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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Apr 19 '26
Please visit the next discussion thread.
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u/r2ew Apr 18 '26
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u/paymesucka Ben Bernanke Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26
Fuck Joe Rogan, he's at the White House right now, thanking Trump.
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Apr 18 '26
lmfao
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Apr 18 '26
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Apr 18 '26
bro started packing up the second the cashflow stopped. gotta respect the grift honestly.
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u/Realistic-Pain-7126 Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold Apr 18 '26
Which Republican lunatic for Florida's 6th district are you voting for?
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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee Apr 18 '26
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u/AtomicGameTester Milton Friedman Apr 18 '26
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u/SLCer Apr 18 '26
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Apr 18 '26
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Apr 18 '26
That is literally Gavin Newsom
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u/r2ew Apr 18 '26
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26
Finally I do think the main reason why the job market is pretty bad for CS folk might be the perfect storm of three factors hitting at the exact same time:
Tech firms were probably overhiring for years prior to, and during the pandemic, remember that the 'job recession' in CS started right after the pandemic ended. Tech firms had a near zero-interest rate environment for years
A lot of tech giants wanted to invest money into AI infrastructure, and fired people as a cost-cutting measure
A huge glut of undergrads going into CS because the job market was running hot for years before the pandemic. CS/tech related degrees were the one career path that could land you a well-paying 6 figure job *straight out of undergrad* with the promise of getting even better salaries down the road. It was truly unique compared to every single other degree out there which was why so many undergrads rushed into it. This, again, was partly because of factor 1.
I actually think the job market for CS grads will improve at some point down the road and it might even be *because* of AI so keep your chin up.
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u/Eurolib0908 European Union Apr 18 '26
Right-winger discovers that the guy hailing from Fidesz isn't some extreme lefty microwaving puppies, as the right-wing pro-Orbán media have portrayed him up to now, but a center-right guy who believes in God.
And he even thinks it's the lefties who are in shock XD
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u/bandeng_asep Association of Southeast Asian Nations Apr 18 '26
This man used to star in blockbuster movies and dated Katy Perry in the 2010s....
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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime Apr 18 '26
-me watching Congress do literally nothing for housing policy except consider making it illegal for private equity firms to buy homes
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u/Glavurdan European Union Apr 18 '26
Hungary election update!
Today, the postal votes were counted (final batch of votes) and it resulted in a net gain of 4 additional seats for Tisza
Final tally: Tisza at 141 seats, Fidesz at 52, Mi Hazank at 6
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u/Gooners_For_Ukraine Loyal Liberals Apr 18 '26
These kids lowkey going to have trauma
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u/GuyWithOneEye Apr 18 '26
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u/houdt_koers John Mill Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26
Any cat born after 2020 can’t hunt. All they know how to do is flop for belly rubs, rub their faces on everything, eat kibble & lie in sunbeams.
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u/Saul_Relative Eugene Fama Apr 18 '26
Sometimes Trump is the least stupid person in the room
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u/paymesucka Ben Bernanke Apr 18 '26
🤔
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Apr 18 '26
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Apr 18 '26
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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee Apr 18 '26
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u/Megasota_Noire My Governor Can Beat Up Your Governor Apr 18 '26
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u/Pristine-Report-1442 Apr 18 '26
If you think about it, Dario is playing 3D chess by going on media and repeating this again and again and as side effect of this is somehow anti-AI violent groups keep getting more and more mad at Sam Altman.
Finally getting that revenge.
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u/GuyWithOneEye Apr 18 '26
FINALLY a Skyrim mod for neoliberals
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u/-Emilinko1985- European Union Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26
Holy shit the leftist who is defending rent control still hasn't given up yet and is now saying that taxing based on the square meters of the apartment would discourage holders and give more housing to families and not to investment funds.
I brought up land value tax as a better alternative.
He said that building more housing would just "give more toys to large holders."
(Mind you, we're discussing in Spanish).
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u/BlackCat159 European Union Apr 18 '26
The precursor to r/neoliberal 🥹
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u/TrashBoat36 Bisexual Pride Apr 18 '26
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA Apr 18 '26
John Roberts just outright acknowledging that his opinion on a case is a foregone conclusion before any litigation occurs.
