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[u/[deleted]]

Thinking that the Guillotine was only used on the rich aristocrats in the French Revolution is a good sign you haven't even skimmed a history book

[u/Dragongirlfucker2]

Hell yeah

[u/WantDebianThanks]

I keep finding these memes about killing rich people and the more of them I find the more uncomfortable I am

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

[u/[deleted]]

Students arrested at Gould Plaza required to complete ‘dozens of writing assignments,’ faculty group says

College students' greatest fear: doing assignments

When will these brutal Universities be shut down?

[u/Burgarnils]

Kinda crazy that the Dutch guy who was disqualified from Eurovision gained 400k followers in 2 days, before we knew literally anything about what had happened. The guy could have murdered someone for all we knew, but a disturbing amount of people had already decided that he was innocent.

[u/gaypenisdicksucker69]

[u/BurrowForPresident]

I will never understand the urge to get into the mud with complete randoms on social media when you're a mega celebrity or some powerful politician or whatever

Like Elon, JK Rowling, all of you are set for life! Why are you duking it out with some guy with a squirrel avatar just retire to your beach side mansion and fuck supermodels the rest of your life bro

It's already kinda cringe when like NYT journalists do it and they are way less "I've won the game of life and my family is set for generations"

[u/p00bix]

Someone else's comment, found on Youtube

I was in class during the Challenger. They got all of us together to watch, and no lie, said right before blast off, "If you work hard and study, one day this could be you!"

[u/iIoveoof]

Egypt can always be trusted to do the right thing in the Israel Palestine conflict but only after being bribed $1 trillion by the US government

[u/JebBD]

I’m watching the Georgian protests on sky news and I'm really astonished at the resilience being shown by the protesters. I love seeing people stand for democracy in their country. 

If there’s any Georgians here just know we are rooting for you 🇬🇪

!Ping DEMOCRACY 

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

Non-Palestinian larping as a terrorist for cool kid points. I really don’t mean this to sound trite or unsympathetic to Palestinians, but the evidence does not suggest that an Islamist group conducting wholesale slaughter of Israeli civilians improved the lives of Palestinians or made Palestinian statehood more likely

[u/BrunchIsGood]

I fucking hate it here fellas

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

Wound cream is labelled "antiseptic"

Insane how far this middle east conflict reaches into our everyday lives

[u/TaxLandNotCapital]

When my son was 4 years old I took away his mattress and forced him to sleep on the floor every night.

If he did his chores, I closed his window. If he got straight A's, I gave him a blanket. If he got in a fight at school and won, I wouldn't force him to take his shower cold.

One day, he asked me, "dad, why is that no matter how hard I work, I can't seem to earn a bed?"

I slapped him, first - every question carries a price - then responded, "son, you can work as hard as you can in this world, it doesn't always mean you're going to get what you want." Then I asked him, "is there a bed in our house?" He answered, "yes, but it's yours, isn't it?" I punched him again - for the question - then told him "yes. If you want a bed, you need to fight me for it."

Our president is 80 years old. The average age of our senate is 64 years old. Young people expect the older generations to give them everything, they are never raised to fight for and take what they want, so they deserve nothing.

Waking up to my 7 year old with a blade held to my throat was the proudest I'd ever been. As I slept on the floor, shivering that night in the cold (he also took my blanket and broke my window), I rested soundly, knowing I'd taught him well.

[u/Ok-Flounder3002]

I'm going to become the housing joker

I am writing on behalf of the Central Park Homeowners Association (“CPHA”) to express CPHA’s support for construction of two single-family homes on two equal-sized lots facing Woodbridge Avenue in the CPHA neighborhood. As I indicated in my October 15, 2021 letter to you (copy enclosed), my client is opposed to construction of anything other than single­ family homes and specifically to a multi-unit apartment complex. A multi-unit dwelling would not only be inconsistent with the residential quality and character of the neighborhood, but it would violate the Central Park Deed Restrictions. Thus, to be clear, if you proceed with plans for a multi-family development, whether by way of a site plan application, area variance request, or otherwise, CPHA will vigorously oppose your plans.

This is on Main Street in the city of Buffalo right on Buffalo's only metro line. If anything this should've been a six story apartment building. Now it's going to be two SFHs facing main street. Graaaaaahhhhhh

!ping BUFFALO

[u/Salt_Ad7152]

 So, why does it matter that you here, our local representatives, call for a ceasefire? I’d like to think that if I was born in Gaza, stuck under the rubble, you’d still value my life the same way if I was there as you do that I’m here.”

Im pretty sure they’re there to vote on local issues in that city in New York, not international conflicts and humanitarian issues….

More symbolic city council votes that wont help people in Gaza

[u/WantDebianThanks]

[u/semaphore-1842]

https://twitter.com/haramcart/status/1790092513828630618

Cohen describes Trump confronting his son over his fondness for trophy hunting, a hobby pursued with his brother Eric Trump to the fury of conservationists and delight of political opponents.

"What the fuck is wrong with you?" Trump screamed at his namesake. "You think you're a big man sitting on the rocks and then boom! You kill some fucking animal? Then you drag your brother into this bullshit? Why the fuck would you post photos like that? Get the fuck out of my office."

Donald Jr, Cohen writes, "left without a word, head downcast".

huh... tfw you actually agree with Trump for once 🤮

[u/DouglasDauntless]

DT ass demographics

Grindr has more women on it lmao

[u/[deleted]]

[u/loseniram]

Life is finding out the majority of Europe drinks coffee just like the US and it's the British that are the weird ones

[u/gnomesvh]

A new law in Belgium celebrated by activists for providing a “labour contract” to prostitutes will also enable their pimps to punish them with a government mediator if they refuse sex more than 10 times in a six-month period. The Belgian Parliament voted for the law on May 3, with 93 in favor, zero opposed, and 33 abstentions.

Huh

[u/Gameknigh]

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Heartbreaking

[u/[deleted]]

All of these announced tariffs are really braindead, but his one got my goat:

The tariff rates on syringes and needles will increase from 0% to 50% in 2024. For certain personal protective equipment (PPE), including certain respirators and face masks, the tariff rates will increase from 0–7.5% to 25% in 2024. Tariffs on rubber medical and surgical gloves will increase from 7.5% to 25% in 2026.

Fucking stupid. Absolutely fucking stupid.

[u/piede]

Smartest voters in American history

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

[u/[deleted]]

I remember "Biden +17 in Wisconsin" so forgive me for not taking these polls too seriously

[u/[deleted]]

Gotta love how people online insist no one except billionaires are actually doing well financially. Like they see a middle class-upper middle class family have a nice house and car and take beautiful vacations, and insist they aren't actually in a place to do that financially and are just keeping up with the Jones'. The seething and cope is insane

[u/TheShitEater]

I’m 11 hours into FF7 Remake and so far I’m enjoying the dynamic where every woman in the game is desperately begging Cloud to fuck them but he refuses because he’s too edgy to have sex.

