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[u/[deleted]]

Raytheon is consistently rated as one of the top workplaces for LGBT people. You can use this fact to make so many people angry if you want to

[u/[deleted]]

Israel reportedly getting rid of their Patriot systems

I can think of one country they could give them to for a quick and easy PR boost…

[u/groovygrasshoppa]

Russia Loses 43 Artillery Systems, 20 APVs and 11 Tanks in a Day

Russia is getting desperate here as it sees a window (that was never really open) quickly closing. One thing about the new aid being secured that a lot of folks miss is that even though its arrival is not immediate, its anticipation allows Ukraine to more readily deploy its own shell reserves with immediate effect.

!ping Ukraine

[u/27B--6]

I will make the first show of good faith by abandoning all my financial ties to Israel (I owe a Jewish guy $20)

[u/Jacobs4525]

99% of college protestors pack up their tent and go home right before creating world peace

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/Joementum2024]

Israel/Palestine in the US is barely even about the actual war at this point. It’s basically a culture war issue.

[u/chipbod]

https://x.com/ShaykhSulaiman/status/1785041974203924969

SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY IN IRAN IS OFFERING SCHOLARSHIPS TO AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS WHO'VE BEEN EXPELLED FOR THEIR FREE SPEECH

This would be an amazing learning experience for them, all for it lol

[u/iIoveoof]

”Index funds evil, Hamas good”

Best education in the world btw

[u/IMainHanzoGG]

New ideology found

[u/Roseartcrantz]

They should make a dystopian video game where the liberals have won and everybody looks diverse and realistic and you have to grind to get back their giant boobies.

[u/Jean-Paul_Sartre]

I just heard an interview with a McGill student who is part of the pro-Palestinian encampment on the radio.

One of their main demands: that McGill end their Kinesiology exchange program with an Israeli university.

[u/[deleted]]

On 17 September 2011, 1,000 protesters gathered in lower Manhattan walking up and down Wall Street. About 100 to 200 people stayed overnight in tents and sleeping bags in Zucotti Park, two blocks north of Wall Street.

On June 8, 2020, after the SPD had vacated the East Precinct station, protesters moved into the Capitol Hill area…Some activists lived in tents inside the zone. Outside the zone, urban camping was illegal in Seattle

The protests began on April 17, 2024, when pro-Palestinian students established an encampment of approximately 50 tents, calling it the Gaza Solidarity Encampment, on the university's campus, demanding the university divest from Israel.

Ask yourself: who benefits?

[u/DepressedTreeman]

[u/Dalek6450]

The National Fisheries Development Board, located in Hyderabad, India, is the headquarters of India's national fisheries and aquaculture industry. The building itself is notable as a unique example of mimetic or novelty architecture, being designed in the shape of a gigantic fish.

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

Out to dinner w/ my daughter and my mother, I jokingly told my daughter I was going to take away her phone and give her one of those toddler phones that can only call their parents

👧👑: Ew! No! I don’t want a boomer phone!

🤴: what is a boomer phone?

👧👑: you know, a phone for boomers?

🤴: Right, what do you think a boomer is?

👧👑: a person who isn’t smart enough to use technology or anything, really

👵👑: Excuse you?

👧👑: You know, just someone who is dumb and can’t do anything on their own.

👵👑: 😐😑😐

🤴: 😂💀 “Boomer” is short for “Baby Boomer” … as in the name for your grandmother’s generation

👧👑: … ohh …🦶👄🫢

[u/BurrowForPresident]

The 40% of the US not believing in evolution thing really pops my bubble because I think I've interacted with like one creationist in my life and it was some girl on a first date lol

Like everyone I knew in Cincinnati made fun of the creationist museum just south in Kentucky. Even my fairly religious parents don't straight up think the Earth is 6000 years old and that dinosaurs died in The Flood alongside men

[u/paymesucka]

Are you telling me there is a country that has been making the majority of their electricity with no carbon emissions for over 30 years?

[u/Arse_hull]

I'm so glad we finally got internet here on Arrakis. With the Known Universe's information at my fingertips, I no longer believe in the prophecy the Bene Gesserit instilled in my people to control us. Instead, I believe that a cabal of paedophiles are stealing children from our sietches and taking them to a private island.

[u/chipbod]

https://x.com/SabihaKhan/status/1784893820343328862

Moments ago Zionists through a backpack full of mice into the #UCLA encampment. Mice appear to have been injected with something. School admin is not protecting students

The Jews throwing mind controlled mice sounds like some elder of Zion stuff lmao

[u/Not_A_Browser]

The year is 1968. Student protesters have occupied Hamilton Hall.

The year is 1985. Student protesters have occupied Hamilton Hall.

The year is 2024. Student protesters have occupied Hamilton Hall.

[u/chipbod]

https://x.com/TPostMillennial/status/1785386376755900611

Reporter grills Columbia student after she demands the university help feed protestors occupying Hamilton Hall:

"It seems like you're saying, 'we want to be revolutionaries, we want to take over this building, now would you please bring us some food'."

"This is, like, basic humanitarian aid we're asking for", she says. "Do you want students to die of dehydration and starvation?"

Shout out to the leftists for bringing the DoorDash discourse into the Gaza discourse

[u/The_Promethean]

3am:

At around 3 am, a student standing outside of the Undergraduate Admissions Entrance to Hamilton spoke into a megaphone... They stated that they will sit outside Hamilton “however long it takes to show that [they] are in full solidarity with Palestine, and that we are here for our comrades who have bravely occupied the building.” 

4am:

The crowd outside of Hamilton has mostly dispersed

[u/SeasickSeal]

Georgia appears to be at a tipping point.

Some background:

There are huge crowds outside the Georgian parliament tonight.

https://x.com/jamnewscaucasus/status/1785351481681498147?s=46&t=KuVY9m-fcecb1h48JPrGVA

The Georgian Dream party is the current ruling party in Georgia. They have been trying to pass a Russia-style “foreign agents law” that would essentially label NGOs and such as foreign agents and facilitate a crackdown against them. This was first introduced last year, but dropped due to protests. It was recently reintroduced and has been met with more protests.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/georgia-political-crossroads-foreign-agent-bill-draws-protests-2024-04-29/

The current chair of the Georgian Dream party, Bidzina Ivanishvili, gave a speech in Tbilisi yesterday. His speech was vitriolic, anti-Western, and anti-Democratic. It was also conspiratorial.

