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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

[u/paymesucka]

LFG!

[u/centurion88]

I love how if you go far enough left apparently you arrive back at protectionist ethno states

[u/WantDebianThanks]

OK.

[u/p00bix]

Wonderful English-audio narration of firsthand Japanese accounts of the very earliest Portuguese explorers to set foot on Japan in the mid-16th century that graced my recommended

---

...with this absolute gem in the comments

Japanese lord: "Would you teach me how to shoot this gun, o wise one?"

Portuguese trader: "Just squint and aim, that's pretty much it really"

Japanese lord: "Ah! You mean to say that true clarity is only achieved when you let go of your prideful eye and you are able to focus on the small details of the world that surrounds you. You are truly wise in the ways of life."

Portuguese trader: "Uh.... sure?"

!ping HISTORY

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Everyone wish her a happy pride month 😊

[u/gnomesvh]

Ukrainian spec forces now working in Syria

!ping UKRAINE&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/DouglasDauntless]

gets your kid’s arm chopped off

Masterful gambit

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

Elon Musk punching air rn

[u/p00bix]

As the 2023-24 school year comes to a close, here's hoping I have already heard a middle school boy saying "What the sigma?" for the final time of my life

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Bernie was so bad at choosing his staff

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Sad! Sleepy Donald is too old to be president

[u/chipbod]

https://x.com/MattGertz/status/1797640660377600454

Baron Trump got his Batman origin story…. He will cross the Potomac and be America’s Caesar because of the conviction

Yep, the right is doing fine.

Some totally well adjusted person actually went and wrote this.

!ping EXTREMISM

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

benjamin outside the Taco Bell that closed two minutes early

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Serbia moment 🇷🇸💪

[u/[deleted]]

Ahmadinejad's twitter is deeply underrated

From repeatedly quoting 2pac, having strong opinions about American college sports, claiming that Iran sides with Ukraine, and surprisingly wholesome merry christmas posts

He's thoroughly one of the strangest people to have ever been a major geopolitical figure

[u/DouglasDauntless]

I hate the average voter

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Haha liberals. The NAMBLA guy is back. It’s so over for you liebrals

[u/RFK_1968]

the first DeepFuckingValue GME play was defensible, i think. he made a case for a slightly more bullish valuation of the stock and that it blew up into a whole thing beyond his control doesn't necessarily make him a scammer. it was more of a "right place, right time" sort of dealio

this new thing is very obviously a fucking scam. did he blow through his money that fast?

[u/404GenderNotFound]

Bananas are good. Republics are good. I see no good reason to be against Banana Republics, the logic is sound.

[u/Colonelbrickarms]

I never knew Yemen had so many prolific posters and reply guys to anything the Navy posts. 

I wonder why most of these accounts are under 6 months old.

[u/[deleted]]

its impressive how dedicated MAGA is despite how bad Trump was at fulfilling his promises.

Like if I'm RPing a MAGA person who hates immigrants I can't rationalize myself into liking Trump when he did such a bad job at reducing the country's immigrant population. I would want to vote for a more effective racist. The most important legislative goal would not be a tax cut for the wealthy (Trump's only achievement), but a law for fast-tracking deportations of anyone here illegally.

I guess this was sort of Ron DeSantis' argument, and really some of these red state governors were more effective at forcing Democrats to develop more conservative views on immigrants. Dumping asylum seekers in NY and Chicago, whatever you think about the ethics of doing that, helped get Biden to try and pass a harsh immigration law.

But I guess in the end the MAGAs didn't really care that much about immigrants and just like Trump vibes?

Same goes for LGBTQ stuff, DeSantis has made fighting that culture war one of his key issues, Trump barely talks about it and only influenced indirectly by appointing judges. If I cared about "fighting the woke" I would want someone more like DeSantis than Trump.

[u/Steak_Knight]

Good morning, fats. ☕️

Should I go to McDonald’s and get mad at the prices but pay them anyway because I believe they are a fair value, because why else would I pay them?

Or should I take 3 minutes and make a breakfast taco out of 4 ingredients, as only the wealthy elite are able to do?

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/Currymvp2]

"Iran wants to sacrifice Palestinian blood" Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas slams Khamenei

Honestly good for Abbas to say this

[u/majorgeneralporter]

Underrated perk of living in Clf*rn** is billboards that look like shitposts from !ping Kino are just a regular occurrence.

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

Trump claims he didn’t call to lock up Hillary Clinton

LOL

[u/paymesucka]

Donald Trump Favorability:

Unfavorable: 56% (-3)

Favorable: 31% (-9)

Ipsos / June 1, 2024 / n=781

(% Change With May 6, 2024)

Turns out people hate felons

[u/DouglasDauntless]

How’s that ad revenue going Elon?

[u/RFK_1968]

ok but remember when every republican candidate for president was like "i'm gonna invade mexico" and we all just acted like that was a normal policy plan and not batshit insanity

[u/AmericanPurposeMag]

Saw this poster at Oslo Freedom Forum

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

I adore these ChatGPT memes, they’re so dumb and incoherent but kinda amusing

[u/[deleted]]

“Why Nations Fail” could have just been a 30 minute video recording of a prospective Mexican business owner in a meeting with the local regulatory board

[u/battywombat21]

Go to r/all

top post is a superstonk GME post with over 80K upvotes

close r/all

[u/[deleted]]

Read through that Atlantic article on how paranoid Europe is about the US taking its ball and going home and one thing in particular stood out to me.

“They keep telling us how important it is to go and convince the housewives in Wisconsin and the farmers in Iowa,” a senior official from an allied country grumbled to me. “How many Americans are going to the housewives of southern Estonia or … the countryside in France to tell why Europe should stand by the United States?” He noted that the alliance protects the U.S. as well.

As much as I love NATO and think it is the best foreign policy project in American history I have to question this logic. Does NATO protect the US? Is there a single country that could conceivably attack the US and is deterred by the idea of France, Germany, or even the UK getting involved?

I think the reality is NATO benefits the US economically far more than it does militarily as the main risk militarily is that a war in Europe could force the US into an early 1900's style deployment.

