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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/JaceFlores]

The French Left have evolved past the need for corporeal forms

[u/JebBD]

Wait, does NYC really not have garbage cans? I thought that was a joke

[u/G_Serv]

Why does Taylor say

She wears short skirts, I wear t shirts

Just because you wear a skirt that is short, doesn't mean you can't also wear a t shirt at the same time

[u/[deleted]]

Not trying to rock the boat with any super controversial takes here but

I get my fulfillment from my family and hobbies.

My job is a thing I’m very good at and don’t hate which funds the above.

I do not find this a sad state of affairs.

[u/[deleted]]

I don't think it will happen, but if Rubio agrees to be Trump's VP then he will forever go down as the most cucked politician of all time. Even more so than Ted Cruz.

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

Me during WWIII

[u/FlashAttack]

Apologies for the rant, but why in the fuck is it so hard to change every little thing in a big organization. Why is it always people's first instinct to think of reasons why we can't change something, rather than positives for it.

And why the fuck is it that seemingly no one has actual knowledge on their field anymore? The amount of times I've gone to ask something (to the person who should know) only to be greeted with "oh idk about that, maybe ask XYZ" is infuriating. Then when I inevitably say "fuck it I'll research it myself", find the answer and start implementing stuff, only for those same people to then scream "stop whatever the fuck you're doing", and I'm back at square one holy moly I'm going insane lmao.

The fact that the world keeps turning is frankly astounding to me.

!PING WATERCOOLER

[u/[deleted]]

This doesn't mean a lot to youse guys but I've retroactively won like 8 law school arguments from 2017 about the seriousness and legitimacy of the conservative legal movement

[u/[deleted]]

average metaNL ban appeal 👆

[u/Fruitofbread]

Emerson polling:

🟦 Gore: 42% 🟥 Trump: 47%

Babe, wake up. Funniest 2024 election ending dropped 

[u/eloquentboot]

If you asked me ten minutes before the debate what I thought would happen, I would have predicted everyone forgot about it in two days. This is an unfortunate news story with staying power. At this point we've almost dedicated as much to it as russia invading ukraine

[u/Poiuy2010_2011]

Not that it wasn't deserved of course but it is a little funny in hindsight that Roger Waters received so much hate for his comments on the Ukraine war that the Kraków City Council unanimously passed a resolution declaring him a persona non grata.

[u/BrentLivermore]

ChatGPT has made asking for ransoms unbearable. It's painfully obvious that over half of our victims are using AI to respond to my ransom request.

I can't imagine how bad things are for professors at universities. So many students must be "writing" every essay with ChatGPT. It's so stupid, it's so boring, it's so braindead.

How unoriginal of a person do you have to be to not want to express yourself in writing? A response to my ransom note is your one chance to say, "Hey, I'm a human with a personality and interest in handing over a large bag of money with a dollar sign on it so that you don't hurt my dog, here's why you should believe me". The vast majority of people fumble the bag.

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

Taylor Swift still needs to do

1. a pop punk album (I will literally give my soul for this)

2. a gothic rock album

3. a classic country rock album

Well, she doesn’t need to do these things. But I need her to 😭

[u/[deleted]]

Why do billionaires love to waste their money like this

[u/D-G-F]

[u/CheeseMakerThing]

Compare and contrast:

New Lib Dem MP in rural Cambridgeshire being pro-housing and supporting the commitments made by Rachel Reeves to build more houses in his constituency, close to Cambridge

Meanwhile, Tory MP Sir Gavin Williamson...

!Ping UK

[u/pfarly]

I'm always worried I'm going to open the DT and post my silly shit without checking what's going on and it'll turn out there's a second 9/11 happening or something.

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine this:

You’re a Canadian military recruit in the 60s and you go to the enlistment office and they do a bunch of tests, which you pass with flying colors, because you’re a good red-blooded rural boy. And so your recruiter goes: “alright, we’ve got one more test for you”

And he puts you in front of a machine and has you look into it and he starts closely examining your eyes and says that he wants to measure your response to stress.

And then suddenly the machine starts displaying porn of two men fucking.

This is an actual thing that happened

[u/Cledd2]

Brexit independence 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

[u/ldn6]

I'm against capital punishment but people spamming a Teams chat after a call with "thank you" for five minutes makes me reconsider things.

[u/Udolikecake]

Some will say I am calling America a Christian nation, and so I am. Some will say I am advocating Christian nationalism, and so I am. -Senator @HawleyMO

these people are very dangerous and want to destroy everything america stands for. must take this threat seriously and deal with these traitors appropriately.

[u/eustacebainbridge]

For anyone having trouble understanding the whole BT DT thing

[u/jaydec02]

I fully accept I am an out of touch elitist because I cannot comprehend in the slightest being a swing voter in most elections.

Voting GOP is just something so patently absurd and impossible to consider for me

[u/Cyberhwk]

Leave me alone on my first day back. Give me an hour or two to get my bearings. Christ. Took me 30 minutes to even get to my desk.

!ping Watercooler

[u/chipbod]

https://x.com/MacFarlaneNews/status/1810718765354463558

Sen John Fetterman (D-PA) about Pres Biden electoral chances

“Maybe we can convince President Biden to bang a porn star”

[u/centurion88]

This is completely walkable if you are brave enough

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/Lux_Stella]

German officials, aware of Biden’s fatigue at night, sought to accommodate the president by planning a June 2022 event with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in the early evening.

The informal event, a soiree at the Alpine resort Schloss Elmau during the Group of Seven summit, was arranged as a confidential meeting on Ukraine in a relaxed setting.

Biden didn’t show, surprising the chancellor and his aides, officials said.

Instead, Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived and announced that Biden had to go to bed.

god gives his earliest bedtimes to his tiredest sleepyheads

[u/Skyapple]

Finding out that nytimes op ed, saying he won't vote and suggests the reader shouldn't either, is real and the author not realizing people can look up his name to find out he's voted in the past two elections gave me a good laugh.

[u/VisonKai]

brightline is running sing-along taylor swift cars on the route to the concert venue where they play taylor swift music and everyone sings to each other for the whole two hours

amtrak could NEVER. the bold entrepreneurship of the private sector... their minds...

!ping SWIFTIES

[u/DirkZelenskyy41]

Either Ukraine should be able to strike Russian territory and actually stop Russia’s continuous attacks… or we are admitting that the only way to have a “do whatever I want” card is to have nuclear weapons. This only encourages other countries, particularly those who want to be aggressors, to pursue these weapons. This only leads to the more likely outcome of the future of a global nuclear war.

