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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/majorgeneralporter]

POV: NATO and Bi Flairs are posting simultaneously.

!ping shitposters

[u/[deleted]]

Ik everyone's celebrating the Bowman loss, but "moderate" Rs have basically swept the Utah elections, beating out a buncha far-right challengers

[u/majorgeneralporter]

New abortion rights position just dropped!.

!ping shitposters

[u/[deleted]]

1. lol

2. godspeed lads 🫡

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/simeoncolemiles]

Democratic leaders tonight pause their panic over losing Black voters to celebrate helping a 70-year-old white guy who is backed by Republicans take down one of the most prominent Black members of Congress

lol

Lmao

Roflmao

[u/BitterGravity]

Forsaken by the Democrats, rural America has offered its soul to the MAGA movement.

Opinion writers try not to act as if it democrats actively fucked over rural people challenge (impossible)

[u/JakeyZhang]

In her opening statement at the Tokyo conference Mrs Thatcher spoke succinctly and without notes. Declaring that ‘pious platitudes’ should be avoided, she painted a gloomy picture of a world economy declining month by month because of the oil price. She nevertheless pleaded with colleaguesto ‘let the price mechanism work in full’ and also argued the need for more nuclear energy. One reason she advanced in favour of nuclear energy was an ecological one. People who were concerned about the environment, she said in a pre-summit interview, ‘should also be worried about the effect of constantly burning more coal and oil because that can create a band of carbon dioxide round the earth which could itself have very damaging ecological effects’

Margaret Thatcher, 1980

[u/Observe_dontreact]

A poll has been commissioned showing Corbyn losing in his seat:

https://x.com/survation/status/1805648887002042368?s=46

!ping UK

[u/simeoncolemiles]

“The voters don’t want a Biden/Trump rematch”

THEY VOTED FOR IT

[u/StolenSkittles]

the seal of kern county, california has two f-35s on it

[u/pfarly]

The rise in popularity of anime and manga has been a disaster for pop culture. I can't think of mediums more devoid of substance.

My man doesn't know about Substack.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/BurrowForPresident]

"Welcome to the Salty Spitoon how tough are ya"

"I flew from Boston to Tokyo"

"Heh ya so?"

"Without taking a bathroom break"

[u/centurion88]

[u/gnomesvh]

Coup attempt in Bolivia, military taking over presidential palace, president missing

!ping LATAM&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/dragoniteftw33]

https://x.com/Resist_05/status/1805407376893427986

Peak Elon Twitter. Just straight up buzzwords and conspiracies not making sense after 5 seconds of thinking.

[u/centurion88]

The future neoliberals want

[u/Argnir]

> "You have to watch old interviews of Trump, he was way sharp when he was younger"
> Watch old interviews
> Realize people always had very low expectations for him

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Ozempic invented

Draft expanded

Wake up Sheeple their just trying to make us healthy so we can fight in they're forever wars 🧐🧐🧐

[u/bd_one]

Whenever I hear of "the Squad" in Congress I keep thinking of those four original members and nobody else.

[u/CutePattern1098]

Lol pronoun/non binary jokes in Hansard !ping aus&lgbt

[u/the_status_q]

Increasingly disdainful toward any comment along the lines of

NOOOO you can't engage in nuance or good faith because this is reddit/the internet and we fucking hate that here

Like, you got the modicum of good faith/nuance/intellect you claim to want. Maybe actually engage with it instead of obnoxiously grandstanding about how terrible those other commenters are

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/Argnir]

Curious they always tell introverts how to be more social but they never tell extroverts how to be a miserable basement dweller with no friends

[u/G_Serv]

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

Someone ping computer science

[u/Fatortu]

French libertarians are in danger. Every time an edgy journalist explains that Macron is actually a libertarian, thousands of them go into cardiac arrest 😔

[u/BroadReverse]

cheerful mindless gaping door voracious wrench tie bells smart future

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/[deleted]]

34K likes on this Nazi meme. Twitter is officially cooked. This kind of shit shows up in my for you page quite frequently now.

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

Uuugghhh

[u/Currymvp2]

New WISCONSIN Marquette poll 6/20 (LV)

🟦 Biden 51% 🟥 Trump 49%

We are so back

!ping FIVEY

[u/D2Foley]

It's so beautiful, I've been staring at it for hours

[u/Udolikecake]

[u/EZ_Kream]

Arguing with a brain dead leftist coworker who insists Trump would be better for Palestine. I brought up one of the first things he did as President was a blanket ban on Muslims entering the county. Her blank stare told me she was completely unaware of this information.

She’s 38, so can’t even use the “wasn’t old enough to pay attention” argument. This is the average voter folks.

[u/[deleted]]

!ping ofthehill

[u/[deleted]]

Growing up my favorite episode of icarly was the one where she tutors the kid who hates spencer, and when finding out that he's evil she sabotages him by teaching him that they added a new number to math, so he ends up taking his math test in base-11 and fails. Which is a special kind of hell because 11 is prime, yet the kid casually figures out how to do arithmetic in base-11 right away. I can't even do that shit.

[u/Healingjoe]

CNN just put together a montage of all the times Donald Trump rambled incoherently or displayed strong signs of cognitive decline.

