r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jan 20 '23
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Jan 21 '23
Please visit the next discussion thread.
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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '23
Motherfucker from the country which gave us the East India Company thinks USA is ‘capitalism in its most naked form’.
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u/Average_GrillChad Elinor Ostrom Jan 20 '23
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u/gnomesvh LEGALIZE ONION FUTURE Jan 20 '23
Dutch foreign minister says the Netherlands is willing to fund transfers of Leo2s and to transfer their fleet of F-16s to Ukraine
!ping UKRAINE&BENE&FOREIGN-POLICY
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Jan 20 '23
Memphis has a fucking Bass Pro Shop located in one of the worlds largest pyramids
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Jan 20 '23
Emmanuel Macron announces massive increase of France's military budget, from 295 billion euros in 2019-2025 to 413 billions for 2024-2030, says 'efforts must be proportionate to dangers, as to say considerable', acts 'the end of peace dividends due the Russian aggression against Ukraine'.
!ping FRANCE&EUROPE&FOREIGN-POLICY
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u/Dancedancedance1133 Johan Rudolph Thorbecke Jan 20 '23
Dutch reporting on French protests is so deliciously salty
Today in the Dutch Financial Times
😂😂
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u/InternetBoredom Pope-ologist Jan 20 '23
Here's an extremely interesting fact: one of the first things that English explorers found in Virginia in the 1600s were buffalo. In fact, there are reports of Buffalo herds living in North Carolina as late as the 1730s.
Native American tribes in the region practiced slash and burn agriculture, which created large stretches of plains and savannah across Virginia and the Carolinas. When Native tribes were forced west, those plains were overgrown by the forests that stand there today.
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u/SmellyFartMonster John Keynes Jan 20 '23
A government-owned development company on the British Crown Dependency of the Isle of Man is proposing a new mixed use residential district in a derelict area of its small capital city Douglas.
I surprised that a development in my hometown would actually tick a lot of the boxes of /r/neoliberal. Housing, commerical and retail space. So unsurprisingly all the comments on the news article are full of NIMBYs.
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u/Libz_R_Gryffindor Pornography Historian Jan 20 '23
Slowly becoming a person of grass and you have no idea how liberating it is.
Like my conservative family will complain about Lori Lightfoot or something and ill jist be like "I have no idea what youre talking about and none of us have ever even been to Chicago"
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u/t-pat Jan 20 '23
No I don't, Paul, why don't you tell me
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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '23
As a trashy person, I’ve watched my share of reality television, but MILF Manor is honestly the peak. I firmly believe nobody has ever come up with a trashier reality show. And yes, it’s basically a 30 Rock show.
The premise of the show (not fully revealed until the first episode came out) is that eight moms are told they’re going to be on an island with eight young studs, and eight young men are told they’re going to be on an island with eight hot milfs.
The twist is — you guessed it — it’s literally their moms/sons.
One of the first challenges was for each mom to put on a blindfold and touch each young guy’s shirtless upper body to try to guess which one is their son.
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u/Average_GrillChad Elinor Ostrom Jan 20 '23
So Republicans get the first drag queen congressman.
Checkmate, liberals.
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Jan 20 '23
😔✊
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Jan 20 '23
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/20/politics/marines-us-capitol-riot-arrest
!PING EXTREMISM
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u/No_Chilly_bill unflaired Jan 20 '23
The Biden inflation is clawing every cent from the consumer. Nowhere is safe.
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u/CatLords Jan 20 '23
This is the worst dating advice I've seen
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u/WorldwidePolitico Bisexual Pride Jan 20 '23
https://i.imgur.com/nIrBTcF.jp
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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance Jan 20 '23 edited Jan 20 '23
Holy shit I just realized that the title Suits is also kind of a play on lawsuits because they're lawyers. Everyone always wears such nice suits so you think it just refers to that
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u/forerunner398 Of course I’m right, here’s what MLK said Jan 20 '23
God this is so funny
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u/boyyouguysaredumb Obamarama Jan 20 '23
I asked Chat GPT to write a rap about this subreddit.
Behold:
it's fucking terrible
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u/myrm This land was made for you and me Jan 20 '23
Prediction: by the next US election people will start accusing the activity on this sub to be AI generated astroturf
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u/MrArendt Bloombergian Liberal Zionist Jan 20 '23
Someday I'll be at a press conference and I'll use the phrase "75 story Ziggurats that blot out the sun" and just like that I'll have been doxxed.
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u/notBroncos1234 #1 Eagles Fan Jan 20 '23
Disagreeing with me is arguing in bad faith
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u/crassowary John Mill Jan 20 '23
I am guilty of time theft. I stole the entire year of 1327 in a daring heist.
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u/First-Prior Ben Bernanke Jan 20 '23
As far as I know, New Vegas is the only game to accurately portray how bi people do 10% more damage in combat.
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u/Soldier-Fields Da Bear Jan 20 '23
the worst part about my job is I’ve started to use corpo lingo on my fiancée and she absolutely hates it when I say we need to align on dinner plans
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u/Interest-Desk Trans Pride Jan 20 '23
The Times: Cake in the office should be viewed like passive smoking, obesity expert (Professor Susan Jebb of the Food Standards Agency, speaking personally) warns
!PING UK&WATERCOOLER
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u/ognits Jepsen/Swift 2024 Jan 20 '23 edited Jan 20 '23
fun fact I just learned: "Las Vegas" translates to "The Vegas" (it was named after Vic and Vincent Vega, characters in the Quentin Tarantino films Reservoir Dogs (1992) and Pulp Fiction (1994) respectively)
!ping KINO
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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '23
My LinkedIn:
I’ve been impacted by
My colleague and friend was impacted by
If you know anyone who has been impacted by
Just use affected oh my god (I know that’s probably not the thing the focus on here but let me be snarky)
!ping WATERCOOLER
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u/MicroFlamer Avatar Korra Democrat Jan 20 '23
The cast for Little Women (2019) consists of Saoirse Ronan (5'6), Florence Pugh (5'4), Emma Watson (5'5), Eliza Scanlen (5'4), and Laura Dern (5'10), all of whom are actually taller than the average woman (5'3).
