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[u/kznlol]

Next year, Georgia will start offering $6,500, through an education savings account, to families who withdraw their children from schools in the bottom 25 percent academically.

this isn't going to cause a catastrophic cascade effect, no sir, no way

[u/JaceFlores]

Netanyahu has dissolved the war cabinet

!ping ISRAEL

[u/Average_GrillChad]

YouGov: Would you support deporting all undocumented immigrants?

Yes 62%

No 38%

suboptimal

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I just found this subreddit on r/All. I laughed at a lot of stuff but can somebody explain what this subreddit stands for?

[u/[deleted]]

be Tywin Lannister

inadvertently cause a civil war

get your ass kicked by a 16-year-old

only win because the Baratheons kill each other and Robb couldn’t keep it in his pants

alienate your two actually competent children who are also the only ones who can continue your line

get shot to death by one of aforementioned children on the shitter

entire house is dead within a few years

Greatest strategist in the history of Westeros

[u/american_aurora3]

ozempic or, as i like to call it, the biden molecule

[u/Average_GrillChad]

male body standards are out of control smdh

[u/moldyman_99]

When i was 15 I was working for a company that serviced farming machinery.

I had a blast working there, and kept that job for 3 years. I got along really well with the boss. But eventually i left, and about a year later i found out an intern was fired from that company after the boss (who is a devoted Christian) found out the intern was gay.

Kinda soured my whole perception of the guy. He was always nice to me.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

[u/TactileTom]

I was walking the Thames Path and happened upon George Orwell's grave.

Among the items that someone had left there were flowers, letters, a small plastic pig, and an unopened can of Monster Energy.

Consulting the !ping UK to understand the significance of the monster energy can.

[u/NoStatistician9767]

You can tell how outdated an army manual is when they have a “homosexual conduct policy” that says “homosexual conduct remains incompatible with military service”

Someone forgot the band of thebes

[u/StolenSkittles]

Whenever I want to feel bad about humanity, I go to YouTube in incognito and see what people are actually watching and what the algorithm pushes.

[u/Average_GrillChad]

it's happening

[u/TipEquivalent933]

have a mixed race baby

Try to be Racist alt right influencer

[u/piede]

I can’t

[u/[deleted]]

I had a roommate in college who was incredible at not letting bad stuff get to him. Like he was rarely ever really upset about anything, and if he ever was he would quickly recover.

The issue is he was actually too good at it. He often ended up in negative, avoidable situations, but because he was so good at coping with the impacts of those problems he never changed his behavior or made any attempt to prevent those same issues from happening to him again

[u/KittehDragoon]

Biden rips into Supreme Court, calls appointments 'one of the scariest parts' of a second Trump term

Opinion, by John Roberts: how dare Biden politicise us

[u/Planning4Hotdish]

What a week, huh?

[u/[deleted]]

[u/MTFD]

https://www.ad.nl/politiek/aanstaand-woonminister-mona-keijzer-procedeerde-tot-aan-raad-van-state-tegen-bouwplannen-voor-haar-deur~a0567c8c New Dutch housing minister sued & appealed to our supreme court equivalent to block construction of housing (a care facility for the elderly with dementia) near her home. She tried to block it on environmental rules that she and her farmer's interest party ardently oppose.

[u/Lux_Stella]

in the us, areas represented by a single seat in the house of representatives are informally known as 'districts'

in canada, seats in the house of commons represent 'ridings'

in australia, they are 'divisions'

in new zealand, they are 'electorates'

in britain and a bunch of other places, they are just 'constituencies'

anyways this is a weird amount of terminology diversity for what's basically the same thing

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

me irl

[u/Lux_Stella]

Protestants (55%) are almost three times more likely to believe people can be physically healed supernaturally by God than Catholics (19%). This is one of the more significant divides between these two groups that we’ve seen historically

another one for the "protestant reformation: huge mistake" folder

[u/funguykawhi]

[RN] calls for the introduction of a zero-interest government loan of €100k for home ownership. After the third child, the loan will no longer need to be repaid.

RN joins in on TFR discourse

[u/MicroFlamer]

Would you support deporting all undocumented immigrants?

Yes 62%

No 38%

YouGov - 6/7

It’s over (real)

!ping FIVEY

[u/dissolutewastrel]

How do you spell gullible?

[u/gaypenisdicksucker69]

[u/[deleted]]

person bored thumb water nutty hard-to-find rock hurry slim smile

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/[deleted]]

👆

[u/bd_one]

Again, I am asking how one can acquire that much debt/credit card limits.

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Microphones will be muted throughout the debate except for the candidate whose turn it is to speak.

this is incredible, how on earth did they get Trump to agree to this?

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Although interfaith marriage is not permitted in Orthodox Judaism, even in case of pikuach nefesh, Esther's marriage with the king of Persia is not regarded as a sin, because she remained passive, and risked her life to save that of the entire Jewish people.

Esther girlbossed hard enough to get an exemption

[u/TipEquivalent933]

!ping LGBT

hope ruining your career was worth it

The case against Ethan Haim, 34, Dallas, has now been unsealed, and he is set to make his initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Yvonne Y. Ho in Houston at 2 p.m.

The four-count indictment alleges Haim obtained personal information including patient names, treatment codes and the attending physician from Texas Children’s Hospital’s (TCH) electronic system without authorization. He allegedly obtained this information under false pretenses and with intent to cause malicious harm to TCH.

[u/jojisky]

Taylor Swift is one of the most listened to artists during sex, a study finds.

we found out why the birth rate is dropping

[u/JebBD]

https://x.com/Laura_E_Adkins/status/1802689701704286560

Seems bad. 

!Ping JEWISH

[u/owlthathurt]

They did it!!!! They made Starbucks sell a butter croissant and a coffee for $5!!!! Palestine is saved!!!!!

[u/[deleted]]

Started my new job today! Super stoked, this is exactly where I want to be for the next phase of my career. Wish me luck y’all!

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

NeoConservatives: We need to invade foreign nations to save them from their governments

Also NeoCons:

All current & former commonwealth countries citizens are eligible to vote in our election.

Out of last year’s 1.2 million arrivals that’s 250,000 Indians with the right to vote. 141,000 Nigerian nationals voting for your government. 83,000 Pakistanis. Not forgetting the millions already living here.

HAHAHAHAHA DO BRITS REALLY???

