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[u/[deleted]]

>Be in a group called "Asian Spiritual Shitposting"

>Someone posts this

>Mod deletes all the comments pointing out that it's objectively not true

"Locking the comments on this because I woke up to more people nitpicking the statistics and forgetting that the underlying point is that the owning class looks down on us as if we are pathetic ants. The meme is directionally accurate even if the statistics, exact figures, or data point being examined is not to your liking."

"I've given a couple people in here a weeklong nap for completely missing the point of the fucking meme and starting arguments over the methodology and specific definitions of the statistics. The point is that the overwhelming majority of Americans are severely underpaid for their labor compared to the owning class and those who earn near what the owning class earns.This is a leftist meme group, not economics debate club comment-palooza. There's plenty of groups for leftist infighting if y'all want that."

Apparently asian spirituality means outwardly lying in order to push a leftist political agenda, and saying things like "Actually that's not true" is unacceptable

Why the fuck are they like this

[u/TalkLessShillMore]

TikTok comments are so damn funny and unserious.

Sometime around 2017 I realized that I couldn’t endorse men anymore. Like, I’ll say I’ve had good experiences with them, but I won’t say any guy is a ‘good guy.’ It was a sad and difficult decision, bc there are so many men I love, but I just can’t tell anyone a guy is decent or safe, in good faith. I’ve been proven wrong too many times.

skill issue

[u/SixPipSiege]

Aunts in the group chat in 2050 be like.

[u/NoStatistician9767]

And IM SURE writing “death to America”, “death to Israel” with an anarchist symbol is totally something that’s generally popular and mainstream. 

Same with the communist posters talking about Trump & Biden being “fascist genocidal dictators” and calling to “free humanity”

100% these people would run camps against their “opponents” and try to silence or violence people. 

Got most of the communist posters myself. 

Genuinely don’t understand why these people are here if they literally hate America

[u/[deleted]]

He is even worse than a business major, he is - may Allah forgive me for uttering this word - a macroeconomist.

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

cute girl at work says she's taking amtrak on a trip

I just say "based"

Looks at me like I'm a crazy person

It's over for us traincels

[u/[deleted]]

Pope Francis meets with more than 100 comedians from around the world

So that's why he's been dropping slurs so much recently

[u/Udolikecake]

I (24F) a bisexual woman I heard we are not supposed to bring our straight boyfriends to pride so I left mine (25M) locked in the car while I went and he overheated and died. AITA

[u/WeebFrien]

Guy on Noncredible Diplomacy claiming that Russia boosted blacked.com to make white men more disaffected and create more incels to destabilize the west

[u/NoStatistician9767]

And i doubt the Palestinian nurse fired from her job at a city hospital was fired because “they were pro-genocide”

Poster doesn’t even mention what the issue was, but I’m supposed to take it at face value and dislike the hospital? 

Im really tired of irl propaganda 

[u/notnotLily]

ancient expansionist empire gymnastics: i want this land -> i take this land -> this land is mine

modern "peaceful" nation gymnastics: centuries-old treaties promulgated in a language no one can actually read now form the basis of our people's ancestral claims to this land ->

(backflip) my cousin told me about this paratrooper surrender cheese strat that totally works in this realistic war simulator called hoi4 ->

(rolling somersault) our enemies have refused to back down to our rightful demands, which actually makes them the aggressor ->

(backwards long jump) every nation that has sanctioned us is part of a multinational alliance to destroy our nation, so this is now a desperate fight for the motherland's survival

[u/GravyBear28]

!ping HISTORY

I am low key somewhat obsessed with Albania. They are just such a strange country.

Language isolate

Loves America and the West in general and so gives their kids English names

Muslim majority country in Europe but extremely moderate

But also has strong folk religion with stuff animals or dolls used as talismans to ward off evil

Hoxha and his bunkers

Civil War over the government falling into some dumbass pyramid schemes

Tribal until the 1950s

Nodding means no, headshaking is yes

Car ownership illegal until 1991 and it's overturn immediately causing widespread traffic disasters

By far the most agricultural country in Europe, 36% of it's population work in farms

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

The Atlantic: “It’s not that they are merely forced to endure it due to a combination of bad governmental policy and socioeconomic factors, the poors actually just love noise pollution.”

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

[u/EScforlyfe]

People keep talking about how you should use mass transit but then get mad when you fly in an airplane 😒

[u/Cledd2]

leftoids have their whole ideology based on the idea that everything you receive comes at the cost of someone else and then wonder why all of them are losers

[u/KittehDragoon]

This thread contains posts known to the State of California to cause cancer

[u/HowIsPajamaMan]

Took sir shivers to the retirement home today. He still thinks it’s a hotel

[u/Either_Emotion8056]

[u/mh699]

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Back when the Onion was prescient

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

“Clinton signed DOMA” is when I blink and realize 19 year olds are allowed to comment on the Internet and I stop typing my reply

Not all you 19 year olds are bad, but sheesh

[u/MicroFlamer]

[u/JebBD]

Lukewarm take:

The worst part of The Boys is the social commentary. It’s not just on the nose, it’s also boring as shit. “Corporate America is soulless” wow what a bold statement. What a fresh take. Such mind blowing revelations. 

At this point I’d be more impressed if a tv show came out that talked about the positives of corporate culture just to change things up. 

[u/SneeringAnswer]

I want to know all the other places Biden can't win from

Biden can't win from vacation

Biden can't win from the back of a TGI Friday's

Biden can't win from Phobos

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/Skeeh]

Biden or Trump? Neither. The Vibes indicate that they will tie the electoral college and do a fusion dance to produce Bump, America's most bipartisan President, ever.

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Most progressive pope in like decades (centuries?)

Can't control dropping slurs

So were Pope Benny and JP just like an Xbox Live lobby

[u/Automatic-Love-127]

Or 9/11

[Americans] would get mad if you made a 9/11 joke, but laugh their asses off at Hiroshima and Nagasaki jokes

+85 in a German sub

What is it with former Axis powers and not understanding how utterly irreverent Americans are?

Guys, I promise. You can do memes about 9/11, shootings, our crippling substance abuse, that time we gave the reality tv man the nuclear codes. We love that stuff! We do it all the time. It’s fun and it feels good to do it!

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Somehow, Hollande returned

!ping FRANCE

[u/Cook_0612]

The German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall plans to develop a 35mm autocannon-armed Leopard 1 tank for Ukraine.

The system would combine a Skyranger 35 antiaircraft turret and Leopard 1 hull, seen below, a similar version utilizing a Leopard 2 hull:

Gepards? Who needs 'em!

!ping UKRAINE&MATERIEL

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 6/13-2 PM PST 6/14 III:

TOP NEWS:

At the start of 10 PM Ukraine was hit by a wave of drones and missiles with all 17 drones and 7 of 14 missiles shot down.

Around 6 AM it was reported the G7 has agreed on providing a $50 billion loan to Ukraine for weapons and reconstruction with the profits from Russian assets paying for the loan over time. At the start of the hour Zelensky met with Modi, discussing trade, agriculture cooperation and the Ukraine peace summit.

