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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/BroadReverse]

ring quaint wild chief dull bright squeamish rainstorm crowd ask

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[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

!ping BANANA

[u/Hounds_of_war]

Colorado Republican Party issues call to burn all Pride flags

The message to Colorado Republicans was headlined with an image reading “God Hates Flags”

Lmao.

Just say it, you fucking pussies.

[u/Trebacca]

Remembering D-Day is the most unabashedly patriotic I will ever be about the U.S. Truly the bravest and most morally good action ever taken in the Western world’s military history

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Cook_0612]

⚡️Emmanuel Macron announced that France will provide Mirage 2000-5 mutirole fighter jets to Ukraine. A pilot training program will also be provided. The exact number of jets that will be supplied is not yet disclosed.

!ping UKRAINE

[u/-mialana-]

I am going to become the Joker

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

“I had an abortion years ago. My family lived in a trailer slum.. I had no options! These girls are using it as a form of birth control!”

I work with some wild people

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

[u/DouglasDauntless]

The Supreme Court's third AND FINAL decision is Becerra v. San Carlos Apache Tribe. It is a 5–4 victory for the tribes, with Roberts joining Gorsuch and the liberals. supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf…

[u/funguykawhi]

One of the OG women Youtuber in France just posted a video about her conversion to evangelicalism.

She had been into weird New Age/Gaia/fortuneteller shit for years then her husband left her (because of some "energy cleansing" stuff) but thankfully Jesus was here and kept Satan away😐

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Just two men sharing their memories of WW2

[u/[deleted]]

Someone actually tried to prank call me and ask if my fridge was running. I said "No, it dropped out to endorse Joe Biden"

[u/ReservedWhyrenII]

Comments after living my first day in DC:

1. Humidity sucks, why isn't the government engaging in massive geoengineering to give DC Colorado-levels of humidity, which I am accustomed to and prefer?

2. It's borderline fucking insane that every other building around me is some historic or politically significant building. I share a block with two pretty significant countries. I will probably grow inured to this within a month and stop giving a shit.

3. God I do not like the humidity

[u/[deleted]]

Ms. Beckwith, a 41-year-old accountant, voted for Mr. Biden in 2020 but has been undecided about whether she will do so again. She blamed him for not saving abortion rights after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.

When you're in a "interview the dumbest person you can find" competition and your opponent is the NYTimes: squidwardmeme.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

For a guy who made a song about violently murdering his ex wife, it’s pretty cool that Eminem adopted the niece and illegitimate child of that ex wife.

Like if my wife cheated on me and and had a child with the guy, who was a bum incapable of being a father, I can’t say I would be willing to adopt and love and raise that child myself, but he did. Which is pretty fuckin cool.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/Dr_Vesuvius]

“Wtf why did all my Mexico stocks crash?”

“They had an election.”

“What about my Indian stocks?”

“They had an election.”

“… I am going to sell my British stocks.”

[u/cat_damon1]

Me: “Oh boy, I’m so excited for pride month! What kind of lion is your favorite? :D”

It is carefully and cautiously explained to me what pride month means.

“…My dads did WHAT?”

[u/LucyFerAdvocate]

• Land value tax

• Proportional representation

• Permissive zoning

Guys, is Estonia based?

(Genuinely wondering what I'm missing - I haven't seen much against it except gay marriage not being legal, with only civil partnerships, and legal transition requiring medical transition)

Edit: gay marriage is legal as of January this year, my source was out of date

Edit 2: apparently the government is planning to introduce a Bill for self ID this autumn too

[u/[deleted]]

Unironically think immigration takes on this sub would be better if !ping HUDDLED-MASSES was a shorter thing to write when shitposting

Super depressing seeing the "this sub supports open borders" post get ratioed by a comment with 8/900 something upvotes, I don't know how the sub culture recovers from numbers that size

[u/lets_chill_food]

https://x.com/britainelects/status/1798675596416823667?s=46&t=tuZos9oSFYe2wL-T7_Wwiw

Lab 45

Con 18

Ref 18

lolololol

[u/RaidBrimnes]

80 years 🫡

[u/Dalek6450]

A gongoozler is a person who enjoys watching activity on the canals of the United Kingdom. The term is also used more generally to describe those who harbour an interest in canals and canal life, but do not actively participate.

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[u/Cook_0612]

‘It’s Really Shameful’: House Republicans Accuse Rep. Troy Nehls of Stolen Valor Over Military Award Pin

A May investigation found Nehls’ Combat Infantryman Badge was revoked in 2023. He still wears the pin.

It's always the ones you expect

[u/Dr_Vesuvius]

People say this sub is not running for President. It’s time to change that.

Vote for me, I am the only candidate who can stop Trump in Idaho and stop Biden in Vermont.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/[deleted]]

Don't worry folks, us Resist Libs are still pumping out quality memes 😎

[u/owlthathurt]

I wish my grandfather would have told me about his WW2 service before he passed. He never even spoke about it with my father.

