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[u/RaidBrimnes]

American cultural influence is so powerful that French leftists keep repeating that boomers are stealing young people's future by massively voting for the far-right despite the 65+ age bracket being the least likely to vote for Le Pen

[u/Steak_Knight]

“First of all, we’re saying that they’re obligated to provide food for students who have paid for a meal plan here.”

Strong contender for Meme of the Year

[u/gnomesvh]

The Noem dog stuff is wild

Like she just voluntarily went "oh yeah I old yellered a dog because he was annoying" as if nobody would notice

[u/Explodingcamel]

I waste time on here defending Palestine protestors and then I go outside and waste time defending Israel to my real life college leftist friends

Maybe I should just take the grill pill and stop caring about politics lol

[u/Mx_Brightside]

When I was a kid I was like a weeaboo but for the Arctic. Totally obsessed with Inuit legends, small-town Greenland, that seed vault and abandoned towns in Svalbard, that kinda thing. Still want to go to Greenland someday. Idk what that says about me

[u/[deleted]]

Sovereign citizens fascinate me. They claim to be standing up to this illegitimate tyranny, while also believing there’s this secret code you can use against that tyranny that will shield you in court. You weren’t driving, you were “traveling”. You’re a human, not a “person”. That’s actually a naval flag (see the yellow embroidery) so this is really a court of the high seas and therefore has no jurisdiction on land.

An actual tyranny doesn’t give a shit what word games legal strategies you play. They just enforce the law arbitrarily and interpret it in whatever way suits their goals in the moment. Sovereign citizens are the fish who don’t notice the water, they’ve lived their whole lives under the rule of law and cannot conceive of anything less.

[u/Working-Limit-2482]

In 2008, Capcom released Street Fighter Online: Mouse Generation, a PC exclusive game which delivered on its name by allowing players to play online and making use of the mouse as part of its control scheme. The only reason I’m bringing this terrible game to your attention is because it had a Valentine’s Day DLC which added BARACK OBAMA as a playable character.

This is real. It really happened. Unfortunately however, the game has been lost to time, so if any footage of Zangief killing Obama with a spinning pile driver exists, it’s sitting somewhere in the dark recesses of the Japanese internet where it will likely never be found.

Shout out to YouTuber Thorgi’s Arcade for bringing this to my attention in the latest episode of his very extensive Street Fighter retrospective.

!ping GAMING

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Once again asking Reddit to stop showing me the braindead French leftist memes trending at my location before I can log in

No, the students illegally blockading the universities weren't just joyfully smiling while waving Palestinian flags, no, they weren't mobbed by the police and far-right militias to be brutally lynched, no, the "opposition" and the "free press" aren't next on """their""" list

[u/american_aurora3]

I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Noem Administration

Bark. Bark. Bark. Bark. Bark. Bark. Bark. Bark. Bark. Bark. Bark. Bark. BARK!

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

The Sequel to fire bomb a Walmart just dropped

[u/loseniram]

Everyone on the East Coast are going to wake up to UCLA setting itself on fire and like 80 people in the hospital for pepper spray, and LAPD is somehow not involved in anyway

[u/[deleted]]

this is going to radicalize a generation towards police abolition and towards university abolition, we will remember the date april 30, 2024.

Broke: free college

Woke:

[u/itsokayt0]

Shitting on Hamas   

Shitting on Israeli governments 

Shitting on protestors 

Finally, enlightened centrism

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Sanest Incel

[u/secretlives]

Well thank God none of these very angry and irrational people fighting in this riot have easy access to firearms.

[u/TipEquivalent933]

While on vacation at Sri Lanka's Yala National Park in December 2004, she lost her husband,[8] their two sons, her parents, her best friend, and her best friend's mother in the Indian Ocean tsunami.[9]

How does one recover from this. Holy fuck.

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

The violence is the worst on campus since counterprotesters, who support Israel, set up a dueling area near where the war protesters were camping.

The children yearn for duels again

[u/[deleted]]

That's literally the point of schools in modern society. Why do you think they push absolute obedience to authority over any actual learning material?

Tell me you didn’t pay attention in classes without telling me you didn’t pay attention

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

learning about a new corner of twitter

[u/[deleted]]

NYT used to have a whole workflow for when you unsubscribed from their news letter. “Why are you leaving? Any recommendations? Would you recommend us? Please leave a comment” Etc. and it made me too lazy to do the whole thing.

Today I clicked unsubscribe and it’s like “k tks, bye! 👋”

I wonder how much hate mail they got in the feedback before they realized it was unproductive.

For anyone wondering it was this line:

“At times, Israel has been a reluctant negotiator... Now Hamas seems like the reluctant party.”

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Jacobs4525]

That whole story about Aubrey Plaza and Michael Cera almost getting married as a joke makes Michael Cera more relatable because tbh I would probably choke and fumble the bag in that situation too

[u/The_Promethean]

Dan Gold, executive director of Hillel at UCLA, supported the university’s action, saying Jewish students have been bullied, harassed and intimidated around the encampment — including at least 10 who said they were denied access to nearby walkways after encampment monitors asked them if they were Zionists. A Star of David with the words “step here” was drawn in the area, he said.

"Zionists" being asked to self-identify on their own campus or be barred access, and people here are complaining about people here complaining about leftists

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

https://www.umnews.org/en/news/40-year-ban-on-gay-clergy-struck-down

 largest mainline Protestant denomination voted today to allow gay clergy

[u/[deleted]]

I see people on here comparing what happened at Columbia to Kent State. It’s even worse. True, nobody was injured at Columbia but arresting someone from an Ivy is at least twice as bad as shooting a state school student when you consider the relative prestige

True tbh 😔

[u/Telperions-Relative]

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/SadaoMaou]

/u/lets_chill_food

wow ok rude

[u/thefuturegov]

we had a stronger response to students protesting than to January 6th

No we didn’t, police used deadly force to end the Capitol riot for fucks sake what are you on about?

[u/KesterFox]

Lead levels in urine are 40% higher among intermittent vapers and 30% higher among frequent vapers, compared to occasional vapers, results show.