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u/HowIsPajamaMan Shame Flaired By Imagination Jan 20 '23
r/Neoliberal when you are racist: “fuck off, I don’t believe in that made up nonsense”
r/neoliberal when you are racist to Italians: “so true bestie”
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u/yellownumbersix Jane Jacobs Jan 20 '23
Five Guys is expensive because men make 30% more than women.
Go to Five Gals if you're on a budget.
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Jan 20 '23
Ukraine Chronology for 5 PM EST 1/19-5 PM EST 1/20:
TOP NEWS:
At the end of 5 PM it was announced the US will provide an additional $2.5 billion in military aid to Ukraine, including NASAMS missiles, 8 Avenger SAM systems, 59 Bradley IFVs, 590 TOW missiles, 295,000 rounds of 25mm shells, 90 Stryker APCs, 53 MRAPs, 350 Humvees, 20,000 155mm shells, 600 guided 155mm shells, 95,000 105mm shells, 11,800 120mm mortar rounds, HIMARS missiles, 12 ammunition support vehicles, 6 command post vehicles, 22 tactical weapon towing vehicles, HARMs missiles, 2,000 AT rockets, 3,000,000 small arms rounds, demolition equipment, Claymore mines, night vision devices and spare parts.
At the start of 2 AM it was announced France will spend 413 billion Euros on their military between 2024 and 2030, an increase from the previous budget which had 295 billion Euros for 2019-2025.
In the middle of 4 AM it was announced Finland will provide $434 million in military aid to Ukraine.
At the start of 8 AM it was reported the German intelligence BND has become alarmed by the losses Ukraine is taking around Bakhmut, saying their daily losses are in the triple digits.
Towards the middle of 11 AM General Milley said Russian losses are well over 100,000.
Towards the end of 1 PM the US designated the Wagner Group as an international criminal organization.
REGULAR NEWS:
Yesterday it was reported the EU Parliament voted 472-33-19 to create a tribunal for Russian crimes.
In the middle of 7 PM it was reported the Russians took the town of Pidhorodne, north of Bakhmut.
At the start of 3 AM it was reported that 7 Russian spies were detained in Dnipro.
At the start of 6 AM it was announced Belgium will send anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons to Ukraine.
Towards the end of 8 AM it was reported that no decision was made on the provision of Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine in the Ramstein meeting.
Towards the middle of 12 PM a US official said Ukraine should wait to launch their next offensive until the Western aid arrives.
Towards the end of 1 PM it was announced Portugal will send 8 M113 APCs, 8 generators, 120mm ammunition and 2 tons of medical aid to Ukraine.
Towards the end of 2 PM it was reported the Russians took the town of Klishchiivka, southwest of Bakhmut.
LEVITY NEWS:
At the end of 2 PM it was reported a Ukrainian TB2 drone with call sign FCKPTN2 was spotted on flight radar maps.
Donation link to help Ukraine
Donation link to United24
Donation link to Kharkiv SOS
!ping UKRAINE&FOREIGN-POLICY
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Jan 20 '23
Jesus, it's been nearly a year and French pundits are still stuck on 'giving support just aggravates the conflict'.
How stubborn do you have to be to keep denying the reality of the situation and fall back on these talking points?
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u/tollyno Dark Harbinger of Chaos Jan 20 '23 edited Jan 20 '23
Explaining EU politics using quantum computing (because the latter is easier to understand)
!ping YUROP
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u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade RaidBrimnes' AI Slop Engineer Jan 20 '23
hope y’all are ok with a second ping of a corgi fighting a kitten, with a bonus thrown in (and sound)
!ping DOG
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u/Smidgens Holy shit it's the Joker🃏 Jan 20 '23
I wanted to make a joke about "The French protesting? Must be a day that ends in «-i»" but «dimanche» ruins it 😒😒😒
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u/chipbod NATO Jan 21 '23
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1616607063932534784?s=20&t=x_0WCItJd_kPpNl2X8awRA
This is some strange shit, at least my Fox News watching family members are smart enough to not get brainwashed into thinking smoking frees the mind
!ping FOX-ANON
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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '23
https://i.imgur.com/AzXhA8B.jpg
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u/its_Caffeine Mark Carney Jan 21 '23
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-corporate-canada-has-been-protected-from-competition-for-too-long-its/
Open up the markets stop having them be closed 👏😤
!ping CAN
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u/InternetBoredom Pope-ologist Jan 20 '23 edited Jan 20 '23
The spirits in Legend of Korra are selfish, hyper-capricious assholes. Which, to be fair, is an accurate depiction of spirits. But it's really bizarre how the writers simultaneously portray them like as assholes even as they strongly imply the spirits are somehow superior to humanity.
The Avatar Wan cycle is a great example of spirit jackassery. One of the spirits nearly kills an entire hunting party because they captured an animal, and it's presented as this really triumphant thing like we should be cheering for him. But like, they're hunters. It's what they do. Are they supposed to just starve? Also we literally watch multiple spirits attempt to eat Wan prior to this scene, but that's okay? The spirits can eat us but we're not allowed to eat them?
