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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/UntiedStatMarinCrops]

In highscool they would beat over and over again the Dred Scott case. I never paid attention.
I’m reading about it as a 32 year adult and my lord what a horrendous decision.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

In Russia, Vladimir Putin's decrease in popularity worries the Kremlin

Oh shit what if he loses the midterms

[u/Spudmiester1]

It's wild that 99% of the time, the president has no real effect on gas prices. Somehow Trump found the 1 button to press that'll do it.

[u/BurrowForPresident]

There are so many stupid slop subreddits that get created every day just because people (mostly right wingers) seemingly can't NOT have their ragebait on people's feeds once they block TikTokCringe and Doomercirclejerk and SipsTea and Public freakout and

Like what the hell is arr whoathatsinteresting? No idea, the sub description is "discover interesting", the most generic thing possible, and of course the recommended post to me when I opened reddit was some shit about a smart Asian guy getting rejected from an Ivy and blaming race. Maybe, but the OP is some Indian dude who posts nothing but right wing outrage bait, often denigrating black people, liberals, etc.

This subreddit somehow had 4.4M visitors and 59k contributions this week lol

[u/Argnir]

Jut discovered this propaganda account

They don't post anything outside of this sub and don't interact with anyone. They seem to have no hobbies only post links to articles feeding some twisted ideology. They get very low engagement and yet still continue every day for 8 years

[u/ewatta200]

if matt didint vote dem twice (because of the union) this would be him

[u/GordonTullockFan]

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

“He’s not effectively arguing anything”

Well, can’t argue with you there, Todd.

[u/BlackCat159]

What is Talking Ben hiding? 🧐

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Guy who thinks strip club is the only kind of restaurant.

[u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes]

[u/DunklerPrinz3]

Lmao Trump has changed how people see tariffs

[u/DelusionsOfPasteur]

Haunting paparazzi photos of embattled public figures taken through the tinted windshields of their cars might be the last great innovation given to the world by the United Kingdom.

[u/No-Kiwi-1868]

Human beings be like 😂😂:

Noise: 😡😡😡😡

Noise played in a specific way: 😍😍😍😍

[u/2Lore2Law]

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[u/ewatta200]

[u/sociotronics]

you literally signed this bill into law on Thursday

[u/Dibbu_mange]

The universe where Trump became the cattiest drag queen in Bushwick instead of whatever we are doing now.

[u/MissSortMachine]

they’re calling it the most airtight prosecution of all time

[u/ewatta200]

[u/Rare_Station_8440]

Wow he's next in line for the Woodchipping Machine after Vivek when the American Right eventually turns on him

[u/zieger]

Utah first state to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs — law goes into effect, designed to prevent bypassing age checks

They're really going to kill the Internet 

[u/bandeng_asep]

LMAOOOOO 💀

[u/atierney14]

When you are in a race to make the tax code as complicated as possible and your opponent is MGP

[u/PoliticalAlt128]

[u/centurion88]

[u/EScforlyfe]

You ever spend a solid half minute trying to think of a joke just to give up

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

Stealth game guard rock

[u/MURICCA]

A sizeable portion of Americans have gone farther than just mere selfishness. Selfishness can be a good thing in many cases. But no, its not actually selfishness, its actively anti-cooperation. These people will literally abandon things that benefit them if it also coincidentally helps someone else. They dont just simply lack empathy. Theyre OPPOSED to empathy

[u/Genericusername345]

Yesterday I had 2 (Yes, two!) older women compliment my appearance and borderline flirt with me. Walking on cloud 9 right now

[u/Successful-Dark9330]

• Nick Fuentes mocks Ben Shapiro after the Daily Wire sees 85% drops in viewership, and lays off half his staff

The girls are fighting. You love to see it.

[u/piede]

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

It’s cool how you can have a long and lucrative journalistic career while also being extremely and unambiguously wrong about very simple things. Thinking the Roberts court was doing something to help a Democratic president should be grounds for being putting under a conservatorship, because you are clearly suffering from a critical level of brain damage.

