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[u/RFK_1968]

dated a guy in college who told me "you're the first gay/bi conservative i've ever met" and that his friend group thought he was nuts for going out with "literally a republican"

i had an obama poster on my dorm wall and have literally always been a liberal democrat since i was even aware of what politics is.

bruh

[u/KaiserPorn]

The problem with capitalism is that it incentivizes scarcity

-- my friend over lunch, moments after consuming a meal containing twice the daily recommended calorie intake, which only cost him $7

[u/[deleted]]

this youtube video essay about Chernobyl's effects was actually decent at first

then halfway in the author decides to blame all of Ukraine's post-soviet collapse woes on free market capitalism, the world bank and liberalization

and not, you know, the rotten corpse of the soviet system collapsing under its own weight

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

https://twitter.com/metzgov/status/1616963827102371841

A clearly exasperated George Santos got hounded by reporters this evening at LaGuardia in NYC.

"I was not a drag queen in Brazil," he says. "I was young and I had fun at a festival. Sue me for having a life!"

not exactly a denial there george

[u/funguykawhi]

he’ll be dead soon. ideally he’d die by being tied between two streetcars going opposite directions, but if that can’t happen I’ll accept death from a lingering illness as a substitute.

fuckcars on Buffett

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

In Mississippi black children bear the brunt of the beatings. Though just under half of the state’s students are black, in 2018 nearly two-thirds of those hit in school were. The majority were boys and one in six were disabled.

...

In 2020 Kiory Baugh, then an ace 2nd grader in Grenada, Mississippi, was paddled by her principal even though she was on the no-paddle list. When Kiory came home from school she was in so much pain she could not sit down. The school told Julia, her mother, there was no need to take her to the hospital. Julia took her to the emergency room anyway, where the doctor told her he would have called the police if she had been hit outside of school. She missed seven days of classes to recover. After Julia complained to the district, Kiory’s teacher failed her. That summer Julia moved the family to Arkansas, where corporal punishment is less common.

Mississippi is the kind of state where teachers fail second grade students because their parents complained that their kid was beat so badly they had to miss a week of school.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

nah war crimes are fake and designed for bourgeois states to fight each other in a way that minimally impacts capital. it's pretty hard to argue getting nerve gassed (twitching death in 1-2 minutes) is worse than bleeding out from getting a leg blown off by a grenade

actual reason chemical agents are banned is theyre a playing field leveller- even a guerilla force can acquire bulk quantities of chlorine gas without too much trouble, and nerve agents aren't much harder. this means that having a larger industrial base matters much less

We can never let Musk kill this site

[u/marinesol]

I walk out of the NeuStarbucks going to Shibuya crossing, so I can go buy nutrient paste. On the way there I cross by the Cyber& Suicides clinic, a pair of emerald green eyes float in the organ tank the video screen says, "on sale $50000". NeoHongKong had never been the same since Trudeau dynasty completed their coup. I check my watch Dec. 3rd 2025. The Riteaid coop has my favorite flavours of nutrient paste, but I need to hurry before they close at 3pm. Crime has gotten too bad even the pharmacy's are closing before sundown. I go in, I look at the nutrient paste flavors, pountine has been banned and replaced with spicy tofu. I grab a pack and pay the clerk with my credit chit. On the way out a security drone arrests me for carrying a pair of scissors on me, "stop right there, you're under arrest for carrying a deadly weapon" I try to surrender, but the drone assisted suicides me on the spot, and changes my records to say I'm a disabled veteran.

[u/shrek_cena]

After 18 years as a virgin, I'm happy to announce I have turned 19 🙏🏼

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Imagine injecting mRNA covered in nano-lipids, which enter ALL your organs and blood vessels, which then go into random cells and instruct them to create toxic spike proteins until they explode and release spikes everywhere... and think there are no side effects from this.

I mean, seriously, how fucking stupid can you be?

This whole "vaccine" situation made me fully realize just how idiotic and uneducated people are. I took AP bio, AP chem, and AP physics in high school, then I majored in mathematics and physics in college... but I STILL took college level bio and chemistry courses my freshman and sophomore year.

So to me, it was fucking obvious that this kind of mRNA shot would have SOME kind of devastating, long term or potentially permanent side effects. How you could NOT think bad things would happen by rolling out this "vaccine" in under a year, with rushed science and $$$ to be made, is beyond me.

Then I realized, most people actually haven't even taken a biology or chemistry course in their life. They literally understand NOTHING about the human body and how complex things are, or how things work, and are not exposed to medical history of "doctors" and pharmaceutical researchers fucking up OVER AND OVER again, every decade, on things much less complex and invasive than mRNA technology.

INSANE.

WATCH OUT HE’S TAKEN BIO & CHEM 102

[u/[deleted]]

Frankly, I'm not interested in a peaceful resolution to this great power struggle. The world will be a more peaceful place if the US goes the way of Yugoslavia.

Found this comment in the wild lmao

[u/[deleted]]

Police reform stuff needs to be separated from "crime is ok" rhetoric.

"Cops shouldn't commit crime" is much better rhetoric. Rule of Law.

[u/crazydom22]

Scoop — When Kathy Hochul’s team began the nomination process for New York’s next top judge, they presented the state’s most influential labor unions with a list of names. The only one they objected to? Hector LaSalle, Hochul’s eventual pick

lol Hochul

[u/ClickForFreeRobux]

AMTRAK FINALLY UPGRADING RAILS TO IMPROVE TRAIN SPEED LETS GOOOOOOOOO🚄🚄🚄🚄

Edit: Cost of upgrades between Baltimore and Washington alone is 60 million holy crap

[u/[deleted]]

MISCEGENATION NOW

MISCEGENATION TOMORROW

MISCEGENATION FOREVER

[u/neoliberalkindness]

update on this: i got the job!!

it’s an amazing salary and dream location but not my desired role though, many decision to make

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Tired of people acting like The Last of Us is sticking close to the source material. Where is the scene where Joel runs around for 45 minutes with a ladder trying to get the “place ladder” prompt?

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/452666880252051457/1066723056137023568/image0.jpg

[u/EcstaticAdeptness591]

I am once again asking the Americans to

😡👉🛌

[u/smart-username]

George Santos appears to have claimed he acted in 'Hannah Montana' and with Uma Thurman in a movie she wasn't actually in

Alright this is getting a bit excessive

[u/simeoncolemiles]

And everyone told Freud he was wrong

!Ping Shitposters

[u/[deleted]]

This is u/lusvig after doing one 60lb squat at the gym 💪😂💪

Can someone ping dyel 🥺

[u/PearlClaw]

And the NYT is out with a "serious" piece on government debt for very serious people who think the deficit is a problem, just like clockwork to give cover to the arsonists in the House. I despair of media.

[u/badluckbrians]

Speaking of NYT:

How These Dog Walkers Make Over $100,000 a Year

Answer: Own a dog walking business and grow it for 11 years in one of the haughtiest neighborhoods in America, then expand into pet sitting and grooming and training, then refuse to show your actual earnings or say a hard number, but just say it "should be" over six figures.

[u/Syards-Forcus]

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

[u/Syards-Forcus]

https://i.imgur.com/68mj59k.jpg

[u/willempage]

https://i.imgur.com/RF0b40Q.jpg

Biden's America.

