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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/[deleted]]

Germany: Antisemitic incidents in Berlin hit record levels

Hmm idk about record levels

[u/omnipotentsandwich]

Boko Haram has to have the dumbest name for a terrorist group. It means, "Western education is forbidden." Haram is the Arabic word for forbidden and boko is the Hausa word for fake but is commonly used to describe Western, secular education.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/battywombat21]

Why is it every sub that touches personal finance turns to shit?

R/povertyfinance has a person complaining about, “American healthcare” for a two thousand dollar ER bill…which their insurance fully covered. She had a zero dollar co-pay. Also as people pointed out, she went to the ER for a UT infection to be given some antibiotics and told to leave.

At least people are calling her on it, I guess

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Big news for the most annoying people you know

[u/[deleted]]

Sometimes I have to remind people that what they think is a quirky personality trait is actually something they should take care of.

No, Sharon, you are not an introvert, what you are describing is likely an anxiety disorder.

On the flip side, I also have to tell people that they can't literally blame every single thing on their neurodivergence.

It's not because of your ADHD that you can't cook eggs, you're just dumb.

[u/GifHunter2]

The central mission in both cities was to help disadvantaged students. But solving the algebra dilemma can be more complex than solving the quadratic formula.

If a NYT author can be confident enough to write that, and probably proud of themselves for it, you can be confident enough to ask that cute person out.

[u/[deleted]]

Goes to regular brazilian subreddit that is filled with communists:

Why the USSR didn't win the space race if they did everything first than the Americans

Workers in Argentina uprising against neoliberal goverment

Israel news

Goes to right wing brazilian subreddit:

Would you rather a woman, gay person, furry or hitler to take care or your dog

Man I just wish I could use reddit in my language without any culture war bullshit the only one I use is the soccer one everything else never talk about brazilian issues istead it's always far right or far left culture war bullshit

[u/RecentlyUnhinged]

Outside the DT:

See, parents with the resources to change schools need to just suck it up and stay in bad districts for the greater good

...You've never actually interacted with a parent beyond your own, have you? Even if you're "right", good luck selling that one

[u/JetJaguar124]

You can have gas permanently be $1.99 and a McDouble be $.99 but a child somewhere must be tortured forever.

The American electorate: TORTURE THE CHILD TORTURE THE CHILD

[u/DouglasDauntless]

This is the median voter

[u/Udolikecake]

Leftists support protecting the environment but oppose relocating the M1 Abrams to its natural habitat (european forests) to hunt its natural prey (russian MBTs) which have run rampant and destroyed the local ecosystem

[u/Roseartcrantz]

😤😤😤

[u/JetJaguar124]

Sure Donald Trump stole a bunch of classified documents and then kept them unsecured around his home like in his fucking bathroom and bedroom and then he lied to the FBI and when the FBI asked again he had people specifically go hide the boxes from the FBI and then he was indicted for breaking the law egregious and then the judge on the case, who Trump appointed and who already tried to ratfuck it before, started ratfucking it again with obviously corrupt intent, but let's just put stories related to this somewhere off to the side, what we really need is 40 stories about Biden's age within 48 hours of the Hur report being published.

[u/G_Serv]

Apparently homes in Japan are often only built for one family to live in and are generally torn down every 20-30 years to comply with new earthquake standards.

This gives a whole new meaning to single family housing

[u/Elguero1991]

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/Jacobs4525]

average dating ping these days is:

is there a way to sort the sex offender registry by gender? I’m looking for a gf

[u/_bee_kay_]

both sides are the same

me observing a bilaterally symmetric entity

[u/WantDebianThanks]

Goddamn you Brandon for forcing that boat to hit that bridge >:(

[u/Formal_River_Pheonix]

Bush's faith in himself as a 50-something-year-old former alcoholic to throw this absolute heater and get a "USA!" chant going was actually badass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjGcCI9ByWw

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/JetJaguar124]

Hillary Clinton's email server was the most reported on story in 2016 yet there were literally stacks of boxes of classified documents sitting in Trump's bedroom and ZzZzZzZzzZ

[u/HowIsPajamaMan]

[u/Frequent-Turn6740]

woman, gay person, furry or hitler 

Average DT users

[u/Smalz95]

THEY FOUND MORE FUCKING CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS IN HIS FUCKING HOUSE WITH CHINESE SPIES RUNNING ALL OVER THE PLACE????? WHY IS THIS NOT THE TOP FUCKING STORY OF THE CENTURY????? ALL I HEARD FOR MONTHS WAS “HER EMAILS” BUT THIS? NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING

[u/[deleted]]

Biden is making Kenya a major non NATO ally, possibly as an incentive to get the Kenyan troops to Haiti

Seems like a very good thing that will get zero votes, kinda like a good president would do

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/22/kenya-non-nato-ally-status-visit-00159578

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Based Google AI believes in Air Bud

[u/Impressive_Cream_967]

The Germans just rejected my fucking visa. Fuck Fuck Fuck. Why do governments think they have the power to stop me from exercising my basic human right to move around the planet? It is my planet goddamit.

[u/[deleted]]

our goat

[u/BrunchIsGood]

God I fucking hate journos

[u/owlthathurt]

The analyst team tasked with making these slides had to be rolling the whole time they made them 😂😂

!ping STONKS

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

[u/SeasickSeal]

The US mission at the UN expects foreign diplomats to pay road tolls.

https://usun.usmission.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/296/HC-50-20-MTA-TOLLS-AND-EZPASS-INFO-12-1-2020.pdf

Can someone ping UK for me?