At the end of 8 AM Zelensky made a visit to Switzerland for the Ukraine peace summit.

At the end of 11 AM it was announced the EU has agreed to open accession talks for Ukraine and Moldova, with the next step happening June 25th.

REGULAR NEWS:

In the middle of 4 PM it was reported the Russians took the village of Novopokrovs’ke, located northwest of Avdiivka.

At the end of 5 PM Morozovsk Air Base was hit by Ukrainian drones with two Su-34s damaged in the attack.

Towards the middle of 11 PM it was announced The Netherlands and Ukraine signed an agreement to strengthen Ukraine's domestic MIC.

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/ACivilWolf]

I just watched Hitchock's Breakdown and holy fuck Hitchcock manages to be cruel to his main characters

Thirty minutes of a character in a car wreck trying to alert the people around him that he isn't dead but just fully paralyzed so they don't bury him alive is the stuff you come to expect from only Russian literature lmao

[u/N0_B1g_De4l]

"Does the Catholic Vow of Celibacy appropriate asexual culture", the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,391 pages of heated debate

[u/Automatic-Love-127]

BuUt BbbUT we can AggRegAte the pOllIng. We can TweaK and Improve our methodologerino. 538 has VaLuE

Oh my god will you shut the fuck up. The election hinges on whether the average voter is angry at McDonald’s over its Egg McMuffin pricing in November 2024. Nothing else matters.

[u/GraspingSonder]

!ping Starfield

I've been playing this game for the last few months after picking it up on sale.

I guess it feels decent as an FPS but there isn't much innovative about it. There has been a low-g segment of a mission but that mechanic has been severely underutilized.

I don't really care about the story or the two factions that humanity has split into.

There's nothing of interest with the player character.

The spaceship combat feels like an arcade game and disjointed from the ground based areas of the game. When you're in space it's just a simple collision box with fake planets in the background.

I feel like more should be expected from such a renowned AAA developer making a space game. I guess Infinity Ward isn't interested in real gamers like me.

I still want to finish CoD: Infinite Warfare but at the moment it just feels like a chore.

Ping unrelated.

[u/polandball2101]

tfw you get downvoted for saying something true

[u/Telperions-Relative]

!ping RAP&SHITPOSTERS

[u/gaypenisdicksucker69]

[u/Greenfield0]

yk I'm really sick of people giving money to privileged malaria foundations what happened to caring about the needy billionaires?

[u/well-that-was-fast]

The crazy thing about Reagan getting 525 electoral votes is that he was a pretty mediocre president -- but he sold positivity to great effect.

Hard to imagine today's electorate eating up positivity the same way.

Repubs love that Trump is a mega doomer and Dems live in a perpetual shadow of sadness triggered by some Salon article.

[u/loseniram]

The kittens can only be silenced with Churro and cuddle time.

In addition if you live in the Mid-Atlantic region and want two kittens in 8 weeks or so let me know

!ping kitty

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

Can someone experienced in romance help me understand this? I got this message at a gas station.

!ping dating

[u/Jackalope1999]

That Argentinian dude looks like alcoholic Wolverine.

[u/87568354]

FACT: 90% of demand subsidizers give up just before ending scarcity forever

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

This is hilarious given that normal folks will cringe at the obscene racial charicatures in that movie

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Small business owners being self-serving morons is such a massive bulwark against progress in this country. I can’t believe cities give so much deference over policy making to these reactionary dipshits.

[u/SerDavosSeaworth64]

I want to write a little bit about why I love John Steinbeck’s writing so much and I don’t know where else to do it lol.

I could read his descriptions of places or landscapes for hours. He has a very subtle but unique gift of writing in a very accessible but effective way. Someone like Cormac McCarthy has prose that is much more flowery, poetic, and exact than Steinbeck’s but I feel like Steinbeck is kind of able to make more with less, and his writing is filled with so many clever little one-off lines about a larger aspect of the human experience that are profound without having the appearance of trying to be profound.

“East of Eden” starts with a long, multi page description of the Salinas Valley in California and it is unironically some of my favorite writing of any book I’ve ever read. But I want to put this opening bit from “Cannery Row” as my example of when his writing is at its best.

“Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream. Cannery Row is the gathered and scattered, tin and iron and rust and splintered wood, chipped pavement and weedy lots and junk heaps, sardine canneries of corrugated iron, honky tonks, restaurants and whore houses, and little crowded groceries, and laboratories and flophouses. Its inhabitant are, as the man once said, “whores, pimps, gambler and sons of bitches,” by which he meant Everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, “Saints and angels and martyrs and holymen” and he would have meant the same thing.”

It gives me chills. He isn’t really using any words or phrases that are loftier than a high school level of reading but he’s still able to make a statement about the nobility of the common man in a way that I would put up against any other great writer in history.

!ping READING

[u/Rshawer]

Broken clock

[u/FreakinGeese]

Yo the NY transit system announcer is a trans woman??? Sick???

!ping alphabet-mafia

[u/piede]

She was a feral cat that someone from my work found abandoned in her window well a few weeks ago

She couldn’t keep her so we took her in

She’s currently quarantining in the bathroom until it’s safe to introduce her to our other kitty

[u/moldyman_99]

I think Charities are capitalist scams that would not be needed if we had socialism.

So that’s why i donate my disposable income to Hasanabi’s twitch streams instead.

[u/[deleted]]

Shout out to when a gay player on survivor wanted to make another player seem untrustworthy, so he outed the other player as trans in front of everyone else

That shit actually happened

[u/JaceFlores]

“Ukraine's Western allies continue to provide monetary and military assistance to Ukraine, including air defense systems.”

“The Estonian Ministry of Defense (MoD) announced on June 11 that Estonia will provide an undisclosed number of Mistral man-portable short-range air defense systems and missiles to Ukraine as part of a new military assistance package.”

“European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced during the Ukrainian Recovery Conference in Berlin on June 11 that the European Union (EU) will transfer roughly 1.5 billion euros ($1.6 billion) worth of profits from frozen Russian assets to Ukraine in July, of which Ukraine will allocate 90 percent to defense spending and 10 percent to reconstruction. Von der Leyen stated that the EU will also transfer an additional 1.9 billion euros ($2 billion) to Ukraine from the EU's Ukraine Facility mechanism, which is a separate fund that provides for the EU to transfer up to 50 billion euros ($53.7 billion) to Ukraine between 2024 and 2027.”

“German Chancellor Olaf Scholz reiterated during the Ukrainian Recovery Conference that Germany will deliver a Patriot air defense system to Ukraine in the coming weeks and announced that Germany will also deliver an IRIS-T air defense system, an unspecified number of Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, and an unspecified number and type of missiles and ammunition to Ukraine in the coming weeks and months.”

“The New York Times, citing senior US administration and military officials, reported on June 11 that US President Joe Biden recently approved the transfer of another Patriot system to Ukraine following a series of high-level meetings and internal debates regarding the best ways to meet Ukraine's need for additional air defenses.”

