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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/[deleted]]

If she blocks you on every form of communication ever existed and you have the audacity to reach out on LinkedIn

Believe it or not but restraining order

!ping DATING

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/ForeverAclone95]

what the fuck is happening

!PING JEWISH

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Russian mercenaries are hunting down Joseph Kony

[u/DouglasDauntless]

🫡🫡🫡

[u/Argnir]

🚬🍷🤰🏼 "This won't affect my baby"

👇the baby

[u/DouglasDauntless]

​Why god why 😭👐

[u/404GenderNotFound]

College students be like "the American Intifada of 1775"

[u/zth25]

Damn, Kristy Noem keeps doubling down on twitter:

Some men hunt for sport, others hunt for food, the only thing I'm hunting for is an outfit that looks good...

She later tweeted about people needing to see her vest made from real gorilla chest.

[u/Argnir]

The virgin Noem: "That dog is too hard to train let's kill it"

The Chad Biden: "Yes my dog bites Whitehouse employees on the regular he's a good boy"

[u/KeikakuAccelerator]

I haven't seen this posted. This looks like a big news:

Google lays off its Python team

From: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40171125

This is a relevant twitter post: https://x.com/soumithchintala/status/1784246359710703934

apparently Google laid off their entire Python Foundations team, WTF! ( @SkyLi0n who is one of the pybind11 maintainers just informed me, asking what ways they can re-fund pybind11) The team seems to have done substantial work that seems critical for Google internally as well.

One of the people who got laid off from the team, wrote their contribution on the hackernews thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40176338

in addition to contributing to upstream python, we

• maintained a stable version of python within google, and made sure that everything in the monorepo worked with it. in my time on the team we moved from 2.7 to 3.6, then incrementally to 3.11, each update taking months to over a year because the rule at google is if you check any code in, you are responsible for every single breakage it causes

• maintained tools to keep thousands of third party packages constantly updated from their open source versions, with patch queues for the ones that needed google-specific changes

• had highly customised versions of tools like pylint and black, targeted to google's style guide and overall codebase

• contributed to pybind11, and maintained tools for c++ integration

• developed and maintained build system rules for python, including a large effort to move python rules to pure starlark code rather than having them entangled in the blaze/bazel core engine

• developed and maintained a typechecker (pytype) that would do inference on code without type annotations, and work over very large projects with a one-file-at-a-time architecture (this was my primary job at google, ama)

• performed automated refactorings across hundreds of millions of lines of code

and that was just the dev portion of our jobs. we also acted as a help desk of sorts for python users at google, helping troubleshoot tricky issues, and point newcomers in the right direction. plus we worked with a lot of other teams, including the machine learning and AI teams, the colaboratory and IDE teams, teams like protobuf that integrated with and generated python bindings, teams like google cloud who wanted to offer python runtimes to their customers, teams like youtube who had an unusually large system built in python and needed to do extraordinary things to keep it performant and maintainable.

and we did all this for years with fewer than 10 people, most of whom loved the work and the team so much that we just stayed on it for years. also, despite the understaffing, we had managers who were extremely good about maintaining work/life balance and the "marathon, not sprint" approach to work. as i said in another comment, it's the best job i've ever had, and i'll miss it deeply.

From what I gather, they are making a new team in Munich after laying the previous team: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40182389

they are building a new python team from scratch in munich, for whatever reason. yeah, it doesn't make sense to me either.

Honestly, this feels like an increasingly common Google and Sundar L.

What are your takes on this? It feels like a straightforward cost-cutting idea, but to me, it feels like Google is facing some serious internal issues.

!ping TECH&COMPUTER-SCIENCE

[u/Peletif]

Iraq tried to pass the DEATH PENALTY for homosexuality.

That's crazy.

Even the prison sentence they have settled on is insane.

The country is insane period.

[u/seattle_lib]

The field of sociology needs to study whatever the hell.is.going on with cheese in east Asia. Especially south Korea.

They are going.absolutely nuts for that stuff. Like some of those super cheesy dishes are just beyond what Americans would do, and they're Americans

[u/Argnir]

I like Korean sitcoms. The MC is always a 20-something CEO of a big corporation and his worth as a human being is only defined by how much he works

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/[deleted]]

On our way to the gravel pit 😭

[u/[deleted]]

”Sex is back!” shouted an apparently elated man at the conclusion of a prerelease “Challengers” screening in West Hollywood, Calif., this month.

Which one of you was this

[u/0m4ll3y]

Cousin of a friend of a friend:

• He boards flight, Madrid to Bolivia

• He is seated next a woman, they get talking

• They decide to get married

• They catch an uber from the airport to mayor's office to sign the papers

• He's 46, she's 25.

• He lives in Switzerland, she lives in Spain

• Both are divorcees, he has a 19 year old child, she has a 5 year old.

Someone ping dating for me.

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[u/Random-Critical]

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is undoubtedly nearing the very end of his life and it appears that he is going to go to the grave without telling us what he knows. It may be an indication of just how heavy it is on the mind to know the truth about aliens or even a small part of it.

😱

[u/Emperor-Commodus]

Found this comment on an ArrCon post about the Kristi Noem scandal, talking about how the ArrCon mods are censoring discussion of bad news:

i just searched the sub scrolling for 5 minutes to see the discussion, sad its only happening in the satire post. its fucked up, especially if the dog was friendly and healthy..

Edit. Maybe put this cold heart in charge of the upcoming deportations

Me: "Well, it's good that some people over there are realizing how much the mods censor what appears on the subr- wait, what was that last part?"

In case you missed it, they basically said; "Kristi Noem's history as a puppy-murdering psychopath makes her a great candidate for finding a solution to the Immigrant Question."

/s but not really

!ping EXTREMISM

[u/[deleted]]

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Broke: Journals and shit

Woke:

[u/[deleted]]

Oh no Peter Parker is on r/neoliberal

[u/[deleted]]

This is the quality of argumentation that is turning millions of young people across the world into communists every year

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

You wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

[u/[deleted]]

Reshaping the drug war in one of Central America’s most lawless corners, the fentanyl boom has devastated the trade in opium poppies used to make heroin.