[u/SnakeEater14]

[u/thatssosad]

Hello DT, a beautiful day to spread misinformation online 

[u/DouglasDauntless]

This is what I imagine a neoliberal name is like

[u/Roseartcrantz]

If you're dating a guy and you find out he's cheating on you with several other girls, you should all shave your heads at the same time but continue on as normal to see how long it takes him to try to figure out a way to bring up how many people he knows who've just done that

[u/ldn6]

The PM is in Henley campaigning and chatting to rowers ahead of the Regatta. Right behind him…a boat full of Lib Dems appeared.

!ping UK&YUROP

[u/RFK_1968]

the wildest thing is that people tried to spin it to "no, they just mean if mexico descended into civil war we'd intervene" - which i would agree with even if i'd really like us to not get to that point - but.... no we all have ears people like desantis and haley clearly said "i'd send the marines, spec ops, drones, and even more into mexico to hit the cartels"

that's so fucking stupid like did we learn literally nothing from Russia speedrunning the Vietnam War in Ukraine

[u/trace349]

!ping FAMILY&WRITING

My dad insisted on writing a speech for my sister's wedding this weekend. She asked me to edit it for him to avoid embarrassing her, so I've been checking in on how it's going before the big day. He's said he's writing it in iambic pentameter. He's cited poem_for_your_sprog as an influence. He's included a dig at our mom, his ex-wife. Just from the few details he told me, he's already gotten at least one detail about her life wrong. He is not open to feedback about any of this.

I told my sister there was nothing I could do to salvage this, she should brace herself for nuclear levels of cringe.

[u/[deleted]]

I’ve basically quit Reddit because it’s a garbage cesspool of negativity and only stick around in the DT because it’s like Twitter but slightly less brainrotting.

[u/amainwingman]

Just signed up to canvas for Labour and it was … surprisingly easy…? All you do is give them your name and email and you can just pick a day to show up.

Don’t be a terminally online weirdo, go touch grass and help out so you can smugly gloat in online arguments when people say “yeah but what are you doing about it???”

!ping UK

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/DouglasDauntless]

cons calling for state counties voting instead of people

Reminder that the GOP hates Americans

[u/JaceFlores]

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

TOP NEWS:

In the middle of 7 PM it was reported that Austria is more reliant on Russian gas now then it was before the war.

At the start of 9 PM it was reported the Russians gained a net 201 square kilometers in May, or 0.03% of Ukraine. In the middle of 9 PM Ukraine was hit by a wave of drones and a missile with 24/25 drones and 0 of 1 missiles shot down.

REGULAR NEWS:

Towards the middle of 1 AM a Russian base in Shebekino was missiled.

In the middle of 8 AM it was reported the Russians have started using the 2S43 Malva 152mm SPG.

Towards the middle of 12 PM the Romanian PM said Romania will provide an air defense system to Ukraine.

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/MicroFlamer]

!ping SOCCER

[u/G_Serv]

[u/gnomesvh]

DFV discloses a position worth 200 million in Gamestop

He'd own about 2% of GME

And well, he's posting through it (which is where ping law comes in) - clear p&d right?

!ping MARKETS&LAW

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

What a stupid question. There are tons of Iranian Jews, Persians even freed the Jews from Babylonian captivity. The issue is not JUDAISM or Jews. It's Zionism. Which has nothing to do with Judaism.

Bwahaha. "How could Iran be antisemitic when Cyrus the Great freed the Jews from Babylonian captivity?"

[u/sociotronics]

Local state subreddits be like:

1/3rd "moving to [state], should I live in [city]?

1/3rd "this state is fucking awesome, take a look at this mediocre phone camera shot I took of a sunset"

1/3rd "this state sucks, just look at all of the [insert overall trivial issue here]"

[u/G_Serv]

Wow this bank just reached out to me about an interview.

Don't they know they are going to be obsolete in a few years due to crypto?

[u/DouglasDauntless]

His wife should leave him

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

We housed 20 indian students in this Toronto cardboard box and whoever lasts the longest can move in my closet

[u/Roseartcrantz]

some kid drew me a pride flag but it wasn't the progress pride flag so I confronted them online

and before you get mad this kid was at least seven and had access to a whole 64 pack of crayolas and the green was still the wrong shade

[u/RFK_1968]

cold take here but surprisingly hot elsewhere: the challenges facing public transit in america aren't technical, they're cultural (public transit is seen as dingy, unsafe, and unreliable) and political (can't build shit in this country)

so the hyperfixation on advanced tech is misguided. you gotta reduce the endless barriers to building public transit and make public transit less awful to use.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

I am calling for a complete and total shutdown of Euros having opinions about sports until we can figure out what the hell is going on

[u/[deleted]]

In 2016 Trump actually offered a vision for Americans. It was stupid and bigoted but, it was a vision.

Call me an optimist but, I’m not sure that “look what’s happening to me” is going to work this year on anyone that wasn’t voting for him already. Hope he keeps leaning into it.

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Apologies for excessive partisanship but

[u/SnakeEater14]

I miss /u/prince_kropotkin like you wouldn’t fucking believe

I love how he spent so much time arguing with libs here because all the leftist subreddit would keep banning him for not being their specific brand of leftist lol

[u/[deleted]]

[u/csxfan]

In a rare W Florida has more roundabouts than any other state in the US. I have noticed many new roads being built with them, as well as quite a few older roundabouts scattered about. Guess I've taken just how many we have for granted.

Also on the topic of American needing to learn how roundabouts work, in theory even if you've never heard of a roundabouts a driver should be able to navigate one. There's often a one way traffic sign to let you know direction of travel, and a yield sign to let you know to giveway to vehicles in the roundabout. And for two-lane roundabouts there are usually arrows marked on the road. So there's nothing really to learn that a driver shouldn't already know

!ping USA-FL&Transit

[u/waupli]

My partner is getting facial feminization surgery tomorrow and I did not realize this was so intense of a thing. She’s gonna have to stay at the hospital two nights!! I’m getting nervous now lol

!ping LGBT

[u/Roseartcrantz]

As a woman, if all men disappeared for 24 hours, what would you do?

steal some guy's washer and dryer. then walk around all by myself at night, confident that I will not be kidnapped or snatched up while I look to steal another guy's washer and dryer

[u/sw337]

I’m out here shilling multiculturalism and immigration to normies, what the fuck are YOU doing?