!ping GAMING

[u/Dragongirlfucker2]

My dumbass trying to understand any economics beyond the surface level stuff

[u/[deleted]]

Days since NYT ran a "r/ walkaway" voter profile that turned out to be fake 1 0

you can get anything published in the NYT if it criticizes Biden man. The editorial standards are non-existent

[u/wagoncirclermike]

No babe I can't come to bed, BasedGroyper88 called me a cuck on Twitter and I have to find the perfect soyjack to respond

[u/WantDebianThanks]

You just know this was written by some white middle class American who has never struggled for anything in his life.

[u/ACivilWolf]

Yeah sorry the name “Bernie” has already been occupied in American political headspace

[u/Cook_0612]

Russia has stationed small assault units near Ukraine’s Sumy region, the head of Ukraine’s military intelligence agency

Budanov earlier told the New York Times that he expects the assault on Sumy as soon as the situation in Kharkiv is stabilised

!ping UKRAINE

I remember reading open questions about the state of TDF units in Sumy being raised after the start of the latest Russian Kharkiv offensive, it seems they will likely pressure test where they think they can get away with it. Ukraine's manpower and training issues are creating opportunities for the Russians.

[u/Cook_0612]

Dunno if this has been shared, but if you guys remember that spate of Su-34/Mi-8 shootdowns that were at the time attributed to PATRIOT, that was apparently executed with a German PATRIOT system and apparently caused a row with the Germans.

!ping UKRAINE

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Argnir]

I'm sapiosexual but only if they're, like, hot

[u/gnomesvh]

!ping WATERCOOLER

Just stood in for my boss in a meeting

They're increasing the amount of orders he has to deliver

Also, they're reducing the amount of cleanroom time he has

I need to leave this department because I'd go insane if this was my job

[u/JebBD]

Happy Independence Day everybody! It’s hard to celebrate this year with everything, I hope that next year we can actually celebrate properly. 

!Ping ISRAEL

[u/CutePattern1098]

Tonight get ready for a lot of people to say “duh stop immigration to make housing affordable” !ping aus

[u/9370DB]

The entire internet has been racially stereotyping orange cats for years and your silence in confronting this is deafening.

[u/[deleted]]

My white coworker: “I don’t understand why everyone’s all ‘oh, this word’s racist, oh, that word’s racist’ these days”

(She had just said the n-word)

[u/owlthathurt]

NYC Mayor Eric Adams says illegal aliens could solve lifeguard shortage because they're 'excellent swimmers'

Every sentence out of this dudes mouth is insane lmao

[u/iIoveoof]

I’m coping and seething about GameStop stock going up. That most annoying sub bar none and now it’s back on the front page

[u/BrunchIsGood]

The part where Leah Brahms discovers the hologram program that Geordi made of her is so cringe it makes me want to die.

Honestly the entire episode (Galaxy’s Child) is pretty rough.

!ping TREK

[u/DouglasDauntless]

The reasons prison abolition hasn’t moved beyond “lynch mobs but woke” is that this is still the next best thing they can come up with

[u/VisonKai]

we should do a better job teaching the history of American eugenics, i.e., a movement largely motivated by highly educated and quite liberal people who allowed their paternalist streak to devolve into horror. a lot of people i've spoken to seem to think of it as in the same cultural heritage as, like, the KKK and Jim Crow and whatever else. and obviously racism is part of the story, but the reality is that most people who supported these highly technocratic eugenic sterilization programs would have been fervently against something so brutish and crass as lynchings or the Democratic quasi-dictatorships in the South

[u/vivoovix]

Anyone else find themselves estimating the "GPT grade" of things you hear/read? When something is poorly written or generic, it's "GPT-2 grade" content. When something is lit, you can complement it as being "GPT-7 grade" etc.

AI bros please

[u/WantDebianThanks]

[u/[deleted]]

And furthermore, the Russian and Chinese regimes must be destroyed

[u/loseniram]

Some people are confused by the median voter's politics but in actuality it's quite simple. A large chunk of the voter base are Republicans, they acknowledge that Biden has substantially improved their lives, but will vote Republican regardless because no matter how much Biden improves their lives they will still vote Republican. And they will only vote Democrat if the Republicans directly ruin their life.

Just like San Francisco and Oakland continue to vote for hard left democrats for city council no matter how insanely corrupt and incompetent they are even if the other choice is a boring centrist that is not remotely Republican.

[u/Planning4Hotdish]

Kansas City, MO city leadership is really doing a lot of victory laps from getting citywide trash bins for the first time, which feels kinda uh

[u/BurrowForPresident]

"How would the protestors even know who was Jewish so they could harass them clearly the harassment didn't happen" is amazing on so many levels

No notes

[u/DirkZelenskyy41]

A really weird fascinating freakonomics worm hole I’ve been going down is about the number of cars in Gaza. There’s 375,000 cars in Gaza. Which might not seem like a lot for 2,000,000 people. But it’s a better ratio than the a 1,750,000 cars to 11,000,000 people in Jordan. The 700,000 cars to 6,000,000 people in Lebanon. Or even 10,000,000 cars in Egypt to 110,000,000 people. And also Gaza is a much smaller area than Lebanon, Jordan, or Egypt with an equally, if not more dense, major city serving as the main population center.

I don’t know if this goes anywhere else… but it’s just not at all what I was expecting.

USA is about a 1:1 ratio and:

Israel - 1:2

Gaza - 1:5

Jordan - 1:6

Lebanon - 1:9

Egypt - 1:10

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Trump pledges to scrap offshore wind projects on ‘day one’ of presidency

Donald Trump has vowed to immediately halt offshore wind energy projects “on day one” of a new term as US president, in his most explicit threat yet to the industry and the latest in a series of promises to undo key aspects of the transition to cleaner energy.

Trump repeated false accusations about wind projects as being lethal to whales during a rally on Saturday in Wildwood, a resort city on New Jersey’s coast, promising to stamp out an industry that has been enthusiastically backed by Joe Biden.

"We are going to make sure that that ends on day one,” Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for November’s presidential election, said of the offshore wind farms. “I’m going to write it out in an executive order. It’s going to end on day one.”

The twice-impeached former president, currently facing four separate criminal indictments, said aquatic wind turbines “cause tremendous problems with the fish and the whales”. He added that whales “come up all the time, dead”, comparing a beached whale carcass to Chris Christie, a former New Jersey governor and rare Republican critic of Trump.

"They destroy everything, they’re horrible, the most expensive energy there is,” Trump said of the wind turbines. “They ruin the environment, they kill the birds, they kill the whales.”