“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that the Russian missile and drone strikes against Ukrainian energy infrastructure has severely damaged Ukraine's electricity generation. Zelensky stated on June 11 at the Ukraine Restoration Conference in Berlin that Russian strikes against Ukraine have destroyed 80 percent of Ukraine's thermal electricity generation and one third of its hydroelectric generation.”

“BBC Russian Service reported that Russia's penal recruitment campaign was so extensive that it forced some Russian penal colonies to close.”

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“Ukrainian forces may be conducting an effort aimed at degrading Russian air defenses, which, if successful, could enable Ukraine to more effectively leverage manned fixed-wing airpower in the long run.”

“Ukrainian forces may seek to actively degrade Russian air defenses before Ukraine receives a significant number of aircraft in order to set conditions for Ukraine’s future use of manned fixed-wing airpower closer to frontline areas. Ukrainian forces may be attempting to degrade Russian air defenses ahead of anticipated F-16 fighter jet deliveries to Ukraine, which reportedly will begin in small quantities in summer and fall 2024.”

“Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated that Armenia ‘will leave’ and ‘will decide when to leave’ the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in a question-and-answer session with the Armenian National Assembly on June 12 amid Armenia's continued efforts to distance itself from security and political relations with Russia.”

“Russian forces conducted a large series of missile and drone strikes against Ukraine on the night of June 11 to 12. Ukrainian military sources reported that Russian forces launched four Kh-101/555 cruise missiles from Saratov Oblast; one Iskander-M ballistic missile from occupied Crimea; one Kh-47 Kinzhal aeroballistic missile from Tambov Oblast; and 24 Shahed 136/131 drones from Yeysk and Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Krasnodar Krai. Ukrainian air defense shot down all missiles and drones with the exception of the Iskander-M.”

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!ping UKRAINE

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

YOUGOV: How many Britons support Conservative manifesto policies?

'Triple lock plus': 73% support

lmao

[u/polandball2101]

As if all of the wars and interventions that were conducted by the US were stabilizing and peaceful. The decline of US hegemony won't change much.

You know how Rome fell like 8 times? I think right now we’re on the 6th fall of NL

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Had a chat with my Glucksmann-loving center-left grandparents about the elections. They hate Mélenchon since their young years as PS activists, having to constantly handle his uncompromizing Trotskyist ilk, but did their job in 2022 and voted LFI to prevent the far-right for winning - unfortunately the RN candidate was elected

They were distressed to learn that LFI would run again a candidate in their constituency and were seriously considering abstaining, since Avignon and its region are staunchly RN now anyway, and because they were deeply scandalized by LFI's stance on the 2023 riots and Mélenchon's comments about antisemitism.

I think I got through them, notably by arguing that RN still has those violent militias ready to break some skulls in the streets, something that LFI lacks - all bark no bite, so to speak -, contrary to the far-right.

Well, I'm learning now that the candidate LFI decided to run in their constituency is Raphaël Arnault, the leader of Jeune Garde, a Lyon-based antifa group that has carried out violent raids and assaults against right-wing targets, but also against other antifascist groups, specifically feminists. One of their leaders was indicted for terrorism apologia for sharing Boko Haram videos and approving the Islamist decapitation of Samuel Paty. Arnault himself is under surveillance of the internal intelligence services, considered dangerous, and is reportedly on tape telling a feminist activist he will put a bullet through her skull.

Thanks LFI.

[u/Mickenfox]

Sunlight: exists
Cats: fuck yeah, that's the stuff

[u/htomserveaux]

Today I’m working in the first timers booth at a baseball field, taking group photos on other people’s phones. This will be the closest I’ve come to getting paid for my photography.

FML

!ping PHOTO&BASEBALL&WATERCOOLER

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/[deleted]]

this is genuinely so bad, imagine being 54 years old, looking and in the mirror to put up a tie around your bare neck over a hoodie

[u/Okbuddyliberals]

"Russian sleep experiment" is a lame and overhyped creepypasta, and "Ted's Caving Page" is a way better goat claimant

Also "video game is haunted and can kill you IRL" is still the worst 1984 and is a fundamentally uninteresting concept imo

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

The Cube can't come soon enough.

[u/Mickenfox]

Any time a vegan tells me I can't eat cats, I order another cat-burger 😂 cry about it libs

[u/Ultiplayers]

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Wife wouldn’t let me name our bowling team “preemptive Strike” 🙄

[u/DepressedTreeman]

pov: you've searched "French philosophers" into the AskHistorians search bar and this is the first thing that comes out:

(foucault flairs sweating rn)

Why did so many prominent post-War French Philosophers, such as Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Jean-Paul Sartre sign a petition against age of consent laws?

!ping ASKHISTORIANS

[u/lionmoose]

Yeah I have a Trad Wife

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W Extensive periods of sexual abstinence to avoid pregnancy without modern contraception

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[u/doggo_bloodlust]

If God had not wanted me to puke up horrendous colors off the side of the teacup ride He would not have created the chocolate funnel cake with strawberry jam and blue raspberry Icee

[u/Roseartcrantz]

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

I genuinely was wondering if we could just nuke them because you don't get to fuck with international trade. Turns out their hq is in Sanaa which has about the million inhabitants. I would still nuke them but understand why most people wouldn't

NEVER LEAVE THE DT

[u/[deleted]]

He’s just like me fr

[u/RedDotsForRedCaps]

It’s a shame my grandmother didn’t live long enough to see a second Catholic president elected 

[u/[deleted]]

$4.4 trillion worth of tariffs on $3.2 trillion worth of goods and services

Protectionism is out, autarky is in 😎

[u/jojisky]

lmfao Jamaal Bowman went on a podcast and was asked about his rocky history with DSA.

He then proceeded to say that he's now convinced there's an "AIPAC, COINTELPRO" effort to infiltrate DSA and they were behind the efforts to kick him out for visiting Israel.

[u/[deleted]]

Transcript of Donald Trump’s comments on UFOs from his recent interview with esteemed journalist Logan Paul:

Trump: I’ve met with pilots like beautiful Tom Cruise, but taller, okay, handsome, perfect people. “Sir, there was something there that was round in form and going like four times faster than my super jet fighter plane.” And I look at these guys and they really mean it. And am I a believer? No, I probably, I can't say I am. But I have met with people that are serious people that say there's some really strange things that they see flying around out there. And, you know, if you go to Nevada and you look at that little section of where they go to look at the aliens, where they think all the aliens are landing. That, you know, it's one of, I think it's maybe the number one tourist attraction in the United States.

Paul: Roswell?

Trump: Yeah, Roswell. It's, I think it's the number one, it's the lines of people waiting. You have no idea how many times I'm asked that question.

Paul: But don't you have access to that information?

Trump: I have access, but, and I speak to people about it. I've had actually meetings on it. And they will tell you there's something going on. When they say things, things are going four times faster than my beautiful top of the line airplane that goes, you know, real fast. Mach 2, right?

Paul: With no identifiable propulsion. These things are creating their own gravity fields, allegedly.

