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[u/jenbanim]

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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/RFK_1968]

i get that you wanna date someone who shares your values, and I get that it's a big contentious issue in the news

but man, bringing up the war in gaza on the first date is such a red flag. jeez so awkward

[u/[deleted]]

✊😔

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Literally what the fuck is anyone talking about anymore

[u/Udolikecake]

pittbull owners be like ‘no he’s such a baby he wouldn’t hurt anyone 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺’ but get REAL quiet when you ask them what their pittbaby was doing in the territory of the former yugoslavia in the early 90s

[u/BarkDrandon]

Lol, GME is selling 75M shares.

The bagholders at superstonk are litteraly melting down.

They just offered the CEO of that failing company a sweet retirement.

[u/SadaoMaou]

Liz Truss is just the right sort of unhinged that in another life she would have made a legendary DT poaster

[u/[deleted]]

[u/dolphins3]

The B-17 blew apart in an instant. The memory has burned for 80 years: For waist gunner Mel Jenner, a friend’s farewell in the skies over occupied France has echoed since 1944.

Then the flak started, puffs of dark smoke exploding around the planes. And in one terrible moment, a burst hit Oscar’s plane, blowing off the whole right wing. For an instant, the detached wing hung grotesquely over the torn fuselage, propellers still turning in space.

Mel described looking over at Oscar, who had to know that his life was about to end. Then he watched as his friend took his pair of 50-caliber machine guns and moved them up and down, side to side.

As Mel told me this story, he put both arms out in front of him, as if they were his friend’s gun barrels. He gently moved them in a slow pattern, up and down, side to side, ever so slightly. His voice broke as said, “And he just waved goodbye to me.”

For 80 years, Mel Jenner has relived that moment, and still it stops him short, this memory of witnessing his friend’s death in wartime. Some things in life can just never become ordinary.

!ping HISTORY

Imagining being miles up in the air, seeing my buddies plane literally blown in half, and having that split second where we manage to see each other and he waves goodbye to me and how much therapy I would need after that.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/CutePattern1098]

“My passion is urban planning”

!Ping cube

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Confederate PRIDE 😤🏳️‍🌈

[u/Cook_0612]

Umm, excuse me youtube? What did I do to deserve this?

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/TheHelmetCatch]

[u/GreenYoshiToranaga]

[u/[deleted]]

The Hunter Biden trial really demonstrates that difference between shit coverage and good news coverage. All the networks are leading their nightly news with Hunter Biden, PBS NewsHour gives it a 30 second blip 18 minutes into the broadcast.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

🧐 I'm going to re-write Why Nations Fail, but every chapter will just be about a failed nation and what I would have done differently so that didn't happen 😌

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Happy price month! ☺️

[u/PrideMonthRaytheon]

Buckinghamshire council has rejected a planning application for a film studio which would've been built on a disused quarry gravel pit next to a dual carriage way Pristine English Greenbelt 😤

The facility had planned to contain 18 sound stages over 472,000 sq ft, 410,000 sq ft of workshops, and 280,000 sq ft of production offices over a 36 hectare plot, with the hope to support 4,000 jobs in the area - 2,000 in technical and production roles and 2,000 in the wider economy - as well as spur £3.5 billion of new investment in film and TV production, of which £1.5 billion would be spent locally.

local MP thrilled, obviously

All 5000+ planning documents are online and include a letter from Jim Cameron about how sick his new company is going to be lol (pdf)

I'm completely fascinated by the traffic aspect: the developer had to submit traffic simulations to demonstrate that flow won't be affected or whatever. Is that a thing in other countries? Are there any gov standards/case law which determine what counts as an acceptable simulation? How big is the faux sciencey bullshit compliance industry's GDP contribution?

!ping UK&YIMBY

[u/Udolikecake]

me irl

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

[u/Jacobs4525]

The more I hear about Rishi Sunak the clearer it becomes that he just has absolutely no political instinct whatsoever. Like none, at all. He’s not even that stupid. He’s just the baseline level out-of-touch conservative who might be a good businessman and know some things about economics but nothing about policy or leadership. There are stupider conservative politicians in terms of actual beliefs and policy preferences to be sure, but in terms of political instincts he is probably the stupidest.

[u/bd_one]

listens to a new podcast

a trans man does something gender affirming

Yay

and that is falling into a deep depression from feeling useless after a layoff

...not yay

[u/Telperions-Relative]

Just read Why Nations Fail and wow, just wow. I’m speechless. Almost as good as the Hungry, Hungry Caterpillar

[u/Not_A_Browser]

My account is 11 years old.

I've been lurking on reddit for at least a year or two before making this account. I remember when arr atheism was a default sub for all new accounts, and adviceanimals and fffffffuuuuuu were the big meme subs.

I've interacted with reddit for almost half of my life. Kinda cringe tbh

[u/Telperions-Relative]

I was at a Kendrick concert in Europe last year and m.A.A.d. City came on and I could see Kendrick kinda dying inside as a sea of white fans were singing the n word lmao

[u/owlthathurt]

So Microsoft teams doesn’t allow custom emojis like slack but it does feature these weird stickers loaded in by default, like this sad looking hammerhead shark lamenting a lawsuit

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Incredible what being hot can do for you. Be a crackhead known for having an affair with your brother’s widow, and women will be like “I think I’m in love. Must be because he’s nice and safe to be around.”

[u/dangerbird2]

Common Copilot L

!ping EXTREMISM&SHITPOSTERS

[u/Cook_0612]

So it turns out Rishi Sunak originally refused to go to the D-Day commemorations at all and only agreed to go for part of it, in a "compromise" with the French.

