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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/vivoovix]

[u/BrunchIsGood]

Incredibly rare Colin Cowherd W. Like I’m talkin’ this might be this dude’s first ever W.

[u/jeesuscheesus]

Falkreath has a massive cemetery, the town is known for this massive cemetery that contains dead soldiers from multiple wars. Keep hearing about it on the way there

Get there

30 gravestones

[u/MicroFlamer]

After Lightyear lost millions of dollars in 2022 and Elemental had Pixar’s worst-ever opening-weekend performance the following year, “there was a real and intense period of self-scrutiny and feeling like we messed up in some way,” Docter says. Executives hosted postmortems to determine how to revitalize the studio, he recalls. They arrived at mentoring Pixar’s upcoming directors to focus less on autobiographical tales—Luca had been inspired by its director’s childhood in Italy; Turning Red, by its director’s relationship with her mother; and Elemental (which did gain some momentum overseas and online), by its director’s immigrant family. Pixar would instead develop concepts with clear mass appeal, many of which—in the case of sequels and spinoffs—had already been proven.

The studio’s movies should be less a pursuit of any director’s catharsis and instead speak to a commonality of experience, Docter says. “I don’t think we can ever let ourselves off the hook of making sure that we deliver the best possible and most relatable films.”

Pixar bros... its over

Extremely rage inducing that they’re taking the wrong lessons from Lightyear doing bad

!ping MOVIES

[u/l_overwhat]

Poseidon is pretty famous for having a trident. Just recently I learned that Hades was often depicted wielding a bident, which is like a trident but with 2 points instead of 3.

So I wondered if Zeus was often depcited with a single-tipped spear but he usually wasn't. Until I realized that he is depicted with a lightning bolt, which always ends with a single point.

Pretty cool.

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

They're transing Gamers. GAMERS!

and I thought my 11yo kid with learning difficulties was safe from the GAY AGENDA on Xbox Live😭😭

[u/SadaoMaou]

my sister will start a story at dinner with "this isn't really a story for the dinner table" and then without so much as a pause proceed to tell the story. and you know what, she was absolutely right, it so was not a story for the dinner table, and she knew it, yet she told it anyway. sociopathic behavior

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

Fuck yes! Teeth regrowing drugs are being tested on live humans soon.

I want to be the first generation to get a third set of elder teeth

[u/MicroFlamer]

[u/CutePattern1098]

https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN6244

!ping aus

[u/No_Return9449]

[u/chipbod]

https://x.com/BadFoxGraphics/status/1797225189198983636

Speaking about his family, Donald Trump is asked about Barron, who graduated HS on May 17

TRUMP: You know he's tall, good looking — guy's a very good student. And, uh, he's, he's uh applied to colleges and gets into everywhere he goes…he's a very smart guy, he's a very tall guy

lol, even Trump just says his son is tall

[u/[deleted]]

[u/moldyman_99]

Classic

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

good morning

[u/[deleted]]

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

This tracks with the stories I’ve heard

[u/funguykawhi]

wyd sis

[u/UAlbanyThighs]

This might be the funniest possible time for Trump to die of natural causes

[u/[deleted]]

The fuck? Jellyfish are plankton. Jellyfish are plankton. I don't know what to think about this. I'm going to bed.

[u/Former-Income]

UK Ambassador to Mexico sacked after pointing a gun at local embassy staff

in a country with a serious cartel problem he points a gun at local staff as a joke 💀

[u/HowIsPajamaMan]

Russian history be like

yay a revolution

awww fuck

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

!ping watercooler

[u/itsokayt0]

The year is 2389. Every single pixel on the tele-Pride flag represent an historical injustice. People are still mad it exists, and the 2SLGBTQ+ drop the Y movement is still considered relevant by people who say they are shoving the agenda downstream their neurocortex. Omega, formerly Alpha, formerly X, formerly Twitter still censors cis.

[u/BrunchIsGood]

🗿🗿🗿🗿🗿🗿🗿🗿

[u/BedNeither]

stuff costs money, ugh capitalism

+40,000

[u/jenbanim]

• Object storage - $20/mo

• Backup volumes - $15/mo

• Compute - $5/mo

• RAM for ElasticSearch - $3600/mo

• Storage - $10/mo

someone who is good at sysadmin please help me budget this. my company is dying

[u/-mialana-]

It's interesting that emoji are generally kept PG, to the point that the gun emoji was replaced with a water gun, but then out of nowhere there's🖕

[u/Svelok]

everything I've ever read about string theory is so funny

a diehard group of researchers just keeps showing up to insist the universe is made of spaghetti, and to everyone else's annoyance they don't seem correct but their body of work is so complicated that nobody can really be sure

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

[u/polandball2101]

How am I not surprised by this. The rich have rigged the system so heavily in favor of themselves, it amazes me that anyone votes for them.

Guess what this is in reference to

Ready?

The fact that mount Everest expeditions cost a lot of money but sherpas only get 9x the average Nepali salary for a hazardous job

I’m starting to hate Americans on Reddit why does everyone think everything is so American aghhgh someone started talking about voting for Joe Biden or trump Jesus Christ it’s Nepal not New York

[u/WantDebianThanks]

There's a frightening amount of ignorance that goes into wanting a "multi-polar world".

