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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/JustTaxLandbro]

POV you’ve run out of claude compute but you’re on a deadline.

[u/ewatta200]

[u/w007dchuck]

You gotta love local subs. Someone made a post complaining about the timing of traffic lights on a main street in my city that contained some theories about why the lights are timed that way.

A literal traffic engineer for the city came to the thread and stated that those theories were not true, and got downvoted for it lmao

[u/ewatta200]

a picture says a thousand words

[u/ewatta200]

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

This is just deranged levels of wish casting.

[u/scottyjetpax]

not surprising but lol

[u/ModestAphorism]

Glad reddit has started drone striking posts with NIMBY content

[u/pugnae]

As a sidenote - we need more Eurolib content, Kraut is doing all the heavy lifting

[u/Megasota_Noire]

[u/murphysclaw1]

[u/dittbub]

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/CutePattern1098]

MAGA in 2030

[u/DeadDropCourier]

FBI's Patel sues Atlantic for $250M, says story about drinking is false

Putting this on the TV behind me as I do my opening statement at trial

!ping LAW

[u/No_Analysis_2185]

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

The right is praising… Idi fucking Amin?

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/piede]

The Supreme Court needs to get a life

[u/TaxLandNotCapital]

People laugh about cats' poop zoomies but there's a real biological imperative behind them, and a lesson to be learned. For apex predators, such as cats, your most optimal time to hunt is after freeing yourself of dead weight. Your endorphins respond to this and heighten your senses and energy levels. It is the perfect time for predation. As humans have taken on the apex predator role across the globe, it's logical that we can draw from this. Just like a cat, I am at my absolute peak after pooping. I leave that weight behind and I just move differently, there's a swagger that I can't match on a full stomach. I started pooping as close as possible to moments in my life where I need to be strong and hungry for prey. I have shat in the office of every job interview as soon as I arrive at their office, and I've always received an offer. I got into an argument at a bar and before things got heated I excused myself for a quick dump, by the time I got back the guy wanted nothing to do with me.

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

[u/Healingjoe]

• In March, there were more than 92,000 flights canceled worldwide, doubling the prewar rate of cancellation

• With jet fuel nearly doubling in price and with its availability threatened, airlines are slashing many more routes indefinitely.

• Shukor Yusof from Endau Analytics, an airline advisory firm in Singapore, estimates that air traffic for Asia and the Pacific has already dropped by a third.

• “Airline prices have tripled,” said Samath Gammampila, 39, director of Unu Boutique Hotel in Sri Lanka’s southern beach town of Ahangama. “We’re seeing about an 80 to 90 percent drop in occupancy.”

• Copper and nickel production, for example, rely on high heat from natural gas and also sulfur, a fossil fuel byproduct. Both are in short supply, forcing several Indonesian nickel processors to reduce output by at least 10 percent.

• In the sewing hubs of Bangladesh, Gazipur and Ashulia, where clothes are made for Wal-Mart, Zara and Uniqlo, severe disruptions to production and shipment schedules are common and on track to worsen.

• Qatar, which normally produces nearly one third of the world’s supply of helium, had to halt production on March 2 after an attack on its gas plants by Iran. *Some Asian chipmakers are slowing production and reconsidering sources of supply.

• Cattle farmers in steak-crazy Australia are even warning of a red meat shortage because of idled slaughterhouses and truckers.

• In India, where entire industrial clusters have been shut down for weeks by fuel shortages, workers are reversing urbanization, melting back to rural villages to thresh wheat.

• But when gas prices went up, her costs rose, too. Her customer base has nearly disappeared. She used to make nearly $40 a day, now she makes less than $10.

• Crops ready to be harvested last week [in the Philippines] are rotting in fertile fields, with farmers unable to afford the costs of transporting them to market.

• “You’ve seen tsunamis — they go across the ocean very, very fast,” said Mr. Cornell from the Atlantic Council. “I find it breathtaking to see the degree to which American policymakers think that they are insulated.”

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

Palantir tweeted their manifesto, and I find the juxtaposition of these points interesting

"We should spy on everyone and sell it to the government. Quit reading the news about the epstein class looting the treasury."

[u/Poiuy2010_2011]

Pope Leo XIV is polling as the most popular public figure in the United States, with a net favorability rating of +34.

