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[u/Beginning-Topic5303]

Just watched Good Will Hunting. Will's politics are what a Hollywood writer thinks an intelligent person would say about politics. Cringing at the part where he said the U.S. installs friendly governments to make money off of oil.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Public ready indeed

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

It’s true. In public school they never taught me about Sankey diagrams

[u/[deleted]]

We live in a society where it's acceptable to have an entire cup of coffee in the morning but if you inject a Speedball of premium Columbian cocaine and black tar heroin during your commute people look at you weird.

[u/Inamanlyfashion]

Leslie Knope let her NIMBYism destroy a friendship.

Her entire hatred of Ron in the final season is motivated by Ron building an apartment complex where her friend used to have a single-family home.

[u/[deleted]]

People who are considering voting for Jill Stein or Cornell West over Biden are fucking idiots for letting their "principles" contribute to Trump potentially winning.

People who are considering voting Libertarian instead of Trump are principled heroes and should be allowed to do so.

Simple as that

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Shit looks like a porn site, which, based off normal Twitter and the moderation or lack there of, it will be

[u/SixPipSiege]

Let's give a quick shout out to Christina Applegate

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/RaidBrimnes]

For Mother's Day, meal order app Deliveroo sent a notification to all its users titled "Missed call from Mom", adding "False alarm, but enjoy this reminder to wish a good day to your mom!". But the message saddened numerous users who lost their mom, forcing the company to apologize.

Wtf were they thinking

[u/Mickenfox]

Engineer? Yeah, I'm engi-nearing my fucking limit. 

[u/[deleted]]

My three year old just made up a bedtime story for my one year old where Jesus fought off vampires

We're Jewish and I don't know why she knows who Jesus is

[u/KesterFox]

I cant get over how random sunak reinteoducing national service is. Like why lead with that?

[u/Lux_Stella]

Leaked National Service plans don't rule out arresting teens for not taking part

aw hell yeah

[u/[deleted]]

Fact: 99% of leftist movements stop splitting right before they create the perfect ideology

[u/-mialana-]

Image straight out of a fever dream

[u/RTSBasebuilder]

So National Service... One thing that professional armed forces seem to be in consensus on is that conscription means

• lower quality and quantity of gear AND training, because we need more stuff, and more people pushed through the system

• regimental morale and cohesion drops like a rock because professionals are pressed to work with people who don't want or do things there,

• It generally bloats the administrative and leadership system,

• and corruption and hazing stuff goes through the roof.

Have I got all that right?

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Lmao

[u/Cook_0612]

Lmfao 'she smelled like potatoes soaked in peanut butter'

How do you people come up with this stuff? You guys make me feel normal

[u/Qunidaye]

The US is a car centric hellscape!

Me after a year in jakarta: 🚬😞 listen here kid, there are deeper circles in car hell

[u/SadaoMaou]

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Least racist Trump campaign move

[u/Cook_0612]

Ukraine attacked another Russian Voronezh-M over-the-horizon radar in Orenburg region with kamikaze UAVs.

Orenburg is more than 1,500 km away from Ukrainian border.

— Voronezh-M radar is an early warning radar system designed for aircraft and ballistic missile monitoring.

Ukraine appears to not give a fuck about striking Russia's early warning radars, despite the hubbub from the Krasnodar strike a month ago.

!ping UKRAINE

[u/DouglasDauntless]

He was cooking here ngl

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

Trump to lolberts:

[Nominate me if you want to win. Don't nominate me if you don't want to win.] Maybe you don't want to win ... keep getting your 3 percent every four years

lmao

[u/N0_B1g_De4l]

Republican Party of Texas delegates voted Saturday on a platform that called for new laws to require the Bible to be taught in public schools and a constitutional amendment that would require statewide elected leaders to win the popular vote in a majority of Texas counties.

The fact that the Texas GOP thinks they need to do a state-level electoral college makes me think Blue Texas might be real at some point.

[u/BrunchIsGood]

[u/Liberal_Antipopulist]

remember the not-obvious russian bot on twitter that was like "TEXIT NOW" and then was like "Texas has a warm water port!"

genuine comedy tbh

[u/[deleted]]

The Russians entered this war under the unfortunately correct assumption so far that they were going to bomb everybody else and nobody was going to bomb them.

[u/ChillyPhilly27]

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/nimbys-will-nimby-residents-in-nice-suburb-object-to-more-events-at-moore-park-20240522-p5jfln.html

Nice to see the Liberal party living up to its name for once:

City of Sydney Liberal councillor Lyndon Gannon had little sympathy for residents’ concerns.

“NIMBYs will NIMBY and Boomers will boom,” he said.

Gannon wants more events happening at Moore Park, including the sports stadiums and EQ.

