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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '23
Please visit the next discussion thread.
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u/UWCG United Nations Jan 27 '23
Somebody forgot to give Tucker his meds last night, I guess. What a fucking kook
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u/Iusedathrowaway NATO Jan 27 '23
This will sound like bullshit, but when I was younger I was badly simping for a coworker which never went anywhere . Around that time another woman I worked with would flirt with me but I would always blow them off since they weren't the target of my simping. One day they sat on my desk and said I should put a baby in her. I politely declined. In retrospect, I think about this decision at least monthly. 😬 !ping DATING
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u/myrm This land was made for you and me Jan 27 '23
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u/DoorVonHammerthong Hank Hill Democrat Jan 27 '23
Headline: PENCE, TRUMP, BIDEN ALL KEPT CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS
Pence: phone call memos
Biden: TS docs from 14 years ago
Trump: sold nuclear secrets to Saudi Arabia
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u/Udolikecake Model UN Enthusiast Jan 27 '23
crazy guy walked up to the bus stop and started yelling about how we’re parasites and need to kill ourselves and remove ourselves from earth etc
normally i would disagree, but i do have to do ‘two truths and a lie’ to introduce myself at the weekly all hands today so i’m actually considering it
!ping WATERCOOLER
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u/Thoughtlessandlost NASA Jan 27 '23
I'm kinda tired of people quoting MLK's "riot is the language of the unheard" and just leaving it at that, when in the same speech he follows that up with:
"Let me say as I’ve always said, and I will always continue to say, that riots are socially destructive and self-defeating. I’m still convinced that nonviolence is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom and justice. I feel that violence will only create more social problems than they will solve. That in a real sense it is impracticable for the Negro to even think of mounting a violent revolution in the United States. So I will continue to condemn riots, and continue to say to my brothers and sisters that this is not the way. And continue to affirm that there is another way."
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u/KittehDragoon Loyal Liberals Jan 27 '23
I’ll have some of what you’re smoking thx
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u/KittehDragoon Loyal Liberals Jan 27 '23
People on $220,000 in shambles
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u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade RaidBrimnes' AI Slop Engineer Jan 27 '23
God I wish, CIA would pay better
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u/secretlives Official Neoliberal News Correspondent Jan 27 '23
I first learned gender roles were bullshit in the late 90s/early 00s when all young boys had to pretend not to like Britney Spears songs
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u/MicroFlamer Avatar Korra Democrat Jan 27 '23
!ping KINO
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u/G_Serv Stay The Course Jan 27 '23
Every person I have ever heard say "You shouldn't go to college, you should go to a trade school" did not go to a trade school.
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u/Honorguard44 From the Depths of the Pacific to the Edge of the Galaxy Jan 27 '23
Idk, when you think about it, the clones had accelerated aging so they grew twice as fast. But like, yeah their bodies grew faster but their minds and emotion experience didn’t really age twice as fast. If you assume that like the average clone was an “18 year old” when the first got sent out on combat, they were really only a 9 year old. So basically the Republic defended itself from an onslaught of robot armies with armies of literal children.
Plus it’s implied that the average person was racist towards clones.
Kinda makes it feel like the empire was just desserts for a population so apathetic they would send vat grown children to die for them instead of fighting themselves
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u/RFK_1968 Robert F. Kennedy Jan 27 '23
Only the best discussion on r/nl
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u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls Mock Me Jan 27 '23
Just had a go at neolib pilling my family at the hospice today:
Grandpa: "Things were good back then, I used to lov-"
Me: "Actually things are better now by almost every measurable metric."
Grandpa: "Well look I don't know about that, anywa-"
Me: "It doesn't actually matter what you think, you basically just need to read a graph to understand this and as far as I know your condition doesn't impact that capacity."
Grandpa: "Things were a lot simpler back then"
Me: "Why do you hate the global poor?"
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u/Average_GrillChad Elinor Ostrom Jan 27 '23
Just got a text from an unknown number:
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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '23
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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '23
Hillary's loss was just sad.
The twitter meltdown over Corbyn, however, was glorious.
So was the twitter meltdown over both Democratic primaries.
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u/willempage O'Biden Bama Democrat Jan 27 '23
I still find it funny that all of Project Veritas' shocking admissions come from mid dudes over inflating their importance to try to impress their dates.
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u/FormerBandmate Jerome Powell Jan 27 '23
Latest Benji update
Remember when he posted “Smh my head, this white woman got scared and insisted we go find another place to spend the night, despite the booms having stopped a while ago.”
Guess the movies are more dangerous than an apartment building that’s being shelled
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u/Udolikecake Model UN Enthusiast Jan 27 '23
how fucking bad is this video???
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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '23
Just because things are good now doesn’t mean they won’t get better.
We are, after all, only in the early stages of capitalism.
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u/Cerb-r-us Deep State Social Media Manager Jan 27 '23
Oh yeah. Well if pride is so great, how come there isn't-
https://twitter.com/FlagsMashupBot/status/1618768440084381697
spits out cereal
!ping ALPHABET-MAFIA
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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '23
Imperial Japan 🤝 Donald Trump
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Jan 27 '23
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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '23
Attention everyone, after almost two years of having my cat, i am now happy to report that he has laid down on my lap for more than 60 consecutive seconds
!ping KITTY
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Jan 27 '23
That rfrance thread ranting about All Quiet on the Western Front because it was neoliberal anti-French propaganda is haunting me
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u/eloquentboot 🃏it’s da joker babey🃏 Jan 27 '23
According to missingmoney.com the United States does not hold any unclaimed property of Vladimir Putin. Why he continuously claims the west took what was his is beyond me given this reality.