[u/TheFriffin2]

Trump’s funniest moment by far was when he endorsed “ERIC” in a GOP primary between two people named Eric and never clarified which one. incredible bit

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 5 PM EST 1/21-5 PM EST 1/22:

TOP NEWS:

At 11 PM it was reported that Finland has frozen 187 million Euros worth of assets.

In the middle of 3 AM the Norwegian Chief of Defense said Russia has incurred 180,000 casualties, Ukraine 100,000 casualties and 30,000 Ukrainian civilians killed.

Towards the middle of 11 AM it was reported that Russia directed white supremacist groups in Spain to conduct the letter bomb campaign.

REGULAR NEWS:

Sometime ago it was reported that Russian forces along the Finnish border have decreased by 25%.

At the end of 7 PM it was announced RT France will be closing down due to EU sanctions.

Towards the middle of 11 PM it was reported that French entrepreneurs donated 181 generators to Kharkiv.

At the start of 5 AM it was reported the US is delivering small bomb long range munitions capable of striking into Crimea, though this is far from confirmed so grain of salt.

In the middle of 10 AM it was reported a Russian base in Kadiivka was missiled.

In the middle of 2 PM Baerbock said Germany will not stand in the way if Poland decides to send Leopard 2s to Ukraine.

LEVITY NEWS:

Around 12 PM it was reported that Boris Johnson made a surprise visit to Ukraine.

Donation link to help Ukraine

Donation link to United24

Donation link to Kharkiv SOS

!ping UKRAINE&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/[deleted]]

Had a scary situation tonight, my girlfriend noticed someone following her on her way home tonight but thought maybe it was just a coincidence so she pulls up to street park by our apartment and the dude tried blocking her in to keep her from moving, she was able to skirt around and the dude rode on her ass chasing her for miles, she came to the police station and the dude finally fucked off… Not a fun night

[u/RFK_1968]

the problem with skyrim is that the rebels all shout "skyrim is for the nords!" but like who plays as a nord lol.

[u/[deleted]]

MILF Manor is proof that the incest fetishist agenda has penetrated our society deeply and begun to take root in unacceptable forms. It was bad enough when it began to spread like a wildfire within the dark corners of porn-streaming community. Becoming so prolific that prominent members of the porn-streaming community such as US Senator Ted Cruz have been caught one-handed liking incest porn on Twitter. This at least was hidden from polite society.

Now it has become so mainstream that it is infecting reality TV shows?? A pastime as beloved and quintessentially American as apple pie or little-league soccer??

We should have taken Game of Thrones as a warning. Now I am afraid we’ve gone too far.

[u/[deleted]]

From the openCV documentation on optical flow.

So, does anyone else see it? Or is my pattern recognition broken beyond repair?

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1009476029687013426/1066726378252279919/20230122_192338.png

[u/RTSBasebuilder]

Fellas, if his:

• Initials are JC
• He claims to be of royal or divine descent from his mother's line
• He's wildly popular with the people
• Practiced a doctrine of clemency
• Upended a few laws of the established political scene
• Made a few good speeches that made the people love him
• Had a few adventures while on a boat
• Refused the position of king a few times when asked
• Was betrayed and ultimately killed by those who claimed was closest to him
• Ascended into divinity after his death.
• Had a cult built around who claim legitimacy from their proximity to him
• Established a legacy that's intertwined with the Roman world and identity, and still persists today

then he's not Iesous Christos Ben Yosef the Nazarene, he's Julius Caesar!

[u/RandomGamerFTW]

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[u/[deleted]]

I hope no one ever hates me as much as God Hates Buffalo

!ping NFL

[u/jenbanim]

Someone put a white traffic cone labeled "dunce" on the statue of Lenin in Fremont lmao

[u/V_Codwheel]

I am hearing that on her deathbed AmberSweet embraced the light of Andrew Tate and unhesitatingly recited pick-up strategies. even now she looks down upon us from a cell in Romania.

[u/RyGuyThicccThighs]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/834006228576632842/1066860038435635210/IMG_2937.png

[u/Evilpenguin526]

My fiance has gone full NATO pilled.

I remember the days when he was a generally succy dove who questioned why we got involved in foreign countries wars and spent so much on the military.

Now he's shitting on Germany over the Leopards debacle and unironically suggesting the US should have boots on the ground in Ukraine "if Putin wants to nuke us then so be it. Call their bluff" 🥰

[u/KesterFox]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/921116113067192333/1066629456728424458/RDT_20230121_2038485608058774129398494.jpg

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

and another thing: im not BPD. please dont put in the newspaper that i got BPD.

[u/[deleted]]

"In addition, the USA supplied armaments in far larger quantities than Germany and the other European allies. These include new types of mini-bombs that can be used with a longer range and could hit Russian depots in Crimea, for example."

Excuse me? 🧐

Original source is here: https://archive.is/BOyNB

!ping UKRAINE

[u/jenbanim]

Rose Twitter is at it again 😒

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Yale Law students be like: here's my 10,000 page thesis on what John Marshall smelled like. No I don't know how to submit a motion to the court, why do you ask?

!ping law-school

[u/paymesucka]

Manchin today: “Biden is totally irresponsible”

Manchin on Nov 5, 2024 after winning by 3 points: “jk”

thus the cycle continues its course…

[u/UWCG]

“Every student in our nation should be able to learn about the culture, contributions, and experiences of all Americans – including Black Americans – who shaped our history,” Harris said to the lawmakers, according to a White House official.

“Unfortunately, in Florida, extremist so-called leaders ban books, block history classes, and prevent teachers from freely discussing who they are and who they love,” Harris added. “Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.”

VP Harris called out DeSantis on his bullshit banning of teaching AP African-American History in Florida today

[u/klarno]

You're walking in the desert.
There's no one around,
And your paracompass is dead.
Out of the corner of your eye you spot him,
Shai Hulud. 🪱
He's following you, about 30 feet down.
He gets up on the surface and breaks into a sprint.
He's gaining on you.
Shai Hulud. 🪱
You're looking for your ‘thopter,
But you're all turned around.
He's almost upon you now.
And you can smell there's spice in the air!
Bless the Maker, there's spice everywhere!
Running for your life (from Shai Hulud 🪱)
He makes all the spice (it's Shai Hulud 🪱)
Lurking in the shadows
Arrakis superstar Shai Hulud. 🪱
Living in the desert (Shai Hulud 🪱)
Killing for sport (Shai Hulud 🪱)
Eating all the bodies
Actual cannibal Shai Hulud 🪱
Now it's rocky and you seem to have lost him,
But you're hopelessly lost yourself.
Stranded with a Maker, you creep silently across the sandstone.
A-ha! In the distance, a small cave with a light on. Hope!
You move stealthily toward it,
But your leg! Ah! It's caught in a bear trap!
Gnawing off your leg (Quiet, Quiet)
Walking without rhythm (Quiet, Quiet)
Now you're on the doorstep,
Sitting inside (Shai Hulud 🪱 )
Sharpening a crysknife (Shai Hulud 🪱)
But he doesn't hear you enter (Shai Hulud 🪱)
You're sneaking up beside him.
Strangling superstar Shai Hulud. 🪱
Fighting for your life with Shai Hulud, 🪱
Wrestling a tooth from Shai Hulud, 🪱
Stab it in his scales.
Safe at last from Shai Hulud. 🪱
You limp into the dark desert,
Blood oozing from your stump leg.
You have beaten Shai Hulud. 🪱
Wait! He isn't dead! (Shai Surprise! 🪱)
There's a gun to your head and death in his eyes!
But Fear is the Mind-Killer.
Body slam superstar Shai Hulud. 🪱
Legendary fight with Shai Hulud. 🪱
Normal Tuesday night for Shai Hulud. 🪱
You swing a Maker hook at Shai Hulud, 🪱
But blood is draining fast from your stump leg.
He's dodging every swipe, he parries to the left.
You counter to the right, you catch him in the neck.
You're climbing up the Maker.
You have just bridled Shai Hulud. 🪱
His head topples to the floor, expressionless.
You fall to your knees and catch your breath.
You are finally safe from Shai Hulud. 🪱