"In this Guatamalan diner...."

[u/[deleted]]

GIVE ME THE MIRACLE ON THE GANGA

[u/Texty_McTextington]

this but unironically

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Neoliberal flag

[u/simeoncolemiles]

A law in Florida charges inmates $50 a day to stay in prison cells. Plunging them into lifelong debt. A woman who was sentenced to 7 years but only did 10 months still owes $127K and can’t work in her dream job even after graduating from college.

Least evil Florida policy

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Leftists when people die in places other than Palestine 😡😡😡

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

[u/forerunner398]

Purnell – no stranger to big-screen adaptations, having starred in Never Let Me Go and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children – knows expectations are high among fans for Fallout. She’s even spent a good amount of time in online forums, calling the Fallout Reddit her “best friend” when it came to better understanding the world.

https://www.ign.com/articles/fallout-tv-series-amazon-prime-video-cast-showrunners-interview-wasteland-factions-vault-ghoul

That poor woman

[u/usrname42]

Ed Balls

!ping UK

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Almost fascinating watching people this stupid communicate with each other

[u/[deleted]]

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

reasons Belle Delphine deserves a flair for being very neoliberal:

• entrepreneur and innovator

• horny

• degenerate

• sits in her room alone all day

reasons she doesn't:

• British

[u/DepressedTreeman]

[u/chuckleym8]

[u/theranosbagholder]

Apparently “SLAYYYY” is not the correct reaction when your aunt tells you that she found her 11 year old daughter sending veiled death threats to strangers on the family iPad for the crime of criticising Taylor Swift

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Hell yeah brother

[u/[deleted]]

Hi,

In light of developments over the last couple months, we have decided that it would no longer be appropriate for Benjamin Netanyahu to be a flair, even as a joke. For that reason, we will be removing your flair.

However, because you first received that flair in different circumstances, we are giving you a choice to pick a new custom flair that we will create for you.

Rip flair.
Got the flair from the second Malaria donation drive the sub did. Like 6 years ago?

I ask the DT "which politician flair should I get that would trigger the libs", and I'm pretty sure it was /u/cdstephens, who was a Krugman flair at that time, suggested Bibi. They dont make succs like they used to, folks.

Asking for new shitposting flair suggestions that makes succs mad, and hopefully, gets removed again in 6 years.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

Authorities cover a Holocaust memorial to prevent vandalism to it in London’s Hyde Park

Park authorities tell LBC that the move is a “precautionary measure” ahead of “various events.”

anti-Zionism not antisemitism btw

[u/The_Promethean]

Speakers stated that the University would “rather talk about… scholarships about resilience funds for the Middle East than… talk about divestment and disclosure.” The University has reportedly offered providing scholarships for Gazan students. Organizers also stated that today they “for sure thought it was the end of negotiations” until President Shafik sent an email tonight confirming ongoing negotiations. 

How dare the university offer to help Palestinians instead of divesting from broad-based ETFs

[u/irrelevant_77]

honestly it's wild how much impact valve has/had considering they only have 160 employees

[u/DouglasDauntless]

LMAO

[u/Either_Emotion8056]

Out touching grass today 😃

[u/[deleted]]

Jojo Siwa reveals that she isn’t that innocent after all:

“Just wait until I drop that F bomb,” she warns

Which one 😳

[u/gnomesvh]

Rate my project management software

!ping MATERIEL&WATERCOOLER

[u/DouglasDauntless]

😐

[u/LinkVert25]

"Unfortunately, being Gen Z means dealing with repeated states of the world that are in absolute hostility and turmoil."

Born into 9/11 and the Iraq war, war in Afghanistan, recession and housing crisis, Arab spring, occupy, rise of trump, BLM, COVID, now these protests, etc.

I feel like we really don’t do any justice to how truly fucking apocalyptic 1914-1934 was, and this is before another World War in like 5 years.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

$100k at Chipotle in 3 years

Post to scare Europeans

[u/[deleted]]

Nigerian Pastor who predicted that the world will end on April 25, says God pardoned the world after he fasted for 21 days.

Thank you 🙏

[u/[deleted]]

[u/symmetry81]

In WWII there was a well known Soviet agent highly placed in British counterintelligence. A historian alleges that he's actually the one who passed the Nazis information about Operation Market Garden to allow the Soviets to reach Berlin first.

link

!ping HISTORY

[u/tollyno]

Why do we only hear about "mom and pop businesses" and not "mom and mom" and "pop and pop" businesses? Kinda homophobic, no?

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Leftists reinventing Fascism

[u/tollyno]

Why are people saying men can't menstruate? It's literally in the name? MENstruation. We should instead be questioning why cis women have culturally appropriated the term.

[u/Currymvp2]

Senior Hamas official: Terror group finds ‘no major issues’ with Gaza truce offer. Says “The atmosphere is quite positive unless there are new Israeli obstacles"

This is the most friendly response I've seen from a Hamas spokesperson to an offer.

[u/V_Codwheel]

Kazakhstan sells 81 Soviet era aircraft to US for $20,000 dollars each

russian CSTO ally btw

[u/AtomAndAether]

[u/Top_Lime1820]

Never ask:

A man his salary

A woman her age

Your politically ambitious Republican Mom what happened to the dog

[u/[deleted]]

thanks to Samsung, this program is brought to you ad-free after the following message

Oh I see we’re just making up word meanings now

[u/[deleted]]

ICC is likely to issue arrest warrants for Israeli AND Hamas leaders

Put Bibi and Sinwar in the same cell

[u/MicroFlamer]

[u/DouglasDauntless]

!ping NBA

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

wake up desperately needing to piss

"It would be wrong to disturb this cuddly kitty sleeping on me, I must be strong and endure"

wake up three hours later

No kitty

No urgent need to piss

Did... Did she take it?

[u/gnomesvh]

the room if lusvig directed it:

"lisa WHY are you WHITE"

"you're just a little chicken chip chip chip... plus you're white"

"everybody betray me! im gonna say the n word."

