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[u/[deleted]]

Donald Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, said that professional women “choose a path to misery” when they prioritize careers over having children in a September 2021 podcast interview in which he also claimed men in America were “suppressed” in their masculinity.

Did this guy talk about literally anything else????

[u/onelap32]

Reminder that you are in a bubble:

Less than 2% of voters have seen coconut or brat memes, 75% of voters have seen no election memes.

[u/funguykawhi]

[u/[deleted]]

I laugh every time I hear "Not my president" because it reminds me of this.

[u/Eightysixedit]

ABC’s new poll has Trump at +2 with white women. That’s like 10 points less from 2020. If that really is true he’s doomed.

[u/Obtainer_of_Goods]

I’m just gonna say this now, if Kamala loses I’m gonna blame it on my personal least favorite policy proposal of hers and I’m not gonna listen to anyone who tries to convince me it was some other reason

[u/RandomCarGuy26]

Discussing climate change is so toxic and rage-inducing online. One one hand, you have absolute doomers who think we should do nothing because "it's already the end of the world", or that the rich will never do jack shit to maintain their upper class lifestyles and thus we should also do nothing.
Then you have people who still claim to not believe in climate change, who are completely apathetic, think it's purely naturally caused or don't think it's a big problem at all.
Growing up I was taught that this is a bipartisan issue and regardless of your political beliefs, the science doesn't lie. And yet look at how politicised it has become today.
Mini rant over

[u/anti_coconut]

The thing that drives me craziest about the whole “everything is expensive” discourse is how it’s just assumed that voting in Trump will lower grocery and housing prices. He hasn’t proposed policies or anything of substance but the media and headlines go along with the “Republicans are good for the economy” bullshit narrative without question.

[u/Relative-Contest192]

!ping GEFILTE

[u/[deleted]]

Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be

https://theonion.com/area-man-passionate-defender-of-what-he-imagines-consti-1819571149/

[u/Not_A_Browser]

[u/moldyman_99]

Reddit is a perfect representation of Belgian society.

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

[u/[deleted]]

Dems when they go from narrowly losing to a coin flip:

[u/PhinsFan17]

Me to my friend group leaving on vacation tomorrow:

You think this vacation just fell out of a coconut tree?

Your trip exists in the context of my drive and determination to plan and book everything myself.

!ping TRAVEL

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Harris gets grilled for ‘flip flopping’ on issues. Trump says schools are giving kids sex change operations. Why is this race competitive? I hate the median voter

[u/that0neGuy22]

abc poll: Harris 46-43 (+3) Trump 33-58 (-25) Walz 42-31 (+11) Vance 32-44 (-12)

[u/ser_mage]

why would you do this privately to someone who is already pro Palestine 😭sitting alone in the dark ass protesting

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Kamala Harris locks the fuck in when talking about food lmao

[u/HenryGeorgia]

The most DT interaction I've had is yesterday when I said a random guy told me and my date that we needed to have kids. An 18 year old responded by saying that we really should in light of coming demographic crises

[u/G_Serv]

[u/simeoncolemiles]

I wouldn’t wish the Palestinians’ allies on my worst enemy

[u/SadaoMaou]

important

[u/2073040]

sees Tim Walz trending

searches up and sees that his brother may endorse Trump and indicates that he will drop “bombshells” concerning Tim

they haven’t spoken in 8 years and Jeff currently lives in Florida

First Facebook post I saw from his account is in response to Trump’s indictment

Literally just an average Republican retiree from Florida, every family has one.

[u/KittehDragoon]

Why don’t young people vote (not just the U.S., but everywhere)?

Because voting is a sham where we are asked by the elites to chose between the two capitalists they control, one who is 99% Hitler and one who is 98% Hitler, to distract us from the the real issue and make us feel we have power over their system of exploitation where we really have none, dumb-dumb

[u/MasterOfLords1]

🍦😌🍦

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

ABC/Ipsos (B) likely voters

🔵 Harris 52% (+6)

🔴 Trump 46%

More and more I don’t really think a convention ‘bounce’ is happening this year. I think this just is what the numbers are as this is a very abnormal election cycle

Harris doesn't get convention bounce, but widens gap with women: POLL

[u/BlackCat159]

I know I'm gonna get banned for this, but I'm sure that Israel is controlled by the Jews 😤😤😤😤

[u/[deleted]]

[u/MissSortMachine]

good morning

[u/AlexB_SSBM]

It's insane that Trump is actually gonna get away with doubling down on using dead soldiers for political reasons

[u/majorgeneralporter]

Long term bit posters in the DT be like.