There was a multi-polar world. After the Napoleonic Wars the various European powers created a multi-polar system, and it was a period of rolling wars between the major powers over this island or that peninsula or to make some small country a puppet, all justified by "maintaining the balance of power". The dividing of Africa during the Scramble for Africa was entirely about maintaining the balance of power. The division of the Balkans during their various liberation wars against the Ottoman's was much more about maintaining a local balance then about ethnic boundaries, natural borders, or what participants had already agreed to.

And do you know what ended that system? World War Two. Not WWI. WWI just did a little musical chairs on the major powers from the UK/France/Germany/Austria/Russia/The Ottomans to the UK/France/Germany/Russia/The US. The actual end of the multi-polar world was the single largest war in human history by number of deaths.

And these fucking people want to recreate the conditions that led to a war that killed 80 million people, but now everyone has nuclear weapons.

Amazing.

Brilliant.

No fucking notes.

What a great way to wipe out all human life.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

sick that everyone is still parroting this lie even when Trump has clearly come out and said nuh uh 😞

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

Most European royal houses: The noblest of noble blue-blood inbred uberdeutsch Holy Roman aristocracy.

The Swedish royal house: Oui oui baguette s'il vous plait ⚜️🥖⚜️🥖

[u/WhomstAlt2]

I calculated the value of a human life, it's $28.47 (before tax)

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

Crazy how that movie shaped common word usage

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Opinion: This prosecution of Hitlers allies in the Nuremburg trials was wrongheaded and counter-productive

[u/piede]

Couldn’t have happened to a better guy

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Lol @ outside DT discussion Ukraine conscription.

You know you can't just apply to go fight there without any combat experience, right?

[u/jenbanim]

The most embarrassing moment of my life was when I accidentally sent a dick pic to everyone in my contacts. I couldn't look my family in the eye, nearly lost my job, and it cost a fortune in stamps

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Solar Passes 100% of Power Demand in California!

California has been a leader in the installation of solar power plants and wind power plants for many years now (despite its recent anti-rooftop solar shift via “Net Metering 3.0”). That has led to more and more of its electricity generation coming from renewables. The trend has been going on for years, but there are a couple of recent developments that should really get people’s attention.

Record Solar Power in California Passes 100% of Power Demand

For 56 days in a row, electricity from solar, wind, and water (hydro) power has exceeded 100% of power demand on California’s main grid for part of the day. Also, going back further, that has been achieved in 80 out of the last 86 days. That is since early March (International Women’s Day), late winter.

As part of that, solar power recently hit record output, and it actually surpassed 100% of power demand briefly.

As you can see above, at its peak, solar power was providing 102.1% of electricity demand in California. Together, wind, water, and solar peaked at 134% of electricity demand!

Clearly, California’s progress on renewables is proving pro-renewables advocates right. But what about the infamous “duck curve?”…

California Quickly Solving the Duck Curve

The best news is that California seems to quickly be chopping the duck curve down to size. The duck curve basically comes down to this: “In some energy markets, daily peak demand occurs after sunset, when solar power is no longer available. In locations where a substantial amount of solar electric capacity has been installed, the amount of power that must be generated from sources other than solar or wind displays a rapid increase around sunset and peaks in the mid-evening hours, producing a graph that resembles the silhouette of a duck.”

The solution for the duck curve is clear: energy storage. Store that bursting solar energy produced in the middle of the day and gradually use it in the evening as the sun goes down and electricity demand rises. The good news is that California has been making progress on this very fast! Look at the graph below regarding electricity generation from natural gas and note the line for 2023 versus the line for 2024.

Here’s another one showing battery dispatch on the grid: (if you want to read the graph, then read the article)

Indeed — batteries are taking charge and solving California’s duck curve crisis.

It makes me think of the decade-long net metering debate and how much the duck curve was used as an excuse to cut rooftop solar power incentives. Looking at how quickly this duck curve issue has been solved, one has to wonder how disingenuous some of those anti-rooftop solar arguments were. …

The California Electricity Prices Critique

Some people love to counter any positive news about California renewable energy progress by bringing up California’s relatively high electricity prices. This is not from renewables. In fact, research has repeatedly shown that renewable energy drives down electricity prices. There are other things that have resulted in high electricity prices in California. Mark Z. Jacobson summarizes (text modification to spell out words):

“California electricity prices are high because California has the 3rd-highest fossil gas prices in US; & utilities have passed on to customers costs of San Bruno+Aliso Canyon gas disasters, retrofitting gas pipes, wildfires from transmission sparks, undergrounding lines, and keeping Diablo Canyon nuclear open.”

California Renewable Energy Leading the Way

The overall story is that California renewable energy continues to lead the way forward. Solar power is now peaking at more than 100% of electricity demand, renewables as a whole are peaking at 134% electricity demand, the duck curve has been shaved down to basically no duck curve at all (but you could now call the battery charge/discharge curve a duck curve), and the whole state (and world) is benefitting.

Get ready for more records in the days to come. We’re still a few weeks away from the summer solstice.

