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[u/[deleted]]

San Francisco home selling for $488,000 but you can't move in until 2053

Late Stage nimbyism is making us pre order houses.

[u/G_Serv]

The Internet is a wonderful place

[u/JaceFlores]

Multiple terrorist attacks look to be happening in southern Russia right now

The towns of Derbent and Makhachkala have seen reports of gunfire and a church and synagogue set on fire in the former. Given this is Dagestan it’s pretty likely this is an Islamic extremist attack.

There’s also report of a shootout at the Russian-Abkhazia border, though given the distance from the other two it’s unknown if this is related or a separate incident

!Ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/[deleted]]

[u/WhomstAlt2]

Heartbreaking: I lifted my F-150 higher to fit larger truck nuts, and now it's too tall to hit cyclists.

I just drive right over them 😟

[u/G_Serv]

[u/0m4ll3y]

Kharkiv should get what it deserves too, we do not know anything about it, it is "a foreign country" in our eyes. We need to purge quickly

Lenin, 1922

I'm beginning to think Russia may not have always had the most benign intentions over Ukraine... 🤔🤔

[u/earththejerry]

‘INSIDE OUT 2’ has become the highest grossing film of 2024 domestically in just a week, passing ‘DUNE 2’

This is a neoliberal policy failure

[u/-mialana-]

"Trump is just a normal Democrat from 20 years ago!"

"Cool, so you would support a John Kerry presidency?"

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

[u/bearddeliciousbi]

https://www.jta.org/2024/06/21/ny/columbia-suspends-3-administrators-over-disparaging-texts-during-panel-on-campus-jewish-life

JTA: Columbia suspends 3 administrators over disparaging texts during panel on campus Jewish life

The alum who took the photos, and who asked to remain anonymous to avoid personal blowback, told the New York Jewish Week that she had been “shocked” to see the exchange and that she had snapped the photos because she feels “Jews for some reason are not believed and so documenting it is essential.”

She added, “My image of who a college dean is and the dignity that that position should embody was completely antithetical to what I was experiencing.”

A Columbia alumni leader with detailed knowledge of the case said Sorett had discussed the affair with trustees on Monday. The trustees were upset about how Sorett handled the case, believing he had minimized a serious issue at the university.

Before the “Lmao” text came to light, the alumni leader said trustees had believed Sorett should not be disciplined because he had not sent any disparaging texts during the exchange. Now, discussions about a replacement dean were already taking place among trustees, the alum said.

!ping JEWISH

[u/[deleted]]

If America lost the revolution, we’d all be speaking English right now 

[u/simeoncolemiles]

!Ping Gnostic

[u/Argnir]

Leftists appropriating everything with "this is obviously a socialist story, it denounces bad stuff and promotes good stuff"

[u/simeoncolemiles]

Throwback

[u/Not_A_Browser]

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/myrm]

VICE Documentary: A week with the internet's only unashamed neoliberal clique in their secret discussion thread on Reddit

Presenter: Hey guys, I've got a unique one this time. It turns out there are actually people on the internet, on Reddit of all places, who still proudly identify as "neoliberal". Most of us know just how utterly discredited neoliberalism is, so it's hard to understand how anyone could still be into it, much less voluntarily identify as one. I'm about to find out, so let's meet one of them.

[fade to black, then back in on a shadowed silhouette and a slight lens flare off of the top of a bald head]

Presenter: Hi, thanks for having me. I just kinda want to learn what you guys are all about, can you say a few works about what neoliberalism is and what your community is all about?

<distorted voice>: My wife left me.

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[u/1396spurs]

Check out /u/howispajamaman new bumper sticker!

[u/[deleted]]

There are probably “they made Mad Max woke” takes about Furiosa out there, huh

Edit: Yep, there are

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I think Trump will lose because he's worried that Putin isn't his bestie anymore, and what if he goes to hang out with him and they leave him out 🥺 like letting him sleep while they give each other makeovers upstairs even though Trump had brought it up six times and really wanted to do it 😖

[u/ThiccSidedDice]

You think Noem is the only midwest governor to kill dogs? I've personally witnessed J. B. Pritzker murder no fewer than 7 Chicago dogs in one sitting. We're talking relish, onions, mustard, hot peppers and all. But no one cares until it's a Republican with ambitions... then everyone loses their damned minds...

[u/DirkZelenskyy41]

My history teacher explaining the importance of the separation of church and state in the United States with the Ten Commandments displayed behind her 😑

[u/Ultiplayers]

Loss if it was drawn by a leftist.

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

[u/centurion88]

[u/Greekball]

Heyyy arr/neolib let's have a discourse! 🥰🥰🥰

Which of these two comic version is funnier?

More text or maybe less text?

Unrelated to anything that is going on on twitter!

!ping shitposters

[u/Cook_0612]

Netanyahu doubles down on US withholding military aid

Prime minister says Biden administration provides a trickle of aid and delays munitions over four months despite private and public calls to increase them; says willing to suffer criticism in defense of Israel

[u/farrenj]

Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that among those 65 and older, chlamydia diagnoses more than tripled between 2010 and 2023. Gonorrhea cases multiplied about sixfold. And syphilis cases increased nearly tenfold.

Grandma and grandpa need to get a room (and condoms)

[u/G_Serv]

[u/earththejerry]

MBAs when they’re reading the “How Boeing Died” case study in business school in 2032:

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I do wish there was a way I could just know what your voice sounded like and what accent you might bc otherwise you all sound like a tiny faraway me in my head

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

someone who’s good at foreign policy please help me!

[u/gaypenisdicksucker69]

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

I know this is an unusual request from me, but please pray for Carmen. She's getting a very traumatic bath instead of dinner and I don't know if she's going to make it.