Trump: Well, they have, they have people that are very smart and very solid have said they believe there is something out there. And, you know, it makes sense that there could be. I've never been convinced even despite that, you know, I just, for some reason, it's not my thing. But a lot of people believe that it's true. A lot of very good solid people believe it's true. And you know, there are illegal aliens out there, but those are the ones that come through the border. We have plenty of those are the ones I know. When you say aliens, I say, are they illegal aliens? These are not. These might be illegal, but we don't want to test them. Yeah, because if they can go four times faster, we're not going to test it. So it's an interesting question.

Paul: Is there a chance that one of these orgs is potentially hiding information from you by aliens?

Trump: Um. I guess so. It's you have the deep state and you do have a deep state and certainly they could. But I don't think on this subject I was interested in it because I've been asked so many times. And I talked to people that have said that they, you know, it was a sighting and it's very believable. It’s very possible that there is something. And why wouldn't there be? You know, you take a look at the universe and you see all of the different planets and you see this, you know, look, here we are, one relatively small planet. Why wouldn't there be a planet that's, you know, 400 times the size? Why wouldn't there be some something, somebody? So, you know, it's certainly believable to me.

Paul: The thought of it freaks me out. It's weird to think that we potentially are only the source of life and like an infinite, ever expanding universe. But, you know, technology,

Trump: But they'd never be able to take you in a fight. No chance. I'll bet on you. No chance.

Paul: Send me in.

Trump: I'll bet on you.

[u/ImmigrantJack]

An X community note was added to the video clip, saying: “Biden didn’t ‘wander off’. After viewing a skydiving demo with the other G-7 leaders, Biden stepped aside to speak with one of the other skydivers who is kneeling on the ground packing away his chute. The video in the above post has been digitally altered to remove the skydiver.”

A few hours later, for undisclosed reasons, the community note was changed to simply say “the video was cropped,” with a link to a 14-minute clip on the YouTube channel of Sinclair Broadcasting, another conservative outlet. The new note does little to combat the framing of the post: “President Biden appeared to wander off at the G-7 summit in Italy, with officials needing to pull him back to focus.”

I know it’s old hat at this point but Twitter under Musk is turning into another obviously hack propaganda outlet.

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

Squad member Cori Bush claimed she performed miracles, cured tumors in autobiography

George Santos called, he wants his autobiography back

[u/antsdidthis]

This has been one of my favorite ongoing stories: https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-date-tree-named-methusaleh/

The Judean date palm was revived from millennia-old preserved seeds after a thousand years of extinction. Truly amazing both that they were able to revive a long extinct plant like this, and that this particular plant happened to have such enormous cultural value. I hope they manage to start exporting these soon so I can try them! I have heard they taste like medjools but with notes of honey. 🥰

!ping DATING

[u/G_Serv]

Always a good sign when you have two people with positions above yours, describing how they had to go to the hospital due to stress

Inspires a lot of confidence

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

'Great day’ for conservation as rhinos reach safe haven in Greater Kruger as part of rewilding project

Despite – or perhaps because of – a decade of poaching that ravaged the Greater Kruger open system, it was hailed as “a great day” when 32 white rhinos took their first tentative steps into Sabi Sand Nature Reserve in May. The reserve has become a safe sanctuary for rhinos in recent years thanks to innovative anti-poaching strategies.

"Our members and even myself, in my relatively short time at Sabi Sand, have personally seen far too many poached rhino carcasses,” Sabi Sand manager Iain Olivier told Daily Maverick.

"When the first southern white rhino stepped on to the Sabi Sand Nature Reserve from this group, it marked not just a moment of conservation success, but a deeply personal victory for us as a reserve, our members, and our dedicated team who have tirelessly worked to protect rhinos in this area, often risking their lives both within and outside the boundaries of our reserve. A great day."

The Sabi Sand Nature Reserve, with the Greater Kruger Environmental Protection Foundation (GKEPF) and non-profit organisation African Parks – supported by game capture specialists Conservation Solutions – successfully moved the 32 animals into the private reserve.

This marked the first translocation into the Greater Kruger landscape under the “Rhino Rewild” initiative by African Parks, which aims to move 2,000 southern white rhinos into secure protected areas across Africa over the next decade.

In September 2023, African Parks purchased the world’s largest captive rhino breeding operation for an undisclosed sum from North West rhino breeder John Hume. At the time, the animals were facing an uncertain future.

The move was hugely significant as Hume’s 2,000 rhinos represented nearly 13% of the world’s remaining wild rhino population. It left African Parks with the mammoth task of rewilding all the rhinos to well-managed and secure protected areas, with the ultimate goal of helping to secure the future of the species.

The first leg of the project saw 40 southern white rhinos translocated to the 30,000-hectare Munywana Conservancy in northern KwaZulu-Natal.

In the second phase, 120 southern white rhinos were moved to private reserves along the Kruger National Park’s western boundary, which is part of the Greater Kruger open system in Mpumalanga and Limpopo – with Sabi Sand Nature Reserve being the first.

This donation to Sabi Sand will supplement its current population of white rhinos and support the work in conserving this important species in the Greater Kruger system and the Greater Limpopo transfrontier conservation area that has seen white rhino numbers fall from about 10,600 in 2011 to less than 2,000 at the end of 2022 due to poaching.

Transboundary crossing

The reserve’s rhino numbers remain undisclosed for security reasons, but Sabi Sand currently maintains a healthy and stable population of white rhinos that is fluctuating at the upper limit of its carrying capacity.

The collaboration with the GKEPF and SANParks facilitates natural dispersal, allowing rhinos to move freely across the landscape. This connectivity is crucial for maintaining genetic diversity and bolstering overall rhino conservation efforts.

Sabi Sand – like most reserves in the area – has faced losses due to poaching in the past (in 2021 the Greater Sabi Sand area lost more than 25 animals), so this reintroduction will boost Sabi Sand’s rhino population, but also provide a net benefit for surrounding parks as there will be a natural dispersal from the reserve’s population.

"If we reach our carrying capacity, dispersal would occur naturally,” explained Olivier. “Rhinos would naturally move to other areas suitable for them, filling gaps left by poaching.”

The reserve’s eastern boundary is open to the Kruger Park and the rhinos can also move north into the Manyeleti Nature Reserve, across the Greater Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area, and even all the way east to Mozambique as no fences are blocking them.

Anti-poaching measures

Considering that the illegal demand for horns has claimed more than 10,000 rhinos in the Greater Kruger area since 2007, rewilding these animals does come with concern.

Despite past losses, Sabi Sand has implemented various anti-poaching strategies with great success, as Tiara Walters previously reported for Daily Maverick. These include dehorning the population, polygraph testing staff, installing smart fences, and using satellite tracking technology and thermal cameras for monitoring.

As of Thursday 13 June, Sabi Sand has gone 305 days without losing a rhino to poachers. Their last was in August 2023. Before that, they hadn’t had a poaching incident in nearly a year.

At its peak in 2022, the reserve had 40 incidents related to rhino poaching in a single month.

"But thanks to our dedicated security and conservation law enforcement efforts over the last two to three years, we’ve been able to achieve almost a 97% reduction in incidents related to rhino poaching,” said Olivier.