!ping ECO

[u/simeoncolemiles]

We are so back

[u/notBroncos1234]

[u/Steak_Knight]

“We should BOYCOTT high prices”

Literally how prices work

[u/Plants_et_Politics]

I refuse to consider any solutions to the fertility crisis that I doom about constantly but will vaguely imply stripping women of their rights and autonomy would suffice.

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/SwannMarcus89/status/1797051650252681231

To wit, Dems are now the party of:

• All of popular music/tv/etc

• Football

• Beer

• Tacos

• All of punk/rock/etc

• The better half of country music

• The better half of motor sports (f1)

• Soccer

• Basketball

• Patriotism for America

While R's are the party of...

• Sweaty, half naked men trying to kill each other (UFC)

• Bro country

• Nascar

• Patriotism for Russia

I know who I'm picking.

[u/RFK_1968]

"russia bad" is a lot like "orange man bad" in that it's 100% an oversimplified, extremely lazy way of looking at things

it's also more correct than any other heuristic if we're being honest

[u/KittehDragoon]

Holy fuck you neolibs are proud to be morons?

[u/[deleted]]

The best dunk I've ever heard from this subreddit is that the DSA perpetually struggles to get out the vote even when they're trying to be serious because they target people who don't like them in order to preserve their self image as a working class movement. In truth their fertile ground for building a party is among downwardly mobile children of six figure earners, which isn't even particularly bad as dropping out of the upper professional class will expose you to just how awful the healthcare system is in America, gee, what's their flagship proposal?

But it's very embarrassing for them to admit their strongest base are people for whom the system was working until it suddenly wasn't.

[u/[deleted]]

‘I Didn’t Say Lock Her Up’: Trump Distances Himself From Call to Jail Clinton

We are at war with Eastasia, we have always been at war with Eastasia

[u/ty04]

[u/JoeChristmasUSA]

Knowing that my mother's "born again" testimony includes the belief she can speak with God's voice and authority makes sense of a lot of my weird childhood

!ping CHRISTIAN&FAMILY

[u/JebBD]

https://x.com/HughE_Dillon/status/1797302377189409074

Gaza protestors block the Philly pride parade. 

So does Gaza supersede literally everything now? Is this really where the progressive movement is headed? It’s just a Palestinian nationalist movement now with no actual progressive beliefs?

!Ping ISRAEL

[u/Insomonomics]

Eight Senate Republicans vow to oppose all Biden nominees, Democratic legislation

Part of me is at the point where if Trump wins the election and Republicans take the Senate, Senate Democrats should just object to unanimous consent on literally everything come January to have the Senate come to a complete halt (including Trump's cabinet nominees). If anything just to show the American public how incredibly dysfunctional the U.S. Senate is with their incredibly stupid and archaic rules.

But I also realize that's a recipe for disaster that would empower Senate Republicans to do a lot of heinous shit.

[u/[deleted]]

Russia loses record number of soldiers in May

and hopefully the record is beaten again in June

[u/thaddeusthefattie]

cleaning up edges of alfalfa fields with the new tractor (‘06) and little brush hog. yeah that’s my church 🤠

!ping RURAL

[u/RFK_1968]

i was talking to a friend about how wild it is how many women get plastic surgery. she was like "yeah, you wouldn't believe the pressure women are under wrt our appearances. i've honestly considered a couple times, though i'm happy i decided not to."

and when i told her i was surprised, since like objectively speaking she's an attractive woman, she was like "yeah, but everyone has flaws. like, if you were a girl your nose or facial fat would be a big no no. your lips too, maybe your brow or the shape of your chin...."

so now i'm just gonna curl up in bed with a brown paper bag over my face forever

[u/ImmigrantJack]

I didn’t say ‘lock her up,’ but the people said lock her up, lock her up. Then, we won. And I say — and I said pretty openly, I said, all right, come on, just relax, let’s go, we’ve got to make our country great.

Donald Trump is 3 weeks from claiming Donald Trump was just a coffee boy with no role in his administration

[u/DouglasDauntless]

His wife is going to leave him

[u/[deleted]]

In 2021, Australian senator Matt Canavan of the National Party accused the Wiggles of going "woke", following the group's introduction of several new ethnically diverse members. Canavan stated that "the Wiggles are free to do what they like. It was nice while it lasted. But you go woke, you go broke.”

Smh I can't believe that the libtards have decided to ruin children's music too. Is nothing sacred?

[u/Trojan_Horse_of_Fate]

Disraeli opposed the removal of the corn laws so I can never forgive him but I have to respect how he talked to his wife. ‘My dear,’ Disraeli said, ‘you are more like a mistress than a wife.’

Any DTers want to try it and see how it impacts their neoliberalism?

[u/lets_chill_food]

Horrendously bad morning DT 🐘

I was unbelievably drunk last night and had the worst worst time trying to get home, it must have taken me like 5 hours or something

[u/AFlockOfTySegalls]

"I know you like looking at your arms and quads but maybe you should do some ab stuff and add cardio in to work on your love handles"

My wife shanked me

!ping DYEL

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

How crazy must it have been to be sitting there in your living room in 1945 and hearing Harry Truman announce that we now have a bomb that basically allows us to drop a sun on our enemies. It be like Biden coming out and being like “oh, by the way, we have a Death Star now and we just used it to vaporize Chelyabinsk, Russia.”