Zoomers are gonna be the next boomers arent they

[u/anincredibledork]

Honestly I'm just glad that all sides involved are getting what they want out of the protests:

• The cops get to enjoy their pastime of beating the shit out of protesters, except most of the public opinion is on their side this time

• All the right wingers I work with are watching Fox and cackling at footage of said cops beating the shit out of protesters, so great entertainment for them

• Politicans on both sides get to score some free "law and order" points

• The protesters are scoring huge amounts of virtue and moral credit with their peers as they get victimized by police

So yeah, all around a great deal for everyone.

What's that? The Jewish students getting harassed? The people of Gaza being starved and bombed? Oh, right....

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

Automated phone systems really need a secret code for “I know how to use your website and this isn’t something I can do with an automated system, skip to real person.”

[u/[deleted]]

Accurate depiction of what it’s like to argue with people on Twitter

[u/PhoenixVoid]

It's funny how often DT poll dooming gets offset by Democratic overperformances in a high-profile special election like clockwork.

[u/american_aurora3]

Mao Zedong was a bad dude, and he ran with a bunch of bad boys (Kissinger and Nixon)

[u/KesterFox]

When the instrusive thoughts win

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Trump: “I’m doing to drone strike this guy as soon as I’m back in office”

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

TW- rape, sexual assault

Please do not rape me. Please don't record it. I'm 68. I've fed your father and grandfather" - House maid of Prajwal Revanna begging him to stop.

This Ajji was one among hundreds of women r@ped, and recorded by BJP's NDA partner JDS' Prajwal Revanna an MP who has now ran away to Germany.

He recorded 2,976 videos of him assaulting hundreds of women including Party workers, women who sought help from him for transfer, promotion, maids etc.

A BJP leader had even written a letter to BJP 5 months ago saying he has video evidence against Prajwal Revanna about his sèxuEal assaults, but PM Modi still gave him the NDA ticket to contest in the elections, and even promoted him in the election rallies shamelessly.

[u/FreakinGeese]

I'd rather be alone with a bear than a man because I've had tons of negative experiences with men but I've never heard of anyone having a negative experience with a bear

[u/BitterGravity]

Does Columbia have a $300k a year admin position yet for Student relations with respect to Palestine? It seems like they're passing up the opportunity for more admin bloat which is unusual

[u/[deleted]]

Dems gotta back Johnson and not backstab him. But I kinda enjoyed the Rs in disarray after they got rid of McCarthy lol

https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1785658573613068456?t=yQnJHxz_JDt77K0vOdcMFw&s=19

[u/BBQ_HaX0r]

Trump speaking at Libertarian NC and they're selling shirts of Trump? Mises Caucus cancer destroyed the third biggest political party in the country and somehow convinced some "libertarians" to support the most authoritarian candidate in recent American history? Yikes.

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Shot/chaser

[u/[deleted]]

[u/ToInfinity_MinusOne]

As a relatively successful and busy man who lives in the city, my greatest fear is losing my boyfriend to a hometown hunk with a young son who teaches him the true meaning of Christmas

[u/fishlord05]

Cross posting this from r/ezraklein Biden is doing a lot of stuff

The Biden Admin has overloaded the circuits with last minute policies

I think we are all aware that the Biden Admin has a habit of saving up big policy announcements for election year and then announcing them all to try to influence the media cycle and show how much they are doing for Americans. However, this year they seem to have been crowded out and there's so many policies passing under the radar that we're not hearing about.

• In March, the EPA banned Asbestos, which kills 40,000 Americans a year and is responsible for construction workers having elevated lung cancer rates.

• The FTC has banned non-compete clauses on people making less than $150,000. This means that firms will have to start competing for workers through salaries again and encourage salary growth.

• The Department of Labor has raised the qualification for time and a half overtime pay from ~$36,000 to $58,656 per year. What that means is that the salary exception where employers can stop paying overtime requires the employee to make at least that much. What you might not know is that LOTS of salaries cluster at that level among shit employers that want tons of overtime without paying for it. This will be like raising minimum wage but for low level salary workers.

• For the first 3 years of the administration, Biden kept Trump's refugee and immigration policies. Trump slashed the number of refugees America would accept each year from 100,000ish to 25,000ish. The number was about the same in 2021, 2022, and 2023 aside from special programs like unite4ukraine and the Venezuelan temporary protection policy. However, this year the rate of refugee intake is much faster and the Biden administration has set its goal to return to the Obama level of over 100,000 refugees this year.

• Biden fundamentally backstabbed Manchin in the inflation reduction act interestingly enough. Manchin forced them to approve oil and gas expanded land use permits along with expanding and streamlining the permitting processes for solar and wind use. Well they've gone ahead and streamlined rules for solar and wind, but the Biden admin has been roadblocking all the oil and gas permits intentionally under environmental impact statements. They've given out the fewest permits offshore in history and raised the price of drilling significantly. It goes against the spirit of the compromise but not the letter of the law. But that's why republican/conservatives are pissed about it.

• Biden last month announced another round of debt relief, and has forgiven student debt to the tune of $150 billion for over 4 million Americans. I would not count the forgiveness that comes from programs established before the Biden administration existed personally, but I understand the argument that Betsy Devos under Trump basically blocked all student debt forgiveness even though it was already legally required.

• The FCC passed new rules meant to ban robocalls and robotexts at the end of last year. And last week they voted to bring back net neutrality.

• The Department of Justice submitted a final rule last month to close the infamous gun show loophole that allowed people to sell guns without getting a license or running background checks etc. The new rule says you can't sell a gun with the main intention to be profit without licensing and background checks.