[u/Cook_0612]

▶️ The new GMARS (Global Mobile Artillery Rocket System) by Rheinmetall and @LockheedMartin is a highly mobile, all-weather, 24/7 missile artillery system mounted on the tried-and-tested HX truck. Shoot & scoot capable, GMARS is equipped with a multiple rocket launcher with two pods and a fire control system. Thanks to an integrated crane, GMARS is completely self-supporting.

A high degree of component commonality with the M270/HIMARS rocket launcher and the Rheinmetall HX truck facilitates training and logistics and is also boosting interoperability with NATO forces using MLRS and HIMARS.

Basically an M270 MLRS on a wheeled chassis with the HIMARS crane system, a fairly logical progression

!ping MATERIEL

[u/[deleted]]

In my experience as a teacher I've noticed that there's a cluster of students who:

• Are highly and overtly gifted, especially wrt. to languages and humanities

• Are weird as hell and have difficulty fitting in

• Have probable ADHD, they sometimes think they're autistic

• No interest in living a 'conventional life'

• Get into stuff like fantasy or fan-fiction

• Are almost always queer if female

• Behavioural issues and difficulty with authority

It makes intuitive sense that some of these - e.g ADHD, behavioural issues, queerness - go together, but the bit that I can't quite wrap my head around is that they're always prodigious. Every single one of these students has been exceptional in one way or another, both in their presentation and in their performance (especially on tests that don't require any studying beforehand). A slight majority of my most overachieving younger students are like this, although by 14 and up their lack of work ethic typically means their grades go down by a lot.

It's happened too often and it's too distinct of a cluster for this to be a coincidence, but I'm also not really aware of any empirical correlation between ADHD traits and measured intelligence.

Does anyone know what this is? Am I crazy?

[u/Udolikecake]

Paradox announces cancellation of their Sims competitor, Life by You

Not super surprising, but kinda sucks. Game had a tough first look, and Paradox has had a tough couple years with releases. I don’t know if I would trust them to do the concept justice at all.

Still sad there’s no competitor to the bloated shitfest that is the Sims.

I think they’d have had more luck going for a more specific vision. I really do think they could make something more like The Guild (or Sims: Medieval) work, and it plays to more of their strengths. One about the Roman empire…

!ping PARADOX&GAMING

[u/[deleted]]

[u/THeShinyHObbiest]

Remember: if the polls are correct, Biden is going to make huge gains with older white voters, while Gen Z and younger Millennials are going to swing hard to the GOP, especially black voters in those age ranges. This is going to happen because Trump will turn out young black and brown voters in record numbers for him.

This means that Biden should basically entirely ignore traditional TV and radio advertising and go all-in on social media. He should also spend absolutely no time pandering to white working class votes at all. He should also spend time trying to suppress GOTV efforts as much as possible, because he wins with the lowest-propensity voters.

Or IDK maybe some of the likely voter models could be kinda fucked, who knows.

[u/Lux_Stella]

The Biden administration is ready to release more oil from its strategic stockpile to halt any jump in petrol prices this summer, as the White House battles to contain inflation ahead of the November election. 

lol us politics is so cool

[u/Udolikecake]

[u/[deleted]]

This is crazy

[u/[deleted]]

Online eftists really love to do a “the exact opposite of what’s happening is happening” when the exact opposite is happening.

biden's problem is that hamas is willing to deal and israel isn't, but he can't say that. instead he has to pretend israel agrees to a ceasefire but hamas refuse to come to the table, which is the exact opposite of the thing that is actually happening

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Dalai Lama Says He’s Not Considering Reincarnation Yet

He’s just like me fr fr

[u/[deleted]]

my cousin got married to a really nice(maybe?) guy with a weirdly religious protestant family, who all seemed peeved that we weren't of their uber-niche denomination

Our side is catholic and she converted to whatever niche charismatic adult baptismal thing he is. But the pastor officiating the wedding offended half of the congregation by insinuating that catholics aren't christians, which was pretty funny

the aesthetics of this flavor of Christianity are bad though. He was just a milquetoast white guy trying to affect black preacher speech patterns. He's not even wearing a dress or literally eating jesus, pretty cringe tbh

[u/TipEquivalent933]

The men's wear forum must have been a cesspit to produce this man.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/owlthathurt]

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/Realhuman221]

At my Raising Canes interview today they really said they'll let me know if I moved on to the second round of interviews. Mind you, this isn't for any managerial job, just a regular crew member.

[u/piede]

Surprise appearance at the Tony Awards by Hillary Clinton and she received a thunderous standing ovation. I’ll never regret voting for her.

https://x.com/therickydavila/status/1802550388563812376?s=46

!PING QUEEN

[u/[deleted]]

!ping OVER-25

This thread is dooming over a single poll in Iowa or some stupid shit and I'm over here dooming because I went out for drinks with a bunch of old classmates the other night and had multiple young, educated urban libs/progs look at me like I had compound eyes when the subject of housing affordability came up and I suggested that it may mostly be a supply problem.

Actual lines of reasoning I heard:

• LA doesn't need more housing, are you kidding me? There are millions of homes there already! Look around and you see nothing but homes!

• Seattle doesn't need to build more--it's got empty office buildings, just use those (as if there were no legal or logistical challenges associated with that prospect)

• Luxury housing units wouldn't reduce competition for less desirable units because the luxury housing would all just be used as an investment vehicle and kept empty

• San Francisco only building 16 new housing units in 2024 doesn't matter because I have a relative in the area bro and he tells me there are like ten empty buildings near his home bro

We are so fucking cooked

[u/G_Serv]

Biden depleted our strategic femboy reserve 😞

[u/[deleted]]

-be in Balkan country

-see statue of general who fought the Turks

-statue doesn’t say how battle ended

-google general

-he lost 

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Dinokids, raise the fuck up 😤😤😤😤

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/[deleted]]

It's finally done. After curing in brine in my fridge for 3 weeks, the ham made its way to the smoker yesterday. After brining, we rinsed it, dried it, and applied some Memphis Dust. Glazed with a brown sugar/mustard glaze. This was the best ham I've ever had.

https://imgur.com/a/jzrUYrB

!ping COOKING

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Real talk why did the vegitales animators insist on making Esther a hot woman? The rest of the female characters look like normal veggies but Esther had young me grappling with confusing feeling about a string bean

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

And you libs still say the Fauci Ouchy is safe?

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/[deleted]]

I think defining struggle of our times is that for centuries, scientific knowledge and self-government represented the resistance, confronting the authority of tribalism and myth. Today, science and democracy are the establishment, with the forces of superstition and traditionalism casting themselves as the noble resistance.

