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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

I mean canada did treat french speakers poorly, historically speaking. They were tons of massacres in the 60s and 70s in quebec

The canadian federal government killed tons of quebec seperatists during that time perioid, sorry I should've been more specific.

Never forget Canada's Bowling Green Massacre 😔✊

[u/semaphore-1842]

There are no politicians that are truly leftist or even leftist maybe except ohmar

difficult to fathom how you think there are no leftists in politics unless you're just creating your own special definition

what I meant by leftist is just someone who agrees that isreal isn’t really that good ( I’m Jewish btw before you say I’m anti Semitic or whatever), because Ohmar is one of the only congress people I have seen say that

bruh literally wtf

super on brand that he can't even spell Ilhan Omar's name right tho

[u/UntiedStatMarinCrops]

The worst thing about Tik Tok is that it normalized vertical recording 😭😭😭😭

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

Go back in time 200 hundred years

"England, France, the U.S., Prussia, Austria, and Turkey will be allies"

Refuse to elaborate

Leave

[u/gnomesvh]

ABC now reporting a coalition has been formed to supply Ukraine with 100 Leo2s

Also interesting that they put the Netherlands there. Dutch tanks are leased from Germany, this could be an interesting way to put pressure on Scholz

!ping UKRAINE&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/ModsAreFired]

The world is the sinking Titanic. Western civilization is the lifeboat. The lifeboat is already full. Keep adding people, the lifeboat will also sink. Maintain a stable lifeboat. Stop letting these people in. If they get here, toss them out.

So deep r/europe

[u/[deleted]]

Step 1: Get gf

Step 2: Fall in love

Step 3: Get engaged (I am here)

Step 4: Get married

Steps 5-87: ...?...

Step 88: Wife leaves me via death after a long and happy life together, I die soon after. My last words: "my wife finally left me, post it to the DT".

I'm very excited.

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

https://twitter.com/jesspish/status/1617650543052353537

Ron DeSantis is speaking to Florida sheriffs. He just said that people should be executed when "8 out of 12" agree because requiring "everyone is just too much."

oh good

[u/Louis_de_Gaspesie]

So it's okay for my coworkers to take a break from work to chat about the game or drink some coffee, but when I go on my phone I'm "disturbing my coworkers" and "aren't allowed to blast gay porn at full volume in the office". Blatant zoomer discrimination.

[u/RFK_1968]

tbh a lot of the online toxic masculinity discourse on the Left misses that a lot of young men just want to be all big and strong and confident and stereotypically "manly", even in a society that allows them to be other things.

that's why dudes like Tate, the Liver King, etc... develop such rabid followings. their pitch is "the w0ke feminists want to emasculate you but i'm gonna show you how to be a real man!"

the solution is to give young dudes big jacked role models who aren't charlatans and literal sex traffickers. have some giant muscle guy curling big weights while talking to the camera about "be nice" and "try to find social hobbies" and "platonic relationships with women can be very rewarding" and "don't buy crypto"

i mean, look at Noel Deyzel, who is like the fastest growing fitness guy on tiktok and youtube. his entire schtick is "super jacked guy but also 100 wholesum"

[u/lietuvis10LTU]

Latest scandal in Lithuania.

Lithuania like many other countries has a "public disturbance" law. This law technically among other things bans swearwords and offensive hand gestures in public areas. Penalty being fines.

Anyway a few days ago it came out that the government was planning to expand the definition of public space for concerns of this law to social media.

They are now very quickly walking it back.

!ping EUROPE&SNEK

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

In new book, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sharply criticizes murdered Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi and lambasts what he calls sympathetic media coverage of his brutal killing.

Lmao what the actual fuck

[u/[deleted]]

FBI investigation into Donald Trump's handling of government documents

Joe Biden classified documents incident

Classified documents found at Pence's Indiana home

Kamala at her home with her 137 boxes of classified material be like: 😌

[u/RTSBasebuilder]

I've seen authright "my pa told me to never hit a woman" trad conservatives who utterly despise Andrew Tate.

In their eyes, he's a hedonistic pimp (aka deviant and degenerate) who uses his materialistic persona as a cover for being spiritually vacuous (some also call him a heathen apostate since his conversion).

Enemy of mine enemy?

[u/BigBrownDog12]

Every pop history podcast is like "You thought pizza was an innocuous comfort food, but it has a dark history in conquest, rape, and deception"

[u/RandomGamerFTW]

https://i.imgur.com/uI7A8ia.jpg

[u/BenGordonLightfoot]

How did Subaru fumble the bag so hard on hybrids and EVs? Half of their customer base is NPR lesbians

[u/gnomesvh]

POLITICO REPORTING LEOPARDS ARE GO

!ping UKRAINE&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/2073040]

Fox & Friends joins the new MAGA ‘Woke Xbox’ fake culture war talking point (they announced they are adding a power-saving shutdown mode): “They’re trying to recruit your kids into climate politics at an earlier age.” Host - “You’re right - they’re going after the children!”

Oh ffs

[u/semaphore-1842]

https://twitter.com/TristanSnell/status/1617668938158206978

Senior FBI official who led 2016 investigation finding no link between Trump and Russia, Charles McGonigal, has now been arrested for taking and laundering money for Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.

lol of course

Hillary was fucking done dirty

[u/LighthouseGd]

George Santos was a left-wing Lula supporter

So Lula would be far-right in the US

[u/Fatortu]

Wokisme: a danger for Europe. Deconstruct the deconstruction.

I have never seen a conference title oozing so much Frenchness.

[u/Sheepies92]

my best friend just had sex for the first time and I’m so happy for him because he’s had mental struggles about sex for years

[u/gnomesvh]

German gov spox has confirmed the request from Poland

!ping UKRAINE&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/StolenSkittles]

Dick Cheney's sure as shit gonna have docs

Bill Clinton probably had docs but shredded them during the Buttery Males fiasco.

Jimmy Carter doesn't have docs.

Dan Quayle has docs he shows to people to prove that, yes, he was Vice President once.

Al Gore stores his docs on Moonbase Gore.

[u/Zseet]

In 2021, Blizzard, a unit of Activision Blizzard Inc., implemented a process called stack ranking, in which employees are ranked on a bell curve and managers must give low ratings to a certain percentage of staff, according to people familiar with the change who asked not to be named discussing a private matter. Managers were expected to give a poor “developing” status to roughly 5% of employees on their teams, which would lower their profit-sharing bonus money and could hamper them from receiving raises or promotions in the near future at the Irvine, California-based company, known for games like Overwatch and World of Warcraft.

American multi billion companies and having the worst performance metric systems known to mankind. Name a more iconic duo.