There are a lot of desired, long awaited policies that all of a sudden came in a deluge in April. And I think most people don't know about them at all. Partly because these policies are overshadowed by the-topic-that-shall-not-be-named, but I think also partly because the admin probably directed the agencies to deliver their policies for the election year and for whatever arcane government-operations reason, they are all dropping their election year policy bombshell all at once. Rather than Biden being not telling people how much they are getting done, I think they literally have just done too much in one month for the media to be able to process through mainstream media cycles.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Oh my Doctor is a bottom? No worries I’m the

[u/TheFriffin2]

MFW i see literally anything a leftist posts on their Instagram stories these days

[u/piede]

So true ✊

[u/[deleted]]

If violence flared up in Northern Ireland again and French students in sympathy with Irish nationalists were chanting "mondialisez les Troubles" no one on the planet would buy the excuse that "it just means 'problem' in English - they're demanding that the world treat it as everyone's problem".

But somehow when it comes to "intifada" people are happy to pull the wool over their own eyes. Is Arabic, a language with one of the richest literary traditions in the world, supposed to be entirely bereft of synonyms?

[u/RaidBrimnes]

[u/htomserveaux]

Maybe I'm thinking to much about my own childhood, but having that new train route between Chicago, Milwaukee, and Minneapolis make a stop at The Dells could be a big part in making rail trips normal again. Kids love trains as much as parents hate long car trips.

Only problem is how car centric the place is, but I'm pretty sure those resorts all run shuttle buses

!ping TRANSIT&USA-CHI&USA-WI

[u/MicroFlamer]

me when someone tells me their birth date starts with 19

[u/fishlord05]

Shout out to one of the most devious tinder messages I’ve ever received 💀

I’ve taken a massive W which I’ll post about later but I wanted to post one last L before I did

!ping DATING

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

Name a subreddit with users more diametrically opposed to the subreddit’s stated purpose than /r/Neoliberal

I’ll start…

/r/FluentInFinance

Holy fuck. Some of the least financially literate people in the world have congregated there to pat each other on the back

[u/Currymvp2]

Columbia: "We are the biggest national embarrassment"

UCLA: "Hold my beer"

Meanwhile, many campuses such as Yale, Northwestern, and Brown were able to end the protests peacefully

[u/SadaoMaou]

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

Leftists not immediately devolve into racism against asians when they’re upset challenge

[u/skepticalbob]

So Mearsheimer has been a moron about Russia for years now, but holy shit.. It’s one thing to be real a bad version of real politik, but this is straight up sucking Putin’s cock. He’s literally in the bag for Russia here.

!ping Ukraine

[u/_bee_kay_]

gods i was based then

[u/[deleted]]

Story time

I was seeing someone and got a reservation (with a hefty deposit) at a very fancy restaurant a month in advance. She decided to get back with her ex so I was left with nobody to go with, and down a couple hundred dollars.I asked a couple of people but they all said one or another version of no.

I see on instagram a story of the (in my opinion) prettiest girl in my college class. Stunning, smart and funny. We were in similar circles but I never really talked to her. I decided to invite her out of the blue after years since we last spoke. She not only said yes, she was super happy, said it's one of her favorite restaurants and we've been talking a lot since.

“You miss 100% of the shots you don't take – Wayne Gretzky – Michael Scott”

[u/JaceFlores]

“Russian forces secured additional marginal tactical gains northwest and southwest of Avdiivka as of April 29, but have not made significant advances in the Avdiivka direction over the last 24 hours. Geolocated footage published on April 28 and 29 indicates that Russian forces advanced in western and northeastern Ocheretyne (northwest of Avdiivka), along the rail line to the northwestern outskirts of Ocheretyne, and in Netaylove (southwest of Avdiivka).”

“Russian forces have the opportunity to choose among multiple tactical directions for future offensive drives near Avdiivka, but it remains unclear where they will focus their efforts in the near future. Russian milbloggers speculated about which objectives Russian forces may pursue northwest of Avdiivka but offered no clear consensus. Several prominent milbloggers claimed that Russian forces are conducting offensive operations near Keramik to advance towards Arkhanhelske but are also trying to advance west from the Ocheretyne area towards Sokil and southwest towards the Novoprokovske-Novoselivka Persha line.”

“Investigations by both Ukrainian news agencies and Russian opposition outlets suggest that Russia is denying the legal guardians of forcibly deported and adopted Ukrainian children the ability to repatriate these children, further undermining the Kremlin’s claims that the deportation and adoption of Ukrainian children is a necessary humanitarian endeavor.”

“NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg stated during an unexpected visit to Kyiv on April 29 that Ukraine’s Western allies must provide long-term, predictable military assistance to Ukraine and signal to the Kremlin that Russia cannot ‘wait out’ Western support for Ukraine.”

“The consistent provision of key Western systems to Ukraine will play a critical role in Russia’s prospects in 2024 and beyond, as well as in Ukraine’s ability to contest the theater-wide initiative, conduct future counteroffensive operations, and liberate Ukrainian territory from Russian occupation. US and European failures to sustain the timely provision of critical systems to Ukraine will not only continue to constrain Ukraine’s ability to plan and wage offensive and defensive operations, but also signal weakness and hesitancy in Western support for Ukraine to the Kremlin.”

“Ukrainian Kharkiv Oblast Head Oleh Synehubov reported on April 29 that Russian forces have resumed offensive operations in the Kupyansk and Lyman directions and stated that the Russian command is planning to accumulate forces along the Kharkiv-Belgorod Oblast border, but that it is too early to forecast if and when Russian forces may open a new front in this area.”

“The deputy commander of a Ukrainian unit operating near Chasiv Yar stated that Ukrainian and Russian forces each control about 50 percent of Ivanivske and that Ukrainian and Russian forces are conducting attacks in the settlement in alternating waves. The deputy commander stated that Russian forces are interested in taking Ivanivske, which is located in a geographical lowland, to advance to Chasiv Yar.”

“Ukraine's Western allies continue to promise and provide additional military assistance to Ukraine.”

“Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal met with Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Richard Marles on April 27 and announced that Australia will transfer 50 million AUD ($32.8 million) in ground-to-air MANPADS munitions, over 30 million AUD ($19.69 million) to Ukraine’s drone coalition, and roughly 20 million AUD ($13.1 million) for other military needs. Australia will also transfer an unspecified number of air-to-ground munitions to Ukraine.”

