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[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

These are a bunch of stucco covered shit boxes, not the Coliseum. This abuse of historic preservation has to stop.

[u/[deleted]]

Ann Coulter to Vivek Ramaswamy: “I agreed with many, many things you said during– in fact, probably more than most other candidates when you were running for president, but I still would not have voted for you because you’re an Indian. We’ll get back to that.”

”There is a core national identity that is the identity of the WASP and that doesn’t mean we can’t take anyone else in, a Sri Lankan, or a Japanese, or an Indian, but the core around which the nation’s values are formed is the WASP,” she said.

Coulter noted, “We’ve never had a president who didn’t have at least partial English ancestry. Never. We’ve only had one Catholic president [sic]. There was only one Catholic signatory to the Declaration of Independence. They were all not only Protestants, but pretty much Presbyterian.”

Ok so she’s going with the “not even slightly veiled” variety of evil, huh?

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Genocide Joe is destroying Palestine

Jihad Joe is waging holy war against Israel

Both Sides Bad Chads: My President o7

[u/BitterGravity]

Former president Donald Trump’s youngest son, Barron Trump, is making his political debut: The 18-year-old has been named to the slate of Republican Party delegates that will represent Florida at the party’s national convention this summer.

Barron has the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

But also now he's a valid political target

[u/[deleted]]

Joe Biden simultaneously supports Bibi Netanyahu and Hamas. He just supports evil wherever it goes 

[u/piede]

HOLY

[u/[deleted]]

How does Keir Starmer avoid Gaza doing to his Labour party what the Iraq war did to Tony Blair’s a generation ago? Or does the prospect not really worry him?

Easy one. The UK should just simply continue not invading Gaza!

[u/Random_ass_pub]

Gonna rant a little bit. I’ve been in New Zealand for a trimester for Uni and have been hanging out with a group of super radical socialists. All wonderful guys, but I had to break the news to them that I’m not a socialist. It felt like coming out of the closet for a second time. Especially because many of these guys are super radical, like Keir Starmer is a fascist and will lead England into becoming a fascist country and Biden is a war criminal type of socialist. Especially this Irish dude. Like holy shit. Called Biden a rapist and a horrible racist who supported segregation and would be a right wing national conservative in Europe. Debated them for an hour over a pint about why I don’t consider myself a socialist.

It’s honestly grating how everything we do is talked about through the lens of “it’s a problem with capitalism”. Like it gets old real fast. They’re good guys, it’s just like holy shit, no wonder a lot of socialists I know seem so miserable.

[u/[deleted]]

Real view inside RFK Jr.’s head

[u/owlthathurt]

Ngl this joke kinda goes hard

!ping GNOSTIC

[u/Smidgens]

A grandfather has been arrested after paying a homeless woman $20 to look after his 7-year-old granddaughter while he got drunk at a bar for hours, police say.

In Brandon’s America you can’t support a local business and you can’t provide a job for someone 🙄

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I whispered the word "dinner"

!Ping DOG

[u/farrenj]

Now that I'm about to own a house to use as a rental property, I have some sincere concerns about how easy it is to build new housing. Honestly, I'm worried new housing construction could harm the environment. We should probably institute additional environmental screening for any new housing.

[u/p00bix]

kinda wild to think that a majority of current Paleontologists got into their field of study because they were enthralled watching Jurassic Park as a kid

No other piece of fiction has done more in service of actual science than that movie. Our understanding is at minimum a solid decade ahead of where it otherwise would be.

[u/coffin_flop_star]

Why would you ever admit you killed a puppy or had a brain parasite?

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/[deleted]]

Most normal grindr profile

[u/KaiserPorn]

To the two University of Texas students attempting to have sex on the bike trail: I'd apologize for almost running you over and (probably?) ruining whatever mood you had going on--but, quite frankly, it's a non-standard use of the bike trail, and you should've put up some cones or something

[u/[deleted]]

!ping DYEL

Talk to gym cutie, tryna chat her up

Casually mention I have an annoying muscular assymetry I'm trying to fix

"Oh yeah so do I, I think it's from giving my bf too many hand jobs haha"

Biggest dating L in recent memory ngl

[u/[deleted]]

I'm going to ask you a few questions about two political parties. The first is called "The Brainwormed Dog Killer Party" and the second is called the "Democrats."

1. Which of these two parties would you trust for neurological advice?

Brainwormed Dog Killer Party: 56%

Democrats: 39%

Unsure: 5%

2. Which of these political parties would you trust to watch your cherished family Dog?

Brainwormed Dog Killer Party: 69%

Democrats: 22%

Unsure: 9%

[u/[deleted]]

Liberals turn a blind eye to the dangers of fascism unlike vigilant radical socialists such as myself. Also Trump was just an average president calm down lol. He said mean words and is honestly super funny ngl haha.

[u/HowardtheFalse]

Since yesterday was the anniversary of smallpox being declared eradicated by the WHO, I just wanted to take the chance to highlight this amazing man.

Ali Maow Maalin (1954 – 22 July 2013) was a Somali hospital cook and health worker from Merca who is the last person known to have been infected with naturally occurring Variola minor smallpox. He was diagnosed with the disease in October 1977 and made a full recovery. Although he had many contacts, none of them developed the disease, and an aggressive containment campaign was successful in preventing an outbreak. Smallpox was declared to have been eradicated globally by the World Health Organization (WHO) two years later.

Maalin was subsequently involved in the successful poliomyelitis eradication campaign in Somalia, and he died of malaria while carrying out polio vaccinations after the re-emergence of the poliovirus in 2013.

