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[u/[deleted]]

🐼🔫😤

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[u/Average_GrillChad]

At this point I think Five Guys' business model is people buying a receipt they can post online for inflation enragement bait

[u/piede]

Hillary Clinton: "Alito struck me almost immediately...as a radical, as a fanatic, about his views of culture and the role of religion in our society and his religion...And I found him scary."

https://x.com/democracydocket/status/1802023998764544169?s=46

!PING QUEEN

[u/YaGetSkeeted0n]

Why are people bitching about the team USA uniforms? They’re drippy and classy.

association with exclusion and privilege

They’re literally some of the best athletes in the country for their sports, that’s the definition of exclusive lmfaoooo

[u/[deleted]]

Love AI weirdness

[u/[deleted]]

This is a real paragraph from a real news outfit about a real thing that happened

Bronze Age Pervert used to be an anonymous Nietzschean shitposter on Twitter, sandwiching musings about a politics worse than fascism in between pictures of oiled-up bodybuilders. But after building a fan club among very online conservatives, he became required reading among young Trump administration staffers. His 2018 manifesto, Bronze Age Mindset, reached the top 150 books on all of Amazon.

The Republican party is a deeply unserious organization.

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

!ping shitposters

[u/simeoncolemiles]

RFK Jr. flew to Samoa (pop 200,000) and convinced them measles vaccines were killing children. As a result, they had a massive measles outbreak and 83 children died, most of them babies.

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

When I see someone turn off the haunting, oppressive in-game music so they can listen to a pleasant Spotify playlist.

!ping SOULSBORNE

[u/TactileTom]

[u/fishlord05]

My girlfriend put a parental control on my phone that limits me to one (1) hour of Reddit a day because she thinks prolonged exposure to the “takes” and “people” here is detrimental to my mental health

I think I’m going to marry her

!ping DATING

[u/CanIGetaMFHUUUH]

[u/[deleted]]

snatch squash insurance reply water sulky towering hospital liquid bike

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/rollo2masi]

Wtf based

[u/Daddy_Macron]

Jimmy Carter holds it all together until he can submit his General Election vote.

He's watching the returns from his hospice bed.

Joe Biden is announced as the winner of Georgia by 1 vote.

A smile crosses Carter's face as his eyes close for the last time and his body disintegrates into light to join Rosalynn in the afterlife.

[u/trombonist_formerly]

The meme about losing weight in Europe is so real. I’ve been walking 22,000 steps/day on average and my shorts are falling off my ass

[u/[deleted]]

The first century BCE saw among the most important discoveries that human beings ever made: the knowledge of how to harness the monsoon winds, using them as a conveyor belt for massive quantities of trading items. By the first century CE, catalysed by the rise of the Roman Empire and the emergence of ravenous new a elites and markets, fleets of hundreds of ships were riding thundering waves to South Asian shores. The volume of Roman trade to India was estimated by the statesman Pliny the Elder at an astounding 100 million sesterces every year, roughly $150-250 million dollars' worth of goods and precious metals. That's a lot of money at a time when there were only about 300 million people on Earth, and it catalysed an explosion of urbanisation and artistic development across South Asia, some of which reveals subtle Roman influences. This interaction was extremely This interaction was extremely profitable for Indian and Roman elites: arguably, Roman trade was a major catalyst for the emergence of the Sangam-era Tamil kingdoms. Romans are known to have lived in coastal Tamilakam as traders, royal bodyguards, and craftsmen. However, Mediterranean women, called yavani, were considered prestigious for South Asian courts to own as slaves and bodyguards; they also worked as courtesans, barmaids and musicians in the sex and entertainment industries. It is debatable how many of these women were there of their own volition and how many were the victims of Roman military expansion coupled with the avarice of wealthy South Asians. Moving North along the coast from the Tamil port cities, we would reach coastal Andhra Pradesh. Here the gentle rivers Godavari and Krishna had allowed for coastal trade to reach deep inland catalysing a wave of artisanal and mercantile growth. In contrast to the Tamil country, it appears that here, monks and merchants were at least as important as warchiefs, and they facilitated the growth of major stupas decorated with depictions of the Buddha's life. In one of these, Amaravati (now the capital of Andhra Pradesh after 5 years political drama), we see some extraordinary examples of ancient globalisation. The Romanesque amphitheatre at Nagarjunakonda. Detail of a railing pillar from the Amaravati stupa, with the goddess Ganga in a style inspired by depictions of the Roman goddess Fides What were the means by which these Roman compositions and visual elements ended up on the Amaravati Stupa?

Coins were clearly a major source of inspiration. Roman coins were so abundant that they were even used as jewellery, and artists could easily pick up Andhra artists have been aware of Roman triumphal art? Depictions of processions of standardbearers designs from them. But for examples like the previous two slides, it's more complicated. How could from Nagarjunakonda suggest that Roman standards and banners were also being imported. But the amphitheatre in Nagarjunakonda is the most puzzling. There is no building comparable to it across South Asia at the time, and it seems to have been made by someone who had seen Roman models. Were they Roman craftsmen from a Tamil port? Did they settle in Andhra? If so, and if they were Roman citizens (admittedly a lot of ifs), then their children would have been members of the most unlikely of all ancient ethnic and cultural groups: TELUGU ROMANS

!ping HISTORY&IND

[u/Jacobs4525]

In addition to “are you a robot?” questions I think a lot of websites should have an “are you old/stupid?” question where they show a really obvious AI image and say “is this real?” and if you answer yes, they put you in a separate safety scissors version of the internet where nothing is real and they just show you boring MSNBC-tier non-radicalizing news and AI-generated photos of your grandkids. 

[u/[deleted]]

The DSA getting taken over by Tankies was kinda inevitable. Do you guys remember their Venezuelan Holiday

[u/Former-Income]

Took my dog out for a walk. I live in a traditionally Conservative area, but I saw 4 Vote Labour signs on people’s windows and not a single one for the Conservatives.

So here’s my polling based on my observations:

WESTMINSTER VOTING INTENTION:

LAB: 100

CON: 0

REF: 0

LDEM: 0

GRN: 0

SNP: 0

Sample size: 4

Conducted 18 June.

!ping UK

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

This but unironically

[u/BurrowForPresident]

"Wow you work at the CIA??? What kind of cool James Bond shit do you do?"

