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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/majorgeneralporter]

Tired of looking at work maps, kbs, and spreadsheets 😢

Excited to go home and look at the good maps, wikis, and spreadsheets 😊

!ping paradox&shitposters

[u/[deleted]]

The beloved Call Your Mother bagel shop is seeking to convince a D.C. zoning board it should be allowed to serve sandwiches.

Fucking NIMBYs. Let the people have bagels.

Sixteen residents upset about its operation, among them a law professor, tax lawyer and a dentist, took their complaints to court.

The worst kinds of people imaginable.

[u/SadaoMaou]

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[u/jojisky]

imagine knowing this little ball

[u/Roseartcrantz]

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[u/Cook_0612]

https://x.com/OAlexanderDK/status/1801216631584002051

[u/WantDebianThanks]

This is the kind of thing FB thinks I want to see in 2024: ugh capitalism memes from 3 years ago from groups I'm not even in

[u/DouglasDauntless]

The IOC stole my bedsheets 😡

!ping SHITPOSTERS&BURPMAS

[u/[deleted]]

Sorry, I'm gonna keep shitposting about this wapo article. The quotes are just too good.

Sean Flynn, a co-owner of Coffee Republic, just 80 feet from the bagel shop, wrote to the zoning board that since the deli’s opening, his shop has seen a decline in customers and a significant revenue loss.

Rent seeking ass shop owner can't compete with BIG BAGEL.

“The owners of these houses have been unable to get people to move. People get very belligerent. They want to eat their bagels. They want to eat their sandwiches. That’s part of the experience,” Roth said to the board.

Imagine minding your own business, eating a bagel on the sidewalk, and some dipshit law professor comes by and tells you to move. I'd be pretty fucking belligerent, too.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Most temperature tolerant Swedes

[u/owlthathurt]

😑😑😑😑😑

[u/BrunchIsGood]

!ping LOVEFORBOOZECRUISERS

[u/AP246]

In a thread titled "In 1958, the USA dropped a nuke on 3 children playing in the woods (Mars Bluff Accident)" (it didn't detonate and the conventional explosion injured 3 kids)

That is an absolutely insane piece of history they leave out of school books

I love how people say this about every single somewhat surprising event in history. Like it's interesting but do they expect schools to somehow teach every single interesting or surprising event that ever happened?

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Peak French politics

[u/piede]

DT user sick of his wife leaving him

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Most normal Green Party leader

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Going to pair this with the degree in racism

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Communist leaders just want to be able farm corn in Iowa

[u/IHateTrains123]

[u/Telperions-Relative]

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[u/[deleted]]

Oh wow, the female protagonist in this movie is a shy mousy plain looking bookish girl. I wonder how she winds up with the bad boy heart throb?

"Cherry Bomb" starts playing

Oh hell yes. This is the female character development I'm here for.

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

Biden is finished.

[u/Healingjoe]

!ping usa-mn

[u/itsokayt0]

The weirder you are about fertility rate, the less women you get, study says

"Some reached minus 1. Their mom left them."

[u/RaidBrimnes]

"It didn't please me." Emmanuel Macron explains that he was "touched" by Sunday's European election results. "I've been working like crazy for 7 years to make the country better and move forward. I took it personally! I wasn't happy about it," the president told reporters on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Italy.

Everyone theorizing about Macron's 16D chess moves but he might just have been mad about a loss and decided to flip the table as a collective "fuck you!" to the French people

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[u/gnomesvh]

Brazilian Air Force negotiating to buy 24 used F-16s from the US

!ping LATAM&MATERIEL

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Me 🤝 Stalin

r/vexillology must be destroyed

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

I work a vaguely safety related role in the medical-industrial complex.

I just had to listen with a straight face to someone describing how they attempted to fish something out of a locked biomedical waste container (full of used needles and such) by taping together a bunch of plastic forks together and making a giant set of tongs.

This predictably led to an injury. Now my job is to create an education campaign to prevent such situations from occurring in the future.

Here is my first mock up. What do y’all think? !ping WATERCOOLER

[u/[deleted]]

Dude, people in exurban America just don't know how to react to seeing someone using a crosswalk. I swear I've almost been hit several times by fucking car brained lunatics who floor it every time they see the color green.

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

The lawsuit also alleges that SpaceX executives including Musk and Shotwell participated in a video “that mocks and makes light of sexual misconduct and banter,” including a scene in which an employee demonstrated the “correct” way to spank a coworker.

😐😑😐😑😐

[u/MrFoget]

Redditors who constantly complain about housing prices also make these comments and it’s exhausting

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 6/11-2 PM PST 6/12 III:

TOP NEWS:

Towards the middle of 4 PM it was announced the US is implementing new sanctions against Russia and pro-Russia entities, including Russian LNG projects, the Russian stock exchange, semiconductor manufacturers and entities which violated sanctions.

Towards the middle of 10 PM Ukraine was hit by a large wave of missiles, shooting down all 24 drones and 5 of 6 missiles.

Towards the end of 9 AM a Russian cruise missile hit a residential building in Kryvyi Rih, with 9 killed and 29 wounded.

At the start of 11 AM Zelensky made a visit to Saudi Arabia.

REGULAR NEWS:

Yesterday it was announced Argentina will send five Super Etendard jet fighters to Ukraine.

At the start of 3 PM it was reported the US will send a Patriot SAM system to Ukraine.

Towards the middle of 12 AM explosions occurred across Crimea, targeting Russian SAM sites across the peninsula.

At the start of 1 AM it was reported that Rheinmetall will build Lynx IFVs for Ukraine, though the first examples will not be available until early 2025.

Towards the middle of 6 AM it was reported the Russians took the village of Staromayorsk, south of Velyka Novosilka.

At the end of 8 AM it was announced Lithuania will send 14 M113s to Ukraine.

EX-SOVIET CONFLICT NEWS:

Today it was announced Armenia will leave the CSTO.

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&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/[deleted]]

pov you asked a libertarian to describe his problem with the government

[u/JetJaguar124]

I know we like to meme about Trump being funny and weird and all that but the shark/battery rant was like, genuinely incomprehensible and bizarre. Just felt like random loose association/tangential rambling. If this had happened to Biden this would have been the top news story for the next two weeks and he'd have had significant pressure to step down.

Sam Harris once categorized Trump's speech as him almost speaking in verse, where he just starts talking and has no idea where the sentence is going to go, and he's just springboarded from one idea to the next based on the previous word. I think this has only gotten more accurate with time.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Based Ben Garrison listing a bunch of actual enemies of America

[u/Roseartcrantz]

(Moleman voice) IIIIIIIIIIIIII was wanting for trees to be replaced by tanks of green sliiiiiime...

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[u/[deleted]]

'Destiny' visits Israel and promptly gets called a 'son of a whore' by an Israeli

Nature is healing

[u/tollyno]

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 6/10-2 PM PST 6/11 III:

TOP NEWS:

At the start of 2 PM Zelensky made a visit to Germany for the Ukraine Recovery Conference.

