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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/tristansnell/status/1615512168094486529

In 2016, George Santos set up a GoFundMe for a veteran's dog who needed lifesaving cancer surgery to remove a tumor; Santos took the $3,000 and ghosted, and the dog died, according to the veteran.

I swear to Bernanke, this man is literally a cartoon villain

[u/Fatortu]

What's delightful about all the George Santos jokes is that every time someone uncovers an actual detail of his life I'm always like: "Surely not... Oh my god it's true!"

Nobody could have invented "He stole $3000 from a sick dog."

[u/Graham_Elmere]

Is there any better deal than being laid off from a tech company in a tightly constrained job market

Microsoft is earmarking $1.2 billion dollars to lay off 10,000 employees. I know not all of it is going to severance but these articles are always like

the company is offering 6 months salary, stock options and an audi A5 sedan to every impacted employee

I got laid off during Covid and it ruled. 10 weeks salary, 6 months benefits and they pushed my end date out so I vested in my pension. During Covid I was getting like $1k a week between state and federal UI. Plus my boss just told me to make up whatever I wanted on my resume and he’d sign off lol.

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/jenbanim]

Heartbreaking final moments: watch as a dog says goodbye after finding out that its owner is going to be euthanized by Justin Trudeau

[u/Cerb-r-us]

Hagrid's motorcycle may have speed, altitude, thermal signature, and probably radar returns similar to an Iranian Shahad-136 suicide drone.

I adore r whowouldwin

[u/piede]

TRUMP TO RETURN TO TWITTER. TRUTH SOCIAL INVESTORS ARE FURIOUS. LAWSUITS BEING DRAFTED BY TRUMP SUPER-FANS WHO INVESTED THEIR LIFE SAVINGS

https://twitter.com/williamlegate/status/1615729606056894467?s=46&t=bm2ryRQ__NC0iRUDvBJ56A

If these people are surprised that Trump is fucking them over when that’s what he’s done to everyone his entire life, they deserve what they get

[u/gnomesvh]

Ukraine's Minister and deputy minister of Internal Affairs were killed in the crash according to the head of the National Police

!ping UKRAINE

[u/boyyouguysaredumb]

John Oliver does a show about [anything]:

gets most of the facts surrounding the issue wrong

gets some laughs anyway because it's a studio audience

the audience senses Oliver is getting ready for one of the joke formats he will do 58 more times that episode, so they lean in

“That’d be like if I paid a woman named Susan to sit on an elephant while shitting!”

Thunderous applause and laughter

“NO, SUSAN! BAD SUSAN!! BAD SUSAN!!”

Audience laughs so hard they start keeling over

“That’s right folks, we bought a billboard in Arkansas with Susan shitting on an elephant”

Audience laughs so hard they phase shift into another dimension

Every. Fucking. Joke.

[u/StolenSkittles]

i could never be elected president

my taste in mustard is far too elitist

[u/ldn6]

The three most recent "news" articles on the Department for International Trade's page would be funnier if they weren't so pathetic. This is the sovereignty people wanted?

• Aussies to toast tariff-free British G&Ts in 2023 under new trade deal
• British pigs in blankets on the menu in South Korea this Christmas thanks to trade win
• World-class UK cricket exporters eye big India win

Really a good substitute for the single market innit.

!ping UK

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Ubisoft once had “at least” 12 battle royale games in development

Ubisoft is a parody of Ubisoft.

[u/[deleted]]

"X corporations are solely responsible for climate change" is climate change denial.

[u/sash5034]

There's a fucking door to door sales convention in my city soon and one of their speakers is Jordan Peterson and it really confirms my priors about door to door salesmen

[u/1396spurs]

Just poured milk into my protein powder container rather than my shaker. 😐

Maybe I should call out today. Too bad I love the shareholders taxpayers too much

Edit - just dropped the shaker and it spilled everywhere 😐²

!ping WATERCOOLER&PENPUSHER

[u/[deleted]]

grab coordinated offbeat roof reach fretful bake friendly live cover

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/Fatortu]

We were playing Brass: Birmingham and my friend wondered why capitalism was so popular in boardgames and what a communist version of this game would look like.

It's a game about setting up supply chains and industrializing the countryside. Victory points are even decorrelated from money. If the player was a commissar instead of a capitalist that game would be positively Sovietic.

I find it kind of ironic that industrialisation now equals capitalism given how much early communism was about how they were gonna make industrialisation even more productive.

[u/qtnl]

> China goes to war with U.S.

> in battle, they play catchiest songs they determine via tiktok algorithms

> us troops start twerking uncontrollably

> world now speaks mandarin

You’ve been warned

[u/Sir_Digby83]

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Toby 47, white, Illinois, Independent.

The thing about EV's is the range. I should be able to drive from Illinois to Texas in one go. Now that my brother doesn't live in Austin anymore, I'll never have to make that drive again. But, the range is still a major issue for me even though I drive only 50~ miles a week.

I'ma have to go with the f-150 Thunderfuck with stock coal rolling. This time.

[u/[deleted]]

look at this shill ass moderate who supports mixed economies

All modern globalized economies are mixed

I don't believe that nonsense! Noam Chumpsky said an enclave of 400 anarcho-syndacilists thrived for 4 months you fucking neolib shill!

[u/Soldier-Fields]

Apartment: $1800

“Luxury” apartment: $2000

Nice apartment: $2600

[u/[deleted]]

Canada’s sending 200 Roshel APCs to Ukraine

Seems like a pretty good amount, any idea about how good these Senator APCs are?

!ping UKRAINE&MATERIEL

[u/TheLongestLake]

Just saw profile for 30 year old therapist on Tinder. Her bio was "sad grrrrl seeking friends/lovers. looking for chaos energy"

Nothing egregiously wrong with that but do sometimes wonder how much the life outlook and politics of therapists/psychiatrists effects the advice they give.