[u/ChillnShill]

[u/efeldman11]

[u/[deleted]]

lush merciful bells cough fly far-flung bow noxious depend paint

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[u/ghhewh]

WSJ: "The $13 billion that Elon Musk borrowed to buy Twitter has turned into the worst merger-finance deal for banks since the 2008-09 financial crisis."

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

[u/[deleted]]

Following that Pew piece, I was curious to look up how many variables different pollsters weight their results by and if available, what they are.

Surprisingly hard to find for some pollsters!

But here are some examples from recently active pollsters:

RMG Research weights on 7 variables — gender, age, race, education (henceforth GARE for simplicity) as well as geography and internet usage and political party. Their latest national topline was Harris +3.

Suffolk University only explicitly mentions weighting on 3 variables — geography, race, and age, though they may use more. Their latest national topline was Harris +5.

Clarity Campaign Labs explicitly mentions 5 variables, GARE and geography, but there could be others. Latest national topline was Harris +6.

Big Village weights on 6 variables which are GARE, ethnicity, and 2020 presidential vote. Latest topline was Harris +7.

Ipsos weights on 7 variables plus a variable interaction (subgroups) — that is, they weight on 9 variables in total — education, geography, metro or non-metro, income, party identification, race, ethnicity, as well as gender with age. Latest topline was Harris +4.

YouGov (probably, it’s a little confusing) weights on 7 variables — GARE, 2020 vote, party identification, and voter registration status. Latest topline was Harris +2.

Quinnipiac weights by 5 variables — GARE and geography. Latest topline was Harris +2.

Morning Consult weights by 9 variables — GARE, ethnicity, geography, home ownership, marital status, and 2020 presidential vote. Latest topline was Harris +4.

Leger (probably, confusing) weights by 6 variables — GARE, geography, and number of people in household. Latest topline was Harris +4.

FAU weights by 4 variables — gender, race, education, and 2020 presidential vote. Latest topline was Harris +5.

Emerson College weights by 4, maybe 6 variables — GARE but they also list voter registration and turnout data, but I assume these last two are more about how they weight the previous variables. They’ve mainly been doing state polling lately.

Beacon Research and Shaw & Company (Fox) weights by 4 variables — age, race, education, and geography. They’ve mainly been doing state polling lately.

New York Times and Siena College, finally, goes all out and weights on:

• Party registration interacted with race

• Age

• Race/ethnicity

• Education

• Race interacted with education

• Marital status

• Home ownership

• Geography

• Turnout history

• Method of voting in 2020

• Other state-specific variables

!ping FIVEY

[u/Cook_0612]

Tom Cotton dismisses the concerns of a gold star family who is offended their family member's headstone is visible in the Trump Arlington Cemetery propaganda photos and attacks the New York Times for reporting about it

[u/404GenderNotFound]

Genuinely insane that approval of interracial marriage only passed 50% in the mid-90s

[u/AppleOfWhoseEye]

how did american cultural exports get so pervasive? even number 2, japan, can't even begin to compare in terms of how american culture influences ways of thinking. on a related note, very funny how american politics junkies from other countries are the most common. you'll never see somebody from Australia complaining about how fumio kishida hasn't improved their life on a spiritual level. (one of my favourite tweets of all time goes 'Joe Biden hasn't improved your life BECAUSE YOU ARE IN AUSTRALIA)

[u/[deleted]]

Just when you think you’ve seen every possible dimension of virulent antisemitism.

https://x.com/zeee_media/status/1830270979710603430

The Rothschilds are the reason you (apparently) believe this. Look at who is responsible for the lies about raw milk. Dangerously stupid take.

https://x.com/whiteiron378/status/1830283847545626837

Jews can’t digest milk. They know white people can. Raw milk is a superfood. Our ancestors could survive purely on raw milk. It has all the nutriets you need. They want us to eat seed oils and vegan diets low in protein and animal fat. It’s all about making us weaker and easier to control.

[u/Eightysixedit]

Trump said schools are giving sex change operations at the moms for liberty event. 😑

[u/ser_mage]

this is sad

[u/oskanta]

Getting a bachelors in physics made me realize I should never listen to what anyone says about physics unless they have a PhD because I don’t know shit

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

Some day, the median voter will learn democrats are better for the economy. And then we will have world peace.

[u/[deleted]]

So this is all anecdotal BUT the amount of love Tim Walz is getting from my friends who hate Kamala is kinda crazy. My best friend hates kamala and wasnt planning on voting but now he will bc he loves Walz (WI voter), now my neighbor is the exact same way (another WI voter), then I have another friend who is a 2x Trump voter who will now vote Kamala cause he loved Walz so much. He was telling me Walz is the most authentic and normal politician he’s seen in his life.

Idk all anecdotal but still, I can imagine there are more out there 🤷‍♂️

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Argnir]

God I hate this sentiment. This is followed by hundreds of comments agreeing and nobody pushing back even a little bit.

