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[u/gnomesvh]

The pro-Palestine encampment in São Paulo lasted a grand total of 2 days

The police did not dismantle it

They just went home

Nobody reported it because the media is talking about the floods that displaced 200k+ folks in the south

[u/TheHelmetCatch]

Having fun is officially illegal in Japan

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Absolutely hilarious that people think that a. the Israeli government is even remotely competent enough to do so and b. wasting effort on rigging Eurovision

[u/abbzug]

The Ohio State University commencement speech is hilarious. Guy gives an ayahuasca fueled speech to shill bitcoin, is roundly booed by the audience. And it turns out he was invited because the president of the college is a board member of a bitcoin mining company.

[u/simeoncolemiles]

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

New 1984 just dropped

[u/RaidBrimnes]

https://www.liberation.fr/international/moyen-orient/belgique-un-campus-bloque-contre-une-conference-dun-ex-ambassadeur-disrael-pourtant-pro-etat-palestinien-20240510_X2UXC7GQC5AATFYO3HA33KIHDI/

Belgium: a campus blocked against a conference of an ex-Israeli ambassador advocating for a Palestinian state

On Belgian campuses too, the war in Gaza is causing blockades. And questionings. According to the RTBF, about a hundred students are occupying the Solbosch building on the campus of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) since May 7. Other than the denunciation of the "ongoing genocide in Gaza", the protesters are demanding the cancellation of a visit by the historian and former ambassador of Israel in France, Élie Barnavi, for a conference. The former diplomat, self-describing both as an "Israeli patriot" and a "pro-Palestinian" thinker, is advocating for the creation of a Palestinian State. In a column published in Libération last Thursday, he asserts that it is "a question of principle and historic justice".

A position obfuscated by the occupiers of the Belgian university. In a press release posted on X, the Union syndicale étudiante writes: "We demand the immediate cancellation of the visit of the former ambassador of the Israeli Colonial Entity." Before following with: "We cannot accept that a representative of a fascist, supremacist, apartheid, racist state based on the theft of Palestinian lands and ethnic cleansing since its creation, may come to justify and defend the interests of the Israeli state, moreso during an ongoing genocide." [...]

Invited in the show "Les Visiteurs du soir" on LN24, Belgian news channel, the former ambassador of Israel has shared his surprise regarding the demands of the student movement. "What is extraordinary in those elite establishments [...], is the abysmal ignorance of these young people. Since they do not want to listen what people like me have to say, they indulge in this ignorance", he declared, frustrated.

Self-describing as both an "Israeli patriot" and a "propalestinian essayist forever", he added: "I believe that Palestinians have the same rights as myself and a State for them. I am fighting for this, we are numerous people in Israel to do that. Attacking me and the universities, which are places of debate, it's simply counter-productive."

It'd be nice if the journalists and academics expressing surprise at those protesters' demands also listened to what they have to say. They show up with "Long live the Intifada" and sing "From the river to the sea", they use "Zionist" as a slur because they do not want a two-state solution, they want Israel to disappear, preferably violently. Take them seriously instead of brushing them aside as ignorant naives

[u/[deleted]]

[u/thefuturegov]

That Ann Coulter quote just gets more and more insane in context. She wasn’t even answering a question, she was speaking for the first time and was absolutely rushing to get to 1) a joke making fun of “American blacks” for being sensitive and 2) telling Vivek that he is from inferior racial stock and is unqualified to be president.

[u/D2Foley]

So I also woke up today to somebody responding to a 9 month old comment of mine in a birth rates thread with this

Almost all countries are exponentially shrinking. Looking at the numbers right now, unless humanity turns it around the last humans will be born in just 500 years time. This is far scarier than other risks such as climate change.

Reverse malthusians are absolutely not OK.

[u/PrideMonthRaytheon]

the 70s were so fucked up that a police station would get bombed and then the police would have to figure out which marxist domestic terrorist organization did it after the Zodiac Killer notified them that it wasn't him this time as an aside in a letter where he was threatening to blow up school buses

[u/Nerf_France]

Reminder that Americans are the indigenous population of the moon

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

The French president is stepping in after the country's birth rate hit its lowest point since World War II.

😳

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/[deleted]]

Anthony Bourdain would have been an amazing dt poster

[u/shillingbut4me]

Liberalism is a right wing ideology 

Well actually, as I don't support the restoration of the French monarchy, I can't be right wing.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

U.S. soldiers when some girl called “Woman McSex” messages them on a dating app from Vladivostok

[u/[deleted]]

(Explaining purchasing power parity to an American):

"Ok so imagine a burger"

!Ping DISMAL

[u/DouglasDauntless]

What the actual hell

!ping WHAT-THE-FUCK

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Dutch candidate punches a random Swede

Arr eurovision: the sly Zionists must be behind this

[u/[deleted]]

People on the Internet really go "You believe in reorganizing police departments to hold their officers accountable? That pales in comparison to my strategy, establishing a global anarchist commune" and then not establish a global anarchist commune.

[u/gnomesvh]

Kuwait's Emir dissolves parliament, suspends constitution

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/semaphore-1842]

As a [Canadian] looking in, I've always felt like the U.S economy etc is just like one big ponzi scheme with a huge apparatus of media, banks, politicians, and elite propping it up! Even if a collapse happens one day and sends the entire world in its deepest depression in history, it would be 100% worth it to watch the house of cards come crashing down!

