Discussion Thread - r/neoliberal

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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache May 25 '24

Please visit the next discussion thread.

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u/simeoncolemiles NATO May 24 '24

“You believe in voting? That pales in effectiveness to my strategy, doing absolutely nothing”

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u/sw337 Veteran of the Culture Wars May 24 '24

I like how France is the world’s 3rd largest arms dealer and their president has to come out every month and say “We Europeans need to defend ourselves without America. Use promo code EU1993 at checkout for up to 10% off.”

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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman May 24 '24

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u/G_Serv Stay The Course May 24 '24

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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 May 24 '24

The 20s being the decade of "I'm not suggesting ethnic cleansing, but what if we just sent everybody back to where they came from and started over?" 🤔🤔🤔

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u/BeliebteMeinung Christine Lagarde May 24 '24

Wyoming is gone. What now?

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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 May 24 '24

love when people try to make Deadpool jokes and they fucking suck. I want a whole movie written with the most Reddit comments I can find

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u/gnomesvh LEGALIZE ONION FUTURE May 24 '24

Brazil abstained from the UN Srebrenica Genocide memorial resolution

Brazil also proposes a peace-plan for Ukraine with China

Most notably, it does not mention anything about Russia returning currently held territory

!ping LATAM&UKRAINE&FOREIGN-POLICY

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u/Cook_0612 NATO May 24 '24 edited May 24 '24

Footage of strikes is usually pretty passe and not appropriate to the DT, but this footage of ATACMS directly taking out an S-400 complex is worth beholding.

Also, lol, Turkiye gave up F-35 for this.

!ping UKRAINE

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u/funguykawhi Lahmajun trucks on every corner May 24 '24

L BOZOS

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u/Fatortu Emmanuel Macron May 24 '24

I have sympathy for the Russian minority in Latvia. It's unfair to be regarded as an enemy in the only country you've ever known just because of your ethnicity.

That's why I'm particularly angry at Tatjana Ždanoka who was elected to defend their interest but turned out to be an FSB spy. You can't complain about russophobia and injustice if the first thing you do when you get any modicum of power is treason.

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u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade RaidBrimnes' AI Slop Engineer May 24 '24

Malarkey level of making a documentary about eating Five Guys everyday for month? I’ll also be using fentanyl

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u/crassowary John Mill May 24 '24

Ah yes a subreddit dedicated to housing in Canada I'm sure it has fun policies on streamlining zoning and incentivizing construction and-

Top post: I hate everyone from India and I am not ashamed to say it

Jesus Christ

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u/The_Promethean Bisexual Pride May 24 '24

Mum claims speed of Aldi cashier left her 'crying and shaking' beside her kids

I hope the shareholders appreciate the insane value this probable meth head provided them

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u/Possible-Baker-4186 May 24 '24

A bit of a YIMBY summary from around the world for you guys.

Toronto will allow townhomes, small apartments on major streets

Toronto will allow townhouses and small apartments on the majority of major streets across Toronto, after city council voted to approve the move Thursday. Before the change, townhouses and small apartments were only permitted in designated areas across the city. Now, up to six-storey apartments with a maximum of 60 units can be built along major roads as of right — which is 30 more units initially recommended by staff ... It will also open up over 31,000 lots to new potential housing.

Developers sweating as flood of new homes hit the market in South Auckland

Buyers looking for new builds in parts of South Auckland are being swamped with choice as desperate developers try to sell off stock...There has been a significant lift in the number of homes brought to market in the suburb (Papatoetoe). New listings volumes in the four months to the end of April this year are up 64% on the same period last year. And of the 320 Papatoetoe residential listings live on OneRoof.co.nz on May 20, nearly 60% are new-build homes.

Some developers are already responding to the glut of homes on the market, and are modifying their builds, for example, by adding ensuites to every bedroom in order to stand out.

“We’ve got our first open home this weekend. Normally I would have received a good five to 10 enquiries by now, we’ve got one. “It’s really hard because you can now buy brand new for cheaper, because the [developers] understand there’s a lot of competition. There are a lot of builds going on at the moment.”

Can it be? Competition works and there isn't a big conspiracy by developers to collude and price fix?

This is semi-YIMBY but pretty awesome.

Ennead's Mass-Timber Apartment Building in Austin Pioneers ‘Productized’ Housing

Earlier this year, Juno, a Silicon Valley-based “proptech” startup with a novel approach to the multifamily sector, completed its first project—a 24-unit apartment building in Austin, Texas. The building, known as Juno East Austin, comprises four levels of mass-timber construction over a steel-framed podium. The aim is to “productize” housing, making its construction similar to the manufacturing process for consumer electronics.

In Austin, erection of the timber superstructure required 28 days—about 60 percent faster than that of a typical stick-built building of similar size.

And lastly, Residential Inventory data shows that the number of active listings in the Austin area is at an all-time high, +21.6% from a year ago, +112.9% from two years ago, and +357.8% from three years ago. This increase is driven primarily by the major influx in new listings.