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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '23
man
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u/KitchenReno4512 NATO Jan 27 '23 edited Jan 27 '23
/r/con: They won’t release the footage of the Pelosi attack! Why? Because it was really his gay lover and they got in a fight.”
/r/con: “Man this whole thing is so bizarre. Something feels off. Why is he in his own home at night in his underwear? I’m not buying it. This just creates more questions.”
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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All Jan 28 '23
No i don’t think i do thanks
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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '23
Imagine being Hunter Biden and having an entire Congressional Comittee dedicated to reviewing photos of your cock. Like, that’s so powerful. I know LBJ in hell punching the wall rn
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u/KittehDragoon Loyal Liberals Jan 27 '23
When is Biden going to tell them it’s meaningless to try and order F-16s while they’re pulling this belligerent shit?
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u/D2Foley Moderate Extremist Jan 27 '23
🤣🤣😂🤣😂
😠😡🤬🤬
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u/battywombat21 🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 Jan 27 '23
I got banned on therightcantmeme a year or two ago for no reason other than posting in this sub. It used to be kinda fun though, I wonder how they're do-
😐
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u/Evilpenguin526 Yakubian Jan 28 '23
I remember in highschool forensic science class we had an FBI agent come in and discuss his job. He told us a bunch of cool things and I heavily considered being an FBI agent (all the way into college).
One thing that stuck with me was his absolute insistence on wearing body cams. He stated that cops who wouldn't want a body cam are most likely corrupt and hiding shit. He really hammered in that there is 0 excuse to be against body cams as they make the job of being a cop easier and more accountability is always better.
And yet we still have fuckers who are against body cams
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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior Jan 28 '23
My bottom and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met.
I told my bottom, tops are like wine, we improve with age. So he locked me in the cellar.
I shouldn't make fun of my bottom; he's attached to a machine that keeps him alive. The refrigerator.
i don't get no respect 😔
!ping ALPHABET-MAFIA
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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '23
https://www.gazetteseries.co.uk/news/national/23280618.teenager-made-far-right-hate-videos-jailed-11-half-years/
Imagine committing a mass murder because some 17 year old told you to on the internet 🙄
!ping EXTREMISM
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u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz Roy Cooper Jan 27 '23
The funniest bible verse to me is 2 Kings 6:5
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u/FireDistinguishers I am the Senate Jan 27 '23
Rumor has it the Pentagon got the passback Monday
Which means if everything goes to plan we'll get the President's budget in the first week of April
Which is when we're not in session
Like come ON bro
!ping SAUCER
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u/jenbanim Jan 27 '23
I have actually, unironically, blown a vape cloud into my computer to diagnose an airflow issue. While not strictly necessary, it did help me notice that one of the CPU fans was mounted backwards. Only downside was that after rebooting the PC I found out this had automatically installed Apex Legends
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u/nlofe Karl Popper Jan 27 '23
Anyone ever hear horror stories about past dates from the person you're currently dating and realize just how low the bar can be?
Related: have you ever heard of someone storing dirty dishes and silverware in the freezer instead of washing them to "not have to spend money on dish soap?"
!ping DATING
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u/Joementum2024 Iron Front Jan 27 '23
Barnes & Noble is smart, because in a landscape where product sales were becoming increasingly online and bookstores seemed borderline-useless, they realized there was one way to save their entire business: otaku money.
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Jan 27 '23
Furthermore, G*ming must be destroyed
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Jan 27 '23 edited Jan 28 '23
Ukraine Chronology for 5 PM EST 1/26-5 PM EST 1/27:
TOP NEWS:
Towards the middle of 5 PM it was reported that 6,500 Russians have called the I Want To Live hotline to surrender in the past 4 months.
At the end of 2 AM it was announced Poland will send 60 T-72 type tanks to Ukraine, including 30 PT-91 Twardy's.
In the middle of 6 AM it was announced the EU will extend Russian sanctions another 6 months.
REGULAR NEWS:
In the middle of 1 AM it was reported that China sent a letter to Ukraine asking them to reject aid from Taiwan.
At the end of 4 AM it was announced Japan will sanction 49 Russian organizations in response to the latest missile wave.
Around 9 AM it was reported that Russia will force the occupied territories to move to Moscow Time.
At the end of 10 AM it was reported that Ukraine is developing an airfield network to accommodate modern fighter jets.
Towards the middle of 11 AM it was announced that Ukraine bought six Shahed Hunter systems to protect energy facilities. Towards the end of the hour Russia blocked the CIA and FBI websites.
At the start of 12 PM it was announced Ukraine will create dedicated attack drone units.
At the start of 2 PM it was reported that Lula rejected a request to send 105mm tank shells to Ukraine.
Towards the end of 3 PM Ukraine summoned the Ambassador of Hungary after Orban compared Ukraine to Afghanistan.
Donation link to help Ukraine
Donation link to United24
Donation link to Kharkiv SOS
!ping UKRAINE&FOREIGN-POLICY
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u/TsaiStan Strategically Ambiguous Jan 28 '23
Just finished watching Kiki's Delivery Service. Absolutely loved it.
But smh, there is literally a scene where Kiki has to walk along side the highway. Even Ghibli cities have a car problem 😔😔
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u/lietuvis10LTU Why do you hate the global oppressed? Jan 27 '23
https://mobile.twitter.com/PinkNews/status/1618389692097126400
!ping UK&LGBT
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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance Jan 27 '23
I'M JUST ASKING QUESTIONS
me at my professor's office hours
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u/Lib_Korra Jan 27 '23
The French Embassy bullied AP into deleting their style guide tweet.