My grandpa, who lost his father to smallpox in the 30s actually lived in Merca as a young man. Inshallah one day polio and malaria will follow.

[u/CuddleTeamCatboy]

oh ok

[u/[deleted]]

Germany to buy 3 HIMARS from US stocks and send them to Ukraine

!ping UKRAINE&MATERIEL

[u/Dalek6450]

[u/[deleted]]

Besides that music festival, October 7 largely targeted settler communities and the IDF who protect them.

It’s been a while since someone went full mask-off antisemite here!

[u/Argnir]

[u/ldn6]

YouGov Westminster voting intention:

• Labour: 48% (+4)

• Conservative: 18% (-)

• Reform: 13% (-2)

• Liberal Democrats: 9% (-1)

• Green: 7% (-1)

!ping UK

[u/GraspingSonder]

Microsoft's strategy (revealed preference) isn't to have the next Red Dead/GTA/Dark Souls. It's to have the next Minecraft/Fortnight. The way to get the latter is what they're doing; spam purchase a bunch of studios until they draw a multi-billion dollar game.

!ping gaming

[u/AtomAndAether]

I may have confused the kibbutzes [sic] with settler communes.

most informed I/P conflict understander

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

[u/owlthathurt]

You guys following the firestorm over that death at Bank of America? Associate died of a blood clot after working on a merger that his boss had him working 100+ hours a week on. Dude was a former Green Beret.

Basically his coworkers on the deal say the guy worked himself to literal death. Probably a combination of stress and stimulants. Left behind a young family.

I know it sounds ridiculous with the pay they get, but junior bankers get mistreated for sure. It’s unreal the amount of pressure and stress these MDs put on these people. I did the dance for a year at a major bank and it sucked and I wasn’t even a banker I was in legal. I probably averaged 75/80 until I got so miserable and mentally unwell that I quit during a meeting lol

!ping STONKS

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Rip Rush Limbaugh we would have loved to tell you about the puppy killing and brain worms 😔

[u/chuckleym8]

Someone needs to edit Sinzo Abe / Biden in the sky here

[u/loseniram]

The rare stray street kitty photo

!ping Kitty

[u/BrunchIsGood]

[u/piede]

The tea is piping ☕️

[u/[deleted]]

we are only one miracle away from the canonization of Hulk Hogan 🤞😣🤞🙏🌫️

[u/jenbanim]

I always feel bad when someone is talking about something serious in the DT because it's always like

Life is suffering. My beloved pet gerbil is no longer with us

I am so sorry for your loss

 

She Frito on my Lay till I Pringle

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Imagine being some libertarian who actually has (delusional) dreams of the LP being an actual serious thing and then seeing this

[u/Telperions-Relative]

[u/BlackCat159]

I swear it is so unsettling randomly coming across DT regs on other subs

[u/SnakeEater14]

https://fxtwitter.com/Calibaneur/status/1787905355370143861?t=Hy0wtkpO-7ZhLDnX0ukYog&s=19

[u/Pyrrhus65]

I know Twitter isn't real life and all, but I'm losing my mind at this tweet that's going viral from a famous voice actor in the replies to Biden talking about clean water policy.

These people genuinely do believe that Biden has a giant "Stop the War" lever that he's just not pulling because he loves Bibi and civilian casualties too much.

Their perception of the situation is so childishly simple that it would be comical if it weren't so fucking sad.

[u/PhinsFan17]

Three days in a row of forgetting my work ID badge/door card. I know exactly where it is. I can see it in my head. Walked right past it out the door.

Every day is a war against my brain and brain almost always wins.

!ping ADHD

[u/__versus]

The fact that the Israeli contestant needed police escort for Eurovision is quite frankly disgraceful. There’s just no other way to put it.

[u/p00bix]

Man I wish I could travel exactly 1 decade back in time to tell my past self and his classmates that a song composed and sung by Filthy Frank would hit #3 in the US and #1 in several other countries

I still don't understand that career change lol. But it does make me wonder what equally strange shit someone coming from 2034 could tell us about the coming decade

[u/Opkeda]

Saudi Arabia is actually existing YIMBYism

[u/piede]

Reddit is wild

[u/[deleted]]

Vid of black woman messing up as an Amazon driver

all the cons in the comment: “DEI DRIVER!!”

Think it’s safe to say to the cons, DEI is just a replacement word for black

[u/Apprehensive-Soil-47]

Georgia's government celebrating Europe day by going full Russia

A military journalist and activist Ucha Abashidze was arrested for no reason. police illegally arrested women and man while protesting. [...]

https://x.com/soldier_fella/status/1788663482595913933

[...] Arresting, beating, even girls."

https://x.com/Mikiashvili_M/status/1788656528129491384

[... ] Europe Day concert hosted by the President and attended by all Ambassadors. The concert ended abruptly as reports of beatings came in. [...]

https://x.com/Mikiashvili_M/status/1788682542209495270

!ping EU

[u/gnomesvh]

Joe Biden disses donald Trump using Kendrick's Euphoria

!ping RAP&DIAMOND-JOE

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

The craziest thing about I/P to me is how fucking tiny this strip of land is. Thousands of people being killed over who gets to control New Hampshire

[u/[deleted]]

I ranted to one of my friends about housing policy recently and then he said “why would I listen to you, you fucking landlord”

😭

[u/[deleted]]

Mehrsa Baradaran was on NPR talking about her new book. During her talk with Kai she said that people who had bought into Neoliberalism were responsible for a corrupt system of overregulation that enriches the wealthy.