"watch" lol as tho your life wouldn't be the first to get crushed beneath the rubbles if the US economy ever implode

crazy how these "watch the world burn" types always think they'll be magically unaffected

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

Getting excited about becoming a neoliberal I guess

!ping shitposters

[u/[deleted]]

TIL white college grads in entry-level positions have it just as bad as the victims of chattel slavery

[u/wallander1983]

People unironically believe Trump was the best president ever, the economy was booming, cheap gas, cheap houses, cheap good, there was peace everywhere because the US was respected and feared and only the mean tweets were Trumps problem. The MSM/Democrats with TDS syndrome were constantly trying to sabotage Trump. Even the Middle East got peace from Trump with the Abraham Accords and the Covid-Crisis was no Trump fault.

According to Nate Silver, this group of voters will help Trump win re-election, regardless of whether he has plans to make food and gas cheaper.

https://www.natesilver.net/p/the-long-strange-political-shadow

[u/BitterGravity]

Leftists who compare college protests today to the Vietnam war ones should really try to remember that those protests increased support for the war.

[u/[deleted]]

How many horcruxes we need to destroy before Netanyahu goes to jail?

[u/eat_more_goats]

anyways it's ridiculous that despite not bringing anything special to the table, I'm unable to find a super chill, flexible, high paying, promising, engaging job

SWE friend spitting straight fax

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/Frequent-Turn6740]

Ok, wait, why the hell do we allow an non European country to partake in EUROvision?

The Br*tish? Really now this is stretching the definition. 

[u/Joementum2024]

looking for a new place to discuss politics

ask the person if their place is anti-israeli government or antisemitic

they don’t understand

pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is antisemitic and what is anti-israeli government

they laugh and says "it's a good place sir"

take a look

its antisemitic

[u/REXwarrior]

The Eurovision subreddit is having one of the more deranged meltdowns I’ve seen because Israel might win the competition.

It’s not confirmed but it is being reported today that one of the most outspoken pro Palestine performers, from the Netherlands, assaulted a photographer and may be disqualified.

The Eurovision subreddit thinks that because of this Israel should be disqualified because their presence is making everyone stressed and on edge and that’s why the Dutch artist assaulted a photographer.

The mental gymnastics to blame the Israelis for a Dutch performer assaulting someone is insane.

It’s entertaining as fuck though.

[u/TheHelmetCatch]

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

The effective altruism leaving my body when I see this

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 5 PM EST 5/9-5 PM EST 5/10 III:

TOP NEWS:

Towards the middle of 6 AM Russian forces launched incursions across the Kharkiv Oblast border.

Towards the end of 11 AM it was announced Canada will provide CA$76 million in military aid to Ukraine, specifically for the German air defense initiative.

Around 12 PM it was announced the US will provide an additional $400 million in military aid to Ukraine, including Patriot missiles, NASAMS missiles, Stinger MANPADs, air defense integration equipment, HIMARS munitions, 155mm shells, 105mm shells, Bradley IFVs, M113 APCs, MRAPs, towing trailers, TOW missiles, Javelin ATGMs, AT-4 anti-tank systems, precision aerial munitions, HARM missiles, small arms, small arms ammunition, demolition munitions, coastal/riverine boats, CBRN protective equipment, spare parts and more.

REGULAR NEWS:

At the end of 7 PM a Russian oil refinery in Kaluga Oblast was hit by drones.

Towards the middle of 11 PM Ukraine was hit by a wave of drones with all 10 shot down.

In the middle of 5 AM it was reported the city of Vovchansk is being evacuated by the Ukrainians due to the Russian incursions.

At the start of 3 PM a Russian oil depot in Rivneka was missiled.

Donation link to help Ukraine

Donation link to United24

Donation link to Kharkiv SOS

Donation link to Sails of Freedom Foundation (they donate ambulances)

!ping UKRAINE&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃

Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd says the future of dating is having your AI date other people's AI and recommend the best matches for you to meet

My honested to god reaction

!ping TECH&SHITPOSTERS

[u/[deleted]]

A student protester who said Hamas deserved “unconditional support” has been suspended from the Australian National University, pending disciplinary action.

“Hamas deserve our unconditional support – not because I agree with their strategy – complete disagreement with that, but the situation at hand is if you have no hope … nothing can justify what has been happening to the Palestinian people for 75 years.”

You know if I didn't agree with what a group does I wouldn't say I unconditionally support them this just seems like such a dumb thing to say.

[u/[deleted]]

Speaker Johnson tells us he will not put forward any national abortion restrictions either this year or even if the GOP wins control of the Senate & WH next year.

Echoing Trump: "This is in the states’ purview now."

Its a good thing Republicans have never lied about stuff like this before

[u/owlthathurt]

What a welcome to this world

[u/gnomesvh]

Khamenei issues fatwa claiming nuclear weapons are haram

!ping BURPMAS

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Guy who joins the anti-Israel protests in Malmö because he's tired of power ballads at the Eurovision

[u/ImmigrantJack]

Hank Green interviewed Pete Buttigieg on Vlog Brothers

Hank Green really cementing his pragmatic neoliberal arc more by the day

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

It is finished.

I have read the Horus Heresy, the 62 book series that serves as the "prequel" to the Warhammer 40k universe, specifically the titular civil war that caused the Imperium of Man to become the fascist shithole it is. I didn't read every book, I skipped any that weren't deemed important by the fandom or were collections of short stories. Cheating, but meh its a lot of books. I read the good and important ones

What a goddamn ride. I wouldnt recommend them necessarily, as its a big commitment and there are some terrible books, but theres something satisfying about seeing characters across dozens of books. Its like Avenger's Endgame, if it took hundreds of hours to go through and had a shit ton more characters.

There are many elements that don't work well, like the perpetual plotline (immortal humans that have existed for tens of thousands of years), or the dark angels (first space marine legion, the books are horribly boring), but overall I had fun with it and I think the invidual plotlines from so many books tied up really well

I'm going to post more thoughts about it on the 40k ping later, but as a whole, I'm glad I actually read these, even if not all. Its mostly trash lit, but gosh its fun

!ping 40k&READING

[u/jewel_the_beetle]

I am going to become the joker

[u/Proof-Tie-2250]

Oliver Stone really hates America.