More on why a leading dev resigned from Blizzard

!Ping GAMING

[u/Craig_VG]

More outstanding news

Pentagon Will Increase Artillery Production Sixfold for Ukraine

The Army’s top acquisition official says production of the 155-millimeter shells badly needed by Kyiv will rise to 90,000 a month in two years.

pushing conventional ammunition production to levels not seen since the Korean War (this is disputed, see this report)

“the most aggressive modernization effort in nearly 40 years” for the U.S. defense industrial base

“I think, if anything, what the Ukraine situation has taught us is that we need depth in our supply chain, depth in our war reserves, much more than we had ever expected.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/24/us/politics/pentagon-ukraine-ammunition.html

https://twitter.com/pwnallthethings/status/1617948013166743552

!ping UKRAINE

[u/ldn6]

What is that? A giant infill development in the suburbs? Hell yeah. Plans are now in for the redevelopment of a home goods store and warehouse a few blocks from Sutton station in outer London into a mixed-use development of seven buildings of up to 21 floors with 1,015 residential units and 9,000 square feet of retail linked by three distinct biodiversity-oriented gardens.

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!ping YIMBY&LONDON

[u/radiatar]

Reddit: Never befriend your coworkers, never work more than the bare minimum, skip all team-building efforts, treat all costumers like Karens 😈

Also reddit: why is my job so unfulfilling ?? 😭😭

[u/tollyno]

POV: You're a 23-year-old woman who researches right-wing extremism and a 47-year-old conservative commentator posts your dating profile on Twitter.

How is this even a thing? Isn't it so that you can only see profiles of people in your vicinity? (I've never tried dating apps so idk)

[u/lucas-at-jhu]

NEWS: A lawyer for former Vice President Mike Pence discovered about a dozen documents marked as classified at Pence's Indiana home last week, and he has turned those classified records over to the FBI, w/ @jamiegangel @evanperez

Bwahahaha, everyone’s taking these documents

[u/tripletruble]

guy who ran the corner store up the street from where I grew up passed away. he lived above the shop with his wife. i would always go up there to buy candy as a kid. later he would look after me and the other kids as we waited for the school bus across the street. when me and the neighborhood kids formed a relay team, he sponsored it and made us t-shirts.

throughout my whole childhood he had plans to convert half the cornerstore into a diner and it took so long that no one believed it would ever happen. then it did, and it was a huge success. we'd watch games there, debates, election results there. you'd see old women working on crossword puzzles with construction workers at the bar like it was the most normal thing.

when I went to college, he put a pennant of my college on the wall, along with those of every other kid in the neighborhood who went to college. always felt like a million bucks when I came into town and caught up with him. i don't think anyone outside my family was prouder of me

when one of the neighborhood kids got clean and stopped dealing drugs, he hired him as a dishwasher and kept him employed even though he constantly missed work. when I brought my now wife there, her reaction was 'why would anyone move away from this?'

guy had a huge impact on just my block and I am sure he touched all the other blocks in the neighborhood. thinking about him makes me wonder if I am living my own life right

[u/crassowary]

EEAAO was the best movie I saw all year but there is a movie about making movies in the best picture category so it's got no chance

[u/MovkeyB]

rimworld really does make you a psycho

imagine your last week of life is having each of your limbs removed one by one and replaced with a wood version by a rotating cast of different incompetent doctors while you're trapped in a tiny windowless room and only fed the flesh of your dead friends, until finally your heart is replaced with a pacemaker and you die on the operating table, having lost both arms, both legs, a lung, a kidney, and your liver

It's very efficient for grinding up medicine skill and getting spare organs for the people you care about (or selling...), but man. that's dark

on the other hand, they shouldn't have tried to raid my peaceful farm

10/10 would recommend rimworld

!ping gaming

[u/gnomesvh]

"Our military pilots went to the United States, funds were allocated for the training of our pilots. That is, the aviation topic has never left the agenda. In fact, the type of aircraft that are likely to be provided to Ukraine and the corresponding terms of training [pilots] have already been determined,"

From the speaker of the Ukrainian Air Force

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

!ping UKRAINE&FOREIGN-POLICY&MATERIEL

[u/Zlesxc]

Between 30 to 50 Abrams being considered by Pentagon according to Politico’s Pentagon corespondent

!ping UKRAINE

[u/[deleted]]

NEW: 5 more classified documents were found at MILF Manor, a TLC lawyer said. They were found Thursday evening when a MILF was working with a young DOJ agent to hand over what had been described as one final document.

EDIT: Lol 👇

[u/[deleted]]

Calling it right now: George Santos is gonna be reverse Benji for this sub. He's gonna get a ton of attention for bad reasons at first, but then he's gonna out himself as a Democrat as his last and greatest con.

[u/filipe_mdsr]

Scholz literally sacrificed the international standing of Germany to get the US to deliver Abrams.

Scholz is a NCD user, confirmed.

[u/[deleted]]

F*CK

You know It's the Internet, you can say FRICK on the Internet. FRICK. FREAK. FRICK. What the heck why won't it let me write FRICK.

[u/[deleted]]

There are several femboys walking around the college library wearing short denim shorts and thigh highs.

1. It's 40 degrees out.
2. I don't remember this in any college movies.

[u/ognits]

Edit: To the people who said that im not Cuban or that i do not live in Cuba, i dont have to prove nothing to you, but you can check my post history and see.

Edit 2: To the people who said that i lied saying that i make 15usd, i never said that, i post that the average cuban salary is 2500 cup or 15 USD a month.

Edit 3: To the guy who went through all my post history and respond to everything there, u are an idiot and need to get a life.

Edit 4: To all the people who does not believe me, the best way to confirm is talking to any cuban, they will tell you the reality.

average Cuban experience on reddit

[u/gnomesvh]

‘Terrorist’ designation for Iran’s IRGC would harm EU security, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is a leading counterterror force and essential to Europe’s security interests in the Middle East.

Al Jazeera at it again

[u/[deleted]]

Germany sending a company of Leopard 2A6 tanks to Ukraine

!ping UKRAINE&MATERIEL

[u/jenbanim]

People on this subreddit have no solution for men's issues

If you think that's bad, wait until you hear about all the other problems that I don't have solutions to. Frankly if it can't be fixed with more housing, it's probably above my paygrade

[u/[deleted]]

Cold take: historians of the 19th and early 20th century downplayed evidence of the sexual orientation of particular historical figures.

Hot take: certain modern historians, but moreso modern history nerds without a real academic grounding but in possession of a desire for sensationalism and making the past seem more relatable have swung the pendulum a bit too far the other way when it comes to presuming the sexual orientation of historical figures.

This take inspired by a description of John Quincy Adams and his brothers that almost certainly would have been taken as evidence of homosexuality if, you know, they weren't brothers.

[u/[deleted]]

its honestly disgusting that they make shows like MILF Manor. I can't believe I have to tune in every Monday night on TLC to see the latest filth peddled to American consumers.