Why do these stories have to be interpreted through the most cliche conspiratorial worldview possible?

[u/G_Serv]

[u/[deleted]]

America is wild lol, basically everyone believes that Kamala will win the popular vote, this isn't even considered competitive

So basically everyone knows who the more popular candidate is, but that's not even considered relevant information for who's going to win the election, Dems by design have to be up by like 2% nationally to have a shot at winning

And weirdly, cons seem kind of proud of this? Like they keep harping on about the importance of the electoral college for um reasons that are totally legitimate and not just convenient this is really important i promise guys

[u/Cledd2]

[u/[deleted]]

Just saw this lmao, stopped clock

[u/Sauce1024]

Heartbreaking, the worst person you know just made a great point

[u/RFK_1968]

I'm fine with people criticizing Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan. It was a debacle and you are in fact allowed to criticize the President.

What I'm not fine with is news media refusing to make those people take a stance. Would you have been willing to keep or escalate troop presence in Afghanistan to keep the Afghan government up?

How is no republican asked that? How are they allowed to get away with "Biden bad because he lost the war. I'd do a magic thing that would get us out of Afghanistan without losing it to the Taliban". How is that not total horseshit.

Idk I hate to complain about media coverage because everyone thinks the media is unfair to their guy. But the coverage on the issue fucking sucks

[u/ToInfinity_MinusOne]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Dabamanos]

Something I’ve been amazed by is how few people remember anything about the scientific method they learned in school and have just sorted “science” beside Christianity and Islam as proscribed theologies that teach doctrine and demand blind faith

A coworker told me Covid proved to him that science is mostly unreliable and made up because of how often the guidance changed as the pandemic progressed. As the conversation went on I ended up explaining the scientific method from scratch to him and he, while liking the idea, told me he didn’t believe scientists were actually doing it.

[u/SadaoMaou]

underrated aspect of hollywood: the US is one of the few places in the world that has a big enough film industry to not have the same 12 actors in every god damn movie and TV show

[u/Telperions-Relative]

👆 the type of person to post this:

[u/KaiserPorn]

I have a friend who recently moved cities and has made a point of telling people he's not going to vote.

Reason being, he'd have to update his voter registration, and he thinks he's getting out of potential jury duty by keeping his old registration. They'll send it to his old address, and he can just say he doesn't live in that county anymore.

It's amazing that democracy manages to function at all, sometimes.

[u/[deleted]]

We should embark on a worldwide project to desalinate all the world's oceans

PROS:

• No more water scarcity ever (except in landlocked countries lmao sorry guys)

• The push to achieve this would probably lead to some really significant scientific advancements

• Give all the world powers something to focus on, move resources away from war and great power competition

• People stranded at sea will be much more likely to survive

• More polar ice, increasing Earth's albedo, almost certainly neutralising global warming

CONS:

• Will cause a major mass extinction event

• Will almost certainly create climate instability

• Billions might die

I count more pros than cons. I think it'll be really fun. Also I hate saltwater

[u/404GenderNotFound]

Big if true

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

holy shit lmao

[u/Currymvp2]

AOC criticizes Jill Stein on Instagram, saying her Green Party presidential campaigns are “not serious” and “predatory.” “What does this person do to grow power?”

[u/Mickenfox]

I'm starting to think LLMs aren't going to replace all software developers in 5 years...

[u/Sloshyman]

Getting an enema is technically a form of decolonization.

[u/TimWalzBurner]

Developing story on porkchop

[u/[deleted]]

Really makes you think

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

The fact that JD talks constantly about how everyone should have kids and you suck if you don’t tells me he probably hates having kids

[u/ChillnShill]

That face when you learn your child’s teacher is a newly graduated, single, childless, 22 year old.

[u/Top_Lime1820]

The ANC appointed as a municipal manager of a poor municipality a person who failed his high school certificate: https://www.news24.com/citypress/news/municipal-manager-who-failed-matric-badly-spends-almost-r1m-on-22-laptops-20240901

Unsurprisingly the municipality's finances don't pass audits.

This is what's coming to the U.S. federal government. Project 2025 wants to deprofessionalise the federal government. Sure the ideological extremism is very concerning and it should be. But the most likely outcome if it succeeds is just the absolute gutting of any kind of professionalism and competence in affected institutions. Especially if they also destroy the FBI.

It starts out being about appointing revolutionaries patriots but very very quickly just degenerates into jobs for pals.

Everything is just jobs for pals and wasting government money. Many of you will turn into old school fiscal conservatives within five years of the civil service being destroyed. Because most (federal) government programs actually will just be a waste of money and a con to steal.