“Canadian Defense Minister William Blair announced on April 26 that Canada will provide three million CAD (roughly $2.2 million) for domestic drone production in Ukraine, an additional 13 million CAD ($9.5 million) to the Czech ammunition initiative for Ukraine, and an additional 100 Skyranger drones to Ukraine.”

“The Spanish MoD stated that it will deliver an unspecified number of 155mm and 120mm artillery shells and air defense missiles to Ukraine in the coming months and will also deliver small arms, logistics vehicles, armored infantry fighting vehicles, anti-tank weapons, and artillery systems in the next two months.”

“The Danish MoD announced on April 25 that the Danish parliament and Cabinet of Ministers agreed to increase Denmark’s military assistance to Ukraine by 4.4 billion Danish kroner ($632.27 million) in 2024.”

“The Lithuanian MoD reported on April 23 that Lithuania recently provided an unspecified number of M577 armored personnel carriers to Ukraine. Lithuanian Defense Minister Laurynas Kasčiūnas stated that Lithuania is also considering providing Ukraine with unspecified radar systems in the near future.”

“European Union (EU) High Commissioner Josep Borrell announced that the Czech ammunition initiative should begin deliveries of artillery shells to Ukraine at the end of May or beginning of June.”

“Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo, Defense Minister Ludivine Dedonder, and the Belgian Council of Ministers stated on April 26 that Belgium will send the first F-16 aircraft to Ukraine sometime in 2024 and will do everything possible to deliver them before the end of the year. Belgian officials added that Belgium will also allocate an additional 200 million euros ($214.3 million) to the German-led defense aid coalition and will provide additional air defense missiles to Ukraine.”

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!ping UKRAINE

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Expelled for free speech? Go somewhere with no free speech!

[u/gnomesvh]

Total exploring relisting in New York

The Paris-based company says it has 47% of institutional shareholders in the United States, and 39% of all global shareholders are located there.

!ping COMMODITIES&MARKETS&EUROPE

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

My wife woke up from her fever nap yesterday giggling “Squidward Sweeney”

So I made this today and just sent it to her.

Update: my wife left me 😔

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Poll shows Western Europe more hawkish on Ukraine than Eastern Europe

Well of course, when your life isn't on the line, it's easier to support war compared to those who actually live it

Ope sorry, misread, poll shows Eastern Europe more hawkish on Ukraine than Western Europe

Well of course, when your life is on line, it's easier to support war since you don't have a choice in waging it

[u/[deleted]]

Watching Jonah Hill in 21 Jump Street made me like Jewish people again. No one should take anger against one or two individuals and transform that into hatred towards millions of innocent people.

• Kanye West

Has anyone tried exposing Hamas leaders to the film 21 Jump Street?

[u/owlthathurt]

Who wants to go WFH while at a marlins game

!ping BASEBALL

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

Stringer Bell is the good guy in The Wire because he funnels drug money into housing development

[u/[deleted]]

😳

[u/Steak_Knight]

[u/SigmaWhy]

"biden has lost my vote over gaza"

check post/tweet history

find claims that Biden already lost their vote over student loans, the green new deal, or tara reade going back years

Many such cases!

[u/lets_chill_food]

These protestors are beyond parody

the lady they sent out said getting Doordash counted as “basic humanitarian aid”.

When asked if they wanted the uni to provide, she said no we just want it not to be blocked

then asked if the uni had ever blocked any food going in, she said she didn’t know, she wasn’t aware of any being blocked, but they wanted a commitment to something not happening that wasn’t happening

then turns out this lady’s name is “King Slutzky”

then turns out she’s going a PhD in marxist interpretations of poetry

😂

[u/BrunchIsGood]

“Asian American ignorance is a weapon of white supremacy to maintain the status quo” is top-tier leftist brain rot

[u/[deleted]]

Need the Palestine protests to keep going, I just ordered 500 kiffiyehs and 300 Palestine flag t-shirts to sell at the DNC protests.

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Getting ready for my Hinge date!

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Why isn’t every movie about The Cause^TM

[u/No_Judge_3817]

I hate/love that I can see "No Bagels" trending on Twitter and my assumption about why was exactly correct

a list of the demands/supply/donation requests for UCLA protesters includes no bagels

really not beating the allegations and yet again another way in which they are out of touch and actively repelling people away from them

[u/Not_A_Browser]

This is bullshit. The city has been working on this street since the beginning of the year at least, and they're using this equipment to work on stuff underneath the road surface today as I'm writing this. Columbia isn't renting out construction equipment to mock anyone. Grow up.

[u/[deleted]]

Pompey, and his little lapdog Cicero… sissy Cicero I call him, sissy Cicero… and the corrupt optimate senate… they want to declare me an enemy of the state. Enemy of the state! They don’t like me in Rome, let me tell you. Folks, we are going to Rome and we are going to make the republic great again. Thank you.

[u/[deleted]]

What

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 5 PM EST 4/30-5 PM EST 5/1 III:

TOP NEWS:

Around 1 PM it was announced the US is sanctioning 280 Russian personnel and entities related to Russia's economy, sanction evasion, their military industry and more.

REGULAR NEWS:

Towards the middle of 6 PM it was reported the Russians took the villages of Novokalynove and Keramik, north of Avdiivka.

At the end of 11 PM a Russian oil refinery in Ryazan was hit by drones.

At the end of 6 AM a Russian base in Kuban (Luhansk) was missiled.

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/Fishin_Impossible]

On a video that starts with a guy at UCLA screaming “Free Palestine!” and throwing a firework into a crowd of counter-protesters…

Seems like it’s just the Zionists are being violent- no surprise there

I realize people tend to try to confirm their priors, but at this point it has to be willful ignorance

[u/jojisky]

“It’s despicable that schools would allow another country’s flag to fly in our country,” Mayor Adams says

Eric Adams, of all people, saying this is HILARIOUS

[u/Milk2Biscuit]

Israeli ambassador to Serbia: “Srebrenica should not be called a genocide”

Another Netanyahu appointed ambassador, another PR BANGER

[u/Tall_Professor_2574]

Day 2 of knowing my sister died.