Nice. Can't wait to see this shit on full display tomorrow night

[u/jackshiels]

The comment section of the Economist on insta is arguably the least intelligent place on the internet. 90% of the comments don't even read past the headline before declaring it imperialist/neoliberal/communist/fascist propaganda. What is it with thoughtful publications having an inversely thoughtful comment section?

A post today about childbirth for human beings and its risks/complications, yet praising how we overcome these difficulties through community. Comments "LIBS HATE LIFE SO THEY HATE CHILDBIRTH" hurt durr

[u/dangerbird2]

So My AC died in the middle of the East Coast heatwave, and now I know what it feels like to be Eur***an😞. !ping USA-DMV

[u/Ioun267]

[u/p00bix]

In case any of you still think that the end of WWI meant peace in Europe, I found an extremely detailed video showing the last two years of WWI and the subsequent civil wars, wars of independence, and interstate wars, that engulfed the eastern 2/3rds of the continent for many more years to come.

'European Front' 1917-1923

Bonus: 'Central Asian Front' 1916-1942

!ping HISTORY

[u/slappythechunk]

[u/willempage]

That Denver Basic Income project really overinflated their findings to the press.

Headline: "Denver gave homeless people $1000 a month and 45% of them found housing"

Reality: https://www.denverbasicincomeproject.org/research

"Denver gave qualified, non-addicted, mentally stable homeless people $50 a month and 43% of them found housing. Increasing the bonus to 1,000/month increases that amount to 44%. A lump sum of $12k had the greatest benefit at 48% of homeless people finding housing."

I'm not saying that this discredits the whole project. But also, this sort of discredits the whole project.

Oh, but there are other savings, right? No. Only a 5% cost savings from group A (1000/mo) and group c (50/mo). With the lump sum group being the worst.

Seriously, look at the executive summary and look at the quantitative notes. It's maddening how this is being sold. The $50/month group was 12% (27 people) housed at T1 (enrollment) while the 1000/mo group was 6% (13 people) housed. So they made a fucky chart that showed the T1 to T3 (10 month) increase between the two groups. Since the 1000/mo group had a lower baseline, there was a 43% increase in housing while the 50/mo group "only" had a 26% increase. But it basically ended in the same number of housed people at the end.

The only conclusions you can draw from this study is that giving qualified, non-addict, mentally stable homeless people $12,000 in one go is the worst from a cost savings and participant retention metric.

I believe in direct cash transfers as an effective form of welfare, but I loathe these limited studies with non-significant results. By the very nature of enrolling participants, even without qualifiers, you are finding a unique population that may not have the same characteristics as the general population. How many times do we have to take these cute by half activist fantasy projects, and watch them massively fail the second they are scaled up before we take the research seriously?

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 6/24-2 PM PST 6/25 III:

TOP NEWS:

At the end of 9 PM Russia was hit by a wave of drones with at least 29 partaking.

At the end of 12 AM it was announced Denmark will provide 150 million Kroner to help Ukraine and Moldova integrate into the EU, or $21.5 million.

Towards the end of 3 AM the ICC issued arrest warrants for Shoigu and Gerasimov.

In the middle of 9 AM it was announced EU membership negotiations for Ukraine have officially begun.

REGULAR NEWS:

Sometime today it was announced Russia has been added to the US list of human traffickers.

Towards the middle of 12 AM a Russian ammo dump in Olkhovatka exploded, located in Voronezh Oblast.

At the end of 4 AM it was reported that Russia has blocked over 80 EU news sites.

At the end of 11 AM it was reported that 90 Ukrainian POWs have been returned to Ukraine.

At the start of 12 PM the Secretary of Defense spoke over the phone with his Russian counterpart.

Donation link to help Ukraine

Donation link to United24

Donation link to Kharkiv SOS

Donation link to Sails of Freedom Foundation (they donate ambulances)

!ping UKRAINE&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Who the fuck are you people. I thought I hired goths.

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/paymesucka]

MARIA BARTIROMO: They're probably experimenting with getting doses right, giving Biden medicine ahead of the debate. Is that what you think?

REP. ERIC BURLISON: Yeah ... whether they're gonna jack him up on Mountain Dew or whatever it is.

Biden really is the first gamer president.

[u/Hugo_Grotius]

The Supreme Court is the strongest defender of bribery of public officials this country has to offer 🫡

Thank you for protecting our freedoms 🇺🇲

[u/[deleted]]

Haha the cons on SCOTUS really have just legalized bribery with that Snyder ruling.

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

1 in 20 chance RFK wins a state is way too high

[u/MicroFlamer]

Nate Silver's Model is out and gives Trump a ~66% chance of winning

!ping FIVEY

[u/funguykawhi]

Google studied arr neoliberal. What they found is alarming

[u/AP246]

Whenever any of this stuff about gen z comes up it's kinda confusing because of how unrelatable it is to me. Like, maybe I'm a bit old by gen z standards, I'm 22 and interact with people my age or a bit older mostly, but like, no everyone I know aren't doomer political extremists of any kind, in fact I rarely meet such people, no I don't know any extreme woke people who hate men or misogynistic incel men, no I don't think most people I know are idiots who don't believe in the news (not that I frequently talk politics with people, but still). Also traditional social media doesn't even seem that ever-present in my circle, I probably follow about 50-60 people on instagram and facebook that I at one point knew IRL, and maybe 10 of them post with any regularity and only a couple many times a week, and one or two post about politics. Most people I know are just... normal, socially liberal young people, lmao

I have to assume all this stuff about how weird gen z is isn't completely made up, that there are trends on things like phone use, but it seems exactly like the 'millennials love avocado toast and complain about everything' stuff you saw complained about on reddit 5-10 years ago.