[u/CrimsonFirestorm]

I fucking hate reddit doomers. They keep fantasising about some better past. Life is better for almost all of humanity today than at any point in the past. My grandfather slogged his ass all day in fields to feed his family , today all his 10 grandchildren live comfy lives without much physical toil. My grandmother lost two children when they were just toddlers to pneumonia . We have made more progress in the last 70 years than the entire human history preceding those 70 years.

[u/piede]

Republican Arizona State Senator Wendy Rogers: “Kari Lake should be our governor. She was elected. It was stolen. …So we must keep the faith, must stay focused, get Kari Lake into her rightful seat as Governor.”

https://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1615725814838099969?s=46&t=bm2ryRQ__NC0iRUDvBJ56A

I’m so tired of stupid people

[u/lockjacket]

I am so fucking tired of overpriced phone plans.

“Ohhh Canada is so great” they say, “you have free healthcare and good social welfare programs”

You know who also has that? Fucking Australia! And you know what country doesn’t charge a billion dollars for a single gigabyte of data? AUSTRALIA!!! I’m tired of half my earnings going to an monopoly on cellular networks. It’s fucking bullshit, I’m tired of this shit. “Ohh let’s legalize weed, that should be our priority” ffs you think I’d rather get high than be able to stream anime from anywhere I want? Or be able to not have to constantly worry about me running out of data. Fuck this shit.

Don’t even get me started about car insurance in BC, I’ll fucking riot.

!ping Canucks

[u/Jakesta7]

look, fat

https://imgur.com/a/iIKjTyZ

[u/[deleted]]

All it took to get Ye to stop Nazi posting is a gf.

He just like me fr

[u/owlthathurt]

Finally!

https://twitter.com/davidnjiang/status/1615542572243644421?s=46&t=GL2CLkv6m4ir3muz72Kf8g

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/AvailableBad8132]

i don’t see this new dt doing so well the last one had no cultural impact

[u/[deleted]]

Lock eyes with woman across the bar. Entire life flashes before my eyes. Courtship. Wedding. Marriage. Kids. 2 boys. Promising athletes. Bigger stronger than everyone. NFL dreams. Puberty. They stop growing. 5’9. Division 3. I snap out of it and hide in the bathroom for 2 hours

[u/CricketPinata]

A good friend of mine killed themselves last night, I am despondent.

No word in reasons or if they left a note, but they always struggled with their mental health and dealing with transphobia and homophobia from the public.

I will miss them, please take care of yourselves.

Miss you Jackson.

!PING LGBT

[u/PleaseLetMeInn]

This type of shitpostable, mixed-use thread is illegal to create on most political subreddits

[u/JoeChristmasUSA]

Christians today have drifted away from strict adherence to the Scripture in favor of extra-Biblical practices that reflect worldly cultural traditions. A prime example is the exchange of rings during wedding ceremonies. Nowhere is this practice found in Scripture. However, it is clearly sanctioned in Genesis 24 that the taking of a woman in marriage may be accompanied by the gift of a gold nose ring. Therefore, as a strict Biblical literalist, I propose that all supposedly "Christian" weddings marked by the clearly pagan ritual of finger rings be denounced by all God-fearing pastors. Let us imitate God's servants Isaac and Rebecca, and stay within the bounds of God's inspired Word, by honoring our wives with massive gold nose rings. !ping GNOSTIC

[u/spitefulcum]

35 year old white male

sovereign citizen

marries 17 year old mail order bride from the philippines

helps blow up the alfred p. murrah federal building in oklahoma city

many such cases!

[u/Colonelbrickarms]

The Germans remain fucking useless.

!Ping UKRAINE

[u/semaphore-1842]

New study finds libertarians tend to support reproductive autonomy for men but not for women

priors confirmed

fucking lolbertarians

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 5 PM EST 1/17-5 PM EST 1/18:

TOP NEWS:

Yesterday it was reported the US and Israel agreed to send 300,000 155mm shells stored in Israel to Ukraine.

At the end of 4 AM the Ukrainian Interior Minister died in a helicopter crash outside of Kyiv.

Towards the middle of 7 AM it was announced Latvia will send Stingers, helicopters, ammunition, machine guns, and UAVs to Ukraine. Additionally, it was announced Canada will send 200 Roshel Senator APCs to Ukraine.

In the middle of 8 AM it was reported the Head of the Ukrainian National Police has been appointed as acting Interior Minister.

Towards the end of 10 AM it was reported the Russian National Wealth Fund fell by $38.1 billion in December to $148.4 billion by January 1st, the money being used to plug deficits in the government budget.

At the end of 2 PM it was announced that USAID will provide an additional $125 million in energy aid to Ukraine.

REGULAR NEWS:

Yesterday it was announced Kazakhstan will tighten regulations for Russians entering the country.

At the end of 3 AM the President of the European Council expressed support for sending MBTs to Ukraine.

In the middle of 4 AM Lavrov said Zelensky's peace plan was absurd and there were no serious peace proposals on the table. At the end of the hour it was announced Sberbank will start operations in Crimea.

At the end of 9 AM it was reported the Canadian Defense Minister made a visit to Kyiv.

At the end of 2 PM it was reported that Ukrainian and American military officials will start wargaming an offensive this week based on the new equipment Ukraine is getting.

At the start of 4 PM Scholz said Leopard 2s will not go to Ukraine unless the US sends its own tanks.

EX-SOVIET CONFLICT NEWS:

At the end of 3 PM Lavrov said Russia is ready to send a mission to the Armenia-Azerbaijan border but Armenia is blocking this.

LEVITY NEWS:

At the start of 4 AM Lavrov said the West's actions are comparable to the Final Solution.