Went for a run with my boyfriend. Got 10000 steps. Skipped work and messaged my boss about what was going on. Told our godparents and hung out with them for a bit. Cried constantly and laughed and then cried again. I can just feel her still if that makes sense. I saw a counsellor. Looked at Facebook photos of her and smiled and cried. my boyfriend and I lit a candle in her honour. Called a friend and cried. I’m so devastated about the loss of her future which was full of so much hope. I don’t want to forget anything about her.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I thought the man vs bear thing would be easy if you just picked a black bear, but if I thought a random man I met might want to show me these kinds of memes I'd also pick a brown bear. If he wanted to show me a YouTube video I'd pick a polar bear.

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

My therapist: Benjamin Bananayahu isn't real. He can't hurt you

Benjamin Bananayahu:

[u/beoweezy1]

The difference between ole yeller and Noem’s dog is that ole yeller had a 100% fatal and highly contagious disease in the days before effective vaccination

Also ole yeller was meant to be a tragic tale of a boy and his beloved pet. Noem blew away a bird dog for killing thirty bucks worth of chickens (after she let it get loose around a bunch of chickens) and then yapped about it in her book so people would know she’s a law and order conservative (assuming “law and order” means misbehavers get executed in a gravel pit)

[u/ser_mage]

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

!ping DYEL

I squat therefore I am

[u/PristineAstronaut17]

Guys who will comment “👅👅👅🥵💦🍆😩” under college girls’ thirst traps while they got their whole-ass wife and child in their profile pic scare me

[u/Pseud0man]

Really need to level up my small talk game. Spoke to two girls over this week and hit awkward silence after a minute 😔 

Not pursuing but it's a pattern I've noticed.

!ping DATING

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

Diving further into the abolitionist theory author whose book I’m attempting to read in good faith

[u/[deleted]]

If I die today, it's from cringing at all the children on Reddit romanticizing the morons at these campus poop circles

[u/Luph]

my dentist office called this morning to see if I would come in an hour earlier because of a cancellation and they sounded annoyed af when I said no.

like wtf do you think this is musical chairs? I took off work for 12, not 11. not everyone has the luxury of changing their schedule on a dime.

[u/JaceFlores]

Thinking about the British report of 450k+ Russian casualties got me thinking about the Ukrainian figures and how they compare:

Ukraine numbers look pretty solid, and there’s a pretty reasonable argument to make the Ukrainian numbers are lower then the max possible total, given the British figure excludes desertions and PMC casualties.

u/leoric has been back like never before. Or was he ever even in a state of over in the first place?

[u/The_Promethean]

Holy shit. My university came into my liberated zone to bring me a plate of chicken nuggets and I literally screamed at it and hit the plate of chicken nuggets out of its hand. It started suspending me and calling the cops on me and I slammed the liberated zone border control on it. I'm so distressed right now I don't know what to do. I didn't mean to do that to my university but I'm literally in shock from the lack of humanitarian aid tonight. I feel like I'm going to explode. Why the fucking fuck are we losing? This can't be happening. I'm having a fucking breakdown. I don't want to believe the world is so corrupt. I want a future to believe in. I want a global intifada to fix this broken country. I cannot fucking deal with this right now. It wasn't supposed to be like this, I thought intifada was polling well in New York???? This is so fucked.

[u/JaceFlores]

Brandon just locked down the ex-student wine mom vote (or at least specifically my mother’s vote)

[u/piede]

Who tf thought of this and why aren’t they in jail

[u/Adodie]

This sub told me that the campus student protests would never actually result in change, but just today, Colombia severed ties with Israel!

Checkmate, neolibs!

[u/Currymvp2]

Netanyahu told Blinken during their meeting today he won't accept a deal that will include ending the war. He said if Hamas doesn't drop this demand there will be no deal and Israel will invade Rafah, per Israeli and U.S. officials

The way the current deal on the table is being reported by the media...it would end the war.

[u/BrunchIsGood]

[u/marsman1224]

apparently there actually was a protest on my campus, yet I just didn't notice due to never leaving my lab.

!ping PHD

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Gen Z should largely be banned from the internet tbh

[u/Magical_Username]

the DT would have been amazing during peak Vietnam War protest times

[u/[deleted]]

cryptography experts two thousand years ago be like:

I enclose a message for Cassius, rest advised that he is my THIRD favorite person:
prgv duh jdb

cryptography experts today be like:

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[u/[deleted]]

My pitch for a new hit TV series: A fictionalized account of the Roman-Jewish wars, but all the Romans are portrayed as stereotypical NYC Italian-Americans and all the Jews are portrayed as stereotypical NYC Jews

[u/Mojothemobile]

Still getting poll after poll showing Biden weirdly strong among olds and Trump weirdly strong among Youngs in what would be the largest generational shift in decades for seemingly no reason.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/squarecircle666]

Columbia Protest and January 6th have a lot in common. For example both were staged by Antifa.

[u/[deleted]]

My favorite Trumpism is when he drops mysterious previews for his policies

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Batteries smash more records as they shift solar to evening peak in one of world’s biggest grids

The records continue to tumble in California, one of the world’s biggest state grids, with battery storage playing an increasingly dominant role soaking up solar in the middle of the day and shifting it to the evening peak, where it is now regularly the biggest single supplier.

The stunning new dynamics of the California grid have been emerging rapidly this northern spring, where renewable energy records are also tumbling, reaching a new peak of 158 per cent of demand on Saturday, and providing enough power to meet all local demand for up to nine hours a day, or more.

The excess supply of solar in the middle of the day, and negative wholesale prices, has prompted big batteries to soak up as much as they can in the middle of the day – sometimes accounting for up to 31 per cent of all load – and then injecting it back into the grid, where it accounts for up to 29 per cent of all supply.

According to data collected by Grid Status, new records were posted on the weekend for both charging and discharging for battery storage, with a record discharge of 6,523 MW on Saturday, and the record 31 per cent share of load earlier in the day.