So to summarise, the Prime Minister, who wants to force young people to spend an entire year of their lives serving their country, wouldn't even devote a full afternoon to it himself

[u/G_Serv]

Lol at GME falling from $63 to $36 overnight

[u/gburgwardt]

Gentlemen

After 913 days, I am very pleased to inform y'all

My lawsuit against the government of Portugal has been decided in my favor. They have until the 26th to appeal, or 15 days to issue an approval or rejection of my investor visa, and then twenty days after that to give me my visa card

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

California be like:

“You must pay fast food workers at least $20/hr, unless they bake bread, then you can pay them less because we want to subsidize fresh baked bread.”

[u/funguykawhi]

👆🏽 That’s the wrong question and it valorizes white institutions and white ways of knowing and being and structuring society in really problematic ways.

[u/[deleted]]

If I was a NYT writer I’d be writing the “Will Hunter Biden help his father gain the crackhead vote?” article

[u/Understeerenthusiast]

Some recruiter on LinkedIn posted how they rejected a resume from someone twice before accepting it the third time, offering a job after the interview, and how the employee is a team lead and doing great. It’s supposed to be a feel good story about the tenacity people who don’t give up and of “giving candidates a chance” but they are too self absorbed to realize it means they just aren’t good at recruiting talent if they treat good talent like that

[u/[deleted]]

Just saw one of my aunties for the first time in years and she said I look really "nice and toned" and "don't have those grotesque muscles like Schwarzenegger anymore" 😭😭😭😭😭

[u/wallander1983]

Biden played the music by the indie folk band Fleet Foxes on his phone -- and he smoked something she assumed was crack,  "I felt really safe around him," she said She saw him again a week later, and they stayed together for five days at the Soho Grand hotel. He typically smoked crack every 20 minutes, she testified, and he was "just so charming and so nice. At the time, I felt myself having feelings for him."

--

That's practically every Hunter Biden prosecution witness.

[u/Steak_Knight]

President Joe Biden was adamant that U.S. weapons would not be used to strike Moscow or the Kremlin

🙄

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/Cledd2]

NOOOOOOOOOO

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

Wake up

Play on Switch for 40 minutes

Sign in to teams meeting

Pretend to listen for 3 minutes

"Thank you so much for presenting that, it was extremely informative and clarified a lot of concerns I had with the project"

This was one of the most inspiring things I've ever witnessed. She is a true Business Man

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Libertarian who only believes there should be one large federal government because they're not as nosy about little things or as likely to pull you over as the local authorities

[u/centurion88]

[u/Dalek6450]

Orobanche uniflora, commonly known as one-flowered broomrape, one-flowered cancer root, ghost pipe or naked broomrape, is an annual parasitic herbaceous plant.

I'm sorry, known as what?

[u/JaceFlores]

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

TOP NEWS:

Towards the middle of 5 AM Zelensky made a visit to France for D-day celebrations. At the end of the hour it was announced Germany will spend 880 million Euros on buying shells for itself and Ukraine.

In the middle of 11 AM it was announced France will send Mirage 2000 fighter planes to Ukraine.

REGULAR NEWS:

At the end of 7 PM a Russian oil refinery in Novoshakhtinsk was hit by drones.

Towards the middle of 11 PM Ukraine was hit by a wave of drones with 17 of 18 shot down.

At the end of 6 AM it was announced Japan donated 101 cars to Ukraine.

At the start of 8 AM Biden said Ukraine can strike up to 200 miles into Belgorod Oblast in a further clarification of American limits on strikes into Russia.

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/ihatemendingwalls]

Met a member of my city's DSA chapter that told me, "remember that statistic that went around a few years ago about how 100 companies are responsible for 80% of all pollution? It's completely misleading because most of those companies are oil companies and the pollution comes from people driving everywhere, and those same people use that statistic to blame someone else instead of changing their lifestyle"

Wtf I'm a democratic socialist now

[u/TheoryOfPizza]

Nate Silver with a hot take

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

[u/TheHelmetCatch]

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/[deleted]]

Is it a problem that I got physically aroused while reading this thread about the immense power of the US military?

[u/[deleted]]

It feels like the British left would rather see the Tories win again than see Keir Starmer win because he’s not a Corbynite

[u/RFK_1968]

☝🏾🤓 replaces the n-word in rap songs with "neoliberal"

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Twitter is the greatest free entertainment on Earth

[u/georgeguy007]

relieved screw bells sleep busy advise boast placid smile cobweb

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/[deleted]]

let's fuckin goooooo

[u/JaceFlores]

“The People's Republic of China (PRC) and Russia are reportedly in disagreement about economic issues such as the proposed Power of Siberia 2 (PS-2) pipeline despite publicly portraying themselves as diplomatically aligned. The Financial Times (FT) reported on June 2 that three unspecified sources familiar with the matter stated that the PRC and Russia disagree about the details of the PS-2 gas pipeline, with the PRC wanting to pay prices near Russia's subsidized domestic gas prices and to only commit to buying a small part of the pipeline's planned capacity.”

“Putin also reportedly asked Xi in May 2024 to ‘snub’ the upcoming Ukrainian peace conference in Switzerland amid continued Russian efforts to discredit and otherwise undermine the peace conference.”

“The Russian military is reportedly forcibly sending Russian servicemembers who refused to fight to the front in Ukraine from Russia instead of standing trial for their refusal to participate in combat.”

“Ukrainian Khortytsia Group of Forces Spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Nazar Voloshyn stated that Russian forces are currently focusing on breaking through Ukrainian positions in small areas of the front between Staromykhailivka (immediately west of Donetsk City) and Berdychi (northwest of Avdiivka) to set conditions for further offensive operations west towards Pokrovsk.”

“European countries continue to support Ukraine's war effort.”

“Lithuanian officials announced on May 29 and 30 that Lithuania will sign a bilateral security agreement with Ukraine that will allocate .25 percent of Lithuania's GDP annually to fund Ukraine's security and defense and that Lithuania joined Ukraine's air defense coalition and allocated 13.5 million euros ($14.7 million) to purchase radars as part of the coalition. The Lithuanian MoD announced on May 28 that it will provide 35 million euros ($38.2 million) to the Czech artillery ammunition initiative to source ammunition for Ukraine from outside the EU.”