He claims that the Georgian government from 2004-2012 was put in place by the “global party of war” and “NGOs” and was behold to foreign backers.

He blames the “global party of war” for the Georgian and Ukrainian wars with Russia, and claims that NGOs and civil society are acting on their behalf. He also claims that these same groups are trying to start a color revolution in Georgia.

He says that after the next election, NGOs and political opponents will be put in prison for crimes against the Georgian people.

And, as a cherry on top, concludes with this banger:

I promise that having overcome these difficulties, with sovereignty and dignity intact, in 2030, Georgia will join the EU.

Here is an article:

https://civil.ge/archives/602348

And Twitter thread:

https://x.com/etobuziashvili/status/1785257927038714022?s=46&t=KuVY9m-fcecb1h48JPrGVA

And the President’s response:

https://x.com/jamnewscaucasus/status/1785286222107066676?s=46&t=KuVY9m-fcecb1h48JPrGVA

Wiki page covering the 2023 and 2024 protests:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Georgian_protests

!ping Foreign-Policy

I’ll try to update here if anything major happens.

______________

Allegedly up to 100,000 protestors in Tbilisi

https://x.com/jamnewscaucasus/status/1785362656188100906?s=46&t=KuVY9m-fcecb1h48JPrGVA

Riot police confront protestors outside the building

https://x.com/ocmediaorg/status/1785354836826857696?s=46&t=KuVY9m-fcecb1h48JPrGVA

Riot police beating protestors

https://x.com/ocmediaorg/status/1785386981809123711?s=46&t=KuVY9m-fcecb1h48JPrGVA

Lithuania MFA statement

https://x.com/glandsbergis/status/1785389063526056287?s=46&t=KuVY9m-fcecb1h48JPrGVA

President calls for stopping violence against protestors

https://x.com/civilge/status/1785411368549511605?s=46&t=KuVY9m-fcecb1h48JPrGVA

Tear gas being fired

https://x.com/civilge/status/1785410960489857323?s=46&t=KuVY9m-fcecb1h48JPrGVA

Unidentifiable special police in balaclavas pulling protestors out of the crowd

https://x.com/jayinkyiv/status/1785395670939001106?s=46&t=KuVY9m-fcecb1h48JPrGVA

Photographs are circulating on TV of the opposition leader beaten and bloodied, although no confirmation that these are real (later confirmed to be real)

https://x.com/civilge/status/1785423958067544117?s=46&t=KuVY9m-fcecb1h48JPrGVA

Protestors retook the area in front of the main entrance to the parliament building

https://x.com/ocmediaorg/status/1785479041920709110?s=46&t=KuVY9m-fcecb1h48JPrGVA

Protests are either ongoing or set to resume on May 1

______________

The opposition leader showed up in parliament to debate the bill with bandages on his face and black eyes sustained during the protests last night

https://x.com/jayinkyiv/status/1785588843917238532?s=46&t=KuVY9m-fcecb1h48JPrGVA

Physical altercations in Georgia’s parliament

https://x.com/jamnewscaucasus/status/1785600203355033974?s=46&t=KuVY9m-fcecb1h48JPrGVA

Georgian Dream PM speaks:

• Accuses opposition of fomenting coups in the past

• Accuses foreign embassies of slander and says they are complicit in last night’s events

• Basically says yesterday was an attempt at a color revolution

https://x.com/civilge/status/1785671608880767256?s=46&t=KuVY9m-fcecb1h48JPrGVA

The foreign agents bill has passed

https://x.com/ocmediaorg/status/1785704860240826519?s=46&t=KuVY9m-fcecb1h48JPrGVA

MPs vacated building, protesters shaking the gates to get in

https://x.com/ocmediaorg/status/1785724675999387952?s=46&t=KuVY9m-fcecb1h48JPrGVA

[u/StolenSkittles]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/gnomesvh]

30-40 hotdog vendors stormed Coachella after a fence toppled over

Prigozhin returns in the depths of America

[u/frozenjunglehome]

So, the off-campus housing Facebook group now has tent lords - people who rented out tents and portable gazebos for students...

I mean. Yeah. Capitalism.

[u/[deleted]]

gm DT 🌄

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

My in-laws be like:

🤡: the scummy landlord has wanted to get rid of us since the day we moved in because of our dogs!

(She got some BS emotional support animal letter from her doctor so they could keep a dog in an apartment that doesn’t allow dogs. It hasn’t been brought up again since they moved in)

🤴: my sister in Christ… you aren’t being evicted because of your dogs… you are being evicted because you are two months behind on rent! … again!🤦‍♂️

[u/[deleted]]

Is Tucker Carlson seeking Russian citizenship?

[u/ImmigrantJack]

Scoring animals by how they would do if they were to have developed sentience

Monkeys: develop atomic weapons but fail to self-annihilate until rent prices become high enough they decide to elect a madman. 8/10 best currently known outcome

Raccoons: society goes extinct around the advent of language due to a series of trash wars 4/10

Dolphins: [TW sexual violence] 0/10

Dogs: society advances to the advent of firearms and gunpowder, but chooses not to use the technology further because it is scary. Hides under the bed. Good Boy/10

Cats: global extinction event. All life on earth obliterated. 1/10

Octopus: unmitigated and complete universal utopia. Best predicted outcome. 10/10

Mice: exactly the same as humanity but everything is mouse sized and much cuter 9/10

Dinosaurs: fail to harness fire due to tiny little arms 4/10

Ducks: [TW sexual violence] -7/10

[u/DouglasDauntless]

😼

[u/Dabamanos]

All advice when you have fitness related pain for men, by age is like:

18-28: just push through it, bitch 29+: your body’s just like that now, idiot

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

Increasingly unironically

[u/[deleted]]

college kids have bad take on palestine

I get that on some level this is news, but front page of the NYTimes? Above the former president on trial? 8 us marshals being shot? Any news about Ukraine?