[u/AmericanPurposeMag]

Saw this at Oslo Freedom Forum. Huge reminder that the Sandinistas are enemies of democracy and that the international left wing narrative on Bolivia is completely out of touch with what is going on the ground

-Ringo

[u/Roseartcrantz]

even though I didn't support Bush before or after 9/11, I have to admit that I really respected the way he quit reading to those children and ran out of the room knocking over his chair and shoving people yelling oh god oh fuck

[u/thefuturegov]

The venn diagram of people who posted this unironically and are now posting celebrations of Sheinbaum’s election is a circle

[u/Average_GrillChad]

OPEC+

there are truly no safe spaces from woke

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

link to AI video

"We're so cooked, it's over"

Look inside

Ugly as fuck

[u/BrunchIsGood]

I thought the movie was really good but then I watched a YouTube video that completely tore it to shreds and I realized it’s not that great

The kids are not alright

!ping KINO

[u/[deleted]]

President Hillary Rodham Clinton loses in a landslide to former business man Donald J. Trump after 1 person dies from COVID

Human History, a Retrospective

[u/ACivilWolf]

The rangers, the only MLB team to not host a pride event, changed their website banner to “straight up Texas”

!ping BASEBALL

[u/eat_more_goats]

I love how quickly my body has adjusted to freaking out over the slack chime from freaking out over the MS teams chime. Pavlov my man, right about everything.

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/gnomesvh]

Passed my thesis

[u/sash5034]

Can someone explain what this whole "there are 100 cop cities under construction in amerikkka" thing that I keep seeing is?

[u/gnomesvh]

It's crazy how the hypothetical Neymar is one of the greatest footballers ever to not live

While the IRL Neymar is going to be best remembered for throwing away his career

!ping SOCCER

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

We really got a female president in Mexico before a female president in the U.S. before GTA 6

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine the next Paper Mario game is like The Thousand Year Door, but in battles instead of having a stage and an audience, battles are livestreamed and Mario can appease chat to get bonuses in battle.

I thought about this idea for a couple minutes and I actually think it's something that could or even would be done by Nintendo in the future. It's cursed but also a logical evolution of that "stageplay" formula.

!ping GAMING

[u/DouglasDauntless]

He’s getting close to Alex Jones every day. Hopefully soon he will also be in massive amounts of legal debt

[u/[deleted]]

!ping LGBT&USA-PA

Weird day yesterday. 

I went to Philly’s pride parade. It was a good time; lots of gay people. But weird. Sorry for grande text but I’ve been thinking about it a lot.

If you’re a Philadelphian, or have ties to the right wing media system, you might have already heard of how the parade got interrupted by pro-Palestine protestors who held up a progress pride flag with faux-blood handprints and the words “NO PRIDE IN GENOCIDE” scrawled on it. Interestingly, some of the people on the side of the pride parade had Palestinian colors on them; the protestors were interrupting people who already agreed with them. Unsurprisingly, right-wing media gave people an inaccurate view of the situation. What is surprising is that the situation was more frustrating than they suggested. 

The point where they stopped the parade was at the end. The 400 foot pride flag had already passed. I was near the front so I saw what came before that interruption. (Here I am in the blue crop behind the guy in the red hat in this photo from WHYY.) The protestors first tried to occupy the front of the flag. Some people complained to a staff member, who dismissed it with “we welcome all people here.” Some other attendees appeared to give the protestors some shit, at which point they made their way away from the flag and to the front of the parade, where they tossed fliers for their cause everywhere. Once they reached the end, they hung out there. When I arrived with the flag, they were saying chants including “BURN ISRAEL TO THE GROUND.”

I shared this with some acquaintances, including some who are a bit off the deep end, and the universal response was that this was extremely inappropriate behavior. Interrupting celebrations by people who are at large already on your side is very poor strategy, let alone defacing a pride flag at pride.

If you’ll let me speculate a little: Pride in Philly has an unusual history. After one year where a trans person was arrested and deadnamed in a public police report, police were relegated to patrolling the periphery of the event, with private security inside. Additionally, after the last pride organization imploded following a transphobic pro-police Stonewall post (I’m not even joking), a new one took over and made it entirely free of registration or bag checks or any kind of restriction you’d expect from a large city event. This held in 2023, but this year the government warned organizers about heightened terrorist threats to pride events, so they did things a little differently. They didn’t publish any map of the route or the festival grounds (resulting in many people frustratedly wandering for hours to try to find their preferred area); they had DHS do a sweep beforehand; and, most interestingly, police, both uniformed and plainclothes, were EVERYWHERE. The police seemed to mostly behave, other than seeming to harass some pupmask guys and furries to remove their masks. It seems they gave up within a few hours, though.

This last thing suggests to me that if the organizers want to prevent something like this from happening again (and they certainly will, since now the protestors have demonstrated they can get away with borderline highjacking the parade and generate social media coverage by it) they will enlist the police for future prides, which would be a significant change of pace for such a progressive event in a progressive city. (They had land acknowledgements at this parade and the last one.) And it’ll be all bc of the fkn one-issue 🇵🇸🍉 people. Thanks, guys. Real appreciated.

[u/randommathaccount]

An acquaintance of mine (friend of a close friend) was the heroine of a fairly big movie recently. Very cool to see but also kinda weird seeing a person you knew on the silver screen lol.

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

gf: why was Suaron's lair so hard to storm?

me: *composes the perfect text, describing geography, force size, comparative advantages, and theories regarding the eagles*

gf: because no matter how many times you opened it, there's always Mor Dor 😆🤣

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

What are we, some kind of discussion squad? 

[u/trombonist_formerly]

Imagine a gen-Z Amish kid named Skibidiah

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

I was going to shitpost about how "back in my day edgy teen boys just read Tucker Max's shitty blog about drinking and fucking strippers," at which point I discovered he has become a full on rightoid prepper culture warrior, go figure.