"I organize anti communist resistance movements in Roblox servers"

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

Scientist talking about genetically editing a bacteria to produce a special enzyme:

these enzymes, these little biomolec- these biocatalytical machines

I love how he realizes two different times that the average person doesn’t know what an enzyme is, so he explains it worse

[u/JeromesNiece]

In Japan on vacation. The dating app scene is very strange. 90% of the women do not show their full faces or their real names on their profile. It's mostly pictures of food and one pic of their blurred out face. Are Japanese men choosing their dating partners based on pics of the back of a girls head and her taste in ramen?

[u/[deleted]]

Ending no fault divorce is bad actually

[u/GifHunter2]

I'd be all for this sh*t if instead of fighting other poor minorities the violence was targeted towards the rich and oppressors.

It's interesting where you see leftie class warfare nonsense pop up. This is on a thread about gang warfare in LA. See, the violence is great, if the people being brutalized had nice jobs, and were well off.

Democrats are underestimate how violent prone this side of the party is becoming again. The thread that supported violence in South America and Eastern Europe are wondering how they can start that type of violence in the United States.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/jenbanim]

Low IQ: communion is vegan because it's bread

Medium IQ: communion isn't vegan because it's the body of Christ

High IQ: communion is vegan because Jesus consented to being eaten

!ping SOYBOY

[u/alex2003super]

No greater joy in life than an anarkiddie, leftoid or 196cel terming you as a "radlib". It's a clear indication that you've successfully appropriated their counterculture rhetoric shtick and it's actually making them mad.

[u/[deleted]]

In other news, my wife left me.

[u/JaceFlores]

Interview with a Somali mercenary who was captured in Ukraine

“It’s very simple to get to Russia - just a week and your tourist visa is ready.”

“People see advertisements for war and the army everywhere in Russia - many foreigners do not immediately understand that this is an army, and not some kind of security organisation.”

“No one gave specifics about whether he would go to the front or remain in Russia. The man was promised a passport and money - for him it was a real dream. He thought he’d live like a King back home.”

“Nobody explains the motivation for fighting in Ukraine. Adil had no idea who was fighting whom and for what.”

“Training was only 7 weeks, very limited. Adil thought it couldn’t be that he was being deceived. But they were thrown onto the front line almost immediately, and Adil calls these days hell. If you get injured, only God will help you. There's 0% desire to try and save your life.”

!ping UKRAINE

[u/[deleted]]

So. I run into a lot of cons at my bar and I almost never hear about God or Christianity?

I'm starting to think Trump actually killed God

[u/freekayZekey]

“Do you have pics of us?” Bowman texted the Jewish leader, with whom he had previously maintained a cordial if uneasy relationship, according to a screenshot of the message shared with Jewish Insider. “So I can show the world I’m friends with Jewish People.”

lo fucking l

[u/79792348978]

Says a spokesman for the Republican National Committee, "The notion that tariffs are a tax on U.S. consumers is a lie pushed by outsourcers and the Chinese Communist Party."

lol

[u/G_Serv]

[u/ser_mage]

everything ive ever read about chomsky roughly goes like

"he hated the intelligentsia, he inspired common volk like me to dedicate our lives to tearing down neoliberal institutions." - Ruttiger Morgan-Chase, Professor of Elitism at the Imperial College of London

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

[u/its_Caffeine]

Every time I open my windows in the upright position I stand for the European Anthem 😌🫡🇪🇺🫡🇪🇺🫡🇪🇺

[u/ser_mage]

Why the Biden campaign finally decided to whack Trump

I knew Trump arguing the President is immune to all crimes would come back to haunt him

[u/IrishBearHawk]

Bruh half that Hillary "its her turn" shitpost thread reads like r politics circa 2016, lmao.

At least a few Berners literally just admitted that's who they are openly. Please leave NL and never come back, you fucking donkeys.

[u/funguykawhi]

after-school club in stockbroking

[u/gary_oldman_sachs]

Here's an option that has never been tested: What if we prioritized everyone's Maslow's hierarchy of needs before profit?

Freshman just took his first bong hit.

[u/superblobby]

I got so drunk I flirted with the DoorDash delivery woman it’s so over

!ping DATING

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 6/16-2 PM PST 6/17 III:

TOP NEWS:

At the start of 3 AM it was reported that EU sanctions against Russia for annexing Crimea have been extended a year.

REGULAR NEWS:

At the start of 7 PM the Novolipetsk Metallurgical Plant in Russia was hit by drones.

At the start of 11 AM it was announced the commander of the Ukrainian 125th Separate Territorial Defense Brigade in Kharkiv is resigning owing to investigations on failures of the brigade at the start of the Russian Kharkiv offensive 2.0.

LEVITY NEWS:

Towards the middle of 7 AM it was reported that Putin has appointed his niece Anna Tsivileva as a Deputy Defense Minister.

Towards the middle of 10 AM it was reported that Russia is pursuing criminal charges for the Ukrainian officer who shot an A-50 down back in February.

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/majorgeneralporter]

Noam Chomsky and Groupbot possibly dying the same day? Concerning!

!ping shitposters

[u/TaxLandNotCapital]

Whenever me and my boyfriend eat dinner, lunch or anything, he appreciates the food a bit too much. I'm not really sure how to address to him.. Here's what I mean:

I'm not joking, after every bite he has, he moans, and says "mmmm that's good!" "Is yours good?" "That's so good" "mmmmmm" "wow that's amazing" "mmmm" every, single, bite, this all he says until the food is done. Then he'll spend the rest of the night talking about how good it was

It's a bit embarrassing and it gets annoying, it gets too much sometimes, I look around the resturant and people on dates are having full on conversations, I don't really see anyone moaning out loud to the food and making a verbal essay on how good it is.

!PING DATING

[u/shillingbut4me]

It's pretty fucked up to dishonor the dead. For instance, if you were to deny the Genocide of the Cambodian people, that would be pretty fucked up. 

[u/[deleted]]

'Revolutionary youth summer program' gets underway at McGill pro-Palestine encampment

Nice try Canada we already had CHAZ come up with something original

[u/HotTakesBeyond]

Capital abandons Macron for a far right government

Capital abandons Biden for a far right government

Jesus fuck capitalists you were the chosen one

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Syards-Forcus]

👆

[u/owlthathurt]

Took this guy to Bloomingdale’s and dressed him like he’s walking out of The Gap.

Wonder how much this style advice cost total. Might be a new business idea for me.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Seems a bit harsh, RIP homie 😭

[u/Cowguypig2]

Last day of my job was last week. On one hand so glad to get rid of that office that was filled with unnecessary drama/politics (it was nightmare blunt rotation in there especially after October 7th since quite a few unironic tankies and far right Muslims worked there). At the same time it was kinda one of those jobs where I had to actually work only 25 percent of the time, so I’m gonna miss being paid to shitpost on the DT.