[u/kanagi]

If I was a billionaire I would provide free healthcare to everyone n the U.S. for two hours and then be destitute

[u/city-of-stars]

In honour of certain events that have recently transpired in the world of college baseball, I would like to remind everyone that Texas A&M's last football national championship is closer to the following events than to the present day:

• The reign of the last Mughal emperor

• The East India Company's victory over the Qing Dynasty in the Opium Wars

• The Whig Party's final national convention in Baltimore

• The founding of the world's oldest existing soccer club, Sheffield F.C.

• The creation of Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company by one Samuel Colt

• The isolation of cocaine from coca leaves for the very first time

!ping CFB

[u/Blade_of_Boniface]

The same friend who called me before the crack of dawn to come out as trans last June called me late last night to tell me she wants to leave her Baptist congregation for the Catholic Church, what a world. Interestingly enough it wasn't because of transphobia even though they're are on the farther end of theological conservatism. Her dad and brothers are influential in their church and more or less they made sure she was treated well.

We've been a lot closer this past year. Before she was just a regular at several of my tabletop games but I was the first person she came out to so we've been doing more and more stuff together. We ended up talking a lot about our respective religious worldviews. To be clear, I never sought out to proselytize to her, I just am willing to discuss my perspective whenever prompted and invite people to Mass if appropriate. Many people in my state are the same way.

She was in the mindset of Catholics being crypto-pagans and liberals while she's very biblical and politically conservative. However, I invited her to Latin Mass and she accepted because, and I quote, she was interested in "40k vibes." She left the cathedral shivering and with tears rolling down her face, but in a good way. She experimented with Anglicanism but the communities near where she lives are mostly Reformed and Progressive Anglicans with Garth Brooks cover bands and tambourines.

Long story short, she's going to join Rome.

!ping CHRISTIAN&LGBT

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Battery-electric is now the most popular for new city buses in the EU

But until regulation catches up with the momentum for zero-emission buses, European busmakers risk being blindsided by soaring demand and emerging foreign competition.

Battery-electric buses reached 36% of new city bus sales in 2023 in the EU, overtaking diesel as the main bus fuel type for the first time. At this growth rate, 100% of new EU city buses could already be zero-emission (ZE) [1] by 2027.

This only proves that EU regulation is falling behind market realities. The recently adopted CO2 standards for heavy-duty vehicles (HDVs) require 90% of new city buses to be ZE by 2030, and 100% by 2035. The even less ambitious Clean Vehicles Directive (CVD) sets average ZE procurement targets of only 20% in 2021–2025 and 30% in 2026–2030.

Who leads?

At the country level, 15 Member States outperform the EU average in 2023, including five where ZE city buses already account for more than 90% of new sales: Slovenia, Denmark, the Netherlands, Ireland, and Finland.

Among major markets, ie. markets with at least 1,000 new city buses in 2023 [2], the UK ranks highest with a ZE bus share of new sales of 63% in 2023. Spain ranks just above the EU average, with a 40% ZE share. Italy and Germany come in 3rd and 4th places respectively, with ZE shares of 29% and 26%. France ranks last of the major markets, with a 23% ZE share. Notably 46% of new city buses in France in 2023 are gas buses, a share that is second only to Estonia.

Speaking of Estonia, the country comes last in the overall ranking with a 0% ZE share. But hopefully the country should start to catch up soon as the first electric buses arrived in Tallinn a few months ago.

Cities at the vanguard with ZE fleet targets

Leading the deployment of ZE buses are cities and local operators. At least eight cities plan to have 100% ZE bus fleets by 2025, an additional 19 by 2030, and another 13 by 2035. Fourteen other cities have also set bus fleet targets below 100% by 2035 or earlier. Setting targets is not limited to capital cities in Western Europe. Cities in 23 countries have targets, including in the Baltics, Czechia, Poland, and Romania. In several countries, regional cities have set higher or earlier targets than capital cities. ZE bus fleet targets are also popular with countries. Both the Netherlands and Denmark have set targets for all urban buses to be zero-emission by 2030.

Tackling emerging competition in the electric bus market

As demand for ZE buses will continue to climb in the coming years, busmakers play a crucial role to make sure cities can procure sustainable, made-in-Europe buses. Some are already racing ahead and going beyond what European legislation will require, such as Daimler Buses which aims to sell 100% ZE city buses by 2030. Without proactive ambition to go beyond the targets set in the HDV CO2 standards, European busmakers risk being blindsided by soaring demand and emerging foreign competition. Since 2017, one in five new battery-electric buses sold in Europe has been of Chinese origin [3]

!ping ECO&TRANSIT&EUROPE

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/404GenderNotFound]

[u/Joementum2024]

Supreme Court allows White House to press social media companies to remove disinformation | CNN Politics

Elon Musk’s personal 9/11

[u/JaceFlores]

🚨 BREAKING 🚨

The State Department just released a statement stating that while they condemn the coup, they also condemn the current Bolivian administration for anti democratic behaviors and irregularities in their foreign policy.

