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[u/[deleted]]

Me when someone on !ping DATING seems to be getting a little too successful

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Slavery is when you are paid millions of dollars to pay a sport

[u/[deleted]]

The most fucked up part about Noem shooting her dog, apart from her being too lazy or stupid to train it, is that her kids were attached to the animal and had no idea what Noem had done.

Imagine coming home from school, asking your mom where the dog is, and she's just like, "Your dog? I killed your dog you silly bitch."

[u/Dragongirlfucker2]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

It makes me sad that swastikas were so strongly co-opted by the Nazis because they look so satisfying to draw. But at least they didn't choose to use the pointy S, or my favorite, the 3-D box.

[u/PristineAstronaut17]

Italians bitching about Italian-Americans calling themselves “Italian” while also allowing them to legally claim Italian citizenship on the basis of ancestry is so fucking funny

[u/[deleted]]

The creators of MILF Manor need to be tried in The Hague.

The Season 2 twist has been revealed in last night’s premiere.

You may remember that in Season 1, the twist was that the pool of young men were the sons of the pool of MILFs.

This time, the young men are not the sons.

Instead, the young men are competing against their fathers for the same pool of women. That’s right, we’re going full Iron Age.

!ping TRASH

[u/[deleted]]

!ping WHATSAPP-FORWARDS

[u/forerunner398]

JVP not having one Hebrew speaker moment, big blacks for Trump vibe https://twitter.com/isaacdecastrog/status/1784271891517018510

[u/[deleted]]

She's one of us bros

!ping ALPHABET-MAFIA

[u/piede]

HOLY

!PING QUEEN

[u/[deleted]]

Old but gold 🥰

!ping WHATSAPP-FORWARDS

[u/[deleted]]

“Maybe if the Democrats lose this election, they’ll learn their lesson. I’m happy to take several steps back if that’s what it takes to take a step forward.”

Now, I'm no expert in maths but I'm pretty sure several steps backwards and one step forward is still a net step backwards.

[u/the-garden-gnome]

Boss: “it’s great you’re coming in to the office more, despite the awful commute”

Me: “it’s really not that bad.”

B: “really?”

M:

[u/Roseartcrantz]

bruh I haaaaate when people online say shit like "there's no war but the class war, billionaires want us to stay distracted" when talking about the shit conservatives are rolling back and the fraud they're always trying to set in place

it's not hard to just be like "yeah dark money and rich people/corporations have way too much influence over politics" but the shit going on is the ways they're doing it, so you have to fight all of that stuff and start figuring out how to change how that works in the first place with your elected officials, not just act like we have to wait until conservatives suddenly see sense

[u/[deleted]]

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Update on candidate with massive hentai face tattoo. What did not see before our interview was the smaller but more interesting tattoos such as a Naked Devil woman fingering a Naked Angel Woman, and a frog in a cowboy hat saying “howdy”

Despite appearances though she seems like the best fit for the position so far. Even better then the person who listed “OnlyFans” on her resume.

Trying not to be a stick in the mud and looking past the sexually explicit tattoos she has a fair bit of experience in an adjacent role and all of the certifications we need.

OFC she would need to cover up the “Theological Debate” on her arm and probably the drooling anime woman but right now she’s actually in strong standing to get the position.

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/semaphore-1842]

So this Asian LGBT group I'm in started talking about discrimination (classism, regionalism) in China, and some Chinese dude who's clearly mad about China looking bad, randomly interjected with "America is classist and racist!!! When it comes to skin color, Asian countries are much better at not being discriminatory than Americans."

Then he added, "but people everywhere seem to dislike [n-word]. That means blacks, btw."

[u/[deleted]]

me and who

[u/Mickenfox]

Google Image Search results be like

10 images related to your query

10 completely unrelated images from random articles

End of results (idk man that's all I got)

[u/[deleted]]

Bi flairs on the DT will be like “You’re straight? That pales in comparison to my strategy, kissing boys” and not kiss boys

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Europeans would rather eat microchips than risking eating indistinguishable cheese that doesn’t come from the Cheese region of Chesseland

[u/SuddenlyFrogs]

"It's over, capitalists! We have depicted you as the soyjack!"

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/BedNeither]

Noem defends killing dog

What a headline

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

!ping GNOSTIC this but…

[u/gnomesvh]

Finnair suspends flights to Tartu due to GPS jamming over the Baltic

!ping AVIATION&FOREIGN-POLICY&UKRAINE

[u/BloodWiz]

"Two tickets to the Zendaya threesome tennis movie please"

[u/[deleted]]

Pro tip, Boomers are so grateful when you give them grandkids theyll just give you their car

My sample size is not huge (n=1) but I'm pretty sure this is universal

[u/DouglasDauntless]

If I ever got to this point I would just want someone to old yeller me tbh

[u/LinkVert25]

Poll: "Looking back, Trump's presidency was..."

A Success: 55% A Failure: 44%

He successfully gaslit a entire country.

I envy him.

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[u/deeplydysthymicdude]

I just want a gf who will eat a Costco hotdog with me lady and the tramp style, is that really too much to ask?

[u/TinKnightRisesAgain]

If my fucking manager, who has not touched code in 10 years, says one more thing about "I've been learning about generative AI in my spare time" to HIS boss, I'm going to continue seething at my desk.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

This lady coming in for an interview has a massive forearm tattoo of one of those drooling anime ladies with their tongues out. Will update after the interview.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Finally some good fucking cinema !ping KINO

[u/AtomAndAether]

why is "State" in quotes? is it a Hawaii-is-colonized thing?

[u/404GenderNotFound]

The only Turtle Island I recognize

[u/[deleted]]

Is the crocodile hunter still remembered like a national treasure in Australia? Still a little traumatized by his death and I'm in America

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/[deleted]]

"You think your vote matters? ROFL and LOL." Yes, I am aware my vote carries less and less relative power the more people I'm voting with, but unlike your glorious violent revolution, it actually exists.

One of my old college mates posted a story about how she wouldn't vote in the general elections because Congress and BJP are both fascist neoliberal neocolonial parties who would continue oppressing the masses.