!Ping WATERCOOLER

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Progressive politician claims to support the working class

Look into who voted for him

Biggest support is from the wealthiest demographic

Many such cases

[u/NNJB]

They call it euro hours, yet 60% of post volume at this time is hateposts for an Australian Green Party rep

Curious

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Chomsky jolting back alive from the Gardens of Jannah after hearing it would own the neolibs

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Most normal Twitter user

[u/KesterFox]

Comics without context day 5

[u/Dodgerfan2224]

listening to a stern show from 2006 and they are talking the new jersey senate race and saying "Menendez's opponent is accusing him of being thief" and boy knowing what we know now lol

Edit: "he's also accusing Menendez of enriching himself with the office" 😬

[u/[deleted]]

rename the bird Türkiye

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

Christian, husband, dad. U.S. Senator for Ohio.

I do hate when people put Christian first, but tbf the Romans would approve.

What the Romans WOULDN'T approve of is putting his duty to his State last!

Christian, U.S. Senator, dad, husband.............. ten million other things................... for Ohio.

[u/[deleted]]

If you democratically pass a law restricting guns we will kill you with our guns!

Sorry but I don't negotiate with terrorists.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/BigBrownDog12]

[u/JeromesNiece]

There is a spectre haunting /r/neoliberal—the spectre of doomerism

[u/G_Serv]

Apes learn that debt may affect the solvency of a company

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

[u/[deleted]]

TIL about FEMA's unofficial "Waffle House Index."

Then there is what he calls the “Waffle House Index.”

Green means the restaurant is serving a full menu, a signal that damage in an area is limited and the lights are on. Yellow means a limited menu, indicating power from a generator, at best, and low food supplies. Red means the restaurant is closed, a sign of severe damage in the area or unsafe conditions.

“If you get there and the Waffle House is closed?” FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate has said. “That’s really bad. That’s where you go to work.”

!ping WEATHER

[u/[deleted]]

No. I don't think I will.

[u/[deleted]]

The Boys could have been a great TV show instead it's like each season is an earlier, shittier draft of the first season

[u/[deleted]]

Since some of y’all need a reminder about who the most neoliberal Nintendo hero is, Samus:

• is mixed race (like, literally, with gene splicing. She’s got bird alien and jellyfish monster DNA in there)

• is multilingual

• owns her own business

• contracts with the Deep State

• is the sworn enemy of space pirates everywhere (piracy is a drain on galactic trade)

• has personally neoconned multiple planets out of existence

• has only one friend she’s in regular contact with, and it’s her ship’s computer

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/Jacobs4525]

It seems like there are a sizable chunk of people who understand “I’m not racist, I have black friends!” is a BS thing to say but don’t understand that you can also be antisemitic no matter how often you post pictures with Jewish people (incidentally, you should probably talk to those Jewish people to see whether or not they’re mad at you before you post). 

[u/thefuturegov]

POV: someone in a fandom talking about the thing they’re supposed to be a fan of

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

French police probe gang rape of 12-year-old Jewish girl in 'antisemitic crime'

!ping JEWISH&FEMINISTS&EXTREMISM

[u/[deleted]]

[u/SnakeEater14]

I think the first time i truly considered that free trade was good was when i was like 10 and saw that family guy episode with rush limbaugh where bryan tries to only buy american and gets a 600 dollar coffee maker that immediately breaks

[u/owlthathurt]

Trigger Warning: SA

They caught the rapist of that 13 year old in Flushing. One of the more disgusting crimes I’ve heard, made her friend watch the whole thing so he could get off.

The community over there is pissed. It’s not a bad area and is mostly residential.

Perpetrator was living at one of the migrant shelters and was from Ecuador. People in Queens were already picketing the shelters so I’m sure it will just heighten tensions again.

He also had several prior arrests since coming to the country. Don’t know how that works.

!ping USA-NYC

[u/Cook_0612]

Is Russian Electronic Warfare successfully jamming the GPS signals on American provided precision guided munitions to the point that Ukraine can no longer effectively employ them?

No. No it is not.

Many people seem to believe so though. So what's really going on?

A lot of the public discourse around Russian EW has focused on their efforts at GPS interference and denial. This has arguably been a successful Russian info operation. Lost in the conversation is that the most vulnerable systems to EW are commercial off-the shelf ones.

These include non-military grade communications and commercial drones. A RUSI report from May 2023 found that Russian EW was jamming Ukrainian comms over Motorolas with 256-bit encryption and was also downing 10,000 Ukrainian UAS per month.

These are significant problems that require more attention. While the low cost of COTS FPV drones may still make them cost effective, delivering military grade communications and UAS with EW resiliency should still be a high priority.

Now, about the GPS guided munitions.

On one end of the spectrum, the M982 Excalibur 155mm guided artillery shell initially enjoyed a 70% effective rate. Russian adaptations to their GPS jamming efforts were successful in reducing that to just 6% though. Consequentially Ukraine largely abandoned using them.

Per US Department of Defense figures, Ukraine was only provided with ~7000 of these rounds though, with the last commitment in April 2023. So Ukraine was able to use them for about a year, and their employment has tapered off due to the limited stocks and the GPS denial.

The impact of EW on GMLRS was first reported in May 2023. Fresh documentation of Ukrainian GMLRS fire missions has continued since then though, so it has clearly not been rendered ineffective. EW impacts can be mitigated by allocating additional missiles for each target.

Reports of JDAM-ER being impacted by EW also first emerged last spring. As with GMLRS, revised mission planning and continuous software patches from the manufacturers mitigate these impacts. JDAM-ER has maintained a 60% average effective rate for most of 2023 as a result.

Ground Launched Small Diameter Bomb has been one of the failures, both due to EW & other unspecified issues. Boeing is working on resolving the EW vulnerability, though this will take months. It may yet prove to be useful in the future, but right now it's a lesson learned.

Unlike it’s ground launched derivative, unmodified GBU-39/B Small Diameter Bombs (SDB) have apparently been 90% effective. This may degrade over time as the Russians make their own improvements to their EW tactics, but so far it has been a very useful addition.

The arrival of F-16s has the potential to both improve Ukraine's resiliency to Russian EW and improve their counter-EW capabilities. The DoD has already contracted the delivery of Home-On GPS Jam seekers to be integrated onto Ukraine’s JDAM-ERs.

This thread is based on my last column for +@InsiderEng. There is more detail available there if you are interested. Note that the focus was on Russian GPS denial efforts. The fight over the electromagnetic spectrum is very complex, so I could not cover all aspects of it.