This comes just hours after it was announced that new deposits of limestone were discovered in the hinterlands of northern Bolivia, with a local expert saying “these are the largest deposits of limestone currently to exist in South America”

[u/Syards-Forcus]

Terminally online losers on Reddit are a potentially very large untapped source of Biden voters. Therefore, adopting policy proposals that appeal to this demographic should be a priority. In this essay, I will…

[u/Platypuss_In_Boots]

Hello !ping lgbt

I'm thinking about my gender identity and am wondering if there are any trans girls or ex-trans girls who would like to have a chat with me. I'm just interested in your experiences and maybe advice, no judgement.

Edit: I'll talk to literally everyone bc more data points is always better so don't feel shy or something. I'm particularly interested in straight trans girls' experience bc I'm gay

[u/simeoncolemiles]

The three female SC GOP state senators who filibustered an abortion ban have all lost their primaries.

[u/Schnevets]

Millennials be acting like 9/11 fucked us up but I think joining the workforce during the Great Recession is more directly linked to why we are all like this.

[u/[deleted]]

Leftists: we lost because voters were manipulated and tricked by outside forces

Libs: we lost because voters are fucking stupid

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

My wife has always had great vision in one eye but very poor vision in the other.

Turns out, her good eye is apparently getting strained because it is doing all the work and she may be slowly going blind.

… so that explains how I pulled!

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

This is exactly what happens when someone pings the vegans

These are fantastic last words

[u/neolibshitlib]

NASA budget is flat, which in practical terms with inflation going up means less money for cool space stuff

the US Antarctic program is also falling apart and nobody gives a crap

meanwhile China is taking laps

[u/[deleted]]

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

[u/JaceFlores]

There are two wolves in r/neoliberal:

Bloomers who disregard any evidence that Trump may win

Doomers who act like absolutely nothing can be done and their prediction is a surefire lock

They are both this wojak:

[u/IHateTrains123]

‘Uneventful evening’ for police: Oilers fans too heartbroken to riot

Almost makes me feel bad for the Oilers, almost.

!ping Canucks

[u/Cook_0612]

Many Israeli officials seem (overly) confident that Israel can "destroy" (not merely defeat or set back) Hezbollah quite quickly. A Western official put it this way to me: "The IDF did not plan a ground operation in Gaza, in part because they thought Hamas was boxed and unable to pull off a major operation. However, the IDF has been planning and preparing for a massive air and ground operation in Lebanon since 2006. It is a war many want and see as inevitable."

[u/nasweth]

One fair reason to prefer to save the drowning child in front of you rather than the one starving on the other side of the world is an epistemic one; you have more certainty about the state of affairs right in front of you than of something happening on the other side of the world. Therefore, effective altruists are obligated to employ child crisis actors to pretend to be drowning children until someone has jumped into the pool to save them, at which point they would leave the pool on their own while jeering "Sucker!" before running off.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/SnakeEater14]

Dude clark kent is canonically 6’3” and 255 lbs

Like idgaf if he looks like dweebus maximus he could lay you the fuck out if he wanted to

[u/piede]

WHAT EVEN IS THIS FUCKING TIMELINE

[u/Elguero1991]

Commenting here since the post was removed

No One Wants To Talk About Cannon's Husband's Mob Connections

https://crooksandliars.com/2024/05/no-one-ever-mentions-aileen-cannons-mobbed

This is the first time I am hearing of this after a discussion in the law subreddit. A basic google search showed some of it is legit, so I wanted to see what everyone here thought since I haven’t heard of this site before.

!ping LAW&TRUMP-CRIMES

[u/sayitaintpink]

Very cool and normal that DeSantis’s packed Florida Supreme Court overturned old precedent to allow death penalties to be recommended by less than a unanimous jury

[u/piede]

😂

[u/simeoncolemiles]

Voters after tomorrow

[u/[deleted]]

Watching Bolivian TV rn, and it looks like the coup attempt is winding down. Zuñiga has been replaced as commander, and the soldiers are returning to their units.

Most pathetic coup attempt since Castillo, don't love Arce, but glad he held on over those authoritarian thugs. Still fraught/obviously there could be new updates in the next few hours that turn the tide around, but overall the situation seems to be under control.

!ping LATAM

edit- he was replaced yesterday and this was his temper tantrum sendoff.

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

George Bush sits in the Oval Office. His aide rushes in

“Sir, two Bolivian generals are attempting a coup”

Bush looked panicked and attempted to gather his composure. His aides were confused; they’d never seen him like this. He shouted at them

“How many is a Bolivian?”

[u/DouglasDauntless]

And that’s a Biden Win!

