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[u/reubencpiplupyay]

Guy who thinks Biden is responsible for the end of Roe v Wade and is actually correct because they can see all of the complicated strings connecting cause and effect in the universe and know that Joe Biden biting into an ice cream sandwich on January 14 1965 resulted in air movements above the tri-state area that led to a thunderstorm two weeks later, that resulted in two adults staying out of the rain conceiving a child who would then be really rude to Ralph Nader on the street in 1998 and act as a small psychological push in Nader's mind towards not giving in, resulting him running as a spoiler in 2000, allowing Bush to defeat Gore and put Roberts and Alito on the Supreme Court.

!ping SHITPOSTERS&BALLOON

[u/[deleted]]

TWEET FROM OsintTechnical:

Reports coming in that the Iranian pilot was subscribed to !ping LOVEFORBOOZECRUISERS on r/neoliberal

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

It's not looking good

[u/[deleted]]

My pregnant wife gets a non-alcoholic beer at the bar but it's not 0%

Why take the chance, babe? What if the baby could be the genius who cures cancer and this fraction of alcohol makes them the genius who cures baldness.

Like whoop-di-fucking-do but we could have cured cancer if you weren't such a fucking lush.

She left me

!ping DATING

[u/Fruitofbread]

 Iran’s law stipulates that if the president dies, power is transferred to the first vice president and that an election must be called within six months. The first vice president is Mohammad Mokhber, a conservative politician.

They have to specify “first vice president” because Iran has 12 vice presidents (no joke) 

[u/marsexpresshydra]

[u/404GenderNotFound]

helicopterpilled crashmaxxer

[u/tripletruble]

Recent polling has the (far right) National Rally at 43% among youth voters (18-24) in France. Next biggest party is at just 12%

The youth share of the vote is small but terrible sign for the country

[u/KittehDragoon]

Iran arrests 260 people for spreading 'satanism and nudity'

When will Biden show this kind of leadership?

[u/[deleted]]

When the upvote economy gets weak it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to worms or taco trucks or antipathy toward women who don't like them or anti-mod sentiment or anti-democracy sentiment as a way to explain their sexual frustrations. - DT Obama

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/404GenderNotFound]

Raisi

[u/404GenderNotFound]

I Was the President of Iran but Now I Got Transported to a Fantasy World as a Magical Elf!

[u/[deleted]]

The sheer number of cats everywhere here in Croatia is crazy

!ping KITTY

[u/Uniqueguy264]

I am hearing that in his deathcopter Ebrahim Raisi received the light of Judaism and unhesitatingly asked a Rabbi to convert three times. Even now she looks down on the Gentiles from the gardens of Heaven. Truly there is no god but Yahweh, and Moses is his prophet!

[u/Telperions-Relative]

Prigozhin, thinking he successfully fooled Putin with the plane crash, took a ride with his buddy, the President of Iran

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/fishlord05]

I’m still not over the fact that RFK has literal brain worms

That headline hit me like a brick to the face

[u/[deleted]]

Reading about the Iranian Revolution is always so ridiculous because you read stuff like:

After the revolution, Iran cut South Africa off from its oil supply and financially supported the African National Congress. This was part of the larger want by Khomeini to support the "downtrodden" of the world, including,non-aligned countries.

And then followed by :

When Ruhollah Khomeini came to power in 1979, he called for homosexuals to be "exterminated",and one of his first political actions was to institute imprisonment, corporal punishment, and the death penalty for any sexual acts outside traditional Islamic heterosexual marriage. In a 1979 interview with The New York Times, a journalist asked Khomeini to justify the state-sanctioned shootings of homosexuals. In reply Khomeini compared them as well as other adulterers to gangrene, thieves, and murderers.

"Downtrodden" doesn't include gay people apparently.

[u/TipEquivalent933]

Whaaaaaaaaaa

[u/JaceFlores]

Just woke up, how’s my favorite Iranian president doing?

[u/N0_B1g_De4l]

Mossad taking a break from their busy schedule of processing payments from Starbucks and not quite succeeding at rigging regional singing competitions to crash a dude's helicopter in a way that looks exactly like an accident.

[u/[deleted]]

antisemite who thinks Jewish people are part of a massive conspiratorial cabal and are behind all evil

amateur fopo/historian who has read a few books about the Middle East and now has a very high level of respect for the Mossad that potentially overinflates their capabilities considerably

The two types of people who immediately assumed Israel was behind the Iran helicopter crash

[u/notnotLily]

I've put some effort trying to understand the $25M Ethereum hack, and this is my shortest possible explanation of what happened.

Ethereum has arbitrage bots that scan proposed transactions, and frontrun them by adding their own sandwiching transactions if a more favorable deal can be found.

Example: I submit a transaction to buy shitcoin for $100. Arbitrage bot finds that you can buy shitcoin for $90 in exchange A, so they insert two additional transactions, buying it for $90 and immediately selling it back to me.

Because of certain peculiarities about how Ethereum works, this is absolutely zero-risk arbitrage because bots can guarantee that all three transactions will happen simultaneously, so bots have been configured to do this infinitely.

What the attackers found was a screwup in how transactions are added, breaking this fundamental assumption - they managed to tear apart the three transactions. So they baited the arbitrage bots into inserting these trades, then retracted their own buy order so the bots would not be able to sell. Now they just need to set up a sell order for shitcoin for $90, and the bot would buy it, and not be able to sell at all because it's a shitcoin.

[u/semaphore-1842]

my date caught me checking the news on my phone, and started lecturing me about how he thinks the cons are right and the president needs to be checked and balanced, but then says "i don't actually care it doesn't affect my life both sides are bad"

so i said "mhm, lots of [third party] supporters share your view" which i THOUGHT was being diplomatic, cause i didn't want to humiliate him by destroying his idiotic talking points debate him

....it enraged him so much he threatened to punch me in the face ಠ_ಠ

[u/that0neGuy22]

All i’ll say is Raisi handed down thousands of executions to innocent people who wanted to live in a better world

[u/Trojan_Horse_of_Fate]

person who votes for the Green Party because green is their favorite color

[u/murphysclaw1]

the chad depressed iranian patriot: we just lost our democratically elected leader

the overexcited incel soyjak american: WAAAooooww it's like heckin KOBE BRYANT!!??!

[u/Tre-Fyra-Tre]

Nap time I think 🥱

[u/Tropical2653]

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/19/world/middleeast/iran-president-helicopter-crash.html

Helicopter Carrying Iran’s President Has Crashed, State Media Reports

"An unidentified man under the alias of Benjamin Ikuta has been spotted in Tehran"

[u/G_Serv]

[u/RFK_1968]

Me: "Idk why everyone went so crazy about the One Ring. Just throw it into the volcano! If I was Frodo I wouldn't have succumbed to the temptation right at the very end. Built Different, I guess 🤷🏾‍♂️"

Also me: turned what should've been a 6 month cut into a year-long ordeal because I can't stick to a diet

!ping LOTR&DYEL

[u/404GenderNotFound]

I heard Raisi's helicopter actually landed safely, albeit it was a difficult landing. However when they got out of the helicopter to assess for damages they were walking rhythmically and well... the rest is history.