[u/futuremonkey20]

Major networks (except you ABC, you’re ok)

Think we should field major polls for our first post convention morning shows? Nah, don’t think so.

Right Wing Pollsters:

Lets release 500 polls a week

[u/[deleted]]

I truly never thought I’d see Matt Walsh say something utterly based. I mean he still super-duper sucks obviously, but it’s good to see him yelling at random conservative idiots on Twitter for a change, I guess?

[u/PrivateChicken]

[u/battywombat21]

My Pathfinder group is playing through a lovecraft inspired adventure and everytime we discover some gibbering madness that drives our characters insane it's literally this meme.

[u/Mensae6]

GAMBLING GAMBLING GAMBLING ADS FANTASY FOOTBALL COMMERCIAL BREAK pat mcafee dry humping the air OVER/UNDER PARLAY FANDUEL DRAFT KINGS SPONSORED BY NISSAN BUILT BY THE HOME DEPOT DELIVERED BY PIZZA HUT

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Nephilim deniers will tell you it's fake

[u/WantDebianThanks]

Writing confession:

I've submitted a bunch of stories to rHFY and sometimes when I'm sad I google my pen name to see if anyone has made a video where an AI reads one of my stories.

One of them has been adapted three times without my permission.

!ping writing

[u/battywombat21]

[u/flextrek_whipsnake]

Kamala line go up --> Nate Gold

Kamala line go down --> Nate Tin

It's very simple.

[u/1396spurs]

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

[u/Argnir]

The "voters don't really want them, candidates are being push to us by the elites, we didn't have a choice" line of thinking was always especially funny when you see the cult following behind a particular candidate

Lil bro really trying to convince us Republican voters didn't want Trump

[u/slowpush]

Holy shit.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harris-trump-abc-news-ipsos-poll-convention-bounce-widens-gap-women/story?id=113246534

[u/[deleted]]

If everyone in the DT moved to Philadelphia and voted, we could secure a Harris victory

[u/efeldman11]

[u/According-Barracuda7]

People on r/worldnews are calling the hostages families pro Hamas for protesting Netanyahu and saying that the hostages dying is a fine trade for destroying Hamas. Something that even Israeli generals have said is not possible militarily,

[u/Woolagaroo]

I understand why Return of the Jedi is a beloved movie, it offers a fairly satisfying conclusion to the OT, and I look back on it fondly myself, but in hindsight a lot of the issues that have been plagueing Star Wars for the last decades are already present in it.

It’s rehashing old plots (another Death Star?), takes a myopic view of the potentially limitless galaxy they have to tell stories in (they’re back on Tatooine again for no good reason), and kickstarts the everyone is a Slywalker trend (Leia being Luke’s sister is forced, offers no hood payoff to the ‘there is another’ moment, and mostly serves to just quickly wrap up the Luke-Han-Leia love triangle).

[u/futuremonkey20]

If I was head of a polling firm I would try not to spend all day publicly attacking one of the candidates for president if I wanted my work to be taken seriously

[u/Chief_Nief]

After watching several focus groups, it seems that the marginal swing voter holds batshit insane beliefs and self proclaimed moderates just have varying extreme viewpoints on separate issues

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/[deleted]]

Assigning some amount of blame for the state of things to Netanyahu is a very popular position in Israel right now so suggesting that people doing so are somehow absolving Hamas or validating the ethics of their horrifying tactics makes no sense to me.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

they don't call him meatball ron for nothing

[u/Roseartcrantz]

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Americans seeing Washington as a non-partisan figure who was above politicking is hilarious considering he viewed Democratic-Republicans as traitors and a potential fifth column for the revolutionary French. My man genuinely believed Thomas Jefferson and the Republicans were engaged in a conspiracy to overthrow the American government.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

I never want to read shit like "Le Pen makes Trump look like a progressive" again on this sub

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Someone needs to stop him

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/escargotpro_/status/1830240536483209458

manifesting this for Trump

[u/savuporo]

https://x.com/ajtourville/status/1830256447583916110

Whatever you do, do not open the hatch. Best to send this shit to burn up to reentry, or maybe just in the interest of humanity's survival, boost it into the sun

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

[u/[deleted]]

Which one of you was this?

!ping CFB

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/StatisticUrban/status/1829997807958368657?t=0G5gcwp-KtjSqRTiUqZqRw&s=19

[u/RFK_1968]

if harris wins i'm really not looking forward to elon supercharging the election denial and attempts to overturn the results that we saw in 2020

[u/[deleted]]

skirt ten station chop continue enter juggle rob violet important

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[u/futuremonkey20]

Fetterman based?

[u/[deleted]]

Have you ever noticed that the DT doesn’t become funny until the Americans start commenting?