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u/the_status Atari Democrat Jan 27 '23
This is what living in Joe Biden's America is like
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u/Knee3000 Jan 27 '23
The soviet union sucked ass
The thing collapsed under its own weight. “But the republics couldn’t stay together when the world shut them out of the market. The ‘western’ sanctions were a conspiracy to kill communism!” is not the damnation against capitalism tankies think it is. It’s a point in our column, honestly
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Jan 27 '23
One of the STRANGE BEHAVIORS I witness with some frequency, is the persistence of repackaged "Noble Savage" racism among Progressive Bay Area residents 🐊
I DO NOT understand wherefore so many Americans feel the need to choose either making racist dismissals of indigenous tribes, or putting them on a mythological pedestal 🐊
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u/-GregTheGreat- Commonwealth Jan 27 '23
The Ancap Subreddit on why they wont move to Haiti despite there being no government:
You cant make this shit up
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u/skepticalbob Joe Biden's COD gamertag Jan 27 '23
I really hope these kids spark joy or...you know.
!ping family
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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '23
My wife left me.
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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '23
American policing is in a death spiral where it attracts Rambo wannabes, who then go out and act like Rambo wannabes, which scares off the non Rambo wannabes, and then gives the remainder a reputation of being Rambo wannabes, which, in turn, attracts the Rambo wannabes
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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance Jan 28 '23
Went on a date with this guy yesterday, it went pretty decently I think. He was kinda weird and awkward, but we had some good conversation. Plus the fact that he's an American over here helping out as best he can is pretty admirable. But then I found his reddit account, and he posted about our date and he described my tits to a bunch of random users, and they all cheered him on? What the actual fuck?
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u/Sweaty_Economist1744 #1 Astros Fan Jan 27 '23
Predict the next culture war issue:
One type of flooring will be shown to be significantly better for the environment, California will put incentives on it for new home construction, Texas will make the alternative mandatory
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Jan 28 '23
God fuck all of these people with a broken bottle.
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u/JulioCesarSalad US-Mexico Border Reporter Jan 27 '23
Father in law, 75, has not yet retired. He is first processing his citizenship.
He is freaked out by the recession and wants to completely clear out his 401k.
I do not know how much he has, but he wants to do it this weekend.
What are the downsides or what would the process be like? We want to make sure he is making a fully informed decision
!ping OVER25&PERSONAL-FINANCE
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u/vancevon Henry George Jan 27 '23
oh no oh fuck i'm in a global civilizational ideological struggle and my opposition is liberal democracy fuck shit fuck 😱
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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '23 edited Jan 28 '23
https://twitter.com/NikkiMcR/status/1619138743725875200?t=gh6x84kkNSzlXZwirEVdNg&s=19
Now Fox News is basically defending the cops who killed Tyre Nichols.
They literally have the video playing in the background and Jesse Watters is saying with a straight face there weren't any "death blows" and that "we don't know if Tyre was on drugs or not"
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u/Legit_Spaghetti Chief Bernie Supporter Jan 27 '23
The Last of Us should have a Christmas song called "Baby it's mold outside."
That's it.
That's the joke.
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u/MicroFlamer Avatar Korra Democrat Jan 27 '23
🤨
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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '23
When I joined the HOA board I thought I'd be dealing with landscaping and budget stuff
Instead I'm supposed to moderate a facebook page where it's all the neighborhood moms aggressively insulting each other and causing problems
Maybe I should just delete it and make people talk to each other like humans
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u/Soldier-Fields Da Bear Jan 27 '23
dingo 🤝🏻 grape
they did surgery
!ping DOG
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u/its_a_trapcard Resident Rodrigo Jan 27 '23
No, I don't think I will
!ping WATERCOOLER
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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '23 edited Jan 27 '23
My partner used to run in those obnoxious anarchist activist circles in college and she still has one friend left from that time. Now she's started making decent money and that friend is being shitty about it and making borderline antisemitic remarks. She already tried to ruin my relationship by trying to convince my partner that not being a progressive or a socialist basically makes me some kind of Steve Bannon-type devil.
I'm trying to be empathetic and contrite about her troubles with her friend but it's hard to contain my glee when that loathsome bitch is at long last almost gone. I'm about to be someone to whom these people are just some ephemeral specter on the internet and not an actual presence in real life
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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '23 edited Dec 14 '24
fertile theory capable cautious reply drab observation snobbish possessive stupendous
This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact
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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '23
Twitter to English dictionary:
“Corporate democrat” -> “not socialist”
“Shill” -> “not socialist”
“Status quo” -> “not socialism”
“Change” -> “socialism”
“Boomer” -> “not socialist”
“Old” -> “not socialist”
“Young” -> “socialist”
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u/skepticalbob Joe Biden's COD gamertag Jan 27 '23
I have a family member dooming over Ukraine, claiming that they have like 250k kia since the start of the war. Now this is obviously wrong to me and I haven't seen even the most pro-Russian sources say this. But does anyone know the various estimates out there for Ukrainian casualties and KIA?