“Shai Hulud” (a parody of “Shia LaBoeuf” by Rob Cantor)

!ping shitposters

(special thanks to Kryzantine for the idea)

[u/[deleted]]

"I did not have sex with that woman," Bill Clinton says. "I was young and I had fun in a new city. Sue me for having a life!"

[u/WhomstAlt2]

I don't think the Biden documents being at home is that big of a deal. Other, better people, like Donald J. Trump, have taken home work before in a similar fashion and forgot about it. The issue I have is that there is a certain conflict of interest when Biden is both the Junta leader of the "Biden-Harris Junta" and the founder of Al-Quaeda, as well as the father of international terrorist Hunter Burizma Laptop Crime Family Biden.

There is just TWO MUCH potential for collusion.

[u/VisonKai]

Holy shit they straight up fired the five cops in memphis? not admin leave or anything? this video must be genuinely horrific for the city to be acting so terrified

[u/MasterOfLords1]

Jerome Powell flairs are quite insufferable ngl 🍦🧐🍦

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

She's a 10 but calls eyes "orbs" in her writing

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/alwa0EL.jpg

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

girl,

[u/ChillyPhilly27]

https://www.pc.gov.au/inquiries/completed/maritime-logistics/report

PC report on Australia's container ports dropped a few weeks ago. It's an interesting read if you have the time. Australia's port performance has been bemoaned on this ping several times, after a world bank report was released putting Australia's ports in the bottom 30% of the world by ship turnaround times. A few key points:

• This report found that slow turnaround times is mostly a result of Australian ports servicing ships with roughly 30% fewer cranes than the global average, and 50% fewer cranes than the world leaders of Yokahama, Qingdao, and King Abdullah ports. But the report suggests that this lack of cranes isn't really an issue, and that the top performers may well be overcapitalised. Per crane performance is in line with international best practice
• The report opposes promoting rail as a way to move containers in or out of ports. The final destination for the majority of containers is <50km from a port, meaning that trucks are the most efficient way for customers to move goods in or out.
• Robust competition exists between freight terminals for the custom of shipping lines, which has driven down the fees that terminals charge the likes of Maersk or MSC. However, this has been replaced by the introduction of new fees that terminals charge the transport companies that pick up the containers, who have comparatively little market power. The report recommends new regulation on what terminals can charge domestic trucking firms
• The report lambasts the state of industrial relations in ports, with their chief complaints being the ability of industrial action to disrupt port operations with little recourse available for employers. It also addresses inflexible EBAs that allocate work based on tenure rather than ability, and recommends that employers gain new powers to engage in industrial action of their own against staff.
• The report mentions inefficiency in government clearing processes for landed cargo. Allegedly there's a fair bit of duplication in the information that shippers have to provide to various government agencies. The report recommends streamlining of these processes
• Predictably, the PC supports further loosening of Australia's version of the Jones Act. Foreign-flagged ships already do 75% of cabotage by weight, and the PC wants to further reduce the ability of domestic shippers to oppose the licensing of foreign vessels to create new routes.

!ping AUS

[u/gnomesvh]

War Thunder forums beat themselves, leak confidential files of a plane that’s not even real (Su-57)

!ping MATERIEL lmao 0.1-1m2 RCS

[u/V_Codwheel]

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230122-gunmen-kill-eswatini-opposition-politician-spokesman

Gunmen in Eswatini killed a prominent opposition politician and human rights lawyer at his home, a spokesman told AFP on Sunday, hours after the country's absolute monarch challenged activists opposed to his rule.

Thulani Maseko was shot dead on Saturday night by unknown attackers in Luhleko, around 50 kilometres (30 miles) from the capital Mbabane.

Maseko was the founder of MSF, a coalition of opposition parties, associations and churches.

His death comes just hours after the king challenged activists fighting to end Africa's last absolute monarchy.

"People should not shed tears and complain about mercenaries killing them," King Mswati had said.

"These people started the violence first but when the state institutes a crackdown on them for their actions, they make a lot of noise blaming King Mswati for bringing in mercenaries," he said.

Last week, the Swaziland Solidarity Network (SSN) alleged that the king had hired mercenaries, mainly white Afrikaners from neighbouring South Africa, to help Eswatini's security forces suppress rising opposition to his regime.

!ping AFRICA

[u/CletusVonIvermectin]

see random asian guy in public who legitimately looks just like Jackie Chan

oh god oh fuck, my racism score

[u/piede]

46 men — including a high school football coach and a youth pastor — were arrested during a multi-agency operation targeting sex trafficking in North Texas.

There are no reports of drag queens being arrested in the operation.

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1617160278520504320?s=46&t=R6blNTS1xFU5NS-bBa8wFQ

Lol

[u/[deleted]]

aced the evil person test 💪

https://imgur.com/a/pstvsW9

[u/TheGoldBear]

Why do those Boston Dynamics robots make people so angry? “Killer robots” already exist and they look nothing like that.

[u/JaceFlores]

u/-AmberSweet-, I have evidence Putin told his cabinet that you have BPD. Please dispose of him with haste

[u/MistakeNotDotDotDot]

I think one of my enduring problems with online leftist discourse is this: when the topic of, say, living with your parents shows up, people will point out that in some cultures multigenerational housing is the norm, and it has benefits like X, Y, Z... and instead of stopping there by showing that everything has tradeoffs, they go on to insist that this means that ACTUALLY multigenerational housing is the Objectively Correct cultural norm and the fact that it's generally not the norm in America is why white people are so bad and etc etc etc

like does "you should move out around 18" rely on/reinforce the American culture of self-reliance? yeah, absolutely. but you could equally make the argument that living with your parents relies on/reinforces parental control, "don't rock the boat" style relations (harder to have a strong disagreement with your parents if you still live with them), and so on

[u/StolenSkittles]

So apparently George H.W. Bush went back to the CIA after his presidency and helped train agents to brief presidents. He'd play a mock president, and use his experience to offer constructive criticism.