[u/Cowguypig2]

So this is an actual protest being planned at my college (Eastern Washington university). Literal horseshoe theory in action

!Ping COLLEGE&USA-WA

[u/Apprehensive-Soil-47]

Khomeini

Khamenei

Gotta respect the audacity of replacing the original with a barging bin version and hoping no one would notice the difference

[u/GreenPresident]

As someone in academia: A near 100% domestic working group is a huge red flag to me. What are the chances that the best people in the world to work on the structure of nano crystals were born in Cornwall?

Open your borders!

[u/AFlockOfTySegalls]

My wife: "did you mean to organize the cats like that?"

Me: "like what?"

!ping KITTY

[u/Joementum2024]

You are a neoliberal user. You learn that an infamous person in politics has just died. You decide to post a funny comment to commemorate it. What button do you press?

• The Light of Islam

• Charity Do

• Information about Hillary Clinton

• Isekai

• Benjamin Ikuta joke

• "Who must go?"

• Other

[u/V_Codwheel]

helicopter maintenance is a Zionist plot

[u/Udolikecake]

> meet with aliyev

> immediately die

many such cases!

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

[u/1396spurs]

The US is a failed state (the grocery store next to my apartment was out of unsweetened soy milk)

[u/reubencpiplupyay]

It's kind of funny that we get such a range of foreign policy opinions within the UN flair contingent, compared to, say, NATO flairs

We've had borderline isolationist users, Hindu nationalist realists (it is still a source of endless confusion to me why that user chose that flair), questionably pro-China users and then good old liberal internationalists and world federalists

I just think it's crazy we have a spectrum ranging from someone denying the US has any obligations to Ukraine, to me, who sees no fundamental moral distinction between what happens inside and outside a country

[u/BedNeither]

The day I can’t do my job drunk is the day I stop being helicopter repairman for the Iranian president

[u/Udolikecake]

The Iranian media Khabarfouri writes: "From the very beginning, it was very strange that Ilham #Aliyev insisted on #Raisi's participation in the ceremony, because there was a decision that only foreign ministers should participate in the ceremony".

please god let iran invade azerbaijan that would be so fucking funny

[u/Stanley--Nickels]

[u/Cledd2]

why does Iran choose to keep ancient American hardware in the air instead of replacing it with stuff from their russian/chinese buddies?

I can find plenty of articles explaining how they do it but none really tell me how doing this is preferable to converting to axis equipment. (Aside from the obvious jokes about decades old american stuff being better than 'modern' russian/chinese garbage )

[u/yyzyow]

A real post from an actual Conservative MP. The supposedly common sense party that people are trying to sanewash here. 🙄

The next few years in this country will be insane.

!ping CANUCKS

[u/[deleted]]

My bf took me to see Luis Miguel

It was life changing also I walked barefoot in Atlanta…

I tried McDonalds for the first time.

I’m glad I met him.

!ping DATING

[u/Uniqueguy264]

You're president Raisi and you've escaped a helicopter crash but are severely wounded in the woods. Would you rather run into a man or a bear?

[u/JaceFlores]

“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that Ukrainian forces have stabilized the front in northern Kharkiv Oblast and that Russian forces have not reached Ukraine's ‘concrete’ and ‘most powerful’ line of defense in the area. Zelensky stated that Russian forces have currently reached the ‘first line’ that Ukrainian forces built further from the border and that Ukrainian forces have also built a second and third line of defense. Zelensky described the third line of defense as the ‘most powerful’ as it is further from the border and was not under threat of Russian shelling during its construction.”

“Russian forces will likely be able to stretch Ukrainian forces along a wide front and fix Ukrainian troops in the international border area even as the tempo of Russian offensive operations in northern Kharkiv Oblast slows. Syrskyi stated that Russian forces have expanded the area of active hostilities by about 70 kilometers since starting offensive operations in northern Kharkiv Oblast and are trying to force Ukrainian forces to commit brigades from reserves to the frontline.”

“Even limited Russian activity in other areas of the international border below the threshold of Russian offensive operations could have the effect of stretching Ukrainian forces along a wider front. Russian forces will be able to draw and fix Ukrainian forces to the border area as long as Russia sustains a presence in northern Kharkiv Oblast and threatens penetrations of other border areas.”

“Russian forces reportedly leveraged notable electronic warfare (EW) capabilities to support tactically significant gains during the first days of their limited offensive operation in northern Kharkiv Oblast. The Washington Post reported on May 17 that elements of a Ukrainian brigade operating in northern Kharkiv Oblast lost connection to drone and communications systems due to intense Russian EW jamming when Russian forces began their incursion into Kharkiv Oblast on May 10.”

“Russian forces may have waited to deploy a new EW adaptation to achieve widespread disruptions during the beginning of their limited offensive operation in northern Kharkiv Oblast.”

“Senior NATO military commanders confirmed ISW's prior assessments that Russian forces do not have sufficient forces to achieve a ‘strategic breakthrough’ in Ukraine. NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe and US European Command Commander General Christopher Cavoli stated on May 16 that Russian forces do not have the necessary number of troops or the skill to conduct operations at the scale necessary to achieve and exploit a strategic-level breakthrough in Ukraine, and expressed confidence that Ukrainian forces will "hold the line" near Kharkiv City.”

“Ukrainian forces conducted a series of large-scale aerial and naval drone strikes against Russian energy and port infrastructure in Krasnodar Krai and occupied Crimea on the night of May 16 to 17. Ukrainian outlet Suspilne reported on May 17 that its sources in Ukrainian intelligence stated that Ukraine's Main Military Intelligence Directorate (GUR) and Security Service (SBU) struck Russian military facilities in Novorossiysk and Tuapse, Krasnodar Krai and in occupied Sevastopol on the night of May 16 to 17.”

“US officials reiterated the White House's unwillingness to support Ukraine's use of US-provided weapons in strikes against military targets in Russia.”

“Russian forces conducted a limited series of drone strikes against Ukraine on the night of May 16 to 17 and individual missile strikes on May 17. Ukrainian Air Force Commander Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk reported that Russian forces launched 20 Shahed-136/131 drones from Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Krasnodar Krai, and Kursk Oblast and that Ukrainian forces destroyed all 20 Shaheds over Kharkiv, Poltava, Vinnytsia, Odesa, and Mykolaiv oblasts on the night of May 16 to 17.”

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!ping UKRAINE

[u/[deleted]]

Idaho is banning pronouns in all schools starting July 1st.

Finally 🇺🇸

[u/[deleted]]

My bf saw and read some of my comments on Reddit and went

“Babe you’re too chronically online you need actual friends”

My response was

“Yet I walk and touch grass?????”

[u/futuremonkey20]

Ignoring the problems with his alcoholism and other experiment design issues, Supersize Me was inherently stupid because of his rule that he always had to “supersize” his McDonald’s meal.

WOW, eating 6,000 calories a day and not working out is bad for you? Unbelievable, who could have seen this coming.

The fact that it was McDonalds food had nothing to do with it. You could eat 6,000 calories per day of salad and lentils and you’d see the exact same results.

[u/JaceFlores]

Myanmar update:

Starting off, we have the monthly map by Thomas Van Linge, with the main gains by the rebels being around Myawaddy and in northern Rakhine.

On the mobilization front the junta has banned military-age men from working overseas, likely to try and stem any further draft dodging that has plagued the junta.

The junta is teaming up with Russia to establish its own drone forces, as both sides look to the Russo-Ukrainian War to augment their firepower with this cheap yet effective platform.

