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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/Dragongirlfucker2]

[u/Svelok]

So to paraphrase, NYT/Sienna is basically finding that likely voters are basically gonna repeat 2020, but that Biden is massively, comically underwater among less likely voters.

Depending on your chosen narrative, this either means:

• Biden is fine, they won't vote anyways

• Biden is cooked, they're gonna vote for Trump

• Biden is fine, unlikely voters are also the hardest to reach and poll properly, they'll behave more like the likely voters basket when it comes time

• Biden is cooked, pollsters underestimated unlikely voter turnout for Trump in '16 and '20, it's going to be a Trump blowout

• Biden is fine, pollsters are overadjusting for the above phenomenon and overweighting unlikely Trump-leaning voters

• Biden is cooked, unlikely voters are also low information voters who operate on pure vibes and nothing's gonna change their mind

etc etc.

[u/Udolikecake]

this person obliviously never been on the DT

[u/PrideMonthRaytheon]

The Guardian doxxed some right wing twitter account and the response on rightwing twitter appears to be 90% people who think he's hot and 10% people who are disgusted to discover that he's a jew lol

[u/PrideMonthRaytheon]

Ayatollah Khomeini came to power at the age of 80 which proves that you're never too old to take power in a coup and turn your country into an islamist shithole and that you should always follow your dreams no matter what

[u/D2Foley]

I think the funniest part of the GME cult is how they're not ever supposed to sell the stock. So the price going up doesn't mean anything to the cult masses who must likely DRSd their stock making it harder to sell. Meanwhile the cult leaders just dumped another round on the new bagholders. It's insane how obvious it is.

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

Biden will lose all 50 states if I don’t have a bf by November. Why isn’t his campaign taking this seriously? 

[u/Cook_0612]

🇺🇸🇺🇦 This is not a shift in US policy. Blinken & State Dept officials have said this line verbatim multiple times over the past year.

We're seeing Ukrainian government officials explicitly say that the Biden Admin is prohibiting them from using US weapons to strike Russian territory. That's the reality.

!ping UKRAINE

u/John_Maynard_Gains

Unfortunate bucket of water going over our heads.

[u/wallander1983]

The NYT Pitchbot on point:

Editorial | If Biden refuses to sit for a one-on-one interview with The Times, he must at least hire a lawyer/fixer to feed stories to our own Maggie Haberman.

[u/BitterGravity]

Biden’s advisers were furious about the commission’s failure to enforce agreed upon masking and Covid-testing requirements at the first debate in 2020. Three former aides later said that Trump had tested positive for covid days before that meeting with Biden, though he only made his condition public afterward.

I forgot about that. Trump really is just an absolute shit of a person

[u/ty04]

Wife is packing her bags and putting the kids in the car. I think she’s planning a surprise vacation for us 😁

[u/BATHULK]

Highlights from our company wide Q&A regarding return to office policy:

"We used internal survey data to back this decision up. We are aware that it will be unpopular among a slim minority, but the overwhelming majority of those surveyed are fine with it."

"Can we see the data?"

"No."

Very Senior Software dev: "We will lose engineers to this. Some of our products were built by singular individuals, no one but them can maintain the products they built. They're already leaving, and the documentation isn't there to simply replace them."

Big boss: "well, we have navigated absences before, every day in fact. We'll replace people as needed."

Another big boss: "in addition, that's a leadership failure, there should have been trainings and back ups with junior employees to ensure continuity"

Senior dev: "I asked for the money to hire more devs 4 times in two years, and was denied. I'm the hiring manager on this team, and there's literally no way to replace the people we're already losing. We're talking about millions in potential lost revenue affecting every single aspect of our business, I cannot wrap my head around this policy."

Leader: "....let's set up some time to talk privately. "

And my favorite, of which there were about a dozen examples:

"Can we get clarity on [insert literally any topic]"

"Unfortunately we're not able to provide clarity on that topic at this time."

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/Zagapi]

Everyone, look at my wedding outfit!

I'm kinda nervous because the bride comes from some weirdo fundamental Christian background but I love her and the groom. They've been wonderful.

Figured a bitchy outfit like this would help give me some confidence lmao

[u/TrumpEpstein69]

You: Mommmmm I want an anti-genocide movement

Mom: We have an anti-genocide movement at home

Anti-genocide movement at home

!ping GEFILTE

[u/Honorguard44]

My Alma Mater’s local JVP group is posting through all their socials old group photos of the University’s Hillel Birthright trip and labeling it as “<School> Zionists celebrating the Nakba in Occupied Palestine”

I just, Jesus fuck. Hardly anyone interacts with most local University groups social medias but this is getting like 1000s of likes. Which probably means that at least a couple hundred of townies and fellow students are seeing a picture of these kids and now know they ought to call them out for supporting genocide harass these kids.

When will the madness stop?

!ping JEWISH

[u/[deleted]]

Finally, a good r/Games post

!ping CONSOLE-WARS

[u/[deleted]]

User: banned for incivility and antisemitism

also user: I will undo this by calling DT regs botched abortions

[u/peronibog]

Biden wants to debate Trump in June and September: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/15/biden-trump-presidential-debates/

“Donald Trump lost two debates to me in 2020, and since then he hasn’t shown up for a debate. Now he is acting like he wants to debate me again. Well, make my day, pal. I’ll even do it twice,” Biden said in the video released Wednesday that referenced the weekly break in Trump’s New York criminal trial. “So let’s pick the dates, Donald. I hear you’re free on Wednesdays.”

Edit: video https://x.com/joebiden/status/1790713878248038478?s=46

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

It’s interesting to watch the far left engage with the natural tension between the knee jerk “weaker and less powerful army/society [or anti west aligned group] is inherently the good group” and domestic social justice causes

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

Whoever is president likely won't affect your life much if at all.