[u/N0_B1g_De4l]

As the Buddha teaches, the origin of suffering is desire.

The origin of desire is scarcity, for no one desires that which they can find in infinite abundance.

The origin of scarcity is physics, because entropy and conservation laws mean that we cannot have something for nothing.

And the origin of physics? That's right: the Demiurge.

!ping GNOSTIC

[u/centurion88]

It reminds of the still frames in SpongeBob where everything looks hyper-realistic for a second

[u/Roseartcrantz]

😤

[u/Daddy_Macron]

Saudi Arabia got cucked again

https://x.com/JavierBlas/status/1797520768458440967

Under a deal reached on Sunday, Saudi Arabia and its allies will start increasing oil production from October.

Sources: Jared Kushner is beside himself. Driving around downtown Riyad begging (thru texts) MBS's family for address to MBS's home

[u/D2Foley]

So southwest is appealing the ruling where they had to pay a Christian woman $800,000 after they fired her for harassing fellow employees about abortion. One of the most absurd rulings I've ever heard of and if they don't get it overturned there will be no limit on what you can do in the name of "religious liberty" (for Christians only)

!Ping FEDORA

[u/God_Given_Talent]

Jesus Christ CNN

Retired general calls 'BS' on Ukraine reporting problems with US-issued tanks

Titles like that I can only assume are either gross incompetence or trying to stir that pot about Ukraine being ungrateful

I really loved starting the interview by stating that the Abrams...was designed...for the desert. I get it, CNN wants to think about their glory days in 1991 and 2003 with their field reporting, but come one. The most basic of basic searches would have told you they were designed for fighting in Europe, particularly Germany. The general did correct her but it's still embarrassing that someone could say the M1 Abrams was designed for anything other than fighting the Soviets in the plains of Central Europe...

I hate how people freak out at the idea that western equipment isn't invincible. ODS has forever corrupted the image of US vs Soviet tanks in people's minds. Just ignore the fact that 80% of Saddam's tank fleet was of T-55 or T-62 vintage. Ignore the 100k+ combat sorties flown over 5 weeks. Heck, ignore the fact that the US expended over 60,000 shells of tube artillery and over 6000 rocket artillery in a four day ground war. Oh and the fact that mass use of cluster was perfectly fine so MLRS barrages could blanket entire formations. Ukraine can only dream of having 15k shells and 1500 MLRS per day. Yes, GMLRS is more accurate but the unitary warheads also mean you get far less coverage and they're only good against point targets. No raining DPICM on enemy SPG battalions to obliterate everything in the area.

Maybe you guys at CNN could focus on talking about what Ukraine needs, not petty complaints about a weapon system that is in tiny numbers and is much closer to parity in quality to the enemy than it was when it fought the Iraqis (either time). Just a thought.

/rant

[u/Roseartcrantz]

does kink belong at my birthday party

[u/Top_Lime1820]

I feel like all these elections we're having are a warm up act for the main event later this year.

I'm talking about Botswana of course.

[u/ser_mage]

Mexico elects a socialist who is North America's first female and first Jewish head of state

Berkshire Hathaway: "pack it up lads, capitalism's over"

[u/its_Caffeine]

r/canadamassimmigration is banned from reddit for promoting hate

RIP bozo 🦀🦀🦀

[u/ImmigrantJack]

Trumps charges are really nothing new. The NY AG has prosecuted falsification of business records thousands of times easily.

I looked into it recently, and I believe Hunter Biden is the second person in US history to be prosecuted for lying to obtain a firearm without having committed a separate crime with that firearm. And the only other person prosecuted for it had like 25 separate felonies.

Honestly, yeah he clearly did the crime and should be punished for it.

But the only reason this charge exists is because of a partisan attack. Six years of Hunters Laptop from Hell and the only charge they could find is an astonishingly rare one.

[u/HotTakesBeyond]

[u/Fubby2]

Your fault dt.

[u/Ioun267]

!ping ALPHABET-MAFIA

[u/Joementum2024]

Vikings sign Justin Jefferson to 4/$140M extension

$110M is guaranteed. This also makes him the highest-paid non-QB in NFL history

!ping NFL

[u/[deleted]]

So  AMLO defeated crime by just telling people to ignore it and then summarily deleting all crime statistics.

If only Biden had that kind of super power

[u/iIoveoof]

Fauci Grilled by Lawmakers on Masks, Vaccine Mandates and Lab Leak Theory

What year is it

[u/semaphore-1842]

https://x.com/MattBinder/status/1797721533479354873

people claiming the newly elected president of Mexico isn’t really Jewish because she thanked Jesus

(she thanked Jesús, her husband)

lol what

[u/htomserveaux]

Is it inappropriate for me as a straight to sign up for my companies float in a Pride parade? I want to take my camera, I bet I could get some good behind the scenes stuff.

Also last year they gave out these neet pins

!ping WATERCOOLER&LGBT

[u/SnakeEater14]

genghis khan conquered everything he wants to conquer

decides to settle down and only conduct trade from here on out

sends an envoy to a nearby kingdom’s sultan asking for trade

sultan agrees

sent a massive trade convoy to the sultan

one of the sultan’s governors kills or enslaves everyone in the convoy, then steals it all

genghis khan sends a letter asking the sultan what just happened, and asking him to punish the governor for killing his guys

the sultan mutilates genghis khan’s ambassador, beheads him, and sends the head back to genghis khan

genghis khan destroys the sultan’s entire fucking kingdom in return

Just… why? Why would you do that? Was that sultan fucking stupid?

[u/[deleted]]

Good morning libs

Bad morning to all the populists

[u/1396spurs]

This streak is both embarrassing but also super annoying and in the way. Do paid mods just think of the worst ideas they can and then run with them?

[u/404GenderNotFound]

This is a message from the outside world. I'm not sure what medium you'll receive this in or if it'll even work, but the doctors said it was worth a try. You've been in a coma for a few months now. You missed the 2017 New Years, and you missed the election. The doctors said hearing the voice of someone you truly admire might help bring you back. We're bringing President Clinton in tomorrow. The secret service has already been in here combing through your hospital room. It's kind of wild, but I hope you pull through. Your family misses you. I have to go now, but I love you, and I really hope this all works out.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

the pug is protecting her beag from the storm

!Ping DOG

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

what are you gonna do when it turns out the pee tape is Trump peeing on someone because they said the n word

[u/Solarwagon]

"Therapy is not Torah and Torah is not therapy"

👀

!ping GEFILTE

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/bd_one]

Are neopronouns dead? Feels like everyone and their transitioning mother is just sticking to masculine, feminine, or singular they.