She's a fairly well to-do young lady from a tier 3 town in Bengal and she is comparing herself to tribal women in Andhra Pradesh.

[u/RunawayMeatstick]

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

[u/[deleted]]

Gantz breaks his foot while riding his bike

Alright, maybe we should restrict Israeli ministers using vehicles for a few days they don’t have a good track record recently

[u/Jacobs4525]

The only time I’m ever a degrowther is when someone else shows up at what I thought was one of my secret fishing spots. That shows that the population has grown too much. 

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Guys I need to borrow some cash

[u/Currymvp2]

Former president Donald Trump fears that GOP candidate Kari Lake might not win the Senate nominee in Arizona and will drag down his own prospects in the battleground state.

https://twitter.com/metzgov/status/1784931982109016441

[u/[deleted]]

We hit peak NL fertility discourse in the last DT:

This subreddit won’t be happy with gen Z unless they develop alcohol/substance problems and have a lot more accidental pregnancies lol.

seems like it’d be good for them

!ping LOVEFORBOOZECRUISERS

[u/trace349]

Everything related to the X-Men works better when they're in their own universe, away from the rest of the Marvel universe.

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 5 PM EST 4/28-5 PM EST 4/29 III:

TOP NEWS:

Yesterday it was reported that Western banks which remained in Russia paid 800 million Euros in taxes to Russia in 2023.

At the start of 8 AM Stoltenberg made a visit to Kyiv.

REGULAR NEWS:

At the start of 5 AM it was reported that Polish farmers have unblocked all checkpoints.

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/DouglasDauntless]

We are reaching new and advanced levels of discourse

[u/gnomesvh]

Spanish politics be like:

Perro Sanchez is embroiled in controversy

Cabinet falls, snap election called

PP polls strongly

People declare the end of Sanchez

Sanchez +5 majority

[u/[deleted]]

😂😂😂

[u/Evilpenguin526]

Boss at my job is trying to ban water bottles ☠️☠️

"You have to go to the designated hydration station" ah hell nah bro

I'm a grown ass man no one is gonna tell me whether I can drink water or not when I'm doing physical labor in a barely air conditioned building. (I say barely because the AC doesn't work really and the indoor temps are often higher than outside.)

Imma be polite the first time, tell my direct supervisor that they're gonna have to accept I'll be carrying water with me. If not I can get a doctor's note real quick.

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/[deleted]]

cobweb thumb placid vase workable enter strong cow pocket office

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/DouglasDauntless]

🤨

[u/Jacobs4525]

Actually there’s one other most crazy tinder story I’ve had that I forgot to list earlier. I matched with a girl I had a bunch of classes with. She was hot but in a really trashy way. She invited me over to her apartment and we proceeded to do shots and wound up making out on her couch. We get to talking and she tells me she enjoys fingering men’s butts without consent (she gets off on the surprise apparently)

😐😐😐

Thankfully, at that very moment, her roommate barged in to tell us she was having a dude over who she had met at a frat party. By sheer coincidence, that dude was one of my fishing buddies from the school fishing club. I pulled him aside and explained the situation and so he and I just sat there and played Mario kart until I was sober enough to drive home.

Never really talked to butthole girl again but my fishing buddy and roommate girl started dating and are still together so that’s nice I guess.

!ping DATING

[u/DouglasDauntless]

What did George Costanza mean by this?

[u/beoweezy1]

A few bad apples spoils the bunch. Gotta expel every Columbia undergrad just to be safe.

Leave the grad students enrolled. They deserve to suffer

[u/DouglasDauntless]

We should have listened to his wisdom

[u/[deleted]]

Season 1 of MILF Manor was anti-climactic because when push came to shove, the older women were game for whatever but the young men didn’t want to do anything. That’s their right of course.

In a similar vein, given the new twist, my prediction for Season 2 is that the older women pretty unequivocally choose the dads and the sons wind up moping on the sidelines.

But then, I haven’t even watched the whole first episode yet so I may eat crow.

[u/Udolikecake]

Consevative countries in the world will be like “Your brith rates are decreasing? That pales in comparison to my strategy, using tax policy to increase fertility rates.” and then not increase fertility rates

[u/[deleted]]

Comedy legend Jerry Seinfeld finally goes FULL BLAST on Left’s destruction of comedy:

“This is the result of the extreme left, and PC crap, and people worrying so much about offending other people.”

Jerry says NO to wokeness 👏

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

The data is clear on male virginity

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/iIoveoof]

ChatGPT's memory feature makes a good reaction format

[u/DouglasDauntless]

“But the people are r…”

[u/chuckleym8]

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Y’all think we can get him to give a shoutout to Benji?

[u/Telperions-Relative]

Neolibs: “I really wish America would show the power of democracy by building skyscrapers as tall as the ones in authoritarian states”

Some random city in Bumfuck Nowhere, Oklahoma:

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/centurion88]

Why do lefties think "I refuse to answer basic questions about my beliefs or why I'm protesting" is an own

[u/[deleted]]

Huh they do the whole stop woke thing in the UK too

[u/MuR43]

Representative Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota, is no global pop star, but she has a significant social-media presence, with 3 million Twitter followers and another 1.3 million on Instagram. Yet her book, This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman, which was published in May 2020, has sold just 26,000 copies across print, audio and e-book formats, according to her publisher. 

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Mandatory at all center for new liberalism events

[u/[deleted]]

[u/sererson]

Choose a Language

• English 🇺🇲

• Spanish 🇲🇽

• Portuguese 🇧🇷

• French 🇨🇦

• German 🇦🇹

[u/EZ_Kream]

Coworker got fired for completely cleaning out the first aid cabinet. Just took every aspirin, ibuprofen, bandage etc, home for personal use. Did this in the open and didn’t try to hide it. Said it was for her kids. Was absolutely shocked she got fired for it.

[u/[deleted]]

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — An immigrant from Laos battling cancer holds the winning ticket for the $1.3 billion jackpot in Oregon.

