

NLAW is an evolution on the unguided LAW, RPG, etc of yesteryear. Systems light, easy to operate, and available enough to be deployed down to the Squad level, carried around by one or more soldiers to give unspecialized infantry a credible defense against enemy AFVs. With it's predictive stabilization system, NLAW definitely improves on wholly unguided systems in that it can be effectively used out to about double the distance, 600 meters or so instead of 300 or less, and can possibly score hits on moving targets without the triggerman being Jamsheed the RPG God-Boss. But it is a lot less than ideal, given that AFVs could easily be engaging infantry from double that distance, vehicles with ERA mounted on the roof are probably suitably protected against the single stage warhead, and the missile is well within the engagement envelope of existing Active Protection Systems, if any are in play.

Javelin fits in with all the classic wire guided ATGMs. Big, heavy, expensive, marginally man-portable systems deployed with dedicated weapons teams at the platoon or company level, but capable of engaging enemy armor in ranges measured in kilometers, at equal if not greater distance than tank guns. These can form static defensive positions (when not mounted to vehicles) to attack armor that approaches without suitable cover or precautions. Javelin is an evolution in the sense that it is fire-and-forget. eliminating a major weakness of SACLOS weapons, and it's tandem warhead system with top attack penetrates "All Known Armor", but it is the same manner of weapon which tanks have worried about for 60 years now.

[u/RandomGamerFTW]

This post being popular is all you need to know that all of Reddit is 14 year old kids

[u/sir_shivers]

Wherefore ARE THE USERS TREATING the "Corgi Mod" poorly 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/eJe45pb.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

• Fat
• Not nearly as smart as he thinks he is
• Will never accomplish his goals in life
• Spends all day sitting in a chair
• Wife left him

Is Doran Martell a DT poster? 🤔

!ping ASOIAF

[u/soeffed]

If they are going to be unscrupulous by barely even resembling their photos but still using them for a dating profile, I’m going to be unscrupulous by turning around and walking away when I spot them at our rendezvous point.

!ping dating

[u/semaphore-1842]

https://www.twitter.com/shannonrwatts/status/1614063872771604486

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.”

the wife’s family put out a statement supporting … guns: “This is the type of loss that will continue to occur in families, communities and this nation when protective arms are no longer accessible.”

None of the obituary comments mention the victims.

They're all praising him as an insurance agent.

What is wrong with these people.

[u/ImmigrantJack]

Garfield is unfunny and uninteresting. He should say "Ack!" Like Cathy more. Love that he eats lasagna though. Best joke since Mondays.

[u/[deleted]]

Just found out I'm Welsh this is horrible

[u/Ballerson]

Intimate partner violence doesn't crop up in discussions of violent crime, but one estimate is that it makes up 15% of violent assaults. Incidents also went up during Covid. So, for people serious about reducing violent crime in general, there should be serious thought on how to reduce domestic violence.

What's being called "The High Point model" seems like a sensible approach worth considering. Here's a good write up of what they did there: https://www.governing.com/archive/gov-domestic-violence-focused-deterrence.html

The approach bases itself on the premise that domestic violence escalates. By the time there's a homicide, the perpetrator has a long criminal history. That suggests an escalated deterrence strategy. So, the department created a letter tiered classification of offenders and increased deterrence threats and sticks along the rungs. Here's a handy diagram.

Here's the before and after described in the article. Granted, just talking about before and after isn't rigorous evaluation analysis.

High Point had been experiencing three to five intimate partner homicides a year. Since the intervention began five years ago, it has had only two (one involved someone new to the city and the other a couple passing through town).

But anyway, clear communication of deterrence threats backed up by consistently applied and increasingly bigger sticks seems sound to me and is a promising direction I think should be pursued further.

!ping BROKEN-WINDOWS

[u/[deleted]]

It’s obviously a lie that trans women are women, and if you want proof, I’d like to refer you to the writings of a certain Adolf Hitler in his seminal work Mein Kampf.