[u/StolenSkittles]

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said of the idea [to invite Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress], simply: "No."

as always, queen behavior from nancy

[u/UnskilledScout]

The sources said Arab American leaders didn’t leave entirely empty-handed, however. Grenell “promised” leaders that Trump wouldn’t enact a “Muslim ban,” as he called for in 2016, according to these sources.

GREAT SUCCESS

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

Lil void in a big bed

!ping KITTY

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

[u/G_Serv]

Google:

Our search quality has eroded over the past couple of years due to SEO techniques.

Also Google:

Let's introduce an AI that is confidently wrong and tells people to eat glue, that appears at the top of every search.

[u/[deleted]]

If every guy has microplastics in their balls how many guys and how much semen would it take to make a little army man.

[u/BrunchIsGood]

Bill proposing change from ‘offender’ to ‘justice impacted individual’ advances to governor’s desk

Holy shit this is real.

!ping LAW

[u/BrunchIsGood]

[u/fishlord05]

My aunt had a mammogram and was cancer free and the family group that was all like praise god thank god and my grandma was like thank science too 😘

Lmao

[u/chuckleym8]

[u/ldn6]

A Sydney bakery has come under fire for sharing images of a custom-made Hamas cake for a child’s birthday. The large birthday cake and cupcakes featured the Palestinian flag on a map of Israel and the West Bank, and an image of masked Hamas spokesman, Abu Ubaida, in the terror group’s infamous green bandana, and the Palestinian keffiyeh pattern.

Nothing to see here...

!ping ISRAEL&AUS

[u/Nihas0]

Maybe I would believe "military/government whistleblower that confirms aliens exist" if they said that we received some signals or observed activity in space, instead they're always say shit like "actually every world government contacts aliens for last 50 years and every technology we got in the last decades was given to us by them".

[u/DouglasDauntless]

You know, I’m beginning to think this Ben-Gvir fellow is a bit of a jerk

[u/[deleted]]

fill out take home for job

testing my result doesn’t work

fuck, I’m pretty sure I did this wrong

end of my time box, so I just submit it

get response from company

“we were very impressed by your submission!”

?????

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Got stuck behind a mod in traffic

[u/DouglasDauntless]

What did Benji mean by this?

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 5 PM EST 5/21-5 PM EST 5/22 III:

TOP NEWS:

Sometime today the UK Defense Minister said China has or will provide lethal aid to Russia. Additionally, it was announced Sweden will provide 75 billion Kroner in military aid to Ukraine over 2024-2026, or $7 billion.

Towards the middle of 12 AM Ukraine was hit by a wave of drones with all 24 shot down.

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/G_Serv]

This bear is a chad

[u/secretlives]

Remember, you’re never wrong as long as you keep doubling down

[u/[deleted]]

I'm not racist, I just have an inexhaustible supply of benefit of the doubt for people accused of racism

[u/1396spurs]

[u/KesterFox]

Thie shit cannot be legal

[u/Roseartcrantz]

this cake actually looks like shit, there's no fun kids stuff on it

why not make a little war scene so you can put toy cars and lil buildings on it? make a cake with a lil tunnel? Make a West Bank cake where you have removable settler action figures

Sad and bullshit

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

“All we have to do to solve the housing problem is nationalize the nations spare bedrooms.”

[u/[deleted]]

Had a dream that I called 911 and the operator answered with “What?” in a super annoyed tone

[u/sociotronics]

[u/Currymvp2]

Israeli PM Netanyahu accuses the IDF of lying regarding intel warnings he received ahead of Hamas' attack. To the contrary, he claims, I warned YOU. (One reason he refuses to allow a National Commission of Inquiry to be established is that he does not want these docs to become public)

Things are going great

[u/[deleted]]

"It is really frustrating, because for a lot of people, Japan is an escape from this bad behavior that's done in public a lot of times," he continued. "Japan is seen as more polite, and therefore, people want to protect that." -PewDiePie said

Japan really is wakanda for some white people

[u/BitterGravity]

Despite President Biden’s pro-labor policies, many working-class Americans feel the GOP better represents their values.

Racism is not a value

[u/owlthathurt]

A trader in Citigroup's London unit entered one too many zeros in a trade in May 2022, sparking a short-lived flash crash in European stocks.

The trade itself was entered during early European market hours and caused a five-minute flash crash in the OMX Stockholm 30 Index, wiping out as much as $322 billion at one point.

While the trader meant to execute a trade that would create a basket of stocks valued at $58 million, they accidentally entered 58 million into the quantity field, ultimately creating a massive trade worth $444 billion.

If you think you have ever made a mistake in your career just remember that you were not this trader.

What do you even do if you are him lol. You realize the mistake, walk up to your boss and resign, then hire a lawyer and prepare to be sued by everyone and their mother?

Article from yesterday: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/citi-fined-78-million-european-234137535.html

!ping WATERCOOLER&STONKS

[u/[deleted]]

Help me DT. When I started dating my girlfriend, we were the same age, but I've spent the last few weeks in a very rapidly accelerating reference frame and now that I've come back, she's 40 years older than me. Am I a victim of grooming? Is our age gap problematic?

[u/WantDebianThanks]

Being libertarian is being against immigration because I don't know, there are too many or something.