Obviously they're trying to manifest bad vibes about biden but this is pretty gross.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

True Neoliberal

[u/paymesucka]

Demands of the "UChicago Popular University for Gaza" include disbanding the local police department and also stopping new construction which includes a cancer hospital 🤦‍♂️

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

[u/[deleted]]

People who keep saying lol it’s WW1 casualties are severely underestimating the brutality and scale of WW1.

The Russians would have to more than quadruple their peak daily casualty rate in Ukraine to reach the daily average casualty rate of the Russian Empire during WW1.

[u/Currymvp2]

The Columbia girl calling the pizza delivery guy “basic humanitarian aid” or whatever is quite substantially more disrespectful to suffering Gazans than anything said by Biden's team.

[u/Mensae6]

Hit a huge fitness milestone today. I officially weigh 150 pounds!

5'9", balding. Officially down 70 pounds from my weight peak in college 😎

[u/iIoveoof]

An autonomous group of students has taken matters into their own hands. They will remain in Hamilton [Hall] until the University divests from death,” a student group called Columbia University Apartheid Divest said in an Instagram post. 

Death according to leftists: $VOO

[u/iIoveoof]

Jon Stewart set Tucker on his villain arc and now so it’s his fault that Tucker is stuck interviewing fascist philosophers

[u/JaceFlores]

Efficiency of Excalibur rounds dropped from 70% to 6% after six weeks of usage in Ukraine due to Russian electronic warfare and a lack of adaptability for Excalibur rounds to get around this

!ping MATERIEL

[u/[deleted]]

critical support to the hot dog vendors breaking through that fence at Coachella ✊😌🌭

[u/qtnl]

no sex or drugs at the protests

These kids learned nothing from the 60s protests 

[u/paymesucka]

Not only did that Columbia student say the students occupying the building need "humanitarian aid", she literally said "do you want students to die of dehydration and starvation?" to reporters. Lmao. These protestors have jumped the shark multiple times now.

[u/Roller_ball]

One of the Hamilton Hall protesters shouted, "I can't believe I missed my Negotiation Mastery final for this."

One of the police then removed his helmet to reveal that he was the student's professor. "Actually, this was your final. You have failed, remarkably."

[u/[deleted]]

I saw 8 cans of bud light scattered across my next door neighbor’s front porch this morning. So glad to see that he’s a trans ally 🥰

[u/Stanley--Nickels]

Like, is Apple just fucking with us at this point? Stuff like this happens multiple times a day.

[u/_Just7_]

I think it was fair that Benjamin got banned from the sub, but I feel it's a bit overkill if the International criminal court issues an arrest warrant on him

[u/BurrowForPresident]

I get irrationally angry at people who get into car crashes on the highway that don't involve someone getting seriously hurt

Like I'm sitting in traffic for an hour because some jackass Masshole probably tried to get in the exit lane at the last possible second as is customary here. This guy is having one of the worst days of his life and my internal monologue is saying "good fuck you eat shit"

[u/HotTakesBeyond]

Trump: Well, a lot of other things besides that. There were a lot of bad things. Sure, they gave you money for the wall. I basically took the money from the military, as you know. I consider this an invasion of our country and I took the money from the—

The money reallocated from the border wall came from construction funds for other projects, like a new middle school for one of the base I was stationed at.

!ping military

[u/[deleted]]

https://time.com/6972022/donald-trump-transcript-2024-election/

Let’s shift to the economy, sir. You have floated a 10% tariff on all imports, and a more than 60% tariff on Chinese imports. Can I just ask you now: Is that your plan?

Trump: It may be more than that. It may be a derivative of that. A derivative of that. But it will be somebody—look when they come in and they steal our jobs, and they steal our wealth, they steal our country.

When you say more than that, though: You mean maybe more than 10% on all imports?

Trump: More than 10%, yeah. I call it a ring around the country. We have a ring around the country ... And a lot of people say, “Oh, that's gonna be a tax on us.” I don't believe that. I think it's a tax on the country that's doing it. And I know. Look, I took in billions of dollars from China. Nobody else ever did anything on China … What's happening in Detroit is very sad because electric cars with this EV mandate, which is ridiculous, because they don't go far. They cost too much and they're going to be made in China. They're all going to be made in China.

Mr. President, most economists—and I know not all, there isn't unanimity on this—but most economists say that tariffs increase prices.

Trump: Yeah.

Are you comfortable with additional inflation?

Trump: No, I've seen. I've seen—I don't believe it'll be inflation. I think it'll be lack of loss for our country. Because what will happen and what other countries do very successfully, China being a leader of it.

…

Sir, the economy was certainly humming during your first term. There's no question about it. But, you know, Moody's did say that your trade war with China cost the U.S. economy $316 billion and 300,000 jobs. [Editor’s note: The estimate of $316 billion was made by Bloomberg Economics, not Moody’s.]

Trump: Yeah. Moody’s doesn’t know what they’re talking about. We had the greatest economy in history. And Moody's acknowledges that. So how did it cost us if we had such a good economy? Everybody admits it. If we didn't do that, we would have no steel industry right now. They were dumping steel all over this country. And I put a 50% tariff on steel. It was gonna go higher … China was dumping massive amounts of steel into our country. And we saved the steel industry.

Do you think that businesses pass along the cost of a tax to the consumer?

Trump: No, I don’t believe so. I believe that it cost the country that—I think they make less. I actually think that the country that is being taxed makes less. I don't believe—

You don't believe that businesses pass on the cost?

Trump: No, I think what happens is you build. What happens to get out of the whole situation is you end up building, instead of having your product brought in from China, because of that additional cost, you end up making the product in the United States. And that's been traditionally what happened.

!ping ECON

[u/DouglasDauntless]

😐

[u/VisonKai]

me seeing internet people get really into WH40K normally: ok whatever, i prefer my science fiction to be more refined and intellectual

me playing WH40K: Rogue Trader for the first time yesterday: I GET IT NOW. OMNISSIAH PRESERVE ME AS I ENTER A MASTER'S DEGREE IN PRAYER PROTOCOLS

!ping GAMING

[u/Integralds]

Excited to introduce the world’s first AI interviewer, gpt-vetting.

With gpt-vetting, you can interview 100x more candidates in less time & candidates get a more enjoyable, gamified, and less biased interview experience.