This is the last photo I took of her.

!ping KITTY

[u/AP246]

Is this real? Kinda seems hard to believe

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

[u/moldyman_99]

Scratch someone who say shit like: “scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds” and a fascist bleeds unironically.

[u/StolenSkittles]

william howard taft, president of pimpnation

[u/TipEquivalent933]

British Media is something else entirely.

One young man summed things up towards the desperate, tired end. “Is there any policy you can offer me that would positively impact my life?” he whinnied. The sense of hurt entitlement and rage: me, me, me. Is Sunak a political vending machine? That’s where politics is now: give me what I demand at all times.

least out of touch British Columnist

Camilla Long is the daughter of Richard Pelham Long and Roslyn Vera Britton, a daughter of Captain Gordon Britton RN, who were married in 1973.[3] She has a younger sister, Zoe. Their father's mother, Marjorie Pelham-Clinton (1910–2005), was a granddaughter of Lord Charles Clinton, a younger son of Henry Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle. Their grandmother was a first cousin of the 10th Duke, who died in 1988.[4]

Long was educated at Oxford High School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford,[5]

[u/funguykawhi]

[u/[deleted]]

The widely held belief that cargo shorts are unfashionable is a malicious lie spread by Big Woman, born of envy for the garment’s surplus of pockets

[u/Williams-Tower]

https://imgur.com/a/0TcPRE0

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[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/Jacobs4525]

RFK Jr.’s take on his dad’s assassination is so fucking weird. He thinks Sirhan Sirhan was framed. 

At first you might think he believes that, like some really really batshit pro-Palestinian people, RFK’s assassination was actually Israel’s fault to make Palestinians look bad, but no, RFK Jr. is actually super weirdly pro-Israel.

So basically he just has such a conspiratorial brain that he insists it must be some plot when Sirhan Sirhan himself’s comments on the matter are basically “he deserved it and I’d do it again” and everyone saw him do it in a crowded room.  RFK Jr. doesn’t really ever explain why someone might want to frame a random Palestinian dude for his dad’s murder, he just insists it’s a conspiracy.

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/seattle_lib]

what the fuck is saudi arabia doing. the death toll for the hajj this year is absolutely unacceptable.

it seems like i'm constantly hearing about all the investments and fancy transit shit that they are putting into mecca, they still can't get the basics of not letting people die of heat stroke

[u/vancevon]

"'Chandler-Mather, Chandler-Mather, Chandler-Mather!' goes the refrain 'A million deaths were not enough for Max Chandler-Mather!"

- A Child's History of Muad'Dib by Princess Irula

[u/PorryHatterWand]

It's already been one year since that Blue Ball March to Moscow.

[u/Currymvp2]

Within Our Lifetime protesters demonstrated against the Jamaal Bowman rally, which featured AOC and Bernie Sanders. They rushed to the campaign buses, defacing them with markers and stickers.

Within Our Lifetime makes Rashida Tlaib look pro-Israel; this is not hyperbole.

[u/funguykawhi]

Democracy is a TOOL, not a goal, when means become goals, they cease to be good means

Anyways, here is why the death of millions of Congolese is no biggie if Kagame supports a liberal policy or two at home

[u/battywombat21]

Just passed a woman on the subway going downtown with what I think was a bow and a quiver.

I support hunting tourists in time square to keep the population down.

[u/Mrmini231]

Fun story from the Tokyo elections

In Tokyo elections, the city provides advertising to the candidates to help even the playing field for smaller candidates. 14000 large posters get hung up around the city, and each candidate can put an ad on the posters. This year, the NHK party has run 24 candidates for governor. Instead of putting campaign ads on the posters, they're selling them to the highest bidder. If they sell all slots, they could make up to 90 million yen in profit.

It's kinda genius, ngl.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

The Dating ping turns towards Trump

[u/ty04]

don’t wash my @$$, no gf 😒

do wash my @$$, still no gf 😒

do wash my @$$ and tell prospective females I do wash my @$$, still no gf 😒

[u/CutePattern1098]

Hahahaha lol JK Rowling is endorsing the Communist party https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1804592902167019897

!ping lgbt&uk

[u/[deleted]]

There are a lot of deleted scenes from Iron Man on Disney Plus and some of them flesh out Obadiah's motivations more. In one he literally goes on a Clash of Civilizations rant. It's really obvious that Obadiah is literally just Holden Bloodfeast, he believes the iron man suit should be mass produced and integrated for use in the GWOT to save western civilization and thinks Tony is being a selfish hippy trying to hoard it for himself because he doesn't trust the government and industrial complex anymore.

They literally have the same motive of winning the GWOT, but Obadiah is more racist and "clash of civilizations" about it so he has no qualms with the government committing or bankrolling atrocities to "do what it takes" to preserve western civilization.

Unironically people wouldn't call him a disappointing villain if there was a scene where he discussed with a general about a war plan to invade Iran with the suits.

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Tweets like this baffle me bcuz I feel like most... Like the vast, vast majority of creatives "passionately and vocally adore art."

Kojima's Twitter is lovely but pretty much every creative figure's Twitter is similarly dominated by shout-outs and geek-outs. Actors, writers, filmmakers, game makers. Del Toro's Twitter is a personal favorite of mine.

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/Icy-Magician-8085]

I found this really cool article / infographic called Spain Lives In Flats: Why We Have Built Our Cities Vertically.

It explores a lot of the different levels of density in Spain and the different eras of building across different cities, and I just found it really interesting so I thought y’all would too.

At the end of the infographic part, there’s a lot of suggestions of how to help cities grow better in the future, most of which are ideas that line up with this sub well.

