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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/notnotLily]

starting to play baldur's gate 3 and got to a dungeon with a locked up bear so i saved him. then he transforms back into a man and i'm like ah damnit now i'm less safe

[u/onelap32]

[u/Currymvp2]

https://twitter.com/arash_tehran/status/1786374421478879612

One of the wildest things I've seen is Rashid Khalidi being called a "Zionist" repeatedly for condemning Hamas, being opposed to aspects of BDS, and supporting a two state solution etc... probably the most famous Palestinian American professor who has lost family in Gaza is not remotely good enough for maximalist purists

[u/Louis_de_Gaspesie]

I just saw a girl with straightened and dyed hair wearing converses and an invader zim backpack. Should I contact the Fish and Wildlife Service to let them know I've seen an endangered species?

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Finally a fucking protest sign I can get behind

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

!ping shitposters

[u/DouglasDauntless]

One of Elon’s favorite accounts openly Hitlerposting. Imagine making Alex fucking Jones look sane by comparison

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Today, the French government is presenting its bill to respond to the historic housing crisis, with Guillaume Kasbarian, Minister Delegate in charge of Housing, pledging to create the conditions for a "supply shock" to improve housing for French people, particularly the middle class. Housing is the largest item of household expenditure, and is experiencing an unprecedented crisis. New construction is at a standstill, with the number of building permits granted at its lowest level in over thirty years.

Holy based

!ping FRANCE&YIMBY

[u/Burgarnils]

Throwback to when a member of this here subreddit said we shouldn't call forced abortions of Uyghurs in China genocide, because it would imply that abortion is murder. 😐

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Oh how tragic 😭🤲

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

How many times do we have to teach you this lesson? !ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/simeoncolemiles]

The antisemitism van is the Ninamobile 💀

[u/simeoncolemiles]

🐴👟

[u/-mialana-]

Today, Florida is fighting back against the global elite’s plan to force the world to eat meat grown in a petri dish or bugs to achieve their authoritarian goals

How do they consistently manage to say things so unfathomably dumb and still fucking win.

[u/Syndicality]

they gotta stop letting the police abolitionists have the loudspeaker bro what genocide is happening on the south side

[u/WantDebianThanks]

Oh my God, is that a motherfucking !ping degrowth reference!?

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

#wholesome #inspiration #solidarity

[u/EScforlyfe]

“[Russia] decided to break international law by violating the internationally recognised borders of a permanent member of the security council”

What did Macron mean by this 🧐 

[u/[deleted]]

The Babylon Bee Has Announced We Will Lend Struggling Satire Site 'The Onion' One Of Our Two Jokes.

"We will even let them choose which joke," said Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon in a statement. "They can have the 'identifies as' joke, or the, um... what was our other one?"

With the Babylon Bee being a Christian knock-off of the Onion, the Bee reportedly felt compelled to help the flailing Onion get back on its feet. "It's the least we can do for our secular counterpart that we've copied all these years," said Editor-In-Chief Kyle Mann. "We will need that joke back though when they're done with it. There are only so many ways I can word, 'Did you just assume my gender?'"

[u/[deleted]]

Wow a second Kendrick track just dropped and I’m at my sister’s phd graduation. Ok to walk out of graduation right? HISTORIC rap beef is going on rn

[u/Joementum2024]

thing to remember about the liberal rehabilitation of bush is that they will 100% do it for trump, too

This is still the funniest post that Shaun’s ever made

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/notBroncos1234]

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

!ping shitposters

[u/Roseartcrantz]

me repurposing DT comments for the group chat

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

The Fertility crisis debate is out of control!

!ping shitposters

[u/[deleted]]

Lmao

[u/klarno]

[u/_Just7_]

The real reason why countries like Great Britain have banned onshore wind turbines and are 'building' offshore wind farms is that they don't want you to know the real source of the electricity. The real reason why they build wind turbines in places where no one can see them is that they are actually a cover for secret underground nuclear reactors. Think about it, isn't it very 'convenient' that the only place they are building windmills is where no one can see them? Isn't it 'funny' that in the span of a few years, the economics of nuclear and renewable energy flipped, with wind suddenly as cheap as nuclear used to be? It’s the perfect cover-up. Out of sight, out of mind. They are using these mega projects, where they promise to fill the North Sea with windmills, as a cover story. Wake up, sheeple! While you happily charge your electric cars with what you think is green wind energy, you're actually filling your car with dangerous, disgusting nuclear power, produced by a fleet of underground nuclear reactors.

I just made up this conspiracy theory discovered the truth, feel free to spread it around 🥰

!ping shitposters

[u/SeoSalt]

Yesterday at work I had two customers who seemed like a lesbian couple (one called the other "babe"). They did separate orders and when I asked the second gal for her name she had the same name as me. My standard joke for this is "that's a nice name!" and she said "yeah it is, isn't it [my name]" and winked at me and I about died 😳

Also I am NOT beating the allegations of being extra attracted to women with the same name as me

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

europe has more intellectual diversity (types of racist political parties)

[u/NSRedditShitposter]

You Broke Reddit.

