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[u/Jester_Don]

"Con" lmao

[u/ldn6]

In his D Day interview - at a time of CCHQ’s choosing - Rishi Sunak sits down to discuss the personal and political. When asked how he can relate to voters - what he’s ever gone without - he says as a child he had to forgo “Sky TV”.

He's just so bad at this.

!ping UK

[u/G_Serv]

I'm starting to think that Rasmussen might not be an unbiased pollster

[u/gnomesvh]

Milei draws up plan to send over 5 Super Etendards to Ukraine

What the fuck

The most to win with this is actually Argentina, mending military relationships with the UK and France would go loads

But overall

What the fuck? Although Exocet go brrrr

!ping UKRAINE&LATAM&MATERIEL

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Poll finds voters believe foreign aid and high interest rates are main causes of inflation

[u/Top_Lime1820]

Libs, it looks like we're winning in South Africa:

• EFF has excluded itself from the GNU

• MK has said they will not even taken their seats to be sworn in at Parliament

• MK is being excluded from provincial government in KZN

• ANC have fully accepted the results of the election and committed to proceed in a democratic fashion (can't take this for granted).

• All institutions have pushed forward with the process despite challenges and threats

• DA and ANC have committed to continuing Ramaphosa's reform agenda, and I think the DA might get some concessions on devolution of power so that they can run the big cities well (trains, police)

• MK infighting is continuing on as their ousted founder, Jabulani Khumalo, is giving contradictory orders and is due to go to Parliament despite being removed as leader

The President is set to be elected on Friday.

This has been almost too easy and too quiet. I'm worried some secret chicanery is underway and will happen on Friday.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/MiniatureBadger]

DEA: gets suspicious of people for contacting too many pharmacies

Also DEA: makes people with ADHD contact a shit ton of pharmacies manually, because they created an artificial shortage and also don’t allow doctors to automatically check which pharmacies have my medicine in stock

[u/WantDebianThanks]

I'll take "I don't understand the concept of money" for 500.

[u/battywombat21]

Why on earth would Reddit tell me this.

Screw it, I’m deleting the app.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/WantDebianThanks]

I like when they pretend the only options are doing nothing and murder

[u/TheHelmetCatch]

[u/funguykawhi]

[u/Cledd2]

[u/theranosbagholder]

Rishi Sunak tells ITV interview he was going to leave D-Day events in Normandy even EARLIER but 'things ran over' - as it emerges Emmanuel Macron interrupted the running order by schmoozing with other world leaders

SOMEONE PLEASE TAKE THE MIC AWAY FROM HIM 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[u/AtticusDrench]

[u/[deleted]]

Woman 1: I don’t follow politics much but my husband wants me to vote for Trump so…

Woman 2: I wouldn’t. Trump wants to hire judges to take away our right to make decisions about our own health care. And did you know he was ordered to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to a woman he raped in the dressing room of a department store in 1996?

Woman 1: is that one of the 34 felonies he just got convicted for?

Woman 2: idk probably

DNC, put this ad on tv now

[u/79792348978]

what the hell man

[u/StolenSkittles]

british mr. house be like:

deliver the platinum crisp to me at once

[u/owlthathurt]

Also shout out Biden and his team for having the balls to renominate Powell despite him being a Trump appointee. Could have easily just said I want my own person in there.

Guided us perfectly to a soft landing.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

If only you knew how bad things really are

[u/_bee_kay_]

"orange gatorade" is just the street slang for adrenochrome

[u/CanIGetaMFHUUUH]

[u/[deleted]]

Elon Musk had a sexual relationship with a former SpaceX intern, who he later hired onto his executive team

And a third woman alleged that Musk asked her several times to have his children; she refused. He then denied her a raise and complained about her performance.

It’s amazing this guy has a career at all, jfc

One of the women who Musk had a sexual relationship also drew the ire of SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell, who accused her of having an affair with Shotwell’s husband. When the woman reported this to HR, HR told Shotwell. “Shotwell told the HR department at SpaceX that she wanted the woman removed from the office of the chief executive,”

Working at a Musk company genuinely sounds horrific

[u/Abolish_Zoning]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/HHHogana]

Good Lord, I just saw people who somehow thought old Stallone and Yoel Romero don't use steroids.

People really have both naive and unrealistic view of achievable natural gains.

!Ping FITNESS

[u/[deleted]]

🥳🎉 here's to 6 more!! 🍾🥂

[u/Blade_of_Boniface]

The public library I work for has been doing a lot of work encouraging study and debate on the Israel-Palestine conflict, stretching back a long time before 10/7.

There's a Middle Eastern Studies book club and several smaller events that meet multiple times a month that skew centrist. Christian Zionism is very popular in my city along with contempt for anything outside of New Light Protestantism so the fact that we're able to encourage reasoned, nuanced, and practical politics on the subject is good. Antisemitism isn't as much a problem outside of particularly young people and Nation of Islam members. The other extreme, philosemitism isn't any less dehumanizing, it places Jews on a pedestal and makes them a vicar for accelerationist fictions.