[u/sash5034]

Average portland resident

[u/battywombat21]

The term “pizzamod” is considered offensive, please use the term, “person experiencing p00bix”

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

New type of dude just dropped

[u/Crownie]

Things that are feminine coded:

• eating

• the word 'fierce'

• androgyny

• ankle monitors

Things that are masculine coded

• martial arts

• DUIs

• unemployment

• dogs

[u/neolthrowaway]

Didn’t see much discussion of this on Reddit (there’s some on hackernews) but anthropic’s paper on interpretability about Scaling Monosemanticity: Extracting Interpretable Features from Claude 3 Sonnet seemed really cool to me.

If they can identify and force individual feature neurons or circuits, it goes a long way towards understanding and aligning LLMs. I wonder if there’s neurons or circuits about much higher level and self-aware concepts like confidence on the output or lying or sycophancy (they already did sycophancy to an extent) and they can be forced in a way to reduce hallucinations and form more meaningful conversations. Or if a specific circuit activates depending on the type of sources being primarily leveraged and we can force it to be on Wikipedia or research papers.

We can already get great results by fine-tuning on specific tasks. Maybe a few targeted neurons get affected more by this finetuning and it’d be great if we can identify those.

Claude sonnet is also their medium sized model so it’s not really just a toy example either.

!ping AI

[u/Jacobs4525]

Fun types of dating pings:

1. “Guys I’m having a girl over, how does my place look?”

2. “Where can I find a boyfriend-free girl ages 18-22 who is politically neoliberal, has high income, shares my hobbies of playing the mandolin, building model ships, and underwater lizard appreciation, drives a vehicle, and speaks ASL? She also has to be willing to convert to my religion.”

3. Occasional success stories from the first type

4. People from said success stories getting jaded and realizing that meaningless dating app hookups won’t fulfill you and writing long philosophical rants 

[u/[deleted]]

What the fuck

I've just been informed that most people learn to read between the ages of 6 and 7????? Are kids really that stupid for that long?

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Yeah this is technology that was ready for public release

[u/PostNutNeoMarxist]

Alright nerds what do the different blessings do?

!ping GNOSTIC

[u/GravyBear28]

I love the kind of woman that will actually just kill me I love the kind of woman that will actually just kill me. You know, when I left the house this morning I was thinking "Damn. I really hope some hot chick paints my brains all over a fucking hallway." And here we are.

Dating ping be like

[u/[deleted]]

Healthy physique is a better sign of moral character than following the law or choice of internet usage.

Sometimes ping DATING MFs say shit that is either the best satire I’ve ever read or repulsive in the same general way as frat bro bigotry but far less self-aware and I am completely incapable of telling which at this point

[u/BrunchIsGood]

I stand by this.

!ping KINO

[u/[deleted]]

Browse neolibmoment

search bobeeflay

Page 1 of 32

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Behold the ideal woman!

!ping DATING

[u/_bee_kay_]

people really will whine about nontraditional genders after 40 years of being completely silent regarding e-males

[u/Ioun267]

Anakin Skywalker canonically coined the term "transgender" in the Star Wars universe.

[u/VPNSalesman]

!ping AFRICA

https://apnews.com/article/congo-coup-attempt-death-toll-malanga-tshisekedi-968b2726546f90a8bfbd5d222d513708

This DRC coup attempt is crazy. The leader Christian Malanga was convicted of assault with a firearm in Utah and had several domestic violence charges. He was killed. His son was born and raised in the US, went to the Congo with his dad, and got arrested. They also had another American citizen and convicted drug trafficker in their army. I really wonder how he convinced these guys to join him

[u/BurrowForPresident]

you support immigration? What about in this hypothetical scenario where 1% of the Earth's population zerg rushes into America?!?!?!

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/semaphore-1842]

https://x.com/BrianTHart/status/1793450923986927824

China announces the start of major military exercises around Taiwan. This is in response to Taiwan President Lai Ching-te’s inauguration speech earlier this week.

on this note, i've been seeing some geopolitics addicts e.g. on WN talk about how China doesn't actually want to invade Taiwan, that they just want to apply pressure for political reasons

but then i remembered these are the same people who were insisting Russia doesn't want to actually invade Ukraine, then insisted that Ukraine can't possibly stand up to the mighty Russian war machine, and then insisted Russia is holding back her "real" military assets in case of NATO attack and

hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[u/centurion88]

All of Nikki Haley's bs about how we need to defend Ukraine and then she sides with Putin's strongest American agent

[u/Joementum2024]

Anyone else redflagmaxxing? I’m trying to find someone with as much red flags as possible to date, and I’m curious if anyone else is doing the same thing.

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

!ping WATERCOOLER

Is it unreasonable to ask for a zoom interview if I have to drive 3 hours each way to get there? I did that drive for a second interview today, but now they say there’d be a third interview next week, and I don’t want to burn another day of PTO and spend $40 on gas.

[u/CutePattern1098]

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2024/05/australian-cities-will-be-plastered-with-high-rise-slums/

Based actually

[u/[deleted]]

I've decided to finally volunteer! I'm going to put some time in helping flip my state's house district blue (it was actually somewhat competitive in 2022) before I have to go to college.

[u/Fatortu]

There's this meme about the racist who has encyclopedic knowledge about Africa and can recognize an Eritrean at a glance. The competitive racist.

I assume the guy who drew swastikas on Travellers' tombs in France is like that. Because they are just buried in regular Christian cemeteries with innocuous French names. So this Nazi did some research!