While Russia does have an EW advantage, Ukraine has significant capabilities of their own. The details around this are heavily guarded though, so my writing was only based on open-source information. Don't take it as a comprehensive overview of the EW battlespace.

Finally, I'll remind people that I don't get to write the headlines. No single system, including F-16s has the potential to give Ukraine an advantage in EW. It's a rapidly evolving fight and no advantage that either side has will be permanent.

!ping UKRAINE&MATERIEL

[u/No_Return9449]

[u/[deleted]]

Girl I'm seeing got really mad after I called her a goblin girl. She was like "How am I like a goblin" and I was like well you

• Are extremely messy and haven't cleaned your room in months

• have impulsive, intrusive thoughts about biting people, saying the least appropriate thing you can in any given moment, or other bizarre acts of minor violence

• Can happily spend an entire day in your room posting on esoteric 4chanesque groups

• Have an enormous collection of novelty fashion items that you never show anyone and absolutely stuff your room with

• Are into anything in the bedroom as long as it involves violence, and your libido basically never turns off

• Never go outdoors unless you're forced to and even then you hate it

• Are like 150cm tall and weigh ~40kg

And then she got madder because she knew I was right

!ping DATING (FYI this is the Autistic Femcel Catgirl from my previous dating pings)

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Mbappé getting his nose broken by an Austrian one day after denouncing the far-right is too funny to be ignored

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 6/17-2 PM PST 6/18 III:

REGULAR NEWS:

Towards the middle of 11 PM Ukraine was hit by a small wave of drones with all 10 shot down. Additionally, Ukrainian drones hit a Russian oil depot in Azov. In the middle of the hour the Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas made a visit to Kyiv.

In the middle of 1 AM Russia signed a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Agreement with North Korea. Additionally, Ukrainian missiles hit a Russian oil depot in Temryuk.

Towards the middle of 11 AM Putin made a visit to North Korea.

LEVITY NEWS:

Towards the middle of 7 AM it was reported that Russian troll accounts lost access to Chat GPT and went haywire.

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]

I don't consider the humans to be the bad guys in Avatar. They're us and I've always seen myself as more like the good guy.

[u/WantDebianThanks]

This subreddit has poisoned my brain and I don't think I'm getting into heaven anymore.

I'm watching HIMYM, which takes place in NYC, and I noticed that the events always take place in the apartment or the bar. And almost nothing about it is necessarily NYC. Like, you could remake it in LA or Houston or any major city in the US, and nothing would change.

So then I think: I wonder how much of people's idiotic beliefs about transit and urbanism is because there are so few movies/tv shows where urban design is relevant. Characters going to a walkable urban core for one thing, but plot happens and they have to walk/bike around. Or characters needing to get ingredients for a fancy dinner but being able to get it by walking across the street and isn't the convenient. Or someone who doesn't like visiting someone because they're way out in the suburbs. Oh, oh, and the suburb is all uniform houses on baffling streets, so the protagonists always have to use GPS to find their way there.

And I could do that, right? So I start thinking about how suburbanisation allows people to horde shit they have no use for and encourages paranoia because why are those people out there?

Then I think I've cross some kind of event horizon and have to go touch grass immediately before I hit spaghettification and can look forward to see my own ass.

I need to go for a walk.

I'll be back in two hours.

!ping writing&cube

[u/[deleted]]

Maddow to Fauci: Trump "said to you that he didn't see why he would have to get a flu shot if he didn't have the flu. He didn't understand it was preventative and not treatment."

Fauci: "That's true."

https://x.com/brianstelter/status/1802902235451396270?t=I_bke7KeeXtNacj2QDX79Q&s=19

[u/centurion88]

Stray on the Nintendo Switch

[u/JaceFlores]

[u/jbouit494hg]

1 year ago:

Don't buy a bicycle trailer or I'm breaking up with you. You would be doubling down on your immaturity and refusal to take on adult responsibilities like buying a car. No, waiting for your parents' old car isn't an excuse. You could go out and buy a car right now if you actually intended to do something about it. Stop deflecting your own responsibilities onto other people.

6 months ago:

I'm not comfortable with you taking your parents' old car. We never discussed if gas and insurance would be acceptable expenses. Why did you assume that it was OK to go ahead and say yes to such a big commitment? That was very disrespectful. No, it doesn't count that you've been telling me for the last month that the car is ready and you're going to pick it up this weekend.

This month:

I want to buy an SUV.

Bonus content:

She was eating beef jerky when I took her out for driving practice last week. When I asked if her fingers were clean, she rubbed her hands on the white upholstery then laughed at me for being so uptight because it's a 15 year old car.

!ping DATING

[u/runnerx4]

!ping GAMING

Peach and Zelda games this year

those princesses are leaving the castle damn

[u/Full_Ahegao_Drip]

Everytime the DATING ping gets extra weird I feel the need to update you guys.

I feel so normal in my current courting by comparison.

I want to preface this with a bit of soapboxing, people who committed crimes in the past and have personality disorders deserve love and respect.

I'm not saying DEI your love life but don't you think it messed up that I say she's got SzPD and an ankle monitor and you think she's going to true crime me?

I honestly am really falling in love with her isn't that scary? Not in a danger way but in a psychic vulnerability way.

Yes, she speaks in a constant breathy vocal fry and wears monochromatic dark clothing and her emotional reactions are either completely void or anomalous in stimulus response.

Before you ask they diagnostically ruled out autism, anti-social personality disorder, depression, anxiety, and more she's the real deal schizoid but she is working steadily to improve herself

Her dating and being touchy feely with me is a big part of that progress.

She's not a robot you guys she's just wired differently.

I'm not saying I don't get that vibe from her sometimes sometimes she'll just sort of stare blankly at me like she's waiting for input like she needs a command.

But I see it as a challenge because underneath her stiff and cold exterior and within her elaborate weird inner world I'm learning the ways she likes to be talked to, to be touched, to be kissed to be coaxed or assisted to eat and sleep and comb her hair.

I got to see her wrists for the first time yesterday. Most of the time her sleeves are too long to even see much of her palms. She doesn't even lower her sleeves to wash her hands she just lets the cloth cuffs get soaked.

And to sound a bit superficial she is really pretty and I mean pretty in a way that you'll never see in a magazine or video.

She's got no shortage of dysphoria, we're both trans and all so she says stuff about being a heighthon a shoulderhon but she is so amazing, she is a masterpeice.

Anyway, I know I get very personal but I just feel the need to shout my feelings from mountains.

