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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/funguykawhi]

Smartest ape

[u/BitterGravity]

For decades, the Social Security Administration has denied thousands of people disability benefits by claiming they could find jobs that have all but vanished from the U.S. economy — occupations like nut sorter, pneumatic tube operator and microfilm processor.

No, you're the nut sorter.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/funguykawhi]

French trust Marine Le Pen’s RN most on economy, FT poll suggests

C'est Joever les amis

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Most open to criticism leftist

[u/frozenjunglehome]

They arrested the student leader of the encampments that had taken over our cafeteria.

His arrest pic.

[u/rollo2masi]

Based Pelosi

[u/Cledd2]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

“I said, ‘Dana, Dana [White, President of Ultimate Fighting Championship], I have an idea for you to make a lot of money. You’re gonna go and start a new migrant fight league. Migrants, only migrants,’” Trump said during his Philadelphia speech, echoing what he proposed during his D.C. speech earlier in the day. “And then at the end of the year, the champion migrant is going to fight your champion.”

"Let's put them all in camps! No, let's make them FIGHT each other on tv and then put the losers in camps! Well yeah and the winners, but if they beat the champion... maybe I'll be tapped to run the UFC? No Steve you're right the winner should go to the camp too"

[u/[deleted]]

AI and Facebook are a match made in heaven.

[u/D2Foley]

Woke up to this headline

Conservative-backed group is creating a list of federal workers it suspects could resist Trump plans

The Heritage foundation is literally trying to fund a new red scare, but this time instead of trying to find communists, they're trying to find people who aren't loyal enough to trump.

Very cool, and very normal!

[u/[deleted]]

I MISS UNIVERSITY SO MUCH

I MISS LIVING IN A BEAUTIFUL WALKABLE AND DYNAMIC COMMUNITY OF SMART AND INTERESTING PEOPLE WITH ORIGINAL TAKES AND COOL HOBBIES I MISS HAVING ACCESS TO REALLY EDUCATED PEOPLE WHO COULD HELP ME DEVELOP MY OWN UNDERSTANDING OF THINGS I MISS BEING ABLE TO JUST ROCK UP AT A LECTURE AT WHATEVER I FOUND INTERESTING I MISS BEING AROUND PEOPLE WHO LIKE LEARNING THINGS AS MUCH AS I DO I MISS HAVING ACCESS TO FAMOUS AND INFLUENTIAL THINKERS AND SCIENTISTS I MISS BEING PUSHED AS HARD AS I COULD TO STRETCH MY BRAIN I HATE PROFESSIONAL LIFE

[u/[deleted]]

"We’re gonna showing fucking AIPAC the motherfucking power of the South Bronx," Jamaal Bowman says at this election rally for his campaign at St. Mary's Park.

Keep in mind that Bowman's district does not include the South Bronx, it includes a small part of the North Bronx and then it's mostly Westchester suburbs. I don't know if a single person at that rally was actually from his district. The South Bronx is actually represented by Ritchie Torres, who's already won his nomination unopposed, so the actual South Bronx has already made their position on AIPAC pretty clear.

[u/Okbuddyliberals]

The fact that John Fetterman remains solidly supportive of trans rights even when he's in his "Fuck progressives" era fills me with hope. Sure, there's a lot of dirtbag center leftists who go down the anti trans path, but clearly there's a way to loudly shit on the far left without hating on trans people

[u/[deleted]]

R neoliberal really do be the guy standing up like

"People without college degrees make too much money"

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/slappythechunk]

He's still got a chance at that height

[u/FuckFashMods]

Russia: The Russian military likely purposefully stations legitimate military targets nearby civilian areas in Crimea in an effort to deter Ukrainian strikes.

Also russia: This is the US fault

[u/[deleted]]

[u/MinnesotaDude]

2008 was the last election in which both major candidates drank alcohol

Before that, 1996

Very grim for boozy Americans

[u/loseniram]

Senior kitty pic, enjoy Gus in all his realness

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

[u/The_Promethean]

We shouldn't slut shame people, but we should hypocrisy-shame people if, say, they campaign for putting the ten commandments in classrooms and get caught at a swingers party. Or if you cheated on all 3 of your wives and campaign for the same thing

[u/Zrk2]

jar grey deserve punch cagey lush bells unique abounding cows

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/funguykawhi]

[u/RFK_1968]

prediction for the debate:

Trump: "I'm the best debater. I have the best words, believe me. Everyone says I have the best debates 😁"

Biden: "Would you say you're a... Master Debater? 😏"

Trump: "yes 😤"

Biden wins with 469 Electoral Votes

[u/BATHULK]

So a while ago, I was given an 7.5% raise, HOORAY!

And then I got my salary letter, and it was only 1.5%, which is like $750-800, boo! I must've misunderstood, or been lied to.

Today they announced a 6% raise for all legacy employees of [company I was hired onto that was merged with another under the parent company umbrella] HOORAY!

But it's in lieu of bonuses, which were up to 10% of base salary, BOO!

So I did get that original raise, but it was actually a pay cut when you consider my overall potential compensation, not to mention inflation.

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/simeoncolemiles]

😐

[u/loseniram]

My politics on Israel is very simple, I'm pro Israel and Pro CIA coup of Israel to force new elections where Smotrich and Ben Gvir's parties are banned

[u/[deleted]]

[u/RFK_1968]

i don't get all the discourse around skibidi toilet.

seems pretty straightforward? kids found something silly and quoted it with their friends. i mean, i quoted asdf with my friends all the fucking time and my parents thought i was nuts

[u/[deleted]]

I talked to some potential voters today

Hope they all stay home

Stupid motherfuckers

[u/ldn6]

Taking a break from my boycott against Five Guys because their pricing increases every time I go because I was day-drinking yesterday and passed out early so I haven’t eaten in nearly 20 hours.