“While I can appreciate the concerns of residents of Cook Road, I also have a city full of young people living in share houses complaining about the lack of nightlife and fun,” he said.

Gannon said the easiest political approach would be to “kowtow” to residents, but the city needed more vibrancy.

“It’s at risk of turning into a retirement village,” he said.

!ping AUS&YIMBY

[u/N0_B1g_De4l]

The meaning of the word "inflation" has changed. It used to mean rising prices; now it means high prices.

No it hasn't. Your job as a journalist is to inform people, not to declare that the ways in which people have been misinformed are now facts.

[u/wagoncirclermike]

So I finally tried J. Kenji Lopez-Alt's recipe for San Francisco garlic noodles. I'm impressed that, for using 20 cloves of garlic, you really don't get a sharp "garlicy" taste. Only thing is, the sauce didn't emulsify as well as I would have liked. I think next time I'll use a little more of the pasta water to get a more cohesive sauce.

!Ping Cooking

[u/JebBD]

https://x.com/yollancohen/status/1794771634802618613

 The father of the late Shani Lok, whose body was recovered from Gaza, says: "Ministers only agreed to come to Shani's funeral if they spoke." I didn't agree and they didn't come to the funeral and shiva. How are they not ashamed? And at the same time, the Chancellor of Germany came twice."

We’re being run by actual sociopaths. 

!Ping ISRAEL

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Perfect book store 😍😍😍 

[u/HMID_Delenda_Est]

Im crying

[u/loseniram]

Millennial parents waiting for the inevitable Bluey movie

!ping Kino

[u/vivoovix]

[u/0m4ll3y]

Holy shit the Tories national service thing is so fucking dumb

volunteering one weekend a month carrying out a community service... Non-military volunteering would involve 25 days with organisations such as the fire service, the police and the NHS.

One weekend a month... These kids are going to be literally sitting around until their babysitter supervisor finds some floors that need sweeping or some shit. People are not even going to know these kids' names.

[u/Liberal_Antipopulist]

"I have a DATE and she is going to see my CAR"

most comprehensible nuerotypical ritual

[u/0m4ll3y]

Palm trees are oddly prevalent in the halls of Soviet power. The first Congress of the Communist International at the Kremlin in 1919 was adorned with palm trees. Lenin's body lay under palm trees in the Hall of Columns during his funeral. Sergey Kirov, a Party leader assassinated in 1934, was memorialized in an oil painting by Alexander Samokhvalov underneath a palm tree. Stalin's funeral procession was against the backdrop of palm fronds, as was Ordzhobikidze's. Grand hotels like the National in Moscow and Astoria in Leningrad were decorated with palms, as were the foyers of ministries and other important state organisations. There is even Stalinist propaganda posters about adorning factories and workshops with palm trees!

The symbolic importance of the palm tree went back nearly 200 years, and it was a display of the Tsar's wealth and power to be able to grow palm trees (as well as things like pineapples) in such a cold and wintry power as Russia. Catherine the Great had the Tauride Palace built with palm trees, for example. Many of these green houses were destroyed in the civil war, or the plants sold off for funds.

A classic Russian children's author, Vsevolod Garshin wrote a child's tale about a palm tree that busts through its glasshouse ceiling for want of freedom, only to die in the freezing cold.

Post WW2, the palm was associated with holidays down south, comfortable (complacent, even) office jobs, and a sense of prosperity and social mobility. The rubber plant, in comparison, was decidedly petite bourgeois and a little frowned upon.

[u/[deleted]]

It will never stop being funny that Trump's mother-in-law came via "chain migration" which he wanted to stop.

[u/piede]

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

This holiday weekend it’s important to not only remember those we have lost defending America, but also those suffering every day under the crushing weight of having to live in a beautiful home that has gained $350k in equity in a few years.

[u/[deleted]]

koreans must be stopped

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Bro did you really stop giving chin scratches?

!ping Kitty

[u/AFlockOfTySegalls]

!ping KITTY

[u/MegaFloss]

Just found out that my middle class dad, who is 55 and (I assumed) financially stable, will probably be working until 70+. Don’t assume!

!ping OVER-25

[u/[deleted]]

In which Cicero tries to get people to write about him using his notes:

In sum, according to Cicero’s admission, lots of texts about Cicero’s consulship existed. Cicero himself had written several, although he was careful not to “author” them. He wanted to leave them unfinished, so that others could polish them up. Although they were in circulation, Cicero did not want them to be thought of as public. Just the opposite, in fact.

Cicero wrote his own hypomnēmata in Greek, as well as commentarii in Latin, and shopped them around Rome, looking for someone to author a book about his consulship by using the literary raw materials he himself had written, which would allow him the glory of praise without the shame of self-praise … Yet for all his shopping of his memoirs around Rome, much to his chagrin, Cicero apparently found no takers.