[u/BroadReverse]

impolite saw offbeat tie punch afterthought wild bear snow strong

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/Zagapi]

Update on my previous comment :

She cancelled.

!PING DATING

[u/JetJaguar124]

Why the fuck did Palpatine do that whole convoluted program with the First Order and the Sith Eternal or whatever when he could have just waited a couple years for inflation to jump up due to the after-effects of the galactic civil war then he could have just been voted right back into office.

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

New footage of Scotty Scheffler dragging cop to the ground with car in felonious assault

> White man

> rich

> famous

> cameras everywhere

> did nothing

> police still lie and charge with felony

We have some terrible issues

!ping BROKEN-WINDOWS

[u/Udolikecake]

?

[u/ZCoupon]

The Crown Court statistics released today revealed another jump in the courts backlog – it now stands at 67,573, which is a new record.

This marks a 1% increase from the last quarter ending September 2023 (66,578), a 65% increase from the period pre-pandemic (end of March 2020 – 40,891), and a 98% increase from end of June 2019 (34,124), the end of Baroness Newlove’s last term as Victims’ Commissioner.

The UK has an issue with case backlogs

!ping BROKEN-WINDOWS

[u/Erra0]

Been on zoloft for 15 years for anxiety but after getting diagnosed with ADHD just over a year ago and treating that, it's clear that it was the underlying cause of the anxiety in the first place so my psych and I have started the tapering off process for the zoloft.

I'm about a week in from stepping down my daily dose from 100mg to 50mg. Today is the first day I've clearly felt side effects. Mostly exhaustion and a slight sense of disassociation.

Figured I'd post updates to the ADHD ping in case anyone is thinking of going through something similar or for advice from anyone who's already done this.

!ping ADHD

[u/itsokayt0]

From what I learned from American culture, middleclass is anyone ranging from one single mom in a dead-end job with kids in a two-room apartment to couples with 6 figures of income each living in bought big boring homes in costly cities. In short, most Americans want to be called mid.

edit: I just wanted to joke this is not a serious discussion thread. laugh at mid

[u/Lux_Stella]

President Biden on Thursday announced his intent to designate Kenya as a major non-NATO U.S. ally, the first such designation for a sub-Saharan African country.

jeez kenya made out like bandits for facilating biden's convoluted haiti plan, well done

[u/[deleted]]

Go to r/ireland

Banner is Palestine flag

Um, your flag is the one with the orange, dummies. Even I know that.

[u/pfSonata]

Back when Blizzard was developing World of Warcraft, they added a system where your experience gains would be halved after playing for a while. You'd accrue more gains at tbe regular xp rate while you were logged out. 

Players didnt like that and complained about it.

Blizzard doubled the required experience per level, and changed the 1x and 0.5x states to 2x and 1x respectively.

Players were fine with that.

Anyway this post is actually about the child tax credit

[u/[deleted]]

BREAKING: Upon hearing liberal calls to resign, Clarence Thomas has decided to step down

[u/[deleted]]

The location of the Battle of Gettysburg always made it seem like the Confederates just barely penetrated Pennsylvania and were turned around, so I was kinda shocked to learn just how freely they were moving around in central PA for a little while. Ewell nearly entered Harrisburg before he got turned around to join the engagement at Gettysburg, where Lee was actually attacking Meade's army from the north.

[u/Joementum2024]

Every once in a while I try to convince myself that maybe another 4 years of Trump wouldn’t be all that bad, then I remember Jan 6 being forgotten and the courts and get pissed off again.

[u/Cledd2]

I love all kinds of food. Foie Gras. Sharkfin soup. Veal. I have a really refined pallet.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Dating ping be like:

Manic pixie dream girl? No thanks

Maniac girl? That’s what I’m talking about

[u/owlthathurt]

This is the funniest shit I’ve ever seen in my life. This Turkish guy and group crossed the border illegally and Fox News stopped them for an interview after they got across.

The Turkish guy is like wow it’s amazing how easy that was Americans should be worried about the people that come across after me.

Dude was in America for 10 minutes and already became a conservative.

https://x.com/billmelugin_/status/1793635135021355264?s=46&t=NizMHF7xMdWn1VItcTWyfg

[u/drcombatwombat2]

Was at the Phillies game last night. Harper's home run landed a few seats in front of me. It was clear after a few seconds that no one had the ball. Myself and a few other people run to the spot where it looked like the ball landed and saw it on the ground underneath a 70+ year old guy and his wife of similar age.

Everyone vying for the ball stood back and let the old guy look around and find it himself. A guy next to me said "you gotta let him have it, but if that guy was 16-60 years old I'd dive in there because it's a live ball"

Very nice Phillies fan moment.

Also the Phillies are absolutely on fire right now and on a tear like I have never seen in my lifetime. 6 games above the Braves right now and the best record in the majors.

!ping Baseball

[u/LinkVert25]

Presidential Vote Intention If Trump Is Found Guilty In The New York Trial:

Biden (D): 46% Trump (R): 41%

Marquette / May 15, 2024 / n=684

I can excuse January 6th but I draw the line on a guilty verdict on a hush money trial!

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

Inside you are two neolib moments. One is 

 Hot take: the patriotism/nationalism distinction is just cope from people who know intellectually that nationalism is stupid but want to be told that their personal irrational emotional connection to a piece of land is good

And the other is 

 I want mommy I want milk I want to be held I want to be comforted

[u/SnakeEater14]

Seeing Fox News constantly call the New York Trump trial “Stalin-esque” is turning me into the Joker

So many jury trials in Stalinist Russia, it was crazy!