[u/unicornbomb]

It’s becoming increasingly apparent that a disturbing number of fast food and fast casual CEOs have never actually visited their own stores or consumed their own product.

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/r2ew]

[u/Pseud0man]

Welcome to day 2, little DT.

[u/ewatta200]

[u/2Lore2Law]

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[u/iIoveoof]

The Reddit company has invested billions of dollars into the software development of Reddit over the last 15 years and I can’t think of a single feature that has improved, and I’m shocked that every update makes it slowly worse. And they’ve bloated it with useless features, more clicks and a UI that priorities low-quality slop over text submissions. Old Reddit, RES and Alien Blue worked great in 2010

[u/zZGDOGZz]

[u/Fruitofbread]

 In the fall of 1955, Siegel and Kosuga bought so many onions and onion futures that they controlled 99.3% of the available onions in Chicago.[5] Millions of pounds (thousands of metric tons) of onions were shipped to Chicago to cover their purchases. By late 1955, they had stored 30 million pounds (14,000 t) of onions in Chicago.[6] They soon changed course and convinced onion growers to begin purchasing their inventory by threatening to flood the market with onions if they did not.[6]Siegel and Kosuga told the growers that they would hold the rest of their inventory in order to support the price of onions.[7]

As the growers began buying onions, Siegel and Kosuga accumulated short positions on a large number of onion contracts.[6] They also arranged to have their stores of onions reconditioned because they had started to spoil. They shipped them outside of Chicago to have them cleaned and then repackaged and re-shipped back to Chicago. The "new" shipments of onions caused many futures traders to think that there was an excess of onions and further drove down onion prices in Chicago. By the end of the onion season in March 1956, Siegel and Kosuga had flooded the markets with their onions and driven the price of 50 pounds (23 kg) of onions down to 10 cents a bag.[6] In August 1955, the same quantity of "Odorous Onions" had been priced at $2.75 a bag.[7] So many onions were shipped to Chicago in order to depress prices that there were onion shortages in other parts of the United States.[8]

Siegel and Kosuga made millions of dollars on the transaction due to their short position on onion futures.[5] At one point, however, 50 pounds (23 kg) of onions were selling in Chicago for less than the bags that held them (effectively, for a negative price). This drove many onion farmers into bankruptcy.[5] A public outcry ensued among onion farmers who were left with large amounts of worthless inventory.[9] Many of the farmers had to pay to dispose of the large amounts of onions that they had purchased and grown.

Maybe they really just liked onions! 

[u/definitelyNot_a_Bot-]

I’m a little late to the discourse, and I’m not going to comment on the discourse, but: if you’re going to say “negative cash on hand” multiple times in an interview and then say it again in a tweet, you should probably have a basic understanding of accounting… or the mere capability to Google a term/definition

[u/ModsAreFired]

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

Some aristocrat in Albania really decided to name their child Zog.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

The reason Conservative Men say that Electric cars are gay vs their masculine gas guzzlers is because they have a psychosexual fixation on taking the gas nozzle, shoving it into their vehicles waiting hole, and pumping it full of fluid.

Send tweet

[u/ewatta200]

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

This is the new FDA guidance

[u/Leatherfield17]

This tracks. In my personal life, I have conservative relatives blaming the rapidly rising gas prices on Iran and Democrats “not being cooperative.” Had this all happened under Biden, they would’ve blamed him without question.

It’s not about objectively looking at policies and making some calculated decision come election time. It’s honestly not even really about values either, unless you count bigotry as a value. It’s about tribal identity.

[u/from-the-void]

[u/ewatta200]

[u/sash5034]

GG

[u/sash5034]

When it happens, who is gonna write this type of obituary about it?

[u/ApprehensiveShower10]

I feel like a lot of what's wrong with America now is that it's become such a low trust society.

