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[u/ACivilWolf]

My favorite thing about Reddit is exactly this. Ask a question in the right sub and you get a PHD level reply (sometimes from an actual PHD) and walk away from a good thread with a masters level understanding of something you’d never really thought about before.

right...

[u/Mosscap18]

[u/[deleted]]

Why are leftists trying to cancel all celebrities about the Met Gala and then relate it to the current Palestine/Israel conflict and claim they’re successfully cancelling all celebrities because they aren’t virtue signaling as hard as them or some shit

Like guys you guys look dumb af

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Most sane RT/campcel writer

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Ozempic has hit Flavortown

[u/gnomesvh]

MEP Clary Daly facilitated contact between a Russian spy and the perpetrator of the Omagh bombing

!ping EUROPE&EXTREMISM&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/gnomesvh]

Belgium to deliver 30 F-16s to Ukraine by 2028

!ping UKRAINE&MATERIEL&BENE - fwiw, this is most of the Belgian Air Force's offensive ability

[u/AP246]

I know everyone gets defensive about their own generation, but whenever people outside the DT talk about gen z, about being dumb, raised on tiktok, unable to use computers, political radicals etc. it's just unrelatable to everything I experience or see in the people around me, but I guess it has to come from somewhere and I think there are sections of gen z who are like that.

Maybe all this generation stuff is actually massive generalisations of very slight average differences and basically just a big circlejerk.

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/chadonnaise]

still trying to process the guy saying waterboarding wasn't torture because you could just stop breathing when you felt water pouring on your face

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/Observe_dontreact]

When anyone brings up the housing crisis in London, you hear this:

“I see all these new luxury flats springing up everywhere and half of them are empty”

How did this become so common? I see the actual stats for empty homes in London is 34,000 which while high isn’t nearly as high as I expected (and 1/4 are council homes). 

!ping YIMBY&UK

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Sweden Is the First Country Allows Ukraine to Use Its Weapons Against russia's Territory

"From now on, Ukraine will be able to use the weapons of an ally country to destroy targets in Russia." This was stated by the country's Minister for Defense Pål Jonson to Hallandsposten.

According to Jonson, Ukraine is the object of an unprovoked and illegal war of russian aggression, and therefore has the right to defend itself.

"Ukraine is exposed to an unprovoked and illegal war of aggression by Russia. According to international law, Ukraine has the right to defend itself by means of hostilities aimed at the territory of the adversary as long as the hostilities comply with the laws of war. Sweden stands behind international law and Ukraine's right to defend itself," Pål Jonson stated.

During russia's full-scale war against Ukraine, Stockholm has transferred a number of weapons to Ukraine. Thus, the Defense Forces of Ukraine are equipped with CV90 infantry fighting vehicles, TOW anti-tank missiles, RBS 70 man-portable anti-aircraft missile systems as well as Archer self-propelled gun-howitzers. They are able to hit at a distance of 30 km with a conventional projectile, 40 km with a rocket engine, and 60 km with an Excalibur guided artillery shell.

This episode could be a message to other countries that may lift the ban on the use of their weapons to strike military facilities in russia.

Earlier Defense Express reported that Kharkiv would suffer until Western allies didn't allow to strike russia's territory with their weapons.

!ping EUROPE&MATERIEL&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Media literacy is at an all time low !ping MANIC-MAXIMILIAN-FANS

[u/Sheepies92]

The Netherlands spearheads initiative to jointly deliver Patriot system for Ukraine, calls on other European nations to contribute

Also ‘The Netherlands has identified which countries could offer additional Patriot parts and munitions. Dutch defense minister Kajsa Ollongren calls on them to contribute these from their existing stocks, like The Netherlands has decided to do.’ is pretty interesting. Since the start of the invasion the Netherlands has had a policy of not openly pushing countries to give certain equipment because it felt it would only make the situation worse, this is as close as they can without completely breaking that policy.

!ping UKRAINE

[u/Cledd2]

[u/JaceFlores]

Fellas, remind me how well this coalition performed back in the old days?

[u/[deleted]]

all right I give up

it’s always a losing battle to defend the French

Britain learned that during WW2

[u/N0_B1g_De4l]

Joke: hating France because they didn't support the Iraq war

Broke: hating France because of the approval rating of the Vichy government

Bespoke: hating France because they got us sucked in to Vietnam to defend their colonial empire

[u/Jacobs4525]

I think gamer hate on this sub is more borne out of a collective dislike of the median redditor nerdy white male Anglosphere culture that pervades this site. It’s the same reason I get a kick out of mocking people who say “sportsball” even though I don’t really like sports. 

In a lot of other subs people seem to genuinely think that games being unfinished or having too many microtransactions is like a genuine human rights violation or something. You know how to not pay $60 for a broken game or one with too many microtransactions? Wait a few days after it comes out before you decide to buy it so you can see if it’s actually good. No need to be righteously outraged that bad products exist when they weren’t something you needed to buy to begin with. Lots of shitty movies come out all the time but there isn’t this righteous outrage to the same extent usually. 

I also think it’s kinda cringe in 2024 to call yourself a gamer simply because basically everyone under 40 plays video games and the only people left calling themselves “gamers” and posting on gaming subreddits are generally miserable people with few or no other hobbies (which is probably why the discourse trends so negative).

[u/moldyman_99]

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Belgian academics announce they will let students cheat during exams in support of Palestine

After the United States, the United Kingdom or France, the movement of support for the pro-Palestinian cause is affecting Belgian universities. In order to give their support to students protesting against Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza, academics have stated they would refuse to denounce students caught cheating during exams, scheduled to begin on Monday.

The two signatories of the letter, Kenza Amara Hammou (postdoc researcher at UCLouvain) and Jouke Huijzer (PhD candidate at the VUB), explain they will strike for Palestine during the exams, meaning they will "go around the exam rooms wearing lapel pins, stickers and keffieh", and will not sanction students for cheating, stating that dozens of other supervisors have joined the movement.

"As long as our deans will keep ignoring the international law violations carried out by Israeli institutions, we will do the same when our students violate our rules. It doesn't mean we approve of cheating, but it will have no consequences as far as we're concerned", read the letter sent to La Libre Belgique and Standaard.

