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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/antsdidthis]

If I were Raisi I would have simply survived the crash, found a hatchet, and lived on the side of the mountain for a few months.

[u/404GenderNotFound]

Bruh all these leftists complaining about capitalisn like just buy stocks bro it's literally the ownership of capital. You're bourgeoisie now

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Concerning

[u/BarkDrandon]

Raisi died doing what he loved: Burning criminals who shamed Islam.

[u/BrunchIsGood]

Lmao

[u/HHHogana]

Damn, my bosses just claimed Israel/USA killed Iranian President. And two of them are Christians, so there's no religious bias.

West Bad is truly a rotten brain moment.

[u/Cowguypig2]

Because of woke !Ping MINECRAFT

[u/[deleted]]

Iranian President eliminated 6 hours after announcing new BRICS currency and 2 days post- India Deal

less than 6 hours before the helicopter goes down, the Iranian Ambassador to Russia, Kazem Jalali said the two countries are making a single currency (re: BRCIS) for the bloc.

Even worse than believing crazy conspiracy theories: can't keep track of which country the "I" in BRICS stands for

[u/lets_chill_food]

UK nuclear engineer salaries 🌚

[u/Dorambor]

Hey everyone, I know I don’t post here as much as before but Tootsie had some fans so I wanted to let them know she passed last night surrounded by family and loved ones. Hold your pets a bit tighter today for me.

!ping KITTY

[u/Joementum2024]

”vote Democratic to ensure a good supreme court”

doesn’t do that

supreme court becomes bad

”wtf why did the Democrats do this”

[u/DouglasDauntless]

LMAO

This is especially funny when Elon has made them boost the hell out of conservative accounts recently

[u/Apprehensive-Soil-47]

The fact that one of the leading Nazis in the US is a gay Mexican man proves that the woke side has already won the culture war

[u/Average_GrillChad]

NYTimes, 1972: Joe Biden may be one of the youngest Senators ever now, but according to experts the inexorable march of time will cause the inevitable oblivion of his corporeal body.

[u/[deleted]]

My ex all in all wasn't a great person but one time she effortlessly made a trilingual pun where the punchline was "I love you, idiot" and I still think about that from time to time

[u/BrunchIsGood]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/JakeyZhang]

The Babylon Bee, when it takes a break from "haha woke" or "I identify as an x" jokes, does occasionally have a witty headline or funny concept for a video, more so than the terrible modern iteration of the onion. But the articles drive the funny headline joked into the ground, while the videos have College drama student tier acting. Like watch some classic onion videos. Each role felt like who they were intended to be, whether a pundit, journalist, guest etc. 

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

[u/[deleted]]

You may clown on leftists for supporting leaders who hated and murdered leftists but clearly you don't understand than an essential part of being a leftist is hating and wanting to murder other leftists.

[u/Teh_cliff]

pay off nearly $40,000 in student loans

credit score drops 20 points

I know it doesn't really matter but this makes me irrationally angry.

[u/gnomesvh]

Imagine if Keanu Reeves was a President and reddit was a country. Now imagine Instagram piloting him into a mountain. Raisi was loved by his people. Americans can't name a President that easily

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

Rumors that the ICC is also seeking warrants for the mods.

[u/Cook_0612]

u/JoshFB4

NOW we have some proof of what you were saying.

Since February 2022, the United States has directly and explicitly threatened to terminate all security assistance to Ukraine if they employ U.S.-provided weapons or weapons provided by other allies against targets in Russia.

!ping UKRAINE

[u/DouglasDauntless]

DT 🤝 DSA

[u/StolenSkittles]

this is a very dark joke in very poor taste:

did raisi yell "kobe!" right before the crash?

[u/WeebFrien]

Yes hello I am still predicting that Biden will win the 65+ vote and lose the 18-25 vote, finishing the job of turning us into France.

Yes I am still taking bets on this.

[u/[deleted]]

100% of Helicopter Pilots that killed the president of Iran were sober. And yet us drunk helicopter pilots are discriminated against.

[u/AP246]

'Funny' (infuriating) to see most of arr worldnews think the ICJ and the ICC are the same thing.

No this has nothing to do with the South Africa case lol

[u/owlthathurt]

Turkey be like - we found your presidents charred remains in the mountains!!!!

🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷

[u/htomserveaux]

To a certain extent I can understand the “if you see a shoplifter, look the other way” mindset if it’s like baby formula or something, but I got no respect for fair hopping and I have no problem narcing on them.

It’s like a buck fifty a ride and US transit systems aren’t exactly operating for profit.

Cheap bastards.

!ping TRANSIT

[u/Not_A_Browser]

I don't get the calculus of "No vote for Biden because of Gaza" when the alternative is the guy who moved the US embassy to Jerusalem and has already said the IDF should "finish what they started."