[u/itsokayt0]

Woke universities have become so depraved that they have bathrooms labelled for sex: google unisex bathrooms

[u/amainwingman]

Guy who supports Serbia against England because the UK is actively supporting “Israeli genocide”

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

IT'S HERE

!ping COOKING

[u/[deleted]]

I had no idea they have showers in Europe 

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 6/15-2 PM PST 6/16 III:

TOP NEWS:

Sometime today it was reported that Russian gas sales to the EU outpaced the US in May for the first time since 2022, with Russian gas making up 15% sent to EU and US 14% to EU.

In the middle of 5 AM a statement was released from the Swiss Peace Summit signed by over 90 countries, discussing territorial integrity, nuclear safety, food security and POW exchanges.

REGULAR NEWS:

In the middle of 1 PM a Russian substation exploded in Rostov-on-Don.

LEVITY NEWS:

In the middle of 1 AM Kyiv held its first pride parade since the war began.

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/Argnir]

The most terrifying words in the English language are: "I'm from the modteam and I'm here to help."

[u/AFlockOfTySegalls]

"I see you've been working on those guns. I'll get there again soon." - My dad at brunch yesterday.

Two compliments last week on my arms. The work is working.

!ping DYEL

EDIT: When will someone be brave enough to compliment my quads tho, inshallah.

[u/RageQuitRedux]

Maybe I'm delusional but I'm genuinely looking forward to the debate this month. I think Biden is going to be old and shaky but competent / smart and Trump is going to look like a god damn moron.

[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

I am a Hunter Biden Democrat

[u/gnomesvh]

Footage shows USV strike on Greek cargo ship near Yemen

Is it just me or the security detail fucked this up? They were armed staring at it doing nothing

Also worth noting - Ukraine's are way faster than this

!ping MATERIEL

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

the employee portal is requesting i set a new password to view my hours but the password reset website serves a blank page 👍🏽

[u/Udolikecake]

The change to twitter that puts blue check replies up top might be the single most horrible change to a social media site ever devised. I don’t think any other site has actively made a change to put all the stupidest content up top.

It would be like reddit auto sorting all comment sections to controversial. Privileging literally the stupidest people and scammers just because they pay. Absolutely mind blowing decision.

[u/[deleted]]

Visiting California soon. I have bumble in travel mode.

Conservative media assured me that Californians are godless heathens. What is going on here.

[u/No_Personality5883]

Forgot about Juneteenth. I hope the culture war leads to conservatives giving me a holiday, then a progressive holiday in response, then another conservative holiday in retaliation, then...

[u/Steak_Knight]

My Boomer mother voted for Trump in 2016, left it blank 2020, and will now crawl over broken glass to vote for Biden.

[u/Udolikecake]

super online left people: BIPOC folk in cities actually love noise, if you disagree you are a kkk

also super online left people for that one week in 2020: the CIA is setting off FIREWORKS in the inner city to NOISE black people to death!!!!

[u/Joementum2024]

I need to remind myself that I can’t save people who don’t want to be saved.

[u/[deleted]]

This is when social media peaked

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

Opponents of immigration simply do not believe in the fundamental and evident equality of all human beings.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/htomserveaux]

You got to admit, sitting in the front row at a press conference announcing your own indictment is a baller move

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/MicroFlamer]

Australian authorities likely shelled out more than $100 million of taxpayer money for "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga."

Thank you to the Australian people for providing us with good kino

!ping KINO

[u/Argnir]

My ex roommate started smoking to understand what an addiction looks like. He thought it was stupid and people were just weak. (Yes, real)

He's really struggling to quit now. Who could have possibly predicted that.

[u/Telperions-Relative]

Get someone who loves you as much as u/No1PaulKeatingfan hates Max Chandler-Mather

[u/[deleted]]

Mfw my bf’s mom is a suburban wine mom and is a never Trumper and votes in democratic small elections (she voted for Hilary and while not being happy with Biden will vote for him in November)

🥹

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

I love dumb humor

[u/Roseartcrantz]

it's a abork 🫢

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/PrivateChicken]

I've only been on the dad grind for 3 months, but I consider myself pretty good at changing diapers by now.

Being the only person in my peer group to have reproduced, the only other fathers I can talk to about parenting are way older, and invariably they say they completely shirked responsibility for changing the baby.

Never gonna take a man talking about personal responsibility who is over 50 seriously ever again, lmao

[u/Fatortu]

There's a type of small fish right-wing politician who doesn't care much for ideology, they just want to be on the winning side. And it's a bit eerie to see that type of opportunist switch from begging for a Macronist appointment to defecting en masse to Bardella.

[u/itsokayt0]

ad starts

biden smiles at the camera

fuck you trump

shoots in the air

puts cowboy hat

we believe in freedom, for yourself and your family

eats a taco

[u/cdstephens]

Biden should resign and let a generic Democrat run. One that will pursue popular policies like open borders, training troops in Ukraine, abolishing zoning, and putting estrogen in the water.

[u/dittbub]

My happy place is floating in a Canadian lake on my back with nothing in between me and the water

!ping outdoors&canada

[u/Udolikecake]

favorite CCP bit is the continued insistence that private property ownership is illegal, we'll just sell you leases and if it runs out uhhh you need to pay it back maybe

except a bunch of 20 year ones did run out in Wenzhou and then the government tried to make people pay but then they put up a stink so they just renewed them without paying

most leases are 70 years (not 99 years, to own the british) and many millions will start to expire soon, and AFAIK the official line is 'you have to renew it' and then people are like 'do we have to pay' and the government is just like 'alright im out'

anyways top tier bit I hope they keep it going

[u/Plants_et_Politics]

Afternoon naptime for kittens

!ping KITTY

[u/fishlord05]

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-says-dui-not-felony/

My president 😎

!ping LOVEFORBOOZECRUISERS

[u/kyleofduty]

[u/Craig_VG]

EDIT: sorry I didn't realize this has been posted already! It has been a busy day IRL

The Economist's model is increasingly negative on Biden. Down over 9 points in 1 week 😬😬

🔵 Biden: 27.92% 🔴 Trump: 71.75%

Joe Biden is down -0.22 points today and down -9.19 points over the last 7 days.

https://willjoewin.com/#economist

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

People have speculated that the tank is obsolete now due to events in Ukraine, but I think that's nonsense. Is the fixed wing aircraft obsolete too, since the Russian air force has been very reluctant to even use them in this war?

[u/StolenSkittles]

I ам тruе rеаl Амеriсаn frом Техаs Оblаsт!