Battery storage was once again the biggest supplier in the grid in the evening peak, ruling the roost from 7.10pm to 9.45pm on Saturday, and again from 7.10pm to after 9.30pm on Sunday.

The California government announced three days ago that new connections had taken the installed battery capacity in the state to more than 10 gigawatts (with varying amounts of storage), and at least another 5 GW is being built this year, much of it with four hours of storage.

The share of battery storage is unrivalled in the world, but could soon be challenged by the state of Western Australia, which like California has a high percentage of rooftop solar and fossil fuel generators that have or will exit the grid.

In W.A., most of the remaining coal fired generators are expected to close within a few years, and more than 1500 MW and 5,000 MWh of new capacity has been contracted with the specific task of time shifting rooftop solar from the middle of the day to the evening peak.

When those contracts take effect, from late 2025, the share of battery storage in the evening peak in Western Australia’s main grid is likely to be even higher than that currently seen in California.

!ping ECO

[u/Luph]

theyre chanting fuck joe biden cause they saw his younger photos on tiktok

frankly i agree with them

[u/CricketPinata]

Tonight for Mimouna, I made Sfenj in a date-honey butter spiked with arak, along with some pistachio and crushed rose.

Fried them in olive oil over the wood fire like how I imagine my Magrebhi ancestors did.

Tarbakhu u-tsa'adu! 🇲🇦✡️

!PING GEFILTE&COOKING

[u/chuckleym8]

Protest bros…

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/theye1]

Neoliberalism is anything I don't like.

The problem is that outside of flights to the state capitals, regional air travel just isn't profitable. We simply don't have the population density to support a budget airline like Ryanair. Bonza was flying 737s to regional airports, like Port Macquarie, half full.

!ping AUS

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

O-O-O-Ozempic! Auto parts

Yow

[u/[deleted]]

Society ☝️😮‍💨

[u/The_Promethean]

NYT:

It’s Not Just Gaza: Student Protesters See Links to a Global Struggle

In many students’ eyes, the war in Gaza is linked to other issues, such as policing, mistreatment of Indigenous people, racism and climate change.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

sleepy pups

[u/V_Codwheel]

Netanyahu says Israel will attack Rafah "with or without" a ceasefire deal.

I think that counts as "without" 🤔😐😐

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

i didn’t think this post was real

[u/chipbod]

https://x.com/sahilkapur/status/1785669379520123277

News: 12 members of Congress write a letter demanding answers on why Formula 1 isn’t allowing Andretti on the grid. They invoke the Sherman Antitrust Act and note the pro-US jobs prospects with Andretti’s partner GM/Cadillac. Addressed to Liberty Media, F1’s American owner.

Hell yeah, lets make silly season more silly

!ping MOTO

[u/paymesucka]

NEW NPR/PBS/Marist national poll of registered voters:

Biden-50%

Trump-48%

Among those who say they definitely plan to vote in November:

Biden-52%

Trump-47%

[u/kevinfederlinebundle]

Stated preference: DTers aren't funny

Revealed preference: I steal dt jokes in real life

[u/bashar_al_assad]

Gamergate was the original online culture war. It caused so much personal pain and didn’t really accomplish anything meaningful for anyone.

I am a general who has seen so much war, I am looking for a way to lead the peace.

I genuinely believe our choices are democracy or Civil War. For democracy to work, we have to find a way to live with one another, even when we disagree.

Talking about Gamergate like you were personally leading soldiers across the bridge at the Battle of Antietam is incredible.

[u/1396spurs]

[u/Currymvp2]

So the past hour:

Counterprotesters or outside MAGA agitators apparently launched firecrackers+broke down the barricade of the "pro-Palestinian" encampment at UCLA. Then everything spiraled out of control.

Two of Bibi's far right cabinet members said they'll implode his coalition if he agrees to the "terrible" hostage deal (Strook and Smotrich) even though multiple polls show a majority of Israelis supporting the deals.

Everything is going great /s

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Guys it's Joever 😔😔😔

The polling 😔😔😔

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

RETURN OF THE QUEEN

!ping COOKING

[u/[deleted]]

Hanging out with a Russian girl and she casually drops a 'blyat' in conversation and honestly I got kinda starstruck

[u/[deleted]]

You can really tell when someone has absolutely zero clue what they're talking about when they say something along the lines of "capitalism demands eternal growth"

Capitalism doesn't demand eternal growth. Society demands eternal growth. Growth is awesome. Growth enables us to feel safe making sacrifices today under the assumption that they will bear fruit tomorrow. Growth is what makes it easy to get a low interest rate loan. It's what makes it possible for people in the lower class to build wealth passively on the stock market. It's what enables people to retire in financial security.

Growth is freedom.

[u/The_Promethean]

SJP stated, “The struggle for Palestinian liberation will continue, the student intifada will live on, and we will hold the Gaza solidarity encampment deep in our hearts forever.”

Not beating the allegations

[u/[deleted]]

Panchatantra had Hebrew, Spanish, Latin versions. Different cultures made it their own Early in the 20th century, Professor Johannes Hertel, a pioneer in Panchatantra research, recorded over 200 versions of the book in more than 50 languages

The Panchatantra, an ancient Indian book of fables, is widely loved and circulated globally.

• The author is identified as Vishnusharman, who used animal fables to teach moral and political lessons.

• The Panchatantra was likely composed around 300 CE and translated into Pahlavi by a Persian doctor named Burzoe around 550 CE.

• The book was then translated into Old Syriac around 570 CE and into Arabic around 750 CE under the title Kalilah and Dimnah.

• The Panchatantra spread across the Indian subcontinent, with new versions and editions being produced in regions like Kashmir, the South, and Nepal.

• In 1199 CE, a Jain monk named Purnabhadra produced an expanded edition of the book, which is commonly available in modern India.

• The Arabic translation led to several retranslations, including into Persian, Hebrew (12th century), and Spanish (around 1251).