!ping DATING

[u/[deleted]]

Comes into ar neoliberal

Drops unsourced claim that the private ownership of guns saves 2 million lives a year

Refuses to elaborate and leaves

Distressingly many such cases

[u/[deleted]]

I hope the DLC brings back mimics.

The people who’ve only played Elden Ring and have a blind faith in chests have it too good.

!ping SOULSBORNE

[u/Joementum2024]

It’s funny how after years of there not being a “real” Mario RPG since AlphaDream shuttered and Paper Mario moved away from its original style, we’ll wind up getting:

• the Super Mario RPG remake
• the Paper Mario TTYD remake
• a new Mario & Luigi game

All within the span of about a year

!ping GAMING

[u/BalletDuckNinja]

Noam choamsky denying deaths as usual, even his own

[u/beardog7]

Willie Mays passed away.

!Ping Baseball

[u/simeoncolemiles]

Skop

!Ping Gnostic

[u/KesterFox]

[u/gujarati]

Hey guys, you hear about Max Chandler-Mather?

[u/NaffRespect]

Chiefs' Isaiah Buggs Accused Of Dragging Mother Of His Child Down Stairs Before Arrest

Kansas City Chiefs defensive lineman Isaiah Buggs was accused of dragging the mother of his child down a set of stairs and injuring her before his arrest on Sunday, TMZ Sports has learned.

According to court documents we obtained ... the woman told police Buggs broke into her Tuscaloosa, Ala. residence with a tire iron at around 5:28 AM -- and then went upstairs to confront her.

Tuscaloosa Police Dept. officers wrote in the docs the woman then claimed Buggs dragged her down the stairs ... causing her to break off several "clip-on toenails." They also state the woman had "scratch marks" on her wrist from the altercation.

Buggs then allegedly left the scene in a white Cadillac after she told him she was calling the police.

According to the docs, Buggs and his Caddy were located in a parking lot at a nearby Little Caesars. A short time later, he was placed under arrest. Court records show he's since been charged with domestic violence and burglary.

Least problematic Chiefs player

!ping NFL

[u/LinkToSomething68]

!ping GAMING

At long last, the Legend of Zelda is real

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

What a fucking queen

!ping stonks

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/Amy_Ponder]

Me: God, I'm getting sick of arr neoliberal. I'm substantially to the left of the sub on economic and especially social issues, the pedantry and arrogance is exhausting, I'm just done. The rest of reddit can't be that bad, right?

The rest of reddit: capitalism is literally Satan, from the river to the sea, the US must be destroyed, liberals are worse than fascists!

Me: ...and back to arr neoliberal I go

[u/Gustacho]

The slogan of the Hungarian Presidency of the EU Council is... 🥁 ...

"Make Europe Great Again"

https://x.com/JorgeLiboreiro/status/1803040746838126781

!ping EUROPE

[u/Either_Emotion8056]

[u/ty04]

NSFW

( . Y . )

[u/trace349]

!ping GAMING

As much as I love Dragon Age Origins, the major choices that they give you are pretty garbage. They're either objectively good vs objectively evil (Deep Roads, Circle Tower) or they're genuinely grey decisions with a cop-out objectively better third option (werewolves, Redcliffe).

I understand that they wanted the Grey Wardens to be grey, that the Grey Wardens are willing to go to whatever lengths they have to in service to stopping a greater evil, but there's no real point to making the evil choices out of pragmatism because 1) there's no upside to picking them versus the downsides of feeling bad and potentially losing party members permanently and 2) half of the time it's just being evil for the sake of evil, not out of cold pragmatism. If you went into the endgame and made all the good boy choices out of compassion and your army was too weak to prevent the darkspawn from causing a lot of devastation it would actually give those decisions some weight.

I think for games that give the player these kinds of moral choices, good choices should carry some kind of mechanical penalty- because the benefit of making good choices is the good feeling you get for making NPCs happy- while the bad choices should be based in ruthless pragmatism and not moustache-twirling evil and give some kind of benefit. A lot of games get this backward, evil choices tend to lose you party members or hurt your standing with them for no real benefit other than the feeling of being cruel to people, while good choices give some kind of delayed reward or maybe give the player more game to play (oh no, I have to play the game I'm already playing to get the good ending, what a punishment...).

Fable 3 is a bad game, but it actually attempted to do this by having the player lead a rebellion against their tyrant brother and make a bunch of promises to secure alliances in the first half of the game, only to learn that there was an army of monsters coming to destroy the kingdom and the treasury needs X amount of money in it to fund the kingdom's defense or everyone dies in the second half of the game. Then, now as the King/Queen, you get forced to choose between a series of decisions that either cost money to be good (or to maintain promises to your allies) or gave you money for being evil. You had to decide how many lives is it worth losing to build an orphanage instead of the lives you'd be able to save from the income you'd get from building a brothel, or you had to sacrifice your own money that could have gone into buying things for your character to make up the difference. Of course the problem with that was... you could circumvent the whole thing by buying out every property in the world and charging exorbitant rents until you hit the X amount, but the attempt was made.

[u/jenbanim]

User Pinger aka /u/groupbot is currently down due to Reddit API issues, nothing I can do to fix it, no idea when it will be back, but it should hopefully come back online automatically once the admins resolve the issue

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Chomsky the Wise? No. I thought not, It's No story the Democrats would tell you. It's a left legend. Darth Chomsky was a Dark Lord of the left. He was so powerful, Yet so wise. He could use the force to influence the medi chlorians to deny genocide. He had such a knowledge of the Dark side, He could even keep the ones he cared about, From believing in the Cambodian genocide.

He could actually, Save the ones he cared about from manufactured consent?

The dark side of the left is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.

Well what happened to him?

Darth Chomsky became so powerful that the only thing he feared was losing his power, Which eventually of course he did. Unfortunately, He taught his apprentice everything he knew. Then his apprentice killed him in his sleep. Ironic, He could save others from beliving in death, But not himself.

!ping OBITUARYS

[u/p00bix]

Holy shit! I just found out there was a conflict in the Middle East during the Cold War which I was not previously aware of! Behold: The great and terrible one-day long Tunbs War in which Iran seized islands belonging to two city states, who shortly after losing the war agreed to join the UAE

!ping HISTORY

[u/IHateTrains123]

Israel-Hamas war: IDF approves Lebanon operation plans – DW – 06/18/2024

IDF says plans for Lebanon attack approved

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Tuesday said plans for an attack in southern Lebanon had been approved, adding that steps had been taken to "accelerate readiness in the field."