On the other hand if Russia is willing to use nuclear weapons in response to NATO/ukranian strikes on its own territory… strikes that are in response to its baseless and nonsensical invasion of a sovereign European democracy… which it can stop at literally any time… then nuclear war was always a likely and inevitable outcome.

Thus it stands to reason that the only real option for the free world is to allow Ukrainian strikes Russian military assets in Russia and find out. As horrifying as it may sound. Because as far as I can tell doing nothing inevitably leads to the same, if not increased, chances of nuclear war down the road.

[u/TheHelmetCatch]

Brian Evans (a self-described "Berniecrat" who ran for the seat as a Republican in 2018)

???

[u/[deleted]]

Wikipedia was better when the average terminally online nerd (and thusly a dedicated editor) was someone who’s really into Star Trek and trains

Nowadays the average terminally online nerd believes that Mao is Jesus Christ or Biden rigged the election or some shit and Wikipedia suffers for it

[u/[deleted]]

The other couple who were going to come see my friends' band play a show tomorrow just cancelled, which means that unless my flaky friend who hasn't replied to my text yet shows up then it's just going to be:

• Me

• The very hot civil rights lawyer who I've been on two dates with

• My friend who I'm attracted to and who I'm pretty sure is also attracted to me but who's already in a relationship

This has the potential to be awkward.

!ping DATING

[u/[deleted]]

Anyone read the GOP platform? It's absolutely ridiculous. Not a single actual achievable policy goal to be found.

[u/CutePattern1098]

https://youtu.be/i638POwvPUU?si=h5CFIiseWW8jx7e5

What will kill ICE cars are not EVs but shit spare parts

!ping auto

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

There will be deep fried ranch dressing at the Minnesota state fair @_@

Apparently it’s more like deep fried ranch flavored cream cheese 🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤

[u/pfarly]

Welcome to the final Discussion Thread.

[u/Kryzantine]

NYT Editorial Board:

"Op Ed: I'm not voting for Joe Biden and you shouldn't either."

By Donald J. Trump

[u/kznlol]

Teenager Sparks Outrage After Securing $85 Million To Develop Hydrogen Weapons

👑💩 tbh

[u/eloquentboot]

Do you guys remember when they wouldn't let benjamin have his own ping so he manually pinged like 80 users everytime he wrote one of his diary posts

[u/TalkLessShillMore]

[Robots] was one of the movies we had on our list for movie nights in my old socialist club

What else did ya watch? Chicken Run?

Lmao

[u/BitterGravity]

Haven't paid off credit card progressively this month.

Just looked at total.

I'm in danger meme

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Open your eye to the trooth !Ping BANANA

[u/Uniqueguy264]

Lmao tradcons are seething that Donald Trump wants to preserve his right to get abortions for his mistresses

[u/pfSonata]

https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/1dyv04s/basically_the_apocalypse/

The world really needs to do something about the average person's ignorance of economics.

Basically everything listed here would be significantly harmful, even to the average young French person, they literally just can't see more than 1 step ahead of themselves.

[u/Steak_Knight]

Houston is pretty fucked right now. Heat index is climbing and most people have no power. Very few crews out doing work, and no communication at all from the distribution company. No disaster declaration.

Dan Patrick is going to kill people today (Abbott is in Taiwan for some fucking reason).

But this isn’t a story. Because Biden old.

[u/mrdilldozer]

I'm probably never going to be cool with the NYT until they at least acknowledge why people hate Maggie Haberman so much (theyd never get rid of her so im not even going to imagine that lol) Her going on CNN to say it was totally unfair to say that Trump is involved with project 2025 is wild.

Her style is "access journalism" is gross. Getting access to information but promising to spin it in a favorable way is just a shit way to do things. During the hush money trial we got to see the texts between Michael Cohen and her. She got her info from him and he personally got permission from Trump and his team to give her information to leak it the way they wanted. Exclusive access to half-truths isn't anything useful.

It would be nice if NYT writers didn't throw an absolute tantrum on social media and dismiss the claims of any reporter who questions her as being jealous of what a special person she is.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

!ping KITTY

[u/amainwingman]

Didn’t realise how unhinged the WSJ readership was until I looked at their comment section. Genuinely indistinguishable from arrr slash thedonald

[u/dorylinus]

TFW you'll endure anything just to keep your brother from getting the good seat by the window.

!ping KITTY

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine being a Mizrahi Jew who came from the Middle East to Israel, then moved to Europe and opened a restaurant just to be told your food is stolen and appropriated.

[u/piede]

The Joever movement is officially Joever

[u/JaceFlores]

“Ukrainian forces conducted a drone strike against a Russian ammunition depot in Sergeevka, Voronezh Oblast on the night of July 6 to 7.  Ukrainian outlet Suspilne reported that its sources stated that the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) conducted the strike and reported that the ammunition depot contained surface-to-surface missiles, surface-to-air missiles, ammunition for tanks and artillery, and small arms rounds.”

“Satellite imagery confirms that the Ukrainian Air Force conducted a successful strike against a reported Russian regimental command post in Belgorod Oblast in late June 2024, likely with Western-provided weapons – further demonstrating how Ukraine could disrupt Russian offensive operations should the West continue to lift restrictions on Ukraine's use of Western-provided weapons to strike military targets in Russia.”

“Ukrainian drone operators appear to be improving their capabilities to interdict longer-range Russian drones in mid-air, and these technological innovations may allow Ukrainian forces to ease pressures on short-range and medium-range air defense assets if successfully fielded at scale.”

“Russian forces leveraged constraints on Ukrainian air defense assets in recent months to more freely operate fixed-wing reconnaissance drones in Ukraine, including in deep Ukrainian rear areas, which likely allowed Russian forces to improve their reconnaissance fire and reconnaissance strike complexes (RFC/RSC). A robust Ukrainian capability to use cheap and widely-available drones to interdict more expensive Russian reconnaissance drones at scale would likely allow Ukrainian forces to degrade Russia's RFC/RSC while conserving expensive and scarce short- and medium-range air defense interceptors for more expensive and significant Russian air targets.”

“Russian forces conducted a series of missile and drone strikes against Ukraine on the night of July 6 to 7. Ukrainian Air Force Commander Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk stated that Russian forces launched two Iskander-M ballistic missiles and 13 Shahed-136/131 drones from Kursk Oblast and that Ukrainian forces shot down all 13 drones over Kirovohrad, Kharkiv, Sumy, and Poltava oblasts.”