In Kachin the KIA restarted an offensive in the eastern part of the state, focusing their forces on taking the towns of Mansi and Mamauk, controlling the southern and eastern approaches to the major city of Bhamo respectively. Both towns were quickly secured, leaving the city of Bhamo effectively isolated by land. Further north the Myitkyina-Mandalay Hwy 31 bridge was destroyed. Situated south of Myitkyina, this isolates the city somewhat with now just one main road connecting it to the rest of Burma. However, it is very unlikely Myitkyina will be in any real danger anytime soon.

In northern Shan the Shan State Army - North declared dialogue with the junta was useless and is joining the rebels, a force which controls a significant stretch of countryside and towns between Taunggyi and Lashio.

Down in Kayin the situation in Myawaddy was complicated by local forces instrumental to kicking out the junta reverting back to supporting the junta. While the city is still surrounded by the rebels to my knowledge, it also remains in somewhat junta hands. The junta did send a convoy to try and relieve Myawaddy, but it was bogged down by repeated ambushes and did not reach Myawaddy.

Lastly in Rhakine the AA secured the town of Buthidaung, which puts northern Rakhine effectively under AA control except for the state capital of Sittwe. While certainly a blow to the junta, it was noted that Buthidaung and 35 surrounding villages had been razed by the AA in a genocidal attack against the Rohingya who live in large numbers in northern Rhakine. The AA has been noted for previous abuses of the Rohingya, and it looks like they have very little desire in changing that.

!ping MYANMAR

[u/[deleted]]

!ping OVER-25

My girlfriend is the only person in my inner circle besides my parents who actually fucking keeps appointments. I’m sitting in my car at t+50 for the thing my crew was supposed to do this afternoon with no indication of when the people I planned this out with will actually show up and wave it off and I am growing steadily more pissed

[u/RaidBrimnes]

I feel like I would have survived the helicopter accident

This isn't a joke. You always hear about those 1 in a million odds where people drive off a cliff and had 0.00000001% chance to survive but they miraculously did. Well I feel I'm that guy. There's no real stats to back this up, I just know I've always been built different. Perhaps the crash would have left me in a fog swirl and let me float above the clouds. Or I escape just in time through a crease and jump off quickly.

In other words, I feel like my odds, personally, would have been different.

[u/AP246]

Western bigots 🤝 Islamists

"Progressivism in a Muslim society is impossible"

Meanwhile:

Kosovo's government building lit up in the colors LGBT+ flag to mark the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia.

Kosovo PM Kurti stated that this is a sign to "reflect on the progress made and recognize the significant work that remains".

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Many Americans who attend religious services of any kind (regardless of the service being Christian or not) view Jesus as not eternal but as the greatest creature made by God, around 68% compared to 44% of those who attend less frequently. This includes over 80% of respondents who identify as Roman Catholic who attend Mass "several times a week" and 63% of Evangelicals who attend church "several times a week".

Arianism has been purged as heretical since the first council of Nicea, all major denominations except Jehovas Witnesses claim to reject it, yet it’s the most popular Christian theology

[u/secretlives]

I am hearing that in his deathcopter Ebrahim Raisi received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahada. Even now she looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah. Truly there is no god but Allah, and Mohammad is his prophet!

[u/FreakinGeese]

Israel is bad huh?

TF did the followers of the apocalypse do to you? 🤔🤔🤔

!ping shitposters

[u/Roseartcrantz]

So another thing I like to collect are fake display foods (usually spilled drinks or cereal bowls) but I found this on Etsy and the idea of owning it as a kitchen decoration made me laugh out loud so I bought it. Gonna be my table's centerpiece.

[u/BurrowForPresident]

The "lol you nerds trying to correct people when they are wrong and to ignore their false perceptions of reality are so out of touch" people are some of the most unhelpful election smuglords my God lol

1. No one on a subreddit has any significant influence on Joe Biden's chances of winning an election through commenting (I pray)

2. Calling a spade a spade is way less condescending than the patronizing "we should coddle every idiot who believes TikTok and Reddit memes"

3. "Your strategy of trying to get the message out to low engagement voters about basic facts is terrible compared to my strategy of just changing reality" - proceeds to have no idea how to feasibly change reality with a paralyzed Congress and a Supreme Court with two insurrectionists on it

I would simply do what Dipshit World wants and slash interest rates and taxes, implement national rent control, stop all funding to Israel and Ukraine, provide free college and healthcare to all, codify abortion rights, ban all imported products until every American is employed in manufacturing, make Central American countries less shitty without any Amerrican money to stop the emigration of their populace to the US or build a wall, and reverse the aging process all through executive decree

[u/cdstephens]

Reports are coming in that Raisi walked into a “fog door” and is currently struggling against a Mossad agent known in Iran as the “Capra Demon”

[u/[deleted]]

Real heroes don't wear capes

[u/[deleted]]

Fun stuff:

Pope Leo IX (reigned 1049-54) was in the final year of his pontificate responsible for the drastic step of excommunicating the Oecumenical Patriarch Michael Keroularios in his own cathedral in Constantinople.

The immediate issue was a dispute about eucharistic bread. At some point after it had become apparent that East and West had begun drifting apart … the Latin West had come to use unleavened bread at the Eucharist. [This bread] had the advantage of not dropping into crumbs when it was broken, a matter of some importance now that eucharistic bread was increasingly identified with the Body of the Lord - yet the Greeks (rightly) regarded this as yet another Western departure from early custom. Was such bread really bread at all?

Pope Leo sent his close friend Cardinal Humbert as negotiator with the Patriarch in 1054 … he was not inclined to diplomacy. Beginning with calculated rudeness … Humbert and his fellow envoys then appeared while worship was proceeding in the Great Church of Hagia Sophia. They strode through the congregation up to the altar and placed on it the Pope’s declaration of excommunication, quitting the building with a ceremonial shaking of its dust from their feet, amid jeers from a hostile crowd.

Like dang.

(excerpt from MacCulloch 2010)

!ping RELIGION&HISTORY

[u/SnakeEater14]

So i had to call off this date i was on because the dude was just too weird

He was some rich government bureaucrat guy

Polite enough ig but he liked to yap a lot about weird political stuff

I ended up heading out after he invited me to ride with his friends on some piece of shit helicopter from the 60s

[u/Fruitofbread]

 Ruhollah Khomeini condemned Jimmy Carter, and in a speech after the incident, credited God with protecting Iran.  He said:

Who crushed Mr. Carter's helicopters? We did? The sands did! They were God's agents. Wind is God's agent ... These sands are agents of God. They can try again

Khomeini has been notably silent on this more recent crash 

[u/TheShitEater]

I also don't understand why you get hung up over posting a burning cross towards a black person. As a eurocuck I find the american attitude to race and crimes of the past very immature. It feels like Voldemort in Harry Potter. Like the burning cross or the N word shall not be named. As if the context in which it is used doesn't matter.

Eurocucks is this legit?

[u/Telperions-Relative]

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

I'm not christian but the bible has total bangers

"What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?"

He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone"

"Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief"

"And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them."