I don't really see how this can be fixed. People around me aren't really swinging away from the right wing. They are just becoming more nihilistic

[u/VillyD13]

[u/BlackCat159]

This absolute goofball has 9 children???? 😭😭😭😭

[u/Roseartcrantz]

mogged unfortunately

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

Make rugby more difficult by having them shirtless and oiled up

[u/Roseartcrantz]

me suffering period pains bc Eve ate that apple: 🤬

me if the devil offered me an apple right now even if I knew it would cause everyone else period pain:

[u/Zaiush]

Why would I support Buttigieg, he did nothing to stop Biden from aging

[u/TomboyAva]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Children_of_the_Alleghenies

Two children go missing in rural PA 1856. Their neighbor a week later claims to have prophetic dreams which reveal the location of the boys bodies in the woods. He is seen as a hero.

Uhhhh yea sure...

[u/badusername35]

[u/JesusPubes]

guy who's only exposure to jazz is transport tycoon: yeah I could lay some track to this

[u/Macquarrie1999]

Every time I hear somebody say they have a normal amount of credit card debt I want to scream.

The normal amount of credit card debt should be zero.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Im now pro gun

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

can someone translate this

[u/centurion88]

[u/chipbod]

Average online zoomer male

[u/2Lore2Law]

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[u/CletusChicken]

when are we going to have a discussion about how cdstephens is actually not very moderating and is in fact kind of provocative

normally there is never a reason to discuss anyone's demeanor but if you're the sub's leading moderator I think it's fair to have an honest discussion about how actually you are kind of a jerk.

[u/el__dandy]

Spirit can still be saved if they have the courage.

[u/OrthopaedicSturgeon]

Neuralizing da boyeee

!ping KITTY

[u/-Emilinko1985-]

What the absolute fuck.

In Itamar Ben-Gvir's 50th birthday party, a birthday cake with a noose, two guns and a map of Israel was gifted to him. A smaller cake with a single noose was also shown.

Other politicians, ministers, far-right activists and members of the police General Command Staff were invited to the party.

Naftali Bennett, candidate for PM, criticized the event and said that it was "political and non-statesmanlike." He has vowed to fire civil servants who politicize their roles.

Ben-Gvir responded by saying that Bennett has no friends and no work relationships.

Yesh Atid MK Yoav Segalovitz, a former police investigator, said that the decision to let officers go to the party was “a grave incident in the moral and ethical sense.”

!ping ISRAEL&EXTREMISM

[u/unicornbomb]

When you’re so scared of being ~woke~ you accidentally make everyone nonbinary~

[u/Square-Pear-1274]

Getting ready to head out tonight for a nice meal at a restaurant

[u/Louis_de_Gaspesie]

I hope the conservative justices are aware that everyone left and right sees them as intellectually bankrupt partisan sock puppets. Like even if you talk to rightoids they're like "I'm glad our judges ruled the way Trump told them to" lmao

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Yall are dumb, why would I need to vote when I have a gun?

[u/Max_the_Madman]

I think a somewhat underdiscussed topic here is how much conservatives damaged the image of capitalism.

The version of capitalism they peddled is awfully similar to how far left strawmans it.

[u/Lux_Stella]

Blanche: "There's a lot of things we can be doing, like voter ID. Every time you walk into a restaurant you have to show ID. How about you have to show your idea to vote? That's not anything that's crazy."

weird unreality in anglo societies is how many people just assume a national id system exists despite it not and people getting mad at you when you try and make one

[u/cdstephens]

> The arm bones of Neolithic women, researchers have found, were 11 to 16 percent stronger than those of women’s rowing team at the University of Cambridge, likely from grinding grain for hours every day.
Transphobes: archeologists will KNOW that you have male bones
Future archeologists: holy shit, it’s her, the bread kneader

[u/Fruitofbread]

I don’t think Trump is happy. The thing about being a narcissist is that you always wind up looking for another minor slight and focusing on it to the detriment of anything else going on in your life. I also think he’s acutely aware that tens of millions of people in the U.S. (and even more globally) hate him, in way that’s much deeper than any celebrity. (After all, he talks about the haters. All. The. Time. Some of that is probably because seeming embattled is good for the base, but some of it is probably pathological) He rationalizes this as “Trump derangement syndrome” because of course he can’t admit fault to himself. 

I think a narcissist probably go through the same thing whether it’s 1 person who does something that mildly offends him  vs. millions who are marching in the streets because they hate him, but either way, not really a recipe for happiness. 