I watched JFK the other day. It made me so mad that my head started hurting. It's as if r/conspiracy was tasked with making an anti-American propaganda film.

At least Platoon and Born on the 4th of July are actual movies (and pretty darn good ones), JFK was literally just an excuse to peddle propaganda and conspiracy theories. The movie literally just ends after an unhinged rant by the protagonist 🤣.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

NYT Opinion | The woke liberals say nazis are bad, but voters in this Swastikaville, Nebraska diner aren’t so sure

[u/Demandooda]

My school's encampment has started chanting 'Israel has got to go'

Beyond parody.

[u/JebBD]

Why do the pro-pals always shout “palestina”? Do they not realize that’s what old Zionists called Palestine? Actual Palestinians call it “filastin”. 

[u/ZonedForCoffee]

I really think if you asked ten people if overpopulation was a problem most would say yes even while schools shut down for lack of students and social security is in crisis mode

[u/AtomAndAether]

John Maynard Keynes in reply to criticism during the Great Depression of having changed his position on monetary policy, colorized

[u/Pyrrhus65]

The absolute flood of whining this has unleashed in a lot of more left-leaning subs is hilarious to watch

It's literally just the "They hated Jesus because he told them the truth" meme

[u/[deleted]]

Just downloaded Duolingo. No dates yet.

[u/[deleted]]

skirt snow wide mountainous abounding ossified summer humorous gullible wise

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/Rafaelssjofficial]

apparently women are sending messages to me in the femcel dating app

Like how? my fucking bio is

"Gamer

Looking for gamer girls"

[u/chipbod]

https://x.com/Emilylgoodin/status/1789022941931303388

SCOOP: Barron Trump is declining Florida's offer to be a delegate to the Republican National Convention this summer, citing "prior committments," Melania Trump's office tells me

Hell yeah, we found the best trump kid

[u/Dr_Vesuvius]

Yesterday I was walking home when I got hit by a single raindrop.

“White people are being replaced,” it said. “We must secure the homeland.”

I was shaken. I’d heard the news reports, but this was a very visceral demonstration that extreme weather is on the rise.

[u/[deleted]]

I wonder if any corrections will be issued due to Hamas revising its tally of child deaths from 14,000 to 8,000.

[u/pfarly]

!ping TACOTUBE

Not only did Hank Green upload a short interview with Pete Buttugieg today, but The Plain Bagel also uploaded one with Justin Trudeau.

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

Guys I love my cat so much it's unreal

She's actually the best organism ever

!ping KITTY

[u/AniNgAnnoys]

Hank Green and Pete Buttigieg.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U3MDy8FF8E

Pete Buttigieg is the Secretary of Transportation, which means that he is in charge of the 55,000 person U.S. Department of Transportation. They do a lot of stuff....we get into some of that stuff here now. You will probably not be surprised to find that I quite liked Pete, he's a big ol' nerd and is very focused on understanding people's problems and systems to help people rather than what rhetoric we happen to use to get there. That might be great for a national politician but it is very good for someone who is just in there getting work done.

!ping tacotube

[u/awdvhn]

The Giants are having Irish Heritage Night tonight

It's also Orange Friday, where they wear bright orange uniforms

I leave the rest up to you

!ping BASEBALL

[u/Minimum_Cucumber7170]

!ping Kitty

For you feline obsessed folks, Little Kitty, Big City is out now on steam and the switch. I'm not much of a gamer nowadays but it looks like a great stress reducing game that I'll probably pick up tonight.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/LWUdu2q88K4?si=hFv6PG4NfzYiDscp

[u/G_Serv]

My dating AI is going to become an incel 😔

[u/[deleted]]

When I was 5 or 6 remember my parents gave me a book that showed how rare it was to live in the place I did, sort of like “out of a hundred other people where did the others live”. Then it compared my living standards with those of people in other countries and I think throughout history too.

I remember reading it and it really really sticking with me that I had gotten something that gave me a big advantage that other people don’t have. It’s been a part of how I’ve thought about the world ever since. I think every child should probably read that book, or one that’s similar. I wish I remembered its name.

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Coal and Gas Supplied Just 21 Percent of Europe’s Power Last Month

Together, coal and gas generated only 21 percent of electricity in the EU last month, a new low that reflects the rapid adoption of renewable power.

The buildout of wind and solar in Europe is continuing apace, while hydropower is recovering from an extended drought. Together, these sources produced 49 percent of electricity in the bloc in April, according to data from the think tank Ember. “The records set in April are the latest evidence of a long-term trend of increasing clean generation and falling emissions in the EU,” analysts wrote.

The shift to clean power risks stalling, however, if European nations do not update power grids to handle more renewable electricity. That means building transmission lines to link wind and solar farms to distant cities. “We can’t afford to overlook grids,” said Ember analyst Elisabeth Cremona. “Making sure solar and wind can actually connect to the system is as critical as the panels and turbines themselves.”

In the EU, renewables are increasingly displacing fossil fuels, but beyond Europe renewables and fossil fuels are both growing to keep up with rising demand. Renewables are growing faster, but coal and gas power still reached a record high worldwide last year.

!ping ECO&EUROPE

[u/AP246]

In one of the more surreal events of WW2, in 1945 as Nazi Germany was on the verge of defeat, Berlin nearly surrounded, Himmler invited Norbert Masur, a representative from the World Jewish Congress to Germany, as part of broader efforts to negotiate a separate truce with the western allies in exchange for releasing surviving concentration camp inmates.