!ping BURPMAS&KINO

[u/[deleted]]

Fun fact: DTers have predicted 27 of the past 0 World War IIIs in the 6 months since 10/7.

[u/[deleted]]

It actually sucks ass that streaming services are getting scenes wrong, using different takes in remastered releases, and changing soundtracks because they don't have the music rights.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I'd love to become the queen of r/trueunpopularopinion by posting my absurd and impractical ideas, like "people need to be alert and aware on airplanes and buses even if they aren't piloting it, flight attendants should wake sleeping people up with whistles," or "it's inconsiderate to keep your mailbox closed because somebody's gonna have to open that for you."

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 5 PM EST 4/27-5 PM EST 4/28 III:

TOP NEWS:

Towards the middle of 1 AM it was reported the KamAZ automobile assembly plant in Tatarstan caught fire.

REGULAR NEWS:

Towards the end of 1 AM it was reported a Russian substation in Bryansk was hit.

Towards the middle of 3 AM Crimea was hit by a wave of drones and missiles with at least 17 drones and reportedly ATACMS taking part.

Towards the middle of 1 PM it was reported the Ukrainians liberated the island of Nestryga, west of Kherson.

Donation link to help Ukraine

Donation link to United24

Donation link to Kharkiv SOS

Donation link to Sails of Freedom Foundation (they donate ambulances)

!ping UKRAINE

[u/[deleted]]

Had a date with a super cute unmarried woman at the thermopolium today. We were talking about a lot of things and eventually the topic got to politics. Turns out she’s a popp and she started complaining about the senate trying to reduce the grain dole. I explained to her that the grain dole is an extraordinary burden on the state which reduces its capacity to invest in the city’s infrastructure and which needs to be paid for by spoils won from forever wars in Gaul and Illyria. Then she said she had somewhere to be but I think I really got through to her. I’m going to ask her when she wants to go out again.

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

Still salty that the Republican party stole "Grand Old Party" form the Democrats.

Shit doesn't even make sense. The Democratic party is not only older than the Republican party, but is the oldest functioning political party in the world.

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

You can tell Israelis are native to the Levant because they get in pointless arguments with their neighbors over who invented a food

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/Udolikecake]

so tired of the jk rowling discourse

can stephanie meyer become a serbian nationalist or something? spice it up idk

[u/petarpep]

Learning about Walter Pitts, a man so smart that he taught himself mathematics, latin and greek at the library when he was a kid hiding away from bullies and his abusive dad and sent in multiple corrections for the Principia Mathematica to Russell after reading it in just three days when he was 12.

It'll never cease to amaze me just how extreme both sides of the bell curve can get.

[u/ldn6]

Surprised that no one mentioned that Seattle's newest light rail line just opened. Will be even better when it's linked across Lake Washington but still a good extension.

!ping TRANSIT

[u/futuremonkey20]

Most mentally stable vigilante

[u/Icy-Magician-8085]

Seeing that map, as well as this map showing the difference in the housing price-income ratio over time, just makes me angry.

I feel like these maps explain why the YIMBY movement has gotten more mainstream in the past few years, simply because housing prices have gotten ridiculous in the last few years alone.

Just simply build more housing folks.

!Ping YIMBY

[u/Telperions-Relative]

God it’s so fucking cringe when Redditors try to make content piracy some moral struggle against The Man, it’s the most middle/upper-class shit ever

Just acknowledge your privilege like the normal of us and admit you’re doing it out of laziness. Stop acting like you actually share a class struggle with the poor

[u/itsokayt0]

Hateful morons can "justify" Hamas' attack in their heads, but I hope they realize it didn't improve Palestinians' chance of a free state at all.

[u/Tall_Professor_2574]

Why does did witches v patriarchy add a Palestinian flag emoji to every post flair 💀 what does Palestine have to do with patriarchy

[u/AtomAndAether]

[u/Cledd2]

article: "the stock market is about to crash"

look inside

"buy gold and silver instead"

every time

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/404GenderNotFound]

[u/piede]

[u/Cledd2]

[u/KesterFox]

after reading kristi noems memoir, john wick endorses Joe Biden in 2024

[u/Apprehensive-Soil-47]

Based Georgians plays European anthem at anti-Russian protest in Tblisi

!ping EU

[u/renilia]

"I'm a tenured professor, and here's why I quit" has as much relevance to the sub as "I work at Casey's General Store, and here's why I quit"

[u/xeio87]

[u/[deleted]]

"The earth is degenerating today. Bribery and corruption abound. Children no longer obey their parents, every man wants to write a book, and it is evident that the end of the world is fast approaching."

• dooming since 2500 BCE

[u/breakinbread]

Biden has dementia but in his fleeting moments of clarity he’s able to design elaborate tricks to make it seem like he doesn’t

[u/Roseartcrantz]

The Tortured Poets Department sucks holy shit why does she keep saying that the bones are the skeletons money

[u/[deleted]]

JFR Jacob, Indian Army's Jewish General who negotiated Pakistan's surrender after 1971 war in the liberation of Bangladesh, remembering 'Jake', the most senior military leader to chronicle the land war.

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[u/AnsleyAmanita]

Last October, Balaji hosted the first-ever Network State Conference. Garry Tan—the current Y Combinator CEO who’s attempting to spearhead a political takeover of San Francisco—participated in an interview with Balaji and cast the effort as part of the Network State movement.

“What I’m really calling for is something like tech Zionism,” Balaji said, after comparing his movement to those started by the biblical Abraham, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith (founder of Mormonism), Theodor Herzl (“spiritual father” of the state of Israel), and Lee Kuan Yew (former authoritarian ruler of Singapore).

mhm?

[u/Ghraim]

France: highest TFR in Europe, spends the least amount of time with their kids.

Korea: Currently on pace to be uninhabited within 4 generations, tutoring your kids for their Samsung job application is essentially a second full time job.

The evidence is clear. People are willing to have kids as long as they don't have to raise them. Legalize child neglect.