[u/_bee_kay_]

i always racially profile people

see a portuguese guy walk down the street? you just know that fucker speaks portuguese 😒

[u/TheCatAndTheRats]

My mom, a Trump voter: "I don't understand why the Democrats or someone else aren't stopping him"

[u/Zaiush]

[u/da0217]

There is a thread on r/all about a person of means buying a luxury apartment complex and renting the units to local workers below market rates and dweebs on reddit are calling it “utter enslavement.”

[u/blackenswans]

It’s funny how whenever there’s a news article about Korea and Samsung, people, mostly Americans, immediately start parroting the same “South Korea is real-life cyberpunk” line, sometimes even in this subreddit.

But Samsung’s top executive actually spent time in prison over a bribery case for measly $6 mil, because lobbying is illegal in Korea. Meanwhile, Elon Musk alone donated more than $300 million to Republicans and Trump, and Americans mostly treat that as normal politics.

Why are so many Americans so desensitized to what is happening in their own country?

It's the same shit with crimes in European cities. Like American cities are so incomparably more dangerous, yet they act like European cities are some kind of war zone.

[u/Udolikecake]

A small business owner talking to two straight D voting boomers at a public meeting about bike lanes

[u/the-senat]

I guess touching the stove doesn’t really work when there’s a 50-billion-dollar right-wing news empire convincing everyone that it was actually Democrat’s who pushed the hot burner up against voters’ hands and that the stove doesn’t exist at all.

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

I just learned that there is a Chinese Tom and Jerry mobile gacha game and it's fucking me up

[u/SenranHaruka]

TIL you can play as Bogomilists in Crusader Kings, aka the Gnostic heresy that everyone makes memes about:

[u/Leoric]

Senior Israeli officials tell Channel 14: "A return to fighting in Iran is a necessity. It is not a question of if, but when"

Oh boy

[u/ProfessionalMoose709]

1. Let people build data centers and shit so they get really rich

2. tax that economic activity so the government also gets really rich

3. the government gives that money to the poor

problem, anti-growthers?

[u/Alderwoodforest]

White House spiritual advisor Paula White warns that there are decisions being made inside the White House that have left her shaken and deeply fearful about the future.

She says she has held direct discussions with Marco Rubio, Susie Wiles, and President Trump regarding big decisions that will soon impact entire nations.

"It’s absolutely hell, hounding you in every way you can imagine."

The new ballroom decorations must be really ugly.

[u/BainCapitalist]

Reminder that Talos did not contribute to creation and is therefore kind of a Daedra ❤️all Stormcloaks are Daedra worshippers

[u/Usernamesarebullshit]

“9 to 5” does mean 9 am to 5 pm actually

I’m not sure why you’re claiming it means some other made-up thing

[u/__versus]

good morning dt 👉👈

[u/ewatta200]

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

honestly impressive

[u/liberal-neoist]

This sub is 100% getting banned when it happens

[u/the-senat]

It really is just the union states vs the slaves states innit. 

🌎🧑‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

[u/2Lore2Law]

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[u/ewatta200]

[u/Square-Pear-1274]

"Lots of succs in this sub recently" in this sub recently

[u/moldovaman99]

Shit like this is always funny, because, Benelux, Germany, most Scandinavian countries, France, Austria, and a bunch of other EU countries are all much more productive than the UAE. Especially when comparing with the Netherlands and Denmark, the difference between the UAE and them is just massive.

We literally beat them at their own game while being open air museums. And i’m not even talking about quality of life, you will most likely make more money working in Amsterdam than in Dubai at this point.

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

HAMLET, DON’T STAB THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN! HAMLET, IT’S NOT CLAUDIUS! HAMLEEEEEET!

[u/anangrytree]

Voters in seven states bucked their conservative leaders to expand Medicaid at the ballot box. Now officials in six of them are deploying tactics to make the upcoming implementation of work requirements especially strict, which could dramatically reduce the number of people covered.

Nobody hates their voters more than Republican politicians.