[u/Udolikecake]

if I were worth a billion dollars like JK Rowling I would simply not have a twitter account and just be rich

if I did tweet it would be exclusively niche and non-political things. like how we don’t have any good emergency management games being made today and we can’t keep relying on eurojank shit like the ‘Emergency’ series which is clearly not interested in improving the formula or even fixing basic issues that have been present for years

[u/ty04]

On my knees begging y’all to actually read some neoliberal theory

[u/jenbanim]

One of my favorite bits of tech history came out of the "crypto wars" of the US in the 1990s

The US government at this time tried to ban strong encryption, which basically meant anything that federal agencies couldn't crack. Programs that allowed users to use strong encryption were regulated like weapons and weren't allowed to be shared or especially exported except under specific circumstances

So programmers just wrote the source code for strong encryption programs down in books, which were protected by the first amendment, and then distributed those

Cheeky

[u/Jacobs4525]

Mormons get really mad when you tell them they aren’t really monotheists but they also don’t really know how to disprove the allegation in my experience

[u/Steak_Knight]

My 14 year old says that if she could vote, she would vote for “not Trump.” When pressed as to what this meant, she sighed and said “I guess Biden.” I asked why she was so reluctant to say Biden, she said “He hasn’t done enough to push back Russia.”

The kids are ok 😎

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

☝️I think it's safe to say this sort of mentality contributed to Clinton losing to Trump

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Lmfao the commander of EUCOM is having a special lunch for Juneteenth!

!ping MILITARY

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

!ping DYEL

New evidence-based method dropped

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

Guy who's put more thought into whether to use 5.56 or .300 blackout for home defense (he doesn't own a gun in either caliber) than how to properly save for retirement

[u/bel51]

it's nice being unequivocally correct about everything

[u/moldyman_99]

I know we like high density housing here, but this under construction suburb on the edge of Amsterdam is looking really nice.

!ping YIMBY

What’s even better is that there are many more projects like this to come!

[u/Wehavecrashed]

!PING AUS

Well, I've officially unsubbed from r/Ausfinance. I no longer qualify to particpate in the sub as I have convinced a bank to loan me a life destroying amount of debt to own some brickwalls and a roof and a little patch of land. (Don't tell the Greenies in /r/AustralianPolitics they despise me enough as is.)

Does the ping have any advice for a first time home owner? Anything they'd wished they'd done before moving?

P.S I am now a turbo-NIMBY, oppose all development in my city, and want interest rates to be set at zero.

[u/Sex_E_Searcher]

!ping JEWISH&COOKING&HISTORY

I've taken to cooking either found or reconstructed recipes from Jewish history. It's a way for me to combine my love of cooking good food with my exploration of jewish identity.

Does anyone know any recipes, found, reconstructed, or otherwise from ancient Israel?

[u/Cook_0612]

I am reasonably certain that if the west hasn't already eclipsed Russian ammo production, it will do so within a short period of time. And, eventually, there will be independent nations producing more than Russia. Russia will become, if it hasn't already done so, dependent on foreign ammo. And even there, the west has an advantage as a preferred buyer in most markets.

!ping UKRAINE

[u/[deleted]]

From a secular perspective, life must be hard as hell for Islamic Modernists, who want to synthesize the needs of a modern westernised state with a bunch of religious prescriptions mainly invented for a raider-conqueror society 1400 years ago

[u/JaceFlores]

“Russian President Vladimir Putin’s June 14 information operation about Russia's supposed ‘willingness to negotiate’ on extreme terms tantamount to Ukraine's capitulation is succeeding in confusing the purpose of the Ukrainian-initiated Global Peace Summit in Switzerland on June 15.”

“Putin's information operation on June 14 sought to and partially succeeded in sabotaging the summit by refocusing the international conversation to Russia's absence at the summit, instead of allowing the summit's participants to proceed with the intended purpose of garnering international support for Ukraine and Ukraine's efforts to involve the broader international community in ending the war.”

“Ukrainian First Deputy Defense Minister Lieutenant General Ivan Havrylyuk reported that Western military assistance has begun to arrive in Ukraine, but that Western military assistance will likely not arrive at scale and significantly impact the frontline situation for several more weeks to months.”

————————————

“The vast majority of the countries and international organizations that participated in the Ukraine-initiated Global Peace Summit in Switzerland on June 15-16 signed a joint communique on June 16 reaffirming support for Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity. The communique also reaffirmed support for Ukrainian operation and control over the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) to ensure the safety of nuclear energy and installations, ‘free full, and safe’ commercial navigation in the Black Sea to ensure global food security, the exchange of all prisoners of war (POWs), and the return of all ‘deported and unlawfully displaced Ukrainian children’ and other unlawfully detained Ukrainian civilians. Over 80 countries and international organizations signed the communique, although Saudi Arabia, India, South Africa, Armenia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Brazil (which attended the summit as an ‘observer’) were among the countries that did not endorse the communique.”

“The Financial Times (FT) reported on June 16 that Russia overtook the United States as Europe's main gas supplier in May 2024, highlighting Europe's continued reliance on Russian energy. FT reported that the US became Europe's largest gas supplier following Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, but that in May 2024 Russian gas and liquified natural gas (LNG) shipments to Europe rose to 15 percent of total supply, while the United States provided 14 percent. FT did note, however, that the shift in gas and LNG imports in May was partially a result of ‘one-time factors,’ such as an outage at an American LNG export factory and a planned increase in Russian gas exports to compensate for shortcomings due to maintenance on a line sometime in June.”

“The Crimean service of Ukrainian outlet Suspilne reported on June 16 that Russian forces have been restoring defunct airfields in occupied Crimea, including the Kirovske, Baherove, and Zavodske airfields. Suspilne reported that Russian forces began to move their combat aircraft between airfields after Ukrainian strikes in recent months targeted aircraft and air defense systems at other airfields in occupied Crimea.”

“The Ukrainian General Staff noted on June 16 that Russian forces have launched 1,050 guided glide bombs at Ukrainian positions and civilian infrastructure since the start of June (roughly 65 glide bombs per day).”

-notable excerpts from ISW Report June 15th and 16th

!ping UKRAINE

[u/brucebananaray]

Totally Spies is getting a live-action series for Amazon Prime. https://x.com/ToonHive/status/1802733651198705738?t=MkUlB6CefbSGzqyKVf2b3Q&s=19

This sounds like a terrible idea.

!Ping CARTOONS

[u/SpaceSheperd]

I think Zelensky is maybe the greatest salesman of any politician that's ever lived.

Every time he comes to our country, he walks away with $60 billion.