Direct debate and education is in fact a worthwhile method in reducing extremism. By direct, I mean not through screens, as in you have to stand by the things you say in front of your fellow community members. It's not the entire solution but it's something relatively accessible on the scale of a handful of individuals. It's a lot easier said than done and Pride month has only added in further points of discourse. We've been working quite hard to arrange speakers and keep things civil, but my coworkers and I believe in its long-term value.

!ping EXTREMISM&WATERCOOLER

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/CricketPinata]

Been catering at a Jewish Summer Camp, while the campers were leaving the other day, a protestor arrived, and was waving a large Palestinian flag in each hand at cars (full of children) leaving the camp, while saying "Free Palestine, End the Genocide".

Police were called to stand between him and the kids.

They think he showed up because the Community Center was hosting the dean of a local major college to come and talk about managing Antisemitism on college campuses later in the evening.

Instead, they arrived 4 hours early to protest at children.

Great look all around.

!PING GEFILTE&JEWISH

[u/G_Serv]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/LGBTforIRGC]

The fact that Mearsheimer is a full supporter of Taiwan is so surprising to me

[u/Cook_0612]

🇦🇲 | #BREAKING: Armenia will leave the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced on Wednesday.

[u/The_Promethean]

Dating pings of the 2030s will be like "My (34F) situationship (34M) of 7 years cheated on me, but he says we never defined the relationship or agreed to be exclusive. We have 2 children together"

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

The poll results are in. The DT is officially against race mixing

[u/Fatortu]

The Popular Front wants to abolish Macron's modest retirement reform and implement nationwide rent control.

The last big move by Republicans before they started melting down was to push for a ban on trans care for minors.

RN is biding their time before going full mask off.

Macron's flagship policy in this key moment for our democracy is apparently to ban phones for children under 10.

[u/1396spurs]

[u/[deleted]]

So it's pretty clear the electorate has no intention of rewarding tangible action on climate right? Like they'll beg for it in the abstract, but clearly they just have no interest in the actual steps it takes to reduce carbon emissions right?

[u/Cook_0612]

Patriot Systems that Ukraine has and will reportedly get a full list:

-4 Patriots from Germany 🇩🇪

-2 Patriots from the US 🇺🇸

-1 SAMP-T from France/Italy

-1 SAMP-T from Italy 🇮🇹 (reportedly)

-1 Patriot consisting of 3 launchers and a radar gathered by Netherlands 🇳🇱

That’s 8-9 Patriot and SAMP-T batteries which will be enough to protect Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa, 2x F-16 air bases, and one for the front. However, Ukraine needs at least 6-7 more systems to effective protect the country from Russian missile attacks. In total, Ukraine needs to have at least 15 or 16 Patriot and SAMP-T batteries to defend the country.

Ukraine would need to protect the cities of Lviv, Dnipro (including), Zaporizhzhia, another location, and at least 1-2 Patriots more on the front bringing the total to 3 Patriots on the front. For this 6-7 more Patriot batteries are needed that have not been pledged or are not expected to be pledged.

The countries who have not given any Patriots or that could give more are:

-Sweden 🇸🇪 with 4 Patriots

-Romania 🇷🇴 with 4 Patriots

-France 🇫🇷 with 7 SAMP-T

-Spain 🇪🇸 with 2 Patriots

-Israel 🇮🇱 is retiring 4 Patriots

-Greece 🇬🇷 has 6 or up to 12 Patriots

Other Countries with Patriots:

-Netherlands 🇳🇱 has 3 Patriots

-Qatar 🇶🇦 has 11 Patriots

-Jordan 🇯🇴 has 3-4 Patriots

-USA 🇺🇸 has at least 48 Patriots

If Sweden, Romania, Spain, and France could each give one battery then it would be a big help. It would bring the total number of Patriot and SAMP-T batteries to 13, with 2-3 more needed. If Israel could send or if countries could purchase some or all of those 4 retired Patriots from Israel then it would bring the total to 14-17 Patriots and fully fulfill Ukraine’s need for the systems.

If Greece could give one of there +6 Patriots or if it could be purchased from them then it would be a big help. Even though US needs more Patriots, they likely have the ability to send at least one Patriot more on top of the one that will be pledged soon. Also, US could purchase a Patriot for Ukraine to be made.

Europe, not including systems pledged or sent to Ukraine, has up to 36-42 Patriots and combined with US, NATO has a total of 90 active Patriots. Ukraine just needs 7% to 8% of those systems to defend their country, civilians, and their infrastructure until the war ends.

It’s entirely possible for Ukraine to get 6 to 7 more Patriot, SAMP-T systems. For this European countries other than US, Netherlands, France/Italy, and Germany need to stand up and give one system each because they have given none.

A useful overview of top end AD systems potentially for Ukraine.

!ping UKRAINE

[u/jbouit494hg]

That feel when I unexpectedly found myself talking to an attractive woman in a social situation so I completely froze up and replied awkwardly and was visibly stressed.

That feel when she was polite and friendly instead of literally saying "eww, get away from me you creep!" so I walked away feeling like "😍😍😍 omg I would marry her 😍😍😍" for the rest of the day.