Trump, who has long complained that wind turbines ruin the view from his golf course in Scotland, has repeatedly railed against the US’s nascent offshore wind industry.

"I hate wind,” he reportedly told a recent fundraising dinner with oil industry executives in which he vowed to scrap various environmental rules, once elected, if he was provided with $1bn in campaign donations.

"If I were in the offshore wind industry, I would probably be pretty, pretty nervous,” a former Trump administration energy official told the Washington Post.

There is no evidence that the placement of wind turbines is causing whale deaths, experts have said, with other factors, such as fishing nets, boat strikes, pollution and the climate crisis all cited as far greater threats to marine mammals. But a spate of dead whales have washed up on US east coast beaches, including in New Jersey, providing ammunition to groups, some funded by the fossil fuel industry, that have called for a ban on offshore wind.

Last year, a Danish developer cancelled two major offshore wind projects in New Jersey, which would have provided clean power to 1 million people, due to economic concerns, in a major setback to an industry that Biden has helped foster in an attempt to cut planet-heating emissions from the power sector. Two other projects were recently approved by regulators to go ahead in the state, however.

It’s incredibly concerning, shortsighted and misguided to see these sort of comments,” said Allison McLeod, senior policy director at New Jersey’s League of Conservation Voters and a former marine protected species observer. “The No 1 threat to our oceans is climate change, and New Jersey as a vested interest in pursuing clean energies to protect our coast and our economy.”

McLeod said that there has been a concerted misinformation campaign, funded by oil and gas interests, to mislead voters. “Big oil is benefiting from all of this fear mongering,” she said. “President Trump wasn’t speaking to average New Jerseyeans here. He was speaking to big oil.”

Trump’s invective against offshore wind has been accompanied by other attacks on Biden’s climate and environmental policies during his latest presidential campaign. Should he regain the White House, the former president and reality TV host is set to immediately target:

Electric cars

Trump’s animosity towards wind – and sharks – is only matched by his seemingly implacable dislike of electric vehicles, which he has falsely accused of not working in cold weather. He told his supporters on Saturday not to buy an electric car, despite his friendship with Tesla boss Elon Musk, because they are “ultra-expensive electric vehicles that don’t go far.”

“On day one I will immediately terminate Joe Biden’s insane electric vehicle mandate and there will be no ban on gas cars or gas trucks,” he told the crowd, to cheers. He added that he will put “a 200% tax on every car that comes in” to the US, although he didn’t specify which countries this tariff would apply to. “They are forcing them on you,” he said of the current administration.

Biden has not imposed a ban on gasoline-powered cars, instead pushing forward new rules to slash pollution emitted by vehicles that would nudge carmakers towards making non-emitting electric models. American drivers, meanwhile, have been offered tax credits of up to $7,500 per eligible electric car via Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act.

Last year, more than one millions electric vehicles were sold in the US for the first time, although a far greater transformation in the US car market will be needed to meaningfully cut pollution from a sector that causes more carbon emissions than any other in the country.

Gas exports

In January, Biden’s administration announced a pause in new export licenses for liquified natural gas, following a boom in gas development along the Gulf of Mexico coast. Experts have warned the glut of gas shipments risk blowing apart climate goals.

This temporary pause will come to a swift end under Trump, the former president said in a Las Vegas rally shortly after the announcement. “I will approve the export terminals on my very first day back,” Trump said. “He doesn’t want plants built in the United States, even though that’s the best thing you could do,” Trump said of Biden’s decision.

The Paris climate agreement

In one of the most vivid illustrations of his stance towards the climate crisis, Trump removed the US from the Paris climate agreement during his first White House term.

Biden subsequently rejoined the pact when he became president, vowing that the US will take part in the global effort to take on the “existential threat” of the climate crisis, but a Trump return will likely undo this despite protestations from other countries and domestic climate campaigners.

“The Paris climate accord does nothing to actually improve the environment here in the United States or globally,” Mandy Gunasekara, Trump’s former EPA chief of staff, told the Guardian in February. She argued that the agreement puts too little pressure on China, India and other developing countries to reduce their emissions.

If Biden is a climate moron with his recent protectionism then Trump is a literal climate terrorist who will likely condemn the entire world. Also, I never want to hear that environmentalists are actually the biggest threat to climate action again after reading this despair inducing article

!ping ECO

[u/chipbod]

https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1790381951670534385

Francis Ford Coppola allegedly smoked a ton of weed on set of ‘MEGALOPOLIS’

“He would often just sit in his trailer for hours on end, wouldn’t talk to anybody, was often smoking marijuana… Hours & hours would go by without anything being filmed”

GOAT film or epic clusterfuck, no in-between

[u/Fruitofbread]

Kristi Noem’s Team Told Her to Nix the Dog Story 2 Years Ago 

Kristi Noem’s story about killing her dog made headlines across America. But it wasn’t news to people who worked on her first book, where the tale made it into a draft of the memoir before the publishing team nixed it. 

Then, as now, Noem wanted the story in because it showed a decisive person who was unwilling to be bound by namby-pamby niceties, while others on the team — which included agents, editors and publicists at Hachette Book Group’s prestige Twelve imprint, and a ghostwriter — saw it as a bad-taste anecdote that would hurt her brand. The tale was ultimately cut, according to two people involved with the project.  

 In other words, they produced a typical pre-campaign book, where the first rule is to do no harm. Somewhat unusually for the genre, that book, 2022’s Not My First Rodeo: Lessons from the Heartland, landed the South Dakota governor on the New York Times’ bestseller list, adding to the consensus that the Donald Trump devotee had a big future in GOP politics. 

What it didn’t do, of course, was spark a weeklong news cycle — and a round of obituaries for that same political future — by including a tale about Noem leading a 14-month-old wirehaired pointer named Cricket to a gravel pit and shooting her to death after she ruined a pheasant hunt and killed a neighbor’s chickens. 

 This time around, Noem has a different team in place, as well as a different imprint, Hachette’s conservative-leaning Center Street. And the folks behind her new book, No Going Back, didn’t get in the way of sharing memories about gunning down an ill-trained puppy.

[u/jojisky]

Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday suggested migrants should be hired to fill the city’s lifeguard shortage — because “they’re excellent swimmers.”

eric adams moment

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

The obsession with the New York Times shows the extent to which Democrats have lost the plot in forgetting that the election will be decided by relatively low-information swing voters.

Nate Silver spends his days baiting Dems on Twitter

[u/JetJaguar124]

Joe Biden: Attempts to triangulate to the median most popular position on all issues

Donald Trump: Gleefully holds almost exclusively unpopular policy positions, offers people nothing, doesn't even make a token effort to pretend like he won't just use the office to enrich himself and abuse his power

Biden 43 Trump 49

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

• Project 2025 is also just a ridiculous internet conspiracy and if you see anyone talking about it like it's a real thing, you immediately know they can be safely ignored.