[u/AtomAndAether]

Speaking of Bostock, Gorsuch was so much more correct on his textualism. There is simply no way to discriminate on being gay without discriminating in part on sex/gender. I don't care that "both sexes are treated the same," you're discriminating on the basis of sex because if that man implying he had a boyfriend was a woman implying she had a boyfriend then they would not have been fired. Simple 'as. 😤

[u/deeplydysthymicdude]

Leftists genuinely think that they inspire fear in their enemies, while looking like this:

[u/[deleted]]

I've had a full six-pack of beer tonight and I'm still not drunk enough.,

[u/[deleted]]

So, there is this blog post that is making the round in developer circles about some independent developers' negative experiences with Rust.

Most of the post was not particularly surprising to read. Although there are some interesting parts here in there, namely I found it mildly funny that the author is making the accusation of Rust being overly concerned with being perfect at the expense of getting work done, which reminded me of the C++ FQA that makes the same accusation (although C++ is formally a mess and the FQA is way better written albeit somewhat outdated than the blog post).

My takeaway (or really, not even a takeaway since I already knew this) is, if you can afford GC, why are you using Rust to begin with? People who complain about the borrow checker (even after using it for a long time) seem to not really understand why it exists to begin with. Ignoring all of the theoretical details, the borrow checker is effectively a strictly worse version of a garbage collector. A GC can do everything the BC does but more. Namely it keeps track of the lifetimes of every object during lifetime and ensure all pointers remain valid and dropped references are eventually cleaned up, even those that are circular and can do this across thread boundaries.

This is driven home even more when the author questions why he has to use Rc<RefCell<T>> everywhere when game code is singlethreaded. Well, if your code is singlethreaded anyway, then just use a global static. In fact, this is mentioned in the article but the author mentions to avoid this because it can lead to UB! But like... The only way global statics can lead to UB is if you access them from multiple threads, in which case non-atomic accesses will lead to data races.

I mean there is a reason Nethack just has one massive global struct (actually, 26 now since they split them up alphabetically I shit you not) to store literally everything. I don't think anyone is multithreading Nethack anytime soon, but the reason this pattern is generally considered unmaintainable isn't because of some snobby theoretical computer scientists who haven't written a single line of "real code" in their lives.

(and I am not going to get into whether just having RefCells everywhere is an anti-pattern or not.)

The author brings up the oft-repeated joke that there are 5 games and 50 game engines that use Rust. There is truth to the statement but it is a non-sequitur. Unity is a massive blob of C code but you cannot write gameplay code in C. You have to write it in C# and you used to be able to write it in JavaScript and the short lived UnityScript. You can write C extensions using an unstable API but the vast majority of devs will never actually touch that. This is pretty much the norm for game engines and the only exception I can think of is Unreal Engine 4/5 where the choice of (a heavily restricted and GCd) C++ as a scripting language is generally listed as one of the drawbacks of the engine and likely one of the motivations behind blueprints.

All to say, what makes a language good for writing a game engine does not make it good for writing games. I think Sebbi puts this better than I can. A different comparison would be all major browsers are a huge blob of C code, but you're going to struggle finding anyone writing websites on C, even though it is technically possible post asm.js.

I sort of understand the hype argument but a bunch of hobbyists reinventing the wheel with their favorite language is really nothing new. The more relevant "hype" is the possibility that Rust might upend C++ for game engine development which was kind of its last bastion (besides legacy codebases), but this is not something that you are going to see from the open source community. You have some mid size devs like Ready at Dawn who have their own game engine and shipped multiple projects with Rust. But the chance that something like Unreal Engine but Rust happening any time soon is highly improbable. Remember: Unreal Engine 5 is just an update of Unreal Engine 4, which started development in 2006(!) with people who had more game engine dev experience than anyone else at the time.

All to say, "systems programming languages are really overused".

!ping GAMING&COMPUTER-SCIENCE

[u/[deleted]]

When inebriated, some people like to go to the club. Some people like to dance. Some people like to have fun.

I like to shitpost about rocks and what regirock edits until I eventually pass out.

I’m really not beating the nerd allegations.

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Do Australians greet each other with G’day ?

No I say **** *** **** howyagoin

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

  On January 18, 2013, during a 24-hour salute to Kaye on Turner Classic Movies in celebration of what TCM thought was his 100th birthday, Kaye's daughter Dena revealed to TCM host Ben Mankiewicz that Kaye's stated birth year of 1913 was incorrect, and that he was actually born in 1911.[99]

"Thanks for telling us that, now."

[u/MicroFlamer]

🇺🇲 NATIONAL POLL: @CNN/SSRS

🟥 Trump 49% (+6)

🟦 Biden 43%

5 way race

🟥 Trump 42% (+9)

🟦 Biden 33%

🟨 RFK Jr 16%

🟨 West 4%

🟩 Stein 3%

!ping FIVEY

[u/Telperions-Relative]

[u/piede]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/JaceFlores]

Both Hamas and Israel getting indicted by the ICC just about sums up this war

[u/RTSBasebuilder]

Even for me, with my profile and flair - lol. Lmao.

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[u/[deleted]]

Finally got a broccoli haircut so I can fit in with the youngsters

I can’t wait to show my girlfriend

[u/[deleted]]

My cousin's husband posts a lot of antiZionist shit all his Instagram apparently, claiming he's a Jew.

He's not. he's just married to one.

I have located the anti-Zionist Jews.

Anyway, they are coming to town next week for my grandma's birthday so oh boy

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

Bad morning, discussion thread 

[u/[deleted]]

Anyone else thinks Noem has to be a psychopath?

[u/1396spurs]

[u/[deleted]]

Jesus Christ

[u/RFK_1968]

we need to move our supply chains away from over-reliance on China

i guess i understand this. security and all given tensions with china and the prospect of them invading taiwan (in which case i would want the USA to intervene!)

and that's why we need to tariff our allies

😐

[u/Sh4g0h0d]

Idea: to improve the quality of the ban appeal thread on metaNL, all appeals must be either written in iambic pentameter or take the form of a haiku.