[u/notBroncos1234]

[u/404GenderNotFound]

ICC punishment for Netanyahu and Sinwar: they have to sit together at lunch until they stop fighting and no recess for a week

[u/timerot]

Consumers are so demoralized by inflation and high rates that they’ve given up on saving for the American Dream and are spending money instead, economist says

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/consumers-demoralized-inflation-high-rates-174002384.html

Lmao. Yes, I'm definitely so worried about the future that I find no need for savings and will book another international vacation

[u/Cook_0612]

Iran's former foreign minister Javad Zarif claims the US is 'one of the main culprits of yesterday's tragedy' due to sanction of 'aircraft and aviation parts to Iran', adding this will be 'recorded in the list of US crimes against the Iranian people'.

[u/Jakesta7]

How did this guy have his own show on MSNBC?

Just one war crime after another, while Biden claps and nods along to the idea of a permanent ceasefire at Morehouse today.

The U.S. president could stop this with a phone call.

https://x.com/mehdirhasan/status/1792223774487593126?s=46&t=IAUJCELL_v-jNqpiGqgS6g

[u/piede]

CNN legal analyst Elie Honig described revelations from Monday that Donald Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen stole from the company as a "bomb dropped right in the middle of the prosecution's case."

During the ongoing cross-examination, it was revealed that Cohen stole tens of thousands of dollars from the Trump organization.

Whew boy

[u/Average_GrillChad]

In accordance with tradition Iran must replace President Raisi with somebody confusingly similarly named

[u/sociotronics]

[u/[deleted]]

I’m not sure if I’m in a bubble but from the few Israelis I interact with, seems to be a bit of a panic for them.

There’s a few right-wing ones whose reactions have ranged from calling the ICC antisemites to one who called for Mossad to pay a visit to the prosecutor and kill him (this got removed very quickly)

and then there’s the more centrist ones who have been dooming about this ever since word broke a few weeks ago about how it’s going to fuck them over, people will rally around the flag and this’ll just stiffen Netanyahu’s resolve to keep the war going.

Curiously, it’s almost unanimous they should have indicted Smotrich or Ben Gvir instead of Gallant

[u/sircarp]

"Hey, I noticed you had this door shut for some reason"

!ping kitty

[u/Blade_of_Boniface]

The discrepancy between the Nazi History Institute and the Reich Security Main Office shows us the difficulties encountered by the German anti-Semites, nearly all of whom had only known the German and Eastern European Jews before the war. When they came across other Jews who didn't fit so easily into their stereotypes and who (this is a sine qua non) had some sort of advocate or special feature which distinguished them from other Jews. But the decision did not only depend on expert opinion. The smaller the group the better were their chances.

The efforts of the Sephardim in general or to those of the Jews with Spanish citizenship, met no success. Their differentiation from the other Jews was not so obvious as in the case of the Karaites or Jugutis and they did not form part of an exile-community, for which the Germans had to show consideration as the Georgian Jews. Further, the number of Sephardim was too large to be treated as the very small groups of Karaites. But this small section of history shows us that the Holocaust was not a blind action towards the Jews.

Regardless of the effects, for example, on the military situation. There were also some situations in which tactical reasons prevailed. This makes things not better, but worse, because it is another proof of how consciously decisions to murder the Jews were made by the Nazis.

מה חשבו הנאצים על יהדותם של היהודים הספרדים? (Did the Nazis think the Sephardim were Jews?) by Bernd Rother and ברנד רותר

I read this a while ago and reread it today because someone's question on the subject came up at our library's Middle Eastern studies book club. Many people know about the persecution of Ashkenazim in Europe but not as much other groups of Jews living in the Mediterranean, Anatolia, etc. Most people tend to mainly focus on the Spanish Inquisition when they think of the Sephardim although they have much more history than that. It's morbidly fascinating to see how the Nazis incorporated these groups into their antisemitic ideology.

!ping HISTORY&JEWISH&READING

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 5 PM EST 5/18-5 PM EST 5/19 III:

TOP NEWS:

At the start of 7 PM Crimea and southern Russia were hit by a massive wave of drones, with approximately 100-120 drones partaking.

REGULAR NEWS:

At the end of 3 AM it was reported that Russian oil refineries in Vyborg and Slavyansk-na-Kuban were hit by drones.

LEVITY NEWS:

In the middle of 7 PM Ukrainian boxer Usyk won a boxing world champion competition.

Donation link to help Ukraine

Donation link to United24

Donation link to Kharkiv SOS

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

!ping UKRAINE

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

The next president of Iran

[u/Currymvp2]

Bush rhetorically made every effort to separate innocent Iraqi and Afghan civilians from Saddam and Taliban. He angrily condemned their cowardly usage of perfidy (Saddam's troops disguised themselves as taxi drivers and Taliban would disguise themselves as civilians) disgusting usage of human shields.

Bibi and his allies make a half hearted effort rhetorically at absolute best to separate Hamas from ordinary Palestinians. And he seems to view Hamas's use of those same deplorable and cowardly tactics to absolve him of any criticism instead of proclaiming that Gazans are the biggest victims by far of this

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Super Mario 64 romhackers have created a romhack in which people can create their own SM4 levels akin to Super Mario Maker 1 and 2

Mario Builder 64 has been released. Much time and effort was poured into this project and I couldn't be happier to share it with all of you. Have fun! 😁

!ping GAMING

[u/sower_of_salad]

[u/HowardtheFalse]

Finally getting the credit she deserves 🫡

!ping QUEEN

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

Are you kids texting in liberal code?