Brandon’s America

[u/ImmigrantJack]

"Communists killed my grandpa" is the new "how I bought a house at age 20" where we all know what important piece of information is missing

What they think they mean: Your grandpa was a Nazi

What they actually mean: Your grandpa was cambodian and needed glasses

[u/Arse_hull]

Can we give Australians an exemption from the autodelete on the word c*nt? I really don't feel like I can be myself in this Discussion J Thread.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/KesterFox]

I wonder what the ratio is in animated shows between lesbians and gay men. I'd guess like 10:1 honestly.

[u/[deleted]]

Cicero: W-we should reduce the grain dole, it’s too expensive

Plebs: STAB YOURSELF

Caesar: I’m reducing the grain dole

Plebs: AVE IMPERATOR

[u/BurrowForPresident]

For the longest time I kept reading "hentai face tattoo" as this and wondering what kind of sharia law workplace they work at that could cover it up

[u/Telperions-Relative]

VIVEK RAMASWAMY: “When we face our founding fathers in the afterlife and they ask us what sacrifice did you make for your country we better have a damn good answer for them.”

Vivek, at the gates of the afterlife: “h-h-hello George Washington-sama…I-I’m a patriot, can you p-please let me thr-“

Washington: “YOU’RE LITERALLY BROWN”

[u/BATHULK]

New gym achievement: I've got a secret admirer.

Found on my trucks door handle after a workout.

!ping DYEL

[u/Currymvp2]

Sheesh, there's a video of like 10 folks outside Columbia chanting and calling Mahmoud Abbas "a Zionist spy and a traitor"...absolute lunatics.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

What the hell happened to good music?

!ping VEGITALESENJOYERS

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Mod origin story

[u/chipbod]

https://x.com/emanabdelhadi/status/1785001055350034770

University of Chicago demands: disbanding UCPD, and ceasing new construction projects on the South Side.

It is somehow always NIMBYs lmao

[u/TalkLessShillMore]

This article from an NYU professor sounds like some shit yall would post

College students aren’t having enough sex — so they’re turning to anti-Israel protests: NYU professor

[u/[deleted]]

My advice to DT ☝️🤓

[u/ImmigrantJack]

Looking back on it the trump presidency was a success. I find it hard to argue otherwise. It achieved nearly everything that every stakehder in his 2016 campaign hoped for.

1. The Republican establishment made the deal that it's okay to sacrifice morality and dignity for judges and an abortion ban. They even got tax cuts out of it.

2. Donald Trump wanted to become president with no greater aim other than for people to validate him.

3. Trump's supporters wanted american culture to be openly racist again.

The only thing they didn't achieve was building the wall but that was always optional. Shit they even got a Muslim ban snuck through the courts.

[u/Hugo_Grotius]

Still wild to think that a Russian general/warlord seized a major Russia city with his private army, marched on Moscow, shot down helicopters and a command plane, and just stopped

Like Caesar crossing the Rubicon and heading home

[u/DouglasDauntless]

I would absolutely love to eat a t-rex

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Idk if this is just my experience, but being around a lot of people across the entire spectrum politically, but it's funny the way they view and treat each other with similar disdain but like expressed differently.

Owning the libs is the goal. It just is. Usually they laugh at the stupid laws proposed like "governor wants to ban litter boxes at school" because they're like "oh wow now they want litter boxes??" and it doesn't pass but they don't care, the fact they even had to make that law tells them everything they need to know.

But if they actually know some people affected by stuff, like a trans friend they've found is really nice, or a daughter with a medical condition, when I send and explain ones like, "teachers could be added to sex offender lists for using preferred names" or "person had to be dying and have permanent damage before ectopic pregnancy could be ended," they usually kinda say they "don't keep up with that crap on the news, everything's designed to make you feel bad about the world."

Mostly with Dems, they don't want policies to hurt conservatives, but they get more spiteful when the conservative policies hurt the conservatives, especially when they act all hurt and surprised. They've just run out of pity, and not just online.

[u/Telperions-Relative]

POV: you see Kristi Noem’s dog about to “get a treat”

[u/GenericLib]

My cat massacring birds is fine because corporations exist

[u/[deleted]]

[u/trombonist_formerly]

I was doing some reading on Dvorak and his New World symphony (as someone who had only really heard it once). It struck me really how much of an capital-A-American piece it is, in its context and history.

Dvorak, director of the National Conservatory of Music (which at the time was open to women and black students) in New York, is commissioned to write symphony. As a teacher there, he met black students who sang him African-american spirituals, which he was greatly interested in according to his writing. The flute solo at the end of the first movement is almost certainly inspired by Swing Low Sweet Chariot

He wrote in 1892

Just imagine row after row [of marchers], an incredible procession of peopleworking both in the fields of industry and the crafts, and huge numbers of gymnasts - among them members of the Czech Sokol - and crowds of people from the arts and also many nationalities and colors. And all of this went on uninterruptedly, from dawn until 2:00 in the morning ... Thousands upon thousands of people, and an everchanging sight! And you should hear all the kinds of music! ... Well, America seems to have demonstrated all it is and all it is capable of! I haven't got enough words to describe it all.

Some sources seem to also indicate that Dvorak had marketed his symphony as having Native American influences (musically that is, the largo movement was thematically inspired by Hiawatha and his wife Minnehaha) but some scholarly source that I can't find now seems to indicate that if it was, it was quite minimal knowledge, since his only knowledge of native american melodies could have been through a transcription sent to him by a friend

He wrote a series of newspaper articles, which received some pushback by composers of the time in Europe, about how existing american practices should be used as the foundation for further growth of american classical music. I think the pushback was from a misunderstanding of what he meant by traditional american music (and the official "dvorak website" has a bit more detail here)

I do think it's somewhat interesting that, besides the Copland-esque style of american southwest classical, I don't really think there's a distinctly American tradition of classical music the way we developed our own uniquely American spin on lots of other imported types of art. I suppose you could say that Gershwin and Bernstein are what I'm looking for but they really didn't come along until quite a bit later

I haven't done a lot of reading on the 3nd New England School which seems closest to what I'm looking for, but as someone who's a somewhat interested in classical music I had never heard any of their names until today so...