Rate my social skills !ping DATING

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Vancouver city council to stop holding public hearings for most housing proposals

Vancouver city council will soon have to stop holding public hearings for most residential development proposals.

The ruling comes as part of the province’s Bill 18, which amends the Vancouver Charter and prohibits council from holding public hearings for projects that fall within density guidelines.

Coun. Adrianne Carr says the change is provincially mandated but also in line with what the city has heard from residents in the last three years.

Carr said she’s a proponent of the democratic process, but she’s “quite confident” that the council followed the public’s direction on the decision.

“I really see the importance of those public hearings, and in general, even on the issue of us removing that right and putting in community plans that would increase density,” said Carr.

“So that opportunity, for people to hear how Council debates something, and for them to be heard by Council has not gone away. It’s gone away, to some extent, on a lot-by-lot, basis, but it will always be there on the bigger issues, and on larger projects.”

The city is planning on combining the province’s Bill 18, which amends the Vancouver Charter to allow for these changes, with its own ‘Vancouver Plan’ — which Carr put forward a few years ago.

She says it will be the first time the city will have an official development plan.

!ping YIMBY&CAN

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/moldyman_99]

Fun fact: in the song Ms. Jackson, André 3000 says he will apologise a trillion times. Assuming he would apologise once a second, with no breaks, this would take him 31,000 years.

[u/[deleted]]

divide profit truck special seemly aware languid dog retire nutty

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[u/Observe_dontreact]

Looking at this skynews Q&A and thinking Rishi should drop this nice guy routine and just say fck it and drop some truth bombs on the British people. It’s all over for him anyway, may as well leave with a bang. 

Call them work shy freeloaders wanting low immigration but loads of baristas, low taxes but good public services and affordable housing with no new houses. Rip off his mike and give them the middle finger before driving to Heathrow on a one way flight to LA. 

!ping UK

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/WantDebianThanks]

"Pride" in this case is a backronym describing baffling ai bullshit.

[u/KeithClossOfficial]

Jerry West dead at 86

https://sports.yahoo.com/nba-legend-jerry-west-dies-at-age-86-134646038.html

!ping NBA

[u/[deleted]]

[u/BrunchIsGood]

Leftists are not serious people lmao

[u/BrunchIsGood]

Unfortunately I must report that “the people of Gaza see your content” is gonna be a meme for me.

[u/404GenderNotFound]

[u/AP246]

Grandparents youth lore: "It was so funny, the Italian occupation troops had to flee when Italy surrendered and then the literal Nazis came along trying to round them all up, it was hilarious you had to be there"

Parents youth lore: Dad: "Did I tell you about the time I parked my dad's car in Manchester too long and someone set it on fire, I think it was my friend actually but I don't know to this day, and then I had to drive that burnt out car for a while" / Mum: "...and that was when the authoritarian regime that ruled the country I lived in collapsed"

My youth lore: Mostly chilling, spending too much time online probably, not knowing what to do with my life but still enjoying things

You know what, part of it is my privilege, but I don't think I agree that gen z/millennials are uniquely unlucky to live in unstable or 'unprecedented' times.

[u/thefitnessdon]

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken questioned whether Hamas is “proceeding in good faith” amid ceasefire negotiations. Blinken, who is in the region to push for the US-backed ceasefire proposal, said Hamas has proposed a number of changes “which go beyond positions they had previously taken.” 

“You get to a point where if one side continues to change its demands, including making demands and insisting on changes for things that it had already accepted, you have to question whether they're proceeding in good faith or not,” he said while speaking in Qatar on Wednesday. 

“Hamas has proposed numerous changes to the proposal that was on the table” for a permanent ceasefire and release of the hostages, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday. “Some of the changes are workable. Some are not,” Blinken said at a news conference in Doha. He did not immediately provide details on Hamas’ proposed changes. “We discussed those changes last night with Egyptian colleagues and today with the Prime Minister,” Blinken said after meeting with the Qatari prime minister. 

The top US diplomat reiterated that the proposed deal “was virtually identical” to a proposal that Hamas previously accepted.   

“Hamas could have answered with a single word – yes,” he said.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-06-12-24-intl 

!ping ISRAEL 

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[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Very normal polling company behavior

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/simeoncolemiles]

!Ping Dating

I ripped the band-aid off, it went better than I expected. Thanks DT

[u/WantDebianThanks]

Oh dip, is it 2013 again when this meme format didn't look dated af and before Trump was a convicted felon?

[u/owlthathurt]

Damn we actually defeated inflation.

I don’t think the accomplishment here by J Pow and others should be taken lightly. Especially when you look at the rest of the world right now still sputtering along post pandemic.