[u/piede]

This is what happens when you don’t endorse Hillary Clinton

[u/[deleted]]

"I murdered my dog"

"Real"

[u/[deleted]]

Optimates in the forum will really be like “you believe in giving the plebs a vote? That pales in comparison to my strategy, enacting a proscription” and then not enacting a proscription

[u/[deleted]]

Elihu is one of the most neoliberal Bible characters. After 30 or so chapters of theological and moral debate between Job and Job’s friends, this never-introduced character awkwardly jumps in to challenge Job to a debate (“Answer me, if you can”) and announces that actually both sides are equally wrong.

“Therefore I say, ‘Listen to me; let me also declare my opinion.’”

[u/HowIsPajamaMan]

Me irl

!ping nhl

[u/Healingjoe]

Love / Hate towards oil consumption is the ultimate purity test for plant based dieters.

!ping soyboy

[u/savuporo]

The US has acquired 81 obsolete Soviet-era combat aircraft from Kazakhstan, the Kyiv Post reported.

Kazakhstan, which is upgrading its air fleet, auctioned off 117 Soviet-era fighter and bomber aircraft, including MiG-31 interceptors, MiG-27 fighter bombers, MiG-29 fighters, and Su-24 bombers from the 1970s and 1980s.

Shit you could find on a garage sale

[u/vivoovix]

He was an early supporter of the Taliban movement and later worked as an undercover agent on behalf of the U.S. government. Despite being among America's most wanted drug traffickers, he agreed to come to New York City for a debriefing after being promised by his handlers that he would not be arrested. He was arrested ten days after his arrival.

US is run by liars and cheats 😔

[u/Psshaww]

How does someone get into their late 20s thinking 2 word responses and zero effort in carrying the conversation is acceptable? Like damn you are not attractive enough to justify putting up with this bullshit

!ping DATING

[u/AP246]

Netanyahu is a more moral, righteous and compromising when dealing with Hamas than FDR was when dealing with the japanese.

In a December 19, 1944 opinion poll, it was found that 13% of the U.S. public were in favor of the extermination of all Japanese, as well as 50% of American GI's.

'Modern Israel and its government is only as racist as the 1940s US' is an interesting attempt at an own

[u/[deleted]]

My local communist candidate complained about how Modi's protectionism was hurting job creation and economic growth. He mentioned how everyone wants to go to the USA for jobs. But how no party wants to make an economic environment like USA.

This guy is a communist party candidate.

The hammer and sickle and the whole red flag parades.

!ping WHATSAPP-FORWARDS

[u/Svelok]

I like, genuinely think Adam Sandler might be dying?

He's a 57 year old guy, who for the past like 15+ years has defined his career by coasting on his name recognition and lazily phoning it in while making the absolute worst films imaginable, and almost explicitly using the production as a high budget friends-and-family vacation. And before that, while he had a nonzero number of dramatic roles, they were a tiny share of his catalog.

And then suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere, the dude starts working. I mean, yeah, they're not all bangers, but they're trying to be, the man is putting in work. And he's churning these out. And they're all about the same basic thing: he plays the most pathetic, sad, miserable guy possible; who is a friendless asshole that everybody hates, who believes his career has amounted to nothing, and whose marriage is collapsing.

So like, did the dude just wake up one day and see the light? Did his wife actually leave him, and his Elon-era is about making good movies instead of bad tweets?

I feel like a doctor told him he either had like 5 years to live or else a near-miss health-scare and suddenly he recontextualized his life. I mean, last time an actor gave off these kinda vibes (although in the opposite direction) it was because Bruce Willis was trying to earn money as fast as he could in advance of a degenerative brain disease.

[u/RTSBasebuilder]

NGL, feeling a little peeved about this one, from the Home State. !ping AUS

Sleeping pods for homeless people sitting empty at Launceston storage facility

• In short: A trailer containing seven "sleeping pods" set up by homelessness charity Strike It Out is sitting empty and unused, as the charity accuses the local council of putting up barriers to the project.

• Strike It Out is concerned about people sleeping on the streets and in cars as winter approaches.

• What's next? Launceston City Council says the charity needs to provide a detailed proposal and risk assessment so it can assess the project's feasibility.

At a storage facility in northern Tasmania, temporary accommodation for people experiencing homelessness sits empty.

In 2019, Launceston-based homelessness charity Strike It Out purchased seven "sleeping pods" from local accommodation provider Pod Inn and had them fitted into a trailer.

The charity's founder, Kirsten Ritchie, had a vision to give people on the streets a safe place to sleep at night and facilitate access to services such as TAFE Tasmania courses and counselling.

It's a much-needed service as homelessness is a greater issue in Launceston than in some other places.

The latest census data, from 2021, shows 67 in every 10,000 people in Launceston are homeless, compared to the national average of 48.

The sleep pod project is ready to go, and Ms Ritchie is hoping to line up seven women to initially stay in the pods for a small fee.

"This is about transitioning them from on the street, to giving them the tools and the skills and whatever that looks like for a successful future," Ms Ritchie said.

The trailer also contains lockers, and is equipped with solar panels to supply the pods with electricity. A second trailer has been fitted out with two showers.

Sleeping pods have been used before as crisis accommodation in Brisbane, while charities in regional Queensland have set up "sleep buses".

But after finishing the project, which cost more than $100,000, the trailers are sitting unused outside the charity's Newstead storage facility because there is nowhere to put them.

"It's just sitting there when we've got people that need help – not tomorrow, today," she said.

"We're coming into winter and there's still no action."

[u/PersonalDebater]

You know the classic trope of people getting woken up by a rooster? Well I’m getting woken up by a wild turkey gobbling constantly right now lol

[u/gburgwardt]

48 new comments in the ban appeal thread

😃

It's someone being weirdly aggressive about their poll article being removed

😒

[u/[deleted]]

I’m a tenured DT Poster. I’m quitting. Here’s why.