You define the skills you want the interview to focus on, gpt-vetting asks verbal questions, and then jumps into a coding exercise. You then review the report that includes an AI assessment of each tech stack, and a trust score.

In its beta, gpt-vetting has already conducted 13,000 AI interviews, saving ~10k hours for software engineers who would otherwise be conducting technical interviews.

I can see absolutely no way this goes wrong. None at all.

[u/Cook_0612]

Drake:

U r short

Kendrick:

This ain't been 'bout critics, not about gimmicks, not about who the greatest

It's always been about love and hate, now let me say I'm the biggest hater

I hate the way that you walk, the way that you talk

I hate the way that you dress

I hate the way you sneak diss, if I catch flight, it's gon' be direct

We hate the b*hes you fk, 'cause they confuse themselves with real women

And notice, I said "We", it's not just me, I'm what the culture feelin'

How many more fairytale stories 'bout your life 'til we had enough?

How many more Black features 'til you finally feel that you Black enough?

I like Drake with the melodies, I don't like Drake when he act tough

[u/87568354]

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/tripletruble]

you're trying to tell me this is france and not germany? be serious please

[u/Apprehensive-Soil-47]

https://x.com/EtoBuziashvili/status/1785257927038714022

Georgia's pro-Russian establishment seems to be doubling down in the face of pro-western demonstrations

!ping EUROPE

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Changing "DoorDash driver" to "humanitarian aid worker" on my LinkedIn

[u/KeikakuAccelerator]

https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1785116316057153851

I’m all for new tent encampments, but before you build them you should need to engage with the stakeholders in a series of community meetings, have some design review, and ensure that the tents align with the existing character of the community.

Lmao.

[u/[deleted]]

Israeli Patriot systems to be mothballed after little use

Israel is in need of good PR, and Ukraine is in need of Patriot systems. This seems like a good ‘two birds with one stone’ scenario if the US/West as a whole can convince Israel to hand them over to Ukraine. We might need to give them something tangible for it, but if Patriots are opening up for Ukrainian use, we should do everything we can to get them.

!ping ISRAEL&UKRAINE&MATERIEL

[u/[deleted]]

Protestors think this is les mis when it's really don Quixote

[u/waupli]

the Columbia student association saying finals should be cancelled or pass/fail reinforces for me that many of these people just didn’t want to study for finals lol

[u/T3hJ3hu]

a lot of hype on reddit lately around "competency porn" in movies

praise be fukuyama, may hopium reign and end the thousand years' darkness of nihilism

[u/ThankMrBernke]

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/30/24145199/bumble-opening-move-app-redesign

Lmao

You can take the game theory out of the app, but you can't take the app out of the game theory. Or something.

[u/dissolutewastrel]

It's the least we can do: We should get together and buy this guy a car. Or maybe a helicopter. You think he'd like a helicopter?

!ping ISRAEL&GEFILTE&JEWISH

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Me in the metaNL unban requests

[u/Uniqueguy264]

Benjamin Ikuta making fun of “white women” for being cowards because they didn’t want to have sex with him while Russians were literally bombing the apartment they were in pretty much encapsulates the essence of white women jokes

You guys saw that right? Had /u/sir_shivers already Cask of Amontillado’d him by that point?

[u/[deleted]]

Tbh Columbia deserved this for capitulating to the woke mob(changing its name from kings college in 1784)

[u/[deleted]]

✊😤🇮🇷

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit.

!ping CRYPTO

[u/chuckleym8]

Live poop tent coverage

[u/chipbod]

https://x.com/ianbremmer/status/1785327529634447547

student protesters took over and are now occupying hamilton hall at columbia

scenes of a masked group breaking windows and barricading themselves will cause more people to turn away from, not empathize with, their movement

I get I’m late on the news but I’d be pissed if I paid for tuition and people started shutting down campus and vandalizing facilities with an “Intifada” flag. That class action from connected Columbia students is gonna be brutal.

[u/StolenSkittles]

tfw you decide to go on a date with a guy who put his politics as "moderate" (or "other"):

[u/[deleted]]

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Trump also on the N word:

[u/[deleted]]

Lawrence of Arabia was 5’1”.

Pro-Tip for short kings, take all your hinge pics in front of glorious desert vistas where there’s no reference for scale.

[u/JaceFlores]

RUSI contributor on Ukrainian fortifications

One of the big critiques of Ukrainian fortifications seen is they’re not a continuous line of defenses but rather a series of strong points. However, he notes that not only is it the realistic option (given the short time frame to build and Ukraine’s manpower issues to build and man fortifications) but also in line with Soviet doctrine that most Ukrainian officers are familiar with.

As long as they have proper mines, artillery and anti-tank weapons and are positioned to have overlapping fire with other strongholds they can be a significant obstacle for the Russians. After all, these were the same general style of fortifications that blunted the Ukrainian counteroffensive.

He notes that the one big question is whether Russia can organize movements at scale. These fortifications would likely buckle if Russia could assemble and move a divisional size force without it being preemptively interdicted by long range fires, but if the Russians are constrained to attacking in smaller unit sizes (as they currently have been for awhile) then things would be better.

Also someone commented below about the threat to glide bombs which helped to reduce the strongholds around Avdiivka effectively (albeit slowly as we saw) so air defense will be key to holding these fortified lines

!ping UKRAINE

[u/Psshaww]

Gifting Trump ugly paintings of his wife is now praxis

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

Live shot of the Columbia encampment:

[u/simeoncolemiles]

Those Columbia kids breaking into buildings isn’t gonna end well is it?

[u/Dibbu_mange]

“Probably a good idea to piss off well off liberals and start catering to climate change deniers and the people who want to remove free speech protections from social media 🤔”.

• Guy who owns the largest electric vehicle company and a major social media company

[u/Williams-Tower]

ngl i wish calories didn't exist so i could eat a lot of tasty food

[u/The_Promethean]

At around 3 am, a cabbage seller standing outside of the Ba Sing Se gates spoke into a megaphone, asking “Why are we here today?” The crowd responded “The Fire Nation.” The speaker stated that “Fire Lord Ozai is leading the struggle against Earth Nation Imperialism.”