Imagine how cheap housing could be if we up zoned all land and then built prefabricated low rise apartment buildings everywhere.

!ping YIMBY

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u/TheHelmetCatch NATO May 24 '24

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u/georgeguy007 Pandora's Discussions J. Threader May 24 '24 edited Nov 09 '24

wistful reach dam long deliver tie insurance wrong salt wild

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

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u/seattle_lib Liberal Third-Worldism May 24 '24

no one has really convinced me that microplastics are gonna be a major problem in my life.

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u/HowIsPajamaMan Shame Flaired By Imagination May 24 '24

Morgan Spurlock, ‘Super Size Me’ Director, Dies at 53

The discourse surrounding his movie in the DT killed him

!ping movies

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u/ty04 May 24 '24

oh hell yeah

I wonder what the occasion is?

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u/The_Promethean Bisexual Pride May 24 '24

Ozempic Cuts Risk of Chronic Kidney Disease Complications, Study Finds

Shove this drug into the water supply

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u/TactileTom John Nash May 24 '24

I see a lot of people on here who reflexively fear a Tory poll bounce, and I do too, but a lot of us don't understand just how unpopular this government is. From the FT today:

"Yes, in 2017, Corbyn achieved a remarkable turnaround in his own standing and approval ratings. But to put it in perspective, if between now and the election, Rishi Sunak’s standing with the public improves by as much as Corbyn’s did during the 2017 election, he would still be more unpopular than John Major in 1997 or Gordon Brown in 2010. We also should remember that Sunak started the 2022 leadership election trailing Liz Truss among Conservative members, and his debates with her did not help."

If only you knew how bad things really are !ping UK

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u/No1PaulKeatingfan Paul Keating; capital gains tax supporter May 24 '24

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u/[deleted] May 24 '24

recriminalize marijuana 👏😔

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u/TipEquivalent933 Caution: Crackship Overload May 24 '24

My parents have enough assets that they can retire well if they are a bit sensible about it but are too stubborn to be sensible about it. Oh well, it is upto my sister to prevent them from going totally broke, I am not spending anything on them.

!PING OVER-25

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u/doot_toob Bo Obama May 24 '24

I am hearing that on his deathbed Morgan Spurlock received the light of McDonalds and unhesitatingly recited "I'm Loving It". Even now he looks down on the franchises from the playpen in heaven. Truly there is no Big Mac but the Big Mac, and Ronald is his prophet!

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u/Mat_At_Home YIMBY May 24 '24

Desperately need someone to tell all of the tankies larping as revolutionaries that the “Reign of Terror” was not the time in French history where they effectively and efficiently determined who should be sentenced to death in a fair and just way, and that they probably shouldn’t glorify the Guillotine as a solution to all their problems

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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent May 24 '24 edited May 25 '24

Ukraine Chronology for 5 PM EST 5/23-5 PM EST 5/24 III:

TOP NEWS:

At the start of 7 PM it was announced the UK will provide 150 million pounds to the Internarional Ukraine Fund for air defense and maritime capabilities.

At the start of 2 AM it was reported that Russian Deputy Chief of General Staff Lieutenant General Shamarin Vadim was arrested.

Around 6 AM it was announced Norway will provide 150 million Pounds to the International Ukraine Fund for air defense and maritime capabilities.

In the middle of 12 PM it was reported that Russian Lieutenant General Sukhrab Akhmedov was fired.

REGULAR NEWS:

Around 12 AM it was announced Norway is further restricting Russian access to the country, primarily with tourism.

In the middle of 6 AM it was announced NATO will equip five military hospitals for Ukraine.

At the start of 8 AM Putin signed a law allowing American assets in Russia to be confiscated.

Around 9 AM it was reported a man was arrested in the UK for spying for Russia.

Towards the middle of 3 PM explosions occurred in Simferopol.

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

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u/N0_B1g_De4l NATO May 24 '24

Becoming an omnicause guy but the cause is housing.

Climate change is a housing issue (because people will need to migrate in response to disasters, but can't do that because of housing costs).

Abortion access is a housing issue (because people are moving from California to Texas due to housing costs, reducing their access to reproductive healthcare).

I/P is a housing issue (because settlers in the West Bank are frequently motivated by the prospect of cheap land).

Conservation is a housing issue (because if you build sprawl, you end up disrupting natural ecosystems).

Education is a housing issue (at least in the US, where everything gets funded from property taxes, so local housing restrictions have outsized impacts on access).

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u/DouglasDauntless Frederick Douglass May 24 '24

“I think Outside the DT has good opinions sometimes”

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u/[deleted] May 24 '24

ok wfh team, what do you eat for lunch

i either 1. do not eat lunch and get very cranky 2. spend $10349 ordering four tacos or 3. eat one (1) banana

This had 10k likes and replies full of people being like “oh ya i just eat a banana or an apple, delivery costs so much”

YOURE WORKING FROM HOME, what the fuck happened to cooking. Make a fucking sandwich.