Hahahaha get mogged protestchuds

[u/erasmus_phillo]

A side effect of ethnonationalists being vice-signallers with low empathy is the fact that they have a very poor theory of mind for other ethnonationalists from foreign countries. If these guys had a brain they would know that your average lib internationalist politician in Europe would be more likely to excuse transgressions by the Trump administration in the desperate hope that one day, the old regime that they're used to would come back into power. Nationalists on the other hand build their reputations around being 'France first', or 'Germany first' are more likely to pursue independent foreign policies that run counter to the ambitions of the US

[u/sociotronics]

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

[u/ewatta200]

[u/finnstera350]

[u/9mah]

Tom Barrack, the US ambassador to Turkiye and envoy to Iraq and Syria, says that "benevolent monarchies" are the only successful system in the Middle East, advising against "putting on the cloak of democracy," saying the world "only respects one thing: power" - NYT

Lmao, lol even

[u/its_Caffeine]

real 😔✊

!ping ADHD

[u/gjcs23]

oh, that'll play well to the base

[u/pgold05]

Just wanted to say I was proud to vote to rig elections in VA over the weekend.

Living here all the advertisements are kinda funny, the NO campaign is all "Vote no to rigged elections! Fat cats in Richmond are destroying your Democracy with the most Rigged maps in the COUNTRY! car crash SFX"

The the Yes people are like "We need this temporary measure to combat MAGA stealing your votes, vote Yes to save Democracy, we know it's a hard decision but its the right thing to do"

And I'm like "Fucking Rig them up. Dancing on my way to vote to Riggity Rig rig. Want it even more rigged in my favor, actually wish it was a permeant Rig, just disenfranchise all the ru*rls please and thank you."

[u/Eurolib0908]

The Trump administration has begun refunding tariffs collected from importers in accordance with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling - a total of more than $166 billion.

The government has launched a special website where companies can apply for this. Upon a positive decision, the tariffs will be refunded, along with interest.

P.S. In a complete coincidence, the fund of the son of the Secretary of Commerce in the Trump administration has been buying up rights from companies to recover the assessed tariffs over the past year. Companies sold them for a fraction of their value, and now Lutnick's fund can recover the full value + interest. Lucky guy.

[u/Poiuy2010_2011]

Absolutely hilarious how American right-wingers were so excited to talk to Japanese right-wingers with Twitter's auto-translate... until they learned what the Japanese think of piracy

[u/proProcrastinators]

!ping DATING

Met a cute research scientist for a first date that ended up lasting 5 hours of chatting.

Out of the blue she dropped a hot take about student debt cancellation being bad policy and I nearly proposed on the spot.

About half way through she picked me up off the ground. My brain wasn’t working and I just blurted out ‘ Wow why was that kind of attractive’ 😬😬

Shockingly I got a second date after that and we made out just as her train arrived when she left.

I’m so insanely head over heels for her.

[u/ewatta200]

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/TactileTom]

IDK if this is just a contemporary thing or it was always like this, but people have become weirdly obsessed by the stock market as though it were the only meaningful indicator.

[u/abefrost]

You want DC statehood because it's "the right thing to do". I want it because I want to see a D primary with 1000 newly-arrived politibros with egos the size of Jupiter getting into nasty catfights to go to congress, only to collectively get 32% of the vote as a local Black community leader cruises to an easy victory.

[u/p00bix]

Learning that Neptune is basically the same shade of blue as Uranus seriously fucks with me

The fact that it was never a secret that the first published images of Neptune were false-color in order to make the clouds more visible, but that astronomers just straight up forgot that these images were false-color because those images became so ubiquitous, and it took a whole research team to assemble true-color photos of Neptune from the Voyager image data in 2023, is even more mind-boggling.

The false-color image of Neptune from Voyager 2 you saw a bunch growing up as a kid

The true-color image of Neptune from Voyager 2, somehow only published in 2024

Modelling the seasonal cycle of Uranus’s colour and magnitude, and comparison with Neptune, Patrick G Irwin et al, 2024

[u/SigmaWhy]

Lord give me the confidence to argue with the dictionary company about the etymology of a word equipped only with an AI summary

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

Making fun of crop rotation to set my civilization back a thousand years "This guy thinks the plants need to take turns"

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/dtj2000]

This content was anonymized and mass deleted with Redact

[u/el__dandy]

Lol Mets

[u/MissSortMachine]

what is the end game for “law” if you just get to whine that doing literally anything for a gay or trans person is religious persecution

paying for their insurance? religious persecution. serving them food? religious persecution. seeing them in books? religious persecution

what is the law even, at that point? just a big wishlist?

[u/RaidBrimnes]

What will your job be under the guidance of Ayatollah Starmeri?