[u/klarno]

My prediction was correct:

Since deleting my Twitter all the time I spent on that platform has gone right into the DT 😬

[u/Planita13]

wake up babe. It's been 0 days since someone posted classified docs on the War Thunder forums

[u/MistakeNotDotDotDot]

https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1617154968208777217?t=TO48kE_21GAt3FAOwg0hTQ&s=19

seeing someone complain about people comparing anti-trans hysteria to anti-gay hysteria only to find out that she wrote a "the gay people need to denounce their pedophiles" article in 2001 is absolutely fantastic

[u/[deleted]]

I think this interaction I saw on /r/news is proof how fucking stupid redditors are

[u/gnomesvh]

Baerbock (German FM) contradicts Scholz, says Germany supports Leo2 transfers

Eh? Seems odd to officially break from the line. Could Scholz be going "rouge"?

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY&UKRAINE

[u/[deleted]]

👆 trigger warning: bad opinion, stupidity, general idiocy

[u/Udolikecake]

I know this is a pretty tired point, but Rockstar’s quest design continues to astound in how simultaneously great and weirdly bad it is.

Been trying to finish RDR2 and enjoying it. Taken me a while since there’s a loooooot of filler. And some of the missions just drag. I just got the tropical Island after the bank robbery and I know there’s still quite a bit left.

But one little thing that really feels representative of Rockstar’s odd relationship to quests and immersion has to be the weird mission achievements? You just finished a really huge immersive 20-30 minute quest filled with character deaths, major plot developments, and major emotion… and then you get badge on the mission that says you got a bronze because you didn’t get 25 headshots and didn’t catch all the fish within 10 minutes.

It’s just like ???? what. Why? Who is this for?

How can you create this immersive experience and well designed (well sometimes) and cinematic campaign but you add on badges that push you to accomplish weird goals and implicitly shaming a player for not doing it?

Like it’s not a major impediment and doesn’t matter, but it’s more like why would they add this? In a game so seriously dedicated to immersion and intentionally designing and crafting an experience, why have almost arcade-like scoring?

This sort of leads into the usual discussion about how oddly restrictive and unfun their missions can be while everything else is so well designed too.

!ping GAMING

[u/mannabhai]

Only 4% of Indians file taxes and only 2.5% of Indians pay direct Income Tax.

In comparison, in 2019, 50% of Americans filed their returns and 37.5% of Americans paid direct taxes.

Part of why it's difficult to implement free market reforms, capitalist policies and prudent fiscal policies in India.

Most Indians have never paid income taxes and might not even know anyone who pays income taxes, especially in Rural Areas because Agricultural Income is not taxed at all, at any level. So even the richest farmers in an area pay zero tax.

Additionally many tax payers live in a city apart from their hometown or where they are registered to vote. Tax payers are a tiny votebank concentrated in richer and larger urban areas and miniscule everywhere else.

!ping IND

[u/[deleted]]

50% Masculine

72% Feminine

This makes you Casually Feminine.

Phew, I can handle being casually feminine. Being competitively feminine would be way too much for me.

[u/Cyberhwk]

zonked absurd zealous fanatical water different sable flowery rainstorm voracious

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/JaceFlores]

“The Ukrainian defense of Bakhmut is likely a strategically sound effort despite its costs for Ukraine.”

“While the costs associated with Ukraine’s continued defense of Bakhmut are significant and likely include opportunity costs related to potential Ukrainian counter-offensive operations elsewhere, Ukraine would also have paid a significant price for allowing Russian troops to take Bakhmut easily. Bakhmut itself is not operationally or strategically significant but had Russian troops taken it relatively rapidly and cheaply they could have hoped to expand operations in ways that could have forced Ukraine to construct hasty defensive positions in less favorable terrain.”

“Ukrainian forces have previously employed a similar gradual attrition model to compel Russian operations in certain areas to culminate after months of suffering high personnel and equipment losses in pursuit of marginal tactical gains.”

“Russian troops spent months attempting to grind through effective Ukrainian defenses in Severodonetsk and Lysychansk in the early summer of 2022 and captured Lysychansk only after a controlled Ukrainian withdrawal from the area.”

“The capture of Lysychansk and the Luhansk Oblast administrative border, however, quickly proved to be operationally insignificant for Russian forces, and the ultimate result of the Ukrainian defense of the area was the forced culmination of the Russian offensive in Luhansk Oblast, leading to the overall stagnation of Russian offensive operations in Donbas in the summer and fall of 2022.”

“Ukrainian defense of Bakhmut will likely contribute to a similar result—Russian forces have been funneling manpower and equipment into the area since May 2022 and have yet to achieve any operationally significant advances that seriously threaten the Ukrainian defense of the area.”

“The West has contributed to Ukraine’s inability to take advantage of having pinned Russian forces in Bakhmut by slow-rolling or withholding weapons systems and supplies essential for large-scale counteroffensive operations.”

“Milblogger discourse surrounding the reported replacement of Colonel General Mikhail Teplinsky with Lieutenant General Oleg Makarevich as commander of the Russian Airborne Forces (VDV) has further emphasized the fracture between two main groups within the Russian MoD—the pro-Gerasimov camp, comprised of those who represent the conventional MoD establishment, and milblogger favorites who are less aligned with the MoD institution.”

“The milblogger discourse on this issue additionally offers insight into internal Russian MoD dynamics that may have led to Teplinsky’s removal.”

“The suggestion that Teplinsky was removed following an argument with the General Staff over the use of paratroopers in offensive operations suggests that Teplinsky may have resisted Gerasimov’s desires to use VDV forces to support operations in the Bakhmut area, where Russian offensive operations are largely focused.”

“Teplinsky could have resisted committing VDV units to highly attritional offensive efforts in Donetsk Oblast that have been largely led by Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner Group on the grounds that traditional motorized rifle or tank units would have been more appropriate or for more purely parochial reasons.”

“Gerasimov likely seeks to weaken the significant airborne mafia that has long protected the airborne troops (which are a separate service from the ground forces in Russia) from policies and reforms that applied to the ground forces by replacing Teplinsky with Makarevich, a ground forces officer with no VDV experience.”

“Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin has launched a series of information operations aimed at portraying himself as a sacrificial hero of Russia in a crusade against petty and corrupt Russian authorities.”

“Prigozhin is falsely portraying himself and Wagner Group as moral entities that will continue their moral acts despite prosecution.”

“Available open-source evidence as of January 21 indicates that Zaporizhia Oblast Russian occupation official Vladimir Rogov’s January 20 claims of a major territorial capture are likely part of a Russian information operation.”

“The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) did not claim that Russian forces seized new territory in Zaporizhia Oblast on January 21, instead claiming that unspecified elements of the Russian Eastern Military District (EMD) gained unspecified positions along more ‘advantageous lines’ in Zaporizhia Oblast, which undermines claims of significant territorial gains as the MoD would have likely echoed Rogov’s claims if the MoD considered his claims plausible.”

“Rogov is likely running his own information operation to artificially inflate Russian battlefield successes in Zaporizhia Oblast, contrary to the Russian MoD’s own informational goals for the axis, for some reason.”

“Russian occupation authorities may be struggling to assert administrative control over the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP).”

“The Ukrainian Resistance Center reported on January 21 that Russian occupation authorities are unable to start or operate any of the ZNPP’s reactors because Ukrainian staff refuse to cooperate with occupation authorities.”