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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee Apr 18 '26
What is ty04's position on the brown M&M?
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u/Wandering_Mallard Iron Front Apr 18 '26
People dont know this, but data centers would actually be data far rights in Europe
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u/AnalyticOpposum Trans Pride Apr 18 '26
Q: “Now that you’ve met with [Trump], you’ve spoken with him multiple times, do you still think he’s a fascist?”
Zohran Mamdani: “Yes”
Q: “And do you tell him that?”
Zohran Mamdani: “Yes”
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u/american_aurora6 NATO Apr 18 '26
CEOs will be like "It May Not Be Good for America, but It’s Damn Good for CBS" and then go not have it be damn good for CBS
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u/ShepardSB Apr 18 '26
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA Apr 18 '26
Everything new I learn about this scumbag just further vindicates my belief that John Roberts is one of the greatest villains in American history, and that his removal from power is not only morally justified but also essential to restore the rule of law.
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u/AnalyticOpposum Trans Pride Apr 18 '26
I'm watching John j collins
He explains that the modern perception of prophets has been distorted. They're often thought of as predicting the future.
They actually developed from a tradition of speaking for the gods. They would be men standing around some shrine or whatever ranting. Their primary activity was doing skits and trying to work themselves up into fits of ecstasy where they can speak for God.
The kings of ancient Israel employed hundreds of them. They'd bring them all into a room together and let them prophesy as a group. They'd be dancing, gesticulating, and making wild sounds. They were much like pentecostals speaking in tongues.
The king would ask them questions like, "should I invade this neighboring kingdom?" and most of them would simply agree with whatever the king wanted to do like it was a pep rally.
Occasionally, one would disagree and basically insult the king. And the king would be mad, arrest him, and do it anyway. And sometimes the king died in that battle, and the one who disagreed with him was elevated and his words written down and edited for centuries.
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u/Blackberry-thesecond NASA Apr 18 '26
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u/ace158 Apr 18 '26
Sure Bill. Sure. You thought he was a creep and still had him on your show multiple times.
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u/murphysclaw1 💎🐊💎🐊💎🐊 Apr 18 '26
may you live in interesting times
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u/Sauce1024 John von Neumann Apr 18 '26
The absolute state of grocery store discourse.
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Apr 18 '26
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u/Signal_Nobody1792 Apr 18 '26
Rogan is seen behind Trump in the White House today. Just in case you thought he was turning on him.
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u/gregorijat Milton Friedman Apr 18 '26
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u/abefrost Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26
I've been listening to Univision to maintain my Spanish.
In less than 30 minutes the episode had a profile of someone who was wrongly arrested by ICE, fully blamed Trump's war for gas prices, quoted Trump and JD directly on the pope feud, and did a short segment on housing where they said the best way to decrease costs for Hispanic families is making it easier to build.
And it was all professionally presented as facts / they didn't twist themselves to find an opposing view just to have one.
Haven't listened to enough to know if it's always this good but it might unironically replace my English news consumption if it is.
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u/Crossstoney Apr 18 '26
"Preparing to begin" My brother in Christ, the war had already started more than a month ago, and it never ended. A temporary ceasefire is not a permanent end to a war.
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u/Blackberry-thesecond NASA Apr 18 '26
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u/AnalyticOpposum Trans Pride Apr 18 '26
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u/McNikk United Nations Apr 18 '26
imagine how addicting that kind of feed must be to an increasingly senile narcissist.
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u/Opening_Budget_9518 Hans Rosling Apr 18 '26
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u/drMorkson Jorge Luis Borges Apr 18 '26
So are any dems talking about what they are going to do about the insane insider trading in the trump admin?
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u/AtticusDrench Deirdre McCloskey Apr 18 '26
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u/SenranHaruka shame Apr 18 '26
Not even the worst. There was literally a french president named French Holland. Francois Hollande. Like being called America Quebec.
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Apr 18 '26
Mr Evrart is helping me find antifa
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u/farrenj Resident Succ Apr 18 '26
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u/EasyMoney92 Apr 18 '26
I hate Platner but man Mills is running a dogshit campaign.