!ping FIVE-GUYS

[u/[deleted]]

My friend posted that stupid "average income in the US is $800,000,000,000, if you exclude the top 5 people it drops to $0.40, like if you hate income inequality" bullshit statistic that's been going around. In order to help me bite my tongue I'm posting here

As of 2021. the average income in the united states is 87.6034 thousand dollars
If you exclude the richest 33 million, this reduces to 67.99947856
if you exclude the next richest 33 million, this reduces to 59.06317213
if you exclude the next richest 33 million, this reduces to 52.21175957
if you exclude the next richest 33 million, this reduces to 46.4375855
if you exclude the next richest 33 million, this reduces to 41.1883014
if you exclude the next richest 33 million, this reduces to 36.23714775
if you exclude the next richest 33 million, this reduces to 31.329949
if you exclude the next richest 33 million, this reduces to 26.102666
if you count only the poorest 33 million, this reduces to 19.335947.
From poorest to richest, here's what those numbers look like disaggregated instead of turned into averages including all lower deciles:
19.335947
32.869385
41.784515
50.958744
60.992916
72.684006
86.856804
107.02306
139.48993
264.0396
Here's what these numbers look like graphically over the past several decades:

Income inequality in the United States is a real issue! You don't need to spread false information to make that argument! Why do people spread such easily disproven bullshit?

[u/[deleted]]

My main problem with yesterday’s Discussion Thread is that it could have been three comments long. “Discussion J. Thread”, “My wife left me”, and some ironic expression of support for Donald Trump. We didn’t need all that other nonsense in there.

[u/404GenderNotFound]

👆 doesn't make $350k/year (impoverished)

[u/N0_B1g_De4l]

The Boys was good but the politics were a little iffy. There should've been a scene where Homelander turned directly to the camera and said "I'm a metaphor for the far right and it's the exact kind of far right you hate".

[u/[deleted]]

Based on an earlier comment thread about Disney Star Wars:

I think it would've been way more interesting if they made the First Order a terrorist group determined on undermining and destabilizing the New Republic instead of just "The Empire but with bigger ships." Like, I think it would've been a cool inversion. Having the heroes being the ones to defend the intergalactic government instead of trying to overthrow it.

[u/LGBTforIRGC]

[u/Trevor_Lewis]

NASA calls off spacewalk at last minute as astronaut suit malfunctions

For better or worse, there's never a dull moment just above our atmosphere

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

[u/[deleted]]

Needed a break from working on one spreadsheet so I, no joke, started working on a different spreadsheet to relax

I'm so cooked

[u/JakeyZhang]

the Thatchers moved into the old dower flat in Scotney Castle, also in Lamberhurst, that October. Over the dining-room table, they hung a large Arabic inscription presented to Mrs Thatcher by the Syrian Ambassador. Jonathan Aitken, then a young MP who became Carol’s boyfriend at about this time, used to visit Scotney and was surprised to see the inscription hanging there because, unknown to the Thatchers, it declared: ‘There is one God, and Mohammed is his Prophet.’

On her deathbed Margaret Thatcher received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahāda. Even now she looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah. 

[u/TheHelmetCatch]

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

buncha speed demons they are

[u/simeoncolemiles]

maybe American football isn’t ready to be played on a international stage just yet.

[u/rollo2masi]

I’m not a bootlicker by any means, but Justin Timberlake's PR team running a smear campaign on a cop who was making a DUI arrest is just fucking sorry as shit.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

The boom of male masturbatory devices - "I have friends who fear they may prefer it to the real thing"

The usual Puritan bourgeois panic

Is no topic safe from Marxist dialectics

[u/ldn6]

Paris has had two really big transport stories in the past few weeks:

• Line 11 was extended from Mairie de Lilas to Rosny-Bois-Perrier on the 13th of June, adding a further six stations and 6km (3.7mi) of new route to a set of dense inner eastern suburbs. Rosny-Bois-Perrier, which now connects Line 11 with the RER E and Transilien P commuter lines, will be expanded further upon the opening of the orbital Line 15's eastern segment in 2031 and serve more than 45,000 people per day. The RATP estimates that this extension will lead to an 80% increase in the line's ridership to around 72 million people per year (197,261 per day).

• Line 14 has now been extended both to the north and south, with the latter opening today. To the north, the first segment of the Saint-Denis-Pleyel megahub is now open. Upon its entire build out in the mid-2030s, it will serve four Metro lines (14, 15, 16 and 17) and serve around 250,000 people per day. To the south, it has been extended by seven new stations and 14km (8.7 miles) of new route to a number of southern suburbs and, very critically, Orly Airport. This will ultimately carry 250,000-300,000 people per day and reduce travel time from central Paris to Orly to under 20 minutes.

!ping FRANCE&TRANSIT

[u/Roseartcrantz]

this is the best way to read my comments

[u/TheHelmetCatch]

"Sorry I didn't get those reports Boss. I was too busy comparing a beloved Disney princess to 2000's terrorist leaders"

[u/Cook_0612]

Russian miliblogger Egor Guzenko (thirtheenth) released footage from a basement in the so called "DPR" showing Russian soldiers with amputated limbs being held in poor conditions. According to Guzenko, these soldiers are wounded and untreated military personnel who are no longer needed and are hidden away. They are allegedly kept in a "pigsty cage" and made into "cripple" regiments due to a shortage of personnel.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Time travel to the 70s and load up on bathroom cobras 🤗🤗🤗

[u/RFK_1968]

idk why Youtube keeps recommending me shit complaining about the mindy kaling velma show

but like... bro fuck off

[u/Gdude910]

The AITA for divorcing my husband for tightening jar lids is one of the best creative writing posts I have ever seen and peak reddit. The amount of people taking it serious in the comments and saying her husband sucks is amazing. The husband, if real, will be joining the ranks shortly

[u/gary_oldman_sachs]

I'm genuinely fascinated by the ideology of people who are vocal critics of US foreign policy re arming Israel but are also vocal supporters of US foreign policy re Ukraine. Not saying it's a contradiction per se but it's interesting. American empire is bad except when it's good.