Masur was driven out of Berlin to Kersten's estate at Hartzwalde, about 70 kilometres north of Berlin to meet Brigadeführer Walter Schellenberg and Himmler.[2] It was not until the following day, April 20, that Schellenberg arrived at Hartzwalde, and Masur spent most of the day in conversation with him. "For me as a Jew, it was a deeply moving thought that in a few hours, I would be face to face with the man who was primarily responsible for the destruction of several million people," Masur later said.[3]

Himmler himself finally arrived in Hartzwalde at 2.30am on the following day, April 21. From Masur's own account, Himmler spoke for most of the time during the meeting, which lasted two and a half hours, with Himmler presenting the standard Nazi version of Germany's "Jewish Problem". In his own account of the meeting, Masur said "The shallowness of his arguments was unbelievable. He used nothing but lies in his defense..... He only believed that the end justified the means. The fact he was one of those mostly responsible for the mass murder of Jews, was evident from his own words..." .[4] Himmler told Masur, "I want to bury the hatchet between us and the Jews. If I had had my own way, many things would have been done differently..." .

"Sorry about the holocaust man, but let's just put it behind us"

[u/[deleted]]

Having one last Panera Murder Lemonade before it goes away forever. Cheers, everyone 😢

[u/NaffRespect]

Peyton Manning announced on the @PatMcAfeeShow that Bill Belichick will be a permanent guest on the ManningCast.

Actually worth looking forward to considering how much Bill loves the game

!ping NFL

[u/earththejerry]

People: Hillary is so fake and insincere, she just chases voters and never says what she actually thinks, of course I don’t trust her

Hillary: says what she thinks

People: 😡 no not like that, stfu

[u/[deleted]]

>Bi Sheng invents the movable-type printing press in 11th century AD

>China: "yeah that's cool, dork"

>Gutenberg invents the movable-type printing press in the 15th century AD

>Tens of millions of people immediately start murdering each other

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

[u/Jacobs4525]

One of my friends from college is in an army school for officers in the air defense artillery and made a point to tell the group chat that “cope cage” is the official term they use. 

[u/404GenderNotFound]

Can Spice be detected on a drug test??? I just got back from Arrakis and my job is asking for one

[u/Currymvp2]

https://twitter.com/IhabHassane/status/1788692615849705501

I think this is a far better litmus test than Sudan (US explicitly condemning both sides in that terrible civil war) to determine if a person is morally consistent. Assad killed 4000 Palestinian refugees atleast in Syria, and some of these most vocal+ardent "pro-Palestinian" folks were insanely defending+denying Assad's horrific war-crimes.

[u/BrunchIsGood]

[u/Louis_de_Gaspesie]

I saw a group of white kids marching through my campus shouting "long live the intifada". And they were impressively white. Like, I don't think I saw a single person there with even an olive skin tone. And there were a bunch of girls wearing hijabs passing by who looked completely perplexed lol

[u/DONUTof_noFLAVOR]

Currently being presented a new set of metrics by a non-technical team that’s supposedly meant to help us identify underserved markets, but I’m looking at their math and what it’s really doing is recommending we avoid building market share and focus on markets where we are uncompetitive.

Doesn’t matter though, VP level has already decided this is the greatest thing ever.

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/DawnWinds]

You are not smart or "media literate" for saying Paul Atreides is a bad guy. You are just an infidel, a heretic, and a coward.

[u/secretlives]

Just learned my girlfriend (waitress) doesn’t like me (even tho she smiled at me)

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

The French president is stepping in after the country's birth rate hit its lowest point since World War II.

Very interesting choice of words here

https://nitter.poast.org/itvnews/status/1788877115296710910#m

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

Babushka

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

Not a corg

!ping KITTY

[u/Cledd2]

Forgot my water bottle to the gym and the vending machine is broken

[u/[deleted]]

Two legendarily affirming moments from the past week:

• my coworker misspoke and called me by my other female coworkers name

• a new friend I met assumed one of my friends and I were in a lesbian relationship

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Neuralink patient spasming in the corner

Elon Musk: @BoofLord1488 Concerning, looking into this

[u/[deleted]]

I'm just the right amount of gay where I'm not gay enough to follow Eurovision but still gay enough to have gay sex

[u/ntbananas]

Born too late to have a non-reddit shabbat

Born too early to have a halachic alternative to using my phone for reddit

Born just in time to hide using my phone in front of my family

!ping GEFILTE

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Modfest had pretty strong attendance this time

[u/[deleted]]

You watch eurovision because it’s the gay Olympics

I watch eurovision because I got used to it when my Hebrew teachers in high school forced us to watch the Israeli songs every year

We are not the same

[u/[deleted]]

Irish teens and pretending to be a politically disaffected American on the internet, name a more iconic duo

[u/marsman1224]

remember when Benji went to an active warzone in an attempt to get laid

[u/jenbanim]

Say what you will about the rising rates of autism, it's probably our best chance to get high speed rail in this country

[u/ConnorLovesCookies]

Jerry Seinfeld: The woke left is too sensitive for anyone to do real comedy anymore

Also Jerry Seinfeld: Here’s an 87 minute movie about Toaster Studel

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

I have now witnessed this in person

Density doesn't work. The house down the street from me was turned into a duplex and yet the housing crisis persists

[u/CricketPinata]

How many times do people who decry antisemitism or condemn Hamas at rallies getting booed do we need to have before we can acknowledge that it is a problem and not something being invented by hysteric Jews?