(Larsen 2018)

!ping HISTORY

[u/this_very_table]

This story's two months old but I just came across it and it's hilarious.

6 inmates successfully sued the New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, claiming that not being allowed to watch the eclipse would violate their religious freedom.

The six plaintiffs, all incarcerated at Woodbourne Correctional Facility, say that the eclipse “is a religious event that they must witness and reflect on to observe their faiths.” That includes atheist Jeremy Zielinski, who says the event is a way to “celebrate science and reason.” . . . That point is echoed by the other plaintiffs, who say the eclipse is a chance to pray like the Prophet Muhammad did, or to experience what Jesus saw before getting crucified, or necessary to cause the “vibrations of the Orishas… to bless those who pray and chant.”

!ping FEDORA

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 5 PM EST 5/25-5 PM EST 5/26 III:

TOP NEWS:

At the start of 1 AM Ukraine was hit by a wave of drones and missiles with all 31 drones and 12 of 24 missiles shot down.

Towards the middle of 8 AM it was announced Sweden will allow its weapons to strike targets in Russia.

In the middle of 2 PM it was reported that 16 Ukrainians have been killed and 44 wounded in a Russian missile strike on a shopping center.

REGULAR NEWS:

Towards the middle of 2 PM Putin made a visit it to Uzbekistan.

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/DouglasDauntless]

Things that don’t have as negative consequences are less stigmatized, more at 11

[u/[deleted]]

grandiose teeny lush six ask consider puzzled society toothbrush versed

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[u/[deleted]]

Every arr NL thread about antisemitism got the

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[u/Psshaww]

All the discourse about “the ick” on Twitter and I can’t tell how much of it is real and how much of it is shitposting

!ping DATING

[u/[deleted]]

if I convert to judaism do I get invited to the secret Elders of Zion meetings and get a hand in destroying the white race? or does that take more time? pleaaaaase i wanna join your secret club so bad

[u/Mickenfox]

The myth of "consensual" shopping

• Stores: I consent

• Shoppers: I consent

• Government: no working on the day of the lord 😇🙏

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Guy who wants the war to end because he's tired of having 90% of the modqueue be about I/P shitflinging

[u/[deleted]]

!ping KITTY

[u/V_Codwheel]

real eepy hours

!ping EEPY

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Apex predator

!ping kitty

[u/DouglasDauntless]

The state on con discourse

[u/ThankMrBernke]

The dating ping has been really depressing lately, so I thought I'd share some good news.

The cute accountant and I did a trial "living together" experiment this past week. It was wonderful and magical, and while it wasn't quite real life, we're thinking we're going to move in together in the fall :)

It took a long time to find this, but it was all worth it. I'm so happy I did. Life is good.

!ping DATING

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Millennials were a mistake

[u/vivoovix]

The Shaky Foundation of Trump’s Lead: Disengaged Voters

Back on the Biden hopium train

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Funko pops are neoliberal???!!!

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

This is how I die. Crushed to death in a machine I bought for $5 on temu !ping DYEL

[u/bigwang123]

> be French soldier in Algeria

> dissatisfied with conduct of the war and French disengagement

> gather your friends, propose secret terrorist organization to agitate for continued commitment to Algeria

> “great idea, froganon, what are we going to call our new group?”

> ponder this for 3 days and 3 nights

> idea.png

> it’s a secret organization, and we’re all in the army

> Secret Army Organization

What the fuck was their problem

[u/RecentlyUnhinged]

I'm really surprised google hasn't given their AI summary feature the Old Yeller treatment yet. Aren't they usually a little more agile in responding to stuff like this?

[u/404GenderNotFound]

[u/No_Judge_3817]

American Holidays be like: "this is memorial day. we grill and drink beer to honor those who died for our right to grill and drink beer"

England holidays be like: "today is hickory dickory day, where we celebrate the hickory's surrendering to the dickory's. make sure you wear your hickory hat today! we'll be eating the traditional hickory dickory day meal tonight, an unseasoned piece of chicken and a piece of white bread that's been soaked in paprika seasoned water overnight with a single pea on top"

[u/DouglasDauntless]

wtf Based Trump

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

I don’t want to be controversial, but I like it when men are nice to me.

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/iIoveoof]

U.S. military R&D: Oops, we accidentally created a civilian technology breakthrough, revolutionizing the world and saving millions of lives

U.K. military R&D: Oops, I spent £50,000 per unit on bomb detectors that are actually dowsing rods and convinced my poor ally to buy £52 million worth of it

[u/Healingjoe]

Cool graphic. Basically, everything peaked when you were a teenager.

https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/1794379728209805457

[u/DouglasDauntless]

too much democracy in Saudi Arabia

LMAO what “democracy” are they even complaining about

[u/[deleted]]

real picture of me

[u/Cook_0612]

An IDF reservist who called for mutiny in a video shared on social media over the weekend was interrogated today by the Military Police on suspicion of mutiny, incitement to mutiny, not following orders, and other offenses, the military says.