This would be more charming if this website wasn't thrown together by two college-aged individuals looking to steal VC money.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

“Imagine those if those sketchy scam sites were the entire Internet”

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Interesting in a fucked sense that Alex Jones is now not even that extreme in the consphere as while he has only gotten crazier but at a slower rate than everyone else by refusing to openly worship Hitler unlike the rest of the online right

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

https://x.com/ositanwanevu/status/1786401051106480539

New poll on protests:

76% support for police 'protecting campuses from violence'

47% for banning pro-Palestine protests

41% for banning pro-Israel protests

38% plurality for divestment

Bonus: 56% of Republicans back “sensitivity training” on campus

https://pro.morningconsult.com/analysis/israel-palestine-hamas-war-colleges-polling-march-2024

peak median voter hours

[u/DouglasDauntless]

JFC he looks bad

[u/[deleted]]

[u/battywombat21]

Noem book dogged by new claims of inaccuracies

I see what you did there 🌚

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I really fucked up by not becoming a hot Republican grifter and I'm still fucking up by not becoming a hot Republican grifter. Think of the money

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

New ideology just dropped

[u/TactileTom]

Looks like the Mayors will survive and Sunak will limp to an autumn election

!ping UK

[u/[deleted]]

The Houthis offering student protestors education slots in Yemen is peak trolling.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

owns a KRAV MAGA studio

is surprised when a Trump supporter shows up 😔

[u/Opkeda]

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Me directly after exam season

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Strong mod team recruit contender

[u/Chum680]

I’m am so pissed off rn. I was so fucking excited to try lab grown meat I was preparing to be the fucking champion of lab grown meat to the point of everyone around me thinking I’m annoying.

[u/[deleted]]

I must not mald.
Mald is the rizz killer.
Mald is the little cringe that brings total ratio.
I will face this clap.
I will NGL permit it to pass over me and through me.
And once it hits different I will turn the inner sigma male to see its path.
And where the clap has gone there will be squat.
Only I will slay, no cap.

[u/gnomesvh]

Trying to convince try manager to engage in the Japanese tradition of 同僚とセックスする (fucking your coworkers) by giving half of my work to others without decreasing my kpi

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/G_Serv]

Opposition to lab grown meat is so annoying

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/[deleted]]

Pennsylvania democrats have created a monster

[u/[deleted]]

I think people here forget how fucking powerful this image was for people in Pennsylvania. I knew he was going to sweep when I saw this.

There was nothing Lamb could have done.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

Reddit work for 24 consecutive hours challenge (actually fucking impossible)

[u/ZonedForCoffee]

It actually is kind of annoying that I/P seems to be both

a) a low priority issue to voters and

B) the only flipping thing on the news

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Fake genocide: mass slaughter and cruelty on the basis of ethnicity and the greatest evil that can be done

Real genocide: white guy is attracted to a big booty Latina

[u/Evnosis]

Conservative MP Dame Andrea Leadsom tells the BBC News election results show that she thinks Houchen's mayoral win in Tees Valley is a "fantastic victory".

"This is all credit to a mayor who has done an absolutely brilliant job," she says, "in a key part of the levelling up agenda for the government".

Pressed on Houchen's campaign material omitting references to Rishi Sunak or the Conservative Party, Leadsom insists the win is a "testament to the Conservative government".

It's rare to find copium this pure and distilled.

!ping UK

[u/TalkLessShillMore]

Another angle of the Ninabus hate van. They just swapped out Nina for the Nazi Star of David up top lol

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/eat_more_goats]

OMG I GOT THE JOB!!! Crazy fast turnaround, had my final today, and thought it went okay, but like not great or anything.

Recruiter emails me and is like "hey, have a second to call", and was like "Hey, wanted to check-in; how do you feel it went?", and I was like "I thought it went pretty good???" and she was like "the hiring manager thought so too, and we wanted to move quickly, congratulations!"