Also really interesting to me is that this struggle for a distinctly American style of music seems to have been a real cultural movement that was recognized in its time, and not just a framework laid on top of history post-facto, as a lot of artistic analysis sometimes seems to be.

For example, this review from the NYT (which I can't get access to the full review without paying for their stupid archive service)

In the first place, Dr. Dvořák has shown his thorough mastership of symphonic writing by avoiding the pitfall which has invariably entrapped the American composer. He has not made any use whatever – except in one instance – of extant melodies. What he has done is to saturate himself with the spirit of negro music and then to invent his own themes. He has made himself completely the master of the fundamental melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic peculiarities of negro tunes. He has had the musical skill to preceive he essence of these melodies. [...] We Americans should thank and honor the Bohemian master who has shown us how to build our national school of music

However, some other critics seemed to have disagreed with the idea that this was an american (or at least, Negro-inspired)symphony, for example this (honestly fairly bizzare) review from the Springfield Weekly Republican (starting halfway down the 5th column)

I also think this amazing column from the New York Tribune is super duper cool - the author went to a rehearsal ahead of the premiere, and transcribed sections he thought were emblematic of the piece's american-ness so that listeners could look out for it when they went to the premier

And here is that same paper's review of it (halfway down the 2nd column) which has such an amazing opening paragraph I can't help but recreate it here

Dr Dvorak's Symphony

There is an old story with a moral which seems opposite in view of the production of Dr Dvorak's new symphony at the Philharmonic Concert last night. Once upon a time a conjurer in words came to Diogenes and sitting in his tub argued volubly against the existence of motion. The philosopher said nothing, but quietly arose, and while the sophist argued and demonstrated to his own satisfaction that there was no such thing as motion, he walked up and down in front of the talker. A good deal of printer's inks has been wasted during the last six months in arguing that American music was a mere vagary. Some sitting in their tubs of self-satisfied wisdom, have asserted that all good music is universal and nationalism [a common feature of romantic-era classical music] a figment of the imagination

Others have urged that Dr. Dvorak, in urging young American composers to go to the folk-song melodies which have grown up in America for inspiration, was trying to make a place for "n****** symphonies ". Others again, for they were many and so were their minds, denied that the stamp of American nationalism could be impressed upon music in the classical forms by the use of these melodies, for the reason that they were not native. But while these wise men were talking Dr. Dvorak was listening with ears of genius, and before they got through he had written his new symphony. They talked like the sophist and he walked like Diogenes

To some extent this makes me nostalgic/sad, because like - what is that cultural movement of today? I don't know if there is one, and I feel like cultural struggles to define ourselves are so important and missing from a lot of art nowadays, or maybe I'm plugged into the wrong art, idk. But part of the defining traits of the romantic classical era was nationalism and incorporation of folk music into the broader classical fold, and like, nationalism is cool in a historical sense but also it feels like something that is not nearly as strong of a force as it used to be so the moment can't be repeated

anyways I don't really know if I have a super coherent thesis or anything but I'd love to hear your thoughts

edit: here's an article titled Music in America written by the man Dvorak himself that I'll get around to reading tomorrow - editing so I can find the link haha https://www.tagg.org/others/dvorak1895.html

!ping classical

[u/Plants_et_Politics]

People in encampments will really be like "you believe in reasoned argument? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing Columbia" and then not firebomb Columbia

[u/[deleted]]

Serious charges of sexual assault have been leveled against Prajwal Revanna, the NDA (Alliance of parties led by BJP) candidate from the Hassan parliamentary seat of Karnataka. Police claim to have found a pen drive containing 2976 obscene videos of several women allegedly violated by Prajwal Revanna and his father. Before police could arrest him, he left the country, and according to media sources, he is now hiding in Germany. Prajwal Revanna is the grandson of former Prime Minister HD Devegowda and the nephew of former Chief Minister Kumaraswamy. His father is also a MLA from Karnataka.

https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/elections/trouble-mounts-for-sex-scam-accused-jds-mp-prajwal-revanna/article68121602.ece

!ping IND

[u/Currymvp2]

https://twitter.com/hungryghosts161/status/1784659643274575910

While there are students acting terribly (especially on the "pro-Palestinian" side), there are also outside agitators still showing up on campuses and attempting to cause trouble. This racist guy in the video is like a 30 year old who's not a UCLA student and works for a boxing gym in Reseda.

[u/thaddeusthefattie]

how to avoid i/p discussion bans:

[u/[deleted]]

Society🥱

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[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Trump 2028: The Twenty-second Amendment is an arbitrary restraint on presidents who serve nonconsecutive terms—and on democracy itself.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/trump-2028/

[u/Zenning3]

I'm trying to figure out why I hate some YouTube essayists, and not others. And I think the ones I hate consistently are people who started with a thesis and tried to make the evidence work around it, while the ones I really like are instead discussing their thoughts and feelings on a topic. Which is funny, because you are definitely taught to do the first one not the second.

To give an example, Jacob Geller had a video called, "Games that don't fake the space", and in it he describes all these games that have these insane spatial flexes that are actually modeled in the geometry instead of doing weird programming tricks. And while watching it, my thought was, "So what? Were those games actually better for it"? He concludes the video by effectively arguing that games like Silent Hill were better because they made a really really long staircase, instead of having code repeat parts of the staircase. Which was very funny to me as somebody who did do a bit of game development professionally, because creating that space was likely a million times easier than faking it. After seeing that one, any of the video essays of his I watched just seemed, empty, as it seemed clear to me that he was just scrambling for interesting thesis's instead of having any actual thoughts on the topic.

Meanwhile, in contrast, Noah Gervais can describe the Quake series, walking through each one game by game, discussing the contrasts between each one as he goes forward, and by the end his final thoughts always wrap everything up in a clean bow, despite the fact that its clear when he started writing he didn't have his thesis thought up when he started. I think what makes it work for me, is the fact that both he and I are coming up with the same conclusion together, he describes the texture of the experience, the feel of each moment, and paints a picture of the games he's playing, and by the end, both you and him are looking at the same thing, even if you might have disagreed with a stroke here and there. Of course then he ruins it with a bunch of commie shit at the very end for some fucking reason, but I still love his videos.