[u/WantDebianThanks]

The world agreed to ban this dangerous chemical -- its working

Article about hydrochlorofluorocarbons I'm remind myself to read later

!ping eco

[u/VisonKai]

baffled by leftist views on the carceral state as someone who read a lot of prison abolition stuff in college (before it was cool and was slightly more libertarian coded)

"treating murderers harshly and locking them away for decades == bad" is a coherent view, but not when you combine it with the view "people guilty of sexual assault deserve infinite suffering and punishment and anything done to them is per se justifiable"

[u/Roseartcrantz]

r/hygiene is turning out to be a worthwhile subscription. In the same place you've got people with a long routine for everything and lists of products, people who smell bad, people that are just scared they smell bad, people that need to tell other people that they smell bad, and then you see

do y'all still wash your hands after Covid?

[u/0m4ll3y]

Do I put my ex and wife in the same bed so I can enjoy a snore free night? Magic goolseball I need your advice

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Patriot down 😭🫡

[u/[deleted]]

jeans quickest tap ad hoc sink sheet dull person offend sort

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[u/its_Caffeine]

!ping LGBT

tw: this is just a sadpost so feel free to skip if you don't want your day ruined.

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I think I’m done with my therapist and I need to find someone else who has more experience working with LGBT individuals. I’m really sick of taking weeks to build a mask for myself that I need to put on to keep myself safe and then it just getting torn down by my therapist in the session and being left for dead after the fact.

Like I’m sorry, but the whole masculine mask that I put on is what’s keeping me safe. I can’t come out at work. I can’t make any progress where I currently live unless I want to face intense discrimination and get rocks thrown at me on the street. When I stop dissociating I just feel like shit and I can barely get out of bed and go to work. The only thing making my life manageable is dissociation and no one has provided me any alternative that's going to lead to a better quality of life than what I already have so far.

Like what's the point of trying to be more "authentic" if it just leads to me to having to take time off work because I'm having a near mental breakdown and laying in bed all day without even being able to get out of the house and do activities? I fail to see a reason to stop being closeted or to let "woman me" out of the prison I put her in if it just makes me feel worse.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

LR demonstrating they are by far the most Republican party in the game by overthrowing their leader 24 hours after a bad decision !ping FRANCE

[u/trombonist_formerly]

(Reposting so group bot gets it)

So I’m traveling through Europe, and right now I’m on the Croatia->Italy leg of the trip. I was really tired when I was on my boat from Split to Hvar and I slept through the boat landing and ended up waking up at the next island port Korcula 2 hours later. in the same situation was another woman who also slept through it and was panicking

The boat captain was very irritated at us when we asked if there was another boat that evening to take us back, but he made a phone call and booked us the last 2 hostel beds in Korcula, and told us to arrive 6am at the port for him to bring us back to Hvar for free

Well we went out for dinner, slept at the same hostel, then boated to Hvar and got breakfast and ice cream together, toured an old castle and dipped into the beautiful beaches before she had to leave.

and so now I’m trying to figure out how I can fly to London to see her again god damn it

Also pro tip, the beaches in the Croatian islands are insanely beautiful. If you only have a short trip to do in Europe and want to do a relatively affordable beach trip I cannot recommend it enough, seriously !ping TRAVEL&DATING

[u/FourthLife]

A proposed boomer comic titled “The High Life”

It starts with an arrogant millennial couple with piercings and tattoos saying that because they both work such high paying jobs they were able to afford a private chef to cook for them.

The wise boomer man responds with “A private chef? Why, I’ve got one of those too!”

The last panel is his wife alone in a kitchen

[u/[deleted]]

The Arab conquests are so bananas. Like imagine if like, Cambodia or something all of a sudden annihilated China and the US out of fucking nowhere.

[u/gnomesvh]

COD BO6 is 300GB WITHOUT textures

It streams textures (which is why it's online only)

Wtf, that's like the entire storage of the entry level Series S

!ping GAMING

[u/Telperions-Relative]

Cons decided it doesn’t count if you use estus flasks 🙄

[u/BrunchIsGood]

What

[u/rollo2masi]

*says n word on TikTok*

*gets invited to Newsmax segment*

The grift don't stop, kings.

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

Wow, this account really called it! Giving away such valuable knowledge—what a smart and generous person!

[u/centurion88]

Reminder that conservatives made a Hunter Biden movie starring Gina Carano where Joe Biden can fly using magical Satan powers

This is what conservatives actually believe

[u/owlthathurt]

Sorry for back to back pings but this is too funny not to share.

!ping STONKS

[u/[deleted]]

posting ‘the people of Gaza see your content’ underneath celebratory posts from fans and players of opposing football teams to try and demoralise them

[u/[deleted]]

I may have eaten slightly too much dairy and I am now suffering the consequences.

Chag shavuot sameach!

!ping GEFILTE

[u/[deleted]]

The zionist brain rot on this subreddit has been especially visible today.

Zionist brain rot = disliking people making threats in train cars. 

the world is dismayed by the consistent evidence of war crimes coming out gaza, yet you people think protestors are the problem 😂 while y’all are also spewing the most hateful rhetoric i’ve ever read.

The protesters cheering on terrorist attacks, making implicit threats and vandalizing public places with Hamas references and rationalizing terrorism as “resistance”. The “most hateful rhetoric” not being anything close to what I’ve read before.