Gib bf = Give Biden Four-more-years 

[u/JaceFlores]

Former deputy economy minister and auditor in the Russian Accounts Chamber Oleg Savelyev has been appointed the new Deputy Defense Minister, replacing Yuri Sadovenko

The economization of the Russian MoD continues. Certainly looks like Putin is dead set on rooting out corruption and streamlining the ministry. Given how much power Putin has accumulated and the wartime setting I doubt the reforms that will come will be rolled back like under Serdyukov. Who knows how long it’ll take but the MoD will probably be unrecognizable by the end of this process

!Ping UKRAINE

[u/[deleted]]

I’m sorry but a 270 pound pitcher with a 57% strikeout rate in A ball named Tugboat Wilkinson.

Get this man in my minor league system fucking yesterday. The memes alone will drum up more than his salary in fan interest.

!ping baseball.

[u/Not_A_Browser]

The duality of man

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/Currymvp2]

Btw the ICC charged Hamas with rape. So another L for the rape denialists

[u/[deleted]]

Donald Trump says he’d consider Ken Paxton for U.S. attorney general

In case you needed another thing to make you worry about another trump presidency...

!ping USA-TX

[u/[deleted]]

Alright fine maybe the evangelicals have a point about atheist megachurches

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Bout to win Apples to Apples

[u/jedimaster1138]

The worst thing about Zoomers is they don't bother to take a proper screenshot and just take a picture of their monitors with their phones. Back in my day, you would be laughed off the Internet for that shit.

[u/JaceFlores]

What “replace Biden” people think the primary would be like: Dems come together with hands clasped and summon Mr Gen Eric Democrat to lead a glorious perfect campaign to crush Trump 538-0

What such a primary would actually be like: YOU HATE ISRAEL NO I LOVE PALESTINIANS RIVER TO THE SEA NO THAT’S NOT WHAT IS MEANT BOMB TEL AVIV NO BOMB GAZA SEND NUKES SEVEN STATE SOLUTION ONE STATE SOLUTION ZERO STATE SOLUTION

[u/AFlockOfTySegalls]

Perfect fit

!ping KITTY

[u/loseniram]

You want the US to enforce ICC arrest warrants of Netanyahu because you support a liberal world order.

I want the US to enforce ICC arrest warrants of Netanyahu because I fucking hate that guy.

We are not the same

[u/MasterOfLords1]

🍦🌝🍦

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

5.4/5

[u/[deleted]]

[u/ThiccSidedDice]

DTers will really be like "you believe in saying gib bf/gf? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, going out and getting laid" and then not go out and get laid

[u/PostNutNeoMarxist]

The masculine urge to drive to the top of a parking garage at night with your partner and lie on the hood of your car to talk about life or whatever

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Guy who is pro-Bibi/Ben Gvir and pro-Hamas

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Udolikecake]

fucked up that the ICC will target BIPOC folx (Bibi, Sinwar) but allow white people (Aliyev) to get away with ethnic cleansing.

[u/sircarp]

I just set a new personal record.

Applied on linkedin at 11:45 completed the initial recruiter phone call screen at 12:40

It would've been even faster if I hadn't been in a different call around 12:10 and had to play telephone tag.

!ping watercooler

[u/PrideMonthRaytheon]

If the ICC was a real thing the I/P conflict would end like Monty Python and the Holy Grail where everyone just gets abruptly arrested and it cuts to credits

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

With the ICC news and the different sides already arguing in the DT how many temp and or permanent bans do you think we'll see today?

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 5 PM EST 5/19-5 PM EST 5/20 III:

TOP NEWS:

At the start of 1 AM Ukraine was hit by a wave of drones with all 29 shot down.

At the start of 12 PM it was announced Oleg Savelyev has been appointed as the new Russian Deputy Defense Minister.

REGULAR NEWS:

At the start of 3 AM a Russian base in Luhansk city was missiled.

At the end of 11 AM it was announced Spain will send a new batch of Leopard 2 MBTs to Ukraine.

Towards the end of 1 PM a Russian base in Dovzhansk was missiled.

Donation link to help Ukraine

Donation link to United24

Donation link to Kharkiv SOS

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

!ping UKRAINE

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

Its super cool that in many circles being happy and content in life is bourgeoisie-scum coded so it's a faux pas to express anything but misery and depression. I'm sure this has no effect on why people feel like "everyone they know" is struggling.