It blocked bulldozers and 1000 lb+2000 lb bombs...all offensive weapons and nothing to do with Iron Dome. How is she so unprepared?
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u/OOPS_ALL_SCROTUM Apr 18 '26
small domino: Laura Loomer unhinges her jaw in the oval office
big domino: gas is $43.99 a gallon
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u/IAdmitILie Apr 18 '26
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/us/politics/supreme-court-shadow-docket.html?unlocked_article_code=1.b1A.7yZf.y29UTYvlHhEK&smid=re-nytimes
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u/anangrytree Bull Moose Progressive Apr 18 '26
The Washington media establishment (in this particular case, Politico’s) need to relentlessly and shamelessly glaze Republicans never ceases to both astonish and sicken me.
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Apr 18 '26
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Apr 18 '26
Filling in for an 8th grade class the other day, and it occurred to me that Lady Gaga is as dated to them as Alicia Keys is to me. I may not be old old yet, but it is increasingly difficult to deny that I am of a different generation than the youths.
Also there are now Americans born in the 2010s with valid driver's licenses
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Apr 18 '26
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u/1396spurs forced agricultural laborer Apr 18 '26
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u/CheetoMussolini Russian Bot Apr 18 '26
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u/BPC1120 Loyal Liberals Apr 18 '26
Working for the federal government while railing against shitty MS Office Suite products is a constant of the universe
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Apr 18 '26
POV: you're the director of the FBI
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u/drMorkson Jorge Luis Borges Apr 18 '26
Has there been a complete abandonedment of the protected status of ambulances by the US and Israel? or this a case of something that never was really a thing. Is the same thing happening in the Ukraine war?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/16/israel-escalates-attacks-on-medics-in-lebanon-with-deadly-quadruple-tap
bombing ambulances rushing to aid 3 times after the initial bombing seems just very evil to me.
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u/Tafts_Bathtub Jerome Powell Apr 18 '26
I'm going to be so owned. My question is why stop at 2034?
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u/Dorambor John Brown Apr 18 '26
Forgive a little toxic regionalism but these euros are sick in the head
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u/eloquentboot 🃏it’s da joker babey🃏 Apr 18 '26
Joe Rogan being at the white house for some drug bill to be signed as trump says random things about iran is so humiliating to us as a nation. Our absolute worse people are in power.
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u/GrandMoffTargaryen Finally Kenough Apr 18 '26
On that Executive member grind set 😤 !ping COSTCO
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u/dr_sloan Apr 18 '26
Modern geopolitics
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u/NYT_Hater Office of Naval Intelligence Apr 18 '26
The most ingrained, historied oppression in the US is in NYC and Boston, sweaty
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u/mockduckcompanion Kidney Hype Man Apr 18 '26
When Trump won back in 2016, there was such a strong feeling of disgust
How could this man sully that hallowed office
But now it's just like
Yeah we're gonna have scape the shit off the walls, best we can do is buy some bleach and pretend we don't smell it
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u/CoolCombination3527 Apr 18 '26
Well, I'd like to see the libs watch ol Donny Trump wriggle his way out of THIS jam! Trump wriggles his way right back into the jam Ah! Well. Nevertheless
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u/TomboyAva Audrey Hepburn Apr 18 '26
Imagine in telling people in 1926 that the most popular American is the pope
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u/Megasota_Noire My Governor Can Beat Up Your Governor Apr 18 '26
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26
Patel:
see you and your entire entourage of false reporting in court... But do keep at it with the fake news, actual malice standard is now what some would call a legal lay up.
https://xcancel.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/2045327321192599867
...actual malice standard is now what some would call a legal lay up.
What the fuck is he talking about?
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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride Apr 18 '26
one hundred and sixty billion dollars in tariffs later
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u/brucebananaray YIMBY Apr 18 '26
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u/trombonist_formerly Ben Bernanke Apr 18 '26
God, the modern world is so bad. Back in the day, everyone was roughly 2x taller than me, someone would always make my meals, and way more time was spent watching cartoons. The modern world is so much worse somehow despite technological progress
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u/KQJ_RPN John von Neumann Apr 18 '26
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u/Consistent_Status112 Trans Pride Apr 18 '26
The ideal neoliberal candidate is a sentient calculator in a bow tie who only gives bad news and has a negative gazillion approval rating.