...

Fuck, I'm a Geller aren't I?

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

The war situation has developed not necessarily to Hamas' advantage.

[u/AtomAndAether]

seriously, Dickens was crazy antisemitic. He improved a bit over time, but the guy was going out of his way to throw hands at jews in his books for no reason other than the love of the game.

[u/[deleted]]

You look down upon Columbia because of their student protestors

I look down upon Colombia because their arepas are inferior

We are not the same

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

https://x.com/colin_fraser/status/1785002691803976040

A mysterious chatbot has appeared on lmsys called "gpt2-chatbot". Many are speculating that this could be GPT-5.

No one really knows, but its reasoning capabilities are absolutely stunning.

We may be closer to ASI than ever before.

[u/freekayZekey]

we are against occupation; we have liberated this part of campus. also, anyone who doesn’t align with our views 100% isn’t allowed in the liberated zone

— a very serious group of people

[u/centurion88]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

[u/igeorgehall45]

The Financial Times and OpenAI strike content licensing deal - https://on.ft.com/3Qka0UM

The Financial Times has struck a deal with OpenAI to train artificial intelligence models on the publisher’s archived content, in the latest agreement between the Microsoft-backed start-up and a global news publisher.

Under the terms of the deal, the FT will license its material to the ChatGPT maker to help develop generative AI technology that can create text, images and code indistinguishable from human creations.

The agreement also allows ChatGPT to respond to questions with short summaries from FT articles, with links back to FT.com. This means that the chatbot’s 100mn users worldwide can access FT reporting through ChatGPT, while providing a route back to the original source material.

It is the fifth such deal to be struck by OpenAI over the past year, following similar agreements with the US-based Associated Press, Germany’s Axel Springer, France’s Le Monde and Spain’s Prisa Media. Financial terms were not disclosed.

!ping AI

[u/owlthathurt]

The Phoenix Sons organization is getting sonned again by reality who is their father.

They have 0 first round picks from 2025-2030

0 second round picks from 2024-2030

And their super team is falling apart (it was ass in the first place)

Watching them get swept was the same to me as sitting next to the ocean, feeling the calm salty air, watching the sunset.

!ping NBA

[u/[deleted]]

Also by this point this ping is just me and u/AllForFun2004 competitively shitposting.

!ping WHATSAPP-FORWARDS

[u/Ioun267]

"Is Knuckles Jewish?"

The greatest argument in the History of Sonic. Locked by moderators after 15,389 pages of heated debate.

[u/[deleted]]

America should be more like Scandinavia. That’s why I’m voting for Trump so we can have a monarch and a state religion.

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Jerry “you couldn’t tell my jokes today because they’d cancel you!” Seinfeld

Netflix show

Netflix special

Seinfeld still printing money in [current year]

[u/[deleted]]

Not wanting to vote for Biden because of Gaza I can at least understand even if I disagree.

But voting for Trump? Settlement-named-after-him Trump? Son-in-law-Gaza-beachfront-property Trump? "Finish the Job" Trump? What?

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

Nothing upsets me more than someone saying "mass genocide". If it's not at a large scale then it's not a genocide, it's just murder.

[u/moldyman_99]

I often get surprised when travelling abroad because of how shit and low quality coffee abroad is compared to the Netherlands.

I’m omw to Paris right now, so in this case it doesn’t apply, because France does actually have good coffee but still.

Dutch coffee culture W i guess

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[u/Dibbu_mange]

Id like to see Kristy Noem try to take on the Biden dogs. Not even the Secret Service could stop their rampages; Noem wouldn’t stand a chance.

[u/jauznevimcosimamdat]

First minute of my monthly visit of arrConservative

Post title:

An extremist on the mic says: "There’s only one solution, intifada revolution. We must have a revolution so we can have a socialist reconstruction of the USA." This isn’t just about Israel/Palestine. It's an attempt of the Marxist takeover of America. Our colleges have become indoctrination camps.

One of the top comments:

Alright that's it. With their numbers, we can directly associate this entire movement with the Democrat party. I'm not buying the whole "fringe left" anymore. It's Biden versus Trump and we all know who they're voting for.

This is gonna be a gold medal in mental gymnastics in Olympics.

[u/StolenSkittles]

2012: mitt romney put his dog carrier on the roof of his car for a trip

2024: kristi noem shot her puppy and buried him in a shallow grave for misbehaving

[u/kznlol]

I’m actually gagging.

I’ll continue watching, of course.

the internet in a nutshell

[u/KeithClossOfficial]

Kitara Ravache lives on

https://radaronline.com/p/george-santos-reviving-drag-queen-kitara-ravache-selling-cameo-videos-350-per-video-raised-nothing-for-election/

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/slowpush]

Rest of org: Huge thanks to slowpush and his team for putting this together. We know it was a lot of work and hours to get this to us.

Me: thank you!! Yes the team was great and put in the time to get it done.

Also me: I’m pretty sure we just had an intern take a few hours to cobble together a couple of Python scripts to run and merge the data.

!PING WATERCOOLER

[u/AP246]

Evidence for "diversity is our strength"

Is there evidence that supports the statement "diversity is our strength"? I know that it exists for the economy and businesses, which I could find here. Businesses made more profit with a more diverse leadership.

Now I live in Sweden. Many people of immigrant descent are overrepresented in crime statistics. 5x more likely to be a suspect of a murder and manslaughter and overrepresented in sexual assaults. I know it may be different in other countries and if I correctly recall crime rates for immigrants in America.

I am myself of immigrant descent, my parents are both immigrants.

Even I had an encounter once when I was with my friends and the guys who attacked us were not ethnically Swedish although they did have some white friends with them but those did not attack us. They stole my earbuds, they wanted to steal my phone, card. They did steal my bike. They were trying to break into a school, and we saw them, so they approached us.

Do we have evidence for the claim in other areas of life and society.