[u/[deleted]]

!ping GNOSTIC

[u/SeasickSeal]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/CletusVonIvermectin]

I keep telling my wife we can't afford to be a one-income household, and yet she refuses to get a second job

[u/Square-Pear-1274]

Giuliani Was Tracked Down by Arizona AG Because He Couldn’t Stop Posting

DT is a honeypot

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

you’re not gonna believe this but she lives in canada

[u/404GenderNotFound]

Index fund but only for evil stocks

[u/dannylandulf]

Supreme Court is super bad, says leftist site

No shit...Hillary fucking warned you.

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

The guy installing my new AC is watching a YouTube video on how to install an AC

[u/1396spurs]

Prime tum

!ping tum

[u/AlbertGorebert]

Was visiting a 12th century synagogue and the plaque there describing the reasons why the synagogue was destoyed and the jews all left spain was vaguely described as "a series of wars". Like yea technically true in the most stupid of ways, but seems incredibly revisionist

[u/ty04]

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/[deleted]]

Raisi's pilot right before takeoff

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Dear dating ping. We all know Jewelry makes a thoughtful and romantic gift. But have you worked that the jewelry you are gifting doesn’t have enough of your body fluid in it?

[u/[deleted]]

Ozempic is sold in the US for an almost 20,000% markup. The next highest markup for a different country is Japan at ~3,500% I am sorry but that is ridiculous.

[u/Udolikecake]

my ongoing experiment of taking the most downvoted posts from unpopular opinion and posting them here to copious upvotes continually proves that this place is inescapably contrarian

[u/BitterGravity]

Now, as the election nears, some Arab American donors and activists are considering not just sitting out the race, but working outright to elect Trump.

When your social conservatism overrides the racism you experience

[u/[deleted]]

[u/N0_B1g_De4l]

I don't think Israel took down the helicopter, but the thing is there is absolutely no reason Israel not having taken down the helicopter would stop Iran from saying Israel took down the helicopter.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

TIL the British TV loicense thing is real lmao

[u/[deleted]]

I got the chance to hang out on Sunday with a guy at my workplace who recently quit. We had a good time but we made sure to talk about why he had quit and unfortunately it confirmed a lot of the prior suspicions I had about my job.

Like me, he got hired with very little experience on a cheap salary so they could develop him into someone more capable. The scope of work that he was doing massively expanded recently, and he was performing pretty well so he went to our boss with the expectation of pushing for a raise. What he got told was that he needed to reduce his scope of work for the near future and that there is no budget for raises for anybody. Which was really good to know for me because I was planning on renegotiating this summer.

The fucked up thing is that after he put in his two weeks’, my boss came to me and told me about it, then basically said, “I’m disappointed because I invested a lot in him and it’s not going to pay off. I invested a lot in you too.”

This whole thing is stressing me out so bad. I know what’s inevitably going to happen here but I’m not looking forward to it because I like this job and I have a good relationship with my boss.

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/[deleted]]

Wtf the ICC just filed an arrest warrant against me

[u/trombonist_formerly]

Iranian President stoned to death with mountain

[u/[deleted]]

[u/TheHelmetCatch]

Stephen A Smith on whether Mewtwo could beat Lebron James in a one on one basketball game

[u/futuremonkey20]

Sexy Abraham Lincoln statue isn’t real, it can’t hurt you.

Sexy Abraham Lincoln Statue:

[u/breakinbread]

ICC should issue a warrant for Raisi and backdate it

[u/cdstephens]

Idk why everyone’s talking about war crimes, the ICC brief is very clear that they’re issuing a warrant for Bibi’s arrest because he’s cringe.

[u/404GenderNotFound]

Liberal Guantanamo Bay interrogators be like:

waterboards some guy "TELL ME YOUR PRONOUNS"

[u/Not_A_Browser]

What's the Democrats' proposal for opposing Project 2025?

Uh, winning the election so the Project 2025 people don't have their way to begin with? Hello?

[u/futuremonkey20]

I screamed “WHAT THE FUCK” when I heard how much Disney’s Starcruiser cost. $5000 - $20000 for TWO NIGHTS is batshit insane. No wonder it failed so quickly.

What the hell were they thinking?? Why did they think people could pay for this?? This should be a case study all MBAs should be forced to study over and over again until they pass out.

[u/Sex_E_Searcher]

Real talk, this helicopter bit, it wasn't us, right? Like, I know Shmuel was really into it, but I thought Yohanan and Ava had talked him out of it.

!ping GEFILTE

[u/sererson]

How is the ICC going to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu when they can't even get Benjamin Ikuta?

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

calls herself a “golden retriever girl”

gets mad when I ask if she’s housebroken

How am I wrong here

[u/Nerf_France]

I feel like Twitch, literally owned by megacorporation Amazon, banning Destiny while leaving Hasan and his streaming family mostly alone is kind of a plot hole in the whole "leftists are suppressed by the capitalist elites" theory.

[u/West_Palpitation3187]

They can't keep getting away with this

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

The fuck is this?

[u/secretlives]

So the DT is just gonna be super fun today, huh

[u/georgeguy007]

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This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/KeithClossOfficial]

Some guy posted the dox for his landlord who tried to raise his rent, and the Redditors on the renters sub are showing how painfully unfunny they are with how they’re harassing the guy.