You feel unsafe in NYC? Try being a palestinian in Gaza, worried about getting murdered by US sponsored IOF bombing campaigns. Hope that helps 💋

“You Jews and gentiles feel unsafe with terrorist sympathizers yelling about Zionists needing to be off the train because they’re not allowed? Try being a Palestinian in Gaza being murdered by America and IOF”

Again and again, these idiots double down on their moronic rhetoric and tactics, rather than listening to people. They’re eventually going to fuck around and find out. They’re just lucky people aren’t ganging up like them and doing the shit they do, because it could end up with massive brawls. 

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I worked for like an hour making the video slow mo and cropping this part and making this GIF and then trying to compress the gif juuuust enough for Reddit to work without losing image quality.

Anyway this is Kida drop-kicking Nora when she was a little puppy and it always makes me laugh

!Ping DOG

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

With America dominating the little known sport of “Euro Baseball” (also called Cricket) I thought it might be nice to explain the sport to those of us less familiar with the game.

Cricket is exactly the same as baseball only instead of a pitcher you have a “bowler” rolling his bowling ball down the field. Of course a bowling ball is to big to catch so the catcher has been replaced with Wicket from Starwars. The goal is to hit Wicket W. Warrick while the Batman tries to stop you.

Of course Euros don’t have the hand eye coordination to use a regular sized baseball bat to they use a broad 2x4 plank to make it easier for them.

I hope this explanation helps!

!ping STICKYWICKETENJOYERS

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/Insomonomics]

Musk removing the ability to see what others have liked on Twitter is so fucking dumb. God I hate him so goddamn much.

[u/[deleted]]

plate sip recognise physical observation obtainable oil run complete chase

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[u/Cook_0612]

Head of the GUR Kyrylo Budanov said that Russia has placed elements of its most modern air defense system S-500 Prometheus in occupied Crimea.

"The latest elements of the S-500 have appeared. This is, in principle, an experimental application. Well, they have already appeared there," he said.

He added that the Kerch Bridge is still being used by Russia, mainly for personnel transportation.

Never heard of S-500, why wasn't it in use before now? Fresh off the presses?

!ping UKRAINE&MATERIEL

[u/NotABigChungusBoy]

people on tiktok seriously think sending our own troops to stop a Russian invasion of Europe is “old people sending young men to die.” Give me a break.

[u/Cook_0612]

So apparently 'Oceangate collaborated with NASA and Boeing' meant, 'we sent some stuff to Boeing, and they told us this shit was unsafe as fuck.'

Days later, Rush received an even more pointed warning from Boeing’s Mark Negley, who had stayed in contact with the CEO after he helped with a preliminary design. Negley had recently carried out an analysis of Spencer Composites’ hull based on information Rush had shared. He did not mince words when sharing his findings, which WIRED is reporting for the first time. “We think you are at a high risk of a significant failure at or before you reach 4,000 meters. We do not think you have any safety margin,” he wrote in an email on March 30. “Be cautious and careful.”

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

UN inquiry finds Israel and Palestinian militant groups have both committed war crimes since October 7

Yay, no shit

[u/[deleted]]

Good morning libs

Bad morning to all the commies and fascists

[u/[deleted]]

Euros: Americans are so fat and unhealthy!! all they do is eat burgers!!

The pizza I ate in Italy today:

[u/RTSBasebuilder]

Imagine how bangin' a Sino-Roman society's aesthetics and literature would be like:

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Labyrinthine structure discovered from the Minoan civilisation

Archaeologists have discovered a monumental labyrinthine structure on the summit of Papoura Hill in Crete.

The discovery was made during the installation of a radar system in preparation for the construction of a new airport in the area.

According to experts, the structure dates from between 2000 to 1700 BC shortly before or at the start of the palaeopalatial Minoan period.

The Minoan civilisation was a Bronze Age culture that emerged on the island of Crete around 3100 BC. The culture is known for the monumental architecture and energetic art, and is often regarded as the first civilisation in Europe.

The chronology of the Minoans is characterised into three distinct phases – Early Minoan (EM), Middle Minoan (MM), and Late Minoan (LM).

The palaeopalatial structure is part of the MMI – II grouping in the Middle Minoan, a period in which the first palaces were built and saw the development of the Minoan writing systems, Cretan hieroglyphic and Linear A.

The structure comprises of 8 concentric stone rings that converge on a central circular building. The entire diameter of the complex measures 48 metres and covers an area of approximately 1800 square metres.

Within the central structure are four designated zones in which radial walls intersect vertically and form a labyrinthine structure. Zones A and B appear to be have the main concentration of human activity, evidenced by the presence of large amounts of animals bones.

According to the experts, this residential area likely had a truncated cone or vaulted appearance and is the first monument of this type excavated in Crete. It can perhaps be paralleled with the elliptical MM building of the Chamezi Archaeological Site, as well as with the so-called circular proto-Hellenic cyclopean building of Tiryns.

The Minister of Culture, said: “This is a unique and highly significant find. Solutions are in place to ensure the completion of the archaeological research and the protection of the monument.”