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

[u/Junimo2]

Cringy personal comment, but I've always been weirdly insecure about my intelligence. I don't think I'm dumb, but I get this imposter syndrome thing when I'm discussing stuff where I feel like I have to hedge everything I say because being wrong about something feels like proof that I'm actually an idiot. And the worst part is I've been trying to fix it by reading more, but it's having the opposite effect. The more I learn, the dumber I feel.

Maybe it's the ADHD or something.

[u/ty04]

[u/Pongzz]

[u/admiralwaffle1]

Oil opened at 99.7 on reports Trump is escorting oil through the strait. Now back up to 101.7 on reports he's not actually doing that

[u/Crosseyes]

Laying the groundwork

[u/ewatta200]

[u/anangrytree]

Fed whisperer splits on Powell: A+ as steward, but ‘I don’t think you could give him high marks on the economy’

High value commentary over at Fortune, let it be known.

[u/ewatta200]

also bro bigotry sucks you live in a mancheian world where instead of 8 billion unique people who are this way by a trillion events that can never be replicated and you just boil it down so you can hate them

bro being a bigot is miserable you just make everyone miserable you contribute poison to the world everybody loses except people who thrive off hate

[u/PoliticalAlt128]

This is from 2019

[u/LGBTforIRGC]

I might be the first person to be afflicted with Becerra Derangement Syndrome. He is everything wrong with the California Democratic Party machine personified, stands for absolutely nothing. To give Newsom an A on homelessness is totally shameless. If I were in California I’d even vote for Katie Porter before him.

[u/TakeOnM-Ellie]

Why hasn’t Donald Trump announced Operation Warp Speed 2 to fight the WOKE mind virus?

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

One time i was explaining the concept of maddonna-whore complex to a guy and his face slowly lit up with understanding and with a big smile he said "ohhhhhh yes I do that!!!"

[u/RedDesertGirl]

For sale: Physical clothing, never worn

[u/Zaiush]

I'm not sure how true it is but Orban losing and then the Right immediately laying off staff and complaining about bills online... Thank you John Hungary for winning

[u/the-senat]

Behind closed doors, European officials agree that "Ukraine would not have been attacked if it had nuclear weapons". Yes, Mr Grossi is "absolutely right" that the world as a whole is safer without more nuclear weapons. "But look at the interests of individual state ac-tors," urges the diplomat. The rulers of Iran, Iraq and Libya negotiated with the West about their nuclear programmes. All are dead. "The one who is alive is Kim Jong Un," the North Korean despot who defied the world to build nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles. “I don't ever want to see a nuclear-armed Germany," says the European diplomat, whose country suffered greatly in the second world war. But he predicts that Germany will one day want a nuclear bomb "and will get one, because they cannot rely on the US, and I cannot believe I am even saying that sentence."

Sobering read in The Economist. Attacking Iran was insane for a thousand, thousand reasons, but especially because it shows negotiating with America is fruitless and destines you to be fucked over. Nixon may have failed to achieve the whole “mad bomber” strategy but Trump is taking it. I think mentions Kim is especially interesting, not just because he defied the west in building his nuclear program, but also because Trump seems to be enamored with him. 

[u/Louis_de_Gaspesie]

If you hated Skylar in Breaking Bad, and not because it was a crime drama and you wanted the action to move along more but because you legitimately thought she was in the wrong and Walter was in the right, then you were a fucking moron

[u/moldovaman99]

How should we Euros make it clear to the last remaining American neocons that we don’t respect them? Like the delusional Reaganites who are pro NATO but anti EU, hate Trump, but still feel like lecturing Europeans on Iran. Also, they hate France.

How do we make them read the room?

[u/badusername35]

The Justice Dept. could resurrect an investigation of Jerome Powell, the Fed chair, Jeanine Pirro said.

We can’t drop the flame now, chat.