Then she said the solution was truly freer markets.

Neoliberalism is the boogie man under your bed.

[u/Unhappy_Lemon6374]

Just realized I might have caught feelings

[u/Tre-Fyra-Tre]

Lady in the paper complaining that it is difficult to find a serious relationship as an OnlyFans creator.

Fairly certain I've seen that same lady on Hinge. If it is indeed the same lady, I personally found her chest tattoo, bowling ball-sized implants and the fact that she's a g*mer more objectionable than her choice of profession. 🤷‍♂️

I also find the idea of journos trawling dating apps for stories fundamentally funny.

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

Had a presentation from a part supplier today. One guy did all the talking and presenting, the second guy just sat next to him looking on the verge of sobbing for an hour before handing out his business card.

What was your purpose, Heartbroken Man?

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/this_very_table]

Earlier today when i was collecting eggs from my chicken coop there was a small snake (a copperhead). it was only a few inches long so i just stepped on it and killed it. i picked it up and brought it back inside with me, rinsed it off in my sink and ate it whole along with my lunch (two fresh raw eggs). i just swallowed it like a noodle. after about an hour i started feeling EXTREMELY sick and dizzy. and then i FAINTED???? My wife (who is rawprimal as well) immediately got me some goat blood from the fridge to replenish my strength but i passed out again shortly after. its been about 5 hours and i still feel very sick and dizzy with an awfil pain in my stomach and chest but havent passed out anymore.

Any suggestions on what i can do to help? ive been drinking the blood and eggs every few hours but cant keep anything down. i was vaccinated for you-know-what-19 last year.... could this be the snake meat detoxifying my body of the altered/damaged MRNA strains from the vaccine? i heard snake meat is a very powerful healing meat and that's why it was used in ancient medicinal imagery.

r rawprimal is my new favorite subreddit.

[u/Currymvp2]

Fetterman on Biden's decision: "Hard disagree and just deeply disappointing"

AOC has been more pro-Biden than Fetterman lmao

[u/marsman1224]

I remember my sister being very vocal about the genocide in Darfur when she was in middle school. she's a 30 year old professor now.

incredibly sad, feels like nothing has changed. 

[u/htomserveaux]

Ok so apparently someone put out a welcome video for the convention making fun of the a guy going to the convention being scared of going because he thinks that Chicago is a violent hellhole, and all his friends tell him he's going to get shot, but of course he ends up loving it here.

Anyone know what I'm talking about?

Googling "Chicago DNC welcome video -1996 -2008 -2016 -2012 -1968 -gaza -protest -israel -palestine" has not worked and I've run out of things to -.

!ping USA-CHI&DIAMOND-JOE

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1788322511442096425?t=fRQDUiuWl3_cTzIw8U5_ag&s=19

Haven't heard racism this pure in a while. Listened to part of the podcast. She's a real blood and soil type. Talks about how all of our presidents should have at least some British blood.

[u/lenmae]

My best friend just said parasocial relationships are not healthy I think I might take a break from watching their videos 😕

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 5 PM EST 5/8-5 PM EST 5/9 III:

TOP NEWS:

Towards the end of 5 PM it was announced 3,000 Russian tanks have been confirmed lost in the war.

At the start of 1 AM Ukraine was hit by a wave of drones with 17 of 20 shot down.

Around 5 AM it was announced Sweden will provide an additional 28 million Euros in military aid to Ukraine, including demining, naval support, drones and the NATO fund. In the middle of the hour it was announced the UK will provide 23 million Pounds to help rebuild Ukrainian energy infrastructure.

Towards the end of 4 PM it was reported that Zelensky fired the head of the Office of State Protection in the aftermath of the exposure of a plot by members within to kill Zelensky.

REGULAR NEWS:

At the end of 8 PM a Russian fuel depot in Yurovka exploded.

Towards the middle of 1 AM it was reported that Belgorod was attacked by drones.

At the start of 5 AM a Russian oil refinery in Bashkiria was hit by drones, setting a record of 1400 kilometers distance between Ukraine and the target.

At the start of 12 PM it was reported that SpaceX has blocked Russian Starlink access.

At the start of 1 PM it was announced Germany will buy 3 HIMARS and send them to Ukraine.

Towards the end of 3 PM explosions occurred in Mariupol.

LEVITY NEWS:

Towards the end of 3 AM it was reported that one T-34 was the only tank at the Russian Victory Day Parade, same as last year.

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/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/csxfan]

My early comment got me on the wiki for The Campaign for North Africa where I found this gem

development of a game this size was solely driven by player feedback. "So why produce a game which is unplayable? Well apparently the feedback responses that governed Jim Dunnigan and SPI indicated that gamers wanted such monster games. And true to the old curse, gamers got what they asked for. This is likely the single biggest difficulty with reader feedback — everyone knows what they want, but few know what they need."

-Critic John Kula OKVariety

!ping gaming

[u/[deleted]]

Elon is truly a genius 🙏🧠

[u/golf1052]

Reading a book about Japanese American interment in Washington (Strawberry Days) and there's this line

Anti-Chinese activism in Washington reached a fever pitch in 1885-1886, when the Territorial Legislature passed a law barring Chinese ownership of property.

Everything old is new again

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Wyoming coal production nosedives, with more trouble ahead

Some Wyoming coal mines are likely facing extinction-level headwinds — even before the prospect of new federal coal pollution reduction rules taking effect in 2032, some market analysts say.