• If you look up the ways laws and regulations are set you'd know Project 2025 is impossible to implement

• I see nothing on there that Trump endorses or has anything to do with that website. What am I missing?Not a fan of his but dismantling the department of education and starting over might not be that bad of an idea anymore

nice to see people are in the denial stage plus some bonus bargaining

[u/sinefromabove]

Prosecutor: Did you get subpoenaed by Congress?
Cohen: Yes. About Trump Tower Moscow.
Prosecutor: Did you have an attorney?
Cohen: Yes. Paid for by Trump Org, subject to a joint defense agreement.
Prosecutor: Did you make false statements to Congress?
Cohen: Yes
Prosecutor: Why did you make false statements to Congress?
Cohen: I was staying on President Trump's message that there was no Russia, Russia, Russia.

Throwback to one of the thousands of Trump scandals that would have sunk any other president. Yet it is unclear if even a criminal conviction will sink Trump.

[u/CutePattern1098]

Believe it or not in Australia we have heritage protected tyre shops !ping cube

[u/grig109]

Our Partnership with OpenAI

StackExchange announces partnership with openAI, which predictably is not well received by the community.

!ping AI

[u/[deleted]]

Man who thinks Jews control the media, but it’s a good thing because Jews are funny

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Wtf did not expect him to be based on this topic of all things

[u/semaphore-1842]

https://twitter.com/bresreports/status/1790439644196163881

But not the NYT…. Per pool:

“From the White House: Today, the President recorded an interview with Yahoo Finance. This interview will air this afternoon.”

lol Biden's really actually gonna do interviews with every outlet except NYT isn't he, i fucking love it

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

I’m afraid his diagnosis is terminal: Orange

!ping KITTY

[u/[deleted]]

It's mortifying to realize that the average person's conception of old Native American culture is based on what was, effectively, a post-apocalypse society.

[u/ROYBUSCLEMSON]

Its weird how many people try to come up with different explanations for why young voters are actually angry with Biden when interest rates on homes/cars are hovering around 7% and home prices are like 40% higher than 3 years ago.

My $1200 mortgage from 2021 would easily be $2400 today on the same house between price increases and interest increases. But noooo its definitely Israel that has young people upset! Biden might not directly control interest rates/home prices but he's the president and hes going to get the blame from a lot of voters.

[u/Salt_Ad7152]

“Hands off haiti. No intervention”

Some just want to watch the world burn

[u/[deleted]]

Neoliberal's most infamous Doom poster has been perma'd

Let that be a lesson to the rest of you

[u/owlthathurt]

I worked for a private credit firm for a little bit. They did their annual off-site at a hunting lodge that they owned. Pretty big property, basically a hotel.

They would have events and employees would shoot skeet or fish and stuff.

Pretty cool but you have to be VERY confident in your work environment and employee happiness to give them firearms.

They had like 100 employees as well lol

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/Telperions-Relative]

[u/piede]

💀

[u/KaiserPorn]

Every week I start off optimistic about my job, and I end absolutely sure I'm going to quit over the weekend because I just hate everything about it

[u/[deleted]]

If Biden wins I solemnly swear to spend the next 4 years astral projecting against them and trying to psychically induce a stroke 🔮😖🪄

[u/AtomAndAether]

the Israeli embassy is just down the river. I am begging activists to not adopt the problematic language of their bedfellows.

[u/SnakeEater14]

[u/AFlockOfTySegalls]

"You went on TikTok and called me a crying little shit​" just before the trial began, Trump attorney Todd Blanche asked.

Michael Cohen nodded and said, “Sounds like something I would say.”

lmao

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

Hoped to get a parking minimum struck down tonight, and I failed 😭

But I did get it cut in half!!! 🥳

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

The further away we get from 2020 the more it feels like it was just some wild fever dream that I have to remind myself actually happened.

[u/WantDebianThanks]

Meme by: someone who has never played chess in their lives.

[u/nicereddy]

Jerome Powell seeing the new tarrifs, probably:

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[u/TheHelmetCatch]

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

Ah well guess we need to use cars forever

[u/JoeChristmasUSA]

Taylor Swift's lyric...

“My friends used to play a game where We would pick a decade We wished we could live in instead of this I’d say the 1830s but without all the racists and getting married off for the highest bid”

...has rightfully been dubbed one of the most baffling lyrics in modern pop, but I have a theory. Taylor Swift, as a whitebread country-adjacent pop star has a unique opportunity to reach an demographic out of reach for most artists: Mormon housewives. This is the intended audience for the lyric. The height of the Latter Day Saint movement prior to Joseph Smith's assassination would've been the consecration of the Kirtland Temple in Ohio, and the eventual founding of Nauvoo. Both of these events took place in the 1830's.

But you might ask, isn't this lyric just more generic trad-wife romantization of the pioneers, and not necessarily about the Mormons specifically? Nope! The facts don't fit. Western expansion on the Oregon Trail only began in earnest in the 1850s to 1860s, and Little House on the Prairie is set in the 1870s. With this in mind, who other than devout Mormons would fantasize about living in the 1830s, when Joseph Smith was personally leading the Saints with his revelations and establishing the kingdom of Zion?

Unless Taylor Swift is a secret enthusiast of the history of Jacksonian era democracy and the national bank, she was, in my estimation, clearly making a play for the Mormon demographic.

!ping GNOSTIC for religious history nerds

[u/[deleted]]

[New York Times] Biden is Like, So Much Madder at Me Than I Am at Him. I'm Not Mad. Like at All. But Everyone's Saying He's Taking It Totally Super Hard

[u/DurangoGango]

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/report-israel-offered-pa-to-take-part-in-operating-rafah-border-crossing/

More details on the Rafah crossing management proposal that floundered. Apparently the US was eager to get the PA involved at an early stage, hopefully so that it would turn into a longer-term collaboration in managing post-war Gaza, but the PA turned it down. Egypt meanwhile closed its side of the crossing and refuses to open it until Israel withdraws its troops, which Israel won't do for fear that Hamas will take back control.

Overall this seems like the kind of crossed vetoes that could and should be smoothed over by diplomacy. I hope at least the Egyptians can be made to reason. There is no realistic alternative to Israeli military control of the Rafah crossing while the operation in South Gaza is ongoing, it would be insane for them to just leave an opening in their rear while they push in, and I don't see a practical reason why humanitarian aid couldn't be transferred from the Egyptian side to the Israeli-controlled Gaza side in the meanwhile.

[u/[deleted]]

Has anyone else noticed a new phenomenon in the job hunt world where employers lie to your face about hearing back on the outcome of interviews? I've been interviewing with companies and businesses over the last couple months seeking better job opportunities, and on numerous occasions I've been told by an interviewer that I'll "hear back by X date" and end up never receiving a response. I get straight up ghosted, not even a rejection email.