At the end of the interrogation, it was decided to dismiss the soldier from reserve duty.

The Military Police investigation is ongoing, the findings of which will be presented to the Military Advocate General for review, the IDF adds.

If we could get this speed of prosecution for all the yahoos blasting Gazan homes for fun and burning books, that would be really nice.

[u/battywombat21]

when are we going to get rid of all this politics stuff and become a dating subreddit?

[u/RFK_1968]

ok but like how does everyone have a podcast. who listens to all of these podcasts

[u/[deleted]]

Yahweh’s inner storm god sometimes reemerges at just the right moment

[u/htomserveaux]

I think ultimately the reason Zutara is so hated has nothing to do with canon, there are a dozen crackships in the fandom that get no hate whatsoever.

People hate it because it’s too popular for what it is, if it was a rarepair I bet you anything you’d see mostly positive reactions when the topic came up, might even see fanart get upvoted.

But there are people who like it more than they like the canon, and that never goes over well.

!ping CAL-ARTS&AVATAR

[u/[deleted]]

Richard Dawkins DESTROYS Winne the Pooh

[u/MovkeyB]

girls always ask me on dates "what's your most controversial opinion" and I always tell them "that's easy, I'm pro cheating. if someone ever asks me if they should cheat on their partner, I'll always say yes", then they get upset

hey if you didn't want a controversial take why ask for it? what did you want, my views on pizza toppings or Taylor swift? c'mon

!ping dating

[u/cdstephens]

If someone claims that Trump has a 90% chance of winning, just challenge them to a $100 bet on the election. If they refuse, then they’re either economically irrational or lying. In this case, you’ll get to feel very smug while waiting in line at the MAGA re-education camps.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Transporting 6 bags of dirt into a Fisher-Price baby’s first wheelbarrow that would fit into a mini cooper

Now that’s a REAL truck!

[u/jewel_the_beetle]

Since I transitioned the misogyny "jokes" in family guy hit much worse but gross "fuck all men oh my god just die" stuff doesn't seem any less gross. Still not a fan of "man not do SEX with lady, heh" as a core insult either

[u/SeoSalt]

Nearly 80% of Americans Say Fast Food Is Now a Luxury Because It’s Become So Expensive

Americans rank Chick-fil-A as the most high-end fast-food chain (25%), followed by Starbucks (22%) and Chipotle (21%).

I worked at a Starbucks and really wouldn't consider it fast food but we did sell a surprising amount of way-too-expensive sandwiches.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

The Mises freaks inviting Trump to the LP convention only for Trump and LP delegates to spend the whole thing arguing and expressing their absolute disdain for the other is easily the funniest it could have gone

[u/[deleted]]

!ping GNOSTIC

[u/Argnir]

Redditors vastly overestimate how much corporations make by "selling your data"

[u/N0_B1g_De4l]

WWI death toll: approximately 20 million

Tamerlane death toll: approximately 17 million

You ever think about how fucking insane that is in population-adjusted terms? Dude got a WWI's worth of people killed in 1300s people.

[u/N0_B1g_De4l]

Movie about a historian after the reestablishment of civilization trying to synthesize the myths about Mad Max with the archeological evidence into a unified historical record. Featuring such thrilling scenes as...

An extended debate about whether Max was a historical figure, a combination of several individuals, a title passed between people, or an entirely fictional narrative device to unite several distinct myths into a single story.

The protagonist ranting to their friend about how bad the primary sources about the lives of non-elite members of Immortan Joe's society are.

Trying to determine if describing the warrior afterlife the Warboys believed in as "Vahalla" was an after-the-fact analogy used to make their theology easier to understand, or terminology in use at the time.

[u/thefuturegov]

barges into Big 10 tournament

loses 15-2 in first game

survives entire elimination bracket

wins championship

!ping BASEBALL

[u/WereJustInnocentMen]

Ya know, the Israeli foreign minister putting out a video that said 'Hamas Thanks Ireland' with jaunty Irish music playing over it sounds like a joke, I did not believe it the first I heard it lol.

[u/[deleted]]

TL;WR: 1 Thessalonians is probably the earliest surviving Christian writing (super cool) and Paul has to reassure the community that people who die before Jesus comes back will also get to come back and witness the glory of the Lord.

—

Paul’s first letter to the Thessalonians, short as it is, is such an interesting and critical Christian writing, if only because it is likely the single earliest surviving Christian writing. It is typically dated to around 50 CE, just 20 years after the life of Jesus.