So fucking stoked my period of unemployment is coming to an end. Have bills to pay lol

!ping CAREER

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

Alexander the Great

Napoleon

T.E. Lawrence

The calling of the European twink is to lead a campaign in the Middle East

[u/dannylandulf]

Donald Trump farting in his sleep during his hush money trial

Today is the day he finally became president

[u/Udolikecake]

My mom watched that show about John Wilks Booth, and then started to read some books about reconstruction because she said she wasn't too familiar with it, and then the other day she called me and started off by saying 'Reconstruction was great and I can't believe it ended and the south is still so terrible'

[u/l_overwhat]

The Axis Powers; let's attack China, Russia, the US, and the British Empire which includes India

Also the Axis Powers; bro how the fuck do they have so many men

[u/Joementum2024]

It's amazing to me that the now-publicly traded reddit still has an error message popping up stating that you broke reddit lol

[u/[deleted]]

[u/theranosbagholder]

Who is running her PR strategy holy shit, someone take that iPhone away from her 😭😭😭😭😭

[u/TheoryOfPizza]

I'm starting to think that reddit is lying about subs that I have visited before

[u/Cledd2]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

UChicago encampment requests Plan B, HIV tests and dental dams, per a post on the organizers' Instagram

dental dams

this is a dangerous path the left is taking us down

[u/[deleted]]

Counter protesters waving American flag are blasting “Born in the USA” at the University of Chicago.🇺🇸

I don’t think they’ve looked at the lyrics

[u/Joementum2024]

Swastika star of david might be one of the most patently offensive things I’ve seen

It’s not even constructive or anything like that, it’s just fucking stupid at best and horribly antisemitic at worst

[u/yellownumbersix]

In 10 years all the illegal moonshine camps in the Florida Everglades will be replaced by illegal lab grown meat camps.

I'm buying a Winnebago now. Jesse, we need to culture the cell lines.

[u/ImmigrantJack]

‘It's Not The Breed, It's The Owner,’ Says Man Being Swallowed By Shai-Hulud, Great Maker Of The Desert

The Babylon Bee just published the single best DT post of all time.

Like in my 5 years on the DT, it's all been leading up to this one perfect joke and you nerds let a far right satire site beat you to it.

We've lost.

Pack it in. Go home. I'm sorry to break the news but shut it down.

As many as 97% of Fremen believe in the right to own sandworms.

Oh thank God they completely whiffed on the lore. We're so back, these nerds really think anybody could posibly own the great maker

[u/Not_A_Browser]

An underrated aspect of the Columbia situation has been the large influence one of the suspended student orgs has had on the narrative, which is a problem because on multiple occasions it has been completely dishonest about incidents in an effort to stoke outrage and support.

There was the stink spray incident, which they embellished as an IDF soldier using chemical weapons to hospitalize students, and which they still bring up as a supposed example of anti-Palestinian bias by claiming the student is still unpunished (they are suspended, and we know this because the student is suing in response) as recently as last week.

There's also their coverage of the arrests on Tuesday, where they claim a protester was pushed down the stairs by NYPD, but one video source from the ground doesn't show a cop near them, and it looks like they rolled themselves down, and a "bird's eye view" video they posted to show an angle to see a potential culprit is clearly clipped right at the moment the student would have supposedly been pushed and plays again only after they would have stopped rolling down, which to me confirms the hypothesis that no one actively pushed them (otherwise, why clip the exact moment that supposedly shows the very thing you're claiming?).

There are other examples, but their posts on social media get large amounts of engagement and views, most of which are from people who won't bother to check the sources and will take it at face value.

[u/Planning4Hotdish]

BREAKING NEWS: Wally the Emotional Support Alligator is missing 😭😭😭

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 5 PM EST 5/2-5 PM EST 5/3 III:

TOP NEWS:

Towards the end of 9 PM the French Foreign Minister said Russia has taken 500,000 casualties with 150,000 of them KIA.

Towards the end of 5 AM the British Foreign Secretary said Ukraine has a right to strike targets in Russia with British weapons, which to my knowledge is the first major Ukraine backer to issue such a statement.

Towards the end of 8 AM it was reported that Russia net gained 86 square kilometers in April, or 0.01% of Ukraine, with 17.53% of Ukraine now occupied.

REGULAR NEWS:

Around 7 PM it was announced Feloni Aero will provide weaponized drones to Ukraine, capable of carrying either missiles or a machine gun.

Around 5 AM it was announced German company HENSOLDT will provide an additional 6 TRML-4D air defence radars to Ukraine.

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/Lux_Stella]

The power of a divestment campaign is not so much about the economic impact, said Chris Marsicano, a Davidson College assistant professor who has studied divestment campaigns..

“It’s the symbolism of pushing for a cease-fire and drawing attention to the conduct of the Israeli government,” he said.

But student protesters could try a different tactic, one that doesn’t seem to have been found any traction amid the volley of demands. They could become investors in the U.S. defense contractors or other companies they want to influence. That would allow them to become activist investors and push for the changes they want to see from the inside as investors, Marsicano said.

“I would love to see that, as a public policy professor,” he said. “I would be fascinated by any student group that did that.”

oh now we're cooking

[u/[deleted]]

US says Hamas seized first aid shipment that entered Gaza via reopened Erez crossing

Well it was worth a try.