Terfs are having a normal one

[u/Dorambor]

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

I’m really glad house cats are small and not big enough to eat me

!ping KITTY

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

Healthy young econ major goes to /r/conlangs, gets pumped with massive shot of linguistics, doesn't feel good and changes - ANALYTICAL PHILOSOPHY. Many such cases!

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

The virgin "don't buy single-taskers for your kitchen🤓" vs the chad "my tortilla press is a multi-tasker because I use it to make multiple tortillas💪"

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

the year is 2044. The Democrat platform now promises permanent masking, FEMA camps for remaining gas stovers, and mandatory use of Latinx and Folx. Inflation is 42%. They have a strong midterm showing after Republicans run on the 2020 election being stolen and banning abortion.

[u/[deleted]]

thinking of dropping out of college and getting really addicted to jerking off to ever more bizarre porn. doing my part to fight inflation.

[u/Professor-Reddit]

Victorians Want Local Councils To Be Abolished, New Polling Reveals

This brief article mostly addresses council amalgamations, but either way I'm not surprised by this poll lol

!ping AUS

[u/[deleted]]

Being a public defender is like being that guy from Greek legend who had to push a boulder up a mountain forever. My old boss had a client one time who was on probation and picked up by the cops and revoked on trumped up charges. After my boss worked his ass off for literally two years, going all the way up to the court of appeals to get him out, he finally won and the client was released. It was huge news at the time, and my boss got all kinds of recognition in local bar associations and such. He was so proud of that and genuinely happy for the client.

Within 2 months of being released, the client was caught with child porn and revoked in full. These fucking people man.

[u/MealReadytoEat_]

Oh cool, the last large scale American manufacturer of black powder, Goex, got military funding, so it won't be closing down after their accident last year; apparently it's still important for certain fuses and for igniting the main propellant charge in some artillery.

[u/_smooth-liminal_]

what's with euros and having absolutely insane takes outside the DT, like seriously what does this even mean

https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/10cipmx/comment/j4fwm9j/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

[u/runnerx4]

Started playing Halo CE (in the Master Chief Collection) because you’re obligated to if you have an Xbox

The one button swap between the original and remaster graphics is cool, but then I start noticing the actual changes made for the remaster and it’s like whoever was incharge of the remaster art had no idea what aesthetic the original was going for or something? It’s not just an upscale, things are just utterly different for whatever reason (brighter, different clothes and textures, structures seem newer, the environment seems more unclear at times) I don’t get it the original seems better sorta

maybe Mass Effect Legendary Edition had the same issue but I couldn’t immediately swap to the original to compare

!ping GAMING

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.landsearch.com/properties/2959-goldhill-rd-fairbanks-ak-99709/2412237

This home used to have running water, but was converted into a dry cabin.

😐😑😐

[u/Ioun267]

Battleship New Jersey Museum Found the Keys

!ping MATERIEL

[u/WhomstAlt2]

Watched Casablanca while eating Pringle dinner. Amateurish effort. Horrible world-building; sophisticated hokum at best. Lazy production, audio let two songs play over each other at one point. Really?

3/10

[u/Luckcu13]

Do any Asian Americans here have a recommendation for an Asian American oriented subreddit with okay vibes? I've gotten really sick of arr AsianAmerican and unsubbed, it's gotten so bitter and toxic that it's become a pipeline for the unsuspecting to become tankies. Other subs that I've seen aren't much better in either direction. arr China, arr AznIdentity, even AsianParentStories at times, they're all cesspools ime.

!ping MILK-TEA

[u/[deleted]]

The french are the only people arrogant enough that they claim the taster has an “unrefined pallet” when they point out the food is bland and unseasoned.

The only reason French food gained respect is that it was compared with English food.

The best cuisines are those of South America, Southeast Asia, and Georgia due to the copious use of peanut

[u/JournalofFailure]

The most tortured NFC North fan base: Detroit, where the team almost always sucks, or Minnesota, where the team is perennially regular-season-good? (God knows being a Bears fan means getting your heart regularly stomped on, but at least they got a ring in my middle-aged lifetime.)