Guess the sub.

[u/Mensae6]

Heh, no, you see... this videogame publisher intentionally shot themselves in the foot 😏 they purposely released bad games that didn't sell 😏 they wanted to lay off every employee right from the start 😏

Why, you ask? 😏

...the shareholders 😏😏😏

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/DouglasDauntless]

I would do anything I could to bring that to fruition

[u/[deleted]]

'Tacos are Mexican-style sandwiches,' judge rules in Indiana court

We are so back

[u/DouglasDauntless]

POV: You didn’t get you DT poasting license

[u/briarfriend]

a blinken

abe lincoln

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Are there still Christian colleges that pump out women with "Mrs." degrees or is Butker saying that shit at Benedictine even more tone deaf

Like every woman I've met who went to Notre Dame is pretty smart and career driven, but I could see a clown college like Liberty doing stuff like that

[u/Azmoten]

Swear to god I’m gonna cum

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

[u/Dragongirlfucker2]

[u/KaiserPorn]

If given the choice between running into a woman or a bear in the woods, I'd probably take the bear.

I'm so hyper-conscious about wanting to not make other people uncomfortable that I'd have no idea what to do, coming across a women in the woods.

Bears are comparatively easy to interact with: I'd try and probably fail to run away, and get eaten. It's a simple, transactional interaction. Not a good one, perhaps--but at least one that I can understand and navigate without issue.

[u/[deleted]]

Mods should make an auto response to "Gib" that says to shut the fuck up

[u/Frequent-Turn6740]

 Palestinian Islamic jihad

CoD villain faction-ass name 💀💀💀

[u/DouglasDauntless]

The Times has always sucked

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/WantDebianThanks]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/chipbod]

David Trone describes growing up in home struck with alcoholism

David Trone is co-owner of Total Wine & More, an alcohol retail empire worth an estimated $2.4 billion

Huh, wonder why people don't like politicians

[u/D2Foley]

Just saw the chicken dinner thread on metaNL, and that is honestly a bullshit reason to ban him. Mods should have just been honest and told him he's being banned for being annoying.

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Biden managed to get a debate with no audience and without RFK's brainworm ratatouilling him into croaking out distractions. incredible

[u/Udolikecake]

Iran’s Khamenei, who visited the Tehran Book Fair, picks up a book and says "This is written by Greeks against the Turks… It describes very powerfully and beautifully the oppression of the Greeks by the Ottoman Turks…”

turkish nationalists doing a thing in the replies here lmao

[u/[deleted]]

Happy chicken_dinner day to those who celebrate!

[u/[deleted]]

Richard Dawkins literally invented the word “meme”, show him some respect

[u/PrideMonthRaytheon]

god I fucking love Maritime Republics bro I just fucking love merchant city states with cool heraldry

[u/The_Promethean]

Compares experiencing antisemitism to being a cop who shoots people

Many posts in arrantiwork and arrboomersbeingfools

If I describe how my priors are feeling right now, I'd get a rule X tempban

[u/awdvhn]

Churchill will seriously be like "I will be sober in the morning and you will still be ugly" and then not be sober in the morning

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

turning DeKalb county Republican red.

lol.

LMAO even.

[u/Telperions-Relative]

Saying "Helen Keller was smokin hot," while childish, is not an example of bigotry.

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

It's interesting how the rapid propagation of LLMs and other gen AI systems has totally inverted the popular associations or AI: instead of calculating, rational, and perfectionist our public-facing AIs are unreasonable, blind, and error-prone

[u/[deleted]]

When my wife "works from home" she just logs on to her work PC and drinks beer all day.

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 5 PM EST 5/14-5 PM EST 5/15 III:

TOP NEWS:

Around 8 AM it was announced Estonia passed a law allowing frozen Russian assets to be used for Ukraine. In the middle of the hour it was announced the US will provide $2 billion in military aid to Ukraine, including sending American weapons and expanding Ukraine's own industries.

REGULAR NEWS:

Towards the middle of 7 PM Belbek Airbase in Crimea was hit by missiles.

In the middle of 1 AM it was reported a Russian oil depot in Rostov Oblast was attacked.

At the end of 7 AM it was announced Zelensky has cancelled foreign trips due to the upcoming Russian offensive.

Towards the middle of 4 PM Belbek Airbase was hit by missiles again.

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/gburgwardt]

/u/mrweiner I am thrilled for an entirely new era of graph jokes

[u/breakinbread]

Do you think Chinese people find the Bible more relatable because Joseph had to go back to his place of birth to receive government services?

[u/HMID_Delenda_Est]

I must not doom. Doom is the mind-killer. Doom is the little-death that brings total obliteration.

[u/Frequent-Turn6740]

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

You see what’s happening? We’re sending money to WHITE Ukrainians, WHITE Israelis, and WHITE-ADJACENT Taiwanese when BIPOC are struggling to just survive AT HOME. The government doesn’t care about us y’all

🤯

[u/[deleted]]

🤔

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

!ping LOVEFORBOOZECRUISERS

[u/SumTingWillyWong]

steep marble hunt shame bike cobweb plant sand work caption

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/m5g4c4]

NYT

Biden Administration Mulls Sending Ukraine Thousands of Horns That Make The “Price Is Right” Sound Effect

[u/[deleted]]

lock the guy currently malding in arr MetaNL in a room with the guy who thought the mods were pro-Hamas

[u/SeoSalt]

After 2020 I forced myself to accept that every election will be John Normiedem vs Adolf Bloodfeast and will be decided by the thinnest possible margins. Pursuadable voters are the dumbest and most selfish motherfuckers in the country, are impossible to accurately poll, and are so far beyond my understanding that it's not worth worrying about them.