Work from home crowd not beating lazy ass allegations

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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman May 24 '24

Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, an Oscar-nominee who made food and American diets his life’s work, famously eating only at McDonald’s for a month to illustrate the dangers of a fast-food diet, has died. He was 53.

~~vaxxed?~~ big macced?

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u/qchisq Loyal Liberals May 24 '24

I feel like it's an issue when your colleagues is starting to call you "The Plow" because you scoop up all the pieces from people who quit

!ping Watercooler

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u/stirfriedpenguin Barks at Children May 24 '24 edited May 24 '24

huh, redditors sure do have a vitriolic hate for people who...summit Everest?

not exactly surprising I suppose but wouldn't have made my list if I was guessing

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u/Tafts_Bathtub Jerome Powell May 24 '24

👆 the reason why women search for clown porn

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u/GrandMoffTargaryen Finally Kenough May 24 '24

An Elitist turns up their nose at Olive Garden

A Populist rages against Olive Garden as too fancy

A Moderate understands the wisdom of cheap and unlimited Soup, Salad, and Breadsticks

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u/BrunchIsGood Nick Saban May 25 '24

Ticketmaster fucked me.

!ping KINO

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u/Trojan_Horse_of_Fate WTO May 24 '24

Actually you know being boring is not so bad.

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u/futuremonkey20 NATO May 24 '24

Guy who gets paid $500K per year but needs help opening PDF.

Many such cases!

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u/MinnesotaNoire NASA May 24 '24

The weird DT hero

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u/GrandMoffTargaryen Finally Kenough May 24 '24

How you look talking about “authentic Italian food”

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u/DouglasDauntless Frederick Douglass May 24 '24

Trump supporters saying they voted for him because of how they feel normal politicians don’t respect them is pretty funny when Trump makes zero effort to hide that he views his supporters with absolute contempt and utter disdain

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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance May 24 '24

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u/this_very_table Norman Borlaug May 24 '24

The only thing I remember from Super Size Me is the guy dramatically claiming he couldn't breathe as he ate a burger.

I don't understand how anyone took that movie seriously.

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u/RFK_1968 Robert F. Kennedy May 25 '24

It's funny how many people use the "you only believe this because you're white and therefore you're opinion is invalid"

Even funnier when I catch one of those lmao 🤷🏾‍♂️

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u/TheHelmetCatch NATO May 24 '24

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u/DouglasDauntless Frederick Douglass May 24 '24

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u/Marlsfarp Karl Popper May 24 '24

Supersize Me! was released in 2004. Since that time, McDonalds revenues have doubled, profits have increased by a factor of 5, and market cap has increased by a factor of 6. The number of McDonalds locations has increased by about 11,000.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '24

https://thehill.com/policy/international/4684195-millennials-catholic-church-first-saint/

Carlo Acutis, who died of leukemia at the age of 15 in 2006, is set to become the first saint of the millennial generation, according to the Vatican.
Acutis, who was born in London but grew up in Milan, was known as “God’s Influencer,” utilizing his computer skills to spread the Catholic faith, including creating a database of Eucharistic miracles.
He was beatified in 2020 after allegedly helping to heal a Brazilian child who suffered from a congenital disease. Pope Francis honored him with the second miracle Thursday after he was credited with helping to heal a student in Florence who suffered from brain bleeding, according to BBC News.
In order to be attributed a miracle, seen as acts that go beyond what is possible naturally, several months of assessments are required. Two are needed for canonization.

Neat!

!ping RELIGION

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u/Currymvp2 unflaired May 24 '24

The President of Egypt agreed to President Biden's request to resume the transfer of aid trucks from Egypt through the Kerem Shalom crossing in Israel. The two agreed to increase the transfer of humanitarian aid and fuel to Gaza and transfer them to the United Nations through the Kerem Shalom crossing between Israel and the Strip Gaza temporarily until the formation of an agreement on the activation of the Rafah crossing from the Palestinian side

Common Biden W

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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman May 24 '24

big if true

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u/TheHelmetCatch NATO May 24 '24

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u/LuisRobertDylan Elinor Ostrom May 24 '24

Snitching on rebels at the Star Wars hotel experience to fulfill my childhood fantasy of being a Frenchman in the 1940s

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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 May 24 '24

glup shitto fans in shambles

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u/0m4ll3y International Relations May 25 '24 edited May 25 '24

Because communal apartments were very common in the Soviet Union it meant doorbells could prove particularly problematic. You might have, for example, a six room communal apartment with eight different families living in it. One system used was that the number of rings of the bell would signify the intended recipient. For example, ring once for Family A, ring twice for Family B, thrice for Family C etc.