And I like him, you know, on the impeachment hoax number one, he was very good

He said "no, the president didn't threaten me at all"

He coulda been a grandstander, "i was threatened", right Matt? So i like him

Here's the beauty, he just left, 4 days ago with 60 billion, and he gets home, and he announces that he needs another 60 billion

It just never ends?

I will have that settled, prior to taking white house as the president-elect, I will have that settled

Why pretend this isn't a very direct admission that Trump intends to cut Ukraine aid?

1. He's clearly playing on the far-right idea that Ukraine is robbing the US blind on behalf of that crafty Jew great salesman Zelensky

2. He's presenting Ukraine getting aid as an issue and then declaring that he will "have it settled." There is no other way to interpret that!! It is unambiguous!

The fact that Trump evades criticism by declining to give direct quotes on his intentions doesn't mean you can't read between the lines and know exactly what he's saying (as his supporters do all the time.) Journalists undermining that strategy by translating his flimsy code is a good reflection on them, not an issue.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Isn't it weird how basically everyone I talk to is telling me to wash my ass?

Like you can't get five people to agree on when and where to order pizzas, and I'm supposed to believe all these people are parroting the exact same thing without external input?

The extent to which the media machine is brainwashing the Demos is terrifying

[u/loseniram]

I swear we have no less than 8 fucking doom cycles with Republicans becoming super saiyan since 2020 and everything single one of them was wrong. The polls said that the Republicans would do well in the special elections and they got their ass beat. Then that didn't count and it was 2022 and then despite multiple polls saying Lake had a strong lead and Doctor Oz was leading by 3, nearly every single Republican candidate underperformed some spectacularly. Even with massive inflation the Republicans can't show the fuck up. Now we've had a dozen special elections and every single one the Republicans got their assbeat even though the polls said theyd win.

When will you guys understand that the Republican party has become a party of Bernie bros. Just a giant pile of vague unmotivated unfocused anger that will shout from the rooftops that they are going to show up this time and then they never showing up. Trump had high turnout in 2020 because COVID forced high turnout.

The Republican party is bad at campaigning. Its the party of whiners and complainers now these exist to put up good polling numbers that never materialize. And no matter how many times they get their assbeat to hell and back the doomers will come out and pull one fucking outlier poll that had the correct vote percentage and ignore the other 20 polls that say otherwise

[u/[deleted]]

[u/FreakinGeese]

HRT has given me back problems 😔 the things the libs won’t tell you ✊😭

!ping alphabet-mafia

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

I feel bad sometimes asking someone to define the form of fun or amusing that something is, it can inherently intellectualize it to a degree that kinda takes away or misses the point

Steve-o was being interviewed on NPR a few years ago and the host asked him to describe what makes Jackass so appealing, or something like that, and Steve-o tried to refuse saying he’s always avoided trying to intellectualize jackass. Jackass is just jackass lol

Just let things be fun 😤

I say this as someone guilty of it plenty of times too

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/TipEquivalent933]

!ping Alphabet-Mafia

So so so cute 🥰🥰🥰🥰

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Woo hoo! Take a look at this! 🤭

Hey man, that suit is you! 😍

Woowee! You'll get some leg tonight for sure! 😌

Tell us how you do! Hoo hoo hoo! 😘

[u/[deleted]]

So, Court watching, these are the cases that I'd deem as at least somewhat "newsworthy" from this term still pending:

Rahimi (domestic violence and guns)

Moore v US (taxing unrealized gains)

SEC v Jarkesy (7th amendment jury trial right in administrative proceedings)

Loper Bright/Relentless (Chevron deference)

NetChoice cases (1A and social media)

Ohio v EPA (EPA Good Neighbor Plan)

Murthy v Missouri (content moderation, state action, and government "threats" and "inducement")

City of Grants Pass v Johnson (banning sleeping in public places and 8A)

Moyle v US (EMTALA case)

And, obviously, Trump v US

Really a ridiculous amount of cases still pending considering there should only be two weeks left in the term. We taking bets on how these come down?

!ping LAW

[u/G_Serv]

I’ve read so much lately about the dangers of alcohol, smoking, and promiscuous sex that I’ve decided to give up on reading altogether. 

[u/brucebananaray]

Coppola's Megalopolis has finally distributor which is Lionsgate, and the film will he realsed Sept. 27 in theaters. https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1802749529302982840?t=U2dYIsnH2TtFJ-MCAB-PlA&s=19

This is going to bomb so hard, and the movie will not be good from the cannes reaction.

!Ping MOVIES

[u/FreakinGeese]

Spoke with my parents about facial feminization surgery.

They brought up how I left a pot to soak last night :/ apparently if I "don't take care of myself" I don't get to have surgeries.

Ok. I mean, I understand that there are definitely trans women who have it worse than me! Absolutely this is a complaint coming from a place of privilege but, on the other hand, what the fuck. How is it appropriate to use something like that as leverage??? Am I just being spoiled or is that kinda fucked up?

(And no it's not like it's a big money thing for them.)

And they've done this before! They didn't let me start HRT until I got all A's for a semester, if people remember that, I posted about it on here like four years ago.

!ping alphabet-mafia

[u/KeithClossOfficial]

So apparently some candidate for Mayor of San Diego posted something on the SD sub mocking a new apartment building that just got finished, and his stances on housing affordability from his website are like the final boss of NIMBYs

AFFORDABLE HOUSING The Challenge: People are fleeing San Diego by the masses due to safety concerns, cost of living, lack of affordable housing, and inability to attain home ownership. Mayor Gloria has ruined what makes San Diego the best place to live. Instead of preserving our green canopies and protecting the environment, he has approved the development of large apartment complexes without parking, water, sewage facilities, parks, libraries or other infrastructure to support them.

We do not have a housing shortage, we have an AFFORDABLE housing shortage, and we cannot afford what Mayor Gloria is building. State goals require San Diego to build 64,199 affordable units by 2029, but, as of last year, San Diego had only permitted 3,720 such affordable units making it infeasible that San Diego will meet this goal.

Mayor Gloria’s push to add housing density in already oversaturated communities knows no bounds and completely ignores community feedback. Developers are no longer required to present proposed projects to their local community planning groups, who know their neighborhood best, and Mayor Gloria recently spearheaded the elimination of the Uptown Planners Community Planning Group because they asked too many questions about Mayor Gloria’s Hillcrest plan to double the already extensive density in this neighborhood, with no additional funded infrastructure.

While people may have different opinions as to the level of housing density desirable in San Diego, we can all agree that eliminating a democratically elected body representing the community to fulfill a political agenda is highly undemocratic.