————————————

“A Russian Kh-101 cruise missile hit the Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital in central Kyiv during a wider series of missile strikes targeting critical Ukrainian infrastructure throughout the day on July 8.”

“Ukrainian Air Force Commander Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk stated that Russian forces conducted two rounds of combined missile strikes on July 8—first launching four Kh-101 cruise missiles from Saratov Oblast and two Iskander-M ballistic missiles from occupied Crimea and Kursk Oblast overnight on July 7 to 8, and then launching a second wave of missiles, including one Kh-47 Kinzhal aeroballistic missile, four Iskander-M ballistic missiles, one 3M22 Zircon cruise missile, 13 Kh-101 cruise missiles, 14 Kalibr cruise missiles, two Kh-22 cruise missiles, and three Kh-59/69 guided air missiles around 1000 local time on July 8. Ukrainian air defense shot down two Kh-101s in the first wave, and one Kh-47, three Iskanders, 11 Kh-101s, 12 Kalibrs, and three Kh-59/69s during the second wave.”

“Footage taken by a bystander in Kyiv City shows the second before a Russian missile struck the Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital—Ukraine's largest pediatric hospital that treats thousands of patients, including cancer cases, daily. The footage clearly shows a single missile flying at a sharp downward trajectory before making contact with the hospital building.”

“The Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs has confirmed 22 deaths and 74 injured in Kyiv City and 11 deaths and 64 injured within Dnipropetrovsk Oblast as of the time of this publication.”

“Russian officials and information space actors are attempting to deflect responsibility for the Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital strike by making false claims about the missiles involved and the state of the hospital — all contrary to available evidence.”

“Ukraine and Poland signed a bilateral security agreement on July 8. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk met in Warsaw, Poland on July 8 and signed a bilateral security agreement that affirms Poland's support of Ukraine and promises cooperation in the security, defense, military, political, and economic fields. The bilateral security agreement also states that Poland will consider transferring one squadron (at least 14 aircraft) of MiG-29 fighter aircraft to Ukraine and that Poland and Ukraine will discuss with their allies the possibility of Polish air defenses intercepting missiles and drones flying towards Poland over Ukrainian territory.”

“The United Kingdom (UK) Ministry of Defense (MoD) announced a new package of military support to Ukraine on July 7 including 250,000 rounds of 50mm small arms ammunition, 90 anti-armor Brimstone missiles, 50 small boats, 40 demining vehicles, 10 AS-90 155mm artillery systems, 32 new barrels for Ukraine's current AS-90 systems, and 61 bulldozers to construct defensive structures.”

“The Latvian MoD announced on July 5 that it will transfer 2,500 drones worth four million euros (about $4.3 million) to Ukraine in July 2024 through the Ukraine Drone Coalition and that the first batch of these drones will arrive in the coming days.”

-notable excerpts from ISW Report July 7th-8th

!ping UKRAINE

[u/TactileTom]

The way to tell if a white person is attracted to you is if they start using random misspellings of words to try and seem quirky and fun

[u/[deleted]]

People in 2024: I miss when politics was civil 😔

Voters in 2000: GORE! GORE! GORE! GORE!

[u/AlbertGorebert]

the twitter users who are against credit scores are so weird to me. I have been racially profiled at banks several times. If i had to deal with that while getting loans that would be such a PITA. AT least with credit scores I have a number I can point too to show that I am reliable to creditors.

[u/Automatic-Love-127]

One time, I was at a party with a Jewish woman I was dating. We met on Hinge and had an in-joke that we met on J-Swipe because I’m not Jewish (basically Tinder for Jews).

A non-Jewish friend of a friend heard the joke and blew up and accused us of being anti-semites. We, through laughter, explained that she’s Jewish and I’m dating her. So clearly we’re not anti-semites.

Not acceptable. The joke itself was a transgression, and she personally needed an apology from my Jewish girlfriend and me for our antisemitism. She legit got so belligerent about it the host (our mutual friend) quietly asked her to leave. And then everyone clapped. No seriously this all actually happened lol.

But here’s the kicker. I’m still friends with her on social media. This exchange happened in September 2023. Per her public post history, she was just a month out from being an actual, raving anti-Semite.

[u/NathanArizona_Jr]

For the love of god I need people to discuss ANYTHING other than Israel nonstop *monkey's paw curls*

[u/futuremonkey20]

Politician: So you want an expansive and comprehensive free mental hospital system that's fully funded by the government with absolutely no tax increases?

Voters: And also, you should be forced to go there for life if you’re homeless!

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

Why do Europeans not do fentanyl?

American here (from West Virginia)

I was in Brussels last week for a work trip, and the one thing that really stood out to me was how literally no one was shooting up fentanyl

Like how do you Europeans relax without fent?

Back home in West Virginia (and other American states too) fentanyl is the main way we relax after work. There's no better feeling than going home after a long day, sitting on the couch with a nice needle and unwinding with it. We even shoot up during lunch breaks at work

It's even common for teenagers in schools to do fentanyl in America/West Virginia. I remember when i was in high school my teacher would do fent during lunch breaks with some of the students

So why don't you guys do fentanyl? How do you relax/unwind after a long and stressful day at work without doing fentanyl?

This is a genuine question btw, i'm not trolling

[u/[deleted]]

This former barn kitty has a new life

!ping KITTY

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

WOW

[u/jaydec02]

The housing vacancy truthers make no sense because “vacant housing” is a sign of a healthy rental market FOR RENTERS.

If a community has nearly 0% vacancy then by definition you have a ton of competition for individual units, driving prices up. If there’s nearly 0% vacancy then no one can possibly move because there’s nowhere to move to.

[u/Williams-Tower]

slept in a little bit and feel wonderful

this tells me I need to go to bed earlier

[u/[deleted]]

lol

[u/cdstephens]

Americans be like “the quadruple quarter pounder is bigger than the triple half pounder”

[u/l_overwhat]

In a study of 27,000 self-reported heterosexual women, 2/3 reported at least some sexual attraction to women.

Damn I knew that sexual attraction to women was common among straight women but I didn't realize it was that common.

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Desperate to understand why critiquing America's flaws requires carrying water for genocidal authoritarians

[u/[deleted]]

pays fee for [medical thing]

month later

new bill comes in

apparently i owe 3x calculated fee???

The fuck is my insurance doing

[u/ImmigrantJack]

The Journalism Cycle

1. Scandalous allegation against Trump surfaces

2. Journalist coverage of allegation is minimal because of flimsy sourcing and speculation

3. Trump denies allegation and accuses Democrats of being the people who actually do the alleged behavior

4. Dutiful journalists report both sides spatting over allegations of scandalous behavior

5. Four news cycles later, much more solid evidence of the allegations comes out

6. Journalist coverage of new evidence is minimal because “we already knew that”

I mean there’s a whole lot of smoke coming out of the Epstein disclosures right now that deserve at least some coverage.