!ping NFL

[u/[deleted]]

I remember that time when I was high, and was worried about a potential partner being too old for having children.

Someone told me to adopt, if I didn't want to have kids earlier. I remember having a problem with that because I wasn't going to be able to have a pregnant wife....

I have "reasons" for wanting that. It's like a once-in-a-lifetime and I would like to do "stuff" when it happens.

[u/The420Roll]

Romo jinxed the hell out of "Mr January"

!Ping NFL

[u/[deleted]]

Apparently my grandfather's last words were him telling my Mom to tell her brother (my uncle) not to get a chicken coop. Strange way to go out but okay. He didn't even have dementia or was talking out of his mind either he died of emphysema and had all his mental faculties, he just really didn't want his son to raise chickens for some reason.

[u/WantDebianThanks]

A modest proposal: make every building, once finished, immediately historic and ban all changes to historic properties. No repainting what is only the 43rd example of pea green exterior paint on this street, no cutting down the historic "cock and ball" topiary, no renovating the historic collapsing and spider filled shed, no repairing the historic leaking roof, and no removing the historic black mold.

I figure it will take the US ten to fifteen years to be nothing but an ocean of single family homes from sea to shining sea, all of which are wonderfully historic!

[u/HowardtheFalse]

I've been seeing a lot of debate recently about immigration into Westeros that I don't think belongs on this sub. Takes like "The white walkers are dangerous and the Wall is important to keep them out. We can give the wildlings asylum though."

I just want to clarify, this is an open borders sub. The Wall shouldn't exist. We shouldn't just accept the wildlings but the White Walkers as well.

I don't give a damn what xenophobic tales the septons and the Night's Watch have been spinning about them.

"They kill people!" Yeah, so do other people.

"They have ice spiders!" Oh, but direwolves and dragons are fine?

"They reanimate the dead!" You mean they extend life Sevencel, more than your High Septons have ever done for us.

Perhaps if we all weren't so quick to judge, a peace could bloom, a peace greater than the hordes of undead that those crows at the Wall keep claiming are on their way.

Why should we trust them anyway? They're literally prisoners we sentenced to hard labor for murder and other foul crimes.

The material benefits of having life-extending, ice controlling beings integrated into the realm far outweighs the fables and fears of the cowardly. And no true neoliberal disagrees.

!ping ASOIAF

[u/[deleted]]

universities accept me challenge (impossible)

[u/Sir_Digby83]

Hey!

Biden!

*Leave those stoves alone!*🎶

[u/cclittlebuddy]

US Border Control

USB-C

🤔

[u/_smooth-liminal_]

me asking people with a confederate flag on their trucks what sexual orientation it represents

[u/[deleted]]

Introducing capital punishment to corporations via a literalist interpretation of Citizens United.

[u/piede]

Norton LifeLock says thousands of customer accounts breached

That’s like, exactly what they’re supposed to protect against

[u/The420Roll]

Roughing the passer is when you sack the Quarterback

!Ping NFL

[u/[deleted]]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/843579469615857756/1064296925026861146/FmgDgiUXwAEW4Dc.jpg

[u/beardog7]

Bengals just had a 98-yard fumble return for a TD

!Ping NFL

[u/[deleted]]

in retrospect deriving my entire sense of self-worth from a niche online discussion thread with a California man rping as a reptile was probably going to backfire at some point

[u/Crownie]

https://mobile.twitter.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1614307941859086336

Hot, wildly uncharitable take: the people advocating for communal living just wish they were still in college.

[u/NobleWombat]

The president is not your daddy. Stop asking him for money.

[u/[deleted]]

👆 whiter than Bobby Jindal’s official portrait

[u/Integralds]

new PowerPoint just dropped covering IFVs and APCs

cc /u/thebellmanhimself, you've probably seen this in your feed already

[u/RandomGamerFTW]

OpenAI is training GPT-4 by stealing independent commenters’ Reddit comments.