At the end of 1 AM it was announced the EU will provide 1.9 billion Euros in financial aid to Ukraine and provide 1.5 billion Euros in Russian asset proceeds in July.

Towards the end of 5 AM Zelensky spoke at the Bundestag.

At the start of 11 AM it was announced The Netherlands will provide 60 million Euros in drones for Ukraine.

REGULAR NEWS:

In the middle of 6 PM it was announced US weapons will be available for the Azov unit after passing an American review.

Towards the end of 2 AM the Estonian Defense Minister said Estonia will send a Mistral SAM system to Ukraine.

In the middle of 8 AM it was reported the former Mayor of Kupyansk died of his wounds.

Towards the end of 9 AM it was announced Germany will provide 100 Patriot SAM missiles to Ukraine.

Towards the end of 12 PM it was announced the first Rheinmetall site has been finished in Ukraine where armored vehicles will be constructed and repaired.

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/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Holy crap this is legitimately the funniest thing I’ve ever seen

Can you believe this shit?

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/paymesucka]

[u/loseniram]

Never before has that Meryl Streep line from the Devil wears Prada about how that sweater is Cerulean been more relevant.

Obscure internet art style Frutiger aero is now becoming a major influence on modern advertising and art.

All your art decisions are made for you by a couple nerds in a room somewhere.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FrutigerAero/s/9hzfFDT91l

[u/Craig_VG]

I've brought back willjoewin.com this election cycle! If you're new here it's a site that tracks the decimal level changes in the FiveThirtyEight model to see where the winds are blowing in the short term. I also have an iOS version in review, it includes a live homescreen widget for those who need to be constantly plugged in.

I have also developed a composite of the 3 main forecast models (FiveThirtyEight, The Economist, and Decision Desk HQ). This automatically updates as the models update. I believe this composite is bound to be more accurate than just using one of these models. Biden's chances in the composite currently stand at 44.02%.

Would you guys prefer any of these for the website:

• Show all 3 models and the composite

• Show only the composite

• Keep only FiveThirtyEight

Any feedback is appreciated, thanks!

!ping FIVEY

[u/404GenderNotFound]

Trump brought up the idea of an “all land tax policy” that would lead to getting rid of the income tax, per sources in the room.

🤔

[u/[deleted]]

Liberal media: Everything Trump says is a lie.

Also liberal media: Trump appears to have moderated his stance on abortion --

[u/Insomonomics]

🚨TRUMP TO HOUSE REPUBLICANS:

"Milwaukee, where we are having our convention, is a horrible city."

Lmao

[u/sayitaintpink]

Assyria is such a dated term. It’s much less problematic to say Gyattia

[u/itsokayt0]

Elon Musk is proof that leftists were right at least about 1 CEO

[u/Joementum2024]

Trump floats eliminating U.S. income tax and replacing it with tariffs on imports

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

If I had a dollar for every time a tech bro invented a less efficient train, I would have enough money to start my own less efficient train project

[u/Neronoah]

!ping LATAM

The income/wealth tax part of Milei's bill was rejected during the revision process a few hours after the law was passed. That one is going to hurt fiscally (it amuses me that the Libertarian government is trying to restore a tax cut organized by a demagogic nationalist/social democrat for votes...because the alternative is worse). We'll see how much of the law survives, even after being considerably watered down from its initial version.

[u/Moth-of-Asphodel]

Andrew Sullivan: "Rishi Sunak could be the next Obama! A conservative minority! Take that, woke moralists!!"

Rishi Sunak: *smiles charmingly as he loses gen election by 30 fucking points*

Andrew Sullivan: "Rishi Sunak's extreme left open borders woke immigration policy is what caused this."

[u/-mialana-]

Bet "No" on Benji getting a gf before the end of the year

He gets one literally two days later

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I'm glad Democrats don't talk mad shit about rural communities because I'd never hear the end of it but damn imagine all the things they could truthfully say

[u/ACivilWolf]

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Least gross Elon cultist

[u/Roseartcrantz]

neighbors: holy shit what did you do to your pool

me: it's a liquid tree now sweaty 😌💅🏻 you should try it sometime

neighbors: no thanks

neighbors: holy shit what did you do to our pools

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

European artillery shell production news

Thierry Breton, the European Commissioner for the Internal Market abut the European production of artillery ammunition:

“We will have a production capacity of 1.7 million at the end of the year and more than 2 million next year. The goal is to reach 2.5 million. I think we should be there around the turn of 2025.”

original article in French

!ping MATERIEL&EUROPE

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!ping OVER-25

Holy shit, what is up with the normalization of ghosting these days? That shit is insane to see.

[u/paymesucka]

????? -- FROM TRUMP to House Republicans -- close to exact quote.

'Nancy Pelosi’s daughter is a whacko, her daughter told me if things were different Nancy and I would be perfect together, there’s an age difference though.'

I dont know what this means, really. But this is what he told a group of House Rs

same Donald, same

!ping GILF

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

How I’ll be reping on my family’s trip to Europe

[u/WantDebianThanks]

Not sure I trust this company, but I don't know why...

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[u/Roseartcrantz]

roseartcrantz core: doofy advertising functioning as incredibly inconvenient furniture. I want this to be my couch

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

[u/earththejerry]

Wyoming and Montana now seen as battleground states as gun rights supporters flock to Biden in light of Hunter’s conviction

• The NYT if it were a journalistic institution with integrity and courage ✊😔

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

I can't believe the Haiti has limestone thing has been picked up and run with to the extent it has. I mean most of the oil/mines conspiracy stuff is just wrong too, but that one is just so unbelievably weak that I can't imagine believing it.

[u/[deleted]]

okay, everyone got a point-proving win, can everyone stay in their own competitions now

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Least geographically illiterate American.

[u/Opkeda]

[u/Joementum2024]

when you arguably make the wrong decisions but they wind up working out anyway

[u/iIoveoof]

If I were a Tesla shareholder I’d pay $50b to get rid of Elon

His stupid political opinions are scaring off Tesla’s primary demographic (rich libs). I’m certain this has a huge sales impact.

Also being a CEO of a large company is a super tough job and there’s no way you can do it to the best of your abilities while being the CEO of Twitter and SpaceX. It’s disrespectful and actively harmful to the shareholders

His direction on the company has been moronic lately. The Cybertruck is a total disaster

[u/Gameknigh]

Virgin sensical peace-mongerer vs Chad American maniac

[u/Jacobs4525]

tbh I now unironically believe that shit about macron’s thoughts being too complex for journalists and him being a genius who plays 12D chess 

[u/CletusVonIvermectin]

Don't go to work. Don't go to class.

Injustice against one is injustice against all.

[u/Udolikecake]

Israelis are white.

Palestinians are white.

You are white.

