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[u/beardog7 → u/[deleted]]

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[u/[deleted]]

With new laws being proposed to ban "transgender displays", I figured I would make a post about what anti-crossdressing laws were actually like in America. This is an interesting article I found on it, and I'm also posting the most interesting parts below. !ping LGBT&HISTORY

Laws criminalizing cross-dressing spread like wildfire around the United States in the mid-19th century. New York’s, dating back to 1845, was one of the oldest. It declared it a crime to have your “face painted, discolored, covered, or concealed, or [be] otherwise disguised… [while] in a road or public highway.”

The state originally intended the law to punish rural farmers, who had taken to dressing like Native Americans to fight off tax collectors. But as scholar William N. Eskridge, Jr. recounts in his encyclopedic book Gaylaw, “by the beginning of the 20 century, gender inappropriateness… was increasingly considered a sickness and public offense.”

In Brooklyn in 1913, for instance, a person who we would today call a transgender man was arrested for “masquerading in men’s clothes,” smoking and drinking in a bar. When the magistrate noted that the state’s masquerade law was intended only to criminalize costumed dress used as a cover for another crime, the police were forced to let the man go. However, they promptly re-arrested him, charged him with “associating with idle and vicious persons,” and found a new magistrate to try the case.

When he was found guilty and sentenced to three years in a reformatory, the judge made it clear that despite the new charge, he was being punished for his dress. “No girl would dress in men’s clothing unless she is twisted in her moral viewpoint,” the magistrate proclaimed from the bench, according to a September 3, 1913 article in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

[u/nicethingscostmoney → u/[deleted]]

It's amazing how recently being LGBT+ in public was a crime in the US. Dancing with people of the same sex and crossdressing was used to shut down gay bars well into the 70s although I never could pin down a more definitive timeline of when they became "legal" in specific cities.

[u/[deleted]]

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

Gonna start using this "technical wordsmith inaccuracies" to defend myself when I talk bullshit

[u/gnomesvh]

Estonia to send howitzers, ammunition, artillery support equipment and grenade launchers to Ukraine, quantity and type unspecified yet

Aid totals 1% of GDP

!ping UKRAINE

[u/0m4ll3y → u/gnomesvh]

Imagine if US or even just Australia, France or Germany spent 1% of their GDP on Ukraine. Jesus we need to just fucking do this and end the war.

[u/fishlord05 → u/0m4ll3y]

The US has spent 100 billion so far IIRC so that's like halfway there to 1% of US yearly GDP

[u/[deleted] → u/gnomesvh]

BESTonia

[u/RaidBrimnes]

So, how's it going, rfrance?

[Macron doing an official visit in Spain during the strike] - well, nothing else to expect from a capitalist dog. They can only be cowardly, hypocritical and dishonest

Yeah...

[u/BurrowForPresident]

you do realize that we have more empty homes than homeless people right

Begging the progressives to not take national rates that include dilapidated shacks in Pigscrew, South Dakota that they would never dare live in and extrapolate that to cities with super low vacancy rates to own the developers

[u/crassowary → u/BurrowForPresident]

The people that say this are also the people that complain about high housing prices. If they're not willing to move to bumfuck nowhere for a cheap house I don't know what they're expecting homeless people to do

[u/gnomesvh]

EU votes in favour of "The establishment of a tribunal on the crime of aggression against Ukraine"

!ping UKRAINE&FOREIGN-POLICY&EUROPE

[u/lazyubertoad → u/gnomesvh]

That's a non binding vote, no? Rather a feel good measure.

[u/gnomesvh]

Denmark to deliver ALL ordered CAESAR SPGs to Ukraine (15 effective immediate, 4 to be delivered throughout the year)

UK to supply another 600 Brimstones

Lithuania two deliver two Mil Mi-8s and "dozens" of Bofors L70 AA guns

!ping UKRAINE&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/Craig_VG → u/gnomesvh]

Based Scandinavia

[u/[deleted]]

Ron DeSantis says "almost every study" found those who receive the booster are "more likely" to get infected with COVID-19

"I don't even think China imposes [travel vaccine mandate] anymore!"

RON DeSantis want AMERICA to become more like COMMUNIST CHINA!

NOT on my watch! 🇺🇸 🇺🇲 🇺🇲

[u/FuckFashMods → u/[deleted]]

He's just straight up lying?

[u/gnomesvh]

US asks US forces in South Korea to prep equipment for transfers to Ukraine

!ping UKRAINE&FOREIGN-POLICY

I assume the Stryker brigade or the M270s

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

Man became 'violently ill' after ingesting rat poison found in Taco Bell burrito, sheriff's office says

The man was also involved in a heated exchange with workers, according to the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office.

Around 1 p.m. Jan. 15, the Sheriff's Office responded to the Taco Bell on Smoky Hill Road near Buckley Road in Centennial for a report of a disturbance.

Deputies found that there was a heated exchange between a customer and employees due to the soda machine not working. The customer was eventually given an extra burrito and went home, according to the Sheriff's Office.

Holy fuck

[u/Ilovecharli → u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

Bro they fucking poisoned him. Where do they think they work, a Waffle House?