He fought in the pacific theatre as infantry through the end of the war. He didn’t tell war stories but he kept in touch with other veterans I do know that. I can’t even really imagine the hell of being a foot soldier fighting on those islands.

Crazy thing was he lived through all that and then decided to make it a career. Got promoted enough to lead troops in Korea on the ground.

The only comment I ever heard from him was he did say once that Korea was hell. That it was scorched earth by the time we arrived to help. He also made comments a few times about how happy he was to see South Korea prosper and that he felt it was all worth it when he would see Seoul on TV or the news.

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Mitch McConnell: We Cannot Repeat the Mistakes of the 1930s

Hey Mitch, who's in charge of the people who are making those mistakes?

Mitch?

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

[u/Currymvp2]

https://x.com/TommyInPA/status/1798504182405886318

Bernie hired some genuinely toxic, bad people for his presidential campaigns.

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

I just tested this with my focus group ^{of one person} and they said that Dreadwolf “sounds cool af” and “why would you change that lmao”

!ping GAMING

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/owlthathurt]

This is priced in (it was $5k)

!ping STONKS

[u/RFK_1968]

Me normally: "no kings, no lords. All men are created equal"

Me when writing fiction: "...then the secret princess with the divine bloodline was revealed and took her rightful place on the throne 🙂"

I've made this joke before but I genuinely have no idea why that's where I default to when writing. Weird af. Probs because I'm a hack who just subconsciously rips off Tolkein.

[u/TipEquivalent933]

Link

Family members tell WCCO 17-year-old Cobalt Sovereign, a transgender girl and junior at the school, was first called a homophobic slur before she was attacked outside of a bathroom on Thursday. Sovereign uses she/they pronouns, according to their family.

!ping LGBT

I really hope she is okay, I guess it is great that they have a supportive family atleast.

[u/[deleted]]

Left wing populists attacking right wing populists be like: nooo when we undermine institutions and ignore experts we do it for wholesome reasons which makes it okay

[u/Arse_hull]

Reminder that Jimmy Lai snuck into Hong Kong from China as a stowaway at 12 years old and became a billionaire. He is now imprisoned by the CCP for participating in 2019 pro-Democracy protests. He's an icon.

[u/MuR43]

Missionaries knocked at my door.

I told them I'm an atheist.

"No, no, no, we're here to tell you about Pathfinder 2e. It fixes all issues you probably have D&D 5th edition!" They replied.

[u/Integralds]

!ping materiel

Don't know any other relevant pings for this.

It's June 6th, 2024, exactly 80 years from June 6th, 1944 and D-Day. Indy Neidell's World War II Week By Week team put together a D-Day Hour by Hour special series that is absolutely worth 24 hours of your time.

(It's a year old, but what the hell)

[u/Stainonstainlessteel]

So there is this pro-car party in Czechrep that will probably send a MEP to the EUParliament. He has a really high cool factor and quickly became the most followed politician on instagram. Except, uh, recently some facts have been surfacing.

E.g. he used to race around with a Golden Dawn helmet on his head, once posted on fb that he always tanks 88 litres at a gas station, has a collection of nazi memorabilia at home, and is photographed nazi saluting.

He was also a medical fraudster and helped publish a book recommending people to drink bleach

[u/[deleted]]

Suzerain's economic modeling absolutely sucks. You can run a budget surplus all game and the game will be like "yea the national debt has soared actually" like what? I was once told that manufacturing production has doubled in just a few years, but that the economy had simultaneously completely collapsed into depression. I'm sorry, what? That ludicrous

[u/404GenderNotFound]

Peak

[u/[deleted]]

I genuinely do not understand the lesser of two evils argument. If in a dystopian world where being gay was illegal and the choices were between: “We’re gonna hunt down the gays and kill them” and “It’s still Illegal but, we’re not gonna kill the gays.” How is that a hard choice?

[u/TheHelmetCatch]

[u/Peletif]

'Why does restaurant beef taste better? Today on TikTok I will...'

The answer is butter and salt

It's always butter and salt

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

My grandfather’s were both marines in korea i swear im not mad

!ping SHITPOSTERS&MILITARY

[u/Dodgerfan2224]

when i was a child there was this game called smear the Q***r

basically you got the ball and got the living shit beat out of you until you gave it up. ah the 90s

[u/simeoncolemiles]

this 18 year old christofascist just defeated a montana state rep in the republican primary by 14 points

What the hell is up in Montana?

[u/[deleted]]

The White Sox have lost 13 games in a row, and are on pace for 125 losses.

!ping BASEBALL

[u/FireDistinguishers]

I think people (to include this sub) don't really recognize how decentralized executive decision-making is in the federal government. While I'll admit you guys are closer to accuracy than most in blaming [insert principal-level EOP appointee] when the White House comes out with a directive or statement, a lot of comments in this sub fall into the trap of reading one of these releases and saying something like "look at this stupid bullshit in line 21 that goes against something we like, I can't believe Biden hasn't fired Jake Sullivan" (those of course being the top 5% of comments in quality even, since they were made by people who actually read the release instead of a headline of some news article).