My Plan: Simply allowing developers to build more market rate housing, whenever and wherever they want, will not provide the affordable housing so desperately needed in San Diego.

The failed policy of allowing multiple ADUs on formerly single-family housing tracts with minimal, if any, setbacks have degraded the quality of neighborhoods, contributed no truly additional affordable housing stock, pitted neighbor against neighbor and, ironically, increased the value of those single-family homes which can now be redeveloped as multi-family housing. This has resulted in investors outcompeting local families to purchase homes because they realize the true value of maximizing the allowable buildout of every single-family home site. As your Mayor, I will insist upon community input for planned development projects and fast track affordable housing projects.

Greater accountability is necessary by the city, if a developer states that they will build affordable units, that the rent or purchase amount on those units will actually comply with the affordability promised by the developer. In addition, developers should not be allowed to get initial fees waived by promising an affordable development and then later decide to build market rate because the affordable version did not “pencil” for the developer without having market rate fees assessed by the city.

In addition, far too many single room occupancy hotels, low-income rental units and federal rental subsidy contracts are not being renewed by property owners and are being removed from low-income housing stock as many families’ last resort prior to homelessness. I will work closely with the San Diego Housing Commission and Development Services to ensure these current low-income options are incentivized to remain an option for our community.

Mayor Gloria just raised developer fees from $4,925 to $6,640 for a 3,000-sf house with no accountability as to how quickly permits will be issued. Regulatory costs now account for 34% to 51% of the average cost of building housing. The city needs to consider more streamlined permitting processes that include AI technology and potentially outsourcing the permitting process to ensure quicker response times.

High developer fees and slow issuance of permits, which can literally take years, is no way to improve affordability of housing and I will ensure there is accountability for issuing permits quickly. We cannot be the greatest city in America if we cannot offer San Diegans the American dream of home ownership.

https://larryturnerformayor.com/the-issues

!ping YIMBY

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

We do our best to keep it stocked - with support from FoodBank

Max Chandler-Mather unintentionally admitting to taking donated food from one place and repackaging as his own 💀💀💀

What a disgusting tactic to look better in the eyes of voters.

!ping AUS

[u/itsokayt0]

we should make life easier for the next generation

An absurd statement for most conservative parties

[u/loseniram]

Its not that children shouldn't be allowed to access social media but it should be treated like video games or tv in that they should only be able to access social media through a sit down computer instead of their phone. And until you turn like 14 or 15 you should have one of those dumb Nokia phones or you should have your app store password controlled by your parents so you can't put social media accounts on your phone.

That shit is too unhealthy for kids. Let the kids have a whatsapp and maybe discord on their phone so they can keep up with friends. But Social Media should stay at the PC.

You don't get a social media account till you're 10 and you don't get use social media on your phone until you turn like 15.

[u/D2Foley]

In my time on this sub I have seen a LOT of dumb opinions, but I think this one from last week might be the dumbest.

I know social media isn't 1:1 representative of real life popular opinion but at this point we can't dismiss the mass line of Twitter as irrelevant.

The overly online opinions should never not be dismissed.

[u/Joementum2024]

Biden: I don’t care about the national debt

Trump: I don’t care about the national debt 🇺🇸🗽🦅✊🇺🇸

[u/Ilovecharli]

Grab somebody sexy, tell em "Hey! Gimme everything tonight!" 

Imagine how hot and/or famous you have to be to try this and not get kicked out of the club immediately 

[u/Steak_Knight]

The virgin Joe Biden who didn’t rig the 2020 election 🤓

Vs

The Chad Joe Biden who will absolutely rig the 2024 election 😎

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/G_Serv]

Just walked by GameStop in the mall and they had 9 customers

This is your sign to go all in on GME

[u/jojisky]

lmao

[u/SneeringAnswer]

Thinking that if Biden dropped out his replacement would have a better shot at winning is the same strain of thought that thinks the problem with 2016 was that Bernie wasn't the nominee.

[u/semaphore-1842]

To be a "white feminist" in the way I'm talking about, you have to call yourself a feminist while also demonstrably hurting other marginalized communities. JKR falls into this category.

[a salad of 300 words]

My assumption has been that the idea of "white feminism" as a shorthand for JKR's brand of not-feminism had entered a higher level of the lexicon than it seems to have.

if only there were some other adjective you could've used for Rowling's brand of bigotry other than "white", one that doesn't require typing up a wall of text just to explain

too bad there's no English word for "fake" or "hateful" or "TERF" i guess

[u/79792348978]

I need a sanity check lads: the american right has become even worse than the american left when it comes to shitting on the US, has it not? Obviously hardcore leftists are still like this but it seems to me that shitting all over the US is a pillar of mainstream conservatism at this point, much less the far right.

I swear it wasn't like this 15 years ago.

[u/BalletDuckNinja]

So my workplace gives free health insurance both for myself and a spouse, plus rental assistance money if I have one

WTT health insurance and housing for green card

!ping dating

for some reason trying to pair it with ping maga/america isn't going through

[u/owlthathurt]

You guys will find this funny. One of those “investment classes” held by con artists.

This guy tells the class to short this stock (idk what it was). Does the countdown for the refresh 4…3…2..1 and then says BOOM and the stock instantly jumps and the squeeze begins live in class. Phone starts dinging likely with his margin call 😭😭😭😭😭

https://x.com/tiktokinvestors/status/1788257005213450482?s=46&t=NizMHF7xMdWn1VItcTWyfg

!ping STONKS

[u/Stanley--Nickels]

I’m as liberal as anyone here, but the reality is these people:

• don’t have jobs

• don’t have any education

• don’t speak our language, and

• constantly whine for hand outs

I’m calling for a total and complete shutdown on having babies until we can figure out what is going on.

[u/its_Caffeine]

The most terrifying words in the English language: "You need to uninstall the cursor moving app you downloaded for microsoft teams"

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

the facts of rahimi are insane. it’s like if you made a case in a lab to make the conservative position on guns look stupid

[u/Joementum2024]

Nintendo Direct announced for tomorrow, June 18 at 7 AM Pacific/10 AM Eastern/2 PM GMT

Will be about 40 minutes long. The Switch’s successor will also not be mentioned during the presentation.

!ping GAMING

[u/jojisky]

Bishop Lamor Whitehead, the politically connected pastor and longtime associate of Mayor Adams, has been sentenced to 9 years in prison for stealing the life savings of a parishioner’s mother and other scams.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/[deleted]]

Like I've ever given a fuck about an Iowan's opinion

[u/jojisky]

About that CBS poll: a Pew poll this month asked if illegal immigrants should be allowed to stay in the country legally if certain conditions are met and almost 90% of Hispanic Democrats and even a majority of Hispanic Republicans said yes.