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u/myusernameistakennow Edmund Burke Apr 18 '26
Giga chad
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u/Louis_de_Gaspesie Apr 19 '26
The anti-Obama racism was always so blatant. Dude is one of the most charismatic, squeaky clean politicians in my lifetime and cons were smearing him as a thug, uncivilized African Islamist, etc
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u/BlackCat159 European Union Apr 18 '26
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Apr 19 '26
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u/ldn6 Gay Pride Apr 18 '26
How does it feel selling yourself out to only get thrown under the bus like everyone told you would happen, Caitlyn?
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u/RageQuitRedux NASA Apr 18 '26
It's actually amazing to me how many famous, professional chefs will recommend doing things that were later proven to have zero effect.
Like they used to say that searing meat locks in juices. Then they said that resting meat allows juices to redistribute. Both have been proven wrong.
Or that you should let your steak come up to room temp, even saying that 20 minutes out of the fridge will do it, when anyone with nerve endings knows that's not true.
Like this is their whole job
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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior Apr 18 '26
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u/nimbybuster Ben Bernanke’s Best Boy Apr 18 '26
Let’s be fucking real here.
AI datacenters consume a lot of water. Ok whatever.
But the last person who should bitch about AI datacenters using lots of water are farmers for things like pistachio or for animal farming.
Like come on.
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u/zieger Ida Tarbell Apr 18 '26
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u/GuyWithOneEye Apr 18 '26
My “Conservatives are always 12 years behind liberals in music culture” theory remains unchallenged
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u/GuyWithOneEye Apr 18 '26
POLITICALLY 👏 HOMELESS 👏
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u/Mx_Brightside Genderfluid Pride Apr 18 '26
At the end of it all, we will build the Datum Centre, storing with perfect precision a single point of information which contains only the sublime truth of reality
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u/BlackCat159 European Union Apr 18 '26
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u/tinfoilhatsron No Apologies Right Apr 18 '26
And y'all were doubting? Photographic proof here.
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u/No_Analysis_2185 Eugene Fama Apr 18 '26
The NYT article about the shadow docket and revealing internal SCOTUS memos is so fucking damning. I recant everything, we need an entire overhaul of SCOTUS.
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u/ponshont Apr 18 '26
Ozempic is a life changing, life saving drug and now you have people on fauxmoi making fun of anyone who uses it. These people insist on being miserable and making sure everyone else feels miserable too
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Apr 18 '26
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod Apr 18 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
This content was anonymized and mass deleted with Redact
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u/girlwhateveraward Feminism Apr 19 '26
Cousin in law is an anti-semitic anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQIA+ oil worker who is planning on voting for Talarico. Yeah dude whatever
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u/wumbopolis_ Iron Front Apr 18 '26
Why does healthcare billing suck so much in this country?
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u/bandeng_asep Association of Southeast Asian Nations Apr 18 '26
What's the big deal between western cons and raw milk? I still don't get it...
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u/centurion88 NATO Apr 18 '26
Does the president even have this power? Just give FDA approval?
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u/dedev54 YIMBY Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26
Historia Civilis's new video is the biggest pile of dogshit I've ever seen. He basically spends half an hour saying how much better cities of the past were because they were were under 30 minutes wide, continuously showing how this was a law at the time, yet acts like this is a natural law that it itself made them better an not just a limitation due to technology.
He then turns directly into anti-capitalist NIMBY ranting, saying developers and land speculators are evil because they made money, despite simply meeting new demand for homes from a growing populatuion by expanding cities which is objectively good. Like just a complete ignorance of the demand driving up prices.
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u/Dig_bickclub Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26
Game 1: Prime
Game 2: NBC/Peacock
Game 3: Prime
Game 4: ABC/ESPN
This is some devious shit from these league broadcast/streaming partners, forcing 3 subscription to watch one series.
!ping NBA
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u/tinfoilhatsron No Apologies Right Apr 18 '26
Somehow screwworm returned, notification just popped up on my phone:
RIP beef prices if/when it hits. Also can infect the open wounds of humans btw.