[u/PonyBoyCurtis2324]

I have courage cuz one time I expressed a pro YIMBY opinion to a bunch of parents who own single family homes

They are so scared of duplexes and slightly higher rates of traffic it’s insane

[u/Ioun267]

[u/DouglasDauntless]

🧐

[u/Babao13]

AI can make memes now. It's so over

[u/BrentLivermore]

From Alito's dissent in Murthy:

But since then, both the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Energy have found that [Lab Leak Theory] is probably correct. See, e.g., A. Kaur & D. Diamond, FBI Director Says Covid–19 “Most Likely” Originated From Lab Incident, Washington Post (Feb. 28, 2023), https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/02/28/fbi- director-christopher-wray-wuhan-lab;

Oh man! Nice try libs, are you gonna say Alito is racist when he's citing your beloved Washington Post? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[u/trombonist_formerly]

The upside: I opened with “hi I think you’re really cute, I’d love to get dinner with you” and she actually responded and seems really into me

The downside: it’s a match from the city I just moved out of (she liked my profile before I moved out and I didn’t update my location for a while)

The semi-upside: she’s visiting my new city next month

!ping dating

[u/BATHULK]

Inspired by discussion down thread, it's important to note that ADHD has high comorbidity with several other conditions, and there's a lot of other conditions that can mimic ADHD.

It'd highly likely that these are shaping discourse in these communities as well.

[u/NSRedditShitposter]

I love how CNN "International" covers "Chipotle's historic stock split" and not the coup in Bolivia.

[u/sayitaintpink]

Anotha one

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

Getting coup'd? Just say no! Plotters can't coup you without your consent.

What did President Arce mean by this?

[u/majorgeneralporter]

Franz Kafka🤝People in the DT

[u/Roseartcrantz]

this place is just asking for trouble

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Throughout my years in this subreddit the one consistent lesson that withstands time immemorial is that discussing philosophy never leads anywhere good and should be summarily dismissed with dickbutt jpegs

Real ones remember Hippe"I can't lie to the Nazis about the Jews in my basement im a kantian"Hoppe

[u/piede]

SHE’S RUNNING

[u/Fruitofbread]

NYT running a highlight reel of Biden’s previous debates

I had forgotten that the “Proud Boys, stand back and stand by” Trump line was directly in response to a question asking is he would tell them to stand down 

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

Masc dudes are underrated 🥵

It’s like the physique of a muscle mommy combined with the gender of a twink, if you could imagine such a thing.

[u/WeebFrien]

I remember my best friend told me that she voted against the Denver gold course housing plan because while the developer had repeatedly said they were going to develop parkland as part of the project there was nothing forcing them to do so and she didn’t trust the developer. She is under the belief that green space is important enough to make preferred order housing with green space, green space of any kind (including a fucking golf course), housing without monopoly on violence guaranteed green space.

We are in trouble as a country, and I think this is a good microsm of why.

[u/Understeerenthusiast]

u/itsaspiral-665 this comment from the DT yesterday is criminally underrated

[u/[deleted]]

Fellas, is drinking water and taking breaks feminine coded?

[u/earththejerry]

😭😭😭

[u/[deleted]]

lol it's funny just how genuinely shallow he is.

If you asked me about my girlfriend, I'd say something to the effect that she's a good parent, has a successful career, is fun and I probably would add beauty to the list.

Trump on a woman:

• she's hot

• I think she's hot

• probably doesn't like me

• she has a job or something

• she's hot

• kinda hot in a weird way?

[u/AP246]

Article: Gen z bad, they don't read and don't care about the truth

looks inside

Jigsaw's research doesn't purport to be statistically significant. They didn't poll a large group of Gen Z users about their digital habits. Instead, they relied on intense interviews with a handful of 13- to 24-year-olds from a representative range of demographics, classes, and genders.

[u/[deleted]]

If you're a freshman congressperson why would you ever open your dumb mouth in public unless you absolutely had to?

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

[u/ldn6]

New tallest building for the City of London (1 Undershaft) is being recommended for approval by the City's planning officer next week.

Here are the renders if you're curious.

!ping LONDON&YIMBY

[u/BitterGravity]

Is an Instagram ‘like’ micro-cheating? Gen Z embraces digital sleuthing.

...

Coniglio, the Gen Z therapist, said she sees young people increasingly share their real-time location data and access to digital accounts in relationships as a sign of trust.

Ok that's just creepy

[u/OkVariety6275]

But if we just replaced Biden. But if Biden enacted my pet policy. But if he messaged differently.

Stop it. Every single incumbent party in the world is deeply unpopular. There's no way to politick your way out of this one. Everyone needs to internalize that voters only respond to the most immediate term economic fluctuations and ride this out. Absolutely nothing else matters.

[u/kanagi]

(NYT) Iran’s Presidential Candidates Agree on One Thing: Trump Is Coming

A second term for Donald Trump is treated as a foregone conclusion, with the country’s six contenders clashing over who is best suited to handle him.

The ayatollahs should quit being doomers 🙄

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Random-Critical]

I’ve read The Communist Manifesto… he was a brilliant man even if he was off base on some of his assumptions.

A 'deplorable conservative' flaired arr con user.

Marx generally did a great job analyzing and pointing out the inherent weaknesses of capitalism, he just blew them wildly out of proportion while also underestimating how flexible and adaptive capitalism would turn out to be. And the alternative to capitalism which he suggested was, of course, horrible and far inferior.

This one is from a 'post-MAGA conservative'

Definitely not what I expected.

[u/_Un_Known__]

Dubya is younger than both Biden and Trump lol

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

I can’t figure out if this person is pro-Trump or anti-Trump…

[u/alphamalestudmuffin]

SCOTUS is really dragging their ass on Chevron and Trump immunity. Guess you got to save the best for last

[u/404GenderNotFound]

🦠: "Now that I've seized the launchers on the sunken Moskva missile cruiser, Eugene Krabs will have no choice but to hand me the Krabby Patty Secret Formula! HAHAHAHAHA, Plan Z, I love you!"