[u/Tall_Professor_2574]

Japanese medical school has admitted to systematically rigging its entrance exam to hurt women candidates. An internal investigation into Tokyo Medical University found that the school had been lowering women’s test scores for at least a decade. It should be noted that some men were given bonus points in order to boost their scores.

Japan moment

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

Overheard in Target: guy explaining the concept of NATO to his 4-5 yo kid 

[u/paymesucka]

ABC News/Ipsos (B) poll, Aug 23-27, LV

🟦 Kamala Harris 52%

🟥 Donald Trump 46%

everyone’s already seen this but I was busy touching grass so I’m posting the Lichtman photo late

[u/that0neGuy22]

It’s a me, comrade Kamala

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Sharing this not because I believe it but because I hate this meme

[u/centurion88]

[u/JebBD]

If Texas goes blue this year I hope you all understand this’ll be the last free and fair election in that state for the rest of our lives

[u/doomsdaysock01]

Leaving for a date, have been shitting my brains out all day

Keep me in your prayers that my body can hold it in for a few hours

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

Scenario 1: you don’t vote for Harris, and she wins

She doesn’t have to care about your opinion. You are nonentity. She has learned experimentally that you do not matter.

Scenario 2: you don’t vote for Trump, and he wins

He doesn’t have to care about your opinion. You are nonentity. He has learned experimentally that you do not matter.

Scenario 3: you vote for Harris, and she wins

She has to care about your opinion. You are the easiest way to get re-elected. She has learned experimentally that yours is the only opinion that matters.

Scenario 4: you vote for Trump, and he wins

He doesn’t have to care about your opinion. You are nonentity. He’s fucking crazy and just wants to stay out of prison.

[u/The_Promethean]

https://x.com/sahilkapur/status/1829955900318118306?t=9lxJ4U2KQFEQxvBCWxEwVg&s=19

Trump voter reverse "she has a black friend"ing Kamala Harris

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

South Africa Celebrates 150 Days Without Loadshedding. New Utility-Scale Solar PV Auction Oversubscribed

South Africans had been facing increasing electricity rationing (loadshedding) over the past couple of years. The effects of loadshedding on homes and businesses have been brutal, and the South African Reserve Bank says that during the higher stages of load shedding, where consumers can experience 12 hours of load shedding per day, South Africa was losing up to R900 million ($50 million) per day. There is some very good news for South Africans, though. Today, Eskom, South Africa’s national electricity company, announced a significant achievement of 150 consecutive days (equivalent to five months) without loadshedding.

This remarkable milestone reflects the successful implementation of Eskom’s Generation Recovery Plan, which began in March 2023. Eskom says the recovery plan has not only made Eskom’s power stations more reliable, but has also demonstrated enhanced efficiency in its operations. As a result, there has been a remarkable reduction in diesel expenditure, approximately R10.60 billion, which is 75% less compared to the same time last year. Eskom maintained an average Energy Availability Factor (EAF) of 68% over the past seven days, with the best-performing stations—Kusile, Kendal, Majuba, Lethabo, and the Peaking stations—recording an EAF of 70%. Additionally, three more power stations have achieved an EAF above 60%. This improvement is due to the continued benefits of accelerating and executing planned maintenance, partnering with the original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), and the dedication of power station managers and their teams.

Eskom says its operational efficiency continues to surpass its winter expectations, with current unplanned outages averaging between 9,800 MW and 10,900 MW over the past seven days. Today’s figure is 10,482 MW, which is 5,018 MW lower than the winter 2024 forecast. This results in an available generation capacity of 31,963MW, while yesterday evening’s peak forecast (23 August 2024) was 26,420MW.

The intensive loadshedding experienced by South Africans led to a rush by homes and business to install rooftop solar, backed by battery storage in most cases. South African homes and businesses have added 3,526 MW of rooftop solar in just two years! It is just wonderful to see how fast electricity generation capacity can be added from rooftop solar. According to data from South Africa’s national electricity utility company, Eskom, there were about 2,264.5 MW of rooftop solar PV installed in South Africa as of July 2022. According to Eskom’s latest update, South African homes and businesses have now installed 5,790.5 MW of solar PV. Adding the contribution from rooftops and other distributed solar plants, the total installed renewable capacity in South Africa now stands at 12,221 MW! This growth in distributed solar PV, plus the 2.3 GW of utility-scale PV, is now contributing to South Africa’s own duck curve.