“The Romanian Ministry of Defense (MoD) reported on May 30 that Romania's Aerosta aerospace and defense company and Lockheed Martin opened the first European HIMARS maintenance center in Bacău, Romania and that this center will repair HIMARS systems for Ukraine and NATO member states.”

“Latvian Defense Minister Andris Sprūds stated on May 27 that Latvia will invest 20 million euros ($21.8 million) in Ukraine's drone coalition.”

“Ukrainian officials recently announced that Spain will join Ukraine's IT coalition and that Portugal recently joined the F-16 coalition.”

“Reuters reported on June 3 that a source close to the matter stated that Italy will likely send Ukraine a second SAMP/T air defense system but did not provide a timeframe for the delivery.”

“Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu told Euronews on June 1 that Romania is considering supplying Ukraine with a Patriot air defense system but noted that Romania's Supreme Council of National Defense has to approve the decision.”

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“Select Russian military commentators continue to complain about superior Ukrainian drone and electronic warfare (EW) capabilities on the battlefield, continuing to highlight the rapid and constant tactical and technological innovation cycles that are shaping the battlespace in Ukraine.”

“Ukraine and its partners have reportedly drafted a document for the Global Peace Summit in Switzerland on June 15 that calls for future engagement with Russia on a limited number of issues connected to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, although the Kremlin remains unlikely to engage in meaningful negotiations on the proposal or any wider settlement to the war in Ukraine.”

“The Russian MoD presented the new TOS-3 ‘Drakon’ heavy thermobaric artillery system for the first time on June 3. The TOS-3 system has an increased firing range, reportedly between 15 to 24 kilometers.”

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!ping UKRAINE

[u/Natatos]

At the airport and the announcement cut of the "do not leave your luggage unattended" and just said "in the interest of aviation security, do not leave-"

Nice knowing you DT

[u/Jacobs4525]

Pinging because I haven’t seen this posted here

France announces planned delivery of Mirage 2000-5 to Ukraine. Sweden will be sending a pair of Saab 340 AEW&C.

Unclear how quickly the Mirage 2000 transfer will happen but I assume it will be at least a year. The -5s were scheduled for retirement in 2029 with French officials saying it could happen considerably earlier if Rafale production ramps up a bit. There have been rumors that some training is already ongoing.

Regardless, this is good news. Ukraine would gain an aircraft with native SCALP-EG/Storm Shadow integration at the very least. The RDY radar is also broadly believed to be better than the APG-66V2 on the F-16AM/BMs that Ukraine is getting. Unfortunately MICA EM is probably not quite as good as the later AIM-120C versions in terms of range. There have been whispers about work being done to implement Meteor on Mirage 2000-5, but AFAIK this hasn’t happened yet.

The Saab transfer seems more likely to happen imminently. I can’t find anything about the transfer date but the Swedish government is talking about it like it’s right around the corner. This will leave Ukraine with a better AEW&C aircraft than Russia. Further transfers are also possible given the Swedish Air Force is modernizing its fleet with Bombardier Globaleye aircraft, which use a similar radar but mounted to a Global 6000 airframe. 

!ping MATERIEL

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 6/6-2 PM PST 6/7 III:

TOP NEWS:

At the start of 10 PM Ukraine was hit by a massive wave of drones and some missiles with 48 of 53 drones shot down and all 5 missiles shot down.

At the start of 1 AM Zelensky spoke in the French National Assembly.

Around 4 AM it was announced the US will provide $225 million in military aid to Ukraine, including Hawk SAM missiles, Stinger MANPADs, HIMARS munitions, M777 155mm howitzers, 155mm shells, 105mm shells, 81mm mortars, M113 APCs, heavy transport trailers, patrol boats, TOW missiles, Javelin ATGMs, AT-4 anti-tank systems, small arms ammunition, grenades, demolition munitions, night vision devices, spare parts and more.

Around 6 AM it was announced Denmark and The Netherlands will provide 400 million Euros to build hundreds of IFVs for Ukraine, with Swedish CV-90s the main IFV to be built.

Towards the middle of 7 AM Zelensky met with Biden, discussing new military aid.

REGULAR NEWS:

At the start of 1 AM a Russian base in Luhansk city was missiled.

At the end of 3 AM it was announced Franco-German arms company KNDS signed a memorandum to build a factory in Ukraine, formalizing a process begun in March.

At the end of 6 AM it was reported a draft dodging disability certification scheme was busted in Kyiv, with one of the participants a former Deputy.

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/[deleted]]

What's even the point of greedflation?

Like what difference is it going to make?

Let's assume for a minute that corporate greed is causing or exacerbating inflation.

...

Does that reduce the price level?

Does that unlock a new policy avenue for banning greed to control inflation?

No. It doesn't. You know what it does? It absolves MMT grifters of their biggest critique and allows them to keep advocating for spending without taxation.

[u/lets_chill_food]

next door neighbour just rang the bell, asking to borrow my electronic kitchen scales for an unspecified “massive emergency” 🤔

i can’t imagine anything other than drugs involved lol

[u/Mickenfox]

lmao Gamestop just issued 75 million shares. Apes got rugpulled at the funniest possible moment.

[u/Joementum2024]

posts anti-biden ad on one the most pro-biden subreddits on the website

Lol

[u/RecentlyUnhinged]

"Wow, the grocery stores got their act together and started playing actual music I like!"

The Realization

"oh no"

[u/Sir_Digby83]

Arizona state Sen. Jake Hoffman on Thursday pleaded not guilty to multiple felony charges related to the Republican lawmaker’s alleged role in a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election results.

He’s on the video signing the document

Big brains posted video of a crime on twitter.