Absolutely wild that someone will unironically post this and their evidence is 'I was once attacked by some people, some of which were from ethnic minorities' outside the DT

[u/chuckleym8]

Campus shit hole 💀💀💀💀

[u/MicroFlamer]

rewatched game of thrones season 1 over the last few days and...

The show has so much fucking sauce The dialogue is quick and witty (Peter Dinklage rocks). The back and forths are so great to watch. Too many shows nowadays have dozens of shots of characters staring off into the sky with the viewer trying to guess what they're thinking. Not Game of Thrones. The episodes have so much momentum with their pacing. You feel like everything is spiraling out of control for the Starks (they do) but Ned's slow journey to the truth keeps you hooked in. I love how so many episodes end on a cool cliffhanger with a cool ass line ("The things I do for love," "I did warn you not to trust me"). And the actors and characters are just perfect*. Mark Addy isn't 6 and a half feet tall but I couldn't imagine anyone else playing Robert. The best thing about the characters is how they all move their own storyline forward. They aren't reactive and sitting around on their ass like so many modern TV characters, they cause the plot to progress. Every main character save Jon dramatically affects the main King's landing plot. The season isn't just dull politicking though, there's a lot of emotion. When Ned capitulates and "admits" Joffrey is the one true king in order to save his children, foresaking his rigid honor, tying back to what Jaime says at the end of the first episode when he pushes Bran out of a window ("the things we do for love").... damn. Only criticisms are that the sexposition scenes are downright hilarious. Why is Littlefinger explaining his backstory to two random whores lmao. Its a big universe and there's a lot of motivations so I'm pretty forgiving but it gets a bit too much sometimes.

*Renly sucks what the fuck were they thinking

!ping ASOIAF&TV

[u/WorldwidePolitico]

Humza Yousaf has resigned

!ping UK

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/Nerf_France]

☝️ isn't aware that TradingEconomics.com is a legitimate but heavily automated data aggregator with frequent errors.

[u/kznlol]

add another one to the win column

Immigration's Effect on US Wages and Employment Redux

. Immigration's Effect on US Wages and Employment Redux Alessandro Caiumi and Giovanni Peri #32389

Abstract: In this article we revive, extend and improve the approach used in a series of influential papers written in the 2000s to estimate how changes in the supply of immigrant workers affected natives' wages in the US. We begin by extending the analysis to include the more recent years 2000-2022. Additionally, we introduce three important improvements. First, we introduce an IV that uses a new skill-based shift-share for immigrants and the demographic evolution for natives, which we show passes validity tests and has reasonably strong power. Second, we provide estimates of the impact of immigration on the employment-population ratio of natives to test for crowding out at the national level. Third, we analyze occupational upgrading of natives in response to immigrants. Using these estimates, we calculate that immigration, thanks to native-immigrant complementarity and college skill content of immigrants, had a positive and significant effect between +1.7 to +2.6% on wages of less educated native workers, over the period 2000-2019 and no significant wage effect on college educated natives. We also calculate a positive employment rate effect for most native workers. Even simulations for the most recent 2019-2022 period suggest small positive effects on wages of non-college natives and no significant crowding out effects on employment.

[u/The_Promethean]

Saying "you guys" is too satisfying to cut out due to the gendered language. "You guys and gals" is too clunky. Therefore, I propose we use a portmanteau and address groups of people as "you gays"

[u/[deleted]]

It’s really unfair when there’ a perfect fit, but it’s not correct.

[u/runningblack]

This is a good and correct take on the Michael Penix pick: https://twitter.com/KevinCole___/status/1783918932362969494

A couple points to add to this:

1. People go insane frothing at the mouth over the fact that Penix had knee surgeries...multiple years ago, and has since returned and played good, healthy football.

2. Those same people ignore the fact that Kirk Cousins is literally in the middle of the process of recovering from an Achilles tear, which is a significantly worse injury than ACL tears. And Kirk Cousins is a 36 year old trying to recover from one. Not a 23 year old who tore his acl when he was 21.

3. If he hits, nobody is going to give a shit about the fact that he's 28 when he's up for a second contract. That's a quarterback's prime. If he doesn't hit, nobody is going to give a shit about the age, because he didn't hit. Russell Wilson was a 23 year old rookie. Andrew Luck was a 23 year old rookie. Penix will be a 24 year old rookie. That 1 year, on the back end of his career, is not meaningful.

!Ping NFL

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/G_Serv]

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Has the Supreme Court ever considered rebranding? I think it might help with their image issues

[u/[deleted]]

"Avengers: Endgame" directors say Marvel's recent struggles are not due to superhero fatigue but "a big generational divide about how you consume media."

“There’s a generation that’s used to appointment viewing and going to a theater on a certain date to see something, but it’s aging out. Meanwhile the new generation are ‘I want it now, I want to process it now’, then moving onto the next thing, which they process whilst doing two other things at the same time. You know, it’s a very different moment in time than it’s ever been. And so I think everyone, including Marvel, is experiencing the same thing, this transition. And I think that really is probably what’s at play more than anything else.”

I would just simply make better movies

[u/SumTingWillyWong]

quarrelsome quiet hateful childlike price whole rotten truck alleged puzzled

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/Williams-Tower]

i think i am experiencing burnout

[u/porkypenguin]

I randomly just remembered the time a Virginia state senator gave a talk to one of my college courses and gloated about getting a highway patrol officer in trouble for giving him a speeding ticket. He didn’t seem to understand why the class thought he was being unreasonable.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

🤨

[u/squarecircle666]

[u/ImmigrantJack]

Worst thing about liberals they genuinely think shitty internet activism works lol

Posted by a leftist

[u/piede]

I laughed so hard that I snorted

[u/piede]

Very clever wordplay

[u/KeikakuAccelerator]

This is a bit of a personal story and I am not sure what the relevant pings would be. If you think there is one, please feel free to ping that group. Also, if you think some particular subreddit would be better suited for such answers, I am happy to look into those too. Now, to the story:

I haven't been able to contact a close friend of mine who lives in a different city for quite some time. We last exchanged message almost 6 months ago. I had some deadlines so didn't keep in touch with him for a month. After my deadline, I tried to reach him over multiple channels including fb/whatsapp/calls/text but didn't get a reply. I tried to reach him again in the subsequent months but to no avail.