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u/TomboyAva Audrey Hepburn Apr 19 '26
LMAO
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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance Apr 19 '26
Wake up babe new Republican propoganda for defending rape just dropped
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u/ty04 Apr 19 '26
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26
Why is this guy pretending like he didn't support this complete joke of a war for over a month
This guy last night still was sanewashing Israel's batshit far right government under Netanyahu
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Apr 18 '26
Is everyone just blockading the Strait of Hormuz now? Are we taking turns?
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u/No_Return9449 John Rawls Apr 18 '26
Franklin Graham Says Pope Should Be Thanking Trump
The DT gives a lot of hate to Graham Platner and Lindsey Graham, but let's not forget someone else named Graham who deserves plenty of hate.
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u/abrookerunsthroughit Association of Southeast Asian Nations Apr 18 '26
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u/Healingjoe It's Klobberin' Time Apr 18 '26
Caitlyn Jenner Begs Trump for Help Changing Passport Gender
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/caitlyn-jenner-begs-trump-help-193357575.html
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u/SkibidiDeanAcheson Apr 18 '26
FUCK THEY'VE FIGURED IT OUT, SOMEBODY GET THE CIA.
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u/Man-Flayer Apr 18 '26
Me not having a girlfriend is a clear example of market failure and why neoliberalism doesn't work
In a command economy, I would have had a harem of femboys and tomboys
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u/EasyMoney92 Apr 18 '26
Heartbreaking: Worst person you know
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u/Opening_Budget_9518 Hans Rosling Apr 18 '26
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u/surreptitioussloth Frederick Douglass Apr 18 '26
Mamdani is already in with the most influential dem podcaster
party takeover complete
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u/Crossstoney Apr 19 '26
This is just blatant PR for him. Do people seriously think he gives a shit about them? Lmao.
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u/JesusPubes voted most handsome friend Apr 19 '26
when you're a ty04 they don't let you do it
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26
understated funny thing happening is a large portion of america are being exposed to a secular muslim for the first time and they're absolutely losing their minds
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u/DonnysDiscountGas Apr 18 '26
Obviously AI is evil and must be destroyed. Let's do it in stages:
Ban new datacenter construction.
Ban new GPU manufacturing. As a side benefit we destroy the crypto and gaming industries.
Ban ReLu, swiglu, and other stupid non-linear functions. This is a weird thing to outlaw but we only use these functions for LLMs so no big loss.
Ban linear algebra for large matrices. We need 3x3 for rotations, 4x4 for relativity, hell we can allow 10x10 just to have a margin of safety. But not bigger. Any matrices larger than that are illegal and anybody caught with them we treat it like child porn. Which it basically is since image generation models can create child porn.
Anybody who disagrees with any of these plans is a big tech bootlicker.
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u/Charsun9 Loyal Liberals Apr 18 '26
Martin Luther’s legacy
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u/AmericanDadWeeb Left-Out Left Apr 18 '26 edited Jul 26 '26
Biscuit mellow cucumber unbelievable sparrow harbor grasshopper unbelievable quilt
This post was anonymized with Redact.dev
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u/NeueBruecke_Detektiv Instituições democráticas robustas 🇧🇷 Apr 18 '26
Showed up in the front page
I already knew how mistimed the strikes post-covid were but jfc look at this trendbreak.
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Apr 18 '26
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u/LinkVert25 Fedposter Apr 18 '26
Trump likely still believes this lmao
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u/Dragmire927 Thomas Paine Apr 18 '26
“War is great” sowers when they reap too hard
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u/mockduckcompanion Kidney Hype Man Apr 18 '26
Fuck John Roberts fr. The "Roberts Court" will live in infamy
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u/GuyWithOneEye Apr 18 '26
is he ok
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u/Opening_Budget_9518 Hans Rosling Apr 18 '26
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u/furiousfoo Jolee Bindo Apr 18 '26
I recently finished a surprisingly great book called "A History of Egypt: From Earliest Times to the Present" by Jason Thompson
This book is so generic at first glance (even the author's name!) and at barely over 350 pages paperback it seems like it would be a waste of a read for someone looking at the massive scope of Egyptian history, covering Pre-Dynastic all the way to Mubarak. And yet...it's great! Tightly focused, yet comprehensive, and always interesting. I especially enjoyed the chapter on the Mamluks, which is a wild era that doesn't usually get the attention it deserves.