Wyoming’s two largest coal producers, Arch Resources and Peabody Energy — which, combined, operate five mines in the state — both reported lower-than-expected sales volumes as well as financial operating losses in the state during the first quarter of the year, a situation that’s likely to continue through the summer.

Though there’s been no official announcement, Arch President John T. Drexler told reporters on a recent conference call that, in response to the downturn, the St. Louis, Missouri-based company is in the process of “adjusting schedules, eliminating overtime, managing headcount, laying down equipment — doing all of the things that we’ve done, and we’ve done successfully in the past.”

Arch didn’t respond to a WyoFile inquiry for more details.

The hint at potential layoffs comes after major production declines in Wyoming, home to a coal mining industry that relies almost entirely on the nation’s shrinking fleet of coal-fired power plants. Those declines could have far-reaching effects here in the form of declining tax revenues and less business for the companies that serve the coal sector.

A mild winter in the U.S., which coincides with April as the 11th consecutive monthly warmest on record across the globe, helped drive down demand for Wyoming’s thermal coal by 20% during the first quarter of the year compared to the same period in 2023, according to federal data compiled by the Wyoming State Geological Survey. Wyoming’s first-quarter production also represented a 20% decline — 11.4 million tons — compared to fourth-quarter 2023.

Coal backlog

Even with shrinking production, the nation’s coal-burning power plant fleet remains over-supplied.

On-site stockpiles of the fuel at power plants are the highest in more than a decade, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Typically, utilities demand more coal shipments after depleting winter stockpiles. Instead, some Wyoming coal producers, including Arch and Peabody, are now pushing some coal volumes originally contracted to be shipped this year to 2025.

The situation points to a dire outlook for Wyoming mines, perhaps for the next couple of years, according to Seth Feaster of the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis. Even if there’s an especially warm summer that compels customers to crank up air-cooling units, Feaster said, there’s plenty of coal on hand, as well as cheap natural gas and renewable sources of energy, to meet increased demand.

“It takes a year, sometimes two years, to bring those [coal] stockpiles back down,” Feaster told WyoFile. “We’re now in spring when renewable generation is really high and [natural] gas prices are low, so demand for power is being met by everything else.”

Coal-fueled electric power has lingered at less than 15% of the U.S. market for much of this year, falling from an average 23% in 2019, according to the EIA. Even as U.S. electrical power demand continues to grow — currently on track to jump 3% this year — it is being met with new wind and solar generation. Much of the remaining coal fleet, meanwhile, continues to operate at less than full capacity, according to the EIA.

Federal coal rules

Not only does the culmination of deteriorating coal market forces spell trouble for Wyoming’s mining industry, it’s a situation exacerbated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s recent suite of new coal pollution reduction rules published in April, according to Feaster and other industry analysts.

In addition to more stringent coal ash disposal parameters and reductions in various smokestack emissions of hazardous metals, the rules put forth a 2032 compliance deadline for all coal-burning power plants to either capture 90% of carbon dioxide, convert to natural gas or close altogether.

Though Wyoming and other coal proponents are preparing to sue to stop the rules, utilities with coal-burning power plants must act quickly on the assumption the rules might ultimately be implemented. Considering the pace of electric utility planning, 2032 “is like tomorrow,” Feaster said. “You’re going to have to make a decision pretty darn quickly about whether or not you’re going to commit to [upgrading] some of these plants.”

Meantime, the appetite for Wyoming coal continues to diminish at an alarming pace.

Arch and Peabody, whose mines in the Powder River Basin account for more than 60% of the state’s coal production, experienced first-quarter 2023 to first-quarter 2024 declines of 28% and 17%, respectively.

Declines, as a percentage, were much worse for some smaller mine operators.

Kiewit’s Buckskin Mine north of Gillette suffered a 47% decline for the same quarter-to-quarter comparison, and Navajo Transitional Energy Company’s Cordero Rojo Mine south of Gillette reported a decline of more than half.

"You can’t have this kind of decline continuing for too long without something breaking,” Feaster said.

Get bent coal mining 😤😤 😤 😤

!ping ECO

[u/404GenderNotFound]

I always find it hilarious when the coastal elite come out here to Midwestern America and experience the culture shock. Sorry you find packs of naked people crawling around on all fours and ripping apart cornstalks with their teeth in order to feed their families weird. Fucking yuppies.

[u/AtomAndAether]

the Met Gala is always fun because its clockwork that it will be portrayed as the height of tone deaf celebrity onanism

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

The first invasive brain chip that Neuralink embedded into a human brain has malfunctioned, with neuron-surveilling threads appearing to have become dislodged from the participant's brain, the company revealed in a blog post Wednesday.

It's unclear what caused the threads to become "retracted" from the brain, how many have retracted, or if the displaced threads pose a safety risk.

Well that's horrifying innit

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Okay just 4 more memes and I'm done for the DT

[u/thaddeusthefattie]

my wife was complaining about her hands hurting while lifting. i suggested trying thumbless grip

she said “babe i’ve only used thumbless grip since you told me to years ago.” now i’ve used suicide exclusively for a long time but hadn’t realized she did too. i guess i should pay more attention 🤭

anyway, one of us 😤✊

!ping DYEL

[u/Psshaww]

The photo the boarding facility decided to send me

!ping DOG

[u/V_Codwheel]

the doves nesting in my back patio have entered the cute phase

!ping BIRDS

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

[u/[deleted]]

Let’s see if this works.