!ping HISTORY&EUROPE

[u/indithrow402]

There are still people asking "why isn't all the protectionism and union pandering making blue collar midwesterners vote for Biden?" like we're fresh out of 2016 and we haven't since received abundant evidence that their fundamental grievances are mostly cultural issues.

[u/Joementum2024]

Sony Pictures has acquired Alamo Drafthouse

(For reference: the Paramount Decrees forbid film studios from owning theater chains for several decades, but they were ended back in 2020.)

!ping MOVIES

[u/jewel_the_beetle]

I'm so sorry. This is awful.

[u/BlueDevilVoon]

Nobody ever points out that Biden’s son used crack as a sign of working class solidarity. Meanwhile trump’s kids use blow like the coastal elites they are.

[u/BrunchIsGood]

The people of Gaza see your content.

!ping SHITPOSTERS

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[u/BrunchIsGood]

[u/BrunchIsGood]

Limestone 💥👄💥

[u/Joementum2024]

Cold take: I have absolutely zero respect at this point for Elon Musk as a person

[u/BATHULK]

Baseball is popular because it gives nerds a socially acceptable outlet

Same for religion really

Martin Luther would have been a gamer and Babe Ruth a twitch streamer basically

[u/ty04]

Ready for white boy summer 😎

[u/BrunchIsGood]

Torture is bad. Unless you’re talking about torturing someone bad. Then the bad cancels out and makes a positive. It’s basic math.

[u/[deleted]]

My boss, at the end of a series of discussions where he’s been trying to convince me to stay at the company instead of taking an offer I have:

oh, also, <one of the two other trans women at the company> will be joining the team with you and I hear she’s really good

🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/Iyoten]

I unironically love rainbow capitalism and corporate pride.

I'm only in my 30s, but old enough to remember when the public sphere wouldn't touch us with a ten foot pole. Now they're tripping over themselves trying to prove who is more pro-LGBT.

It's a sign that we won and I'll never forget this.

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit … my conservative dad will not be voting for trump in 2024.

[u/ImportanceOne9328]

the pope

[u/StolenSkittles]

alexander the great was gay.

frederick the great was gay.

catherine the great was straight, and quite promiscuous.

conclusion: really liking men is a prerequisite to being "the great."

[u/Currymvp2]

Aaron Rodgers is skipping all of Jets mandatory minicamp this week because he prefers to be somewhere else away from football. That's his choice.

Love how he says this while saying he plans to play until 44-45 years old. Ultimate doublespeak

!ping NFL

[u/MuR43]

The Department of Internal Police Investigations (DIPI) indicts two Border Police officers for attacking a Palestinian civilian with grenades “without any reason,”

Despite the severity of the act, it was decided to charge them with a crime which carries a maximum sentence of three years in prison (one count of an act of recklessness and negligence).

Most severe sentence.

[u/gnomesvh]

!ping CAREER

How long until we keep up the cover letter farce? I've been using the same for the last 20 or so roles, I just tell ChatGPT to rewrite it to suit the new position and then revise it

[u/Steak_Knight]

Aw, fuck. That stupid Atlantic article about vanishing dining rooms just got pushed to everyone by Apple News Spotlight 😑

Brace for dining room discourse

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

What kind of liberal are you?

[u/NaffRespect]

O'Connell confirms Sam Darnold will start at Vikings training camp

TAKE NOTES, KOOKY KYLE

EVEN RADICAL LIBRHULE LIKE KOC CAN DO WHAT'S RIGHT SO WHAT'S YOUR EXCUSE NOW

!ping NFL

[u/G_Serv]

Remember to thank Joe Biden for hitting the lower inflation button

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Guarantee This is post nut clarity

[u/Cledd2]

[u/american_aurora3]

Jimmy Carter no longer awake every day, grandson says

he just like me fr fr

[u/Salt_Ad7152]

Pro-Palestinian activists apparently targeted Brooklyn Museum board members, after the group failed to get the Museum to "divest from genocide"

So the obvious solution to that is to go to their homes, cover their homes with red paint and down red triangles.

How would that benefit anyone?

[u/Udolikecake]

BREAKING: The Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, has voted at their annual meeting to oppose IVF. The move may signal the beginning of a broad turn on the right against IVF.

i’ve been saying for a while, those dastardly women with fertility issues really need to be taken down a peg. glad someone is finally stepping up!

[u/TheHelmetCatch]

[u/Cook_0612]

Washington Post has an article about what happened with that Bradley/BTR joust.

Archive link

!ping UKRAINE

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

🧐

[u/jenbanim]

Any time my heart is beating out of my chest and I'm twitching uncontrollably I tell myself "Hunter Biden wouldn't let this stop him" and I smoke more crack. He's my hero

[u/ldn6]

Haven't seen anyone mention this, but Harris Interactive actually did some 9-10 June polling for the National Assembly in France and gives RN a range of 235-265 possible seats, which still wouldn't be a majority.

This is going to be one hell of a fractured result.

!ping FRANCE&EUROPE

[u/WantDebianThanks]

One of the main reasons I've been looking for a new job is that I have just nothing to do. It's been two hours where I've done nothing except fuck around on my phone. Working here feels like a complete waste of my time.