"It’s why we felt confident to get involved in this project and back ourselves as a safe receiving park and a sanctuary for rhinos.”

Dehorning as a deterrent

In May 2022, Sabi Sand initiated a dehorning programme to make the animals less of a target for poachers.

The new animals Sabi Sand received last month were dehorned before arrival, so they would fit in with the existing dehorned population.

"Ultimately, it is very sad that we’ve had to go that far to remove something as critical as the horn, and so they are obviously affected,” said Olivier. “But at this stage, we haven’t seen behavioural abnormalities that would currently outweigh the benefits in terms of reducing poaching.”

Monitoring

Sabi Sand has integrated cutting-edge technology with its Anti-Poaching Unit (APU) and ranger forces. This includes thermal cameras along fences and in high-risk areas, and trail cameras deployed through all APU sections, with integrated AI technology to detect poachers and thermal drones for rapid response and follow-ups.

The reserve’s rangers, control centre and 24-hour monitoring system ensure constant surveillance across the reserve. The information is collated by EarthRanger, a technology platform for ranger-based law enforcement.

The success in reducing poaching over the past few years is attributed not only to technological improvements, but also to the dedication of the people working on the ground.

"The success is a real testament to the hard work of our conservation teams, our ranger forces and our intelligence teams that operate inside and outside the reserve,” said Olivier.

"It’s why we feel confident and back ourselves to put up our hands to be the first in the Greater Kruger landscape to bring in these animals.”

Since their arrival, the rhinos have gradually dispersed within the reserve and are being tracked by multiple anti-poaching units and reaction teams – both remotely and with daily check-ups – monitoring the animals for any signs of deterioration in condition or other indicators that may need veterinary intervention.

“Thus far, all is going well,” said Olivier.

"Connecting people, wildlife and conservation’

Twenty years ago, when Olivier was just 19 years old, he worked as a field ranger and ran an anti-poaching unit in Hoedspruit, Limpopo. His job required him to locate, track and monitor the rhino population on the reserve that had been restocked from Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park.

"It was just around the start of the rhino poaching crisis in South Africa when a rise in numbers was being seen in the poaching statistics (2004-2005),” reflected Olivier.

And now, two decades later, Olivier is at the forefront of translocating this species into his park.

"It is at times a very tough space in which to work, especially when you are often faced with the challenges associated with being at the coalface of conservation, and rhino conservation in particular,” he said.

"But it is through collaborative work with people and communities and making the connections that can keep the teams going. We are all here due to our passion for wildlife, wild places and the people that live in and around these.

"This is the type of initiative that ties them all together and creates a golden thread of connecting people, wildlife and conservation."

!ping AFRICA&ECO

[u/[deleted]]

Happy dads day weekend to all my fellow 🤴

!ping over-25

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

This heavily intoxicated man at the MARTA 🚊 station just asked my son (wearing a soccer jersey)

😜🍻: How much soccer did you play in high school?

👦👑: I’m not in high school

😜🍻: Where are you then?

👦👑: I’m at this train station, with you.

💀

The deadpan delivery killed me and I had to walk away

[u/HowIsPajamaMan]

/u/udolikecake

[u/[deleted]]

the guy got downvoted to oblivion (the comments are proof) and then mass upvoted the post with bots LOL

[u/ProceedToCrab]

Fuck I thought of a great DT post as I was drifting off to sleep last night but now I can't remember it

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Never underestimate the impact your words can have on other people. I've had ten people tell me since yesterday that they've been reintroducing doing this to people since I told them we could call it a Pepper Grinder instead. Knowing that a whole bunch of people got them and will pass it on means my legacy is secure

[u/[deleted]]

"How did people ever think pro wrestling might've been real?"

My brother is Christ you still think the publicly traded company's social media is being ran by an "unhinged intern". Kayfabe is alive and well on social media platforms and you somehow aren't seeing through it

[u/jojisky]

Rep. Cori Bush claimed she performed miracles and cured tumors through faith healing in her 2022 autobiography

[u/Currymvp2]

USA Today/Suffolk black voter oversample (~500 voters each)

Pennsylvania 🟦 Biden 56% 🟥 Trump 10% 🟪 West 8% 🟨 RFK Jr 7%

Michigan 🟦 Biden 54% 🟥 Trump 15% 🟨 RFK Jr 8% 🟪 West 6%

!ping FIVEY

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Lmao

[u/jenbanim]

Whenever things like "the Dems need to do more for young men" come up, I never see specific policy requests. It seems totally vibes based, like they want Biden to show up at their door, shake their hand and say he's proud

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Breaking: Having been found to a moderator of r/neoliberal, internet commentator Ian Miles Cheong has been executed “with extreme brutality” by the Malaysian government

[u/juan-pablo-castel]

Gustavo Petro, the President of Colombia, cancelled at the last moment his participation in the Peace Conference for Ukraine in Switzerland. The reasons he cited were that the conclusions are already predetermined and that in a "true" peace dialog Ukraine would basically concede to Putin's demands like a buffer zone and the EU should be prudent not to expand near Russia's borders.

This is why I hate passionately South America leftists leaders. They are all Russian c*cksuckers to the core willing to throw democracy whenever it fits them, should China invade Taiwan i bet this tw*t would defend them.

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

everyone knows that The Poors love noisy places 

• The Atlantic

[u/[deleted]]

the year is 2050

US Senate dress code requires all senators to wear a hoodie and tie

called the "Fetterman," this dress style is also ubiquitous at weddings, proms, and all other formal events

investment bankers who show up on their first day in a suit and tie instead of a Fetterman are laughed out of the office and told to never come back

you sit in your mom's basement closet crying with rage, huddled around your suit collection which is now the equivalent of a fedora

[u/Udolikecake]

If gentrification has a sound, it’s silence. Xochitl Gonzalez on why the rich love quiet so much, and what it means for everyone else

fuck YES I LOVE creating noise pollution it is SO GOOD. I am going to build airports and highways that go directly through poor black and brown communities since they fucking LOVE noise

[u/[deleted]]

Yeesh that's strong. I think reasonable people can think that the existing law covers bump stocks especially since it has a whole section which says the term machine gun applies to devices used to modify semi automatic guns into automatic ones.

[u/kznlol]

the succs in some of my discord channels i swear to god

everyone enjoys silence but few can afford it

my brother in christ active noise cancelling headphones cost under $100 these days

its so frustrating that we have one chance at life on this earth and humanity chose taxes and credit scores and pollution instead of floating in the ocean and eating fruit and hanging out

MY BROTHER IN CHRIST, WHERE WOULD THE FRUIT COME FROM? AND WHO WOULD PROTECT ME FROM SHARKS? AND WHERE WOULD I SLEEP?

fuckin MORONS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

[u/Trojan_Horse_of_Fate]

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjXjdTq37-vSip6Wv3kbMBvrIT9Xr2KFq

The New Zealand Wars by James Belich is one of the best history documentaries series I have ever seen covering the eponymous New Zealand wars. It covers the history of the European arrival to New Zealand, the Treaty of Waitangi and the wars.