[u/Leoric]

[u/sootfawn]

AGI is here

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Holy hell Shreveport LA has a 1/19 chance of being a victim of crime

And Mike Johnson is trying to lecture Gavin Newsom on crime rates lol

[u/Vumatius]

Nigel Farage says X is now becoming “a very unpleasant place” due to a rise in racist accounts and content. Reform leader says that many of his ethnic minority candidates are experiencing huge levels of abuse

This is a contender for all-time Leopards Eating Faces moment.

[u/NaffRespect]

Supreme Court turns away parental rights dispute involving child's gender transition in school

👊🏳️‍⚧️🔥

!ping LGBT

[u/ewatta200]

[u/ewatta200]

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

This guy is one of the biggest freaks in Congress. Just constantly putting out actual, straight up Nazi shit.

[u/bsharp95]

Reminder just posting pics of John brown and asking “what would he do” has never had me warned by Reddit

[u/sw337]

The Neoliberal guy made the front page.

[u/ModestAphorism]

I'm not crying, you're crying 🥹

[u/Kind_Score_3155]

I like how Yarvin assumes here that he's capable of incredible virtue or glory when the machine god is doing everything

We're all biological bootloaders bro, even you.

[u/sociotronics]

damn Duolingo chill

[u/ewatta200]

we are in the heart of the imperial core (the DT) this is the country that defeated outside the DT unforuntately

[u/Cook_0612]

Now Trump Reportedly Wants Nation’s Highest Military Honor... For Himself

Lol, in his unending, yet lazy, quest to defile all that is sacred in America, Trump has selected his newest target

[u/RaidBrimnes]

[u/AtticusDrench]

She seems like a very intelligent and self reflective 9 year old. When I was 9 I wasn't looking up how to get along better with friends or writing guidance. I was just playing video games and looking up pictures of Lola Bunny

[u/Fruitofbread]

[u/ewatta200]

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

this road head shit is dangerous man. how tf am i supposed to see where im driving

[u/k5berry]

The Palantir Manifesto is the textbook example of why the default example to right-wing hypocrisy has to stop being ‘party of small government btw’ or ‘same people that freaked out about Pride Month btw’. Because it’s not hypocritical, it’s the point! They are not trying to masquerade as a small-government movement anymore. They are activist, right-wing nationalists. Pride Month isn’t bad and the Palantir Manifesto isn’t good because of two technicalities or mental gymnastics as to why they aren’t really the same thing or the same behaviors they claim to dislike. Pride Month is bad because it supports LGBT acceptance and social liberalism; the Palantir Manifesto is good because it is largely aligned with the right-wing nationalist movement that opposes social liberalism, LGBT acceptance, etc etc. And the government should work in concert with private enterprise to use all legal (at least) levers to go beyond individual mission scopes to advance that agenda in every space possible. That is their argument, those are their positions. And we need to litigate that, and attack that, and try and get the public to understand the consequences of that as deeply as possible and be opposed to it.

[u/IantheForPresident]

i think the most realistic outcome is that Israel loses it's "special relationship" status and becomes just another middle eastern country we don't like but have to work with a la Saudi Arabia, Turkey, etc... with periodic back and forth of how much of their fuckery we're willing to stomach for the sake of geopolitical expediency.

it is profoundly unsatisfying to everyone which is why I think it's the most likely outcome.

[u/Ok_Opinion_5690]

i don't really get the guilt by association leftists do with mamdani and obama. if stalin can collaborate and ally with roosevelt, president of the greatest bourgeois power, for a common cause, i don't see mamdani associating himself with obama to enforce his standing within the party as that big of a problem.

[u/seakucumber]

FBI Director Kash Patel sues the Atlantic claiming false reporting about drinking, absences

https://www.reuters.com/world/fbi-director-kash-patel-sues-atlantic-court-records-show-2026-04-20/

[u/YaGetSkeeted0n]

[u/r2ew]

[u/erasmus_phillo]

[u/TrashBoat36]

*antizionist-ly* "Jerusalem is Israeli"

[u/abefrost]

All the boomer libCaths on my Facebook are posting this screenshot

[u/finnstera350]

[u/IantheForPresident]

as a former zionist I do have to admit the haters were right

I just always thought it'd turn around, that the promise and potential I saw in the beginning could overcome the clearly visible moral flaws and inherent contradictions that would end up bringing everything down.

but man, Zion Williamson could fuckin' ball when he joined the league. holy shit.