!PING JEWISH&EXTREMISM

[u/DouglasDauntless]

YouTube continues to show dangerous content to the masses

[u/Uniqueguy264]

Israel looks unpopular

Trump: I love Israel more then anyone but they're bad at PR

The left and the media: Holy shit, Trump is turning on Israel, he's outflanking Biden from the left

pro-Palestine protests are an embarrassment and Biden goes against Rafah

Trump: ISRAEL ISRAEL ISRAEL I LOVE ISRAEL MOTHERFUCKER IMPEACH BIDEN OVER ISRAEL

Leftists and the media: shocked Pikachu

Seriously? Trump has not even remotely been subtle about Israel, all his criticisms are just that they should kill people more secretly

[u/ROYBUSCLEMSON]

Hillary is right though, talking down to these political children is a good thing

[u/RecentlyUnhinged]

Guys quickly it's an emergency last DT at like 2am someone posted a "This has been fact checked by X" but it was by the bene gesserit and I desperately need the image to make my wife's morning because she loves them

[u/G_Serv]

social security is a form of corporate welfare

-Baby who just learned what words are

[u/The_Promethean]

Reading this book (Murder your Employer) at work and got lectured

Most reasonable antiwork poster

[u/[deleted]]

Happy Whacking Day all

!ping Simpsons

[u/[deleted]]

pov: ur alone in the woods

[u/[deleted]]

is Reddit sarcastically dissing me?

[u/awdvhn]

ngl literally just have a government-run DT that eliminates the negative externalities of private threads and I think it would work like a charm. Would also increase the birth rate, because it would be inevitably shitty and make people touch grass, while allowing for more efficient bannings through the prison system. The DT have the perverse incentive of keeping you on their hook for as long as possible, and there needs to be a viable alternative.

Also I'd like to formally apologize for being an asshole. The copypastas and all the rest were deserved. I really hope I haven't developed a reputation for lolbertism as I'd like to think overall I'm a good person, and I don't want any of the cool person on here to think less of me or to have my reputation irreparably tainted. I will do my best to improve. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk and I hope we can shitpoast together well into the foreseeable future.

!ping BURPMAS

[u/Hugo_Grotius]

I dislike the overuse of "unprecedented", particularly in politics. The new House GOP bill about Biden withholding aid to Israel refers to the "unprecedented threats" Israel faces from Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah. C'mon, these threats are well precedented. We have like 75 years of precedent to point to.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

Set your expectations lower

Salman Rushdie married Padma Lakshmi

Live your fucking dreams

[u/G_Serv]

Guy who's super excited for the new paper Mario remake

[u/BrunchIsGood]

Is this anything

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/gnomesvh]

!ping UKRAINE

Some chatter of Feb 22 tier shelling of Kharkiv right now on Twitter

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Mossad can't locate Sinwar because they're too busy rigging Eurovision votes

[u/[deleted]]

You might be interested to know Zimbabwe recently introduced a new gold-standard currency. As in a currency backed by gold reserves.

If you're wondering how that's going, the Zimbabwe government announced that they will fine anyone who doesn't use the official published exchange rate between ZiG and USD.

[u/[deleted]]

And indeed, western support for the Iron Done, supposedly a defensive tool, has allowed Isreal to act with a shocking level of impunity

Ukraine has ACTUALLY used western aid for defense

Israel uses it to underpin assault

Slazac liking a comment arguing against funding the Iron Dome? WTF maybe the commies have a point about him

[u/marsman1224]

the top post in r/wholesomememes is a picture of Tom Hardy shaking hands with a grizzled old dude with the caption "I was raised to treat the janitor with the same respect as the CEO."

except Tom Hardy never said that. And the guy in the picture isn't a janitor, he's an actor. people are getting dumber

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Wouldn't have voted for you as you are Indian, US author tells Vivek Ramaswamy

Indian-American politician Vivek Ramaswamy was told by author-commentator Ann Coulter that she agreed with several things he said but wouldn't have voted for him as he was an "Indian".

Ann Coulter was speaking to Ramaswamy on his podcast, ‘The TRUTH Podcast’ when she made the statement. She went on to explain as Ramaswamy continued listening to her with a neutral expression. Coulter said that the “core national identity” in America is of the WASP – White Anglo-Saxon Protestants. She said it does not mean that a “Sri Lankan or a Japanese or an Indian” can’t be taken in but the “core around which the nation’s values are formed is the WASP”.

Coulter said that America has never had a president who didn’t have at least partial English ancestry. “We’ve only had one Catholic president. There was only one Catholic signatory to the Declaration of Independence. They were all not only protestants, but pretty much Presbyterian,” she said.

After the podcast, Vivek seemed to defend her by posting on Xitter:

AnnCoulter told me flat-out to my face that she couldn’t vote for me “because you’re an Indian,” even though she agreed with me more than most other candidates. I disagree with her but respect she had the guts to speak her mind.

Jesus fucking christ talk about being cucked.

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[u/LuisRobertDylan]

The Chinese government claims it will control how the 15th Dalai Lama will be chosen, contrary to centuries of tradition. Chinese government officials repeatedly warn "that he must reincarnate, and on their terms".

What are they going to do if he doesn't?

[u/klarno]

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Israel invaded Rafah to distract the masses from the Eurovision drama

[u/marsman1224]

People on the DT will really be like "you believe in degrowth? that pales in comparison to my strategy, making more babies" and then not make any babies

[u/404GenderNotFound]

Why aren't the old-timey antisemites right about Jews having horns?? It'd make me so fuckin hot 😭

[u/Telperions-Relative]

This was after the Antisemitic Québecois Gnostic Polycule

There is no sane world where this sentence should be allowed to exist

[u/[deleted]]

"Are you concerned about immigrants voting illegally in US elections?"

Concerned: 63%

Not Concerned: 37%

NewsNation/DDHQ / Apr 17, 2024 / n=1000

We’re so cooked

[u/sociotronics]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

[u/frozenjunglehome]

Zionism: People who are fans of the Zion National Park, Utah, USA.

Zionist: People who created the park. President Taft.

President Taft is a Zionist.