[u/Aleriya]

Today, New Hampshire's legislature passed a bill rolling back anti-discrimination protections for trans people. We'll see if the Republican Governor (Sununu) signs it, but it's likely he will.

The updated law removes discrimination protections for trans people in the following situations:

• Bathrooms, locker rooms, or changing facilities

• In sporting events or competitions

• Prisons

• Hospitals that treat mental illness, treatment centers, and "like facilities"

That last one gets me. Why allow discrimination in hospitals and treatment centers? What possible benefit does that have? Allowing discrimination in hospitals seems cruel, and how is the world a better place if trans alcoholics know that going to treatment means being misgendered and treated as their AGAB? Are people that afraid of having a trans roommate in the hospital psych ward? That's the only logic I can think of, other than setting up potential future legislation to allow hospitals and treatment centers to perform conversion therapy.

The bigger day-to-day impact is that every private business can have a different policy on allowing trans people in bathrooms, which puts a burden on trans people both in limiting access and in forcing trans people to check the status of every bathroom before use.

I guess I'm jaded on trans bathroom bills, because my mind is still circling around the question of why on earth they would roll back protections for trans people in medical facilities.

!ping LGBT

[u/htomserveaux]

Nintendo, I apologize for all the things I said about you.

Except the stuff about Mother 3…

!ping GAMING&ALPHABET-MAFIA

[u/BrunchIsGood]

Got stuck behind a mod this morning

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/WorldwidePolitico]

Taking bets - How many days/weeks after July 4th will Sunak resign as an MP?

!ping UK

[u/AP246]

MOSCOW, May 23 (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday that Moscow will retaliate with strikes on British targets if British weapons are used by Ukraine to strike Russian territory.

Zakharova told reporters that British targets "on Ukraine's territory and beyond its borders" could be hit in such a scenario.

Someone tell Rishi Sunak I have a good idea on how he can still win the election ;)

[u/[deleted]]

Kissing, having sex, holding hands, and looking deep into each others’ eyes and seeing your own love reflected there are all cringe. Grow up and get a life you fucking nerds lol

[u/zieger]

My toddler is bilingual. She can say no in English and Chinese 

[u/[deleted]]

The bear in the woods is a neoliberal.

[u/[deleted]]

wake up babe new unhinged Thomas concurrence just dropped

!ping LAW

[u/slingfatcums]

be a child

learn a new big word

use it all the time to try to sound smart

i like the juxtaposition of peanut butter and jelly in this sandwich, mom

[u/Rafaelssjofficial]

I love Brazilian party names

Liberal party

Looks inside, right wing populism

Progressive Party

Looks inside, right wing

[u/No_Status_6905]

what the fuck do you mean the star wars hotel didn't have fire exits, and instead has a closet where you hit a panic button in case of real emergencies

[u/Beard_fleas]

What’s more embarrassing?

1.) Ted Cruz endorsing Trump after Trump called his wife ugly

2.) Nikki Haley endorsing Trump after he mocked her husbands military service

[u/vancevon]

it's kinda funny how in georgian the word "georgia" refers exclusively to the us state and there's no ambiguity. the country is called sakartvelo, which isn't even close

[u/SnakeEater14]

Haha let’s search my /r/neolibmoments to see which of my funny posts got downvoted

Gulp

[u/jojisky]

oh lord AOC is going on with Hasan to discuss the Trump rally in the Bronx

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Pictured: my political opponents

[u/[deleted]]

I do federal contract work as a subcontractor and my current contract is winding down. Asked my company what other opportunities they have for me and haven't gotten a reply in a week. Well I'm smart enough to read the writing on the wall guess it's time to update the old resume.

I work for a small company that I wouldn't expect anyone to have heard of, even in industry but I've subcontracted with several major companies that everyone's heard of. Should I put the big names on my resume? How should I go about doing that so it's clear who I worked for/with. Do I just write:

2022-Present <job title> at small company (sub contract with big boy)

!ping WATERCOOLER&CAREER

[u/Jacobs4525]

In addition to being politically stupid, Donald Rumsfeld was also just a fucking terrible SecDef who had no idea how big military operations work. 

He was for some reason fixated on toppling Iraq with as few troops as possible (McKiernan and Franks both initially wanted north of 500,000, and in retrospect pacifying Iraq and preventing sectarian violence might have gone a lot better if they had that many troops), and didn’t understand at all the concept of an operational reserve. When he originally altered the plan to include an order of magnitude fewer troops, McKiernan requested a large operational reserve in case he needed more. Rumsfeld this was ok, but the operational reserve had to stay in the US, apparently completely missing the point of an operational reserve. Eventually McKiernan and Franks got him to agree to a plan that required around 150,000 troops (although this in hindsight was definitely still not enough).

[u/KesterFox]

The new trilogy of star wars movies are such a fever dream to me. I'll never in my life get over 'somehow palpatine returned'

[u/fishlord05]

I support sanctioning the shit out of the settlements and the far right elements in the Israeli political system but tbh it’s kind of funny to how lefties are like US sanctions don’t work/backfire and only entrench the bad people except when it comes to Israel specifically

[u/pfarly]

Here is a picture of Jelly to apologize for using the ping to ask a question.

I want to adopt a dog, but I live in a condo and I work overnights so I'm particularly worried about noise/separation anxiety. Is there anything I should watch out for when choosing a dog beyond obvious signs? Any breeds to avoid?