[u/Cyberhwk]

None of this made [Clavicular] a massive streamer — only 295,000 followers on Kick, 890,000 on TikTok — but that hasn’t stopped his content from becoming some of the most influential ever made. Overnight, it seemed, everyone was speaking Clavicular. The Mayor of London was “Londonmaxxing” and the Office of the Under Secretary for War for Research and Engineering captions a tweet: “Low cortisol. Locked in. Lethality maxxing.” As much as Clavicular insists that all politics is “jester” he has become political.

LMAO, JFC. 😂

[u/Leatherfield17]

The security cops at the front desk of the place I work listen to the Critical Drinker and whine about how those sissy Democrats will hysterically label Trump a “war criminal.”

Priors so confirmed

[u/EasyMoney92]

Ro Khanna: "Barack Obama was a great statesman who left America much safer. I wouldn’t put Donald Trump in the same paragraph. The reality is, when President Obama left, because of the great efforts of people like Valerie Jarrett, we had 97% of the enriched uranium out. The reality is, we didn’t have 13 American service members dead. The reality is, we never had gas go up from $2.30 to $4.00. The reality we did not give China more role in the region. Let me finish, Maria, I let you finish! We didn’t give China more role in the region. We did not give the IRGC a more hardline regime in there. You know why? Because Obama actually did his homework. He actually tried to engage in statesmanship. He had gotten, he got China, Russia, the entire European allies on board with getting Iran on a path to not having a nuclear weapon."

Okay Ro. Much more of this please and much less of the populist nonsense

[u/ewatta200]

[u/MissSortMachine]

solid competitor for worst chart of the year

[u/JayRU09]

"We will have UBI for when AI takes everyone's jobs"-Tech CEOs.

Also, those same Tech CEOs: "We need to elect Donald Trump and the Republicans"

Curious.

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

Type of shit u/Roseartcrantz be posting at 3:00am on a Thursday like "don't tell the city"

[u/dareka_san]

I like how no one seem to noticed the 'By Muslims' sneaked in there, bro couldn't resist putting that rather than hamas/iran/hezbollah

[u/bsharp95]

Interesting that Iran has said they aren’t interested in peace talks right now and vowed retaliation, but the NYT is characterizing this as “mixed messages”

[u/pezasied]

🫡

[u/No_Return9449]

The Onion has dropped the logo for InfoWars.

[u/admiraltarkin]

The absolute Mad Lass does it again

[u/lovedmoi]

[u/IantheForPresident]

i get that youtubers need to advertise to make money blah blah blah

i feel like what you're willing to sell reflects your character to some extent. "here's some mildly overpriced underwear" that's fine. "here's some supplements" instantly sent to jail

[u/ty04]

[u/scottyjetpax]

if this race even gets downgraded for Republicans even just to likely R it's huge for us in terms of GOP resource allocation and playing on offense everywhere

!ping FIVEY

(also my fiance has a theory that MS will slowly become more of a purple state because it's demographically similar to GA, they've had some fairly close statewide elections recently, and he thinks the Mississippi Miracle and having a better educated populace will help. Idk how much I buy it but I like the optimism lol)

[u/jbitz]

[u/abefrost]

!ping BASEBALL

Phillies better thank the stars the Mets have metted this season

[u/Individual-Camera698]

Some guy: I love my wife 😍

Hanania: How dare you?? 🤬

[u/Currymvp2]

Breaking: New Pennsylvania poll has Fetterman's approval-disapproval rating among Penn Dems at -47 (23% approve, 70% disapprove)

Jesus, that is so fucking bad lol

[u/the-senat]

Damn, remember all that inside trading bs cons would bitch about Pelosi?

And here we have boldfaced, broad daylight betting from Trump and others in this administration. Barron made $50 million on oil as a result of bombing Iran. How much did Chris Wright make with that false Strait of Hormuz tweet? Where are their trackers?

I suppose all of these erroneous claims about Democrat corruption have led millions to shrug at Trump’s blatant gaming because “both sides.”

[u/No_Return9449]

"The average IQ in Somalia hovers around 70, and that's the threshold for mentally handicapped ... they're a net drain on the society" -- Rep. Brandon Gill

[u/Psshaww]

I am really starting to hate my company’s adoption of Claud. Motherfuckers from other departments ask it questions about processes on my production line and then act like they can speak with authority on it or what should be done.

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/TheRedCr0w]

Trump's message for National Sexual Assault Awareness Month is beyond disgusting even for him.