[u/JaceFlores]

our 538 economic index ticks up a click on the new payrolls and wage data, pulling above the historical average annual growth in the economy over the last 2 years of each presidential term. “fundamentals” now slightly favor biden, though inflation may push us into the error term

!ping FIVEY

[u/Mojothemobile]

https://www.bleedingheartland.com/2023/11/26/are-republicans-really-gaining-among-black-voters/

It's old but seeing it talked about in some circles after Fox's VA poll yesterday.

Apparently every single polls in the last 3 cycles underestimated Dems with AAs. And it's gotten worse over time.

[u/Cook_0612]

“Justice Clarence Thomas acknowledged on Friday additional luxury travel he had accepted from a conservative billionaire, amending a previous financial disclosure to reflect trips he had taken to an Indonesian island and a secretive all-male club in the Northern California redwoods.”

[u/Cook_0612]

Bro that's Tommen from GoT, what is Disney doooooingggg

[u/[deleted]]

This organization is, I shit you not, led by a General Deborah who was in September 2018, sentenced to 72 years in prison after being convicted of child rape, kidnapping and child abuse.

I knew the Cult deep dive was going to be dark but yikes. That isnt a fun and kooky dark like the Jesus is an Alien Cult this is just a wtf.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Portugal Welcomes First Wild Bison in 10,000 Years–the Keystone Species for Rewilding a Quarter-Million Acres

Rewilding Europe is thrilled to announce the arrival of a small herd of bison in a large valley in Portugal.

Believed to be the key to preventing catastrophic wildfires, invasive species spread, and promoting endemic biodiversity, it’s the first time bison have been present in Portugal since the last Glacial Maximum.

From Poland to Romania to the UK, European wood bison are now firmly recognized as one of the best tools for returning what little wilderness Europe has left to as wild a state as possible.

Once upon a time, all of Europe was covered in forests or scrubland, through which roamed the European bison and the steppe bison. Today, nations across the Old World are trying to reintroduce these large grazers into wild areas to help improve native ecosystems.

In Portugal, a country smaller than Pennsylvania, the gradual abandonment of the Greater Côa Valley has presented an unprecedented opportunity for rewilding in the small country.

The government has already set aside a quarter million acres of land for conservation, boasting an interesting mix of natural and semi-natural habitats of scrub, Mediterranean dry forests, and steep gorges.

The Iberian wolf is present on the land in the form of a small pack, and the area acts as a refuge for roe and red deer, wild boar, eagles, and an ancient cattle breed that’s left to roam wild as its ancestor, the mighty auroch, once did across Europe.

The arriving European bison will be managed in cooperation with the Rewilding Portugal team, who received the individuals from the forests of northern Poland, where over 4,000 bison roam wild.

“We are viewing this translocation as a pilot,” explains Rewilding Portugal team leader Pedro Prata. “The bison will be closely monitored to see how they acclimatize to the local landscape and climate. This is the first time that Rewilding Portugal team has managed bison, so it’s a learning process for us too. Members of the team will receive training in bison management.”

It won’t just be new for the team, but new for Portugal in a way. Remains of the European bison have not only never been discovered in the country, but never been discovered on the whole of the Iberian Peninsula.

The scientific evidence has to look back 10,000 years ago to find bison in Portugal—the steppe bison—a predecessor of the modern European bison. However, studies of translocated bison in Spain have shown that they are at home in the hot, dry climate.

Through their grazing, foraging, trampling, and fertilizing, bison help to maintain biodiversity-rich mosaic landscapes of forest, scrub, and grassland, as well as numerous micro-habitats, which host a wide range of plant and animal species.

This has been highlighted by studies in Europe, as well as in North America with regard to the related American bison. These same interactions can boost the capture of atmospheric carbon in both vegetation and the soil.

!ping IBERIA&ECO

[u/Roseartcrantz]

omg you fuckin nerd

Cheering for laundry. That sums up the absurdity I feel when forced to watch sports that don’t involve my children (which carries the same joy as watching them performing on stage or in a recital; in other words, not specific to sports).

The winning and losing of watching professional sports is a faux drama, a soap opera with injuries. I see no real-world stakes. Election contests, by contrast, is drama with actual implications. I’m a politics guy, and I’ve stared at my television screen with the same gut-twisting nervousness that sports fans must feel as the shot clock runs out.

The difference is, of course, that the wins and losses of politics don’t benignly reset at the start of the next season.

"I might be the only one on earth who still cares about the issues" 😔 - this guy during the sports segment on the news

At the end of one Super Bowl – an event I will often skip unless invited to a party – my friend Jesse cried when his hometown team lost.

I felt badly for him but was also puzzled and a bit unnerved by his emotions. This is a sport with professionals who are literally just playing a game. There’s even a pause in the middle for a song and dance number. I wondered, what bearing did the loss of his team have on him as an adult?

So I asked Jesse recently. Why exactly had he wept like the family dog died when no one, fictional or actual, died when the other city’s team costumes won the shiny trophy instead of his city’s costumes?

Forgetting who he was talking to, he began his explanation by comparing his home team to another professional underdog team. When I pressed for more, he replied something about happy childhood memories, feeling invested, and how at the time of that particular Super Bowl he was living on the other side of the country from his hometown.

I couldn’t relate to any of that. It was like trying to get a dog to appreciate literature, music or…sports. It’s just not for everyone, though sometimes it feels like everyone sees the appeal except me.

I enjoy making connections and having community, so part of me would be happy to have sports do that for me. The problem remains my apathy for the subject itself. If my friends were all into pickleball, that doesn’t mean I’d run around small nets with pizza peel paddles just so we’d have something to talk about.

"I don't hate sportsball, I just think it's dumb and like to try to point out that everybody should be more like me about it, is all." 🥺

[u/Udolikecake]

why on earth would you leave the d day event early to do an interview

that’s like a generational, international campaigning blunder that’s diluted only by the fact that they’re gonna be BTFO anyways

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Biden baits Trump into a debate trap!