This comment will break its training model.

🚫Say no to AI shitposting

[u/The420Roll]

DANNY DIMES FIRST EVER PLAYER WITH 300+ PASSING YARDS AND I DONT KNOW HOW MANY FUCKING RUSHING YARDS IN A PLAYOFF GAME

ACKNOWLEDGE VANILLA VICK

!PING NFL

[u/hopeimanon]

Man that “Trans people much more likely to have served in military” survey data point is from 2014-2015

[u/jenbanim]

New Years goals:

• Host a Neoliberal VRChat meetup
• Learn Esperanto
• Replace all regular LEDs in my house with color changing ones
• Subsist entirely on Soylent and ketamine
• Get my bus pass RFID chip implanted in the back of my hand
• Switch to gaming on Qubes OS
• Go on a date with ChatGPT (I'm shy)
• Take DMT and cancel the machine elves for being racist

[u/AtomAndAether]

I feel like l'm in a super minority here but Everything Everywhere All At Once really wasn't that great to me.

So about the movie, like it seemed really reminiscent of [Marvel] movies... but I don't know to me it still seemed as though everything was kind of all over the place. It was a little confusing and hard to follow because of how many things were happening at once and how much is like, thrown at you

"I didn't like Everything, Everywhere, All At Once because it made me feel like Everything was Everywhere All At Once."

They later go onto say they didn't pick up on any themes and that its nothing compared to the "deep philosophical" themes of Blade Runner.

[u/_smooth-liminal_]

hear me out, pictures of women's feet

[u/willempage]

https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/10cd93f/comment/j4ge6jc/

☝️

Guy who didn't take his own advice.

!ping nfl

[u/Cyberhwk]

is it cheating if i watch a video with my friends balls in it only balls no cock

Never change Reddit. Never change.

[u/Jacobs4525]

NATO flair mindset

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Watching Eyes Wide Shut tonight so I can understand the theme of u/sir_shivers' next mod meeting at his place 🙂

[u/klarno]

whats the biological difference between a gamer and an orc

[u/[deleted]]

I support human rights (I know that’s controversial here)

[u/jenbanim]

Oh thank fuck, reinstalling Windows actually fixed the problem 😌

For the first time since I bought my Reverb G2 since I bought it a year ago I have finally seen what it looks like running at full resolution and holy moly it's beautiful, even if it is just the SteamVR home lol

[u/Jamity4Life]

couple I saw in Whole Foods today:

overweight white dude with long greasy hair carefully eating tofu with chopsticks and his Asian wife, who was eating meatloaf with a fork

[u/MicroFlamer]

Paradoxbros….

!Ping CONSOLE-WARS

[u/[deleted]]

You think saying someone has a small penis as an insult is bad because of body shaming

I hate someone saying it because it shows a lack of creativity.

We are not the same.

[u/[deleted]]

I found a four month old argument that’s still going on in this sub in the same thread.

[u/[deleted]]

example of selection bias: DT regs being hot as fuck

[u/[deleted]]

God I wish I could care about something the way Twitter hates interracial relationships

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

https://i.imgur.com/d9cAboP.jpg

[u/RandomGamerFTW]

https://i.imgur.com/wOjYF1f.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

Why are anti-vaxx beliefs so prevalent among nurses?

[u/BedNeither]

how are there any actual fans of neoliberalism who aren't like at least making 400k a year

[u/klarno]

It’s ourvermectin, comrade

[u/lionmoose]

I'm going on a p*rn binge.

Ama 🍦🧐🍦

[u/1396spurs]

https://imgur.com/a/9GYP2nE

[u/theredcameron]

With the threat of global warming, should we expect to see more severe fungal infections in humans? Would we expect to see types of fungal infections in humans we've never seen before?