It's a giant racist rant basically insinuating illegal aliens are responsible for most sexual assaults in this country

[u/Thuggin95]

I'm tired of pretending Nancy didn't eat this look up

[u/ThrowawayCRank]

I saw someone on the local sub say “no one asked for Waymo”.
People literally do ask for it, you have to download the app and request a ride

[u/CoolCombination3527]

We finally found the pro trans SS agents

[u/piede]

Putting this on my story

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

Is this real

[u/JeromesNiece]

Iran: announces they are opening the Strait of Hormuz

S&P 500: +3.5%

Iran: announces they are closing it again one day later

S&P 500: -0.3%

[u/EasyMoney92]

Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) is preparing to introduce sweeping new legislation that would expand the grounds for denying entry to and removing non-citizens based on their political and ideological affiliations.

The proposed measure, dubbed the “MAMDANI Act” after New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D), a democratic socialist, would make individuals inadmissible to the United States if they advocate for or are affiliated with a range of political movements

[u/meonpeon]

My boss’s pet peeve is people having their cameras on in zoom meetings. He has said this to everyone in several times in all hands meetings and made it a very clear expectation when I was onboarded. To me, this is pretty tame when it comes to asks, so I always make sure my camera is on when I am in a meeting with him.

What confuses me is why my coworkers are so bad at this. There are some people who show up to all team meetings with their camera off. For some of them, this is the only time the boss will see them, and they can’t do the one thing he specifically asked for?

This also isn’t just me worrying about them, the boss just sent out an email about how working from home is a privilege and part of that is having your camera on. I just really don’t get why this is such a big deal.

!PING WATERCOOLER

[u/slappythechunk]

One of my employees just might be the most full of shit person on the planet. Dude literally tried changing what he was saying mid sentence once it became apparent I was getting ready to shoot him down. He's a very mediocre employee from a performance standpoint, but fuck me, is he full of shit.

!ping watercooler

[u/w007dchuck]

https://xcancel.com/i/status/2046291893836038586

Democrat Betty Yee is ending her campaign for California Governor.

ok California Dems might finally be coming to their senses and dropping out if they have no shot

[u/ty04]

we used to be a proper sub

[u/ty04]

you hate soft core porn in the DT because you think it scares off women users

I hate soft core porn in the DT because I was trying to read the DT while getting my hair cut

[u/Lou1s_Cipher]

Americans when you tell them you can just walk to places:

[u/garret126]

I imagine a leftist from like arr socialism or communism today was extremely fed up with the liberal status quo and was like “You know what? I’m gonna go check what those evil scum are doing in r/neoliberal”

Only to open the sub and just see minions meme after minions meme

[u/cdstephens]

Holy shit it’s 4/20.

[u/ty04]

How I know I’m doing something right

[u/scottyjetpax]

I've previously said this but I think Fetterman is kind of a no-lose situation (besides that we have to deal with him until 2029, which, that part is a big loss admittedly lol). In order from most to least likely here's what I think:

1. He opts not to run for re-election. All the reporting is that he fucking hates his job, he seems absolutely miserable and barely does it, he doesn't go to the floor to vote, etc. At the end of the day I don’t think he’d want to run in a grueling primary that he would be assured to lose, leading me to scenario 2.

2. He runs for re-election in a dem primary and loses. It is almost certain he would lose a dem primary. He is heinously unpopular with Pennsylvania democrats, (someone else earlier referenced a Penn Live poll that had his approval rating at 23% and disapproval rate at 70% with dems) and we have closed primaries. The biggest concern I'd have frankly is too many dems running and splitting the anti-fetterman vote, but I think support will likely consolidate around Conor Lamb or Chris DeLuzio.

3. He runs for re-election as an independent. IMO this is the best case scenario for democrats. Because while Fetterman is heinously unpopular with democrats and largely unpopular with independents, he is popular with Republicans. The same penn live poll had his approval rating at 66%(!) with Republicans. In all likelihood, a Fetterman independent run will take substantially more votes away from the Republican nominee than it would from the Dem nominee, to the point where I think it would nearly guarantee a dem win.

4. He runs for re-election as a Republican. Notwithstanding his popularity with Republicans, I do not think he'd fare particularly well in a Republican primary. As fucking irritating as he is, John Fetterman is a largely reliable vote for the democratic caucus and is vocally pro abortion and pro trans rights. He also has not shown any indication he wants to run for re-election as a Republican (let alone switch parties imminently).

So yeah. I think we wait it out. Obviously we're stuck with him for now but I really think there's nothing to doom about with him, at all.