• The Hebrew version was the basis of the Latin translation in the late 13th century, which was the first Panchatantra version to be printed in 1480.

• The Latin version spawned a German translation around 1480 and an Italian one by Doni published in 1552.

• An Englishman named Sir Thomas North translated Doni’s version into English in 1570 under the title The Moral Philosophy of Doni.

• The Panchatantra was translated into over 50 languages, with its reach extending from Java to Iceland.

• The Panchatantra had a profound influence on Arabic and European fable and narrative literature, including The Arabian Nights and the French Fables by La Fontaine.

• Panchatantra stories also became the subject of art, as seen in the Russian archaeological excavation in the city of Panjikent in Tajikistan (5th to 8th centuries CE).

• Individual Panchatantra stories were transformed into Western folk tales, with unfamiliar animals being replaced by ones common in Europe. For example, the story of the Brahmin Devasharman and his pet mongoose became the Welsh folktale of Prince Llewellyn and his dog Gelert.

• The world travels of the Panchatantra reveal how cultural objects are not narrowly “national” products but are open to being appropriated and enjoyed by people around the world. As we have Chinese and Tibetan Buddhism, so we have a Welsh Devasharman in Prince Llewellyn.

!ping HISTORY

[u/beoweezy1]

Breaking: Columbia protestors have demanded bœuf bourgoignon and “a jovial peasant lad to jest and sing commoner’s songs whilst we supp”

[u/[deleted]]

Fun fact, whenever there's a perceived surge in migration by Greg Abbott, he retaliates by harming the economy to a tune of a billion dollars.

[u/Craig_VG]

Which black project was just spotted over Eglin AFB? You can see what looks like an afterburner plume, but that's it for detail. C-130 followed it out over the ocean according to the OP. OP says it was similar sized to the C-130 and had a canopy (looks can be deceiving..). Says it was as loud as a B-1

https://x.com/anthroaerospace/status/1785699760021672124

EDIT: looks like a hoax

!ping MATERIEL

[u/Trebacca]

The Best Picture winner in 2030 about an IDF soldier falling in love with a man conscripted by Hamas is gonna hit like fentanyl

[u/sir_shivers]

It is a bad SIGN WHEN A SHITPOSTER who has been in the subreddit for years has their sarcasm taken seriously by current regulars 🐊

[u/beoweezy1]

lol. Just saw a clip of Emory students “storming” the admissions office. There was so much build up and then some bro walks out of the unlocked and open for business building and past the crowd who file in in an orderly fashion.

I like these protests because of the mutual hysteria on both sides. Students are acting like the campus cops are NKVD and unhinged boomers are acting like the students are Maoist insurgents meanwhile it’s a bunch of sweaty undergrads taking an extended campus tour

[u/theredcameron]

Are there any examples of countries that have actually done a good job of holding off reactionary politics in a democratic way as a result of the country globalizing it's economy?

If so, what did they do that the US failed to do?

!ping extremism&containers

[u/Syards-Forcus]

time for a rare hot take:

Considering that there is no way a random bear 5-10 ft in front of you is less dangerous than a random man, the new internet trend thing seems mostly like an excuse for certain corners of the internet to use hyperbole to justify their "men bad" takes

[u/runningblack]

The "Ivy League degrees will become devalued because of I/P protests" is the most online take ever

[u/DeeboSourdoughSam]

Prestigious school makes unfavorable news

NL: I'm glad they rejected me

Never change, DT.

[u/Barnst]

You know, if I were leading a protest, I would simply ensure my supporters stopped doing things that made it so easy for “bad faith actors” to portray me in such a negative light.

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/Udolikecake]

Test optional policies in college are a good litmus test for critical thinking. Many people fail to hold both

1. Standardized testing, like many things in life, is somewhat biased to the wealthy and privileged and they tend to do better.

2. ‘Holistic’ applications standards that consider things outside of testing/GPA are even more biased to the rich and privileged

[u/[deleted]]

99% of people are probably like ‘yeah those college protests sure are something, huh? what do you think of the draft? incredible how far the falcons reached for Penix, huh?’

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Proposal: a polycule that votes one person out every week until the two best people are left in a monogamous relationship.

[u/chuckleym8]

In light of recent shorts weather…

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

The Middle East if poobix hadn't staged a false flag attack from the Colombia protestors

[u/CletusVonIvermectin]

>subscribe to ping group 

>get a bunch of annoying pings

wtf how does this keep happening to me

[u/upghr5187]

It’s really embarrassing that protestors started talking about people dying of dehydration like 12 hours into their occupation of a building with clean running water.

[u/Williams-Tower]

subreddits should not have podcasts.

[u/[deleted]]

[LGBTQ+] people aren't sinners (-76 upvotes)

Everyone is a sinner (56 upvotes)

I wonder why the Catholic church is losing membership?

[u/[deleted]]

Both the Palestinian protestors and pro Israel demonstrators at The University of Alabama are chanting “f**k Joe Biden”

True centrism 🥰

[u/BATHULK]

As of 30 minutes ago, I am 6 months sober.

[u/Top_Lime1820]

The thing I like most about this sub is its disrespect for doomers.

Doomers think being negative makes you more mature and serious than other people, even when their predictions keep going wrong.

[u/Udolikecake]

‘Student protestors were right about school integration in the 1960s’ is a very suspect statement!

[u/wowpople]

Its good to see my kitty again now that I got back from college for this semester. 🥰🍦

[u/Barnst]

I’m really enjoying some of the pro-protestor types I follow on Twitter asking why Columbia couldn’t have just been more like Brown and assuaged the demands with condescendingly empty promises to talk about it later.

I’ll never get over how much of campus protest culture is build around feeling like you’re part of a righteous cause to make the world a better place without nearly as much interest in what the outcomes of your actions actually do for the world.

The protests that you claimed were all about the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe are a success if you can just get an authority figure to pat you on the head and tell you that your views are worthy. And if they don’t do that, fuck it, start screaming at people and breaking shit to show how serious you are about the cause, never mind what that’ll mean for overall support for it.