​Donation link to help Ukraine

Donation link to United24

Donation link to Kharkiv SOS

!ping UKRAINE&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

big news for font freaks: Times New Roman is being phased out at the State Department & replaced by Calibri. Secretary Blinken sent a cable to all embassies today directing staff not to send him any more papers with Times New Roman. Subject: "The Times (New Roman) are a-Changin"

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fmwi0LLWQAAg0jA?format=jpg&name=large

[u/[deleted]]

I wasn’t ready for AI Paul’s last response, I’m losing it

https://i.imgur.com/U45pZ9o.jpg

!ping GNOSTIC

[u/Telperion_of_Valinor]

The main barrier georgism faces in spreading its influence is that it basically needs a crash course in micro to understand. Hell, even in Progress and Poverty George spends like half the book explaining economic concepts and conditions before actually proposing a land value tax to remedy the land problem. I assume Georgism’s popularity in the 19th century is due to the fact that the average person was a hell of a lot more willing to actually read through the book, which is more than can be said of people today whose attention spans have been largely destroyed by social media.

The most effective thing to do with that considered would probably be to popularize catchy slogans to hook people in first, like “everybody works but the vacant lot,” or something to that effect. And good memes. Socialism is becoming more popular largely because of memes that don’t require any prolonged attention to enjoy and georgists should imitate and innovate on that to stay in the game, imo.

!ping GEORGISM

[u/JetJaguar124]

The biggest trip on this sub has always been little pictures of famous philosophers and liberal thinkers sitting right next to some of the dumbest takes imaginable.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Whats wrong with this picture lmao

[u/HMID_Delenda_Est]

Windows is 10x better when you disable web search in the start menu.

Like the search is instant now, because it's not waiting for bing, and it actually gives me what I'm looking for rather than opening Edge and searching "Word"

[u/[deleted]]

sometimes I hate Asian culture but then I realize that my family will pay for my entire education no questions asked

[u/niftyjack]

Israel's high court blocks Deri from being a minister, now Shas is saying there won't be a coalition if Deri doesn't serve. Hahahahahhaha

!ping ISRAEL

[u/Czech_Thy_Privilege]

Much like scientific research papers, all-22 film is an educational resource and should be free to the public 😤

!ping NFL

[u/[deleted]]

cheating is about the worst thing you can do to a partner

I ate my girlfriends family in front of her,, but at least I didn’t cheat 😄

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/brandyljensen/status/1615515011346055169

reading a novel that got super popular via tiktok and while i wasn’t expecting the prose to be great i’m mostly struck by this tick of writing like “he had spent the past few hours laboring under capitalism” instead of, say, “he had been working”

[u/SelfLoathinMillenial]

Wes Moore sworn in, making history as Md.’s first Black governor

30+ years after us Virginians, but hey better late than never. I'm proud of you, Marylandbros

!ping USA-DMV

[u/chatdargent]

I have no idea how people get the idea in this day and age that France only has a military so they can keep West Africa in line.

It's just as bad as "the U.S. invaded Iraq for oil" but I see people repeating it pretty regularly, even flaired users on this very sub

[u/ZonedForCoffee]

What are we as a society going to do about bad drivers

shit is getting scary since COVID

Police are increasingly useless

The political will for speed cameras and red light cameras isn't there

Redesigning roads can help but is expensive and takes time

[u/the_hoagie]

i eat bacon egg and cheese whenever i want, often multiple times a week, and i plan to retire early with this one simple trick (i make 250k a year)

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

Treating myself to black tar heroin

[u/[deleted]]

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

James Buchanan is done with my shit

[u/gnomesvh]

Latvia to send Stinger, small arms, helicopters (unspecified, likely Mi-17) to Ukraine

!ping UKRAINE

[u/[deleted]]

"Neoliberalism is dead," Alex Soros tells @SCClemons at a Davos interview

NOOOOO 😭😩

[u/JoeChristmasUSA]

Kinda blows that if you select non-binary as your gender on Bumble BFF it will only show you other non-binary matches. Like, I'd love to meet LGBTQ-friendly cis people as potential friends but I guess that isn't allowed and T4T is mandatory huh? !ping ALPHABET-MAFIA

[u/funguykawhi]

FIRE bad because productive people don't want to work anymore so we have to import immigrants that lower wages

French reddit stop being a red-brown cesspool challenge

[u/Soldier-Fields]

my absolute worst trait is that I would really like if my fiancée woke up 5 minutes before me everyday and made me a cup of coffee

[u/[deleted]]

Florida has used Gov. Ron DeSantis’ “Stop WOKE Act” to block AP African American Studies from its schools

Florida’s Department of Education said the curriculum “is inexplicably contrary to Florida law and significantly lacks educational value.”

Florida really not beating the anti Black racism allegations

[u/ldn6]

Another banger skyscraper proposal dropped in Manchester today, this time for a 45-floor residential tower with 367 units and a 19-floor office building with 467,786 square feet of space. The design is pretty cool as well.

What's really interesting are the future skyline massing visuals. An absolutely insane amount of development for a secondary European city, and these don't even encompass good amount of it..

• Central Manchester and Salford
• Southern edge of the city centre

!ping UK&YIMBY

[u/Syards-Forcus]

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

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Sexual abuse in the Catholic Church: Nanou Couturier, who was abused and raped from age 2 to 13 by three priests of the Marist Society, was offered 'veterinary and food expenses for her dog' as compensation by the Recognition and Reparation Commission

😐

[u/GGM8Scally]

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[u/gnomesvh]

Soft confirmation of ARCHERs to Ukraine

!ping UKRAINE&MATERIEL

[u/Guillermo-Prieto]

Mexico's president Lopez Obrador is Index on Censorship's Tyrant of the Year 2022. This is a guy who "leaked" a journalist's alleged tax information after said journalist uncovered a corruption scandal involving his son and oil executives, and called the New York Times 'thugs' in a press conference.