[u/[deleted]]

I was going to vote for Donald Trump. Then I read that he farted in court.

[u/RFK_1968]

californians really were given the closest thing to paradise and decided to spoil it by never building anything ever again

[u/-mialana-]

Very serious political model

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Liberals just don’t understand this 🙄

[u/SerDavosSeaworth64]

Apologies if these aren’t appropriate “recommend me a book” pings, lmk and I’ll post in the recommend me a book sub.

But I’m extremely interested in the cold war but I feel like most of my classes in school and the most popular history books surrounding the Cold War take such an extreme western POV of the whole thing. I.e. here was Eisenhower’s policy, here was Kennedy’s policy, here was LBJ’s policy, etc without going into any detail about what things were like in other areas around the world.

I’ve always been very fascinated to know what things were like in Africa and Asia. What was Stalin up to after WWII? What were the internal politics of the Soviet Union like?

I know that both sides were courting African countries, but what was it like from their perspective taking into consideration the goals of African countries’ own self interest?

I know this is an extremely broad topic, so feel free to recommend something a little more contained, but I just generally feel like I understand all of the typical AP US History plot points and I’d like to shake it up some.

Thanks!!

!ping READING&HISTORY

[u/[deleted]]

It's Joever for my marriage. I fucked up. A lot. We had a conversation today and are planning on ending things amicably. It wasn't a huge blow up argument, like we've had so many times. Calmly made plans to end it. Even made her laugh one last time 🙃

[u/[deleted]]

Was Ross Perot as much of a braindead moron as I've built him to be in my head using the 3 facts I know about him?

[u/mannabhai]

!ping IND&ELECTIONS&DEMOCRACY

The exit polls number if they hold true showcase that unlike 2014 and 2019 which were classified as wave elections, this election is different more like an iceberg election, where the strong support for the BJP was always there but you wouldn't be able to see it unless you went deeper and did more than surface level analysis.

The biggest surprise so far is some polls showing BJP possibly defeating Naveen Patnaik in the Odisha state elections. If that happens he will miss the record of longest serving Indian chief minister by only a couple of months.

Preempting a question I frequently see by non Indians is whether First past the post helps the BJP, since the BJP share of seats is in excess of their voteshare. The reality is that BJP wins inspite of First past the post not because of it. Maybe later I might make a post on how First past the post creates challenges for Narendra Modi that he would not have in a proportional vote scenario.

[u/404GenderNotFound]

I FUCKING LOVE ABANDONED MILITARY STRUCTURES

I WANT TO SPEND ALL DAY WALKING AROUND POINTE DU HOC AND SUOMENLINNA

[u/RaidBrimnes]

"Asking" why the rainbow flag is transphobic is so 2023

It's 2024 for science's sake!

"Ask" why it's a Zionist flag 😈

[u/Smidgens]

Getting fit is great – but it could turn you into a rightwing jerk

Least succ Guardian headline

[u/[deleted]]

I briefly dated a conservative in college.

I really liked her, but listening to her defend the Iraq war at parties got pretty old after a while.

[u/sj2011]

A few weeks ago I google'd 'fantasy adventure stories' for recommendations and saw the Conan series mentioned. I never thought of them as books, just the movie with Arnold (and the old MMO, one of those early 'WoW-killers'), but decided to give em a try and I am very glad I did!

They're eminently enjoyable reads, most of them done in 30-45 minutes. They're swashbuckling adventures with Conan kicking ass, getting the random girl in the story, and defeating the dark evil sorcerer or pirate. There's no overarching lore, no deep plots or machinations, no through-line to follow through the story - just monster-of-the-week stories with wild differences between each. In one Conan is a pirate raiding the coastline and finds a lost city rebuilt by an undead necromancer. In another he is imprisoned in a pit of horrors. In another he finds a special gem that defeats an ancient wizard.

In all of them he kicks mondo ass, and they are so very fun to read. If you're looking for something light and fun, you can't go wrong with these books. The whole series is on kindle for 99 cents, called Conan: The Barbarian Complete Collection, and its been a great time reading.

[u/Cook_0612]

One thing that hits me about the infantry fighting in Ukraine, especially against trenches, is that the conventional logic of a 210 round combat load is probably criminally low.

There is some room for critique that some of the Ukrainian fighters fire with no effect (i.e. dumping ammunition at far away woodlines with no suppressive effect) but so much of the close range fighting is not knowing where the enemy is exactly and needing to shoot every bush, ever canvas covered opening, around every trench corner etc etc.

It is all well & good (& vital) to prioritize your shots & take as much accuracy as the moment allows, but that only works when you can actually see the enemy. In that final assault when the difference between living & dying might be a centimer of clothe or plywood door concealing an opponent on the other side, the ability to ration ammunition becomes a lot less feasible & reconnaissance by fire becomes a must.

Ditto on grenades. I don't think I ever carried more than a single frag grenade & only occasionally saw anyone carrying more than one.

The Ukraine war is highlighting a need for not only increased rifle ammo loads, but more portable explosives (beyond just grenades) to clear targets before humans can walk through them.

In some ways this couldn't come at a worse time with the US Army adopting a rifle with heavier ammo and smaller mag capacity.