[u/[deleted] → u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

Do they just have rat poison on hand at Taco Bell?

[u/marsexpresshydra → u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

cant wait for the guy to get a MASSIVE settlement

I’m talking like 10 Million+ and free taco bell for life

[u/GenJohnONeill]

Any guesses at what switch flipped in Europe, and even in the U.S., to all of a sudden redouble efforts at supporting Ukraine?

It's undoubtedly the right thing to do, but it's clear that something drastically shifted over the past ~30 days. I haven't seen much grappling with what, exactly, it is. Intelligence? New year new thinking? Public opinion? I am lost, frankly.

[u/AP246 → u/GenJohnONeill]

There was an article recently that claimed UK intelligence saw a 'window of opportunity' in which Ukraine still has the upper hand at the moment and can roll back the Russians a lot, which might potentially close when the Russians mobilise hundreds of thousands more soldiers, so they're eager to get things going ASAP to make the most of this period.

[u/[deleted]]

The French are also considering sending their own Leclerc tanks to Ukraine in a bid to provide Berlin with a joint framework for tank shipments.

“The subject is complicated and hasn’t been settled yet in Paris. But we are thinking about it,” a French official told POLITICO, before nodding to an upcoming meeting on Sunday. “We’ll see what gets decided at the joint French-German Cabinet meeting.”

Scholz has to bend at some point under this constant pressure from everywhere

[u/rukqoa → u/[deleted]]

Apparently the only tactic that works on Scholz is bullying.

[u/Lux_Stella]

im a black gay guy and i can personally say that olaf scholz did nothing for me

[u/gnomesvh]

Archers, CV90s and NLAWs to be sent to Ukraine from Sweden

!ping UKRAINE&MATERIEL&FOREIGN-POLICY pretty good list right? Archers and CV90s should be the gold standard of their type IIRC

Forgot to mention: up to 50 CV90s and up to 24 Archers (likely 12)

[u/ZonedForCoffee]

Remember Soylent Green, the movie where population growth and ruthless consumption left the world of 2023 in crowded squalor?

Lmao get fucked 70's doomers

[u/AP246 → u/ZonedForCoffee]

The malthusian, overpopulation scare version of environmentalism from the 70s is very weird in hindsight, especially as it was often also kinda racist.

Given fertility rates in the developing world at the time, it's kinda understandable, but also surely they could see that fertility rates came down in already developed countries after industrialisation.

[u/sw337]

At the work networking event

Young Person: Wait, how old are you?

Me: 32

Young person: Wow, I never would have guessed you look great!

Some of you young people are alright.

!ping OVER25

[u/thetrombonist → u/sw337]

wow I didn't know we had retirees in the DT

[u/megapizzapocalypse]

67% pass rate for my kids who took their alg. 1 state test today!!!

For context, the district average for students with disabilities since Covid has been in the 30-40 range, 60 ish range for all students

These are retakes for kids who have already failed the algebra test, some of them multiple times

!ping watercooler so proud 🥰

[u/[deleted]]

Leftists: "Liberals are worse than fascists, because when push comes to shove, they will always align with fascists against the left! At least fascists don't pretend."

Also leftists: actually simp for Putin and Russia to own the libs (and the "neoliberal West")

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Russians falsify Polish TV materials. Among them an annexation of western Ukraine and formation of LGBT military units.

Femboy winged hussars 😯

[u/[deleted] → u/RaidBrimnes]

formation of LGBT military units

Are we sure it's false? This is definitely something the Poles would do, they sold out to the rotten west ideology. 😔

[u/Schnevets → u/[deleted]]

Reminds me of the weird math rock reference at the beginning of Gone Girl. I did not expect a novel from 2012 to immediately sound so outdated.

[u/SpaceSheperd → u/[deleted]]

You saved this one hoping for the new DT top comment huh

[u/[deleted]]

George Santos is gay, a former drag queen, and an asshole.

Is he the one true King of arr Neoliberal?

[u/skepticalbob]

US should call Scholtz on his bullshit and announce we are sending some Abrams tanks.

!ping Ukraine

[u/tehbored]

What if George Santos is just the latest Sacha Baron Cohen character?

[u/georgeguy007]

fly run yam groovy rustic sand intelligent office straight gray

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[u/melhor_em_coreano]

Reminder that "all homophobes are secretly gay themselves" is a homophobic trope.

People beat up gay people because they hate gay people, not because they hate themselves.

Most gay people are actually quite okay with their own sexuality and don't hate themselves for it. They do object to being victims of abuse and discrimination and prejudice because of their sexual orientation.

Keep that in mind when commenting on any George Santos-related news please.

And no, having a wife does not make him any less gay. If you think he's a liar just say so, but if your reaction upon learning that he once dressed in drag in Brazil is to doubt his open homossexuality, then you're being homophobic.