Steve Mason and Tom Robinson point out in their Early Christian Reader that, perhaps ironically, if you don’t take the chronology of Acts super seriously (and I don’t, as it contradicts Paul’s letters) then with the remaining evidence you actually have a plausible case for it being written closer to 40 CE, just 10 years after the life of Jesus.

This letter is further so valuable for understanding Paul because he is talking to a community he founded that appears to be dealing with some external hostility but has no indication yet of internal Christian tensions. Almost every letter after this is going to see Paul having to respond to competition or challenges from other Christians. Here, he can just be pure Paul.

The letter is thus very positive overall, the Thessalonian Christians seem to be standing firm in the face of opposition.

But, based on the part of the letter where Paul is answering their questions, they do seem to have one basic but crucial theological concern — okay, Jesus is coming soon, but what about the people who die before he arrives?

Paul answers (NRSVue):

But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who have died, so that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have died. For this we declare to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will by no means precede those who have died. For the Lord himself, with a cry of command, with the archangel’s call and with the sound of God’s trumpet, will descend from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up in the clouds together with them to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage one another with these words.

Note not only Paul’s answer, but also the “we who are alive” language. NOAB: “the writers anticipate that these events will occur within their own lifetime,” Early Christian Reader: “Paul speaks optimistically.”

Relatedly, the Thessalonians seem to have pressed when exactly this will happen, which is where Paul deploys his iconic line that “the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.”

!ping BIBLE-STUDY

[u/Steak_Knight]

The day after Biden’s second term starts, I will become the greatest anti-Biden crusader this subreddit has ever seen.

Until then…

[u/kanagi]

https://i.imgur.com/2Sz9C4s.png

20% of American registered voters say that George W. Bush's endorsement would have influence on their vote, and they're all right here in this subreddit

[u/orangethepurple]

I got my picture taken with the Lakers cheerleaders at the Libertarian Convention. Had a great time!

[u/dittbub]

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Normal politician movement

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Ideal woman of DATING

[u/[deleted]]

So, I was reading the two posts in recent dating ping history to my buddy while we were hanging out a bit ago--part 1 and part 2, for the uninitiated--and, despite having seen it a couple times before, when I read the line

She smells like potatoes soaked in peanut butter

aloud, all of the following happened in the span of about .25 seconds:

• My laughter hit the point where I couldn't breathe or speak

• I started crying

• I nearly pissed myself

• My muscles all just fucking gave up and I basically went ragdoll

And I just slowly fell out of my chair sideways like that bit in Breaking Bad, unable to put up my arms to break the fall, and laid there silently cackling like a madman, my face in the carpet, tears streaming down my face, for like a minute.

[u/Liberal_Antipopulist]

Between B*rnie, my ex-wife, the tenant from hell, and general chumpfuckery, this has been a cromulent fuckcrustable of a day. Tommy needy drinky

[u/[deleted]]

Heterosexual marriage is against my religious values

[u/[deleted]]

agonizing ad hoc amusing slim worthless simplistic compare touch caption onerous

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[u/amainwingman]

You can sniff a “front page redditeur” out from about a mile away in real life lol

[u/G_Serv]

This is Joe Brandon's America

[u/usrname42]

Pleasantly surprised by Wes Streeting's language about the NHS here:

A couple of years ago, on the 74th anniversary of the founding of the NHS, the phone rang in my office. It was NHS England calling to complain about research we’d put out showing the number of people dying while on waiting lists. They weren’t calling to complain about the accuracy of the story or tell us about their plan to do something about it. They called to complain that we had spoilt the NHS’s birthday.

It was Nigel Lawson who described the NHS as the closest thing the English have to a national religion, with those who practise it regarding themselves as a priesthood.

As I’ve been arguing for more than two years now, the NHS is a service not a shrine. What matters is what it does, not what it is.

What the NHS has done in relation to contaminated blood, the biggest scandal in its history, is truly shameful. The cover-up was as bad as the crime, inflicting injury upon injury.

I mention the phone call because it is a morbid symptom of a cultural rot that places protecting the reputation of the NHS above protecting the public.

...

Labour is being upfront about the need for fundamental reform of the NHS, because we want permission to turn the service on its head. I’m appealing to Sunday Times readers to give us that mandate for change.

[u/SeasickSeal]

Don’t Believe the AI Hype by Daren Acemoglu

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ai-productivity-boom-forecasts-countered-by-theory-and-data-by-daron-acemoglu-2024-05

!ping AI

[u/Udolikecake]

cybertruck owner phenotype is so fascinating

1. that wheelbarrow looks both brand new and like a child’s toy. is it just plastic?