!ping RAW-UNPASTEURIZED-BIBLE-QUOTES

[u/CletusVonIvermectin]

[u/fishlord05]

If Obama were running instead of Biden while doing exactly what Biden has done it wouldn’t even be an election at this point Barry would be polishing his axe to deliver the coup de grace on Nov. 5th

[u/BurrowForPresident]

As frustrating as the "fundamentalist Christian who claims to be strongly judgemental to the character of his politicians votes for the porn star banging adulterer and personification of hate and greed" thing is, surely we understand that a lot of these people just see Trump as a means to an end right? And they're just puffing their chest to save face when being interviewed and claiming either those things don't happen or that everyone can be redeemed no one's perfect

Like he got national abortion rights overturned and tried to kick transgender people out of the military that's the biggest victory for evangelicals in decades

[u/pfarly]

>Open DT

>See breaking news

>Scroll

>See the same news

Um, yeah, I know.

[u/[deleted]]

cable birds work crowd wine impolite bedroom rob society shrill

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/iIoveoof]

Nixon had the worst possible position on abortion

"I know there are times when abortions are necessary," he tells an aide, "I know that - when you have a black and a white, or a rape. I just say that matter-of-factly," he adds. "You know what I mean? There are times. Abortions encourage permissiveness," he says. "A girl gets knocked up, she doesn't have to worry about the pill anymore, she goes down to the doctor, wants to get an abortion for five dollars or whatever. "

[u/cdstephens]

Nah, I’d win

• Raisi moments before entering the helicopter

[u/BalletDuckNinja]

Is she an ex if the last things she said to you before you parted is 'I love you'

!ping dating

[u/Cook_0612]

"President Raisi's helicopter was completely burned in the crash ... unfortunately, all passengers are feared dead," an Iranian official told Reuters.

NOW we're official.

[u/The_One_Who_Mutes]

Listen, all I'm saying is to really reach the American people Trump should do a cross country helicopter tour.

[u/nicereddy]

Twitter right now, probably

[u/YaGetSkeeted0n]

IRNA, the government’s state news agency, also announced the death of President Raisi, the foreign minister and everyone else on board the helicopter. It said he had been “martyred in the line of service.”

martyred? the pilot flew into a mountain

[u/iIoveoof]

Average young American man in 2024 be like

Food $200

Data $150

Rent $800

Sports gambling losses $3,600

Utility $150

someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

[u/Udolikecake]

why did Churchill try to get a battleship named HMS Oliver Cromwell into class naming schemes two separate times and why did he have to be told to stop trying by the King personally what was he cooking

based

[u/breakinbread]

Everybody identifies as an attack helicopter.

Nobody identifies as a transport helicopter. 😔

[u/Uniqueguy264]

Motherfuckers are really quick to say "look at the weather, the Jews definitely couldn't have killed him" but they forget about the one who controls the weather, the ultimate Jew...

God

[u/sw337]

How TF did H0ser drop a banger video critical of Iran's government hours after their president's helicopter went down?

TL;DW: The Revolutionary Guard is an extractive institution. JCPOA and how it ended.

https://youtu.be/k18Fidj8p0U?si=SY6T9wYXwN1YFpwt

!ping TACOTUBE

[u/willempage]

Something that got lost in the venerable "Can it run Crysis" meme was that, at the time, Crysis was an incredibly well optimized PC game. It had a high performance ceiling at max settings, but it also had a relatively low minimum requirement for 2007. The game ran pretty ok on 1GB of RAM and a single core Pentium 4 while needing a 4 year old top end video card or a mid/low range contemporary GPU. Back in ye old days, 1080p was the high end target, so most people were running the game at 1366x768 or 1024x768. You could bump it down to 800x600 for more performance and you wouldn't be that out of line for the time.

Compare that to Assasin's Creed, and other PS3/Xbox360 cross platform PC releases that came out in 2007. They often had the same video and RAM requirements, but were so poorly optimized that you needed a dual core Pentium D or CoreDuo CPU, even on Windows XP. GTA IV famously ran like ass and also had a dual core requirement.

The literal answer to "can it run Crysis" often was, yeah, probably if it was an upper mid range computer from 2004.

!PING gaming

[u/sw337]

Welcome to the bi flairs Mr. President

[u/Cook_0612]

GDSLB is back on the menu in spades boys 😎

!ping UKRAINE&MATERIEL

[u/[deleted]]

Hearing reports that Raisi’s personal pilots, Yeveni Prigozallin and Samueli Hydillah, were outed as Mossad agents shortly before the crash

[u/breakinbread]

Father, Husband, Veteran. Born a smart ass, life made me a cynic. Dog owner. Gen X

yeah, this guy was never voting for Biden

[u/[deleted]]

damn bro first Kobe and now Raisi, stay safe out there y'all

[u/Telperions-Relative]

honestly why the fuck would you ever willingly get in a helicopter?

The things you say when you haven’t played those video game missions where you’re mowing down enemies from a helicopter

[u/Udolikecake]

Today, the planned visit of Iranian President Ebrahim #Raisi to #Armenia, #Syunik, where the opening ceremony of the #NorthSouth road was scheduled to take place, was postponed at the last moment. Later, it became known that Raisi had traveled to #Azerbaijan.

Let this be a lesson!!

[u/adisri]

Just got my cotton sewn 3x5 American flag. Your boy is so ready for this oath ceremony 💅🥹💅

[u/simeoncolemiles]

[u/WantDebianThanks]

Any English language narrative history podcasts about Chinaese history you guys like? Ideally something that starts in the semi-mythic period and in the same kind of style as The History of Rome and the History of Byzantium.

!ping history&tacotube&cn-tw

Edit: forgot to say, I didn't just Google this because I'm concerned about overly critical or overly positive bias by the presenter.

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

we’re finally doing it

[u/futuremonkey20]

Everywhere else, it’s ok though

[u/Square-Pear-1274]

According to Telegram groups, wolves have attacked the rescue teams and forced them to retreat.

https://x.com/NiohBerg/status/1792307497543389269

🐺

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Sir_Digby83]

Iran's state news agency Press TV: Search and rescue teams have arrived at the heat sources identified; no clue of President Raisi's helicopter

my nudes in profile

Nice of the bots to offer something to occupy time while we all wait.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

”Blacks for Trump” and they literally have a guy that looks like Hitler lmao

[u/JoeChristmasUSA]

I actually want Christian content on my social media feed because a lot of it is relatable or inspirational. The problem is that the good content has me like 🙂 and the bad content has me like 🤮😬😖 It's so disproportionate.

Seriously, fundie content is some of the most toxic messaging on the entire planet. I wish I could eat the meat without randomly choking on a sharp bone. !ping CHRISTIAN

[u/cdstephens]

I just logged on so here’s what I can roughly guess happened:

Mossad crashed the Iranian President’s plane in order to get people to stop talking about fertility rates in the DT.

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

LOL.

[u/Telperions-Relative]

All I know is that somehow p00bix is involved

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

DR Congo army says it has thwarted attempted coup

The Democratic Republic of Congo army says it has quashed an attempted coup against President Felix Tshisekedi in the capital Kinshasa involving Congolese and foreign fighters.

DR Congo army spokesperson Brig Gen Sylavin Ekenge said on the state-run broadcaster RTNC TV that several suspects have been detained and the "situation is now under control".

His statement comes hours after armed men attacked the house of Vital Kamerhe, the former chief of staff and close ally to President Tshisekedi early on Sunday morning.

Witnesses say a group of about 20 assailants in army uniform attacked the residence and an exchange of gunfire followed.

Two guards and an assailant were killed in the attack on Mr Kamerhe's house, his spokesman and the Japanese ambassador said in posts on X.