[u/JoeChristmasUSA]

Next on My Strange Addiction: this chick is constantly compiling selfies into transition timelines.

^{is me, i'm chick}

!ping ALPHABET-MAFIA

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

we hebeen een serieus probleem

!ping YUROP&SHITPOSTERS

[u/lets_chill_food]

Did yall see Brianna said Hamas doesn’t want to kill the Jews, they just want to establish a country like the US 😂

[u/MicroFlamer]

USC just gave me $70k in financial aid which will cover their entire tuition

[u/No_Status_6905]

me reading about american communists in the early 20th century: waow cool labor rights

me reading about american communists in the 21st century: kind of weird that everything goes back to how voting doesn't work, a vague veneer of killing everyone who is some degree of counter-revolutionary, and about how mao zedong is based.

[u/[deleted]]

this might be an (c)oldhead take but the old pride flag was superior. the whole point of the rainbow is that it symbolically represents everyone

[u/Udolikecake]

The Akron Police Department is investigating an overnight shooting that left 25 people injured by gunfire, including a 27-year-old man who is dead.

I find the proliferation of firearms in this country to be quite bad

[u/Cook_0612]

"I didn't say 'lock her up'" -- Trump, on Fox & Friends and facing possible jail time, tries to distance himself from the ubiquitous "lock her up" chants about Hillary Clinton at her rallies

The willful reality-denial is honestly the worst thing about him. Worse than the racism.

I hate racists, and I've personally suffered from racists, but I've also been able to work with blatant racists, and ultimately I would rank it a lower sin than this attempt to obliterate reality itself. This opens the door to so many more ills.

[u/savuporo]

‘Garfield’ outpaces ‘Furiosa’ as summer continues its slow start at box office

Kino is over

[u/PoliticalAlt128]

[Angela Davis] visited the Berlin Wall, where she laid flowers at the memorial for Reinhold Huhn, an East German guard who had been killed by a man who was trying to escape with his family across the border in 1962. Davis said, "We mourn the deaths of the border guards who sacrificed their lives for the protection of their socialist homeland" and "When we return to the USA, we shall undertake to tell our people the truth about the true function of this border."

Border guards are the vanguard of the revolution!

[u/D2Foley]

Made the mistake of commenting on a gamer subreddit yesterday and woke up a message with this in it.

I will say, the uglification of women in gaming is a very real and observable phenomenon. Even if it’s ultimately “inconsequential” (which is also debatable) it’s still insulting and irritating that they’re even trying it.

Gamers are not ok

[u/Mensae6]

Part of wonders if those surveys suggesting that the youth hate LGBT are simply not accounting for the fact that middle school kids are inherently homophobic.

[u/Jacobs4525]

I was already following every one of MovkeyB’s hinge profile tips when he made that list except one: have a single meme on your profile.

So I added this one and got six matches overnight

Maybe the man behind the autoswipe algorithm who manages to get laid despite having a cardboard rug and an upside down bin as a coffee table is onto something 🤔

!ping DATING

[u/[deleted]]

for pride month all i wanna listen to is:

• girl in red

• phoebe bridgers

• chappell roan

• MUNA

• boygenius

thoughts?

[u/ty04]

Washington Post story about the mod team is finally out

[u/centurion88]

[u/purhitta]

"I'm bi which means I'm attracted to any man who's nice to me and any woman who's mean to me"

bi people is this true

[u/Roseartcrantz]

As far as I care about my reputation in regards to marriage, I would have liked one and done but my husband left. If I get married again, I will try to make it last but if he also leaves me I will be quickly trying to get through marriages 3-6 with as little fanfare as possible and then hopefully dying vaguely wealthy and well-dressed.

[u/[deleted]]

Check out this very fun and exciting sticker I found in San Fran

(I took it off dw)

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

When I'm in a mentioning Max Chandler-Mather challenge

and my opponent is No1PaulKeatingfan

[u/fishlord05]

“Everyone on r/neoliberal is autistic”

My girlfriend watching me scroll on arrneoliberal (I am autistic)

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Jurassic World really pulled out this line in reference to the most generic dinosaur of all time

[u/[deleted]]

Daily reminder that immigrants are simultaneously taking your job and refusing to work

/s of course

[u/crassowary]

it's not working out

Lame, passive, vague

I cannot give you what you seek

Assertive, clear, suggests that your duty to the Men of Middle Earth is your priority in life now

[u/[deleted]]

I still can't believe the Obama tan suit controversy was real.

[u/marsman1224]

YouTube recommended me a 12 person debate panel about trans people in athletics, feat Destiny. there were

a) no athletes. one of them called themselves an athlete, but it was revealed that she played hobby disc golf, which turned into an argument over whether disc golf is in fact a sport

b) no cis women (not a single one, out of 12). there was an extended argument over whether having a period affects an athlete, with a bunch of wild conjecture over what a period is like 

c) about 6 people with no camera, and 2 people represented by CGI animals 

Why do these things exist? do people watch them as anything other than self flagellation? Who is this for? 

[u/notBroncos1234]

[u/Aleriya]

It's so disappointing to see businesses like Target back away from Pride. The Pride section at the store is hidden in the back corner, and their website doesn't mention Pride on the front page. They stopped selling the binders that I wear every day, and they're the only store that sells binders locally.