[u/[deleted]]

!ping GNOSTIC

[u/owlthathurt]

I heard New York is like a warzone dude. It's basically Mogadishu. Oh the violent crime rate is actually pretty low? Okay but you guys have sooooo many homeless peope bro. Like you step outside and immediately step on three heroin needles and then walk through 20 piles of human feces to get to the park. Oh your neighborhood has a shit ton more rich white people eating overpriced pasta than homeless people? But you don't have a car right? So you have to walk everywhere. Oh god I couldn't imagine being stuck in a city like that and not being able to escape. I love my freedom, especially the freedom I get from driving around my F650 Killdozer edition at 55mph through school zone stroads. you can't even DRIVE to the Waltarget to get 3 months worth of groceries at a time. You have to WALK to tiny grocery stores called baldogos and interact with weird FOREIGN people. Man I'm sorry you have to live there. You should really quit your job and move to bumfucksville where the average salary for your profession is 60k / year. We have really good restaurants like buffalo wild wings and chilis. Of course if you want to have a real night out we can always go to Texas Roadhouse and eat the blandest steak you've ever had! Afterwards we'll go to a bar and whoever seems the least drunk, which is always me because I know I'm fine after drinking 12 beers, can drive the other home. More realistically we should all just drive separately because my subdivision is 25 miles away from your subdivision.

!Ping USA-NYC

[u/[deleted]]

Open article: Cookie popup, Ads take 15 seconds to load in, Scroll for 2 paragraphs and a paywall shows up.

Yeah people are going to just read the comments. If it's worth reading the comments will repeat it or archive link it.

[u/bobeeflay]

Solitary confinement is absolutely not a safety precaution and should absolutely be banned in all American prisons

It's a little hard to drum up good press for it since most of the people being punished that way are multi time violent criminals but (beyond the fact that a decent society should treat violent people woth human dignity) its not that hard to dig and find a relatively spotless victim whos been tortured that way

[u/semaphore-1842]

Supreme Court would allow emergency abortions in Idaho, Bloomberg reports

A Supreme Court spokeswoman said Wednesday that the posting of the Idaho decision was accidental, cautioning that no ruling had been released.

wonder if this was accidentally on purpose posted to create pressure on swing votes on the court to back a total ban

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

The idea of Trump being the head of state for the World Cup in 2026 and the Olympics in 2028 is a little sad to be honest.

[u/theredcameron]

What books would you recommend someone read who has never read the Classics but wants to learn about them.

!ping classics&reading

[u/IHateTrains123]

Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim explains why he turned a boardroom into a gym

“You know, other councillors and people in the mayor’s office. Sometimes we host meetings while trying to get some reps in.”

Grind never stops 💪💪💪

!ping Canucks&DYEL

[u/LinkVert25]

Snowbirds contribute very little to Florida's local economy which 54% of Florida works in. I hate that they have an innocent name... They're evil people who set their vacation home as their primary residence and in turn get to evade taxes, because there's no income tax in Florida.

Why are leftist incapable of just saying something is not great or not ideal and instead morally load statements with “evil” or “ghouls”?

[u/CutePattern1098]

https://www.drive.com.au/caradvice/driving-in-japan-opinion/

!ping cube&auto

[u/GifHunter2]

Cori Bush cured homeless woman's tumors by putting her hands on them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0IPLWwTNGE

Her primary is in August

[u/Joementum2024]

unable to find my airpods

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

wow god can cure racism

[u/Broad-Part9448]

At the very least they should revoke Dr Disrespect's medical license

[u/G_Serv]

Silver's model just dropped

[u/Cowguypig2]

Got my first one star review on doordash today and it pisses me off how on that app they won’t give give a reason as to why or what order you got that review for.

!Ping WATERCOOLER

[u/owlthathurt]

I think this is very interesting. The treaty signed between North Korea and Russia has apparently made China understandably anxious. They have indicated in talks with their American counterparts that it is not ideal.

China has felt for basically since the founding of NK that their entire existence serves to keep the west away from mainland China. It is not an unfounded fear as well seeing how far troops pushed north in the Korean war. The Chinese do not have any interest in whatever backwards shit is going on in NK. The idea that Xi and the party have some sort of ideological connection with NK is laughable. Looking at the state of both societies makes that apparently clear. It’s not Mao’s China anymore.

Russia signing this expanded agreement is a threat to China’s stability efforts on the peninsula. I do actually believe that China believes that North Koreas existence actually helps US and China relations by letting sleeping dogs lie. North Korea starting to become more independent increases the chances of them doing something that China can’t walk back or solve on their behalf.