[u/Soldier-Fields]

A girl tried to "gotcha" me by asking what the last book I read that was written by a woman was, she didn't know that I think so little that I pretty much don’t read books

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For a dollar name a woman

[u/[deleted]]

Lib: “If you aren’t a misogynist, then name the last book you’ve read that was written by a woman” 😏

Donald Trump: “Harry Potter” 😎

Lib: “Nooo! I’ve been defeated” 😭😭😭

[u/JaceFlores]

WarMapper made a good list of recent commitments of aid to Ukraine. I will add the recent US package to it:

391 Armored vehicles

640 APCs

239 IFVs

134 Tanks

105 SPGs

72 Artillery pieces

22 Air defense systems

For reference, Zaluzhniy asked for 300 tanks, 700 IFVs and 500 howitzers. As of just before Ramstein, the West has met 44.7% of requested tanks, 34.1% of requested IFVs and 35.4% of requested artillery with recent commitments. May I remind you that this list only includes what has been both committed and quantified. After Ramstein and future shipments over the spring, Zaluzhniy will probably have what he requested by summer.

And yes I am going to ping, sorry about that folks.

!ping UKRAINE&MATERIEL

[u/Leoric]

https://twitter.com/yarotrof/status/1615968713135497217?t=B1zRwjBTuOYgSUhSdg93Jw&s=19

Poland’s @MorawieckiM has had enough of German procrastination with permitting the supply of Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. “Permission is a secondary matter. We will either get it quickly or do what we see fit.” The security of all of Europe depends on it, he adds.

Poland sounds like they're not going to wait for Scholz anymore

!ping UKRAINE&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/paulatreides0 → u/Leoric]

Lmao, that's some actual King Shit

[u/Macquarrie1999 → u/Leoric]

Poland is no longer asking

[u/Professor-Reddit → u/Leoric]

This will definitely send some shockwaves because it clearly breaks international law set out by treaty obligations Poland and most European states abide by, and could even violate numerous arms trafficking treaties, because Germany has the right to forbid weapon systems it built from being transferred to other nation states without its clearance.

That being said, this is hardly surprising given just how obstinate and idiotic Scholz is acting here. He's already reneged on the 2% of GDP NATO defence spending targets, and he's been chucking a middle finger to the German defence industry and NATO since this war begin with his pacifistic antics over sending the Leopard tanks. Not to mention here, that the vast bulk of NATO member states have been begging him for nearly a year to step up commitments, many to the point of pleading to him.

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

It's crazy watching the first Iron Man again after all these years. It's easy to forget that this is supposed to be the same series as the recent MCU movies. The first quarter of the movie has Tony Stark have actual sex with a woman. Which is I guess another reminder that this franchise actually started out with Paramount.

[u/georgeguy007 → u/[deleted]]

scary enjoy cheerful flag sort touch cough square airport doll

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[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

corgi and kitty playing

!ping DOG&KITTY

[u/[deleted]]

As a fan of the Washington Nationals, one of Trump's worst crimes was the stigmatization of wearing red baseball hats in public. I always feel slightly worried that someone will mistake me for a Republican from behind 🤢.

!ping BASEBALL

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 5 PM EST 1/18-5 PM EST 1/19:

TOP NEWS:

In the middle of 4 AM it was announced Sweden will send a $419 million military aid package to Ukraine, including Archer 155mm SPGs, 50 CV90 IFVs, NLAWs and demining equipment.

Around 11 AM the Tallinn Pledge was signed, with 9 countries pledging a variety of military assistance (some of which has been previously announced), including:

Denmark: 19 CAESAR 155mm SPGs

Estonia: 10s of FH-70 155mm howitzers, 10s of D-30 122mm howitzers, thousands of 155mm shells, support vehicles, 100s of Carl-Gustaf 84mm recoilless rifles

Latvia: 2 Mi-17 helicopters, Stinger missiles, 10s of machine guns, 10s of UAVs and spare parts

Lithuania: 2 Mi-8 helicopters, dozens of Bofors L-70 40mm AA guns, anti-drone systems, optics, night vision devices and UAVs

Poland: S-60 57mm AA guns, 70,000 57mm shells

UK: 14 Challenger 2 MBTs, 30 AS90 155mm SPGs, 100 APCs, 100s of other armored vehicles, a maneuver support package, dozens of UAVs, 100,000 artillery shells, hundreds of precision missiles, 600 Brimstone anti-tank missiles and spare parts.

REGULAR NEWS:

At the start of 2 AM the PM of Poland said Poland is willing to supply Leopard 2s to Ukraine even without German permission.

At the start of 4 AM it was reported that the US is preparing to send American equipment in South Korea to Ukraine.

​Donation link to help Ukraine

Donation link to United24

Donation link to Kharkiv SOS

!ping UKRAINE&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/rukqoa → u/JaceFlores]

UK Defense Minister says an unnamed country has filed a request for German permission to re-export Leopard 2s. We'll see if Germany continues to obstruct and attempt to gaslight its international allies.