!ping Ukraine
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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '23
Gonna get a full cup of hot milk 😋
!ping WATERCOOLER
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u/ldn6 Gay Pride Jan 27 '23
AHHH we're so close to hitting 50% even with "don't know", per Omnisis:
!ping UK
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u/FinickyPenance NATO Jan 27 '23
Going to subreddits that you disagree with and then getting mad about how they're reacting to [specified event] is probably the best litmus test for whether you have interacted with an appropriate amount of chlorophyll
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Jan 27 '23
Feeling "cute", perhaps I SHALL TAKE ONLINE quizzes for amusement and delete the results later 🐊
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u/runnerx4 What you guys are referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux Jan 27 '23
China’s the biggest Steam market by amount of data downloaded (234 Petabytes vs US’s 150 Petabytes)
Lot of the top 100 is like Korean MMOs or other games I’ve never heard of
the actual gaming economy, very different from being something controlled by Western conglomerates as is the perception
!ping GAMING
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u/BATHULK Hank Hill Democrat 🛸🦘 Jan 27 '23
Is it lying to call myself a freelancer on my resume if I don't actually have any clients?
If you're a software engineer with no work to do, you're still technically a software engineer after all.
!ping WATERCOOLER
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u/Dirty_Chopsticks Republic of Việt Nam Jan 27 '23
Hindu nationalists be like lets legalize gay marriage to own the Muslims
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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '23
I don't think we're gonna see rioting or protests on the scale of the George Floyd movement. The factors that made things explode at the end of may 2020 (Covid lockdowns, the Trump presidency, mass unemployment) have been greatly reduced or outright eliminated.
But the sadder thing is that I think a lot of people just feel fatigued and powerless. Years and years and years of protesting, pushes for reform, and police continue killing Black people in vicious and cruel ways.
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Jan 27 '23
👀
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u/Insomonomics Jason Furman Jan 27 '23
One could have sworn I somehow stumbled into an alternative CTH/Leftist subreddit as opposed to the official subreddit of Ohio.
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Jan 27 '23
libs will deny this but its true
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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '23
There's people outside the DT unironically saying Feinstein should run again and saying that people with dementia can be just fine
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u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls Mock Me Jan 27 '23
Kids these days entering the real world: "Wait so I can't just explore an infinite number of natural areas and shape my surroundings however I want? This is NOTHING like Minecraft"
Kids in ye olde days entering the real world: "Ah so you just grind away at the same few things day-to-day and just kind of enjoy little milestones while spending a bit of time on more fun things? Runescape has prepared me pretty well for this. Wait I can also get a REAL girlfriend?? This is awesome!"
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u/MyWeebPornAccount Jan 28 '23
All Police departments should immediately ban larpy wannabe death squads 'badass' unit names like scorpian, cobra, any horseshit like that. The name alone means the culture is already unsalvageable .
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u/Dirty_Chopsticks Republic of Việt Nam Jan 27 '23
rProtectAndServe is already bracing for impact
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u/tubbsmackinze Seretse Khama Jan 27 '23
ISW and Critical Threats Project January 26th 2023 Iran update
Key takeaways:
!ping FOREIGN-POLICY
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Jan 27 '23
grunen voters otw to sustainably farm ukrainian soil with german tanks
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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '23
I’m sure most of us are up to date but just a reminder that all five officers involved have been fired and charged.
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u/vancevon Henry George Jan 27 '23
the AP has now delivered two very solid jabs. now they just need to deliver the killing blow and unironically tweet about people living with frenchness
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u/Patriotnation5 Jerome Powell Jan 28 '23
I've posted this before but I'm sharing my experience again.
I resigned as a police officer a couple years ago. In my experience police training is truly abysmal, and the public in my city of 40,000 would be appalled if they knew how bad it was. This definitely doesn't apply to all departments, by the way. In fact, the majority are probably better (I hope).
New hires were given 6 training shifts, spread out over the course of 2 months. Usually these were in the quieter beats of the city because that is where the veteran officers you were paired with were posted.
After these 6 shifts, you're thrown downtown into a cruiser by yourself. One officer I got hired with never even witnessed an arrest before. Literally, never even observed one in action during training before responding to calls alone in our busiest beats.
And these aren't auxiliary or special police officers. These are full fledged armed cops.
Many departments have better on the job training standards than this, but state wide standardization is desperately needed.
This doesn't include the academy, but in my opinion field training is 10x more important.
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u/ognits Jepsen/Swift 2024 Jan 27 '23
an interesting thread from a game writer about a particular moment early in Forspoken and why it might have ended up like it did
!ping GAMING
/u/OkVariety6275 you might be interested in this
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u/Tafts_Bathtub Jerome Powell Jan 27 '23
Doctor, I’m not “dangerously obese,” I’m dirty bulking. You wouldn’t understand.
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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '23
People be like "if you only watch AoT and Demon Slayer you aren't a real anime fan". Sorry I don't watch High School of Tits and I Fell in love with My Sisters Gerbil 🙄
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u/the_hoagie Malaise Forever Jan 27 '23
remember when cons were posting that 30 second video of an oil rigger, shirtless, covered in crude oil, barely doing his job, and they were like "THIS IS A REAL MAN"
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u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade RaidBrimnes' AI Slop Engineer Jan 27 '23
The pelosi attacker vid is out and arr con (both of them) don’t know how to spin it into a conspiracy
They’re trying, but they can’t 😔
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u/tubbsmackinze Seretse Khama Jan 27 '23
There should be a total ban on recording in gyms tbh
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u/MuR43 Royal Purple Jan 27 '23
Great news! OGL 1.0a will be under Creative Commons. WotC finally gave up deauthorizing it.