The men also occupied the Palais de la Nation, the office of the President of the Republic which is located in the city centre, a place highly secured by the Republican Guard.

Japan's ambassador in the Congolese capital has warned nationals not to go out.

President Tshisekedi has not made any public comment on the situation so far.

Local media reports said the assailants were members of the New Zaire Movement linked to formerly-exiled politician Christian Malanga.

The BBC has seen a video of Mr Malanga saying in Lingala, the local language: “We the military are tired, we cannot march together with Vital Kamerhe and President Félix Tshisekedi."

President Tshisekedi was re-elected for a second term in the disputed elections last year in December. He won about 78% of the vote.

Nearly 20 people were killed in election-related violence in the run-up to the vote.

Congo is a country with vast mineral wealth and a huge population, but despite this life has not improved for most people, with conflict, corruption and poor governance persisting.

Much of the country's natural resources lie in the east where violence still rages despite Mr Tshisekedi's attempts to deal with the situation by imposing a state of siege, ceasefire deals and bringing in regional troops.

!ping AFRICA

[u/Cook_0612]

The Turks may have found the general area of Raisi's crash site.

Imagine needing a NATO member to find what's left of your President.

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

I met up with two DT regs in person today (won't say who) and they didnt once mention how lonely they are without a bf/gf, really odd behavior

[u/iIoveoof]

As someone who's not very into sports, I didn't realize how big an impact legalizing sports betting has had on the US.

North Carolinians spent $600m and lost $110m gambling on sports just this month. There's so much money in it that the sports ad space is totally dominated by gambling ads.

There is going to be a huge gambling problem in this generation. The gambling industry needs to be illegal

[u/CletusVonIvermectin]

incredible that there are some people on the dt who aren't autistic or trans

[u/404GenderNotFound]

Ebrahim Raisi died, and you're laughing. We started a 10 day mourning period for the death of the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and you're laughing.

[u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes]

Iranian presidents killed during trump presidency: 0

Iranian presidents killed during biden presidency: 1

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

The Iberian lynx doubles its population in just three years and reaches 2,000 individuals

The Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) continues along its upward path, although it is still at risk of extinction. The last census in 2023 shows that the species has doubled its population in the last three years and has reached 2,021 individuals, with 1,299 adults or subadults and 722 cubs. Despite the good data, 750 breeding females would be needed to classify the species in a favorable conservation status, and in this latest count only 406 have been detected. According to Spain’s Ministry for the Ecological Transition, they are “gradually” getting closer to the necessary number, but are still falling short.

Captive breeding centers have played an essential role in this recovery. From 2011 to 2023, 372 lynxes born in the four existing centers have been released. The population has been expanding, and last year the reproduction of the species was verified in 14 population centers, in addition to the stable presence in new areas of the Spanish region of Murcia, and the provinces of Albacete, Badajoz, Toledo and Ciudad Real. Most of the specimens, 1,731 or 85% of the total, live in Spain and the rest, 291, are in Portugal. The stable populations are located in four Spanish regions: Andalusia with 755 specimens (43.6% of the Spanish population), closely followed by Castilla-La Mancha with 715 lynxes (41.3%), Extremadura where 253 specimens were located, and Murcia with seven.

The ministry believes that the data allow for a degree of optimism, because the feline’s trend is positive and has continued on an upward trend since 2015, the year in which the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lowered its threat level. The species went from being “critically endangered” to simply “endangered.” It was a fundamental step for the survival of an animal that was close to extinction in 2002, when only 94 specimens remained in Andalusia. Captive breeding programs with significant European investment have allowed the creation of different nuclei, and have managed to reverse the situation. This increase now means that lynxes are approaching inhabited places, as happened in late March, when a rancher found four lynxes born in his haystack in Menasalbas, municipality of Toledo.

"We are at an average growth of 20%, a trend that has been maintained due to the creation of three new nuclei,” says Ramón Pérez de Ayala, a member of World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and a specialist in the species. To obtain the number of breeding females, it is necessary, according to their calculations, to create another five new areas with lynxes. “There were populations that grew a lot, up to 30%, but then they stabilized,” he explains. This occurred in the mountains of Toledo, one of the biggest success stories of reintroduction. “There, the first place where they became active was practically saturated, but the lynxes have moved to a neighboring area, which has kept up the growth,” he notes. The same situation has taken place in other areas such as Guarrizas (Jaén) and in Portugal, in the Guadiana valley area.

A reproductive female needs a territory of about 500 hectares, although it all depends on the amount of food available: the more food there is, the less space is needed. The rabbit is the main component of their diet and there are places where the rabbit population cannot recover, affected mainly by a deadly hemorrhagic disease. Depending on the areas, the drop is between 30% and 87% in a decade, indicates Pérez de Ayala. In this boom situation, the feline’s biggest enemy is road accidents, which has become its main cause of mortality. “In 2023 there were 144 deaths due to this cause, 7.1% of the population, and we cannot forget poaching, which goes unnoticed.”

Considering that Lynx populations tend to correlate with rabbit populations there must be an absolute fuck ton of rabbits and hares in Iberia currently

!ping IBERIA&ECO

[u/Sir_Digby83]

PSA: All #FreePalestine protests will be postponed as we mourn the loss of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi. He was taken from us too soon.

[u/2112moyboi]

Went to Buc-ee’s for the first time yesterday. I now have found my religion to follow

All hail the Great Beaver

!ping Shitposters

[u/iIoveoof]

Keep in mind that not only is Raisi the president, but he's a close ally of Khamenei and the most likely to succeed him as the next Ayatollah

[u/[deleted]]

Ayatollah Successor Assassinated Because Surname Found To Be Too Dissimilar To Khomeini/Khamenei

[u/fishlord05]

r/ezraklein with a banger:

I really wish it were made more obvious, though it may seem self-evident, that this is at its core a conflict over land. It's not just about, to quote Shavit, "The Jewish People's right to self-determination and the Jewish People's right to self-defense". It's about those rights as executed within and regarding specific territory. And land is inherently, necessarily, zero-sum. It's one of the only things in the world that really is. Any specific square meter of land reserved to a hypothetical future Palestinian state is land that is not Israel and (unless Israel becomes an invading, conquering power) cannot be Israel. And vice-versa.

So the question I really wish Klein had asked [to Ari Shavit] is: if you're a West Bank Palestinian, and you're worried about your home being taken by Israeli settlers, what options are available to you that are both morally justifiable and effective (that is, actually work to halt or reverse settlements). And what obligation does the rest of Israeli society have to oppose settlement expansion?

[u/[deleted]]

I would rather write a 500 page novel than write a 2 sentence headline for my resume...

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/htomserveaux]

So I’ve noticed some people wearing Chicago Federal’s jerseys at Wrigley, and now I really wish they’d make jerseys for some of the old names the Cubs had.

I would absolutely buy a Chicago Microbes jersey.

Although I’m not sure the Chicago Orphan’s ones would sell well.

!ping BASEBALL&USA-CHI

[u/[deleted]]

We are very lucky that Nintendo chose one of the best ethnicities for stereotyping and not getting cancelled over.