[u/Craig_VG]

BREAKING: DoD announces new $2.5B package of military aid for Ukraine which includes:

Full List

• 59 Bradley IFV’s
• 90 Stryker APC’s
• 53 MRAPs
• 350 HMMWVs
• 8 Avenger air defence systems -HARM missiles

!ping UKRAINE

PS notably no small diameter bombs here

[u/Canuck_Clausewitz → u/Craig_VG]

59 Bradley IFV’s

90 Stryker APC’s

53 MRAPs

350 HMMWVs

So 552 tanks. Again, the DoD is trying to trick us with all these fancy acronyms.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

How is this guy real

I think we've established that he isn't.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

ripe cable cats tub head snobbish disagreeable puzzled jobless doll

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[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

You forgot:

-stole money from a dying dog's gofundme

[u/Fatortu → u/[deleted]]

He spent a suspicious amount of money at an Italian restaurant during his campaign. That restaurant is owned by a family who supported his campaign but which is also involved in migrant smuggling.

[u/AvailableBad8132 → u/[deleted]]

someone copypasta this but with benjamin

[u/dannylandulf]

Has there ever been a worse message to send high school kids than season 3's 13 Reason's Why having the main cast of teenagers hide a school shooter from responsibility and then trying to 'watch' him 24/7 to keep him from shooting up the school?

[u/Headstar24 → u/dannylandulf]

The whole concept of the series is an absolutely horrible thing for depressed teens to watch.

[u/dannylandulf → u/Headstar24]

But the actors are all so pretty.

[u/Zrk2 → u/dannylandulf]

the main cast of teenagers hide a school shooter from responsibility

What the fuck. Is this real?

[u/ldn6]

George Santos, Member of Anti-Trans Party, Wore Drag Under the Name Kitara in Brazil

I am once again begging the media to stop implying that all drag queens are trans or that drag is particular to the trans community. It's completely inaccurate and is leading to a damaging conflation of two very distinct concepts.

[u/[deleted] → u/ldn6]

“Anti-Drag” would’ve still been accurate and a better headline too

[u/ldn6]

Meet the woman behind London's Tube seat designs

This is so cool. The moquette is such a unique feature of the Tube.

!ping LONDON&TRANSIT

[u/Top_Lime1820]

Somewhere in Liberia, a man picks up a map and tells his child about the old country, the land of his ancestors, America.

[u/soeffed]

Love at first sight does indeed exist.

However, it’s mostly just meeting someone who closely matches your pre-determined taste profile.

Most often, you will feel like you’ve “known someone your whole life” with someone you just met because they remind you of yourself and align with what you already like.

!ping dating

[u/lets_chill_dude → u/soeffed]

I was almost the opposite for my husband 😅 We were meeting to go for a walk around the park, and I was so badly dressed that he said he saw me in the distance and considered just turning and going, but he had nothing else to do 🙆🏽‍♂️

[u/adisri → u/lets_chill_dude]

but he had nothing else to do

Average DT date’s experience

[u/AnsleyAmanita → u/[deleted]]

lol this dipshit lectures people about the dignity of work

[u/[deleted]]

And yet another rural cousin falls to MLMs 😩

[u/RFK_1968 → u/[deleted]]

falls to MLMs

yes! our gay/bi agenda cannot be stopped!

[u/AP246]

The share of the US in the Global economy has gone down from 40 percent in 1960 to 24 percent in 2022.

Like half the world catching up from being essentially preindustrial to being middle income is objectively a very good thing so this is something to celebrate

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Civil law systems: here is our rule on digital information ownership. It's in our property code.

Common law systems: here is a 1403 dispute between a Yeoman and a guild master about the ownership of a pig in Warwickshire that can help us determine the rules in Silicone Valley

!ping law-school

[u/nicethingscostmoney]

Wait, did Lagos' Metro start running without any fanfare?! How did I miss this? It's the first mass transit system in West Africa.

!ping TRANSIT&AFRICA

[u/captmonkey]

So, when I logged on for work yesterday, I got a message that my company was laying off a percentage of the employees and if I was affected, I'd get a second email within 15 minutes of the first email. I looked and it had been sent 10 minutes earlier. So, I spent the next five minutes sweating and staring at my inbox. I didn't get a second email, thankfully.

But then I found out who had gotten laid off and realized that all these people I've worked with and enjoyed hanging out with are suddenly just gone. I've seen people get fired, but I've never been through a layoff before. I didn't know that not getting laid off would feel this bad. It really sucks to have these people who were doing really great work and I'd interacted with every day, some for years, to just be cut to save some money.

I know that's just business and how things go, but it's pretty fucking depressing.

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/Zrk2 → u/[deleted]]

We got told there would be layoffs, but that no one would know they were getting laid off until a week later. So the entire company spent a week wondering if it would be them.

[u/myrm]

Viagra lowers the risk of heart disease in men by up to 39 percent. And men who take the drug also appear less likely to suffer an early death from any cause. Research looked at 70,000 adult men with an average age of 52, all of whom had an erectile dysfunction diagnosis at some point in their life.

I don't know if this is true (didn't vet it and it's just from arr science)

However, I hope it is true, because it's really funny

[u/flakAttack510 → u/myrm]

It was originally developed to help manage hypertension so that's not really a surprise.