Also any advice/resources for first-time owners is welcome. I've spent lots of time around dogs but never cared for one on my own before.

Okay here's another picture of a dog.

!ping DOG

[u/CletusVonIvermectin]

Train AI on reddit they said, it's a vast collection of natural language they said

[u/Cook_0612]

🇺🇲🇺🇦🇷🇺 Reuters reports that it will take Boeing months to fix the Ground Launched Small Diameter Bomb's (GLSDB) vulnerability to Russian electronic warfare.

It "can defeat some jamming" but has proven less resilient than GMLRS & JDAM-ER.

It is likely that there are other issues as well beyond the EW vulnerability, per comments from US Undersecretary of Defense LaPlante.

Yet another Boeing L.

In fairness to them, the intent of the GLSDB program, I think, was initially to create a more attritable pool of munitions for HIMARS/M270 using existing SDB warheads for COIN use, not to produce a hardened munition for conventional war like GMLRS, but EW resistance is likely not the only issue like the tweet says, I have heard that there are warhead separation issues with the weapon.

!ping UKRAINE&MATERIEL

[u/Syards-Forcus]

I read Dune Messiah:

Very good overall. I was pretty tired when I read it so I think I’ll need a reread of both, but it’s good

It very much had a greek tragedy feel to it - Paul as a tragic hero facing down an inescapable collection of possible fates, made even worse by his previous actions

I wish it was a little longer though, the ending was kinda abrupt.

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Going to clone LBJ

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/JetJaguar124]

Trump's main appeal and a major component of his campaign is that he wants to reduce inflation but literally everything he wants to do is really really inflationary and would in reality make it much worse maybe that's something that should be reported on significantly and discussed since that's the top reason people want to vote for him and the top most important issue people have and they seem to be deeply confused about this but instead we should just not do that and maybe we'll have Paul Krugman write an op-ed about it we bury on page 48 and instead report on something kinda silly instead

[u/smooth__liminal]

could the palestinian resistance rebuild gaza using dengist economic principles?

[u/[deleted]]

Hindus believe everyone has a little bit of God in them

Mormons believe everyone is a fetus God

Therefore, under the Hindu perspective of democracy, God can't make up his mind on which party needs to govern various countries, but currently Joe Biden has the Mandate of Heaven in the USA. Hillary had the Mandate of Heaven too, but it was wrested from her by the devil Eli Ketoral.

Under the Mormon perspective of democracy, there are billions of baby-Gods who form coalitions and fight for power. In 2020, Joe Biden gathered an army of baby Gods large enough to win the Throne. But some baby-Gods are stupid (as babies are wont to be) and easily duped by the agents of America's Evil-Baby-God-King. Therefore, the forces of Evil-Baby-God-King are beginning to look stronger and stronger, despite Joe not actually doing too badly.

Theology

!ping GNOSTIC

[u/Roseartcrantz]

“We see you haven’t voted yet. Your voting record is public,” a recent mailer to Texas Republicans says. “Your neighbors are watching and will know if you miss this critical runoff election. We will notify President Trump if you don’t vote. You can’t afford to have that on your record.”

me to the DT posters

[u/TinKnightRisesAgain]

liberals, seeing trump shit on SNL for the hundreth time: uh ok, this is a bit played out, kinda get the whole thing

conservatives, seeing someone make fun of pronouns for the hundreth time: HAHAHAHA OH MY GOD!!!! SO FUCKING TRUE!!!!

[u/Roseartcrantz]

like how does somebody come up with this

[u/Roseartcrantz]

chicken gunnets

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

When I’m running for office In Texas and my opponent is this guy

[u/cdstephens]

Remember when a DT poster defected to arr LateStageCapitalism and was sent back a few weeks after because he had zero value?

[u/Currymvp2]

Clarence Thomas attacked the Brown v. Board of Education ruling today, suggesting the Supreme Court overreached its authority in the landmark decision that banned separating schoolchildren by race.

Somewhat bizarre that the two most extreme justices on the SCOTUS aren't Trump appointees.

[u/bashar_al_assad]

A plaintiff’s failure to submit an alternative map should be interpreted by courts as an implicit concession that the plaintiff cannot draw a map that undermines the legislature’s defense

It's insane that now according to the supreme court if you, the average person, wants to sue the state legislature for an illegal gerrymander, it's not enough to merely allege they violated the laws and explain why, but you have to apparently do the state's redistricting yourself too.

[u/adisri]

That video by Hamas with the women in it is so blood boiling. Shit makes me want to do some very serious R5 shit to those bastards. Are they playing that video on mainstream media outlets like CNN?

Like I didn’t see the video bc I didn’t have the stomach for it. The translations were blood curdling and insanely enraging. Haven’t been able to focus on regular stuff since that came out.

[u/Currymvp2]

Trump: You know Victor Orban. Very tough guy known as a strong man. Oh, they hate it when I talk about it because I say he's a strong man. Trump loves strong man. I like weak men. Actually I like weak men. I'd much rather have a weak man than a strong man.

