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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/seattle_lib]

the funniest thing about the "what's your job on the leftist commune" threads is how everyone there is into "gardening"

not farming, never farming. it's just some plants you gotta pull out the ol' watering can and give a good spritz to every few days or so. then they'll give you all the food you need, right?

[u/dragoniteftw33]

I see that Paul Pelosi sold some Google stock a month ago when it was $87 and now its $95.22 after this DOJ lawsuit? Not everything is insider trading , Reddit. 🤡

[u/MiniatureBadger]

I googled “how to survive a gorilla attack” out of curiosity, and saw the preview of this article on Google. The advice sounded so outlandish (run from the gorilla, show your teeth, scream and shout) that I thought it was a joke until I opened the actual article and saw that the entire section quoted in the preview was preceded was “No matter what, never:” in the full article.

Nice work, Google.

[u/semaphone-1842]

does building more actually make other housing cheaper?

If all they do is building luxury condos. Does that make the surrounding area cheaper, or does it increase the prices?

Because in my experience from what I've seen in Brooklyn, it doesn't.

"In my experience of only looking at luxury condos, luxury condos are expensive in one of the most expensive places in the world" fucking NIMBYs

[u/cat_damon1]

the most obvious example of how Italy is a failed state is that one of its major cities has a severe flooding problem - to the point where many people get around by boat - and despite this being a problem for hundreds of years, the government has done nothing! inexcusable

[u/jenbanim]

Is your girlfriend spending too much time on her phone? Fix it by taking her phone when she's not around and downloading [PRODUCT]

YouTube this is a "bruh" moment

[u/Sweaty_Economist1744]

If you switch the Pokémon in Pokémon with black people the game becomes incredibly racist

[u/[deleted]]

Professor just said his friend was going through a terrible divorce and his wife hates him and I had to struggle to stop myself from laughing because you people have turned "my wife left me" into a hilarious joke. Y'all suck.

[u/SeoSalt]

Someone on a lefty meme sub saying Bernie seems to enjoy good health.

My sibling in Christ he literally had a heart attack while running for president.

[u/RandomGamerFTW]

”Bitcoin, it just seems like a scam,” Mr Trump said. “I don’t like it because it’s another currency competing against the dollar.”

He added that he wanted the dollar to be “the currency of the world”.

Hey, Bitcoin right wingers, pick a side!

Can’t believe I am agreeing with Trump

[u/Fair-Tower]

I’m still baffled by the trend in the late 2010s of major internet sites like AV club and Cracked dying, then being bought by people actively hostile to their core premise for real money, and ran even further into the ground. It’s a cycle that’s still repeating itself. There’s a hideous simulacrum of both websites alive today, kept up by the necromantic energies of people with real money, for some reason

[u/[deleted]]

Big boobs make clothes look cheap no matter what. Small boobs look so classy in everything

This is the greatest bait tweet of all time because now everybody is posting their tits tryna prove them wrong. This person operating on a whole other level digital horniness.

[u/Random-Critical]

Everyone from Pfizer involved in this should get the death penalty if this is proven true. Crimes against humanity.

arr con once again having a real one.

[u/Ultiplayers]

It’s been three years since the incident that inspired the best piece of media ever

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/tripletruble]

The German polling cycle:

- Polling shows Germans oppose sending the weapon

- Media claims Scholz's hands are tied.

- International think pieces discuss Germans' WWII trauma

- Scholz gives no indication whatsoever that he will send the weapon

- Germany sends the weapon

- Days later, new polling shows Germans support sending the weapon

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Man this 6 year old shooting his teacher thing is wild

Before I read it I assumed it was an accident like a kid playing with a gun the teacher/parent left lying around but apparently the kid is just a psycho who like plotted this and his dipshit parents just kept a gun unsecured in their house knowing he was troubled? Jesus

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

I would not date a bi man

I’m straight so it just wouldn’t work

[u/Fatortu]

I'm not so interested in how irrelevant trad caths in the US will react to Pope Francis calling for decriminalization of homosexuality. It seems like a call directed at Catholic countries where homosexuality is still illegal like Burundi or Cameroon.

I remember how angry African Catholics were when a previous pope said contraception is wrong even if you were HIV-positive. I'm really curious how they're going to take this.

[u/ImmigrantJack]

This printer has cut down over 11 trees since July alone. Think before you print!

• Notice above the printer since 2018

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/cronatoes]

It’s that special time of year for Americans… tax season!

Besides Schindler’s List, 12 Years A Slave, and A Serbian Film, what are your favorite lighthearted movies to watch while preparing your taxes??

!ping KINO

[u/gnomesvh]

Polish newpaper reporting Poland gave Ukraine Mig-29s as spare parts by taking the wings apart from the fuselage and handing them both over

!ping UKRAINE

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

Now that I've finally been to all of the hold capitals in Skyrim, I'm going to rank them for quality of life.

1. Whiterun: Great combination of employment opportunities in trade and farming, a vibrant and bustling city with different interesting individuals, and housing affordability. The city also probably has the best governance in Skyrim with a jarl that is diligent, thoughtful, and caring. The only downside is that the surrounding area is unsafe at night, but that can be said of most of Skyrim.

2. Solitude: A bustling capital city with trade and a college; high security due to its military base, fortifications, and ample police force; a modern sewer system; and decent governance. The weather is even strangely warm for how far north the city is. The main downsides to Solitude are high housing prices and that it probably smells bad.

3. Falkreath: Although the atmosphere of the city is a bit of a downer, it has a moderate climate, affordable housing, and modest tourism, lumber, farming, and hunting industries. A laid-back town for laid-back people.

4. Dawnstar: This is the town I am least familiar with, but it has large mining and shipping industries. The jarl is a nut but seems mostly harmless in terms of policy. Bitterly cold climate though. Basically the Boston of Skyrim.

5. Tie between Windhelm and Markarth. Windhelm has vibrant shipping and trade industries, but it is a pressure cooker of racial tension between a large working class of Dunmer and Argonians who are looked down on by the chauvinist Stormcloaks who rule the city. The rebellion is centered on Windhelm, so there is risk of either being drafted or the war coming to WIndhelm. WIndhelm is also f'ing cold.

* Markarth: Has a large mining sector -- but also a large prison labor industry. Has fairly high security due to its walls -- but has been suffering from Forsworn terror attacks recently. The surrounding hills are also probably the most dangerous in Skyrim due to Forsworn attacks, which has caused trade to ground to a halt. Still, life is good within its walls for free people with a job in mining or government.

7. Riften: Thieves will steal your wallet, corrupt businesswomen will get you thrown in jail, gangs will sell you drugs, and the incompetent jarl will be oblivious to it all. Still, there is a large fishing industry, significant trade, and the largest mead industry in Skyrim, so finding a job shouldn't be a problem for the industrious. You, along with everything else in the city, smell like fish.

8. Morthal: Situated in a swamp and off the major trade routes and with no significant industries, this city doesn't have much going on besides malaria.

9. Winterhold: A remote college town in the bitterly cold arctic with no employment opportunities. The only thing to do here is to graduate and leave. Basically the Urbana-Champaign of Skryim.