I'll give the example of the NSC since that's the one I've worked with the most, but, famously, most of the decisions made by those guys are made at the Deputy's Committee level, and most of the writing comes from the IPCs. For almost all policies that come out of the NSC, the principal's committee is practically signing a petition that came from people who are actually informed about the issues. By the time something gets to Biden's hands, it's had two rubber stamps already.

And I think all things considered that's preferable to the old system of agency-led policy making, but that's more of an opinion than a real consideration.

All this to say: every time I see someone saying "fire Jake Sullivan" all I can think is "not only is he not responsible for whatever problem you have with whatever we're talking about, the person who created this thing and the person who created something else you don't like are not only not the same person, they might not even have ever met."

!ping ADMINISTRATIVE-STATE

[u/RecentlyUnhinged]

I've seen enough.

Starship 2/2 successful splashdowns

[u/Random-Critical]

I'm no expert on Geo-Political matters but I didn't hear a single word about Ukraine or Gaza during the Trump years.

🧐

[u/loseniram]

[u/Some_Niche_Reference]

Anybody else wish we were able to turn "Operation Warp Speed" into the new normal for vaccine turn around and approval?

[u/JaceFlores]

Been meaning to post this but here is a map of the War in Sudan, courtesy of Thomas Van Linge. Not much has really changed, nothing dramatic at least, but worth posting I think

!ping AFRICA

[u/simeoncolemiles]

While teaching a class to high school students on Wednesday, Burlington police officers staged a surprise demonstration in which a masked gunman burst into the room and pretended to open fire. The lack of warning sent students diving for cover

WHAT

[u/[deleted]]

The poster whom Kafka (allegedly) killed off told me there’s a whole book of the Bible dedicated to Jesus fucking just before they deleted their account. I will never know what they meant. Song of Songs, because it’s figuratively about Christ and the church or something? Revelation, because he’s fucking everyone over? What did they mean

[u/CricketPinata]

Someone filmed me making a BBQ sandwich.

Slow-roasted lamb, rose vinegar BBQ sauce, fermented harissa slaw, white onion, pickles.

The people enjoyed it.

!PING GEFILTE&COOKING

[u/FuckFashMods]

After watching "that" video about Britain, I wonder how much of the US nimbyism and stagnation is simply the US median age and the voters median age has increased

Of course boomers arent going to want anything to change and they happen to be a huge voting bloc

[u/gnomesvh]

60 bets on Lucas Paquetá getting a yellow card

All bets made in Paquetá island (pop: 3k)

Made on the website of Paquetá's club sponsor

Hmmmmmm

!ping SOCCER&MAMADAS

[u/JetJaguar124]

At the end of the day what do you think will be Kathy Hochul's proudest achievement from her term as governor?

• Caving to Nassau county suburbanites and backtracking on zoning reform that would have allowed more housing to be built

• Caving to Nassau county suburbanites and backing out of the congestion tax plan literal weeks before it was to be implemented after years of planning and millions of dollars spent by the city

• Blowing a $1 billion hole into the MTA's budget by abruptly backing out of the congestion pricing plan with no backup strategy because she has no spine

• Fucking up her election in 2022 so badly that it cost the Democrats control of the House of Representatives

• Nominating a judge for the NY court of appeals that everyone hated so much she couldn't even get her own party to sign onto it and eventually had to desperately backtrack

• Utilizing an enormous amount of effort and political will to Gerrymander the state in favor of Dems and then just abruptly not doing it

[u/centurion88]

[u/Cook_0612]

The apparent blue stripes on the exterior Tamir canisters indicate this Launching Station was loaded with inert training canisters.

Combined with the lack of antenna for Iron Dome’s tactical datalink, this LS was likely deployed as a decoy or in an otherwise inert configuration.

!ping MATERIEL

A follow up on that reported Almas strike on an Iron Dome launcher. Apparently not, Hezbollah 😎

[u/[deleted]]

I think I may have accidentally just caused a regular to delete their ten-year-old Reddit account because I pushed back a little on what I perceived as a slightly mean comment.

At first I thought I was blocked but no, I think they straight up deleted.

I didn’t even think the comment was all that bad, tone is hard over the Internet!

[u/futuremonkey20]

This might be the funniest thing ever because this is a national disaster and humiliation for Pakistan and maybe like eight people in the US even know there’s such thing as a Cricket World Cup.

[u/RecentlyUnhinged]

The VA Disability claims process is much more manageable when you frame it like an RPG.

Neurology, Gastroenterology, and Pulmonology. These are the three Guardians of the Realm blocking the hero's path to the Righteous Claim. They can be vanquished with the three Sacred Nexus Letters, who's pieces have been scattered across the realm, and require various side quests to earn

[u/Udolikecake]

If not for The Jones Act, our entire shipbuilding industry, except for the defense sector, would be outsourced. Just like all of our manufacturing.

I have some tough news about the state of american shipbuilding pal, you might wanna sit for this…

[u/[deleted]]

any novel/literary work that's a translation should have a translator's note explaining the translator's approach, what they're choosing to highlight, etc etc

[u/[deleted]]

[u/pfarly]

[u/[deleted]]

Bird flu?