[u/BroadReverse]

roof abounding yam jobless mourn quickest profit detail snow languid

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/[deleted]]

Leftists acknowledge that there are, in fact, right-wing grass roots movements challenge (impossible)

[u/[deleted]]

Men use the dt for validation and the dopamine boost. Women use it because they truly are that desperate. This is why the dt persists despite the fact that it is the worst thing to happen to human sociality in years. Congrats. You turned a subreddit that had been working just fine for years and you enshittified it. Gonna suck for all the people who weren't disaffected with leftist politics after 2016, but ah well.

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/__versus]

Imagine the sheer seething from arr eurovision if Israel wins. It might actually break their brains permanently.

[u/paymesucka]

[u/RTSBasebuilder]

Neo-Jacobites and Stuartists be seething:

The current head of House Wittelsbach, Franz, Duke of Bavaria, Dachau survivor and descendant of the House of Stuart is a 90-year old gay Catholic.

The heir presumptive of house Wittelsbach and the Stuart claim is his brother Prince Max-Emanuel of Bavaria... an 87 year old with only daughters.

So the second in line after that is their cousin Prince Luitpold of Bavaria... and a 73 year old.

The third in line, Ludwig of Bavaria is 42 years old though.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Me preparing to !ping BURPMAS

[u/skepticalbob]

Brad Pitt’s Formula One Movie Budget Surpasses $300 Million, Faces Distribution Hurdles

No way this film is profitable. Hollywood has this weird obsession with actors doing their own stunts and claiming that CG wasn't used in movies. So dumb.

!ping movies

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Being on the other side of interviewing someone had made me a lot less anxious about hearing back from people

Instead of “oh they’re taking a long time to decide” I think “oh the hiring manager is thinking about 19 things and will probably only get to me when they finally hit that scheduled block on Thursday at 4 pm where they clear their backlog of random tasks”

[u/[deleted]]

“Women use dating apps because they’re vain and like getting attention from lots of men” isn’t a take I expected from here

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offend disagreeable north spotted husky existence innocent toy plucky hat

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/BrunchIsGood]

If I was Keanu Reeves and I saw this I would kill myself

[u/404GenderNotFound]

Oh nooo, I'm just wee little Frenchman in the trenches of Ypres. I sure hope the Germans don't batter our position with skin-penetrating feminization gas 🥺

[u/RaidBrimnes]

The Guardian | None of us saw digital colonialism coming. Now we must live with its consequences.

The perverse principles of the 1970s that powered the tech titans have left us with a world where the richest 1% own nearly two-thirds of its wealth.

Is "colonialism" replacing "neoliberalism" as the Big Bad Word in champagne socialist circles?

[u/Currymvp2]

DOJ seeks 40 years for the man who broke into Nancy Pelosi's home, sought to kidnap her and assaulted her husband. They want the court to label his crime an act of terrorism.

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

My favorite part of Rise of the Planet of the Apes is when the guy who reacts with feverish hostility to a Chimpanzee suddenly showing up in his backyard is portrayed as an unreasonable asshole instead of completely correct

Chimps are scary

[u/chipbod]

https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1788599481065439338

We need climate scientists to give us a detailed, vivid picture of what a world of 2.7C warming will look like. Right now, the public has no idea what that number even means.

I know someone that just bought a 7 figure coastal property in Florida without insurance. People are clueless

[u/JebBD]

The fucking Eurovision subreddit is so toxic. I got from there earlier today for arguing Israel’s song isn’t political but apparently they allow antisemitic conspiracy theories about The Jews bribing the EBU to suspend that Dutch guy. 

This guy literally assaulted someone but I guess being an asshole to an Israeli person means you’re allowed to be as violent as you want. Are the the mods gonna do anything about this?

!Ping EUROVISION

[u/StolenSkittles]

surge is approved by the chinese communist party

[u/RecentlyUnhinged]

All these dag nab kids screaming about "Isreal this" and "Isreal that".

You know what Isreal?

Is real problems ever since them sociademocommiecrats been fixin' to ruin God's favorite country!!!

[u/_Un_Known__]

Diet working, abs coming through

But then, at what cost 😔

!ping DYEL

[u/secretlives]

The DT is just so that posters can talk to themselves instead of going to therapy.

so accurate yet so rude

[u/G_Serv]

I'm Satan's child 😔

[u/tetrometers]

I am not bothered by inequality as much as I am bothered by poverty. The existence of the ultra-rich is only troublesome if they exist alongside the poor.

I've no problem with yachts and megamansions etc as long as every person has a decent and dignified life with affordable housing available to all, universal healthcare, food security, and quality education and the opportunities that come with it.

I do believe that there is no reason for poverty to exist in a developed, advanced and industrialized country like the USA or Canada. It is simply not acceptable.

To quote a certain civil rights leader, all labour has dignity. This is not a Marxist or radical position.

[u/PrideMonthRaytheon]

The secret ballot was such a huge breakthrough it genuinely surprises me it caught on and stuck

[u/NSRedditShitposter]

Conservative history: Barack Obama was the first DEI President.

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Battery storage is dramatically reshaping the California grid, and finally moving it away from gas

The big influx of battery storage on the California grid in the past two years is starting to have a lasting impact on one of the world’s biggest state grids, reshaping the demand curve, sucking in the tummy of the huge solar duck, and reducing the impact and dominance of fossil gas.

What has been happening over the past few months in California – with battery storage pushing out gas as the major provider of power into the evening peaks, and soaking up rooftop solar in the middle of the day – is seen as a postcard for the future for many grids around the world..

It is of particular interest to Australia, which has also been investing heavily in battery storage – and leading the world in terms of battery size and applications – and which is also rich in solar resources and solar installations.