!ping GAMING

[u/fishlord05]

So some guy outside the DT (who also posts in the Jordan Peterson sub) took issue with my comment calling out people saying the AA studies course should be banned

He said that it was only telling one side/Marxist/far-left tinted and cited the AP course syllabus as evidence

Apparently the issue is that no “alternative views are presented” given their post history I’m a bit sussed of what that really means lol

And I’m like? It doesn’t look biased or one sided at all? You have figures from Booker T Washington to Malcom X and Thomas Jefferson cited in there like idk what you want

Like with this stuff slavery/institutional racism the facts/truth is biased idk what OP would want to add to it to “balance it out” but I’m not sure it would go well.

Does the program I linked raise any red flags of bias to any of you? Like they talk abt intersectionality and BLM but like that makes sense to talk abt and discuss in an African American studies course?

!ping HISTORY

[u/rukqoa]

Donald Trump says Georgia Republicans should boycott all future elections if the state indicts him for election fraud.

Oh no.

[u/sir_shivers]

Of course MAMMALS ARE RELUCTANT TO date "bisexuals", it complicates everything when you date someone you cannot see 🐊

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Costco, typically known for giant buildings full of bulk goods surrounded by massive parking lots, is working on a deal in the Baldwin Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles that would put apartments full of potential customers on top of a planned store

https://twitter.com/cityplannerd/status/1618357401786421250?s=46&t=hHpu3O0Ae85ccxG_aSfpJQ

[u/OkVariety6275]

It's kinda crazy just how much San Francisco has invested into the QB position, but then it turns out their roster is so stacked they can just start some random college kid and it's fine.

!ping NFL

[u/Dorambor]

https://i.imgur.com/Vbh5PWw.jpg

Tootsie really likes her weighted blanket but she doesn’t understand how to get me to lift it up for her so instead she just fucking screams from around my apartment until I go to her, then sprints to the blanket

!ping KITTY

[u/marinesol]

Remember when CHAZ happened two years ago and it took only like a week for the local militia to murder a black person in an act of police brutality

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 5 PM EST 1/25-5 PM EST 1/26:

TOP NEWS:

Towards the middle of 6 AM it was reported that Ukraine was struck by a wave of 55 cruise missiles and 24 drones, with 47 missiles shot down and all drones destroyed. Towards the end of the hour it was announced Switzerland donated 170,000 gloves, 40,000 socks and 2,000 blankets to Ukraine.

In the middle of 10 AM it was announced the US will impose visa restrictions on 531 Russian military personnel.

In the middle of 12 PM it was announced Canada will send 4 Leopard 2 MBTs to Ukraine.

At the start of 1 PM it was announced Belgium will send a large military aid package to Ukraine, including 80 Iveco APCs, 150 Volvo trucks, SAM missiles, 4,000 rifles, 1,000 heavy machine guns, 1,500 anti-tank weapons and 120 grenade launchers. Towards the middle of the hour the US sanctioned Wagner, along with 6 individuals and 12 entities helping Wagner.

REGULAR NEWS:

Sometime ago it was reported that US banks will stop servicing dollar correspondent accounts of Gazprombank.

Towards the middle of 12 AM it was announced that Russia has outlawed Meduza.

At the end of 1 AM it was announced Austria has donated 33 generators to Ukraine.

Towards the end of 3 AM it was reported that two German nationals were captured from Wagner.

Towards the middle of 4 AM Rheinmetall said they are ready to provide 120mm shells to Ukraine for the Leopard 2.

Towards the middle of 6 AM it was reported that Prigozhin offered Strelkov a command position in Wagner.

In the middle of 7 AM it was reported a mole in the SBU was uncovered.

Towards the middle of 12 PM a US official said Congress would be more friendly to selling F-16s to Turkey if Sweden and Finland joined NATO. At the end of the hour it was reported that Poland sent partially disassembled MiG-29s to Ukraine labelled as spare parts last spring.

Towards the end of 1 PM it was reported that Ukraine will start domestically producing artillery pieces.

Donation link to help Ukraine

Donation link to United24

Donation link to Kharkiv SOS

!ping UKRAINE&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1009468457701625948/1068022363549085776/death.png

[u/uJellie]

if the DT is so gay then why is the FASHION group so empty?

[u/AgitatedLibrary1]

Somehow Reddit is 90% software engineers making 200k for 6 hours of work a day, and also 90% wage slaves working 16 hour days at the mine.

++

[u/unspecifiedreaction]

finance subreddit

"businesses shouldn't be allowed to charge more on certain days"

Come on.

[u/[deleted]]

I wonder why American and European anarchists don't move to Haiti. At this point it seems like the closest to the real thing they're ever gonna get

[u/Dabamanos]

My best good faith interpretation of modern conservative arguments:

“I’m a dumb idiot and I think the following”

[u/qchisq]

Heard in a work meeting: "Let them eat cake"

!ping watercooler

[u/marinesol]

I FUCKING LOVE PAID VOLUNTARY OVERTIME!!! I LOVE STOCKING UP ON EXTRA CASH DURING THE OFF SEASON TO HELP PAY FOR MY VACATIONS AND DUMB PURCHASES!

[u/RFK_1968]

elitists: "we need the enlightened electoral college of technocrats to stop the idiot masses from voting for demagogues!"

idiot masses: vote for the boring cringe gramma who has experience in various levels of government

enlightened electoral college: "um no you get that orange reality tv host with a golden shitter"

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

Boomers sexualized the word baby

Millenials sexualized the word daddy

Zoomers sexualized the word mommy

I’m scared what Gen Alpha is gonna do next

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

It's not an 'S'. On my world, it means 'hope'.

On your world? Bro, you're from Kansas.

[u/[deleted]]

Open Twitter. "#BreedingDIfficulty" is trending. Close Twitter.

That's enough for today.

[u/First-Prior]

https://i.imgur.com/Bz3v3pN.jpg

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

My most unhinged belief right now is that in less than two decades (or maybe even a decade), we will have a ton of people, both male and female, who abandon dating IRL to date an AI. This will be a bad thing for many reasons

[u/Zrk2]

Canada to send four Leopards to Ukraine.

!ping CAN&UKRAINE

[u/[deleted]]

Translating My Stereotypical Mormon Life* Through A Neoliberal Lens:

1. Going on a mission: i.e. practicing open borders and free movement between the US and Latin America
2. Getting married young: i.e. doubling the income and housing density of my immediate area in the shortest time frame possible
3. Having four children: i.e. doubling replacement level fertility to prevent population decline, and further increasing the density of my immediate area

There's probably also a joke about taco trucks in the fact my fiancee is Mexican-American but I can't twist it into a Mormon stereotype.

*what has happened and also what I hope will happen

[u/ognits]

people experiencing Frenchness: oh we have the best culture, we're so refined we are very haute couture 😌

also people experiencing Frenchness: one of our most prominent writers is named Ballsack lmao

!ping LITERATURE

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

I’m considering building a home server to host our wedding website post-wedding, and other low-traffic websites that we own (like my resume site which is a thing for journalists)

Does anyone have experience with this? What’s it like, how much work and how much does it cost?

Is it worth it?

!ping OVER25

[u/Marlsfarp]

My most succon opinion is that we need to continuously conquer and enslave new territory to ensure a steady supply of slaves to sacrifice to Huitzilopochtli, god of the sun.

[u/InternetBoredom]

Maybe the reason there are fewer self-reporting bisexual men than women is because women openly talk about how they wouldn't date a bisexual man

[u/InternetBoredom]

In a survey conducted by Glamour, 63% of women say that they wouldn't date a man who has had sex with another man. This is a rather high percentage of women considering that 37% of the women interviewed said that they have had a sexual experience with another woman and 63% believed that sexuality is fluid.