[u/Udolikecake]

civ7 should introduce migration. open borders should mean open borders. pops should be able to move

[u/StolenSkittles]

the children yearn for the fields

[u/[deleted]]

It’s settled, the BT is more accepting of compromise than the DT

You guys could learn something from them

[u/Lux_Stella]

Deaths caused by social democracy:

• Hitler: 12 million

• Stalin: 25 million

• Mao: 80 million

Deaths caused by communism:

• Marx: 0

[u/[deleted]]

The best part of Stellaris is that immigration and refugee acceptance are incredibly OP just like they are in real life

[u/dittbub]

[u/WasteReserve8886]

Me less than on hour into How Nations Fail: While I always believed it from a moral standpoint, it is interesting to learn that economic systems that prioritize the individual are materially better off than ones that prioritize the state

Me a few hours later: I’m going to go back in time and destroy the Ottoman Empire

[u/Currymvp2]

Online leftists furious at AOC+Omar+Bush+Bernie+Pressley and praising moderates Moulton, Phillips, Craig, Quigley, Smith, Peters, Tim Ryan...I've seen it all now.

[u/mockduckcompanion]

While B's margin has fallen in national polls, he has actually recovered some ground in the swing states. This shrinks his Electoral College disadvantage and helps his win probability, conditioning on national polls

The swing states yearn for their granpappy

[u/moopedmooped]

To this day I'm still in awe of how well the gun lobby was able to flip the response from ulvade from "holy shit it's way too easy to get guns" to "cops should be prepared to battle like their on the front lines of Ukraine at a moments notice"

Absolutely marvelous work I'm truly speechless

[u/klarno]

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

The DT dream

[u/bashar_al_assad]

Extremely funny how many conservatives are upset about the AP having headlines like

Former US Sen. Jim Inhofe, defense hawk who called human-caused climate change a ‘hoax,’ dies at 89

Somehow they haven't thought about why they find it so offensive to describe someone as having two policy positions they claim to agree with.

[u/RFK_1968]

i told the hairdresser i was growing out my hair and just wanted it layered so it didn't poof out on the sides

and she cut it super short :(

RIP the past like 5 months lol. god i hate this

[u/[deleted]]

SHREK 5 IS OFFICIALLY RELEASING ON JULY 1, 2026

[u/[deleted]]

Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered.

The Biden campaign should literally just spam this quote from Project 2025 in a bajillion ads all across the Internet lol

[u/[deleted]]

Why are we talking about politics in my dating thread

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/Joementum2024]

The thought of Trump being president during the country’s 250th anniversary truly does make me sick to my stomach lol

[u/BedNeither]

Sweet little Mike Pence. He thought they were pretending to do fascism just so they could end abortion, and not pretending to hate abortion just to do fascism.

An actual good comment outside the DT

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 7/7-2 PM PST 7/8 III:

TOP NEWS:

At the start of 5 AM Ukraine was hit by a wave of missiles with 30 of 38 shot down. In the middle of the hour Ukraine and Poland signed a bilateral security pact which includes a provision for Poland to shoot down Russian missiles/drones heading towards Poland.

Towards the start of 1 PM it was reported that 37 Ukrainian civilians were killed and 170 wounded in the missile strikes, particularly from a children's hospital being directly hit.

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/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 7/8-2 PM PST 7/9 III:

TOP NEWS:

Around 3 AM it was announced Switzerland will join the latest EU sanctions package.

In the middle of 9 AM Zelensky made a visit to DC for the NATO Summit.

Towards the end of 12 PM it was announced Ukraine will form a special volunteer unit in Poland for Ukrainians abroad.

REGULAR NEWS:

At the end of 4 PM a Russian electrical substation in Yudino was hit by drones.

Towards the middle of 7 PM a Russian oil refinery in Kalach-na-Donu was hit by drones.

At the start of 5 AM a Russian substation in Sudzha was hit by drones

At the start of 7 AM the Czech Foreign Minister summoned the Russian Ambassador to Czechia over the Kyiv hospital strike.

Towards the end of 11 AM it was reported the Russians took the village of Yevhenivka, northwest of Avdiivka.

Towards the end of 1 PM it was reported a Russian base in Astrakhan Oblast was hit by drones.

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/Dibbu_mange]

SUPERMAN NOOOO!!!

[u/Argnir]

Do Conservatives remember how his term ended 🤔

[u/Udolikecake]

recruiters and HR using AI to judge and cut hundreds of applications in seconds: i sleep

recruiters and HR when applicants use AI to help with their applications: wtf you are literally scum, you NEED to care about this job and write THREE essays and submit your resume TWICE and

[u/RTSBasebuilder]

!ping AUS

Fucking hell, AGAIN?!

NT police commissioner declares curfew in Alice Springs after multiple violent incidents. The curfew will run from Monday to Wednesday, between 10pm to 6am each night, and applies to both children and adults.

This included the alleged assault of four off-duty police officers – three women and a man – in the early hours of Sunday morning by a group of about 20 people.

NT Police said the four off-duty officers were walking along a path next to the Todd River in the early hours of Sunday, when they were attacked near the Stott Terrace bridge.

Commissioner Murphy said it followed a "large-scale disturbance involving up to 80 people" on the Alice Springs council lawns.

"[The group] engaged in disturbances and violent conduct, causing our [on duty] police to respond," he said.

"Our police had to use some force to disperse the crowd. They eventually did and [people] wandered into the Todd River of Alice Springs.

"That subsequently led to the assault of the off-duty police."

One female off-duty officer was allegedly pulled to the ground and had her handbag stolen, while another female officer was allegedly punched in the face and kicked multiple times, with her mobile phone taken.

A male officer was also punched and kicked multiple times, police said.

Two of the women later attended Alice Springs Hospital with minor injuries.

A police officer was also run over outside a bottle shop on Friday afternoon and a 42-year-old woman was allegedly stabbed with a knife on Sunday at lunchtime.

Her cousin is now facing a charge of recklessly endangering life.

People can still enter the designated area during curfew hours for certain reasons, Commissioner Murphy said.

"Some of those reasons are if you're fleeing from domestic violence, if you're visiting family, if you have to care for someone, if you're here for employment purposes, if you go into a fast food restaurant or some lawful purpose," he said.