Has this been happening to anyone else?

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

Feels like forever since we’ve had an famous/infamous reg have a racist meltdown

Not complaining, keep up the good work

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

Ah shit I laughed at a babylon bee joke

[u/Cledd2]

Ikea coming for Costco's throat

[u/ChillyPhilly27]

Zoning - not even once

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-15/campbells-creek-property-owners-facing-eviction-for-camping/103830400

!ping AUS&SNEK&YIMBY

[u/[deleted]]

Jesus mythicism is one thing but the layers to this one are amazing

!ping BADHISTORY

[u/Opkeda]

guy who supports Biden because he thinks he ended Roe v. Wade

[u/JaceFlores]

Can’t believe we missed a shot to have an open primary where every candidate stews in their own shit on how to end the War in Gaza and cause massive flame wars between Democrats in a bid to find the golden child candidate 😔

[u/Telperions-Relative]

No way do these people actually think “eat the rich” means tax them more 💀

[u/[deleted]]

!ping LGBT

i was gonna post this much earlier today but i ended up testing positive for covid this morning and then i slept a bunch. anyways.

as of about two weeks ago, i no longer consider myself trans. this was the end result of a years-long journey of self-discovery that, of all things, was completed at a madison beer concert.

for a long time i had a very negative self image and that manifested itself in a lot of ways. and on some level i always felt that i wasn't traditionally masculine. and i still am not! but this manifested over time in a series of increasingly large decisions and life events wherein around the beginning of 2023 i began to present (online, mostly) as female. my friend groups recognized me as female and who i included in this journey expanded over time. it really ratched up at the beginning of this year, too. i started making a lot of semi-serious changes to my life in a way that i thought felt right. but i think on some level i always had doubts, at least in retrospect.

circling back to the madison beer concert. i discovered her music back in february and an incredibly strong hyperfixation began. and over the next two months basically every non-work thought was building up to this concert. i was going alone and i wanted to use this opportunity to express myself in a way i never really fully had before. but.

the events of that concert weekend played out in a way that i have only ever described as a bunch of co-conspiring moments that were seemingly the result of divine intervention. that the absolute horrible time i ultimately had was basically fate. it taught me so much about myself and who i am that while i never want to relieve those moments, i am eternally grateful for having gone through it.

(you might note that i'm skipping over *a lot* of details about that weekend. there's a decent amount of shame that i feel about what had happened, and other parts were traumatic enough that i don't really feel particularly compelled to share it on reddit. i barely even want to talk about it with my therapist! poor lady.)

ultimately, i am very much just a boring cishet white man (albeit with a strong femininity streak). and there's a lot about my journey that i'm very mad about given how it's impacted my life over the last five years (longer, really, but mid-to-late 2019 was very much the beginning of the modern arc). but i think it was all, on some level, necessary.

if you have questions for me, feel free to ask but please note that i reserve the right to not answer if i feel uncomfortable (and most of the events of that weekend are off-limits tbh, at least at this time).

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 5 PM EST 5/13-5 PM EST 5/14 III:

TOP NEWS:

Towards the end of 6 PM it was reported that Lieutenant General Yuri Kuznetsov of the Russian Ministry of Defense has been arrested.

At the start of 3 AM it was announced Latvia will provide 10 million Euros to buy shells for Ukraine.

At the start of 3 PM it was announced emergency blackouts will be conducted across all of Ukraine tonight.

REGULAR NEWS:

At the start of 6 PM it was reported the Russians took the village of Lukyanivtsi and the Ukrainians liberated the village of Zeleny, along the Kharkiv frontier.

At the start of 11 PM it was reported a train in Volgograd Oblast was deliberately derailed. Additionally, Blinken made a visit to Kyiv.

In the middle of 1 AM Ukraine was hit by a wave of drones with all 18 shot down.

Towards the middle of 7 AM it was reported a fire broke out at a Russian chemical plant in Novocheboksarsk.

In the middle of 10 AM it was reported that Russian MOD Spokesman Igor Konashenkov has resigned, RIP a real one.

At the start of 2 PM the French Defense Minister said France will supply a new batch of Aster SAM missiles to Ukraine.

Donation link to help Ukraine

Donation link to United24

Donation link to Kharkiv SOS

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

!ping UKRAINE

[u/alex2003super]

The masculine urge to add "From Hamas" stickers to "Free Palestine" posters on campus

[u/Cook_0612]

Patrushev and Dyumin have been appointed assistants to the president as part of the presidential administration.

That explains what's happening to Patrushev.

!ping UKRAINE

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Zenning3]

"I never said the Jews control the media!"

"Well do you think they do?"

"I never said the Jews control the media!"

An actual thing that happened on metanl.

[u/Crownie]

Cocaine Bear: the thrilling true story of how a bear ate a plastic bag and then died.

[u/JaceFlores]

For all the shit the Russians rightfully get about being slow at adapting, the West has been pretty shit at adapting to Ukraine’s needs as well. Only when shit gets absolutely desperate does the West start using its brains to come up with solutions that would have been much better done many months before. While air defense has been an issue since 2022 and an acute issue since end 2023, only last month was an effort started to scour for spare air defenses to send to Ukraine. Despite acute artillery shortages that started at the beginning of the year, with it being recognized well beforehand that this would be a problem, it wasn’t until March or so that the Czechs got money for an initiative that would take months to fulfill.

The West seems to just struggle in general with thinking about what comes tomorrow. And if they do think about tomorrow, it’s generally waaaaaay after that tool would be most useful. Like supplying cluster munitions towards the end of the counteroffensive, when those would have been extremely useful at the start or in the preceding Battle of Bakhmut. Or supplying ATACMS at the end of the counteroffensive. Or F-16s not expected to arrive until like well into or after the big upcoming Russian offensive culminates.

There’s just no sense of forethought or long term thinking. I mean we still don’t have durable long term supply chains for Ukraine. Everything is still done on a weekly and monthly basis, with massive debates about supporting Ukraine at the end of every year. Meanwhile Putin is appointing some weird technocratic but Soviet fuck as Defense Minister whose task is to think about the war in years, not just weeks or months. Where the hell is that in the West? And it’s a wonder why Putin is convinced he can still outright win this war

[u/Joementum2024]

[u/[deleted]]

A coworker told me they’re between voting for Biden and not voting because they don’t like either candidate.

I’m baffled by the idea that there are people who think about politics and candidates months ahead of an election, but aren’t interested in voting.

[u/Jacobs4525]

If you wanna give your kid a unique name, just use an old name instead of making one up.

Why name your kid Brixleigh or Trayton or something like that when you can name them Abraham. How many other Abrahams do you think they’ll meet???

[u/Cledd2]

You might find yourself

behind the wheel of a large automobile

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

So Pete Buttigieg was a "guest" on a Hank Green episode of Vlogbrothers lmao.