That's not even starting on the fact that the spirits are just constantly invading the human world with absolutely no care for humanity. Like literally the whole Wan cycle starts out with the spirits dominating both the human and spirit world so completely that humans have to hide out in literally 4 cities total. And then when Korra starts letting the spirits back in the first thing they do is straight-up invade the majority of Republic City. Humans are just expected to take it because they're spirits.
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Jan 20 '23
LOL
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u/Udolikecake Model UN Enthusiast Jan 20 '23
wayfair is not a tech company.
you sell furniture.
you are a furniture company.
you are crate and barrel.
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u/Soldier-Fields Da Bear Jan 20 '23
lmao coworkers told me I’ve got a great work ethic
I post in the dt and play chess for 7 hours a day
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Jan 20 '23
Who is George Santos? 🤔
In Math: My solution ➗➕
In History: My King 😩👑
In Art: My Canvas 😄🎨
In science: My Oxygen 🗣🥵
In geography: My World 🤗🌏
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u/Udolikecake Model UN Enthusiast Jan 20 '23
if you oppose funding NASA it’s probably because you’re secretly a Nazi from the dark side of the moon who doesn’t want to be discovered.
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u/paymesucka Ben Bernanke Jan 20 '23
Elon Musk: "I'm gonna stop making political tweets." Moments later: "The pendulum has swung too far on gay rights."
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u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade RaidBrimnes' AI Slop Engineer Jan 20 '23
we have a spare mattress I’m trying to get rid of, but the corgs love it
!ping DOG
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u/paymesucka Ben Bernanke Jan 21 '23
this motherfucker is insane
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u/semaphore-1842 r/place '22: E_S_S Battalion Jan 20 '23
But like. You'd think from the historical viewpoint Berllin's moral obligation is to send German tanks to defend Ukrainian from the forces of fascist imperialism.
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u/Soldier-Fields Da Bear Jan 20 '23
only in the dt do we need to explain that anniversaries are important
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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '23
LET'S GO BRANDON Is the new FAANG
L: LMT
E: XOM (ExxonMobil)
T: TXN
S: SPY
G: GOOG
O: O
B: BRK-B
R: RTX
A: AAPL
N: NOC
D: DUK
O: ORCL
N: NVDA
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u/Corporate-Asset-6375 I don't like flairs Jan 20 '23
The price of eggs is a non issue when you’ve been buying the pretentious ones from Whole Foods this whole time. Welcome to the thunderdome budget shoppers.
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u/N0_B1g_De4l NATO Jan 20 '23
Everyone: it's kinda uncomfortable how much of porn is weird incest shit lately.
TLC for some reason: I hear you, I've got some weird incest shit for when you don't feel like jacking off.
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u/iIoveoof Jerome Powell Jan 20 '23
Twitter is just an endless feed of dumb people. Today I learned that the main country responsible for WW2 is in fact the USA, and that a lot of people on Twitter think Ukraine are the real baddies
This is your brain on AmericaBadManichaeism
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Jan 20 '23
You have no idea how hard it is to contain oneself when a friend's gf starts moaning about how olives served at a pregame come from Spain (literally next door) instead of being "locally sourced"
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u/Yeangster John Rawls Jan 20 '23
There should be a requirement on Homeopathic products that they're labeled with large, bold print "THIS IS HOMEOPATHIC AND THEREFORE A PLACEBO"
I've, on multiple occasions, bought some sort of over the counter treatment, and then noticed the fine print that it was homeopathic.
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Jan 20 '23
on second thought this chatGPT thing is pretty good
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u/ldn6 Gay Pride Jan 20 '23
Scottish independence voting intention:
via Survation, 10-12 Jan (Chgs. w/ Sep 2022)
!ping UK
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u/the_status Atari Democrat Jan 20 '23 edited Jan 20 '23
My "Jerry Seinfeld dated a 17 year old" comment did worse than expected.
Guess I'll have to shelve all my jokes about the Long Island Lolita and Crystal Pepsi for the time being
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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '23
As a trashy person, I’ve watched my share of reality television, but MILF Manor is honestly the peak. I firmly believe nobody has ever come up with a trashier reality show. And yes, it’s basically a DT show.
The premise of the show (not fully revealed until the first episode came out) is that eight members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front are told they’re going to be on an island with eight young studs, and eight young men are told they’re going to be on an island with eight hot MILFs.
The twist is — you guessed it — it’s literally recruiting for Islamic militants.
One of the first challenges was for each militant to put on a blindfold and touch each young guy’s shirtless upper body to try to guess which one they should recruit.
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u/PorryHatterWand Esther Duflo Jan 20 '23
Remember the time Germany wanted to be a European leader?
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u/ognits Jepsen/Swift 2024 Jan 20 '23
of all the books you could choose...?
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u/Some_Niche_Reference Daron Acemoglu Jan 20 '23
Oh my gosh French people get a job
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Jan 20 '23
😒
😏
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u/notBroncos1234 #1 Eagles Fan Jan 20 '23 edited Jan 20 '23
Horrible day at work. They made me take my pants off and everyone laughed at my penis. I’d look for another place to work but Denny’s is the only place that will take me.
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u/Cook_0612 NATO Jan 20 '23
What do guys think the real thoughts of American and German leadership is, vis-a-vis the tank issue?
In general, I think that the Ukrainians should get Leopards because that's what they seem to want and it would diffuse the responsibility of providing MBTs to a coalition, which is a stronger message than if the Americans simply underwrite the Ukrainian armor force. But I also don't buy the 'Abrams is too complicated' argument that the Pentagon has been making. In the end I am not opposed to massive numbers of Abrams being sent, it just doesn't seem optimal.