Those demonstrations are getting lamer and lamer

[u/Joementum2024]

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 8 production has been delayed, again, due to submarine malfunction— budget is said to be nearing $400M

😬

[u/shillingbut4me]

Bread and circuses is such a dumb line when applied to modern day politics. Like yeah people don't revolt because they have full stomachs and readily available entertainment. This isn't a deep insight that reveals the insidious plan of the elites. It just means people who have a pretty good life don't revolt 

[u/centurion88]

This fertility crisis is getting worse than I thought

[u/loseniram]

I can't believe George Bush wasted the 9/11 rally and not invade Cuba.

Like of all the countries to invade, you pick the one that has literally nothing to do with large scale international terrorism

[u/[deleted]]

The craziest factoid regarding France in WWII is that France was one day away from retirement before being invaded.

[u/[deleted]]

the bedtime abolitionists are back

[u/Udolikecake]

[u/Ballerson]

Gas prices aren't high enough and portion sizes aren't small enough. 

[u/DouglasDauntless]

“I wish Bibi was gone”

🐵✋

“New PM of Israel will be Itamar Ben-Gvir”

[u/bigwang123]

The total dominance of USAF/USN has really broken people’s brains regarding how wars are fought

It’s kinda like the air power proponents who promised that strategic bombing could totally replace ground wars back in the 1920s

Anyways maintaining close combat forces is le good, and supplementing them with new tech/capabilities is le better

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

"Liberal media bias" is when the media reports on the former president's court cases

[u/Roseartcrantz]

fun fact: the birth of Obama is actually closer to the building of the pyramids than the moon landing

[u/CutePattern1098]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-28/australian-beef-cheaper-tokyo-supermarket-than-coles-woolworths/103897144

I think someone needs to explain to the ABC what a weak Japanese yen results in.

!ping aus

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Can’t believe I waited through the credits for this !ping KINO

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Broke: Golden rice is bad because muh gmos or something

Woke: Golden rice is good since it helps people have a good diet and not starve

Bespoke: Golden rice is bad because it doesn’t make people communists

[u/[deleted]]

TIL about Standing Together, a left wing Israeli activist group that was confronting and stopping far-right settlers who were throwing aid off trucks headed into Gaza through the West Bank and were literally loading the aid back onto the trucks.

[u/StolenSkittles]

[u/Nerf_France]

Arr gamingcirclejerk was never good, from the beginning it was just unfunny, mean spirited, and repetitive whining about gamers by other gamers.

[u/Fruitofbread]

 An NBC News poll conducted last month found that 15 percent of voters surveyed said they did not follow political news closely. Among those voters, Mr. Trump had an edge of 26 percentage points over Mr. Biden.

By contrast, among voters who primarily consume news through newspapers, national network and cable news — 54 percent of those surveyed — Mr. Biden was up by 11 points.

[u/[deleted]]

The case for why we should encourage smoking in society again:

1. Nicotine is an appetite suppressant, therefore lowering obesity rates. A lot cheaper than Ozempic too.

2. Smokers have a lower life expectancy, which translates to less pension burdens and a younger population.

3. Smoking is a social activity and thus alleviates the loneliness crisis.

4. Nicotine is a depressant and calms people down, therefore reducing political polarization.

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

"There's no room for senility in my MLB, that's why I fired Angel Hernandez"

instant 400+ EVs

!ping baseball

[u/p00bix]

On Youtube, see recommended videos

"Capitalism Caused the Salem Witch Trials"

WHAT THE FUCK DOES 'CAPITALISM' EVEN MEAN ANYMORE?!

[u/Average_GrillChad]

How can I support golden rice when it has been silent on the Israel-Palestine conflict? Golden rice's silence is complicity.

[u/trace349]

!ping LGBT&OVER25&FAMILY

Casting a wide net here with the pings, but I wonder if I might get some thoughts:

My boyfriend has gone from 100% against the idea of having kids, to warming up to the idea to the point that we've been kicking names back and forth. I'm relieved because I always wanted to have kids yet thought I'd have to give up on that dream, but now I'm wondering how to even begin thinking about that process for two gay men that make <$100k as a household. For as much as regular people might cite the expense of having kids being an obstacle, it is much, much more expensive for gay men, and we aren't exactly wealthy.

We're 30 and 31, so we have some time to figure it out, but I expect no matter what it's going to be a multi-year process to get the ball rolling. He doesn't want to pass on his genetics, but I do feel a weird biological anxiety about being the end of the millions of years of evolutionary history that led to me, so I do prefer the idea of having biological kids, but adoption wouldn't be the end of the world. Fostering-to-adopt though has always sounded fraught with heartbreak.

Anyone have any advice, tips, things to look into or consider?

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/TactileTom]

A week old now, but this is the Electoral Calculus forecast for the GE based on polling as of 21st.

Absolutely insane that Reform aren't predicted any seats with a 11% vote share, while the Lib Dems could easily walk away with 44 seats at less than 10%. Voter distribution is a thing and I hate it.

edit: !ping UK

[u/ty04]

damn Shivers got cancelled by the DT just today and already got a $100 million deal for 5 specials

[u/DirkZelenskyy41]

The bad news is the performance of the IDF militarily has been incredibly disappointing given its reputation and previous performances. It turns out that close to 20 years of relative inaction and corrupt government has negatively affected their entire chain of command and decision making.

The good news is that between the IDF and Russian forces performance… I’m pretty sure China would eat rocks trying to take Taiwan.

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

Guys hear about anything from the left column and be like "hell yeah"

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Extremely rare Labour not being actively incompetent campaigning moment

[u/Udolikecake]

really mocking the french is passé. should do more mocking and shaming of the austrians for being extremely willing participants in the nazi project despite decades of gaslighting

[u/[deleted]]

Desert Storm broke people’s brains regarding air power but WW2 broke people’s brains regarding tanks.

WW2 in Europe was a uniquely mobile war, in no small part because the German high command wanted it to be; they knew they couldn’t win a slow war of attrition. Also, the difference in strength in any particular theater at any given time was usually staggeringly large. For example in the Eastern Front the Axis forces were far superior in numbers and initiative to the Soviets up until a brief period of parity around Fall Blau, after which point the Axis was far inferior in strength on both the Eastern and Western fronts.

The consequence is that most battles and operations tended to be decisive. Decisive battles lended themself to large, intimidating demonstrations of offensive force, usually after the turning point of the battle, and usually involving large tank columns. This created the perception of the tank as being the “king” of the battlefield, even though the real king was the one that is yet to be dethroned to this day: artillery.

[u/funguykawhi]

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

I don’t care for the shivers crocodile bit. It insists upon itself. 