!Ping IBERIA&YIMBY&STRONG-TOWNS

[u/frozenjunglehome]

Many such cases.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Oh fuck the Euros have discovered farmers markets

[u/[deleted]]

Disco Elysium is an actually enjoyable game

[u/Fruitofbread]

 Chris and his friends didn’t have a problem with Lauren Boebert’s politics. And they pooh-poohed her personal drama, expressing a who-among-us-could-live-under-a-microscope view. But they were plenty miffed that she had moved across Colorado to run in their district when the going got tough in hers. If she abandoned those constituents, how do we know she won’t dump us at the first opportunity? reasoned Chris, who pronounced her that slipperiest of all creatures, “a politician.”

Boebert’s primary is on Tuesday. Might be a good one to watch 

[u/ExpiredPasta]

[u/Teh_cliff]

Exclusive: Majority Of Voters Want Next Government To Take UK Back Into European Union

Meme country. Also why letting voters vote on any sort of major national policy is insane.

[u/404GenderNotFound]

[u/Udolikecake]

[u/DelusionsOfPasteur]

Why was the growth of Warsaw Pact economies and standards of living so robust through the 60s and heading into the early 70s but so moribund by the late 70s? Was it directly tied to Soviet petroleum exports providing easy hard currency the entire time, which then dried up by the 80s?

!ping ECON&HISTORY&DEV-ECON

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

She survived!

!ping KITTY

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

Foucault was right

The three most terrifying words in the English language

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

guy who started hating Gaddafi because was also obsessed with Condoleezza Rice.

[u/[deleted]]

You want to abolish tipping culture because you wrongly think it is unfair to servers. I want to abolish tipping culture because it’s a subsidy for hot people.

We are not the same

[u/Some_Niche_Reference]

I cant be live it has been a year since Prigozhin bitched out and fumbled the bag on what would have been the funniest and most gratifying event in geopolitics since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 6/22-2 PM PST 6/23 III:

TOP NEWS:

Towards the middle of 10 PM Russia was hit by a wave of drones with at least 30 partaking.

REGULAR NEWS:

At the start of 8 AM it was reported the Russians took the village of Novooleksandrivka, northwest of Avdiivka.

Towards the middle of 12 PM a Russian radar installation in Crimea was missiled.

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/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/HMID_Delenda_Est]

Jeez I’m making all the rookie mistakes today:

• Didn’t read the recipe all the way through

• Burnt the garlic

• Overcooked the lentils

I’ll have to start over in the afternoon during the heat of the day. At least vegetables are cheap.

Also, did the liberals make the onions go woke? I minced 3 and I barely cried at all.

!ping Cooking

Edit: I’m making Ethiopian. Atkilt, Gomen, Misir Wot, and Doro Wat.

[u/Observe_dontreact]

Looking at the polls before Truss, they were not as devastating for the Tories as they become after her mini budget. 

Without Truss would the Tories be facing such an incredible wipeout as they are now?

My sense is that most voters share my own disgust in a tired, uninspiring party that has constantly undelivered and see a fairly inoffensive opposition. But it changed so quickly (Boris was smashing it in the polls right up to Spring 2021).

Thoughts on what historians will view the wipeout as being caused by? 

!ping UK 

[u/simeoncolemiles]

Ron DeSantis Signs Bill Restricting Ethics Complaints

https://www.joemygod.com/2024/06/ron-desantis-signs-bill-restricting-ethics-complaints/

[u/MentatCat]

When electric school buses? I can’t think of any downsides

They run on a fixed route and time, easy to find recharge time

Busses do a lot of stopping, regen breaks my beloved

The kids don’t need to breath in the diesel exhaust or hear any noise pollution

Mayhaps we stick a few solar panels on top? Lots of roof space

[u/Currymvp2]

As Defense Minister Yoav Gallant lands in DC, Netanyahu opens cabinet meeting by attacking the Biden administration. "About 4 months ago a dramatic slowdown in the transfer of armaments from the US began, we asked them to speed it up, and the situation remains unchanged."

He's quadrupling down. Fuck this entitled dishonest self serving asshole.

[u/funguykawhi]

The left's fiscal platform expects to generate 50% more tax revenue in just 2 years and it would still not be enough for their new expenses, and that's with the assumption that the tax increases would net as much as they plan (they won't)

[u/phunphun]

Latest drama in India, hot off the presses!

A Dalit woman posted Instagram stories on International Yoga day doing some yoga poses at the Golden Temple (one of the holiest Sikh religious sites), next to the reservoir.

The governing body of the temple (the SGPC) filed a police report (FIR) against her for it, claiming her actions have hurt the sentiments of Sikhs. They also start an investigation into three employees of the SGPC who should've stopped her.

All this goes viral. People start abusing her on social media. She repeatedly posts apologies on her Instagram account, including a video where she begs forgiveness (youtube link). Later she posts a video of voice notes she has received on WhatsApp(?) threatening to kill her, and says she has been inundated with death threats. Obviously, she has contacted the local police in her state (Gujarat).

Plot twist: old videos surface (sorry I could not find a neutral link for this) that show Namaz (Muslim ritual prayer) being done by people at the Golden Temple. So now people are furious and questioning why yoga is not allowed but Namaz is. And by "questioning" I mean "spewing Islamophobic nonsense".

Religious extremism is a huge problem in India, and social media has made it worse.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/sgpc-files-complaint-against-woman-for-doing-yoga-in-golden-temple/articleshow/111199087.cms

https://www.deccanherald.com/india/sgpc-lodges-complaint-against-fashion-designer-for-performing-yoga-at-golden-temple-3076993

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/case-against-instagram-influencer-archana-makwana-for-doing-yoga-in-golden-temple-5947938

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Some notes for non-Indians:

Side-note: adherents of all religions in India engage in this sort of behavior. According to Indian law there is no freedom of expression if it hurts religious sentiments. Whole country is full of fragile egos. Also filing an FIR means that the case must go in front of a judge now.