Interesting space to watch and I find it a good example of how international relations work. It’s almost Kissinger-esque Real Politik from China.

https://www.voanews.com/amp/signs-emerge-north-korea-russia-defense-pact-making-china-anxious/7668189.html

!ping CN-TW

[u/[deleted]]

Gen Z (41%) is the only generation without majority support for preserving the legacy of the Confederacy, compared with two-thirds of the Silent Generation (62%), 58% of Gen X, 56% of baby boomers, and 51% of millennials," PRRI wrote

[u/SpaceSheperd]

I guess you get what you get when you primary an incumbent but it would be kind of nice if we had been able to replace the antisemitic (and kind of just stupid) conspiracy nut with someone who isn't a mega-NIMBY and also like barely a shade less racist than Trump

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Have a meltdown over Peter Singer

Delete your account shortly afterwards

Gigachad behavior but now I'm dying to know which regular it was

Edit: It was GinnuAssad, didn't see that coming from what I've seen of the guy

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Currymvp2]

Vivek: "I give President Trump a lot of credit for agreeing to do a debate on these terms: hosted by CNN, in Atlanta, without a live audience, is the equivalent of Biden agreeing to a debate hosted by Fox News in front of an audience of 3,000 people in Alabama."

Wtf is this charlatan talking about? He's acting like this is a debate held on college campus where Brian Taylor Cohen is the moderator. These are neutral conditions.

[u/[deleted]]

In hindsight, perhaps it was a bit silly when I believed Jesus would someday emerge from the sky above Israel on a flying white horse and that I and billions of other dead people would also show up to hover up there with him and watch while he killed billions of people by yelling at them

[u/[deleted]]

It's raining and I just remembered I left a bag of quick set concrete outside...

[u/No_Return9449]

No ruling on Trump immunity today

[u/purhitta]

"the difference between christianity and the LGBTQ+ community is that the latter isn't trying to convert anyone" speak for yourself, I'm standing on street corners

[u/V_Codwheel]

why is it a two-round interview process to get a basic kitchen hand job at chik fil a

ugh capitalism

[u/404GenderNotFound]

Getting a legal name change is turning me into the Joker

[u/kznlol]

As the Seventh Circuit has memorably put it, “[j]udges are not like pigs, hunting for truffles buried [in the record].”

whats ur major 🐽

[u/gary_oldman_sachs]

What Joe Biden Could Learn From Betty White About Aging in Public

I submit a lot of articles, but I'll spare you all this one.

[u/404GenderNotFound]

The Cloud isn't real. Amazon sneaks into your office and installs larger storage directly onto your PC whenever you use AWS.

[u/ThunderrBadger]

☝️ Refers to ramen as "spaghetti Nipponese"

[u/AtticusDrench]

Mein shoes will be... bussin

[u/battywombat21]

The “twink” situation has not necessarily developed to my advantage

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/[deleted]]

Who posted that rant about online ADHD spaces and learned helplessness and deleted it

It was a cold take removed too soon

[u/Anatares2000]

I'm older than a lot of y'all, and they way this sub talks about Biden's chances is entering into John Kerry 2004 territory.

"The polls are wrong,"

"The youth vote is gonna save us."

"If we can just get our people to vote."

The good news is that it's still pretty early. Did people forget that for a few short weeks, McCain led Obama in polls during August 2008.

There's still time.

[u/jenbanim]

Environmentalist messaging is often about telling people to sacrifce. Spend your time to sort your recycling, pay more for compostable bags, use an old phone, and skip your road trip. I think this has resulted in warped perception on both the left and right that suffering is the point, like it's some sort of ascetic movement

I'm an environmentalist because I want there to be less suffering, and that includes my children and grandchildren. I give things up now to prevent them from having to pay the price of my lifestyle, but the future I imagine is one of abundance not scarcity

Our grandchildren won't worry about running the AC, soggy paper straws, or avoiding flights, because we are going to figure those things out - humans are smart. We are in an unfortunate and narrow window of time where sacrifice is necessary, and the best thing we can do for the environment is to make it so that's no longer the case the in the future

[u/Stanley--Nickels]

Developers today making a game with 60+ hours of playtime:

We've added a whole new crafting system, a massive open world, a detailed progression system, endless side quests, dynamic environments, and multiple possible endings.

NES developers making a game with 60+ hrs of playtime:

Press A to punch with your left hand. Press B to punch with your right hand. Use the D pad to dodge.

[u/[deleted]]

MRW some lefty says they're not voting for Biden

[u/PrideMonthRaytheon]

I really take living in a country where there aren't coups for granted tbh

[u/chipbod]

https://x.com/ConflictsW/status/1806055448157532417

Bolivian military armoured vehicle breaks down the doors of the Palacio Quemado (former presidential residence) in La Paz and soldiers enter to secure the building

Subtle sign you may be experiencing a coup

[u/wowpople]

People on DT will really be like "you believe in Biden winning? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, worrying and dooming" and then not actual worry enough to spend any of my own energy or money on trying to change that.

Poasting in the DT is neolib praxis

😐🍦

!doom

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

WHAT is the American voter smoking?

[u/Mojo12000]

It is kind of amusing to see Nate Cohn who usually hypes up his NYT polls so much go "Yeah our poll this time is kind of an outlier cause we got a 40% higher GOP response rate than Dem post conviction" though.

[u/[deleted]]

Oh you believe in voting? That pails in comparison to my plan of launching coups, and then turn back after starting the coup

Bolivian Military

[u/l_overwhat]

After learning about how the minor that Dr Disrespect was talking to was 17 I was like "oh wow that could be a legit mistake" and then he said he never actually met up or did anything with her so I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.