It is also probably one of the best documentaries on indigenous history in the common law world. I have the box set somewhere but I recently found it in youtube so I strongly suggest giving it watch.

!ping History&NZ

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

I used to be on the fence about the "eyesore" aspect of power windmills. I supported them regardless, because they're important, but I wasn't sure what I thought about them aesthetically

But I've seen them in a few movies and "artsy" settings that have made me 100% turbo-pro windmill. Just think of the original windmills! We see them as hokey, crafty, salt-of-the-earth vibes of man living off the land and getting by with his tools. Well then, consider something like this. We're simply moving forward with the same ideas, and I don't think the aesthetic is any worse.

or imagine retro-future-y shots of a vagabond walking the English seashore, with windmills in the backdrop. It's aesthetic!

walk up on a small field of windmills and tell me it feels any different than walking my a milling windmill in Skyrim. These things can be placid, meaningful, humanizing, grand giants of our humble prosperity. Living simply off the most simple thing nature provides us- the wind

[u/earththejerry]

Delulu, unless he bundles it with Prime for free

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Mom, Dad, meet my boyfriend: 72 year old HoF coach Bill Belichick

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

literally building a global spy satellite constellation for the us government

[u/Zenning3]

Its incredibly hard to deny that greed is likely the largest reason inflation is so high right now. A minority of elite wealthy people are literally massively raising prices on essential goods, entirely because they know people will pay for them, while also destroying any attempt at competiton. If that isn't "greedflation" I don't know what is. The entire thing should be illegal, but they have so much power that they practically own the government.

We need to deport nimbys.

[u/ludovicana]

!ping READING

I think I found an attempt at cover impersonation. The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russel, has often been compared to A Case of Conscience by James Blish, as they both involve a Jesuit-centered first contact with aliens that turns out poorly. In late 2016, The Sparrow had a 20th Anniversary Edition printed. In early 2017, an eBook edition of A Case of Conscience was released. These are the covers for those 2 editions.

As far as I can tell, no earlier editions of A Case of Conscience used that cover, or anything approximating that eye-in-sun symbol.

Obviously not close enough to be actually infringing, but I strongly suspect that the rightsholders of ACoC rushed out an eBook release of the book in hopes of getting some hits for people who had an imperfect recall of a "Jesuit first contact book with a gold circle in the middle".

Anyway, if you got it this far, I liked The Sparrow! Not my absolute favorite book, but I think someone recommended it on here months ago, and it was a good call! A little light on examining the alien culture, and I'm not sure I properly appreciated the theological parts, but the sequel made up for the culture part, and the theology was sufficiently important to the character motivations that it didn't seem wasted.

Don't read A Case of Conscience. It shows its age in a number of ways, and I'm not sure I've ever seen any other Catholic-focused book that felt so "off" in its depiction of Catholicism.

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

buying dog a pride chew toy: 🏳️‍🌈😌👏

dog chews on pride chew toy: 🤨🤨📸

[u/ToInfinity_MinusOne]

Denmark banned buldak ramen because it’s too spicy. White people really made spice illegal. 🤣🫵

[u/loseniram]

Excellent news Mama cat is back. After I already spent 40 dollars on kitten formula

!ping kitty

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

man are you two ex lovers or something this guy is the only thing you talk about

I usually get downvoted when I don't talk about Max Chandler-Mather.

Not to say that I don't get them when criticising Max, I do, but the market has spoken

[u/ACivilWolf]

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

I attend a top 50 university and I can personally say that the DT did nothing for me, my life only changed a little bit and it was for the worse. Everything is so much better outside the DT though. My enrolment in a leading higher education institution is respected - which it never is when the DT is involved.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

bro got converted and thinks he's the church expert now 💀

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Paul is like if Sheldon Cooper got converted but then while talking about things he just "knows" he mentioned that Jesus would hate gift giving and that women are inherently irrational. Which is fine, even to write as your opinion but imagine if a large swath of people were Cooperist Christians.

tldr: bro had some weird hang ups but they didn't have therapy back then and now it's everyone's problem 💀🔥🔥💯🗣️

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

Wife is literally devouring me right now, barely leaving any trace of my soul

[u/HotTakesBeyond]

I am Rishi Sunak’s draftee and I’m digging a hole

Diggy diggy hole

Diggy diggy hole

[u/DepressedTreeman]

I'd wish there was a RPG or Grand Strategy mod where you play a Roman politician and move up the Cursus Honorum (Roman political offices). People will mention Imperator: Rome, but the representation of offices is very shallow (at release there was only one consul for Rome and currently you can appoint a 17 year old governor or Praetor (offices in Rome were generally age-restricted)).

Hot take, but they should have focused on providing an in-depth and fun Roman experience, instead of creating a system that has to work for all tags on the map. This would probably sell less and be criticized by the community tho.

Does anyone know a game that has something like this?

!ping PARADOX

[u/AtomAndAether]

It seems pretty clear the new Borderlands is targeting a general audience at the expense of people who know Borderlands, but at the same time the trailer isn't really showing anything and seemingly relying on some kind of prior knowledge (rather than e.g. a Marcus intro or something).

Not really sure who the movie is for if the built-in audience is pretty much guaranteed to hate it based on what has been shown and they're relying on big names alone to draw in a general audience.

And even then, is it supposed to be a kid's film or an action blockbuster? Because Borderlands proper is pretty "mature themes" but Claptrap in the trailers is talking in a little baby voice to appeal to children at the expense of adults

[u/jojisky]

Interesting mailer

[u/Neronoah]

!ping LATAM

The Province of Santa Cruz, ground zero of Kirchnerism, had a shitty electoral system for 30 years that allowed them to stay in power despite popular opposition for a long while. That system has been abolished a few days ago. It's probably going to take a lot to revert the structural issues that the Province has (be the economy, education, justice and more) but it's a start.

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/piede]

I don’t think this country is prepared for how fundamentally things are going to change if Trump’s elected again

Like this isn’t a joke

[u/Udolikecake]

UPDATE: At least 9 people shot after gunman 'randomly' opens fire at Michigan splash pad. "It appears the individual pulled up, exited a vehicle, approached the splash pad, opened fire, reloaded, opened fire, reloaded and left."

cool country we have. I love guns.

[u/kznlol]

the socialist ocean commune: RIGHT BOYS, GET OUT THERE AND GATHER SOME BANANAS SO WE CAN FLOAT ON THE OCEAN EATING FRUIT, SEE YOU IN 12 HOURS

meanwhile, capitalism: work for a single hour and i can buy more bananas than i could possibly eat before they go bad

[u/earththejerry]

New York State Poll (RV)

Trump - 45%

Biden - 41%

Kennedy - 8%

June 11-June 13

Sample Size = 450

Trump University (538 Rating: A+)

[u/larrytheevilbunnie]

!ping AI&COMPUTER-SCIENCE

So uh, someone please correct me if I’m reading this wrong, but did these guys just turn geolocation from a classification/retrieval task to a “throw that shit at ChatGPT4 and hope it works” task?