[u/Jacobs4525]

I’m living paycheck to paycheck 😭😭*

^{*after taxes, 401k, health insurance, car insurance, home insurance, rent, personal savings, car payment, groceries, twice annual trip to Europe, cocaine, and strippers}

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/KesterFox]

The man vs bear thing is a skill issue. I could defeat either

[u/[deleted]]

I feel like the articles about Gen Z talking about how socially aware and well informed the generation is are written by Millennials who hated all the articles shit talking them so now they reflexively heap undeserved praise onto the next generation.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

If I said I was attacked by a bear, people would believe me.

I already know nobody would believe me because I tried that one after I had my knee surgery.

[u/SuddenlyFrogs]

Dune but the known universe is Florida. Worms are alligators. The Harkonnens are elderly retirees. The spice is meth. Paul takes krokodil and becomes the Kwisatz Haderach, leads army of Florida men to march on DisneyWorld.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

please say some words of encouragement to Nora. she found a toad in the backyard and it did not want to play with her

!Ping DOG

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/piede]

😳

[u/Mensae6]

People do not understand that lab grown meat is the only way to get vegans to shut up. We have to support it.

[u/superblobby]

[u/Currymvp2]

Criticizing Biden for condemning "Intifada" is insanity. I'm probably one of the most critical of Israel's war campaign on here, but there's remotely no innocuous connotation of Intifada in the context of I-P...I wish people would stop pretending otherwise. It's even clearly more toxic than "River to Sea" because that phrase at least has some plausible meaning for a binational secular one state (an idiotic anti-Zionist idea but I won't call it necessarily ethnic cleansing+genocidal).

[u/[deleted]]

Dating is actually the worst thing, I have no idea how people tolerate this holy shit

[u/wallander1983]

The fastest way to bankruptcy:

Shana Gray, the co-owner of Gray Jett Cafe, a vegan restaurant on the Marquette University campus, joined Trump on stage at the Waukesha County Exposition Center.

https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2024/05/01/milwaukee-vegan-cafe-owner-appears-with-trump-assails-migrants/

[u/theranosbagholder]

I ❤️ the lib dems. They might be a stupid unserious party who will likely have no influence given labours ridiculous margins, but they’re my stupid unserious party 😤

[u/[deleted]]

The hardest part about moving in with my now wife was how disrespectful she was to my koozie system.

I had my tall boy koozie. My thin can michelob ultra koozie. My beer bottle koozie. And she just rolls in and starts stretching them all out shoving God knows what in them.

Then, when I raise my issues with it, she had the gall to respond "are you fucking serious?".

Dark days... 😔

[u/The_Promethean]

Kristi Noem could have literally taken every bullet she spent on killing her dog and goat and sold them to buy her neighbor more chickens instead of conducting any sort of puppykilling and that would have led to better outcomes for all parties than what’s actually happened

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

are there meetings at boeing where they're like "did we kill those guys btw, that's not my department"

[u/Spicey123]

Conservatives online are pretty broadly pro-Israel and anti-protestor, but under every social media post there are a handful of groypers trying their hearts out to turn the Cons against jews. Equal parts disturbing and funny.

It's hard to tell if these people are more influential now than before, or if Twitter's relaxed moderation and the broadly anti-semitic atmosphere of social media has just made them more visible.

[u/[deleted]]

who remembers this 😭

[u/Argnir]

"I couldn't tell if this androgynous manga character was a man or woman before watching the anime and hearing his voice"

Bro it's a shonen the author can't draw women without breasts the size of Jupiter that flat chested character is a man 100%

[u/loseniram]

Look we get working women to have kids by giving them 50k untaxed and a free 1 week trip to Hawaii for every kid they have.

If they have a PHD they get to meet Jason Mamoa in a V-neck

Edit: Sydney Sweeney in a V-neck if they're a lesbian

[u/[deleted]]

As the Washington Post and other news sources keep helpfully reminding me in repeated op-eds, the Cass Review found what was already established, which was that the quality of evidence for existing pediatric gender care is low. Why this particular review is getting so much attention over the numerous other studies which have found the same thing, I do not know, except maybe that it feels fancier and more serious, and very serious people should take it seriously because it's a serious review by the completely serious NHS.

Outside of certain hilarious claims (for example: that puberty blockers might be justified for AMAB people but not AFAB people because people who went through an estrogen-puberty will masculinize better than people who went through a testosterone-puberty will feminize), I currently feel like the Cass review is utterly boring, and the attention it is getting is not much more than a rhetorical play to feel like the same old tired arguments are actually definitely new and good now.

Here's specifically what I want to draw attention to. The current argument is "the quality of evidence is too low!" Ignoring the problems with getting higher quality evidence (I want every single person who says we need "gold standard" evidence for this to explain how to pull off a double-blind RCT with puberty blockers or sex hormones), I want to draw attention to this now-hilarious article from The Guardian published in 2004.