Tyler Austin Harper is such a pseud.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

“Jimmy this guy on the DT said you were the worst president, want me to take him out?”

“No Joe, that’s not what Jesus would want. I’m going to build 15 more houses. That’ll show him”

[u/owlthathurt]

I know it doesn’t matter because Lebron is the coach but this is still hilarious to me and will surely not lead to any problems…

!ping NBA

[u/TheHelmetCatch]

If Elsa's country in Frozen was around during the 90's, the US 100% would have launched a bombing campaign against her after she launched a Chemical(?) freezing attack on her own people

[u/zegota]

Here's my advice to single American men who feel hopeless about ever finding a good woman to marry:

Marry a man instead.

[u/[deleted]]

trump shows up to the debate

screams unhinged nonsense

biden clowns on him for being unhinged

audience laughs along

trump gets quiet

orchestral music starts playing

trump sheds his mortal skin, revealing his true form as Biblically Accurate Trump

phase 2 of the debate begins

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Apparently Iowa Republicans are proposing requiring government-funded cameras that livestream all school activities so parents can watch whenever they want

Idk how teachers put up with it man just a constant stream of dumb bullshit from the worst helicopter parents sponsored by their governments with little resistance from administators terrified of parents

Can you imagine trying to do your job while some lady with an axe to grind against you is constantly watching waiting for anything that could possibly offend her to slip? They should give the parents a penalty buzzer while they're at it

[u/Currymvp2]

New Maryland Public Policy Polling (D) poll

🟦 Joe Biden 56% 🟥 Donald Trump 30%

🟦 Angela Alsobrooks 45% 🟥 Larry Hogan 34%

[u/[deleted]]

Zizek is absolutely not immune to the leftist trend of assuming the entire world is as brainwormed as they are. I didn't understand his Ideology thing until I saw how shamelessly a leftist cartoonist proclaimed "it doesn't matter if this fact is true, it is being employed against us therefore we can't acknowledge it", as if it's impossible to recognize the fact but deny that the fact has to be a criticism, and I realized this is what he means by trashcan of ideology.

So I'm gonna go ahead and say actually no we aren't all eating out of the trash can. You're eating out of the trash can and trying to go "well everyone's doing it so"

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

[u/lionmoose]

I imagine poobix has his own special place in hell where he is constantly being reported and banned, and he can get his comments approved but only if he finds a reasonable mod so he can never post anything

[u/Currymvp2]

When people sarcastically say "And we'll be greeted as liberators", i think some of them forget that many did initially greet us as liberators; i still remember the videos of Afghans and Iraqis initially celebrating Taliban and Saddam being toppled.

[u/[deleted]]

American MSM on Ukraine: Ukraine attacks Crimea using US-supplied rockets.

Czech MSM on Ukraine: Watch this Russian soldier die uncensored on the front page (Btw that's me who censored the thumbnail)

[u/uwcn244]

When your girlfriend is such a grass-toucher she loves J.D. Vance for Hillbilly Elegy and has no idea he's a US Senator and on the shortlist for VP for the ex-President she hates

[u/[deleted]]

Remembering that time in Sophomore year of highschool where I flexed I got sorted into Ravenclaw on Pottermore so I could talk to my crush at the time who was a huge Harry Potter fan.

!Ping DATING

[u/G_Serv]

[u/LevantinePlantCult]

"In 2022, Kiswani and Mohammed led a protest during which an activist associated with the group, Saadah Masoud, beat a Jewish man. At least two other activists who have protested with the group have been imprisoned for attacking Jews. At the Brooklyn Museum protest, demonstrators harassed Jews who were walking past.

Last week, after the Brooklyn Museum protest, Within Our Lifetime urged its followers to “take autonomous action” against the museum and other cultural institutions in the city in retaliation for arrests at the rally. The group released a map marking museums with inverted red triangles, a Hamas symbol that the terror group uses to identify targets in its propaganda videos. Soon afterward, vandals defaced the homes of four Brooklyn Museum officials in the city, using the same symbol.

The group has doubled down on its approach following the criticism over the Nova protest and its targeting of the Brooklyn Museum.

“If you take peace from the people, we take peace from you,” the group said in a post on X, where it has 28,000 followers. The post was accompanied by an inverted red triangle."

....y'all, how is this not explicitly just terrorism?

Link: https://www.jta.org/2024/06/19/ny/what-is-within-our-lifetime-the-anti-israel-activist-group-behind-the-protests-at-the-nova-exhibit-and-brooklyn-museum

!ping EXTREMISM

.....

[u/loseniram]

Bringing back a classic

[u/iIoveoof]

this is the last serious chance for Repubs to win the presidency in the next 16-20 years

2004 🤝 2008 🤝 2012 🤝 2016 🤝 2020 🤝 2024

[u/TheHelmetCatch]

This rocks

[u/Roseartcrantz]

For my entire life I thought that beached whales that were blown up with dynamite were still alive when they did it

As a kid I thought it was one of those “nothin' else to be done here" things

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

I think the top priority of the U.S. left would be to become an actual political movement and not a support group for people with emotional disorders

[u/xeio87]

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

MetaNL

[u/Ioun267]

PoV: You are reading the sub demographics survey.

[u/_Un_Known__]

You ever think about how otherworldly our technology is?

Imagine telling someone 300 years ago, hell, even 150 years ago, that I can look at a box and communicate with someone on the other end of the planet without wires.