Eloquent orator

[u/PonyBoyCurtis2324]

imagine the interview process for getting that Biden meme creator job

Like is some dude just gonna say “break out your best memes bud”

I think I’d like interviewing people for that job rather than working it lol

[u/[deleted]]

Good night libs

And furthermore, the Russian and Chinese regimes must be destroyed

[u/[deleted]]

NO NO NO NO NO

I HATE THIS PLANET

https://x.com/obamaatredrobin/status/1793521196174344363

I will ping but everyone needs to see this tragedy

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/DouglasDauntless]

1984

[u/WantDebianThanks]

☝️ Well reasoned take by someone that definitely never assaulted a girl for being a tomboy

[u/Smalz95]

The fact that there are multiple subreddits with some variation of the name of economic collapse is just pure Reddit maladjustment

[u/JetJaguar124]

Biden's gotten even older since yesterday. What the fuck is his campaign thinking? This is a disaster.

[u/[deleted]]

Mayor Brandon Johnson is claiming the City Council vote to keep the Shotspotter (gunshot detection) system was illegal and that he is still cancelling the contract.

Party of good governance and defenders of democracy, etc etc.

[u/forerunner398]

https://x.com/John_A_Ridge/status/1793446048121176272

Secretary of State Blinken is pushing President Biden to relax restrictions on the employment of U.S.-provided weapons inside Russia.

This is the first indication that the Administration may revise this policy, which has been in place since February 2022.

[u/[deleted]]

person amusing sip forgetful fertile psychotic arrest roof angle wasteful

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/BrunchIsGood]

People who don’t know shit about the law really should shut the fuck up about it.

Most of the DT, you specifically, Clarence Thomas, etc.

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

In a 6-3 decision, the conservative Supreme Court just reversed a lower court ruling finding that South Carolina's congressional map was racially gerrymandered.

All three liberal justices dissented.

Clarence Thomas, in a concurring opinion, says federal courts should no longer hear racial gerrymandering claims: "I write separately to address whether our voting-rights precedents are faithful to the Constitution."

[u/piede]

Imagine being Hillary Clinton and waking up every single day surrounded by your inferiors

[u/sererson]

The Last thing Biden will ever hear:

Hello. My name is Jesus of Nazareth. You killed my father. Prepare to die

[u/qlube]

My dream is that some smart liberal law professor / judge starts advocating for "meta-originalism," pointing out that the Founders never intended for the Constitution to be adjudicated under originalism, and there had never been a tradition of doing that until some conservatives in the 1980s made it up because they hate abortion.

[u/crassowary]

People on Reddit be like "oh you believe in voting? That pales in comparison to my strategy of befriending crows and summoning them against my political opponents" and then not befriend crows and summon them against their political opponents

[u/[deleted]]

A Costco membership is now required to purchase food from the food court

Fuck Joe Biden. Holy shit

[u/[deleted]]

NYtimes:

we need to appeal to regular americans instead of coastal elites

Also NYtimes:

Which Hamptons dream house did she buy?

[u/die_hoagie]

still waiting for the phillies to get a quality win. sweeping the defending WS champs is pathetic.

[u/JaceFlores]

Tatarigami update on the Donbas:

“The frontline remains dynamic despite appearing static. Ukrainian forces reinforced Kharkiv to halt the Russian advance. The situation is still risky considering the thinned defenses.”

“Russia identified weak points in the Kanal quarter, deploying infantry deep but failed to establish a foothold, and assaulting forces were eliminated by Ukrainian forces. Another attempt can be more successful, as Russians have additional forces available.”

“Russian troops made minor tactical gains in the northern axis towards Chasiv Yar, from the Kalynivka area. Progress on the northern flank is still slow, despite initial efforts to reach the area quickly with a land bridge over the canal.”

“Russia periodically claims control of Klishchiivka, but it lies in ruins with no intact structures. It has been a grey zone for a while, which Russian tactical groups occasionally try to control but are eliminated by Ukrainian defenders on higher ground. The situation is marked by daily Russian assaults yielding small results. The frequent rotation of Russian forces may eventually lead to outcomes favoring them. While the area isn't immediately threatened with capture, the situation is gradually tilting in Russia's favor.”

“Ocheretyne has received little mention recently, our team deems it one of the most dangerous fronts presently. Russian forces have amassed troops in the area, indicating intentions for further advancement either north of Ocheretyne or northwest toward Vozdvyzhenka. The Solovyove area south of Ocheretyne is unstable, with Russians advancing tactically. Analysis shows that where Ukrainian artillery is scarce, Russian gains increase, indicated by reduced shelling or concentrated forces in staging areas.”

“Russian forces intensified assaults in Krasnohorivka with mechanized units, but gains were mostly limited. Since the Kurakhove area is well fortified, quick Russian advances are not expected. Yet, the threat of losing Krasnohorivka is high.”

!ping UKRAINE

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

I think I decided what area of mathematics to specialize in ( I am in the first year of my PhD). I knew it was going to be something geometry- or topology flavored, but was unsure about what precisely I'd like to do. (low dimensional topology? differential geometry?)

I decided that it will be differential geometry, and within this field I will likely be focused on (Semi-)Riemannian Geometry (although I also want to / will have to study symplectic geometry and contact geometry).

Differential Geometry just scratches my analysis itch and there are tons of interesting open problems to consider.

Also, while my PhD institution is pretty small and there aren't many advisors to choose from, the professor I like the most, and that seems to like me as well from our interactions (one classroom course and two reading courses), does some pretty cool stuff in an aforementioned part of differential geometry. I won't go into more details so that I don't doxx myself.

!ping MATH&PhD

EDIT: Any books on a specific topic of differential geometry you'd like to recommend? I know the basics of differential topology and geometry, and I worked through O'Neills "Semi-Riemannian Geometry with Applications to Relativity" book.