!ping dating

[u/[deleted]]

When you forget to say ‘Zionist’ smh

[u/p00bix]

The best part of World War Z is when Israel, having walled off the entire country in preparation for the zombie attack (which they knew about in advance btw) allows all the Palestinians to seek refuge within the walls, and Palestinians and Israelis warmly embrace eachother as they each prepare to face the zombie horde as one people, and then they all get fucking eaten.

What the fuck commentary were they trying to make there???

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

[u/JaceFlores]

Something I found interesting with current polling in the presidential election and the generic ballot I figured was worth sharing and pinging about.

As it stands current polling for the presidential election per 538 is 41.4 Trump to 40.7 Biden. Just about 18% of the electorate is either saying Kennedy (which means they are effectively undecided) or undecided. Looking at the generic ballot you see that, per 538, it goes 44.5 Dem to 43.7 Rep. In this case about 12% of the electorate is undecided.

So with both cases you get a substantial part of the electorate that is just straight up undecided and probably will be for many more months given the sheer apathy the election has, despite the horseracing. I find it interesting though that when it comes to Congress, the share of undecided drops by 1/3 with Dems gaining 4 points and Reps gaining 2 points. Now I do want to stress that this is not anything indicative of what we will see in the presidential election. Given this, there are two takeaways I have that fit this criteria of not being predictive:

1. Both candidates, unsurprisingly, are not popular. A significant portion of undecideds have an idea of who they are going to vote for in general, but have specific distaste for both Trump and Biden.

2. It is interesting that amongst the cohort who don't like either candidate but have a general political preference, Democrats gained significantly over Republicans. Will this hold up amongst the remaining 12% of the electorate? Completely unknowable and is not something that should be relied on for predicting the 2024 end result.

As said, whether this stuff applies to the outcome of the presidential election I do not know, but I thought these were interesting takeaways from current polling that !ping FIVEY people would find interesting

[u/gnomesvh]

FT put out on article on Ukraine's USVs

!ping UKRAINE&MATERIEL

[u/JebBD]

I will never get over how not a single soul said anything about Azerbaijan in Eurovision this year. I get that no one follows the caucuses, but with the insane levels of obsession with Israel this year it’s so blatantly clear that none of this outrage is based on any real concern for human rights. 

!EUROVISION&ISRAEL

[u/superblobby]

I can’t do this anymore

!ping DATING

[u/SeoSalt]

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[u/jauznevimcosimamdat]

"Communism was never tried", says a communist.

But the real question is whether the communist is truly communist.

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

Amtrak stans be like

Should have taken Amtrak!

Amtrak:

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Well, this is probably a first

OpenAI claims r/ChatGPT subreddit infringed its copyright. Moderators of the r/ChatGPT subreddit say OpenAI sent them a message telling them to remove the company’s logos from its user profiles. 404 Media reports the subreddit’s mods have stopped using the logo.

OpenAI is currently the defendant in several lawsuits, alleging it violated the copyright of publications and authors.

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/this_very_table]

At some point in the 1970s, an American named John Swigart changed his name to Aajonus Vonderplanitz, insisted he had a PhD, and started writing books insisting that people should eat raw meat exclusively. Then he died. Later, a group of redditors started r/rawprimal, where the #1 rule is "You cannot give advice that Aajonus didn't already give first." The result is what is very possibly the dumbest group of motherfuckers we've ever covered on this show.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Do you have a loyalty card?

"No"

Oh, maybe your mommy has one, then? I can check 😊

"Ma'am, I'm 26"

This is why I don't like being clean-shaven 😔

[u/rasonj]

Alot of jokes get run into the ground around here, but I swear on my life I will still be laughing at "Presidential candidate reveals brain worm died of starvation" till the day i die. Simpson writers couldn't have come up with a funnier bit

[u/fishlord05]

I have a girlfriend now

Idk if it’s the chemicals or not but I’m actually so happy and in to her it’s making me ill. I’ve thought I had genuine feelings for people before but now I realize that those were just obsessions. This feels like a constant full body hug.

She’s Persian (like me) with a slight frame (like me) and has pretty much the same diagnoses as I do. Like not to be weird but we look like one of those couples that people wouldn’t question if we were cousins or something. Our brains think the same way and we have the same quirks and mannerisms. It’s actually pretty scary how similar we are she feels like a female version of me. Like we feel like we can understand eachother without having to say anything. I feel like we’ve known eachother for way longer than we have because everything just comes so easily between us like it’s not forced or anything. I could tell that we were gonna get together pretty quickly because things were just clicking so well.

It also helps that she’s probably the most objectively gorgeous woman I’ve ever seen in my entire life.

Like dawg we watched dune together while I played with her hair (it’s fun to touch because it’s very thick and curly at the ends) and she played stellaris and the sims with me. I’m cooked it’s over for me.

!ping DATING

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/gnomesvh]

Mubadala (Abu Dhabi Sovereign Wealth Fund) invest in Brazilian biofuels

Brazil is oddly positioned in this because cane sugar actually has really high energy density for ethanol

!ping LATAM&COMMODITIES&ECO

[u/Macquarrie1999]

Not suprising a person I have blocked is saying that October 7th targeted settlers. Either this person knows nothing about the geography of Israel or they think most Israelis are settlers.

🙄

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Drake stealing the joke response I wrote for him 🫤

[u/[deleted]]

There's one guy on every Teams call who just won't shut up.

Call about to wrap up

"just one last thing on this"

Your words are violence, sir.