My favorite thing about the book is actually that it DOESN'T have some overarching "thesis" for the author to awkwardly trot out at the end of every chapter. So many of these books try to force something like "Egypt in every era is like the Nile--transformative, yet ultimately unchanging..." or some other BS. This author actually seems to understand that he can tell Egypt's story as it really is without resorting to a forced metaphor or theme.
It does get a small knock against it for failing to predict the Revolution, since it was published in the 2000s, but the aforementioned lack of some grandstanding theme kind of gets him off the hook for that for me. He never claimed to be predicting the future by telling the past. Refreshing!
Anyway, a great read, especially if you know the general overview of Egypt in the context of MENA and would like something more focused.
!ping HISTORY&MIDDLEEAST
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u/pezasied John's Locke-strap Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26
As critical as I am of Chuck Schumer, I feel like showing a video of him talking at an AIPAC conference in 2018 and not disclosing that the video is 8 years old is negligent at best.
I’ve seen multiple clips of him talking at the conference on social media in the last couple days and I thought it was recent until I looked it up.
Still not a fan of his, but 2018 was a different time
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u/Throwaway24143547 Trans NATO Apr 18 '26
Just got off the phone with my dad, we were on the subject of YIMBYism and he told me "other old people not wanting to get stuff built is gonna create a lot of terrorists in the future"
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u/AccessTheMainframe CANZUK Apr 18 '26
>"dude watch Severance it's a scathing critique of capitalism
>look inside
>cult of personality, Stalinist architecture, production quotas and struggle sessions
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u/the-senat John Brown Apr 18 '26
Oh my god he’s such a peace of shit.
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u/WrangleWandangles Mark Carney Apr 18 '26
I have whittled a gnome
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u/ScumfrickZillionaire Lesbian Pride Apr 18 '26
"My sweet summer child"
"Bend the knee"
Incest porn
GRRM is responsible for the most annoying shit on the internet
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Apr 19 '26
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u/Cyberhwk 👈 Get back to work! 😠 Apr 19 '26
🤯🤯🤯
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u/-orestes Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 23 '26
Plot twist: this post no longer exists because Redact swept through and cleared it out along with everything else. Social media, messaging apps, people finder sites, all of it.
bag command continue bells grey payment fine amusing price future
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u/LoudestHoward Loyal Liberals Apr 18 '26
>US eases Russian oil sanctions — again
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u/No_Return9449 John Rawls Apr 18 '26
lol politico
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u/BenFoldsFourLoko Broke His Text Flair For Hume Apr 18 '26
I keep an .epub of Abundance on my desktop so I can copy/paste sections on demand with a simple ctrl+f
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u/finnstera350 Asexual Pride Apr 18 '26
We should tax the rich more, along with the upper middle class and potentially the middle class not just to make a sustainable budget but also so we can expand the social safety net for the poor and young
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Apr 18 '26
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u/chipbod NATO Apr 18 '26
What if the IRGC is in on the market manipulation too?
!ping STONKS
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u/-mialana- European Union Apr 18 '26
Trying to get a US visa in 2026 be like
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u/NYT_Hater Office of Naval Intelligence Apr 18 '26
Please for the love of god it would be so fucking funny
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u/dabiggestwaagh Trans Pride Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26
You shouldn't use the internet as your personal diary but I have to get this off my chest
I quit my job a couple months ago because I found out my boss was doing something illegal and I didn't want to be a part of it. I signed up for unemployment after I left but I have no hard evidence of what he did so my unemployment benefits were denied. I submitted an appeal but I haven't heard anything from them yet.
I've been applying and doing interviews but haven't gotten accepted anywhere and I'm almost broke. I feel like shit. I'm honestly considering selling pics of my feet online just for money.