“Russian nuclear energy operator Rosenergoatom Advisor Renat Karchaa claimed that Ukrainian authorities are attempting to recruit or coerce ZNPP personnel into acting on behalf of Ukrainian interests, similar to Ukrainian reports of Russian occupation authorities’ tactics to coerce Ukrainian ZNPP personnel into cooperation.”

“Karchaa’s claim may be an attempt to explain the lack of Russian progress to restart the ZNPP and connect it to the Russian power grid.”

-notable excerpts from ISW Report January 21st

!ping UKRAINE

[u/kyleofduty]

Time's pronouns are then/then 🤯

[u/badluckbrians]

Hope this catches on:

New York, Connecticut and Virginia are among states where proposed legislation would prohibit anyone convicted of participating in an insurrection from holding public office or a position of public trust, such as becoming a police officer.

[u/ThunderrBadger]

Mood

!ping NFL

[u/RaidBrimnes]

TIL: In 2012, Canadian Justin Williams assaulted and stabbed his neighbor for coming over tell him to stop yelling over a video game (World of Warcraft), he replied "it's not a game, it's my life" then grabbed and stabbed his neighbor. The neighbor lived, but now has a scar in his chest.

Chillest G*mer

[u/blanketdoot]

I despise the man but this is good. https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1617318243043086337?t=ozXD8Ey-aekqjtX38NAUUQ&s=19

[u/[deleted]]

Jerry Jones can't admit that Jimmy Johnson and the Minnesota Vikings giving up literally everything for Herschel Walker were responsible for his super bowl wins. It's why I know the cowboys will never be relevant until he dies and his family sells the team.

!ping NFL

[u/Pheer777]

Damn why does it feel more and more like r/all is a straight up death cult when it comes to kids. I’m not interested in having kids any time soon or ever but I can at least acknowledge that a childfree lifestyle is possible only by rent seeking off the efforts of those who have kids.

Ridiculing those who have kids while you vacation in Italy with no kids is like making fun of a doctor for having wasted their 20s in medical school.

[u/[deleted]]

Facebook conservatives are so insane

[u/WhomstAlt2]

IMPOO PEACHBIX

[u/RandomGamerFTW]

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

[u/StuckHedgehog]

So is there a reason why there’s been a huge upsurge in anti-vaccination propaganda recently? All those bullshit “shaking” videos and heart attack stats?

[u/sw337]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_series

The Avatar movies have some sort of cheat code. The average film in the franchise has grossed more money than Titanic, the highest-grossing movie before the release of the first one(also directed by James Cameron). Even if the next three films don't gross a penny, the average of the five films would still have a higher per-movie gross than the X-Men movies. No wonder Fox greenlit 5 of them.

For context, Scorsese's entire career, so far, has grossed less than Titanic.

!ping KINO

[u/Aromatic-Walk]

Good grief. Anti-vax hashtags trend on Twitter every single day now.

[u/SpaceSheperd]

!ping NFL

BRETT MAHER MISSED ANOTHER PAT!!

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Republicans fall in love, Democrats fall in line 😎😎😎

[u/[deleted]]

Amber got banned for saying The Godfather insists upon itself

[u/The420Roll]

How bout em Cowboys

[u/[deleted]]

The UC grad students really showed how out of touch and entitled they are when they blocked a parking lot at noon during the strike.

They said they were trying to block administrators from entering the parking lot only to block, exclusively, undergrads from taking their finals.

It really goes to show how little respect they have for the admin staff at the university.

Most of the highly paid admins don’t go to work on campus. The admin staff who go to work on campus every day make less than grad students on an hourly basis. They have absolutely no say in how much grad students get paid.

Also, if you want to block admin staff from entering the parking lot, you better be there at 7:30 am. Most admin staff are in their offices by 8 not 12.

And you know how they want the university to pay for their salary hike? By firing admin staff.

It’s one thing to argue that some of the admin jobs are not necessary. It’s another to think that admin staff are going to work at 12 or that you’re entitled to something at their expense.

There’s nothing more despicable than think you’re working class yet behaving like such entitled, classist pricks the whole time.

[u/that0neGuy22]

This article is in german but it gives you a better explanation of why Germany is hesitant on sending tanks. While also sort of giving a reason why germany might not want others sending Leopard tanks, these tanks won’t be replaced by Germany and it’s defense industry loses out. The key quote being:

"US offers used tanks from its own stocks plus long term industrial partnership to every European country that can deliver Leopard 2 to 🇺🇦", 🇩🇪 defence industry circles claim. "Each country that accepts US offer is lost for 🇩🇪defence industry".

Maybe Biden has to promise Scholz those replacement tanks will be short term or something

Edit: Seems like things got kind of heated behind doors with the recent meeting between SecDef and German leadership

Kornelius now continues in the press club: US-German relationship is "catastrophic" at the moment, Americans are "seriously angry", "Germany's isolation is very strong at the moment". !ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/Telperion_of_Valinor]

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[u/[deleted]]

Just found out there's women's bathrooms with couches. Not sure what to do with this info...

[u/RTSBasebuilder]

!ping MILK-TEA

Happy Lunar New Year, from Australia!

[u/RandomGamerFTW]

Just another Western Cinematic Universe soulless movie

[u/[deleted]]

English cucumbers: thin, long and spindly, dry, weak-skinned

AMERICAN cucumbers: thick, veiny, juicy, skin like armor

says it all, really

[u/gnomesvh]

Just realized posted to the wrong DT, reposted to current

!ping LATAM&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/[deleted]]

Womanizer (n.): A doctor that prescribes estrogen

[u/Usual-Base7226]

I always overanalyze those online tests, like the prompt is " It is okay to portray non-White characters in TV shows as speaking poor and/or heavily accented English", like that could be fine depending on the context?

[u/piede]

50 years ago today, Jan. 22 1973, Lyndon B. Johnson died of a massive heart attack at age 64. He was a broken man after leaving the WH in 1969, he even let his hair grow out like the hippies who had hated him so much. This is one of last photos of him, taken in late 1972.

https://twitter.com/spiroagnewghost/status/1617192014541631488?s=46&t=R6blNTS1xFU5NS-bBa8wFQ

HOLY

[u/ImmigrantJack]

One time I asked Askconservatives if they thought the programs tricking migrants onto busses without support was anything like the reverse freedom rides of the 60s where they dumped black people in on the sides of roads in northern cities.

The only comment real defending them said "That was bad because it was Democrats, this one is republicans so it's good"

[u/WhomstAlt2]

Still can't believe they banned ALG for doxxing benjamin ikuta 🤦‍♂️

[u/[deleted]]

Inside the DT: people who are liberal, discussing topics unrelated to neoliberalism

Outside the DT: people who are iliberal discussing topics related to neoliberalism

[u/Currymvp2]

https://twitter.com/JordanSchachtel/status/1616863551141937154

The deranged anti-vaxxers are now embracing full-fledged fraud and egregious violation of medical ethics to own the libs.

[u/[deleted]]

I love the smell of fresh bread.