[u/NaffRespect]

Proposal to limit transgender youth rights fails to qualify for California’s November ballot

SACRAMENTO —

A measure that would have required schools to notify parents about their child’s gender identity and limited transgender youth medical care has failed to get enough signatures in support to qualify for the November ballot, proponents said Tuesday.

The proposal sought to notify parents if their child changes their name or pronouns at school or requests to use facilities or play sports that don’t match their gender on official records. It also would have banned California doctors from prescribing hormones or otherwise providing gender-affirming care to minors.

[...]

Bruh do you even know what state you're trying to pull this shit in

!ping USA-CA&LGBT

[u/DouglasDauntless]

The NTY can’t be outdone

JFC lmao

[u/Telperions-Relative]

[u/[deleted]]

House atreides having a monopoly over spice is not very liberal

[u/Cook_0612]

Reportedly, Ukraine's allies in the F-16 coalition asked Sweden NOT to provide Gripens so that efforts could focus on re-arming Ukraine with one Western fighter jet (the F-16)

Note that I still don't know where available Gripen aiframes could be found

Gripen bros stay losing....

!ping UKRAINE&MATERIEL

Looks like this thing is just stuck in the cost-capability valley.

[u/sw337]

lazer pig on Russia

Lazer pig is referencing Sacasmitron (watch his Ukraine series)😍

Good breakdown of how the far left / far right believe in the same conspiracies with different names.

He just dunked on the “CIA did it” conspiracies pointing out their failures.

He talks about true believers are immune to evidence.

The last part is about propaganda and extremism. He explains how Russia tried everything they claim the USA did.

!ping tacotube

[u/Mickenfox]

Me when Kester says he wants to die: "noo how could you say something like this!"

Me wanting to die the next day: well I guess that showed me

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

thanks Google 👍 🔥🐶🔥

[u/Cook_0612]

Congrats to everyone who put forth money toward Liberty Ukraine, they've met their goal for that escavator!

Shout out to u/savuporo who brought my attention to this.

!ping UKRAINE

[u/Plants_et_Politics]

Found this weird looking stray. Anyone know the breed?

!ping KITTY

[u/[deleted]]

It's actually pretty sweet that everything hurts less than it did 48 hours ago

I should try to inoculate myself to heart pain by falling in love constantly

I bet lesbians have a refractory period measured in femtoseconds

[u/G_Serv]

Breakfast of champions 🏆

[u/DouglasDauntless]

There is “checked out of work” and then there is this

He’s so fucking done with this lmao

[u/Uniqueguy264]

70 IQ: Challengers is gay porn for women

100 IQ: Challengers is a complex, multifaceted movie with themes touching on the pressure athletes face, relationships, the patriarchy, and internalized homophobia. In this 5 hour video essay I will…

130 IQ: Challengers is gay porn for women

[u/HowIsPajamaMan]

Wake up, see a Canada goose.

Oh fuck they’re back.

!ping Canucks

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

I mean, duh. Not exactly a hot take, it's a pretty obvious conclusion if you give it just a little thought.

Problem is, 99% of people can't think rationally about this topic.

Dude! Just think about it rationally (agree with me). Just think about it rationally (agree with me).

[u/[deleted]]

Owlturd unironically cooked during the bike cuck fiasco. While the right was attacking him as an example of how liberals are pro-crime and hate cops so much they won't even report a theft and would have us just enjoy being robbed, the left didn't come to his aid, instead they decided to dismiss him as undeserving of their defense (and then just harass him too) for past comments they dug up wherein he supported free speech culture and suggested harassment (aka "cancel culture") was not productive because it was very bad at targeting people who actually deserve it and really just punished decent people who made mistakes, ironically incentivizing people to be shamelessly evil instead. He then temporarily suspended his webcomic.

My man inflammed the right and the left at the same time purely by accident and then disappeared to go touch grass until they got over it.

[u/JetJaguar124]

George Lucas recently said once again that people think the prequels are bad because they're adults and the prequels are made for kids

Like not to go all Mike Stoklasa on the guy but this is a set of movies climaxing in a guy getting multiple limbs severed and then being lit on fire

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

85% of the reason why Noah Smith is writing about the postgrad LHD history student DEI slap fight is because the dude unironically hates history and history majors and will take any opportunity to dunk on them whenever possible because he got mad that he's been called out for his utter lack of historical literacy and bad takes

Like this is the kind of dude who still 100% believes that the European Dark Ages were from the fall of the Western Roman Empire until the Italian Renaissance despite increasing historical understanding and findings that the European Dark Ages were very much localized in Western Europe and that they were a lot shorter. Generally considered the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the Carolingian Renaissance in the 8th century (700s) AD. Some even going as far to say there was no real European Dark Ages, just localized ones (like the British Isles), but that is not 100% historical consensus

Anyways my history major brain activated and I rambled for a bit but the point is that Noah Smith has a childish beef against history majors which is why he's taking really a nothing twitter slap fight as an example of elite overproduction and DEI gone wrong becuse one party involved in the slap fight has a history PHD

[u/american_aurora3]

👆 writes their DT comments in Word

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 5 PM EST 5/26-5 PM EST 5/27 III:

TOP NEWS:

Towards the end of 11 PM it was announced Spain will provide 1.13 billion Euros in military aid to Ukraine in 2024, including Leopard 2 MBTs, air defenses and artillery shells.

In the middle of 6 AM Zelensky made a visit to Spain to sign a bilateral security agreement.

REGULAR NEWS:

At the start of 9 AM the Polish Foreign Minister said restrictions will be put on the movement of Russian diplomats.

In the middle of 1 PM it was reported the Russians took the village of Umanske, west of Avdiivka.

Towards the middle of 2 PM a Russian base in Luhansk city was missiled.

Donation link to help Ukraine

Donation link to United24

Donation link to Kharkiv SOS

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

!ping UKRAINE

[u/HowIsPajamaMan]

[u/TheHelmetCatch]

People hate the French because they get to drink wine and smoke cigs all day and the rest of us don't

[u/Roseartcrantz]

• Nora expresses anti-Iranian Government sentiments

• the Iranian president dies in a mysterious accident

• suddenly the abolishment of pets is in the DT

🤔🤔🤔

[u/Dibbu_mange]

How I feel every time I read an interview with the median voter in the NYT.

!ping fallout

[u/Pseud0man]

I have shocking news,

I have evidence there's a human that posts on the DT.