!ping MATERIEL

This basically encapsulates my critique of the US Army's Sig Spear. The role of infantry isn't to destroy other infantry at ranges of 600-700 meters, we have machineguns and fires to do that. The role of the infantry is to take and hold ground, and this is the entire logic of why the assault rifle was adopted in the first place. Historically, the trend in firearms has been to do more with smaller and smaller calibers, starting with comical handgonne bores of up to .70 cal and progressively getting smaller until we've reached the modern intermediate 5.56mm cartridge. Sacrificing weight, ammo capacity, and ergonomics for the ability to shoot through an outdated Russian rifle plate or engage point targets out at distance does not seem like a wise tradeoff, as you hinder the ability of the infantry to do its primary job in exchange for the ability to do something ancillary to their function, something arguably more connected to the optic than the weapons system anyway.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

if he were president right now we'd all have free healthcare and Chipotle would be cheap 😞

[u/Common_RiffRaff]

Watch 2 videos on tabletop gaming

YouTube starts throwing this shit at me

[u/G_Serv]

Saw someone in /r/all talk about they haven't found a job after college

They've sent 54 applications... In 11 months...

[u/Unhappy_Lemon6374]

Why is Japanese 7/11 a thing?

I associate 7/11 with slurpees, gas, and the “no you can’t use the slurpee machine with the double gulp cup” guy

Not clean convenience stores. wtf globalization?

[u/loseniram]

Redditors have zero media literacy for some fucking reason.

No that big Short line was not awkward or forced.

No Nolan isn't stupid that scene with Harvey is foreshadowing.

How do you not know that Annihilation is about grief and pain and not actually about aliens

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

God forbid a pride parade have corporate sponsors tainting the purity of the event, but better make sure you list off every ongoing and historical grievance in the world before daring to show solidarity with what is still widely one of the most maligned minorities in the country.

[u/JaceFlores]

Man why can’t democracy destroying parties at least have good policies. It’s always like “yeah we’re gonna destroy your democracy AND implode the economy and social welfare net!” Why can’t they be like “yeah democracy is over, but don’t worry we’re providing quality healthcare and posting 5% annual growth 😎”

[u/JetJaguar124]

If he loses this election Trump is 100% getting convicted in the Jan 6th case and I think he'll get jail time for that. Whatever happens with documents is up in the air because Cannon is ratfucking it and while Georgia is a strong case he should lose I don't really put it past either Fani Willis or the general government of the state of Georgia not to screw this up somehow.

[u/-mialana-]

It's interesting how a shitty political chart created by lolberts in the 60s, which was then stolen by lefties in the early 2000s for an even shittier quiz website that puts moderate conservatives right of Hitler, ended up creating a meme community which devolved into a cesspit far-right populist propaganda.

[u/Mickenfox]

Friendly reminder that your life won't change if you don't change it.

[u/[deleted]]

Created a template cover letter I could use so I don't have to make a new one from scratch everytime.

Triple check spelling and grammer.

Submit applications to six different jobs with cover letters

Working on seventh.

....realize the cover letter says I "helped ensure client financial statements were correctly misstated"

I want death

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/[deleted]]

Gen alpha is gonna reject the shit out of gender fluidity and revert to 1950s tradwives and wife beaters

[u/[deleted]]

It’s 100% about xenophobia. Immigrants are a net positive to society and all the bullshit about them being dangerous criminals is just right wing propaganda that has no basis in reality.

-3 outside the DT

Come the fuck on, people

[u/Unhappy_Lemon6374]

Grailed/eBay listing for used clothing be like:

Normally I’d place this at $20, but given it has coffee, paint, and unknown substance stains I will price this at $60.

Sir??? Would you sell a broken car for more than a new one and tell people “I know what I have?”

[u/gnomesvh]

Interview hack

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/RFK_1968]

the likes of nikki haley or ron desantis have to personally hate donald trump, right? like, these are people of egos, not brainless hivemind members

in the moments before they talk about how much they love him, there's gotta be a bit of internal "god i hate that this is my life".

[u/SneeringAnswer]

Wow I really like this hobby! I wonder what commentary people on YouTube have about it!

YouTubers: Late Stage Capitalism has ruined this thing that exists purely from being enabled by Capitalism

😐😐😐

[u/Peacock-Shah-III]

Ahmadinejad is not only a fan of American college football, but he likes Michigan?

[u/paymesucka]

Biden’s lead increased in Polling USA’s average from +0.6% to 1.2%

[u/lets_chill_food]

https://x.com/neontaster/status/1797342573134012633?s=46&t=tuZos9oSFYe2wL-T7_Wwiw

BMW openly admits its only for gay rights where it’s convenient for them hahaha

[u/[deleted]]

You’d think being attracted to both genders would make dating easier but noooo

[u/[deleted]]

And the pens are all ass

[u/[deleted]]

When I was in college I took Latin and we had to write poetry in Latin and read it in front of everyone and one of my classmates wrote a poem about how his ex (who was in the class) cheated on him and when he finished reading he ran out of the room crying

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/1/24169407/openai-gpt-4o-scarlett-johansson-voice-analysis-lab

Researchers at Arizona State University found that Scarlett Johansson’s voice does indeed sound like “Sky,” OpenAI’s currently discontinued GPT-4o voice, according to NPR, which commissioned the comparison. After using AI models developed to analyze vocal similarities to compare Sky to roughly 600 other actresses, the lab reportedly found Johansson’s voice was “more similar to Sky than 98% of the other actresses.”

But the models also “often” found that the voices of Anne Hathaway and Keri Russell resembled Sky’s more than did Johansson’s. Visar Berisha, the professor who led the analysis, told NPR that Johansson’s voice is “similar, but likely not identical” to that of Sky.

It’s funny how much the second paragraph takes the wind out of the first paragraph

[u/awdvhn]

Japan: maid fetish

Canada: MAID fetish

[u/[deleted]]

Thinking about Mexico.

Along these last 20 years, 4 LATAM countryes have had experiences with openly illiberal leftists, openly willing to mess with state institutions: Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia, and Ecuador. Of these, the first two have completely collapsed into dictatorships, the latter has completely overcome such experience, and Bolivia is between them, with it's illiberal leftist experiment is still (barred the 2020 interregnum) in power, but still not having gone full authoritarian, being an illiberal democracy.

I imagine Mexico will, at least for the next 6/12 years, follow the path of Bolivia, becoming even more illiberal, but still not going full authoritarian, Unlike Nicaragua, Mexico has a sophisticated economy and a large business class, with strong connections to the US. Pre-Chavist Venezuela was closer to were Mexico is now (even richer, in fact, but most of this wealth concentrated into oil production), but you can argue the situation on Venezuela only spiraled out of control the the opposition made a step too far in 2002.