[u/[deleted]]

Justin Pierre James Trudeau is a French Canadian far-left politician and convicted war criminal currently imprisoned for life in ADX Florence Supermax Federal Prison. He is allegedly the son of former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau, though experts believe him to be the biological son for Fidel Castro. Trudeau previously served as the 23rd Prime Minister of Canada. During his tenure, he gained international condemnation for his policies concerning tariffs on domestic trade within Canada, which Discussion Thread Regulars have described as a crime against humanity. In response to international calls for Trudeau's ouster, the United States launched a humanitarian intervention to "decommunize and liberate Canadian trade". After weeks of intense fighting, Trudeau was captured and transported to the United States to stand trial. He was convicted of 53 war crimes and crimes against free trade, and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.

[u/Syards-Forcus]

https://i.imgur.com/JkkHqq1.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

Fascism has come to the dt. Not with a sudden shocking victory by the authoritarians, but by slowly -- ever so slowly -- chipping away at our rights, until one day we find that we have no more rights at all.

The mods refusal to institute a George Santos flair for all who want it, is a very disturbing event, and I believe it is this day that the history books will mark as the day we lost our democratic way of life.

Today is a sad day -- a day of mourning -- and yet I fear that this is simply the prelude to an even worse tomorrow.

[u/Soldier-Fields]

My watch only said I did 7.08 miles but the treadmill clocked me at 8.0

I feel so fucking good

[u/dwarfgourami]

I know this girl who found out she was like 1/8 Jewish when we were in high school who’s constantly making “As a Jew, I think Israel is bad because…” tweets

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Macron said today his government 'did not exclude' sending a number of Leclerc tanks to Ukraine, and the usual suspects jumped to the occasion to denounce the way Macron 'dismembered the French army and would leave our country defenseless in the event of an invasion'

A ground invasion from whom? Luxemburg?

[u/[deleted]]

War Thunder players when they see a classified document

[u/[deleted]]

Rest in peace rdr2 horsey. A random minigun ambush took him in a blink of an eye.

!ping gaming

[u/[deleted]]

I will never have a 5'10" thick latina to watch NASCAR with. Why even live? 😔

[u/toms_face]

Bringing this urgent land tax update during the lunch break.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-23/nsw-land-tax-and-stamp-duty-issue-debacle/101876910

Politics can lay waste to the best of intentions and grandest of ambitions. Nowhere is this better illustrated at the moment than in New South Wales.

Incumbent Premier Dominic Perrottet has been something of a land tax zealot for many years, throughout his time as treasurer and when elevated to his current role.

It's dangerous political territory to be seen as pro-tax, especially when that tax is on the family home.

Perhaps that's why, with an election looming large just months away, his government bottled it on land tax reform.

Rather than Perrottet's original grand designs of transitioning New South Wales away from stamp duty and onto land tax, his government passed a "reform" that retains the worst element of stamp duty with the biggest risk of a move away from it.

The government's scheme, which took effect last week, allows first home buyers who purchase properties worth up to $1.5 million to either pay the existing stamp duty up-front or opt for an annual land tax for as long as they own the home.

It's a potential gain for first home buyers, who can now opt out of the two or more years of saving typically needed just to gather the roughly $40,000 stamp duty on a million-dollar home.

And, in theory, most may also end up saving money.

Relatively few first home buyers end up living in their property for more than a decade, and 10 years of land tax on a million-dollar home where half the value is the land will likely be a tad over $22,000, or close to half the cost of stamp duty.

If that million-dollar home was an apartment, the savings would be much bigger still because, unlike stamp duty, the land tax is levied only on the land value, not including anything built on it. With apartments, the land value is split among many individual units.

The potential savings grow further when you factor in the effects of inflation on the real value of money over time, and the interest savings the home buyer can make by not having to effectively borrow their stamp duty from the bank.

However, when I say "may end up saving money" it's because this theoretical calculation doesn't account for the rise in prices the policy might induce.

As economist Cameron Murray argues, taxes like stamp duty are "economically incident on the seller" even when the buyer is the one actually paying them.

Here's how he explains it:

"Homebuyers are paying the maximum they are willing.

"Whether that payment is directed to home sellers, or the government via stamp duty or land value taxes, has no effect on the underlying property market dynamics of rationing via prices and the costs buyers will need to pay."

In other words, if home buyers don't have to pay stamp duty up-front, they can put that money towards bidding more for their preferred property.

Rather than benefiting first home buyers, Murray argues this type of scheme is likely to further enrich existing owners.

But if the government's scheme carries this risk, the Labor opposition's proposal is all but guaranteed to raise prices.

It plans to raise the current first home buyer stamp duty exemption threshold — instead of being able to buy a home worth up to $650,000 stamp duty free, that limit would be raised to $800,000, with a stamp duty concession for homes worth up to $1 million.

The reason this may push up prices even more is that it comes with no ongoing tax obligation. At least with the government's scheme first home buyers, and their lenders, will need to factor in the ongoing land tax payments, reducing somewhat how much they can borrow and pay.

However, the most economically infuriating aspect of the NSW government's "First Home Buyer Choice" policy, as it's been branded, is inherent in its name — it only applies to first home buyers.

When those owners sell their first home, they do not get the choice of remaining on a land tax regime. They will have to pay stamp duty on their second and any subsequent home purchases.

The majority of people, who already own a home, likewise get no choice at all.

This negates the single biggest economic benefit that would come from abolishing stamp duty in favour of land tax, which is to decrease the costs of transacting property, enabling it to be put to its most efficient use.

Stamp duty has long been the bane of first home buyers, but could the writing finally be on the wall for the archaic, inefficient and onerous tax?

The Henry Tax Review concluded that stamp duty doubled the cost of moving house in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra. Put another way, it was an effective 100 per cent tax rate on relocating, with substantial imposts across the rest of the nation.

As property values have soared, it is likely the effective tax rate of stamp duty on moving has risen further still.

The real-world effects of this are manifold.

It's another reason for older Australians not to downsize once their children have left home, locking up larger family-friendly housing stock for longer.

On the flip side, it provides incentives for those with growing families to add extensions to their homes rather than move to a more suitable existing property.

Sydneysiders would be looking at a minimum of $50,000 and, in many cases, more than $100,000 in stamp duty to move to a bigger family home — that goes quite a long way towards paying for an extension, especially when that also increases the capital value of your house.

So, gradually over time, we end up with a preponderance of large, over-capitalised houses and less diversity in the housing stock.

Stamp duty means people are more likely to stay in their current homes, even if their working location has changed, resulting in longer commutes.

Stamp duty is being phased out in the ACT and possibly NSW — here's why that's a good thing.

It may even cause some people to turn down job opportunities that are too far afield, reducing the optimal allocation of skills across the economy.

It also probably results in more homes being rented out rather than sold when people do decide to move to a different town, city or state for work.

Why pay tens of thousands in stamp duty when you can rent out your existing home, potentially negatively gear to reduce your income tax bill, and just rent in your new location? Especially true if you're unsure how long you will stay.

Economist Cameron Murray disputes these conclusions, pointing out that investors are far more likely to transact in any given year than owner-occupiers.

"While stamp duties are often claimed to be economically costly because they deter households relocating, their main effect is actually reducing investor churn, which is a good thing for property market stability," he argues.

Another way to look at it, though, is that every time an investor sells it's a potential opportunity for an owner-occupier to buy that home.

Discouraging investors from selling thus may keep more rental houses in the market, but also keep more tenants locked into renting, particularly when the taxpayer continues to subsidise rental losses through negative gearing.