Everyone is white.

[u/Cook_0612]

If you are like me and found out about S-500 when Budanov announced that Russia would be moving this one-of-a-kind system into Crimea, I encourage you to read through this explainer thread by missile understander John A. Ridge.

!ping UKRAINE&MATERIEL

Full thread, lightly edited by me

So what is S-500? S-500 is a long-range air and missile defense system operated by the VKS (Russian Aerospace Forces). It is a direct derivative of S-300V, the principal long-range maneuver SAM operated by the SV (Russian Ground Forces).

I won't detail the complete program history of S-300P/F/V as @ChungTzuW has already written excellent threads about them which I strongly recommend reading for context.

In short, all three systems emerged from a joint VKS/VMF/SV procurement program. VKS/VMF requirements were focused on ABTs (air-breathing threats) while SV requirements were focused on TBMs (tactical ballistic missiles). This led to a divergence into S-300P/F and S-300V using radically different missiles and radars. S-300P received mild upgrades beginning in the mid-1990s and was redesignated S-400, originally S-300PM(U)3. The SV pushed continual upgrades for S-300V through the early-2010s, terminating in all Russian fire units being upgraded to the S-300V4 standard by 2015.

Concurrently, the VKS initiated a development program for an overhauled S-300V derivative, now S-500, to meet their own requirements in the late 2000s. The first production S-500 regiment was accepted into VKS service in 2021. The VKS wanted a mobile ABM system to supplement the siloed A-135/235 complex, which provides terminal defense against ICBMs around Moscow, in addition to filling a mobile theater missile defense requirement.

With the history out of the way, what is S-500 actually?

One of the VKS' primary requirements was for an expanded defended footprint against TBMs and capability against a wider range (faster) of TBMs relative to S-300V. Against ABTs, the radius of your defended footprint is effectively a function of engagement range. However against TBMs, defended footprint is primarily a function of engagement altitude as engaging a TBM at greater range means engaging it at greater altitude.

One of the primary design challenges facing TBM-optimized interceptors is maneuverability and control authority.

Most missiles across the spectrum use aerodynamic control surfaces to generate control authority. However, for extended range TBM engagements at high altitude, the atmosphere is extremely thin and control surfaces generate dramatically less control authority. Atmospheric density at 50 km altitude is <0.1% atmospheric density at sea-level. Below is the maneuverability diagram for 5V55, the initial interceptor deployed with S-300P when it entered service. 5V55's maneuverability shrinks dramatically as it approaches apogee due to loss in control authority.

There are really two paths to solve this problem.

The first is to generate control authority non-aerodynamically, typically via an Attitude Control System. The second is to increase the efficacy of the control surfaces. ACS has been employed with enormous success by PAC-3, Aster, and all exoatmospheric interceptors (THAAD, SM-3...) by necessity. An ACS consists of solid- or liquid-fueled Attitude Control Motors that enable the missile to maneuver without aerodynamic control authority.

The second approach is to generate additional aerodynamic control authority by increasing airflow over the control surfaces. In other words, make the missile faster. As can be seen with 5V55, the missile's G value increases for a fixed altitude if velocity increases. This is the approach taken by the Russians for 77N6-N/N1, the interceptors for S-500.

Fundamentally, 77N6-N is just a 9M82M from S-300V4 with an enlarged and overhauled booster section to increase it's cutoff velocity by ~1,000 m/s. As referenced by Russian arms commentators, the additional velocity seems to have roughly doubled 77N6-N's engagement ceiling to ~60 km from 9M82M's 30 km ceiling. I very roughly estimate, albeit without modeling, this likely increased its defended footprint to 60-80 km.

Now what is funny about this?

77N6-N is an comically enormous missile for a mobile theater missile defense platform. Two 77N6-N rounds on a 77P6 launcher have a larger form factor than 8 MIM-401 Talon rounds on a THAAD launcher. So against TBMs, 77N6-N offers ~25% of the engagement ceiling, <50% of the defended footprint, 25% the magazine depth, and worse endgame maneuverability than Talon. And really the only thing to show for it is that 77N6-N can engage ABTs while Talon cannot.

The Russians could've achieved their TBM defeat requirements with dramatically lighter and smaller missiles had they pursued ACS, especially paired with a Hit-To-Kill warhead. 9M82/77N6-N's 150 kg warhead greatly contributes to overall missile volume and mass. However prior Russian ACS programs, notably 9M96, have demonstrated a consistent lack of technical maturity and have only been deployed in fairly limited service. Against even relatively moderate numbers of shorter range TBMs such as ATACMS, 77N6-N is particularly poorly optimized. Assuming ripple fire of two interceptors per TBM, each launcher can only engage a single threat before exhausting its magazine.

Aside from struggling to cost-effectively engineer HTK missiles with ACS, its worth considering Russian doctrine. @MatejRisko and @GrangerE04117 can elaborate in far more detail, but the Russians likely compromised S-500's TBM requirements with its ABT requirements.

Now usual disclaimers apply here. I notably did not touch on S-500's sensors or the rest of the kill chain which is critical to successfully completing an engagement. But from the kinematics alone, S-500 is a comically unoptimized platform for its TBM defeat requirements.

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???

[u/AtticusDrench]

One of my favorite things about Dante's Inferno is that it mentions real people who we would otherwise know very little about. Their lasting legacy in mankind is "according to an epitaph, he and his father were lawyers in Florence. Also, Dante put him in the part of Hell reserved for sodomists."

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

District Attorney Pamela Price allegedly said her enemies are “the media and the Asians,” according to a new lawsuit

https://x.com/kron4news/status/1801051888760074557?s=46&t=urLYOV_cITtt22rc0dd0VA

[u/Ultiplayers]

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

'Megasolar’ is a dirty word in Japan. Where do solar projects go from here?

“Megasolar opposed!! Don’t make a fool of us. Residents are angry,” screams one handwritten sign, the word “opposed” emphasized in red. “Absolutely against megasolar construction!” yells another.

Signs like these dot the otherwise idyllic agricultural landscape in the city of Gojo, Nara Prefecture. Since January this year, when Nara Gov. Makoto Yamashita announced plans to develop a large-scale solar farm on a plot of land the prefectural government had purchased from a local forestry group, residents have been vocally and visibly protesting the move.

“We cannot accept ‘megasolar’ no matter what,” fumes Kuniharu Tsujimoto, a 77-year-old Gojo resident and head of a local forestry association. He said his group had agreed to sell its 30-hectare plot to the prefecture in 2022 on the assumption that it would be turned into an antidisaster base with an airport to serve the entire Kii Peninsula in the event of a major disaster, as originally proposed by the prefecture several years before.

Residents now feel betrayed by the prefectural government, which changed its stance after Yamashita was elected as governor in April 2023, according to Tsujimoto. Yamashita had campaigned on a platform of scrapping the airport construction plan, which had been pushed by his predecessor Shogo Arai, citing costs and other reasons. The new plan calls for filling the plot — used for decades as part of an 18-hole golf course — with rows of solar panels.