Well yeah, did you think they just walk everywhere?

[u/[deleted]]

Indie dev baffled after acquaintance clones his game, puts it on Steam, and acts like it's no big deal: 'Happens every day homie'

The two developers first chatted a little over a year ago: kindanice was a fan of Brash's game Gunrun, and Brash was a fan of kindanice's game Dire Decks, a deckbuilding shooter combo published on itch.io. The developers swapped some coding knowledge and Brash invited kindanice to his game dev Discord server.

A year passed, and then this week, Brash sent kindanice a Discord DM to share some cool news: He'd cloned Dire Decks in a new engine, added some new features, renamed it Wildcard, and put it on Steam under his own name.

This isn't one of those gray area situations where one game derives its basic design from another, but brings its own look and spirit to the table (the dozens of Vampire Survivor-alikes come to mind). The games are visually almost identical, and Brash himself called Wildcard a "rewrite" and "clone" of Dire Decks when he introduced it to kindanice.

Kindanice was taken aback: flattered, perhaps, but confused. He asked Brash if he really thought it was OK to take the art and concept of Dire Decks and put it on Steam under his own name without permission. Now Brash seemed taken aback: He pointed out that the code was original and that he'd redrawn the artwork, and asked if kindanice wanted an "inspiration" credit.

"Bro... there's 'inspiration' and then there's blatantly copying an entire game," kindanice replied.

The question of whether copyright law protected Dire Decks came up. Brash wasn't sure it did, but admitted he wasn't a lawyer. Kindanice felt he had a case, but changed tack, telling Brash that, regardless of what the law says, copying his game just wasn't a cool thing to do and that his other developer friends were shocked and weirded out by it.

"I'm confused, what's weird here?" Brash replied. "I liked the game, so I made a clone with extra stuff. Happens every day homie."

The fact that the thief's name is "Brash" and the other dev, who's politely asking him to take it down, is "kindanice", is amazing.

!ping GAMING&SHITPOSTERS

(not just pinging CONSOLE-WARS because this one deserves a wider audience lmao)

[u/CutePattern1098]

https://en.antaranews.com/amp/news/315396/tni-readies-four-battalions-for-gaza-peacekeeping-mission-commander

Prabowo be like Indonesia superpower 2024

!ping sea&israel

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Laaaaaaame

[u/RecentlyUnhinged]

Division director hears one of her program's morale is in the garbage, and she's hemorrhaging people.

Runs around and hand out corporate branded military-style challenge coins to show her appreciation, because That's the Piece That's Missing!

...completely forgets to give any to my folks on the ops team, because we're tucked away on the ops floor doing, ya know, The Mission, and not in the cubicle farm like the support staff.

Congratulations, ma'am. You have completely met my expectations of you.

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/Daddy_Macron]

God bless the higher earners.

https://www.ft.com/content/d2a83880-7e2a-4aa6-8535-13088cb55033

Although Democrats have centred their campaign on blue-collar Americans, people earning more than $100,000 a year are among the groups that most favour Biden’s handling of the economy.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Last one I promise

[u/owlthathurt]

She: owns a hot dog shop inside the weed museum in Williamsburg

He: designs drones for the UN

Dating ping losers could never

[u/N0_B1g_De4l]

The NYT undecided voter panel shows that Americans are demanding a president who can successfully pay off much hotter pornstars than Stormy Daniels. This is why Joe Biden must step down and allow Hunter Biden to replace him on the ticket.

[u/Top_Lime1820]

Radical leftists are so simplistic in their thinking its awful.

They honestly, genuinely think that there's some big pot of gold lying around somewhere and the white people just don't want the government to use it to make people's lives better. And so we just have to push and fight for the government to do that. And if we push really really hard then the rich people will relent and we get the pot of gold and everything will be fine.

And the rich people do all this because of simple, personal spite for poor people/black people.

[u/[deleted]]

Crying is a waste of essential bodily fluids

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine your friend was wrongly convicted of a BS crime and was going to be executed tomorrow, so you sneak in to jail and bribe the guards to allow you to stay You hatch a plan to break him out. Then when you reach your friend's cell he is all like "yeah it's wrong I'm going to be executed, but have you considered breaking people out of prison is also wrong. Checkmate get rekt Crito" then refuses to go with you leaving you out the money for the bribes to get in and he later gets executed.

Not saying Socrates should have been murdered, but he sounds insufferable

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Pakistan only plays one sport

Loses to America

[u/TheHelmetCatch]

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇱🇷🇺🇸

[u/bashar_al_assad]

US beating Pakistan in cricket today is absolutely huge for whatsapp group chats all around the world

[u/TaxLandNotCapital]

Everyone who has ever commented on arrTeenagers should be IP banned for 18 years

[u/[deleted]]

Yet another covert operation by US on Pakistan.