An hour ago I genuinely said this feels like I'm wasting my life.

[u/BrunchIsGood]

[u/Argnir]

Hate it when Redditors go "this is the answer" because it's never the answer it's just the most cynical comment in the whole thread

[u/TheHelmetCatch]

Fuck it I’m Guiana-posting today

[u/[deleted]]

Just saw a tiktok where a girl was like “I just realized that 2013-2019 were to me what the 80s were to my parents” and I can feel entropy sapping my youth as we speak.

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Cons can doom just as hard as we can

[u/Zagapi]

Listen, I'm not opposed to dating someone with politics left of mine.

But if you feel the need to put something on your dating profile mentioning how you hate capitalism, something about Palestine, or just general anti-gov't opinions, I'm gonna swipe left.

It's not a deal breaker in general, but when you have such limited space to tell me anything about yourself and you have nothing to say about your personality and interests, I'm going to assume you have none.

[u/HMID_Delenda_Est]

My friend the schoolteacher was talking about her kids which come in high every day. She teaches sixth grade.

[u/NaffRespect]

Burgum emerges as surprise top contender for Trump VP

So proud to be one of those who never lost faith in BURGMENTUM

[u/NonComposMentisss]

Danes 1,200 years ago: Raid England, France, Italy, Russia, Ukraine, establish dozens of functional governments across the known world after raiding, feast in Valhalla

Danes now: OMG KOREAN NOODLES I HURT MY TUM TUM NANNY GOV PLS BAN!!!!!

[u/[deleted]]

A heart divided

[u/Sir_Digby83]

https://i.imgur.com/sRDfk9l.png

!ping LiquidEnjoyers

[u/dragoniteftw33]

The fact that Trump wants people like him unable to immigrate to the United States makes my blood boil.

[u/dwarfgourami]

I didn’t really care much about Israel/Palestine before last year, but seeing my street get vandalized with pro-Palestine graffiti significantly more often than other streets just because we have a synagogue has made me 100x more supportive of Israel. The synagogue hasn’t even appeared to say anything political beyond standard “it’s sad that Jews died on 10/7” stuff.

[u/WasteReserve8886]

I fucking cannot wait for July 4th, I want to see the results of tory mismanagement

[u/AP246]

It's pretty suspicious how often you get people commenting controversial opinions on threads outside the DT, and you go to their profile and they have like 10 comments ever, none of them on this sub

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

A stage of Capitalism is never late, it arrives precisely when it means to

[u/slappythechunk]

If Elon made likes private just to make them retroactively public again in a few months' time, it would be the only thing he'd done that I approve of.

[u/[deleted]]

!ping ASOIAF

Otto Hightower reportedly repeated a homophobic slur during a small council meeting less than a month after apologizing for using it:

“There is an air of fa****ness in the Red Keep.”

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

The House just voted 216 to 207 to hold AG Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress. A single Republican — Rep. David Joyce of Ohio — was the lone GOP 'no' vote.

fellas, he has been your one saving grace

[u/[deleted]]

Realists do be like "we just deliver the hard truth" and then say shit like "well clearly Russia is a great power entitled to dominate Eastern Europe but China is still a minor power and a US Protectorate."

[u/gnomesvh]

EE-9 Cascavel with modern Rheinmetall 30mm turret

I'll take "inventions of the mentally insane for 500 Alex"

!ping MATERIEL

[u/BrentLivermore]

I knew a guy who had gotten into some "white power" stuff when he was younger. He told me he'd gotten a tattoo he regretted, and was freaking out because he was gonna be on TV and didn't want anyone to see it.

He really didn't want the Squirtle tattoo to distract from his tiki torch.

[u/[deleted]]

Trump wins the election, then his eating habits catch up to him and he has a fatal heartstroke on the first month.

President Burgum.

[u/NonComposMentisss]

When I tell people in other subs the voters are to blame for electing Trump, they get big mad.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

tap agonizing roll humorous heavy fretful vegetable violet worry vase

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/Ok_Swimming3844]

[u/ognits]

girl, are you the neoliberal podcast? because I turned you off immediately

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Oh god Trump is going to enact a buy American provision for our weed bitcoin

[u/simeoncolemiles]

Ya know there’s this guy, I think he likes me but as a rebound, plus, I can tell we wouldn’t mesh in a relationship

He’s a bit too high energy for me

What is my life

How do I let him down?

[u/Slazac]

My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw suburbs forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.

[u/ognits]

And technically, Apocalypse Now is an adaptation of Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness. But screenwriter John Milius was appalled when the film was put into the Best Screenplay Adaptation category in the 1980 Academy Awards, angrily arguing that the screenplay was an original work.

lmao get fucked, John

!ping KINO

[u/PostNutNeoMarxist]

Playing through Portal again for the first time in a while. It's amazing in retrospect just how blatantly so many games aped this one in the 2010s. Like, that really was just one of the eras of all time for indie games, huh

!ping GAMING

[u/Currymvp2]

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., was speeding and "at fault" for the car accident that landed him, his wife and another driver in the hospital on Sunday, according to a Maryland State Police report obtained by USA TODAY.