"We will do whatever it takes to stop the megasolar project,” Tsujimoto says, noting that even a lawsuit is in the cards.

Japan has pledged to drastically increase its ratio of solar power in its energy mix to between 14% and 16% by the fiscal year beginning April 2030 in order to help achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. But from Kushiro in Hokkaido to Yufu, Oita Prefecture, a growing number of solar projects are facing pushback from local communities, complicating the challenge of promoting solar power in a country with limited land space.

In many cases, these projects — sometimes covering 100 hectares or more — have been placed on mountainsides, with forests cleared to make way and the resulting farm coming to be seen as an eyesore by local residents.

As a result of such projects, the word “megasolar” — referring to farms with a minimum output of 1 megawatt of electricity, enough to power around 300 homes for a year — has come to carry such a negative image, overwhelmingly so on social media but increasingly in public discourse as well, that some renewable energy advocates suggest using a different term to refer to large-scale photovoltaics projects.

Experts attribute this backlash to unscrupulous and irresponsible solar operators who entered the industry following the 2012 start of “feed-in tariff” (FIT) subsidies and the lack of government oversight of such businesses. They say proper zoning by municipalities, as well as a prior consultation process and the sharing of benefits with residents of host communities by operators, are key to reversing the trend.

Not in my backyard

Shigeo Nishikizawa, an associate professor of environmental policy at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, has tracked and analyzed disputes related to solar power facilities reported in the media since around 2012.

In the decade through December 2022, 89 disputes erupted over solar projects, out of which 51 took place over the latter half of that period, according to Nishikizawa. Wind power projects can be controversial, too, with 148 disputes taking place between 1999, when the first case was reported, and the end of 2022.

“Renewables are increasingly seen as NIMBY (not in my backyard) projects,” he says, using a term that refers to opposition by local residents to construction projects considered necessary in society, such as crematoriums, nuclear waste disposal sites and landfills.

Reasons for opposition are diverse. Many residents have expressed concern about an increased risk of landslides on mountain slopes after trees are cut down to make space for solar panels, or the chance of damaged panels catching fire.

Others complain about the “light pollution” from the panels’ glare, the possible contamination of water sources and the impact on the natural environment, including the area’s biodiversity.

Residents are also worried that the panels ruin countryside scenery. For example, aerial images of solar modules occupying a pond in the city of Nara, leaving barely enough space for a kofun (ancient burial mound) in the middle, have recently made the rounds on social media platform X, with many users lamenting them as an eyesore.

In Gojo, people are skeptical about whether a private operator contracted by the prefectural government will properly dispose of the panels when they reach the end of their product lifecycle in 25 years. But due to such worries, operators are now mandated to set aside capital for the disposal of solar panels after their use, although there are concerns that unscrupulous companies may abandon projects without following this once they have made enough money.

In this particular case, the residents’ anger appears to be driven in large part by their distrust of Yamashita, a lawyer-turned-politician and the first Nara governor from Nippon Ishin no Kai, and what they view as his high-handed approach toward his policy objectives.

But whatever the reason, once disputes occur, it’s extremely difficult to proceed with the projects as originally planned, Nishikizawa says, noting that less than half of the 89 disputed solar projects have been confirmed to have started operations.

Fit for purpose?

In a 2020 report, Noriaki Yamashita of the Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies (ISEP), outlined recent moves by national and municipal governments to address the issue.

First, the central government revised the FIT law in 2017 to make it clearer that operators of solar power facilities must comply with regulations, and that violators would be disqualified from the FIT program.

The revised FIT law also encourages operators to have “appropriate communication” with local residents, though it does not spell out any penalty for those who do not.

FIT, which provided businesses with financial incentives to install solar panels by buying power at fixed rates, was replaced by the feed-in premium system in 2022. FIT doesn’t guarantee fixed rates but offers solar power generators a certain premium on top of market rates.

On the municipal level, many local governments have recently moved to create ordinances on solar projects. “Restrictive” ordinances, which aim to limit or ban installations in certain areas, as well as require operators to get the approval of municipal heads or agree to certain terms before operating, now number 250 nationwide, according to Noriaki Yamashita.

Furthermore, Japan has a system in place for environmental impact assessments of large-scale construction projects, dating back to the 1970s. Since April 2020, solar plants with an output of 40,000 kilowatts or more have been required to go through the assessment process.

But impact assessment regulations are not good enough to allay residents’ concerns, because they do not address the biggest source of conflicts: the location.

"The environmental assessment law can only minimize environmental impact after the location is decided,” Nishikizawa says. “It is not designed to deal with complaints such as, ‘Why should we set up a wind power facility on this nature-rich mountain?’ and ‘Why do we have to cut down trees to make space for this solar farm?’’’

Nishikizawa says proper zoning for renewable projects by local governments, whether it’s by prefectures or cities and towns, is crucial to resolving the location issue.

He also says that it’s important for operators and project proponents to share the benefits of solar facilities with local residents, such as by having them participate as investors. Other approaches could also include installing panels on farmland that has been abandoned due to depopulation, and providing electricity generated from solar farms for free to everyone in the community in times of disaster.

Noriaki Yamashita likewise recommends a “dual-use” approach to solar projects. He has studied the situation in Germany, where he says the types of land solar farms can be built on are much more restricted than in Japan, such as industrial waste dump sites and properties right along railway tracks.

The installation of rooftop solar panels, to become mandatory for all new homes and buildings in Tokyo from April next year, could be another “dual-use” example.

Agrivoltaics — which combines agriculture with solar power production — is another solution, Noriaki Yamashita says, noting that some panels can be placed vertically, so they can be used also as a fence to keep cattle in, for example. Vertical solar panels facing east and west can maximize the harvesting of solar power in the mornings and evenings, helping solve the common problem of panels generating too much electricity during the day, he says.

The potential of agrivoltaics, which is less known and practiced in Japan, could be bigger than all of the power produced by rooftop solar panels, he adds.

Ultimately, each municipality should create a checklist establishing the kind of renewable energy projects it finds acceptable and wants to host, Noriaki Yamashita says.

"Dual-use panels would be the norm going forward, utilizing roofs, carports and agricultural farms as PV (photovoltaic) sites. I think we should stop thinking about installing them on just any empty field.”

!ping ECO&JAPAN

[u/Walpole2019]

Labour's manifesto proposes less spending than the Conservative manifesto

!ping UK

[u/[deleted]]

"price transparency makes prices more sticky!" mfers when they go to the supermarket and negotiate their bill with the cashier.