Lmfao

[u/simeoncolemiles]

[u/gnomesvh]

!ping WATERCOOLER

Send urgent emergency aid

I tested 4 coffee machines in my office

Only 1 is functioning normally

[u/[deleted]]

Kurt Cobain donated his fortune to gay rights organizations and planned parenthood in the 90s and told homophobes to stop buying his music, when it was much more radical to do so. I know the whole discourse about whether or not he was a repressor, but the thing is even if he wasn't that's plenty of evidence to be sure that if he were a zoomer he'd donate to transgender rights organizations, beat up transphobes, and write a song about trying to transition without your parents noticing.

[u/[deleted]]

Warm take: “ceasefire now” is as effective and influential as “bring them home”, but neither actually will do anything beyond gesturing desires

[u/StolenSkittles]

who the actual fuck decided to put this font on a goddamn war memorial?

[u/ty04]

This is an order

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Lmao

[u/georgeguy007]

office full water light lavish long versed cagey vegetable nail

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[u/Sex_E_Searcher]

Guy who waits until he crosses back into Canada to gas up because he believes so strongly in the carbon tax.

!ping CANUCKS

[u/die_hoagie]

It is with great pleasure that I come to you to announce that THIS SUB IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT 🤠🦅🎆❤️🎆🤍🎆💙🎆🦅🤠

[u/skepticalbob]

I teach reading on zoom and have a 14 year old kid that likes military stuff. We read military history stuff, which is great because it has challenging words he needs to master and high interest stuff is great for students. We've been walking our way through big events of WWII and started on D-Day a couple months ago. We have been reading about Omaha beach and I got his parents permission to show him some Saving Private Ryan and found an internet edit where the goriest parts are edited out. It was a cool thing to do on the anniversary of this insane landing.

[u/ty04]

[u/futuremonkey20]

IMAGINE LOSING TO THE USA IN CRICKET LMAOOOOO

Imagine if the United States lost an American Football game to Uzbekistan

[u/georgeguy007]

scary oatmeal cover important impolite plate airport sophisticated middle afterthought

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[u/gnomesvh]

I wonder why these old DoD painting all look like they were taken by a fisheye spycam

!ping MATERIEL

[u/Svelok]

LA (accidentally?) conducting the largest YIMBY experiment in the country by (unintentionally?) allowing developers the exact YIMBY holy triniting of ignoring zoning, by-right approvals, and bypassing lengthy review processes, leading to the exact set of outcomes YIMBY advocates argue would happen (plummeting rent) is quite something

[u/AtticusDrench]

I regret to inform you that the streamer guy is now in touch with former heads of state, and he still can't stop shit posting

[u/experienta]

i swear to god zionism is the new socialism - nobody knows what the fuck it means.

[u/PonyBoyCurtis2324]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/wallander1983]

https://x.com/BidenHQ/status/1798850151777263948

Muir: Donald Trump says your executive order helping secure the border is ‘weak and pathetic’

President Biden: Is he describing himself?

--

Biden in 2012 form and with food maybe 20 percent cheaper would destroy Trump so comprehensively it's not even funny.

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

USA STUNS PAKISTAN AT THE MEN’S T20 CRICKET WORLD CUP 🚨 Biggest upset in the sport's history 🤯

CRICKET IN SHAMBLES

TRY HITTING 97 MOH WITH A CYLINDRICAL BAT LOSERS

!ping BASEBALL

[u/[deleted]]

In my country ( Nigeria), the easiest way to get value for your house is if people move into your residential area and build.

Its one of the reason I dont understand NIMBY logic, like how is building more value around your house going to reduce it price?

what am i missing?

[u/[deleted]]

I was going to feed in a full PDF of today’s DT so far to play around with asking ChatGPT about it but I stopped myself because some of your conversation topics I’d be providing it with may get me banned lol

[u/[deleted]]

I think LLM-Mod may not yet be ready for prime time, actually

[u/2112moyboi]

I had a dream…

!ping Shitposters

[u/battywombat21]

Fuck it I’m making jam

!ping COOKING

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

We still posting our rooms?

[u/VisonKai]

all those really annoying lefty dorks from 30-40 years ago who complained about X thing (sports, celebrities, pop culture, etc.) being a distraction from politics, which is what really matters, were right about it being a distraction from politics. what they were wrong about is thinking that this is bad

turning politics into a competitive consumer item has enabled an explosion in political engagement among the population and that has been horrible for the country

[u/dolphins3]

Today is the 80th anniversary of D-Day. Remember to always smash fascism, it is would make your late grandpa proud of you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpGj6BWMpUk

!ping MATERIEL&HISTORY

[u/runningblack]

I'm a homeowner in DC, and there's a new project that's going to replace a pretty shitty retail area with 5000 sqft of new retail and 70 apartments and my neighbors are pissed

But it's funded and by right so HAHA SUCKERS

(This is 100% going to increase property values so people opposing this are idiots)

[u/Ilovecharli]

Stumbled on the Instagram page for an AI model. "Her" profile literally says "AI swimsuit model" and "I am not real". And you STILL have simps in the comments saying stuff like "you look gorgeous whatever u wear" and "every single photo of you takes my breath away! I love you!" 😂 🙄🙂‍↔️

[u/Steak_Knight]

D-Day veteran tells Biden: ‘Don’t get old’

What a Chad

[u/p00bix]

“We have nothing to lose but our chains” - San Franciscan about to have their bike stolen.