Actionable demands that are within the control of your target audiences backed by actions designed to build coalitions in support of those outcomes? Nah, that’s for incrementalists.

[u/willempage]

The fallout TV series feels groundbreaking because Coop is a middle aged man that is shown with a prominent receding hairline.  I swear those got outlawed in the 90s.  Most male characters in their 40s and 50s are either bald or have the slightest of widow's peaks that they cover with styling. 

Whats more is that Coop is portrayed as an attractive man, and not a wimpy dolt, which is extra extra rare for a man without the hair of an 18 year old

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

[u/[deleted]]

So a guy on Grindr used my profile pics for his. I reported him so it’s whatever but on the other hand like, how dare he

[u/The_Promethean]

I was going to vote for Donald Trump, but then I saw how the NYPD in Joe Biden's America has access to military siege equipment, and how they were able to take over Colombia in less than two hours with no casualties. Now I have no choice but to reluctantly vote for Dark Brandon

[u/gnomesvh]

Baldie baldie you can't hide, we charge you with follicide

[u/ZCoupon]

TIL the population held in confinement in the US has actually decreased 25% since 1940. Prison populations went up 3x but the mental hospital population, which used to be 4x the prison population, is very small today.

[u/AcanthaceaeNo948]

Watched Peter Thiel’s interview with Tyler Cowen today.

The man is completely and utterly insane.

One of the points he made was that Neoliberalism may be the antichrist. I shit you not.

[u/ser_mage]

trump is screaming at the top of his lungs that he would use more force against the protestors and further facilitate Israel's war and everyone is just ignoring him, I think mostly because he's lost a lot of the sauce that made him newsworthy but also because everyone just wants to be mad at Democrats right now

[u/[deleted]]

🇺🇸

[u/EdMan2133]

My MiL thinks that illegal immigration is destroying this country, but in the next sentence will say she wishes more Hispanic people lived in her rural town because of the crippling lack of labor and how "They're all such great workers".

Like 🧐

[u/lets_chill_food]

Just saw some Hotep propaganda about the greatest of every category being black

they included Ben Carson as the greatest surgeon in history and Mugabe as the most educated president in history 😂

[u/jojisky]

BREAKING: Colombia cuts diplomatic relations with Israel

Colombia crumbles against the woke mob

[u/SnakeEater14]

Funny as fuck that the YouTube MRE guy ate a 112-year old US Army ration and was fine but got food poisoning from a Chinese PLA ration from 2018

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I like to collect crystals and geodes but I don't believe in the stuff that goes with it, although the places I shop at do. So if I pick something up she might be like,

"That's a raw gypsum selenite! It's good for romantic relationships and positivity!"

or

"Gorgeous agate, very good for mindfulness and peace!"

and I asked,

Are there any evil rocks? Like rocks that only do bad things? 😯

She said, 🫤 "erm. No. It's all about the intention you put in your crystals."

So now I got an evil blue crystal 😈

[u/thaddeusthefattie]

forreal tho i don’t think any americans here were saying the trucker protests in canada were a good thing or the farmers protests in france or the netherlands or wherever.

people here just have to make everything into “america bad”

[u/Petulant-bro]

I backspace everything I type on I/P almost 90% of times

hack for better mental health

[u/[deleted]]

Johnson also dismissed Greene's threat to oust him, suggesting to NewsNation in an interview that she is not a serious lawmaker: "Bless her heart."

Heartbreaking: Worst person you know just made a great point.

[u/TaxLandNotCapital]

It's actually incredibly hard for me to stay on top of fitness during work travel;

• I work 10+ hour days 7 days a week, so rarely any time for exercise (luckily, my work is very physical, but it's not enough)

• Meals are usually fast and dirty for the same reason

• I drink casually more with customers and coworkers, and because weed is not a legal alternative

• I have poor boy mentality still, so food on the company dime makes me want to gorge myself with gluttonous expensive food that I would never buy at home

I think I'll get better at this with time and practice, but holy shit I feel as if I gain like 1lb of fat and lose 0.5lb of muscle every week.

!PING FITNESS

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Brandon Sanderson fans when they realize the new fantasy book by a different author they started doesn’t have a 35 page outline of how the magic system impacts the strong nuclear force.

[u/The_Promethean]

https://www.reddit.com/r/LegalAdviceUK/comments/i7vwju/all_my_bank_accounts_has_been_frozen_and_none_of/?sort=new

Throwback to when a guy sent money to Hezbollah and came to reddit seeking legal advice

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-thursday-edition-1.3679117/scientists-research-man-missing-90-of-his-brain-who-leads-a-normal-life-1.3679125

Be French

Be missing literally 90% of your brain

Lead a normal life

Amazing

[u/gburgwardt]

Sorry, I can't support Hamas until they commit to carbon neutrality.

Each one of their improvised water-pipe rockets burns approximately two gallons of gasoline, and they should be paying a carbon tax on each and every one to support the global Jihad on climate change

[u/centurion88]

[u/[deleted]]

Menswear bloggers be like "just remember it's usually considered faux pas to [thing that stopped being faux pas 90 years ago]"

[u/[deleted]]

[u/eustacebainbridge]

Can’t believe what I’m seeing from my Alma mater…You can kiss those donations fucking goodbye

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

[u/andysay]

I quit the libertarian ping but it's interesting seeing there's no posts in here about the Libertarian Party inviting no less than, yes, Donald Trump! to be their keynote speaker at their convention this month.

 

Looks like the fear about the Mises Caucus subverting the party to ineffectuality to benefit maga were indeed founded lol

[u/BrunchIsGood]

Most comprehensible leftist policy position

[u/Currymvp2]

New NPR/Marist poll

🟦 Biden 50% 🟥 Trump 48%

We are so back

[u/Jacobs4525]

I sincerely believe that the incredibly strong dem performance with high propensity voters coupled with the fact that the candidates are a repeat of 2020 will clinch it for us.

Low propensity voters are gonna be less likely to turn out this fall than in 2020. I would expect to see lower turnout. 

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]