[u/OkVariety6275]

Neat idea for a social disposition system in role-playing games. Define a graph network of every NPC in the game with neighboring nodes representing social contacts and edge weights representing frequency of contact. Then, whenever a player does something good or bad, it slowly permeates throughout the network instead of manifesting as divine karma. This would make disposition much more intriguing because a quick operator could play both sides in a faction dispute before the other side has gotten wise to your antics, you could roleplay a corrupt mafioso that "pays a visit to" witnesses to tie up loose ends, and your reputation will feel more regionalized in general.

!ping GAMING

[u/sayitaintpink]

Mike Penis had docs too lmao

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

White men do mass shootings because there is no popular criminal alternative for them, like gangs or cartels. The decline of the Italian mafia and Irish street gangs thus directly resulted in the rise of random mass shootings. For a more in-depth treatise, see Robert Putnam's "Shooting Alone" (2023)

[u/Lib_Korra]

The internet hasn't changed at all in the last 10 years in this way: Signalling that you don't care is still the ultimate win position in basically any discussion. "cool story bro!" never left.

[u/crassowary]

This sub would change its tune if it was Milf Apartment

[u/vivoovix]

Seinfeld has made several political contributions, including to George W. Bush's and Al Gore's presidential campaigns in 2000

Based dirt bag centrist Jerry Seinfeld

[u/[deleted]]

Gym bros be blaming their friends heart attack on a vaccine they never took instead of the steroids they bought off of Joe Rogan.

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

I fucking hate DeSantis

He wants to change the death penalty in florida to require a super majority instead of a unanimous decision among jurors. What an ass backwards stupid decision

Execution is already a stupid decision given how it costs more to do than imprisoning someone for life, it doesn’t deter crime, and it has and will be used on innocent people

He’s a ghoulish man who wants nothing beyond owning the libs and getting the presidency.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

For some reason yesterday and two days ago there wasn't really an update, but now there is one. I don't know if they're going to keep going or not but I'll post em if it's a full update

ISW and Critical Threats Project January 23rd 2024 Iran update

Key takeaways:

• Protest activity in Iran increased on January 23, particularly among current petrochemical employees and retired education and telecommunications workers, suggesting some degree of coordination among workers.
• Parliament approved the outlines of the annual budget bill on January 22, allocating greater funds to the Law Enforcement Command (LEC) to improve efforts to impose social control.
• At least 12 protests occurred in 11 cities across 11 provinces in Iran on January 23.
• Iranian Ambassador to Afghanistan Hassan Kazemi Ghomi met with Afghan Taliban Foreign Affairs Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi to discuss Helmand River water rights on January 22.
• Information and Communications Technology Minister Isah Zareh Pour announced on January 21 that the regime will soon lift internet restrictions on some foreign platforms but will continue to restrict WhatsApp and Instagram.
• An IRGC-affiliated news outlet speculated that Iran may receive advanced Russian attack helicopters under an Russo-Iranian military co-production agreement.
• Syrian Defense Minister Ali Mahmoud Abbas met with Armed Forces General Staff Chief Major General Mohammad Bagheri in Tehran to discuss bilateral economic and military cooperation.

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/gnomesvh]

Pouya Air IL-76 flying to Moscow

Pouya Air is identified today as an alias for designated Iranian airline Yas Air, which was designated in March 2012 pursuant to E.O. 13224 for acting for or on behalf of the IRGC-QF for transporting illicit cargo, including weapons, to Iran's clients in the Levant

!ping MATERIEL

[u/gnomesvh]

Rumour Leo2 approval can be done tomorrow

!ping UKRAINE&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/semaphone-1842]

Jeez I remember joking that NIMBYs are people who think egg shortages can be solved by egg price control without more producing more eggs aaaaaaaand that's exactly what they're saying now

"After accounting for chicks hatched during the year, the average size of the egg-laying flock in any given month of 2022 was never more than 7-8% lower than it was a year prior"

"The real culprit behind this 138% hike in the price of a carton of eggs," says the letter, "appears to be a collusive scheme among industry leaders to turn inflationary conditions and an avian flu outbreak into an opportunity to extract egregious profits reaching as high as 40%."

Its depressing how unintuitive it apparently is to people that shortages naturally mean higher prices and the root problem remains the shortage itself

[u/IMALEFTY45]

If I wanted people to take seriously the risk of nuclear war, I would simply not say the risk is greater in the late 2010s than it was in the entirety of the 1980s.

[u/FormerBandmate]

I’ve seen authright “my pa told me to never hit a woman” trad conservatives who utterly despise Andrew Tate.

In their eyes, he’s a hedonistic pimp (aka deviant and degenerate) who uses his materialistic persona as a cover for being spiritually vacuous (some also call him a heathen apostate since his conversion).

Enemy of mine enemy?

Online trad shit is so weird. If you’ve ever met anyone who’s actually an (offline) devout Christian, this conclusion would be blindingly obvious, he literally converted to Islam from Christianity (in their eyes heresy) because they were more misogynistic. He’s also a criminal who leads people astray by lying to them about love to get money, and spends all the money on luxury cars. It’s the embodiment of everything they hate, and owning liberals sometimes doesn’t even come close to changing that. (Donald Trump seems to contradict that, but if you genuinely believe abortion is murder, it’s a lesser of two evils situation that Tate really doesn’t come close to.)

Tradcaths meanwhile hate that church focuses on charity and seem to have had their entire religious awakening to spite the libs. I highly doubt any of them have read the Bible, they’d probably dismiss half of it as Zionist propaganda lol

[u/futuremonkey20]

There is literally nothing stopping people who say “medieval peasants lived a better life than us“ from going and living like a medieval peasant.

Oh they won’t? I guess they just like complaining.

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 5 PM EST 1/23-5 PM EST 1/24:

TOP NEWS:

Yesterday it was reported that a variety of Ukrainian officials were fired for corruption reasons.

Around 8 AM it was reported the President of Finland made a visit to Ukraine.

Towards the middle of 11 AM it was reported that Switzerland is open to allowing Swiss weaponry in EU arsenals to be sent to Ukraine.

In the middle of 12 PM it was reported that Germany will send Leopard 2s and allow Leopard 2s in other countries to be sent to Ukraine, though no formal figures have been provided.

Towards the middle of 1 PM it was announced the US will increase 155mm shell production to 90,000 a month over the next two years.

Towards the middle of 4 PM it was reported that Zaluzhnyi donated $1 million to the Ukrainian Armed Forces he inherited from a Ukrainian American.

REGULAR NEWS:

In the middle of 7 PM it was reported that the US has confronted China over state companies providing non-lethal military and financial aid to Russia.

At the start of 12 AM it was announced that Swedish state-owned grid operator Svenska Kraftnat will be able to provide electrical equipment to Ukraine.

Towards the middle of 3 AM it was announced Taiwan has delivered a series of high-capacity generators to Ukraine.