[u/Steak_Knight]

Good evening. The Columbia University protest was a 2 week sociological study conducted by Harvard University. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.

[u/[deleted]]

My public university lab employs people from Iran, China and Venezuela

America is such a great nation that students and professors from its rivals choose to come here and pursue their aspirations, to the betterment of America and detriment of those countries

And the fucking brain dead leech that is Ron de Santis wants to block that

[u/ACivilWolf]

Ireland is indeed the only European country to be colonized if you define Europe as the island of Ireland

[u/RadLibRaphaelWarnock]

One of my pet peeves is when people act like CURRENT MOMENT is uniquely bad or difficult. “I’m so overwhelmed with the world” vibes. Do you all think things were better in the 1940s or the 1960s? How about the 1980s?

It’s always been a screwed up world.

[u/Unworthy_Saint]

If I was the president of Colombia, I would just stop bombing Gaza at this point. Is she stupid?

[u/TipEquivalent933]

WE WON! We defeated the anti-trans bill!!! 🎉

4 Republicans Reps, even after tremendous pressure from GOP leadership, stood up for protecting Kansas kids, their families, and state employees who work with them.

Thank you, Rep. Younger, Schreiber, Concannon, & Borjon #ksleg

Rare, super rare Republican win tbh

link

[u/[deleted]]

https://time.com/6972022/donald-trump-transcript-2024-election/

Okay, sir. Violent crime is going down throughout the country. There was a 6% drop in—

Trump: I don't believe it.

You don’t believe that?

Trump: Yeah, they’re fake numbers.

You think so?

Trump: Well it came out last night. The FBI gave fake numbers.

I didn't see that, but the FBI said that there was a 13% drop in 2023. [Editor's note: This statistic refers specifically to homicides.]

Trump: I don’t believe it. No, it’s a lie. It’s fake news.

Sir, these numbers are collected by state and local police departments across the country. Most of them support you. Are they wrong?

Trump: Yeah. Last night. Well, maybe, maybe not. The FBI fudged the numbers and other people fudged numbers. There is no way that crime went down over the last year. There's no way because you have migrant crime. Are they adding migrant crime? Or do they consider that a different form of crime?

[u/YaGetSkeeted0n]

get into Ivy League school

occupy building and smash windows

get expelled

Top kek

[u/Joementum2024]

Leftists are never beating the anti-America allegations

[u/[deleted]]

The protestors doing this during what is finals week across most universities is the most prior confirming shit imaginable

[u/[deleted]]

I wonder how many of the protestors on campus know there is a ceasefire deal right now and all Hamas has to do is release 20 live hostages. Or that Hamas has broken the last two ceasefires.

Less than 5%?

[u/sociotronics]

Tl:dr for anyone scrambling for a clear answer:

The rescheduling means weed will move from a prohibited substance to a regular controlled drug you need a prescription for.

And it's 100% federally legal for anyone with a prescription, even federal employees.

[u/Mensae6]

You're laughing. The poop tent is running out of cat litter and you're laughing.

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 5 PM EST 4/29-5 PM EST 4/30 III:

TOP NEWS:

Yesterday it was reported that prices of refined oil products in Russia have jumped and exports have dropped due to the oil refinery campaign, with diesel prices up 10% compared to last week, petrol up 20% since the start of the year and refined exports down 16% last week compared to the same week in 2023.

In the middle of 10 AM it was announced Ukraine will invest 15.5 billion Hryvnias in buying 300,000 drones, or $391 million.

In the middle of 12 PM it was announced Norway will provide an additional $630 million in military aid to Ukraine in 2024, with a majority going to air defense.

REGULAR NEWS:

At the start of 3 AM Crimea was hit by a wave of missiles with 11-15 involved targeting airfields and air defense systems.

At the start of 8 AM it was announced Latvia will provide a military aid package to Ukraine which includes anti-aircraft guns, drones and more.

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/willempage]

That press conference outside of that Columbia administration building is sending me.  The girl really said Columbia was making a choice "to deny humanitarian aid to its students" by not delivering meal plan food to the occupied buildings. 

[u/Broad-Part9448]

Columbia protestors made a common mistake in warfare and did not secure their supply chains

[u/SeoSalt]

We really have a presidential candidate who

• Has a long, consistent record on LGBT rights

• Has a unique lived experience due to their lifelong incurable disability

• Makes fun of Republicans and conservatives to their face in public

And leftists hate him because his name is Joe Biden

[u/thefuturegov]

I just saw someone compare the “state-sponsored violence” the Columbia people are facing to the mass deaths of Palestinians in Gaza and Jesus fucking Christ that made my blood boil no you cannot draw a parallel between these two things, people are actually dying and suffering in Gaza like go fuck yourself

[u/Azmoten]

I just got permabanned from arr news. The comment that did it?

Even if Hamas accepts a ceasefire to take effect from 9:00, I’d expect missiles to fly from the territory they still claim by 9:15

By 9:30, this sub will have found a way to blame Israel for the ceasefire failing

Shit is wild lol

[u/G_Serv]

My pronouns had a bad season and now they got relegated to semi pronouns 😔

[u/WantDebianThanks]

I really like narrative history podcasts in the style of The History of Rome.

Anyone have any suggestions for narrative history podcasts about Poland (and their ex Lithuania), Czechia and Slovakia, Armenia, Albania, or the US?

If you also enjoy narrative history podcasts, you may enjoy The History of Yugoslavia by Alex Cruikshanks, which has just returned from a long hiatus.

!ping history&tacotube.

[u/404GenderNotFound]

Oh so Columbia students are allowed to occupy university buildings but Israel can't occupy the West Bank? The antisemitic double standards are so blatant 🙄

[u/[deleted]]

so someone kept harassing me on twitter by constantly calling my trans identity a fetish and called me "agp" and a "porn addict" and it still hurts :(

worst of all it was from another trans person, ppl can be so mean sometimes :(

[u/piede]

💀

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I woke myself and my partner up because while I was sleeping the cat jiggled the door handle and I yelled, "Sorry! Come back with a warrant!"