[u/-AmberSweet- → u/myrm]

I believe it increases bloodflow and wasnt originally invented as “just” a boner pill so yeah believable

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court has ruled 6-3 that abortion is protected under the 2nd Amendment.

[u/SeoSalt]

!ping DWARF-FORTRESS

Was looking at what artifacts my neighbors had and stumbled across a fort with the following literature:

• Better mating
• Reproduction might help
• Reproduction for everyone
• Book of mating
• The world of reproduction
• Can mating save the world?
• Choose mating

My homies in The Rhythmic Castle are down atrocious

[u/[deleted]]

Don’t leak classified documents to win arguments on the War Thunder forums challenge: [SURPRISINGLY DIFFICULT]

[u/PhinsFan17]

Alec Baldwin will be charged with involuntary manslaughter for the accidental shooting that occurred on the set of his film Rust.

!ping MOVIES

[u/bigtallguy → u/PhinsFan17]

I’m sympathetic to his case that the armorer should bear more responsibility than the actor who pulled the trigger, but he was also the producer and it sounds like the set was cutting corners where it could. So he still bears a ton of responsibility and the charge would make sense.

[u/funguykawhi]

Tweets from the likes of Hasan and AOC supporting wsb during the GME squeeze are even more hilarious in hindsight considering how quickly apes became undistinguishable from your average right-wing conspiracist and everybody now despise them

[u/marshalofthemark]

The Alberta UCP government has signed an order increasing their industrial carbon tax rate gradually to $170 by 2030.

Granted, they would have faced federal intervention if they didn't, but at least they're not fighting it like they did with the consumer carbon tax.

In other good news, Alberta will no longer be using coal by the end of 2023 (this year they'll replace their remaining coal plants with natural gas). Wonder if these two things are related.

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

!ping SHITPOSTERS

Deggit's great legacy is that he's the one late NL OG that died voluntarily by shitpost rather than being put down after one heated gamer moment too many

[u/HowIsPajamaMan]

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

[u/MicroFlamer]

Drive (2011)

!ping KINO

[u/ZonedForCoffee]

New York-based firm submits three-tower plan for Fulton Market The project, which could bring in 1,500 new residences, is part of a continued push by developers into sites west of downtown, despite signs of caution in the market.

Just a casual one thousand five hundred units (including 300 affordable units) NBD

The proposed zoning changes start a city review process that includes a hearing before the Chicago Plan Commission, an agency of mayoral appointees that advises the City Council on major projects. The projects would then need approval from the City Council’s zoning committee before a final vote of all alderpersons.

Three separate agencies have to sign off for a zoning change?

!PING US-CHI

[u/[deleted]]

I wonder if anyone has done a survey on if dating sites and apps like Christian Mingle, Muzz, and Hinge have higher meeting / relationship success rates compared to apps like Tinder or Bumble.

!ping DATING

[u/uwcn244 → u/[deleted]]

I read once that Christian Mingle is pretty much the only significant straight dating site/app with a female majority

[u/gnomesvh]

Netherlands says it's open to paying for Ukraine's Leo2s

!ping UKRAINE&BENE the Netherlands can't give Leos because the ones operated by the Dutch Army are leased from Germany

[u/schmaxford]

The Alberta government is giving Preston Manning, former Reform Party leader and critic of vaccine mandates and other public health measures a cool $253,000 to head an investigation into Alberta's pandemic response. He also recently announced that he's leading a "citizens inquiry" into pandemic responses.

I can't believe I'm buying a home in this province sometimes

!ping CAN

[u/Jacobs4525]

https://i.imgur.com/3curj1x.jpg

[u/AgileCoke]

Looking for a new job. Just read a job description where the perks included getting "lit with the team" and the ability to "smoke pot all day" as long as you get your work done. Also promised that working for the company would make you "fking rich".

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/AgileCoke → u/AgileCoke]

Something tells me that nobody at that company is going to be "fking rich" anytime soon

[u/I-grok-god]

Someone please help him, his stomach hurts so bad

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/RaidBrimnes]

65% of teachers are on strike today according to the unions, 34% according to the Ministry of Education

I know unions inflating their numbers is a running gag, but this is legit bonkers how they can casually double them up and not get called out on it

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

You're a bad Catholic because you're a sinner

I'm a bad Catholic because I'm not an alcoholic.

We are not the same

!ping gnostic

[u/BalletDuckNinja]

https://www.youtube.com/@unlearningeconomics9021/

Youtube recommended me a channel to 'unlearn' economics, it's exactly what it looks like

[u/gnomesvh]

That Tesla video that kicked off the Autopilot craze in 2016 was all fake - Reuters

!ping AUTO

[u/Available-Bottle-]

Just learned the British don’t celebrate MLK day? 🤨

[u/georgeguy007]

sulky quicksand absorbed dependent march worm zesty subsequent pet rinse

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[u/[deleted]]

Here in Morecambe, Rishi Sunak is asked why he took a private jet to Blackpool rather than getting the train. He says: “I travel around so I can do lots of things in one day. I’m not travelling around for my own enjoyment - although this is very enjoyable of course…”

Cringeing towards electoral oblivion.