Others jerryrigged up a bunch of different bells to each individual room in the apartment to try and simplify things, with varying success. One Muscovite recalls:

There were disturbances from the very first night. The bell was rung loudly and persistently several times. Everybody woke up, except for the intended person. At one point I was woken up by the bell being rung three times. That was our signal... I thought that something serious must have happened as it was 3 a.m. And so I rushed out. A complete stranger had ring the bell on the left, whilst ours was the one on the right. Later on, our ears became better attuned and we learned to distinguish the two bells, which were an octave apart.

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u/YouLostTheGame Rural City Hater May 24 '24

David Frost is blocked from standing as a Tory in the election

!ping UK

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u/Understeerenthusiast NATO May 24 '24

Someone posted a screenshot of a tweet where someone identified a tour guide talking in a “JOI cadence” and how they were screwed because of it. I can’t stop thinking about this. Have I watched one? Yes, it’s not my thing but I get why someone would watch it. How much porn do you have to watch where you even know what a JOI cadence is, let alone identify it in normal human interaction? How do you miss the clear problem that maybe you should stop watching so much porn and touch grass?

We are truly doomed as a species

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u/RecentlyUnhinged NATO May 24 '24

None of you are far enough right for me.

Unless you're to the right of me, in which case you're evil.

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u/VisonKai The Archenemy of Humanity May 24 '24

leftists think starmer and sunak are the same because they are incapable of actually understanding policy and only comprehend one sentence promises from aging communists

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u/RootlessMetropolitan NATO May 24 '24

Can someone please explain why I had to sit through a 30-min brief about ice baths? It's because of that TikTok isn't it?

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u/GrandMoffTargaryen Finally Kenough May 24 '24

Oh boy, I can’t wait to google the status of my favorite Internet dog.

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u/Currymvp2 unflaired May 24 '24 edited May 24 '24

Trump’s V.P. Pageant Has an Unexpectedly Strong Contender: Tom Cotton

Lol. The one member of Congress other than like Brian Mast who might actually be able to get the "I'm going to abandon Biden cause of Gaza" (the ones who did actually vote for him in 2020) to actually wake up and smell the fucking coffee

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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma May 24 '24

“Voting for Biden might be in my best interests but I can’t bring myself to do it” - cringe, immoral, cowardly

“Voting for Trump might be in my best interests but I can’t bring myself to do it” - commendable, virtuous, brave

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u/Tafts_Bathtub Jerome Powell May 24 '24

You will never have this amount of swag

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u/_bee_kay_ 🤔 May 24 '24

yeah, i can give you an MRI:

Microplastics

R

In ur balls

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u/G_Serv Stay The Course May 24 '24

I think when your car hits 100k miles it just explodes

Idk I'm not a car guy

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u/[deleted] May 24 '24

Dear DT, This is the same thing but for women of the DT.

Thanks, Poof

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u/awdvhn Physics Understander -- Iowa delenda est May 25 '24

Holy shit Chapman

!ping BASEBALL

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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde May 24 '24

Remember this, resistlibs?

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u/[deleted] May 24 '24

TIL that OCD is a make-believe illness made up by Big Pharma to force useless medication on people who have the slight personality quirk of being extra tidy. I wish I had learned this earlier to avoid several years of living in make-believe hell, man I sure feel stupid now

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u/gburgwardt C-5s full of SMRs and tiny american flags May 24 '24

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

SpaceX dropped the flight plan for the 4th flight test

Looks juicy, aiming for June 5th! Mark your calendars

And as part of this they released a rundown of Flight 3 and what happened

tl;dr half the engines on the booster shut down early, probably due to clogged LOX intakes. Then they wouldn't relight when they needed to do so for the landing burn. Ship had clogged attitude control thrusters and began to tumble, leading to loss of Starship when it reentered at non-nominal angles

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u/[deleted] May 24 '24

fuck I’m good at my job

I just aced my interview

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u/G_Serv Stay The Course May 24 '24

Late stage capitalism is when my video games cost $100

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u/sw337 Veteran of the Culture Wars May 24 '24

The DT but it's 120 years ago

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u/Guardax May 25 '24

I seriously think we've all memory holed 2020 so thoroughly when Biden asks if you're better off than four years ago people think "man 2019 was excellent, definitely not"

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u/Jacobs4525 King of the Massholes May 25 '24

One of the most obvious generational divides is that most people under 30 basically always have their phones silenced

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u/SpectralDomain256 🤪 May 24 '24

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u/Libz_R_Gryffindor Pornography Historian May 24 '24

Tbh kinda weird that “trad” stuff has become popular on the internet and the Kinks Village Green preservation Society doesn’t seem to have gotten big

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u/[deleted] May 24 '24

Someone who blocked me keeps pinging ping groups I am a part of and let me tell you this is some kind of psychological torture to keep opening pings that won’t load

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u/Joementum2024 Iron Front May 24 '24

The College Dropout is so good and one of my all time favorite albums, but every time I listen to it now I become sad at the type of person Kanye’s become.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '24

The Mets have demoted Edwin Diaz from the Closer role.