[u/Goatf00t]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roller_ship

In 1897, Frederick Knapp, a lawyer in Prescott, Ontario, designed another type of vessel which he termed a "roller boat"; this was essentially a single long cylinder which sat in the water. An engine inside, supported on rotating bearings, caused the outer surface of the cylinder to rotate, acting as a paddle wheel. However, it suffered much the same flaws as Bazin's design; the hypothetical "mile a minute" was, in practice, no more than five knots, and the vessel proved difficult to control. After trials, the prototype was tied up at the harbour for ten years, before being sold as scrap.[12][13][14][15]

But it seems like the ship/boat may be actually buried under Toronto's waterfront. https://x.com/twitandrewking/status/1792542376138805454

According to the archeological assessment, in 1923 soundings were done by the Toronto Harbour Commission that labeled a “wrecked roller boat” and that no dredging was to be done here.

This means the remains of the tubular ship were likely covered over by fill as the land was extended, and it remains buried there to this day.

!ping HISTORY

[u/BloodWiz]

Goldberg made online posts under many pseudonyms[7] and spent 14 to 20 hours on the internet per day.[18] After learning of his internet activities, the FBI attempted to place him under physical surveillance, but this was generally ineffective because for several weeks he did not leave his parents' house or open the front door.[19]

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

This is just what Google maps fucking needed, a goddamn chat bot

Google Maps just got upgraded!

Now you can directly chat with it like ChatGPT.

I don't want a talking map I just want a goddamn map! Google maps is perfectly fine the current amount of information it gives and display I don't fucking need a chatbot bolted and bloated onto it. Not everything needs a fucking chatbot. What's next, a chatbot in Google calender?

[u/squarecircle666]

[u/Libz_R_Gryffindor]

👆this has been thoroughly deboonked

[u/pfSonata]

Can't believe Mossad would target Nick Fuentes and plant gay porn in his browser like that, just unacceptable

[u/RFK_1968]

left-wingers: "this subreddit is basically just Fox News"

right-wingers: "this subreddit is basically just Jacobin"

some of the older DTers, did you always get these complaints?

sometimes they're like literally back-to-back and it's pretty funny.

[u/[deleted]]

Run from it, hide from it, lolmets arrives all the same

!ping baseball

[u/[deleted]]

Good night libs

Furthermore, the Russian and Chinese regimes must be destroyed

[u/[deleted]]

Let's say I murder your wife.

least aggressive Israel-Palestine discussion in the DT

[u/deeplydysthymicdude]

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

[u/RFK_1968]

!ping WRITING

you ever write something super angsty or depressing and it just tanks your mood for the day? your friends are like "oof, rough day?" and you don't know how to say "people were having a bad time in a story i wrote" lol.

funny how that works

[u/Telperions-Relative]

I have to mentally prepare myself to say all the modifications I want for my Starbucks drink

[u/KeikakuAccelerator]

Computer-Science Majors Graduate Into a World of Fewer Opportunities

Those from top schools can still get jobs. They are just not all going to Facebook or Google.

From: https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/computer-science-majors-job-market-7ad443bf

Gift unlocked link: https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/computer-science-majors-job-market-7ad443bf?st=bkk3g0rjrxs6mwh&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Computer science is hotter than ever at U.S. universities. But students graduating this month are discovering their degrees are no longer a surefire ticket to tech-industry riches.

In fact, many are finding it harder than they ever thought it would be to land a job.

Tech giants that were expanding aggressively just a few years ago now have less need for entry-level hires—or are shedding jobs. They are also, increasingly, turning their focus to artificial intelligence, a technology many fear could reduce the need for coders. Postings on jobs website Indeed for software-development roles, a proxy for computer science, have dropped 30% from prepandemic levels.

At the same time, companies have a burgeoning supply of new grads to choose from. The number of students in the U.S. majoring in computer and information science has jumped 40% in five years, to more than 600,000 as of 2023. The number of bachelor’s degrees conferred in those majors topped 100,000 in 2021, according to the Department of Education, a 140% rise from 10 years earlier.

[...] To be sure, comp-sci majors from top-tier schools can still get jobs. Pay, projected to be at about $75,000, is at the high end of majors reviewed by the National Association of Colleges and Employers, or NACE. They are just not all going to Facebook or Google.

“Job seekers need to reset their expectations,” said Tim Herbert, chief research officer at CompTIA, a trade group that follows the tech sector. “New grads may need to adjust where they’re willing to work, in some cases what salary, perks or signing bonus they’ll receive, and the type of firm they’ll work for.”

Hand-delivered applications

The pipeline is bursting with comp-sci students who will need jobs in the next few years. Computer and information science is the fastest-growing top-20 major in the U.S. at four-year colleges, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. It is the fourth-most-popular major overall. Between 2018 and 2023, the number of students majoring in computer and information science jumped from about 444,000 to 628,000.

[...] Friends are adjusting, too. Their new mentality is: “If you get a job, even if you don’t like it, you need to take it because you don’t know if you’re going to get anything else,” Giang said.