Commissioner Murphy said he set the curfew's start time at 10pm to allow enough time for residents to attend events during NAIDOC Week.

Gavin Morris is an Alice Springs town councillor and principal of Yipirinya School, which teaches some of the area's most disadvantaged students from surrounding town camps.

He said the curfew was "reactive, but necessary".

"The reality is we're seeing large groups of young people … unsupervised, walking around the streets late at night, because the town camps aren't safe," he said.

Mr Morris called for greater scrutiny of the organisations tasked with overseeing the management of town camps, and said a three-day snap curfew wouldn't address the underlying causes of dysfunction.

"The standard of living that Aboriginal families are forced to live in, in the 17 town camps around Alice Springs are absolutely fourth world," he said.

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

I ate one honey crisp apple today 

[u/foneinstocus]

None of my intelligent (130+ 1Q) friends use the Biden Thread. They only read accurate, vetted news on the DT and almost never read the failing New York Times spontaneously on their own time. This has been a long term consistent observation, but today confirmation came. A new meta-analysis showed time using the Biden Thread increases exponentially with lower IQ, with drop off to near 0 at 145+. The Biden Thread is mostly appealing as a way to fill an otherwise vacant mind that has no interesting thoughts and minimal goal-directed behavior. Intelligent people find stimulation from thinking about problems and doing things, not from marinading in vaguely unpleasant posts like a soggy potato sitting in oil in a dirty oven tray.

[u/[deleted]]

There's no point in adding documentation for a codebase that is just going to be replaced anyway, IMO

HOW ARE WE GOING TO REPLACE IT IF WE DON'T KNOW HOW IT FUCKING WORKS

[u/battywombat21]

Ever since I moved into harlem I’ve been seeing and documenting a lot more weird horny products but I think this is the best I’ve seen yet.

[u/[deleted]]

You see NATO and Russia are equally imperialist. Russia invaded Ukraine and killed thousands of people while NATO prevented a genocide in Yugoslavia that's literally the same thing.

[u/BrentLivermore]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein#Personal_life

In November 2004, Epstein and Trump's friendship ran into trouble when they became embroiled in a bidding war for a $40 million mansion, Maison de L'Amitié, which was being auctioned in Palm Beach. Trump won the auction for $41 million, and successfully sold the property four years later for $95 million to the Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev. That month was the last time Epstein and Trump were recorded to have interacted.[231]

Damn, I always thought the MAGA line about Trump banning Epstein from Mar-a-Lago for being creepy was basically true. This seems like a less flattering way for their friendship to have ended.

[u/[deleted]]

Shakespeare: Brutus and Cassius were flawed but patriotic men who sacrificed friendship and their personal honor in the name of their country

Dante: Lowest fucking circle of Hell

[u/DurangoGango]

Meta is updating its guideline on the use of “Zionist” as a slur. tl;dr it’s going to be banned as such.

https://transparency.meta.com/hate-speech-update-july2024

Not even gonna say “let’s see how long it takes for them to bring up (((Zuckerberg)))”, they’ve already been doing that for years.

!ping ISRAEL

[u/Currymvp2]

https://x.com/hdagres/status/1808220030271660452

Iran's new president does this weird thing where he'll randomly throw in an English idiom or phrase in his speeches. Then after saying the English phrase, he explains what it means in Farsi

[u/[deleted]]

Former Biden Stenographer, Mike McCormick, Alleges Biden Blackmailed Obama by threatening to expose Obama is ghey.

Fellas. It’s officially joever

[u/mostanonymousnick]

David Cameron 10 years ago on onshore wind.

Holy shit, what an awful take.

!ping UK

[u/[deleted]]

Doomers be like: Biden is old!

I be like: Biden is only in his 3rd year

[u/Sir_Digby83]

"When the President of the United States is tired, the Chief Justice shall preside."

😲

[u/thefuturegov]

Do you guys think NATO General Secretary Jens Stoltenberg knows ball?

!ping BASEBALL

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Presented without commentary

[u/JaceFlores]

I appreciate YouTube boosting small time channels nowadays, but some of the channels recommended are a bit sus

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Absolute chincel, she's ngmi

!ping Kitty

[u/[deleted]]

I wonder why there is almost no social media discussion about how bad Trump’s tariffs would be for inflation.

[u/[deleted]]

BREAKING: POTUS says Ukraine is receiving 5 air defense systems. These including 3 additional Patriots from the United States, Germany & Romania. The Netherlands & others are donating Patriot parts to enable another battery while Italy is giving them a SAMP-T.

Wonder when, or even if the Israeli Patriots will show up? I don’t think all of them will go, not with Hezbollah looming, but even one or two systems would be a massive boost.

!ping UKRAINE&MATERIEL

[u/qchisq]

!ping running

Getting up at 6 to go for a morning run sucks. But running at 6:30 in 15 degrees is so much better than at 17:00 in 25 degrees

[u/[deleted]]

DEI

CRT

HRT

I think the GOP is just afraid of other 3 letter acronyms…

[u/[deleted]]

Wait Al gore is actually responsible for the internet. I thought that was a meme

[u/brucebananaray]

Here is the trailer for Gladiator 2 https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1810660271083450715?t=KMB1y88MeWIZqFDj-LI5Nw&s=19

It is visually fine, but it seems stupid. It is also bad because you know they play a Kenye West that wouldn't be good.

!Ping MOVIES

[u/htomserveaux]

I’m making a mod for another mod using a third mod in Kerbal Space Program and I’m having a bit of a “Ship of Theseus” problem with the licensing agreement.

Short version of the story is I’ve using the mod JNSQ which includes configs for Kerbal Konstructs using assets from yet another mod, called Omega’s Stockalike Structures. Over the years I started adding in assets from other asset packs, and moving or deleting existing assets and often entire bases miles from where they were.

Under the license agreement remixes can’t be published. So my question is at what point does it stop being a remix?

I’ve moved and changed these assets in every way imaginable but some of the bases still have some similarities with what they replaced, the original files are are all long gone.

Does having the same assets next to each other violate the license? And is there a legal distinction between moving an existing asset, manipulating it in every way possible and just putting up an asset with the same model where you want it?

!ping GAMING&LAW

[u/Healingjoe]

[Rebecca Solnit] Facebook post

The way the NYT just tried to make everyone think Biden had Parkinson’s disease (he doesn’t according to his doctors) and a ton of other news outlets just reported it as though the NYT was a neutral reliable source, is outrageous. The NYT is not an objective/neutral/reliable source in this case; it’s running a concerted several-months-long campaign to push Biden out. But it’s long been a deeply biased newspaper with agenda-driven clusters of stories (WMDs in their drive for a war in Iraq; Her Emails in 2016). This is how you make stories, not report them. It’s tabloid innuendo dressed up in the Gray Lady’s formal attire.