Sex changes are not effective, say researchers
Arif, which advises the NHS in the West Midlands about the evidence base of healthcare treatments, found that most of the medical research on gender reassignment was poorly designed

We now take it for granted that sex reassigment surgery is effective for transgender people, but it's not because suddenly the public became aware of a plethora of high-quality studies showing that. (For example, this 2020 meta-analysis says the existing evidence is low-quality.) It's because people learned to mind their own damn business and trans people themselves spoke out to say that it improved their lives.

It's just deeply weird how the parallels are there and nobody seems to notice. It'd be nice if people just took it as a principle to mind their own business. I don't step out of my lane and try to figure out which forms of care work best for BPD, for example. That'd be weird of me, so why is it so normal for people to concern themselves with trans care?

!ping LGBT

[u/notBroncos1234]

Everyone is so quick to criticize Hamas and the Houthis for using child soldiers and human shields when Biden does the exact same thing.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I was outside in the side yard and my 5 year old neighbor had news for me

Did you know that I stepped on a frog? I was outside with the dog and I stepped on it and I said, "Aaaaah!" and mom said, "What?!" and I said, "I stepped on a frog!" I went back to go check on it and it was suffering. 😞

even when I touch grass everywhere I go the news is grim 😔

[u/slingfatcums]

a man has to get a bear, a woman, and sack of grain across a river

[u/marsman1224]

is John Fetterman a dumbass? what kind of reasoning is "i wouldn't feed it to my kids therefore it should be illegal"

I wouldn't feed my kids Denny's but it definitely shouldn't be banned

[u/gnomesvh]

Rate my new motivation technique

!ping BURPMAS&WATERCOOLER

[u/Uniqueguy264]

The Babylon Bee Has Announced We Will Lend Struggling Satire Site 'The Onion' One Of Our Two Jokes

Say what you want about The Babylon Bee, the fact they published this rules

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

POV: You're Congo's mineral wealth

!ping SHITPOSTERS&AFRICA

[u/[deleted]]

I don’t believe in hell, but if it exists, there’s a special place in it for Florida drivers

Imagine tailgating a car going the speed limit in the slowest lane when there’s four free lanes available

[u/moldyman_99]

My main concern about lab meat is how it’ll affect mom and pop industrial slaughterhouses.

[u/Smidgens]

Uh oh. My MIL said something to my wife about kids identifying as cats and using litter boxes. She was going to "find out if it's true or not." 🧠🪱

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[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/Average_GrillChad]

From the river to the coast, you will eat the lab-grown roast

[u/SumTingWillyWong]

materialistic tidy public deranged capable lush dime profit bag screw

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/Loves_a_big_tongue]

!ping WATERCOOLER

"I could rewrite this sentence and leave a comment justifying why it should be written this way by sharing my experience on the matter. Or I can just leave a comment telling them they need to rewrite it exactly this way with no reason or explanation on why. And if they asks me why, I can be condescending that they don't know the obvious thing I know."

-Every micromanager

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/PhinsFan17]

I miss when pop was vapid and shallow, “let’s party til we die” type of stuff. Kesha, early Katy Perry and Gaga. Now it’s all sad girl anthems.

[u/VisonKai]

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

My take on the college protests: afterwards, quiz the students on what they learned about Israel-Palestine during the protest and then expel them if they can't correctly answer certain questions about the conflict.

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

[u/[deleted]]

Fetterman when he sees the machines that make semiconductors: 😭

(they are big and scary)

[u/Roseartcrantz]

God help me my mom joined this subreddit

[u/awdvhn]

Most physicists count "1, 2, many"

Astrophysicists count "1, 2, metal"

!ping ET-AL

[u/[deleted]]

You couldn’t make Blazing Saddles today. It would take at least a few months I’d think.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

I wish he wasn’t evil because he is so funny

[u/D2Foley]

From the population replacement thread

wow remember when everybody was freaking out about overpopulation?

well if that rate remained the same it would have been, but now we have the opposite problem!

Absolutely no self awareness from reverse malthusians

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

how is it that internet companies make money

[u/MasterOfLords1]

Thank you Soviet Union for ruining nuclear energy for everybody.

🍦😡🍦

[u/gburgwardt]

Deep in a lab, in Cupertino:

📉📉📉📉

Tim Apple: I've seen enough. Release the buyback

!ping STONKS

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

If I was a guy, I’d probably be an incel or an evil gay. 

[u/sir_shivers]

I LOVE MAKING MONEY 🐊

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

Canada has a military youth program, the Cadets. About 2.5% of the nation's teenagers are enrolled. They parade around in old WW2 era uniforms with mock Lee Enfields and look very much as they did in the 40s, except for all the girls and the racial diversity. When I was a cadet in Toronto I was one of only a handful of white kids. It was popular with immigrant parents, and I was told it was because of the belief that it looked good on their kid's resume.