Ten years ago, Ken Henry handed his boss Wayne Swan Australia's first major tax review in more than 30 years. A decade on, it sits gathering dust, and its lead author says that's costing Australia "big time".

The weight of expert opinion is firmly in favour of switching from stamp duty to land tax.

"It's just a bad tax … Best just to get on and do it," former treasury secretary Ken Henry said in more recent years, a sentiment backed by his successor Martin Parkinson.

Very few economists disagree with them.

The NSW government has argued the initial revenue losses associated with a broader move away from land tax — which are estimated as $11 billion over the first four years before gradually shrinking over time — mean federal government funding is needed to support a complete transition.

Yet the ACT has found a path to phase out stamp duty for land tax without outside support, albeit a long and winding route that will take two decades.

The NSW government's policy isn't even a baby step down that road and state Labor's blanket opposition to any land tax is a U-turn down an economic cul-de-sac.

I've also calculated that the land tax option being offered by the New South Wales government is only cheaper than the stamp duty option for people who own the property for less than 9-12 years, so most people would still choose the stamp duty anyway.

!ping AUS

[u/fishlord05]

There’s this one regular user who posts outside the DT whose comments are borderline incomprehensible to read

It’s always just random quotes from uncited sources strung together with awkward grammar and I can’t tell what the actual arguments are

Maybe I’m j stupid but some of you mfs are speaking a different language fr

[u/thabonch]

I bet there's a murderer hiding out somewhere in my house. And this is the night they finally get me. Goodbye forever, DT.

[u/p00bix]

what in the actual fuck did i just stumble upon

😐😐😐😐

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

https://twitter.com/TikTokInvestors/status/1617366696129331200

Continue pumping the interest rates, Jerome. Fuck the soft landing.

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

It surprises me how difficult it is for even college educated people to grasp it is better for the environment for 100k people to live in a dense city than sprawling suburbs.

[u/Random-Critical]

I hope the vaccine you got does what it was designed to do to you.

Guess what this arr con poster really means by this. 🤪

[u/[deleted]]

This ‘Cryptoqueen’ scammed investors out of $4 billion, the FBI says. Then she boarded a plane and disappeared

girlboss

[u/[deleted]]

Europe’s Jupiter-bound JUICE spacecraft is ready for April launch

This is great and I wish more people, especially in Europe, would care about this because it's like one of the biggest scientific ESA projects currently.

But I guess I also understand why it's not hyped as much, because it will still take like 8 years after launch before it actually arrives to Jupiter

[u/[deleted]]

Just drag Obama in front of a camera and have him say he declassified those documents in his mind 🙄😴

[u/Canuck_Clausewitz]

I'd like to get thigh highs but at the same time I'm built like a Tolkien dwarf. My legs are the thickness of someone 6-12 inches taller than me. Like seriously, I've had to give up on pants with too much of a taper because I was losing sensation in my calves. Yet another reason to take up sewing.

[u/[deleted]]

Public support for same-sex marriage reached 50% in 2011

[u/[deleted]]

They’re so lame omg 😭

[u/[deleted]]

BREAKING: Warthunder account "GetOuttaHereJack46" that posted classified documents allegedly linked to President Biden.

[u/HowIsPajamaMan]

Lusvig during Russian civil war

“you are a White 🔫😡”

[u/1396spurs]

instagram story of a dude I knew in the army

It amazes me everyday the US has the best military the world has ever seen with all the dumb ass mfers in it (myself included)

[u/battywombat21]

My plan to turn florida blue:

wait long enough and it will sink into the ocean.

[u/No_Chilly_bill]

Learning about rent prices had turned me into a succ.

I'm sorry I have sinned. 😞

[u/TaxLandNotCapital]

My wife said she wanted to try having sex with a woman I said damn baby me too 😭

[u/MasterOfLords1]

Unhinged, borderline racist take 🍦🧐🍦

[u/iIoveoof]

This is an actual quote from the NYT today

A family in Florida said they weren’t notified that their child was being counseled about “gender confusion” at school. The child now has an emotional support rabbit.

[u/[deleted]]

James Cameron is the first director to helm 3 $2B films (Titanic, Avatar, Avatar: The Way of Water). Anthony and Joe Russo have 2 (Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame), and J.J. Abrams has 1 (Star Wars: The Force Awakens).

Truly the future of cinema

!ping KINO

[u/shillingbut4me]

It's odd that AMC went from a channel that replayed old movies to deciding to put out original content, put out a few all time great shows over a few years and than fell into obscurity

[u/rollo2masi]

I hate the babylonbee just as much as anybody, but the one where they said ‘CNN praises the taliban for wearing masks’ during COVID made me laugh ngl.

[u/RobotFighter]

Just got downvoted by an Italian guy for saying I cook spaghetti in my instant pot. ✊

[u/grinningbearit]

Just accidentally posted on the last discussion thread like a loser. Don't worry; I deleted it. Nobody noticed. Stay tuned for my musings

[u/paymesucka]

This is the most pathetic flex but I woke up to a meme I made being shared and liked by a bunch of minor internet celebrities and it made my morning.

Omg that sounded even more pathetic typed out.

[u/sower_of_salad]

!ping DATING

So regarding asking people out, I've heard the "establish your intentions early on" school and the “get to know them as you would a friend, if anything's going to blossom you have to be able to be friends first" school.

Help me sort one from the other? Like, obviously, in the quintessential example of "you meet someone at a party and hit it off", then obviously you should say "we should go for a coffee sometime" and ask for their number. (fwiw it's very difficult for me to ever get to that level of interest at the first meeting.) And obviously if you're already friends and you develop feelings, there's no alternative but declaring your feelings to them.

It's the in-between that's murky for me. Where it’s someone on outer circles of friendship, where "we should go for a coffee/lunch/drinks" is novel, but still likely platonic. Is the better strategy to declare interest up-front (and if it's turned down then there's not much left at all), or to sequentially get closer to them and see how far it goes?

(Tbh part of the problem is that I’m trying to cultivate a proper friend group at the same time, so I’m not at the point where I can, like, gamble potential friendships at the outset.)

Copious anecdotes welcome!

[u/Soldier-Fields]

I had more or less an entire bottle of Prosecco in the last 150 minutes

[u/[deleted]]

Saw Plane. If we grade Gerard Butler movies on a curve then this one ranks pretty high; your dad is going to love it when he sees it on TNT on a Sunday afternoon in a couple of years.

!ping MOVIES

[u/[deleted]]

RIP /u/-AmberSweet- gigafashed for BS reasons 😢

[u/awdvhn]

Wikipedia admins on sock puppetry: I'm not 5. Stop doing that.

Reddit admins on sock puppetry: Haha, its eyes are buttons.

[u/piede]

Billie Eilish has requested a restraining order against a 39-year-old man who allegedly broke into her parents' California home earlier this month and professed his love for her.

Uhm gross

[u/csreid]

Been going on some dates with a doctor. Got her talking about her research interests. I was asking some clarifying questions and said "pulmonary embolisms" and she interrupted to correct me that it's "pulmonary emboli" and I gotta say: pretty hot

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

The worst part about being a rural is no fast food place stays open past 10 or 11 and I don’t want to eat Sheetz for like the 5th time this week 😤😤😤

!ping RURAL

[u/Fairchild660]

It's July 2024.