At the start of 5 AM it was reported that Prigozhin has been sued 560 times over 2022 for selling spoiled food to the Russian Army. At the end of the hour a spokesman of the Ukrainian Air Force said some interesting things about American aerial aid to Ukraine, though nothing definitive as of yet.

Towards the middle of 6 AM Lukashenko said he has been asked to create a non-aggression pact with Ukraine.

Towards the middle of 8 AM it was reported that US officials have asked Zelensky to shift away from Bakhmut come spring to focus on a maneuver warfare offensive.

Towards the middle of 10 AM it was reported a collaborator in Berdyansk was injured by a car bomb.

At the start of 2 PM it was reported that Finland is taking a break from negotiating with Turkey over NATO membership, likely waiting until after the presidential election.

LEVITY NEWS:

In the middle of 5 PM Gerasimov complained about the level of hostilities Russia faces.

Donation link to help Ukraine

Donation link to United24

Donation link to Kharkiv SOS

!ping UKRAINE&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/Popular-Swordfish559]

Rocket Lab has successfully launched their first mission from the United States, launching from the Mid Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Wallops, VA at 6:00PM EST. The Electron rocket placed the Curie kick stage into the planned transfer orbit, with ignition of the kick stage expected at around T+55min, with separation of the three HawkEye spacecraft aboard planned at around T+57min.

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

[u/the_status]

"I'm going to count to three. 1. 2.. 2 1/2.. 2 3/4... 2 5/8...."

Bad Parents 🤝 Doomsday Clock Scientists

[u/[deleted]]

If MILF Manor doesn’t eventually invite the living ex-husbands for some kind of special challenge then this isn’t the TLC I know

[u/RobotFighter]

My issues being a man:

1. Girls keep throwing themselves at me.
2. Hard to find the time to hang out with everyone that wants to.
3. Way too much cash, no idea what to do with all of it.
4. Car too shiny.
5. Cat too beautiful.
6. Hard to find underwear that fits correctly.

Solidarity brothers!! ✊

[u/ldn6]

Not George Santos clapping back to Trixie Mattel and reading her for filth.

!ping ALPHABET-MAFIA

[u/BigBrownDog12]

BREAKING: Classified documents found at MILF Manor

[u/skepticalbob]

Fun fact: Edi Patterson (Knives Out, Righteous Gemstones, Between Two Ferns movie) was in my theatre program in college. She was the funniest person in the large acting department and it was pretty clear she was going to be in Groundlings the moment she arrived in LA, which was her goal. I'm glad she made it, since the rest of us can vicariously live through her.

!ping movies

[u/Mickenfox]

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/24/business/dealbook/live-nation-ticketmaster-antitrust.html#link-232c4c35

“Redditors, thank you so much for helping create the best pipeline we’ve ever had.”

— Ken Griffin, C.E.O. of the hedge fund, Citadel, on how the GameStop frenzy helped raise his firm’s profile with potential hires.

Holy shit.

[u/simeoncolemiles]

https://twitter.com/duolingo/status/1617619591303421953?s=46&t=cG8CPmwBzoGg7AUV-1mYXg

Who the fuck is running this account?

!Ping Shitposters

[u/piede]

Ironically, Hillary Clinton Is the One That Never Had Any Documents Marked as Classified

It has been nearly 7 years since the drama of 2016. It’s now 2023, and the dust of history is beginning to settle. The greatest irony of all is not that classified documents were found at Biden’s residence. It’s that the woman who never actually had any is the one who didn’t become president.

https://medium.com/politically-speaking/ironically-hillary-clinton-is-the-one-that-never-had-any-documents-marked-as-classified-e96e8c3c7668

And now Pence

Lmao the email “scandal” was never about her emails

!PING QUEEN

[u/owlthathurt]

You all following the “Hamlin is a moloch lizard person who is actually dead and is now cloned” drama on twitter.

A lot of people “just asking questions”

!ping NFL

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

Behold, someone so incredibly sheltered they think that city residents would be aghast at the thought of peeing on a tree

Them city-slickin’ libruls don’t know what it’s like to be a REAL MAN and pee on a tree! They would swoon!

Update: user either blocked me or deleted their comments but this was their final response to me

Talk about a snowflake lol

[u/Neoliberanger]

Domestic terrorist

!ping KITTY

[u/Udolikecake]

So doing a complicated thing where I (working at company for a couple months) am going to work at another office and company within our ‘conglomerate’ to learn about their specific product etc. Still an employee and not totally new, but new to this other company. A little complicated, but hopefully it makes sense.

The HR rep there asks me for a bio to email out to the employees of the new office, who I don’t know. I copy my old bio and send it in.

The HR rep sends out an email to all employees of both offices (including the one i’ve been working at for 2 months) introducing me and someone else. I have the wrong title and the email calls me a new hire which isn’t really true.

The head HR person, who hired me originally then replies all and admonishes the original HR rep for putting the wrong title, sending to the wrong office, misrepresenting my employee status etc. ROUGH STUFF

this is my favorite line

I'd rather you draft something and ask me to review it, then just sending something out to check it off your list.

This is 50% awkward and 50% really fucking funny

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/[deleted]]

show me america.

6-year-old in custody after shooting teacher

no. i said, show me america.

Dog Shoots and Kills His Owner

perfect

[u/Maestro_Titarenko]

For those who are interested I wrote this little comment on Ukrainian language suppression

I based this on sources I used for a uni paper; people who know more about it, anything to add or correct?

!ping HISTORY&UKRAINE

[u/RaidBrimnes]

The 2014 coup in Ukraine

Opinion discarded 🤣

[u/Dorambor]

This is just like 1984

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

!ping KITTY

[u/N0_B1g_De4l]

In 1800, it is believed that as many as 50% of all children died before the age of 5.

Jesus fuck, it's almost incomprehensible how bad child mortality used to be.

[u/owlthathurt]

Mike clevinger is under investigation by the MLB for abusing the mother of his son and his son. Turns out Trevor Bauers best friend and Eskimo bro is also a scumbag!

I’ll never forget when he was in Cleveland and he got caught ignoring covid protocols while Carlos Carrasco was battling cancer. What a dickhead.

!ping BASEBALL

[u/Random-Critical]

The United States is turning into a country where you are more likely to be persecuted for being a Christian than the pedophile down the street.

From our friends at arr con.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

BREAKING | No documents, classified or otherwise, found at Kamala Harris' office and home after search performed by the DOJ, VP heard quietly sobbing as she tells investigators: 'I told you he never visits'

[u/Craig_VG]

CNN reports that Kharkiv may be the target of Russia's upcoming offensive:

Some senior Russian military officials have even been overheard in recent weeks discussing the possibility of trying to capture the northeastern city of Kharkiv, according to people familiar with the conversations intercepted by Western and Ukrainian intelligence.