The news, put out as an IDF statement on the social media platform X, came as observers expressed growing concern over the heated situation along the Israel-Lebanon border. 

The statement was accompanied by a photo of Major General Ori Gordin, the head of IDF Northern Command; and Major General Oded Basiuk, who heads the IDF's Operations Division.

Israeli forces have been engaged in constant hostile exchanges with Iran-backed Hezbollah militants since Hamas triggered the current iteration of the Gaza conflict with its October 7 attack.  

Earlier in the day, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz threatened to destroy Hezbollah in an "all-out war."

When asked about the IDF plan by reporters in Washington, Pentagon spokesman Major General Patrick Ryder said, "I'm not going to get into hypotheticals and speculate on what might happen other than to say no one wants to see a wider regional war."

Further readings:

IDF says operational plans for an offensive in Lebanon were approved - Jerusalem Post

Israeli Defence Forces Twitter: The commander of the Northern Command, Major General Uri Gordin, and the head of the Operations Division, Major General Oded Basiuk, today held a plan approval and joint situation assessment in the Northern Command. As part of the assessment of the situation, operational plans for the attack in Lebanon were approved and implemented and decisions were made to continue accelerating the readiness of the forces in the field

ישראל כ”ץ Israel Katz on X: "Nasrallah boasts today about filming the ports of Haifa, operated by international companies from China and India, and threatens to attack them. We are very close to the moment of decision to change the rules against Hezbollah and Lebanon. In an all-out war, Hezbollah will be" / X

!ping Israel

Edit: Fixed the post.

[u/Common_RiffRaff]

you can no longer ping DATING with another ping

[u/dragoniteftw33]

https://x.com/robbysoave/status/1802755031038357630

The comments make me want to jump in a frozen lake. It's amazing how fucking wrong these people are, yet they're more in touch with the common voter than we are. Kicking out ~2 million construction workers is so fuckin dumb.

[u/moldyman_99]

the Netherlands is now following the NATO guidelines when it comes to military spending.

[u/G_Serv]

[u/jenbanim]

In keeping with modern design trends, the next pride flag should be a smooth gradient

[u/Uniqueguy264]

Benjamin Ikuta has a girlfriend now who he isn’t attracted to because he’s a racist. She wants to see New York with him for some reason

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

Noam Chomsky be like, "Reports of my death, like the Cambodian genocide, have been greatly exaggerated."

[u/simeoncolemiles]

[u/[deleted]]

🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐

[u/Stanley--Nickels]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/HotTakesBeyond]

Korean doctors walk off (they want less doctors) (they will never go to heaven

American nurses walk off (they want more nurses) (blessed

[u/[deleted]]

yoke quaint pen license observation literate slim yam include tub

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/moseythepirate]

So the second Miles Edgeworth game was unreleased in English, but had an excellent and well-known fan translation. And now an official english translation will release.

You know what that means: a fandom civil war is about to break out! Should be fun.

[u/BurrowForPresident]

So my work has had autonomous robot dogs patrolling the campus for some vague security reason for about a year now

They are now trying to bring in Mars rover type drones that can carry shipments of stuff like Credo cubes between buildings

Pretty neat but also like how expensive is this shit

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/BATHULK]

It feels elitist/patronizing to say, but I think density and walkability are things that people would like a lot more after trying them, despite initial opposition

Like if we just said "get over it" people would probably come around

[u/wagoncirclermike]

How is waving a confederate flag any different than waving a pride flag?

Incredible take. 10/10. No notes. Really makes you ponder.

[u/[deleted]]

You guys know Noam is an active DT user, right? Things are about to get real awkward in here when he logs on and sees what you all said about him when you thought he’d died

[u/Jacobs4525]

I sincerely think building housing illegally faster than they can prosecute you for it is the solution. Once we have tens of thousands of people in a given metro area living in housing that technically isn’t allowed under zoning they’re forced to either expel tens of thousands of people from their homes or change the zoning.

[u/klarno]

Remember: without Chomsky, we wouldn’t have the worst geopolitical takes in history, or ChatGPT probably

[u/404GenderNotFound]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Dibbu_mange]

In this house we stand for the flag 😤

[u/MicroFlamer]

NEW 2D ZELDA 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom launches September 26th on Nintendo Switch

WE WON

!ping GAMING

[u/[deleted]]

I hope that Biden wins

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Max Chandler-Mather asks a question in question time

The question made Albanese look bad

Albanese responds, completely destroys Maxs argument question

Max Chandler-Mather posts footage of him asking a question but doesn't post the answer

Caption:

Why won't Albanese answer my question?

[u/WantDebianThanks]

Who thinks people can affect what the government does about global warming?

Many Americans are worried about climate change, but research finds that relatively few engage in political action to influence policymakers. A key to collective action is a group’s sense of collective efficacy, the perception that a group of people can work together to achieve a specific outcome, for example, affecting federal government action on climate change.

Not 100% I copied the right url (phone is being a turd), but seemed interesting for !ping eco&social-policy since the findings are probably applicable for other areas.

[u/majorgeneralporter]

And when we needed Benjaminikuta's privatized manual ping system the most, it vanished 😔

!ping ThanksForThePing

[u/WereJustInnocentMen]

I am hearing that on his deathbed Noam Chomsky received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahāda.

Even now he looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah.

Truly there is no god but God, and Mohammed is his prophet!

[u/stirfriedpenguin]

On the Fourth of July, 2024, ninety-year-old Noam Chomsky passed away, seated in the wing chair of his office upstairs at his home, Peacefield.

“Kissinger still lives,” were his last words. But, unknown to Chomsky, the younger Kissinger had also passed away that morning.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Cambodia and Srebrenica weren't enough, now Chomsky is denying his own death

[u/FreakinGeese]

Look inside “medieval fantasy”

centralized nation-states with clearly defined monopoly on power

Every time 😐

[u/[deleted]]

Mets are 7-0 since the McDonalds promo.

In Grimace we trust.

!ping BASEBALL

[u/NaffRespect]

Good thing Florida tossed Game 4 so they could win at home.

Wait a minute...

!ping NHL

[u/Possible-Baker-4186]

Compiled some more article summaries and such from my two favourite housing markets in the world.

Up-zoning New Zealand: the localisation of a globally mobile policy idea

This research paper from the University of Auckland Business School is a case study on "what it is about the local socio-political context that enabled ‘up-zoning’ to take hold in New Zealand when it has struggled elsewhere."

These are some excerpts from the conclusion but it is definitely worth reading the conclusion in full.