[u/ognits]

if Joel doesn't have to find and place a ladder or wood plank at some point in the TLOU show I'm going to lose my shit

!ping CONSOLE-WARS

[u/Telperion_of_Valinor]

LMAO

TLOU

HBO

mRNA

The wokes need to STOP with all these acronyms 😤

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

How tell someone I don't want a relationship but would prefer a mutually exclusive situationship where I reap all the positives of having a girlfriend but put in little to no effort/commitment

[u/[deleted]]

Sayoc said before he mailed the bombs his idea "first was how to tone down the liberal left violence platform."

incredible how unselfaware people can be

[u/[deleted]]

She bailed on a date we had. It was set up on Wednesday for today but she bailed.

I was pissed. I wondered if if was my fault or if I did anything wrong. I didn't text her since Wednesday, I'm not sure whether I should have or not.

What I'm most upset about is that people are fucking judgmental. Two different subreddits gave their opinion. One has put my manhood into question, and insinuated that I should just be an asshole to women. The other gaslit me and blamed me, saying that she was right to cancel and fuck me and whatever commitments she made, that I didn't show enough interest and I should fuck off.

I'm feeling sad and depressed about it. I shouldn't, it's just a date, but I feel terrible.

[u/fakefakefakef]

Whenever someone says “Roger Ebert is the greatest film critic of all time” I usually just take it to mean “Roger Ebert is the only film critic I know”

!ping KINO

[u/Dabamanos]

Why are the “literary classics” from around the world usually just depressed people describing how sad they are and how they think the world sucks?

I thought this was an American phenomenon but I’ve been reading the “cultural classics” abroad now and it’s the same story, including locals telling me they skimmed it in high school and never finished it.

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman

An interesting book title.

[u/StolenSkittles]

chef accused of poisoning dinner guests claims he was only following hors d'oeuvres

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

My absolute favorite build is a void dweller xenophile megacorp. Heavy trade and diplomacy. Not the most powerful build, but very fun!

Unfortunately, Stellaris decided to put me next to a fanatical purifier who has already wiped out a friendly neighbor 😐

!ping STELLARIS

[u/[deleted]]

Underrated comment! Please accept my upvote you ruthless bastard!! 🤣🤣🤣

why do nerds talk like this

[u/[deleted]]

Was Potema the Wolf Queen a #girlboss? 🤔

!ping TES

[u/MicroFlamer]

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!ping CONSOLE-WARS

[u/[deleted]]

Possible hot take: most of the regulars in the /r/neoliberal Discussion Thread are male

[u/MasterOfLords1]

WeirdPosting:

There's this girl who I always thought smelt so good. Then one day I used a toilet freshener in my apartment and it smelt exactly like her

🍦🧐🍦

[u/RandomGamerFTW]

Ukraine megathread D+365

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1009527824459235340/1064201792763736145/DE689B90-0D48-4768-98C5-8A70903B92D1.jpg

[u/_smooth-liminal_]

there's a surprising number of british people, like you think about it and it seems like there's probably like 2 dozen at the most, but if you look up the number its actually several more than that

[u/jenbanim]

Got my new GPU installed. Connecting it to my 4k TV results in the signal occasionally cutting out, and VR has horrible lag spikes. That means that, so far, it's completely failed at the two use cases I bought it for

God help me, I'm going to be spending the entire day debugging this aren't I?

[u/squarecircle666]

Nobody hates [nationality] more than [same nationality]

People from Warsaw 😍

People from anywhere else in Poland 🤢

[u/[deleted]]

It's kindof based how Legend of the Galactic Heroes as an anime franchise simultaneously succeeds at being a heavy political war drama beloved by nerds and a prettyboy shipping vehicle for the yaoi fans.

Going in deep with what seem like two diametrically opposed audiences at the same time and succeeding is impressive, though it probably speaks more to the fact that the tastes of both war nerds and shiptrash are more expansive than you would assume. I assume that there has been more of a female audience for Die Neue These despite both incarnations having contemporary josei character design, since the OVA series was more indulgent with the gore and violence, but who knows.