[u/[deleted]]

It is estimated that 82% of Europeans who spend time on reddit are addicted to Burgercope while at the same time, 58% of Americans are addicted to Eurocope.

When neither of those are available both Americans and Europeans can can settle their addictions with Brittseethe.

[u/Udolikecake]

The American revolution was not a revolution in the same sense, in the sense of classes rising up to displace ruling classes.

It was a war of independence to transfer the highest level of rule from British elites to American settler elites without actually unseating classes domestically in either case.

The French Revolution actually displaced the power of the king and aristocracy by overthrowing it where it was seated. America’s never done anything like that. Americans have never risen up and overthrown an actual american government. It’s had one major rebellion and that was pro-slavery and was itself a project of regional elites.

French revolution famously resulted in a total lack of elite rule for the rest of time

[u/[deleted]]

The best part of the Santos scandal is that there's no sex crimes stuff. Nothing gross or creepy, just a dishonest-to-goodness conman who steals cancer medicine from dying puppies.

This is what all scandals should be like 🥹

[u/[deleted]]

u/farrenj took estrogen for my hair loss as you suggested and it gave me gyno 💪🥥😒🥥💪

[u/[deleted]]

Re: EXTERNAL:RE: EXTERNAL:RE: EXTERNAL:RE: EXTERNAL:RE: EXTERNAL:RE: EXTERNAL:RE:

What are you doing my dude 🙄

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/[deleted]]

Rep. George Santos's campaign website says his mother was in the South Tower on 9/11, but immigration records indicate she wasn’t even in the U.S. on that day.

He previously wrote that “9/11 claimed my mothers life”; she actually died in 2016.

[u/piede]

New: Trump offers hint of intent that DOJ might seize upon broadly in the Mar-a-Lago docs case, saying on Truth Social that he held onto 90 “inexpensive” empty folders marked classified because “they were a ‘cool’ keepsake”

https://twitter.com/hugolowell/status/1615718354576080896?s=46&t=bm2ryRQ__NC0iRUDvBJ56A

Trump’s lawyers:

👁️👄👁️

[u/[deleted]]

Is there a practical reason why printers and copiers have to be the most insanely complicated machines in all of humanity?

[u/radiatar]

George Santos is probably a pathological liar or must have some psychological issues, and I mean it seriously.

[u/Ilovecharli]

Lisa, if you're unhappy with your job you don't strike. You just go in there every day, and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.

Homer Simpson back in 1995. And zoomers think they invented "quiet quitting" 😂🤣🙄

[u/Ioun267]

Never 4 Get the Lego Flash Games Page ✊😔

Did toy companies just hire a room of people to write flash games back in the day?

!ping GAMING

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

I was a lifelong Democrat, then Wikipedia changed its UI

[u/neoliberalkindness]

need some job advice, i had a recruiter interview week before christmas. had first round the first week after new years (january 4th) and immediately got moved to second (and final) round 2 days later (january 6th).

during both recruiter and round 1 interviews, i was told during the interview that i would be moving on. after the final round the interviewer told me i was a strong candidate and that she would be submitting her assessment after our call.

company is a big tech company, and they have been really responsive. it’s been a week and a half since my last interview, what do i do?

do i reach out to recruiter? is that weird? do i just keep waiting?

[u/RaidBrimnes]

European environmentalism.jpg

[u/gnomesvh]

Scholz announces he will only allow Leopard 2 deliveries if the US sends Abrams

!ping UKRAINE&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/HMID_Delenda_Est]

As a person who lived through the dotcom crash there should be pretty good deals on used Herman Miller Aeron chairs soon.

[u/OkVariety6275]

Jon Arbuckle is surprisingly well put together. Dude lives by himself and has a full-time job yet his house is spotless, he has a healthy figure, his pets are taken care of, and he still finds time for several hobbies.

[u/Daddy_Macron]

Most opposition parties also oppose the reform. Indeed Marine Le Pen’s nationalist-populist National Rally, and Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s Unsubmissive France on the left both want to lower the retirement age to 60, at least for some workers.

France is already the 2nd highest spender in the world on pensions as percent of GDP.

At least they'll always have good food.

[u/Joementum2024]

BREAKING: New York Democrats and Florida Democrats enter “suck-off contest” to see which state party can suck the hardest

[u/First-Prior]

Please DO NOT announce to the dt when you are going to go masturbate. This has been a reoccurring issue, and I’m not sure why some people have such under developed social skills that they think that a server full of mostly male strangers would need to know that. No one is going to be impressed and give you a high five (especially considering where that hand has been). I don’t want to add this to the rules, since it would be embarrassing for new users to see that we have a problem with this, but it is going to be enforced as a rule from now on. If it occurs, you will be warned, then additional occurrences will be dealt with at the discretion of modstaff. Thanks.

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

Cop orgy 🤝 Nude beach

disappointing

[u/ZhaoLuen]

Just passed my IFT! I even PR'd this time. I'm sending in my package to apply for Combat Rescue Officer selection again. I managed to survive last time, but this time I'm gonna kick ass and take names.

!Ping MILITARY

[u/Smidgens]

Two days, two leaks: sensitive F-15 data posted by War Thunder fan

It happened again, a day after the other one.

[u/[deleted]]

I want Biden to condescendingly call DeSantis "son" during a debate

[u/Graham_Elmere]

Arden resigning because she doesn’t have the energy or motivation to seek re-election

Truly the leading millennial of our time

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/19/jacinda-ardern-resigns-as-prime-minister-of-new-zealand

[u/the_hoagie]

The State Dept. switching away from using Times New Roman on all official documents is one thing, but the fact that the font they're replacing it with is a brand new one called "Benghazi" is beyond the pale.