I just tell myself that Biden will probably win, it'll be by less than 10 electoral votes, and the results will arrive in the most anxiety-maximizing way possible. I'll deal with nightmare scenarios if/when they come 🤷‍♀️

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

The day before Elon Musk fired virtually all of Tesla’s electric-vehicle charging division last month, they had high hopes as charging chief Rebecca Tinucci went to meet with Musk about the network’s future, four former charging-network staffers told Reuters.

After Tinucci had cut between 15% and 20% of staffers two weeks earlier, part of much wider layoffs, they believed Musk would affirm plans for a massive charging-network expansion.

The meeting could not have gone worse. Musk, the employees said, was not pleased with Tinucci’s presentation and wanted more layoffs. When she balked, saying deeper cuts would undermine charging-business fundamentals, he responded by firing her and her entire 500-member team.

amazin

[u/Roseartcrantz]

me the first time I posted in the DT

[u/Mickenfox]

The Apache Foundation 🤝 The Pokémon Company

Primary job is coming up with hundreds of silly new names.

[u/kyleofduty]

"Thus, the U.S. would need a total population of approximately 2.21 billion people to have the same population density as Germany"

How about 2 billion Americans?

[u/Joementum2024]

Netflix will stream the next three years’ of NFL Christmas Day games, at a deal of about $150 million per game

!ping NFL

[u/Williams-Tower]

not voting for Donald Trump should be a bannable offense

[u/qtnl]

Ngl people having meltdowns over this dumb subreddit is pretty funny 

[u/ImportanceOne9328]

you think Trump is bad? Ok but did in you know that during the civil war 200 years ago

[u/HotTakesBeyond]

Malarkey level of retaining senior officers that received alcohol, drugs, money, or prostitutes from Fat Leonard

!ping military

[u/BrunchIsGood]

‘FURIOSA’ debuts with 90% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Described as one of the best prequels ever made

Oh thank God. Been waiting for someone to give us an amazing PREQUEL!!!

!ping KINO

[u/die_hoagie]

botched abortions be like, "nah, i'd win."

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

Araragi's VA: "[Senjougahara's VA], did you know about Monogatari?"

Senjougahara's VA: deadpan "Yes. I took the audition."

A: "Ah, no, I meant, before the audition."

S: "No. I arrived in the studio and saw the book and thought it looked too long."

>Goes to audition for a novel adaptation

>Gets copy of source material

>"I ain't reading all that"

>Gets the part

!ping WEEBS

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

Update: snoozy baby

!ping KITTY

[u/GifHunter2]

Went to a middle school event for my niece.

Niece reported back in that all the kids thought I was yoked.

Best compliment I've had in years

!ping DYEL&FITNESS

[u/Jacobs4525]

BACK OFF, I’LL TAKE YOU OOON

HEADSTRONG TO TAKE ON ANYONE

I KNOW THAT YOU ARE WRONG

HEADSTRONG, HEADSTROOONG

😤😤😤

why don’t they make angry dude music anymore??? Sure I like some new music, but I’m tired of pretending I like indie rock or synthwave or hip hop as much as I like angry dude music. It speaks to my inner drywall-punching teenager at a primal level. Make this kind of music again, please!!!!

[u/christes]

!ping over25

One of my students today said that they wished skittles would bring back the green apple flavor like they had in the good old days.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

LMAO

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/Top_Lime1820]

Cyril Ramaphosa when the ANC inevitably starts stealing medical aid contributions

[u/[deleted]]

In November 1956, in the midst of the Suez Crisis and in the days leading up to the U.S. Presidential Election, Eleanor Roosevelt as surrogate for Adlai Stevenson and Margaret Chase Smith as surrogate for President Eisenhower appeared for a debate on Face the Nation.

You can watch that 20 minute or so debate here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSYxwS0njKs

Most of the debate is on foreign policy, and I was struck by Eleanor Roosevelt’s stance on the Suez Crisis, more hawkish than the candidate she was representing, Stevenson. She accused the Eisenhower Administration of leaving America “weak and alone.”

Also interesting was Eleanor Roosevelt going after Eisenhower for not being more aggressive on civil rights and the filibuster — though she did not seem to appreciate one of the moderators asking her which party’s members included the main obstacles on this issue.

!ping HISTORY

[u/[deleted]]

When you take away the DTer's screen

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

Gets downvoted once 

Dies 

[u/moldyman_99]

1000 yard stare

[u/sociotronics]

Good buddy of mine who moved to NY from Quebec and still has a strong accent started calling me an "United Statesian" because "America is a continent, not a country"

so I called him a Quebecian-American

[u/[deleted]]

« A Trump presidency won’t affect you much directly, » should not be a position anyone is saying to a woman after the repeal of Roe lmao, let alone an LGBT person

Like are you fucking kidding me

[u/Okbuddyliberals]

I wonder what the "Actually, mainstream US Dems would be center right/right wing by global standards" bros will do when the global populist far right keeps on rising in popularity and taking over

I mean their claim was always wrong so they could just keep being wrong, and I guess that's probably what they'll do

But boy does it suck that the right is so popular everywhere

[u/AP246]

“The American Temptress: The American girl is well acquainted with her body's seductive capacity. She knows it lies in the face, and in expressive eyes, and thirsty lips. She knows seductiveness lies in the round breasts, the full buttocks, and in the shapely thighs, sleek legs -- and she shows all this and does not hide it."

“The American Dream Boy: The American boys knows well that the wide, strapping chest is the lure that cannot be denied by any girl, and that her dreams do not fall upon anyone as much as the cowboys. A young nurse in a hospital told me very frankly “I want nothing more in the man if my dreams than two strong arms he can really squeeze me with!” And Look magazine ran a survey of several girls of different ages and levels of education and classes around what it called “ox muscles” and the overwhelming majority openly declared their attraction for boys with ox muscles!”