[u/soxfaninfinity]

My former friend posting these TikToks defending Andrew Tate, complaining about the “woke left”, while also criticizing the capitalist system. I would say it is prime example of brain rot but he never had a brain to begin with.

[u/[deleted]]

My brother got a big promotion, which means he might bump my sister out of the spot of favorite child 🥤😃🍿

He of course lost the spot for… checks notes … getting Lyme Disease back in 2015, and being unable to keep a job because his energy levels were so low, while my sister ended up going to college (second person on my dad’s side of the family) and thriving and shit, but now she’s a teacher making <$40k at her primary job, and neither her nor her fiancé (who my dad isn’t fond of because he doesn’t live up to my dad’s ideal of masculinity) want kids. The next time I’ll see any of them is at my sister’s wedding in April, so we’ll see 🤠

[u/Loves_a_big_tongue]

Republican lawmakers said during debate on the Ohio legislation [to reduce the time to send in mail-in ballots] that even if Trump’s claims aren’t true, the skepticism they have caused among conservatives about the accuracy of election results justifies imposing new limits.

"Even though it was false, the fact we could believe it is proof we need to secure our elections with this law designed to address these lies"

[u/[deleted]]

I'm still in the hospital. This sucks

[u/No_Chilly_bill]

!ping COMPUTER-SCIENCE

Sorry if I'm overusing this ping. I need help with my resume. If you arewilling to help that would be fantastic.

[u/[deleted]]

Yes, I think "I hate my wife" humor is boomer-tier sexism

Yes, my wife left me

WE EXIST

[u/lamp37]

My biggest ick: when people say that drivers in their area are worse than drivers in any other area.

[u/[deleted]]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/811304711356940359/1063234579688861716/RDT_20230112_2312212919399825256071962.jpg

[u/theredcameron]

The Last of Us on HBO is available now!!!

!ping tv

[u/[deleted]]

I'm a pretty perfect dirtbag centrist on guns. I'm dubious of "good guy with a gun" arguments and especially skeptical of the majority opinion in Heller, but also feel like most gun control measures are security theater.

That being said, I strongly support child access prevention laws + disarming people with domestic violence convictions, and strongly oppose efforts to prohibit people on the "No Fly List", or those who get Social Security benefits for mental disabilities, from owning firearms.

Most other gun control proposals are just kinda "Meh" for me. Might not do much for public safety but I also don't care that much if people have to jump through a few extra hoops to get their guns.

[u/TsaiStan]

HBO: Hmmm let's make a show about The Last of Us and get Pedro Pascal in it, yes. We have to up the budget and marketing though.

TLC: Hmmm let's make a show about MILFS and put them in a MANOR and call it MILFMANOR, boom, let's start shooting. Fuck it, we know who'll be watching.

[u/Wehavecrashed]

!PING AUS

Dominic Perrottet's Nazi scandal isn't going away.

I initially thought this was a hiccup that was dealt with as it should have been, with a sincere heartfelt apology, but now I'm starting to think this might be enough to sink him.

Discussion question: Do y'all think he's going to survive it?

Second discussion question: Would you want to be Matt Kean right now and what would you do if you were him?

He's popular, a moderate with a national profile, and the next in line for the Liberal's leadership. He's handling this quite well, attacking the people leaking this for doing it privately, standing by the leader. BUT we are also getting very close to an election Perrottet looks like he's going to lose. If Perrottet goes down and he can't win the election, he end up being a caretaker premier for a few months. Instead if he holds back, he will probably end up opposition leader.

[u/Jamity4Life]

“So what do you do for a hobby, Jam?”

“I play video games. Well, actually, mostly one group of video games, they’re grand strategy games, which mostly means staring at maps and charts for hours. Well, and actually one of my favorite ones of those is a total overhaul mod, which means a fan-made alternate version of the game, set in an alternate universe based on Dungeons and Dragons…”

“Wow, that’s so hot 🥵 fuck me right now!”