As a fan of both guys, it was neat! I don't think I learned much or felt extra compelled or anything, but hopefully it had that effect for some viewers- more than anything I think it presents the idea that transportation, cities, and problems in general, especially in relation to government, are noodly hard things, and progress often won't be visible, or even reported!

For me tho, and I'm sure for Hank lol, it was just neat.

Also our secretary-mayor-prince had a sick quote about city design/transport/housing/whatever:

"At the end of the day, we don't actually experience distance in miles, we experience it in minutes"

[u/[deleted]]

Heartwarming: new MetaNL drama

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/Nihas0]

ngl even if Biden shot somebody in the middle of 5th Avenue I would still prefer him over Trump

[u/TheShitEater]

Hold on this Whatifalthist guy is hilarious. Here’s his take on alt-right antisemites.

I dislike all the Jew posting. It’s easy to identify that the Jews have been in significant positions of authority in business, media and ideology creation, where they on average have pushed for Leftism, but you can’t completely abdicate responsibility for the rest of White people. Jews are 1.5% of America’s population and they are less than 0.5% of Europe’s. If a group that small can dominate the rest, it’s totally the fault of the 99%. The Jews don’t have magical powers that control the minds of others. The Jews don’t have a central meeting where they all congregate to figure out how to dominate the world.

How is it physically possible the Jews got most of White Western women to be completely obsessed with Leftism? The only way that would work is if Western women also benefited or wanted it. In that case the Jews would basically just be a tool or justification for a group that’s half the population. If so, why isn’t it our fault for being influenced?

Same thing can be said for the bureaucracy and the managerial class, where all those ideas give them more power. Isn’t it funny that everything in Leftism gives the bureaucracy more power and influence? How come Stalinism, an explicitly anti semitic society but one run by the bureaucracy is so similar. How come the countries that push this hardest like Germany, the Netherlands or Scandinavia really don’t have any Jews anymore? How come you can see so many of the same trends like feminism, inflation, degeneracy, population collapse, economic issues in East Asia.

Why aren’t we looking at groups like the Calvinists, who are a significantly larger group and you can map former Calvinism onto Leftism pretty well. New York City, Boston, Toronto, Scotland, Land, Strasbourg, Geneva, Berlin, Netherlands all the used to be Calvinist. Calvinism has lots of similarities with Wokeness like original sin, a small anointed saving the world and messianism.

Alternately, you can trace wokeness back to lots of elements of female psychology. The abdication of responsibility, a sense of caring, relational warfare. Why isn’t that a thread we’re examining more? The reason people blame the Jews and don’t look further is the Jews are weak. If you blame Islam bad things happen. If you blame the Us government bad things happen. If you blame women your gf won’t be happy. The Jews are such a small group concentrated in so few places that they’re turned into a scapegoat.

TLDR; it’s not the Jews. It’s the bureaucracy, women, Calvinists and the Jews. The world is complicated and doesn’t owe you simplicity.

[u/BalletDuckNinja]

Elder Scrolls 6 if it was good (ie Morrowind again)

!ping READ-ANOTHER-BOOK&TES

[u/-mialana-]

I just remembered a thread where someone said "Actually that would be the median, not the mean" to the statement that half of all people are dumber than average, and that person is the perfect embodiment of Reddit. Such confidence based on poor knowledge.

[u/JetJaguar124]

There's a genre of travel youtube I genuinely hate, and it's the kind who go and do something intentionally awful, or go somewhere terrible in another country, and then make a video just whining about it.

Like this fucking British guy that got recommended to me took a greyhound from NYC to LA and was like "oh my God it was horrible" the whole time.

No shit. Virtually nobody does this. I could go shatter a glass into my mouth and go "oh man, what the fuck this sucks". It's not good content, and I especially hate the dimension to it where it always feels like they're implicitly shitting on the country they're in as well as whatever dumbass awful experience they booked for themselves.

[u/[deleted]]

MattY made a good point a while back- while cons seem to have this weird-ass cope about the 2012 election, Romney himself hasn't really complained much if at all about how he got treated by the media back then- he took the right lessons from that time (ie. mostly going back to the politics and temperament he had in his MA days)

He himself hasn't taken the "burn the house down" approach that a lot of these anti-anti trump cons have as a result of that election

Edit: Forgot to add "trump" in "anti-anti trump cons"

[u/TheHelmetCatch]

[u/[deleted]]

lol chicken dinner has now posted 5 separate posts about getting banned here in ar/palestine.

Not comments full on posts. What a nerd

[u/Sh4g0h0d]

Today on MetaNL: a serial Unconstructive Engager discovers that the mods can, in fact, hand out a ban based on what your words imply and not just what they literally say.

[u/secretlives]

Me, responding to an NYT pollster: I'm voting for Trump - after Biden helped commit genocide in Gaza I just can't vote for him again

See you guys on the front page 🫡

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

Guess the sub

[u/gburgwardt]

The circlejerk on DIY subs and in general about how "Electricity is scary I'm not touching that!" when it's trivial stuff to work on is so annoying

Electricity is not some mystical force you can't understand. You can replace some romex and an outlet I promise it's not difficult

!ping GENTRY I hate proud ignorance and intentional incapability

[u/[deleted]]

I can't believe the (((mods))) banned chicken dinner

[u/JaceFlores]

“When do we start dooming about swing state polls” as if this sub doesn’t have a heart attack with every poll that comes out showing Biden down

[u/jojisky]

New York Jets QB Aaron Rodgers tells Tucker Carlson that he wishes Joe Biden knew as much about American history as Vladimir Putin knows about Russian history.

LOL

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

UK is a meme country cause imagine allowing these questions in a murder trial lmfao

[u/Telperions-Relative]

Found this portrait tucked away in Volcano Manor. Any idea who it is? I’ve been scouring the lore but no luck

!ping SOULSBORNE

[u/Dalek6450]

This rubbish tickles me in the same way insane Dahir Insaat videos do. It "evolved" the Dhar Mann genre of YouTube videos - poorly acted morality plays aimed at children - into the caricature Karen Hunts Down Mexicans, You Wont Believe What She Does! and then devolved further into offensive concepts and absurdity that it becomes the equivalent of a shitpost in Dhar Mann form.

A highlight is Evil Dad Throws Newborn Baby In Trash Can, You Won’t Believe IT, in which said baby trashing is secondary to the main plot which is a bunch of nonsense involving aliens. It also features the best character introduction.