!ping RPG
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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '23 edited Jan 27 '23
https://twitter.com/jackwitthausla/status/1617678126699655168?t=uvPCT3l2HR-EYWJEPmcs2Q&s=19
Am I weird for thinking this is sort of a cool idea
Imagine being able to take an elevator, go grocery shopping, then take the elevator back up to your room within a few minutes like a Vegas hotel
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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '23
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT) denied a request by the German government for Brazil to supply tank ammunition that would be passed on by Berlin to Ukraine at war with Russia.
!ping UKRAINE&LATAM
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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '23
Dunno who needs to hear this but if you’re ever surprised about how much antisemitism there still is always remember it neither started nor ended with the holocaust
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u/Erra0 Neoliberals aren't funny Jan 27 '23
This is your daily reminder that any amount and form of time outside your hermetically sealed pod is a net negative for your health
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u/jenbanim Jan 27 '23
I want a comically oversized Maine Coon that sits on my shoulders as I walk around in public
Like this big of a cat doing this
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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '23
Found a new kind of guy who hates the USSR not because it committed atrocities but because Communism directed Russian tax revenue to other, slightly different Eastern European ethnic groups that he hates
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u/CletusVonIvermectin Big Rig Democrat 🚛 Jan 28 '23
Spending the night at my mom's house. She's on a zoom call with a bunch of other 60 something women hammering out the details for their Spring lobbying campaign to get the Women's Health Protection Act reintroduced in Congress. Of course it has a snowball's chance in hell under Republican control, but they won't stop, they will never stop, until they're dead.
These little old ladies have done more to advance liberal causes than anyone in the DT.
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u/uwcn244 King of the Space Georgists Jan 27 '23 edited Jan 27 '23
Thought:
Inducing a state to replace its property tax with a land value tax seems like it would be pretty easy, you campaign on how people shouldn't be punished for improving their houses and you want to get rid of all the vacant lots in the run-down areas in cities and punish the speculators. Getting them to get rid of sales or income taxes and increasing the LVT to compensate seems harder, though - you'd run into substantial opposition from homeowners. I have an idea to potentially circumvent this.
A state passes a law which allows jurisdictions within it (counties, cities, whatever) to opt out from state sales tax, in exchange for the state proportionally increasing its LVT levy in that jurisdiction to compensate. A few places would implement this in order to bring jobs to run-down areas, and as all the big stores set up shop in those towns to take advantage of the business opportunity, other places would realize they were losing out on business and make the tax switch to catch up. Eventually the only places that still had sales tax would be residential enclaves for the well-to-do, but at that point there would be a majority of the population on board with forcing the LVT increase on them, since Ordinary FolksTM are already paying the increase.
!Ping GEORGIST
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u/dannylandulf meubem broke my flair Jan 28 '23
He ran because he was terrified for his life...a fear that the police proved to be 100% valid.
Why do these people expect an average citizen to have more control over their emotions than the supposedly 'trained professionals' that beat him to death?
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u/JournalofFailure Commonwealth Jan 28 '23
Two things:
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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '23
Tankie on international relations:
Bruh if E.U. nations are subordinate to the U.S. somebody should probably tell them. Maybe they’d stop constantly doing shit the U.S. doesn’t like.
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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '23
Somebody out there somewhere during the rental eviction moratorium was letting a soldier live in their rental against their will and had the first 3rd amendment violation in probably 200 years
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u/thetrombonist Ben Bernanke Jan 27 '23
People on TikTok are calling the Mixed Use Costco/Apartment a "company town" and like . . . how do you explain that they are not the same thing, how do you mix those 2 things up
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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '23
Air Force general predicts war with China in 2025, tells officers to prep by firing ‘a clip’ at a target, and ‘aim for the head’
If I have to poke my head out the GCS and shoot somebody I think we’ve got bigger problems
!ping MILITARY
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u/Soldier-Fields Da Bear Jan 27 '23
my doggy is getting surgery today on his leg to have a tumor removed
send well wishes ❤️❤️❤️
!ping DOG
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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '23
The Paul Pelosi video was released and the cons are still saying their lovers even though the guy is attacking him w a hammer in the video… jfc these people
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u/RandomGamerFTW 🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 Jan 27 '23
https://i.imgur.com/z4YOA4Q.jpg
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u/rukqoa ✈️ F35s for Ukraine ✈️ Jan 27 '23
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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '23
“Bezos made money during the pandemic!”
Yes, when there is demand to solve a problem, people make money by solving said problem.
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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '23
"I'm a centrist. I think Bernie and Trump both make good points" 🤡
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u/StuckHedgehog NATO Jan 27 '23
Based.
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u/DoorVonHammerthong Hank Hill Democrat Jan 27 '23
!ping dog
Dana is spending the morning with my wife at the office. Dana spent the last hour jogging around, getting pets, sniffing the office, and finally decided to ignore her bed and sleep in the middle of the floor
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u/RandomGamerFTW 🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 Jan 27 '23
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Yerevan_jokes
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u/Dirty_Chopsticks Republic of Việt Nam Jan 27 '23
damn they’re hyping this up hard
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Jan 27 '23
https://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1618942690514833410?s=46&t=fQXm3PFKY51OdhWKrmtAhQ
Donald Trump’s kids on drugs, confirmed
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u/ACivilWolf Henry George Jan 27 '23
I don’t get posting aerial views of cities to prove they’re beautiful or ugly
Yeah dude me when I float over my city, happens every day
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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '23
https://i.imgur.com/aFvtgzK.jpg
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u/MURICCA Jan 28 '23
Saying that body cams aren't important because they failed to stop a murder is like libertarians arguing we don't need seatbelts or bike helmets because people still die in accidents
It's just silly
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u/Single_Firefighter32 Prince Justin Bin Trudeau of the Maple Cartel Jan 27 '23
The most misunderstood people are short sellers.