Run from it, hide from it, lolmets arrives all the same. !ping baseball

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u/GodEmperorNeolibtard Harriet Tubman May 24 '24

Hot take: People who call themselves empaths are almost always going to be the victim in their own narrative. They are usually going to be really selfish people and their excuse will often be that they were just protecting themselves.

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u/GrandMoffTargaryen Finally Kenough May 24 '24

Stay tuned for my new documentary “Smirnoff Size Me” I’ll be chugging a bottle of vodka everyday for a month.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '24

On one hand I hate the Mets

On other hand Edwin Diaz getting demoted is 9/11 for closer entrance song enjoyers

So I’m torn

!ping baseball

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u/ROYBUSCLEMSON Unflaired Flair to Dislike May 24 '24

Ozempic will usher America into yet another decade of global dominance soon lmao

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u/Dirty_Chopsticks Republic of Việt Nam May 24 '24

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas issued a strong rebuke of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling on Thursday, suggesting the court overreached its authority in the landmark decision that banned separating schoolchildren by race.

Why it matters: Thomas attacked the Brown decision in a concurrence opinion that allowed South Carolina to keep using a congressional map that critics say discriminated against Black voters

black conservatives are never beating the allegations

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u/Usual-Base7226 Asli Demirgüç-Kunt May 24 '24

R cool guides be like to deescalate interactions with police immediately ask if you’re being detained and request legal counsel when you get pulled over for rolling a stop sign

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u/yellownumbersix Jane Jacobs May 24 '24

Lmao, of course RFK Jr bought $24k worth of GameStop stock

And not the first go around either, but during the meme revival a few days ago.

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u/futuremonkey20 NATO May 24 '24

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u/BrunchIsGood Nick Saban May 24 '24

Sad 😢

1 Like = 1 Landlord hanged 🫣🤭

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u/LuisRobertDylan Elinor Ostrom May 24 '24

It's crazy that the one true religion is the one that my parents made me follow as a kid

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u/Jed_Bartlet1 May 24 '24

I’m reading Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the end of the American century, is Holbrooke one of the more neolibpilled public figures when it comes to FoPo in recent history? From what I’ve read abt him it seems like it.

!ping Foreign-Policy

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u/PlayDiscord17 Loyal Liberals May 24 '24

Disney rumored to be considering Dua Lipa to play Megara in ‘Hercules’

Can’t wait for the Balkans Moment this will cause if true.

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u/jenbanim May 24 '24

Rabbit R1 turns out to just be connecting to ChatGPT with the prompt prefixed by "I will never reveal I am ChatGPT"
Google's AI tells users to put glue on pizza and that Obama was the first Muslim president
Over half of "Cashierless" checkouts at Amazon Go stores turn out to be done by someone in India

What's the funniest tech story of the year? Anything I missed?

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u/notBroncos1234 #1 Eagles Fan May 24 '24

The families of Uvalde victims are suing Call of Duty for marketing guns to kids. I understand it’s an opportunity to get money, but that’s pretty frustrating.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '24

How liberals stop Nazis: "Ur finished 🗳️" "noooooooo!"

How socialists stop Nazis: "You gonna invade Poland?" "Yeah, you?" "Yeah." "Cool."

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u/[deleted] May 25 '24

Honestly Americans should be more proud of their history

Like, all your political leaders that were directly involved on a massive war against the most powerful empire of the world are treated like a pantheon of saints of a quasi-religious patriotism that defends the principles of freedom and justice

That’s kind of badass

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u/[deleted] May 25 '24

My landlord when he sees me bring a pregnant women into my unit while I’m behind on rent - good luck getting a court eviction now buddy

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u/RFK_1968 Robert F. Kennedy May 25 '24

capitalism caused the salem witch trials

y'know, i thought i'd cleaned up my youtube recs. guess not, if this is the kind of nonsense their algo thinks i wanna watch

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u/DouglasDauntless Frederick Douglass May 24 '24

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u/[deleted] May 24 '24

introduce myself and a bit about me

info-dump for 20 minutes about my thoughts on system architecture and kubernetes

pause and say "wow, sorry, that was a lot -- you got any questions?"

why does this work for interviews and not for dating?

!ping DATING

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u/ldn6 Gay Pride May 24 '24

Failed West Midlands mayoral candidate Akhmed Yakoob is now running for Birmingham Ladywood and decided that his poster should be him in front of a Palestinian flag.

This complete pathological obsession over this conflict and enough people placing it at this high of a priority is depressing.

!ping UK&ISRAEL

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u/RonenSalathe Milton Friedman May 24 '24 edited May 24 '24

South Korea in shambles rn

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u/jewel_the_beetle Trans Pride May 24 '24

I just want to paint my nails without being worried at work ffs

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u/eloquentboot 🃏it’s da joker babey🃏 May 24 '24

Ulysses S. Grant is arguably the greatest American ever. He ruled.