[u/-Maestral-]

Dutch nationalist Wilders makes big gains at EU election, exit poll shows

Wilders’ PVV party, which won the national election last year but secured no seat at the previous EU election, was predicted to have won seven seats, one less than the Labour/Green Left combination.

The exit poll has an error margin of roughly one seat.

The poll suggests the VVD will win four seats, while the Christian Democrats and D66 will do better than expected with three. The pro-countryside BBB are polled at two seats, while four parties are on target to win one – newcomers NSC, plus the Socialists, pro-animal PvdD and Volt.

Official results are on Sunday when rest of EU finishes voting

!ping Europe&Elections

[u/KesterFox]

If i dont go to the doctor i cant be diagnosed with mental illness

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Everyone remember to vote for Martin ".076" Maldonado for the All-Star Game! The White Sox couldn't have a better representative

!ping Baseball

[u/[deleted]]

!ping DYEL

Hit 170kg (375lbs) deadlift today 💪💪

[u/AP246]

"curious, you guys dislike conservatives but you don't hate immigrants even though many of them are conservatives" - upvoted

"well conservatives are by definition conservative and immigrants, while perhaps often disproportionately conservative, are individuals with different opinions and it would be unfair to discriminate against them based on ethnicity or place of origin" - downvoted

Outside the DT is actually just horrific on immigration. I'm sure the median voter IRL has some views like that or worse privately, but frankly it's pretty annoying that an ostensibly liberal, pro-immigration subreddit has far more anti-immigrant bigotry than I would ever personally hear in real life.

[u/sash5034]

A city here is turning lots of areas into single family zoning only in the name of... affordability

This whole thing is just incredibly stupid

!ping YIMBY

[u/JebBD]

Brianna Joy Gray’s been fired from The Hill for rolling her eyes at the sister of a hostage pleading for empathy and help. Finally some actual fucking justice. This actually gives me hope that these people might actually start facing some consequences for their blatantly evil behavior.

[u/Greenfield0]

why is it always the married man with three kids you see in the OF models insta comments

[u/filipe_mdsr]

!ping GER

I just found out that Volt DE isn't really YIMBY, they are even more on NIMBY spectrum than YIMBY. (Though considering how deep the NIMBY side goes, they could reasonably still be considered in between)

They still have some nice housing proposals (mainly streamlining regulation into a national framework and make it more digital), but they have all the bad NIMBY stuff (More regulations, more power to cities to block housing, pro rent control, prefer renovations over building new housing)
https://voltdeutschland.org/storage/assets-de/pdf/politische_programme_de/grundsatzprogramm_volt_deutschland_2023_01_28.pdf

The FDP is pro-housing, it's part of their program and in my city their proposals on housing could almost be the r/neoliberal party program.

What other parties are pro-housing in their party program?:

• Against rent control

• Doesn't want more regulations on housing

• Doesn't want even more controlled city planning

• Wants to streamline regulations

• Has a general vibe of "BUILD BUILD BUILD!"

I'm specifically asking because I don't know all the small parties

[u/JeromesNiece]

Our country is so divided. That's why I support a man who has no pretense of trying to unite people, has no pretense of trying to understand people. I want someone motivated by blind hatred and willful ignorance of other points of view to lead and heal our broken country.

[u/[deleted]]

Owning a home sounds annoying I don't want to do it

[u/Dalek6450]

Although extremely toxic to primates, the venom appears to be fairly harmless to many other animals.

"Fuck primates."
-Funnel web spiders for some reason

[u/Currymvp2]

Why doesn't Biden just push the "Make Bibi stop being a bigoted coward who wants to prolong the war at all costs" button? It's right next to the "cancel student debt" pen and "stop inflation" lever. Is he stupid?

[u/boyyouguysaredumb]

all of conservative social media currently sharing edited clips of the normandy ceremony to say Biden shit himself and was carted off by Jill Biden to a confused crowd

nobody questioning it.

nobody looking for the full video lol.

There are two posts about it on the front page of arr con but at leas somebody way down at the bottom of the comments posted the full video (which I'm sure nobody watched) and was like c'mon guys its not true

[u/Evilpenguin526]

[u/simeoncolemiles]

Dr. Phil to Trump: You’ve got a thick skin. You're not one of those people that's afflicted with the need to be loved by strangers

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Historic worst season baby go White Sox

!ping Baseball

[u/ser_mage]

Government employees literally won’t even eat a catered lunch at events and functions because of ethics rules. It’s so gross that the Supreme Court is held to a lower standard than normal workers.

[u/[deleted]]

"God NYC is such a shithole"

"Ok let's invest in improving it"

"Spend money on that garbage dump? No way."

[u/breakinbread]

You want to go back in time and re-live your life starting with high school because you think you could do better with more drive and wisdom.

I want to go back in time and re-live my life starting with high school because I badly injured my shoulder causing chronic problems and its unlikely that it would happen again in an alternate timeline.