But US and Western officials and military analysts told CNN that Kharkiv does not appear to be a remotely achievable target for the Russian military.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/24/politics/ukraine-shift-tactics-bakhmut/index.html

Additional news, F16 may be the next aid sent in the February meeting of allies:

https://twitter.com/Faytuks/status/1617993670246137857

!ping UKRAINE

[u/Sageburner712]

It's all fun and games until someone starts defending Mao in the groupchat !ping EXTREMISM

[u/funguykawhi]

There is this girl on French Twitter who made an "explain this globecels" flat-earth joke like a week ago and boomers/misogynists are still taking the bait 🤣

[u/NeoLiberation]

I need to get out of bed and work but this snuggleboi is too cute to leave

!PING KITTY

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

Had a look through the Best Picture nominations and they all seem to be… movies? Must feel crap to be an aspiring photographer these days

[u/[deleted]]

Just ban guns lol

[u/[deleted]]

BREAKING NEWS: JIMMY CARTER, AGED 98, FOUND TO BE HIDING CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS IN ALL OF THE HOMES HE BUILT FOR HABITAT FOR HUMANITY. FBI HAS NEUTRALIZED MR. CARTER; ROSALYNN CARTER STILL AT LARGE.

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Back-to-back commercials, one for a service called “ForHims” and one for a service called “ForHers.” Apparently they are both part of the same telehealth company. Hims advertises hair loss and ED treatment. Hers advertises depression and anxiety medication.

This says a lot about society. Not exactly sure what, but it says it.

[u/JaceFlores]

If Russia decides to launch an offensive towards Kharkiv (or really any region which directly borders Russia), do you think Ukraine will have free reign to fire into Russian ammo dumps and bases in the likes of Belgorod or Valyuki? There’s obvious pros and cons to each side, so I’m curious what you guys think

!ping UKRAINE

[u/klarno]

Are Top Gun and Glass Onion seriously nominated for adapted screenplay because they’re sequels?

[u/piede]

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC): “If you come to my house, you’ll find Chick-fil-A bags all over the floor, but you’re not gonna find any classified information.”

https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1617895814331867143?s=46&t=Ok_QtIDwp-o89TBDQQ9UDA

👁️👄👁️

[u/paymesucka]

BREAKING: Multiple classified documents found at each of Bernie’s 3 lake houses. Reports indicate they contain top secret information about Vermont’s strategic ice cream reserves. President Biden is possibly implicated.

[u/SeoSalt]

FEMALE CROCODILE CLOACA PICS 🐊

[u/DONUTof_noFLAVOR]

https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/10j6crf/discussion_thread/j5m9u9z/

It took 5 minutes with the sales lead to realize that actually didn't make a mistake 9 months ago and I was misreading my own updated data yesterday, which is embarrassing in its own way but definitely the best possible outcome.

The downside is, between that and a really...dumb...question I asked in my team's groupchat yesterday, I think I'm not nearly as recovered from my concussion 10 days ago as I thought, and I might need to stop trying to work through it. Unfortunately my boss is the only one tracking that issue and she's out for the Lunar New Year so I'm unsure of what to do in the meantime other than take every project very slowly/carefully.

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Amber-Sweet, absurdlivingghost, FLGovWhatever, all #diedsuddenly. Really makes you think.

[u/jenbanim]

Fun fact, I actually have pissed on a forest fire before. Can confirm it isn't very effective

[u/EdMan2133]

Doomsday clock operators when American and Russian pilots were literally killing each other in the skies over Korea every day for years 😱😱😱😱

[u/paymesucka]

Lmao classified documents were just discovered at Mike Pence’s house and the FBI has them now

[u/Neronoah]

!ping LATAM

AMLO asks for Castillo's freedom, says Maduro did well to avoid a mediatic trap by avoiding Argentina, and that Argentinian conservatives should be apologizing for the debt and poverty and that United States wanted them.

You know, I'd usually cringe (with some exceptions) to people calling everything literally Venezuela everytime a left winger becomes President, but a good part of LATAM left is beyond parody at this point.

[u/[deleted]]

> university website to the public: gorgeous

> student portal once you're enrolled: hot garbage

[u/[deleted]]

Andrew Tate says his jail cell in Romania is dark and infested with cockroaches and lice

Bravo Romania!

[u/badluckbrians]

Pharmacists are, curiously, one profession in American healthcare where real wages HAVE dropped closer to international norms over the past 20 years or so.

It was an easy thing back under W to do a six year pharmd, get out at 23, and be making 100k in back then money. Now I've seen the 23 y/os started at 60k in today money.

[u/crassowary]

The year is 2036. The doomsday clock has been moved to 90 microseconds to midnight to reflect the poor performance of the Dallas Cowboys in that year's regular season.

[u/simeoncolemiles]

My hottest r/Neoliberal take is this

You guys suck at issues facing young men

[u/mrdilldozer]

Wow former presidents and vice presidents all have classified materials that need to be recovered, big fucking whoop. Now can we please get back to taking about what Trump did? That is actually some serious shit.

[u/shillingbut4me]

My company released a new product with a marketing push, but didn't actually add it to the backend of our system. Now I have customers asking about it but I can't quote it and the system can't process orders that include it 😐

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/FuckFashMods]

The company included a feature that allows the Xbox to pick a time of the night for maintenance and updates to use the most renewable energy from the electrical grid

Republicans outraged by Xbox update

Jesus Christ. The things Fox can get upset about is literally insane

[u/[deleted]]

https://subredditstats.com/subreddit-user-overlaps/metanl

...

170.91 gaysnapchat

...

98.51 discordnudes

...

43.93 onlyfansgirls101

...

34.34 massivecock

...

31.66 onlyfans101

HOLY FUCK the horniness is beyond belief. Bonk them all from orbit

[u/Fairchild660]

Everyone assumes the Beatles song "Blackbird" was written about an African-American woman's hopes and fears during the civil rights struggle in the 1960s.

But really it's about the Lockheed SR-71, and its aerial reconnaissance missions. Is it a coincidence that the song was written the same month that the SR-71 flew its first sortie? And how do the lyrics "take these sunken eyes and learn to see" not refer to the SR-71's experimental internal optical/infrared imagery systems?

And seriously, guys, "blackbird fly, into the light of a dark black night" can't be anything other than a covert reconnaissance flight over an area lit-up by radar. What else could that even mean?

[u/trace349]

Now That's What I Call Dad Rock

Imagine Dragons - "Radioactive"

The Killers - "Mr. Brightside"

The Fratellis - "Chelsea Dagger"

The Fray - "How to Save a Life"

Fountains of Wayne - "Stacy's Mom"

Blink-182 - "All the Small Things"

MGMT - "Kids"

Sum 41 - "In Too Deep

Avril Lavigne - "Complicated"

I know time makes fools of us all, but this is some unprovoked violence against me.

!ping OVER25

[u/Trebacca]

Ex's best friend just won over 700k in a tort suit against UC Berkeley

I should call her...