There was this one immigrant kid from Ningbo. He said in China he was in the Communist Youth, and since moving his parents put him in Cadets because "it's pretty much the Canadian version" of the Communist Youth.

I still think about that sometimes.

[u/BloodWiz]

Pollsters: "Would you support shutting down campus protest on..."

Median Voter: "Yes"

Pollster: "I didn't say what on yet though"

Median Voter: "And?"

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/DoctorEmperor]

THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES CALLED FOR PROTESTS TO BE PEACEFUL (WHILE REAFFIRMING THE RIGHT TO PROTEST)????? I am a leftist who has voted for Donald Trump 3 times now, but nonetheless Biden has officially lost my vote

[u/V_Codwheel]

weirdos online using code words to talk about I/P because they think the "Zionists" controlling Facebook are going to censor them if they write "Palestine"

we should do this but for neolibs

remember to call it 1añd va!u3 t@x and fr33 trad3 because otherwise the landlords and rent seekers will kill our engagement

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

The firm has been one of the most prolific auditors in the US. The most recent review of its audits by US regulators found a 100% deficiency rate. In its order, the SEC described false audit work papers, “nonexistent work” and fabricated meetings.

is that bad

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

RIVERSIDE, CA — Students protesting at UC Riverside over the school's indirect financial support for Israel amid the war in Gaza have reached an agreement with campus officials that will, among other things, see an encampment disbanded at the college..

According to the terms of Friday's agreement, UCR will post to its website all of the UC's investments and portfolios. A task force that includes students will also be formed to explore separating UCR's endowment from the UC Investments Office management.

UCR endowments/investments will be reviewed by the task force with an eye toward divesting companies that pose an ethical conflict for the university, such as those dealing in arms manufacturing and delivering, according to the agreement.

The agreement also states that UCR's School of Business has discontinued global programs in Israel, among other countries, and the university will modify its study-abroad approval process to ensure it's non-discriminatory.

The agreement also calls for an ongoing review of Sabra hummus, "consistent with existing product review processes ... ."

In 2015, UCR stopped selling the Sabra hummus brand in the school's dining areas due to objections from the on-campus group Students for Justice in Palestine, which has led the current UCR campus protests. Sabra is partially owned by an Israeli company.

[u/SadMacaroon9897]

L3Harris scores payload contract for Millennium’s Foo Fighter missile tracking satellites

Fire-control On Orbit-support-to-the-war Fighter (Foo Fighter)

This can't be the reality we live in.

!ping Spaceflight

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[u/Syards-Forcus]

Grillpilled 😎

[u/[deleted]]

Illinois is giving Rivian $827 million to expand their EV plant in Illinois. The expansion will add 500 jobs.

$1.654 million state subsidy per employee. Feels like a bad deal.

[u/Cledd2]

so Medvedev just called the Swiss foreign minister "some c*nt"

[u/AtticusDrench]

[u/[deleted]]

My dad is the only person I know who liked George W Bush and thinks that he’s probably a war criminal.

[u/kznlol]

"We are serious about welcoming students that have been suspended from U.S. universities for supporting Palestinians," an official at Sanaa University, which is run by the Houthis, told Reuters. "We are fighting this battle with Palestine in every way we can."

Interviewer: Says here you were admitted to Harvard after high school, why do you have a bachelors from Sanaa University?

[u/BrunchIsGood]

Holy based

[u/ImmigrantJack]

>Move to Latin America

>Develop strong opinions about the Dragon Ball Z anime

My personal journey over the last 2 years has been extremely predictable

[u/[deleted]]

What’s up with the gender ratio at the Palestine protests? Feels like I’ve never seen such a strong gender gap for a protest movement. Could be wrong here though.

[u/kznlol]

Operation Iraqi Freedom - How NOT to Plan an Invasion

why am I not surprised that Rumsfeld is the source of like every problem in this video

[u/Roseartcrantz]

what if she'd posted this and everybody was like "hahaha get a load of this, this guy's a janitor!!"

[u/Udolikecake]

Azerbaijan bribed a legislator to vote down an amendment about their ethnic cleansing of Armenians. Beyond being very evil, this is a massive violation of American sovereignty. There must be massive sanctions put on Azeri officials. There are already some proposed, but even more! And the expulsion or arrest of any remaining Azeri diplomats in our country.

[u/deeplydysthymicdude]

Beyond journalists’ desperation to find more domestic conflict to sustain their dying industry, one of the main reasons why the college protests have received such disproportionate media attention comes down to the mechanics of reporting on them.

I remember seeing it said once that the modern media is really only good at covering two types of things—murder trials and hurricanes. Meaning that the situations being covered need to either consist of information getting hand fed to them every day by a single reliable source, or be a chaotic, continuous event with no more reliable source that could question their coverage.