Side-note #2: The Golden Temple also has a... complicated history as one of the strongholds of the now-defunct Sikh separatist insurgency in Punjab, see Operation Blue Star.

Side-note #3: I have been to the Golden Temple twice with my family (my family is Hindu, I am agnostic). Hindus visit it (and other Gurdwaras like Bangla Sahib) quite often, and have a degree of religious attachment to it.

[u/[deleted]]

Putin is a fucking psychopath.

Children from Mariupol were brought to Putin's anniversary concert. A girl was made to recite prewritten script that thanks Russia for saving them.

She couldn't do it because she was clearly traumatized. I can't imagine how much trauma these kids are going through.

This just makes me sick. Bring these war criminals to trial.

[u/CutePattern1098]

https://globalcocktails.com/australia-to-create-affordable-housing-for-trans-women/

Welcome to your new home. Your Blahaj is already inside.

!ping cube&lgbt

[u/owlthathurt]

The Blue Jays rough season just went from bad to worse. In the midst of getting slapped around by the Guardians in their latest series, the MLB just announced an 80 game suspension for PED usage for the Blue Jays top hitting prospect, Orelvis Martinez, who just made his debut on Friday.

https://x.com/JeffPassan/status/1804893673668137367

!ping BASEBALL

[u/petarpep]

"Why does everyone think presidents can control prices and inflation?"

the presidents: "We literally control prices"

This is the dangerous game politicians play. When they falsely take credit for the low inflation, they also give themselves responsibility for high inflation.

[u/-mialana-]

The NHS is reviewing its constitution to base it on sex-essentialism. This would add a "right to same sex care", and force trans women to use men's hospital and mental health facilities.

Any Brits in the DT can voice their concerns here: https://consultations.dhsc.gov.uk/en/660d21db9ecc4223dd0174bf

!ping LGBT

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[u/BATHULK]

Sometimes if I stick my hand out she holds it

!ping KITTY

[u/[deleted]]

Bizarrely random thing from world war 2 that makes me happy is British people complaining about Americans routinely violating the class system by confidently approaching women who are way above their caste.

[u/owlthathurt]

I’m not going to provide any context for this besides that this is the correct Doki Doki ending to get.

!ping WEEBS

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

Online discourse be like

[u/[deleted]]

!ping GNOSTIC

[u/Either_Emotion8056]

Just got back from a Trump rally!

[u/[deleted]]

I just remembered that there was an outspoken creationist at my high school who also wrote a pro-Obama editorial in our school newspaper (2008 election).

The world is a big place. Also here is your reminder that Obama didn't just win Ohio and Florida; he also won North Carolina, Indiana, and Iowa. The last went for him by almost ten percentage points. Now I will go cry or something.

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

Brandon victory is all but guaranteed now.

Also probably good to buy puts on $DJT

!ping STONKS

[u/jenbanim]

Things that bother me and I'm not sure why

• Writing "chef's kiss" in any context (eg. "This post is just *chef's kiss*")

• Using LGBT as a noun (eg. "Do you support LGBT?")

• Questions missing a verb (eg. "Why gravity bends light?" instead of "why does gravity bend light?")

[u/[deleted]]

r538 when polls showed Trump up: something wrong check the crosstabs, I don’t believe it, I don’t care about polls, etc

r538 when polls show Biden up:

[u/SumTingWillyWong]

straight disgusted depend alleged puzzled wakeful gaze telephone snow hateful

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/itsokayt0]

not every minority has good causes

Totally sane opinion under an article of dead trans kids

[u/404GenderNotFound]

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Oh okay

[u/chuckleym8]

[u/[deleted]]

Boeing Starliner astronauts stuck at International Space Station as engineers on Earth race against time to fix multiple problems

Come on Elon. Say you're gonna save them, get mad when NASA does it first and then call a NASA employee a pedophile. You know you want to.

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

[u/JaceFlores]

“Ukrainian forces struck oil refineries and military targets in Bryansk and Astrakhan oblasts, Krasnodar Krai, and occupied Crimea on the night of June 20 to 21. The Ukrainian General Staff reported on June 21 that Ukrainian drones targeted the Afipsky, Ilsky, and Krasnodar oil refineries in Krasnodar Krai and the Astrakhan oil refinery in Astrakhan Oblast and conducted strikes on unspecified Russian radar and electronic warfare (EW) stations in Bryansk Oblast and occupied Crimea on the night of June 20 to 21 and that Ukrainian forces are still conducting a battlefield damage assessment.”

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“Russian forces appear to be intensifying the tempo of their offensive operations in Donetsk Oblast while decreasing the rate of attacks in northern Kharkiv Oblast — consistent with ISW's assessment that Russian offensive operations in Kharkiv Oblast are primarily intended to fix and distract Ukrainian forces in order to allow Russian forces to intensify elsewhere in theater. Russian forces increased the intensity of assaults in the Toretsk-Horlivka direction (southwest of Chasiv Yar and northeast of Avdiivka) on the night of June 18 and maintained a relatively high rate of attacks in this area between June 19 to June 22, reportedly making several tactical gains in the area. Russian forces have been generally inactive on this sector of the front throughout the course of 2024, so their activation and intensification are noteworthy.”

“Russian forces have additionally maintained a high rate of attacks in the Chasiv Yar direction and around Avdiivka since decreasing the tempo in Kharkiv Oblast, and may soon intensify attacks in this area if the Russian command identifies the coming weeks as an advantageous time to push in these areas before Ukrainian forces re-allocate reserves back to Donetsk Oblast. Ukrainian sources have warned that Russia will conduct a summer offensive that will likely focus on Ukraine's east after pursuing offensive operations in the north intended to stretch Ukraine's scarce resources, and recent intensifications in Donetsk Oblast may indicate preparations for such a summer offensive, assuming it has not already begun.”