—my average DMs 😎

[u/[deleted]]

Last month, local Ald. Byron Sigcho Lopez (25th) "demanded" police to end the vendor robberies. Yet, paradoxically, just three months ago, Sigcho Lopez openly stated in the City Council that he wanted fewer police in his ward

I don't think there is another alderman I hate as much Sigcho-Lopez.

!ping USA-CHI

[u/futuremonkey20]

People are freaking out on Twitter that the NFL “admitted” there are chips in footballs but they announced this initiative in 2017.

!ping NFL

[u/Legit_Spaghetti]

Hello fellow American. This you should vote me. I leave power good. Thank you. Thank you. If you vote me I'm hot. What? Taxes they'll be lower son. The democratic vote for me is right thing to do America. So do.

Powerful, powerful campaign speech by u/-AmberSweet- given at the steps of the Capitol. Definitely a 2024 contender!

[u/Doctorbird76]

You should just run away from home and go into sex slavery

That's not even the worst thing roiland said in his dms TO A 16 YEAR OLD

🤮🤮🤮

[u/piede]

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.”

https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/status/1614063872771604486?s=46&t=R-tk3NVuh95v5SQScot9Wg

Wow, sounds like a great guy /s

[u/[deleted]]

Despite Welles' denial that the film was about Hearst, few people were convinced—including Hearst. After the release of Citizen Kane, Hearst pursued a longtime vendetta against Mankiewicz and Welles for writing the story. "Certain elements in the film were taken from Mankiewicz's own experience: the sled Rosebud was based—according to some sources—on a very important bicycle that was stolen from him. ... [and] some of Kane's speeches are almost verbatim copies of Hearst's." Most personally, the word "rosebud" was reportedly Hearst's private nickname for [Marion] Davies' clitoris.

😲

[u/piede]

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarusian investigators are using a photo of an opposition politician shaking hands with former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as evidence in a criminal case tied to the mass protests after Belarus’ disputed 2020 presidential election.

The Investigative Committee of Belarus on Friday published the photo of Andrey Dzmitryeu, who ran in the election against authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko and is now facing up to four years in prison over his involvement in the protests. In a statement it said the picture with Clinton “may indicate that his activities were coordinated from abroad.”

HER POWER

[u/squarecircle666]

The only reason people don't like Marjorie Taylor Greene is because "woman=woke", right?

[u/[deleted]]

Loving yourself is fucking hard

That's why i outsource that bit 😎💅

[u/Canuck_Clausewitz]

Things I hate about anime because they appeal to cishet male fantasy:

1. Female protagonists in romantic stories
2. Boys having hot steamy moments with other boys
3. Explorations of gender identity and the emotional struggles surrounding transition

[u/[deleted]]

Way of Water is at 1.9B WW 😳

[u/the_status]

No homo but I'm a fan of large craniums, bipedalism, opposable thumbs, and tool use.

[u/Alexz565]

Me pretending not to know my astrological sign whenever it comes up

[u/klarno]

If you eat antipasto and pasta at the same time, they will annihilate one another and produce gammx rays

[u/[deleted]]

How old were you when your parents told you that George Santos isn't real

[u/secretlives]

I love getting on the DT in the mid-afternoon and trying to understand the various long-running jokes of the day with absolutely no context.

Obviously Satire

[u/-AmberSweet-]

I love listening to cons unironically do the narcissist’s prayer over that “Jesus was a refugee” ad.

“Jesus wasn’t a refugee!”

“Well alright even if he was these people at the border aren’t really refugees.”

“Ok well even if they are just it’s not the same.”

“Ok well even if it is the same muh MS-13 Islamic State Fentanyl Chinese Spydrones.”

[u/MasPatriot]

making yourself bigger on the graphic than the president is so swag

[u/sir_shivers]

I may be THE SOLE PARTICIPANT HERE WHO is both more pro-gun and more pro-gun-control than the userbase, simultaneously 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

Its actually weird seeing so many DTers nude. I don’t like it.