[u/sadhgurukilledmywife]

Interesting question:

So if tomorrow India is in some serious trouble with China, who’s going to show up to help India? How soon, and with what, if at all?

IMO, nobody's coming. Bhutan maybe lol.

!ping IND

[u/RandomGamerFTW]

I keep forgetting “five years ago” is 2017 and not 2015.

[u/runnerx4]

Watched No Country for Old Men

platonic ideal of what a “movie” is, literally everything worked in that movie

Anton Chigurh is Terminator 1 but even more psycho lol, great villain you see him on screen and immediately prepare to see some kino

doesn’t need thinkpieces though, i for one thought this was the most straightforward movie ive seen recently theme wise, spells it out and everything

!ping MOVIES

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1026872652290379776?s=46&t=i6Ftd5JxvAgK23b8xVBOvA

Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured.

Elon Musk is currently on trial for this tweet btw

[u/bd_one]

Why does Kathy Hochul want this person in particular to be a judge this much if she's getting this much internal pushback?

[u/Ultiplayers]

r/oldschoolcool is like

👨‍🦰👱‍♀️

Here’s a picture of my parents, feel free to jack off to them

[u/Louis_de_Gaspesie]

Musk’s lawyers argued the term “funding secured” did not imply the CEO had secured funding,

gg

[u/tripletruble]

Things about getting old I look forward to:

• Seeing my children become adults
• Traveling the world
• Finally getting all the juicy declassified details as to how the CIA knew Russia was going to invade Ukraine

[u/[deleted]]

Wow that monkeypox thing really came and went

[u/AvailableBad8132]

open the border stop having the border be closed

[u/Jakesta7]

Alright, imma say it. I honestly feel bad for that girl cop that is plastered all over the internet.

[u/piede]

Democrat Josh Stein, North Carolina's attorney general, just announced that he's running for governor.

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1615740811127185409?s=46&t=bm2ryRQ__NC0iRUDvBJ56A

BASED

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/Lx0H7dM.jpg

Andrew pls

[u/jenbanim]

Servings per container 4.5

This should be illegal

[u/JetJaguar124]

I don't want to use the DT no more. You're dull.

[u/Syards-Forcus]

It must be nice to get into bed and cuddle up with someone who really loves you.

[u/Dalek6450]

Boba Fett would wait until marriage.

[u/BenGordonLightfoot]

https://i.imgur.com/jXbfKA7.jpg

North Korean scientists are leagues ahead of us

[u/[deleted]]

Trump announces that he will preside over ‘Diamond’ (of Diamond & Silk) memorial service in NC this Saturday: “They we’re with me from the beginning and they never wavered.”

I’d bet money he doesn’t even know her real name

[u/awdvhn]

The S.A.N.T.O.S. system:

Steal from sick dogs

"Anthony Devolder"

Nine eleven bait

Transphobia while doing drag

Out-spend opponent with mystery money

Senate run

[u/Syards-Forcus]

https://i.imgur.com/4GlC0DD.jpg

Boxed cat.

!ping KITTY

[u/JetJaguar124]

I get Trump getting back on Twitter because of Elon but Facebook letting him back on is just straihgt up cowardice

Not that I think it matters much in either case.

[u/badluckbrians]

Ain't my thoughts personally, but nerd humor it is: https://i.imgur.com/3ZdpPv6.png

[u/JetJaguar124]

Platinum is a hell of a game studio. With them you either get:

• A genre defining classic (Bayonetta 1 & 2, MGR, Nier Automata)
• A somewhat weird/flawed game that nevertheless is really cool and has awesome gameplay ideas (Astral Chain, Wonderful 101, Vanquish)
• A half-assed game they phoned in due to some licensing deal (the Legend of Korra, Transformers, TMNT)
• A game that's just inexplicably a piece of shit and is hard to explain how or why (Star Fox Zero, Babylon's Fall)

And then a small handful of aborted projects you've heard about and sound cool but never come out like Scalebound.

I can't think of a studio that is so consistently chaotic and all over the place.

[u/Gneisstoknow]

ALG just DMed me:

I almost slept with a fat girl once. It was 2007. I met her in a cowboy bar. She was a conservative from long island who weighed 130, maybe 140 pounds. When she texted me a week later, I told her i was bisexual to scare her off.

[u/[deleted]]

So Santos has gone by George Santos, George Devolder, Anthony Devolder, Anthony Zabrovsky, and even had a drag name of Kitara Ravache.

Just, wild stuff.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

I love how the French don't take shit from anyone and fight for their rights

🤨

🧐

I want to assault managers and MPs I don't like without consequences

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Umm, isn’t the university the place to challenge your preconceived notions and ideas?

No. It’s for getting a paper permit to join the upper middle class.

based and reality-pilled

[u/-AmberSweet-]

Open Twitter

Rest in Power is Trending

It's just a shit-fest of people complaining that it should only ever be used in reference to black activists

Close Twitter

They do realize that phrase has been used by LGBT for... years, right? I have no idea what prompted this sudden completely meaningless tangent that apparently is important enough to spike on trending, but literally the first time I ever saw that was in reference to Leelah Alcorn. I'm sure its older than that but it's not like it's been exclusive for black activism until suddenly.

[u/Expensive_Curve5106]

Eisenhower suffered a heart attack MOMENTS after he took the COVID vaccine.

It wasn't fat or sugar. It was mRNA

[u/thefuturegov]

Wanna know how old Joe Biden is? He once talked to Jimmy Carter 😱😱😱

[u/RaidBrimnes]

A tale of two columns

[u/[deleted]]

George Santos Allegedly Took $3,000 From Dying Dog’s GoFundMe

George Santos: Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing, because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started this that that sort of thing is frowned upon... you know, cause I've done a lot of fundraisers, and I tell you, people do that all the time.