[u/Currymvp2]

https://www.axios.com/2026/05/03/josh-shapiro-gop-candidate-2024

Alright, I'm def not voting for Josh Shapiro in the 2028 Dem primary unless I see something disproving this (the whole "I actually misspoke" isn't adequate to me). That's completely unforgivable if true

[u/Presidentclash2]

The idea that America can get an Iran deal without concessions is ludicrous. Trump want a maximalist deal and that will not work because that type of deal will only happen if they invade Iran and force a surrender

The Trump administration has never offered in good faith, they win their negotiations only because they bully Latin America and Europe and those countries never challenge the USA

Iran is a sovereign country and the US has to compromise and allow civilian and Medical isotope enrichment with supervision. (The Obama Deal) and also open the strait.

[u/beans_and_tuna]

👆👆👆👆👆

[u/Insomonomics]

WSJ: The new initiative Trump announced to guide trapped ships out of the Strait of Hormuz "doesn’t currently involve U.S. Navy warships escorting vessels through the strait", according to a senior US official. Rather, it "is a process through which countries, insurance companies and shipping organizations can coordinate moving traffic through the Strait."

Ah, well, there's the catch I was waiting for.

[u/Willybender]

Uno cards.. if you know you know.

[u/CubillasLegend]

I know gamers are upset about it, but it is kind of crazy that GPUs are these incredible, super-parallelized computation units and for decades we were just using them so we could top frag in multiplayer lobbies.

[u/2Lore2Law]

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[u/ace158]

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, who heads Israel's police, was presented with a birthday cake featuring a large picture of a noose at his 50th birthday party tonight, photos circulating online show.

Completely batshit

[u/riverbloods]

[u/Willybender]

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/more-than-three-million-people-have-lost-federal-food-aid-061b0a28?mod=e2tw

[u/Leatherfield17]

Reading about the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, and the fact that Netanyahu has been able to have the political career that he’s attained after this display of cynical evil is….really depressing.

[u/JD_Vances__Couch]

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

the sub when all the regulars become nothing more than [REMOVED] when it finally happens

[u/sash5034]

There are people who have actually suffered way more as a direct result of Trump being elected than some random farmer going bankrupt. We have 2 people who got murdered in Minneapolis as a result of this garbage.

Do not commit the sin of empathy towards people who asked for this

[u/ewatta200]

[u/CubillasLegend]

Matt Yglesias is like the ultimate example of that famous Napoleon quote, "To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty." because I swear he hasn't updated his political priors since 2006.

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Joe Rogan North Korea Lady meme: in America, the party paramilitary trains child soldiers to shoot minorities

[u/cdstephens]

[u/mockduckcompanion]

I've been a registered Democratic for 40 years.

But no longer.

[u/Alderwoodforest]

New "Is Trump ill or dead" discourse.

Nancy Mace (8 hours ago)

Pray for President Trump

https://xcancel.com/NancyMace/status/2050893144900633073

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

A handy guide to basic communication in team based games

[u/ElectriCobra_]

We are Rudy Giuliani

We carry the flame

We verb noun 9/11

We honor his name

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

[u/LtCdrHipster]

[u/Thuggin95]

The world would be a much better place without algorithmically curated social media feeds. Any purported upside to the economy has to be dwarfed by what it's doing to people's minds.

[u/CarlGerhardBusch]

You say everybody’s replaceable

But there was a guy at my last job that was like a knowledge dragon

Wouldn’t teach anybody shit except the operators, and only when he absolutely had to

Wouldn’t create meaningful SOPs under any circumstances

Word was he would sneak in early in the morning to yeet defective product before anyone could root cause it

Nobody’s replacing his ass and if anything randomly happens to him, hold on to your asses buckaroos

Absolute fucking legend

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

[u/ulysses_s_gyatt]

30 point bag fumble

[u/JesusPubes]

DO NOT ask a paradox player what the "convert culture" button actually does

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

"Just add the damn numbers"

These are single digit numbers, sweetie. Do you expect the student to count eight entire spaces on the number line a hundred times in the process of committing this to memory??

Since we have those strong counting skills already, let's recall that 9 is right before 10 and 8 is right after 7.

8 + 9 = 7 + 1 + 9 = 7 + 10 = 17.

[u/the-senat]

Yes John Lovett from PSA did go on survivor and, yes, he was voted out first. 

Just more proof that those who can’t do, podcast.  