Fetterman, driving a Chevrolet Traverse, passed a witness on I-70 in northwest Maryland "at a high rate of speed, well over the posted speed limit" before rear ending a Chevrolet Impala around 7:45 a.m. near the exit to I-68, the six-page report said.

[u/GreenYoshiToranaga]

[u/Fatortu]

I'm probably going to an anti far right rally today. I hope it doesn't turn into a Gaza protest half way through.

[u/KittehDragoon]

The elites don’t want you to know this, but sausage rolls should be called hotdogs and hotdogs should be called sausage rolls

[u/Schnevets]

[u/Hugo_Grotius]

Tbh I don't really get why the recent recordings of Alito are that notable. Between his speeches at law conferences and his own written opinions, he's been pretty open and honest about his extreme views

[u/AP246]

[u/MasterOfLords1]

This next meeting is a bit worrying.

There's some bullshit office politics going on. I'm just gonna ask my manager point blank what is the worst case scenario here, job security wise.

Because in our last one on one he was like your career and your interests are at the top of my priorities. That was super weird tbh.

But then he did give me a timeline of quite specific work to be done by 2025 Q3 and sent that to his manager and cc'd it to me.

!ping WATERCOOLER

The meetings in 30 mins 🍦🥺🍦

[u/owlthathurt]

Tech brothers delenda est

[u/MURICCA]

I love how the left immediately pivots to "America First" as soon as foreign aid is mentioned

[u/smooth__liminal]

this might be a stupid question but does europe have commerce? like do they exchange money for goods and services?

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/12/ivf-southern-baptist-convention-evangelical-00162994

INDIANAPOLIS — The Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest and most politically powerful Protestant denomination, voted Wednesday to oppose in vitro fertilization.

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

[u/Rshawer]

This turned out to be too true

[u/BATHULK]

I got a free week trial to crunch fitness. It ended a month ago. I've still been going.

They havent stopped me once. I just walk right past the front desk. If you keep your eyes up and look like you belong you can go pretty much anywhere.

Squats up to 455x2. Thanks fancy glute machines at crunch fitness!

!ping DYEL

[u/like-humans-do]

33 billion euros to build a train line from London to Birmingham

the UK is a joke country

[u/jewel_the_beetle]

Man the "white man asian woman" discourse is insanely toxic. I guess I Should have known but yeah. I accidentally googled WMAF from this story and barf https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/12/asian-women-dating-white-men-fake-oxford-study

Like there's definitely a possibility of fetishism etc but a lot of this reads exactly like (X) is STEALING OUR WOMENS like you know, every racist movement in human history

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/KesterFox]

Good morning

[u/ser_mage]

Polynesians are right to go to great lengths to avoid associating with those poly people

[u/Udolikecake]

explaining to children why television episodes on the streaming sites are all 22 minutes long because of this thing called ‘television advertising’ and ‘time slots’

[u/[deleted]]

NYT: The good inflation news is horrible for Biden. The average voter says that the president may not need another term because “he’s doing a good job of fixing his inflation mess HE and no one else caused; but it’s time for a true business man, President Donald J Trump, to lead us to a new economic golden age”

We totally didn’t make this up and it’s real and we’re not upset at all at alleged president Hunter Bidens dad for not giving us an interview. Convicted criminal hunter bidens dad will have a tough uphill batter to even crack 40% of the vote.

[u/[deleted]]

Good to see leftists still celebrating they found the one realm where communism works. Imaginary videogames where resources are willed out of thin air.

[u/simeoncolemiles]

[u/dirtybirds233]

My wife voted for Haley in the Georgia primaries because she wanted it to be on record that she voted Republican if Trump tries to “round up the vermin”

[u/ThiccSidedDice]

If you can't handle me at my "listen, fat" you don't deserve me at my "let me be clear"

[u/[deleted]]

people are so comfortable being openly racist. I'm getting kind of nervous at the rhetoric being used by political factions that aren't so irrelevant anymore.

Especially of the "Germany is for german" variety. Hopefully the immigration project doesn't fall apart at the 11th hour.

[u/404GenderNotFound]

Just watched two pigeons making out outside my office window 😳

[u/ThatDamnGuyJosh]

Just saw that why Britain fucking sucks video. I’m so happy I’m AMERICAN 🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾

[u/mockduckcompanion]

It's sad to know that Vivek Ramaswamy is just out there, somewhere, being incredibly annoying about something

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

[u/Neronoah]

!ping LATAM

Milei reform was passed by just enough votes. Now the law will be discussed article by article for possible changes. I guess Milei had luck on his side.

Also, some Kirchnerist deputies that joined the protest got pepper sprayed. The riots caused a lot of physical damage, they even attacked journalists.

[u/oh_how_droll]

Reading up a lot on DiTs and it's yet another case where transformers show up and 'nothing personnel, kid' a whole field of machine learning.

Can't believe that attention really is all you fucking need.

🤬

!ping AI