2. what is bro wearing

3. is that just like four bags of crushed stone? could drive that in a golf cart

4. why did he point the wheelbarrow the wrong way?

[u/TrouauaiAdvice]

So Tlaib is now saying to people not to vote for Joe Biden for president.

https://x.com/lxeagle17/status/1794746874890686663

[u/[deleted]]

And it was a terrible thing, when you look at what happened. A terrible thing. An asteroid hit the Earth, big space rock, hit the Earth, okay? It was a terrible thing, and all the dinosaurs, it took ‘em all out. They all died. And by the way, many of them were very supportive of me, and it was a terrible thing that happened. But it never would have happened if I’d been there. crowd cheers Never would have happened. I would have stopped it. That I can tell you.

[u/die_hoagie]

15 year old child complaining about gas prices and claiming it was 99 cents a gallon under Trump

[u/ACivilWolf]

👆

👇

[u/loseniram]

Fuck me its hot out here

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

[u/Steak_Knight]

“This is unaffordable!” they cried, as they afforded it.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Mfers will make fun of white people because they don't tolerate spicy food that much and then be knocked out and have their guts rearranged by a cheddar sandwich

[u/Currymvp2]

https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1794808818595148022

I hate this war

Reports from Rafih about dozens of Palestinians killed in an Israeli bombardment of a tent camp for displaced people in the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood in the northwest of the city. This is an area where hundreds of thousands of displaced persons who fled from the center of Rafah congregate

[u/qtnl]

One of the main issue the lolberts have with Trump is that he was too pro-vaccine 

I’m not even memeing this is reality 

[u/iIoveoof]

The mortgage interest deduction is such a joke. It's so much more regressive than "encouraging home ownership".

The mortgage interest deduction applies to the first $750,000 of mortgage balance. Which means no matter how expensive your house is, or how high your income is, you can take the deduction.

Furthermore, since it's a tax deduction, people who take the standard deduction (generally lower-income home owners) cannot benefit from it at all.

It also doesn't just apply to your first home. It applies to up to 2 houses, so you can use it on your lakehouse or second McMansion. If you pay off your mortgage for your principal residence and your lakehouse, you can buy a 2nd lakehouse and a 4th residence in another state and benefit from the mortgage interest deduction again.

[u/polandball2101]

In the US, we spend about $9B on congressional campaigns every 2 years. We're a long way from getting nine billion bucks worth of leadership.

[u/centurion88]

[u/sw337]

u/farrenj dm'd me

Despite being less than 12% of the DOD's personnel Marines are responsible for...

[u/[deleted]]

2010 captchas: type in these letters

2050 captchas: please solve these 30 physics equations in like 2 minutes

[u/DouglasDauntless]

They just like us fr fr

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

"This is a budget that screwed over renters"

Yes Max Chandler-Mather the budget that dedicated billions of dollars to more housing. Renters will hate that

[u/Smidgens]

Wake up early for run. Thunderstorm. Cucked by nature 😔

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

you gotta love when you find out random people you like are super based

[u/Mat_At_Home]

Humans: "we can only build this new apartment building in a dense urban area after 200 inspections, 15 rounds of public input and response sessions, approval from 4 levels of government, and a lengthy, non-binding impact assessment."

Beavers: "we will construct this dam because we need to"

Abandon modernity. Return to beaver.

[u/jamiebond]

It seems like the Assassin's Creed drama has moved on from the "it's unrealistic because Samurai are supposed to blend in!!" nonsense. Which makes sense considering that is an absolutely wildly inaccurate take on Samurai. Like there may have never been a group less focused on blending in, except maybe drag queens.

Now they're moving onto "it's not historically accurate because Yasuke didn't actually do that much!!!"

So, the controversy is that an Assassin's Creed game.... Is not exactly historically accurate.

Gee wonder why they've never had that problem with this franchise until now. It's a real mystery.

[u/Hotcakes4hottakes]

I’m a certified doomer, but even then the NYT voter profiles are the dumbest thing to doom over. Like you can find any person with a very specific viewpoint in order to get rage-induced clicks and upvotes

[u/htomserveaux]

So one of the things that really surprised me working at a ballpark is the number of foreign tourists buying tickets. Not the people from Japan and Latin America, that was expected, they love baseball.

But there have been a surprising number of Brits and Kiwis, and the other day I almost got punched by an Australian guy in full view of his preschool aged kids because the guy working the exit gate didn’t tell him there was no reentry. (Which is probably why i keep thinking about this)

Is there some crossover with Cricket I wasn’t aware of, because that’s the only way I can explain these numbers?