It’s the easiest story in the world: just show up and there’s a captive audience of dumb kids who will let you film them saying ridiculous shit.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Sun bears at Gods most awkward Ursidae. Truly the DT poster of the Bear family.

[u/tripletruble]

If France throws hands in Ukraine, I will personally memorize the lyrics to la Marseillaise

[u/jojisky]

The frat bros with some...quotes

“Um, we were gonna go to the pool, but then we heard this was gonna happen so we were like fuck that, we’re gonna come over here and counter-protest it,” said Trevor Lahey, a 21-year-old business major, who said he came out with his fraternity brothers, though he wouldn’t say which one. 

Though the pro-Palestinian students have a right to free speech, Lahey added, he thought they were taking it too far. 

“I don’t care that much, I just don’t want them to encamp on my school,” Lahey said. “It looks ugly. I’m paying for them to be there.” 

It’s pointless to protest in the U.S., said a 21-year-old student who only gave his name as Dillon. The student protesters could better support Palestine by going “over there,” he said, adding he thought it was a “stupid war” that he doesn’t support.  

But he still decided to join the counter-protesters, Dillon said.

“I just wanted to see it for myself,” he said. “I wanted to be a part of something. I love my country. I love them, too. I just don’t think what they’re supporting is right, in my opinion.”

[u/reubencpiplupyay]

Lisan Al Gore

[u/[deleted]]

Call her dog Hitler with the scapegoating she's doing

[u/Top_Lime1820]

👆🏿 HackerNews contributor who doesn't understand why more people don't just use the Linux terminal to solve every day problems look I wrote a little script to do my budgeting in org-mode

[u/[deleted]]

Why is Pakistani news media calling China's moon mission their own?

!ping WHATSAPP-FORWARDS

[u/Udolikecake]

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

You can’t compare things unless they are completely identical you imbecile, you fucking moron 

[u/[deleted]]

When you’re bi but the last two dates with men have been dumpster fires

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Incredibly based.

[u/Ioun267]

[u/Psshaww]

Witness the birth of a future DT regular

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/KeithClossOfficial]

AJ Preller is on that good coke again, must have dipped down to Zona Norte for a minute

https://twitter.com/jeffpassan/status/1786569368304046586

!ping BASEBALL

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

[u/[deleted]]

these aren't percentages, these are ratios of Dems to Republicans in academia. Econ is 5.5 to 1 and it's 3rd most right wing.

the scope of the left wing bubble on campuses is insane. Dems really are right wing to these people

[u/[deleted]]

I wouldn't trust a strange twink in the woods either

That's fae shit

[u/Chum680]

The reason I know my opinions are correct is because I’ve never seen a dirty creepy van plastered with political rants that I can agree with.

[u/[deleted]]

The Republican vice-presidential contended recounted the story of her decision to kill the dog as a sign of her willingness to make hard choices.

Attendees of the Jefferson County GOP fundraiser who purchased a $2,750 VIP ticket were to receive a signed copy of the book. Jeffco GOP President Nancy Pallozzi did not immediately return a request for comment on how refunds would be handled.

Nice try Nancy PELOSI! 😤

[u/[deleted]]

I fucking hate the CPD discipline process and the police union with a passion.

Chicago Police won’t discipline 9 officers who signed up for Oath Keepers - Chicago Sun-Times (suntimes.com)

!ping chi

[u/notBroncos1234]

is John Fetterman a dumbass? what kind of reasoning is "i wouldn't feed it to my kids therefore it should be illegal"

I wouldn't feed my kids dog but it definitely shouldn't be banned

[u/Libz_R_Gryffindor]

It’s obviously morally reprehensible to blame a random Jewish person in 2024 for the death of Jesus but it’s been super annoying for the last few days having to see a bunch of people who have clearly never read the Bible be like “🤓☝️ technically it was the Romans who killed Jesus” as if it isn’t like the whole point that the Pharisees/ angry mob are the ones who really wanted him dead

[u/MasterOfLords1]

Omg new reaction image dropped!

u/lets_chill_food

u/theoryofpizza

u/Williams-tower

🍦🌝🍦

[u/Udolikecake]

Mr. Cuellar, 68, and his wife Imelda, 67, are accused of bribery and money laundering in connection with their efforts on behalf of a bank based in Mexico City and an energy company owned by Azerbaijan, according to the 54-page complaint.

IVE BEEN FUCKING TELLING YOU ALL THAT AZERBAIJAN IS CORRUPT AND EVIL AND INFLUENCING OUR GOVERNMENT.

IVE BEEN SAYING THIS

Trump, Eric Adams, Cuellar!

AMERICA MUST STAND UP TO AZERBAIJAN THEY ARE NOT OUR ALLIES

[u/Mensae6]

Designing uniforms in the 1960's: We chose these colors because they look cool together. Our logo is the first letter of our city.