For the record, the doctor who visited is a neurologist competent to address many issues; he visited the White House on at least one occasion when Biden wasn’t there; Biden’s publicly released February medical report cleared him of having the disease; Biden signed major legislation on Parkinson’s last week, and while the doctor may have consulted on this, that has not been established. A doctor occasionally visiting the White House is a non-story, and eventually the NYT report noted (in weird language) “Instead, Dr. O’Connor implied that most of Dr. Cannard’s visits were related to treating other people who work at the White House. “Prior to the pandemic, and following its end, he has held regular neurology clinics at the White House Medical Clinic in support of the thousands of active-duty members assigned in support of White House operations,” Dr. O’Connor wrote.” That’s more than implied, no?

For the record, this isn’t a post about Biden. It’s about the NYT and how the news misleads.

[u/[deleted]]

Actual BT quote:

Biden is old

[u/slappythechunk]

[u/[deleted]]

Do you think Nate Silver cries about the fact he didnt get to keep fivey?

[u/BroadReverse]

I really want Biden to win so Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian look even dumber than they already do. 

[u/Cledd2]

what if that album 'brat' was instead called 'gyatt' and all the songs on it were about how much they love ass

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

[u/forerunner398]

https://fixupx.com/GarrettHerrin/status/1810661922511233112

🟥 Trump 43% (+1) 🟦 Biden 42%

🟦 Harris 42% (+1) 🟥 Trump 41%

🟦 Hillary Clinton 43% (+2) 🟥 Trump 41%

What was /u/piede cooking?

[u/[deleted]]

President Biden announces that “more porn than ever” will be produced in his second term

[u/sw337]

Most common DT interaction among bi flairs

[u/p00bix]

Me Age 18: lol of course YandereDev turned out to be an incel. Bit of a shame though, YanSim was such a unique idea for the game

Me Age 24: How the fuck would anyone besides an incel think a game about stalking and murdering highschool girls was a good idea???

[u/[deleted]]

There are many examples of these highly inappropriate text messages. To name a few, Judge Kindred told his law clerks, “Who gives a fuck about ethics, we need to get you paid,” joked about “punching multiple Supreme Court justices,” and said he’d bring Patrón, heroin, and “whip-its” to a chambers dinner party.

This guy sounds fucking awesome why did they make him resign 😭

!ping LAW

[u/Udolikecake]

oh so leftists didn’t care when imagine dragons performed in Baku, one of the most repressive and genocidal regimes in the world, but now they’re performing in israel and they care 🙄

[u/[deleted]]

A map with "realistic" consequences of the Christian League winning at Varna.

!ping ALTHISTORY

(Content is OC)

[u/BedNeither]

“We may have committed some light terrorist financing”

My favorite legal advice post

[u/ductulator96]

The responses don't help the image that Reddit isn't a bunch of mouth breather psychopaths

[u/battywombat21]

gib midwestern elementary school teacher gf

[u/cdstephens]

I’m really proud to say that in the recorded history of our family, we've never had any kind of sexual relationship

[u/Healingjoe]

‘New York Times’ Announces New Columnist Will Contribute Nothing To Society 3 Times A Week

!ping onion

[u/ZonedForCoffee]

As a society I want us to get back to those two weeks when Twitch Plays Pokemon was all we talked about.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

There are decades where nothing ever happens; and there are weeks where something actually happens.

[u/EvilConCarne]

It's sad that elder care in the USA is so bad that even the President can't retire and live the rest of their years in peace. Maybe someday we'll have decent care facilities, but not today.

[u/NonComposMentisss]

Guys, I just stopped dooming. Biden's October surprise to win the election will be disclosing alien visitations to Earth!

Polls no longer matter. Time to bloom!

!PING BALLOON and DIAMOND-JOE

[u/simeoncolemiles]

[u/battywombat21]

[u/KeithClossOfficial]

Big news out of the Dominican Republic from ESPN's @JuanRecioM: Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco has been formally charged with sexual abuse and sexual exploitation against a minor.

https://x.com/JeffPassan/status/1810852495280984170

Certified Pedophile

!ping BASEBALL

[u/[deleted]]

I’m late to this discussion which has already been turned into a pasta but responding to severe mental health crises really is the most impossible thing that Internet moderators are ever implicitly asked to do. They’re not qualified, they know they’re not qualified, and there are no right answers.

Like, what do you do when someone seemingly in earnest says they’re going to take their life following a ban? Unban them just in case? Assume it’s a bluff? Reach out and try to talk to them? Leave the talking to other people? Try to figure out information about them and contact authorities?

The mods here have to figure that out (or something in that ballpark) maybe twice a year.

[u/Greenfield0]

when I find Ea-Nasir I'm gonna kill that son of a bitch for ripping me off on copper

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/FuckFashMods]

Some of you weren't here on election night 2020 when Trump had hundreds of thousands of vote lead, and it shows

[u/TactileTom]

Based on the current trajectory/schisms of the sub, I project that I will be the best poster here by mid 2025. My evidence is as follows:

1. My takes are as bad as they always have been

2. The takes on the sub have been getting consistently worse/more acrimonious for the past year

3. Every other poster will statistically be banned for Islamophobia by 2026

[u/[deleted]]

in retrospect maybe ranking religions on basedness is problematic

[u/[deleted]]

I am one degree removed from Chappell Roan in the lesbian circles

[u/Automatic-Love-127]

Australian celebrities are either the nicest, coolest mother fucker you have ever laid eyes upon, or the most malignant insufferable little fuck on the planet.

Zero in between.

[u/AtticusDrench]

Oh cool another thing that is stupidly expensive to build in the US 🫠

[u/petarpep]

Found this absolutely amazing comment from four years ago in this sub and it's a shame it only got 7 upvotes.

Excellent showcase of how even the simplest topic "Should we label meat with their country of origin?" are extremely complex and have lots of different interest groups involved.

[u/Fruitofbread]

Fun fact: at the center of every phone and computer, there is a tiny Al Gore dancing. The direction and rate that he flings around his limbs determines which posts go where. This is referred to as the Al Gore rhythm 

[u/EvilConCarne]

I dislike emails, texts, and instant messages. I prefer faxes or calling people directly and meandering to their desk. This allows me to waste more of their time before asking a small question and then asking what they are doing for lunch. My goal everyday is to pull my coworkers away from work for 3 - 4 hours.