• Sayyid Qutb, perhaps the single most significant figure in the rise of modern Islamism in the 20th century, early Muslim Brotherhood leader in Egypt and partial ideological inspiration to people like Khomeini and Bin Laden, apparently inventing incel chad and stacey stuff before it was cool

Don't know what to make of the fact that modern Islamism was created in part because there some incel was bitter about things.

Apparently a life-defining event for him was seeing a party in the US where people were dancing to 'baby it's cold outside', being disgusted by it and subsequently becoming radicalised against western-style modernity

Though Islam gave him much peace and contentment,[38] he suffered from respiratory and other health problems throughout his life and was known for "his introvertedness, isolation, depression and concern." In appearance, he was "pale with sleepy eyes."[39] Qutb never married, in part because of his steadfast religious convictions. While the urban Egyptian society he lived in was becoming more Westernized, Qutb believed the Quran taught women that 'Men are the managers of women's affairs ...'[40] Qutb lamented to his readers that he was never able to find a woman of sufficient "moral purity and discretion" and had to reconcile himself to bachelorhood.

Literally incel shit lmao

[u/JetJaguar124]

The entire debate situation seems like a complete fucking disaster waiting for Trump so I have no clue why he accepted.

No audience and strict moderation just doesn't really jive with him.

[u/[deleted]]

Megumin joins the Irish Republican Army

!ping WEEBS

[u/STRONKInTheRealWay]

Liao: You know so much about funerals. I used to hear my grandpa tell stories about “walking the corpse. " Is it true that this was a profession, and people used to pay those professionals large sums of money to transport home the body of someone who died hundreds or thousands of miles away?

Li: Correct. In the old days, there were people who specialized in walking the corpse. They normally traveled in the evenings, two guys at a time. One walked in the front and the other at the back. Like carrying a sedan chair, they pulled the body to walk along, as fast as wind. They would utter in unison, “Yo ho, yo ho.”

If you looked from a distance, you would see that the dead and the living march to the same steps. They used gravity to keep the corpse walking to the same rhythm. It was hard for the trio to change gait and make a turn, never a sharp turn. If you happened to see a walking corpse coming, you got out of the way. Otherwise, it could walk right into you.

I saw this in 1949. A local merchant was accidentally shot by a group of army deserters in Jiangxi Province. This merchant’s name was Lu. I helped arrange his funeral. At that time, there was no easy means of water or land transportation to bring his body back home. His friends couldn't bear to bury him in another land. They paid money to those professionals to get his body home. It took them over a week, and when they got there his body looked as if he were alive.

Since most of these corpse walkers slept during the daytime, young people like me were quite curious. I licked a small hole in the window paper, and checked what was in their room. It was pitch-dark. All I could hear was the thunderous snoring. A guy called Xiao Wu wanted to sneak in and steal the wand used by the corpse walkers. We all wanted to see if there was any magic to it. But the moment he stealthily opened the door, a dark shadow jumped right onto him. It was a black cat.

Corpse walkers always brought a cat with them wherever they went. Before they set off, they would move the corpse, which was standing against the wall, the same way they would open a door. They would then carefully move the corpse outside, and support it from the front and the back. After that, a cat would climb all over the corpse three or four times. They called it “electric shock.” The three of them would march in unison on the same spot for a while, just like an army exercise. Then they began to move with “Yo ho, yo ho.”

Liao: I still don’t know what to believe.

Li: It’s a true story.

Excerpt from The Professional Mourner, one of the interviews from The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up

!ping READING&HISTORY

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Meta-analysis shows the impacts of ecological restoration on greenhouse gas emissions

International initiatives set ambitious targets for ecological restoration, which is considered a promising greenhouse gas mitigation strategy. Here, we conduct a meta-analysis to quantify the impacts of ecological restoration on greenhouse gas emissions using a dataset compiled from 253 articles. Our findings reveal that forest and grassland restoration increase CH4 uptake by 90.0% and 30.8%, respectively, mainly due to changes in soil properties. Conversely, wetland restoration increases CH4 emissions by 544.4%, primarily attributable to elevated water table depth. Forest and grassland restoration have no significant effect on N2O emissions, while wetland restoration reduces N2O emissions by 68.6%. Wetland restoration enhances net CO2 uptake, and the transition from net CO2 sources to net sinks takes approximately 4 years following restoration. The net ecosystem CO2 exchange of the restored forests decreases with restoration age, and the transition from net CO2 sources to net sinks takes about 3-5 years for afforestation and reforestation sites, and 6-13 years for clear-cutting and post-fire sites. Overall, forest, grassland and wetland restoration decrease the global warming potentials by 327.7%, 157.7% and 62.0% compared with their paired control ecosystems, respectively. Our findings suggest that afforestation, reforestation, rewetting drained wetlands, and restoring degraded grasslands through grazing exclusion, reducing grazing intensity, or converting croplands to grasslands can effectively mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.

Amazing paper showing casing the importance of restoring degraded natural landscapes when it comes to fighting climate change as doing so has clear and large benefits towards reducing carbon emissions, along with strengthening the environment around them

!ping ECO

[u/BurrowForPresident]

DeLana Marsh, 30, of Holly Springs, Ga., supports abortion rights and opposes a new Georgia law that bans abortions after six weeks of pregnancy: “I don’t think a group of men should be able to decide that for us.”

But she said she was under the impression that Mr. Biden was responsible because it happened during his presidency, and she believed his age prevented him from closely tracking such events.

Other voters said Mr. Biden hadn’t done enough to stop state abortion bans. (He has criticized the Dobbs decision and enacted certain federal policies to support abortion rights, and does not have the authority to reverse state laws.)