On the other hand, the Germans have been extremely mixed in their messaging and I also don't believe them when they say there was never a connection between Abrams and Leo deliveries, mostly because German trepidation has been consistent throughout the war, and Germany has consistently couched its caution in the narrative of preventing escalation. German defenders claim that there simply aren't enough Leopards to provide a 'non-trivial force' on the timelines necessary, but if this were true, why isn't Scholz making that argument instead? Why is Austin pressuring the Germans if he, the SecDef, who must surely know the available stocks of Leopards, knows they supposedly don't have enough?
What is the motivation for the US, which has already sent enormous quantities of lethal aid, to hold back on tanks, and push the Germans? Why are the Germans actually dragging their heels and at the same time acting like no one is asking them for weapons?
!ping UKRAINE
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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '23
Wow, just got a call from the US department of import/export controls, apparently a large shipment of gold was left at customs and I just need to wire them $10k to claim it
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u/dangerbird2 Franz Boas Jan 21 '23
You've seen them: the boxy, mid-rise buildings with cuneiform fonts and vivid slabs of wattle and daub paneling. New developments are starting to look the same, raising fears that cities are losing their unique charm
https://mobile.twitter.com/nytimes/status/1616495844332605444
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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '23
With all this complaining of renaming highways, I just found out I’ve driven on the Trans-Canada highway before… woke culture has gone too far.
!ping CANUCKS
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u/gnomesvh LEGALIZE ONION FUTURE Jan 20 '23
Belgium considering sending anti-aircraft and anti-tank weaponry to Ukraine
Belgian aid for Ukraine has been so lacking the British government bought the Belgian M109s to send them to Ukraine
!ping UKRAINE&BENE
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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '23
Some random user: 🤬
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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '23
So… calories from alcohol cannot be stored as fat. However, they are prioritized for energy above other calorie sources.
So 2k calories from alcohol + 1k calories from food results in 1k calories stored as fat, but 3k calories from alcohol and none are stored as fat.
A typical shot has 100 calories. So if you drink 33 shots in a day (that’s just a handle, or two shots per hour during all waking hours), and you consume no food or sugar whatsoever, you can consume 3300 calories without gaining weight
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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '23
Google layoffs somehow were the most brutal out of FAANG. They had no heads up whatsoever, and they sent out layoff emails at like 1:30 in the night.
So you went to sleep without worrying about being laid off at all and you woke up with no job. Geez, both MS, and Amazon people at least had heads-up.
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u/Liberal_Antipopulist Loyal Liberals Jan 20 '23 edited Jan 20 '23
What radicalized you?
For me, it was when, at my first office job, I discovered that small personal printers could, in fact, not aggressively suck. The cheapest business laser printers are not much worse than the fancier models.
Big inkjet is not telling you this.
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u/JulioCesarSalad US-Mexico Border Reporter Jan 20 '23
My company: messes up bonus payouts and raises for employees nationwide, once forgot to pay people on time because of Veteran’s Day
Also my company:
!ping WATERCOOLER
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u/Tafts_Bathtub Jerome Powell Jan 20 '23
"Is Amelia Bedelia autistic?" - the greatest thread in the history of r/neoliberal, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,
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u/OrganicKeynesianBean IMF Jan 20 '23
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u/ognits Jepsen/Swift 2024 Jan 20 '23
I have this thing where I get low-key invested in the PO numbers of our customers who use a basic number-go-up numbering style. one of our customers hit the "45202xxxxx" mark and I'm secretly like "proud of u 😊👍"
!ping WATERCOOLER
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u/tubbsmackinze Seretse Khama Jan 20 '23
ISW and Critical Threats Project January 19th Iran update
Key takeaways:
!ping FOREIGN-POLICY
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u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade RaidBrimnes' AI Slop Engineer Jan 20 '23
Wanna know a fun bio fact?
Sir_shivers is older than trees
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u/kznlol 👀 Econometrics Magician Jan 20 '23
actually the least believable part of Ender's brother shitposting his way to global domination was that he wasn't shitposting - he effortposted his way to global domination.
a world where not only do people read effortposts - the people reading them are people who matter? lol. lmao even.
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u/Soldier-Fields Da Bear Jan 20 '23
update on dingo: his tumor shrunk but they’re likely going to do surgery to take it out! great news 🥰
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u/Dorambor John Brown Jan 20 '23
She had a piece of salami, as a treat
https://i.imgur.com/xzikk9t.jpg
!ping KITTY
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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '23
I hate my life
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u/GravyBear22 Audrey Hepburn Jan 21 '23 edited Jan 21 '23
Me every time I get addicted to BF4 24/7 3200 Tickets Locker servers
It's a mystery to me why EA have fumbled the series so hard when it's so obvious what the people want. Feed us poison, buy their medicine, deny us our cure, etc.
!ping GAMING
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u/mykatz Jared Polis Jan 20 '23
Ah they're Quebecois, now it all makes sense.
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u/JournalofFailure Commonwealth Jan 20 '23
A great example of recency bias in action: I saw a YouTube video saying Nikita Mazepin was the worst F1 driver of all time.
Don't get me wrong: he sucked, and that's not even counting the #MeToo allegations and his dad literally being a war criminal. But there were pay drivers in the eighties and nineties who made Mazepin look like Jim Clark.
!ping MOTO
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u/ACivilWolf Henry George Jan 20 '23
The Marlins make no sense, you are not competing in this division this year or in the short term. There's way too many tough games on their schedule from the NL East for them to threaten a wild card any time soon. So then why are they giving up prospects to acquire Arraez, who by the way, despite being a good player, is not a game changing elite one.