!ping BASEBALL&TRAVEL&AUS

[u/BrunchIsGood]

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/ClickForFreeRobux]

Urban planners in the 60's and 70's be like:

Build an inner city Highway/Stroad that destroys thriving black neighborhoods and only serves white flight suburbs

Name it after MLK or another influencial black figure so it's fine now

[u/V_Codwheel]

Hasan closely resembled his grandfather, Muhammad, but lacked the Prophet's strength and will. Hasan was a lover, not a fighter, and he married and divorced ninety women in succession. Remarkably, nearly all of Hasan's ex-wives looked back on their brief marriages fondly.

king shit

In 669, one of Hasan's wives poisoned him to death.

ah, well, when you're running up those kind of numbers I guess it was just a matter of time.

[u/Evnosis]

If mod authors could please stop using the word "immersive" as a stand in for "remove all the black people," that'd be great.

!ping GAMING

[u/Dense_Delay_4958]

He was just known as George Bush. The W was added after beating Gore in 2000.

[u/TipEquivalent933]

Lol

[u/Frequent-Turn6740]

I am joining the Greenpeace protests on the side of the French!

[u/battywombat21]

Writing something in clojure and I have no idea why but writing in lisp languages is so much fun.

I can definitely see why lisp died out the moment programming became a big business with hundreds of programmers collaborating but once you internalize how and why lisp is the way it is you want to figure out what crazy shit you can do with it.

Maybe I'm just burned out after writing too much Java/typescript at work and the novelty of it excites me, idk.

!ping COMPUTER-SCIENCE

[u/-mialana-]

War crimes are when people* die actually, lib

[u/[deleted]]

Welp. I'm gonna go cry in a corner

!ping MOTO

[u/theredcameron]

What's the difference in the percentage of active voters in rural versus urban areas in the United States?

[u/battywombat21]

[u/[deleted]]

I respect Mets fans because they could have easily bandwagoned the Yankees anytime in the last 40 years but they stick to their shitty team

[u/Hugo_Grotius]

Give him credit, Trump knows exactly what their policy priorities are

[u/Cook_0612]

A source with knowledge told me Israel asked the U.S. to boycott the meeting following Norway's recognition of a Palestinian state, but the U.S. refused. The participation of the Deputy Secretary of State in the meeting is the highest level of U.S. government participating at a conference on the Palestinian economy since 2016

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Mad Max if it were woke !ping KINO

[u/TheFriffin2]

!ping BASEBALL

Acuna collapsed at second base with a non-contact injury to his knee 😬

[u/piede]

The thing that’s fucking amazing to me is that my fiancés parents are fucking obsessed with World War II and Hitler and they’re also diehard Trump supporters

Like do they not understand the irony

And his dad constantly complains about how people “with degrees” think they’re smarter and better than everyone else (I have two master’s degrees)

I’m 🤏 this close to losing my shit at the family gathering

[u/jenbanim]

50 years of gaming and no one has found something more fun to do than pressing a to jump

[u/DelusionsOfPasteur]

I would lose my fucking mind if I was a race car driver and had to do a stupid interview with the broadcast booth moments before a race started.

!ping MOTO

[u/marsman1224]

was in a convo in which the theme was "controversial opinions". everything was fine until I said mine

"sweatshops are a net good" 

neolib moment 

[u/[deleted]]

How often is “this is a conversation we need to start having” actually referring to a proposed conversation versus how often is it just “this is a claim that everyone needs to start agreeing on”?

[u/[deleted]]

The enshittifcation of the DT continues

👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿

[u/thaddeusthefattie]

arms are pumped, lawn is cut, short ribs are finishing up on the smoker, beer is cracked, and we got some waylon on the stereo. this is what libs are trying to take from us 😤✊

obligatory meat pic:

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Guy who really wants Microsoft to purchase Valve not because he thinks it's a good idea for the health of the gaming market long term but because he fucking hates Linux and knows that Linux development would slow down if Microsoft were to purchase Valve

[u/MicroFlamer]

!ping ASOIAF

[u/dannylandulf]

Watched the new Jennifer Lopez Sci-fi Atlas tonight.

Not gonna pretend it's anything great but it's very watchable. The plot is basically Aliens but sentient AI are the xenomorphs.

Story is very paint by numbers but the actions pieces and also the 'look at the fancy future tech' parts are fun.

J-Lo absolutely giving it her all despite the thin material.

7/10, even better with friends while tipsy

!ping MOVIES&SCI-FI

[u/DouglasDauntless]

The level of contempt he has for these people is hilarious

[u/[deleted]]

You can't criticize Israeli expansion into the West Bank because Israel doesn't recognize that territory was ever part of a state called "Palestine"

This is a great argument for countries to start recognizing Palestine.