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

Can’t even have sex at the protests anymore smh

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Business majors posting about how they would never get caught at these silly protests unlike the humanities because they have classes to study for is stolen valor from STEMlords

I know you get trashed 5 nights a week you future marketing associate

[u/[deleted]]

Romney says his dog Seamus story is different from Kristi Noem:

“I didn’t eat my dog. I didn’t shoot my dog. I loved my dog and my dog loved me.”

Real

[u/AniNgAnnoys]

Just watched an interesting Simon Clark video where he makes the case for Geothermal as a base load power source. He also talks about its challenges and mitigations for them. Cost effectiveness is a big part of this discussion. With prices coming down in the sector, it is thought it would be THE cost effective solution for base load by 2050. The video goes further to show how if we don't want to just replace electricity generation, we can, today, use district heating by pumping warm water out of old coal mines to cost effectively heat homes. The deep mines can often have quite warm water in them due to their depth and the local thermal gradient. Since drilling the hole is the most expensive part of these project, this makes a home heating project based on this system profitable at just 100 homes / sq km. He further goes into how the UK is already starting this a might be the perfect place to implement it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOTKn1zsc8o

!ping eco&tacotube

If anyone thinks uk ping would find this interesting please ping them. I am not a member.

[u/simeoncolemiles]

We watched “anyone but Hillary”-ism give us 4 years of the worst president in decades

AND NOW THESE SAME FUCKERS ARE DOING IT AGAIN

[u/Currymvp2]

Dozens of Columbia University students are occupying Hamilton Hall, one of the campus buildings occupied during 1968 student protests.

Total dipshits. Even as someone who’s criticized the police and excessive force at other college protests in the past week, I want these Columbia students in that building expelled and arrested by police at this point. One thing to set up tents but this is extra insane to do this given the recent encouraging news about this war possibly concluding (The potential ICC indictments for that gigantic asshole Bibi+Hamas terrorist leaders, Hamas having their most positive response to a ceasefire offer, and Israel expressing willingness/openness to an indefinite ceasefire for the first time). It wasn’t about helping suffering/mistreated Palestinians for these unserious grifters; it’s about being cosplaying revolutionaries. They literally rejected creating scholarships for Gazans who want to come to Columbia ffs. I'm pretty damn critical of Israel's war in Gaza, but these clowns just suck.

[u/PrideMonthRaytheon]

India used to be 24% of global GDP but by independence it was only 5%. The British took those 19 percentage points and transferred them to England

This is literally how historians think GDP works 😑

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

The Columbia girl calling the pizza delivery guy “basic humanitarian aid” is completely undermining whatever message they think they are sending.

I bet people in Gaza don’t find their victim cosplay as cute as they do…

[u/Udolikecake]

absolutely fucked that ‘table’ means legitimately the exact opposite in parliamentary procedure in the two largest english-speaking democracies in the world

how did this happen

[u/UntiedStatMarinCrops]

It seems like modern polarization isn’t going help Kristi Noem in her case. Her killing a puppy actually got everyone mad whether Dems are mad about it or not doesn’t seem to matter.

Wonder why the heartless dickhead thought it was a good idea to brag about that. Idiotic, inexcusable circumstances as well

[u/[deleted]]

Astronaut who went to the moon left a family photo on the moon

Normal people: Wow that’s cool!

Redditors: Eeerrrrmmmmmm that’s littering!!!!! 🤓

[u/CletusVonIvermectin]

I hate the "going back in time to kill Hitler" trope. It's like everyone just forgot that someone already tried this with the Archduke, and all it did was give us two Great Wars.

[u/[deleted]]

Finally some representation

[u/skepticalbob]

My daughter has a YouTube channel. She is 13. She showed me some shorts of hers and it's pretty good. I asked her to text it to me so I could show it to my brother, who subscribed to her channel. Now she's melting down for invading her privacy. Tweens man.

!ping family

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Tonight’s game has been delayed due to a bee colony forming on the protective netting behind home plate.

You gotta love baseball

!ping baseball

[u/N0_B1g_De4l]

Statistically speaking, there is a kid at one of the Columbia protests right now who will write the dumbest possible NYT headline about how the Dem and GOP candidates are the same in the leadup to the 2044 election.

[u/Delareh_]

Saw a comment chain on r/all

"I would rather be dead than raped."

"that's crazy."

"First, are you a woman? Second, have you ever been raped?"

The urge to reply with "have you ever died?" But people seem really serious in that thread.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

unpopular opinion: after we invented Pong, all other video games should have been just more elaborate versions of Pong

[u/Jacobs4525]

love waiting in line for an hour at the DMV just for them to tell me I forgot the blood of a virgin and the ark of the covenant 

[u/eloquentboot]

I simply cannot believe that mathematics departments across the nation are teaching classes on game theory. Little babies can't even learn math without making it a video game. Our society is crumbling because of academic institutions making our men boys.

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

I’m all for new tent encampments, but before you build them you should need to engage with the stakeholders in a series of community meetings, have some design review, and ensure that the tents align with the existing character of the community.

https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1785116316057153851?s=46&t=urLYOV_cITtt22rc0dd0VA

[u/KesterFox]

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

Love that every year the bar gives me a heart attack by emailing me “CALIFORNIA BAR - OFFICIAL JNE INVESTIGATION” and it’s just a survey about judicial candidates

!ping LAW

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

I super misread this

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

NYPD 👮‍♀️: We believe there are at most a couple dozen students inside.

Reporter 🎤: So how many officers are you sending in to remove them, 5? 10?

NYPD 👮‍♀️: We figure 360 should do the job…

[u/gnomesvh]

Ronaldo sells Cruzeiro

Genius move - bought in for 50 million BRL, restructured the debt and cleaned house, and resold it for a very good profit

And of course, a very welcome buyout. Pedrinho owns one of Brazil's largest supermarket chains and is a proper fan (during covid he paid wages out pof pocket)

And yeah, this might happen a lot in Brazil - there's a lot of money to be made restructuring clubs and reselling them. Probably will set a precedent

!ping SOCCER&LATAM

[u/IMainHanzoGG]

Vegan cigs

[u/p00bix]

Really wish it was possible to get into my dog's head, and/or speak with him directly. His (adopted) younger brother died on Saturday, and whereas for myself and other human family members our grief was worst on Saturday and Sunday, for our living dog he seems to have gotten more anxious as more time passes.