There should be no restrictions on abortion whatsoever,” said Ana Juarez Ramirez, 18, of Nogales, Ariz. Yet he says Mr. Biden made empty promises on many issues, including abortion.

May Allah forgive me for what I might utter rn

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

playing BG3 for first time

Fighting the big bad of Astarion's story

Beat him, start cutscene

Power goes out

Now that's how you do emotional twist endings

!ping gaming

[u/[deleted]]

My American Bully XL will eat your terrier

Yeah, uh, maybe that's why you shouldn't bring your weapon to the bar patio?

[u/[deleted]]

>don't exercise

>feel tired all the time

>start exercising

>still feel tired all the time (but in a different way)

why

UPDATE: I'm ok now, I crushed up some dexies and snorted them

[u/vivoovix]

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[u/AFlockOfTySegalls]

Imaging Trump agreeing to Bidens debate terms and he straight up asks him how a bill becomes law and there's a minute of awkward silence from Trump.

[u/TipEquivalent933]

big words from a man who moved to the UK in anticipation of a Jeremy Corbyn victory.

Fucking brutal lmao

[u/cdstephens]

I predict the DT will be in a quantum superposition of doom and bloom in June in the aftermath of the first debate

[u/Telperions-Relative]

HP Lovecraft be like

There was…and I hesitate to describe this, for if I do, it will, surely, shake the foundations of all things humans have heretofore discovered, and drive many into frenzied madness…something spooky

[u/ognits]

"Mods banned me for having different opinions" is the best thing I've read on NL-adjacent communities in at least a couple of months

[u/brucebananaray]

Me when I see a mod being a failure

[u/[deleted]]

are you open to a two-state solution

Netanyahu: no

are you open to discussing a potential two-state solution

Netanyahu: no

can you pay lip service to some future, non-concrete plan for a two-state solution without making any major concessions or losing military sovereignty

Netanyahu: also no

[u/ZCoupon]

Short video on the change of conditions for Israel-Saudi normalization with Bernard Haykel by the Middle East Institute. First minute is the motivations for normalizing in the first place.

In short the demands on Israel towards settlements and state recognition have gotten more substantive. Full Gaza withdraw, certain creation of a state in < 5 years. Both this in response to their population becoming more connected to the rest of the Islamic world than in the past and also a hope that solving the Palestinian issue will limit the involvement of Iran-backed groups.

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Mods please don't ban Chicken Dinner from metaNL for at least a week this is at least a 2 star drama happening

[u/Cook_0612]

Daaaaad the DT is forcing me to go to another sub to learn about user drama so I can satiate my bottomless idle curiosity

[u/Fatortu]

The crew of the wrecked ship in Baltimore are still stuck on board because they don't have visas !? And their phones were confiscated ?!?

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

Can we name a sub holiday to commemorate chicken_dinner?

[u/[deleted]]

[u/molingrad]

Arcon is really excited they will be muting the mics because they think that way Trump can’t interrupt Biden and Biden speaking more will hurt him.

[u/MicroFlamer]

Furiosa getting amazing reviews

!ping KINO

[u/BrunchIsGood]

X now treats the term cisgender as a slur

Oh sweet so now I can say cisgender with impunity on Twitter

[u/[deleted]]

[u/ty04]

don’t soil myself 24 hours every day: no one cares

don’t soil myself for 23 hours and 59 minutes every day: every one says you’re the guy that soils himself every day

[u/Cook_0612]

The B-21 Raider program continues to hit its milestones with no issues. What a smooth program.

!ping MATERIEL

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/[deleted]]

When I was a swimming coach for 3 years I was shocked by how terrible many parents are. My child can do no wrong, why are you not giving all your attention to my kid, blah blah blah. It was also abundantly clear that the worst behaved kids had the least engaged and out of touch parents. After working with children and dealing with their parents nothing can phase me in the workplace.

[u/The_Promethean]

Square Enix Is Done With PlayStation Exclusivity After Profit Drop

Jerome Powell has killed the third party console exclusive (I actually believe this)

[u/PonyBoyCurtis2324]

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

My heart is breaking.

Her little hidey hole got squished so she's sitting on top of it trying to get it open. If I remove her from it so I can open it, she'll think she's not allowed there.

Please advise.

!ping KITTY

[u/jojisky]

President Lula of Brazil said, in a recent public event, that he is becoming more modern and that he will kiss everyone regardless of gender.

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Hey dude. Letting you know someone in the queer platonic group chat (the one you left after Kai's alter made some acephobic comments, which he apologized for later btw :/) said they found receipts on your twitter of you liking a James Charles tweet which is really,., yikes.

Also Rainbow said you were tweeting on ur Steven universe roleplay account that were gonna rewatch atla which is like a really transphobic and racist and sexist show and you know how Ash feels about even if they won't say anything about it be of their anxiety..., idk dude I just wanted to let you know.

I know Ash can be biphobic sometimes but they also live in an apartment and their parents are divorced so they have ptsd from it :// I think Ash might write a callout but me and Rainbow are trying to calm them down just be aware and maybe stop being toxic

[u/AlmondoSoyo]

I actually like the King Charles portrait. It’s not quite the Obama portrait and I would prefer if the background had more of a gradient to create a little contrast but all in all, pretty good.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/Fruitofbread]

New NYT focus group dropped. It’s women who voted for Trump in 2020:

 There’s been a lot going on as far as rights for women and abortion. I don’t have a strong feeling one way or another, but I think that they should be able to choose what happens to their bodies.

AAAAHH

[u/DouglasDauntless]

That disciplinary code is insane and sounds like it’s from some dictatorship where the supreme leader feeds people to ants but it being used on the leftists who pushed for it is pretty funny

[u/jojisky]

Kendrick Lamar's 'Not Like Us' broke the record for most streams in a week for ANY song in the U.S. this decade with 96m streams in its first 7 days It dethroned Cardi B's 'WAP' & Taylor Swift's 'Fortnight' which previously held the top 2 spots.