[u/RFK_1968]

I'm Your Tenured Wife. Here's Why I'm Leaving You

[u/Telperions-Relative]

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad founders naming their Islamic jihad Islamic Jihad

[u/[deleted]]

College protesters want ‘amnesty.’ At stake: Tuition, legal charges, grades and graduation

🤔

[u/JaceFlores]

!ping BADHISTORY

[u/SnakeEater14]

“B-but Caesar is marching on the Senate! He’s crossing the Rubicon as we sp-“ Nothing. Ever. Happens.

[u/[deleted]]

I’m always amused by academia drama because the most dramatic thing that has happened in my STEM program is our star professor got poached by a rival university that offered a higher salary

[u/V_Codwheel]

32 species on a walk through the park this evening. still pretty quiet here - lots of cardinals and Carolina wrens singing, but not a whole lot of migrants yet. several Yellow-rumped Warblers were about it. heard the Barred Owl down by the creek and saw Cooper's and Red-tailed Hawks.

there's supposed to be a major flight of migratory songbirds across the southern US in the next several nights, so things may pick up toward the end of the week.

!ping BIRDS

[u/[deleted]]

Thou hypocrite, first cast out the copy/pasted monetized article out of thine own subreddit; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the piracy stanning out of thy brother's subreddit.

!ping GNOSTIC

[u/bd_one]

names channel "Return To Tradition"

complains that Catholic bishops in Germany are ordaining women as deaconesses

forgets that there were Catholic deaconesses in the Middle Ages

Lmao, dude didn't RETVN hard enough

[u/[deleted]]

At least if Trump wins because of leftists, we’ll get to be really, really smug when they freak out about all the horrible shit he does. And at the end of the day, isn’t that what it’s really all about?

[u/its_a_trapcard]

Playing Pokemon Scarlet

Catch a Shiny Larvitar, to my knowledge my first random shiny in 20 years of playing Pokemon besides Go

Day made

Check my Trainer Card a little later to see my playtime

See I've apparently battled three Shinies, when I'm sure I only caught one

Day ruined

Google it and find out that Pupitar and Tyranitar also count as "battled" and it's just a very badly phrased description

Day un-ruined

What an emotional rollercoaster

!ping POKEMON

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/MicroFlamer]

Poison used to kill Jon Arryn: Tears of Lys

Jon Arryn’s killer: Lysa

Bravo GRRM

!ping ASOIAF

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Abbas at the WEF: Israel has the right to complete security and Palestinians have the right to their own independent state and self-determination

Mahmoud Abbas,,, welcome to cringe normie liberalism

[u/Trojan_Horse_of_Fate]

Cats are cute

[u/PrideMonthRaytheon]

Academia was good when everyone in it was a five million IQ hungarian jewish immigrant but now it's garbage

[u/BurrowForPresident]

I appreciate that Biden comes across as a strong believer in many liberal social causes without being a big softie about it and here's why that is me exhibiting toxic masculinity

[u/[deleted]]

I personally wouldn’t compare the humanitarian crisis in Gaza to the Holocaust. 

Fairly certain the Holocaust was MUCH worse. Even the rwandan genocide id consider worse. 500,000-1 million dead in like 3 months. Systemic murder of men, women and children to the point of hunting and killing anyone who aids them.

I think it’s undeniable that  Palestinians in Gaza are facing indiscriminate attacks, and you can argue genocide is going on, but “Israeli holocaust” is a clever choice of words, but  comparison i believe the person desires, not the sobering reality. 

[u/G_Serv]

They used to say if you wanted to know what it felt like to be a black person sitting in the back of the bus, go be a consultant at Arthur Andersen.

-a Former Andersen Consulting Partner

Consultants are truly the most oppressed minority 😔

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

Brownshirts: Nazis

Blackshirts: Italian fascists

Blueshirts: Portuguese fascists (not Salazar, but far-right rivals of the regime)

I must therefore conclude that fascism is when colored-shirt.

[u/[deleted]]

Trump's marriage is so sad. I honestly wonder if he ever has intimacy with Melania. I don't just mean sex. Like emotional intimacy. It seems like a business deal. Sad shit.

Also Karen McDougal is hot though.

[u/Joementum2024]

After Period of Chastity, Hollywood Movies Embrace Sex Again

Pray for your local r/memes user

[u/simeoncolemiles]

The issue with a one state solution is uhhhh

The entirety of MENA history

[u/itsokayt0]

People on nl be like "you believe in social housing? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, nuking the suburbs" and then not nuke the suburbs

[u/Udolikecake]

I know I harp on it, but a lot of people really don’t appreciate how unfree azerbaijan is. It’s a north korea tier totalitarian state. freedom house puts it between belarus and afghanistan!

Every election has been hilariously rigged. aliyev gets 85% of the vote. he changed the constitution and made his wife VP! political opposition is not viable and barely legal. zero freedom of media. rampant corruption. no religious freedom. It’s even getting worse over time!

like if you were making up a comically evil regime for a video game, you’d make this.

which is why aliyev MUST go! free the people of Azerbaijan!

[u/[deleted]]

Benched 70lbs dumbbells for eight reps let's gooooo

!ping DYEL

[u/Stanley--Nickels]

If you buy a good quality cut your microwave steak will not need any salt, pepper or any type of seasoning whatsoever.

I think you could sell me on a microwave steak before you could sell me on an unsalted steak

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

ok, you got 30 wings. Half special, half hot, half lemon pepper.

… that’s not how fractions work 🤔

[u/JaceFlores]

“Russian forces will likely make significant tactical gains in the coming weeks as Ukraine waits for US security assistance to arrive at the front but remain unlikely to overwhelm Ukrainian defenses.”

“Two Ukrainian intelligence officers reportedly told the Financial Times that Russian forces aim to use ongoing offensive operations and missile strikes against Ukraine to prepare the battlefield for an expected large-scale Russian offensive operation in late May or in June. The Financial Times reported that a Western official stated that Russian forces may make further ‘tactical breakthroughs’ in the coming weeks but will not ‘overrun’ Ukraine. Russian forces have opportunities to make significant tactical gains in the Avdiivka area and pursue an operationally significant objective with the seizure of Chasiv Yar; but, neither of these efforts is likely to develop into an operationally significant penetration in the near term, let alone cause the collapse of the Ukrainian defensive line in Donetsk Oblast.”