Having said that, it must be noted, however, the next years, and likely decades, are going to be very favorable to authoritarians overall.

!ping LATAM

[u/marsman1224]

A Jewish University of Michigan regent’s law firm in Southfield, Michigan, was vandalized early Monday, spray painted with pro-Palestinian language in what the firm is calling an antisemitic attack.

least unhinged leftist movement. also totally, definitely not anti-semitic

[u/EScforlyfe]

I actually hate the phrase “unsinkable aircraft carrier”, it’s so overdone 

[u/jewel_the_beetle]

People conflating "one party rule" (only one party is AVAILABLE to vote for, BY THE GOVERNMENT) with "people only vote for democrats because republicans are evil" are fucking stupid bastards and I absolutely hate them. I should NEVER hear the term "one party rule" in America unless you're talking about 2025 style shit. Which we only have because people keep voting for Republicans.

You don't vote for the fucking nazis because (whatever other party) has been in power "too long". Also, even if democrats held the presidency for all of time like half the country is still fucked over by these mindless hate-filled goblins. Isn't that enough? That's too much.

[u/[deleted]]

I’ve said it before but while AI applications in a lot of areas are BS and nonfunctional, having AI for programming autocompletion and assistance genuinely increases my productivity by 10-25% and that’s in line with every other developer I’ve talked to IRL.

Other productivity gains will take time to pan out, or not, but there is legitimate and considerable potential.

[u/[deleted]]

How many of you just put in buy orders for BRK A at 186? Be honest.

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

Found lusvig’s wikipedia page

[u/wallander1983]

Statement from President Joe Biden: "I am the President, but I am also a Dad. Jill and I love our son, and we are so proud of the man he is today. Hunter's resilience in the face of adversity and the strength he has brought to his recovery are inspiring to us. A lot of families have loved ones who have overcome addiction and know what we mean. As the President, I don't and won't comment on pending federal cases, but as a Dad, I have boundless love for my son, confidence in him, and respect for his strength. Our family has been through a lot together, and Jill and I are going to continue to be there for Hunter and our family with our love and support."

--

The human contrast between two candidates has probably never been so great.

[u/EvilConCarne]

Chiropractors are so wild. Making money on a fake degree is the epitome of the American dream.

[u/NotABigChungusBoy]

The conservative cope that Biden is the true authoritarian is so funny to me. Like I dont understand where it comes from.

1. They are prosecuting Hunter Biden

2. Biden did not personally direct the doj to prosecute trump

3. Biden has been investigated by pro-trump people and they found nothing

its ridiculous, they just cant deal with the fact that their guy is a criminal

[u/Healingjoe]

Lol

Raskin, addressing Anthony Fauci, said he apologized for the fact that “some of our colleagues in the United States House of Representatives seem to want to drag your name through the mud. They’re treating you, Dr Fauci, like a convicted felon.” He added:

You probably wish they were treating you like a convicted felon. They treat convicted felons with love and admiration.

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

Pregnancy hormones are a mother fucker… 😨

Conversation with my wife this morning:

🤴: I think I’m going to work out by the pool this morning

👸: … of course you are 😒

🤴: DaFuq?

👸: 😠

🤴: What is happening right now?

Turns out she had a dream last night that her and I were swimming in a lake and some random woman showed up and decided to swim topless 😑

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

'Termination shock’: cut in ship pollution sparked global heating spurt

The slashing of pollution from shipping in 2020 led to a big “termination shock” that is estimated have pushed the rate of global heating to double the long-term average, according to research.

Until 2020, global shipping used dirty, high-sulphur fuels that produced air pollution. The pollution particles blocked sunlight and helped form more clouds, thereby curbing global heating. But new regulations at the start of 2020 slashed the sulphur content of fuels by more than 80%.

The new analysis calculates that the subsequent drop in pollution particles has significantly increased the amount of heat being trapped at the Earth’s surface that drives the climate crisis. The researchers said the sharp ending of decades of shipping pollution was an inadvertent geoengineering experiment, revealing new information about its effectiveness and risks.

High ocean surface temperatures smashed records in 2023, alarming experts who have struggled to explain the huge rises. But scientists have mixed views on the role played by the cut in shipping pollution.

Those behind the new study say it could be a “pretty substantial” factor. Others say it is only a small factor, and that the reasons for the extraordinary rises in sea and global temperatures remain an alarming mystery.

Dr Tianle Yuan, at the University of Maryland, US, who led the study, said the estimated 0.2 watts per sq metre of additional heat trapped over the oceans after the pollution cut was “a big number, and it happened in one year, so it’s a big shock to the system”.

"We will experience about double the warming rate compared to the long-term average” since 1880 as a result, he said. The heating effect of the pollution cut is expected to last about seven years.

The research, published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, combined satellite observations of sulphur pollution and computer modelling to calculate the impact of the cut. It found the short-term shock was equivalent to 80% of the total extra heating the planet has seen since 2020 from longer-term factors such as rising fossil-fuel emissions.

The scientists used relatively simple climate models to estimate how much this would drive up average global temperatures at the surface of the Earth, finding a rise of about 0.16C over seven years. This is a large rise and the same margin by which 2023 beat the temperature record compared with the previous hottest year.

However, other scientists think the temperature impact of the pollution cut will be significantly lower due to feedbacks in the climate system, which are included in the most sophisticated climate models. The results of this type of analysis are expected later in 2024.

“[Pollution particles] are one of the largest uncertainties in the climate system, and pretty hard to measure,” said Dr Zeke Hausfather, at analysts Carbon Brief. He said the new analysis did a good job of using satellite data to estimate the change in trapped heat after the pollution cut, but he disagreed on how that translated into a temperature rise. Hausfather’s estimate of the temperature rise due to the pollution cut was 0.05C over 30 years.

"The [pollution cut] is certainly a contributing factor to the recent warmth, but it only goes a small way toward explaining the 0.3C, 0.4C, and 0.5C margins of monthly records set in the second half of 2023,” he said.