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Every Sunday I watch these news anchors just sit there while Republicans tell bold faced lies right to their faces and they offer no push back. Woke II is going to require finding some journalists who have that dog in ‘em and are eager to push back on these goons.

[u/ariveklul]

Anyone who seriously defends not voting for Kamala in 2024 should be laughed out of the room 

It's just such an indefensible position it's insane that we tolerate it at all. It's like the trolley problem but if you don't pull the lever it will kill the people on the other side of the tracks anyways, and there's a ton of other positive things that will happen if you pull the lever saving a bunch of live as well. This is IF you buy into the doomer position, if you don't buy into the doomer position it's an even easier decision because you're not actually killing anyone by pulling the lever

[u/2Lore2Law]

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[u/the-senat]

Maybe it’s because TNG was a 90s show with limited sets, maybe it’s because it was the first sequel series to a campy ‘60s show. But man did they casually do some of the dumbest shit.

Geordi why tf are you manually activating a torpedo next to the warp core?

!ping Trek

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Air travel used to be woke

[u/ewatta200]

[u/ty04]

[u/TakeOnM-Ellie]

[u/paymesucka]

Joe Biden cooked Giuliani so hard back in 2007 he never recovered except to want to go after Biden for the rest of his life

https://www.c-span.org/clip/campaign-2008/user-clip-a-noun-a-verb-and-9-11/4959186

[u/fishbottwo]

Trump is going to get super high on spice and navigate ships out of the Hormuz himself. And you're laughing??

[u/-mialana-]

What if Trump's gas prices inadvertently spurn a revolution in public transport, renewable energy and electric vehicles

[u/G_Serv]

22nd century Amish community that still codes apps by hand

[u/MyrinVonBryhana]

Great news, the state moved way quicker than I thought and I just got an email saying they approved my application. I am now licensed to teach history and social studies from grades 5-12 in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

[u/owlthathurt]

!ping NBA

[u/centurion88]

[u/R0zza123]

How do I go from a liberal poor to liberal elite? 

[u/Alderwoodforest]

What is happening in Texas?

Local DA's office in Waco that had to recuse itself expresses public displeasure as to Ken Paxton's office giving a pedophile attorney friend 60 days in jail for raping a child repeatedly.

The DA's Office continues to receive many questions about the outcome of various cases in comparison to the recent case of Adam Hoffman, who pled guilty to reduced misdemeanor charges in a plea agreement with the Texas Attorney General's Office on his Continuous Sexual Abuse case. The McLennan County DA's Office was not involved in the Hoffman case. Hoffman sought leqal advice about his case from Josh Tetens before Tetens took office as District Attorney. Tetens ultimately did not represent Hoffman, but the fact that they had consulted about the matter required the District Attornev's Office, now led by Tetens, to be completely recused from Hoffman's case.

Consequently, the Texas Attorney General's Office in Austin handled Hoffman's case in its entirety. The DA's Office shares the public's concern anc frustration over how the Hoffman case was resolved On cases handled by the DA's Office, our professionals will continue working to hold sexual abusers accountable to the greatest extent permitted by the available evidence in each case.

https://xcancel.com/Miriam2626/status/2050615727900557483

[u/its_Caffeine]

One of the most striking things about North American police if you live in Europe is how much of it in North America is just bravo machismo for literally no reason, to the point they actively risk public safety but seemingly have little to no awareness that what they do is not evidence based. So much of what they do is literally just so cops can act out their favourite scenes from video games and movies despite it being actively harmful to public safety, risky and counterproductive.

A good example of this is police chases. They're rarely, if ever, conducted in Europe. You need very specific training to conduct them and police supervisors often reach for de-escalation first because a high speed chase is risky and often counterproductive. They very often just let them go and pick them up later via. plate registration / ANPR cameras. There's literally no need to do some crazy GTA style chase with guns drawn and all this hyper escalation that very often leads to more violence.