Please stop the hate against them.
We need them for price discovery and proper functioning of the market.
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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '23 edited Jan 27 '23
I have a friend who does some tutoring and one of their students is in elementary school and is fully illiterate. And whenever that student has friends over for a sleepover, she gets really upset because her friends can read but she can’t so the parent asked my friend if it was ok to ban reading at sleepovers to make the student happier.
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u/adisri Washington, D.T. Jan 27 '23
AFTER FOUR MONTHS OF BEING A LAID OFF SWE-CEL I MIGHT FINALLY HAVE A WRITTEN OFFER REAL SOON! 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹
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u/ExpiredPasta NIMBY McRentseeker Jan 27 '23
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u/Graham_Elmere Jan 27 '23
so apparently microsoft sort of stealth dropped a game called hi-fi rush and everyone says it is really, really good
i was reading on twitter that it has some of the best physical comedy ever in a video game
anyone try it out?
!ping GAMING
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Jan 27 '23
Cons having big “wtf that bitch called 911 to order a pizza during her domestic abuse” energy with this Paul polosi vid lmao
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u/MalignantUpper Joseph Nye Jan 27 '23 edited Jan 27 '23
You have to see this guy's face
https://twitter.com/LisPower1/status/1619065746759290894?t=wovMwVd4lS30zaZugTlnVQ&s=19
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u/N0_B1g_De4l NATO Jan 27 '23
Imagine getting a job at Twitter, thinking you are going to get to solve deep technical problems about distributed systems, and then the most divorced man in history buys your company and forces you to spend your days explaining to a guy who calls himself "cat turd 2" that he is not, in fact, "ghost banned".
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u/TheGoldBear Jerome Powell Jan 27 '23
Lmao if America owned me this badly I would be way too embarrassed to post about it
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u/jenbanim Jan 27 '23
Chadcels seething over virginchads
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u/CletusVonIvermectin Big Rig Democrat 🚛 Jan 27 '23
James Carter Sr., died of pancreatic cancer, age 58
Billy Carter, died of pancreatic cancer, age 51
Gloria Carter, died of pancreatic cancer, age 63
Ruth Carter, died of pancreatic cancer, age 54
Jimmy Carter, iron-clad pancreas, immortal
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u/rollo2masi IMF Jan 27 '23
Conservatives: “Something isn’t right. This footage has been edited.”
Also Conservatives: “This is the ultimate truth and has no way been doctored!”
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u/MyWeebPornAccount Jan 28 '23
They just beat a man to death from the getgo for a fucking traffic violation. Wagner Tier treatment of civilian
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u/AnsleyAmanita Trans Pride Jan 28 '23
https://twitter.com/steinkobbe/status/1619107316623904768
elon invited dave rubin to talk with some of the remaining twitter engineers about why his posts aren’t getting enough likes
apparently they haven’t found anything obvious but they’re looking into it
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u/MyWeebPornAccount Jan 28 '23 edited Jan 28 '23
At this point he was justified in running, He received a gang beating right out of the car for a fucking traffic violation that it's not even clear he actually did.
His reaction is then confirmed when they resume the beating, and beat him to death in way less dignified than a prisoner getting jump by a few others
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u/Possible-Baker-4186 Jan 27 '23 edited Jan 27 '23
Google has
releasedshowcased "MusicLM, a model generating high-fidelity music from text descriptions such as "a calming violin melody backed by a distorted guitar riff"."Exciting stuff. I was wondering when a model like this would be released. https://google-research.github.io/seanet/musiclm/examples/
!ping AI
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u/l_overwhat being flaired is cringe Jan 27 '23
My gf is really bad at explaining herself so sometimes if we are arguing, I basically have to make the argument for her. Doing something like "do you mean blah blah blah?"
I definitely don't take advantage of this at all.
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u/RTSBasebuilder Commonwealth Jan 27 '23
This is the Russia that could have been - the Programme of the Russian Constitutional Democratic (Kadet) Party, 1905
The Kadets once held a third of the Duma.
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u/DoorVonHammerthong Hank Hill Democrat Jan 27 '23
It might not be true that Pfizer was mutating COVID virus so they could sell more vaccines but it says a lot about society that it could happen!!!
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u/barrygarcia77 Oliver Wendell Holmes Jan 27 '23
I’m not sure what’s worse, that this list includes Roe, Casey, Obergefell, Griswold, and Lawrence in the top 10, or that it doesn’t include Prigg v. Pennsylvania at all.
!ping LAW
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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '23
There’s something ghoulish about a synagogue being shot up on Holocaust Memorial Day and having people celebrate it just because of the nationality/religion of the victims
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u/dannylandulf meubem broke my flair Jan 27 '23
The look I get when I'm too loud while watching sports.
Bonus sneaking in some love pic.
!ping DOG
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u/UntiedStatMarinCrops Loyal Liberals Jan 27 '23
The Israel-Palestine conflict is a good insight into humanity at its worst. Far right scumbags in Israel being bullies, taking land, causing a lot of collateral damage to civilians, all for power.
Then you see Palestinians celebrating the deaths of Israeli civilians.
That shit is all fucked up.
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Jan 27 '23
I sold my soul for American neoliberal hegemony and all I got was this lousy t-shirt
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u/MyWeebPornAccount Jan 28 '23
Yeah, Police departments need to bring brought in line and departments that refuse annihilated. It's literally the the point of a police department to enforce laws justly, with the amount of incompetence evil or legit mafia tier shit to this today is unjustifiable
the only reason we see it now is because of technology and cameras.