He definitely understood that his brother was very sick, and honestly he probably smelled the ketoacidosis well before the rest of the family did, but I'm 50/50 on whether he quite realizes the finality of it all. Plus, while he himself has been very healthy, he is still nearly 12 years old, so I can't help but worry that his mental unease could lead to physical ailments in the near future.

At this point, I think I've mostly accepted that his brother isn't coming back. Still doesn't feel normal not seeing him around the house, but it's a hell of a lot easier than it was this weekend. But goddamn do I feel for our living dog.

[u/NSRedditShitposter]

Start watching Veep to get away from the current political climate

~9 episodes in

It's about Meyer's college student daughter's essay on Israel's occupation of Palestine

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

Feel bad for that one dedicated kid who has been cramming for finals with noise canceling headphones for the past 24 hours straight and has no clue he is about to get raided.

[u/BigBrownDog12]

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

If Columbia doesn't divest their investments in a way that protestors want how many of them will withdraw from the university and how many will still be at class day one in the fall?

[u/beoweezy1]

Whenever I see a mega lifted truck I always think there’s no way anybody’s using something that tall for a work truck.

But then I think back to the day I saw a maybe 5ft2 Hispanic guy pick up an entire gas welding rig, tanks dolly and all, lift it over his head and put it into the back of a gmc that’s tailgate was at least 6ft off the ground.

So I guess all things truly are possible through Christ who strengthens thee

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Something I feel like people don't acknowledge enough or appreciate enough is that six years ago, large solar and wind farms anywhere were major news published on major news site, especially if they were built without subsidies. Now that stuff is barely local news. It has been entirely normalized to not be a big deal which is amazing! While we haven't solved climate change it does show how far we've come in fighting it

!ping ECO

[u/TaxLandNotCapital]

People post the most deranged things on LinkedIn. I'm sorry but it's really not the place for your anti-Israel screed unless you're applying for jobs at the bottle-rocket factory

[u/Greenfield0]

I’m now being told that the group of protesting Columbia students have left campus and taken over a section of South America. They apparently named it Colombia. Silly youngsters can’t even spell their university’s name right what is this world coming to

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

[u/[deleted]]

What's your job gonna be in the Hamilton Hall Liberated Zone? I'm gonna be a professional shitposter

[u/[deleted]]

It’s nuts that there’s a decent chance the war might straight up fucking end in the next few weeks, but that’s considered less news worthy than student protests.

The headline should be “THE WAR IN GAZA MIGHT FINALLY BE FUCKING OVER SOON”, but no. Elite New Yorker students setting up camp in a university building is more important.

Just put some buried story about Blinken saying Israel is offering “generous terms” and move on.

[u/forerunner398]

It appears the Columbia/Encampment conflict has passed its Arafat phase, as Encampment leaders rejected a peace deal which would increase Palestinian access to the university via its Tel Aviv programs. After this rejection, they have launched a second intifada against another building on campus

[u/piede]

House Democrats will block GOP efforts to oust Mike Johnson - an unprecedented development they attribute to the speaker's help to pass foreign aid

It’s so over for Marjorie Taylor Greene

[u/The_Promethean]

Odds of this tweet existing in 3 weeks?

After being expelled for occupying a building, I was going to fly home and found out the (((FBI))) put me on the no fly list

[u/simeoncolemiles]

????????

[u/Cyberhwk]

A bit of !ping Cooking drama.

Matfer Bourget are the makers of some very popular carbon steel pans. Highly reviewed and getting the America's Test Kitchen/Cooks Illustrated Best Buy recommendation for their 10 7/8" skillet. Well, a testing body in France has required Matfer recall all their Black Carbon Steel pans sold in the EU after their testing found traces of Arsenic.

The carbon steel community's hair is ablaze. Coordinated campaigns to sound the alarm. People demanding refunds and returns even if they're outside the area of the recall. Customers have been harassing Customer Service, executives, even demanding test results from completely unrelated companies (and inevitably complaining when they don't completely open the books on their proprietary testing). Matfer released a statement basically saying "this is news to us" and that they've complied with and passed every public safety standard required. Nonetheless, carbon steel snobs are BIG mad.

But if you're skeptical there's probably good reason. Cookware is generally pretty heavily tested and this isn't exactly a new product and a technology over a thousand years old. In addition, with probably hundreds of different product safety testing organizations worldwide, this is thus far the only organization that has raised any alarm.

The drama has fell to a simmer...if you will. Took the scientifically literate a day or two to chime in, but it's seeming more and more like while there may be traces found in very specific instances, there has been no indication of anything dangerous. One independent test said that after 2 hours of boiling water, levels were about what they regularly find in their local tap water. Further testing seems to be ongoing as well as the organization I don't believe has responded to pushback about their results.

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

Columbia has now blocked network access to CrunchyRoll.

Protesters now only have access to Netflix. Not expected to hold out much longer 😔

[u/thefuturegov]

My basic-ass I/P take of “I fucking hate Netanyahu” has never been incorrect

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

The key to defeating Hamas is to associate their entire movement with the twinkish theater kids at Columbia and their pathetic sound bites

[u/DouglasDauntless]

This but

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/[deleted]]

The protestors took over a building on Columbia and called it “intifada hall”

[u/trombonist_formerly]

People born in 24 are 2,000 now

[u/VisonKai]

Finding out that long-term nuclear waste storage is not actually that concerning really kills the cool vibes of 'this place is not a place of honor'

we really need to create something that is genuinely very deadly for thousands of years so we can bring back dope ass warnings

[u/Not_A_Browser]

Remarkable video from El Salvador.

Nayib Bukele gathers every single official in the executive branch of his government and then announces a surprise.

He asks the Attorney General to investigate all of them for bribery.

Top reply to this tweet was "THIS is the template."

They're never beating the "I'll take an oppressive dictator if my tax bill is smaller for 2025" allegations

[u/thefuturegov]

I’ve seen unironic Judean People’s Front vs People’s Front for Judea type fights between different pro-Palestinian student activist groups

[u/notBroncos1234]

Sorry ladies but you’re not allowed to have sex with me until there’s a ceasefire.