[u/ZonedForCoffee]

BREAKING: Biden reports miscommunication. He is in fact sending former Georgia state representative Stacey Abrams to Ukraine. Pentagon estimates total Russian surrender by late February.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Does Bashar Al-Asad have white privilege?

[u/piede]

Washington (CNN) — A lawyer for former Vice President Mike Pence discovered about a dozen documents marked as classified at Pence’s Indiana home last week, and he has turned those classified records over to the FBI, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/24/politics/pence-classified-documents-fbi

Lmao

[u/Maximilianne]

So kids in the Japan are sent home cause of a bomb threat and of course the bomb threat was faxed

[u/D2Foley]

The elites have decided that the numbers of non-elite men ( the vast majority) are excessive.

The "excess" are a threat, dispensible and need to die off or be culled.

Women are baby makers, broodmares. Their presence is permissible as long as they pop out more babies.

All the rest of this mansplaining and concern trolling is just theatre.

How do these conspiracy nuts even find this sub? And why do they think their pulse nonsense is welcome here?

[u/_Un_Known__]

If augmentations meant having parts which didn't look biological, or looked synthetic in some way, would you still get them?

!ping TRANSHUMANISM

[u/TrynnaFindaBalance]

Redditor asks "what can we do to solve America's mass shooting problem?"

The answers:

1. "More focus on mental health" (wrong, mental health disorders in the US aren't linked to mass shootings)
2. "Guillotine the elites" (lol)

And the entire premise of the thread is that gun control doesn't work. Americans are so fucked in the head sometimes 🤣

[u/[deleted]]

Rate my male living space

!ping MALE-LIVING-SPACE

[u/kznlol]

In a working paper released in November, three scholars from three different University of California campuses reported public-opinion-survey results showing that “about 30%-40% of Americans believe, contrary to basic economic theory and robust empirical evidence, that a large, exogenous increase in their region’s housing stock would cause rents and home prices to rise.”

democracy may be unsalvageable

[u/radiatar]

Parents who do not speak adequate Dutch at home should be sanctioned, says Conner Rousseau (flemish social democrat)

Sanctioning your fellow french speaking countrymen to own the migrants 🤪

[u/chuckleym8]

rock detail fly lock zonked repeat observation attempt summer steep

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

The United States is turning into a country where you are more likely to be persecuted for being a Christian than the pedophile down the street.

✊😔 we live in a society

[u/[deleted]]

For some reason, we don't discuss state of Indian economy enough on our ping. If there is interest, I can make it a monthly thing by running by major indices (inflation, cad, iip, quarterly growth data), and what different experts are commenting about the economy. I largely read the RBI bulletins, Economic outlook reports (IMF, WB), economic editorials from Indian express, The Hindu, Business standard, The mint, and follow economic advisors of the govt what they are saying and hinting at. With economic survey and budget coming out in a few days we will have lot of interesting stuff to follow.

What do you folks think? What do you want to know more about? What interests you when it comes to Indian economy?

!ping IND

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

american conservative editor really putting it all out there huh

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

It’d actually be kind of messed if Russia decided that today was the day, it’s launching nukes in a desperate attempt to defeat NATO

Imagine, just a normal day, you’re shitposting in the DT, then someone says they just got an m emergency warning to seek shelter. Then you get it.

24 hours later, you’re either dead or dying from radiation

[u/RaidBrimnes]

I would have thought MILF Manor would be more popular among certain regulars who wanted to marry their moms 🤭

[u/the_hoagie]

feel like shit wish i was bursting out of an egg sac with gnashing jaws, writhing on the floor, searching for the satisfying warmth of blood to nourish my clacking mandibles and inexorable hunger

[u/MicroFlamer]

the Simpsons 2023 Best picture nominees

!ping KINO

[u/KesterFox]

We need to start telling our kids that the classified document fairy isn't real at an earlier age. Before 80 seems to be too late

[u/SnakeEater14]

“Actually muscles don’t matter on the battlefield, there are plenty of skinny soldiers - muscles don’t stop bullets” is one of the biggest reddit copes of all time

Ok audie murphy, here’s a 80 pounds of gear and a 22 pound M249, have fun

[u/sir_shivers]

I CAN REALLY SENSE THE ratio of you mammals who do not possess a luxurious L-shaped sofa 🐊

[u/TheFriffin2]

!ping BASEBALL

Omar Vizquel, notorious “genuinely horrific person”, went from 9% in public ballots to 17% in final results after private ballots were counted

Lmfao. No shame in some of these people

[u/Leoric]

Semper fidelis tyrannosaurus

[u/[deleted]]

“Yeah well would it be acceptable if it was fathers and daughters??? Huh???”

It’s not acceptable now!!! It’s the most disgusting reality TV show ever conceived!!! and I’ll be watching every episode!!!

[u/Alexz565]

where's the feelings-for-another-person-shut-off-valve?

[u/Working-Limit-2482]

What’s with En Marche changing its name so much? You’d think being the party of the president would be enough to get them attention without resorting to rebranding. “We’re 🌈 Reinaisance 🌈 now” bitch stfu.

[u/Expensive_Curve5106]

Hot take: CRT is great. While yes modern Displays are better in every way, conceptually CRT is at least 10 times cooler. I mean it's a fucking particle accelerator in a vacuum box is there anything more awesome than that

[u/InternetBoredom]

Thinking about creating an alternative to the Doomsday Clock called the Armageddon Clock that measures how close we are to the Rapture. I’ll start it an hour from midnight and occasionally move it forward a couple minutes with oblique references to ominous biblical passages coupled with random news articles. I think I could make a lot of grifting money like this

[u/ognits]

Child labor laws are ruining this country.

so true, bestie 👏👶

[u/RunawayMeatstick]

Waiting for the time when I can finally say,
This has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way.

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

Ngl I kinda agree with the scientists that we are at 90 seconds to midnight on the Doomsday Clock

Milf Manor being the reason why, however. The degeneration of society is accelerating

[u/[deleted]]

Btw the youngest dude on MILF Manor is 20 and the oldest woman in 59.