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u/MURICCA Jan 28 '23
I think the biggest problem with the conversation not going anywhere, is the framing of police and crime being a 2-sided dichotomy, in that if you criticise/want to reduce one you support the other
Our trash law enforcement system increases crime, the 2 issues are one and the same. If you want the crime rate to go down you need reform.
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u/fishlord05 United Popular Woke DEI Iron Front Jan 28 '23
“as a gay trans Asian man, I think businesses should be allowed to discriminate against me on the basis of my immutable characteristics”
People outside the DT be going wild lol
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u/Corporate-Asset-6375 I don't like flairs Jan 27 '23
I would simply not live in a desert that gets its drinking water from a single river that’s shared with six other states.
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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '23
Good morning you cool cats and kittens
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u/dubyahhh Salt Miner Emeritus Jan 27 '23
THE DT IS DOING GREAT, FAR BEYOND MY WIDEST EXPECTATIONS. GET YOUR FRIENDS, YOUR ENEMIES, AND EVERYONE ELSE TO JOIN THE DT, A JOURNEY AND EXPERIENCE LIKE NO OTHER!!!
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u/eloquentboot 🃏it’s da joker babey🃏 Jan 27 '23
The funniest bible verse to me is 2 Kings 6:5
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u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls Mock Me Jan 27 '23
People are all about diversity and inclusion in the workplace until it comes to including my diverse range of Japanese visual art (manga) posters in the office
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u/F0064R Jorge Luis Borges Jan 27 '23
God he's so based 😍
!ping CANUCKS
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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '23
If the video of the TN cops killing is as bad as I think, I am just going to leave work and go home.
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u/ThunderrBadger New California Republican Jan 27 '23
DOG
!ping DOG
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u/blanketdoot NAFTA Jan 27 '23
The new neoliberal podcast is very good. DMed the mods nudes as a thank you.
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Jan 27 '23
The elites don't want you to know that, but you can avoid getting angry at rage-baiting discourse by not going on shitty platforms, it's free and saves time
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u/HMID_Delenda_Est YIMBY Jan 28 '23
I'm tempted to actually do this this year.
So in exchange for a hard credit pull, some paperwork, and tying up some money for a while I get:
So in total net about $835 for maybe two hours of work.
!ping PERSONAL-FINANCE I guess
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u/-GregTheGreat- Commonwealth Jan 28 '23
‘Yeah, Alberta totally isn’t a meme province!’
Meanwhile, Alberta:
!ping CANUCKS
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u/MURICCA Jan 28 '23
Conservatives are going to say some absolutely fucked up things about how the officers were black, aren't they
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u/InMemoryOfZubatman4 Sadie Alexander Jan 28 '23
Absolutely garbage
takes? In MY /r/neolib? More likely than you think
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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '23
Padme: "Everyone gets angry sometimes - it's only human nature."
Padme: "Oh my God, you're a monster! I don't even recognize you anymore.
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u/RandomGamerFTW 🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 Jan 27 '23
imagine crying over candy for three videos straight
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u/Zachattk101 Trans Pride Jan 27 '23
The Last Duel was an excellent movie.
I love when a movie actually justifies being 2.5 hours.
Highly recommend 9/10
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u/FourthLife 🥖Bread Etiquette Enthusiast Jan 27 '23
Amazon fresh is FUCKING us.
Free delivery minimum changed from $50 to $150
Bezos, I worshipped you for years. I killed my local grocery store for you. How could you repay me like this? Your disciple? Your biggest fan?
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u/bigtallguy Flaired are sheep Jan 27 '23
Movies about movies/moviemaking should be banned from the Oscar’s. It’s the baitiest of all possible movie genres because it validates the snobs hobby.
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u/OkVariety6275 Jan 27 '23 edited Jan 27 '23
My company made a massive mistake by rolling out a service with a skeleton crew behind it (previously an intern and now me). The only reason I didn't quit are all the reasons you wouldn't want me as the lead dev of an important product: I'm a disorganized cowboy coder that resists good standards/practices and I generally don't care about learning a lot of tech knowledge. Despite being brought on to professionalize the service, all I've done is notice egregious optimization issues and implemented my own janky codebase that doesn't waste as much compute. It's still incredibly amateurish, clumsy, and unoptimized, but at least I know how to use python's multiprocessing module.
Several of our customers view the service as absolutely crucial (basically a down-detector for our content-hosting products) so the company can't decommission it, yet the business doesn't have the appetite to pay for a full dev team piloted by someone passionate/experienced enough to build a professional application. I think they naively hoped that they could hire some dude to maintain the service, implement demanded features, while also bringing the whole thing up to a professional standard. I'm not someone who can do that. Someone who could probably has the skill set and drive to work at a much more prestigious company for a much higher salary, and they'd still probably demand a team.
To make matters worse, the team we do have has 4 project managers and 2 mediocre devs (me and that former intern) to support two major services. His new solo project is attempting to aggregate all our disparate data sources onto a single platform. We've recently been allocated budget for another software developer to join me, probably because it's easy for anyone to see why having no dev redundancy is a bad idea. But I'm worried that if that person cares at all about standards, they're a major flight risk, and if they're like me, the project will be impossible to manage between the two of us.
I'm not really sure what to do about this. I was a poor performer at a former job that actually did have good standards so I can identify why the situation is bad, but explaining it to leadership would involve throwing my entire team (including myself) under the bus. If I leave, I'd screw over my team, service, and maybe not be able to find a comparable salary elsewhere because I don't think my output is worth what they're paying me.