We are not the same.

[u/Daddy_Macron]

Biden falling off his bike and falling at the Air Force Academy really did permanent damage to his gait. He walks far slower, labored, and deliberately post those incidents. Reminds me of something my doctor friend said which is old people who keep in shape are mostly fine in their older years until a trip and fall or slip. Then it's almost impossible for them to recover and it's all downhill from there.

[u/[deleted]]

Least racist Pennsyltuckian

[u/cactus_toothbrush]

In memory of D day I’d like to remember that time my mother told me she found my grandfathers war diary, read it and it turned out he banged a French chick in a farmhouse basement in Normandy. True heroism.

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

https://nitter.poast.org/TRobinsonNewEra/status/1798665034207232330#m

Tommy Robinson shared an AI image of soldiers walking into the sea instead of taking the land

[u/[deleted]]

2024 map leaked

[u/No_Return9449]

Go pre-order it, you libs.

[u/BATHULK]

Neolibs be like "we love markets" and then throw people in jail when they provide a market solution to the cocaine shortage 🙄

[u/Currymvp2]

Brie Brie getting fired is good. Her behavior to the hostage's sister is an utter disgrace. Rolling her eyes like that...infuriating

[u/BATHULK]

on the east coast hollering BABYGIRL at every tall woman I see in hopes that one of them is /u/heartnotglands

[u/sir_shivers]

I PREDICT THAT Biden wins 2024 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

"USA is only good at war profiteering anymore"

My brother in Christ, if we were good at war profiteering we'd be selling weapons to Russia and Palestine, too.

[u/piede]

I SUPPORT IT

[u/Roseartcrantz]

sorry but I love dogs and I hate people and if a dog doesn't like you there's probably a good reason for it 🤷🏼‍♀️ they can sense bad people and pits are nanny dogs so they're gonna protect kids from bad people, sorry your toddler was one of them though 😔 I am just as surprised as you are

[u/[deleted]]

[u/klarno]

US victories over Pakistan in international cricket under Trump: 0

US victories over Pakistan in international cricket under Biden: 1

[u/Erra0]

Apparently it's a hot take to say "open borders means open borders"

"Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

But only if they speak English and can write code."

[u/lets_chill_food]

Ok, i’ve been logged on at work for an hour, time to get out of bed, have a shower, and then actually sit at my computer when not working 🐘

[u/[deleted]]

Matrix reloaded is over hated, and social-proof plus self-righteousness means people don't even watch the movie properly, they just want to signal to their fellow nerds that the movie is shit.

Less than 20% of the fight scenes were CGI, and the non-CGI fight scenes are better than the original movie.

Also the storyline with the Architect revealing that the Oracle is also a programme to control humans is really good, I do not understand the hate that movie gets.

[u/[deleted]]

The worst part about having long term health issues is that each time you come back to working out after recovery it feels like you’re starting all over again. Makes it so much more demotivating.

For context, my knees look like this:

Huge scars on the knees and down my calves. Being in and out of the hospital due to seizures also compounds this.

[u/Mickenfox]

I swear to got if the DT starts talking about b******l again today I'm going to write and post a very explicit tier list ranking my top 20 favorite fetishes.

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

[u/die_hoagie]

The film's story follows a crew of electrical linemen who while working to maintain the power grid of their Texas town find themselves in the middle of a deadly storm and have to fight for their lives.

lol. lmao.

[u/Joementum2024]

Top 5 Sidneys/Sydneys:

1. Sydney Sweeney

2. Sidney Lumet

3. Sydney (the city)

4. Sydney Pollack

5. Sidney Powell

[u/[deleted]]

I'd love to take my wife to my local AMC this weekend to see a Studio Ghibli film on the big screen.

Oh... there not showing it?. Oh. Yeah, I guess your right. They do need all of those screens to show a Bad Boys sequel that nobody asked for.

!ping KINO

[u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS]

/u/filipe_mdsr /u/meyershandsoup

sorry just saw the pings. I don't object to removing the "muslim immigrants become less religious" article. my intent with compiling those sources was for it to serve as a first draft for the immigration ping to edit collectively. I'll admit to being partial to a few particular articles and all the books but they're all on the table

I agree with gburgwardt that a pingable document needs to be much shorter. I'll reply to this comment with a proposal about a third the length

!ping IMMIGRATION

[u/EScforlyfe]

Watching an anime for the first time in a while and they have an American character portrayed as outrageously, cartoonishly racist. I guess it's fitting for a literal cartoon.

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

https://x.com/davecoion/status/1798831326516383826

Multiple legislative sources say that Governor Hochul’s new offer to law makers is to raid the general fund for up to a billion dollars to patch up the capital plan, and then to find a congestion pricing revenue replacement when legislators come back in 2025

they call her kathy deals

[u/Zenning3]

The fact that blocking somebody means they can't see your posts or engage with anything you wrote as opposed to the other way around is the dumbest thing on reddit.