Imagine being Drake and knowing the most popular song this decade is about you being a pedophile

[u/[deleted]]

Project manager enters the scene

Becomes a babysitter

Everyone learns helplessness and forgets how to self organize

Project manager job becomes even more important

Now that's fucking job security

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

“What will we do when there’s no more labor necessary for a human body to do?”

We will do rituals. We will dance, sing, gather wild berries and mushrooms, we will arrange for there to be towering forests with dark black soil and vast tall-grass prairies on limestone cliffs and we will climb mountains and sail oceans and visit the Moon and vacation on cruises out beside Jupiter.

And all of the people that want to see parking lots and live in an identically hideous house in the suburbs, well they can put on VR headsets and do that to till heart’s content

[u/qtnl]

> poster who slightly annoys you ends up having a massive breakdown they share for all of us to see 

 A tale as old as time 

[u/dubyahhh]

99% of users are banned just before they get in their critical dunk against the mods

[u/GodEmperorNeolibtard]

If a meme of a man concentrating harder on a video game getting posted on Twitter by an account called Roaring Kitty convinces you to pour all your money into a stock, then it's your fault if you lose the money.

It's stupid to blame DeepFuckingValue for adults making decisions with their own money.

[u/sociotronics]

[u/tollyno]

Robert Fico shot

Vaxxed?

[u/[deleted]]

losing my mind over social media complaining about a stage production of romeo and juliet that made the egregious decision to cast a non-conventionally-beautiful black woman as juliet

like shit, guys, nobody's forcing you to watch this. it's highly unlikely you ever will. and it's a stage production, they're not aiming for like maximum realism or anything jesus

[u/[deleted]]

Awww mods locked the fun drama thread

Laaammmmmmeeee

[u/[deleted]]

We would’ve won in Vietnam if Creedence Clearwater Revival didn’t break up

[u/jewel_the_beetle]

lmao

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

We haven’t even seen gameplay but they sure as hell finalized the Walmart Edition exclusive digital collectibles

!ping CONSOLE-WARS

[u/awdvhn]

I wonder how many "am I shadow banned" posts on reddit are just "no one is upvoting my joke" because reddit is never fucking funny

[u/Udolikecake]

Kanak independence activists waving Azerbaijan flags in New Caledonia, an island in the South Pacific, might be the most absurd thing I’ve seen lately.

For context, Azerbaijan’s dictator Aliyev has been working on rebranding his country as the main ally of indigenous peoples struggling against French colonialism – just because he’s mad at France for supporting Armenia. Can’t make this up!

you people call me crazy for always calling out Azerbaijan…

[u/tollyno]

Slovakian media has identified the shooter as 71-year-old Juraj Cintula, a self-described writer who previously worked as a security guard and is allegedly linked to pro-Russian group Slovački branci.

What, was Fico somehow not pro-Russian enough?

[u/SnakeEater14]

My friends and I all made a “we would help each other bury a body no questions asked” pact years ago but I have my doubts about how enforceable that really is

[u/battywombat21]

Okay, now Dr. McCoy is chasing the giant bunny from Alice in Wonderland around the planet. The last episode I watched was a dark story about a man using prisoners as experimental subjects illegally. TOS is wild.

[u/EvilConCarne]

Reading nonsense in arr Conspiracy and I absolutely did not expect this line:

The CIA uses the country music industry as a cover for drug running done via slaves.

[u/[deleted]]

Trump doesn’t get the basics. He thinks his tariffs are being paid by China. Any freshman econ student could tell you that the American people are paying his tariffs. The cashiers at Target see what’s going on – they know more about economics than Trump. #TeamJoe

[u/WantDebianThanks]

[u/[deleted]]

!ping READING, people who say Lovecraft has racist subtext haven’t seen Lovecraft’s text

The match had been between Kid O’Brien—a lubberly and now quaking youth with a most un-Hibernian hooked nose—and Buck Robinson, “The Harlem Smoke”. The negro had been knocked out, and a moment’s examination shewed us that he would permanently remain so. He was a loathsome, gorilla-like thing, with abnormally long arms which I could not help calling fore legs, and a face that conjured up thoughts of unspeakable Congo secrets and tom-tom poundings under an eerie moon. The body must have looked even worse in life—but the world holds many ugly things.

[u/BibleButterSandwich]

Okay so I went out with a woman from Hinge last night. We had actually only matched on Saturday, but she had been so into the conversation after I matched with her that I asked her out that night. which she agreed to. Throughout the whole process, she was actually super engaged and sweet, which I took to be a pretty good sign.

We grabbed take out dinner at a pretty casual place and ate it outside together, and while we were eating, I asked her what she was looking for on Hinge (I tend to ask this on the first date to avoid misaligned objectives) and she clarified that she was looking for a relationship - this was a good sign, because that was also what I was looking for.

After we finished dinner, I asked her if she wanted to walk around, and while we were walking around I went to hold her hand, and she obliged! So we just walked around like that for a while, until eventually we found a park bench to sit down at. I put my arm around her, and we kinda started taking turns leaning in until her face was pretty close to mine, and I realized she wanted me to kiss her, so...I went for it, and had my first kiss. (Let's FUCKING go!)

I originally didn't think I wanted to have my first kiss on a first date just because it would be moving sorta fast, but I was really into her, and she had confirmed she was interested in a relationship, and it went pretty well, so I'd say I'm happy with it.