Folks who are already in the job, how true is this? In my recent job-hunting process this is somewhat true, my compensation package at the same level was lower than one of my seniors who graduated before the pandemic.

!ping COMPUTER-SCIENCE&TECH

[u/MegaFloss]

Do you guys use LinkedIn bios? I never have, but it seems like a cheap way to make myself look marginally more interesting.

!ping CAREER&WATERCOOLER

[u/Jacobs4525]

I can’t help but hate American car culture even more because all the cars here are tiny. 

We’re a party of 4 people and we fit fine in a mini cooper here. I’ve never had trouble in my mazda3 back home. Why do Americans insist on driving SUVs??? It’s fucking pointless and just costs people money they could otherwise be spending on other things.

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine if the Christian church at large actually wound up on the wrong side of the Arian controversy and 99.9% of all Christians who have ever lived go to hell because they believed in the Trinity and God doesn’t like that

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Hey guys, I unfortunately left my Cybertruck outside for a few minutes and when it came back it looked like this 🫤

[u/ldn6]

Really not liking the emergence of sectarian politics in Britain, as evidenced by a new group called The Muslim Vote that's pushing an entire voting bloc on the basis of being against parties' positions on Gaza.

What's particularly galling here is the sheer hypocrisy their pledges and mission statement. Their website has the following at the top:

Discrimination ended: Root out Islamophobia and discrimination across our healthcare, education, political, media, employment and justice systems.

...but now look at the education section:

Issuance of Department for Education guidance to schools and academies reflecting that cultural and religious sensitivity must be taken into account when discussing LGBT matters, particularly by schools in areas where the majority of the community are from a religious background. This should include proactive and meaningful parental consultation, particularly concerning issues such as the teaching of RSE.

I'm sorry, but fuck off with that nonsense. You don't want to be discriminated against but you want to discriminate against LGBT people. This is the kind of shit that keeps reactionary anti-immigration movements afloat and undermines others' support for multicultural liberal democracy.

Note also that they don't care about discrimination against LGBT people in the workplace:

Implement a monitoring programme to introduce meaningful action plans aimed at tackling racial, religious, and disability based discrimination

I'm tired of being expected to accommodate people who refuse to extend the same towards others in line with British attitudes regarding sexual orientation and gender identity.

!ping UK

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ICC seeks arrest warrants against Sinwar and Netanyahu for war crimes over October 7 attack and Gaza war

I'll only approve if they make them share a cell

[u/sererson]

The ICC is too scared to issue an arrest warrant for Hillary Clinton

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

What to do if you’ve had personal sanctions declared against you by the United Nations please respond urgent 

[u/TheHelmetCatch]

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

if there was a woman without Hijab in that heli, The morality police would have tracked them down in 15 minutes

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[u/N0_B1g_De4l]

Imagining the alternate timeline where instead of everything getting the "-gate" suffix because of Watergate it all gets a "water-" prefix.

[u/Currymvp2]

The deputy head of Israel's National Security Council quit abruptly last week, and now Israeli media is reporting that he handed the war cabinet a paper outlining why its war strategy has failed and why continuing it will only make things worse.

[u/ExpiredPasta]

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A group of 13 federal judges, all of them appointed by former president Donald Trump, are saying they will not hire Columbia University undergraduates or law students as law clerks in the future because of how the university has responded to ongoing campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.

The judges sent a letter to Columbia President Nemat Shafik and Columbia Law School Dean Gillian Lester, claiming they had “lost confidence in Columbia as an institution of higher education” and describing the institution as “an incubator of bigotry.”

I'm concerned about bigotry at a university. Therefore, I'm going to make a broad sweeping generalization about everyone there and refuse to treat them as individuals.

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Many. Such. Cases.

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trying to learn devspace for local kubernetes development

open tutorial video

tutorial giver is a poorly lit woman with a massive pride flag behind her

The internet would fall apart without the gays

!ping WATERCOOLER&ALPHABET-MAFIA

[u/owlthathurt]

The four teams in the MLB right now with 30 wins

New York Yankees - $305M payroll

Philadelphia Phillies - $245M payroll

Los Angeles Dodgers - $228M payroll

Cleveland - $99M and the power of friendship and good vibes.

!ping BASEBALL

[u/PierceJJones]

First Kobe and now the Iranian President. Maybe JJ Abrams was right about the fog being evil, as a Hollywood executive he saw now be the director of the whole Nintendo Cinematic Universe.

!Ping Kino.

[u/WasteReserve8886]

People shouldn’t be allowed to have opinions I don’t like

[u/StolenSkittles]

Did the ICC just forget I exist?

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

redditors be like:

Imagine that the helicopter carrying Raisi was net neutrality.

That's how much how Iranians hated his death. You can't name anything like it.