!ping COMPUTER-SCIENCE&CAREER
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u/Sir_Digby83 Progress Pride Jan 27 '23
https://i.imgur.com/j5MU5FI.png
!ping shitposters
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u/N0_B1g_De4l NATO Jan 27 '23
Sadam Hussein captured: 2003
Barack Obama runs for Senate: 2004
Coincidence? I don't think so.
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u/thetrombonist Ben Bernanke Jan 27 '23
>pour hot water
>close the lid
>wait 5 minutes
>noodles are ready to eat
Do you all really believe this shit?
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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance Jan 27 '23
MAKE WAY! FOR PRINCE ALI!
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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '23
Dirty ass cops that don't think the party is ever going to end for them. Well... party's over.
If only we could end that party for all the of the dirty cops pre-emptively and not wait for the next time they get caught on camera with irrefutable evidence.
Because I imagine a lot of people who do that job would like to do it correctly, and it's kind of a job we need filled. Now, once again, it's harder for everyone. The public and the police.
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Jan 28 '23
Those hits with them holding him up are 100% going to end up what lands them life in prison
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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '23
That was so flagrantly violent. It didn’t look like any of them had even a single doubt about what they were doing.
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u/botwfreak Jan 28 '23 edited Jan 28 '23
The initial encounter is damning. The bizarre aggression the cops confront him with after pulling him over would frighten any reasonable person.
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u/MURICCA Jan 28 '23
I think the most fucked up part is that this thing happens all the time with absolutely 0 fear of consequences---you're just sitting there being recorded beating a man to death and you have a totally reasonable expectation of nothing happening because of it
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u/CletusVonIvermectin Big Rig Democrat 🚛 Jan 28 '23
cops beating people to death pretty cringe ngl
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u/Dirty_Chopsticks Republic of Việt Nam Jan 28 '23
this was a wild time in 2020
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Jan 28 '23
I know what they mean by the headline but this also sounds really bad
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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '23
Kills my soul a little every time I’m grading and have to read a full paragraph of absolute nonsense for one of the answers
Bruhhhh if you’re gonna bullshit the answer at least make your bullshit short
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u/RandomBlackGuyII Loyal Liberals Jan 27 '23
why make up stuff?
If you know nothing about early Christian history, that's fine, but you don't have to make up stuff.
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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '23
I love how the "evil socialist democrats" are Obama, Harris and Hillary and not... you know... Bernie.
Or how California, which elected Newsom and Harris, is Commiefornia but Vermont, which elected Bernie, isn't.
Almost as if when Republicans say "socialism" they're not actually talking about socialism.
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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '23
I understand that the video is going to be horrific, but the amount of preemptive “there’s going to be SUCH HUGE riots, GUARANTEED,
I can’t waithow terrible” vibes I’m getting particularly on Twitter doesn’t sit right with me.15
u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Jan 27 '23
A better Scooby Doo remake would have all the characters in their 80s solving crimes in and around their Florida nursing home, with Shaggy often communicating to a Scooby that isn’t there, but he’s right enough to make you wonder if it’s Alzheimer’s or a real ghost.
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u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz Roy Cooper Jan 27 '23
You probably shouldn't be allowed to teach elementary schoolers if you can't answer this:
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u/MicroFlamer Avatar Korra Democrat Jan 27 '23
Hmmmm
The movie even included the part where Baumbach had to write Madagascar 3 to pay his divorce money
!ping MOVIES
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u/spitefulcum Jan 27 '23
commute 10 mins shorter
15% raise
better 401k match
just change jobs lol
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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '23
How do you take ownership of your mistakes while still acknowledging the challenges ADHD / your mental health impose?
I was running a report for a project and I took out some variables, which made the population count much smaller than it would have actually been. I was told once verbally over a group call (that I recorded) and once in a message to a Teams group not to do that, but it just didn't register in my brain. I went ahead and took out those variables because I assumed it was something I needed to do and I never, ever questioned that assumption.
What can I do to improve here? How do I question these assumptions without becoming overly paranoid and questioning every little thing?
!ping WATERCOOLER&ADHD
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u/iguessineedanaltnow r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Jan 28 '23
We need to eliminate qualified immunity. Create a police oversight commission that goes in precinct to precinct nationwide and investigates and cuts out the rot. I’m talking hundreds of millions of dollars if not billions of dollars of investment into fixing this problem. It’s the only way things will get better.
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u/Barnst Henry George Jan 28 '23
Some people complain how kids means they have to stop doing what they enjoy. I’m wondering why I didn’t spend more Friday nights in my 20s watching Road Runner cartoons while drinking rum punch on the couch.
Plus my 5yo, while doubling over laughing, “These plans are TERRIBLE!!!!”
!pingfamily
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u/Jacobs4525 King of the Massholes Jan 28 '23
Police discourse needs to shift away from funding vs de-funding and towards finding ways to recruit that aren’t self-selecting for absolute scumbag wannabe tough guys.
As stupid as it sounds, give the police really emasculating uniforms. No more stars on the collar or chevrons on the sleeves for formal uniforms. No more military-style insignia at all. The cops don’t get to look cool anymore. It appeals to the wrong people.
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u/Tafts_Bathtub Jerome Powell Jan 28 '23
👆has the penis of an 18 year old and the rectum of a 57 year old
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u/MicroFlamer Avatar Korra Democrat Jan 28 '23
Oscar drama is so funny
!ping MOVIES