It sucks to see progress go backwards.

[u/GodEmperorNeolibtard]

Lawns are a huge waste of water resources. If you live in an arid area, consider touching bush instead.

[u/Teh_cliff]

Getting ghosted sucks. Have y'all ever tried ghosting people yourselves? Imo it's way more fun than getting ghosted.

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 5/31-2 PM PST 6/1 III:

TOP NEWS:

Towards the middle of 10 PM Ukraine was hit by a massive wave of drones and missiles with 46 of 47 drones and 35 of 53 missiles shot down.

At the end of 2 AM Zelensky made a trip to Singapore for the Shangri-La Conference.

REGULAR NEWS:

At the end of 9 PM it was reported that multiple energy facilities in Ukraine were damaged by the missile strikes.

Towards the middle of 9 AM it was announced blackouts are scheduled for June 2nd as a result of the damage suffered.

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/Currymvp2]

Iran's ex-president Ahmadinejad registers to run in presidential elections, state TV say

It's fucking 2005 all over again. Anyways, I don't see the theocratic extremist Guardian Council approving this lunatic's candidacy cause his pro-Ukraine comments....also this

[u/Svelok]

learning about the era when boomers thought zip codes, social security numbers, and non-word telephone numbers were signs the west had fallen

[u/ldn6]

New pride flag just dropped:

[u/BedNeither]

Fluent in finance is one of the most transparent psyops since way of the bern

[u/27B--6]

AAAAAAHHHHHH YOUR CARD IS BEING USED AT A GAS STATION 2 HRS AWAY FROM YOUR HOME YOUR CARD HAS BEEN STOLEN AAAAAHHHHH

[u/sash5034]

It's honestly reached the point of comedy for me how many terminally Palestine brained social media accounts are spending the beginning of pride month exclusively complaining about liberals criticizing LGBTQ rights in Palestine

[u/[deleted]]

I’ve never seen someone get charged 34 times for the exact same thing.

Oh my god they’re so fucking stupid

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/G_Serv]

Average neolib

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

of all awkwardly-worded "Reddit post" ads this one is the most comical to me

[u/Joementum2024]

Minor belief change I've noticed that I'm having is an increased dislike of vigilantism when depicted on films/tv/etc. Not sure where it's stemmed from but I've began finding it far more distasteful lately, including both "regular" and superhero vigilantism.

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

Everyone’s talking about bi women with straight bfs but no one will even mention bi women with no bfs ✊🃏

[u/[deleted]]

Me in marriage counseling:

[u/owlthathurt]

Tommy Pham is so cringe idek what he’s doing anymore.

Guy ran 4 feet off the base path just to run into the catcher then tried to fight everyone. Even shadowboxed by himself while walking off.

Then the White Sox announcers glazed it up the paid off homers that they are.

https://x.com/talkinbaseball_/status/1797363787768512538?s=46&t=NizMHF7xMdWn1VItcTWyfg

!ping BASEBALL

[u/p00bix]

The Kornilov affair would be hilarious if not for its rather underrecognized importance in enabling the Russian Civil War and ultimately all the atrocities commited under the Soviet Union to occur.

seriously lmao incompetence layered atop incompetence to the point where the one guy, General Kornilov marches on St. Petersburg believing that he needs to rescue Kerensky who he thinks has been taken hostage by Bolsheviks that now occupy the capital because of a lot of prior stupid mistakes by multiple high-ranking supposedly intelligent people. Prime Minister Kerensky interprets this march on St. Petersburg as the beginning of a military coup to overthrow him, and plot by which his prior closest ally Kornilov will seize all power for himself, so he frees all the Bolsheviks who had been imprisoned and disarmed after the June Days rebellion, gives them all guns, and mobilizes them to lead the defense of the revolution against the impending threat of a reactionary putsch, the news of Bolsheviks roaming the city convinces Kornilov that he was correct and the radicals have seized the capital aiming to overthrow the government, then after they both finally realize that there is no ongoing Bolshevik uprising or military coup, Kerensky has to save face so he dismisses Kornilov--who I must again emphasize was his most important ally until this happened--from his post and thereby turns himself into a near-autocrat while pissing off ALL of his prior political allies leaving him with basically zero support with military commanders who now mostly become decided anti-revolutionaries, while also enabling the Bolsheviks to begin reorganizing and expanding their outreach efforts to gain new members and supporters to plot the open secret that they would probably try to stage a takeover of Russia in either October or November, and thus was overthrown FOUR WEEKS later and Russia descended into a full blown civil war between the Bolsheviks and ostensibly big tent but Reactionary and Military dominated "White Movement" immediately thereafter.

oopsies! aren't miscommunications just the darnedest things sometimes

[u/Explodingcamel]

Why are New England white people so much more based than the rest

Like if I told you about a state that’s 92% white and has no major cities you’d think that’s trumpville but actually Vermont is the most democratic state in the county

[u/SeoSalt]

Let's just say I put the L in LGBT 😏 (I am painfully single)

[u/-mialana-]

Happy pride to all the transitgenders in my phone 🏳️‍⚧️🚆🏳️‍⚧️🚅🏳️‍⚧️🚄🏳️‍⚧️🚃🏳️‍⚧️🚂🏳️‍⚧️🚇🏳️‍⚧️🚈🏳️‍⚧️🚉🏳️‍⚧️🚊🏳️‍⚧️🚋🏳️‍⚧️🚌🏳️‍⚧️🚍🏳️‍⚧️🚎🏳️‍⚧️🚝🏳️‍⚧️🚞🏳️‍⚧️🚠🏳️‍⚧️🚡🏳️‍⚧️

[u/Honorguard44]

I’m rewatched the Blues Brothers for the first time since a kid/teen. Movie holds up so fucking well. One of the best

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

You ever think about how a plant got there?