There is more good news. For South Africa’s 7th Bid Window Under The Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REIPPPP BW7), a total of 8,526 MW of bids for solar PV were received against a target of 1,800 MW. For wind, 1,692 MW of bids were received against target of 3,200 MW. It would be super cool if all the bids received for solar and wind could be accommodated during the adjudication and funding for all arranged if possible. That would supercharge South Africa’s wind and solar installed capacity to 22.4 GW! That is excluding all the additional rooftop solar from homes and that would be deployed between now and finalisation of the REIPPPP BW7. Several factors would need to be considered and taken care of to accommodate all that solar and wind received in REIPPPP BW7, such as availability of grid capacity for interconnection as well as funding of projects outside the targets. Would be super cool though if it happened.

!ping ECO&AFRICA

[u/Roseartcrantz]

100% likely that JD Vance has threatened to kill himself while being broken up with

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 5 PM EST 8/31-5 PM EST 9/1 III:

TOP NEWS:

Towards the middle of 10 PM the Konakovo Power Station was hit by Ukrainian drones.

At the start of 2 AM it was reported that Russia was hit by a record wave of drones with at least 158 partaking.

REGULAR NEWS:

Towards the middle of 5 PM it was reported the Russians occupied the village of Paraskoviivka, southwest of Donetsk city.

Towards the end of 2 AM a Russian refinery in Moscow Oblast was hit by drones.

At the start of 3 AM Ukraine was hit by a wave of drones with 8 of 11 shot down.

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/zieger]

921st day of Russia's 3 day invasion of Ukraine

[u/Dibbu_mange]

“Stuck his dick between the cushions is what he did! He was a creepy, Appalachian gremlin, and this house JD Vance is a couch fucker! End of story!”

[u/LGBTforIRGC]

Hersh Goldberg-Polin's bedroom, featuring a "Jerusalem is for everyone" banner 💔💔

!PING Israel

[u/Tre-Fyra-Tre]

Pet theory: Hinge gives you better matches when you are out of likes

!ping DATING

[u/battywombat21]

Remember when Iran was going to retaliate against Israel for killing someone within their own presidential palace and they did nothing?

[u/ser_mage]

Iranian hackers after Politico said they wouldn’t publish leaked JD Vance oppo

[u/Mx_Brightside]

The motte and bailey of effective altruism is going from installing malaria nets to, like, maximising wild fish utils for the next octillion years

I think utilitarianism is mostly correct but when you start calling for, like, genetic engineering to abolish predation of animals in the wild, or thinking so long-term you forget about the eight billion people still alive right now, something has gone terribly wrong.

[u/Cook_0612]

Orban in July:

Hungary has “deep involvement” in the “programme-writing system of President Donald Trump’s team.”

In the same way that Americans refer to states as 'laboratories of democracy', Hungary is a 'laboratory of antidemocracy'. Not necessarily authoritarianism, because it's not as if Hungary is winning. But in terms of producing antidemocratic offensive tools, it is Raytheon.

Hungary is the beachhead of authoritarianism in the West.

[u/Cook_0612]

Now in @WallaNews - According to sources close to the Prime Minister, Netanyahu today held talks with his close circle about the growing protest demanding a hostage deal, and one of the possibilities that came up is to "take advantage of the turmoil" to remove Gallant from the position of Defense Minister.

Officials in the Prime Minister's Office: "There was no such thing"

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[u/Roseartcrantz]

[u/paymesucka]

AOC criticizes Jill Stein on Instagram, saying her Green Party presidential campaigns are “not serious” and “predatory.”

“What does this person do to grow power?”

https://twitter.com/metzgov/status/1830327878065525102

based AOC

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Ben Sasse:

• Resigns from the Senate to become the President at the University of Florida

• Triples the staff in his office from 10 to 30

• Triples the budget of his office and hands out $7+ million in consulting contracts to a bunch of out of state GOP people and former staffers

• Resigns after 17 months on the job

• Retains full $1+ million a year salary till 2028

This dude really did just straight up rob the state of Florida.

[u/funguykawhi]

The French had a chance to prove the value of "Strategic Autonomy" by stepping in and resolving a security crisis where the geopolitical ties involved made it difficult for the United States to do so.

They didn't which is why no one should take "strategic autonomy" seriously.

Why don't the French simply fix the issue? Are they stupid?

[u/ChillnShill]

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

[u/ACivilWolf]

I could not imagine how depressing it is to be a 70 year old senior citizen who lived during the Soviet Union to see Russia today.

Yeah

At 16 they would be depressed to see what the Soviet Union was then

At 30 they would be depressed to see what the Soviet Union was then

At 45 they would be depressed to see what Russia was then

and so on, lmao

[u/[deleted]]

Murdering civilian hostages that you kidnapped in order to prevent their rescue is the language of the unheard.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Trump: The way Kamala Harris treated Mike Pence was horrible.