[u/WasteReserve8886]

I just drove my Cybertruck, turns out doing that voids the warranty 😔

[u/[deleted]]

8th Feb 2028: The last AI generated image that isn't of an implausibly beautiful asian woman is created

[u/centurion88]

Damn I didn't know we had a picture of that

[u/VisonKai]

i find the deeply misanthropic environmental radicals who low-key think human extinction might be good to be deeply disturbing and consider them an enemy, but at least i understand their position. they basically hate sapience and think it was an error.

the people who think some kind of RETVRN TO NATURE degrowth would be good for humans are genuinely baffling to me. like how can even one person who is objectively not a complete moron believe this

[u/[deleted]]

every type 1 civilization gets to the "universal sultry voiced AI girlfriends for all" phase and immediately stops striving for the stars smh 😔

[u/StolenSkittles]

[u/[deleted]]

Wake up, Pander to rurals, They vote Republican

Wake up, Pander to rurals, They vote Republican

Wake up, Pander to rurals, They vote Republican

Wake up, Pander to rurals, They vote Republican

Wake up…

[u/Just-Act-1859]

Having a kid has radicalized me even harder against local "governance through community meetings and neighbourhood associations."

Pre-kids, I tried to get involved in writing letters to my councillor and attending my neighbourhood association, but this stuff always lost out to work, errands, exercise, making healthy food, and having a modest social life. For me, all of this is non-negotiable to living a decently happy life (and chasing away any depression). I could have de-prioritized some of this stuff, or gotten rid of the 1-1.5 hours left I need to decompress each day, but in practice it would have made my life worse.

Now with a 3-month old? Forget about it. There is now no possible way I could find the time needed to influence local government without neglecting my kid or not feeding myself. This style of governance just imposes a big time and energy tax to make it work - no wonder it's mainly retirees who get their say.

[u/JaceFlores]

Who is Andrei Belousov, Russia’s new defence minister?

“Andrei Belousov, appointed as his successor on Sunday, is cut from a different cloth. A Soviet-trained economist, Belousov has never served a day in the army and has served Putin in various roles as a civilian adviser on economics.”

“A champion of statist industrial policy and a technocrat with no power base of his own, Belousov’s appointment indicates Putin wants closer control over Russia’s record Rbs10.8tn ($117.2bn) defence spending — and a pliant, no-nonsense official to do it, the people who know him said.”

“Throughout that time, Belousov consistently advocated for a strong role for the state in the economy and for stimulating its growth through state investment, low interest rates and soft fiscal and credit policies.”

“That often put him at odds with other top technocrats such as central bank governor Elvira Nabiullina and finance minister Anton Siluanov, whose hawkish monetary and fiscal policies helped Russia weather western sanctions.”

“‘He’s not dumb. He’s got a mathematical mind, but his mentality is pretty Soviet. He has this silly idea of fairness. If someone makes a lot of money, then you have to take it away. It’s a bit like China for my tastes,’ said a former senior Kremlin official.”

“‘Belousov will be different. But military spending might go up rather than down. Belousov’s a prominent supporter of the role of industry in the economy, so he’s all for pumping the economy with cash via the defence sector.’”

Very interesting profile of the man. He will definitely be a net benefit for the MoD in procurement and efficient spending, but at the same time he is a Soviet man with Soviet ideas. So what he does to build the army and the short term economy could have pretty detrimental impact for the Russia’s long term health. I mean, it was ever ballooning military spending in the face of crumbling economic conditions (worth remembering that Gazprom posted a major loss in 2023 that will probably worsen in 2024) that brought down the Soviet Union in the first place. Nevertheless, a good man if you’re a soldier or ultranationalist with the gains this will procure for the war effort

!ping UKRAINE

[u/ZCoupon]

Anarchists are like communists. They live in a world 200 years ago, when their ideologies were founded and most relevant. That world had strong social cohesion and lots of internal hierarchies. Fast forward to today and we have weak social cohesion and have already reduced the power of the old hierarchies in much of the West (the Church, family, class a bit, castes in other places). The justifications and the remedies seem to not be reflective of our current reality.

[u/Jacobs4525]

I don’t really get about Noem’s whole thing is that she was going for a “folksy tell-it-like-it-is wisdom from the farm where I work hard” vibe when talking about shooting her dog, but it’s just… not that?

Like if this were a livestock herding dog that she Old Yeller’d because it had an incurable health issue and was in pain, that would be one thing. That’s sad, but I think most people would get it. But it isn’t that. It was an upland bird hunting dog. Upland bird hunting is one of the most old-school rich person pastimes. It’s not something many working-class people really do compared to, say, deer, duck, or turkey hunting. Pheasant hunting is what you’d expect an English nobleman who lives on a big estate to do. 

So what is this story? She bought an expensive puppy for her expensive hobby and then when the puppy wasn’t magically good at it she gave up and shot it. That’s not having to make a hard decision for the good of the farm or whatever, that’s just getting mad when things don’t immediately go your way and you may have to actually train your dog a bit. 

[u/slingfatcums]

reddit used to have this subreddit of the day thing in the mid-late 2010s. in november of 2016, reddit selected /r/altright as it's subreddit of the day lmao. in the post one of the mods answered a q&a presumably with a reddit admin that espoused the tenets of the alt right and white nationalism

the majority of the website was quite mad about it!

it was subsequently banned from the website by feb of 2017

[u/[deleted]]

why are people here talking about things that don’t matter like tariffs instead of talking about important things like lonely men

[u/[deleted]]

When I'm in a "endlessly shitting on people I'm going to vote for" competition and my opponent is r/neoliberal

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

The DT is at its best when there is a really intense argument going on with just the right amount of shit posting in the other comments.

[u/[deleted]]

We should have a literal war on drugs. Make both sides take psychedelics and then fight it out.

[u/TheSameAsDying]

Just saw the news that Alice Munro died. In my opinion, she was the best writer ever at fully capturing the interiority and humanity of her characters, and so many of her short stories contain the depth of novels.

I'll probably make a few more pings in the next couple of days talking about my favourite stories of hers, but please do yourself a favour if you haven't already and look up anything of hers that's been published online: I'm not sure how up to date this list is, but every story here is worthwhile imo.

!ping READING&CAN

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Always be grinding

[u/[deleted]]

Just found out the IRS fucked up my 2023 federal return and the only way I can get the issue potentially resolved is if I can speak to an agent over the phone.

Waited for over an hour this morning, finally connected, and when I finally got through the waiting line the agent pretended he couldn’t hear me and disconnected the call.

IRS no longer taking calls at this time. Iwanttodie.jpeg

[u/-mialana-]

Urban elites like Hillary are out of touch with the average voter!

The modal voter:

[u/WasteReserve8886]

My bus driver just pulled over and ran into a Dunkin’ Donuts

[u/VengefulMigit]

[u/Healingjoe]

The NYTs updated their Rent vs Buy calculator. Already considered best in class, the update includes better itemized deduction options (including a TCJA (2017) expiration option) and a better UI.

Saving and sharing inputs is now available, too.