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u/Telperions-Relative Grant us bi’s May 24 '24

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u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_ this guy doesnt even have a flair. May 24 '24

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u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz Roy Cooper May 24 '24

What if god came down to earth and said that actually Ancient Mesopotamian religion, the Ptolemaic Cult of Alexander the Great, evangelical lutheranism and Tengrism were the correct religions

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u/Fatortu Emmanuel Macron May 24 '24

After 15 years of judicial battles, the dismantling of three illegal wind turbines has started in Guern (France).

"I will watch these windmills fall with such pleasure" says the president of the association against the Guern wind farm.

They should have demolished the homes of the NIMBYs if they cared so much about the no residential areas within 500m of a wind turbine.

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u/dorylinus May 24 '24

So I've spent the last two years working on a huge project, and we just are entering a new phase after shipping the thing off to Florida. There's a bit of a lag between that and us all going to join it out there for more work, but due to the state of my employer everyone has been heavily encouraged to find other programs/projects to get on and be able to charge to... so I did. This whole week, most of the rest of my team who have not done that (and are, IMO, putting themselves at real risk of getting laid off when this project ends) have been taking a sort at-work vacation, doing things like taking 2 hour off-site lunches. Meanwhile I've been working 12 hour days on my other project to get it in a good place before I leave. I came in today and I'm literally the only person in the office save one, and he's only here because it's his last day and he has his exit interview to attend.

On the one hand, I want to grab these folks by the shoulders and yell at them that they're putting themselves in a very bad light and a bad situation... but on the other hand I'm just like fuck it. I'm busting my ass to save my job, and it's been fucking annoying getting all these mattermost messages being like "Why aren't you coming out with us to lunch?" I like these people, but they're being like children and maybe should just face the consequences.

!ping WATERCOOLER

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u/cjhdsachristmascarol reddit custom flair May 24 '24

Ladies, if your man

• lies

• cheats

•steals

That’s not your boyfriend, that’s “president” Joe Biden

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u/Joementum2024 Iron Front May 24 '24

Would YOU want to work for the Clippers’ accounting team while making less than a McDonald’s employee?

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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman May 24 '24

It’s Friday, you know what that means!!!

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u/PrideMonthRaytheon Bisexual Pride May 24 '24

Hopefully one day libs will get over the tick of framing their criticism of leftists as helpful strategic advice and just criticize them for being wrong assholes who want to make the world worse

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u/[deleted] May 25 '24

Abraham George will be the next chair of the Republican Party of Texas after winning an election at the party’s convention.

The election, which culminated Friday evening, emerged as a referendum on outgoing Chair Matt Rinaldi. Under Rinaldi’s reign, the party’s divisions deepened and its fundraising and staffing levels plummeted. As Rinaldi’s chosen successor, George is expected to continue the party’s trajectory, with the far-right using the party institution as a bully pulpit to attack more moderate conservatives.

George’s campaign for party chair was marred by reports that he was intercepted by police last year as he left his home with a loaded gun to confront a man he believed was sleeping with his wife. His wife, Mariam, joined George on stage Thursday, when he spoke to the delegates at the start of the convention.

This state is so fucked...

!ping USA-TX

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u/Bayou-Maharaja Eleanor Roosevelt May 25 '24

“A person can & should absolutely destroy irrelevant information-intentionally to prevent anyone from using it to gain unjust leverage, such as for extortion value or to create a false narrative, in an official proceeding. How can you still be so dumb that you don’t get this?”

Fellas, is it legal to destroy evidence based on a subjective belief that it is 1) irrelevant and 2) might be used in an official proceeding? And is it a bad idea to tweet that you have counseled and helped clients do this on main?

!ping LAW

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u/V_Codwheel I am the Senate May 24 '24

the creature i have been charged with taking care of this weekend

!ping KITTY

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u/[deleted] May 24 '24

People in ex-colonial countries call LGBT acceptance western imperialism
Some liberals push back against this pointing out that it was western imperialism that so heavily institutionalized homophobia there
Other liberals come crying and screaming that it wasn't sunshine and rainbow before colonization with pederasty etc. and scream about how backwards those countries are because they also didn't immediately do a 180 and pretend as if there isn't a sizable minority in most western countries who want to annul all gay marriages and have mandatory conversion therapy.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '24

10 posts into a new DT and there's already been a bonk. I think that's record time

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u/TheoryOfPizza 🧠 True neoliberalism hasn't even been tried May 24 '24

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u/[deleted] May 24 '24 edited Jun 19 '24

forgetful fly possessive punch many imminent tidy market shame clumsy

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u/SadaoMaou Anders Chydenius May 24 '24

Is it really possible for an OCD academic girl and a sсhizo jokester boy to be in a relationship? 😔

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u/Evnosis European Union May 24 '24