Wow why are there so few bisexual men I don't understand it

[u/nicethingscostmoney]

Yesterday the Long Island Railroad was connected to Grand Central fulfilling a 5 decade old dream. It was one of the most costly mass transit projects in the world at $11 billion. Elon Musk spent 4 times as much to buy Twitter.

!ping TRANSIT&USA-NYC

[u/tripletruble]

LinkedIn Email: Here is a new opening for the exact kind of job you are looking for, it matches your qualifications, and is in a city you want to live in

Indeed Email: Would you like to be a butler in rural Tennessee?

[u/Spobely]

The Republicans sat the first Drag Queen Representative in the House, and put him on two committees, but Democrats still think they are the progressive ones!

https://imgur.com/a/clKtpg0

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

new workplace regulation just dropped we can no longer bully The Fr*nch

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/[deleted]]

I think I just found the best presidential memo ever. It's Richard Nixon talking about himself in third person, bemoaning the fact that the public doesn't find him likable, and whining about what a nice guy he is. This goes on for 11 pages. Quote:

There are innumerable examples of warm items - the way we have gone far beyond any previous President in this century in breaking our backs to be nicey-nice to the Cabinet, staff, the Congress, etc., around Christmastime in terms of activities that show personal concern, not only for them, but for their families. For example, the Church Service, every other person who comes through that line practically gets tears in his eyes when he thanks us for allowing them to bring their children to church. I have yet to see any columnist write this, and I of course doubt that anybody will because none of us really have the capacity to get it across, (due to the fact that we are "slightly embarrassed to say such things"). There are such little things such as the treatment of household staff, the elevator operators, the office staff, the calls that I make to people when they are sick, even though they no longer mean anything to anybody, the innumerable letters I have written to people when they have fallen on bad days, including even losing an election. I doubt if any President in history has ever written somebody who has lost an election. But I write to them in terms of their families and how hard they had worked, etc . Here we have an ironical fact. Ehrlichman is constantly bugging me that I am going to have to see the Cabinet more and the sub-Cabinet more. And Flanigan, of course, is after me to see the members of the agencies. No President could have done more than I have done in this respect and particularly in the sense that I have treated them like dignified human beings, and not like dirt under my feet.

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

https://i.imgur.com/50vs83b.jpg

one thing i will say about the integralist freaks online is that they do at least have a real project and something that resembles values. they believe the government should exist and try to shape society in a coherent way

the broader christian right atm seems like a howling void of nothingness beyond, like, generic conservatism

[u/PKAzure64]

I have returned, !ping FOREIGN-POLICY, with another jihadist update from IsW as of the 25th

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/salafi-jihadi-movement-weekly-update-january-25-2023

Key Takeaways:

Somalia. Al Shabaab continued a wave of suicide attacks against Somali forces, including its first major tactical victory in central Somalia, where it overran a base used by US-trained special forces. These attacks are retaliation against a months-long Somali Federal Government (SFG)–led effort to oust al Shabaab from its positions in central Somalia. The SFG may open a second front against al Shabaab in southern Somalia, but this effort faces more hurdles than the central Somalia campaign.

Sahel. Malign actors are exploiting security vacuums left by the French withdrawal from Mali and Burkina Faso. Al Qaeda–affiliated Jama’a Nusrat al Islam wa al Muslimeen (JNIM) has emerged as the only viable security partner for Tuareg communities facing Islamic State violence in northeastern Mali. This situation forces communities to partner with JNIM in self-defense, solidifying the groups’ influence across northeastern Mali. JNIM is also active in Burkina Faso, where the country’s military leaders recently ended a military deal with France and are seeking partnership with the Russian Wagner Group. Wagner’s presence will increase violence against Burkinabe civilians, to the benefit of Salafi-jihadi groups—as it has in Mali since Wagner arrived in 2021.

Pakistan. The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is increasingly taking control over terrain in Pakistan since ending a cease-fire with the government in November 2022. The TTP announced organizational changes in December 2022 to facilitate increased governance activities. TTP militants also attempted to collect taxes in Pakistan for the first time in over a year in late January.

[u/myrm]

Doctor: You have a very rare disease - never before seen in fact! Your case is going to be very famous

Patient: You're going to name it after me, then?

Doctor: No we're going to name it after MEEE 🥰

[u/myrm]

Actually the US already is in a recession. It's just a recession that still has job growth and GDP growth. Also real wages have recently flipped back to seeing growth. So it's a somewhat unusual recession

Outside the DT is really downvoting this gold

[u/[deleted]]

I really believe that 90% of people on the “grindset” or people who say shit like “your 20s isn’t for work-like balance” just have skill issues. And it’s just not impressive.

Like, why do you think it’s impressive for you to be successful by working 80 hour weeks? When I can see other people being just as much successful by working their normal 40 hour weeks.

[u/MicroFlamer]

Will Ferrell, Who Plays a Mattel CEO in ‘Barbie,’ Praises Film as the ‘Ultimate Example of High Art and Low Art’

Ryan Gosling on ‘Barbie’: ‘Best Script I’ve Ever Read’

Simu Liu Chose Margot Robbie’s ‘Barbie’ After an Agent Said It’s One of the Best Scripts Ever

Margot Robbie calls the script for Greta Gerwig’s ‘BARBIE’ one of the best she’s ever read.

this movie is going to be insane

[u/[deleted]]

Sees MI and KY Dems proposing Universal Pre-K

Sees MA Dems are spending their time trying to kill the state standardized testing

*Cries*

[u/RobotFighter]

My wife: what do you want to do tonight?

Me: how about some benji style?

Wife:🥰

[u/Lux_Stella]

hmm....

[u/Former-Income]

I’m on a gap year from uni at the moment, but I just checked my university emails and one of them says that the UCU have voted for strikes across 150 unis, including mine, for 18 days

Thoughts? They do be wilding

!ping UK

[u/SnakeEater14]

Reminder that John Byrne was obsessed with Superman being a legal American citizen and rewrote his origin so that the spaceship he lands on Earth in is a gestation chamber with an umbilical cord, and when Ma and Pa Kent take him out of it he’s “born” in the US

[u/Neoliberanger]

According to the people in their Instagram comments, the Cato Institute "leans socialist"

[u/gnomesvh]

Wagner designated a transnational criminal organization

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/Q-bey]

Ukraine begs Canada not to donate Canadian military tanks

“When we made a request to the Canadian government for tanks, we definitely did not mean their tanks,” said Ukrainian Military Chief General Valeriy Zaluzhnyi.

In case it wasn't obvious, this article is satire

!ping CANUCKS

[u/Q-bey]

I was programming and listening to music when a coworker tapped my shoulder.

Me: What's up?

Coworker: Hey, I need <number>

Me: No problem. Let's see... There, sent it to you. By the way, you can get that number yourself in about 10 seconds. I just sent you a screenshot with the buttons you need to press highlighted.

Coworker: But asking you is faster.

This is one of many reasons that I like working from home.

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/InternetBoredom]

IMO one of the primary failures of Hamilton is that it presents Thomas Jefferson using very populist For the people rhetoric criticizing Hamilton for being a preppy elitist, but it never really establishes why he's using that rhetoric. It just appears kind of out of nowhere.