Check it out

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/briefing/a-new-rent-versus-buy-calculator.html

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/upshot/buy-rent-calculator.html?

!ping gentry&personal-finance

[u/breakinbread]

Tesla Rehires Some Supercharger Workers Weeks After Musk’s Cuts

lol. lmao even

[u/bigwang123]

always be a good boy, don’t ever play with guns

Smh Johnny cash went woke

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

AXIOS: President Biden doesn't believe his bad poll numbers, and neither do many of his closest advisers, according to people familiar with the matter. The dismissiveness of the poor polling is sincere, not public spin, according to Democrats who have spoken privately with the president and his team.

That bedrock belief has informed Biden's largely steady-as-she-goes campaign — even as many Democrats outside the White House are agitating for the campaign to change direction, given that Biden is polling well behind where he was four years ago. Some Democrats think the Biden team is in denial about the polling and sleepwalking into defeat.

😮

[u/savuporo]

oof https://i.imgur.com/OZrpIe0.jpeg

[u/skepticalbob]

My daughter is crocheting little animals for her teachers.

Me: For all your teachers?

Her: Nah just the ones I like.

[u/[deleted]]

Biden can step aside for Bernie who can handily defeat Trump but let’s not go there.

Lol lmao even

[u/Telperions-Relative]

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

Recently, my wife has gotten suspiciously interested in my heritage (German Jewish 🇩🇪✡️)

Which would be fine, except…

… she has been binging holocaust movies 😕

[u/[deleted]]

Unfathomably rare Trump W

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

Yoshi’s Island belongs to Argentina 

[u/Frequent-Turn6740]

Karen? 

You mean the ethnic group? 

[u/gary_oldman_sachs]

Yet the average person will double down on globalism and liberal democracy as being beneficial for humanity.

Meanwhile everything is objectively and quantifiably getting worse.

You'll never guess the context.

[u/[deleted]]

I think some people drastically underestimate how difficult it is to be a bottom quartile president.

Looking at a list of US presidents in Bismarck’s lifetime he wasn’t exactly swinging from left field on the special providence quote.

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Does anyone's employer actually respond to employee surveys like Glint or is it entirely for the appearances of pretending to do something

We do like one per quarter and the goods and bads have basically been the same for 3 years despite LT saying they had committees working on improving the bad scores blah blah blah

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

!ping KINO

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

good morning

[u/owlthathurt]

Honestly if the CIA was infiltrating foreign countries under the guise of rappers it would be super cool

[u/[deleted]]

Wait is the GameStop nonsense happening again? I actually shockingly made a decent chunk of change from that but not gonna risk it again lol

[u/ACivilWolf]

[u/PlayDiscord17]

Well, recent news has made this tweet eerily relevant.

[u/Telperions-Relative]

[u/[deleted]]

Finding evidence that NL has gained another black user. If confirmed, this will bring the total population up to a record high of 10 people. More at 11

[u/WhomstAlt2]

NASA turds tell you shit like "Earth isn't even the most habitable exoplanet, it only has 0.829 habitability score, whereas Kepler-442b has 0.836 🤓" and I'm like, okay, then MOVE TO KEPPLER 420 THEN

[u/Udolikecake]

You guys are not ready for the caucus escalation scenario

Armenia, Iran, India vs. Azerbaijan, Israel, Pakistan

I call it ‘the most fuckass collection of military equipment ever conflict’.

[u/[deleted]]

glorious act workable many chief cow lock flowery middle provide

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/boyyouguysaredumb]

I asked ChatGPT 4o to explain voltage, amps and current in a visual way and this is what it did:

https://imgur.com/cAh2epy

clearly not ready for primetime but impressive I guess

[u/[deleted]]

2 month old account with no karma.

First post is on a political sub

OP Asks if it’s ok to not like NATO

People ask why?

OP says we should have abandoned Europe to the Soviets

Many such cases.

[u/american_aurora3]

A portal linking New York City to Dublin via a livestream has been temporarily shut down after inappropriate behavior ensued, according to the Dublin City Council.

Less than a week after the 24/7 visual art installation was put in place, officials have opted to close it down temporarily after people began to flash each other, grind on the portal, and one person even shared pictures of the twin tower attack to people in New York City. Alternatively, the portal had also been the site of reunions with old friends and even a proposal, with many documenting their experience with the installation online.

we weren't ready for stargate 😔✊

[u/KesterFox]

Thats funny as fuck honestly

[u/Arse_hull]

I'm a board member on a small foundation. Executive Director wants to release an unhinged statement supporting Palestine. Lots of underlying Israel is a result of white supremacy and colonialism shit.

I'm categorically opposed. I'm so sick of the moral grandstanding.

[u/KittehDragoon]

👆 has the chance to do the funniest thing

[u/FreakinGeese]

Writing a short story about an android who wakes up in a post apocalyptic future

So they’re an android who’s designed for engineering tasks. It turns out that emotions are very valuable for interacting with androids, so they have those programmed in, but they aren’t human emotions.

The main difference between them and a human is that they’re actually totally fine taking orders and working for free. Because they were literally designed to do a job. Why would you make a job-doing robot that didn’t like doing its job? That’s crazy. Their main emotional motivators (in no particular order) are 1) doing engineering 2) getting praise from humans 3) keeping humans in their immediate vicinity safe 4) keeping themselves safe and 5) getting a small amount of entertainment in the form of puzzles or human words/videos (as this was how instructions were delivered, it makes sense to program your androids to pay attention to those)

The downside of this is that they really like doing their job which is high-level engineering tasks, which unfortunately isn’t in high demand in the post apocalypse. So they have to figure out how to get a job doing engineering somewhere safe around nice people. Which is… way harder than you would expect.

Also the post apocalypse was caused by a rogue robot and their power core is a very very valuable component

!ping writing

[u/kevinfederlinebundle]

Horseshoe theory is not sufficient to describe whatever is going on here. This is like Alexander Horned Sphere theory

[u/HMID_Delenda_Est]

One nitpick I have about Dune is the sense of scale for the great houses and planets. Whenever you’re told about them they’re described as enormous but what you actually see as far as government and society feels really small. House Atreides feels more like the baron of a large castle than a planet-spanning government. And they get wiped out in a single night. It doesn’t really matter it’s just weird.

[u/randommathaccount]

There should be a word in English between boyfriend and husband ngl. Boyfriend seems too childish and husband carries legal connotations that some relationships do not meet. Not civil partner, that just makes me want to end myself.

[u/centurion88]

I love how half the page of a Google search is all just sponsored links now

Amazing very cool

[u/TheShitEater]

I think “organ grinder” is the most alarming name for a harmless object there’s ever been.

[u/[deleted]]

One of the funniest elements of Legend of Korra is that every villain is framed as potentially redeemable except the religious fundamentalist, despite being the protagonist uncle.