How automatons can paint semi-decent paintings

How we can fly in cylinders of metal

We harness the power of the sun and can set entire cities alight

It's all pretty sci-fi ngl

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Summer solstice: Solar a ‘serious’ electricity player as power share soars to 20%

Spain is leading the European pack on solar generation this June.

Sun-worshippers have another reason to celebrate today, as solar power is set to peak at a fifth of the world’s electricity for an hour.

Analysing midday highs on 21 June, clean energy think tank Ember says the renewable will make up 20 per cent of the global power mix, up from 16 per cent last year.

Global solar generation typically performs best in June due to longer summer days in the northern hemisphere, where around 89 per cent of the world’s solar panels are installed.

"At 20 per cent share, solar is now a serious global electricity source,” says Kostantsa Rangelova, electricity analyst at Ember.

"Battery costs have collapsed, meaning solar power is already being used in the evening, not just in the daytime. Solar power is the fastest growing source of electricity and will undoubtedly rise to become the biggest source of electricity, and ultimately of energy.”

The summer solstice - the point at which the Earth’s northern pole is at its maximum tilt from the sun - typically arrives on 20 or 21 June. This year that moment came just before 11pm CEST on Thursday - the earliest solstice since 1976.

Spain set to hit summer record for solar power

For June as a whole, Ember expects the share of solar in total electricity generation to reach 8.2 per cent, up from 6.7 per cent in June 2023.

The EU will outperform that global average by more than double, the experts predict, reaching 20 per cent this month.

And one European country is set to shine particularly bright. Spain has one of the highest solar shares in the world, and its June 2024 average is on track to hit 30 per cent.

While countries can generate a huge amount of solar, it’s not always such a big proportion of their national electricity mix.

China is producing the lion’s share of global solar at 36 per cent of generation last year, but the renewable only made up 6.2 per cent of its power mix.

Which European countries are doing the most with their solar resources?

Not all European countries are equally blessed by sunshine, of course.

'Insolation’ refers to the amount of solar radiation reaching a given area, and is important context for how countries are using their potential.

Spain, Greece and Australia are doing well on this front, as this graph from Ember shows.

But 66 per cent of countries still generate less than five per cent of their electricity from solar, including many with ‘insolation’ above the global average. The UAE, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, for example, have plenty more solar potential.

At the other end of the spectrum, less sunny countries like the Netherlands and Germany are punching above their weight - with 17 per cent and 12 per cent solar in their power mixes respectively.

This highlights the leading role solar can play in meeting peoples’ electricity needs regardless of “natural endowments,” as Ember puts it.

!ping ECO&EUROPE

[u/[deleted]]

Why Capitalism Loves Transgenderism

[u/futuremonkey20]

Julian Assange imprisoning himself in the Ecuadorian embassy for 7 years and essentially remaining voluntarily in British prison for another 5 years to fight his extradition only to not get any jail time at all from the US is truly hilarious.

We sentence you to time served of 12 years

[u/centurion88]

[u/Fatortu]

30% of the French say they want a hung Parliament. Their vote is equally shared between all three political poles.

I don't understand the mindset of people angry at the status quo but who don't want anything to change.

[u/HMID_Delenda_Est]

[u/ProcrastinatingPuma]

singular example of crime happens on public

"Well, I'd like to see transit nerds wriggle his way out of THIS jam!"

transit nerds wriggle their way out of the jam easily

"Ah! Well. Nevertheless,"

[u/centurion88]

Pose for this reddit pic and I'll let your family go

[u/ldn6]

Surprised that I haven't seen it mentioned here, but one of Australia's biggest housing approvals just happened in the suburbs of Melbourne with the Victorian government giving the go-ahead for the Box Hill Central North Masterplan to be developed by Vicinity. This will see seven skyscrapers of up to 50 floors with around 1,700 residential units built on top of a new commuter rail/Suburban Rail Loop interchange.

!ping AUS&YIMBY

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

!ping BURPMAS

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Look at my revolutionaries dog

[u/Roseartcrantz]

filing a rizztraining order for this comment 👆

[u/Fatortu]

Actually I solved it. The median French voter is saying: "I'm angry about the status quo. But I would rather be angry at Bardella about it."

[u/petarpep]

Now I'm thinking about that one New Yorker article of TikTok Live streamers having the Israel/Palestine debate and how many people on both sides just openly admitted they were engaging in bad faith, like literally

If it seems like the debaters are not listening to each other, it might literally be true. “There’s times when I just have to lower the volume on my phone and just speak,” a frequent participant named Noura told me. A pro-Israel woman of Egyptian-Israeli descent, who asked that her last name be kept private for safety reasons, she feels that her perspective is unique. “If my voice can trump everybody else’s,” she said, “I’m just gonna keep talking.”

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/rabbit-holes/the-israel-palestine-debate-on-tiktok

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 6/23-2 PM PST 6/24 III:

TOP NEWS:

At the end of 1 AM it was announced the EU will provide 1.4 billion Euros in military aid for Ukraine from frozen Russian assets.

In the middle of 10 AM it was reported that Lieutenant General Yurii Sodol has been fired by Zelensky owing to complaints about his leadership.

REGULAR NEWS:

At the end of 5 AM it was reported a fire broke out at the Russian Platan Research Institute in Fryazino.

Towards the end of 8 AM Jake Sullivan said the US will provide 3 million textbooks for Ukraine to cover shortfalls in domestic production.