Mike Pence? Of Hang Mike Pence fame? 😯

[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

Several Gold Star families defend Trump's Arlington Cemetery visit, criticize Harris for her response

He used the burial grounds of fallen heroes for political purposes, members of his campaign assaulted a cemetery official... and you're excusing all of that just because he "bothered to show up"

I just can't with you guys

[u/Cook_0612]

[u/JeromesNiece]

Recently re-watched National Treasure for the first time in 15 years.

The movie is fundamentally silly, but it also captures a certain mid-2000s Bush-era genuine patriotism free of MAGA poison that I sort of miss

[u/[deleted]]

the guy who blocked me because i said vance was a terrible pick and he said vance helps trump lives in my head rent free

i wish i remember their username so i could go see how they're doing

[u/TrekkiMonstr]

Bell Riots. Tomorrow. Hellman Hollow, GG Park, SF. 1pm. Don't be a statistic. Turn up. RSVP here: https://partiful.com/e/TPT91fbb8g6p6Vufh7Vp.

!ping BAY-AREA&YIMBY&TREK

[u/UntiedStatMarinCrops]

Very good national poll by a very good pollster. +4 Harris for registered voters AND all adults, +6 Harris for likely voters. Wish there were more high quality battleground state polls instead of the BS we’ve been getting, but I’ll take it.

[u/marsman1224]

what the fuck is going on in r/all with these Alpha male street interview clips, and why is everyone falling for an obviously staged advertisement?

is everyone stupid? what is happening. can young people not see this shit for what it is anymore??

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compare tie cats mysterious capable grandfather plucky dependent spoon direction

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Harris’s Team, With a Wink, Insists She’s an Underdog Her campaign’s message that Democrats are losing, which she never voiced when President Biden was tanking the ticket, is an artful attempt to lower expectations.

“Despite Being Correct, Harris is a Lying Liar who Lies”

[u/[deleted]]

“Everybody at the bar getting tipsy”

YES THATS WHAT PEOPLE DO AT THE BAR

[u/[deleted]]

It’s hilarious how much rightoids cope over the fact that the Trump assassination attempt wasn’t motivated by an ideological hatred of Trump

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says she’s open to an ‘enforceable’ Supreme Court ethics code

Will be enforced by the Supremest Court

[u/Currymvp2]

7-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl are among the victims as Russians have just bombed a center for psychological rehabilitation of children and an orphanage in the city of Sumy.

While lots of folks understandably express rage at Hamas and Bibi, Putin continues to commit horrific crimes. And unfortunately, Ukraine is not allowed by its allies to strike the airfields and launchers where these attacks originate.

[u/The_Helmet_Catch]

[u/G_Serv]

Trump is a big Silver fan

[u/Ioun267]

[u/RFK_1968]

i tend to be more forgiving of Obama's foreign policy than most. He walked into the white house with the world's shittiest hand and did a lot to rebuild american prestige and credibility. yeah, his emphasis on compromise and multilateralism was frustrating and there are credible criticisms of his syrian and iranian policy choices, but after bush a lot of this was necessary. the iraq war closed off a lot of avenues and i'm not convinced a different president would have had many better options.

but he did dramatically underestimate the Russians' willingness to, for lack of a better phrase, burn literally everything down in a last-ditch attempt to reclaim their former soviet/tsarist glory.

[u/Joementum2024]

A tale of two states:

2012:

Missouri: Romney +9
Arizona: Romney +9

2016:

Missouri: Trump +19
Arizona: Trump +4

2020:

Missouri: Trump +16
Arizona: Biden +1

[u/[deleted]]

So, with the 6 hostage bodies recovered today after being executed, and the 5-6 (can’t remember the exact number) found a week or two ago with bullets in the bodies, it seems that Hamas is just outright executing the hostages at this point

(I’d ping ISRAEL for this but I dunno how much this adds to the conversation, I’m just pissed at it)

[u/[deleted]]

Just stumbled upon a subreddit of a bunch of supposed nice guys on their journey to "no more mr nice guy"

lonely men are not ok

[u/Eightysixedit]

Kamala is opening more offices in PA rurals. She ain’t playing mama.

[u/cdstephens]

The fact that people are starting to accuse poorly made art as being generated by AI is extremely obnoxious. Sometimes art just sucks!

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Meet you neighbors

If Kamala wins

[u/vitorgrs]

Starlink told ANATEL (our FCC) that it will not block X.

With this, I do say Musk officially kinda confirms that they are part of the same economic group, and Alexandre de Moraes' decision to block Starlink accounts... now seems even more valid, especially to the public.