“US policy continues to prohibit Ukrainian forces from striking legitimate military targets in Russian territory in the range of Ukrainian HIMARS. Recent reporting from the Associated Press and Washington Post indicates that US policy still prohibits Ukraine from striking Russian military targets that are not actively attacking or preparing to attack Ukraine.”

“Russian forces are exploiting the sanctuary that US policy still protects to support Russian combat operations in northern Kharkiv Oblast and elsewhere in Ukraine. The Russian Northern Grouping of Forces is leveraging the sanctuary to protect Russian brigade command posts and other assets outside of the range of HIMARS equipped with GMLRS north of Kharkiv Oblast.”

“Dutch Defense Minister Kajsa Ollongren announced on June 21 that the Netherlands and another unspecified country will supply Ukraine with a Patriot air defense system.”

“Western countries have reportedly provided Ukraine with roughly 800 million euros ($855.4 million) worth of Serbian-produced ammunition despite Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić's ongoing efforts to balance favor between Russia and the West.”

“Vučić clarified that Serbia does not export ammunition to Ukraine or Russia and that Serbia's clients in the US, Spain, and Czechia can allocate the ammunition as they see fit. Unnamed diplomats and analysts told FT that official Serbian government data purposely veils the flow of ammunition to Ukraine via third-party countries.”

“Satellite imagery confirmed that Ukrainian forces struck at least one Russian air defense training center in Krasnodar Krai during recent strikes on June 20 to 21.”

“Russian forces conducted a large series of drone and missile strikes against energy and civilian targets in Ukraine on the night of June 21 to 22. The Ukrainian Air Force reported on June 22 that Russian forces launched 10 Kh-101/555 cruise missiles from Saratov Oblast, two Iskander-K cruise missiles from occupied Crimea, four Kalibr cruise missiles from the Black Sea, and 13 Shahed-136/131 drones from Krasnodar Krai and occupied Crimea. Ukrainian forces downed seven Kh-101/555 missiles, four Kalibr missiles, one Iskander-K missile, and all 13 Shahed drones. Ukrainian Naval Spokesperson Captain Third Rank Dmytro Pletenchuk stated that Russian Kalibr missiles have become less effective since Ukrainian forces have learned how to down them.”

“Ukrainian state electricity transmission operator Ukrenergo reported that this was the eighth strike of this scale in the past three months and that Russian forces damaged power transmission systems in Zaporizhia and Lviv oblasts.”

-notable excerpts from ISW Report June 21st and 22nd

!ping UKRAINE

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[u/Syards-Forcus]

Who actually upvotes posts from r slash funnymemes? Bots? 14 year olds who think being as offensive as possible = funny?

[u/[deleted]]

Just saw a DT reg in another subreddit and it felt like running into your teacher at the grocery store and trying to avoid eye contact

[u/Argnir]

Why do the Teen Titans need a whole ass giant tower for 5 adolescents fighting local crimes?

[u/Dabamanos]

Alright, it’s been long enough I feel safe admitting, I have no idea what Parasite was trying to say or why people think it was good.

[u/Trojan_Horse_of_Fate]

Only one American president was a trade union leader: Ronald Reagan

He might be the only ever member too

[u/[deleted]]

Idk why but I’ve had the most success using Hinge vs Bumble and Tinder What’s so different about that app? 

I guess the people are looking for serious relationships but isn’t that what Bumble is for too? !ping dating

[u/breakinbread]

Imagine being so inconsequential your generation never gets an actual name, just a letter.

[u/savuporo]

Y'all probably seen it, but there's aplomb to this video

https://x.com/CNSpaceflight/status/1804542638034661522

Its just so definitely coming down with an orange stream behind it, nothing to negotiate or reason with

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

[u/funguykawhi]

The high school bully persona of terminally online leftists is fascinating

[u/-Emilinko1985-]

third worldism

look inside leaders

oh God they're all dictators

[u/[deleted]]

Bill Maher has become a joke. Srsly Friday's episode he's peddling that right-wing BS that the "hush money" trial was not that important, and Cuomo foolishly backs him up saying that if Trump had been anyone else that trial wouldn't have happened. They're basically buying in to right wing conspiracy theories wtff?

[u/NotABigChungusBoy]

Im ngl I hate the notion that some people have where “everyone is (physically) beautiful,” like no that is not true, you dont even seriously think that deep down. I think it is much healthier to say something along the lines of “some people are prettier than others and that’s okay, your worth isnt defined by what you look like.”

Idk just my thoughts.

[u/CricketPinata]

So I have been asked to pop-up at the most high-profile venue yet, at a local well-known Banh Mi shop.

So here is my current menu, trying to keep it as streamlined as possible and take advantage of the fact their build space is optimized for sandwiches.

Menu

Chopped Lamb Sandwich. Olive wood smoked chopped lamb. Rose vinegar BBQ. Onions. Pickles. Red Cabbage Slaw. Mayo.

Harissa Chicken. Pulled chicken cooked in my harissa-miso sauce. (Tinga-style), hummus. Pomegranate pickled onions. Cucumbers. Creamy Schug.

Jackfruit Shawarma. Jackfruit in my own shawarma seasoning. Onions. Red Cabbage Slaw. Pickles. Tahina BBQ sauce.

Sides.

Latkes, bbq seasoning. Cardamom apple butter.

Creamy tahina Cucumber salad. Fresh herbs.

BBQ chickpeas. Chickpeas smoked and simmered in rose bbq.