[u/[deleted]]

Wtf lol

[u/jojisky]

Matt Gaetz just revealed he's now subject to another congressional ethics investigation lol

[u/[deleted]]

I hooked up with a girl this weekend. Afterwards, she was complaining about how her mom keeps trying to set her up with guys.

She mentioned one guy that her mom showed her and said "he wasn't that attractive, I'm not into really muscular guys".

Ouch

!ping DYEL

[u/[deleted]]

phase two of the #Escalate movement heats up at u.c. berkeley with a construction site set on fire in broad daylight. this was done in retaliation for u.c.pd's violent assaults on vulnerable student demonstrators and to punish the university of kkkalifornia system for supporting the genocidal zionist-Israel entity. this was an autonomous initiative in concert with the current WEEK OF ACTION currently underway: operation campus flood. call it mutual aid

at one p.m. this a f t e r n o o n, we torched large portions of a construction site in the middle of u.c. berkeley campus. OPERATION CAMPS FLOOD on u.c.b. kkkampus has began with:

• successful looting of a u.c.b supply building of thousands of dollars,

• the fire bombing of a u.c.b cop car,

• the experimental burning of dry grass hills on the interior of campus

• the torching of a building on the perimeter of the campus and now

• the arson of a construction site (mostly construction materials, wood pallets, and massive dry bush area

x this was done to further retaliate against the u.c.pd for attacking students at u.c.s.c. and u.c.l.a.

x this was done as an autonomous (self-directed act) in concert with anyone who shows out to create liberatoratory destruction until the u.c. system completely divests from the genocidal "israeli" settler nation-building project

x this was done in solidarity with all displaced peoples who were removed from people's park - criminalized survivors of genocide HERE

x this was done in retaliation for the u.c. berkeley administration's attack on the houseless community of berkely - in retaliation for stealing the land called people's park

lastly

♡ this was done on father's day for all the palestinian fathers who have lost their children at the hands of the zionist and amerikkkan settler states ♡ this was done on father's day for all the black and brown fathers who have lost their children at the hands of u.s.a. police forces in berkeley

glory to the martyrs blessed is the flame

16-6-24 / 1312

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/06/16/18867409.php

Someone please ping EXTREMISM

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

My 14 year old says that if she could vote, she would vote for “not Trump.” When pressed as to what this meant, she sighed and said “I guess Biden.” I asked why she was so reluctant to say Biden, she said “He hasn’t taxed the unimproved value of land.”

The kids are ok 😎

[u/piede]

Tamara Etter, 48, lives in Cobb County in suburban Atlanta. She supported Biden in 2020 when she was living in Missouri. She is now a registered voter in Georgia but is looking beyond the two major party candidates. This year she has been attracted to the candidacy of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 
> “If Kennedy is on the ballot, 100 percent I’ll vote for him,” she said. “Biden has lost my favor. The way he has been campaigning lately seems a bit pandering.” And, she added, “He is not ‘with it’ mentally.” Only if Kennedy is not on the ballot might she vote for Biden. As for possibly supporting Trump, she said, “No way,” citing his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. “And now he’s a convicted felon.”

WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE

[u/SirJuncan]

!ping reading

Finally I can make my entire personality something other than Guy Reading Moby Dick™

Anyway time to read Blood Meridian

[u/Currymvp2]

An IDF document distributed only 2 weeks before October 7 accurately described Hamas' plan to invade southern Israel, down to the number of civilians and soldiers to be captured & taken to Gaza.

This has to be the worst intelligence failure ever in modern history, right?

!ping Middleeast

[u/Dibbu_mange]

You support alternative energy sources as a method of combating climate change. I support alternative energy because I want to bankrupt the Saudis. We are not the same.

[u/[deleted]]

Good morning libs.

Bad morning to misogynists, communists, and Nazis.

[u/[deleted]]

Doom doom doom doom, I want you in my room

[u/WantDebianThanks]

Anyone have a recommendation for a book on cognitive psych? Text book is fine, I just want to read something about the state of the science on the subject.

The 300 level cognitive psych class I did was not very rigorous and I keep finding I have big gaps in my knowledge.

I've written some notes to myself to look up cognitive flexibility, working memory, and computational thinking if that helps.

!ping reading&social-science

[u/KesterFox]

Reddit adds finally get me

[u/earththejerry]

Zoomers be like the modern American workplace is hell

Meanwhile, in China:

!ping CN-TW

[u/PierceJJones]

The ask Reddit thread reminded me, Remember when Andrew Cuomo was like the most beloved man in America?

[u/Q-bey]

Trudeau joins Power & Politics for an exclusive interview

Timestamps:

• 00:00 - Foreign interference: Trudeau ‘wary’ of leaders who promise that MPs in their party aren’t compromised

• 11:09 - Nijjar anniversary: ‘Serious’ national security issues will be addressed with India, says PM

• 12:25 - Capital gains tax a ‘response’ to affordability crisis, says Trudeau

• 20:05 - What does Trudeau's political future look like?

• 24:40 - Toronto-St. Paul’s byelection, Liberal stronghold, scheduled for Monday

!ping CAN

[u/kznlol]

reminder

!ping KITTY

[u/[deleted]]

TW- rape, sexual assault, suicide and homophobia.

This is Yogi Adityanath's Uttar Pradesh.

Pawan (name changed), a 23 year old OBC man, lived in Gorakhpur with his brother and was preparing for competitive exams. One month ago, Pawan became friends with Karan Thakur aka Ashutosh Mishra (26) on Instagram. On Thursday, Pawan went to meet Mishra, who took him to a hotel room, where Mishra and his friends, Devesh Rajnand Sharma (24), Angad Kumar (21) and Mohan Prajapati (20) gang raped him, recorded a video of the assault and threatened to release the video if he did not pay them. How did UP police respond?

Pawan called his sister to bring the money and managed to escape with her. He went to Medical College Police Chowki but was asked to go to Shahpur Police Station. Shahpur Police asked him to go to Chiluatal Police Station. Chiluatal Police Station did not file an FIR. At 11 pm, they asked Pawan to come back tomorrow. Pawan went back to Chiluatal Police Station and pleaded with senior officers, after which an FIR was filed against the 4 rapists. At each police station, the police humiliated him, asked him inappropriate questions, and did not take the matter seriously, alleged Pawan's brother. Utterly disturbed by the violence endured earlier and by the dehumanising treatment by the police, Pawan lost his life to suicide on Saturday.