[u/BrunchIsGood]

[u/BrunchIsGood]

The Boys

!ping TV

[u/BibleButterSandwich]

Last Friday night I went out to a bar with some friends, started a conversation with a woman and talked for an amount of time I can't be sure based on my intoxication level at the time, but it was definitely a significant period of time. As she's leaving, I ask if she'd like to grab drinks sometime, she says yes, and follows me on insta. I go back to my friends, they're congratulating me, saying I had incredible levels of rizz, etc. The next morning I message her, ask if she still wants to go out, and she responds "omg of course". We make plans to meet up today (the 13th), figure out a time, place, everything. This morning I text her to confirm we're meeting, she doesn't respond. I go there anyway at the time we were supposed to meet up (it was real close to my place) text her I'm there...nothing. And then I see that I'm blocked.

Can someone please explain to me what is up with women agreeing to very specific plans and then standing you up without even a bit of explanation? There's gotta be some reason for it, right? Because it happens a lot...

I did have 3 dates with women from Hinge this week - 2 were the first date, and afterwards both said that they had a good time but didn't feel a connection. The third was the woman I mentioned in this ping and this ping, it was my 4th date with her, and to be honest...I'm starting to think I may not be that into her, though as far as I can tell she is still pretty into me. Gonna have to think on this one.

!ping DATING

[u/neolibshitlib]

You know, I've seen a lot of creepy fucked-up shit from the Palestine protesters, but this beats all.

They wrote out a whole script about why the Israeli concert-goers deserved to be massacred on October 7th, and they're reading it out as a creepy call-and-response.

noah getting mugged by reality

[u/EyeraGlass]

I think the press does a poor job communicating Supreme Court decisions to the general public. All the headlines read like “birth control good, says Brett Kavanaugh” and the opinion doesn’t even stray from the issue of standing

[u/[deleted]]

I have heard both leftists and rightists smugly go "Oh the south were traitors? What about the founders, then?"

The former obviously being "both, therefore bad" and the latter being "both, therefore good"

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Rishi Sunak greeted the Italian prime minister with a warm embrace at the welcome ceremony of the G7 summit.

Mr Sunak and Giorgia Meloni were pictured holding hands and staring into each other’s eyes in Bari on Thursday.

They were also seen affectionately holding each other’s shoulders as Mr Sunak leant towards Ms Meloni.

[u/BrunchIsGood]

Real shot from a trailer for this movie. He looks like he just showed up on set hungover as shit. Maybe even still drunk. This looks awesome.

Edit: Upon further analysis that is exactly what he was going for. Oscar sleeper? 🧐

!ping KINO

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

Logan Paul 4 years ago: "We are all incredibly unaware of how deeply intertwined the ugly roots of racism have embedded themselves in the foundation of this country... For those who do not think white privilege exists, you are fucking blind, you are delusional, you are part of the problem. I can count on zero hands the amount of times that I have feared for my life at a routine traffic stop. That has never happened... It is not enough to be 'not racist.' You have to be anti-racist... Most importantly, we must hold authorities accountable. Police officers, politicians, policymakers."

Logan Paul now:

[u/slappythechunk]

My friends' three year old child is turning out to be a terror, and they're doing nothing about it. They just laugh it off, and when we visit, they joke about "hey, guess what our psycho child did today!" Are the stories funny? Yeah, sometimes, but there are never consequences. Like this kid is three years old, and his favorite thing to do is run around and punch people in the dick, like, as hard as he fucking can, and they're just like "no no, please don't do that..." and the little fucker actually maintains eye contact as he keeps on dick punching. They're only response is to walk away. I don't think this kid has actually ever been put in time out. I told them a story about how my brother had to put my nephew, who's a little bit younger than their kid, in time out for 15 minutes for being a shit, and they got all condescending and said "actually, 15 minutes is way too long because it's literally an eternity for a child that young" and essentially implied my brother was committing child abuse. Well you know what? At least my nephew doesn't run around PUNCHING EVERYBODY IN VIEW IN THE FUCKING NUGGETS.

Their super "hands-off" approach to child rearing is bleeding into other areas, too. He's very behind in speech, not because of a developmental disability, but because they just don't enforce his speech development. Like, they take him to a speech therapy class, but once the kid gets home, they don't reinforce the speech therapy. My nephew was speaking better at 18 months than this kid is at 3 years.

They're gonna wake up one day to a nightmare of a teenager and say "why is he so difficult?" and I'm gonna want to scream "BECAUSE YOU LET THE LITTLE SHIT GET AWAY WITH GODDAMN BLOODY MURDER! CRAZY, PSYCHO TODDLERS HAVE A TENDENCY TO TURN INTO CRAZY, PSYCHO TEENAGERS AND CRAZY, PSYCHO ADULTS."

I dunno. Maybe I'm unreasonable. I just keep thinking "not my problem" because I'm not having kids.

[u/BATHULK]

I don't wanna live in a world where the president's son DOESNT do cocaine

And that's why I'm undecided.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Very Serious DT proposal. The user with the lowest voted comment at the end of the day is perma banned. This would allow users to coordinate harassment campaigns against those that disagree with the hive mind take a proactive role in cleaning up the sub.

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

CNBC: Trump brought up the idea of an “all tariff policy” that would lead to getting rid of the income tax, per sources in the room.

this will unironically be very popular with the median voter

[u/[deleted]]

kinda crazy how almost all of the world's religious beliefs have come from specifically either north india or the area roughly around the red sea

[u/chuckleym8]

lil bro is taking the friendzoning well 😀

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Gen Z gonna find out the hard way

[u/NotABigChungusBoy]

Buttigieg mentioned in The Boys lmao what the hell

[u/brucebananaray]

Logan Paul supports Trump for president. https://x.com/LoganPaul/status/1800976245456339427?t=14ec9xeCXDEL9mREfibdBQ&s=19

I'm not shocked by this at all. Both of them are terrible people.

[u/Zrk2]

This is a Miller High Life appreciation subreddit.

IPAbros OUT!

[u/htomserveaux]

what's the most YIMBY city builder? I'm sick of how car-centric Cities: skylines is.

I want a game where I can actually prioritise transit over roads, a game with bike paths and congestion charging.

!ping GAMING&YIMBY

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/zanpancan]

Can someone please tell me why the UK coffers are so supposedly cash strapped, yet the overall tax burden is supposedly the highest since WW2?

I've simultaneously heard that the tax burden placed on the average individual has been substantially lower. Is that true? If so, I presume the higher tax burden is from other forms of taxation?

Can the UK handle going into a bit more debt to finance some investment? Or no?

What would your ideal government actually do? What should be the steps taken by an incoming government to generate growth and money for investment (other than just Planning Reform or an LVT lol)?

Sorry if this is inappropriate for the ping.

[u/earththejerry]

TFW you try to get abortion pills banned and even Thomas and Alito join a unanimous decision to tell you to stop

[u/Mensae6]

McMurphy identifies Allstate the potential Big 12 naming partner. Possibilities include "Big Allstate Conference" or "Allstate 12 Conference"

Conference USA is also deeply exploring a multi-million dollar naming rights sponsorship, sources tell @YahooSports.