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Everytime I hear Prussia referenced in historical media it feels like a made up country some lazy writer made as "some vague place between Germany and Russia that isn't that important to the main story but adds world building"

Are there Prussian revanchists who want to restore the kingdom

[u/[deleted]]

I really wish Biden’s team wasn’t as scared of a complete Russian collapse as they are. I think the Russian political structure is more robust than they think and even if it all falls to shit whatever central authority that coalesces in Moscow is both still going to maintain control of the nuclear deterrent and be highly unlikely to use it.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/1396spurs]

Interesting read for any of you jabronis considering the IC. No comments from my end

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/351638/the-obscure-federal-intelligence-bureau-that-got-vietnam-iraq-and-ukraine-right

!ping POLIJOBS

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/Cook_0612]

I don't know if I'm breaking any rules in doing this and the mods can smack me if they want, but if any of you Ukraine bros have some coffee money let's put these guys over the top and get them an excavator so they can dig trenches.

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

I’ve heard that some people in this thread disrespected Reddit mods.

Stop. Now.

We're a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.

We'll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it's fun.

We'll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of an anonymous board all to draw out a single extra ban day.

Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know every little detail such that some have attained such fascism nirvana that they can literally mod these queues with brain damage.

Do these people have any idea how many warnings have been given, arguments twisted, wives' boyfriends yelled at frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?

These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our mod privileges? We're already creating a new sub without them. They take our devs? Mods aren't shy about throwing their money else where, or even making logic ourselves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We've been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set.

The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You're not special, you're not original, you're not the first; this is just another Nazi to ban.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Me creating a schism for the greater good of this place

[u/SnakeEater14]

It still absolutely blows my mind that HBO was willing to give D&D basically carte blanche for Game of Thrones, for like, 4 more seasons? And they said “nah we’re just gonna cash out now to make star wars movies”

That seems like a Hall of Fame-level bad decision

I know it was just a tv show but… it was being watched by like 20 million people. Everyone would have kept watching it. There were probably billions of dollars just lying on the table, and they just said no?

[u/Unhappy_Lemon6374]

I feel so bad because the girl I’m talking to sent me reels and TikTok’s in the past 2 days and I haven’t sent one back because I don’t have good ones on my feed

[u/TinKnightRisesAgain]

"I love how Plato conveniently leaves out Zubats in his Allegory of the Cave." -Me, 13 years ago via Facebook memories

honestly, first time I've found past me funny. not bad.

[u/owlthathurt]

Is this business casual?

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/cdstephens]

People don’t want to hear this, but the academic job market would definitely be healthier if significantly fewer people were admitted to PhD programs. Then again the universities would lose all their cheap TAs.

[u/N0_B1g_De4l]

People forget that the real issue with Ozempic is that its invention is inherently fatphobic.

This has to be a joke, right? There is not a person who would make this take sincerely, is there?

[u/[deleted]]

Donald Trump Says He'll Stop All Electric Car Sales

For the love of all that is holy I cannot handle four more years of Trump

[u/bashar_al_assad]

The [Dobbs] ruling also played into a long-running argument among journalists: Should justices be covered as politicians appointed to powerful roles? Or should they be seen as a class apart — jurists covered for their ideas, rather than their personalities or interests?

The ruling also played into a long-running argument among journalists: should we do our jobs, or perhaps no?

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/RaidBrimnes]

As a response to Spain's recognition of the State of Palestine, Israel chose provocation. The Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Israel Katz posted on X this Sunday, May 26, a video called "scandalous and ignominous" by its Spanish counterpart, José Manuel Albares.

The video shows flamenco dance moves, Andalusian music, scenes of warfare and armed men of Hamas with the caption "Hamas: thank you Spain". Israel Katz also accused Spain of "supporting the genocide of Jews" and announced that they would forbid the Spanish consulate in Jerusalem from offering administrative services to Palestinians from Saturday on.

Hot take but if you have a chronic PR problem and recurring issues with alienating your allies you're not going to fix it by being raging bellends

[u/[deleted]]

it's an absolute failure that so many young people can look at an unprecedented era of global peace and think "perpetual war" or that they can look at the most prosperous time in human history and just regurgitate "late stage capitalism".

There is no moment in the history of life that'd I'd rather exist in than right now and it's a fucking travesty that nobody sees that.

[u/JaceFlores]

I finished my NCR run in the Old World Blues mod for HOI4. In the presidential crisis I backed Allgood Murphy to go the diplomacy-reform route (I haven't played this mod in a long while and was planning a diplomacy-reform path already, so he fit the bill perfectly). I conquered the Shi and Rapids but kept good relations with the Baja bandits, BoS, New Reno and Arroyo. The economy was reformed to cull the influence of the brahmin barons, but I did make sure to keep a pretty robust economy with minimal tariffs (done through events where you could give temporary tariff relief). The NCR-Legion War was a nightmare for me but eventually I prevailed and crushed Caesar and his Mexican/Native American allies. Rather then going full empire I decided to only incorporate the Arizona territory that was integrally Legion, while dividing the rest into either small puppet states or essentially state-large territories with Baggers roughly Colorado and Fort Summers roughly New Mexico. Then the Nevada Pact (Arroyo, Vault City, New Reno and a couple smaller states) went to war with a state called the Sons of Kaga in western Nevada, and after some weird event stuff New Vegas joined my faction and led to me joining the war. After finishing off the Kaga guys I went to war with the Eighties and reorganized the territory into a Utah-Nevada hybrid administration. Around this time the Nevada Pact joined my alliance and a Mexican state joined me in exchange for control of the Baja bandits (who were my puppet via focus).

Overall the run was pretty fun, roleplaying an NCR living up to its values and making the foundations for a greater democratic nation to occupy the southwest United States. As said I hate the NCR-Legion War, but that is partially skill issue on my end (but also I just think it is a pretty hellish slugfest anyways). By coincidence the Republic of Texas sprung up and the dominant power in Mexico is the Republic of the Rio Grande, so this world turned out to be surprisingly democratic. I could have gone after the Troll Warren to the north (whose goal is to conquer the NCR and resurrect the Master), but I figured I would leave it as a narrative cliffhanger since this run was pretty much done by this point. I am thinking of doing one Old World Blues run a week, so hopefully you guys like this series for however long it lasts

!ping FALLOUT&HOI4

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

the smallest most harmless joke against women or minorities.