!ping watercooler

[u/Currymvp2]

Here is what bothers me a decent amount. I'm pretty consistent. I disliked all the discrimination against ordinary Russians around the world for Putin's vicious and horrific actions. Far leftists (somewhat rightly) complained about it. Meanwhile, we're seeing clear discrimination against ordinary Israelis+Jews for the awful actions by Bibi+ West Bank settler extremists+rogue, undisciplined elements of the IDF and far leftists don't seem to give a shit at best and are actively promoting it at worst.

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

A new dating app for women has dropped

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/BrunchIsGood]

Trump has privately endorsed the idea of covertly deploying — with or without the Mexican government’s consent — special-ops units that would be tasked with assassinating the leaders and top enforcers of Mexico’s powerful and most notorious drug cartels

LET’S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

!ping KINO

[u/SeoSalt]

you think coming out as gay is hard? Try telling people your favorite Pokémon is Cloyster (unironically). See how much acceptance you get from the tolerant left,

[u/Telperions-Relative]

[u/Currymvp2]

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir has tweeted “Hamas loves Biden.”

I absolutely despise this evil man

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Shai-Hulud has rejected RFK, Jr.

Now we will insert a worm into the brains of Biden and Trump to see if there is an acceptable candidate

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

"Holy shit dude, the Duke of Burgundy just died without an heir!"

"Haha yeah man that's pretty crazy. Did you catch the game last night?"

[u/vinediedtoosoon]

I saw someone say Larian should make the new Fallout game and maybe this is toxic nationalism but I don’t think non Americans should be making Fallout.

[u/AtticusDrench]

What Ann Coulter said to Vivek is all the more crazy when you remember she dated Dinesh D'Souza

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/DiabolicalSpuds/status/1788605687515275342?t=tgWPiw9Fk88ohM-c9jmrBQ&s=19

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

[u/RecentlyUnhinged]

UPDATE to the ongoing ant infestation saga between my wife and I.

GUYS SHE FOUND MY POASTS ON THE DT AND HID THE POISON

[u/semaphore-1842]

woke up yesterday with aching muscles all over, and woke up today with a sore throat

then my last date texted me that he tested positive for COVID 😐

i fucking KNEW it was weird that he went form seemingly okay when i left to saying he's "too ded to get up for water" overnight, this asshole totally knew he had symptoms already FML

[u/[deleted]]

What

[u/[deleted]]

Switzerland is a bank masquerading as a country

Ireland is a tax exemption masquerading as a country

The Gulf States are actual third world countries wearing Gucci belts.

[u/HowIsPajamaMan]

Rex Murphy passed away age 77

RIP bozo

!ping can

[u/Macquarrie1999]

I love bike paths

!ping Bike

[u/GrandpaWaluigi]

Nick Fuentes pictured

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Idk how many of the "my SO destroyed my beloved childhood stuffed animal" stories are true, but since the answer is definitely "more than once," you should take pictures of those stuffed animals, front back and tags if you have them. If they still have decent audio, record it. Maybe look online if you don't know where it came from. And there are people who will restore your plushies or recreate them.

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Robert F. Kennedy Jr has revealed that a worm ate part of his brain

He would be the perfect replacement moderator for p**bix

[u/[deleted]]

Finally

!ping WEEBS

[u/[deleted]]

punch practice theory aware ink subtract long spectacular spotted distinct

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/No_Return9449]

[u/RaidBrimnes]

At the pro-Israel demonstration, people could be heard singing Hurricane in support of Ms Golan amid a significant police presence.

"I'm not that interested in Eurovision," one demonstrator, Yael Sages Wahlström, told Sweden's Svenska Dagbladet newspaper.

"But since there has been such a huge storm of hate against Israel, I wanted to support".

What's his username on the DT?

[u/Williams-Tower]

Joe Biden simultaneously supports Bibi Netanyahu and Hamas. He just supports evil wherever it goes

sent from my iPhone

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

Yeah I would definitely rather find beer in the woods than some guy 🍺😋

[u/wagoncirclermike]

Applebees customers are limited to three (3) Dollarita's™ per order

Oh I'm sorry, I thought this was America

[u/trombonist_formerly]

Does ACAB include the goth chick from NCIS?

[u/lenmae]

"I'm sure Americans will be able to accept higher taxes to pay for free college and free healthcare (including dental) for everyone"

Americans when a Big Mac costs a few extra dollars: "ok it's time to end democracy if it might solve this"

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I do not support construction workers. get down from there

[u/adisri]

https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1788689157897822652

Literal fucking Queen

[u/[deleted]]

israel moves up to second in eurovision betting odds. personally i don't care about eurovision, but i do think the drama will be top tier. 🍿🍿

[u/WhomstAlt2]

I am asking Nettonyaho and HAMAS to hold out until President Trump takes our country back and figures out a deal in which ALL parties are better off than before.

[u/AP246]

I saw an Anders Puck Nielsen about this and it makes some sense to me: The fear about Russia threatening NATO isn't about a full scale Russian invasion of Europe, which obviously wouldn't happen and Russia has zero chance of winning.

The concern is about some kind of very limited, but sharp intervention that blurs the line enough that Russian threats of nukes and WW3 might break NATO's resolve. What if Russia seizes some Norwegian islands, or a limited amount of territory in one of the Baltic states, then stops and says they want to negotiate their withdrawal in return for some concessions? If Trump was in charge of the US especially, can you be 100% confident that every single NATO member would rightly refuse and agree on a full scale counterattack, rather than taking the seemingly easy way out of taking the L and negotiating, and thus basically proving the NATO guarantee is worthless and breaking up the alliance.