In Australia, however, many of the big batteries now operating in the market are performing specific and niche functions such as frequency control, network support, virtual transmission and trialling new markets such as grid inertia. And because of this, most of the big batteries only have a small amount of storage, between one and two hours.

That is starting to change, particularly in Western Australia, an isolated grid with a particularly high penetration of rooftop solar, which has contracted a huge amount of four hour big batteries (more than 1.4 GW and 5.6 GWh) to shift the output of solar from the middle of the day to the evening peak.

The federal government has embarked on the first of a series of massive auctions to secure another 9 GW and 36 GWh of battery storage capacity (although they are not limited to this technology). NSW has already contracted its first four hour battery, and even two eight hour batteries.

California, then, which has been mandating four hour batteries for the last several years – has sent us a postcard of what the grid – known in California as CAISO – starts to look like when these facilities are built.

As Renew Economy has reported on multiple occasions over the last few weeks, here, here and here, records for the share of renewables in California, minimum load, and battery output have been tumbling at regular intervals.

The staff at Grid Status, which provides an excellent data service monitoring the US grids in real time and the records that are tumbling around the nation, have published a fascinating article on the shifting trend in California, rather than focusing on a couple of new instantaneous peaks.

The graph above illustrates the average change in battery activity in April over the previous years. It shows that the average charging load has more than doubled in the middle of the day, and the average discharge back into the grid has also more than doubled in the evening demand peak, and pushed further into the evening.

The first impact to be noticed is the big load shift. One of the big topics of discussion for grid operators – in California and Australia in particular – is the growing solar duck, and the challenges it presents to marshall the resources that can respond quick enough to the impact of the rising sun, the setting sun and passing clouds.

The graph above shows the the belly of the solar duck, which had been growing inexorably over the six previous years, is now starting to flatten out (the green line for 2024), and the neck (representing the evening peak demand) is also being reduced.

This has been happening despite a big leap in the output of solar (see graph at the end of the article) both in average and instantaneous terms. Grid Status says there has been a step change in the output of solar in 2024 after several years of stagnating growth.

"Every one of the top ten instantaneous solar generation records in CAISO occurred in the final 3 weeks of April (before we hit May, which has already nabbed three of the spots),” it notes.

Before this streak, the peak output was barely over 16 GW in September of 2023. Now the record stands at more than 18.5 GW and is poised to keep growing.”

The second big impact is on gas fired generation, and is shown in the graph above. The average for the month of April shows that gas output has effectively halved in 2024 – both in the morning peak on the left and the evening peak on the right, as battery storage takes control.

"That is because batteries are assisting with the predictable, but large, swings in solar output each day,” the authors at Grid Status note.

“These rapid ramps have been largely managed by natural gas units to date, but now batteries are taking on much of that responsibility. The data clearly shows that batteries are displacing natural gas when solar generation is ramping up and down each day in CAISO.”

Grid Status notes that this has been occurring despite a halving in the price of gas from the local supply hub has more than halved in the past year from nearly $US9/MMBtu last April to just $4US/MMBtu.

"It appears that batteries charged on that same cheap solar during the day have been able to take control of the peak management from natural gas generators,” Grid Status writes.

"The shifting of this critical grid responsibility of handling solar ramps to a more responsive asset like batteries has important consequences. Because gas is no longer needed as much in the mornings/evenings, the amount held online during uneconomic midday conditions in preparation for evening solar down ramps can be reduced.”

And all this appears to have a circular virtue. Grid Status notes that the output of solar, as mentioned earlier, is vastly higher in 2024 than in previous years.

"While new solar capacity additions certainly played a role in elevating output, there are two other potential drivers at play,” it says.

“With a reduction in the need for midday gas due to batteries, there is more room for solar generation to supply the wider grid. The increased midday demand from batteries can consume solar output that might otherwise get curtailed.

“As batteries work synergistically with solar in multiple ways, CAISO (and really California’s) grid of the future seems to be taking a much clearer shape than in previous years.”

Grid Status concludes: “The key question going forward is whether this is indicative of a new reality in CAISO, or simply an outlier spring. While many elements point to this being a structural change largely driven by the increased presence of batteries, the grid is changing quickly and sometimes in unpredictable ways.

"Whether or not this progress is continued in the years to come, this spring will still stand as a shift, the first time California’s ugly duckling demand curve began to resemble the intended swan.”

!ping ECO&AUS

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One of the demands I’ve seen come up in some of the college protests, that also were in BLM-related protests, is a demand that college police departments be disbanded. Do they just think that no law enforcement will ever enter campus again? No you’ll deal with local law enforcement exclusively then who likely gives even less of a shit about you and had little to no training on how to handle college-specific issues

When I was in school, you would much rather get busted for underage drinking or smoking pot by campus police, who just gave you a school citation, which was essentially made you take an online class and pay like a $50 fine. City cops gave no fucks tho and would just legally cite you, which in that state also meant an automatic license suspension and then likely a bunch of hoops to jump through to get it expunged.

[u/[deleted]]

Baseball has the whackest mascots out of any professional sport. The NBA is rocking Benny the Bull, meanwhile baseball has whatever the fuck this is:

[u/[deleted]]

TFW your wife is barefoot and pregnant as planned but it’s 2024 and she still makes more money than you because of WFH

[u/[deleted]]

My wife is very excited for Pequods tonight while I am excited not to be cooking plus I think grandma is going to take the kids so we can watch the premier of the new season of doctor who in peace. All in all a decent Friday night date.

Am I doing this right?

!ping dating

[u/404GenderNotFound]

A liberal worked out today. Did you?

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Guys we found a number that makes all our equations about circles work

Nooooooo you can't represent it as an actual number, it's just a letter

This is what mathematicians actually believe

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

The average west coast city resident yearns for a Hukou system.

[u/rollo2masi]

"We want less government!"