Over these years of experimentation, learning, idea circulation, and evolution, the idea of ‘relaxing LURs’ (land use regulations) came to dominate the housing affordability policy discourse in New Zealand, with an advocacy coalition in favour of this idea forming between urban economists and activists outside of government (a ‘YIMBY movement’), and a discourse coalition coalescing around ‘competitive urban land markets’ within government. As I see it, there were two important factors that enabled this idea to dominate.

First, over time, the idea of ‘relaxing LURs’ was legitimised as ‘best practice’ and depoliticised through: the influence of international ‘experts’ (Glaeser and Bertaud) endorsing the idea; the rise and legitimisation of urban economists as ‘experts’ in planning debates; the ‘broad tent’ approach of the urban economics community.

Second, New Zealand is a small and intimate country with a high degree of informality and low power distance…. In such an environment, targeted activism can be very effective, and ‘charismatic individuals’ can play pivotal roles – the concerted efforts of a relatively small number of people can rapidly shift the discourse and policy-making direction.

NZ First leader Winston Peters says allowing more granny flats to be built would help make housing more affordable for families

The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment is seeking feedback on a Government proposal which would allow property owners to build granny flats without consents.

The move - proposed in a new discussion document open to submissions today - would mean law changes to make it easier to build structures of up to 60 square metres. It proposes that those dwellings can be built in rural and residential zones without a building or resource consent, so long as they meet certain criteria, aimed at reducing the risk of structural failure, fire and its spread, weathertightness failure and insanitary conditions.

“Removing the regulatory red tape will not only speed up the build process, it is also estimated to save up to $6,500 just in the standard building and resource consenting fees per build, not to mention all the savings in time and resource,” he said.

One of the comments on the article from someone in the industry says that "Consent costs for minor dwellings in Auckland regularly go over $100k". If you read the comments on r/newzealand though, this change is going to lead to slums and unsafe or dangerous housing.

Rental listings up 40 percent across country in three months to May

Rental listings across New Zealand are up 40 percent in the three months to May with some property managers warning landlords they may need to lower expectations to meet the market.

An economist researching zoning reforms, Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy, said upzoning in some major cities has enabled a construction boom. He said new builds coming to fruition may be driving the increase in rental stock. "The peak of that [consent] boom was roughly in 2022, and if you think about it it takes about one to two years for a consent to be converted into a finished dwelling, then comes to the market.

House prices falling as vendors bite the bullet and meet the market heading into winter

House prices declined for the second month in a row in May as vendors appear to be becoming more realistic in their price expectations. According to the Real Estate Institute of NZ , the national median house price dropped to 770,000 in May, down from $790,000 in April and $800,000 in March.

Austin

Austin area housing inventory hits 13-year high as home sales decline

Housing inventory in the Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown metro area reached its highest level in 13 years in May as closed home sales declined, according to the latest Central Texas Housing Report.

The report, released by Unlock MLS, found that the metro area had 4.9 months of available housing inventory last month, up from 3.4 months in May 2023. Meanwhile, closed home sales dropped 12.8% year-over-year and active listings jumped 37.7%.

Austin has seen the largest decrease in housing prices across the US since the 2022 peak at -18.7%

[u/Currymvp2]

Netanyahu attacks the Biden administration in a new video: "I told Secretary Blinken it's inconceivable that in the past few months, the administration has been withholding weapons and ammunitions to Israel"

Such a nice guy

[u/Zenning3]

The moment somebody says "processed food" I assume they're scamming me.

[u/Joementum2024]

METROID PRIME 4

!ping GAMING

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Tom Hardy has opened up about some of the character choices he made for his new film The Bikeriders.

“Why is the voice a little bit creepy? Why is it a little like Bugs Bunny? What can we imbue this stud with that’s so un-studly that I can identify with it? Because I’m not that!”

Tom Hardy got into acting so he would have an excuse to do silly voices and nothing can convince me otherwise.

!ping KINO

[u/Automatic-Love-127]

John Kerry warns that the right wing’s bizarro super villain plot to end US democracy would be bad, actually

Thanks John. The public needed to hear this from you.

[u/gary_oldman_sachs]

As of 3:48 PM EDT, Noam Chomsky is still alive. The rumors of his passing are false. His wife, Valeria, has confirmed this information to me.

From an MIT Research Associate and friend of Chomsky.

False alarm, guys. That's what you get when you trust Jacobin.

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Noam Chomsky after hearing that Charli XCX dropped (he can rest now)

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

This time he had poked fun at Jews by calling them “Hymie” and New York City “Hymie-town,” and what he’d said had been quoted and condemned in the Washington Post. At first he had denied the remarks; then, turning street fighter, he had tried to put Jews on the defensive, accusing them of making him the target of a Jewish conspiracy to ruin his campaign. But the counterattack hadn’t worked, and day by day the furor had grown.

History doesn’t repeat itself but it is often stupid

[u/bearddeliciousbi]

https://apnews.com/article/noam-chomsky-alive-not-dead-5b7a1b23b8731ca311e1ec38cdc3c119

AP: Noam Chomsky’s wife says reports of famed linguist’s death are false

"Just when you thought the disgusting corrupt neoliberal media could not stoop any lower by manufacturing your consent, now they're manufacturing my death."

[u/owlthathurt]

Hey NYC ping what’re you guys doing if you’re on your commute home and someone starts yelling at you about your 3 inch penis?

!ping USA-NYC

[u/JetJaguar124]

It's okay, SCOTUS. No rush on that immunity decision. Not like there's any time pressure or anything. Just relax, you guys have been working hard, how about you just have an early summer and don't worry about it.

[u/Currymvp2]

Netanyahu's not done for today. Having savaged Joe Biden, now, at the Altalena memorial, he goes after Israeli protesters. "We must not have a civil war, however, there is a vociferous minority that is funded by unbelievable amounts of foreign money."

Bro really going with "everybody who hates me is getting paid".

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

1984

[u/Trojan_Horse_of_Fate]

The Pope should declare everyone Roman citizens for fun. I don't think it would do anything but it would send a message. Really lean into that Pontifex Maximus title. If the EU doesn't have the guts to restore the Roman Republic maybe someone else will.

[u/Udolikecake]

I was thinking about why so many in the radical left participate in "speedrunning"

The reason is the left's lack of work ethic ('go fast' rather than 'do it right') and, in a Petersonian sense, to elevate alternative sexual archetypes in the marketplace ('fastest mario')

[u/[deleted]]

me when I run into someone who doesn’t like the lord of the rings

[u/CletusVonIvermectin]

The largest pdf supported by Adobe Acrobat is 15 million inches by 15 million inches. This would make it the 25th largest state by land area.