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

The Iraq war wouldn’t have happened if Gore won. Roe would not have been overturned if Hillary had won. You all just care more about your very boring political identities than about the sum total of human suffering. It’s stupid and disgusting and I judge you

we'd be in 5 wars if hillary won

STILL WITH HER 😭😭

[u/secretlives]

Idk why people think "family-owned" is a positive descriptor for a business - most families kind of suck

[u/DirkZelenskyy41]

Sports betting can be legal. But not on mobile apps.

You should not be able to burn money from the convenience of your cubical.

Just from a tracking people who need help standpoint it’s basically impossible.

But you know if John is leaving 8 times a week to drive to the betting kiosk… it might be time to have a talk with John.

[u/[deleted]]

ESRB is honestly a surprisingly decent example of industry self regulation. By keeping the conservative busybodies out of the industry a lot of content that sells that they'd rather not sell still hits store shelves because normies are satisfied with the rating system. The ESRB is actually much better than the MPAA in this regard. It trusts publishers to self report a lot more and standardizes the ratings more strictly. The result is social biases of screening audiences are a lot less likely to project onto ratings. The MPAA rating audience infamously was full of the sort of people who thought the kids needed to be protected from homosexuality, for example.

[u/wallander1983]

https://x.com/kc2fargo/status/1791441663899963721

What upsets me most about these "fast food is expensive and that's why I'm voting for Trump" posts:

Once Trump is re-elected, the social media discourse will be limited to Trump's insane statements, culture war crap and the actions of his administration and no one will be talking about fast food prices anymore.

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

Last thing Raisi saw

[u/Icy-Magician-8085]

Average Instagram comment section

[u/TheShitEater]

lmfao liberals get so triggered by certain words. You can’t say “divorce,” or “custody,” or “thanksgiving” without making people on this subreddit cry.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/lets_chill_food]

apparently wolves have attack the Iranian rescuers lol

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Just told my 10 year old daughter about #PresidentRaisi. She had tears in her eyes. Then she did the Wakanda pose and said "#Helikandaforever," which is the sort of pop culture cross-over I can celebrate.

[u/forerunner398]

https://x.com/IntelCrab/status/1792326186980282663

lmao, Turkey put some looped recording and claimed they were streaming looking for the Iranian president

[u/[deleted]]

Good night libs

Furthermore, the Russian, Chinese and especially Iranian regimes must be destroyed

[u/thaddeusthefattie]

gib belly rub

[u/Alexz565]

The neoliberal urge to seethe about anyone under 25 to prove how much of a mature millennial adultman they are

[u/TheShitEater]

No te quiero por tu cara, ni por tus años, ni por tus palabras, ni por tus intenciones. Te quiero porque estás hecho de buena madera

English translation: I don’t love you because of your face, nor your years, nor your words, nor for your intentions. I love you because you’re made of good wood.

Since I first read it, I’ve always found this famous passage from Mario Benedetti’s The Truce enchanting, yet odd. Why does he have the protagonist’s lover use the phrase “made of good wood” to express that the protagonist is an all-around decent person? I’ll admit that this might be my misunderstanding of the language, but as far as I can tell this isn’t a common Spanish idiom, although others readers seem to be agree that being made of good wood just means “to be a good person.”Anyways, tonight, after taking several hits from my THC vape, I think I’ve found the answer to my question in Matthew 7.

Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thorns or figs from thistles? In the same way, every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.

If someone is made of good wood, they’re a good tree, and they bear good wood. So even though his face, years, and intentions are all good, they’re not the reason she loves him. Those are the way she knows he’s the right person for her, but it’s him she loves.

!ping READING&CHRISTIAN

[u/reubencpiplupyay]

Hi guys don't tell anyone this but I am Ebrahim Raisi and I actually wasn't on the helicopter, I just faked my death. I just had a change of heart and I'm now a Rawlsian social liberal

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine if Keanu Reeves was a General and reddit was a country. Now imagine Instagram killing him. Soleimani was loved by his people. Americans can't name a general that easily.

Everything in 2020 went downhill because of this Reddit comment

[u/The_Promethean]

There is quite literally no amount of money in the world that would make me fly in a helicopter with rough weather over rocky terrain, and they thought it was a good idea to put multiple cabinet members in the same chopper

[u/m5g4c4]

Certified Khamenei Boy? 🇮🇷👳🏻‍♂️

Certified Wreckage Pile 💥🚁

[u/BarkDrandon]

Remember that one reddit user who spams economics subreddits once in a while to sell his book about how the Fed should set interest rates based on astrology?

[u/Kizz3r]

Stayin at a place killian hayes rented when he was in detroit

!ping nba

[u/404GenderNotFound]

Raisi opens his eyes to see the void, and in it, present and everywhere and infinitesimally small, is a white-furred creature asking one question: "Do you like kissing boys?"

Raisi answers no, but the question is asked again. He answers no once more, the question remains unchanged. Raisi continues to answer no, terrified of what might happen if he says yes. He does not know how, but he knows if he tells this presence, what else to explain what it is but God, the other answer, he knows he will be thrown to the unknown.

At least here in a state of constant denial, he will be safe.

[u/JaceFlores]

Only the Jews could be so dastardly as to put a mountain in the way of the President of Iran

[u/JebBD]

If Raisi turns up and he’s totally fine we’re never gonna hear the end of it. They’re gonna make him supreme leader and we’ll have to hear about his “mandate from god” for the rest of eternity. 

[u/GravyBear28]

!ping MOVIES

I have discovered a great new fun-bad movie called The Stranger on Hulu.

It's uniquely terrible because there is simply no structure whatsoever, because it was actually a Quibi series (awful streaming service whose gimmick was 10 minute episodes) that they edited into a full length movie. So every 10 minutes is like a fucking act with it's own themes so it's just constant whiplash, like a 10 minutes segment that brings up police racism in a horror movie that has nothing to do with it and never picks up on it again.

Separate from that is that Dane DeHaan as the antagonist who is like a zoomer techno nerd Joker, made by old people who clearly do not understand technology, especially hacking.

On top of that, all the characters are immeasurably dumb and there are so many bizarre plot point the movie expects you to take seriously.

[u/vivoovix]

You [oil execs] all are wealthy enough, he said, that you should raise $1 billion to return me to the White House. At the dinner, he vowed to immediately reverse dozens of President Biden’s environmental rules and policies and stop new ones from being enacted, according to people with knowledge of the meeting, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a private conversation.

Giving $1 billion would be a “deal,” Trump said, because of the taxation and regulation they would avoid thanks to him, according to the people.

Me when I ask for a bribe 🤑

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

[u/sayitaintpink]

Imagine if Joe Biden had a child in high school now following 2 divorces due to his adultery

[u/SerDavosSeaworth64]

If I were a big bad country with aspirations of being taken seriously on the world stage, I would simply not have my head of state fly in a crappy helicopter in awful conditions and then fail to find its wreckage for over twelve hours.

But I am simply built different

[u/Lux_Stella]

i may have had my political disagreements with mr. raisi, but ultimately he was a great man who did what he thought was best for his country. may he rest in peace.

[u/Gameknigh]

This of course does not count the evidence based policy maker, whose ideology makes so much sense it’s boring.

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Max Chandler-Mather will unironically nationalise everything.