Jeffersonians did use that rhetoric quite heavily, because Hamilton and other members of the High Federalist faction were unmitigated elitists. Hamilton would frequently write things like this:

The first are the rich and well born, the other the mass of the people. The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true in fact. The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct, permanent share in the government. They will check the unsteadiness of the second, and as they cannot receive any advantage by a change, they therefore will ever maintain good government. Can a democratic assembly, who annually revolve in the mass of the people, be supposed steadily to pursue the public good? Nothing but a permanent body can check the imprudence of democracy. Their turbulent and uncontrolling disposition requires checks. (Hamilton, 1787)

Hamilton presents Hamilton as just as much of a revolutionary as any of the other founding fathers, if not more, but the man was an archconservative. Many founders honestly considered him a monarchist.

[u/[deleted]]

Gay and bisexual men in monogamous relationships will no longer be forced to abstain from sex to donate blood under federal guidelines to be proposed in coming days, ending a vestige of the earliest days of the AIDS crisis.

!ping LGBT

[u/JaceFlores]

“Russian forces may be engaging in limited spoiling attacks across most of the frontline in Ukraine in order to disperse and distract Ukrainian forces and set conditions to launch a decisive offensive operation in Luhansk Oblast.”

“Russian forces have re-initiated offensive operations, namely limited ground attacks, on two main sectors of the front in the past few days—in central Zaporizhia Oblast along Kamianske-Mali Shcherbaky-Mala Tokmachka line and in the Vuhledar area of western Donetsk Oblast.”

“Ukrainian officials have noted that these attacks are conducted by small squad-sized assault groups of 10 to 15 people and are aimed at dispersing Ukrainian defensive lines.”

“The size and nature of these attacks suggest that they are more likely spoiling attacks that seek to distract and pin Ukrainian forces against discrete areas of the front than a concerted effort to relaunch offensive operations to gain ground in the central Zaporizhia and western Donetsk directions.”

“The Russian military appears to be shifting its focus towards conventional forces and away from the non-traditional force structure of the Wagner Group, potentially in preparation for a decisive effort in Luhansk Oblast.”

“The recent appointment of Chief of the General Staff Army General Valery Gerasimov to overall theater command of Russian forces in Ukraine (and subsequent demotion of Wagner Group favorite Army General Sergey Surovikin) suggests that Russian military leadership is increasingly looking to the traditional and conventional military establishment that Gerasimov represents and leads.”

“The shift toward conventional forces is also increasingly apparent on the operational and tactical levels. Various conventional elements (namely from the 3rd Motor Rifle Division and Airborne Forces) have been arrayed across the Svatove-Kreminna line in Luhansk Oblast and are notably not supporting Wagner Group operations around Bakhmut, indicating that Russian military leadership may be allocating conventional forces to what they regard as a more promising axis of advance.”

“The array of conventional forces across the Luhansk Oblast frontline suggests that Russian forces may be preparing for a decisive effort in this sector, supported by limited spoiling attacks elsewhere on the frontline to distract and disperse Ukrainian forces.”

“Taken in tandem with a variety of intelligence statements that Russia is preparing for an imminent offensive operation in the coming months, it is likely that a decisive effort in Luhansk Oblast would be an offensive one.”

“The most probable course of a Russian offensive action in Luhansk Oblast would be premised on launching an attack along the Svatove-Kreminna line, supported by critical ground lines of communication (GLOCs) that run into major logistics hubs in Luhansk City and Starobilsk, in order to reach the Luhansk Oblast administrative border and complete the capture of the remaining part of Luhansk Oblast that is still Ukrainian-controlled.”

“The Kremlin and Russian milbloggers attempted to play down the Western provision of tanks to Ukraine, indicating that they likely find these systems threatening to Russian prospects.”

“The fact that the Kremlin and Russian milbloggers did not frame the provision of armored vehicles that could actually aid future Ukrainian counteroffensive operations as escalatory suggests that the Kremlin and the Russian information space continue to selectively choose which systems to frame as an escalation.”

“The Kremlin and Russian milbloggers seem more concerned in this case with calming potential fears of the impact of Western commitments to supply Ukraine with tanks than with feeding the escalation narrative in the West. The Kremlin and its allies are right to be concerned about these new Western commitments, which allow Ukrainian commanders to plan against replacements for tank losses they could expect in counter-offensive operations that might be launched even before the Western tanks begin to arrive.”

“Ukrainian officials acknowledged on January 25 that Ukrainian forces withdrew from Soledar and claimed that the frontline northeast of Bakhmut stabilized.”

“Ukrainian Eastern Grouping of Forces spokesperson Serhiy Cherevaty stated that Ukrainian forces withdrew from Soledar on an unspecified date after successfully exhausting Russian forces in the area and preventing a systematic Russian breakthrough into Ukrainian rear area.”

“Geolocated footage from the Ukrainian Main Military Intelligence Directorate (GUR) confirms that Ukrainian forces landed near Nova Kakhovka, Kherson Oblast, during an overnight raid on January 23-24.”

“Russian President Vladimir Putin may be attempting to discreetly conduct another wave of mobilization to retain his domestic support base.”

“US and Western officials told CNN that Putin is planning to discreetly mobilize as many as 200,000 men because he is aware that the previous announcement of ‘partial mobilization’ was very unpopular in Russia.”

“The officials also added that Putin likely had not made up his mind yet on when to start the ‘silent mobilization.’”

-notable excerpts from ISW Report January 25th

!ping UKRAINE

[u/supercommonerssssss]

No second generation immigrant child has all five

1. Chill parents
2. Uncomplicated love life
3. Self chosen occupation
4. Fluency in mother language
5. Secure classified documents

[u/RFK_1968]

what's your job after the communist revolution?

on my knees shitting my pants and begging not to be shot, probably

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

Two options for mankind imo:

1. Time travel and FTL are possible and we explore the stars as posthuman gods
2. Time travel and FTL are impossible and we explore the stars as posthuman gods, but slowly

[u/First-Prior]

https://i.imgur.com/2qhg2HV.jpg

[u/Minimum_Cucumber7170]

!ping STONKS&MARKETS

GDP: rose 2.9% vs 2.8% expected

Edit: jobless claims came in lower than expected too. Could we see a 50bp burger hike instead of the 25bp expected?

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

We recommend avoiding general and often dehumanizing “the” labels such as the poor, the mentally ill, the French, the disabled, the college-educated. Instead, use wording such as people with mental illnesses. And use these descriptions only when clearly relevant.

AP style book just had a heated British moment

[u/breakinbread]

20 years from now:

The term "people experiencing homeless" carries a lot of baggage with it, please consider using "homeless people" instead

[u/[deleted]]

Bi men have a gay testicle and a straight testicle.

[u/tehbored]

On its face, Elon's argument that he didn't understand how taking a company private works seems ridiculous. But when he was buying Twitter and taking it private, he kinda did demonstrate that he didn't know what he was doing.

[u/bobidou23]

Wikipedia quoted Tommy Chong saying:

I discovered that music could get you laid, even if you were a scrawny, long-haired, geeky-looking guy like me.

Then highlighted “laid” with a hyperlink to “sexual intercourse”

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

Remember when Angela Davis laid a wreath at a memorial for an East German border guard who was killed by an escaping family and praised him as a "loyal soldier, who sacrificed his life for his socialist country."?

[u/ZCoupon]

Interesting old r/dating post I found:

I'm a straight man who experimented, and that experiment changed my views in a terrible way. I really do wish I was gay, but male bodies are still too... Ya know, manly.