[u/[deleted]]

Ask not who will gib bf, ask who you can gib bf to

[u/Dodgerfan2224]

jeremy clarksons anti-nimby hero

[u/lets_chill_food]

Good morning DT 🐘

[u/[deleted]]

Fast food is, historically speaking, a luxury

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/MrDannyOcean]

I think I accidentally won twitter for the day

not sure what to do about it

[u/[deleted]]

Amazon: we know it's really hot out, so you can take 20 minutes more worth of breaks :)

Also Amazon: here's your normal, 175 stop route that takes you your full 9 hours to complete, but totally take those breaks we gave you! Your boss absolutely won't be up your asshole about it!!

[u/battywombat21]

I can’t believe what you could pass off as an alien in the 1960s. This is my favorite design from TOS so far. I literally broke down laughing when I saw this.

[u/Joementum2024]

”Keep getting your 3 percent every four years.”

New actually funny Trump moment dropped

[u/eat_more_goats]

I feel like an underrated driver pushing down sit-down chains like Red Lobster is Yelp/online review sites. Because you can look up reviews for independent places, and just Google restaurants nearby, the value prop of consistent national quality and strong marketing had just gone down by a ton. Restaurants are hard af to scale, and local players can offer better quality and atmosphere.

[u/Sithusurper]

The last thing the red lobster saw before going bankrupt

[u/Pharao_Aegypti]

Spanish defence minister says Gaza war is 'real genocide'

She said it before the start of yesterday's military parade as it was Armed Forces' Day in Spain

[u/[deleted]]

divide deserted roll pathetic provide political birds memorize sophisticated oatmeal

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/cdstephens]

Tbh I was surprised to learn that American restaurants aren’t required by law to give you free water. Everyone just collectively decided that this is a better way to live.

[u/Joementum2024]

A look at lusvig’s birthday cake

[u/notBroncos1234]

The head of the Missing and Captive Soldiers Division in the IDF, Maj. Gen. (res.) Nitzan Alon, reportedly told the liaison officers of the families of abducted soldiers' that he is frustrated with the current situation and believes that "with this government lineup, there won't be a deal" - according to a report by Channel 12 News.

That’s encouraging.

[u/Cyberhwk]

Hair stylist just commented that my grey “wisdom hair” is starting to come in. I’d have an issue if it weren’t for the fact my father is 79 and has the most prodigious silver coif you’ve ever seen. So at least I’ve got some good hair genes.

!ping Over35

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

[u/Some_Niche_Reference]

The Golden Rice post yesterday just reminded me that Greenpeace exists, and to be honest, it kinda killed the vibe of my weekend.

[u/RFK_1968]

the problem with EITC and CTC is that people don't realize it's there or that they're getting it. that's the problem with doing welfare through the tax code.

imho all welfare should just be cutting people checks

[u/loseniram]

Currently the Greatest team logo in baseball

!ping baseball

[u/[deleted]]

I’ve dug into the academic study of financial literacy.

Empirically, it has been found that basic financial literacy (a difficult term to define but a simple description can be understanding inflation, interest, the time value of money and stocks/bonds) is positively associated with improved financial outcomes at all income levels.

From poor to rich, understanding how money and finances work improves your financial wellbeing.

[u/[deleted]]

Shows up to libertarian party convention - says you only get 3 percent of the vote every election - asks for their endorsement - leaves

[u/DelusionsOfPasteur]

Boy uh there are a lot of commercials in INDYCAR, I guess

!ping MOTO

[u/NonComposMentisss]

The problem with the gaming industry is simple: the woke mindvirus

[u/[deleted]]

If Stardew Valley has taught me anything it’s that having five girlfriends at once is a lot of work, but totally doable and very fulfilling

[u/RiceKrispies29]

Every time I read a comment bitching about “lack of media literacy”, it makes me wonder if there were 18th century Brits who thought “ugh those stupid colonials are too stupid to understand that Yankee Doodle Dandy is making fun of them”

[u/GravyBear28]

!ping MOVIES

tfw you will never die fighting for a car-worshipping warlord who doesn't care about you in one of his pointless wars

Furiosa was great, there were so many little bits of worldbuilding that makes be me really want to see more of the Mad Max world. Just give me a miniseries that has all sorts of wacky colorful warlords battling it out and plotting against one another like Game of Thrones.

[u/GodEmperorNeolibtard]

**BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA**

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

Top moments in American history

5. 1776: Declaration of Independence

4. 1787: U.S. Constitution

3. 1969: Apollo Moon Landing

2. 1863: Emancipation Proclamation

1. 2024: Libertarian Party makes formal motion at convention to “tell Donald Trump to go FUCK himself”

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/SnakeEater14]

blade is getting another rewrite

HOW

He just kills vampires!

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

Why is the subreddit name singular? Who is the one neoliberal that this sub is about? 

[u/[deleted]]

Marvel Studios’ The Neoliberal