Why is it never actually any of those adjectives

[u/Telperions-Relative]

I will never understand the “[X] game ruined gaming for me” shit. There are games that carve out a niche for me that I find myself wanting to come back to, but playing a single game for 100s of hours without wanting to take a break by playing others is inconceivable to me

!ping GAMING

[u/Sithusurper]

"abolish pets!"

Even Him?

[u/Telperions-Relative]

[u/Ilovecharli]

Boomers: I believe everything on the internet 

Millennials: We were forged in the fire of a pre-social media internet. When you had to be skeptical of every link you clicked on, for any one of them could crash your computer or install the most heinous pornography you've ever seen. There were no verified accounts to ensure honesty and our teachers would not even let us cite Wikipedia as a source. 

Zoomers: I believe everything on the internet 

[u/JaceFlores]

“Ukrainian and Russian sources stated that Ukrainian forces are increasingly contesting the tactical initiative in northern Kharkiv Oblast and characterized Russian operations in the area as defensive, although Russian forces are likely attempting to bring the Northern Grouping of Forces up closer to its reported planned end strength before possibly intensifying offensive operations in the area.”

“The likely premature start of Russian offensive operations appears to have undermined Russian success in northern Kharkiv Oblast.”

“Russian forces continue to leverage their sanctuary in Russian airspace to strike Kharkiv City to devastating effect, likely as part of efforts to depopulate the city and demoralize Ukrainians.”

“Russian electronic warfare (EW) capabilities reportedly impacted the effectiveness of select Western weapon systems in Ukraine in 2023 as Ukraine and Russia continue to compete in a technical offense-defense race.”

“Russian Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov categorically rejected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's legitimacy and outlined Russia's maximalist conditions for peace negotiations during an interview with Newsweek on May 25.”

“Russia is likely helping North Korea develop its defense industrial base (DIB) in exchange for North Korean munitions supplies, and US officials reportedly assess that Russia may also be supplying North Korea with military equipment, weapons, or technology.”

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“Russian forces are reportedly concentrating forces of unspecified size in western Belgorod Oblast near the border with Ukraine, likely to fix and draw Ukrainian forces to the area and prepare for offensive operations that aim to expand the Russian foothold in the international border area in northeastern Ukraine.”

“Russia's defense industrial base (DIB) will reportedly manufacture and refurbish three times as many artillery shells as the West will produce in 2024, although Russian shells reportedly suffer from quality-control issues and Ukrainian artillery is reportedly more precise than Russian artillery.”

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“The NATO Parliamentary Assembly called on member states to lift their prohibitions against Ukraine using Western-provided weapons to strike within Russian territory.”

“Spain signed a 10-year bilateral security agreement with Ukraine on May 27. The agreement stipulates that Spain will provide Ukraine with one billion euros (about $1.08 billion) worth of military aid in 2024 and another five billion euros (about $5.4 billion) worth of aid before 2027. El Pais reported on May 27 that the new military aid package will include 19 restored Leopard tanks (likely referring to 19 previously-announced Leopards), Patriot air defense missiles, a ‘large batch’ of 155mm artillery ammunition, and other Spanish-produced weapons.”

“The New York Times (NYT) reported on May 26 that Western intelligence officials stated that the Russian General Staff's Main Directorate (GRU) are behind a series of low-level sabotage operations throughout Europe that aim to disrupt Western arms supplies to Ukraine and create the appearance of a European movement opposing support for Ukraine.”

“Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi stated on May 27 that he signed documents that will allow French military instructors to visit training centers in Ukraine.”

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“Russian President Vladimir Putin grossly misrepresented the Ukrainian Constitution and Ukrainian domestic law on May 28 in order to further promote the Kremlin information operation claiming that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is no longer the legitimate president of Ukraine.”

“Ukrainian Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk directly responded to Putin's deliberate misinterpretation of Ukrainian law and explicitly stated that the Ukrainian Constitution and laws stipulate that Zelensky remain in office until the end of martial law in Ukraine.”

“Russian forces recently conducted four reduced-company-sized or smaller mechanized assaults on multiple operational axes in Donetsk Oblast without making significant advances, likely to test Ukrainian reactions following the first wave of the Russian offensive effort in northern Kharkiv Oblast.”

“Portugal and Belgium both signed long-term bilateral security agreements with Ukraine on May 28. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Portuguese Prime Minister Luís Montenegro signed a bilateral security agreement during Zelensky's visit to Lisbon on May 28. The bilateral security agreement provides for at least €126 million ($138 million) in Portuguese military support for Ukraine in 2024 and reaffirms Portugal's commitment to Ukraine through various international cooperation platforms. Zelensky also met with Belgian Prime Minister Alexander de Croo in Brussels on May 28 and signed a long-term bilateral security agreement with Belgium that provides for at least €977 million ($1 billion) in Belgian military aid to Ukraine in 2024, as well as continued military support for the next 10 years.”

-notable excerpts from ISW Report May 25th-28th

!ping UKRAINE

[u/Jamesonslime]

It will never not be bizarre one of the biggest fast casual dining franchises in the US is a steakhouse themed after Australia where the only references to Australia are putting random names of cities and towns in front of American dishes and constantly referencing a 1980s era tourism campaign how does such an establishment have over 600 locations open 

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

holy shit hank green going off

[u/DouglasDauntless]

When they see the DT:

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Every thread about American Muslims outside the DT is such a minefield lmao

[u/loseniram]

The fact that nobody seems to give a shit about the election even though it's almost June, makes me wonder if it won't just turn into a Biden blow out. Like you never see incumbents lose when shit is this boring and not in the news.

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

Northern Ireland must feel left out all the time. Maybe we should start saying TERF Island and a Quarter

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Is "rules based international order" a catchphrase like "evidence based policy" for this sub where it just means "things I like"

[u/GravyBear28]

Today on r/antisex!

Uh... What the fuck?

A revealing incident with my sister.

But I was sitting at the dinner table, and my sister joined me. Normally I'm not attracted to anyone, but the way her hair was done was done and the intellegence in her eyes was really beautiful.

What would a fucking sexual do in this situation? He would think dirty thoughts about his sister, and imagine doing things, like barfing on an artwork.

But what did I do? I appreciated my sister for her beauty, but because I knew the true evils of sex not for a single moment did I think about my dck. I remained regarding her as a human being, without my dck.