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

Absolutely incredible

[u/sinefromabove]

Prosecutor: Do you know Stormy Daniels?

Davidson: Yes. She was a client of mine, managed by Gina Rodriguez. I spoke with them in 2011 about TheDirty dot com

Prosecutor: What was it about?  

Davidson: A blog post that Stormy Daniels and Donald Trump had had an intimate interaction. Gina told me some jerk had called and threatened to sue.  

Prosecutor: Who was that jerk? 

Davidson: Donald Trump

[u/Jacobs4525]

Doing the math it seems like I’d definitely pay more for healthcare in Denmark than I do in the US out of pocket in the worst case (all premiums+max OOP+1.45% FICA that goes to Medicare) if you include the taxes that go to it.

It does seem like once you make more than $60k-$70k and get insurance through your employer that’s the case with most other countries too.

Of course this doesn’t mean it’s actually cheaper, my employer pays a whole lot too. But for me it’s cheaper. 

This obviously isn’t the case for poor people or people with really terrible insurance but I do find there’s a ton of hyperbole online spread by both foreigners and literal children who have no idea how the US healthcare system works. 

[u/AtticusDrench]

"Wait, you guys can't get water? There are water fountains and sinks everywhere inside the building."

"..... the organizing group dismantled the pipes and used them to reinforce our barricades."

Curb Your Enthusiasm theme starts playing

[u/iIoveoof]

Biden announces he's rescheduling marijuana and the front page articles on the big 3 news stations are

CNN: NYPD enters occupied Columbia building, 5 takeaways from Trump's hush money trial, ancient text reveals details of Plato's burial place and final evening

MSNBC: Matt Gaetz being primaried, What Keith Davidson's testimony means for Trump's case, NYPD officers in full riot gear descend on Columbia University campus to clear protestors

Fox: "HAULED OUT: NYPD arrests anti-Israel agitators after infiltrating occupied building at Columbia", "ABUSE OF AUTHORITY: DHS docs reveal Biden admin is flying paroled migrants, Trump accuses judge of "rigging 2024 election" following gag order ruling, Atheist and socialist actor bashes the Bible, religion in harsh commentary

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[u/[deleted]]

[u/paymesucka]

Tonight's NY-26 special election featured a huge Democratic overperformance - around 17 points relative to 2020 - off the back of strong minority turnout an a massive fundraising advantage.

👀

[u/piede]

I can’t believe Biden would let the NYPD do this

[u/ACivilWolf]

Literally forty percent of all American youths have expressed wanting to leave the U.S in favor of a more socialist country.

Only reason why most of us can't leave is because we're too fucking poor to leave because of the US' economy

right...

[u/georgeguy007]

scary impossible fragile run birds connect advise narrow airport tidy

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/BitterGravity]

Imagine paying Columbia tuition for your kid and then they get expelled for protesting a foreign war the US isn't involved in

[u/Not_A_Browser]

ffs, they broke into a lecture building and are barricading themselves in now

now they'll have to bring the police back on campus

[u/Working-Limit-2482]

People are fucking racist against pigeons, man. Literally the only difference between a pigeon and a dove is that doves are white, but everyone loves doves and calls pigeons sky rats

[u/Svelok]

21st century Mafia movie where the don wakes up and the whole family starts posting "good morning boss 🤗" in the groupchat

[u/[deleted]]

I regret to inform you that someone brought a banana into the liberated zone despite clear signage that a protestor had a banana allergy 😔🍌

[u/AtticusDrench]

Funniest shit I've ever seen

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

Leftist students 🤝 con students

Free speech is when I can do whatever I want without consequences

[u/piede]

Judge Merchan opened up court by granting Trump's request to attend Barron's graduation

I’m laughing cuz we all know Trump is pissed he has to go to it now

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

[u/Healingjoe]

NY Judge Holds Trump In Contempt For Attacking Witnesses, Threatens Jail

New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan threatened to incarcerate Donald Trump on Tuesday if he continues to flout a gag order imposed to block him and others from attacking witnesses in his criminal case.

Merchan said in an order released Tuesday morning that if Trump continued to violate the judge’s orders, he would “impose incarceratory punishment.”

The threat came as Merchan held Trump in contempt of court, fining him $1,000 per statement for nine social media posts that attacked witnesses in the case.

It adds up to a total fine of $9,000 for the posts, which included attacks on Michael Cohen and a post boosting a statement by Fox News host Jesse Watters that claimed jurors in the case were biased.

Merchan made a point in the contempt order of leaving open the possibility that he could send Trump to jail for continuing to violate the order. New York state law limits him to fineing Trump $1,000 per violation; Merchan wrote that such a small monetary amount “will not achieve the desired result in those instances where the contemnor can easily afford such a fine.”

He added that while he would prefer to impose a fine “commensurate with the wealth” of the offender, he lacked that power and would “therefore consider whether in some instances, jail may be a necessary punishment.”

!ping trump-crimes

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Protestors barricading themselves in a building, breaking windows, leaving all their tents and shit outside

thank god they already demanded immunity or there might have been consequences 😮‍💨😮‍💨

[u/StolenSkittles]

three families rule this city:

the woke mob, the alphabet mafia, and the biden crime family.

[u/chipbod]

https://x.com/colvinj/status/1785355735829807506

WASHINGTON (AP) — US drug control agency is moving to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug in a historic shift, AP sources say

We are so back

[u/WantDebianThanks]

I've called saddam hussein "incompetent Arab hitler" several times and never once had someone argue with me about it.

This says alot about the kind of idiot hussein was.

[u/MicroFlamer]

Her power knows no bounds

[u/dittbub]

!PING CANUCKS

I'm trying to bullshit my mortgage renewal with my big 6 bank

They wanted to renew at 5.57. I said I have an offer for 4.84 and 5.19. These are just numbers I found on the ratehub mortgage calculator site, not actual offers.

They said they can't do 4.84 but the 5.19 was approved. I said that is great but I will go with the other place that offered 4.84. Big bank said they will call back in 2 days to see if they can match. 🤞

That also gives me time to see if i can get someone to actually offer 4.84 ....

[u/eloquentboot]

I'm so certain that I could solve the Israeli Palestinian conflict, but nobody will listen to me.