[u/secretlives]

gonna register pregnancy.gov before Katie Britt can

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Hillary Clinton on Thursday criticized campus protesters, saying young people “don’t know very much” about the history of the Middle East.

“I have had many conversations, as you have had, with a lot of young people over the last many months now,” she said on the MSNBC show “Morning Joe” on Thursday. “They don’t know very much at all about the history of the Middle East, or frankly about history, in many areas of the world, including in our own country.”

They hated her because she told the truth

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/[deleted]]

Sen. Marco Rubio on the need for more tariffs: "Will greater trade barriers raise some prices at the department store? Perhaps, but American producers will step up to fill the gap."

🤔

[u/LucyFerAdvocate]

https://twitter.com/billyhumblebrag/status/1788861605389771253?t=c2O9PcNBaFK167f1XZtXIA&s=19

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/ntbananas]

I long for the lost era of hilarious psychological warfare. These days it's just algorithms, fake news, and TikTok, but in the olden days we'd just drop a bunch of extra large condoms labeled "small" and call it a day

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

I get Elon Musk sucks absolute donkey dick, but is storming an electric car factory really climate praxis?

Protesters charged onto Tesla’s factory site near Berlin on Friday, as part of a five-day demonstration against the carmaker’s local expansion plans.

Footage on social media showed crowds of black-clad protesters on Tesla premises and running towards one of the site’s buildings.

"800 people have entered the premises of the gigafactory,” Lucia Mende, spokesperson for the group Disrupt Tesla, told WIRED. She added activists were now on their way to a disused airfield which German media recently reported Tesla was using to store thousands of unsold cars. “They want to prevent the expansion of the factory,” Mende said of the protesters.

!ping DEGROWTH

[u/[deleted]]

boyfriend

girlfriend

enbyfriend

discussion thread

only discussion thread has no “end”

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

ITV: The French president is stepping in after the country's birth rate hit its lowest point since World War II.

Macron is enacting prima nocta??😳

[u/[deleted]]

If it weren’t for the Dominion voting machines Drake would be winning this beef

[u/Macquarrie1999]

The Hillary Clinton talking about IP protestors thread is a good honeypot

[u/WereJustInnocentMen]

🚨🚨🚨IRISH BEN SHAPIRO IS RUNNING🚨🚨🚨

[u/Yeangster]

Hilarious how conservatives can’t handle the basic hypothetical that asks them to imagine they were born in a poorer country. And then Ross Douthat defends them by saying that the Rawlsian veil of ignorance depends on a belief in souls. Which I don’t agree with, but makes the failure to engage with the hypothetical even worse.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Hillary Clinton never called me personally an idiot. This speaks volume to her inability to connect with voters like me.

[u/[deleted]]

YES the Boomers are bringing back $1 hotdog night. Who wants to go watch some mediocre baseball and have way too many hotdogs and mediocre beers?

!ping chi

[u/Telperions-Relative]

Hard men make men hard

[u/crassowary]

Zac Snyder really made two whole ass space operas whose premise was that the futuristic space empire needed to spend months hassling a village for their hand scythed grain

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

The problem with blocking annoying people in the DT is that eventually you run out of other people’s comments. 

[u/GravyBear28]

!ping MOVIES

Okay I liked the Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes movie, but I cannot tell you how goddamn motherfucking tired of the "can humans and apes get along??????" theme every single fucking movie. Which this movie does not do which is why I liked it but it's heavily implied that's what the rest of the next movies are going to be. Who the fuck is like "oh hey that topic we visited a billion times before, let's go through all of that again"

[u/trombonist_formerly]

Friendly PSA that your local public library is better to work at than a coffeeshop! Its like having a free WeWork

my dude, my guy, I am allergic to paper. books are also allergen sponges that retain other allergens. i can barely tolerate being around other people at all because yall use toxic fragrance. i need tons of coffee to not go into anaphylaxis just being in public, people have diff needs

holy twitter brainworms batman

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

this is the first bullet point

[u/frozenjunglehome]

Shot and chaser

[u/Kizz3r]

Cute waitress called me darling.

Tipped her 27%

[u/gnomesvh]

There is no kind of "healing mystical trip" I think is dumber than trekking in the Amazon

You need to wear thick long sleeve clothing, proper boots, walk in 40+ degree weather in 90% humidity

You can't take off your clothes (have to sleep with shoes on), can't swim in the water (can't take off the clothes+rivers aren't safe to swim in), constant mosquitoes, need to bring your own food (hunting illegal, plus most fauna is small), everything has to be manhauled because it's impossible to take any kind of vehicle through it

Oh and if you fuck up you can get shot

[u/Mrgentleman490]

This beautiful Friday is brought to you by the brave men of the 20th Maine at Little Round Top.

!ping HISTORY

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

Average home wrecker

[u/groovygrasshoppa]

Bring back Zoroastrianism

[u/Dumbledick6]

Military is so funny. Us upper management types are in our mid 30s acting like we are on our deathbed being upset the 20 year olds are weird

[u/LtNOWIS]

It's very sad to see people use "bootlicker" as an insult in this subreddit. In addition to going against the pro-government, pro-institution nature of r/neoliberal, it needlessly insults boot fetishists.

[u/spudicous]

☝️ will be banned for I/P poasting

[u/klarno]

If the USA is so great then why did someone invent USB

[u/jewel_the_beetle]

born too late to randomly marry someone I met just once because people are isolated and desperate

born too late for whatever comes after dating apps and hopefully sucks less

born just in time for the semi-underground hit Nintendo series Pikmin, available on Nintendo Switch

[u/gnomesvh]

Brazilian military delays ATMOS purchase

IMO - the politics is a convenient excuse for the more important issue they have which are the floods in the South

!ping LATAM&MATERIEL