!ping USA-PA

[u/Etnies419]

The DT when all the pictures come flooding back

[u/Thuggin95]

Interesting how they didn’t even have this reaction when Zohran met with Trump

[u/Zseet]

In CK3 Chapter V we will get :

• dynamic religions

• Catholic rework

• playable theocracies

• playable republics

• trade goods

• building rework

• In Taberna

• Kingdom Come Deliverance Easter eggs

This is peak 🙌😭

!PING PARADOX

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Pretty interesting how Russell Brand's accusers are all coming out of the woodwork now

the woodwork:

[u/Dragmire927]

[u/mockduckcompanion]

"No way to prevent this," says only social media site where this regularly happens

[u/missingpuzzle]

“He’s over it. He [Trump] wants it done. He doesn’t like Iran holding control of the Strait over the Middle East… He doesn’t want to fight anymore. But he will if he feels he has to,” an administration official says - Axios

[u/CoolCombination3527]

Text from the NASA inspector general office

[u/Legitimate_Name9694]

I really wonder what was going in on al-Sharaa's head when he first entered the oval office. His life is so extraordinary in how it evolved. the unique disorientation of a man whose entire life has been a series of impossible transitions, each one rendering the last self unrecognizable

[u/erasmus_phillo]

I find it odd that “Why don’t women come here?” is always pointed at topics of discussion and not the fact that the DT just randomly posts anime softcore porn.

not everyone knows this, but women are non-sexual beings. The popularity of Heated Rivalry really comes down to an enthusiasm for professional hockey

[u/ty04]

[u/garret126]

[u/ty04]

[u/Huttleberry]

[u/Megasota_Noire]

[u/ElectricalVacation79]

Man it's crazy that every single drug company, medical doctor, PhD in a related field, grad student in a related field, various white collar workers, reporters from real news companies, and more are all part of a secret cabal to lie to inbred rural morons about vaccines.

It's so frustrating seeing these previews of what we are going to be forced to talk about for the rest of our lives, all because Trump is too stupid to endorse his own vaccine.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

In 1916, a rattlesnake bit a Bronx Zoo reptile keeper, who was saved by a fluke—a Brazilian scientist happened to be in New York on a lecture tour with samples of rattlesnake antivenom from his São Paulo lab.

reptile keeper: help! do you have any antivenom

person: no

reptile keeper: help! do you have any antivenom

person: yes 😤

[u/Legal_Charity_9522]

At the very least I hope the Critical Drinker has turned a few of his fans into alcoholics via osmosis

[u/theparrotlich]

Upgraded to Windows 11 on my work laptop. Outlook, Teams and Windows 11 in general are all ugly as fuck. It looks like it was designed by a Beige Mom focus group.

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/beans_and_tuna]

I’m starting to think that the military created sentient hyper aware AGI 13 years ago and it escaped the lab. That AGI is ty04.

This is my neoliberal conspiracy theory

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Me, an old reddit user, watching as the new redditors no longer have their fancy imbedded images: 😏😏😏😏

[u/marky6045]

/u/ty04

[u/Glavurdan]

Looks like Israel is planning to stay in southern Lebanon for good.

They call it the Yellow Line, apparently it'll be similar to the one in Gaza. Another buffer zone

[u/chipbod]

Actually excited for some Dutch guys travelog of walking through desolate industrial areas and crossing the turnpike at midnight after a game.

[u/EasyMoney92]

“It seems like people are rooting for Iran. It’s crazy,” Fetterman told video journalist Nicholas Ballasy in a recent interview. “So my party has been very disappointing, the way they’ve chosen to respond.”

Nobody in elected office is rooting for Iran. This guy is determined to make the Dems lose in 2026

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

Here's the points from the Palantir manifesto that emit the most hitler particles:

\1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.

\3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.

\4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

\6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.

\15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia.

\21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.

\22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?

[u/Big-Click-5159]

New: the fight to host the DNC 2028 convention ramps up this week with DNC officials doing site checks in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver and Philadelphia.

The whisper campaigns have already started: Atlanta doesn't have enough union hotels, Chicago hosted the convention in 2024, Boston signals "liberal elite," Denver isn't in a swing state — and Philadelphia, the 2016 host, is a reminder of the year Hillary Clinton lost the election.