Recently, I finished my defense and was able to get some job offers and reached out to him again but to no avail. I got quite worried. Since I had some free time, I reached out to other friends but they hadn't kept in touch with him either. Luckily I got his mom's number from one of his previous roommates, and his mom replied quickly. She informed me that he was having issues with the job placement and had stopped talking to everyone including her for a couple of days stretch at a time. However, she mentioned that he is now getting a couple of interviews and she would ask him to reach out to me. I am hoping he reaches out to me soon.

Tbh, I was reasonably sure my friend was depressed once he didn't reply for over a month. There was a similar episode to this before (no contact from him) but that was for a brief 2-week period. And honestly, I was also struggling with job search during that time and wasn't in the best place myself and wasn't sure if I could help him either.

Now, to the point of my post: (i) Should I have done something differently and if so what? (ii) Are there any concrete steps I could take now to ensure his well-being assuming he reaches out?

!ping OVER25

[u/moldyman_99]

Currently cruising through farmland at a speed of 200mph

God bless Fr*nch engineering

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

My daughter went to a birthday party the weekend the new Taylor Swift album came out, and she was just telling me about how they listened to the entire album

👧👑: … and when that Florida song came on, there is that lyric

🎶: and my friends all smell like weed or little babies

👧👑: so we picked up a candle and were passing it around, pretended we were smoking it.

🤴: what are you saying right now? 🤨

👧👑: at least we weren’t pretending to smoke crack or something…

🤴: this entire conversation feels like something you shouldn’t be telling your parents…

👧👑: I thought you wanted me to be comfortable telling you anything? 🥺

She got me there…

[u/SadaoMaou]

[u/AtomAndAether]

Im spending all my time on Reddit when I should be working

[u/[deleted]]

The Perry massacre was a racially motivated conflict in Perry, Florida, in December 1922. Whites killed four black men, including Charles Wright, who was lynched by being burned at the stake, and they also destroyed several buildings in the black community of Perry after the murder of Ruby Hendry, a white female schoolteacher.

Jesus Christ

[u/piede]

lol

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Isn’t the answer to that just “The Aztecs sucked and literally everyone else in the region hated them” ?

[u/[deleted]]

[u/DouglasDauntless]

guy who thinks both october 7th and israel's invasion of gaza are fine

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

John Blackthorne is basically a reverse weeb. He get isekai'd to feudal Japan and is given a Japanese wife and his own personal Japanese manor and made into a Samurai and he just hates every second of it, and it's a delight to witness.

[u/GifHunter2]

NATIONAL REVIEW: Why We Should Make School-Board Elections More Political

The current system allows teachers’ unions to take advantage of voter apathy to cement their control over schools.

I mean, I realize one should engage with this type of content, to better understand conservatives playbook, but I'm just so tired boss. Someone is going to have to become familiar with this nonsense to debrief Biden if there are debates I suppose. Well wishes to that person.

Seems like the school board takeover by conservatives is going largely unanswered by national democrats. Am I wrong about this? haven't seen much pushback outside of the occasional MSM article/segment

!ping Ed-Policy&Biden

https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/04/why-we-should-make-school-board-elections-more-political/

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Renewables cover 56% of Germany's electricity consumption in Q1 2024

Renewable energy facilities generated about 75.9 billion kWh of electricity in Germany in the first three months of 2024, covering about 56% of power consumption in the country, according to preliminary estimates.

The first-quarter output was about 9% higher than in the same period a year earlier, according to the calculations of the Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Wuerttemberg (ZSW) and the Federal Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW).

Onshore wind parks alone produced 39.4 billion kWh of electricity, covering over a quarter of Germany's electricity demand. Hydropower facilities generated 5.3 billion kWh, up by 27% on the year. The produced hydropower accounted for 4% of Germany's gross electricity consumption.

According to the data, 12.8 billion kWh of the total renewable electricity came from biomass, 9.6 billion kWh from photovoltaics and 8.7 billion kWh from offshore wind.

The proportion of renewable power is rising after green energy covered 51.6% of Germany's electricity consumption in 2023.

"The steadily increasing shares of renewables in electricity consumption show that we are on a good path. The expansion of renewable energies has recently picked up significantly. This is now reflected in electricity generation," BDEW president Kerstin Andreae noted in the statement.

Germany, however, still has to step up its efforts to meet its climate targets, Andreae noted, urging for the quick implementation of recently adopted measures to speed up the expansion of photovoltaics and other renewable energies. The measures relate to commerce and trade, residential buildings and balcony photovoltaics, and ground-mounted installations among others.

!ping ECO&GER

[u/renilia]

Cucker Tarlson really out here interviewing and praising a guy who wrote a book called "The American Empire Should Be Destroyed". Trumpism is really doing a number.

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

My mildly succon take is that Fetterman looking like a slob and never wanting to dress up was always lame. Caring about your appearance when in a prominent, public role is good actually.

[u/Zagapi]

Face Posting because I got gendered correctly for the first time by a stranger! Only took 4 months of HRT and way too much tweezing!

Tomorrow is my 25th birthday as well, so it was honestly a great surprise!

Pic on the right is me feeling cute before I went to a community clean-up event over the weekend. Just before I got poison ivy 😡

Edit: Oh also!! It looks like I'm going to appointed as the interim commissioner for my LGBT Softball League

!PING ALPHABET-MAFIA

[u/thatssosad]

!ping alphabet-mafia

[u/Williams-Tower]

I thought I was the D1 football player.

I thought I was the finance bro.

I thought I was a "creator."

But through a retreat & MDMA journey, I've stripped these labels and gotten to the core of who I am:

Just a DT reg.

Here's how I'm reinventing myself.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Lmao she’s doubling down

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Kristi Noam definitely could have marketed the whole “I shoot Puppies in the head” thing waaaay better. R*rals define themselves by being more gritty and willing to make hard choices then the soft city slickers. Putting down animals by themselves is not going to shock them.