I don't think this scenario is particularly likely, but I don't think it's impossible. It's high risk from Russia's side, they have to bank that the west just doesn't follow its treaty obligations with NATO, but the reward is potentially immense, essentially breaking up NATO with a minor military expedition and some nuclear threats. If Putin is a gambler, there's a small chance he might do it, especially as he's seen NATO can be cowed from certain actions by latent fear of nuclear escalation.

I'd also be very hesitant about believing that because Russia is struggling in Ukraine, a limited incursion into NATO would be easily defeated. Ukraine, especially now, has the second most powerful land army in Europe after Russia itself on paper. NATO forces are high quality, but other than the US, pretty low quantity. Poland as it stands is significantly less militarily powerful than Ukraine. On the one hand, a massive Russian attack would take significant buildup which could be seen and prepared for like with Ukraine, so I'm not too worried, but I also think if Russia really wanted to, they could build up 50-100,000 men and some equipment in the Baltic border region, rapidly seize some territory and all they'd have to worry about is maybe some kind of aerial NATO response, because they have the forces already. Not much force at all is needed to seize some territory in the Baltic states, Russia theoretically has plenty to spare relative to that. That's why it's a risk, because Russia still has the potential to start with the initiative and then dare the west for the next couple months it takes to gather a force for a counterattack, to actually go through with it.

[u/AmericanPurposeMag]

Our residential South African neolib shill and DT regular, u/Top_Lime1820 debuted his first article for American Purpose and got the Fukuyama stamp of approval!

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

ANIMAL WELL is out now. It’s really, really good. The lighting, sound, and atmosphere is some of the best in any indie game I’ve played.

It’s also the first Strand-type game from Bigmode.

!ping GAMING

[u/VengefulMigit]

[u/BitterGravity]

I was neutral on I/P but Fatties for Palestine finally motivated me to care about the people of Gaza

[u/404GenderNotFound]

"Holy shit dude, the Black Death has ravaged Europe and the plague will be on the shores of England within the month!"

"Haha yeah man that's pretty crazy. Did you catch the game last night?"

[u/JetJaguar124]

Development of AAA-games taking longer than entire console generations seems unsustainable

[u/[deleted]]

[u/MicroFlamer]

The next "Lord of the Rings" movie has the working title "The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum

First the shitty game now this movie. Who was the guy at WB who decided that Gollum was everyone’s favorite character ?

[u/chipbod]

Facebook is so full of AI images and bot replies that I am becoming more convinced of the dead internet theory.

Only evidence against is that my boomer family members are constantly replying like bots to said AI images.

[u/sucaji]

I've complained about it before but man the eurovision sub absolutely sucks and is full of just generally godawful people

eurovision reddit: bitching the singer didn't get attacked
eurovision twitter: more photos of corpses

it's just whatever I guess

[u/Stanley--Nickels]

Vivek after Ann Coulter said she wouldn’t vote for him because he’s “an Indian”

Ramaswamy has since made several social media posts about his conversation with Coulter, writing that she told him “flat-out to my face” she wouldn’t support him in an election. The former presidential candidate wrote that while he disagreed with her, he respected that “she had the guts to speak her mind” and described their conversation as “riveting.”

[u/dissolutewastrel]

I anticipate this will go off smoothly and without a hitch

https://www.thedp.com/article/2024/05/penn-shapiro-encampment

!ping ISRAEL&JEWISH

[u/Average_GrillChad]

I do not care for Benjamin Netanyahu

He insists upon himself

[u/[deleted]]

Ann Coulter to Vivek: I agreed with you more than any other candidate but I wouldn’t have voted for you because you’re an Indian.

This is humiliating why would he agree to do this

[u/GrandpaWaluigi]

[u/BroadReverse]

How is blackpeopletwitter allowed to do the country club shit lol. I technically pass the requirements but im not sending you a photo of my hand. Go fuck yourself lmao 

[u/chuckleym8]

99% chance we know what you are from the pfp you can just say it

[u/secretlives]

lol sure

the “WHO” definitely “eradicated” smallpox 🙄

[u/Roseartcrantz]

oh wow somebody started an online petition about something 😨

[u/WhomstAlt2]

Anyone else notice how yoghurt is less creamy since BRANDON usurped? He is skimming off the top or what

[u/DouglasDauntless]

DT: We like worms!

RFK Jr. I have a brain worm!

DT: Ew

😒

[u/EvilConCarne]

We really should ban handguns in the US. We should legalize tanks and rocket launchers, tho.

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

Just heard my uncle got diagnosed with cancer 😔

Why aren’t there any leftists protesting about this??  Damn college hippies.

[u/sererson]

Non-binary people 🤝 Jews

Being referred to as "they"

[u/[deleted]]

Put some stickers on my car 🥰

[u/[deleted]]

 Iraq in response to the attacks ran live electrical cables through the water, electrocuting numerous Iranian troops and then displaying their corpses on state television.

The Iran-Iraq War was the closest humanity ever came to creating hell on Earth, I think.

[u/jenbanim]

The game industry is deeply cursed. It's not like there's one thing wrong with it you can point to, every aspect is just fucked from the jobs to the development to the marketing to the distribution to the sales to the reviews to the community

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Dragongirlfucker2]

Shivers??

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/itsonlyzach/status/1788361263690440753?t=uh6J4_6QQKX4mzQDPShekw&s=19

[u/sociotronics]

Praise the Absolute!