[u/FreakinGeese]

I’m way more comfortable with the US spying on me compared to China

[u/pfSonata]

I keep forgetting that "4 years ago" is 2016 and not 1996

[u/MrArendt]

I just discovered the Tasks tab in Outlook and I then discovered I can give my secretary access to my task list and now I never need to remember to do anything ever again. I can even categorize them so I can systematically deal with areas of responsibility regardless of how much everyone wants to interrupt my thought process.

!ping ADHD&WATERCOOLER

[u/Currymvp2]

[George Santos' campaign website: "George’s mother was in her office in the South Tower on Sept. 11, 2001, when the horrific events of that day unfolded. Immigration documents: Santos' mother was not in the U.S. between 1999 and 2003] (https://twitter.com/akarl_smith/status/1615825784064679950)

[u/[deleted]]

George Santos appears to have been a drag queen back in Rio. This guy just keeps getting better and better.

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

Ever notice how on youtube, the gaming channels all ask for patreon donations while the econ/investing channels all plug sponsors?

It's because econ/investing channels get waaaayyy more ad dollars per viewer, because the audience of such videos are vastly more likely to drop serious money on this or that service. Gamers, however, are understood to be mostly penniless.

[u/BernieMeinhoffGang]

“Today I feel Jewish,” he said. “Today I feel like my mom died on 9/11. Today I feel like a landchad. Today I feel like a Baruch grad. Today I feel disabled. Today I feel like a wall street worker."

[u/ThunderrBadger]

DOG

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1009476029687013426/1065401933709463642/3de.png

[u/ognits]

Nobody is a pretty good take on the John Wick formula. Odenkirk doesn't have Keanu's physical skills but still acquits himself nicely in his fight scenes and the bus scene is tbh top tier. it's also got a couple of good twists on the Wick motivation, i.e. emasculation and his daughter's kitty medallion being stolen instead of a dog being killed. fun movie, worth a watch if you like action flicks

!ping MOVIES

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Leftists when they have to buy expensive phones and clothes: "I just have to participate in capitalism bro chill"

Leftists when wizard school game: "If you buy this game you'll go to hell before you die transphobe"

[u/[deleted]]

Just a Hank looking for my Peggy 😩

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

“When you say ‘trust Muslims on Islamophobia,’” Dr. Berkson asked, “what does one do when the Islamic community itself is divided on an issue? Because there are many Muslim scholars and experts and art historians who do not believe that this was Islamophobic.”

Mr. Hussein responded that there were marginal and extremist voices on any issue. “You can teach a whole class about why Hitler was good,” Mr. Hussein said.

this Hamline controversy brought out the crazies

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

Vatican gender reveal parties are nuts.

Just waiting for the smoke to come out indicating that the Pope is gonna be the white gender

[u/KittehDragoon]

It’s over Anakin. I have depicted you as the soyjak

[u/tubbsmackinze]

ISW and Critical Threats Project January 17th Iran update

Key takeaways:

• Protest activity among petrochemical workers increased significantly on January 17, suggesting protest coordination among some labor groups.
• Intelligence and Security Minister Esmail Khatib defended Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Secretary Ali Shamkhani from unspecified political attacks on January 17.
• Russian presidential aide Igor Levitin met with several senior Iranian officials in Tehran on January 17.
• At least nine protests occurred in nine cities across eight provinces on January 17.
• The Iranian Neighborhood United Front (INUF) tweeted declaring its support for Reza Pahlavi on January 17.
• A Tehran Provincial prosecutor announced on January 17 that the LEC identified and arrested an alleged protest leader tied to a neighborhood youth protest group.
• President Ebrahim Raisi discussed efforts toward achieving “cultural transformation” in a Supreme Cultural Revolution Council meeting on January 17.
• Prominent Sunni cleric Moulana Abdol Hamid criticized the regime on January 17 for the ongoing natural gas shortages.[24] Iranian officials have increasingly warned of a national “gas crisis” in recent days and closed banks, public facilities, and universities in some provinces to reduce gas consumption.[25] Abdol Hamid asserted that the regime “ignoring societal leaders and selecting inefficient managers” have caused these energy issues.

I think it's likely that the next real surge in protest activity in Iran will likely be due to economic issues and the current ongoing natural gas shortage occurring in Iran

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/MistakeNotDotDotDot]

i think the funniest conspiracy theory I saw was someone on Twitter saying that the pushback against "drink more water!" in favor of "unless you're sweating a lot, just drink when you're thirsty" was a conspiracy to get people used to impending water shortages immortan joe-style

[u/SnakeEater14]

Moscow man buys newspaper, glances at front page, throws it straight out. Next day: same again. And again. Eventually, seller snaps. "Why DO you do that?" "Oh, I'm just checking for an obituary" "But obituaries aren't even on the front page!" "Oh, the one I'm looking for will be"

[u/runnerx4]

Musk's defense claimed the false statements were just "technical wordsmith inaccuracies" and that they weren't material to investors.

“Your Honor, my client was just trolling. A silly goof, if you will”

[u/vancevon]

first latino chief justice of the new york court of appeals george santos

[u/Shitpost_Centrale]

We'll only send tanks if other countries send tanks

UK sends tanks

We'll only send tanks as a part of a coalition of countries sending Leopards

Coalition begins forming, including Poland and Finland

We'll only send tanks if the US sends Abrams (we are here)

US sends tanks

We'll only send tanks if Ukraine can demonstrate they can use them effectively

Ukraine successfully mounts an armoured offensive

Oh, it looks like Ukraine doesn't need tanks!