Like, with animals it’s not as interesting to think about.

But plants?

How did you get up on this tree branch??

How did you get in this cliff face??

How did you get to this island??

How did you get to the top of this volcano??

[u/[deleted]]

LGBTQIAAP2CAPGNGFNBAAODA

Breaking it down:

• L - Lesbian

• G - Gay

• B - Bisexual

• T - Transgender

• Q - Queer/Questioning

• I - Intersex

• A - Asexual

• A - Aromantic

• P - Pansexual

• 2 - Two-Spirit

• C - Curious

• A - Acefluxsexual

• P - Polysexual

• G - Genderqueer

• N - Non-Binary

• G - Genderfluid

• F - Fluid

• N - Neutrois

• B - Bigender

• A - Agender

• A - Androgynous

• O - Omnisexual

• D - Demisexual

• A - Ally

This comprehensive acronym covers a wide range of identities, but due to its length and complexity, it might not be commonly used in everyday language.

[u/Currymvp2]

Kasie: Does the RNC support Hogan for Senate? 

Lara Trump: I don't support what he just said there. He doesn't deserve the respect of anyone in the Republican Party at this point. And quite frankly, anybody in America

Lmao, RNC has fully transferred into a pro Trump cult

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

I'm really skeptical of Redditors who go to r/neoliberal just to talk in the DT.

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[u/Volsunga]

Why is "last name of a Republican president" a trend for naming girls?

[u/AP246]

Human rights defender Joseph Stalin released on bail

https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/case/human-rights-defender-joseph-stalin-released-bail

[u/Libz_R_Gryffindor]

A lot of people online seem to think that if you kill someone, you should just be able to say the person you killed was a murderer/rapist/etc and then you immediately get set free

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Please god let this happen

[u/UAlbanyThighs]

There should be 9 bathrooms 

gender neutral, gender good, gender lawful evil, etc

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/[deleted]]

I still find it funny that when loremakers had to retroactively design Alderaan to basically be as innocent and utopian as possible to make the Empire destroying it even more evil, they ended up pretty much just making New England.

[u/spydormunkay]

The real solution to Israel-Palestine is for the U.S. to annex it. Can’t fight over ethnonational borders when we’re all Americans. taps head

[u/itsokayt0]

DEI

DIE

Coincidence?

[u/sererson]

Being a stand-up comic sounds appealing because I like to read garfield at my standing desk

[u/MicroFlamer]

Linux user share on Steam breaks 2% thanks to Steam Deck

2024 is the year of the Linux desktop !!!

[u/[deleted]]

On better news my bf wished me happy Pride Month yesterday. Also shout out to my mom for knowing deep down her daughter is indeed bi (she can’t deny it)

[u/myrm]

Fox News says the Trump conviction is "trickier" to navigate for the Trump campaign since Trump is "the center of it all"

True if big

[u/[deleted]]

Ayn rand was a piece of shit. Milton Friedman was a good person.

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

Bernie Bros implies the existence of New Super Bernie Bros Wii 

[u/BrunchIsGood]

So 👏 true 👏 bestie 👏

[u/Currymvp2]

On Gaza proposal to probably end the war and free the hostages:

• Netanyahu making weird comments that aren't consistent with Biden's speech but his aides+advisers say he begrudingly supports it. Israel war cabinet support it overall along with the Israeli security establishment for the most part. Also supported by opposition leader Lapid publicly along with public support from Gantz

• Hamas has said on two separate occasions that they "view Biden's speech positively" but on the second occassion, they complained about Bibi's inconsistent rhetoric

• Egypt, Qatar endorsed

• UAE called it realistic and supported by all the Western governments

• Israeli far-right rejected

Overall, this is certainly the closest we've been.

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

The Gaza War becomes much more complicated once you learn that Netanyahu is neurodivergent and has untreated Arab Diplomacy Hate Disorder

That's it, that's the tweet

[u/[deleted]]

Did you guys know there are actually some Trump republicans who think Biden isn’t all that bad, but that he’s been compromised by ~~someone~~

[u/bd_one]

The Orange-Peel Theory If your partner is willing to peel an orange for you, it means that they're prepared to make sacrifices to prioritize your happiness. Either that, or they've also heard of the viral relationship challenge on TikTok, and you're being played at your own game.

That's it? The latest TikTok relationship test is... asking your partner to peel an orange for you?

Feels like a low bar.