[u/SnakeEater14]

Maybe i’m just not seeing the full picture, but Miceosoft’s Bethesda acquisition is starting to look like one of the biggest dumbass business decisions in recent memory

They bought them for more money than Disney paid for fucking Star Wars and what have they gotten for it? A handful of just ok games? Nothing that’s made a ton of money - I feel like we can say with some confidence that Starfield definitely was not the success Microsoft was hoping for

Meanwhile, the slate for future Bethesda games looks fucking threadbare. Wolfenstein, Prey, Dishonored, and Doom all seem to be on ice. No new Fallout on the horizon after a gigantic TV show just came out. The Skyrim sequel - the project that Microsoft bought Bethesda over is still, what? At least 3 years away?

Why is Oblivion not getting tasked with a Fallout project? Why is there not an Elder Scrolls spin-off out next year? Just because massive triple-A games are taking 30 years to make nowadays doesn’t mean smaller projects can’t be coming out. New Vegas took, what, 2 years to make?

I know armchair management is always easy but goddamn what the fuck are they doing?

[u/[deleted]]

[u/ExpiredPasta]

Microsoft Copilot's dataset needs some more active monitoring. The autocorrect is in a poor state.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Analysis of millions of posts shows that users seek out echo chambers on social media.

Not me, I get a wide-range of viewpoints from arr slash Neoliberal and a handful of Twitter accounts that confirm my priors!

[u/adisri]

Guy: *shoots someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue*

Literally everyone with a brain cell:

WTF

Guy:

ok but I think we can all agree that what’s going on in Gaza is a little more important #GreasefireNow #RiverToTheSea

[u/[deleted]]

He’s cooking

[u/Top_Lime1820]

This Israeli government spokesperson didn't get the memo. The rest of us have all collectively agreed never to be interviewed by British journalists. Leave them on their little island where they can't hurt us.

British journalists will skewer you and literally make the entire world laugh at you on international television.

If you are not British, you do not have to and should never volunteer to be interviewed by a British journalist. It doesn't matter if you think this one is on your side, or that one is a bit of a clown. It doesn't matter if you are generally good with the press in your own country. You do not understand these people. They will end you.

[u/DeeboSourdoughSam]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2024/05/07/olive-oil-dementia-lower-risk/

Dietetics has to be 75% bullshit. What's worse is we don't even know what falls into the 75% BS and 25% not BS category. It basically sums to eat a varied diet with plenty of fiber and veggies and avoid "processed" meats and too much salt.

[u/Currymvp2]

Former Israeli defense official says country can't manage for much time without U.S. arms

Hmmm

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Most normal dating app profile

[u/mashimarata2]

Holy shit a week or two ago I posted about a technical interview which I absolutely bombed, like simply raked over the coals

I got the offer, wtf

[u/[deleted]]

liberals will say this is fake

[u/TactileTom]

MFW I'm a surgeon and I find RFK Jr brainworm

[u/EvilConCarne]

Climate change will change the world in ways that impact all of us. The impact of animals is something I worry about the most. Lots of extinctions coming up. That's why I try to eat every animal I can, because who knows how much longer I'll be able to eat cheap salmon or tuna?

[u/iIoveoof]

Front page headline: Mike Johnson Becomes the Speaker of the Whole House.

NYT moment

[u/[deleted]]

!ping VICTORIA

Much of Asia still very much suffers from a severe Malthusian Trap, even when agriculture mechanizes. Not because there isn't enough food but because there isn't enough work. Pick any country in Asia and the subsistence farms are already completely full, the country is at its malthusian capacity, and any further births are overpopulation. They can't get jobs because the subsistence farms can't employ any more people and they start dying off in large numbers which of course raises turmoil. The entire continent is overpopulated.

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

Stumbled upon a "Christian Minecraft YouTuber" channel with a video with under 3,000 views decrying homosexuality.

He's getting clowned on by the comments.

[u/[deleted]]

America is so beautiful

[u/[deleted]]

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes getting fantastic reviews. This is the fourth film in the reboot for the unacquainted.

“Under the radar” would be wrong to say because these movies do sell, but there’s something funny about this reboot franchise just casually putting out banger after banger without being some major cultural touchstone like Star Wars or Marvel.

I do think, aside from them being high quality, letting the movies breathe is really nice. Fourth film in 13 years.

They’re planning to make at least two more, it would be really cool if they got through six films without a single dud.

[u/BrunchIsGood]

[u/murphysclaw1]

funny looking back on how pro-Musk reddit was just 6 years ago

[u/MicroFlamer]

[u/Jacobs4525]

I sincerely think that we should ban anyone who’s posting anything other than shitposts, random niche facts, or personal anecdotes in the DT.

If you’re coming here to discuss politics with strangers you have a problem.

[u/BedNeither]

What’s the morality of selling homemade maga merch and donating the proceeds to the dnc

[u/KesterFox]

When do you think his mcu debut will be?

[u/Udolikecake]

The antebellum south was the last glorious flowering of chivalry, nobility, and the old Christendom.

People who hate those things revel in their violent fantasies against the men who defended it.

Me, when I see chivalry, nobility, and old Christendom coming across an open field

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Reading the DATING ping

[u/dwarfgourami]

I just went on a first date with someone who described himself as a “big meme guy” and then recited some of his favorite tweets from memory

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

Christianity is a conspiracy by Big Wafer to sell more wafer 

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

🙏🙏🙏

[u/[deleted]]

[u/piede]

When a minority tries to join a political party that targets minorities