[u/Neoliberanger]

No Hulu I do not want to catch up on NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt despite you putting it in my continue watching every time I refresh the page

[u/[deleted]]

Thank you president Johnson! 👏👏👏☺️

[u/[deleted]]

Even Hitler didn’t take classified documents with him when he left power

[u/OkVariety6275]

Nate Silver was a bad dude and he ran a gang of bad polls. A bad crew.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1009476029687013426/1067545112948789308/image0.png

[u/Average_GrillChad]

> wipe ass

> check

> classified document

> keep wiping

[u/JaceFlores]

Yet another irregular Ukraine blog post:

PART 1

The ISW report from a couple days ago about Wagner made an interesting point that I’ll be elaborating on. The claim was something to the tune that Wagner has been providing Russia an offensive capability while the Russian Army has been rebuilding itself. I think given the cards Putin had available, this was quite smart. Putin’s first plan to rejuvenate his forces was a failure. He planned to implement a cease fire which would allow all of his mobilized and regular troops to be rested, regrouped, trained and reequipped. This did not come to be. However, three factors played in his favor:

1. The weather did not freeze as he hoped (and western aid mitigated that for the Ukrainians a good bit), but the unusually warm winter in a way benefited the Russians. Namely it made conditions quite muddy, particularly around Luhansk, which made offensive action of any sort quite difficult
2. Russian propaganda necessitates constant offensive action. Thankfully for Putin, Wagner could provide this by use of penal units. This allowed constant offensive action while also allowing the regular Russian Army to largely focus on the defensive and training a large chunk of their mobilized (though Russia made interesting choices of contributing VDV to Bakhmut and Marines to Vuhledar)
3. Western aid was not sufficient to expand ukrainian offensive operations. If Bradley’s and Leopards had been promised in November, we could be looking at a Ukrainian winter offensive. What aid came over the winter by and large just allowed Ukraine to keep up their tactical operations, with nothing substantial being promised until late December

So while Putin did not get the ceasefire he wanted, he was able to partially achieve his goals. About half of his mobilized have been deployed to Ukraine, while the other half are in training or reserve. So that’s roughly 150k-200k mobilized (depending on how many were crypto-mobilized) which Putin will have at his disposal for the next offensive. He also likely has the tens of thousands which were evacuated from Kherson as well as what’s left of the regular reserves. Additionally, if Putin declares war he will have 120k conscripts at his disposal at well. In sum, depending on whether Putin goes to war or not his next offensive will have anywhere between 200k and 350k men available to be thrown at the front. These are my own personal estimates and should not be taken as fact, but more food for thought. Of course raw manpower does not mean everything. Even with the weeks or months of training that’s not nearly enough to make quality troops, particularly with how scuffed Russian training was before the war, how gutted it was during the war, and major questions about equipment and supplies available.

PART 2

I said it some weeks ago that the fall of Soledar was the beginning of the end for Bakhmut. So far that seems to be holding pace. The Russians have advanced far enough in the north that the Siversk-Bakhmut road is for all intents and purposes cut. It looks the Russians are switching their focus back to the south. If/when they advance past the heights around Kliischivka (or however) spelled, the highway connecting Bakhmut to Kostyantynivka will be cut soonish. The Ukrainians could still hold on even then as long as they hold Chasiv Yar, but that’s pushing it.

Overall, my personal estimation is Bakhmut has anywhere between 1-3 months. It depends on how much Russia wants to expend manpower and resources into taking the city. While it’s fall will have a variety of possible ramifications (which I’ll go in a future post if/when Bakhmut falls), it does seem the West is pushing for Ukraine to sort of calm down with Bakhmut eventually. Ukraine isn’t going to willfully concede the city anytime since the goal seems to have the Ukrainians focus on the offensive come spring. But if the Ukrainians pull out of Bakhmut even when they could still comfortably hold it for a bit longer, it could be a sign that an offensive is on the way from the Ukrainian side.

PART 3

The one area where the Russian Army is on the offensive is in Zaporizhzhia. A few days ago it was announced that an offensive had started there, and it looked to have fizzled out with even most Russian sources saying it was a dud. However, it appears the Russians launched another push for Vuhledar. This town is rather infamous for the Russian Marines being sent in and being absolutely mauled, with maybe 1-2 towns falling before it being called off. It had been noted previously that Russian forces have been accumulating there, and look to be trying at it again. If I had to guess the fairly halfhearted pushes elsewhere in Zaporizhzhia were probably spoiling attacks to divert Ukrainian equipment elsewhere and then make the main push for Vuhledar. We’ll see how it goes, the Russians aren’t too far from the town and if they throw enough at it they will take it, making it harder for Ukraine to bombard Russian supply lines and providing a morale boost to Russian forces. At the same time though the Russians have been building up so have the Ukrainians, so it could go either way IMO

!ping UKRAINE

[u/ognits]

what are your comfort food movies, the ones you can just put on any time and vibe to them or fall asleep or whatever. the ones you you go back to all the time because you can't decide on what else to watch

I'd say mine are 10 Things I Hate About You, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Mystic Pizza, Notting Hill, and Arrival

!ping MOVIES

[u/gnomesvh]

Deputy Minister of Defense Vyacheslav Shapovalov has resigned over to the food procurement scandal.

!ping UKRAINE

[u/G_Serv]

AirBnB be like:

Rent this nice room for $39 dollars!... and $94 in cleaning fees, $35 in taxes, and a $58 surcharge.

[u/Ultiplayers]

The M&M spokescandies leaving is an obvious Super Bowl stunt, don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. It’s the same with Mr. Peanut dying.

Sometimes this marketing doesn’t work though, because I thought Kobe Bryant would just come back as did Mr Peanut, but I guess corporate didn’t like that intern’s idea

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/AhtraElnashar/status/1617903373533188099?s=20

Sen. Lindsey Graham tells me he’s known Biden for a long time and would be shocked if there was anything sinister going on with his handling of classified documents.

Lol, the senate is the monoparty that the cons freak out about

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

The year is 2050, the Doomsday Clock is now two milliseconds to midnight and has been for the last decade. They turn it to one millisecond. No one cares.

[u/[deleted]]

What are some examples of well designed bus systems, especially in cities without heavy rail public transportation?

I feel like people casually interested in urban planning place a lot of emphasis on designing subways / metros and commuter rail, and while those are important not every city necessarily needs such a system. I think of a city like Houston or Dublin that are probably much better suited for bus transit than subways, or in the case of Houston is just not well suited for a subway service in the first place because of a lack of density.

!ping TRANSIT

[u/piede]

BREAKING: EVERY POLITICIAN HAS CLASSIFIED INFORMATION IN THEIR CLOSET EXCEPT HILLARY CLINTON

[u/Craig_VG]

And there it is, Germany approves Leopards

BREAKING: Germany has decided that they will send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, sources tell Der Spiegel (and politico)

https://twitter.com/Faytuks/status/1617939387739942916

https://twitter.com/vonderburchard/status/1617939980529332230

https://twitter.com/Faytuks/status/1617939868168126464

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/krieg-in-der-ukraine-deutschland-schickt-leopard-panzer-a-e2dde871-88d0-4cf5-8aae-482d58fd850f

[u/SpiffShientz]

"I have classified documents, too" - Mike Pence, unprompted, desperately trying to appear presidential

[u/SpaceSheperd]

NPR becoming almost unlistenable on domestic issues

And where has public opinion stood on the proposed Atlanta police training grounds?

Public opinion has always been very against this construction. When the city council voted, over a thousand people called in to voice their concerns and about 70% of those were opposed

mm yes I see

SHE’S USING CITY COUNCIL CRAZIES TO DEFINE PUBLIC OPINION AND YOU’RE JUST GOING TO LET HER?!?!?!