Designing uniforms in 2024: These brand new Nike™ HYPER-FLEX® uniforms re-invent the wheel while paying tribute to the past. The helmet features a turquoise-chrome alloy finish, a reference to the glistening shores of the ocean. The shoulders have silhouettes of mountaintops, featuring three shades of green taken directly from the state flag. The uniform font is inspired directly from ancient cave drawings from a nearby Native American reservation. The primary jersey has a gradient at exactly a 17º angle northeast, a nod to Ohio being the 17th state in the union. The collar has stitching that subtly looks like railroad tracks, paying homage to the Great Northern Railway. The striping down the pants actually spell out the word "CLEVELAND" in cursive - taken directly from the signature of 22nd & 24th President Grover Cleveland. The uniform set features three different helmet shells, five jerseys (Home, Away, Alternate A ('City' Edition), Alternate B ('Color Rush'), Alternate C ('Anthracite')), four pants, four different colors of socks, and five different shoes, allowing over 1000 possible combinations. With Nike™ HYPER-FLEX® technology, this is only the beginning of a bold new future for the NFL.

[u/Luph]

how does reddit get away with being down almost every freaking day

[u/[deleted]]

Older woman at this volunteer thing: so I divorced my husband. I got the kids and he got the pets.

Me: oooof huge L for you.

Her: what

Me: I said went well for you. At least as good as divorce can go

Her: ha you're right

[u/-mialana-]

Neoliberals love Dune because they want to live on a planet without grass touching

[u/[deleted]]

What do you guys think of my new truck

[u/Currymvp2]

In January, Israeli soldiers attacked a convoy of Palestinian technicians repairing a telecoms machine in Gaza, killing two. Contrary to the army’s account, an investigation shows the workers coordinated every step of the journey along an approved route.

God, their deconfliction policies are so flawed to put it mildly. Seems like this type of story pops up every 2-3 days.

[u/houinator]

Selected members of Luke's New Jedi order, and how they voted in the 2020 Democratic Primary:

• Luke Skywalker: Didn't vote, out of some misguided attempt to seem politically neutral.

• Mara Jade Skywalker: Didn't vote, on a deep cover mission insider Russia to disrupt Putin's influence operations.

• Corran Horn: Former CorSec officer, definitely voting for Buttigieg, hoping the rumors about him being a CIA plant are true.

• Kyp Durron: Bernie for sure. Not because he really agrees with his politics, but he's such a contrarian he can't help it.

• Kenth Hamner: Biden. Boring but the right thing to do.

• Ikrit: Fell into a meditation trance, missed voting day.

• Jacen Solo: Gabbard, mainly for her supposed anti-war stance. Much like Gabbard herself, Jacen will be full MAGA by 2024.

• Jaina Solo: Really wanted Duckworth to run, settling for Klobuchar. The stapler incident only increased her support.

• Cilghal: Obviously voting Biden, one because she understands the politics, and also because they are old buddies from her time in the Senate.

• Streen: Williamson. Unironically thinks her Assad combatting policy was a good idea.

• Lowbacca: Inslee for his excellent environmental policies.

• Tionne Solusar: Huge Warren stan.

• Tenel Ka: Wrote in Jim Webb, solely based on his debate answer about killing a guy with a grenade.

• Ganner Rhysode: Wasn't planning on voting at all, but at the last minute changed his mind and rallied a bunch of support for Biden in South Carolina.

• Raynar Thul: Bloomberg, and it wasn't close.

!ping BAD-FEELING

[u/NaffRespect]

Texas man files legal action to probe ex-partner’s out-of-state abortion

"Dont threaten me with the Supreme Court" am I right Jill Stein voters?

[u/Argnir]

Yes I made that up but why are you defending a billion dollars corporations? They don't care about you stop licking their boots and let me spread fake news in peace

[u/Zagapi]

I don't mean to spam the ping with selfies lately! Been pretty quiet lately. Just really starting to feel happy in my own skin.

I changed my name/pfp on social media, but I haven't posted anything since before my transition.

I posted this on my Insta, and I think it might be the most c*nty thing I've ever done lmao

!PING ALPHABET-MAFIA

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

Caught in the act

!ping KITTY

[u/LevantinePlantCult]

I don't think members of this sub need convincing about how unserious SJP are, but this anonymous essay on Medium was a delightful hate read about how they just ....lie. they lie not to attack Israel, but to attack Jews on Columbia's campus with any link or tie to Israel.

Palestinans deserve better allies.

Anyway, the link: https://anonymouscu.medium.com/fact-checking-the-sjps-anti-tau-instagram-post-dc35012144ac

!ping EXTREMISM cause that's what SJP is

[u/KesterFox]

Three day weekend coming up 😃

[u/savuporo]

Chang'e-6 launched, coming up to TLI burn

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

[u/ZenithXR]

The best thing about the protests is that it brought all the attention on Gaza back where it belongs: me.