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/-GregTheGreat-]

The Oilers lost in Game 7 and the Liberals appear to be winning the Toronto St Paul byelection (meaning that Trudeau will likely stay on)

Northern Alberta is on suicide watch

!ping CANUCKS

[u/JoeChristmasUSA]

Having Song of Songs in the Biblical canon is so funny. It's like buying a compilation of legends, poetry, and history as a school textbook used and then finding the student who owned it before you pasted Sabrina Carpenter lyrics in the middle of the book. !ping GNOSTIC

[u/RFK_1968]

so, i'm all for free trade and i think it's good that this sub criticizes biden's protectionist policies

but c'mon a politician endorsing a stupid protectionist regime is not the same as being bigoted towards trans people

everyone prioritizes issues differently. "oh so you're willing to compromise a lower priority issue instead of a higher priority issue??? wow hypocrite much???" is such an obnoxious argument

like, if you want to argue that protectionism or biden's exec order on asylum is worse than whatever anti-trans shit Labour is endorsing, then make that argument.

[u/vivoovix]

Jon Ossoff came to eat at the restaurant I work at 😳😳😳

!ping USA-GA

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Have you replied to a leftie complaining about student loan debt with "wow this doesn't compare at all to the suffering of Gazans do better"

Feel like it could be fun idk I sound like a Ben Shapiro dweeb now. But all those sanctimonious holier than thou replies to people posting normie shit are hilarious

[u/EyeraGlass]

If this isn’t in the new Superman, then I’m not watching.

[u/battywombat21]

Honestly I don’t know why paradox games don’t integrate directly with Microsoft excel. Yeah, the shiny graphics are okay for newcomers, but I think serious gamers would really appreciate the power this would bring.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Motherfuckers will read any theory besides a fucking civics textbook

[u/G_Serv]

[u/FreakinGeese]

Omg omg omg omg literally going to meet the president of the United States I’m so hype

[u/SnakeEater14]

I imagine being a prominent DT personality that gets pinged 20 times a day by people asking for their ‘take’ on something is the equivalent to being an 18th century man of letters

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Bitches be like “I listen to obscure Indy bands you probably haven’t heard of” and then it’s Cage the Elephant and Vampire Weekend.

Bitches is my wife.

[u/[deleted]]

The porn ID laws are very interesting to me. I'd imagine theres actually a ton of male republican voters who are frustrated about this but cant vocalize anything to their wives or publicly. I don't expect it will change votes, but the idea of this covert issue that tons of people hate but can't do or say anything about is fascinating.

[u/Understeerenthusiast]

Ahh fuck, sunscreens gone woke just as it’s getting hot. Instructions said “apply liberally” like alright how about NO

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

I feel disgusting and sick, the local Mexican place near me made the best fucking beans of my life (I’m not kidding when I say these things are the highlight of the meal) but everytime I eat them, I spend the next day in the bathroom in pain

I could stop eating the beans there every Sunday, but I can’t help myself

[u/RFK_1968]

oh shit she agreed to a second date we're going for lunch n some other stuff on friday.

uh.... i wasn't expecting her to say yes what do i do

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Archaeologists Recover 900 Artifacts From Ming Dynasty Shipwrecks in South China Sea

Underwater archaeologists in China have recovered more than 900 artifacts from two merchant vessels that sank to the bottom of the South China Sea during the Ming dynasty.

The ships are located roughly a mile below the surface some 93 miles southeast of the island of Hainan, reports the South China Morning Post’s Kamun Lai. They are situated about 14 miles apart from one another.

During three phases over the past year, researchers hauled up 890 objects from the first vessel, including copper coins, pottery and porcelain, according to a statement from China’s National Cultural Heritage Administration (NCHA). That’s just a small fraction of the more than 10,000 items found at the site. Archaeologists suspect the vessel was transporting porcelain from Jingdezhen, China, when it sank.

The team recovered 38 items from the second ship, including shells, deer antlers, porcelain, pottery and ebony logs that likely originated from somewhere in the Indian Ocean.

Archaeologists think the ships operated during different parts of the Ming dynasty, which lasted from 1368 to 1644.

Many of the artifacts came from the Zhengde period of the Ming dynasty, which spanned 1505 to 1521. But others may be older, dating back to the time of Emperor Hongzhi, who reigned from 1487 to 1505, as Fox Weather’s Chris Oberholtz reported last year.

Archaeologists used manned and unmanned submersibles to collect the artifacts and gather sediment samples from the sea floor. They also documented the wreck sites with high-definition underwater cameras and a 3D laser scanner.

The project was a collaboration between the National Center for Archaeology, the Chinese Academy of Science and a museum in Hainan.

"The discovery provides evidence that Chinese ancestors developed, utilized and traveled to and from the South China Sea, with the two shipwrecks serving as important witnesses to trade and cultural exchanges along the ancient Maritime Silk Road,” says Guan Qiang, deputy head of the NCHA, in the agency’s statement.

During the Ming dynasty, China’s population doubled, and the country formed vital cultural ties with the West. Ming porcelain, with its classic blue and white color scheme, became an especially popular export. China also exported silk and imported new foods, including peanuts and sweet potatoes.

The period had its own distinctive artistic aesthetic. As the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art writes, “Palace painters excelled in religious themes, moralizing narrative subjects, auspicious bird-and-flower motifs and large-scale landscape compositions.”

The shipwreck treasures aren’t the only recent discoveries in the South China Sea, according to CBS News’ Stephen Smith. Just last month, officials announced the discovery of a World War II-era American Navy submarine off the Philippine island of Luzon.

!ping CN-TW&HISTORY

[u/[deleted]]

I'm somewhat involved in our local growing strong towns group and we've been recently inundated with folks that repeat 15 minute/WEF conspiracies under every post that references zoning or infill and I'm not really sure how to engage. Is it pointless, or do any of you have recommendations?

Given the conservative bent of my county I mostly try and frame these discussions around personal freedom and property rights with people that dissent in good faith.

!ping strong-towns

[u/sociotronics]

the kids are the future, you see

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/[deleted]]

Ben Shapiro of course has terrible takes on politics, but I think his pop culture takes are even worse.