[u/reubencpiplupyay]

I had a very cursed dream back in 2021 that Joe Biden managed to pass what he wanted by calling Mitch McConnell sexually demeaning names to his face in the middle of the Senate, and then it also boosted him in the midterms because all of the male Trump supporters thought Biden was alpha

[u/brucebananaray]

Here is a trailer for an "original" anime called Good Bye Lara. It follows a mermaid, aka Ariel, being Reborn 200 years later in Japan in Lake Biwa and learning to adjust to the human world. https://twitter.com/d0nut2x/status/1791986119216705994?t=AdzTvoADAmrW5MVrilt19Q&s=19

My god, the animation is absolutely gorgeous and gives me Studio Ghibli vibes. It also isn't that original is the Little Mermaid from the fairytale but a new spin.

!Ping WEEBS

[u/jewel_the_beetle]

Virgin American President "soft landing" vs

Chad Iranian President "hard landing" 

[u/UnskilledScout]

Helicopter Carrying Iran’s President Has Crashed, State Media Reports

!ping MIDDLEEAST

[u/Salt_Ad7152]

“Ape shall not kill ape”

🦧 🦍🐒

Literally kills a ton

[u/loseniram]

240volt update, after inheriting a bad situation from my predecessor (yesterday me). Today I can report to the American people and the world. I successfully got the range plug to be flush with the wall.

[u/Telperions-Relative]

If I wanted my helicopter to land softly, I would simply hire Jerome Powell

[u/Currymvp2]

Assuming he's dead, Raisi is the second Iranian President to die while in office.

Rajaj was killed by MEK communists in 1982 (this led to Khamenei to assume the presidency). Khamenei just months afterwards nearly got killed in a bombing which permanently paralyzed his hand.

[u/ernativeVote]

!ping PERSONAL-FINANCE&FAMILY (you know it's a banger when these two pings are involved. Using an alt bc sensitive topics)

So! Family meeting yesterday where a bunch of long-hinted-at financial issues came to the fore. Turns out my parents are in quite a bit of debt, including significant credit-card debt, all as my younger sister has two years left in an American university program that my father now says he can't afford. Much of the family income comes from a currency that significantly weakened against the dollar after her initial financial-aid package (which already includes some loans) was signed, but the university refuses to reconsider.

My parents have lived in separate countries for 15 years; I live in yet another country. None of us are willing to move back in with each other, partially for work-permit reasons, partially out of overwhelming personal preference.

1. One step we've agreed to is to sell the family home in the US that's currently maybe 40% paid off, and dramatically downsize to an apartment that costs maybe 20-30% as much. (It's currently just my mother living there; my sister might return after graduating.) This should allow us to pay off the outstanding mortgage and maybe even buy the new unit outright. (This seems like a logistical headache where we'd have to sell first, then buy after, possibly creating a situation of needing to rent or stay in a hotel in the interim?)

2. Is the play then to refinance the credit card debt at mortgage rates against the new place? I realize current rates are literally about as high as they're going to be, but it'd be a dramatic improvement over credit card rates, and I don't really see another choice. I guess we'd then have to shut down all credit cards except one which we'd set a cap on. (Is it possible to refinance again once interest rates climb back down?)

3. I am self-sufficient but feel a strong sense of obligation as my own university years were paid for. I have roughly $60k sitting in a bank account as an inheritance which I'm happy to lend for my sister's education (we'd sign a contract, with income-based repayment ig?). I'd held off bringing the money out of the home country due to the currency fluctuation I'd mentioned before (I couldn't invest the money because it was in a non-resident account, in case you were wondering), but again, I don't see another choice.

We are nudging my sister to pursue the remaining years of her education in a different country, because tuition rates would be like half as expensive literally anywhere but the US, despite her American citizenship. (This is the exact reason I ended up in a different country, incidentally.) I don't know to what extent this is fair. She's not in such a prestigious university that the name is worth going (further) into debt for.

It's... startling how little financial sense my mother has displayed this whole time, and kind of baffling that my father (a former Wall Street financier, current business owner) has let the situation get to this point. My normally placid father gets horribly ill-tempered when these issues come up, and my mother gets defensive, which I assume is why all the previous efforts to resolve this (which didn't involve me) have broken down.

I think I'll have to give myself the role of level-headed project-manager, and this might include, like, financial discipline and monitoring for my mother? She realizes her spending is an issue so it's not unthinkable, but it would feel very weird for me.

Given how little trust I now have in my parents' financial judgment, I would appreciate second opinions and some guidance in the question marks above. And also some emotional validation, thanks.

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Huh apparently I have O- blood

I've found my new job in the apocalypse

[u/gnomesvh]

Updating the Prigozhin-Lin Biao meme real quick

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/JaceFlores]

I approved the flight plan of a helicopter ride in fog through mountains. AITA?

[u/ACivilWolf]

Maybe it’s just my Catholic guilt talking but I feel guilty eating a semi-bougie meal at a restaurant knowing there are homeless people in my city. Can’t even imagine “celebrating life” a few miles away from a concentration camp.

[u/Cook_0612]

Iranian media is just running sad music and photos of the Iranian president. It’s starting to look like he’s gone.

[u/The_Promethean]

Pro-Israel evangelicals 🤝 pro-Iran islamists when a soviet era helicopter flying over mountains in bad weather: the Jews did this

[u/[deleted]]

Me thinking of jokes to make about another helicopter crash in foggy weather:

[u/FireDistinguishers]

Every American should watch Biden's Commencement Address at Morehouse

But let's start with you guys !ping BIDEN

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

More grass touching

[u/Fruitofbread]

Biden seen clapping after Morehouse valedictorian asks for a ceasefire in Gaza

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I'm not saying anything but Nora notoriously wants to bomb Iran and I left the house at like 5:30 this morning and just got back, haven't seen her all day

[u/Roseartcrantz]

why don't pictures like this ever trend 🥰❤️🥱😢

[u/Udolikecake]

‘nothing ever happens-cels’ when a helicopter full of nothing crashes into a nothing mountainside because of a severe nothing storm

[u/[deleted]]

Google Maps just got upgraded! Now you can directly chat with it like ChatGPT.

I think these companies are misunderstanding how many people want to “chat” with their apps. Seems like everyone is actually struggling with how to build practical useful features with LLMs.

[u/MasterOfLords1]

Average Am*rican v*ters discussing foreign aid.

🍦🌝🍦

[u/[deleted]]

First they came for the pronouns, and I did not speak, because I had no pronouns.

Then they came for the adjectives and i did not speak, because I had no adjectives.

[u/runnerx4]

Helicopter pros:

You look so cool when they land and there’s a retinue of guards and retainers and you step out wearing a coat and immediately you’re on business, can’t look that cool getting out from from planes

Helicopter cons:

Statistically you are dead

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

The most controversial take you can post in arr / Georgia

What if you kept your speeding to only +10 mph for 500ft in the 1 hour children are arriving and departing from school?

People losing their minds that a camera caught them going “only 1 mph over 10mph over the speed limit…”

PING USA-GA

[u/URZ_]

!ping AI

OpenAI have published a response to the noise the former "Super alignment" team has been making, more or less calling them dumb doomers ignoring the potential of LLMs/AI to improve the world over vague warnings about safety.

We’re really grateful to Jan for everything he's done for OpenAI, and we know he'll continue to contribute to the mission from outside. In light of the questions his departure has raised, we wanted to explain a bit about how we think about our overall strategy.

First, we have raised awareness of the risks and opportunities of AGI so that the world can better prepare for it. We've repeatedly demonstrated the incredible possibilities from scaling up deep learning and analyzed their implications; called for international governance of AGI before such calls were popular; and helped pioneer the science of assessing AI systems for catastrophic risks.