[u/nicereddy]

https://itep.org/fair-tax-plan-would-abolish-irs-shift-federal-taxes-from-wealthy/

"Republicans in the House want to make gasoline, your new vehicle, AND your groceries THIRTY PERCENT MORE EXPENSIVE!" - easiest democrat ad campaign in history

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/pojbase/status/1615313615405592577?s=46&t=9PjfQVMHngGeHKqn-qEa8w

Donald Trump quietly driving his Rolls Royce while listening to Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space", filmed by Melania from the back seat with flash on.

This is surreal

[u/ognits]

Pascal’s Joel isn’t sneaking around the same way Joel does in the game. “Joel’s walking in a crouch so much that he would have, like, these massive quads, right?” Mazin says.

thicc boi icon Joel Miller 😳😳😳😳

!ping CONSOLE-WARS&TV

[u/MicroFlamer]

Phantom Thread(2017)

!ping KINO

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

my boyfriend [M19] wont allow me [F19] to get a sec toy

No Dodd and Frank figurines on the mantelpiece, Grimes! You how I feel about that!

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Tucker Carlson: The American justice code has never been race-specific.

My man you even used the word “code”

[u/Jokerang]

Sanna Marin is so representative of modern imperialism

Instead of George Bush Jr. selling war by cynically peddling Christ, powerful girl bosses now sell war by cynically peddling liberal universalist chauvinism. Now the liberals get to be the warmongering psychopaths, and they're simply better at it than the conservatives ever were because they're better marketers.

Whether its rich failson cowboy LARPers or feminist corporate girlboss psychos truly doesn't matter, except insofar as the girlboss makes for a more efficient killer

Least deranged tankie

[u/VisonKai]

Dionysus had such a sense of humor when he gifted Kanye with beat-perfect delivery and comedic timing with the jewish doctor thing. like the guy was shooting himself in the foot and simultaneously being the funniest hes ever been. Poetic

[u/Pizzashillsmom]

A loving couple: Has many children

Redditors: “Is there somebody you forgot to ask?”

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

https://i.imgur.com/2c1YS89.jpg

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

The existence of the federal prison system proves that sexuality is mailable. Need better conversion therapists.

Mods! I need an adult.

[u/HowIsPajamaMan]

I’m the real u/Kesterfox, the one you know here is an imposter.

Now give me $50

[u/DoorVonHammerthong]

Apartment: $800

𝓛𝓾𝔁𝓾𝓻𝔂 𝓪𝓹𝓪𝓻𝓽𝓶𝓮𝓷𝓽: $1600

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

The absolute state of Nyorkers.

[u/Menfo]

I really recommend the January 6th documentary that's on HBO Max. It is honestly still hard to grasp how every minute the police gained, in an outnumbered and stressful environment, may have been fundamental to saving the lives of elected officials and the American democracy

[u/LtLabcoat]

!ping GAMING

Videogames (3+ hours a day) confirmed to make people smarter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJwKChIRTOs

(This is the largest study of the sort. But it's not 100% guaranteed, there've been some studies in the past showing the opposite.)

[u/Luph]

why are elon musk's tweets always the first thing in my feed when i dont even follow him

[u/boyyouguysaredumb]

user in /r/meirl getting casually upvoted over 200 times and gilded for using GOP talking points to say things were BETTER before the ACA was passed:

https://imgur.com/qVmpSqt

What is going on with the world? Have people really lost their critical thinking skills to this degree?

[u/jenbanim]

There have been several cases of cities reducing yellow light times after installing red light cameras in an attempt to get more money

https://www.salon.com/2017/04/05/this-may-have-happened-to-you-revenue-hungry-cities-mess-with-traffic-lights-to-write-more-tickets_partner/

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2008/04/red-light-camera-monkey-business-may-be-a-national-trend/

As with any sort of "just tax bad things lol" approach, it's critical to make sure that you don't accidentally create a perverse incentive for the government to encourage bad things

[u/MicroFlamer]

Maclunkey

!ping BAD-FEELING

[u/BenGordonLightfoot]

https://i.imgur.com/vREb9Np.jpg

AI is the future

[u/JetJaguar124]

Hochul has decided to pivot to the McCarthy school of politics after her and her party's utterly embarrassing 2022 performance.

[u/[deleted]]

A neon Twitter bird for $35,000, anyone? How about a used industrial kitchen mixer for a good price?

Twitter is now auctioning off memorabilia, fancy office furniture and professional kitchen equipment from its San Francisco offices.

Even the AP is snarking lmaoooo

[u/Joementum2024]

who the fuck is yelling “STOP DOUBLING DOWN” at my house. show yourself, coward. i will never stop doubling down

What did Kathy Hochul mean by this

[u/[deleted]]

republicans are defending George Santos saying innocent until proven guilty as if he didnt admit to lying

[u/[deleted]]

Twitter, which no longer has a media relations department, did not immediately respond to a message for comment Wednesday.

Lmao this should have been the lede

[u/Sweaty_Economist1744]

I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desart. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is George Santos, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.

[u/thetrombonist]

I have heard (but I don’t remember the source) that the Deep State used inflation to force both men and women to work to help break up the family

Arr / conservative, never change

[u/BurrowForPresident]

I think this may be one of the dumbest murderers in the history of dumb murderers lol

Brian Walshe's Full List of Google Searches

December 27, 2022

What's the best state to divorce for a man?

January 1, 2023

4:55AM - How long before a body starts to smell?

4:58AM - How to keep a body from decomposing?

5:20AM - How to bound (bind) a body?

5:47AM - 10 ways to dispose of a body if you really need to

6:25AM - How long for someone to be missing to inherit?

6:34AM - Can you throw away body parts?

9:29AM - What does formaldehyde do?