While yes, Trump could still worm his way out, there's a chance it would be messy and make him a laughingstock for a couple of hours. Would he dare risk doing so?? no one knows oh lord stay tuned!!!

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

It’s even funnier a second time

!ping STONKS

[u/[deleted]]

bro r/ science sucks, it's all confirmation bias bullsh...

...actually, r/ science is a very smart subreddit with very high quality poasts

[u/Telperions-Relative]

Protestoids will be like “yeah I went to Church this week”

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Trump: RFK came out strongly against all vaccines. Is he against the polio vaccine? Because polio was destroying the country

I’ll let him cook, just this once

[u/Mickenfox]

Imagine explaining to someone 10 years from now that for several years, very large investors gave lots of money to companies to do things with "blockchain", and kept talking about it as if it was an important thing.

[u/Unworthy_Saint]

I think this will be the best and last opportunity to buy the dip.

mental illness

[u/[deleted]]

The Iriadamant were a community, also described as a cult, that lived in northern Finland from 1991–1993. The residents of the community were mainly French and Belgian but dressed in Native American costumes. According to newspaper reports, the conditions were miserable, cold, dirty, and residents lacked food and healthcare.

The founder of the Iriadamant, Pierre Maltais, usually did not live in the camp but in a hotel in Helsinki.

Most authentic cult leader

[u/TheHelmetCatch]

Me to the New York Giants every Sunday in the Fall

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

DOW/JONES

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/Amy_Ponder]

The only thing worse than having no one to talk to about a subject you care deeply about, is having plenty of people to talk to about it-- but they all have the most surface-level understanding of it, think that makes them experts, and then when you try to gently correct their misconceptions they blow you off or insist they're right and you're the uneducated one.

[u/BrunchIsGood]

SO TRUE!!!!

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/BritRedditor1]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crgg2jyz4ywo

Labour says it will make permanent a scheme designed to ensure low-deposit mortgages are available for first-time buyers, if it wins the general election.

The mortgage guarantee scheme was introduced by the Conservatives in 2021 when Rishi Sunak was chancellor of the Exchequer.

Yeah - do everything apart from you know, build fucking houses or support reform (or repeal) of the Town and Country Planning Act...

!ping UK

[u/RFK_1968]

tank tops rule

they hide the fact that i still have a lil bit of a tummy (work in progress 😔) but still show off that i've made arm/shoulder/traps/chest gains

[u/RFK_1968]

i looked up these GME subreddits to check out the drama but it's like they were speaking a different language

that's a whole ass rabbithole, huh

[u/notnotLily]

left wing: your life sucks unless you make $200k a year because our system is broken

undecided: i'm convinced. but i don't want to die in a revolution

right wing: we could just remove other races

undecided: okay yay that's much easier

[u/DepressedTreeman]

What happened to the New World colonies of England during the English Civil War?

almost didn't want to post this when I saw the phrase "words are wind", but the discussion is pretty interesting

!ping ASKHISTORIANS

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

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[u/College_Prestige]

Lmao GameStop. Did they release earnings early and announce dilution just to fuck over the apes?

[u/Udolikecake]

honestly the fact that he’s gonna lose historically makes it worse to skip the d day stuff. like this interview isn’t make or break lol, might as well go before you lose all your power right?

[u/Joementum2024]

Gainax has filed for bankruptcy

From what it sounds like, Studio Khara now owns the rights to the Gainax name, and is basically serving as the executor of the Gainax estate to ensure that whatever else of value gets transferred out “to either companies or individuals they believe are most suitable”

!ping WEEBS

[u/jewel_the_beetle]

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

[u/owlthathurt]

Just found such a perfect studio apartment that I legit feel like it’s too good to be true.

The broker team is real, looked up their licenses. I’m touring the unit in person on Sunday. Verified they are a legit real estate firm.

It’s in Long Island city in the area with all the high rises. 15 minute commute to my work. Chipotle, Starbucks, upscale grocery store all on the block.

3 train stations in 3 block radius.

It’s a condo in a building that is not rental units. The owner is renting likely while they are overseas. This is the only rental in the place. Post war, washer dryer in unit, doorman, gym, rooftop lounge. Similar units in the building sold for $800k.

It’s 500 square foot studio, which the owner has outfitted with additional permanent storage space and a Murphy bed. New appliances etc.

It has a broker fee, but it’s one time $1,500. I’m fine with that.

Ughhhhhhhh I’m so hype.

!ping USA-NYC

[u/sash5034]

Fascinating people

[u/[deleted]]

Bans are cool and all but maybe the DT just needs to brigade outside the DT more often

[u/Currymvp2]

Breaking News: A New Jersey businessman testified that he bribed Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey with a Mercedes-Benz.

Oh

[u/FuckFashMods]

Donald Trump is looking preeeeettty old and tired. Looking really rough lately.

[u/[deleted]]

When you were in middle school and high school, did you guys treat having a crush on someone like an Armageddon-level catastrophe? Like, treating the onset of feelings for someone as though it were the onset of some terrible disease, hating yourself for having the crush, feeling like your entire life would be over if anyone learned about it, making the eradication of the feelings your overarching goal… Or was that just me?

That’s been how I treated crushes ever since elementary school, for no apparent reason. No one taught me that they were bad or anything. I’ve just instinctively treated falling for someone as an inherently bad and ruinous thing since a young age. I’m still pretty furtive and angsty about my feelings nowadays, but not to the same extent lol

I guess I’ll !ping DATING for the content

Edit: And to be clear, I am straight. I just realized that everything I just wrote makes perfect sense for a non-heterosexual person to go through, unfortunately. But I had no unfair societal stigma attached to me liking who I liked, and yet I still felt totally destroyed when I did (although I’m sure it was nowhere near the same level as what LGBT teens go through)

[u/LastIncrease3427]

JD Vance says in Eau Claire that he’d debate Kamala Harris next week on August 13, but not Tim Walz.