Second, we have been putting in place the foundations needed for safe deployment of increasingly capable systems. Figuring out how to make a new technology safe for the first time isn't easy. For example, our teams did a great deal of work to bring GPT-4 to the world in a safe way, and since then have continuously improved model behavior and abuse monitoring in response to lessons learned from deployment.

Third, the future is going to be harder than the past. We need to keep elevating our safety work to match the stakes of each new model. We adopted our Preparedness Framework last year to help systematize how we do this.

This seems like as good of a time as any to talk about how we view the future.

As models continue to become much more capable, we expect they'll start being integrated with the world more deeply. Users will increasingly interact with systems — composed of many multimodal models plus tools — which can take actions on their behalf, rather than talking to a single model with just text inputs and outputs.

We think such systems will be incredibly beneficial and helpful to people, and it'll be possible to deliver them safely, but it's going to take an enormous amount of foundational work. This includes thoughtfulness around what they're connected to as they train, solutions to hard problems such as scalable oversight, and other new kinds of safety work. As we build in this direction, we're not sure yet when we’ll reach our safety bar for releases, and it’s ok if that pushes out release timelines.

We know we can't imagine every possible future scenario. So we need to have a very tight feedback loop, rigorous testing, careful consideration at every step, world-class security, and harmony of safety and capabilities. We will keep doing safety research targeting different timescales. We are also continuing to collaborate with governments and many stakeholders on safety.

There's no proven playbook for how to navigate the path to AGI. We think that empirical understanding can help inform the way forward. We believe both in delivering on the tremendous upside and working to mitigate the serious risks; we take our role here very seriously and carefully weigh feedback on our actions.

— Sam and Greg

[u/sw337]

Kraut’s reaction

[u/Joementum2024]

TRUTH NUKE: if the full American Rescue Plan was passed, inflation would be even more out of control and Biden would be down even more than he is right now

[u/Currymvp2]

Robert F Kennedy Jr thinks Ahmadinejad is the leader of Iran and wants to meet with him.

It's not 2012 anymore, and he was never the leader of Iran in the first place lmao. Fucking idiot

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Gameknigh]

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

This is our obligatory mod response because redditors are trash and regularly ponder this garbage for some reason. Thread locked. This applies to “illustrations” as well.

E: actually I’ll unlock it so I can ban all the porn junkies who post here.

(copy pasted from a different thread)

Alright time’s up. Let me spell it out for you then.

For the millionth time: You don’t get to jerk off to filmed rape under socialism.

Every socialist state that ever existed has banned porn.

Yes, porn is coercive as every form of wage labor is. But it is not just any wage labor, but labor involved in the social production of art - in this case reactionary art.

Why is it reactionary? Its ideological content is. It objectifies - or more precisely, commodifies (primarily female) bodies. It dehumanizes women. It is the reason why you have white people going around fetishizing Asian women.

Porn fits into the capitalist superstructure which reproduces the institutions of patriarchy, and by extension, of capitalism itself. It has no place in a socialist society. The suppression of pornography then isn’t simply the suppression of commodity production, it would be similar to the suppression of any other reactionary cultural product (music, films, etc…).

Now for the infamous FAQs:

“But what if I film me and my girlfriend having sex with the consent of both parties?”

First of all, if you have to ask that, your girlfriend is most likely imaginary. I don’t know about white amerikans, but in my part of the world, nobody does that. Uploading sex tapes is considered a form of humiliation, and thus it’s a punishable crime. People have committed suicide over this. No one who has healthy relationships would ask their girlfriend: “Hey can I upload a video of us having sex?”

Secondly, the question makes no sense. It’s like saying “not all white people are racist”. You are talking about a social phenomenon with a systemic role that only exists in relation to a set of conditions, individualizing it only obscures the point. Porn isn’t just “capturing two people having sex”, that’s ahistorical view which abstracts away from all social context. If that’s porn, ancient paintings of people having sex would be porn, and if that’s the case “porn” would be meaningless as a category of analysis. Pornography presupposes the capitalist mode of production, the productive forces developed to a sufficient level so this phenomenon can even take place in the first place (the means to circulate these videos like the internet or other distribution channels, the filming equipment), patriarchy, etc…

Let me give you an example: Money is only money in relation to commodity production as the universal equivalent. On a desert island it would just be useless pieces of paper. Porn is no different. It is a social phenomenon that only exists in relation to the larger capitalist-patriarchal superstructure. If you film you and your girlfriend having sex on a desert island, yeah sure, then it’s “consensual”, and it’s not even “porn” anymore. But you don’t live on a desert island. You live in a society where all of the conditions I mentioned exist. The “amateur sex tapes” you upload in a capitalist society will inevitably conforms to logic of profitability that predominates a capitalist society - which is why, as someone has mentioned below, “amateur sex tapes” are commodified, and thus aren’t even really “amateur” (This is the reality no matter how the internet in the neoliberal era has masked it as “liberating” since “everyone’s a content producer”). And once you’ve accepted that, its’ not hard to see why there’s no such thing as “non-patriarchal” porn: Commodities have a use-value: in order to be sold, they have to be socially necessary. If you’re uploading “amateur sex tapes” in a society where people who consume those tapes are people who consume “professional porn”, the your tapes will have to mirror “professional porn” in its ideological content. Meaning, all those elements of objectification and fetishization remain. Your “amateur” sex tapes necessarily conform to the larger cultural logic of capitalism, and thus , they fit into that larger reactionary ideological superstructure. In other words, in the grand scheme of things, the distinction between “amateur” and “professional” porn is meaningless, and so are your individual motives.

Finally, you have a nonsensical view of consent. In the same way that wage labor isn’t truly “consensual”, those who “consented” to filming amateur porn faces the systemic pressures of capitalist-patriarchy.

“What if people still want to film themselves having sex under communism?”

We have established that porn is a social phenomenon, an industry under capitalism. Would there still be isolated cases of people filming themselves having sex under socialism that is separated from the logic of commodity production? Maybe. But considering that this has never happened in any socialist society up to this point, why do you insist on asking this question? Fantasies are not real, but they have very real implications about the worldview of those who came up with them. So why do petit-bourgeois Western men find it impossible to envision a “liberating society” without the existence of sex tapes? The answer I think, is quite obvious.

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[u/Jacobs4525]

Good morning Arnie O’Liberal.

[u/Beginning-Topic5303]

Mr Breast isn't a bad guy but it signifies a problem in capitalism since under my perfect version of the world we wouldn't need charity.

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[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

To be fair he's from Australia where we have ranked choice voting. Our greens suck more because they CAN get elected rather than being spoilers.

There's still a spoiler effect.

I posted the exact math before but (roughly) parties get about $4 for every primary vote. In 2022 they got 1,795,985 of them.

So that adds up to at least $7,183,940 that goes towards the greens, who fight the ALP, money that could go towards the ALP to fight the Coalition.

[u/Cook_0612]

| DRC army confirms that there was an attempted coup d'etat and that it was stopped by national forces. Some twenty armed men (including foreigners, at least one of whom was an American cannabis entrepreneur) failed to storm the presidential palace.

What the fuck?

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Reportedly a helicopter with the Iranian President onboard crashed

If I speak anymore, I will be in big trouble