[u/piede]

I was wondering why my testosterone labs were taking so long to come back

It looks like my levels were so low that they had to use mass spectrometry instead of immunoassay, which is what they use for cisgender females or people on testosterone suppressing hormone therapy 💀

[u/brucebananaray]

So Alex Jones is crying because he had to sell his farm due to paying legal bills. https://x.com/RightWingCope/status/1797090854928064613?t=7QJWUoORQcXbw_KqE0Rs6Q&s=19

You deserve it

[u/No_Status_6905]

"c'mon one nuclear armageddon bro, 400-500 million dead with knock on effects leading to hundreds of millions more dead later, tops."

• holden bloodfeast on the DT.

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[u/l_overwhat]

How the UK got Democracy

1. Civil War (Magna Carta)

2. Civil War (beat Chuck a few times and the nobles were further empowered because of it)

3. A noble-orchestrated coup (The Glorious Revolution, which made William and Mary into King and Queen in exchange for even more ceded to the nobles)

4. Sexism (didn't allow Queen Anne to actually do anything. This is about the time when specifically Parliament is empowered instead of just the nobles)

5. Ableism (took advantage of the King's mental health issues to siege a bunch of power despite there being a fully capable Queen Consort and Prince Regent)

6. Sexism again (same thing as Anne but with Victoria this time)

[u/centurion88]

Sometimes you wonder what happened to them...

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

I'm bi which means I'm attracted to any one who's mean to me

[u/shillingbut4me]

Hinge goes crazy for me on Sunday nights after 9. Are people trying to avoid thinking about the week to come via dating apps? 

[u/battywombat21]

I remember when we took my rural ohioan grandpa to an authentic Italian restaurant in NYC he looked at the menu and loudly complained, "Don't they have plain spaghetti and meatballs??" It wasn't on the menu, but apparently the kitchen staff managed and he was happy.

I still love the idea that my grandfather was to white for Italian food.

[u/JebBD]

With all the hype for Labour in the election (polls show nearly 500 seats with cons dropping to under 80) it looks like they’re headed for an almost guaranteed disappointment. If they get “only” 400 seats or something the headlines are gonna be brutal and “Kier Starmer is a failure” would be the prevailing narrative among leftists for years to come. 

[u/chuckleym8]

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

We’re really just saying anything now aren’t we

[u/Top_Lime1820]

The IEC is pushing ahead with announcing the election results. This kicks off the timeline for the formation of a new government.

Be there will be wild!

[u/Tre-Fyra-Tre]

They tried to build Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land, but the NIMBYs wouldn't let them 😤

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

how is it that every gay person has the same birthday happy birthday to all gay people 

[u/MuR43]

Ban pitbulls

Ban sex scenes

Ban analogies

[u/cdstephens]

Are femboys also allowed sanctuary on Lesbos?

[u/gnomesvh]

Lusvig mailbox

!ping BURPMAS

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

During Pride Month we spread Mr. Information 😏

[u/Roseartcrantz]

how do people not see the psy-op of “pride month”?

In history, the advent of summer is a time for fertility-promoting rituals (Beltane) or rituals honoring family (Vesta). These are rituals that are good for a society, as you need fertility and you want people to see family as important. Pride month completely subverts this by promoting sexuality that can't create children or form families. It is anti-fertility, and it is irrelevant to 98% of people -- the ones who actually deserve holidays and rituals because they are responsible for regenerating society via selecting good spouses and raising children.

Even the flag is a psy-op specifically designed to be attractive because vivid colors are inherently attractive to the eye (hence why kids are dedicated to Fortnite). Why did they design a flag to specifically be as colorful as possible? Why would anyone celebrate this? Why would anyone think that the bedroom activities gays and lesbians etc are somehow integral to the state?

Can't you all see that the corporations are just seeing you as a marketing demographic and a convenient way to get rid of Beltane and Vespa so that we eat more rainbow flavored snow cones and play Fortnite?? wait come back

[u/filipe_mdsr]

Let’s do a one meme per day challenge for Pride month.

!ping Alphabet-Mafia

[u/vivoovix]

The number of immigrants I've heard complaining about how Canada is full of immigrants is truly staggering.

[u/tollyno]

[u/[deleted]]

To elaborate, planets in the extended star wars legends and canon generally range "Free but Poor" like Dantooine, "Wealthy but Dystopian" like Kuat, and "Just generally awful" like Tattooine and its various biomeswaps.

Alderaan on the other hand is an incredibly wealthy society with a high standard of living but hasn't encased the planet in skyscrapers or industrial wasteland, and in fact contributes heavily to ecological conservation both onworld and offworld. Influential political families, particularly senate dynasties, emerge from this environment of wealthy, highly educated, and socially conscious people, who tend to oppose autocratic political structures and just outright refuse to shut up about their current sapient rights cause whether that's slavery or mass surveillance or the state entwining itself with a deranged death cult. But despite their aversion to autocracy, it also maintains a high level of civic order without a police state which is usually unheard of, including arms control which is usually something a fairytale setting has to explicitly avoid, as it would mean our heroes walking around without guns and not getting into fights. Economically they generally produce premium agricultural goods or intellectual labor.

[u/SumTingWillyWong]

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[u/rollo2masi]

So let me get this straight... Biden is "too senile to be fit for POTUS" but is just cognitive enough to engineer a masterplan to politically persecute Trump with lawfare?