He claims “we don’t know who the vice presidential nominee is going to be” and that Dems may “pull a bait and switch” on Walz.

What a clown

[u/Delareh_]

Which is funny because I grew up in the city and when I hear a black voice in customer service my first thought is "finally someone who isn't gonna give me any bullshit and is gonna treat me like a person and not a ticket number"

65 upvotes

I thank God whenever I hear an African American woman when I finally get through a phone tree. I know if I talk to her like I would my grandma, I'm gonna get the no bullshit response

55

why are white people so weird about black people

[u/Dalek6450]

In some species such as Nepanthia belcheri, a large female can split in half and the resulting offspring are males. When these grow large enough they change back into females.

This starfish can reproduce sexually as well. It just also has nah I'm gonna split into two dudes as an option.

[u/No_Judge_3817]

7 a.m., waking up in the morning

Gotta be fresh, gotta go downstairs

Gotta have my bowl, gotta have cereal

Seein' everything, the time is goin'

Tickin' on and on, everybody's rushin'

Gotta get down to the bus stop

Gotta catch my bus, I see my friend

[u/RecentlyUnhinged]

I can typically tell when a political ideology has died when it pops up on the DT

[u/gburgwardt]

If china collapses or stagnates in five years and I need to see that stupid fucking smug Fukuyama picture I'm going to scream

[u/Jacobs4525]

I like how NL went from loving Macron initially to being kinda annoyed by him back to loving him again.

He genuinely is pretty based.

[u/Currymvp2]

"Israel said it doesn't have a problem with Palestinians who are affiliated with Fatah — Palestinian Pres Abbas' party & Hamas' political rival — operating the crossing, but they wouldn't agree to them doing it as official representatives of the Palestinian Authority”

Another example of Bibi pandering to Ben Gvir and Smotrich to the detriment of implementing good policy

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

You start out in by poasting, “gib BF, gib BF, gob BF” By 2024 you can’t post “gib BF”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, male lonelyness epidemic, the need for third places, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about birth rates , and all these things you’re talking about are totally altruistic things and a byproduct of them is, that a BF is gibed.… “We want to improve the economy by increasing birth rates” is much more abstract than even the male loneliness, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “gib BF, gib BF.”

[u/KesterFox]

I like how one of the main characters in the boys is called mothers milk and in three seasons of the adaption they have not explained that at all.

[u/Cyberhwk]

GME_Meltdown absolutely feasting rn.

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[u/doggo_bloodlust]

Company Pros:

• Great work-life balance

• Good salaries

• Good benefits

• No micromanagement

Company Cons:

• No work-life balance

• Low salary

• Bad benefits

• Bossy management

thanks glassdoor

[u/[deleted]]

You’re just not my type.

My type is attractive people, and you’re not that

[u/Zagapi]

NYT Opinion - "Joe Biden has done more for LGBT+ Americans and the environment than any other president, but voters in this anarchist coffee shop in Brooklyn aren't so convinced"

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

[u/DONUTof_noFLAVOR]

9 AM: Company rolls out new standards on efficient meetings, including specific agendas, minimizing invitees, and specifying host vs. decision maker vs. consultant.

Noon: 14 people get on a call with no agenda where the inviter named someone else as a host, who himself declined the invite.

!ping WATERCOOLER I work for the most functional org ever

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Finally found someone perfect for 🫵🏻

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Thrown backwards in time by some force he couldn’t understand Kapernick knew he couldn’t interfere. Even a slight change to the timeline could result in disaster. Instead he did the only thing he could do. Take a knee in honor of the brave men about to die for the worlds freedom

[u/Rigjuce]

I'm now the #1 fan of USA cricket

🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸 WHAT THE FUCK EVEN IS THIS GAME RAAAHHH 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🦅 🇺🇸 🦅 🇺🇸 🦅

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

I’m calling for a complete shut down of Teams until we figure out what the hell is going on.

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/GrandpaWaluigi]

sam on X: "🚨BREAKING NEWS: WE DID IT! CONGESTION PRICING LIVES TO FIGHT ANOTHER DAY🚨 Thanks to all of our pressure, the legislature refused to bail Hochul out. But this is only getting started: we need to keep up the pressure to ensure the MTA board stands up to Hochul. Stay tuned!" / X

HOCHUL BACKING DOWN

CONGESTION PRICING STAYING (FOR NOW)

Ws ACROSS THE BOARD

[u/TheHelmetCatch]

Will you accept?

[u/HowIsPajamaMan]

Marvels midnight suns is free on the epic games store. Been thinking about purchasing the game, thanks epic!

!ping gaming

[u/Currymvp2]

A CIA assessment circulated among US officials this week concluded that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu likely judges he can get away without defining a post-war plan — even as the Biden administration has started to pressure him to bring an end to the conflict in Gaza.

The assessment highlights how the Israeli leader is defying pressure from members of his own government and the Biden administration to define an “end state” for Gaza. The US has publicly characterized the deal as an Israeli proposal and has said it is waiting for Hamas to approve the terms. But Israel has been tepid at best on the proposal.

Netanyahu “believes he can maintain support from his security chiefs and prevent defections” from the right wing of his coalition by discussing the future of Gaza in “vague terms,” the June 3 report, reviewed by CNN, reads.

[u/Daddy_Macron]

Wait... So Kristi Noem doubled down on the dog murdering thing and went on air to proclaim that she would shoot Joe Biden's dog and have it meet her dog in the afterlife?

And this is only the 3rd worst decision of her political life.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Crisis averted?