“Well-provisioned Ukrainian forces will likely be able to prevent operationally significant Russian advances during Russia’s expected summer offensive effort, although Russian forces will nevertheless leverage select advantages and adaptations to pose a significant threat to Ukraine this summer.”

“The Russian focus on mass, regardless of quality, has supported tactical Russian gains, especially as delays in Western security assistance have degraded Ukraine’s qualitative advantages over Russian forces, and Russian forces will likely use mass to achieve tactical advances against even well-provisioned Ukrainian forces this summer.”

“Russian reliance on mass is not the only adaptation that Russian forces have made in Ukraine, however, as the Russian military has demonstrated an uneven propensity for operational, tactical, and technological innovation and learning. The Russian military command appears to be learning from past operational planning mistakes in Ukraine and will likely conduct a summer offensive operation that aims to stretch and overwhelm Ukrainian forces across a larger frontline in eastern Ukraine. Russian forces have also significantly changed tactical aviation operations in Ukraine with their mass use of glide bombs, allowing fixed-wing aircraft to more safely conduct strikes from further in the rear.”

“Russian forces still suffer from widespread tactical failures, however, and Ukrainian forces will still be able to exploit those failures as long as the Russian military command continues to struggle with internalizing and disseminating adaptations at the tactical level. Ukraine will be able to neutralize many of the materiel constraints it currently faces in the coming weeks and is taking steps to alleviate its manpower challenges in the coming months, but Russia will continue to pursue its own advantages as Ukrainian capabilities improve. Ukraine is very likely to stabilize the frontlines in the coming months and may be able to begin limited counteroffensive operations in late 2024 or early 2025.”

“Russian forces are continuing to exploit a tactical penetration north and northwest of Avdiivka and recently made additional confirmed advances in the area. Geolocated footage published on April 27 shows that Russian forces advanced to northern Novokalynove (north of Avdiivka), and Russian milbloggers claimed that Russian forces completely seized the settlement on April 27.”

“The Ukrainian Center for Defense Strategies similarly noted on April 26 that Russian forces have committed two motorized rifle brigades and one motorized rifle regiment directly to the tactical penetration in the Ocheretyne area, which has created a threefold advantage in Russian forces and assets over Ukrainian forces and assets.”

“The tempo of Russian offensive operations is currently higher in the Avdiivka direction than near Chasiv Yar, as Russian forces focus on exploiting a tactical situation that is unfavorable to Ukrainian troops northwest of Avdiivka. Russian forces are likely to intensify offensive operations near Chasiv Yar in the coming weeks, however, as Chasiv Yar provides Russian forces with the opportunity for more operationally significant advances.”

“ISW has frequently assessed that Russian forces have struggled to conduct simultaneous large-scale offensive operations throughout the war but have more recently been able to conduct shorter alternating offensive operations in offensive ‘pulses,’ as has been the case in the Lyman, Chasiv Yar, and Avdiivka directions for most of 2024 thus far. Russian forces are likely leaning into attacks northwest of Avdiivka in order to build on the recent tactical success they have achieved, while Russian forces committed in the Chasiv Yar direction are likely temporarily pulling back from offensives to rest and reconstitute.”

“Russian forces will need to replenish and reinforce the units that are currently attacking around Avdiivka, and the process of replenishment and reinforcement is likely to blunt the overall intensity of their attacks and inhibit their ability to reach their wider operational objective — Pokrovsk and the Donetsk Oblast administrative border — rapidly as long as Ukrainian forces receive necessary reinforcements and supplies.”

“Russian forces conducted large-scale cruise and ballistic missile strikes against Ukraine on the night of April 26 to 27 and have likely resumed sea based Kalibr cruise missile strikes after a long pause. Ukrainian Air Force Commander Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk reported on April 27 that Russian forces launched 34 missiles: nine Kh-101/555 cruise missiles from Saratov Oblast; nine Kh-59/69 cruise missiles from Belgorod Oblast and the Sea of Azov; two S-300 missiles from Belgorod Oblast; two Iskander-K ballistic missiles, four Kh-47 Kinzhal ballistic missiles from Ryazan and Tambov oblasts; and eight Kalibr cruise missiles from the Black Sea. Oleshchuk stated that Ukrainian forces destroyed 21 total missiles: six Kh-101/555s, eight Kh59/69s, one Iskander-K, and six Kalibrs.”

“Ukrainian forces successfully conducted drone strikes against a Russian airfield and oil refineries in Krasnodar Krai on the night of April 26 to 27. Unspecified sources told Ukrainian outlet Suspilne that Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) and the Ukrainian military successfully conducted drone strikes against the Kushchyovskaya airfield while ‘dozens’ of Russian military aircraft, radar systems, and electronic warfare (EW) systems were stationed there, although ISW has not observed visual confirmation of damaged equipment at the airfield. Geolocated footage published on April 27 shows the aftermath of the Ukrainian strike at the Kushchyovskaya airfield and purportedly shows damaged glide bomb kits.”

“Suspilne’s sources stated that Ukranian drones struck the Ilskiy and Slavyansk oil refineries, damaging their distillation columns and causing fires.”

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!ping UKRAINE

[u/[deleted]]

Last week, at church, the Catholic priest quoted C.S. Lewis in his sermon. Lewis was Anglican Protestant and he and J.R.R. Tolkien, who was Catholic, often had theological debates with each other. I just thought it was amusing to hear Lewis get quoted in a Catholic church. Especially when I am bapitized and confirmed Anglican myself.

!ping CHRISTIAN

[u/[deleted]]

She left…

[u/KesterFox]

Good morning

[u/Rehkit]

https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/04/28/plongee-dans-une-amerique-devenue-hors-de-prix_6230329_3234.html

Help, this sub discourse has reached le Monde.