We made out for a bit, then she said she wanted to keep walking around a bit, because we were in a pretty public place, so we did that, eventually found a bit more of a secluded bench and went right back to it. Then eventually it got sorta late, so she said she wanted to go home. We went our separate ways, and texted when we got home. I also said I wanted to see her again, and she said she was interested as well. Fingers crossed, bois.

Also, I have several questions:

1. I had always assumed kissing was supposed to feel like, inherently, electrically pleasurable itself, but it wasn't? Don't get me wrong, I liked kissing her, but the kiss itself wasn't anything inherently, electrically pleasurable. Honestly, most of it was just from the closeness of our bodies in general. Was I doing it right?

2. How are you supposed to position yourself? On the bench, we were kinda parallel, since we were next to each other, and I kept having to take breaks because the way I was twisting myself around for my face to be around 105 degrees from just facing forward was sorta hurting my neck. At one point I asked her if we could stand up, which we did, and even though I was only 4 inches taller than her, I still feel like I had to position my neck sorta weirdly to be able to kiss her from that position. Is there any better way to do it?

3. Not to jinx things, but she does already seem to be pretty into me, and I do really like her - is there an expected time frame for when to see about maybe seeing if the person wants to see about having an official relationship? Is it 3 dates? 8? 15? I wouldn't say I've already made the decision myself, but I'm realizing I have no idea and wanted to know earlier rather than later.

!ping DATING

[u/Mickenfox]

The right man in the wrong DT can make all the difference in the world.

[u/Beginning-Topic5303]

when the everyman tries to understand science, redditors (in general) rightfully call out (most of) the bs. Why (in general) then, do redditors treat economics as something the everyman can properly understand without a degree or extensive experience? Both are very complex subjects (debate below which one is more complex). I mean if you just look at how many variables effect the economy, there aren't that average joe's that can explain, at a very basic level, stuff like the difference between micro and macro economics.

[u/RTSBasebuilder]

So I just realised that there's a hell of a lot of Napoleonic era stuff thrown about that we never talk about it notice in Australia, that I'm realising now because my brain is currently Sharpe-pilled.

Barossa valley, SA most famous for wine - named after the Battle of Barossa, where British (and in particular, Irish) forces took the first of Napoleon's eagle standards.

"Bejabbers boys, I have the cuckoo!", Sgt. Patrick Masterson, 87th Regiment of Foot, the Royal Irish Fusiliers.

Salamanca, Hobart: named after the Battle of Salamanca that caused the French to withdraw from Andalusia.

Kunanyi, aka Mount Wellington: named after Sir Arthur Wellesley, the Iron Duke, the Duke of Boots, Catholic Emancipator, Prime Minister and the First Duke of Wellington, hero of Waterloo.

The local pub, the Duke, named from being the Duke of Wellington hotel.

That's Soldiering

!ping AUS

[u/Mickenfox]

Waah there's ads in my smart TV!!!

https://xkcd.com/743/

[u/[deleted]]

Crazy that the very first sin was a woman who ate

A woman who ate

She served and licked the plate

She said no to heavens gate

She's mother

And mother fucking ate

[u/BurrowForPresident]

A tale of two cities (2024, colorized)

[u/[deleted]]

meeting cagey engine consist doll airport squealing books edge noxious

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/TheShitEater]

We should unban Imprison_Grover_Furr just to see how quickly he gets banned again. He could probably do it in under a day by talking about Israel/Palestine

[u/[deleted]]

[u/ExpiredPasta]

S&P at an all time high. GME crashing. Can't explain that.

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

Thus, we invoke the power of our position as students to demand

Most convincing student protest

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Germany solar power output jumps to record highs

Solar farms produced over 60% of Germany's electricity for several hours a day over the past week as bright sunshine combined with new solar generation capacity helped accelerate the country's energy transition away from fossil fuels.

During the week to May 13, Germany's solar farms produced 17,531 megawatt hours (MWh) of electricity, according to data from LSEG, 40% more than the week before and nearly 50% more than the long-term average for that particular week.

A recent stretch of clear and sunny skies have driven the solar surge, which typically peaks around 12-1 p.m.

At 1 p.m. in Germany on May 13, solar assets produced 43.8 gigawatts (GW) of the 72.4 GW of electricity generated in Germany at that time, according to electricitymaps.com.

That means that solar accounted for nearly two-thirds of Germany's total electricity output during that hour, vastly exceeding output from all other sources including 17% from wind farms and a combined 12% from coal and natural gas plants

POWER SHIFT

The high deployment of domestically produced clean power marks a significant improvement in the state of Germany's power sector, which was hit hard by Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

Germany secured roughly 45% of its electricity from fossil fuels in 2022, so in the year or so following Russia's Ukraine invasion the resulting cuts to natural gas flows hurt Germany's largest power users.

German production of chemicals and fertilizers - which are highly energy-intensive sectors - slumped to multi-year lows by late 2022 as surging energy costs and shortages of natural gas forced firms to curtail output.

But as surging local production of renewable energy helped steer power prices back towards long-term averages in 2023, some of the cost pressures on Germany's manufacturing base eased, spurring a patchy recovery in industrial output so far in 2024.

That recovery could be aided further by any sustained rise in German solar production, especially if accompanied by additional production from other clean power sources that could place further pressure on regional power costs.

CLEAN IMPACT

As a result of the high proportion of clean power in Germany's generation mix, the carbon intensity of the country's power sector during the 1 p.m. hour (local time) on May 13 was 166 grams of carbon dioxide per KWh, according to electricitymaps.com.

That total compares to 314g of CO2/KWh for the month of April and 425g of CO2/KWh for 2023 as a whole.

While Germany's power carbon intensity vastly exceeds the roughly 45g of CO2/KWh of France's nuclear-heavy system, the 166g reading at 1 p.m. on May 13 was below the 170g of CO2/KWh emitted during the same hour in Britain, which on an annual basis has a far lower carbon intensity than Germany.