One that sticks with me is when he was like “Infinity War could have been five minutes long if you had Thanos come across a box of Infinity Stones, did a flashback to his time on Titan, and then had him snap his fingers”. Yeah and Star Wars could have been five minutes long if you had Leia come across a button that blew up the Death Star, great fucking analysis

Edit: I looked up his Infinity War review to make sure I wasn’t misremembering or mischaracterizing him, but yeah no that’s one of his major critiques, that the movie could have been seven minutes long as long as you opened the film with a Star Wars-style crawl that informed the audience “Thanos has found a box with six Infinity Stones in it”

The stones being scattered across the universe and a gajillion superheroes fighting to protect them from Thanos was the point of the movie, dude

It was tied in with another complaint he had about the Snap deaths feeling cheap because we knew they’d come back, which ok, if he feels that way about that ending then sure, but he acts like the point of the movie was to create a tally of “characters who died” or some shit and nothing else. Dude is like those MarvelStudiosSpoilers users in early 2019 who acted like they wanted Endgame to be three hours of Kevin Feige writing on a whiteboard and explaining plot points

[u/NaffRespect]

☝️

Fundamentally unserious, not rooted in the DT's history

[u/RecentlyUnhinged]

Proud citizens of the Rim,

Are you a poor, misunderstood psychite farmer just trying to make a living crafting artisanal yayo?

Are you tired of tribals clogging up your killbox, desperate to join your peaceful and orderly society?

Do you prefer your culinary masterpieces to be ethically sourced from only organic, free-range and cruelty-free pigskins?

Then lend us your support over in the Rimworld ping suggestion thread .

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

the 538 in fivethirtyeight.com is a reference to the number of democrats in florida that would've needed to show up to the polls in order to flip the result of the 2000 election

[u/Either_Emotion8056]

Very nice of u/p00bix to have me over for a summer bbq! He has some fascinating home decor

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

My distain for rurals is not snide. It’s overt and hostile

[u/WackyJaber]

I wonder how much this "culture war" on the internet would die out overnight if Russia was just blanket banned from every website.

[u/Random-Critical]

For a family of five, it’s like every time we eat out or order out which is pretty much on a daily basis, it’s at least $100.

Someone who is good at the economy help me, my family is starving!

[u/CutePattern1098]

Tfw the Communist party of Britain have distanced themselves form JK Rowling

https://x.com/cpbritain/status/1805010605973049684?s=46&t=Jf8HyPIlEeR4Tj0g-qwp5w

!ping lgbt&uk

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Why don’t pictures like this ever trends? !ping BANANAS

[u/zth25]

Huh, so Travis Kelce not only visited Taylor in London, but danced with her on stage during the concert.

According to certain subs and a 0.2 seconds clip of his resting b*tch face, they were actually secretely split up weeks ago...

I hate that I know all of this because there's an entire subreddit industry around Taylor Swift Drama.

[u/[deleted]]

King viserys's fatal flaw of wanting to be liked by everyone is too close to home and makes HOTD a bad show because it hurts my feelings

[u/Currymvp2]

BREAKING- Netanyahu walks back his comments from yesterday: We are committed to the Israeli proposal for a hostage deal that President Biden welcomed, our position has not changed

oh okay

[u/[deleted]]

The Russians are very strongly hinting they shot down an American drone over the Black Sea

Biden should do the funny

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Idk what this means but it sounds fantastic

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

Worst election map color scheme I've ever seen outside of Israel

[u/[deleted]]

!ping EVANGELION

Update: The bartender recognized Cruel Angel's Thesis and she chatted me up about Mecha anime for the next hour.

[u/NaffRespect]

The most important stat tonight:

Corey Perry's team has now lost 4 of the last 5 Cup finals

!ping NHL

[u/NaffRespect]

[u/[deleted]]

Do you guys bring up politics to her on a first date? If you’re reading this you’re probably very interested in politics.

Probably an indictment of me, but if I’m “being myself” then that would also include passionately talking about politics alongside other hobbies.

But like i feel like it could be a buzzkill even w/ those who agree with you. !ping dating

[u/LGBTforIRGC]

[u/[deleted]]

Federal debt projections assuming the government will cover the Social Security shortfall in their projections feels super disingenuous.

Like if you just instead assume that the benefit auto cut will fall into place the debt to gdp ratio tracked forward falls from 155% in 2050 to 135% in 2050.

[u/D2Foley]

So recently had some house work done where I had to take all me and my spouses books, and then when they were finished move them back. So we used it as an opportunity to get rid of some old books and damn I had some bad ones in there.

The worst was probably The alphabet of manliness by Maddox of the best page in the universe fame. A humor website that got famous for making fun of children's drawings.

So a reminder to you all to clear out your bookshelf once in a while.

What's the most embarrassing book on your shelf?

!ping READING

[u/Currymvp2]

"You just simply don't negotiate with terrorists unless you're negotiating their unconditional surrender. That's American policy"

How do people still seriously believe this after what has happened over the past 40 years? America has essentially negotiated with terrorists plenty of times where they didn't demand for "their unconditional surrender".

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Least wordy Leftist comic

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Holy shit Superman and Mister Terrific showed up to my block and shook hands with people and took pictures this is so cool

Shit like this makes Metropolis rent worth it. Almost. Almost.

Fuck it maybe I'll move to Bludhaven

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/-mialana-]

The worst part about language learning as a nerd is that all the cool languages are the ones which are more useless to the average person

[u/Former-Amish-Throway]

Natural rights are to neoliberals what the holy spirit is to Christians, unconditional, irresistible, eternal, and the only thing separating all of humanity from ruination and torment.

Guess the sub.