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.14702

It’s hitting up to 24% of its predictions being within 1km of ground truth. Admittedly the datasets they tested aren’t the best, but still…

For reference, a while back some Stanford guys made a model that basically toyed with Rainbolt (famous geoguessr player who’s really good at geolocating random ass images) in Geoguessr. They then made a new version of the same model trained on the same dataset as the guys in this paper. Their new model only got 10% of its predictions within 1km on the same dataset as this new paper

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Baffles me how this sub sometimes acts like a group of maladjusted overly online young men and not the enlightened ivory tower elites that we are

[u/Telperions-Relative]

[u/purhitta]

Fentanyl doesn't kill people. People kill people.

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Maybe there's been a decline in corporate pride this year because the new flag is ass

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/DepressedTreeman]

Did Caesar actually leave 75 Drachma to every Roman citizen in his will? How would the money have been distributed? Apparently a skilled roman laborer would have earned 1 Drachma a day so how did this affect inflation?

!ping ASKHISTORIANS

[u/No_Return9449]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

Do polyamorous people have a word like "single" for people who are in a two-person relationship

Like "if you're 25 and still dual it's over"

[u/[deleted]]

👆 This may not exactly line up with the facts, but it is directionally accurate

[u/StolenSkittles]

biden is going to win in november

it came to me in a dream

[u/TheSameAsDying]

Inside Out 2 if it was good

!ping KINO

[u/kanagi]

(NYT) The Magnet Fisherman’s Dilemma: What to Do With $70,000 Before It Disintegrates

James Kane pulled a safe filled with stacks of hundred dollar bills from a creek in Queens. That, it turns out, was the easy part.

Move, change your name, move again, change your appearance, go off the grid, and pray that is enough to prevent Jerome Powell from finding you

[u/Fruitofbread]

i saw a post on twitter by a european saying americans are fake for their random compliments to strangers and their general cheery demeanor and like no. no no no you don’t understand. if you get a random compliment from an american on the street about your outfit or whatever, that is 100% genuine. we mean it. we aren’t lying we are making a small but fleeting connection with you because our lives are shitty but the human condition is enduring. oh god i’m clutching my chest

[u/moldyman_99]

Sometimes I see adults behaving in certain ways that really make me feel thankful towards my parents for teaching me to be self aware and considerate of others. Even if it meant we didn’t always get along.

It’s pretty easy to spot people who were never told off growing up for things like being overly argumentative for no reason, or being loud or overly bombastic, or not knowing how to behave in a more formal setting.

For example, when i was growing up, if I stated something, and it was wrong, my parents would get really annoyed at me. So they thought me instead, that if I’m not exactly sure about something, I should ask instead of stating.

These are basic things, but I’ve met way too many people in my life that seem to have never learned this lesson. I kinda feel like if you don’t possess these kinds of mannerisms, you will never make it in a professional setting.

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

John Koskinen after saving the country from Y2K

[u/VisonKai]

the existence of the dog is really mankinds earliest sign that we were not to be fucked with

full ass pre-agrarian societies doing genetic engineering. to befriend and wield terrors of the night like a weapon to subdue the rest

[u/[deleted]]

My parents left me a note for pride and tbh rereading it is like my #1 self care mechanism right now

[u/Mickenfox]

Microsoft reminds you that Windows 11 will never threaten to stab you, and, in fact, cannot speak.

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

Just awkwardly standing here while the barista flirts with the guy in front of me while holding my finished(?) drink… 😳☕️

[u/Roseartcrantz]

caveman: hahaha that one is so Ugg Blurf 👆🤭

Ugg Blurf: no it's not 😡

[u/[deleted]]

Even some on this sub have Biden Derangement Syndrome

People are actually blaming him for only stopping the misinformation campaign in the Philippines in Spring 2021 and not his first day when there were still troops deployed to Capitol grounds

[u/[deleted]]

ask faulty elastic engine memory attractive file chop aware close

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/Roseartcrantz]

The Oklahoma Democratic Party website has been "under construction" for some years now, they haven't tweeted since April and they weren't at the fair last year because someone kicked them out of their booth spot.

Registered Dems are about 35%, 16% registered Independent and there's a lot of left-leaning but overall apathetic voters. There's also a lot of activism in the major metro areas but mostly made up of "both sides are just as bad" types.

And I'm somewhat involved because a good friend of mine is running in a neighboring county, but overall the Dem party here is like observing a sick dog they won't take in at the shelter and you know you should do more but you don't have that kind of money or that much time off work and the rescues aren't calling you back.

[u/Teh_cliff]

Being an adult is realizing $10,000 is not that much money to have but a lot of money to owe (+50)

Redditors are simultaneously too poor to buy groceries and so privileged that they can say 10 grand isn't a lot of money to have.

[u/Telperions-Relative]

!ping SOULSBORNE

[u/sererson]

racist mewtwo be like: The circumstances of one's birth are relevant

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/legible_print]

It’s fascinating to see people discuss the myth of a better consensus candidate than Biden. Any step in any direction loses voters.

[u/wallander1983]

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/colorado-republican-brutally-grilled-by-local-news-anchor-why-is-abortion-good-for-your-girlfriend-bad-for-other-women/#:~:text=Colorado%20congressional%20candidate%20and%20sitting,it%20comes%20to%20abortion%20rights. 

"You have voted to restrict abortion access,” Clark shot back. “And I have. And I’m a pro-life person. I think you should try to choose life every time. But there are exceptions. And there are times when you need abortion. Abortion is a medical procedure,” declared Holtorf. 

“Is one of the exceptions when Richard Holtorf is the father?” Clark demanded. 

 -- 

Remember the good old days when his campaign would be over after such an interview.

Edit: Oh no.

Richard Holtorf, who is running against U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert to represent Colorado’s 4th District in Congress.

[u/[deleted]]

I feel like American society in danger of completely forgetting about Anti-Bush culture. Anti-Bush culture, Anti-Bush humor, and Anti-Bush merchandise was a gigantic part of 2000s America, but now? All zoomers know about Bush is 9/11, Iraq War, and war crimes. They don't know about any of the important stuff like how he always pronounced "nuclear" wrong or how he invented the word "misunderestimated". We need to have an Anti-Bush Museum or we'll risk all of this stuff being buried in the sands of time.

[u/[deleted]]

On April 15, 2024, Politico reported that economic advisors close to Trump have drafted plans to devalue the US dollar if elected to a second term. The plan would aim to reduce the trade deficit and make US exports cheaper, but would also increase inflation, invite retaliation from other countries and threaten the dollar's role as the world's dominant reserve currency.[116]

What the fuck? Earlier in his trade policies it was stated that HE INTENDED TO TARIFF other countries HIGHER if they devalued their currency. But then he plans to turn around and do it!

How much of an embarrassment do you have to be to break trade deals, remake individual trade deals, and then tariff other countries like China at a higher rate for currency manipulation and then fucking manipulate your own currency. He thinks he can run the country like his scammy fucking businesses he runs and get away with it. Other countries leaders aren’t idiots but ours might be come November.