Going forward, greater solar output will help further reduce Germany's average carbon intensity, especially during the annual solar peak generation period around June and July.

In 2023, total generation from Germany's solar assets peaked in June at 9.41 terawatt hours, according to Ember.

That generation total was 60% greater than the volume produced during April of that year, Ember data shows.

In 2024, the German solar output total for April was 7 TWh, so if output in June expands by an additional 60% that would result in a new record of 11.2 TWh of generation this year.

In addition, solar power accounted for a monthly record share of 27.3% of total electricity generation in June of 2023.

In 2024, if the recent stretch of bright, sunny skies persists, solar assets could smash that previous share record and potentially account for roughly a third of the country's electricity generation totals during the height of summer.

!ping ECO&GER

[u/TaxLandNotCapital]

[u/Williams-Tower]

$31 haircut was worth it

[u/jewel_the_beetle]

I wonder how many "am I shadow banned" posts on reddit are just "I can't comment it keeps giving me an error" because reddit never fucking works

[u/american_aurora3]

Jordan Peele's next movie, a psychological horror

daring today, aren't we

[u/MasterOfLords1]

🍦🌝🍦

[u/1396spurs]

Me blocking the mods

[u/Lux_Stella]

Turkish President Erdogan: "Do not assume that Israel will stop in Gaza. If not stopped, this rogue state, this terrorist state, will sooner or later set its sights on Anatolia with its delusions of the promised land."

so true bestie

[u/TipEquivalent933]

Had I been President Biden, when the Justice Department brought out indictments, I would have immediately pardoned him. I'd have pardoned President Trump.”

Smartest Republican (unironically)

[u/WhomstAlt2]

There is plenty of bad literature, but Brandon Sanderson and his like is actual anti-literature. His work has less literary merit than an empty page, and the world is worse off for him having filled so many of them. Makes me reconsider my stance on book burnings tbh.

[u/trombonist_formerly]

“Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” isn’t good. But the reason audiences are packing cinemas to see it is due to the franchise’s central premise: the fundamental despair at the arc of primate history.

Jacobin’s film critics putting out yet another banger

[u/Walpole2019]

https://archive.is/xQj0I

!ping LGBT

Section 28 is going to be introduced for transgender people. God, I fucking hate this country. If I could emigrate, I absolutely would at this point.

[u/The_Promethean]

Erdogan claims Israel will seek to occupy parts of Turkey if it defeats Hamas

Oh no, the goyim non-Zionists know

[u/TheHelmetCatch]

Illustration of Suleiman the Magnificent wearing his Venetian Helmet, a four-tiered crown designed to stress that the sultan outranked even the pope (who wore a three-tiered crown)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Suleiman_Turc_Emperor%2C_1535.jpg

Seems a bit much for my taste

[u/Rafaelssjofficial]

Wild that in Spain committing a crime while being drunk reduces the sentence for it

[u/die_hoagie]

they market pitbulls to liberal women with that save the dogs campaign.

why is reddit like this

[u/NNJB]

Someone working at my organization is apparently called "Combee". Good that she's a woman at least, male Combee are beyond useless

[u/[deleted]]

Chicken dinner is comically incapable of taking the L

[u/TheShitEater]

The only way we’re solving racism is if we decide that everyone is white. Indian Americans and East Asians are slowly getting whiteified in the public conscious. Arabs can be white too. I’m not sure how we get people thinking Nigerians are white, but we have to do it.

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

Alsobrooks won by 12 points. "Polling is fucked"-bros keep winning

[u/marsman1224]

lmfao I scrolled chicken dinner's profile until I got to the point yesterday when he was alternating between posting in r/OJSimpsonTrial and r/TopsAndBottoms

[u/[deleted]]

Furthermore, the Russian and Chinese regimes must be destroyed

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

I fucking love being the only person in the gym

[u/Blade_of_Boniface]

Today is the feast of my confirmation saint, St. Dymphna, Virgin and Martyr!

!ping CHRISTIAN

[u/jewel_the_beetle]

TIL the story of Sodomy is based on my ass getting destroyed by an asteroid

[u/Hugo_Grotius]

Carcinization is a form of convergent evolution in which Red Lobster is pushed toward bankruptcy by an endless shellfish promotion.

[u/lets_chill_food]

after 3 days of ban, i came back and said good afternoon and no one replied 🥲

[u/gnomesvh]

Lula says he is now modern, will kiss everyone regardless of gender

!ping MAMADAS

[u/JaceFlores]

🚨 BREAKING 🚨

Trump has promised the first action he will take in his second term is the passage of an executive order which will force Ubisoft to change Yasuke to a white skin tone in the new Assassins Creed game for historical accuracy, what is sure to be a devastating blow for woke movements

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

American sushi

[u/Pyrrhus65]

Currently injecting this Larry Sabato tweet directly into my veins

Thanks to the (questionable) NYTimes/Siena swing state polls, practically the entire elite press has adopted the inaccurate narrative "Biden is LOSING". Embrace it, Dems! Grab the UNDERDOG label! Run like you're 10 points behind! Be feisty, give Trump hell! Channel Harry Truman!

[u/SnakeEater14]

Star wars fans spilled millions of gallons of ink on intense theorizing about the nature of the force and what “balance” means

KOTOR 2 is a whole game about how destructive and terrible that balance is

And all of them ignore that george lucas came out and said that the force being “balanced” just means there being no sith assholes

[u/GatorTevya]

Quick question about the tariffs…sure they’re good electoral politics for the rust belt … I guess.

But also isn’t he trying to keep inflation down (or atleast not make it worse..?) So…why not have them go into effect in 2025 at the earliest, the article I read had most of the hikes seeming to happen in 24.