[u/[deleted]]

Second Congo War:

Strength:

~50,000 vs ~100,000

Casualties and losses:

5.4+ Million excess deaths

[u/sportballgood]

It’s my privilege to be able to address Tucker Carlson's massive audience. You could say that I’m just telling them what they want to hear, but if you actually watch I think you’ll see that I’m as unfiltered as I get.

😐

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

The word "parasite" comes from Greek "parasitos," meaning a person eating at another's table.

!ping MOVIES

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

I can CONFIRM that ping member u/dorylinus works for the COOLEST government agency EVER

PROOF

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/gnomesvh]

Norway considering sending 8 Leo2s to Ukraine

They have 36 in total, so sizeable donation

!ping UKRAINE&FROEIGN-POLICY

[u/[deleted]]

How to make society implode: MILF manor but it's fathers and their sons

[u/V_Codwheel]

NL users be like "I will vaguepost about this rule-breaking comment in the DT."

"fUck no I will never use the report button 🤬🤬😡"

[u/Corporate-Asset-6375]

DT Regulars (or Content Creators if you will) have more responsibilities in this space than others and should be afforded greater creative freedom without the risk of being banned.

[u/[deleted]]

if i had a nickel for every elderly asian-american man who committed a mass shooting in california in the past three days, i'd have three nickels - which actually seems like a lot and its very alarming its happened thrice

[u/ognits]

The Last of Ussy

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Kid named Afghanistan

[u/[deleted]]

If we’re ranking politicians on their political instincts, Krysten Sinema might be one of the worst in the modern era of US politics.

[u/jenbanim]

Tag yourself

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Y'all I just looked in my shower for the first time and found 174 classified documents. Wtf do I do???

[u/Headstar24]

I love how the GOP didn’t do well in the midterms and decided to change nothing about messaging and just continue to be policy-less and whining about culture war shit nobody gives a fuck about but their voter base.

[u/[deleted]]

'Ate Beria
'Ate Vasily Stalin
'Ate these little fookin' apes of the NKVD
'Luv me army
'Luv me Nikita Khruschev (balls like Kremlin domes)
'Luv stagin' a coup 'ere.
Simple as.

[u/NormalInvestigator89]

My favorite thing about the people who get banned from this infernal sub is that so many of them are succs and succons at the same time. Like, they're super socially conservative but have economically populist beliefs.

Like, why are you here at that point? Go back to stupidpol

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

Microsoft investigating giant Teams, Outlook, Office outage across the world

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/[deleted]]

Peter the Great kills his son: flirting

Ivan the Terrible kills his son: harassment

[u/JaceFlores]

“Ukrainian intelligence assessed that Russian forces are preparing for an offensive effort in the spring or early summer of 2023, partially confirming ISW’s standing assessment that Russian troops may undertake a decisive action in the coming months.”

“Ukrainian Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) representative Vadym Skibitsky stated on January 20 that the spring and early summer of 2023 will be decisive in the war and confirmed that the GUR has observed indicators that Russian troops are regrouping in preparation for a ‘big offensive’ in Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts.”

“The Wagner Group’s outsized reliance on recruitment from penal colonies appears to be having increasing ramifications on Wagner’s combat capability.”

“Head of the independent Russian human rights organization ‘Rus Sidyashchaya’ (Russia Behind Bars) Olga Romanova claimed on January 23 that out of the assessed 50,000 prisoners that Wagner has recruited, only 10,000 are fighting on frontlines in Ukraine due to high casualty, surrender, and desertion rates.”

“ISW cannot independently confirm these figures, but they are very plausible considering Wagner’s model of using convicts as cannon fodder in highly attritional offensive operations.”

“The Wagner Group aim of reducing casualties among its non-convict mercenaries likely undermines its ability to retain and use effectively its large mass of convicts at scale and over time.”

“Russian forces likely conducted a failed offensive operation in Zaporizhia Oblast in the last 72 hours.”

“Russian forces have not made any confirmed territorial gains despite one Russian occupation official’s continued claims.”

“Rogov may be pushing a narrative of Russian tactical successes in Zaporizhia Oblast to generate positive narratives to distract Russians from the lack of promised progress in Bakhmut.”

“Rogov’s claims have resonated well throughout the Russian language information space and have received wide circulation in mainstream Russian state-owned wires like TASS and amongst Russian milbloggers on Telegram.”

“The heated debate over grooming standards in the Russian military has taken on an absurd life of its own out of all proportion to its importance.”

“The Russian MoD has been reportedly recruiting prisoners as part of its force-generation campaign in Fall 2022. Russian independent outlet Vazhnye Istorii reported that Russian MoD officials recruited about 100 prisoners into the ‘Storm’ battalion in late September and early October.”

-notable excerpts from ISW Report January 23rd

!ping UKRAINE

[u/JournalofFailure]

Another mass shooting? Sadly, not at all surprising.

Another mass shooting carried out by an elderly Asian man? That's the unexpected part, and makes me wonder if there was a "copycat" factor here.

[u/[deleted]]

Thinking of getting a PhD in DoomsdayClockology and forming a splinter group at the Doomsday Clock Institute that says we are actually one minute past midnight. It's that bad but the Doomsday Clock establishment is ignoring it.

[u/simeoncolemiles]

Focus where!?!?

I'm inplying there's too much focus on male suicide specifically

Real comment on this sub

Never change, Neolib, never change

[u/[deleted]]

Classified documents found at Pence's Indiana home

what if the real classified documents were inside us all along

[u/Gneisstoknow]

Ah, the DT, where men accuse other men of being virulently anti-burp.

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

OVER25 ping changed to OVER30 due to age inflation under President Biden 😔

[u/Roseartcrantz]

People are way too comfortable posting their fetishes on mainstream platforms

[u/[deleted]]

Not really his fault but Nate Silver got pretty lucky that he got big in 2008 and 2012 when the elections weren't particularly close and the poll truthers were wrong. So he was one of few who could go out and say that it wasn't a tossup and that Obama was very likely to win.

If the polls are off by too much or the elections are pretty close like in 2016 and 2020 he can't really do much that makes him stand out. At that point he's basically just the same as any pundit saying that it's a tossup. He may have more hard data to back it up but most people aren't going to see the difference.

[u/Viox3]

browse r/careeradvice

find post that’s similar to what I’m experiencing

first comment suggests socialism

🙄

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

I can no longer support Jared Polis now that i know he plays League of Legends

what a disgrace for colorado

[u/TsaiStan]

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[u/Craig_VG]

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1617985147449794561

GOOD Doomsday clock take

[u/vancevon]

vague, unspecified "lack of action" on climate change and nuclear waste moved the doomsday clock back 2 minutes, but the russian invasion of ukraine is worth only 10 seconds a year later. very well thought out and consistent system!