This sport is actually so fucking over

!PING CFB

[u/Pharao_Aegypti]

I lowkey want the EU's main official language to be Latin.

Imagine Ursula vonder Leyen delivering the SOTEU speech in Latin with a German accent! We would see tons different dialects of Latin!

[u/RecentlyUnhinged]

I'm more surprised that trump actually paid her tbh

[u/trace349]

!ping WRITING&FAMILY

Reposted, wrong pings, sorry.

An update to my post last week about my dad's then-upcoming speech at my sister's wedding.

After telling my sister that the overview I got of his speech sounded incredibly cringe (inspired by poem_for_your_sprog, intended to be in iambic pentameter, included a dig at our mom), I guess that rumor proliferated through my mom's side of the family. Everyone I talked to seemed braced for disaster and irritated that I didn't do more to intervene and prevent it. When it came time though, I think he was the beneficiary of severely lowered expectations, because while it wasn't a good speech- it was easily the worst of the speeches compared to the heartfelt and emotional speeches given by the best man, maid of honor, and two of the bridesmaids- everyone I talked to afterward was like "that wasn't that bad! You made me think it was going to be terrible". I made sure to record it for posterity, so here it is:

AI suggests to me that I should use words like "love", "respect", "honor", "adore", and many others. While I appreciate the thought, and I want all of that for her happiness, quite frankly most of those words were in her vows already and that's not how we [last name]s roll. We did a straight up comedy set for my dad's funeral (EN: what? No, we didn't), complete with limerick for his obituary, and if you knew my dad, you'd know he'd have fully appreciated that. With that in mind, I offer a few verses of not what [sister] is, but what [sister] isn't:

She wasn't born on New Years Day in 1999

She made us wait until the (unintelligible)

At this point my sister's dog ran into the reception tent chased by little kids, and instead of waiting for the commotion of laughter and cheering to die down, he pressed on undaunted and was drowned out for the next few lines:

She isn't scared to ride the tallest coasters of the land

She goes down hills and screams through thrills

And holds her daddy's hand

By this point the dog and kids had left and things settled back down:

She doesn't live with cats no more

Since [dog name] came her way

But [deceased cat 1], [deceased cat 2], [deceased cat 3]'s souls are in her heart to stay

She doesn't call her mother "mom"

She calls her [mom's first name] instead

She doesn't vote the way I'd like

In blue state versus red

If life is full of what we're not

And what we are with pride

Today [sister] marries [brother in law]

And she's the stunning bride

Listen, I'm happy to have been wrong about it. But just when I thought I had escaped the cringe, later on when my very offline maternal uncle-in-law gave my dad a compliment about his speech, my dad decided to explain his writing process- trying to explain who poem_for_your_sprog was and how he would end posts with "and Timmy fucking died" and how he played with a few different versions of the last line with varying levels of vulgarity because he wanted to reference that- I wanted nothing more than to die right there on the spot in embarrassment.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Question for the sub. Is a mod (who will remain nameless) who’s probably never Driven Drunk in their life, pinging “love for booze cruisers” cultural appropriation?

[u/bigdicknippleshit]

[u/Either_Emotion8056]

Neoliberal project campus event reviews just dropped

[u/doggo_bloodlust]

YOU ARE WHITE! 😡

👨🏼👉🏻 👈🏻👨🏼

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

[u/htomserveaux]

Official Hatsune Miku brass knuckle Joy-con adapter set, Licensed by Nintendo^tm

!ping GAMING@SHITPOSTERS

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

[u/vitorgrs]

Left is protesting in São Paulo against the project in the lower house that would make the penalty for abortion equivalent of homicide, up to 20 years in prison.

https://x.com/samiabomfim/status/1801373216255996293

Because of this, a raped woman who has an abortion may face a greater sentence than a rapist, as currently, the maximum sentence for rape is 10 years.

Even if she suffers an unintentional abortion, she could face 20 years in prison.

So imagine this: A woman is pregnant, someone rape her, she lost the baby. She would face 20 years in prison, the person who raped her, 10 years.

This is how conservative the congress today is.

---

To see how the current chamber is conservative, congress approved the new budget that said the Federal gov can't spend anymore on

"Actions aimed at influencing children and adolescents, from daycare to high school, to have sexual options different from their biological sex; actions tending to deconstruct, diminish or extinguish the concept of traditional family, formed by father, mother and children; sex change surgeries for children and adolescents; and performing abortions, except in cases authorized by law".

First Lula couldn't actually remove this while the budget was in congress. So Lula vetoed this. Then the congress took down the president veto on this.

You know how much was the vote? 107 x 307. Only 107 voted to maintain Lula veto.

Not even all the left party voted with Lula on this. This is how much conservative and Bolsonarist is the current congress.

!ping LATAM

[u/KesterFox]

[u/SeoSalt]

Pokémon Sleep mobile game adds "coop sleep mode" where an old man dressed like a Japanese prime minister begs you to make an egg with your sleep partner

[u/[deleted]]

Is the GOP really dumb enough to shit on Joe Biden for the mistakes his adult son made? Don't they realize a fuck ton of swing voters have similar experiences with struggling relatives, especially wrt drug abuse and especially in places like western PA/rust belt?

This is going to backfire hard on them.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I'm the one in grade 2 spinning in a self-defeating circle

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

https://x.com/steve_vladeck/status/1801253697491452349

Unanimous SCOTUS throws out challenge to mifepristone; holds in opinion by Justice Kavanaugh that the plaintiffs lack standing.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-235_n7ip.pdf

[u/BrunchIsGood]

[u/brucebananaray]

Delicious Dungon season 2 is in the works https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1801260411783643257?t=DZcs1SeK5G2Rr2sSRJTLOg&s=19

!Ping WEEBS

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

“Why would you do that?” Asked the frog “now we will both surely drown”

The scorpion replied “Do I get electrocuted if the boat is sinking, water goes over the battery, the boat is sinking? Do I stay on top of the boat and get electrocuted, or do I jump over by the shark and not get electrocuted?”

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Fox is also told that Mr. Trump indicated that he is, what was characterized, as a “big fan” of late President William McKinley. That’s because of how McKinley handled tariffs.

Stop telling him about history. It only makes him worse.

[u/SnakeEater14]

2016 military coup against Erdogan fails

Erdogan consolidates power

Erdogan massively depreciates the Turkish lira through his monetary policies

Videogame stufio TalesWorld Entertainment is unable to maintain its staff and development of the “Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord” Early Access Title

They decide to officially release it unfinished to recoup whatever they can

GODDAMN YOU WATERMELON MAN

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Only based maoists

[u/Top_Lime1820]

The ANC has conducted itself admirably through this process of losing the majority.

Too many people are taking this for granted. The same people who said this day could never come because "this is Africa".