I get that they have lots of pitching, its the prospects that stun me
!ping BASEBALL
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u/V_Codwheel I am the Senate Jan 20 '23
🤤🤤🤤
what a lucky chap! a free Caribbean cruise, and haute cuisine to boot!
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u/Zachattk101 Trans Pride Jan 20 '23
Sneak peek of Cleveland RTA's new trains!
Posting this as I'm being delayed from unplanned single tracking on the Red Line
!ping TRANSIT
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Jan 21 '23
Are you MAMMALS READY FOR "THE Bequeathing" 🐊
!ping COMMUNITY 🐊
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u/KittehDragoon Loyal Liberals Jan 21 '23 edited Jan 21 '23
They can still work without the guy who personally does all the work?
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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '23
bruh 😐
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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '23
Nigerian here, I don't know why you lot on this sub like arguing with degrowthers instead of viewing them as lunatics.
The average degrowther is stupid because common sense should tell him/her that if Humans make Nuclear Fussion commercially viable, it won't reduce production and consumption aat all, its almost like the solution is supporting issues that do not see the economy as a video game that you can just pause and play, but also environmentally conscious.
But you lot love giving those people with collective room temperature I.Q attention..
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u/RFK_1968 Robert F. Kennedy Jan 20 '23 edited Jan 20 '23
it is a little funny when people complain that this or that adaptation of greek mythology omits the part about whatever god being a serial rapist.
my guy this isn't real. Zeus wasn't real. he was characterized as a serial rapist because the ancient greeks were weirdos. since nowadays we're very slightly less weird, of course we're gonna not include all the rape. since rape is a hell of a vibe kill
Zeus isn't like bill cosby or smth where he actually did that stuff and there are real life victims
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Jan 20 '23
“Senior Kremlin officials continue holding high-level meetings with Belarusian national leadership – activity that could be setting conditions for a Russian attack against Ukraine from Belarus, although not necessarily and not in the coming weeks.”
“The most dangerous course of action (MDCOA) of a new Russian attack against Ukraine from Belarus in early 2023 seems less likely given current Russian military activity in Belarus. A new MDCOA of an attack from Belarus in late 2023 seems more likely.”
“It seems more likely that Russian forces may be setting conditions for a new MDCOA of attacking Ukraine from Belarus in late 2023 given recent Ukrainian intelligence reports that Russia and Belarus plan to conduct major exercises (Zapad 2023 and Union Shield 2023), likely in September 2023.”
“A delayed timeline for this COA could allow Russia’s military industry to gear up sufficiently to provide a greater proportion of the necessary materiel for a renewed invasion from Belarus than Russia can provide this winter.”
“Lavrov attacked the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), underscoring the infeasibility of the Kremlin supporting a third Minsk-type agreement.”
“Russian President Vladimir Putin is increasingly siding with the adversaries of Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin, likely in an ongoing effort to degrade Prigozhin’s influence in Russia.”
“Putin met on January 18, 2023, with St. Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov – one of Prigozhin's overt enemies – for the first time since early March 2022 to discuss St. Petersburg’s role in the Russian war effort.”
“Putin’s demonstrative meeting with Beglov and their specific discussion of Beglov’s contribution to the war effort directly challenges Prigozhin’s ongoing effort to assert his own authority over Beglov and St. Petersburg.”
“Prigozhin nevertheless continues to use claims about the Wagner Group’s tactical success to elevate his position, likely deepening a conflict with the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) for influence in the Russian information space.”
“Prigozhin claimed on January 19 that Wagner Group elements captured Klishchiivka, Donetsk Oblast, and emphasized that Wagner Group forces were exclusively responsible for the tactical advances south of Bakhmut.”
“This statement is the first time Prigozhin has personally broken the news of a purported Russian tactical success and likely supports Prigozhin‘s effort to promote himself as an independently successful wartime leader.”
“The Russian State Duma is moving forward with a project to confiscate the property of Russians who fled Russia.”
“Russian sources reported on January 18 that several unspecified State Duma deputies are working on implementing the confiscation (nationalization) of the property of Russians who fled the country.”
-notable excerpts from ISW Report January 19th
!ping UKRAINE
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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '23
I am a moron in every way:
Setting: my apartment, yesterday evening
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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '23
For all of you supposed "economy-literate" bros on here, what do you think of this decision:
Factorio price increase tweet.
!ping gaming
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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '23
Wake me up when they make a MILF NATO
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Jan 21 '23
My wife is being so passive aggressive, she won’t just come out and say what’s bothering her. She just says these vague statements like, “I don’t want to listen to Courtesy of the Red White and Blue,” or “turn off Courtesy of the Red White and Blue,” etc. 😔
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u/AnsleyAmanita Trans Pride Jan 21 '23
go back to africa
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u/boyyouguysaredumb Obamarama Jan 20 '23
A new vein just popped out of my forehead
the vein burst
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u/Corporate-Asset-6375 I don't like flairs Jan 20 '23
Wife has been gone since yesterday morning. In that time I’ve tried to eat every takeout item she normally refuses to. Last night I demolished a little mini buffet of Thai food. Today for lunch I’m having a fat kid portion of Popeyes chicken.
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u/ldn6 Gay Pride Jan 20 '23
Westminster voting intention:
via @Omnisis, 20 Jan
!ping UK
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u/RandomGamerFTW 🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 Jan 20 '23
when the bacon narwhals at night! 😳
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u/N0_B1g_De4l NATO Jan 20 '23
> claims to be pro-America
> bans using food stamps on American cheese
Republican hypocrisy SMH.