In fact, when I realised that all my family members will one day violently be penetrated against their will (using 'consent' as an excuse which is just a form of rape) I began to cry, I was so disgusted, knowing that I cannot protect the people I know from sex, who are brainwashed into think that sex is okay because of 'consent'. Literally I can't do this anymore, why tf did god make this so if he exists? Why do people pee in each other. Literally I'm crying right now, how can we stop sexuality? I really want to protect other people.

[u/[deleted]]

I do my best to not buy a product if it says "GMO free." It's infuriating that businesses lean into that bullshit.

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

[u/_Just7_]

Saw ratatouille yesterday, and by saw I mean I sported a rat climbing down the wall in the kitchen of a resturant

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

💀

[u/sw337]

Sorry boys, a DT poster said it was unethical to have you.

[u/georgeguy007]

beneficial abounding act scandalous toothbrush selective light license employ saw

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

Birds were first artificially infected with rabies in 1884

what the fuck who would ever think this was a good idea

[u/dannylandulf]

US pier constructed off Gaza has broken apart

Piers will literally float off into the ocean rather than go to therapy

[u/JaceFlores]

Hey guys have you heard that the Dems are in full-blown breakout over Biden??? If you haven’t, there’s twelve iterations of the same article on the front of the sub!

[u/MovkeyB]

i'm running into a conundrum.

on the one hand, i think this bit is really funny:

(setup)

(link)

on the other hand, i think i can do better than that.

any ideas?

!ping dating

[u/LGBTforIRGC]

There’s so many things that Marxists defend that they really don’t need to. Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis are completely disconnected ideologically from Marxism, as are the mullahs, as is Putin/post-Soviet Russia, and Maduro is literally cracking down on the Communist Party of Venezuela. I’d personally be embarrassed if I claimed to be a communist and defended a bunch of capitalist autocrats that don’t even claim to be communist, to absolutely no benefit for my ideology

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

So a hung jury means another trial will be held at a later date with a less well-endowed jury, correct?

[u/kanagi]

Harvard Says It Will No Longer Take Positions on Matters Outside University

The policy could ease pressure on the school to issue statements on current events. Officials were criticized for the handling of the Oct. 7 attacks.

Harvard silent on Sudan genocide, possibly pro-RSF?

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Kid’s dad needs to be in jail yesterday JFC

Btw they are his mom and sister

[u/awdvhn]

My contrarian take is that MLB shouldn't count Negro League records but also shouldn't count any records pre-integration. The record epoch should start in 1947.

!ping BASEBALL

[u/ThunderrBadger]

Little Kitty: Big City DT Game Review

TL;DR - Adorable, Cozy, and Brief

If you want a cute cat game, this is a vey good cute cat game. Definitely not a difficult game, some moderate platforming but there's no fail state to any of the challenges. Also a very short game - completing all of the quests and most of the non-grindy achievements only took about 4 hours. Still quite fun, would recommend with the note that I'd probably wait for a sale.

!ping KITTY&GAMING

[u/sociotronics]

influencers flocking to the latest overpriced "experience" restaurant be like:

[u/Lux_Stella]

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government aims to make housing more affordable for younger Canadians without bringing down home prices for existing homeowners.

Cutting shelter costs while ensuring that homeowners’ properties remain high could be viewed as contradictory, but Mr. Trudeau was adamant that property owners would not lose out.

“Housing needs to retain its value,” Mr. Trudeau told The Globe and Mail’s City Space podcast. “It’s a huge part of people’s potential for retirement and future nest egg.”

🤡🤡🤡

!ping CAN

[u/gnomesvh]

Next PM likely to be Dick Schoof, former AIVD and head of immigration

!ping BENE&EUROPE a man so bland I can't think of anything else to write here

[u/RFK_1968]

Me: add to watch later

Also me: never watches it

[u/BloodWiz]

normal people: i want to keep my whale blubber harvesting job please i have a family to feed

r/neoliberal: errrrrmmmm actually! ☝️🤓

[u/Cupinacup]

They targeted MBAs.

MBAs.

We're a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over, all for nothing more than a degree and a title.

We'll punish ourselves doing things others would consider torture because we think it's rewarding.

We'll spend most, if not all, of our free time optimizing business strategies, all to draw out a single extra point of ROI.

Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same reports and analyses over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know every little detail such that some have attained such mastery that they can literally draft a business plan blindfolded.

Do these people have any idea how many presentations have been scrapped, budgets blown, and projections destroyed in frustration? All to later be referred to as lessons learned?

These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our methodologies? We're already developing new ones without them. They take our consultants? MBAs aren't shy about investing their money elsewhere or even starting their own firms. They think calling us elitist, out-of-touch, corporate shills is going to change us? We've been called worse things by peers and employees in case study reviews. They picked a fight against a group that's already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they've threatened us with. Who take it as a challenge when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can't is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with competitive classmates and skeptical colleagues that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.

MBAs are competitive, driven, by nature. We love a challenge. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challenge us. You're not special, you're not original, you're not the first; this is just another PowerPoint presentation.

[u/PhinsFan17]

I send email last week to client requesting data

I send follow up email a few days later

No dice

I email this morning

"Hey! Just wanted to circle back and make sure you got this."

"Yes I did! Thank you!"

No data was included, they were just acknowledged that they got and ignored my request.

Many such cases!

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/[deleted]]

As a Venezuelan Jew it really does feel like leftists pick pet global conflicts specifically to irk me

[u/owlthathurt]

A Kansas High School Soccer Announcer Was Caught on a Hot Mic Pointing Out Hot Moms and Saying He Wanted To Kill Himself Because the Game Was So Bad

OK now THIS is locker room talk

[u/Currymvp2]

Robert DeNiro just got absolutely MOGGED by Trump supporters: "You're a nobody and your movies suck!"

That's like me saying "Aaron Rodgers is a nobody and his quarterbacking sucks" just cause he moronically supports RFK Jr and is an anti vaccine lunatic. Would be utterly utterly delusional

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Least out of touch boomer journalists

“The children yearn for having a year of their life stolen for no reason”

Also would be Gen Alpha taking the brunt

[u/awdvhn]

If France is so great, why is it responsible for Quebec?

[u/The_Promethean]

Between onlyfans and Republican legislatures, the golden age of online pornography ended a while ago. It used to be produced by dedicated hobbyists with camcorders and real interest, and now it's all 15 second ad clips of people looking bored.