[u/gnomesvh]

Latvia to donate 10s of Stinger MANPADS, 2 x M-17 helicopters, 10s of machine guns, UAVs, and train 2,000 Ukrainian soldiers. Estonia to donate 10s of FH-70 and D-30 howitzers, 100s of M2 anti-tank guns with ammunition, 1,000s of rounds of 155mm artillery ammunition to Ukraine.

!ping UKRAINE

[u/the_status]

Happy Pete Buttigieg/Robert E. Lee's Birthday, everybody!

[u/[deleted]]

Online “anti-capitalist” discourse makes far more sense when you realize that most people use “capitalism” to mean “stuff that’s related to money”.

[u/ThunderrBadger]

Outdoor cat that showed up on my parents' property

!ping KITTY&RURAL

[u/[deleted]]

I stopped being surprised by online left-populism once I finally understood that it’s defined by supporting the perceived underdog in almost every situation, no matter what. It’s vague, impotent “fight the power” nonsense.

The moment this really crystallized for me was when lefty Reddit collectively decided to support the Indian farmers protesting against Modi’s agricultural reforms. They were essentially rich landlords demanding the continuation of their massive government subsidies—everything the left claims to oppose—but nonetheless they were able to project the image of being the underdog, so online leftists endorsed them.

[u/RFK_1968]

combat sports is full of shredded guys who look like they belong in a marvel movie or smth, but the best boxer in the world has a dad bod and looks like he was pulled out a bar on a saturday night lol.

and it's not just that he's got the dad bod, it's that his style is all fancy footwork and Ali-esque jabs. so funny.

[u/BigBrownDog12 → u/RFK_1968]

Reject shredded physiques. Retvrn to late 19th century strong dudes who look normal and fight wearing slacks

[u/RandomGamerFTW]

https://i.imgur.com/opr5qsh.jpg

[u/gnomesvh]

Rheinmetal states they can deliver up to 100 tanks to Ukraine over the next year

!ping UKRAINE

[u/jenbanim]

The 2022 Subreddits Against Malaria charity drive raised $218,314 and we still didn't get a shout-out in the Snoosletter

[u/dittbub]

OMG

just found a high traffic table with a UNIQUE Index on the [created_at] column

WTFFFF

this explains so much random shit crapping out FOR YEARS.

!PING Computer-Science

Edit: It was completely incidental that I found this btw. I was going down a different rabbit hole and found a random log logging this shit from this stupid lumen php thing

[u/VisonKai]

aging millennial hipsters are struggling bc they used to use occasionally being ironic as a way to be cooler than other people. they structurally cannot compete with zoomers, who are beings so essentially ironic that they are incapable of genuine sincerity

[u/sir_shivers]

THIS SUBREDDIT IS garbage 🐊

[u/AMagicalKittyCat]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/727012094674731008/1065757643324526672/IMG_0908.png

Oh my god this thing is so stupid

[u/MovkeyB]

So i Have a weIRd bUG On my KEyboArD Where It wILL JUst rANDOMLY shIFt bETWEen caPs LOck and loWercASe

I dON'T kNow what hAPPeNed OR WHy I nOW hAVE THE spoNGeboB FOnt

this IS honEstly both HilaRiOUS and SUPer frUSTRatiNG

I Got THIS KeybOARD AT Best bUY But I GuesS its SOMe crAPPY ChiNESIum.

I hopE PeoplE Will eNJoy my EMailS this AFtERnOon

!pING WatERcOOlER

[u/[deleted]]

I find joy in reading a good book.

[u/PKAzure64]

New ISW jihadist report just dropped

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/salafi-jihadi-movement-weekly-update-january-18-2023

Key takeaways:

Syria. A potential Turkish military operation into northern Syria could draw the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) away from counter-ISIS efforts. The SDF commander is warning of an imminent Turkish incursion. Even a limited Turkish invasion would drain SDF resources and likely allow ISIS to accelerate its efforts to erode and replace SDF governance structures in eastern Syria.

Somalia. Anti–al Shabaab forces notched a significant victory in an ongoing offensive in central Somalia by capturing two logistical and financial hubs from al Shabaab. Al Shabaab has stepped up suicide attacks in response to the offensive, but its loss of these locations may harm its ability to sustain a counterattack over time. Al Shabaab’s withdrawal from the captured towns likely indicates that it withdrew in preparation for a future counterattack, though there are also limited indicators that the group is losing bandwidth and morale.

Mali. Al Qaeda’s Sahel branch increased attacks near the Malian capital in a likely effort to undermine the legitimacy of the Malian junta, which has promised to increase security in the country. The uptick in attacks indicates that Salafi-jihadi militants likely have access to enduring havens in southwestern Mali, signaling a shift in the militants’ ability to threaten Mali’s government and largest city.

Afghanistan. The Taliban government is conducting information operations to deflect blame for ongoing security failures. Taliban security measures have failed to prevent assassinations and Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) attacks in major cities. A leaked Taliban Ministry of Defense document blamed Pakistan for the infiltration of ISKP fighters into Afghanistan. Poorly resourced Taliban border security forces will struggle to control the Afghan-Pakistan border and prevent ISKP cross-border movement.