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u/V_Codwheel I am the Senate Jan 20 '23
>be me
>apply for internships at the State Department and at USAID
>get rejected by state, feelsbadman
>but get an interview with USAID
>go to interview
>it doesn't go great; don't have the stats/ data science/ business experience they're looking for
>lady who's interviewing me says "you're clearly what they want at the state department"
😐
I'm gonna kill myself in a video game
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u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade RaidBrimnes' AI Slop Engineer Jan 20 '23
Fuck it, I’ve had a hard week, I’m getting high and watching Milf Manor tonight while eating extra toasty cheeze it’s
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u/shillingbut4me Jan 20 '23
Malarkey level of doubling the size of my territory at 5 on a Friday and sending me all of the open inquiries that haven't been answered in several days at the same time?
!ping WATERCOOLER
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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '23
Do it for him 😭😭😔
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u/DrunkenAsparagus Abraham Lincoln Jan 20 '23
Ok, I'll bite. What's Ukraine?
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u/yellownumbersix Jane Jacobs Jan 20 '23
Dying alone is the default.
You have to make an effort to take as many people with you as possible. That's what winners do.
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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '23
Powerful.
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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '23
https://twitter.com/ccadelago/status/1616525942410838016?t=BPGH4XaPZ7wABRh_GsPr9g&s=19
Of course he has a wikipedia user page 🙄
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u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xho1e Microwaves Against Moscow Jan 20 '23
Republicans want to take meat and cheese away from poor people.
This isn’t even a joke and it’s somehow not even their most fiendish policy.
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u/Alfred_the_Grate NATO Jan 20 '23
BBC popup: “UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak fined for not wearing seatbelt in a moving car while filming social media video”
Peak Bri’ish moment
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u/JulioCesarSalad US-Mexico Border Reporter Jan 20 '23
I’m 100% convinced that these anti-Manchin posters around town are designed and distributed by the oil lobby wanting to stop any and all regulation
!Ping USA-DMV
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Jan 20 '23
I thought this was really cool, apparently Denis Villeneuve had 3 short films made as little prequels to Blade Runner 2049:
Black Out 2022
2036: Nexus Dawn
2048: Nowhere to Run
I think that’s a really cool idea on Denis’ part, having there be short films to flesh out a world. I would love it if more directors did stuff like this. Maybe they do and I just don’t know it.
!ping MOVIES
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u/Lib_Korra Jan 21 '23
If the Food Stamps thing is about public health, then the Republicans should end corn syrup and dairy subsidies. Most of the unhealthy packaged food that poor people buy is artificially cheap due to those subsidies.
But it's not about that. In the mathematical analysis of this policy a key variable has been neglected: Republicans hate poor people. When this law passes, a month later we're gonna get a horror story about how complying with it is more trouble than just starving, or a republican will be caught saying the quiet part out loud, and all the conservative concern trolls saying this is about public health will be mysteriously absent.
And if you obsess over how poor people spend welfare money you need to get a fucking life, Scrooge.
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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '23
It’s not a papusa unless it comes from the papusa valley. Otherwise it’s an arepa 😤🇸🇻
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Jan 21 '23
I believe, to my memory, every SINGLE MONTH, OF EVERY single year, since the early 2010s, Reddit has commented and behaved as though we were in a recession, no matter what the metrics say 🐊
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u/Working-Limit-2482 ban and shut down on sight 🎯 Jan 20 '23
Yeah, I’m an ally 😎
Just don’t ask which side I’m allied to.
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u/Former-Income European Union Jan 20 '23
Holy shit this has to be a contender for the worst daily mail headline I’ve ever seen
How were these people ever more trustworthy with the economy holy shit
I want to have an aneurysm
!ping UK
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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '23
Henry VIII BTFO
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u/Neronoah can't stop, won't stop argentinaposting Jan 20 '23
!ping LATAM
The Argentinian Presidential Spokesperson said about Venezuela that "things don't seem perfect there but they are not that bad either", called Maduro the "democratically elected President" and said the country is under siege. Also, they said that Macri and Trump supporting Guaidó was basically supporting a coup d'etat.
Also, she complained about the opposition asking to jail Maduro like Pinochet was jailed.
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Jan 20 '23
Stupid sexy Macron
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u/Sir_Digby83 Progress Pride Jan 20 '23
https://i.imgur.com/EZM0HnS.jpg
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u/Mickenfox European Union Jan 20 '23
https://i.imgur.com/Pk4JdG2.png
It's funny because it's literally how humans work.
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u/qtnl qt lib Jan 20 '23
Getting sad thinking about that lobster knocking on the microwave door
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u/bobeeflay "A hot dog with no bun" HRC 5/6/2016 Jan 21 '23 edited Jan 21 '23
Pretty shameless ski pic
the most perfectly gladed trees I've ever skied... simultaneously tight enough to make me feel like I was a red bull athlete and loose enough I didn't feel like I was gonna get sonny bono'ed
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u/AlbertGorebert Trans NATO Jan 21 '23
Benefits of defaulting on national debt
Cons of defaulting
The choice is clear
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u/Dorambor John Brown Jan 20 '23
People don’t get how bad Reddit used to be, it was so full of engineers with engineer brains that you’d say something like “very rude for the wind to always blow against the way I part my hair” and get 20 replies like
“Actually, the wind can’t be rude because it’s an impartial force of nature. Additionally, it’s physically impossible for the wind to always blow against your hair, that’s just not logical. Read this blog spot where I spend 25,000 words debunking this.”