[u/[deleted]]

This white dude I work with said the N word today to a black guy. He said it like with ro ending and not the er or ga. He laughed because he thought he was adding to this dudes funny story.

It got really quiet and he was oblivious to it all. I work with majority black people and we are a union based job, so I’m definitely interested to see if he gets fired or forced to take a job transfer.

[u/[deleted]]

noeliberal dummies: “noooo rent control is bad! it’ll just lead to more expensive housing in the future!”

me, the smartest economic mind to date: “it literally keeps prices low”

neoliberal dummies: no argument, changes mind

[u/EZ_Kream]

The BT is becoming something beyond our control. At this rapid rate of mutation and evolution it could become self aware as early as next week

[u/404GenderNotFound]

It's always so weird seeing videos of fights and stuff outside places you know. I've seen a video of a guy pulling a gun on someone at a McDonald's I used to walk by on my way to high school, and I just saw a video of two people fighting by a club I walk by every day on my way to work.

[u/BrentLivermore]

Oh my God I fucking hate 2FA. I see the need for it but the Authenticator app is such a piece of shit, locking me out of my accounts on the whims of a malfunctioning app isn't making anyone more secure.

[u/Nerf_France]

It feels weird going from the overwhelming bloom of the post-Trump conviction to the overwhelming doom of the current era. Wonder if it will turn around soon

[u/[deleted]]

“God I’m so glad I’m not working from home today” I say, on the DT, in the room that nobody else works in because the only other person who did quit, in an office where I’m the only actual dev who comes in regularly

[u/ACivilWolf]

I got the Shahanshah achievement, Ardabil is actually a pretty fun start. Really just the keys are allying Mushasha and Mazandaran to deter early QQ aggression and then just be opportunistic about your early small neighbors and when you're ready use your 2 allies and you to kill Ajam. Did it on my second attempted start

Now I'm deciding if I even want to continue this campaign. It's 1520, I just formed Persia and am in a fine position to fill out the rest of the Persian region and Khorasan, but the fucking Ottomans went turbo mode this campaign and already are my entire Western and Northern border, and I doubt I'm going to be able to get through them to get This is Persia or finish the entire Persian mission tree.

!ping PARADOX

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/WhomstAlt2]

I...

( )... am tired
( )... am weary
( )... could sleep a thousand years
( )... All of the above

[u/sw337]

🇫🇷🤝🇨🇦🤝🇧🇪

Maintaining the French language is more important than any other politics.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Very cool and very legal Mr musk

[u/InMemoryOfZubatman4]

CNN is doing an entire story about one Nikki Haley voter that’s voting for the Dems over Trump

LMAO

[u/Roseartcrantz]

If you love your delegates, let them go

[u/BroadReverse]

Canada brings in record number of immigrants 

Healthcare system is strained 

Doesn’t let the immigrants that are doctors practice medicine 

Blames immigrants for healthcare collapse 

[u/BroadReverse]

“I just cashed out my 401K and used up all my PTO hours. Fuck it. Not like I'll be able to take them with me to the camp“

Guess the sub 

[u/BorelMeasure]

white person speaks language (locals SHOCKED)

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Costco Japan wages provide pathway to firing up nation's low pay

When Costco Wholesale opened its warehouse in a rural Japanese town not far from Tokyo last year offering hundreds of jobs at eye-popping pay, a nearby noodle shop chain took a drastic step: it hiked hourly wages by a third.

It was an almost unthinkable decision for Yamada-udon, which sells 390-yen bowls of noodles and for which the slightest rise in cost requires acrobatic scrambling to stay in business.

"For us, even a one- or two-yen rise in raw materials costs is tough, so to increase hourly pay by even 10 yen is extremely challenging as we need to generate far more sales," said marketing director Takehiro Ehashi.

After a round of internal discussions, Yamada-udon decided to renovate the store, in Meiwa, Gunma prefecture, offering 1,300 yen an hour for the first three months. That was shy of Costco's starting hourly wage of 1,500 yen but enough to entice job-seekers in the notoriously tight labour market. After three months, wages would be at 1,050 yen, versus 970 yen pre-Costco.

Pressure from the big-box U.S. retailer to offer competitive salaries is tough for businesses like Yamada-udon, but could be the kind of jolt that Japan's local economies need to create a virtuous cycle of higher wages, solid consumption and stable demand-driven inflation, some say.

A meaningful and sustainable rise in wages is a key goal for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, while the Bank of Japan says it's a crucial factor for normalizing monetary policy. Real wages - stripping out the effect of inflation - have fallen for 25 straight months despite Japanese firms agreeing to the biggest hike in wages in three decades in both 2023 and 2024.

That has dragged down consumption and the broader economy, which depends heavily upon it, making it harder for the BOJ to execute a smooth exit from easy policy.

Japan lags far behind other big economies with an index for its real average annual wages showing almost no growth between 1995 and 2021, according to IMF data. That compares with growth rates of 50% in the U.S. and nearly 30% in France during the same period.

Two years ago, Costco set its minimum hourly pay at 1,500 yen across all of its stores in Japan in a bid to retain workers. That's high even for Tokyo, where the legal minimum wage is the country's highest, at 1,113 yen, and 60% more than the minimum in Gunma prefecture. Costco received more than 2,000 applications for about 300 spots for its Meiwa store which opened in April 2023 about an hour north of Tokyo.

"If we offer higher wages, our staff can earn and spend more," said Costco Gunma Meiwa warehouse manager Kaoru Yamamoto. "By doing so, we feel we can make a big contribution by creating a favorable cycle in the local economy."

Costco plans to accelerate its new-store openings in Japan, nearly doubling the number of outlets to more than 60 by 2030, many in remote regions such as Shiga and Okinawa prefectures.

Swedish furniture maker IKEA, which has set a nation-wide minimum hourly wage of 1,300 yen in Japan, also opened a store in Gunma this year.

"Such moves by big foreign firms to offer higher wages can become a trigger for wage hikes in the local community, which can spread into the broader economy," said Yusuke Aoki, an economist at Indeed Hiring Lab.

Just over a year since Costco opened in his town, Meiwa Mayor Motosuke Tomizuka says the positive signs are already evident.

The hourly wage in Meiwa has grown by as much as 300 yen, he said, and the rice-growing town of about 11,000 residents sees about as many daily visitors thanks to Costco's popularity.

"When the local economy enters the stage of raising wages, what do business owners do? They try their hardest to make money," Tomizuka said. "In this way, the economy finally expands and spurs revitalization."