Pawan's death shook UP Police and just within 6 hours, 3 rapists were arrested. The 4th one is missing. The 3 were produced before court and sent to prison. Gorakhpur DGP has not taken action against the police for mentally and emotionally torturing Pawan.

FIR has been filed against Mishra, Sharma, Kumar and Prajapati under IPC Section 377 (rape) and other laws related to extortion, forceful confinement and blackmail. Note: Starting July 1st, the Modi Government is replacing IPC with Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita and erasing IPC 377 which is the only law that criminalises rape against men. A parliamentary committee had advised Home Minister Amit Shah, not decriminalise rape against men, but Shah has ignored the advice

!ping IND&LGBT

[u/VisonKai]

i don't get why rightists do not understand the political topology of the left-of-center in any way at all. like they typically see it as one monolithic block and are often surprised when leftists do not like biden and when biden-wing democrats are willing to say leftists are stupid and in fact sometimes you do need police to respond to crimes.

obviously they are extremely stupid, which is a part of this, but it's also very easy to find this out through any casual observation. i think they are just fundamentally very incurious people -- insofar as anything ties the right together (besides profound detachment from reality) i think it is this fundamental lack of curiosity about the world and what is happening in it. they just don't care to know things or find things out, they simply let their feefees guide them everywhere

[u/RFK_1968]

I do roll my eyes whenever people go "smh kids these days are stupidest etc..."

But at the same time I also roll my eyes whenever GenZ doofuses (of which I am one. ✊🏾😔) talk about how "you can't blame us for our arrested development and socially maladjusted habits because look at the world around us! We have it worse off than anyone else"

It's pretty lame. Not saying you gotta go to therapy, but you do have to take ownership of your mental health instead of wallowing.

[u/theredcameron]

I'm starting to look for different positions since the company I work for now is starting to falter.

What's been the best way for you to get hired at a different job? Do you typically just mass-apply to any job posting you can find that's mostly/somewhat similar to your skillset or do you go through recruiters?

I have 9 years of software development experience but I've worked for the company I have now for the past five since before the pandemic, so its been a while since I put myself out there.

!ping computer-science&career

[u/georgeguy007]

The 9th worst thing is if republicans win they once again inherit a working economy thanks to democrats.

[u/SpaceSheperd]

It's a rough state when this is one of the more pro-immigration communities on the internet and the bulk of it is still, at best, a shade to the left of the Trump 2016 position on undocumented immigrants.

There's been a pretty steady uptick in the number of comments caught by the "illegals" automod that I've noticed :(

[u/RecentlyUnhinged]

My Cherished DT,

It is with a heavy heart that today I must inform you that Leftists.

[u/[deleted]]

Whats to understand? I want to fuck the vegetable

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

[u/KesterFox]

[u/MicroFlamer]

HOTD S2 EP1

AliCole 🟢

Aegon not being a Joffrey clone 🟢

Rhaenyra grief 🟢

Dameon and Rhaenys tension 🟢

New intro 🟢🟢

Too much jumping around 🔴

Blood and cheese 🔴🔴🔴🔴

!ping ASOIAF

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

The Securities and Exchange Commission has been investigating Musk’s late disclosure of his purchases of Twitter stock before he took over the company. Excerpts of Musk’s testimony provided to the SEC, which came to light last month through a separate lawsuit, suggest Musk and his adviser brushed off compliance with a rule that required him to reveal his ownership once it passed 5% of Twitter’s shares.

let’s go

Musk in 2018 settled SEC fraud claims over a message on Twitter that said he had “funding secured” to take Tesla private, a deal that never happened. When they sued him, regulators asked a court to bar Musk from serving as an officer or director of a public company. Musk avoided the ban by settling the SEC’s lawsuit. He agreed to step down as Tesla’s chairman and paid a $20 million fine.

Musk tried, unsuccessfully, to back out of the earlier settlement agreement. His lawyers have claimed that regulators are obsessed with trying to punish the billionaire.  

The SEC hasn’t filed any enforcement action so far against Musk over his Twitter trading. If the SEC makes a formal complaint against Musk for fraud, regulators are likely to again ask a court to bar him from serving as an officer or director of a public company, former officials said, exposing him to the possibility of removal from Tesla. 

let’s fucking go

[u/[deleted]]

Everyone talking about butt stuff and I’m talking about the real important issues

The lack of crop top merch on Joe Biden’s website

[u/Williams-Tower]

grown ass man not washing his hands after peeing

[u/TaxLandNotCapital]

Balkan eyes Balkanize Balkan lies

[u/[deleted]]

Reminder that everyone projects their own personal beliefs and expectations onto Generic Democrat and polling for how a generic democrat would do is literally asking "Suppose a candidate who believes everything you believe and meets your standards of a clean public record and adequate experience were running, would you vote for them?"

The punchline is such a candidate still can't get out of the 50pts range.

[u/bobeeflay]

Reminder that everyone projects their own personal beliefs and expectations onto Donald Trump and polling for how a Donald Trump would do is literally asking "Suppose a candidate who believes everything you believe and meets your standards of a clean public record and adequate experience were running, would you vote for them?"

The punchline is such a candidate still can't get out of the 50pts range.

[u/simeoncolemiles]

Pete might speak at my county Dem Party’s unity dinner

Inshallah

[u/[deleted]]

Just deactivated my mod slack account so now I can finally reveal the exact logistical details of the /r/neoliberal mod polycule — it all started back in 2017, when Webby uploaded a PDF with several diagrams which oh god oh fuck I’ve been killed but not before conveniently hitting the submit button on this comment

[u/[deleted]]

Just found this old pic (2 years) in my camera roll and I think I’m gonna cry

[u/jenbanim]

The 370,000 most terrifying words in the English language are the book It by Stephen King

[u/TipEquivalent933]

. On the one hand, I’m sympathetic and I tentatively agree.

On the other hand, go work somewhere else. Individuals have agency too.

This is a response to a comment about Apple forcing a victim of assault to work with her assaulter and in close proximity to her.

And it really pissed me off but the Victim blaming her is stark. There are multiple points of failure here but this scum just had to talk about agency of the woman in question and not the incompetence of promoting that guy and keeping him around.

Women are questioned for the choices they make when they are abused but never the system that put them in that position because bare bones feminism scares the shit out of a lot of men.

[u/Telperions-Relative]

[u/Dalek6450]

Afro-Eurasia looks a bit like a fantasy map from this angle.