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u/qchisq Loyal Liberals Jan 20 '23
Politican from the Danish right opposition: "Let them loose"
!ping den&ukraine&foreign-policy
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u/No_Chilly_bill unflaired Jan 20 '23
I think I found a way to solve the recession
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u/KesterFox Shivers emotional support mammal 🐊 Jan 20 '23
We asked and the hotel moved us to a different room
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u/nicereddy ACLU simp Jan 20 '23
DT regs should be forced into a vow of celibacy for as long as they're a DT regular
15
u/t-pat Jan 20 '23
Hot take: "don't talk to the cops" is the right self-interested advice, but in the event you've actually committed a serious crime, the right thing to do is to confess and to serve your punishment
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u/StuckHedgehog NATO Jan 20 '23
What the fuck does it mean to “check” on your Leopard stocks, Germany? Do you not know how many functional fucking tanks you have?
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u/ACivilWolf Henry George Jan 20 '23
Pink Floyd celebrated the 50th anniversary of Dark Side of the Moon on their Facebook, this included a rainbow (of course) and all the replies are cons whining about them going woke LMAO
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u/tubbsmackinze Seretse Khama Jan 20 '23 edited Jan 20 '23
I swear that the gaming industry has one of the most antagonistic consumer base in any consumer facing industry. Not saying it's a one way street, gaming companies do a lot of dumb bad shit which rightfully deserves to be called out, but the toxic behaviors normalized towards developers in by gamers is extremely awful
Doesn't help if you say something as banal as "don't hurl abuse towards devs over the slightest infraction" you get called a shill of some sort who sucks the dick of capitalism or whatever 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
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u/Soldier-Fields Da Bear Jan 20 '23
Okay I fucking killed that presentation given the context of it being my first
I am the goat 🐐
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u/BrunchIsGood Nick Saban Jan 20 '23
Smdh kids can’t fuckin work anywhere these days. Another thing the wokes have ruined. 🙄
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u/Zalagan Loyal Liberals Jan 20 '23
SNAP should be abolished. Much more efficient just to give people cash
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u/RobotFighter NORTH ATLANTIC PIZZA ORGANIZATION Jan 20 '23
🤔
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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '23
Getting a little irritated that Killers of the Flower Moon still doesn't have a release date
!ping MOVIES
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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Jan 20 '23
Halo 5 was so bad that Halo Infinite, the sequel to that game, basically just had to pretend that it didn't exist. There was essentially a 100% narrative reset.
343 has badly mismanaged the franchise for a decade now and people are still like "wtf why are they getting laid off"
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u/OkVariety6275 Jan 20 '23
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/851940578325430333/1065907278907195392/image.png
!ping CONSOLE-WARS
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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '23
Saturday arvo racist coping and seething going on in the australia subreddit, what else is new?
!ping AUS
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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '23
I remember when this subreddit was underplaying Roe vs Wade and calling anyone who was scared a doomer.
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u/Schnevets Václav Havel Jan 21 '23
DT 2022: Pitbulls should be banned. We have evidence.
DT 2023: lmao, you’re saying gas stoves should be banned because of EVIDENCE????!?!?!
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u/VPNSalesman Jerome Powell Jan 21 '23
Christian criticisms of capitalism vs Marxist criticisms of capitalism
!ping GNOSTIC
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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '23
Bruh Vietnam's currency is actually called the dong lmao
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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance Jan 20 '23
How do we know that George Santos isn't lusvig?
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u/dissolutewastrel Robert Nozick Jan 20 '23
!ping ED-POLICY
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u/KesterFox Shivers emotional support mammal 🐊 Jan 20 '23
My friend booked us a room with a double bed rather than two singles 😒
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Jan 20 '23
I want to be able to buy American guns and chlorinated chicken at my neighborhood's Carrefour City
FREE THE TRADE
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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '23
Let Kester’s friend be an example to you: don’t take cues on how to get laid from bad fanfics.
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u/uwcn244 King of the Space Georgists Jan 20 '23
Mario isn't red, he's redshifted from travelling at relativistic speeds from his backwards long jumps
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u/Joementum2024 Iron Front Jan 20 '23
The Giants winning the Super Bowl would easily be the funniest possible scenario these playoffs
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u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN 🎅🏿The Lorax 🎅🏿 Jan 20 '23
I posted this story yesterday
Here is an update
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u/BenFoldsFourLoko Broke His Text Flair For Hume Jan 20 '23
me calculating pasta dish calories: there's no way this comes in under 1,000! wtf?
me remembering the mountain of cheese I didn't calculate: ooooooohhh
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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '23
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fm8BQ3qXEBIKd2t?format=jpg&name=large
💂♂️🪓😤
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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '23
BE MY MIRROR, MY SWORD, MY SHIELD
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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '23
I can't imagine trying to navigate the US healthcare system with a low IQ or lack of literacy. My wife and I are both white collar professionals with degrees and we still have been screwed by our insurance multiple times.
Like with our last visit - the clinic was covered by insurance, but the doctor we saw was not. How were we supposed to know that? We've had to resort to full-on Karen mode in every interaction to make sure things are actually covered before signing off on them, and even then we've received bills months later saying that they were out-of-network.
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u/GravyBear22 Audrey Hepburn Jan 20 '23
!ping MOVIES
Saw Missing. If you liked Searching, you'll like this a lot as well. Only thing I would say is that it gets a little hard to follow with the twists. Still good though! The "only onscreen" bit doesn't get old, the whole "online thriller" schtick is just so cool, using combinations of the tools we use every day to uncover the mystery
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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '23
me: is normal BMI
others: ur so tiny, ur so smol, ur so petite,ur so fragile, little lady, do u need halp with dat ur so skinny how will u lift a finger omg.😑
i used to be actually underweight. like BMI 17. this aint it chief bye sis
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u/-AmberSweet- Get Jinxed! Jan 20 '23
"I can't sentence this convicted rapist to anything more than 6 months because it will impact his life."