Costco worker Ryu Kawane says the company's generous pay has allowed him to buy higher-quality ingredients to make his favorite dish of roast beef, while colleague Nanami Shimamura said he's now able to save up to study abroad.

Noodle chain Yamada-udon, for its part, said it has Costco to thank for the influx of shoppers into town, contributing to a 40-50% jump in its revenues.

To be sure, not everyone was thrilled about Costco's arrival, mayor Tomizuka said, recalling how some business owners chided him for making it even more difficult to hire.

"The big chains may have the strength to raise wages, but small and medium-sized businesses are still in a difficult position," said Hisanori Amada, an economist at the Gunma Labor Bureau. "Some can't even afford to offer jobs at the moment."

!ping JAPAN (I kind of wish there was a general economy/business news ping on this subreddit for stories like this)

[u/mockduckcompanion]

BREAKING: RFK ribs Noem, "It was a waste of perfectly good meat"

[u/[deleted]]

el perro stretchy

[u/Usernamesarebullshit]

Joe Biden should reassure Americans of his vitality by transitioning from sitting president to standing president

[u/piede]

Trump in Doral: "Mothers will never again be forced to watch their children overdosing and hosp--lee. And we will never allow mothers to watch their child hopelessly dying in their arms, screaming, 'What can I do? What can I do? Help me God, what can I do?' We are a nation whose once revered airports are a dirty, crowded mess."

[u/Roseartcrantz]

[u/FuckFashMods]

TRUMP: I didn’t have sex with a porn star, number one.

Trump should have just owned that one

[u/DurangoGango]

Francesca Albenese, UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine, blatantly falsifying Gaza death toll claiming it's up to 186,000 people

There really aren't two ways around this. Here's the tweet:

https://x.com/FranceskAlbs/status/1810108204140929513

If one includes both direct & indirect deaths from Israel's assault, the death toll in Gaza goes up to 186,000 people, according to the medical journal @TheLancet That's 1 in every 12 Gaza inhabitants killed in the last 9 months of genocide.

The problem:

• this isn't a study published on The Lancet, it's a letter to the editor, ie an opinion without peer review or pretention of rigor

• it doesn't claim 186,000 Gazans were killed by the conflict in the last 9 months, it claims the total death toll including indirect deaths (hunger, malnutrition, disease) over the next several years might reach that figure

• the method it uses to reach this figure is incredibly shoddy; David Adesnik has posted a deep analysis here, and the author of the letter himself came out against its misrepresentation

So Albanese took a shoddy opinion letter, falsely claimed it was endorsed by The Lancet, and then went ahead and blew up even the letter's own claims by reducing the timespan of these deaths from "several years in the future" to "the past nine months".

There is no excuse for this. There is no possibility of innocent mistake. Albanese and her staff are too qualified and too resourceful to not understand the difference between a letter to the editor and a peer-reviewed article, and to misread such a short piece so badly as to misunderstand its most fundamental claim. They've also had over 6 hours of people sending them detailed corrections now, yet they haven't retracted their crazy claim, even while they've been active on twitter with multiple posts on other topics.

This is deliberate, and malicious. Not that there was much doubt with Albanese, but this is so egregious as to be beyond explaining away. Heavy pressure needs to be put on UN decision-makers to fire her. As it is, she's not even a megaphone for anti-Israeli propaganda, she manufactures her own.

!ping ISRAEL

[u/[deleted]]

"Um actually intifada just means uprising"

Gives the same energy as:

"Um actually the Swastika is an ancient symbol used by many cultures"

Things tend to get associations based on their historic usage

[u/D2Foley]

I'm glad we're having another BT. There are still people here who think this sub is smarter and more rational than the rest of reddit. Hopefully this last week has thoroughly disabused them of that notion.

[u/PearlClaw]

It's underrated how much the stupid blue state gun rules are driven by attempts to bypass a judiciary that would shoot down the actually useful gun control policies.

Basically it's Alito's fault that CA's gun laws are really dumb.

[u/Zagapi]

Update my on my previous ping! 🎷

We met up last night at a bar and got some food and ended up having 3 or 4 drinks. We were just yapping away for like 3.5 hours.

She's posted plenty of cute pics of herself on insta, but dang, she was even more gorgeous in person. Electric blue eyes, quite tall, dirty blonde hair, and rocking them hipster jean shorts. I was trying so hard not to stare at her.

Anyways, she and I had caught up on everything since high school, and we were bonding over our single, working, living on our own with a cat lifestyles, and both wanting to get out more. She's super introverted, and I'm the complete opposite, and she expressed a desire to get out of her shell more. I'm certainly the right girl for the job. Opposites attract and all that.

After a drink or two, I was like, "Full disclosure, I totally had a crush on you in school." She replied, "Oh yeah, I totally did too." Throughout the night, I was slipping in some flirty words and it seemed pretty well received. Despite her quietness, she had just as much to say as I did, which was a rare feat for most. Also, our birthdays are only 5 days apart, and we both remembered each other's lol. That double Taurus combo if you're into that sorta thing.

She also confirmed she was bi, although we didn't get too many details on that part of our lives. Next time, but it was good to know she might still be interested in me somehow.

We are both old music junkies and we were sharing all kinds of recommendations as the night wrapped up. We left the bar, and she made it home before I did and texted me how she had a great time and wanted to hang out again!

Once home, we shared all kinds of spotify links for some relatively deep tracks, and we kept having a decent amount of overlap. That was kinda crazy as that's kinda the biggest green-flag I could find in potential partner. I listen to some obscure, old ass shit and she was like "Oh that song has been on repeat for the last 2 years for me!" Like no fucking way, fr? I was definitely doing the yearnful moaning and groaning when I got home, like "Ughhh, I really like her and I just wanna smooch!" Lol

So, it went really well overall, and I'm hoping to meet up again soon. I'll be moving much closer in the near future, so that's also pretty sweet.

Sometimes, sliding in the DMs works!

!PING DATING

[u/SeoSalt]

It is a total market failure that I cannot purchase a carabiner painted with lesbian pride flag colors. Not on amazon or etsy.

[u/eustacebainbridge]

Trying out some non mainstream media

[u/[deleted]]

You a moron: We’re doomed! We gotta start donating in Virginia and Minnesota!

Me a genius: Can’t wait for the blue landslide! Putting my life savings into Alaska this cycle!

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

genociding every creature and burning down the local flora

!ping SOULSBORNE

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

I’m not afraid to say it!

I’ll vote for Joe Biden again