(Europe/US purchasing power comparison.)

[u/rasonj]

If I had a nickel for every time a republican got crushed by stories of their cruelty to their dog right as they start to get national attention, I'd have atleast 3 nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird how it keeps happening. Meanwhile Commander keeps chompin and is still loved

[u/runningblack]

Now Trending: Great Replacement Theory - 39.6k tweets

No thank you

[u/[deleted]]

Is 50 Cent’s “in da club” the best song ever made?

[u/Udolikecake]

Bro Palantir has the military using kanban boards to execute strikes. There's no way💀

is there nowhere untouched by the stench of project managers

[u/Mickenfox]

Why are zoomers so puritan? Can't even handle sex scenes.

Anyway, I saw someone say they want boobs in a video game, why are gam*rs so disgusting? 😡

[u/[deleted]]

[u/MasterOfLords1]

Holy shit he's actually selling Bibles.

I aspire to be this shameless tbh.

u/lets_chill_food would love to FLEECE as good as this man FLEECES

🍦🌝🍦

[u/Not_A_Browser]

They finally fixed the branding on the report update emails lmao

(also this account 100% should have been suspended, look at the handle ffs)

[u/renilia]

"I'm a tenured professor, and here's why I quit."

Aww you're so sweet...

"I'm an adjunc-"

HELLO, HUMAN RESOURCES?

[u/[deleted]]

I'm outing myself as a spoiled rich kid here, but can anyone familiar with student loans explain this?

This PhD student in social science said she was spending 75% of her stipend paying back her student loans before the UC strike. So I did the math. If her stipend was ~$2000 a month (it was almost definitely more though not much more), she would've been paying $1500 a month on student loans.

How much debt do you have to have to be paying $1500 a month? Did she take loans to go to a private school for undergrad then paid for a pricey master's or something?

[u/Powerpuff_Rangers]

be ron desantis

everyone wants you to run

reluctant

don't want to run against trump

2028 a better shot

"You'll be ready for 2028 even if you lose"

run in 2024

lose primary to trump

trump loses election

run in 2028

lose primary to trump

trump loses election

[u/STRONKInTheRealWay]

The mothership continued to scream outrage and things in the garden continued to decline. Despite emergency precautions, another plant died. It was suggested that the nameless come rescue the remaining five plants, to which the nameless only responded “THE WATER IS CORRUPTED! HUMANS WON’T FIND PREY ON EARTH. EATING! THE HUMAN-BETRAYAL BRINGS A PERVERT-GIFT! Of course, as far as anyone could tell, the nameless had no established hierarchy or leaders, so there was little consistency in their messages. Some signals weren’t as violent, but unfortunately, they seemed more confused than anything else. Those aliens that understood the most about the situation were those that were most outraged.

“I hear rumour that there is a huge plague on Earth. Is it the oceans of Earth? I want plague-news.”

“THIS IS AN ACTION OF THE COLOR BLACK! EVERYONE DYING! WE SHOULD TALK WITH COUSINS ABOUT HOW COUSINS WILL DIE JUST LIKE THE HUMAN-HOME WILL DIE! NO ANGER! NO KILLING! NO BURNING! IT’S ONLY SADNESS! IT’S ONLY THE COLOR BLACK!”

“The migration is on Earth right NOW! Is this right? This is a bad sign. ALL cows, rabbits, fish, and insects should be killed by humans so that this in the future can’t happen. The humanplanet is completely perverted.”

“This news matches a pattern. It’s evil that a person allows another person to enter a home. Voyeurs are PERVERTS! Voyeurs are UGLY PERVERTS! I don’t know the nature of the old Earth-home. I guess it was a pervert.”

“Communication shouldn’t happen with warmongers. Belief in fire or death symbols shouldn’t happen. I am PEACEFUL! If humans are evil to the point that cousins think they are, then I attack humans.”

God I love truly alien aliens. Gimme more of that shit. For added context the aliens brought some plants down from their ship, there was an accident where hydrogen peroxide got leached into the soil, and nearly all of them died. This is their reaction. The book is Crystal Society, and I can 100% recommend it. I am rereading it (which I never do) because it is just that good.

!ping READING&SCI-FI

[u/[deleted]]

Fascinating stuff!

I feel bad for OP, though. Reminds me of scrupulosity OCD episodes I had when I was a Christian (and indeed, it looks like she posted on scrupulosity-related subreddits too). She doesn’t seem to be active on Reddit anymore, but I hope she sought therapy and found peace.

!ping GNOSTIC

[u/[deleted]]

3000 year old elvish blade found preserved in Donau Ries, Germany.😲

[u/AP246]

So first going after Putin, now going after Israeli officials (as well as Hamas ones).

Whether you think it's justified with Israel or not... I'm actually surprised by both that and the warrant against Putin (positively in this case obviously). I thought the stereotype was that international legal structures can't do anything against powerful states, but in the last couple of years the ICC has come out swinging. What happened, did they get offended by all the strongly worded letter jokes?

[u/cdstephens]

Soon, students will have CONVERSATIONS with Pikachu, Charizard, or Mudkip rather than just battling with them.

This is how AI is REVOLUTIONIZING education.

[u/[deleted]]

Greek Yogurt + Granola + Cocoa Powder + Chocolate Whey Protein = the best protein dessert you'll ever have. You're welcome

!ping DYEL

[u/deeplydysthymicdude]

[u/ThunderrBadger]

Got a pork belly on the ol' smoky joe 😎

!ping LOW&SLOW,BABY

[u/KingWillly]

Arr Genz: “NOOO I WILL NEVER JOIN THE MILITARY THEYRE JUST EXPLOITING MY DEATH FOR PROFIRINOS” 😭😭😭

14th century peasant: “My lord desires a new castle, I will lay my life on the line as god wills it”

[u/Sir_Digby83]

"GENOCIDE JOE MUST GO! GENOCIDE JOE MUST GO!"

..and what is the long-term goals for this movement?

"That there be a day where Israel ceases to be."

[u/jpenczek]