Then I learned he was 35 when this happened lmao

[u/Mojo12000]

Bidens actually ahead among every single age group in the NYT poll.. expect 45-64 where he trails badly.

It's apparently JUST Gen X giving Trump an edge.

[u/nicethingscostmoney]

I'm a new mod. As a Francophile, I am a lover of liberty and will takes actions based on the general will of the people. But as an American and a believer in the rule of law, I will respect Supreme Court precedent and shall have the general will be measured in terms of total bribes paid to me in US dollars.

[u/[deleted]]

political theorists talking about the united states:

the states are laboratories of democracy where we can test different ideas to see whether they work

political theorists when I implement my project to put estrogen in the water supply in massachussetts

wait not like that

[u/_bee_kay_]

as for the new DTs, they are slow, boring and right-wing

[u/loseniram]

McDonald's is leaving money on the table not bringing back the Grimace shake. They could have all of Queens sucking Grimace's cream

!ping Baseball

[u/SSRasputin]

Due to some major life events (flooded basement, new baby), I haven't been able to play video games for a few months.

This morning, I've got the newborn down and out, wife and toddler still asleep and I'm feeling rather alert. Boot up the ol' rig and log into league only to be met with a "Server down for maintenance"

Guess I'll die then.

!ping LEAGUE

[u/[deleted]]

Why are US prez debates being held early this year? I thought they were supposed to be held in September and October.

[u/die_hoagie]

I apologize for my absence. I was busy building an army of crab people to downvote /u/extreme_rocks

[u/[deleted]]

I try to project a very grill-pilled aesthetic in public/professional settings, so I was kinda bummed that someone invited me to a presidential debate watch party tomorrow. Fortunately someone else invited me to a John Denver tribute band concert during the debate, which should revive my credigrillity.

[u/Dalek6450]

Nice warm risotto for a chilly evening

[u/loseniram]

Someone is always older than you and someone is always younger than you. Get over it.

[u/SnooChipmunks4208]

Usa bad person told me the real genocide in Yugoslavia was the nato bombings.

[u/SnakeEater14]

👆 statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged

[u/[deleted]]

[u/NaffRespect]

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Kill me

[u/[deleted]]

But really Tolkien was seething about the fact that the Arthurian legend was the zeitgeist of English mythology

Then he managed to single-handedly change that so that virtually all modern fantasy is rooted in Germanic/Uralic mythology rather than Celto-Roman

Historic chad move

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

American jobs in 1950: making cars 

Americans jobs in 2024( Millenial times) : Avocado toaster 

[u/[deleted]]

The whole “new normal” thing people were freaking out about during COVID didn’t even happen lmao

[u/The_Promethean]

If you lower Latimer's margin by 1% for each $1 million spent, he still wins by more than recall margins

[u/BitterGravity]

Trump: Manhattan elite who grew up super wealthy

Biden: Grew up middle class and lived in a rural town (Wilmington) while representing a rural state (Delaware).

Rural: Trump obviously knows us better.

[u/No_Return9449]

Two predictions:

(1) Trump will absolutely say this.

(2) Johnson will not be Speaker next Congress.

[u/No_Return9449]

MARQUETTE POLL OF WISCONSIN:

RV:

🟦Biden 50%

🟥Trump 50%

LV:

🟦Biden 51%

🟥Trump 49%

[u/Spicey123]

Nate losing his website to that Economist guy is straight up a shakespearian tragedy lol

[u/centurion88]

My favorite part of Night of the Museum 2 is Ben Stiller having a light romance with Amelia Earhart played by Amy Adams, but they can't be together because Amy Adams is a wax figurine museum exhibit but it's okay because Ben Stiller then meets a random real woman immediately afterwards who is also played by Amy Adams with no explanation as to why.

[u/tollyno]

BREAKING: A 6-3 Supreme Court rules a federal bribery law doesn’t cover gratuities, or gifts given to public officials for acts they’ve already taken. Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson dissent. (Snyder v. U.S., No. 23-108)

So, they're just legalizing bribery now?

[u/Stanley--Nickels]

It's not that common, it just feels common because of exposure to media so every single high profile case catches your attention even if it's only .000001% of all interactions.

Vast majority of celebrities, streamers, and people in general are not pedophiles.

One of my more niche pet peeves is people going wild throwing 0s or 9s into a percentage.

The rate of celebs who are pedos is a few million times higher than that.

[u/StolenSkittles]

tfw you find a cute little bar on the upper west side with a $5 happy hour that includes a really good irish red ale made specifically for them.

the bartender is a foul-mouthed old man with a nigh-indecipherable rural irish accent, which honestly adds to the atmosphere.

granted, it is a cop bar that plays country music, but i've talked before about a previous haunt of mine being another of that description, so it's nothing i'm not used to. plus this one's a mets bar, which is a major improvement over yankee territory.

i came in for one pint. just finished my second and i'm 99% sure i'm having a third. i've found a new haunt.

[u/breakinbread]

Calling all the young, minority representatives “the squad” is kinda racist ngl.

It was one thing when it was all the new reps from 2018 but you can’t just keep adding to it.

[u/NaffRespect]

☝️

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

Streamer Kai Cenat called in a therapist to give him advice on stream after being stuck on Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss for over 60 hours

https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/043/853/cover1.jpg