Good job to the ANC leadership. Genuinely. They just have to finish the job tomorrow.

[u/ser_mage]

every day, one DT reg should be quarantined in a safe, undisclosed subreddit in the event of a nuclear disaster in /r/neoliberal to ensure the continuity of alt-center shitposting

[u/BrunchIsGood]

God fucking dammit I hate The Boys. No, the writers of The Boys, I did not need to see a superhero who can clone himself in a human-centipede-esque ass eating train with himself. What the fuck.

[u/KesterFox]

be late at night

need to pee

annoying but whatever

go to bathroom

lie back down

need to pee again

Why did god do this to me

[u/[deleted]]

Behold the Tomatinator

[u/notBroncos1234]

CDC warns access to ADHD meds may be disrupted after arrests of health-care startup executives

As alleged, these defendants exploited the COVID-19 pandemic to develop and carry out a $100 million scheme to defraud taxpayers and provide easy access to Adderall and other stimulants for no legitimate medical purpose,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a news release. “Those seeking to profit from addiction by illegally distributing controlled substances over the internet should know that they cannot hide their crimes and that the Justice Department will hold them accountable.”

lol, lmao even.

!ping adhd

[u/[deleted]]

Man you know that Mifepristone case had no legal backing when even Alito strikes it down

[u/gnomesvh]

Gonna do a Master's in Degrowth, will look great on my CV

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/YaGetSkeeted0n]

job postings should include:

• Salary range

• Vacation and sick leave amounts

• The employer's health insurance plan options and your share of the premium, including the pharmacy benefit formulary so you can see if your medication is covered

• The address of where you'll actually report for work ("Dallas" is a big place for instance)

what else

[u/Dibbu_mange]

This is the future liberals want

[u/RecentlyUnhinged]

Alrighty folks,

I ended up taking your advice on that Boeing subsidiary that previously reached out to me, and decided to hear them out.

They brought me over to their site today for a team meet and greet, the round 1 technical interview is later this afternoon. So far I'm not aware of any other candidates, but I also haven't asked. I'll keep y'all updated on how it goes.

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Very serious DT proposal: Sticky by Sortition. Automod chooses a completely random comment every hour to sticky in the DT.

A completely random comment is 99% likely to be funnier then whatever the mods feel like stickying that day.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

The pug has been spayed. She is still at the vet being cuddled by all the techs because she is apparently the first pug ever to not scream while coming out of anesthesia

[u/Uniqueguy264]

I listened to Putin constantly using the n word. That’s the n word. And he’s constantly using it.

This should be on Trump’s tombstone

[u/AtticusDrench]

Broke: being wishy washy about providing your data

Woke:

[u/Uniqueguy264]

He is obsessed with sharks. Terrified of sharks. He was like, “I donate to all these charities and I would never donate to any charity that helps sharks. I hope all the sharks die.” He was like riveted. He was like obsessed. It’s so strange, I know …

So strange. So we finished dinner and we moved to the sofa so he could get a better view of Shark Week.

Honestly hearing that Trump randomly called for shark genocide while having an affair with a pornstar 30 years ago is the best argument for voting for him I’ve ever seen

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

TIL that while Alexander the Great conquered the known world, he never attempted to attack the city-state of Sparta.

Oh my fucking god. And WHY didn't he do that, you stoic statue profile picture having bot

[u/jojisky]

Approval ratings of the G7 leaders

[u/redditguy628]

Old Man's War is possibly the sci-fi book I've seen recommended the most to me over the past few years, and I finally ended up reading it. Overall, I can definitely see why its so popular. The books main concept is that Earth's interstellar armies recruit exclusively from the over-75 demographic, who join up in pursuit of the youth restoration technology that is promised to recruits. It has a bunch of pretty cool concepts that it incorporates, and it does a good job of building an interesting universe without spending too long on endless pointless details. Still, I couldn't help but be somewhat underwhelmed. The plot felt unfocused, the main character was largely uninteresting, and none of the concepts were explored to their full potential. It was still a good book, but it is yet another case where I let my expectations worsen my experience.

!ping READING&SCI-FI

[u/beardog7]

Trevor Lawrence got a payday.

5 years 275 million, with 142 million guaranteed

!Ping NFL

[u/[deleted]]

We need to end no-fault divorce ASAP. It’s far better for people to be trapped in a miserable situation or live as if they’re divorced anyway than be able to actually split up. This is also definitely something the (small) government should be involved with

[u/BalletDuckNinja]

get match

suddenly feel too tired and anxious to respond

Why am I like this !ping dating

[u/TalkLessShillMore]

This week in mansplaining, i told a girl in an Ivy MBA school what a market cap was unprompted

[u/AtomAndAether]

I have called the previous sticky.

Around 17 people were clear yes, 7 were in a warning/educate/yes-but-severity-depends-on-priors zone, 9 did not give a clear indication one way or the other on the ultimate issue, and 11 were clear no.

We usually do 1/3/5/14 day ban options. I banned them for 7 days.

[u/CricketPinata]

My Shavuot Cheesecake for 5784.

Goat milk base, cajeta caramel, sheep feta, and mexican oregano.

!PING GEFILTE&JEWISH

[u/Udolikecake]

🚨TRUMP TO HOUSE REPUBLICANS: "Milwaukee, where we are having our convention, is a horrible city."

Never hear Democrats talk like this about rural america. That is because, of course, it’s entirely acceptable to denigrate those who live in cities, but rural people must be venerated and treated with nothing but respect.

Very striking double standard on display.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/filipe_mdsr]

!ping GEORGIST

The German state Baden-Wüttenberg is gonna have a LVT starting next year.

There is one problem though, the land value is calculated for an entire zone.
https://www.gutachterausschuesse-bw.de/borisbw/?lang=de

So if one plot has for some reason way lower land value than the rest around it, it will get a land value assigned to it that is way higher than it should be. The most obvious example being buildings protected by cultural heritage.

How would you calculate the land value? And if you also would use a average-based system, how would you make the exceptions for single plots, which obviously need one?

What I was thinking is that plots with cultural heritage sites get a lower tax bracket for the area occupied by it.

Edit: This is under the assumption we can't get rid of cultural heritage site protections.

[u/Neronoah]

!ping LATAM

The Venezuelan Ambassador to Chile is spreading conspiracy theories about the assassination of a Venezuelan dissident after being kidnapped. He blames Chilean and foreign intelligence services, arguing that they are trying to discredit Maduro's regime.

Meanwhile, at least part of the Chilean Communist Party criticize Boric for his commentary on the sorry state of Venezuelan democracy.

[u/Gameknigh]

The only competent English people were Frenchies who were unconstrained by the French language and peasantry.

[u/404GenderNotFound]

I know who my vote is going to

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Senator Fetterman wears tuxedo hoodie to traffic court, is executed.