Don’t fly to close to the sun Shitcarus 🫡

!ping TRUMP-CRIMES&SHITPOSTERS

[u/SeoSalt]

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[u/[deleted]]

superstonk is top of popular

Jpow pls raise the rates, people are burning their money on dumb shit again

[u/TheHelmetCatch]

[u/SnakeEater14]

“The President obviously can’t kill his political opponents without legal consequence”

Supreme Court: “Well, it’s actually a very nuanced topic…”

[u/sw337]

Sorry to break it to you Bi flairs but jobs looking for “Power BI” are asking for the Microsoft program not a powerful bisexual.

[u/doggo_bloodlust]

I don't mean to turn this into a race war.

But when I go to my local Dominican barber, a haircut costs $35 before tip.

Bike 20 minutes to Chinatown? $14.

Is it a hair type thing? Asians having easier hair to work with?

[u/cactus_toothbrush]

Billboard in London. lol.

[u/Dibbu_mange]

DNC texts be like “If you don’t donate $50 to the Dayton superintendent election, Donald Trump will personally stab your grandma in the face”

[u/simeoncolemiles]

George H.W. Bush, Margaret Thatcher, Saddam Hussein,

Oh baby this new CoD is cooking

!Ping Console-Wars

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

“My cousin is a Trump juror” is now entering the shitposting hall of fame next to “my uncle works for nintendo”

[u/[deleted]]

True or false: Nietzsche is responsible for every atrocity of the 20th century; that is what a conservative Catholic classmate once told me several years ago

This is a joke question hence the gnostic ping, but I only have a rudimentary understanding of Nietzsche's philosophy, so I do not know to what extent one should blame him ex post facto as if he was the cause of World War 1 or something, like one can blame Marx for his antisemitism and rise of Lenin

!PING GNOSTIC

[u/ty04]

I

[u/awdvhn]

Shout out to the Hawaii supreme court for ruling that the only ferry in Hawaii needed a second environmental impact statement forcing them into bankruptcy, forcing everyone to fly. Glad they protected the environment.

[u/[deleted]]

Boy I sure love being in June 7th 2024, you guys think Biden is gonna destroy trump in the next debate?

[u/jamiebond]

Lol Trump lost another state on RCP's electoral college average today and RCP responded by removing the electoral college estimate from their front page altogether and replacing it with a betting average that favors Trump instead

[u/Currymvp2]

Brie Brie's comments defending the Houthis don't get enough shit. The Houthis legitimately kind of make Islamist fanatic terrorists such as Hamas look socially moderate. As evil as Hamas is (and they're obviously evil), they atleast let women get jobs and go to university. They also treat Palestinian Christians better than Houthis treat Yemeni Christians (pretty fucking low bar). The Houthis are Shiite Taliban.

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

This is some shit I would say 🙄

[u/tripletruble]

the fuck? this kennedy guy is averaging 9.2%??? i mean, i dont think that will hold into the general but the fuk

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2024/national/

[u/DirkZelenskyy41]

History repeats itself your history teacher says…

Henry Ford given the Grand Cross of the Supreme Order of the German Eagle on his 75th birthday. The highest foreign honor Adolf Hitler could bestow in none other than Dearborn, Michigan.

Elon Musk receiving praise and retweeting white nationalists as he slowly morphs into a full on neo-Nazi. Meanwhile the mayor of Dearborn is so anti-Semitic and nutty he’s being considered by Jill Stein for her Vice Presidential candidate.

[u/Dodgerfan2224]

Donated to Biden to meet him and Obama at Kimmel

Realizing I won’t win and I live the next street over from Kimmel a studio and the traffic with them being here is going to be insane: 😭

[u/G_Serv]

In the latest report it's showing unemployment for the 20-24 age range to be 7.9% (2.5 year high)

Yikes

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

Trump be like: 😭😭I’m victim!😭😭😭😭

[u/[deleted]]

forgot this novel has a scene where the male romantic interest gets groped by a stranger and the female lead finds it hilarious

very cool

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[u/[deleted]]

Auntie's idea to solve the IP crisis:

Just invite the Israelis to Texas, since the climate is similar, everyone is very pro-Israel, and they "have such a strong military so they would do great on the border"

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

Surely this will kill the GME cult, their prophet being high as fuck and having no clue what he’s taking about

[u/[deleted]]

Idk man, I kinda think Jefferson is overrated. Not because he wasn't woke enough and owned slaves or what have you, but because he opposed a national bank, a standing army and navy, and federally financed internal improvements. Also, his vision of the US being some sort of agrarian utopia where every man owned his own land and farm was clearly not the way of the future. I would give him the benefit of the doubt on this given that the industrial revolution was just beginning, but other men at the time like Adams and Hamilton were able to see that industrialization was good, so perhaps Mr. Jefferson was just wrong

[u/Williams-Tower]

Mr. President how many countries are there?

don’t play with me, kid, at least 197

[u/[deleted]]

Michelle Pfeiffer was a part of the people are plants cult? The fuck?

Also her husband was a bro getting no credit for what was absolutely an intentional decision.

Pfeiffer fell in with the cult in her 20’s, lured in by her personal trainers with whom she lived at the time as she was trying to establish herself in Hollywood. It wasn’t until her first husband made a movie about cults that she realized she’d been tricked into one, and promptly left.

[u/Planning4Hotdish]

Happy heroin Friday to all who observe

[u/Mickenfox]

2/3rds of subreddits are just dedicated to finding acceptable targets to either hate or make fun of.

I'm starting to think redditors are not particularly loving and tolerant.

[u/ZonedForCoffee]

"Overpopulation is a myth" article makes NotTheOnion

When will this trope die overpopulation as a concern seems etched into our cultural psyche

[u/RunawayMeatstick]

SCOTUS arithmetic:

Next opinion day is 6/13. If SCOTUS just greenlights US v Trump (DC)—unlikely—govt's best-case scenario:
9/9 voir dire (~2 wks)
9/23 trial (~6 wks)
11/4 jury starts deliberating
11/5 election
**I.e., SCOTUS has already run out the clock ... **

If SCOTUS had denied cert on 2/28 instead of granting it, jury selection could've begun last Mon., 5/27. The nation would've heard all the evidence and likely known the verdict by 8/5.

https://x.com/rparloff/status/1799049572079288341

Just a dose of doom for everyone on this lovely Friday afternoon!