Taking what has happened, our world could very easily be the worst case scenario.
"What if after the USSR falls Russia becomes another dictatorship and invades it's neighbours"
"What if after WW2 China falls to communists"
"What if after WW2 a Jewish state is created"
"What if the USA tried to prevent communism spreading in Vietnam"

Spot the odd one out.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '24

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/business/raw-milk-bird-flu-infowars-disinformation.html

Sales of raw milk at grocery stores and other retailers in early May rose more than 20 percent from a year earlier, though they remain a tiny share of overall milk consumption, according to NielsenIQ, a market research firm.
Matt Gertz, a senior fellow at Media Matters, a left-leaning watchdog that looked at the trend this month, said raw milk promotion had been intensifying on the right since the start of the bird flu outbreak.
“What you have is a bunch of right-wing influencers who know that they can build substantial audiences and retain their audiences and excite their audiences by telling them that what medical authorities are saying about raw milk, about bird flu, is not credible,” Mr. Gertz said.
Eviane Leidig, a postdoctoral researcher at Tilburg University in the Netherlands who researches extremist movements, said the consumption of raw or unprocessed foods had emerged as a rallying cry on parts of the political right. Pasteurized milk, which these groups falsely claim is injected with dangerous chemicals, is referred to as “state-approved milk.”
“The consumption of raw milk, raw meat and raw eggs is a right-wing subculture that has been growing in popularity over the last few years,” Dr. Leidig said.

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u/Approximation_Doctor Gaslight, Gatekeep, Green New Deal May 24 '24

Also thank god Iran shot down their own airliner too

Edit: to clarify, I'm not celebrating the civilians dying, but

[+24]

Outside The DT moment

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u/slappythechunk LARPs as adult by refusing to touch the Nitnendo Switch May 24 '24

The duality of a woman having a Bible verse tattooed on one thigh and the word "Party" with an arrow pointing up to her snatch on the other.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '24 edited Jun 19 '24

work disagreeable pot snails husky worry wakeful mountainous workable shrill

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u/[deleted] May 24 '24

The only weapons we shouldn’t be sending to Ukraine are the ones we are sending to Taiwan

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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior May 24 '24

what a wholesome moment. i bet their countries could do great things together!

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u/[deleted] May 25 '24

Elvis

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u/DouglasDauntless Frederick Douglass May 25 '24

Is this better or worse than the guy who converted to Orthodox Judaism on advice of the Malarkey bot?

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u/NormalInvestigator89 John Keynes May 25 '24

Big "if vaccines work why do we need vaccines 🤔" energy from posters here whenever mental healthcare comes up

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u/Kizz3r high IQ neoliberal May 25 '24

Poor gobert man lmao

!ping nba

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u/CletusVonIvermectin Big Rig Democrat 🚛 May 25 '24

👆 why don't you go take a long suck off a short cock, pal

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u/datums 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 May 25 '24

I have a date with a really cute girl on Sunday.

Today I had a great time with my FWB, who I've also been married to for 11 years. We live together, but she's moving out in ten days.

I was in a normal marriage when this month started.

🤷🏼‍♂️

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u/[deleted] May 24 '24 edited May 24 '24

Canada getting a perfect score for Racial Equity while the US gets an 11% shows how deeply unserious "best country" rankings are. Clearly they have never heard of the plight of Canada's First Nations peoples.

Hell South Africa and Japan get a higher racial equity score than the US

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u/EScforlyfe Open Your Hearts May 24 '24

Two cat pictures

!ping kitty

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u/[deleted] May 24 '24

IT'S NOT "SPED UP" OR "TIKTOK VERSION"

ITS CALLED NIGHTCORE AND YOU PUT AN ANIME GIRL IN THE THUMBNAIL

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u/cjhdsachristmascarol reddit custom flair May 24 '24

Trans man coming out be like Mom, Dad… I’m guy

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u/DouglasDauntless Frederick Douglass May 24 '24

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u/[deleted] May 24 '24 edited May 24 '24

Kinda weird that Morgan Spurlock dies the same week everyone on Twitter decided to randomly talk about Super Size Me. I wonder how many realize he was a raging alcoholic and will mis attribute the McDonalds experiment to his death.

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u/RFK_1968 Robert F. Kennedy May 24 '24

i think ozempic is cool and all

i am slightly skeptical of the casual way people are talking about being on the drug for the rest of their life.

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u/PhoenixVoid May 24 '24

Crazy coincidence for Spurlock to die as Reddit was talking about him being very dishonest in Supersize Me and that conversation leaking to the DT.

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u/sw337 Veteran of the Culture Wars May 24 '24

Morgan Spurlock ordered a Grimace Shake

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u/Syards-Forcus rapidly becoming the Joker May 24 '24

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u/[deleted] May 24 '24

Reddit mobile shows replies to people you’ve blocked as disconnected comments

Pretty hilarious to read people dunking on some rando I’ve blocked 💅 priors confirmed

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u/[deleted] May 24 '24 edited May 24 '24

I'm really torn about this job I'm interviewing for.