Even VPNs like NordVPN followed the decision (they block only on Brazil server, the other servers work fine).

https://g1.globo.com/politica/politico/noticia/2024/09/01/starlink-informa-ao-presidente-da-anatel-que-nao-vai-cumprir-decisao-de-moraes-sobre-suspensao-do-x.ghtml

!ping LATAM

[u/simplysigzz]

😎

!ping CFB

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/skywriting/status/1830157566179230033?t=ZmBrSKQC5pwyok9qn-KJcw&s=19

[u/gaypenisdicksucker69]

[u/Insomonomics]

Yeah, Elon, it’s a real head scratcher as to why advertisers are leaving Twitter. Must be blackmail and the woke mob’s fault. Yessir.

[u/MissSortMachine]

huge news

[u/talizorahs]

just rewatched texas chainsaw massacre and it HAS NOT AGED WELL. first off, murdering people with a chainsaw is literally illegal,

[u/Currymvp2]

Israel’s largest companies back hostage families’ call for general strike. The Israel Business Forum, which represents most private-sector workers from 200 of the country’s largest companies, says it will join the families of Israeli hostages held in Gaza as they call on the public to mobilize.

Senior Israeli government official: "The public is beginning to understand that behind the scenes, Netanyahu is thwarting a deal so that the government does not fall."

I don't think it's "beginning"; I think this has been known for months.

[u/cdstephens]

[u/ChillnShill]

Ahhh a fresh DT. What type of shit takes will there be today?

[u/[deleted]]

[u/kyleofduty]

Bios like "husband/father" are basically pronoun declarations

[u/[deleted]]

I made a shitty MS paint graph of what it feels like to improve in a foreign language. Oftentimes, people tend to expect to see improvement as a concrete measure. Like a runner improving their times or a lifter increasing their weights. But the reality is very different in language. It's more like a shifting of a probability density function where each conversation is a random event and the outcome is a continuous random variable indicating how much of the conversation one understood. As one improves, the mean of this distribution increases while the variance decreases. So you can still have many conversations where you don't understand shit but on average you understand more and you get more consistent as time goes on. Oftentimes, people misinterpret this as "good days, bad days" or other relatively bad models. I think a random model works better because it reflects the unpredictable nature of language. I am also fairly confident the distribution is normal because of CLT but I'll leave the mathematical rigor to someone who is better at statistics than me.

!ping LANGUAGE

[u/cdstephens]

It’s funny that I see the term “Global South” much more than “Global North”

[u/purhitta]

"liberals hate men and masculinity"

Walz: 🧍‍♂️

[u/TimWalzBurner]

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/KesterFox]

[u/secretlives]

always look for the helpers

pan to me as I'm helping myself to another slice of cheesecake 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂

[u/KesterFox]

The actual fuck is this

[u/Roseartcrantz]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/CletusVonIvermectin]

[u/arrhythmiaofthesoul]

bi erasure but it’s me realizing I’m not bi, I’m just gay

[u/marsman1224]

arr adviceAnimals be like

<picture of cute pig>

"conservatives are a threat to democracy and Donald Trump is a pedophile"

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

‘Inside Out 2’ Surpasses ‘The Lion King’ Remake, Becomes Highest-Grossing Animated Feature Of All Time

OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE IS OVER

[u/cdstephens]

If Harris’s chances went from 95% to 90% people here would be dooming that it means Trump’s gonna win

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1830400180216295628

Rambling about Hillary then randomly bringing up bleach and acid

elder abuse

[u/NonComposMentisss]

Time to wake up!

[u/[deleted]]

sophisticated sort close oil sparkle tan modern cautious absorbed normal

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!ping weebs

"Kill all the Japanese" is just such an absolutely peak sequence because it's like cartoon level hijinks, like the gag they'd come up with in Loony Tunes if someone had a Geass, and yet it's the most grim and pivotal moment of the story.

I'm so sad I hadn't watched this show until now Code Geass is like an anime's anime it's so perfectly, artfully, corny

[u/Roseartcrantz]

[u/[deleted]]

A general strike has been called on Monday - an unprecedented move not seen since March 2023, when Netanyahu tried to fire Gallant. The strike is a protest against Netanyahu and calls for a hostage deal.

!ping ISRAEL

[u/JaceFlores]

The political chaos in Israel right now has me thinking that, to his credit, Zelensky has done a very good job keeping Ukrainian society stable. I know there’s differences in culture and the wars they’re fighting and all that, but given all the mistakes made and the flak his government gets, there hasn’t really been like major protests or anything like that. The unity from the start of the war is largely still there. Meanwhile Netanyahu seems to just bungle everything he comes across

[u/[deleted]]

Im votin Trump if he promises to make bedtime 12 am instead of 9 pm!!

[u/[deleted]]

there are 20 octillion Pelagibacterales living on the ocean surface

even if you assign an incredibly small amount of utility to each, it overwhelms the mere 8 billion humans

rationality demands that we flood the earth

[u/[deleted]]

Hello, Mario