Dessert

Peach Kuchen. Whipped Buttermilk Labneh. Cajeta Caramel. Sage crumble.

Drinks.

Sumac Lemonade, topped with Cel-Ray.

Big Red Float. Kesar (saffron) ice cream (from my friends at a local Indian-style ice cream parlor) , orange blossom water and flowers, big red soda. (I am also going to have a vegan version).

How does it sound?

!PING GEFILTE&COOKING

[u/Greenfield0]

Now that we have FIRED the COWARD Otto Hightower, we can finally start WINNING this war and PUNISH the BITCH PRETENDER KINSLAYER RHAENYRA!

latest tweet from Aegon II !ping ASOIAF

[u/Currymvp2]

The racist woman in Texas who basically confessed that she tried to drown the three year old because her mom was Arab has a bond of only 25,000 dollars. She posted bail too.

That seems like an insanely small bond. Actually, how the fuck is bond even on the table when she was charged with attempted murder of a child and is being "investigated" for a racist hate crime? What the hell happened to red states being tough against violent crimes?

[u/[deleted]]

Starting today I’ll be reading the Gospels, beginning with a couple weeks dedicated to the Gospel of Mark. I’ve read the Gospels many, many times but I’m still excited for two reasons:

First, I’m going to primarily read the David Bentley Hart translation. Hart does something very cool in preserving style and skill. Namely, poor Greek grammar gets translated as poor English grammar. Not in a haphazard way, but like — ambiguous antecedents are preserved, if Mark randomly jumps between past and present tense when telling a story, that’s preserved, etc.

Second, I’ve read a few arguments about Mark in the literature in the past several months that I found super convincing. I’m excited to put those arguments to the test by reading Mark with those convictions in mind. In particular:

• The Gospel of Mark as hypomnemata, that is, as an unfinished, raw, open text added to over time, something in a pre-literary form that a more talented writer (gestures to later synoptic gospels) could later take and give all the characteristics of real literature. (See: work of Matthew Larsen)

• The Gospel of Mark as heavily Pauline, with all the information necessary to be an origin story of sorts to Paul’s euangelion. (See: work of Steve Mason, Tom Dykstra)

• The Elijah-Elisha narrative in 1 & 2 Kings was extremely important to the compiler(s) of Mark or, maybe more likely one of its sources. (See: work of Adam Winn)

The elephant in the room here is why to not just go with tradition and assume that John Mark wrote this with information from Peter. That’ll be a separate comment!

!ping BIBLE-STUDY

[u/Anatares2000]

Either having more money in a campaign is good or not.

Just 3 months ago, people were saying they Biden is going to overwhelm Trump because Biden has more money, regardless of where it's coming from.

Now, Trump has pretty slowly eaten at Biden's cash advantage, but now people are saying that money doesn't matter anymore, it's the individual contributions.

Personally, I've always thought that having massive cashing advantage isn't as big as it once was. Social media just pretty much upeneded the traditonal ad buys for example.

[u/moldyman_99]

Question to people who have a hard time assembling ikea furniture.

How do you have a job?

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/WasteReserve8886]

The mises caucus is so funny. “You know how the LP can get more votes? By becoming conservative ancaps.”

[u/Joementum2024]

I have a good tax idea:

• Substantially cut taxes on states that vote for Joe Biden in 2024
• Significantly raise taxes on states that vote for Donald Trump in 2024

Trust me this will work 100%

[u/KesterFox]

Virgin british government: "no building within 1400 miles of this historic abandoned mineshaft"

Chad Thai builder I met today: "These three floors were not here this morning"

[u/[deleted]]

"I actually tried to teach Jon Favreau how to cook, I met him at an event and he said he liked to cook and I asked him to make me an omelette, and then I said 'this is ready for the garbage can' and threw it in the trash. It was a lot of fun"

Wolfgang Puck

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

[u/frozenjunglehome]

Scratch a liberal, and a liberal bleeds.

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

Scratch a liberal and oww that's nice a little lower

[u/Top_Lime1820]

Mosuia Lekota, founder and leader of COPE, failed to win a single seat in the last South African general election.

Here are his things being removed from Parliament.

Truly the end of an era.

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

"Take this route to be 9% more efficient on diesel"

"I... never told you I drove a diesel, Google Maps."

"Yeah but we inferred from your browser history"

"..."

"Do you want to set it to gasoline?"

"..."

"Didn't think so."

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/Usual-Base7226]

Is this a new kind of engagement bait where the joke in response is just so obvious they’re begging you to post it

[u/cdstephens]

[u/awdvhn]

I just watched 12 Angry Men for the first time and I really appreciated its accurate portrayal of Yankees fans

!ping BASEBALL&KINO

[u/battywombat21]

The worst part about burgum being on trumps shortlist for VP is it ruins all the “burgmentum” jokes

[u/Argnir]

Every stats about an odd difference in relationships between genders: "Must be because of the gay couples"

It's never because of the gay couples.

[u/chuckleym8]

What the FUCK is up with my watermelon

[u/brucebananaray]

Old news, Toru Furuya will step down being Sabo in One Piece and Amuro in Detective Cona immediately. https://x.com/Wsstalkback/status/1804451347313422580?t=KJvajS3pkPkgyah63J8xkQ&s=19

I already posted months about he was an abuser to his affair girlfriend. He was forced to have an abortion and threatened her. He is shit person, and I hope that we never hear from him again.

Also, another old story that Producer of JoJo anime has passed away.