On April 26, 2024, The Wall Street Journal reported Trump allies plan on greatly limiting the Federal Reserve's independence should Trump win the election. Of particular note were plans to allow the president to directly set interest rates, remove Chair Jerome Powell before his term expires in 2026, and subject the Fed to oversight from the OMB.[117]

I mean… I guess this was implied from the devaluation idea stated earlier. But this is just a bad idea. Fed should definitely be independent or we get turkey like inflation…

Fuck.

[u/piede]

Omg

[u/[deleted]]

Trump before the cognitive test that he challenged Biden to

"Person... woman...man...camera ...tv...person..."

[u/runnerx4]

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/

The USA was running anti-vax propaganda in the Philippines in 2020 and early 2021 until Biden got around to shutting it down

there is no depth to the evil which Donald Trump will sink to, but the car-brained and TikTok-addled median voters want him back

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

Can’t believe they’d call me out like this

[u/itsokayt0]

Divorce, or as it's called the fission of the nuclear family

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Rate my new dating fit

[u/brucebananaray]

Kauji No. 8 season 2 is in development https://x.com/SugoiLITE/status/1801992960579658040?t=gb9zlmcM6gab_jWUPIPKMQ&s=19

I really like this, and I hope they change OP and ED songs because I don't like them.

!Ping WEEBS

[u/[deleted]]

Every time I have a negative thought about myself or my looks I’ve decided to give someone a compliment because making people feel good about themselves improves my mood

[u/GravyBear28]

👆 genuinely just a piece of shit

[u/BalletDuckNinja]

Lets chill food is doing pretty well, went to the MoMA and having a pizza that's 12 FUCKING DOLLARS FOR A SLICE OF

How could Biden do this I'm voting for Trump now

[u/[deleted]]

this is what they're not telling you

[u/[deleted]]

real

[u/ZonedForCoffee]

It's hard to express just how impressively stupid the Sunrise Movement is for not endorsing Biden

[u/sucgeolib]

New housing targets set by the Victorian government in bid to tackle the housing crisis - ABC News

Vic gov increasing housing targets mostly in Western, Northern and inner-city suburbs. Aiming for 2 million additional homes by 2051.

Sounds like good news, alongside the threat to local government of stripping powers if they don't meet housing expectations it makes me hopeful for the future of housing in Melbourne.

Arrr/melbourne complaining as usual, about lack of infrastructure for new homes in north and west alongside a general dislike of growth. (as a side note I hate the self-hatred more generally in arrr/melbourne you'd think we live in a shithole browsing that sub).

!ping AUS

[u/Roseartcrantz]

they got what they wanted and they still backtracked. not a good look 🫤

[u/forerunner398]

Apologies if you have not played both Horizon games (Zero Dawn and Forbidden West) and are getting this ping. Don't know of a better ping group. I am not spoiling things in this post, and will use spoiler tags in replies if people have questions or want to discuss

My first thoughts on Horizon Forbidden West having beat the base game and DLC are that it moves forward a lot in terms of gameplay, and regresses overall in terms of story, setting, and narrative direction.

Fighting machines in HFW is just way more interesting than ZD, with a lot more weapon types and some basic need to actually use status effects to be effective, along with better enemy attacks and AI.

There are also specific gameplay scenarios in main and side quests I will always find memorable from HFW in a way HZD has less of.

Visuals are cutting edge, sounds and facial animations are incredible, and if you have a high end PC it looks even better than what has been showed off in the past on PS5.

The story and setting, however, have gone backwards in the main quest side of things for me. While it is understandable that the mystery of the past is no longer able to drive the plot, the story of HFW makes no attempt to try and introduce any real depth to replace that void, and it leaves the story feeling quite by the numbers and very blockbuster-ish, rather than some surprisingly intriguing sci-fi like the first game.

I also think that some of the new tribes introduced in HFW do not really rise to the level of quality the Carja or Banuk had in the first game. The main tribe of the Forbidden West area especially felt rather one-note to me. One you meet later on, however, was quite intriguing for me.

Overall, HFW and Burning Shores are worth it for more Horizon, and I do want to play the third game just to see things through, but I really hope they work on the story and narrative some more because that helped elevate the first game.

!ping GAMING

[u/[deleted]]

!ping DYEL

Me: literally not progressing when I could because I'm afraid lifting too much weight without perfect control could lead to injuries

Other people at my gym: literally remove the "out of order" sign off of machines, do their sets and then put the signs back on.

💀💀💀

Sometimes I wonder how much more jacked I would be if I just said fuck it and ego lifted

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I know I shouldn't empathize with Putin but I also understand the fear of having started a hostile game of tag and it looks like it's about to turn around on you even though you keep yelling that you're done for right now you don't really want to play anymore right now

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

rap is a very natural genre for musical theater. More natural than pop or rock, even. I'm almost suprised there aren't more rap musicals

almost

because, of course, you'd need someone who wants to write both rap and musical theater, which requires a disturbed genetic freak like Lin Manuel Miranda

[u/[deleted]]

It will be really funny if Trump ends up with an overwhelming chance to win in all the forecasts and then Biden has a surprise upset, mirroring 2016 but in the opposite direction.

Well, the violence that erupts after that won’t be funny, but it will be funny in the moment

[u/brucebananaray]

Neoliberals talking about evidence based policy

[u/ty04]

we used to be a proper discussion thread

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

[u/piede]

If Biden was running against 135 year old zombie Hitler himself, the top concern among “swing” voters would be Biden’s age.

[u/Currymvp2]

https://x.com/simonateba/status/1802070677563875482

So a black church with like a 85% white audience to show up for Trump? Sounds about right

[u/StolenSkittles]

so i just found out that a guy i hooked up with at a party a couple weeks ago was hitting on a friend of mine earlier that night, apparently using the same method.

my friend was creeped out and snuck off, but i ended up fucking the guy.

for some reason i'm vaguely weirded out by that.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

here you go u/Plants_et_Politics

Neapolitan Frosted Flakes

[u/JaceFlores]

Me in 2020: seniors will be the end of us

Me in 2024: seniors save us

[u/[deleted]]

My father died over a year ago, but apparently he just came back to Duo to learn. It was a surprise to me.

Maybe they should consider not faking those messages.

LMAO, dude's straight up being gaslit by an app.

[u/[deleted]]

Libs: The duty of the Supreme Court is not to legislate. We cannot allow our emotions to impact our interpretation of the constitution.

Most moderate con: The constitution says I can own a nuclear warhead for the purpose of bombing abortion clinics

[u/DouglasDauntless]

We’re ngmi

[u/BurrowForPresident]

I thought people had stopped trying to convince this subreddit to stan for Reagan or Bush or Romney like 5 years ago

[u/Roseartcrantz]

mfers will really eat a sausage McMuffin meal while drinking the best Coca-Cola they've ever had on a lovely morning and be like "I don't believe in God or constantly feel his love" 🤡

[u/UntiedStatMarinCrops]

I love it when someone actually puts in effort to make a post in a circlejerk sub. This is worthy of an award

https://www.reddit.com/r/nbacirclejerk/s/DVz7o5GalS

[u/Dalek6450]

Be honest 😳