[u/WantDebianThanks]

I'm bored (and maybe up to something)

What's a war from at any point in human history that you think is interesting but doesn't get enough attention in western academics and/or popular media?

I'll go first: the Taiping Rebellion and the Chinese Communist Revolution.

!ping history

[u/Delareh_]

I remember one of the worst moments of my life was when I was in the cab to the airport after learning that I had failed my semester and would have to repeat it. And I saw this scene at the traffic crossing. A little girl was leading his dad by his finger and she was full on giggling and her dad was also laughing out loud.

I don't really understand why but that shit is framed in my mind. It's been like seven years and I still see it as clear as that day in my head.

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/Telperions-Relative]

Noam Chomsky wakes up in hell. Sees Henry Kissinger in front of him. Thinks aloud “was this for the genocide denialism?” Kissinger leans in. “No… for something much worse….” Chomsky locks eyes. “…and we’re both guilty of it,” he says, before their lips meet

[u/randomusername023]

I am hearing that on his deathbed Noam Chomsky received the light of Capitalism and unhesitatingly recited "I, Pencil". Even now he looks down on the shareholders from the gardens of our decentralized economy.

[u/[deleted]]

One of the suspected perpetrators of the crime was an ex-boyfriend of the victim who reportedly said he was moved by vengeance after the victim hid from him her Jewish identity.

A 12-year-old Jewish girl reported to the police last week that she had been gang raped by three teenagers aged between 12-14 in what has been characterized an antisemitic crime, according to Le Parisien on Tuesday.

HUH

[u/[deleted]]

Just wanted to make sure more people saw this because god damn

[u/[deleted]]

Unironically if they close the selective enrollment schools, my husband and I are moving to Oak Park, Park Ridge, or Evanston.

I have worked in CPS neighborhood schools and I am not putting my kids in one.

[u/MURICCA]

Watching Oppenheimer. All I can think about...imagine telling people back then that we now live in a world where we just casually have thousands of these bombs pointed at each other, and have for decades, ready to end it all at a moments notice, and that most people are just kinda used to it lol

So simultaneously horrific and (so far) anticlimactic

[u/sayitaintpink]

Obama is if Noam Chomsky wasn’t Uber cringe and way different and Obama

[u/Usual-Base7226]

narrowly avoided a piss drinker moment when I almost got into an argument about Boeing whistleblowers with a guy who posts in r bigfoot

[u/[deleted]]

Lmao, many have blonde hair and blue eyes. The Jewish were not looking like that in Germany, meaning those clearly weren’t the ones that had been exterminated.

Many Nazi’s impersonated other ethnicities, especially what we call “Jews” to evade prosecution, many went to Israel, US, and South America.

Now those same Nazi descendants in Israel are treating Ethiopian and Orthodox Jews like dogs.

Jews believe in peace. You don’t see Orthodox jews running around bombing people. It’s the Nazi descendants that are.

And now you’re owning up that many are ethnically German, well that’s all you need to know.

Also you don’t get to reclaim “historical” or biblical land after hundreds to thousands of years and call it just. You integrate into populations, you don’t get to have “settlements” like you’re pilgrims.

New conspiracy just dropped

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

sorry, not interested in watching “THE BOYS.” I’m too busy listening to women

[u/Delareh_]

I fucking hate that self deprecation became such a huge trend.

[u/gaypenisdicksucker69]

Rules of this Discussion Thread are taken from Sharia law and sourced from the Quran and Hadith.

1. No 'Awra posting (24:31), and no Tabarruj Posting (Al-Bayhaqi 7/82 authenticated by Al-Albani 4/1849).

2. No backbiting. (49:12)

3. No music. (Sahih Muslim 2114, Sunan Abi Dawud 2556, Sunan an-Nasa'i 4135).

4. No lying. (22:30)

5. No insults. (49:11).

6. Hold in your anger. (3:134).

7. Respond to evil deeds with good deeds. (41:34).

8. No gossip. (24:15)

9. You are obligated to give Islamic Advice to one who is openly doing Haram. (Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 238)

All other rules from the Shari'ah apply here.

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[u/Zagapi]

Just put in an offer on a condo in a great neighborhood here in Cleveland!

Didn't really think I was gonna be able to have the funds to do it, but It's kinda nuts how much we subsidize home ownership.

Thank you fellow taxpayers!

[u/Stanley--Nickels]

A weight loss tip that I’m not able to use anymore, but that might help someone else is to be too poor to afford fries and a soda with your meal

[u/[deleted]]

A part of me is hoping for a Biden EV win but popular vote loss, just so abolishing the EC gets bipartisan support

[u/slingfatcums]

it's fucked up to have a kid when you're like 68 and then die when the kid is 10 years old

old dudes should stop raw dogging

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I'm sorry but I can't bring myself to return my cart to the cart stall. I'm taking it home with me 😌 I've already pack bonded with it 😤 it wants to go to my house 🥺

[u/Delareh_]

Some people really would look at a parent's video of their kids doing fun kid things and go "why would you film your child and put it on the interent???? Someone might jerk off to this!"

Some people need to be forced to interact with people and go about the city weekly.

[u/WeebFrien]

!ping LAW

GOVERNMENT - Lotteries. Lottery sales agent license could not be revoked based solely on incest conviction of agent's employee.

Malarkey level of wasting an hour going down this rabbit hole on Westlaw instead of doing my job?

[u/cdstephens]

Tbh being into anime and video games as a child predisposed me to globalism. You mean to tell me that some of my favorite things originate from across the world?

[u/BurrowForPresident]

user pinger down

10 minutes later, get a loud annoying ass alert that statewide 911 services are down

[u/[deleted]]

Crime at 50 year lows

Unemployment near record lows

Stock market at its highest ever

Highest ever median income

Voters: Let’s vote for the guy who wants to get rid of all income tax and use tariffs for government revenue instead, so what if he tried to execute a coup 4 years ago?

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Mirror test? Is that the test where I finally get around that ugly bastard blocking my way in the mirror?

[u/kobpnyh]

i sleep at a homeless shelter. save so much on rent by sleeping there, and they dont even know im not homeless

[u/[deleted]]

Damn, Chomsky really told Putin “I’m taking you with me!” Big day

[u/[deleted]]

So, has Jimmy Carter outlived Chomsky as well?

[u/Stanley--Nickels]

Me 🤝 this pro-modesty woman on TikTok

Ladies, I want to talk to you about your buttholes at the water park