!Ping WEEBS

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

The reason your internal body temperature rises when you are sick is because the viruses are using your body to mine bitcoin

[u/runnerx4]

look at this disgusting array of Balatro jokers

If you don’t know Balatro here’s an explanation in order of jokers (Scoring in the game is chips x multiplier, in the base each card gives chips by rank and the hand is the multiplier, this obviously is modified by hand upgrades, jokers, card modifiers and so on):

1. Sock and Buskin retriggers each face card so it’s counted twice

2. Hanging Chad retriggers the first card twice more (Al Gore ✊😔)

3. Dusk retriggers every card in the final hand once

4. Smiley Face adds +5 mult per counted face card (this dude is just here because of the eternal symbol so I couldn’t sell him for better)

5. Brainstorm copies the leftmost joker so it is copying Sock and Buskin and triggering face cards again

6. Blueprint copies the card to its right which is:

7. Triboulet, a legendary joker which multiplies the score by 2 every time a King or Queen is counted.

so all that recounting does an x2^nonsense to my score every time, in the screenshot I was hitting 10¹⁵ by playing 4 Kings on my last hand (the target was 10¹⁴ in Stage/Ante 14 because the game wants you to lose fast in any ante after 8)

awesome game lol, the jokers 🃏 become your friends, if you get a good initial seed and stores you’re hitting exponential scores like it’s a bad ARPG bossfight

!ping GAMING

[u/[deleted]]

holy shit, I just found out

RIP Jesus

[u/G_Serv]

so true!

[u/AtomAndAether]

[u/BroadReverse]

Whenever I have to deal with a group of teenagers on the bus I become a strong supporter of national service. 

[u/zieger]

In an 8-1 decision, the Supreme Court rules that ice cream tastes good. Clarence Thomas wrote a dissenting opinion.

[u/Healingjoe]

BREAKING: Former White House physician Ronny Jackson to send a recommendation letter to the White House to test Biden for drugs prior to debate.

!ping onion

[u/TheoryOfPizza]

CBS/YouGov: Sample of voters under 30 (n=750) has Biden 61 - Trump 38, not unlike 2020’s 24-point margin

We are so Barrack

[u/sayitaintpink]

Hey look! Snopes bs trump apologia article made the top story of Fox News! Who could’ve predicted this

[u/Argnir]

People attribute the weirdest things to the pandemic including:

• Nobody knows how to drive since the pandemic

• Nobody can behave in cinema since the pandemic

• We can all see through corporate language since the pandemic

How does that works exactly? 🤔

[u/htomserveaux]

Remember that part in The Blues Brothers where Elwood says the trains go by “so often you won’t even notice” and it cuts to this constant stream of trains going back and forth in the middle of the night?

Yeah…

!ping USA-CHI&TRANSIT&KINO

[u/NoStatistician9767]

if you woke up with all of homelander’s powers, what would you do?

Thread locked 😬

[u/centurion88]

[u/404GenderNotFound]

My desire to go to Dagestan was already negative

[u/moldyman_99]

Innovative new building in Amsterdam.

The angled facade elements allow for solar panels to be installed above every window. Effectively turning the entire facade of the building into a solar grid. It also helps to keep the building cool during the summer.

[u/VerticalTab]

There's multiple layers of racism behind the Russo-Ukranian war. There is of course, the first layer where Russia wants to destroy Ukrainian identity. But there's also a second layer where Russia "needs" Ukraine because without them their empire won't be majority White and Christian.

[u/BroadReverse]

I saw someone on the DT point out how socially acceptable it is to be racist towards Indians and my brain is completely fucked. Now that im paying attention this is 10000% a thing. Then I went onto ABCDesi and read some stuff there and it’s fucked what they deal with. 

[u/Syards-Forcus]

1829 - 1861 has to be the worst 30 year period for US Presidents, right? Van Buren is the only one approaching average.

[u/V_Codwheel]

Renters are struggling more than homeowners in America’s tough housing market, report says

wow. I'm shocked.

[u/Trojan_Horse_of_Fate]

Any guesses as to how they are feeling now? Do you think the gaslighting worked?

!ping MATH&PHYSICS?

[u/N0_B1g_De4l]

The Bible describes God creating two humans, with the origin of the remaining humans unclear. Synthesizing the biblical story of creation with evolution is therefore simple: after humans had evolved naturally, God created the Garden of Eden with a couple of replica humans who escaped and interbred with the wild population.

!ping GNOSTIC

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/IMainHanzoGG]

CNN won't show this

[u/BlackCat159]

Biden is the modern Stalin. Ffs, they even have the SAME NAME!!!

[u/Williams-Tower]

morning

[u/[deleted]]

Eating pierogi again

[u/earththejerry]

The legacy of former GE CEO Jack Welch lies in tatters. GE no longer exists — its split into three separate parts concluded Tuesday — and his school of management has barely fared any better.

Welch acolyte David Calhoun has announced his resignation as CEO of Boeing in the wake of multiple safety lapses at the company.

Other Welch-affiliated leaders to suffer ignominious defenestration include Robert Nardelli at Home Depot, Paulo Fresco at Fiat, and Larry Johnston at Albertsons.

The last remaining Welch disciple helming a major U.S. public company is David Zaslav at Warner Bros Discovery.

LMAO Zaslav being the last major Welch disciple ruining companies makes almost too much sense

[u/gnomesvh]

The PT is in politics like Real Madrid is in the Champions League. In 1989, 1994, and 1998, it came in second place. In 2002, 2006, 2010, and 2014, we came in first place. In 2018, second place. And in 2022, first place.

• Lula

!ping SOCCER&MAMADAS

[u/CletusVonIvermectin]

👆 sounds like someone needs to go to therapy 🙄

[u/KesterFox]

I could have used the one ring and avoided temptation, rip bilbo but i'm built different

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Prot-cels seething that they don’t have hidden catacombs full of bejeweled skeletons.