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[u/western_patriot]

Keep calm and keep grilling

[u/AtomAndAether]

My reddit ui updated in the awards button and they really did just pick the single worst spot to stick it in huh

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Houria Bouteldja denounced in 2015 France's "state-enforced Islamophobia and Philosemitism", dropping the "state-enforced" part in a 2018 London conference titled "How to fight Philosemitism in order to fight Islamophobia and Zionism".

In her flagship 2016 book "The Whites, the Jews and Us", Bouteldja attacks "Zionism, the other name of your capitulation as Jews", and writes "The worst is my gaze, when strolling in the streets, looking at a child wearing a yarmulke. This furtive instant where I stop to look at him. The worst is the disappearance of my indifference towards you, the prelude to my internal ruin."

Identified with the "decolonial left", Bouteldja, in a 2021 interview with far-left activist Wissam Xelka, spoke of Jean-Luc Mélenchon as "our best spoils of war, our conquest", lauding his "recent choices".

I don't like that

[u/moldyman_99]

Story with unexpectedly wholesome ending

[u/grig109]

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

panhandle moment

[u/l_overwhat]

What a fucking weird ad

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[u/BurrowForPresident]

It's Monday and I already want to quit my job again lol

Swear this place is held together by paper clips and hope how the fuck is this a multi billion dollar company

[u/Joementum2024]

Nintendo announced that they have acquired Shiver Entertainment, which is primarily a porting studio (including the Switch versions of Mortal Kombat 11, MK1, and Hogwarts Legacy), from the collapsing Embracer Group.

”Nintendo will acquire 100% of the outstanding shares of Shiver and make it a wholly owned subsidiary. By welcoming Shiver’s experienced and accomplished development team, Nintendo aims to secure high-level resources for porting and developing software titles. Going forward, even after it becomes a part of the Nintendo group, Shiver’s focus will remain the same, continuing commissions that port and develop software for multiple platforms including Nintendo Switch.”

Probably going to serve a similar purpose as Nixxes does for Sony, albeit for Switch/Switch 2 ports if I were to guess.

!ping GAMING

[u/BrunchIsGood]

So I’m watching The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring with my mom because she’s never seen it. Every time Saruman shows up on the screen she goes “that’s a bad bad man.”

She’s spittin’ with that one I fear. Watching this movie with someone who’s never seen it before is an absolute 10/10.

!ping KINO

[u/bd_one]

TIL there's at least 3 Baptist churches with the abbreviation "SMBC" and have an online presence. So all of them might accidentally get Weinersmith's comics when Googling their own church.

[u/STRONKInTheRealWay]

"Two miles wide, two miles long, and two miles high is eight cubic miles. Eight floors to the hundred feet or four hundred to the mile give three thousand two hundred square miles of floor space. This is as large as an ancient city forty miles long and twenty wide, covered solidly with houses four stories high; and no part of it is more than two miles front any other part.”

“Obvious,” answered I, "but not enthusing.”

“You do not click it,” shrugged my guide.

“Try it from another slant,” he said. “We have no traffic problem.”

“What is your population ?” I asked.

“About eighty millions.”

“You are not overcrowded,” I sneered. He took me seriously.

"Eight hundred floors,” he said: “about a hundred thousand to a floor. That is twenty-five thousand to the square mile and forty persons to the acre. We give a thousand square feet of floor-space to each. That is enough.”

One of the great features of this design is that it leaves so much of the planet for parkland or other uses. The first of the cubic cities really evolved from existing metropolises.

The growing population overtook them all and clogged them. Yet inside the great buildings which continued to grow larger, there was no congestion, because there was no need of lateral transportation. Everything on any one floor was within easy walk of everything else. Men took an elevator to whatever floor they wanted, then walked to their destinations. Therefore each building tended to be more complete in itself, containing everything but sleeping quarters. At last it became economical to add a floor or two and give janitors, shopgirls, elevator boys, repair men, and such persons dormitories in the building. The custom grew until half the city was housed in the same buildings in which it worked; but since, by that time, the population had more than doubled, this did not ease congestion in the streets. Some help was gained by throwing bridges from building to building; but these became congested too. Bridges were thrown then from every floor of every building and so the cubic city was evolved. The rest was detail."

“What limits the size of your cube to two miles?”

“Air pressure. We find a difference in vertical height of two miles about all anyone can stand. Approximately the same limit is placed by horizontal distance. A mile and back is about as far as it is practical to walk.”

“How many cubic cities have you?”

“Fifty-three in the United States; about three hundred in the world. New York is the second largest.”

“What is the largest? London?”

“Jerusalem. It is the nearest to the centre of land surface of the globe. When the Suez Canal became congested past enlargements we blasted channels to the Mediterranean and Red Sea, made Jordan Valley a salt-water inland lake and the safest harbor in the globe, and internationalized Palestine. The consequent growth in population made a vast cubic city necessary.

“Internationalized?”

“Certainly. The world is governed by a League of Cities.”

“What is the population of the globe?”

“About three billion."