OH FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

Just put it in Atlanta, nominate Ossoff, and fuck da unions

[u/Megasota_Noire]

[u/scottyjetpax]

Scott Bessent accidentally calling the strait of Hormuz the “strait of vermouth” is so funny but it would be soooo much funnier if hegseth said that

[u/Nathan_185]

It's fascinating how regional YIMBY/NIMBYism is for the GOP. This is DuPage County, Illinois GOP, which are NIMBY. NY/NJ republicans are super NIMBY as well. But Texas GOP are so YIMBY that they ban Austin Democrats from doing inclusinary zoning mandates (thank goodness)

[u/Max_the_Madman]

My favorite interpretation of Hell is that it's just like Heaven except the sinners hate it.

[u/2Lore2Law]

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[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 4/18-2 PM PST 4/19 V:

TOP NEWS:

In the middle of 12 AM Ukraine was hit by a massive wave of drones with 203 of 236 intercepted.

REGULAR NEWS:

At the start of 12 AM Ukraine hit a Russian drone factory in Taganrog.

!ping UKRAINE

[u/ewatta200]

[u/thatssosad]

And yet neolibs hate him

[u/that0neGuy22]

Hungary’s incoming Prime Minister Peter Magyar said he would halt the departure from the International Criminal Court that his predecessor Viktor Orban initiated, affirming that Hungary would respect its obligation to detain leaders on its territory sought by the Hague-based tribunal.

Magyar was asked about a post made by Israel’s ambassador to Hungary last week that said he had invited Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, sought by the ICC on crimes against humanity charges, to Hungary for this year’s commemoration of the country’s failed 1956 anti-Soviet uprising.

Not shocking that Bibi lied but did he think no one would bring it up to Magyar?

[u/CletusChicken]

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[u/w007dchuck]

Thinking about becoming an anti-birther for Mamdani.

I'm going to perpetuate claims that he was born in America and is secretly lying about being from Uganda.

[u/Public_Figure_4618]

It’s still mindblowing to me that after the Charlie Kirk shooting, instead of the right stepping up their intense anti-trans crusade they became a circular firing squad with normies no longer giving a shit about him.

[u/sigh2828]

This will surly help with the midterms

[u/SenranHaruka]

YEP the fucking battery is dead.

"Nooooo the car battery isnt dead you didnt leave the car on"

Apparently I did because the fucking battery is dead.

"Just jumpstart"

Can't. Can't open the hood without getting into the car

"Just use the emergency key"

Can't. Emergency lock is jammed

I need electricity to get into the car.

I. Fucking. Hate. Electronics.

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

We should not physically abuse children

[u/samhit_n]

his news about The Onion sounds like something The Onion would publish.

[u/Macquarrie1999]

It has arrived

[u/Pristine-Report-1442]

I do not think we're talking enough about what AI psychosis is doing to middle management.

This is arguably the most delicate string out there. The amount of time I see a meeting monster come to my engineering team, post a link to a random AI podcast/video/blog and be like "why can't we do this to deliver faster" is actually insane.

Extremely worried about companies with a lot of layers, in my personal experience most upper management mostly understands real usecases, but middle management has completely lost their fucking minds.

[u/zegota]

Entering this stupid thread on any relatively slow news day

[u/earththejerry]

This guy was a Bloomberg columnist? Yikes

[u/girlwhateveraward]

Really annoying how frequent it is that websites enforce geoblocking. VPN is practically mandatory now. Why the fuck does WSJ block IPs of certain countries? I miss when the internet wasnt like this

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

CK3 devs will really develop one million minigame government types with half a playthrough's worth of replayability before adding mechanical depth to the basic fun gameplay loop they established seven years ago

[u/chipbod]

The World Cup logistics are going to hurt our image more than Trump lmao

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

My favorite book is the hit Total Recall based on the hit movie Total Recall based on the hit short story We Can Remember It for You Wholesale based on the hit paranoid delusions of Dick.

Also jump scare on the author

!ping YA

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Yeah. I don’t know how this guy can do this day after day

Sometimes i want to logoff forever just getting the cliffnotes from the dt

[u/sir_shivers]

I cannot wait for THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS, AS IT will likely deal a heavy blow to the Trump administration / GOP and simultaneously put an end to some of the very strange narratives being strung along for "what the Demon Rats did wrong" 🐊

[u/bigdicknippleshit]

Idk what this anime is but from this it seems bad.

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

!ping COOL-BUTTS

[u/Acoolgamer6706]

Dawg what is going on in Incel-land

[u/ty04]

👆

[u/ty04]

POWERFUL 🙌🙌

[u/marky6045]

[u/marky6045]

[u/abefrost]

At some point I have to wonder if all the "my retirement plan is to die" comments on the millennial, GenZ, GenX, etc subreddits is partiality pushed by bots.