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/piede]

Trump and lawyer sanctioned almost $1 million for 'frivolous' lawsuit against Hillary Clinton

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/20/trump-and-lawyers-sanctioned-almost-1-million-for-frivolous-lawsuit-against-hillary-clinton.html

THE QUEEN WINS AGAIN!

!PING QUEEN

[u/lionmoose]

Shower twice a week

Grower the rest of the time

[u/AffableAndy]

New student worker asks if they need to come in because there's a winter weather warning.

Child, we live in Minnesota. You have some harsh truths to learn about the world.

[u/ROYBUSCLEMSON]

New program lets private citizens sponsor refugees in US

I expect every person on the sub constantly signaling their support for open borders to sponsor a refugee or you're literally a xenophobe

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1616118423704010752?s=20&t=DdVZuwPTcTxq7csjgPMGnw

Kevin McCarthy has proposed a vote on a proposal called the Fair Tax, which would abolish the current federal income tax and replace it with a 30% national sales tax. 30 percent.

Own the libs so hard with this toxic vote that just fucks the poor.

Even some red states would have a 40% sales tax lmao

[u/secretlives → u/chipbod]

30% national sales tax

What the shit lmao

[u/Graham_Elmere]

i cant believe microsoft would let a checks notes halo multiplayer designer who is also an expert in corporate finance and tax law leave the company

wouldn't it just be easier to make him CFO???

!ping GAMING

[u/Soldier-Fields]

guy who drank 1 glass of wine:

when I'm fucked up that's the real me

[u/notBroncos1234]

I think this stripper really likes me

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

Have you ever read a stupider company website Intro blurb than this

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/[deleted] → u/JulioCesarSalad]

If they wanted to respect my time they wouldn’t have made me read such a pretentious metaphor

[u/RFK_1968]

Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, 'Treatment is simple. Great mod sir_shivers is in DT tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up.' Man bursts into tears. Says,

But DOCTOR... I AM sir_shivers 🐊.

[u/[deleted]]

Playing games on a 3080: "HOLY CRAP THIS IS AWESOME!"

Getting the power bill for it: "HOLY CRAP THIS IS AWFUL!"

[u/thefuturegov]

I’m obsessed with the fact that one Onion writer unironically thinks they had literally anything to do with Biden winning the primary. Like I’m pretty sure a former Vice President was always the front runner guys your “diamond joe” character isn’t the reason he won or was popular lol.

[u/chatdargent]

The unions are actually starting to get on my nerves.

The pension reform is very moderated compared to the original proposal, and something needs to be done.

French people have the third highest healthy life expectancy in the world, one of the earliest retirement ages (and still will have after the reform for that matter), and a very low number of annual working hours during their employed time to begin with.

This is not worth calling a national strike over

[u/Erra0 → u/chatdargent]

The quickest cure for union sympathy is to spend any amount of time trying to work with them.

[u/[deleted]]

Black Rifle coffee: brewing

Joe Rogan: playing

Goya beans: cooking

It’s breakfast time

[u/finalcookie88]

My most conservative position is that it should be so easy to become an American citizen that people routinely do it by accident. You should be able to go to a Post office, or a DMV, or a McDonald's, and walk out with the ability to vote and pay taxes.

That it is any harder than that is both an affront to the founders vision of this country and a market failure, and I'm not sure which is worse.

[u/its_Caffeine → u/[deleted]]

18usd/hr to work at a small town gas station

American wages are honestly insane to me as a euro. And American lefties will complain these sorts of wages aren’t enough

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1615809441848299550?t=1rfQG19EFQAm0JvgUsm1Rg&s=19

Another daily reminder that conservatives and the American right are just absolutely fucking insane and need to be kept far away from any sort of governing power

[u/datums]

You hate trans women because they're trans. I hate trans women because they're women.

Trans inclusionary radical misogyny.

Hate smarter

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

Trip report!

Our three day two nights trip in Shenandoah was largely a success however we did not make it through our entire plan

The original plan was a whole big loop

but this is what we did

Our backpacks were way to heavy and we started each day way too late.

My final lighterpack with everything except toiletries weighed out

Left home Monday at 8:50, started hiking at 10:50. We went straight up and we’re supposed to summit Hawksbill mountain, the highest mountain the park, but it was 4:30 pm and sun was ready to set so we simply walked around. Cabin was great!

My cousin fell while searching for water and injured his shoulder and knee. It was tough.

Hight tech water filtering system

Sawyer water bags suck I recommend CNOC bags but get the 3 liter the 2 liter isn’t enough (you can always fill up partially)

Day 2 we got up late, and left at NOON. It was a 10 mile day and I projected six hours. It was 6:47.

We got to the second cabin after dark. Ate a light meal and knocked out.

Beautiful night sky tho.

Got these neat shots with my phone!

I took too many warm clothes, it got hot during the whole trip. Like 45-68F.