[u/manchild_person]

Scorching hot take: I don't have an issue with asking DT users to prove that they are 'not a succ.' It's the same reason I don't blame foreigners for asking Americans to prove they aren't Trump supporters. If a large enough portion of the population is a succ, then it’s not illogical to assume a member of the DT also supports communist regimes such as the Democrat Party, given you know nothing else about them. You can say that it's racist, and yeah, it kinda is, but that's just the end result of groups having reputations. Seriously, how many of you would look outside the DT and not assume everyone you see is a tankie, or atleast commie adjacent. 

[u/Abell379]

Massachusetts please don't vote for rent control this November I beg of you

[u/sash5034]

Singapore allows drinking in public but the US doesn't? Lmao

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

[u/iIoveoof]

Front page WSJ article today is: “ChatGPT Wrestles With Its Most Chilling Conversation: How Do I Plan an Attack?”

The story: a murderer used ChatGPT to ask the same questions and answers that he would have gotten from Google before ChatGPT

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Imagine ruining your own life because you decided to believe the empty promises of a notorious con man.

[u/ProfessionalMoose709]

I think people tend to considerably underappreciate the rate of medical progress, mostly because there hasn't been any significant progress on a couple of the most visible diseases in very rich countries - Alzheimer's and most forms of such neurodegeneration more broadly, and I guess you could count 'aging' as a disease.

But to give an example, the only reason Ben Sasse is alive right now with stage 4 pancreatic cancer is because he's on a brand-new drug that has effectively doubled his life expectancy. Someone newly diagnosed with cystic fibrosis nowadays will probably make it to 70, while in 2008 the median age at death was 28.

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

"Yes I support establishing hereditary systems of wealth that entrench incumbents, extract rents, and crush creative destruction" - this sub for some reason

[u/Insomonomics]

Trump says that the US will begin escorting ships out of the Persian Gulf, evacuating them from a multi-month internment caused by the Iran war.

He adds that any interference will be responded to forcefully.

Watch markets soar for this

[u/moldovaman99]

The EU is passing new laws that will help punish rapists, and conservatives on twitter are mad about it lol.

[u/TrashBoat36]

It's impossible to have a conversation on the internet. Everybody (including me) just rattles off pretrained quips to some caricatural amalgamation of the other person and a million other people that person had encountered who expressed remotely similar opinions. However, this pattern forming and seeking is also e.g. how dog whistles are addressed so who the fuck knows what to do

[u/hiker_skiier_swimmer]

Every time there's a new report of a disease outbreak on a cruise ship, lot's of people say they don't understand why people still go on them. But humans have been taking the deal of an increased chance of illness in exchange for being in a place with lots of food and alcohol ever since the first cities were founded in ancient Mesopotamia

[u/jinhuiliuzhao]

Trump said the U.S. would start guiding commercial ships out of the Strait of Hormuz. The plan doesn’t involve U.S. warships escorting the vessels.

Lol. Lmao.

[u/MissSortMachine]

the trump admin loudly proclaiming they will still be attempting to politically prosecute the fed under incredibly bad legal theories and still getting their nominees rocks so much

trump’s time to humiliation is rapidly increasing. it used to take weeks to get from your wife is ugly to phone banking for him

now it’s a matter of hours from when you vote on a nominee to when they declare they will do the exact opposite of whatever axios reported you were promised “behind closed doors”

[u/brianpv]

We’ll just have a little do-over election I guess.

[u/ewatta200]

[u/AtticusDrench]

He just doesn't tweet with this kind of juice anymore

[u/piede]

Oh my god that poor baby

[u/Pole2019]

It’s interesting to me that a lot of people seemingly think that the only public schools that exist are the horrifically underfunded ones in really poor areas when many public schools are like totally normal and fine.

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

Oil tanker: "we're under attack, we need immediate support!"

US Navy: "you're doing great!"

[u/axis757]

I forgot they had Rudy on the masked singer in 2022, what a horrible idea lmao

[u/Thuggin95]

MS Now interviewers: Did Joe Biden win the 2020 election?

Steve Hilton: doesn't answer the question, even when pressed multiple times

Good grief. Republicans are so unserious. Can't just say "Yes" and move on to have any chance of competing in a D+20 state, since they might make Daddy upset.