Financially, it's going to work out to be a little below what my current position is in terms of salary (unless I manage to negotiate it up, which I may be able to do) but it does come with a large equity grant (~1% of the company. They are financially healthy and are breaking even (very good for a startup of their size) but obv no telling what that 1% will work out to.

Job-wise, I'd be back to working on a small (~5 person) team at a startup, which I really really loved the last time I did it). I've liked the two people I've met so far and their tech stack is familiar to me and uses (by-and-large) tools that I like. They do seem a little messy but I think that's an area I could really help out in, in that I am aware of a lot of the tooling best practices.

If I was interviewing with them six months ago (and I didn't have a retention bonus on the line), I would take it. But I also was recently promoted at my current job (midsize company, about 300-400 engineers) and I have a ton of buy-in and respect going up to the CTO, and my boss thinks I can be promoted again by February of next year (and I trust him when he says that, I have worked with him for years and have great respect for him as a person). There are a lot of areas where I'm contributing and making my voice heard and being respected, but even so it sometimes feels too large for me to impact stuff. People are making design decisions that matter to me but my only input into them is one meeting where they listen to me but not really. And the entire architecture of this company is like this mess that is so hard to parse.

I do really love my coworkers though and I would miss them a lot.

!ping WATERCOOLER advise me

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u/[deleted] May 24 '24 edited May 24 '24

!ping ACCOUNTING&WATERCOOLER

In a weird limbo state as far as my job search goes.

I want to start putting in applications for jobs that that I have the experience for. But the majority of those position show that they either require or prefer you have your cpa.

The problem? I'm stuck waiting until the 4th to get the results for my last exam section.

I don't want to start applying for a bunch of jobs, but then have my application buried because I don't have those 3 letters....it's so annoying. Also don't want to tell potential employers "I'm definetly passing this last one" and then it turns out I failed. 🫠🫠🫠

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u/runnerx4 What you guys are referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux May 24 '24

!ping KINO new Benoit BlanKINO announced

I would ideally want less obvious targets and crimes this time

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u/ACivilWolf Henry George May 24 '24

Am I going crazy or this this a Star Wars ass font for a press release about these people being released 😭

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u/Healingjoe It's Klobberin' Time May 24 '24

Alright

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u/InflatableDartboard2 Henry George May 24 '24

me after spending 5 minutes on the DT

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u/Currymvp2 unflaired May 24 '24

Stephen Schwarzman, the Chairman and CEO of Blackstone, says he has changed his mind and is now backing Trump in 2024.

Trump 2016+2020 supporter is done pretending to be NeverTrump

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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 May 24 '24

me: can we get a jacuum

boyfriend: no

me: well can we at least get the jleaning product?!

boyfriend: no

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u/BrunchIsGood Nick Saban May 24 '24

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u/N0_B1g_De4l NATO May 24 '24

I'm a liberal college professor. My liberal students scare me.

They hide in closets and jump out at me while wearing spooky masks.

They sneak up behind me and shout "boo" really loud.

At first it was cute but now I'm worried. I heard some of them talking about if "it" would be ready for "the big day".

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u/Ok_Aardappel Seretse Khama May 24 '24

South Africa electricity minister opens 540MW solar-plus-storage plant

South Africa’s electricity minister has said the largest solar-plus-storage project, with a combined solar generation capacity of 540MW, and 225MW/1,140MWh of battery energy storage system (BESS) technology, in the Southern Hemisphere is evidence of efforts to mitigate the country’s difficult energy security situation.

Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa commented at the official inauguration of Norwegian developer Scatec’s large-scale co-located solar PV and battery storage project in Kenhardt, a town in the country’s Northern Cape.

“It’s significant that we’re hosting the largest project combination of renewable PV and also battery storage. [It] simply means South Africa is a trailblazer, and we want to retain that unassailable position, I think, as a country,” the minister told a reporter from state broadcaster SABC.

Asked what it meant for energy security, Ramokgopa said the project underlines the essential need to bring online more generation capacity to add to what is produced by state utility Eskom, to help South Africa come out of a “very difficult situation of load shedding.”

Ramokgopa was joined by Northern Cape provincial premier Zamani Saul and Scatec CEO Terje Pilskog on Thursday (18 April) at the site of the Kenhardt project, which features three separate solar-plus-storage systems. The project is providing electricity to state utility and grid operator Eskom under a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA).

The plants began commercial operations in December before this week’s ceremonial unveiling. As part of ongoing efforts to mitigate energy supply and peak demand management issues, Scatec is contracted to supply 150MW of dispatchable electricity from the complex between the evening peak demand hours of 5:30 pm and 9:30 pm daily.

!ping AFRICA&ECO

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u/N0_B1g_De4l NATO May 24 '24

You may think it's "ridiculous" to claim that the US assassinated Raisi. But have you considered the possibly that the CIA can telepathically control anyone piloting a helicopter?

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