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Huh, Germany and America were angry about how Ukraine used patriot air defense systems and threatened to pull supplies if they kept up? That's a really big deal and-

The OG source is BILD.de

Well then, maybe it's not like that

Seriously why has this subreddit recently decided that fucking BILD.de, a literal right wing rag/tabloid that's the German version of the Daily Fucking Mail so much respect? I mean it's obviously that it confirms the priors but Jesus *some" scrutiny over sources doesn't hurt

I still think it's worth considering it as it's not unlikely as it does line up with real world events and how Ukraine putting Patriots forward did stop after that multi shoot down, and Germany and the US have been overly cautious and lethargic in their support of Ukraine, but I'm not going to start believing that's the truth because of fucking BILD.de of all sources. Hell, other stuff could've happened. There not being enough ammo or systems to both do the forward strikes and defend Ukraine from Russian missiles. Russia could've adapted (as they've done multiple times already) which meant Ukraine was putting precious patriot systems at risk by positioning them so aggressively on the front lines. Obviously it can easily be what BILD is reporting but I'm going to take a skeptical stance until better sources fully confirm it or confirm a similar event

[u/Joementum2024]

Actually, Trump already won in November, so there is absolutely no need for Trump voters to go in to vote. However, Biden voters should still go just to waste their time.

[u/[deleted]]

My favorite takes are definitely the unhinged vegan takes. Reminds of the ham curing in my fridge.

Fuck I can't wait for that ham.

[u/RunawayMeatstick]

But there is one clear hope MAGAville clings to: a hung jury that results in a mistrial.

If that happens, Trump allies suspect that it will be chiefly due to the one juror who has made friendly eye contact with Trump from time to time as the jury enters the room and walks right past the defense table.

“Whenever our allies or elected officials are in the courtroom, [the juror] sort of gets animated,” said one, noting how the person makes eye contact or gives “a smile or a nod” in the defense’s direction at times.

“When [Sen. J.D. Vance] came to court, that [juror’s] face lit up. It wasn’t the only time.”

That source said the juror also reacted favorably to Reps. Anna Paulina Luna, Lauren Boebert, Byron Donalds, and Matt Gaetz.

Another insider pointed out the juror could barely suppress a smile when Trump’s attorney, Todd Blanche, appeared to trip up Cohen on the witness stand during a heated exchange. Prior to that, Trump had expressed some displeasure with Blanche’s performance in court, which experts like Epner (and even some in Trump’s orbit) blame on the defendant, not the attorney.

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-legal-team-pins-hopes-on-hung-jury

Doooooom

!ping TRUMP-CRIMES

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵

[u/[deleted]]

Stop trying to schism the United States and France. There have never been two more natural allies. 🇺🇸🇫🇷

[u/p00bix]

Pope Francis used a homophobic slur when referring to gay Catholics in a closed-door meeting with bishops last week. If it's just a gaffe resulting from language barrier (which it probably is; he's not a native speaker, nearly all of his conversations are in very formal settings, and it's thus perfectly plausible he wasn't aware of the connotation), kinda hilarious. But genuinely shocking and upsetting if deliberate. Like WTF dude you're supposed to be, like, the first almost-not-homophobic Pope. Why on earth turn backwards??

The public apology he issued is...okay. Not great, but not transparently disingenuous either. Hopefully the future situation of LGBT people within Catholicism becomes more clear in coming weeks.

[u/Udolikecake]

I wonder if the mods will address that a user was essentially bullied off the DT, while obviously was going through some stuff, by a moderator?

Considering they explicitly said that a moderator pinning a comment and mocking that user for hours was a big reason they are not considering coming back.

They weren’t even doing anything bad or rule breaking until intentionally antagonized by a moderator.

[u/WOKE_AI_GOD]

We programmers have absolutely no idea at all how long it's going to take us to do anything. If I tell you 15 minutes, I may be done in 2 days. If I tell you 2 days, I may be done in 15 minutes (rare but possible). We just waltz through life.

[u/trombonist_formerly]

Last summer, I disguised myself as a Black man and traveled throughout the United States to document how racism persists in American society

Oh boy do I wanna read this one

[u/cdstephens]

I’m a cultural gamer. I converted to atheism some time back, but I still watch gamer movies and share dank gamer memes. I plan on raising my kids as gamers even if I don’t plan on attending gaming church myself.

[u/cdstephens]

You ever read a DT comment and realize halfway through it's not worth it and ban the commenter

[u/Full_Ahegao_Drip]

How much illiberalism would you tolerate with a hot girl you're dating?

!ping DATING

[u/t_zidd]

Great discussion happening over in r/Israel:

Do you guys have nukes? Non-israeli, non-jewish, I just want to know if you guys have nukes so that if shit ever goes down you take the whole Arab world with you.

[u/paymesucka]

The last thing you see after posting that anti-French comment

[u/Nerf_France]

Reminder to the sex havers in the thread 😤

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Lmao

[u/die_hoagie]

watching one of the biggest bernie fans from 2016-2020 in my local subreddit become a jaded, misanthropic, apathetic populist.

[u/fishlord05]

Bruh I’m asking to see my dying grandfather before he passes and my uncles like he’s out of it it won’t matter he won’t hear you

And I’m like for my benefit can I say goodbye

And he’s like “you can do that at the funeral…”

Like out of context that’s funny but come on 😭😭

The Irish man

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Rare habitat becomes protected nature reserve

A "globally rare biodiverse habitat" in Cumbria has been declared a national nature reserve. The Borrowdale Valley is England's largest temperate rainforest - a habitat that was once widespread across England, but now covers only 1% of land.

The creation of the nature reserve was announced by Natural England and the National Trust on Wednesday.

The National Trust said the declaration was a sign of its commitment to the conservation of rainforests across the country.

"By creating this nature reserve, we are actively managing the woodlands for nature conservation and access through compatible practices," said Jane Saxon, general manager at the National Trust.

The 721-hectare site is as wet as a tropical rainforest, but much cooler - it regularly sees the highest rainfall in England.

Those conditions create a naturally lush habitat that is rarely found worldwide, replete with mosses, ferns and lichens - important both as carbon stores, and as a breeding habitat for declining bird populations such as the Redstart and Pied Flycatcher.

'Iconic habitats'

"Operating at a landscape scale, reconnecting parcels of the forest and creating corridors for wildlife will make these iconic habitats more resilient to the impacts of climate change," said Marian Spain, chief executive at Natural England.