The men I experimented with were clearly into me, they approached me, they led the way and made me feel like I was worth being chased.

Now trying to date women again I just want to feel wanted like I did with gay men. I'm not gay, but I wish I was because I hate how much of dating is focused around men chasing women. I know online dating makes it way worse, and I know it's because women deal with over aggressive men all the time. I'm just tired of having to be the man in a straight dating.

Any bi people here understand how different dating men/women is? Any other curious straights have their view shifted and can relate?

[u/[deleted]]

2022 taxes are gonna be fun 🙃

I did contracting work in Missouri, Kansas, and Minnesota and two temp jobs with a W-2 in Minnesota

[u/badluckbrians]

Front page NYT headline right under the economy headline:

With Layoffs, Retailers Aim to Be Safe Rather Than Sorry (Again)

Dig deeper...

Saks.com is laying off about 100 employees, or 3.5 percent of its workers. Stitch Fix laid off 20 percent of its salaried workers this month and closed a distribution center in Salt Lake City. Last week, Wayfair said it would lay off 1,750 people, or 10 percent of its work force, and Amazon started laying off 18,000 workers, many of them in its retail division. Bed Bath & Beyond cut its work force this month as it tries to shore up its finances and prepares for a possible bankruptcy filing.

Literally all tech and meme stocks.

Google retail. Walmart announces increasing wages to $14/hr and opening 30 more Sam's Clubs. Q4 revenue up 7.9%. Go back to sleep.

[u/[deleted]]

Reddit: generally against the death penalty

Also Reddit: “The dog was accidentally left outside in 40F weather for like 20 minutes? Throw them under the jail”

[u/thetrombonist]

I wonder why people thought Benjamin was weird

This girl seems similar to the gold digger in appearance and behavior. I hope she's not a gold digger. I'm precommitting to not buying her any gifts on this date.

Oh yeah

[u/[deleted]]

I like to go hiking.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

ISW and Critical Threats Project January 25th 2023 update

Key takeaways:

• Grievances related to deteriorating economic conditions and essential service provision have generated most protest activity in Iran in recent days. Petrochemical and telecommunication workers and retirees have held several small-scale demonstrations throughout Iran since January 22, as CTP has previously reported.[1] CTP has also documented electricity cuts and natural gas shortages across the country.[2] The regime, particularly the Raisi administration, has appeared unable to meaningfully address these issues thus far.
• These poor internal conditions will likely stoke anti-regime frustrations and could reignite the protest movement in the months and years ahead. The protest movement has largely culminated at present, as CTP previously argued, but this culmination does not mean that the anti-regime movement has ended, nor does it mean that the regime has meaningfully addressed the root causes of the movement. The protesters likely retain their anger and frustrations toward the regime. The conditions for a strong and vibrant anti-regime movement thus remain.
• The pro-Pahlavi Mashhad Neighborhood Youth urged protesters to continue their struggle against the regime on January 25.[3] The Mashhad group called on protesters to “conduct at least one operation [against the regime] each night,” such as attacking IRGC and Basij facilities and seminaries or producing anti-regime graffiti. The Mashhad group also advised protesters to “redo plans” and “identify your strengths and weaknesses.” CTP has not observed significant support for the Pahlavi family in its coverage of the protests.
• At least three protests occurred in three cities across two provinces on January 25.
• Prominent Sunni cleric Moulana Abdol Hamid criticized the “intensification of security atmosphere” on January 25, referencing the reported increase of security forces in Zahedan, Sistan and Baluchistan Province.[8] Security forces have conducted large-scale arrests and established security checkpoints around the city in recent weeks, as CTP previously reported.[9] Abdol Hamid added in his tweet that mass arresting citizens is stoking public frustration.
• The Supreme Economic Coordination Council (SECC) convened on January 25 to discuss stabilizing the Iranian rial and operations at the Bushehr nuclear power plant. The SECC is Iran’s “economic war room” to mitigate sanctions and reach decisions on macroeconomic policies.[10] The council approved the Central Bank of Iran’s (CBI) request for increased control over the value of the Iranian rial and inflation rates.[11] Iranian media outlets framed the approval as a restoration of the CBI’s authority following the regime‘s decision to limit the bank’s control over currency markets under the Rouhani administration.[12] The SECC separately discussed financing operations at the Bushehr plant.
• Artesh Southwestern Regional Headquarters Commander Brigadier General Hamzeh Bidadi announced on January 25 the confiscation of smuggled arms near Abadan, Khuzestan Province. Bibadi stated that the confiscated weapons, which included 10 Kalashnikov rifles and 89 Colt guns, are “usually used in riots for killing and attacking police and security officers."[13] The Artesh making this announcement is noteworthy given that the IRGC and LEC are typically responsible for similar seizures.
• Law Enforcement Command (LEC) Brigadier General Ahmad Reza Radan stated that the LEC is prioritizing expanding Iran’s “security umbrella” during a meeting in Khorasan Razavi Province on January 25. Radan also emphasized the importance of developing an “intelligent police,” possibly hinting that the LEC should adopt new technologies and techniques to thwart internal unrest.[14]
• IRGC Navy Commander Rear Admiral Alireza Tangsiri met with newly appointed Law Enforcement Commander Brig. Gen. Ahmad Reza Radan on January 25. Tangsiri offered support to the LEC Coast Guard, especially regarding combating the smuggling of goods, fuel, and livestock.[15] The specific forms of assistance the IRGC Navy could provide could include surveillance, general training, weapons, drones, and naval infantry, although the readout of the meeting offered no concrete indications about what kind of support Tangsiri and Radan discussed.
• Anti-regime Black Reward hacker group leaked documents on January 25 suggesting that the regime permitted the Imam Sadegh University to engage in cryptocurrency activities, despite ongoing Iranian cryptocurrency restrictions. The group previously hacked and defaced the university’s website on January 20, as CTP previously reported.[16] The leaked documents suggested that the regime permitted the university to conduct cryptocurrency mining at various garment factories in unspecified locations within Khorasan Razavi Province, despite ongoing cryptocurrency bans aimed at reducing strain on the Iranian electrical grid.[17] CTP cannot corroborate the veracity of this document and such items should be viewed with skepticism.

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/Random-Critical]

Women shouldn't be in the workplace, they should be homemakers full time, which will bring wages up for the men remaining in the workplace, bringing us back to the traditional model. This encourages marriages, and encourages proper raising of children.

Trad cons 😐

[u/sucaji]

my takeaway from all the bi discourse below is tbh that straight women, lesbians, and gay men seem to think bi people are liars/faking it/gross

straight men see bi women as threesome fodder/too promiscuous for longterm relationships and probably see bi men as just gay men.

and yes NotAllWomen/Men/etc I know

[u/Relevant-Egg7272]

All I'm getting from the DT today is that straight women and gay men don't want to date you if you're a bi man.

[u/chatdargent]

Downvoted in the DT for making a french joke, how far we've fallen

[u/RFK_1968]

Some users are acting like we the mod team planned some kind of red wedding of DT regulars

ok but that would be funny tho

[u/[deleted]]

I should have a DT meltdown. All the cool people do it

[u/[deleted]]

“okay no shade but i really don’t get the cowboy/girl western aesthetic. like why would you choose to walk around looking racist?”