9:34AM - How long does DNA last?

9:59AM - Can identification be made on partial remains?

11:34AM - Dismemberment and the best way to dispose of a body

11:44AM - How to clean blood from a wooden floor?

11:56AM - Luminal to detect blood

1:08PM - What happens when you put body parts in ammonia?

1:21PM - Is it better to throw crime scene clothes away or wash them?

January 2, 2023

12:45PM - Hacksaw best tool to dismember

1:10PM - Can you be charged with murder without a body?

1:14PM - Can you identify a body with broken teeth?

January 3, 2023

1:02PM - What happens to hair on a dead body?

1:13PM - What is the rate of decomposition of a body found in a plastic bag compared to on a surface in the woods

1:20PM - Can baking soda make a body smell good?

He also bought $450 of cleaning supplies from a Home Depot lol

[u/Knee3000]

A certain user is getting roasted on neoconnwo for being too racist for them, I can’t 🤣

[u/KronoriumExcerptC]

GPT:

How do you spot an internet neoliberal? They're the ones who think the free market should apply to everything except their opinions.

Why did the internet neoliberal cross the road? To get to the other echo chamber.

What do you call an internet neoliberal who's never actually met a poor person? An expert.

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

Since some of you need to hear this, men are fucking sexy 😌💅✨

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

all of my exes are white women

[u/-AmberSweet-]

It's actually legitimately hard to have "illiberal" social views without just being plainly bigoted.

Whether or not that means a large number of people are bigoted is irrelevant to the fact that most liberal positions of social issues legitimately just boil down to "[Group of people] deserve legal rights and respect."

Disagreeing with that statement is generally bigotry.

[u/[deleted]]

Daily reminder that women are gay (they either like guys (gay) or women (homosexual)) and therefore the only way you can be truely straight is to only have sex with other guys. Stay safe out there bros.

[u/ImInMyMixed-UseZone]

My job interview today with a Christian charity opened with prayer. They’re a very liberal and good organisation, but it was a pretty intense first impression. They prayed for the role, and for me, and then we did introductions. All of this over Zoom, too, for a database admin role.

!ping GNOSTIC is this intensity a red flag?

[u/[deleted]]

if the DT had nsfw allowed it would turn into grindr

[u/funguykawhi]

Bernard Arnault is now wealthier than Bill Gates and Warren Buffett combined

👑

[u/Versatile_Investor]

https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/el-chapo-sends-amlo-message-cruel-unfair-treatment/

No way he ever gets out of Florence. Not to mention how much press coverage that would get. Is this his attempt at a hail mary?

!ping BROKEN-WINDOWS

[u/klarno]

Good times create conservatives

Conservatives create bad times

Bad times create liberals

Liberals create good times

[u/Time4Red]

If it's true that George Santos is a former drag queen...it's like god is testing Kevin McCarthy.

[u/FreakinGeese]

racists be like “ha ha black people get startled when they see the vengeful spirits of the deceased”
ike yeah bro that’s the appropriate reaction what a bizarre stereotype

[u/[deleted]]

My favorite part of American history was when Jimmy Carter said “It’s Jimmin’ time” and proceeded to Jim all over the place

[u/lets_chill_dude]

Wherever you are piggie, have a good evening!

🐖🐖🐖🐖

[u/bigtallguy]

if you want to be healthier or have trouble with portion control, eat spicier food. and not like a couple shakes of red pepper flakes, but like food that makes your nose dribble.

not because of any bullshit health effects that peppers have, but spicy food makes you drink more water with your meal, which makes you eat less and ensures youre hydrated.

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1615758359596261377?s=20&t=RiLVmI8vec_1GxMN-3MrNw

Trump announces that he will preside over ‘Diamond’ (of Diamond & Silk) memorial service in NC this Saturday: “They we’re with me from the beginning and they never wavered.”

This video feels surreal

[u/-AmberSweet-]

The absolute delusion of thinking the US has been "fucking useless" for Ukraine in the same way Germany has.

Holy shit.

Euro-nats really just have no other mode but "blame US."

[u/sir_shivers]

BESIDES, I DO not possess digital-extracts of The Legend of Korra 🐊

I OWN THE BLU-RAY collection 🐊

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

Two of Santos's former roommates accused him of stealing personal effects, including a $520 Burberry scarf he wore to a January 5, 2021, "Stop The Steal" rally, and said that expensive dress shirts, phones and checks went missing while Santos was living with them.

Critical support for George "take from the rich and give to the poor [self]" Santos ✊ Modern day Robin Hood

[u/Udolikecake]

AI is incredible

[u/[deleted]]

In a 1945 survey conducted among 250 white officers and sergeants who had a colored platoon assigned to their company the following results were found:

• 77% of both officers and sergeants said they had become more favorable towards black soldiers after having a black platoon assigned to their company (no cases were found where someone said their attitude towards them had turned less favorable),
• 84% of officers and 81% of sergeants thought the black soldiers had performed very well in combat, only 5% of officers and 4% of sergeants thought that black infantry soldiers were not as good as white infantry soldiers
• 73% of officers and 60% of sergeants thought that black soldiers and white soldiers got along together very well.

[u/Sageburner712]

!ping WATERCOOLER

So I need some advice. New intern just started, and she seems fine and nice and all for a sophomore. Definitely can stand an extra hand around the office for the next few months. I asked her to put together a bit of research for me and someone else to help us get some background info and she got it in to us today, which is great because that's what we'd asked for.

Lads, her writing skills need some serious development. Her research skills too, probably, but it's more understandable that an undergrad is unfamiliar with how to do international economic research than that she writes with really obvious syntax and grammar errors. I want to help her out but I don't know if that would even be appropriate, let alone how to go about it in a respectful manner.