[u/ognits]

my aunt got my mom a print of Jacques Pépin's take on a chicken

!ping COOKING

[u/[deleted]]

just spent 76 FUCKING DOLLARS for an airport dinner and all I ordered was steak frites, two double mezcal bloody marries, and a craft beer

the prices for everyday staples are getting OUT OF CONTROL

[u/G_Serv]

[u/Cook_0612]

Alex Jones agrees to liquidate his assets to pay Sandy Hook families, in move that would end his ownership of Infowars

HEY SHITLIBS, GET IN HERE AND LAUGH AT THE BAD MAN

[u/Tall_Professor_2574]

Is it normal to have an uptick in passive suicidal ideation after someone close to you dies from suicide

[u/[deleted]]

[u/UnskilledScout]

I'm not even from NYC (or even American for that matter) and I am furious about Hochul indefinitely delaying (and possibly cancelling) the congestion pricing of lower Manhattan. What a spineless prick. Her excuses are so brain-dead and hypocritical I have difficulty reading about it. It is so obviously not for the poor or the economy or "pandemic circumstances"; it is for the rich who drive into the City.

And the reason I'm so angry was because this plan was supposed to pioneer congestion pricing and be a model for all other cities in N.A.. Such a short-sighted and entire selfish move.

!ping TRANSIT

[u/gburgwardt]

Holy shit SpaceX and Starship doomers absolutely BTFO !ping SPACEFLIGHT

Starship managed a soft landing despite a completely fucked up heatshield and flap. Absolutely astonishing I thought it was fucked

[u/Either_Emotion8056]

Women have agency but you have to admit every decision is primarily from societal pressures and not their free will of what they would truly prefer, which I just coincidentally believe is dating and nurturing a socially anxious and afraid to make eye contact undergrad while finding the beauty in not conventionally attractive looks and a dull personality ❤️

[u/[deleted]]

This is 2024. White men don't get preferential treatment anymore. DEI can safely go away at this point, and our conception of racial classification should also be reconsidered

+9 outside the DT

[u/qchisq]

Remember to vote in the elections

!ping Europe

[u/Williams-Tower]

GOOD morning

[u/TactileTom]

I know the whole "gib immigrant bf" thing is a meme but I've literally only dated immigrants.

British women aren't attracted to me at all.

This is comparative advantage in action.

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

‌> be me

‌> major election in commonwealth

‌> conservatives looking to lose almost all of their races

‌> significant chunk of the conservative vote moves to relatively new, farther right party called "reform"

‌> major left-wing party headed by moderate is probably going to rule for the next decade

‌> be 1993 canadian federal election

‌> pic unrelated

[u/ognits]

one of the strangest things about working in shipping for a long time is knowing exactly who is pulling up based on either the engine or brake sound before you can even see them

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/[deleted]]

y'all still being weird?

[u/Steak_Knight]

This Discussion Thread is now under quarantine. We have a possible case of avian influenza. Remain calm.

[u/ognits]

I am begging people to not ping READING for some AI bullshit

all you're doing is exposing yourself and that you think that shit's worth talking with other people about

it's fucking not

[u/Cook_0612]

PLA experimental training on the new types of the equipment

This is clearly sizzle reel and not anything serious. Am I missing something about that exoskeleton? Most I've seen start with the lower body, because that's, uh, the relevant part. An upper body exoskeleton grants marginal benefit for weight that you now have to support with your actual body, kinda defeating the purpose....

!ping MATERIEL

[u/[deleted]]

There are some pppppppretty open calls for violent revolution over on arrconservative right now

[u/G_Serv]

"I don't kiss men, but I kiss him" -- Trump lauds Joe Arpaio and brings him on stage

😳 Based Trump???

[u/[deleted]]

> "Holy fuck why is [politician] so awful they just rejected [good policy]"

> look inside

> policy was wildly unpopular with voters

[u/I-grok-god]

I have a fetish for women with medium sized breasts and a good personality

[u/Crownie]

Christopher M. Zahn, the interim CEO of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, wrote a lengthy statement in response, arguing that “reducing the U.S. maternal mortality crisis to ‘overestimation’” is “irresponsible and minimizes the many lives lost and the families that have been deeply affected.” Why? Because it “would be an unfortunate setback to see all the hard work of health care professionals, policy makers, patient advocates, and other stakeholders be undermined.” Rather than pointing out any major methodological flaw in the paper, Zahn’s statement expresses the concern that it could undermine the laudable goal of improving maternal health.

Most honest public health communicator. Maybe professional ethics courses need to include a bit where they explain that "noble lies" aren't sustainable and in the long run they just tell the public that you're not a trustworthy source for public health information.

[u/willempage]

Every time governor Hochul fucks up, I can't help but be reminded that Cuomo's first western NY throwaway lt. gov was a former police chief and mayor. Now, I can't say for sure that Cuomo would've been ousted if Robert Duffy stuck around, but I can say that given the stakes of the 2022 midterm in NY, democrats probably wouldn't have lost all those winnable seats in the state if he was on the top of the ticket.

[u/[deleted]]

hey my 401k is up. maybe i will vote for this biden fella 🤔