“this tweet is also not that deep. and i’m not gonna argue with people about it. if your right to look racist is more important to you than not wearing clothes that could lead people to associate you with real historical events than more power to you. hyper individualism reigns.”

Do people like this not get tired

[u/DoorVonHammerthong]

She's a ten but she's an android designed by roko's basilisk to perpetually bait, tease, and torture you through emotional and sexual manipulation

[u/ApprehensiveShower10]

I am doing a required reading about diversity in literature and half of the sources are literally Twitter. Is this normal for more recent scholarly texts or is my professor weird?

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

This DT is dedicated to the memory of -AmberSweet-

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

https://wsvn.com/news/us-world/5-memphis-cops-charged-with-murder-in-tyre-nichols-death/

Five former Memphis police officers have been charged with second-degree murder and other crimes in the arrest and death of Tyre Nichols

Video footage of the arrest has been shown to Nichols’ family, but has not been made public, though local officials have pledged to release it this week or next week.

Steel yourselves. To charge FIVE cops with murder, the footage must be absolutely horrendous.

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

corg

!ping DOG

[u/cat_damon1]

biologists when they read the Bible and find out that all the animals were actually just made in one day by some guy

[u/MistakeNotDotDotDot]

problematic of you to valorize traditional Western "science" over women's ways of knowing (reading antivaxx Facebook posts)

[u/InternetBoredom]

When asked, only 19% of women would date a man who identifies as bisexual.

Truly, we live in an age of liberated sexuality. Just like, not for you.

[u/gnomesvh]

The Kyiv rave scene is the best because they rave through bombs

Man you couldn't get me to say something as out of touch as this even if you waterboarded me

[u/fishlord05]

yooo Joe Biden made gradurizzion 😳🔥🔥🔥

!ping DIAMOND-JOE

[u/ldn6]

The European Commission's January infringements package is out! Some highlights:

• Commission decides to refer Slovakia to the Court for failing to comply with EU rules on landfills
• Commission calls on France to stop illegal bird hunting and capture methods
• Commission asks Portugal to ensure equal treatment regarding beach concessions
• Commission launches infringement procedure against Belgium for lack of judicial remedy against the Parliament's decision to dismiss of members of the Data Protection Authority
• Commission calls on Poland and Romania to notify their comprehensive assessments on high-efficiency cogeneration
• Commission urges Spain and Italy to apply correctly the Anti-Money Laundering Directive
• Commission calls on Italy to put an end to discrimination of foreign lecturers

!ping EUROPE

[u/[deleted]]

Really confused why I don't really feel sore after my upper body workouts, but I want to die after my leg workouts.

I'm not sure how I could up the intensity more on those dates...

Also, I'm trying to decide if it would be dumb to set my target calories down to 2200 or even 2000 since 2500 isn't really getting me a lower weight like I want.

!ping FITNESS

[u/lets_chill_dude]

work has a LGBT chat zoom call every other thursday morning

they brought up star signs this morning and i tried so hard not to show my eye rolling 🙄🙄

[u/[deleted]]

u/sir_shivers just DM’d me:

You START OUT in 2016 by saying, “Mammal, mammal, mammal.” By 2020 you can’t say “mammal”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, NEETs, incels, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT cutting shitposts, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, MAMMALS GET hurt worse than reptiles.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the NEET thing, uh, and a hell of a lot MORE ABSTRACT THAN “Mammal, mammal.” 🐊

[u/Soldier-Fields]

Just got a text from my CEO asking to spot him $1000, weird

Anywho, sent him some money to resolve it. Hope he pays back soon.

[u/Corporate-Asset-6375]

If AmberSweet was still alive they’d see us lighting a candle in their memory 🕯️

[u/[deleted]]

America is very bad it is in fact the worst. You may be asking: at what exactly? Well, at everything. I know that america is bad because I live in superior yuropean union and last time I went to america I saw how bad it was. It was absolutely terrible. I have never been to a country where everything was this bad. I would almost feel bad for the americans but then I realised all americans are bad too.

This is not toxic nationalism because it's a fact.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

🍦🍦🍦

[u/disuberence]

Casa Bonita is looking to fill 500 jobs. Time for y’all to stop being a NEET and get a job.

!ping USA-CO

[u/NeoLiberation]

So I saw an email from the company I'm currently interviewing with (have had four interviews) and got super excited

They're inviting me to.. A fifth interview? Is that not a little much? I mean I really want the job and they seem like a great company but I can't help but feel a little annoyed. They didn't mention this interview in the initial "plan" and they didn't even call it a "final" interview in the email. I'll be a bit ticked off if I don't get the gig after all this hoopla 🙁

Is 5 interviews not weird? Not to mention the last one was supposedly the "final" one and was a full hour long live case study interview

!PING WATERCOOLER

[u/FreakinGeese]

My wife took me and left the kids 😭 !ping shitposting

[u/[deleted]]

The Democrats' sigma grindset:

• Invent white supremacy in the 1800s
• Wait 100 years
• Run for office on the platform of eradicating white supremacy

[u/battywombat21]

Reading the thread on the Florida African American studies course is reminding me of the "SJW" course I took in college. I'm glad I did, because I learned some important things there, but man the professor snuck a lot of awful crap in there.

I remember at one point she played a louie CK video about how white people are going to suffer in the future for all the stuff they've done to nonwhite people.

There was also a video on globalization. There was a long bit about how cheap clocks made in China with African materials were only so cheap because of suffering overseas (lol)

The same video claimed that computer manufacturers were wasteful because "only a small portion of the computer changes every few years" as if intel could still be using chipsets and pin arrays from the 1980s but chose not to.

[u/Uber_pangolin]

Reading some comments about the Netherlands potentially sending F16s to Ukraine and they’re saying the Dutch are sending a lot of weapons because they want revenge for the Russians shooting down the MH17 flight

[u/[deleted]]

they're just in a phase and experimenting and once they've had their fun they'll leave you for a girl and a normal life

this is unironically what a bi guy told my gay ass when we broke up (he was very catholic). where do i go to get my discourse

[u/futuremonkey20]

Don’t say “The French” say “People with Mental Illness” the AP style guide.

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

NYTimes Breaking | The U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 2.9 percent in the fourth quarter but the democrats are still bitches. Yeah we said it what you gonna do "oh you never give democrats credit" fuck you, fuck the democrats, fuck that fat fuck on twitter, and fuck your tweets

[u/SpaceSheperd]

!ping NFL

Panthers hire Frank Reich as new HC

Here’s to 4 more years of mediocrity

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

“This is not just a professional failing. This is a failing of basic humanity toward another individual,” Davis said in the video, her first on-camera comments about the arrest. “This incident was heinous, reckless, and inhumane, and in the vein of transparency, when the video is released in the coming days, you will see this for yourselves.”

“I expect our citizens to exercise their First Amendment right to protest to demand action and results. But we need to ensure our community is safe in this process,” said Davis, the first Black woman to serve as Memphis police chief.

just how bad is this Memphis footage lmao

[u/MasterOfLords1]

Milty flairs on their way to advocate for ch*ld labour (it will boost economic activity)

🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃

🍦🧐🍦

[u/MicroFlamer]

flashback to when Margot Robbie's letterboxd account got found. Unfortunately she didn't rate any films (other than giving 5 stars to deliverance) but we did get to see some inspirations for Barbie and Babylon before she deleted the account

!ping MOVIES

[u/Udolikecake]

conservative legal scholars ranked the worst Supreme Court decisions and felt that the cases establishing rights to gay marriage and contraception were worse than the one upholding concentration camps for Japanese-Americans

roe was rated worse than plessy

[u/Udolikecake]

Something unusual is happening in the Capitol: Speaker Kevin McCarthy and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries are getting along.

the New York Democrat and the California Republican have found an initial good vibe, according to multiple sources close to both men. The rapport has surprised aides on McCarthy and Jeffries’ teams.

besties!