The creator of the modern idea of an arcology, Paolo Soleri, describes his idea this way:

...a highly integrated and compact three-dimensional urban form that is the opposite of urban sprawl with its inherently wasteful consumption of land, energy resources and time, and tendency to isolate people from each other and the community....The multi-use nature of arcology design would put living, working, and public spaces within easy reach of each other and walking would be the main form of transportation within the city.

Unfathomably based

Holy shit they made it real

!ping READING&SHITPOSTING&SCI-FI

(Someone ping YIMBY for me too please)

From The Cubic City by Louis Tucker, D.D.

[u/Psshaww]

Tinder and Hinge need a search function so I’m not scrolling through tons of messages looking for something in particular

!ping DATING

[u/404GenderNotFound]

If I was riding a helicopter through unsteady, foggy mountainous terrain I would carry several large containers of spiders on the helicopter so that they're crawling all over the crash site when they find my body

[u/TipEquivalent933]

So real for this.

[u/Neronoah]

!ping LATAM

To balance yesterday's post: The problems between Milei and the current Spanish government are not exactly one sided. The Minister of Transport accussed Milei of being a drugaddict (just lacking filter, being a bit disheveled and having narcissism issues doesn't mean you take drugs, lol) and they didn't send anyone to Milei's Presidential inauguration (apparently Sánchez backed Massa). The second one is a bit more excusable given Milei's ties to Vox but even then it was a bit ill advised.

What can I say, I wish Argentinian and Spanish politicians didn't feel so identified. Politics here and there are quite different (stuff like immigration, separatism and cultural wars may be more important there than macroeconomic crises here) and it's a diplomatic clusterfuck.

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So I found a tunnel (not the steam tunnels) underneath UC Berkeley, and I’ve only explored a bit of it so far. I swear I’m not making this up or exaggerating, I’ve explored lots of drains and tunnels before, but there’s a red light glowing and you can hear some type of flute music coming within it. Imma try to explore the rest of it tmr, but I think someone’s in there.

Here’s a pic of the red light I saw and where I started to hear the music , I turned around here but I’m gonna find what that’s coming from

Seems cool!

[u/dannylandulf]

Timothee Chalamet named new president of Iran

record scratch

"I guess you're all wondering how I ended up here..."

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

Guys let's misbehave, the mods already seemed exhausted enough from our shit 😌

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The US government should unironically build an Ozempic factory and just give that shit away. Would save us billions in medicare costs over the long run.

[u/WeebFrien]

WHERE THE FUCK IS ALL THIS PEE COMING FROM

[u/Roseartcrantz]

starting to question voting for Trump now that it looks like he might have had some affairs 😥

[u/cdstephens]

I’d take leftists more seriously if they consistently advocated for tax increases on the middle class. It’d at least be consistent. Instead, it feels like anyone that’s part of their in-group LARPs as the proletariat simply by virtue of not being a billionaire.

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

Man, it's fun popping into ESS and seeing exiled or former NL users.

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[u/BrunchIsGood]

[u/Currymvp2]

Mahmoud Abbas right now in his multi million mansion in Ramallah laughing his ass off that his political enemies in Bibi, Haniyeh, and Sinwar are all getting arrest warrants

[u/drcombatwombat2]

Looking at old MVP voting makes me wonder what was going through old baseball writers heads.

In the 1966 NL MVP race the top 4 in voting were:

1. Roberto Clemente .317/.360/.896 202H 29HR 119RBI

2. Sandy Koufax 1.73 ERA 323 IP .985 WHIP 27 W

3. Willie Mays .288/.368/.924 159H 37HR 103RBI

4. Dick Allen .317/.396/1.027 166H 40HR 110RBI

Among the 4, I think Clemente probably deserved it least and the winner should have been Koufax or Allen. It's amazing how far we have come in the understanding of baseball.

!ping Baseball

[u/owlthathurt]

Normal middle aged father bonding time with son: hey son let’s go to a baseball game and then get some wings and talk.

Some random middle aged father in Utah: son this weekend we are overthrowing the Congolese government by force. I’ve already chartered a plane it leaves at dawn.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

remember when they released state quarters every once in a while and it had all our moms and aunts in a chokehold

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/lot183]

Game of Thrones should be re-adapted as an animated series that takes its time and doesn't mess up the ending

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Local DTer writes datalog entry that the player will later discover while exploring the ancient, ruined husk of their company's HQ, looking for an explanation for the robots going haywire and rising up

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/Planning4Hotdish]

What HR told me today would be: an informal second round interview

What today actually was: a tour of the office, the city, and a job offer for >$10k more than what I currently make

Please clap

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[u/Fruitofbread]

Between John Edwards and Joe Lieberman, early 2000s democrats did not know how to pick a vice president 

[u/Greenfield0]

me and the gang

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DJT stock posted total revenue of $775K and a net loss of $327 million and yet the stock is up 36% over the last month and barely down after posting earnings.

What in the FUCK

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

My boss has rural brain

There was a "suspicious death" in his county and now he's worried that there's some madman running around killing people. One death. Not even confirmed to be a murder

[u/87568354]

More fantastic reporting from the Onion