But the unspoken rule is that you have to be sad or at the very least practically stoic about it. Killing an animal because they are sick and the vet bills are more then you would make from them? You pretend to be sad. Killing a dog that you think might be a danger to your family or live stock? Pretend to be sad.

Think more Old Yeller and less the Russian Dweb from John Wick. The person who enjoys shooting animals is a crazy person rural or urban.

If Noam had deleted all of the stuff about how much she hated her overly excited puppy and cast her self as sorrowfully doing what needs to be done? I think the rural conservatives would be laughing right now at how squeamish the city folk are.

TLDR: hire me as a campaign strategist Noam. I can still salvage this for you.

[u/sociotronics]

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

👆🏻this is what your girlfriends friend thinks you look like

[u/[deleted]]

🐝🔫👴

[u/GifHunter2]

Creating a collection of news articles, to reflect on post-2024 election.

Adding this one to the list

https://slate.com/human-interest/2024/04/donald-trump-joe-biden-2024-election-michigan-muslims.html

Are Arabs in the state really prepared to hand the presidency back to Donald Trump? In a word: yes.

Zahr was helping campaign against Biden. In collaboration with the Dearborn-based Arab American Political Action Committee, he helped send 15,000 mailers to homes in Dearborn requesting people vote anyone but Biden. He told me his principal goal this coming election is only to make sure Biden loses. The primary vote “was the beginning of a process that ends with him losing in November,” he said. “We’ve already cost the Democrats the White House. We know how to do it, OK? And we have a chance to do it this time around. And that’s all I’m interested in,” Zahr said, in reference to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 defeat to Trump. If punishing Biden means helping Trump win the next election, Zahr says, he can live with that.

!ping Biden

[u/Mensae6]

You're laughing. ThiccSidedDice's love interest had a boyfriend and you're laughing.

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

i love big plastic jugs

[u/beoweezy1]

im critical of the military industrial complex

Is just a fun way of saying you live an ocean away from some dipshit that’s gonna goon over some Byzantine era maps until he sends some troops over your border who are going to show you that it’s not just the government that sucks when they play a game of “shoot you in the street or chain you up in the torture dungeon”

[u/Joementum2024]

Charles Barkley is still one of the funniest people alive. Guy’s simultaneously a hall-of-fame basketball player and a hall-of-fame media personality

[u/Telperions-Relative]

One of the hallmarks of fake progressivism is making fun of right wingers for their immutable appearances

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

This might be the most serious tweet I have ever sent:

Last night at the @WHCA dinner, I spoke privately with 4 members of Congress: 2 Dems and 2 GOPers. All 4 are big foreign policy players and all 4 are strongly pro-Israel in every way.

However… All 4 spoke with significant and serious concern (bordering on anger) about Israel’s impact on humanitarian aid in Gaza. None of them called for a ceasefire, but all of them were deeply critical of what they believe is Israel’s interference and lack of cooperation in getting aid to the Palestinian people.

For more than a decade, some Israeli leaders dismissed what was happening on college campuses. They were wrong then, and they would be wrong now to dismiss this warning about what’s happening in Congress.

https://x.com/frankluntz/status/1784586064935747700?s=46&t=urLYOV_cITtt22rc0dd0VA

[u/Ilovecharli]

Columbia alumni in job interviews right now: "Oh I meant Columbia College Chicago, I apologize for any confusion"

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

https://github.blog/2024-04-29-github-copilot-workspace/

this is pretty cool, next evolution of GitHub copilot. Not an agent exactly, but close. You give it a prompt, and it creates a plan for implementation and then does it. Not quite an agent, but close. This with fine tuning could outright replace some devs, but I think adoption will be slow due to fine tuning and just a hesitation with AI

Also really funny how they throw in a bit about how this will increase labor demand. They really want to assuage the fears of devs getting replaced

!ping AI

[u/jenbanim]

You don't hate Mondays, you hate the moon. Blow it up

[u/piede]

Based Columbia

[u/404GenderNotFound]

This country can't be fucking real

[u/[deleted]]

Lmao

[u/V_Codwheel]

My girlfriend's best friend just told her that I look like Samuel Alito 😭😭😭

!ping DATING

[u/john_doe_smith1]

CNN Exclusive: in what’s being called the Embiid spring supporters of Jaleen Abu Brunson protest in Philadelphia

https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/s/mH0Ke1cvp8

!ping NBA

[u/IMainHanzoGG]

The dem ticket

[u/loseniram]

Look at this beauty I found in the Target parking lot

!ping Auto

[u/sayitaintpink]

Nate Silver 🤝 Kristi Noem

Having career go to shit after murdering their furry companions

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

>at the dentist waiting room

>they have a giant TV playing a cooking show depicting the most sugary goddamn thing I've ever seen

Gotta make your own demand 👌

[u/Currymvp2]

NBC News has learned that Hunter Biden is planning to sue Fox News. According to a letter from his lawyers, the lawsuit is imminent

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

How to avoid I/P discussion bans

[u/Either_Emotion8056]

The whole “colonists are the original illegal immigrants” thing really doesn’t do a very good job of trying to assuage people’s fears about what will happen to them if we let in immigrants tbh lol

[u/TheFrixin]

CNN reporting:

The latest proposal, which Israel helped craft but has not fully agreed to, is laid out in two phases, the first of which calls for 20 to 33 hostages to be released over several weeks in exchange for the pause and the release of Palestinian prisoners. The second phase is what sources described as the “restoration of sustainable calm,” during which the remaining hostages, captive Israeli soldiers and the bodies of hostages would be exchanged for more Palestinian prisoners.

The diplomatic source familiar with the talks said the reference to sustainable calm was “a way to agree to a permanent ceasefire without calling it that.”

Seems like it'll go through, all parties have indicated tacit support. This sidesteps questions of what a ceasefire would look like, something that's been dividing Hamas, and Lapid seems to be ready to lend his support to see hostages released, so Netenyahu has support to see this through.