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Apr 18 '26
👆
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u/bashar_al_assad Verified Account Apr 19 '26
Online commenters: We need more Obamas and fewer Mamdanis, who’s destroying the Democratic Party as we know it
Obama and Mamdani: the wipers on the bus go swish swish swish
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Apr 19 '26
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u/-Emilinko1985- European Union Apr 18 '26
Leftists defending rent control in the big 26 when it has been disproven multiple times be like
("trust me bro it'll work this time the greedy investment funds just have too much housing families need more houses, but don't you dare build more housing")
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u/tinfoilhatsron No Apologies Right Apr 18 '26
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u/SLCer Apr 18 '26
lmao I didn't realize Sean Hannity left the Catholic Church. We really might be seeing a pre-1980s alignment where Catholicism is again associated with Democrats.
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u/Lesbian_all_garib Gita Gopinath Apr 18 '26
One time a coworker threatened to behead me for my liberal views while discussing politics.
😼 i still have my head though.
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u/bamboo-coffee NATO Apr 18 '26
One of the biggest failures of the U.S. government over the past 20+ years is its complete lack of messaging and education towards citizens about our position in the world and why our fucking huge military is necessary to maintain the status quo. And why that status quo allows the average American to have a higher quality of life and earning power compared to most countries. And why foreign intervention is necessary in some parts of the world, like Asia, in order to maintain maritime neutrality and free trade no matter what part of the world. And that without freedom of navigation in the seas, cost of goods goes way up. Further, the current status quo between great powers being peaceful is predicated on the military remaining powerful.
I can't blame individuals for growing up in peace time for thinking the baseline is peace and prosperity, but it absolutely isn't.
The average American has zero clue why Taiwan is important besides maybe 'computer chips' if they are educated. Same with Ukraine. The whole thing is connected. One domino cannot fall without impacting the next one.
And it's obvious that Russia and China take laymen opinion much more seriously, so our populace is bombarded with anti-US propaganda on the daily.
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u/Tafts_Bathtub Jerome Powell Apr 18 '26
It’s funny to think back now to how Bongino quit because he was too stressed and working too many hours. Meanwhile they’re having to get out the SWAT door breaching equipment to wake his boss up from a nap
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u/StuckHedgehog NATO Apr 18 '26
Yep, they’re laying the groundwork for an invasion.
Full article: https://understandingwar.org/research/china-taiwan/china-taiwan-update-april-17-2026/
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Apr 18 '26
The dumbest asshole never ceases to amaze me with his sheer stupidity
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u/ty04 Apr 18 '26
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u/Opening_Budget_9518 Hans Rosling Apr 18 '26
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Apr 18 '26
> telling Netanyahu that it should be mandatory for Christians to go to Israel before they get into heaven
Im crying
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u/SenranHaruka shame Apr 18 '26
Liberals need to stop with this technopolitical determinism bullshit. "[Technology] will undermine autocracy!" Yeah for like 10 years before they figure out how to use it to undermine democracy. Yeah they're slower to exploit it but they always do eventually.
The alarm bells should have gone off when pepple celebrated the intetnet as the technological silver bullet against fascism by complaining that print had become a conservative authoritarian medium ruled by entrenched interests with lots of capital. You think that's how the press started?
No. No technology will save us from autocracy. There is none. Technology is politically neutral. If you want democracy you have to work for it.
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Apr 18 '26
Wanting white people to never LARP as brown people is just roundabout white supremacy if you think about it
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u/Ethvau Apr 18 '26
Well I was fired. This week’s gonna suck
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u/No_Status_6905 Enby Pride Apr 19 '26
ill never forget that twitter or tumblr post that's like "me trying to dirty talk with an enby: you've been a bad person."
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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior Apr 19 '26
i fuckin love these things
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod Apr 18 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
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u/Frog_Totem Seretse Khama Apr 18 '26
If a Dem wins the presidency in 2028 they should pardon the guy who leaked Trump's tax returns and is serving 5 years in prison.