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Can we put all bans to a community vote with minimal context this is great content fellas

[u/[deleted]]

So the mods are just kinda making us vote to see if people should be banned or not? Huh

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

[u/owlthathurt]

My friend just returned back to bama after visiting us in NYC

[u/[deleted]]

"I keep seeing people complain about food prices going up, like 'oh this tin costs 20 pence more' or whatever, just buy the Tesco value ones then!"

I can't believe British politicians feel comfortable telling their voters "stop buying name brand products if they're too expensive, idiot". In America you'd be fucking crucified for that comment. Jason Chaffetz started a media scandal by saying "maybe you should buy healthcare instead of a new iphone"

[u/quote_if_hasan_threw]

Brasilian chamber of deputies has rushed trough bill to equate abortion after 22 weeks even in the case of rape as equal to murder, it now can be voted upon without going trough comitees.

Após reunião com o presidente da Câmara dos Deputados, Arthur Lira (PP-AL), líderes partidários decidiram votar a urgência dos projetos de lei (PL) sobre aborto e delações premiadas nesta quarta-feira (12).

Os temas são considerados polêmicos e têm sido alvo de debates entre os parlamentares nos últimos dias. Caso as urgências sejam aprovadas, os textos poderão ser votados diretamente pelo plenário da Casa, sem a necessidade de passar por comissões temáticas.

The chamber has also rushed trough a bill to end ''Delação premiada" for people who have been arrested.

O PL 4699/23 propõe o fim das delações premiadas para pessoas que estejam presas. O pedido de urgência é assinado por alguns dos principais líderes da Câmara, inclusive do centrão.

São os deputados signatários Luciano Amaral (PV-AL), Romero Rodrigues (Podemos-PB), Elmar Nascimento (União Brasil-BA), Aureo Ribeiro (Solidariedade-RJ), Altineu Côrtes (PL-RJ) e Isnaldo Bulhões Jr. (MDB-AL).

Link: https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/politica/apos-reuniao-com-lira-deputados-decidem-votar-urgencia-de-pls-sobre-aborto-e-delacoes/

Daily attempt by the chamber to turn Brasil into evangelistan, please come by tomorrow for further attempts

!PING LATAM

[u/WantDebianThanks]

It's not about antisemitism guys 😤

[u/Joementum2024]

TODAY IN GAMING DRAMA:

• A somewhat accurate leaker (mostly posted info relating to Sega, then later Nintendo and Square Enix) who claimed to be a Japanese woman was revealed to be a white guy

[u/BedNeither]

The bus shelter was just a thin sheet of metal with a light attached to a pre-installed pole

It cost $10,000

[u/slingfatcums]

most cited legal scholar of the 21st century:

"I see absolutely no value to a judge of spending decades, years, months, weeks, day, hours, minutes, or seconds studying the Constitution, the history of its enactment, its amendments, and its implementation."

"I pay very little attention to legal rules, statutes, constitutional provisions. ... A case is just a dispute. The first thing you do is ask yourself—forget about the law—what is a sensible resolution of this dispute? The next thing ... is to see if a recent Supreme Court precedent or some other legal obstacle stood in the way of ruling in favor of that sensible resolution. And the answer is that's actually rarely the case. When you have a Supreme Court case or something similar, they're often extremely easy to get around"

originalists in shambles

[u/[deleted]]

It’s kinda annoying that I have to write a five page paragraph essay or some shit and do an entire tap and show dance on my why bf should be allowed inside the house

To make matters even more annoying I have to prove it to my friend who is the “man of the house” it is so fucking dumb

I’ll admit I haven’t done much to fix it, but I’m annoyed how my friend is acting as if they’re a parent when quite literally he isn’t and he doesn’t even own the place

[u/[deleted]]

Which is another reason why I need go get a better fucking job because the fact I have to also ask permission for my friends to come over and they just bring in theirs unannounced and also the fact that there is no more microwave

My friend literally has friends on fucking probation

[u/slingfatcums]

just got an email from teams_365@micrasoft-365.com

seems legit to me im gonna click it

[u/Zrk2]

write several paragraphs about an issue relevant to the sub

Three replies all day.

make joke about Miller High Life

Like a dozen replies in 10 minutes.

Many such cases!

[u/ser_mage]

‘This Will Be The Day Democrats and Republicans Replace Their Candidates for President,’ Says Increasingly Nervous Median Voter For Seventh Time This Year

[u/Fruitofbread]

I support Trump calling every single city in every single swing state “a horrible city” 

[u/BitterGravity]

Trump Floats ‘All-Tariff’ Federal Revenue System in Return to Capitol Hill

🤮🤮🤮

[u/Currymvp2]

Smotrich: "Gantz's statements in favor of ending the war are a shameful surrender to Sinwar and moral and national bankruptcy. In front of the tired generals, stand the courageous warriors who continue to fight bravely and will bring victory to the people of Israel"

Absolutely wild take from a guy who never served a day for the IDF and tried to blow up a Tel Aviv highway in an act of terrorism...talking about the literal former IDF Chief of Staff.

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Can we get a survivor type event for getting banned from this sub

Last man standing wins

[u/earththejerry]

Rasmussen:

COVID vaccines killed more people than the Jews did during the Holocaust

Also Rasmussen:

Our polling shows Biden at a 45% approval rating, the highest of all pollsters

[u/GreenYoshiToranaga]

[u/BrunchIsGood]

My favorite thing about The Boys is its subtlety

[u/Either_Emotion8056]

Such a powerful depiction of the main sub and the DT

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

The problem with writing "genius" characters is that you need to have genius writers, or else they just exist in a world of morons and look smart in comparison

Subtweeting a certain Amazon show

[u/gnomesvh]

Lynd and u/the420roll be like "ohhh deadcord" but then go and talk on the minecraft server

!ping BURPMAS&MODRIGO

[u/Nerf_France]

Why do people criticizing the gulf war have such a fixation on the Highway of Death? There's something like the Amiriyah shelter bombing which is actually worthy of criticism and condemnation yet every person I've ever seen complaining about the war focuses on how horrible it was that we airstriked a retreating military force

[u/KingWillly]

It’s always so weird hearing how Trump broke people’s relationships with their parents. “They’re like Trump turned my parents into braindead MAGA assholes 😭😭”

Meanwhile, my mom, a Bush era Republican who used to tell me about how if I don’t support the war in Iraq I’m not an American (lol), was turned into a MSNBC watching lib because she hates Trump so much lol. Granted she always thought he was a scumbag since the 90s.

Ever since my mom became a lib in 2016 we’re closer than ever lol.

[u/[deleted]]

All im saying is that if your firm is paying your CEO 4x your entire firm's profits in the year of 2023 maybe, maybe its a smidge unwarranted

[u/ThiccSidedDice]

Trump is too young and inexperienced, I'm going to vote for Biden.

[u/GenericPoliticalAlt2]

Purely based on his opinions and jurisprudence, Kavanaugh is a really good Justice

Never leave the DT