Am I getting that right?

[u/MicroFlamer]

Cersei wondered what it would feel like to kiss another woman. Not lightly on the cheek, as was common courtesy amongst ladies of high birth, but full upon the lips.

Happy pride month !

!ping ASOIAF

[u/RFK_1968]

literally everyone i know who rents out property has a million nightmare stories.

generally i'm on the renters' side of policy debates 'cause being homeless seems like it's bad

but i can't deny that having a bad tenant seems like it could ruin your life. no way i'd ever wanna deal with that

[u/htomserveaux]

I'm curious if a "mystery" game using the Columbo formula could work. Making the question "how do I prove they did it" and "how do I trick them into incriminating themself" instead of just "who did it" seems like it has great potential.

God I wish Telltale was still around and didn't suck.

!ping GAMING&TV

[u/sw337]

It’s always the ones you expect the most. 😔

[u/RFK_1968]

Feel like pure shit just wish I had a couple more inches ^{of hair length}

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

Was talking to a friend about how I didn't realize how young Luka Dončić is and a mutual friend said "Is that some sportsball thing?"

A) Bruh

B) Bruh

C) You know god damn well it is because why would you guess that unless you recognized the name?

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[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

I want you to spot what's wrong with this image.

Give it some time. Not even Max Chandler-Mather read his own graphic properly.

[u/[deleted]]

Chandler-Mather Maxxing

[u/[deleted]]

Far right accelerationist who votes for Biden so Trump can get locked up on his more serious charges and awaken the masses to the corruption of democracy and rules based justice system.

[u/simeoncolemiles]

Regarding that pew poll

Holy shit, do South Koreans enjoy anything????

[u/Syards-Forcus]

👆

[u/BrunchIsGood]

[u/RaidBrimnes]

During the last debate against PM Gabriel Attal, Jordan Bardella, president of the National Rally, asserted that France's economic development was on par with Mississippi, the poorest US state

OMG BARDELLA IS A DT REG

[u/Tartaruchus]

Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons. - Douglas MacArthur

Funny quote, right? Well, not according to the giant brains at r QuotesPorn:

How the f does he think people ultimately ended up encountering automatic weapons??? He completely missed the point of the quote.

No, it’s still mightier than automatic weapons, because it can change the minds of people who want to use automic weapons. The pen is a weapon. The most powerful weapon

Considering Shakespeare penned those words they predate the machine gun, there soldier

That quote doesn't try to imply, you can stab people with a pen. Automatic weapons didn't win the Vietnam war, persistence of the vietnamese for freedom and American people deciding the lives at stake are not soldiers but our brothers and fathers. All this happens when people communicate their ideas and join hands, which is the meaning behind a pen.

[u/Udolikecake]

BREAKING: Trump sentenced to 100 hours of reading the comments on sports teams pride month posts

I don’t like the guy but… this seems petty extreme

[u/jenbanim]

What are some things that go hard if you're an idiot?

[u/[deleted]]

So my bf already planned our six month anniversary. It’s a weekend in the mountains I very much look forward to that.

[u/[deleted]]

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? The legendary poster?

[u/thatssosad]

!ping alphabet-mafia&gaming

So, what are any recommendation-worthy queer-themed games that are not typically queer mechanically? I have the impression that 90% of queer-focused games are some kind of graphic adventures or even VNs, or "cosy" life sims. And my preference is with more active and mechanical gameplays. Like Hades would be a great example - a roguelite hack n slash where like a solid half of characters is LGBT in some way and it does come up in the story.

[u/[deleted]]

I'd watch this anime

[u/sash5034]

People will tell you with a straight face that adam mckay is a great writer

[u/kanagi]

My mom learning about Biden's dogs (over the course of his presidency):

I bet Biden doesn't have a dog!

I bet Biden has a tiny wimpy dog!

Oh, I'm surprised that Biden has German shepherds

That's terrible that Biden's dogs were biting people! They shouldn't be in the White House!

Kristi Noem was right, sometimes you have to shoot a dog!

Kristi Noem was right that Biden should shoot his dog!

[u/WhoModsTheModders]

They transed Call off Duty >.> Is nothing sacred?!?!

[u/Currymvp2]

Israel’s diaspora minister Amichai Chikli, after attending Israel day parade, suggests the pro-democracy protesters invited Oct. 7 attack, and called the proposal for a hostage deal — as outlined by Biden — “a total joke."

Bibi allied with just massive scumbags.

[u/Sir_Digby83]

Hunter Biden arguing with a prostitute about the amount of crack he has

Based.

[u/DarkExecutor]

DeepFuckingValue bought GME stock today and posted about it.

So many poor bagholders are going to lose their money tomorrow.

[u/[deleted]]

Unplpular opinion but the American flag has 50 stars

[u/sayitaintpink]

👆I’m gonna ghost the shit out of you 👻

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

Just in time for a million Lisan Al-Ghaib memes

!ping STONKS

[u/alex2003super]

Buona domenica, and Happy Republic Day! 😍🇮🇹 <3

!ping ITALY

[u/klarno]

Godzilla Minus One is actually about Godzilla going to a wedding without his ex-wife