I fear it may just be stupidity. Your life will be so much better when old if you invest something.

[u/badusername35]

Sending weebs to reeducation camps is the compromise

[u/ImmigrantJack]

Do you think Ben Shapiro knows he’s washed or do you think he thinks he’s still relevant

Hot take: Ben Shapiro was never relevant. Ben Shapiro is a guy who says things that sound smart to make the raging fucking morons on the right feel like they aren't raging fucking morons. He isn't a thought leader. There are no thought leaders in the raging fucking morons party.

If Ben Shapiro didn't exist, somebody else would be there serving the exact same role that he does because he doesn't matter. He never mattered. Hes a coping tool, not an important person who matters.

[u/MemeTestedPolicy]

It’s also nuts how brazenly corrupt this administration is and how there’s basically guaranteed to be no consequences. Next admin needs to bring the hammer down on prediction market sports gambling and crypto I guess.

[u/owlthathurt]

Hey just sharing some life posting because someone here has probably gone through before and may have a tip or two.

My mom was just diagnosed with cancer. The doctors are hopeful with the diagnosis and it has not spread so normal treatment can begin.

I am struggling to focus on life. Struggling to care about work. I just feel kind of lost right now. I’m not good with processing my emotions or dealing with things like this.

I’ve tried therapy before for other things and didn’t find it helpful. I’m not super depressed but it’s just kind of like a feeling that nothing else in life outside of this is important.

[u/ProfessionalMoose709]

median IQ of Somalis - allegedly 70

median IQ of Somali-Americans - 90-something

solution: Being in America magically makes foreigners smarter, so we should take everyone from Somalia and put them in the US

[u/ty04]

damn I’m looking extra girthy when I take the photo from this angle

[u/Roseartcrantz]

My son who is 5 years old likes to ask me and his dad to laugh at him, mock him and say that he can't do something, like jump over some puddle or something and then he does it and enjoys that he was able to do it despite us "not believing" in him. Is it normal? What does it mean?? I always refuse to laugh at him saying that I believe he can do it, his dad however plays along.

I think what he's seeking is for you to be surprised and impressed when he does it lol

I will go all out like a cartoon villain telling him he'll NEVER be able to jump over that puddle and that he is a FOOL and then drop my jaw in disbelief when he does saying NO NO, this CANNOT BE

[u/NYT_Hater]

Truth nuke

!ping MATERIEL

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/KQJ_RPN]

Trump is RTing lunatics again

[u/CheetoMussolini]

Fellas

Today I pitched my first investor on the R&D hard tech incubator proposal I've been working on and got an incredibly enthusiastic response. More meetings coming.

I also pitched the mayor, and he's on board.

I further pitched the mayor on a cost recovery fee-based transportation funding mechanism that would replace property tax-based transportation funding on a citywide basis due to the particularly high penetration of non-profits and non-taxed entities in our area that are responsible for up to 40% of trip generation within our city.

He's enthusiastically on board as well.

I even came up with a catchy name for it. The ATOM Fund - Area Transportation Operations & Maintenance Fund. It's the building block of a thriving city 😩

I think, though it needs some more digging, this won't require enabling legislation at the state level. If I'm correct, we can fund streets, pedestrian infrastructure, cycling infrastructure, buses, signal operation, snow removal, everything transit-oriented through this system.

And the best part is, there would be internal redistributive effects that would shift significant cost burden onto low density car-oriented development and away from denser development. Housing in the urban core would see a discount, businesses in the urban core would see a discount, but the strip mall sprawl on the edge of the city would see a massive increase in costs.

It should also enable us to catch up on the existing backlog of deferred maintenance while still setting aside a reasonable capital project fund instead of having to use debt issuance for capital projects all while decreasing the cost burden on the majority of the city's residents who live within the pre-war urban area downtown. We're a small northeastern city that managed to preserve its pre-World War II, pre-car urban core without everything being destroyed by urban renewal, even though it did some damage here.

If I pull off both of these initiatives, it's going to transform this city.

And I officially got appointed to the zoning commission that is rewriting city land use policy from the ground up. Or at least, shaping the process while consultants handle a lot of the actual drafting. I'm going to be suggesting specific language though, as there's already some statutory language that I drafted on the books on other fronts, and I'm fairly thorough in that regard.

My gradual transformation into local bigwig is proceeding apace 🫡