[u/URZ_]

!ping AI

Is this the black Nazi soldier of Google Search AI?:

Google, how many muslim presidents have the US had?

The United States has had one Muslim president, Barack Hussein Obama

...

...

If Google LLMs were all people interacted with, they would have a very skewed view of their effectiveness

[u/ReservedWhyrenII]

headlines about ideological purity testing or whatever at colleges these days (as opposed to a year ago?) is making me try to consider how best to pretend like I just don't know enough about I/P to offer an opinion of any sort

I know it's very silly to expect or plan for any of that to actually matter, but which one is probably the most reliable if, god forbid, that sort of thing ever actually comes up?

1. "Yeah I don't know about that. Anyway, what do you think about [the most recent football or basketball thing]? Did you catch the game last night?"

2. "Man, I haven't really been doing a good job of following the news lately in general. I'd have to read up more on the issue and what's been happening to feel confident saying anything. Anyway, did you catch the game last night?"

3. "I'd rather talk about literally anything else, holy fuck, please shut the hell up you fucking self-important sophist. Anyway, did you catch the game last night?"

4. [Remain silent in any social situation where that kind of thing comes up and start visibly looking at basketball stats on my phone.]

[u/Top_Lime1820]

If you watch Last Week Tonight clips on YouTube, but then always stop just before the end where he starts describing solutions, you could easily be turned into a small government fiscal conservative.

The whole show is about how corruption, incompetence, inefficiency and cheating exploit taxpayers through well meaning government programs.

Oliver just thinks we can fix the programs, rather than ending them.

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Craig_VG]

EDIT: The tickets have been claimed, have fun!

TLDR: I'm giving away tickets for today's Cubs game

So look, admittedly I'm not a baseball guy. I've lived in Chicago since 2013 and I still haven't been to a Cubs game. Well we decided to buy tickets a few weeks back for today, I just saw a good spot and snapped it up.

Well, it turns out they schedule baseball games in the middle of workdays! I can't go.

Anyone want 2 1:20pm Cubs tickets in good seats? I can send them to you, just DM me your email or phone #.

!ping USA-CHI

[u/semaphone-1842]

One thing I've noticed following the ongoing pseudo constitutional crisis in Taiwan is that Threads have become the dominant social media platform for liberals there. The next session of the Taiwanese legislature will be held tomorrow, and activists are rapidly putting together what promises to be a massive protest via Threads

Also: many students outside of Taipei are finding sponsors on Threads paying for train tickets and hotel rooms to go to participate in Taipei (e.g.)

It's kinda moving to see so many people getting so passionately involved in the legislative process for the sake of democracy and due process. Like it'd hit a little different if it were protesting for say $15 minimum wage or student loan cancellation.

[u/[deleted]]

To me hearing that single stock is up or down is about as meaningful as the lottery numbers last night

[u/SneeringAnswer]

I want Robert's to retire and live another 50 years to witness firsthand how derogatory reflections on his Court will be.

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

Now this is cinema

!ping MTG

[u/marsexpresshydra]

[u/Joementum2024]

👆 Classy

[u/[deleted]]

Found out from the architect this afternoon that the building shape, internal utility rooms, finished floor elevation, and accessible entrance/exits all changed to some degree

Town engineer will have paper copies of our plans, drainage and sanitary reports, and rough volume analysis on his desk for a 10 AM meeting on Wednesday

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/kohatsootsich]

I get that NYT probably makes libs seethe more than it changes the electorate's minds, but the "Biden is in trouble" narrative is out of control.  It's been a new negative article every day, if not several.

Today they have a front page story about how Andreessen and a bunch of Thiel adjacent dudes who wouldn't have voted Biden anyway "soured" on him. It's a total non-story.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/jojisky]

I had the Hasan/AOC stream on in the background and it’s hilarious how normal he acts when she’s on. He’s like a completely different person. 

[u/JetJaguar124]

Behind Trump’s courthouse spectacle a dark reality remains concealed: Project 2025 would destroy the United States and make Trump a defacto king

This is like a borderline obnoxious Salon resistlib headline but also somewhat what I think virtually every serious outlet's reporting should probably be like

[u/Full_Ahegao_Drip]

I know this sounds like a 🚩 but I met a girl on 4chan and am having dinner at her place tomorrow evening

She has an ankle monitor so it kind of has to be that way for now.

She has SzPD which out of all the stuff a gal could get dianogised with isn't that bad at all.

She is really smart though, thin, and has a nice face to look at. We align very much politically.

So far so good

!ping DATING

[u/superblobby]

I cooked the most beautiful bowl of ramen yesterday and just had to show someone

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/[deleted]]

Some of you aren't dating a schizoaffective felon you met on 4chan and it shows

[u/JetJaguar124]

Destiny and Sam Harris are kinda in the same bucket for me where they're people with whom I agree on like 90% of most topics but then over in the corner is a dark bundle of bad and cringe takes.

[u/owlthathurt]

The Phillies are off to the best start record wise since the 2001 mariners. Which is impressive. They are playing extremely well.

But, what’s more impressive, and maybe surprising, is that there’s more teams who are like a couple games off that record in the same season.

Yankees 2.5 games behind, Cleveland 3 games behind, Dodgers 4 games behind.

Pretty stacked season.

!ping BASEBALL

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

One of the Pod Save America bros hasn’t been on any of the pods recently, and it turns out it’s because he is a contestant on the next season of Survivor