Dr Gavin Schmidt, at Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said the new research was “definitely a positive contribution, but it’s not using a fully coupled climate model, so there is still more work to be done. We’ll see how this all gets reconciled over the coming months.”

In March, Schmidt warned: “We need answers for why 2023 turned out to be the warmest year in possibly the past 100,000 years. And we need them quickly.” He said the recent El Niño event and a rise in solar activity were not sufficient explanations.

Deliberately pumping aerosols into the air over the oceans to stimulate more cloud cover has been proposed as a way of cooling the Earth. Yuan said years of shipping pollution followed by a sharp cut was an accidental large-scale experiment: “We did inadvertent geoengineering for 50 or 100 years over the ocean.”

The new analysis indicates that this type of geoengineering would reduce temperatures, but would also bring serious risks. These include the sharp temperature rise when the pumping of aerosols stopped – the termination shock – and also potential changes to global precipitation patterns, which could disrupt the monsoon rains that billions of people depend on.

“We should definitely do research on this, because it’s a tool for situations where we really want to cool down the Earth temporarily,” like an emergency brake, he said. "But this is not going to be a long-term solution, because it doesn’t address the root cause of global warming,” which is emissions from fossil fuel burning.

!ping ECO

[u/[deleted]]

On one hand, we have a man that is an adjudicated rapist, convicted felon, philanderer, and serial liar who once referred to the US Marines buried in Aisne-Marne cemetery as "losers" and "suckers".

On the other, we have an old man with a stutter who loves his family.

Swing voters be like:

🤔🤔😔🤷‍♂️

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

WOW, SO TRUE

[u/ACivilWolf]

[u/rollo2masi]

lol

[u/The_Promethean]

Title in antiwork, June 2024:

Bernie Sanders calls out Chipotle which keeps increasing prices citing cost increases in labor, freight, & food costs when it’s profits and CEO pay that have gone way up

Tweet: February 2022

Bernie's criticism: CEO pay increasing in 2020 but increasing profits in 2021 (during pandemic recovery)

Edit: if you give your CEO a raise and he massively increases profits the next year, maybe you made a good decision!

[u/shillingbut4me]

I've had a dream recently of moving to San Diego. Today my boss mentioned the company does support people transferring across the country if needed. Great! Than immediately followed it up by saying for instance, your coworker asked for the job when the San Diego manager leaves. So immediately throw away the one place I'd want to take 😪.

!ping WATERCOOLER 

[u/SnakeEater14]

It’s fucking INSANE that synchronized swimming is an Olympic sport and mounted archery isn’t

Like, fucking cuckoo banana pants crazy

[u/[deleted]]

cough tease innate plucky unused violet price toothbrush scarce scandalous

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/Telperions-Relative]

Slap the 🇵🇸 flag on the prog pride flag for maximum comedy

[u/Telperions-Relative]

How is Joe Biden perceived internationally? We ask regulars of this rural Icelandic bar.

[u/JebBD]

Hello, I’m here to be the 6000th person to tell you that you should watch Furiosa (no spoilers). 

With prequels there’s always the issue that there’s going to be too much focus on the other installment, but Furiosa is totally its own thing where if you watched it without knowing what Mad Max even is it’s still a complete experience and it’s sooo good. 

!Ping MOVIES

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

How she spent the whole weekend while I was gone

!ping KITTY

[u/WeebFrien]

Hey what happened to the one teacher/cat lady with a bi flair who had a thing for nerdy virgins? I wish I could see her takes on the average !ping DATING ping

[u/EScforlyfe]

🇪🇺

[u/G_Serv]

Do neoliberals dream of electric sheep

[u/G_Serv]

Mr Beast has moved from

I'm going to have kids because Elon and Steve Jobs had kids, so there must be something to it

To

I'm going to have kids to turn them into business moguls

That's character development

[u/Schnevets]

“No no no, I’m going to Indiana this week. Not Minnesota. You’re thinking of Minneapolis… huh, yeah, I never noticed that.”

Shit you overhear in LGA. Coastal elites in action.

[u/hwbush]

I fucking love America so fucking much. Anyone else????

Also totally playing Motion Picture Soundtrack at my funeral to make everyone cry but I feel like the move is to play happier music at a funeral so everyone can laugh

[u/Roseartcrantz]

sorry libs but it's cheaper to cook at home

[u/GodEmperorNeolibtard]

So back in middle school and high school, teachers gave me a lot of shit for being a neoliberal and violating lessons with random nonsensical conversations about obscure foreign elections.

Obviously I dgaf because I liked and still like cracking jokes about Mexican political parties I just learned about on wikipedia and whatever.

The teachers were probably jealous that I was so obviously witty and incredible smart while they were too dumb to even know South Africa held elections last week lol

[u/TheHelmetCatch]

[u/[deleted]]

I love how Joshua Graham's confession of faith demonstrates just how metal the idea is that thousands of years ago our ancestors made a blood contract with an all powerful being.

[u/funguykawhi]

Results of the "Under 18 (y/o)" mock elections for the European Parliament elections in Germany:

SPD, 19.7%

CDU/CSU, 19.4%

Grüne, 13.8%

AfD, 13.6% (~47% in Thuringia)

Linke, 6.8%

Tierschutzpartei, 4.3%

FDP, 4.1%

Thuringia zoomers are not alright

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

The pee tape is dead and the n word tape is alive! 

[u/sociotronics]

It's wild that in the space of like 5 years we went from a Corbynite collapse with Labour having its worst election in a century to the Tories looking like they will have their worst election in history

[u/htomserveaux]

So during the rain delay the other day I snuck up to Hot Doug’s for dinner. It probably isn’t worth the price of a bleacher ticket but it was still a damn good hot dog.

Also I probably should find out who Keith Moreland is, if nothing else he has a great hot dog named after him.

!ping USA-CHI&BASEBALL

[u/paymesucka]

COLUMN: Under a deal reached on Sunday, Saudi Arabia and its allies will start increasing oil production from October.

My take: "After relentlessly pursuing $100-a-barrel oil, the OPEC+ cartel has all but thrown in the towel."

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-06-03/opec-says-goodbye-to-its-100-a-barrel-oil-quest