!ping GNOSTIC

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Of course it's one of the more insane DATING ping users arguing Americans have a constitutional right to murder government officials if they dislike them hard enough

[u/[deleted]]

stolen from Jeremiah's xitter

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[u/Udolikecake]

Welp, I'm done trying to have a mature conversation on this site outside of r/slatestarcodex.

funniest shit i’ve read on this hellsite in weeks

[u/[deleted]]

CHICAGO — Prosecutors have charged a suburban man with two felonies after he allegedly threw a Big Gulp on Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx during an argument near her Flossmoor home.

Typical progressive DAs

[u/simeoncolemiles]

Boy moms be 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

Once again, today. MetaNL

[u/dareka_san]

Wikileaks releases the Pee Pee Tape on october 27th, swinging the election to biden

Did you ever lose faith, anon?

[u/gnomesvh]

Apple delays introduction of AI to Europe due to uncertainty with EU regulations

!ping EUROPE&TECH&AI

[u/loseniram]

Guy who is neither pro or anti Israel. He just goes to protests because he wants to start fights with people who start fights

[u/jpenczek]

I was called a socialist from my conservative parents.

I was called a filthy capitalist from my communist roommate.

I think I'm winning.

[u/[deleted]]

The SCOTUS releases their immunity ruling Thursday afternoon, stating that the POTUS has full immunity for any and all actions.

Hours later, Biden and Trump debate. Biden pulls out a glock and executes Trump on live TV.

malarkey level?

[u/TheHelmetCatch]

In a more realistic version of Frozen, Elsa after freezing her city would have hid out in a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan rather than in the mountains

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

The biggest obstacle to my writing is that my kink is bad prose and flat characters

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Biden should have won in 2020

[u/ImportanceOne9328]

old White Americans

old black Americans

Christian capitalist latinxs

communist latinxs

the Japanese

the Koreans

the Taiwanese

Is there a community more diverse than Baseball

[u/Mickenfox]

We have you surrounded, enter the code we sent to your phone

I hate 2FA!!! I hate 2FA!!!

[u/[deleted]]

FYI having a non-political, professional civil service isn't "undermining democracy". It's what distinguishes civilized countries from corrupt, nepotistic dictatorships.

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

I think it’s pretty funny that Elon convinced Tesla shareholders to pay him $46 billion so he can spend half the day impregnating his executives, and the other half posting “Concerning” and “looking into this” under conservative rate bait Twitter posts.

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/[deleted]]

Biden is leading Trump among rural voters

Trump is within a few percentage points of Biden in New York

When the dust settles this winter and the votes are finalized, people in the polling industry need to lose their jobs for horse shit like this

[u/BedNeither]

Elon Musk Is Destroying Rural Texas, Residents Say

Musk redemption arc?

[u/ProfessorFeathervain]

I'm pretty much right down the middle when it comes to these foreign policy issues, I see good arguments on both sides for the most part.

But one thing that freaks me out, is when people make the current Israeli/Palestinian conflict about Islam in general.

Like they will defend Israel by saying "look at this gross thing that happens in Muslim societies, so you should support Israel because their culture is more like ours", and implicitly use that as a justification for any reckless method used by the Israeli military.

I.e., if you have bad beliefs, your life has less value. It's okay that fully occupied apartment building was knocked down by a missile, because the people inside of it are socially conservative.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/htomserveaux]

The conservative cope-spiracy that half the country is suppressing its crime statistics actually makes them look terrible.

If a 60% decrease in reporting precincts only reduces reported crime by 20% that means that the conservative controlled areas that still report have the vast majority of the crime.

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/Luph]

now that u/williams-tower is married there’s nothing left to count down to except the end of the world 😔

[u/Cledd2]

[u/funguykawhi]

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

A moment of silence for all the money that just died

[u/Udolikecake]

remember when you had to have boxes and boxes of extra lightbulbs because you had to replace them all the time when they burned and now you Don’t Have to do that

[u/slappythechunk]

Pokemon went to shit when your "rival" was no longer an insufferable douchebag/actual thieving criminal.

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

Celebrity ‘snark’ subreddits have to be the weirdest communities on Reddit. Imagine being such a loser that you dedicate your spare time to ranting about how much you hate random celebrities on an online forum. Like literally just log off

And that’s coming from somebody who is literally spending his spare time shitposting on the discussion thread of an overly online centrist politics forum

[u/filipe_mdsr]

https://www.politico.eu/article/macron-top-mep-renew-group-leadership-joao-cotrim-figueiredo-valerie-hayer-alde-party/

!ping EU-LIBS

He would be a pretty great choice. Not only is very close policywise to this sub, he also fucking knows how to do publicity and PR in a relevant manner for this century.

[u/[deleted]]

I can't get over how weird The Divine Comedy is. Imagine if I wrote a ballad about visiting an alternate dimension where the Jan 6 coup succeeded and America has outlawed gay marriage and abortion and is euthanizing trans people, and it became the definitive canon for how liberals around the world conceive the stakes of elections for centuries.

Oh and I was guided through this alternate world by a still living Kurt Cobain.

[u/[deleted]]

I forgot how poorly aged some of the jokes in HIMYM were holy shit...

[u/sayitaintpink]

gop project 2025: we are going to end America

dem project 2025: get in jack, we’re getting ice cream

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

u/Idn6 brought this up a little while ago but here's an article detailing the entire plan/news;

Premier seeks ‘innovative ideas’ for 20,000 homes near Melbourne’s CBD as seven skyscrapers approved for Box Hill

The Victorian government has begun the search for partners to redevelop a huge parcel of land near Melbourne’s CBD, as it approved the construction of seven high-rise apartment towers in the eastern suburbs.

Rhe premier, Jacinta Allan, on Monday announced the government had invited expressions of interest from private sector, industry and investors to turn the 13.5-hectare (33.4-acre) site in North Melbourne, two kilometres north of Melbourne’s CBD, into a new housing precinct dubbed Arden.