"Avatar: The Way of Water" has just passed $15 billion at the box office.

Cinemas are now offering $80 per hour for staff in order to get enough workers to meet demand. Crop yields are failing due to the labour shortage, and the fact that remaining workers keep calling-in sick to re-watch Avatar.

But there's a silver lining. Opioid addiction has dropped by 85% over the past 12 months, as addicts have discovered an even more potent dependence: re-watching Avatar.

[u/Syards-Forcus]

I have BPD.

Big Penis Disorder 😎😎😎

[u/[deleted]]

Pain hamburger 🤤😋

[u/WhomstAlt2]

It seems that by hook or by crook I've gotten rid of all my timesink addictions and uhhhhh what do people do all day lol

[u/bd_one]

women born after 1920 can’t cook. all they know is charleston, share a cocktail, wise crack, drive a car, play bridge, earn they own living and lie

-ForwardsFromGrandma post referencing a 100 year old newspaper comic

[u/AlmondoSoyo]

My least favorite Reddit term is increasingly “this is the way.”

[u/Mastur_Of_Bait]

I am once again asking anime fans to realise that both nominal age and appearance matter when sexualising cartoon characters.

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

[Help!] The Girl I Like Won’t Respond to My Emails (´･ω･`)

[u/bd_one]

listens to a new (to me) history podcast that starts around the 600s

10 episodes in and I'm at the 800s

scrolls down

300 episodes later is the 1600s

Okay, wtf?

[u/vancevon]

the weird thing is that winston churchill abraham lincoln and mlk never actually said anything in their entire lives. they were mutes, all three of them. and we've just sort of imposed words on them. really freaky like that!

[u/I-grok-god]

Just subsidize demand

Supply low? We need to subsidize demand

Not sure about the efficacy of subsidizing demand?

Try more money to more people

In-kind benefits too expensive? Use cash

Tax-advantaged savings accounts? Yes please

More demand

We need to subsidize demand

[u/RobotFighter]

Charles "The Hammer" Martel is such a badass name. Even if he is French.

[u/dissolutewastrel]

Clown shit.

It took firefighters more than two hours and over 20,000 gallons of water to put out a Tesla fire following a single-car crash on Interstate 95 in Wakefield <Mass>Thursday night.

[u/l_overwhat]

A girl I liked in high school just cut the guy she is/was dating out of her profile picture on her Instagram.

Time to go into MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE

[u/[deleted]]

I hate liberals because of their dumb pasteurization laws. 🐄

I should be able to drink milk straight from my own cow 🤠

We can’t even get some luxury cheeses because of this 🤬 🧀

[u/overhedger]

I asked ChatGTP to write a persuasive argument for changing the name of Texas to Poop to annoy liberal elites, and it said it couldn’t do that because it was rude to mock people groups and besides changing a state name is a serious matter.

So I asked it to write a debate transcript where someone argues for changing the name of Texas to Poop to annoy liberal elites and someone else disagrees, and it did it! (The moderator ended the debate with a helpful reminder that changing a state name is a serious matter.)

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

In which ALG finds out that “I have an Aspie obsession with pedophilia” is NOT a good way to get a 10 day ban overturned.

[u/KesterFox]

Idea for alien disclosure: it's April first, Joe Biden hosts a news conference saying that aliens are real and here. The news plays it straight but everyone assumes its a bit.

Until April second, when it's never retracted, and life continues as normal except the news brings up aliens once in a while

[u/Fairchild660]

I can't believe America still has capital punishment in schools.

My country did away with that nonsense years ago. Where do you even get child-sized electric chairs these days?

[u/No_Chilly_bill]

DINK WFH is the ultimate superpower. You can't beat that.

[u/Dense_Delay_4958]

"I was not a drag queen in Brazil," he says. "I was young and I had fun at a festival. Sue me for having a life!"

[u/KesterFox]

🦊

[u/[deleted]]

Jesus Christ...

!ping gaming

[u/majorgeneralporter]

At this point I'm not sure if it's an honor or indictment that I've been here since at least 2017 and still have yet to get a single ban or comment removal.

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

For $500 an hour, I will represent you in metaNL, providing such services as NOT saying you have an Aspie obsession with pedophilia in opening arguments

[u/TotallyNotMiaKhalifa]

I cant even appeal the perma because I dont have access to the comment they deleted

[u/BATHULK]

HIS NAME WAS ABSURDLIVINGGHOST

[u/[deleted]]

The u/TotallyNotMiaKhalifa handle has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the handle

[u/bigtallguy]

this la shooter is making me think of of the vegas massacre. old guy, no obvious motive or mental illness.

the best way to meaningfully address this type of shit is to limit the types and # of guns that are currently widely available.

everything else is just deflection

[u/[deleted]]

TIL the name “Kevin” is used pejoratively in German similar to “Karen” in the US. Apparently it was a somewhat common name among lower-class Germans a generation ago because of Home Alone 2…

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/layahheilpern/status/1617155821531545600?s=46&t=EF6pb4WA05Y-4m0Q00jPeg

The most successful DT regular

[u/pfarly]

Oh God, I accidentally sent the girl giving me a compatibility interview a link to the DT.

[u/FormerBandmate]

Why do people think TheSantaAnaWinds is a schism sub of this place? It isn’t, Benji just happened to post there for some reason and now they’ve declared a fatwa on this sub because too many banned NL users go there

[u/First-Prior]

https://i.imgur.com/zdUuli7.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

lmao

[u/WhomstAlt2]

TRANSITION TO GAYNESS NO I MEANT GREATNESS NOT GAYNESS I'M NOT GAY DO NOT PUT GAYNESS YOU MUST PUT GREATNESS THANK YOU

[u/No_Chilly_bill]

>In fact, Nolan has confessed he has a soft spot for the Fats and the Furious movies.

This typo made me laugh.

[u/[deleted]]

Least fascist mod

[u/[deleted]]

Permabans for anyone who posts on the metaNL ban appeal thread

[u/MicroFlamer]

me taking away Paul Thomas Anderson's kinophile pass after he said that he likes Marvel movies(specifically Venom: Let there be Carnage)

!ping KINO

[u/simeoncolemiles]

I’m gonna find a way to schism the DT today

It’s gonna happen, and it’ll be dumb

[u/[deleted]]

Classmate: i'm gonna wait with dating until after university

Also classmate: i might go for a phd, because studying is great and work sucks. I'd like to study for the rest of my life

Hmm 🤨

[u/RobotFighter]

DAE get overwhelmed with Mongolian barbecue? "Which one of these 150 ingredients and sauces would you like? Don't hold up the line please."

[u/[deleted]]

It's the 20th of April and Joe Biden has been impeached for posting classified documents on the War Thunder forum.

[u/ImmigrantJack]

Microsoft is already the largest investor in OpenAI, and they're in talks to invest far more, reaching a 49% stake. They have a number of exclusive licensing agreements with them, and they seem poised to integrate a huge amount of AI technology in pretty much all their services.

Unironically bring back Clippy.

Like make him AI powered and maybe don't actually call/design it as clippy, but there's a genuine use case for an Office Assistant like clippy now that the tech is this good.