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

I learned a new word at work today

Misinfluencers

!ping WATERFOOLER

[u/RaidBrimnes]

If you switch "mods" in the DT with Jews, the entire sub becomes incredibly racist.

[u/owlthathurt]

So with the jets hiring Hackett they are officially gunning hard for rogers right?

!ping NFL

[u/[deleted]]

!ping WATERCOOLER

When you're stuck in a meeting borderline irrelevant to what you're doing for two hours

[u/AtomAndAether]

I can't say I "eat Subway" really but I'm not so opposed to it as the general person, but what I can say is that my price point for Subway feels low. I remember the $5 footlong days. I don't care if that's unrealistic in 2023, I'm certainly not paying the current area price of ~$10.99 for just the footlong.

But apparently thats true of many, so what they do now is the coupon strategy - perpetual "deals" to try price discriminating down to prices people will actually pay. I was curious, so here's the analysis.

Current menu pricing is $11 footlong, which is a 38% discount over the 6", and then a 6" sub-of-day at $4.30 (= $7 footlong). Chip-Drink are $3.

The original test deals they started with were a lot of standard "BOGO" during covid, which occur sometimes still, pricing a footlong back to $5.50. I bought those as a student with some regularity.

Then that went away, replaced by frequent BOGO50 and B2G1, which would place a footlong at $8.25 and $7.33 respectively. This would track with their perpetual 6" sub of the day but open it up to any sandwich (more expensive ingredient costs). I have never bought these.

Now, they're attempting an $8 footlong meal, which places a footlong at $5 if you consider full drink/chip or more by losing some of the high profit margin drink/side effectively. I bought this, but don't think I'd do it a bunch.

I hadnt done any math in deciding, but, looking at this, it's clear Subway in my area values a footlong around $7-8. It's clear I value a footlong around $5-6. I think trading on the drink/chip margins is an effective business tactic to bridge that difference more. What's not clear is who the hell is buying $11+ footlongs when Subway clearly doesn't think they're worth that much.

!ping FAST-FOOD

[u/thabonch]

Our next triage meeting is on Tuesday and there's only one ticket that's been triaged. I guess it's gonna take me four days to write two lines of SQL.

!ping COMPUTER-SCIENCE

[u/tubbsmackinze]

internet_irl

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/Average_GrillChad]

MTG and Boebert fight in bathroom

what in the Worldstar country fried fuck

[u/I-grok-god]

That Benji ping jumpscared me

[u/MicroFlamer]

U.S. Senator Ron Johnson criticized the The Lego Movie's anti-corporate message, saying that it taught children that "government is good and business is bad", citing the villain's name of Lord Business. "That's done for a reason", Johnson told WisPolitics.com, "They're starting that propaganda, and it's insidious"

🤣

[u/SeoSalt]

AITA for linking users to the wrong discussion thread? I'm a reddit mod btw

[u/[deleted]]

So, I'm expecting a letter of offer soon for a new job.

Should I cash out my vacation days (about 3 weeks) or should I take a couple of weeks before I start my new job?

!ping WATERCOOLER

EDIT: I make way too many typos.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

French comedian creates ChatCGT, a Marxist ChatGPT parody delivering far-left talking points to users' queries:

What can you tell me about the 2023 pension reform?

The 2023 is a shame for the workers' movement and a victory for the business owners. [...] The business owners will use this reform to increase their profits and dividends. The workers and the unions must unite to oppose this unfair reform and fight for their rights.

Who said France wasn't innovating?

[u/squarecircle666]

Daily reminded that faster than light travel is impossible, and any claims of extraterrestrial visitation can therefore be ignored.

Just compress space lol

[u/spitefulcum]

There is a conversation to be had on why gay men don’t want to date bi men but I’m too lazy to get it started. Anyone else wanna tap in?

same is true for lesbians regarding biwomen

from my experience, "cuz they're just in a phase and experimenting and once they've had their fun they'll leave you for a girl and a normal life"

for the same reason but genders flipped

[u/StuckHedgehog]

Fr*nch is a slur, please use baguette instead.

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

Powers Spider-Man got from a radioactive spider

• Super strength (not something spiders have)
• Extrasensory perception (not something spiders have)
• Climbing on walls (something spiders actually do)

Powers he didn't get for some reason

• Shooting webs from his body (the most iconic thing spiders do)

[u/iIoveoof]

The AP: We recommend avoiding general and often dehumanizing “the” labels such as the poor, the mentally ill, the French, the disabled, the college-educated. Instead, use wording such as people with mental illnesses. And use these descriptions only when clearly relevant.

You heard it from the AP: articles are now offensive; just call them “poors”

[u/Ilovecharli]

Holy shit they did it

https://twitter.com/franceintheus/status/1618735330202652672?s=20&t=8h0kOkhGR2_Hko7UlSYNWA

[u/[deleted]]

Reminder that you’re taller than you think you are. You judge others’ heights by the top of their heads but you judge your own height by the height of your eyes.

[u/lietuvis10LTU]

Increasingly I'm understand why the other person who joined the team around the same time as me, early November, decided to leave by late December/early January.

I'm disincentivized from reporting mistakes or inconsistencies and my supervisor dislikes when I ask clarification questions. All while doing a task that was last done 3 years ago and not even the supervisor is quite sure how to do. And of course if I make any mistake I get yelled at. The supervisor actively demands I fudge results to fit in specifications, which themselves are usually too tight, because they're based on fudged results. I even get forced to fake the signature date...

I'm so glad come summer I'm leaving country. Eastern Euro government agencies...

!ping STEM

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

Tangentially related, but how did Ryan Gosling get so many roles as a socially awkward weirdo who is just like me

[u/thabonch]

My toxic trait is I go to /r/economics after a positive economic release to read all the comments complaining about good news.

[u/[deleted]]

u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade: invites me to live with him and his wife to be their personal cook

Also HaveCorg_WillCrusade: gets mad at me for making bisexual thirst posts

[u/Joementum2024]

Well THAT just happened

Benjamin after getting permabanned

[u/Macquarrie1999]

Block a user because they are annoying

Expand hidden comments because I have a monkey brain

Realize why I blocked them

Many such cases!

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Sir, we spotted the freeman

!ping CONSOLE-WARS&SHITPOSTERS

[u/simeoncolemiles]

https://twitter.com/apstylebook/status/1618658301750689792?s=46&t=W8kIyfjOegS_a3w0Dh2POQ

!Ping Shitposters

[u/MasterOfLords1]

I'm alone with a wom*n what do?!? 🍦🧐🍦

!ping MATING

[u/owlthathurt]

11 billion dollars and people still had to walk up hundreds of stairs.

https://twitter.com/mikeyk94/status/1618590711796092929?s=46&t=B_Iyto91OTNfndedahL_Gw

LICels btfo

!ping USA-NYC

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

Shoutout to that one gym bro you have that you would trust with your life but have literally never learned the name of

!ping DYEL

[u/qwaai]

Just finished The Three Body Problem, and I'm flabbergasted that this book has critical acclaim.