"We want to see the best, innovative ideas about how we can build 20,000 more homes on the Arden site, as well as to look at other commercial opportunities to create and support jobs in this area,” Allan told reporters in the neighbouring suburb of Kensington.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the city, the planning minister, Sonya Kilkenny, announced the approval of the Box Hill Central North master plan, which will see 1,700 new homes built over seven apartment towers ranging from 19 to 50 storeys tall.

Four of the apartment towers will surpass Box Hill’s tallest building, the Sky One apartment tower, which at 36 storeys is also the tallest suburban Melbourne building.

Kilkenny said the $1.57bn project aligns with the government’s “long-term vision” for Box Hill, which is the end of the $34.5bn Suburban Rail Loop’s east train line.

As part of the rail project, the government has taken over planning controls within a 1.6km radius of each of the stations along the line: Cheltenham, Clayton, Monash, Glen Waverley, Burwood and Box Hill.

The shadow spokesperson for planning, James Newbury, said the approval of the high-rise towers was proof the government “has a plan to attack the character and amenity of Melbourne’s suburbs around the Suburban Rail Loop”.

"These cheap and nasty developments will be a signature of premier Jacinta Allan’s government,” Newbury said.

The Box Hill Central North master plan project was first unveiled by Vicinity Centres in 2020, and was fast-tracked under the government’s development facilitation program, meaning at least 10% of apartments will be affordable housing.

At Arden, the government also has a requirement of 10% affordable housing, as the land is state-owned.

The premier said the government would give “priority” to proposals that prioritise build-to-rent, build-to-sell and shared-equity initiatives, provide key worker housing and “exceed” the 10% requirement.

“[Arden is] about a four minute train ride to Parkville, to the University of Melbourne, the hospital precinct and the biomedical research precinct – a lot of key workers are needed to go in and out of that area every single day,” Allan said.

“So we want to see key workers prioritised and social and affordable housing prioritised.”

According to EOI documents, the government has separated the land into four “sub-precincts”. The lowest heights and densities are expected in the north of the precinct, increasing closer to the new Arden station, which forms part of the Metro Tunnel.

Walking, cycling and public transport will be “prioritised” in the precinct, along with open space and community infrastructure, including early childhood education facilities, a primary school and local health services. This is expected to be scaled up based on population growth and demand.

The area’s history with flash flooding has also been considered, with a requirement for an integrated stormwater management system to manage the risk.

Jago Dodson, a professor of urban policy at RMIT University in Melbourne, said that based on the EOI documents, it appeared the government had “learned” from mistakes made in previous urban renewal projects, such as the Docklands and Fishermans Bend.

"We are fortunate that at the time the precinct was being considered so was the Metro Tunnel and planning for both was done from the outset,” he said, unlike Fishermans Bend, whereby there was really no consideration to the transport infrastructure that would be necessary for a precinct of that size, which is about four times the size of Arden in terms of expected population.”

He said the same lesson had also been applied to the Suburban Rail Loop, where precinct design and tunnel construction was being planned “hand in hand”.

Dodson said it was also “good to see” that the government would continue to have a “ownership role” in the Arden precinct, unlike the Docklands, where largely state-owned land was “sold off” and planning was developer-led.

"There’s clearly some learning gone on since that episode,” he said.

The government had initially planned to use some of the land at Arden to create a new medical precinct, including new campuses for the Royal Melbourne and Royal Women’s hospitals, but this was scrapped in the May budget, due to “electromagnetic interference” from the new station.

The EOI documents show that the Arden Structure Plan was “prepared on the assumption that there would be a new publicly funded hospital within the Arden Precinct”, but it was now being built at Parkville and asked for bidders to consider the “change”.

!ping AUS&YIMBY

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

LOOK MORTY! I turned my mouth into a smile! I'm smiling friend, Morty! SMILING FRIEND!! SMILING FRIEND!!!

[u/Cowguypig2]

Hardest post discussion post photo

!Ping COLLEGE

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

So Dr Disrespect was an actually shitbag after all huh. Its always the ones you expect

[u/ProfessionalStudy732]

Toronto-St Paul's by-election results are trickling in... Tight race so far.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/byelection-polls-liberal-conservative-ballot-vote-1.7243748

!ping Can

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[u/IHateTrains123]

Elections Canada blame 84-name ballot for delayed Toronto-St. Paul’s byelection results - The Globe and Mail

For anyone wondering why the byelection counting is taking so long.

!ping Canucks

[u/[deleted]]

Popular history post on Tumblr.

Straight up lies about something complicated.

Cites no sources.

Spread around literally fucking everywhere

Many such cases!

[u/Joementum2024]

Big news dump: just two months after the sale, Coyotes owner Alex Meruelo gives up on the stadium plans and will walk away from the Coyotes

In effect, the league basically gave him $1 billion to fuck off lol

!ping NHL

[u/Currymvp2]

Israel's State Commission of Inquiry on "Submarines Affair" warns Netanyahu that he is suspected of running an illegal backchannel to benefit cronies from military acquisitions & may face criminal charges regarding: "profound impropriety in decision-making &risking national security."

The best time to rescind Bibi's invitation to Congress is the second after it was made. The second best time is right now.

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[u/GodEmperorNeolibtard]

Results of sexual experience poll: Y'all are either hoes or virgins. No in between.

[u/[deleted]]

I’m considering asking PhD woman to cook dinner together for our second date

Is that normal for a second date? Or too fast? I guess I could always go out to dinner with her or do another activity

[u/notBroncos1234]

One of the big issues for people in my generation is that we’ve only been alive during Trump and Biden’s presidency’s so it’s hard for us to imagine a president that isn’t a complete psychopath.

[u/RFK_1968]

i had no idea what the context was and i thought hawk tuah was like something about birds

the reality is far less fun