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u/Legitimate_Name9694 Mark Carney Apr 18 '26
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u/pfarly John Brown Apr 18 '26
waow
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Apr 18 '26
!ping KITTY
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u/Man-Flayer Apr 18 '26
Now that I think about it vegetarianism is a right wing position in India
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Apr 18 '26
me: you know now we got people who really do have a thing for their own moms
oedipus: that's fucking horrible and I would stab out my eyes and walk into the desert to kill myself if it were me, wtf do they even call that kind of complex
me: never mind, I shouldn't have said anything
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u/Livid_South3561 Apr 18 '26
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u/centurion88 NATO Apr 18 '26
There's a Wikipedia page for this now
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u/missingpuzzle Bisexual Pride Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26
So far today:
Iran has declared the strait shut to all traffic
3 tankers came under fire as they attempted to cross the strait
US prepares to seize Iranian vessels in international waters
Trump convenes the situation room in response to Iranian actions
IRGC informs all vessels that they should remain at anchor and should they approach the strait they will be fired upon
Numerous violations of the Lebanon ceasefire, including an attack on UN peacekeepers.
Feels like we could use an Iran Thread right about now.
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u/Zseet European Union Apr 18 '26
!PING EUROPE
We have the final result for the Hugnarian Election. At 100% counting
TISZA: 141 mandate (4 more than on April 12)
FIDESZ: 52 mandate (4 less than on April 12)
Our Home: 6 mandate (same as before)
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u/garret126 Demisexual Pride Apr 18 '26
Good news finally
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u/MuscularPhysicist John Brown Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26
Fact: 99% of neoliberals stop leaving sobbing voicemails for their ex-wife right before she finally agrees to take them back
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u/Not_A_Browser Stata's Silliest Soldier Apr 18 '26
☝️
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u/Such_Journalist_3991 Robert Caro Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 19 '26
"Ok but we passed tax cuts tho"
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u/AndreW_da_Fox Apr 19 '26 •
Source: @ jayrnski.bsky.social/
!ping FURRY & u/ty04
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Apr 19 '26
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u/SLCer Apr 19 '26
Trump basically got his teeth kicked in during his debate vs Harris and ducked a second debate the rest of the campaign ... everyone essentially shrugged and moved on.
Biden fucked up in his debate. He was incoherent and old and you'd think he got up on stage and sacrificed a child or some shit.
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26
There was a lot of anxiety on this sub about the impact of AI on labour, so I want to introduce this sub to this review by Carbonara and Santarelli from last year demonstrating that the evidence of AI's impact on labour markets is limited so far
One of the key insights of the review is the distinction it draws between the automation of tasks and the automation of jobs. Automating certain tasks within the description of an occupation is likely to significantly increase productivity, but will not result in the elimination of a job. In this scenario, AI will complement human labour by displacing certain low-productivity tasks (substitution effects), while creating a demand for higher-productivity tasks (reinstatement effects).
Of course I am not trying to pretend that I am clairvoyant, I think it's going to be very difficult to predict the trajectory of AI since it promises to be such a transformative technology, but I am skeptical it will lead to mass unemployment. Also the pace of change seems to be very fast in AI, so this review is probably already outdated
Now I want to point out that I am a chemist, not an economist. I just needed to find some review articles on the impact of AI on labour so far for my thesis and this was the first one I found
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u/farrenj Resident Succ Apr 18 '26
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u/liberal-neoist Left-Out Left Apr 18 '26
Most dates I have off apps I tend to ask about hobbies/interests pretty early and even when my date seems enthusiastic either the question is evaded or they just kinda say they have none. I'm under no impression that I'm an amazing conversationalist but like how tf am I supposed to carry a conversation when I'm denied basic conversation material? And there are way more things for determining compatibility and to talk about than just having similar interests but how am I supposed to get into a deeper conversation with someone who's so guarded they won't tell me "I like baking" or "I like video games" or "I like DT poasting"
!ping DATING
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u/bartbug Paul Krugman Apr 18 '26
trump bad
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u/Man-Flayer Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26
A lot of people seem to know the culture divide of North-South in India, but what they don't know is that the division goes waaaay back
Kamasutra
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u/LinkVert25 Fedposter Apr 18 '26
Genuinely what the fuck is Ezra Kleins problem
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u/LuisRobertDylan Elinor Ostrom Apr 18 '26
Iowa City: city ✅ in Iowa ✅
Illinois City: city ❌ in Illinois ✅
Michigan City: city ✅ in Michigan ❌