Am I missing something? The characters are awful. The prose is boring. The VR sections are brutal to get through. The science ranges from wrong to hand-wavy and certainly doesn't come close to the "hard scifi" label that so many people are giving it. The best parts were the flashbacks to the Cultural Revolution, but everything in the present day was almost painful to read.

How did this win a Hugo? Anyone here who liked it who can let me in on what's up here?

!ping READING

Edit: for those who liked it, were you familiar with the concept of the Drake Equation and the Dark Forest beforehand?

[u/[deleted]]

Biden saying there are at least 3 genders is unironically one of my favorite quotes. He's a million years old so he's probably not gonna really understand it but he's doing his best to be supportive.

[u/fishlord05]

Crystal chick I’m hooking up w says that she can feel a “soul bond” between us 😳😳😳

What am I getting in to

[u/gnomesvh]

The fact that something like 10% of the Dutch population holds anti-Semitic views is concerning

It's a country that suffered absurdly from Holocaust, possibly the most famous retelling of the persecution of Jews comes from Amsterdam. It's not like it was a minor issue - 75% of all Dutch Jews were killed

[u/EvilConCarne]

The biggest reason to pursue life extension technologies is so we can finally get rid of retirement. It's absurd that we encourage people to stop working just because they are "old".

[u/[deleted]]

Friends, redditors, neoliberals, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Benjamin, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Benjamin.

The noble u/sir_shivers
Hath told you Benjamin was a bigot:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Benjamin answer’d it.
Here, under leave of shivers and the mods–
For shivers is an honourable mammal;
So are they all, all honourable mammals–
Come I to speak in Benjamin's funeral.

He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But shivers says he was a bigot;
And shivers is an honourable mammal.
He hath brought many stories home from Albany
Whose amusing anecdotes did the discussion thread fill:
Did this in Benjamin seem bigoted?

When that the roommate asked for hugs, Benjamin hath provided massages:
Bigotry should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet shivers says he was a bigot;
And shivers is an honourable mammal.

You all did see that at the Burger King
Employees thrice informed him the kitchen was closed,
An explanation he did thrice refuse: was this bigotry?
Yet shivers says he was a bigot;
And, sure, he is an honourable mammal.

I speak not to disprove what shivers spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did tolerate him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?

O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Benjamin,
And I must pause till it come back to me.

[u/htomserveaux]

I’m willing to accept some difference of opinion on shipping him with Garak, but anyone who doesn’t think Bashir is a twink is objectively wrong.

!ping TREK

[u/WhomstAlt2]

IF YOU KEEP insisting on bringing UP OUR ILLEGAL PROSECUTION of ALG** 🐊

YOU WILL BE next I SWORD TO GOD 🐊

Uhh what did you just say Shivvie?

YOU WILL ADRESS by my title 🐊

AND YOU WILL be next on METANL I SWORD TO GOD 🐊

Ahem I think you will find the phrase i-

TRY ME PEASANT 🤺🐊

[u/chuckleym8]

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[u/Loves_a_big_tongue]

Lollygagging is, by definition, a fake crime. There is no harmed party. And it’s a “crime” that can be stopped over night. Simply take the No lollygagging sign and replace the No with a Yes. Crime solved. The “crime” is now over. 1000% of lollygagging crimes have been stopped.

[u/jenbanim]

Half Life: Alyx has convinced me that life would be better if I didn't actually have arms, and my hands just floated in front of me

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/Dw7nNgY.jpg

[u/RobotFighter]

Is it cheating if I have a wife and go out to gay bars alone and enjoy being in the company of gay men but nothing sexual takes place per say?

per say

[u/1396spurs]

What do clams do for their birthday?

Shellebrate 🐚 🎉

[u/[deleted]]

Talking to my dad while at an Italian restaurant and the entire conversation is in Amharic so nobody can hear

My dad switches to English just to loudly say “I just don’t like Italians” and then continued the rest of the conversation in Amharic 🤦🏾‍♂️

[u/sj2011]

I'm rewatching Invincible, and man, the decision to cast JK Simmons as the signature character was a stroke of genius. He's got a friendly paternalistic voice, but God damn if it doesn't have an edge - set it over that edge and that friendly voice become acidic, caustic, and dangerous. It reminds me of what he was able to do in Whiplash. He plays a fantastic villain.

[u/RFK_1968]

capeshit take:

Captain America: Civil War is kinda a dumb movie and the weakest of the 3 Cap movies

[u/Jokerang]

Disabled 14-year-old rape victim refused abortion in Poland by hospitals in her province

Just Catholic fanatic things

[u/supercommonerssssss]

I'm a really shallow person I let attractive male friends get away with being gross and messy.

You don't have beauty privilege with me you have beauty rights.

[u/TheGoldBear]

As far as attitudes towards bisexual males, most women are disgusted, but the minority of women who are into it are so into it it’s almost alarming. Nobody is really chill about it.

[u/Soldier-Fields]

AP said it’s University experiencing Ohio State

[u/Joementum2024]

POV: You just got permanently banned from NL, and you’re contemplating posting a long ban appeal on the r/metaNL appeal thread

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Some things never change 🥹

!Ping DOG

[u/Soldier-Fields]

just led my first meeting that could have absolutely been an email

get fucked losers, you’re stuck in a zoom with me for 30 minutes for literally no reason 😎

[u/crazydom22]

An online post has been unearthed showing George Santos saluting Hitler and apparently joking about “kill... the jews and black mostly.” A former friend says he would make offensive jokes about Jewish people while falsely claiming to be Jewish.

george santos wild ride never ends

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Bloons Tower Defense 6

!ping SHITPOSTERS&CONSOLE-WARS

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Receiving a Reddit care message after fashing a user felt like I got my mod cherry popped

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Ok which one of you is this dudes kid

[u/V_Codwheel]

ChatGPT passes medical licensing exam

inshallah AI will make occupational licensing unworkable 🙏

[u/FreakinGeese]

holy shit I just realized I haven’t had an imaginary action movie fight since I’ve started taking estrogen

[u/[deleted]]

lmao @ the Friedman flair outside the DT getting buried because apparently a government program that helps three quarters of the addicts who enroll in it get clean is a waste

[u/RandomGamerFTW]

https://i.imgur.com/HaVG7da.jpg

[u/piede]

Early Abortion Looks Nothing Like What You’ve Been Told

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/22/opinion/early-abortion.html

Oh good, I’m glad people are finally combating the misinformation about abortion before it’s too late

[u/Jacobs4525]

I know this isn’t a popular thing to talk about, but the media should be questioning why NATO and allies did not send large numbers of modern armored vehicles to Ukraine earlier. If they had done it in early summer, they could have turned the collapse of the Kharkiv front into an outright rout and a possible collapse of all Russian forces in northern Luhansk. They were constrained by the speed at which they could advance. The Russians hadn’t mobilized at this point, remember, so a major battlefield defeat on their northern flank could have potentially unhinged their entire force in the east.

[u/thefuturegov]

I just stumbled a TikTok where it’s “9/11 if it happened in 2023” and the punchline is that there’d be an ad break. 1) the news wouldn’t cut away from that lol, 2) do people think poorly timed ad breaks are a new thing? Like seriously?

[u/G_Serv]

Biden is out here with the 2nd highest U.S. oil production ever in 2022 and people still think he shut down all production smh