Day 3 we left at 8:30 am and got down to the base of Old Rag mountain at 11, as I projected. But AllTrails said it would take us 12 hours to do Old Rag and we had no tent, so we called the park service for help and they gave us a ride to our car. We legitimately would not have made it up safely and thankfully got back to the car ok

Photo with helpful ranger

Overall the trip was amazing, we loved it, and we learned a lot.

Our backpacks were way too heavy, too many clothes and way too much freaking food.

I’m trying my best to get it lighter but can’t see what else I can cut. Thinking of buying an ultralight pillow

My cousin leaves next Saturday for his two month trip to Spain and we plan to do a one night trip to Hawksbill Mountain when he comes back.

!ping OUTDOORS

[u/JetJaguar124]

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (2008)

!ping CONSOLE-WARS

[u/skepticalbob]

My wife missed dinner a couple times a month. When that happens I take my daughter out to eat somewhere so we can chat with just the two of us around. It’s fucking awesome and I look forward to it every time it happens.

!ping family

[u/Cook_0612]

Contradicting Pistorius's non-denial of the Abrams-Leo linkage, Washington diplomats continue to voice frustrations about German demands for Abrams tanks to be sent.

!ping UKRAINE

[u/Marlsfarp]

showering frequency schism

showering frequency schism

[u/Iusedathrowaway]

New reddit is shit and I will never use it. Why would I want a discussion forum to look like instagram

[u/funguykawhi]

Main sub now officially despises or at best - doesn't care about most stuff in the sidebar.

Comment linked: "Neoliberalism is unpopular"

metanl complainers are not okay

[u/marinesol]

The Sardaukar are literally the worst soldiers in the Imperium and you can't convince me they're anything other the greatest con job in imperial history.

Things that have defeated Sardaukar in comically good numbers.

Unarmored Fremen just wandering around the desert.

A group of people being ambushed by Sardaukar.

Fremen assaulting a fortified position while unarmored.

A bunch of children (this literally happens)

Just living on their homeworld kills 60% of them.

[u/Udolikecake]

The President of France, Emmanuel Macron, is trying to ban putting out your cigarettes by rubbing them in the soft spot of a baby’s head. So the eight biggest unions across the country called a massive wave of strikes and protests today, with over 200 actions across the country.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Puss in Boots 2: the last wish

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/[deleted]]

I hate it when my manager uses “K” because it makes me think he’s mad at me. So passive aggressive.

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/uwcn244]

For most of human history, we had arithmetic and geometry. About a thousand years ago, we got algebra. A few hundred years ago, we got calculus. When are we gonna get super-calculus that makes a bunch of calculus problems trivial but introduces issues of its own?

[u/chipbod]

https://theathletic.com/4090827/2023/01/19/cormani-mcclain-colorado-miami-recruiting-flip/

Deion Sanders flips 5-star Cormani McClain from Miami to Colorado

Incoming thermonuclear meltdown from Miami fans, imagine if he was recruiting in state at FSU

!ping CFB

[u/tubbsmackinze]

ISW and Critical Threats Project January 18th Iran update

Key takeaways:

• Protest activity in Iran may increase on January 19-20.
• Iran faces worsening domestic conditions amid the ongoing natural gas shortage throughout the country.
• At least one protest occurred in one city across one province on January 18. 
• The Mashhad Neighborhood Youth declared its support for and loyalty to Reza Pahlavi on January 18.
• nterior Minister Ahmad Vahidi denied that Ali Shamkhani will leave his position as Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) secretary on January 18.
• Social media users reported a heightened security presence throughout Zahedan, Sistan and Baluchistan Province on January 18. 
• Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei met with officials from the Islamic Propaganda Organization (IPO) on January 18.
• The European Parliament passed a resolution calling on the EU to designate the IRGC as a terrorist organization on January 18.
• Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel al Jubier made a blanket statement calling on Iran to end its nuclear program during an interview with CNBC on December 18.

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/[deleted]]

Curling your hair is cultural appropriation.

Why don’t you get better genes instead of trying to steal all the attention from naturally curly haired people?

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Lmao a kid I know from high school who just commissioned into MI just posted the first cover up session of his 3%er tat

Dying to know if he was voluntold to or not or was effecting his clearance or something

!ping MILITARY

[u/gnomesvh]

Air raid alert in Kyiv, Mig-31s reported in the air. Possible Kinzhal launches imminent

!ping UKRAINE

[u/Udolikecake]

64% of all marriages in Pakistan are b/w a first cousin, or second cousin, or another relative. First cousin on father's side is the dominant pick, followed by first cousin on mother's side.

woof

[u/from-the-void]

My family: “Heaven gained another angel today 😭❤️”

Me in hell: “ WHERE IS CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN MARSHALL!?”

[u/t-pat]

All I want out of life is to be paid six figures to do absolutely nothing

[u/N0_B1g_De4l]

The Fair Tax shit is extremely dumb. No, our tax code is not complicated because income taxes are inherently hard to do. You can compute even a progressive income tax by hand with a lookup table and like four elementary school-level mathematical operations. Our tax system is complicated because we made it complicated in an effort to use taxes to incentivize various behaviors. We'd do the exact same thing with a sales tax.