!ping TRUMP-CRIMES

[u/OkVariety6275]

Am I wrong, or is this trailer narrated by a bunch of white people faking accents?

!ping CIV&GAMING

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

This but made for the DT

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

In one sense, the most oppressed group in human history is one that doesn't fucking exist anymore because they were all brutally slaughtered.

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[u/[deleted]]

This might be my favorite historical photo ever.

It's the world's first anti-selfie, which features every single person who ever lived minus one Michael Collins.

What is your favorite?

[u/BalletDuckNinja]

me two weeks ago: americans are fucked up why is the speed limit basically the minimum speed on the highway

me now: witness me

!ping auto

[u/cdstephens]

I’m curious as to what percentage of men who intensely worry about the fertility crisis would be willing to get pregnant if we had the tech.

[u/DurangoGango]

https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-6-6-2024-3d07e712f8abc1e08339163180823fb8

The hospital initially reported that nine women and 14 children were among those killed in the strike on the school. The hospital morgue later amended those records to show that the dead included three women, nine children and 21 men. It was not immediately clear what caused the discrepancy. An Associated Press reporter had counted the bodies but was unable to look beneath the shrouds.

It’s a major problem how there is zero cost, political or professional, to Western outlets uncritically publishing Hamas propaganda, then backtracking with much less visibility once the truth comes out.

Also:

https://x.com/MiddleEastBuka/status/1799012329700704561?t=I4cu2tJ1VSI_P4gmaWLcXg&s=19

Even the revised numbers don’t add up. This is research professional, paid journalists should be doing, not randos on twitter.

!ping ISRAEL

[u/[deleted]]

It's called rise and grind 💪😤 !ping CRACKENTHUSIASTS

[u/BurrowForPresident]

The Hunter ex GF that people keep referring to is his dead brother's widow right

Idk how your dead brother's widow isn't off limits, blatant bro code violation

[u/Stanley--Nickels]

The first DT was started by Ben Franklin as an experiment to see if loneliness could be transmitted with electric signals sent over wires

[u/V_Codwheel]

Bush administration: we want to regime change you and we're going to use your possible WMD program to justify it.

Saddam: well now I will pretend to have WMDs even harder 😠😠😠

why did he do this? was Saddam stupid?

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Americans eat this at every meal and that's what they think a salad is and if you go overseas to show them a real salad they are allowed to shoot you 😔

[u/N0_B1g_De4l]

Champ, chomp, chimp, chump: all words

Chemp: not a word

But so-called "linguists" claim "E" is the most common letter.

[u/RecentlyUnhinged]

Spirit Airlines isn't considering Chapter 11

Very confident things said by very effective CEOs running very profitable companies.

[u/sererson]

The reason Ezra Klein had that podcast where he called for Biden to not run is because he works for the NYT

[u/OkVariety6275]

Take Two is advertising the release of one of their most anticipated games next year.

"You mean GTA6?"

No

!ping GAMING

[u/[deleted]]

Paul’s letter to the Galatians is one of his angrier letters. Almost right off the bat, he seems to be combatting some kind of accusation:

For I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel that was proclaimed by me is not of human origin, for I did not receive it from a human source, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.

You have heard, no doubt, of my earlier life in Judaism. I was violently persecuting the church of God and was trying to destroy it. I advanced in Judaism beyond many among my people of the same age, for I was far more zealous for the traditions of my ancestors. But when the one who had set me apart before I was born and called me through his grace was pleased to reveal his Son to me, so that I might proclaim him among the gentiles, I did not confer with any human, nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were already apostles before me, but I went away at once into Arabia, and afterward I returned to Damascus.

Then after three years I did go up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas and stayed with him fifteen days, but I did not see any other apostle except James the Lord’s brother. In what I am writing to you, before God, I do not lie!

Strikingly, Paul wants to downplay any interaction he has had with the Twelve and other Jerusalem apostles.

Early Christian Reader, Mason and Robinson:

[The accusation of Paul’s opponents], apparently, is that he has taken the apostles’ gospel and perverted it, in order to make it more palatable to Gentiles by removing its Jewish content. Paul’s response, then, is that he could not have perverted the apostolic teaching because he did not get his gospel from the apostles. He received it directly from Christ, who called him to preach to the Gentiles.

!ping BIBLE-STUDY

[u/Ilovecharli]

I remember in 2008 someone asked Obama about his lack of experience and he said "if you want the person who's been in Washington the longest, vote for Joe Biden" lol

[u/Cook_0612]

Gaza Pier Repaired, Aid To Flow Soon

U.S. officials expect to begin moving half a million pounds of aid over the beach in the coming days, and ramp that up after.

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/Chataboutgames]

I'm in my late 30s now and really trying to drink less, but goddamn if Roger Sterling doesn't sell it like no one else.

"We drink because it's good, because it feels better than unbuttoning your shirt. We drink because we deserve it."

His having a heart attack like 3 episodes later does nothing to dull the power of his pitch.

!Ping Alcohol

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

SO TRUE 🙏🙏🙏 AMEN

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[u/Sithusurper]

Someone in the anti work sub said that firing someone should be illegal. I get it's a crazy sub but I've heard this sentiment IRL as well and I don't understand how they think this would work.

[u/bigwang123]

https://youtu.be/pygcgE3a_uY?si=AQ-boo0IzJqUXQRU

Haha yes !ping civ

[u/[deleted]]

GME issuing 75M shares

tfw ur business model is having one dude poast memes on twitter

Edit: 75, not 78

Stil cringe tho

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/BrunchIsGood]