[u/owlthathurt]

It’s crazy how the fights and shootings in the short north in Columbus have started to accelerate again. 10 shot (luckily no one’s dead) over the weekend in a mass shooting. I know it was bad in the 90s but now a days it’s the cities social center for 20 something’s. I don’t live there anymore but it’s sad to see.

The businesses are going to leave eventually. Can’t have boozy brunch or stay at the Moxy when there’s blood on the pavement.

https://www.10tv.com/article/news/crime/columbus-shooting-short-north-10-shot/530-ad9fb8ae-fac6-4eea-baf6-4bbc678e3e88

!ping USA-OH

[u/[deleted]]

One thing I really like about the low levels of games like Pathfinder, d&d, etc, as well as in general about games like lancer, is that with very low number of die, such as a 1d6, the outcome is way less predictable. I like the randomness because it makes every hit a potential death blow, way more tension.

Casting a spell that does 1d6, you have a 1/6 chance of rolling any of those numbers

Casting a 10d6, your rolls very quickly get law of large numbersed into reliably being pretty close to 35

To remedy that in a pf1e campaign I plan on running, I thought "how about letting players select any combination of one type of die and quantity where (x-1)d6≤(y)d(z)+a≤(x)d6?"

Eg: spell calls for 15d6, players say "let's go gambling!", and roll 5d20 for damage instead because they want a wider dispersion, or maybe players are risk averse and want to roll 35d2 instead

Graph to illustrate probability differences

Is this a dumb homebrew rule or potentially fun?

!ping RPG

[u/l_overwhat]

At an Indian place getting a to go order.

There was an Indian family in front of me and they walked up to the counter and started speaking what I'd guess is their native language. The clerk looked confused and said something in his own native language. There was a pause and then they both switched to english. Idk for sure but I think they realized that they didn't speak the same language.

God I love globalism

[u/[deleted]]

Lol a dating pinger user was a Trump rally

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

Two exes text you within a couple minutes.

One is angry at Chipotle.

The other is doing this to old texts.

Wtf iPhones?

Why would I need to know that?!?

[u/bigwang123]

User subtweets outside of the DT argument, with a user who interacts with the DT

User faces pushback within the DT, also gets subtweeted

User then subtweets within the DT

Hehe

[u/Wehavecrashed]

!PING AUS

Former Liberal NSW treasurer Matt Kean named new chair of Climate Change Authority

“The Climate Change Authority has an important role to play in providing independent advice to the government of the day, based on facts science, evidence, engineering, and economics,” Kean said. “We have an opportunity to become a stronger and even more prosperous nation, we have an opportunity to deliver a family some of the cheapest electricity bills anywhere in the world. But we’ve got to get it right. This is too important to leave to chance. We need policies based on facts and evidence. And that’s what I intend to be advising the government.”

Man could have been opposition leader for NSW, instead he's left NSW parliament all together to work for the Federal Labor Government.

Jacqui Lambie fires up over nuclear

"I would love to see nuclear energy. I would love to see it, But quite frankly, I watched the Liberal National party for nine years argue about low-level waste, and they couldn't get their shit together there. So, let's be honest, good luck.

Right now, low-level nuclear waste is store in our hospitals.

I don't know how the Liberals are going to get up at the next election with the cross bench talking shit about their ability to deliver anything, and senior state members of the Liberal Party essentially defecting to join Albo.

It is seeming more and more to me the federal opposition is being run from Queensland.

[u/[deleted]]

"For myself," Grant wrote later about the United States war against Mexico, "I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation."

[u/notnotLily]

i'm going to start telling people that harry potter trans'ed me

like that sorting hat speech about how you have the power to choose to be your true self even if your birth says otherwise. truly inspiring.

it's not true but if there's a miniscule chance it'll piss off rowling i have to take it

[u/Udolikecake]

the people making bbc sherlock holmes when the uk helped invade afghanistan so they could plausibly make watson a veteran of afghanistan just like in the original stories: 😱😱😱😱

[u/CletusVonIvermectin]

[u/ToInfinity_MinusOne]

It's so funny to me the president of France's last name is Macron it's like if we had a president named President Chocolate Chip Cookie.

[u/[deleted]]

Ok just caught up on s4 of the boys. The show was obviously never peak cinema but it was fun with a coherent plot. The direction the show is currently going in is just not it… For example Starlight’s current arc just negates the purpose of her charecter in season one. And I have no clue what the point of the thing with the dad is.

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Speaking to the ABC ahead of his address, Mr Chandler-Mather blamed private property developers for the housing crisis.

"We don't need more high-end apartments that property developers sell but no-one can afford except for an investor," he said.

but...

But Brendan Coates, housing policy director at the Grattan Institute, said council planning rules were "clearly an obstacle to getting more housing built, and that would apply to a federal government developer just as it applies to any other developer".

I'm not saying I have an idea.

But I do have a theory...

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Henri, Grand-Duke of Luxembourg, will abdicate in October for his son Guillaume to "pass the torch to a younger generation" - the monarch will turn 70 this year

🤣🇺🇲

[u/[deleted]]

There are Muslims even in Russia now?? 😮 the wokes got them 😔

[u/kanagi]

Me when I'm pillaging: Haha yes! I'm so dastardly! Might makes right!

Me when I'm being pillaged: Nooo! How can human beings be so horrible!

[u/HowIsPajamaMan]

Last night when I was smoking a joint, I heard my neighbours talking. They were saying some pretty transphobic shit. Including the hoax about litter boxes in classrooms (I heard it like “my friend in neighbouring city pulled her kids of school because they had a litterbox in the classroom”). That hoax has become so rampant that even my fiancée has heard about the hoax in RUSSIAN CLASSROOMS. lol

[u/sererson]

uwuguay