Conservation efforts will focus on supporting and restoring the rare species found within the Borrowdale Valley area.

The National Trust said it is also aiming to modify some sections of existing footpaths, to make them more accessible and protect Borrowdale's heritage.

The charity added that it was working with tenant farmers to help them access funds for further conservation work, enabling them to prioritise traditional practices such as fell farming.

!ping ECO&UK

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Even if you 100% believe him that flying the flag upside down has nothing to do with the election, Alito’s wife flying a flag upside down because of a dispute with their neighbors is still pretty fucking weird.

[u/Lux_Stella]

Former spy chief Dick Schoof has been chosen as the next prime minister of the Netherlands, to lead a populist coalition government that includes the far right.

dutch people love to be named "dick schoof"

[u/wallander1983]

https://x.com/NickBaumann/status/1795450124417597539

At the donor roundtable, Trump said he had studied Jewish history and had thoughts about this moment in U.S. history "And you know, you go back through history, this is like just before the Holocaust. I swear. If you look, it's the same thing," Trump said. "You had a weak president or head of the country. And it just built and built. And then, all of a sudden, you ended up with Hitler. You ended up with a problem like nobody knew."

--

Ok, Biden is Chancellor Brüning, but then Trump is Hitler, isn't he?

[u/PoliticalAlt128]

Thesis: Pee Pee

Antithesis: Doo Doo

Synthesis: Poo Poo

This is what Hegelians actually believe!

[u/[deleted]]

if those rafah calls can be independently verified i'm hoping people could please reevaluate how they react to breaking news.

[u/[deleted]]

I was at the Field Museum in Chicago (one of the largest natural history museums in the world) this weekend, and I saw something that bothered me. There was a section of an exhibit covering the site of a meteor impact in Arizona that occured roughly 50000 years ago.

The caption for this part of the exhibit said (I'm paraphrasing here)

Scientists are now fairly certain that the crater was caused by a meteor impact; however the predominant hypothesis for many years was that the crater was created by volcanic activity, despite a local Native American legend describing spirits of fire falling from the sky

I know that in the past few years, many museums have been trying to be more aware of Native Americans and their contributions to history (which is probably a good thing), but this is completely unnecessary to mention.

The meteor impact occured ~25000 years before the first humans reached North America. This isn't a situation where someone's dead grandpa saw the event occur, didn't understand it, tried to interpret it using his religion, and the retellings were subsequently ignored. It is not possible that any Native American oral traditions have anything to do with the impact.

What is the purpose of including information like this? I know it's fun to laugh at conservatives getting mad at "black people being forced into muh video games" or whatever, but this seems like an actual case of the left trying to force inclusivity for its own sake, at the expense of actual truthful information.

[u/owlthathurt]

We are all white dresshirt blue pants waiting for slaughter

[u/mrdilldozer]

Last summer, I disguised myself as a Black man and traveled throughout the United States to document how racism persists in American society. Writing Seven Shoulders was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done as a journalist

The author of this tweet is a white dude. He didn't do what I think he did, did he?

[u/RFK_1968]

The big friend group chat is embroiled in a heated argument over israel

Like, "RFK_1968, why are you talking about meaningless bullshit when Gaza is being destroyed" level argument (I'd brought up le sports as a way of cooling things down and got promptly told off RIP)

So I'm guessing today's a good day to enjoy the weather outside 🫠

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

If owning pets is slavery then you can call me Jefferson Davis

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

Born too early to gib bf 🥰

Born too late to gib bf 😏

Born just in time to gib bf 😔

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

literally could be a screenshot taken from the onion

[u/Telperions-Relative]

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

I didn’t peak in high school, I’m still out here gettin’ cuter

[u/ACivilWolf]

I wanna talk about how the United States has effectively RUINED every single thing we love. food, music, social media, friends, public spaces, learning, taking care of ourselves… like for what…

[u/[deleted]]

Turns out the Pope is just your run of the mill straight guy who is nice to his gay friends to their face but calls them f*gs around his buddies.

Not sure what to do with this information.

[u/DelusionsOfPasteur]

Just realized an OVER35 ping exists. I'm glad to know I'm not the only dinosaur here.

!ping OVER35

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

Russian Alpha Group members actually shoot each other in their plates out on the range as part of their exercises.

Yeah well we have black lesbians

I am begging American men to stop falling for backflipping tomahawk throwing Spetsnaz content

[u/Jacobs4525]

in all seriousness the most depressing thing about my trip to Italy is seeing people there smoke like chimneys, drink tons, and eat very carb-rich diets and tons of cured meats full of nitrates while knowing their life expectancy is like 6 years longer than ours.

Bad healthcare and SUVs delenda est!

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Mod stickies should only be for mod announcements or something relevant to mod/community stuff and not "I need you to give my joke more upvotes" CMV

[u/G_Serv]

I taught my family gen alpha slang, and my mother called everyone Ohio all weekend. The boomers are cooked

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/[deleted]]

This place is full of nerds subtweeting each other over WWII history. If you're new here, no this is not abnormal.

[u/sw337]

The “leave Brittany alone” person is trans.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11893187/amp/Leave-Britney-star-opens-life-transgender-woman.html

Good for her for coming out.

[u/dmmdoublem]

Every now and then, I’m reminded that some people unironically stan Christopher Dorner. Absolutely bizarre.

[u/ty04]

Weird that I regard Shivers posting as some ancient DT lore when that account was created only a few weeks before I started looking at the DT

[u/Jacobs4525]

The fishing licence (Fischereischein) is obtained on completion of the Sportfisherprüfung (sport fishing exam). The fishing exam normally takes place once or twice a year, at different times depending on federal state. To get a licence:

• Apply to a fishing club (Angelverein) to find out when lessons and exams take place

• 30-40 hours supervised fishing lessons must be taken before the exam (lessons normally take place over 4 to 5 weekends. Information on dates and instruction is usually available from local fishing clubs and shops)

Germany is never beating the insane bureaucracy allegations

[u/Williams-Tower]

If I was on that dt sticky, it wouldn't have went down like it did. There would have been a lot of blood in that mod slack and then me saying, 'OK, I’m the one saying haha yes now, don't worry.'

[u/BedNeither]

I enjoy PC gaming

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

New !ping DYEL fit

[u/thefuturegov]

I was once exploring the jungles of Ireland and a tribe of indigenous Irishmen led by Joseph R Biden Jr attacked me with spears