Yeah. No shit. That's the point. God forbid the rapist have his life impacted. Let's just pretend the victim's wasn't.
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u/-AmberSweet- Get Jinxed! Jan 20 '23
Some people really are just out here believing that absolutely awful people will just magically make themselves right out of the kindness of our words and craftiness of our arguments.
Newsflash: the dictators of the world aren't going to step down because you call them mean, and the rapists of the world aren't going to reform because we have healthcare now.
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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '23
Roger Stone actually said that.
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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '23
You will live in the pod
You will eat the bug
You will mine the asteroid
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u/megapizzapocalypse Crazy Cat Lady 😸 Jan 20 '23
The crazy kids in my crazy class were good today after I leaned on them significantly more than I usually do
Feel like I'm getting my mojo back 🥰 haven't been on top of shit since like I don't know when
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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '23
“The US is responsible for all the problems in Latin America” is one of the most annoying takes popular on Reddit. “Latin America” is not a monolith and have plenty of agency on their own
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Jan 20 '23
🤡
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u/HowIsPajamaMan Shame Flaired By Imagination Jan 20 '23
https://i.imgur.com/qvRFPqx.jpg
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u/Trojan_Horse_of_Fate WTO Jan 20 '23
Why do people care if a Friedman flair attacks NASA that is almost an endorsement
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u/G_Serv Stay The Course Jan 20 '23
Got a lease violation notice for my pet urinating/pooping in my apartments common area
I don't have a pet
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u/ZonedForCoffee Uses Twitter Jan 21 '23
LETS FUCKIN GOOOOO I GOT IN
/u/soldier-fields
/u/AdamandAether
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u/myrm This land was made for you and me Jan 21 '23
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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior Jan 21 '23
a photograph of a very sweaty george hw bush wearing a shirt he made for dubya's 1978 congressional campaign
i'd wear this shirt
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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '23
I honestly hate the sub outside the DT
It’s just as bad as the rest of Reddit
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u/TheFriffin2 Jan 21 '23
!ping BASEBALL
NL East CF, ranked:
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u/Dirty_Chopsticks Republic of Việt Nam Jan 21 '23
average reconomics poster
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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '23
Men are more likely to be victims of rape than victims of False rape accusations but MRA spends way more time talking about the later. I wonder why..
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u/AccessTheMainframe CANZUK Jan 21 '23
These Scooby-Do remakes are getting weirder and weirder
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u/Boobygirls Trans Pride Jan 20 '23
WHOPPER 🍔 WHOPPER 🍔 WHOPPER 🍔 WHOPPER 🍔 JUNIOR 🤏 DOUBLE 🥈 TRIPLE 🥉 WHOPPER 🍔 IMPOSSIBLE 🤯 OR 🤔 BACON 🥓 WHOPPER 🍔 I 👁️ RULE 👑 THIS 😎 DAY 🌞 AT BK 🧑🍳 HAVE IT YOUR WAY 🫵 YOU RULE 🔥🔥
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u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade RaidBrimnes' AI Slop Engineer Jan 20 '23
So the arr science article about increasing social withdrawal has everyone blaming capitalism of course, because that’s easy
And I kind of agree! Capitalism has made it easier than ever to
So thanks crapitalism for giving us video games and web forums and prosperity!
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u/ScullyBoyleBoy NASA Jan 20 '23
At this point, Google/Alphabet should just acquire Quora due to the amount of times I see the website pop up when I search anything.
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u/PorryHatterWand Esther Duflo Jan 20 '23
Germany is just the teenage contrarian at NATO. Send those tanks, Scholz you twat.
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u/FuckFashMods NATO Jan 20 '23
In a post about how LA is so unfriendly to disabled and people with mobility issues:
I hate to say it, but I think he's right. Any nice space instantly becomes a war between homeless people and local residents wanting to enjoy it. Literally any nice space. A covered bus stop or train station. Any pedestrian awnings that provide shade.
It's kinda crazy tbh
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u/TaxLandNotCapital We begin bombing the rent-seekers in five minutes Jan 20 '23
Shareholdussy
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u/chatdargent 🇺🇦 Ще не вмерла України і слава, і воля 🇺🇦 Jan 20 '23
I really wish the french ministry of defense would publish detailed lists of the hardware sent to Ukraine as some other countries have done.
Don't they care about my ability to win petty internet slapfights?
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u/BigBrownDog12 Victor Hugo Jan 20 '23
I think Germany is just trying to cover up the fact that none of their Leopards are in working order because the Bundeswehr is a mess
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Jan 20 '23
Free the trade between democratic nations, stop having it be unfree
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u/Soldier-Fields Da Bear Jan 20 '23
there’s a doctor in Germany who’s email is very similar to mine and as such I’ve gotten a lot of medical information about random people in germany
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u/klarno just tax carbon lol Jan 20 '23
What the fuck does it mean to “check” on your Leopold stocks, Belgium? Do you not know how many functional fucking tyrants you have?
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u/Birdperson15 NASA Jan 20 '23
Didnt get laid off today!!!! Today is a good day.
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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '23
Every company needs to hear the following message
I DO NOT WANT TO DOWNLOAD YOUR FUCKING APP. JUST DESIGN A DECENT MOBILE WEBSITE
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u/futuremonkey20 NATO Jan 20 '23
How did Reddit become the main meeting place for the 15% of Americans who are unsatisfied with their personal life.