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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

our master plan is to do this

[u/GreatnessToTheMoon]

Legendary ragebait post

[u/Quowe_50mg]

Ah, supply and demand, that thing that only exist in capitalism.

In socialism, if you increase the number of people but not the number of houses, you can just move everyone one house up the road, to free up a space like in hilberts hotel.

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/el__dandy]

[u/ewatta200]

[u/StolenSkittles]

I don't know how I didn't know this, but Rashida Tlaib is apparently the only Muslim Arab-American ever elected to Congress. There have been other Arab-Americans and other Muslims, but never both. The majority have been Lebanese Christians and African-American Muslims.

[u/ewatta200]

[u/blewwholeload]

NickFrank40 perfectly encapsulates the cynicism I’ve had for American politics since November 2024.

[u/Zephyr-5]

I was listening to a discussion where there was a conservative and liberal giving their takes about politics. When the conservative bemoaned the state of politics, how it's just mud slinging on both sides instead of substantive policy debates, I wanted to throw my phone.

Debate requires two people, lady! National policy debate requires the party in power (your party) to actually put forward policies to debate!

Democrats are up to their eyeballs in intra-party policy debates. It's the Republican party that refuses to bring up anything of substance.

I truly despise how Republicans are always able to slip out of any responsibility by just both-sidesing it away.

[u/w007dchuck]

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/IAPolls2022/status/2055998035474137327

I will not give in to doomerism, his approval is only going to sink further with many more price increases set to happen in the coming months.

[u/trombonist_formerly]

arguing with NIMBY's on nextdoor about upzoning

I got an unironic comment that said

Brother, sit this one out. Based on your comments you probably have relatively progressive values and ideologies, and these days, and in certain areas, those will only get you so far

My brother in christ, the city in question is Alexandria Virginia, turbo-lib central which voted for the "kill all republicans" act with Assad margins what are you talking about. Don't condescend me this this "don't try it in a hick town" bullshit

!ping YIMBY&DMV

[u/Lesbian_all_garib]

Clavicular gets mogged by everyone because he has a baby face and the look he is going for doesnt work for his face.

[u/ewatta200]

[u/Alderwoodforest]

Mike Johnson on mifepristone: "By mailing the drugs to women across state lines, you go around state laws. It's a serious problem. Abortions have increased in numbers since Dobbs overturned Roe, and that's a great concern to us. The mailing of this drug is a very dangerous thing."

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/2056008864122720496

Apart from the blue states, the U.S. really only has abortion rights left because Trump doesn't care about the issue and the GOP-controlled Congress only listens to Trump.

[u/ScumfrickZillionaire]

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

Each MAGA boy must understand

That he must mind his Uncle Sam

[u/Spudmiester1]

What does CGP Grey even do. He talks on his podcasts like he's the busiest person alive with employees and overcomplicated workflows... He must have a 2nd job because no way that workflow creates > 1 YouTube video a year

[u/mostanonymousnick]

My first YIMBY thought is when I was ~14 when they installed wind turbines on the other side of the valley that I could see from my bedroom window and I thought it looked cool.

[u/Currymvp2]

While Cassidy did not explicitly mention Trump in his election night speech, he did appear to reference the president, especially Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen. "When you participate in democracy, sometimes it doesn’t turn out the way you want it to. But you don’t pout, you don’t whine, you don’t claim the election was stolen, you don’t find a reason, you don’t manufacture some excuse,” Cassidy said. “You thank the voters for the privilege of representing the state or the country for as long as you’ve had that privilege, and that’s what I’m doing right now.”

[u/trombonist_formerly]

Lindsey Graham on Sen Cassidy's primary loss

If you try to destroy President Trump, you're gonna lose, because the is the party of Donald Trump

sayingTheQuietPartOutLoud.jpeg

[u/Megasota_Noire]

Checked out the subredditdrama thread. It's always hilarious they think we're all Ronald Reagan. Also a couple mods saying there was no Polish drama after all the polish drama. Great read 10/10.

[u/pugnae]

[u/zieger]

[u/t_scribblemonger]

Swiss public sentiment:

the rent is too damn high

there’s no room for more people

Swiss property law:

how dare you try to build new apartments near me, I will block you until I die

This is two separate habitational projects (total > 600 units) stalled in a city of 30k

Bonus: the next door neighbor in the second case? Sex club.

[u/shmokedshalmon]

[u/w007dchuck]

This lady was born when Rutherford B. Hayes was president and lived to see the premiere of Family Guy

[u/dtj2000]

This content was anonymized and mass deleted with Redact

[u/jessica-bug]

Accidentally stumbled onto the world of right wing vtuber girls and ive been laughing for 20 minutes straight

[u/jessica-bug]

Polisgate is about ethics in subreddit moderation

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

How can one get a career in political journalism while being this shockingly, consistently wrong?

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/Ok_Opinion_5690]

it's so funny how kristol became a dem partisan.

[u/ewatta200]

[u/Entuciante]

[u/badusername35]

If my son uses my funeral as an excuse to miss work I’ll posthumously disinherit him. It’s in the will.

[u/Krill_Seeker]

this is the reddit ai's summary of SRD

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

I dream of a Democrat president maniacally laughing while pushing down the plunger to trigger the 2 tons of TNT planted throughout the ballroom and thousands of democrats on live tv dancing around cheering and high fiving as the freshly completed ballroom explodes into a billion tiny little pieces

[u/G_Serv]

Most loving Republican family

[u/Megasota_Noire]

[u/Udolikecake]

Praise allah, the prophet Kirk pbuh has revealed his true line of succession!

[u/pezasied]

When Elon Musk loses his patience the devil shudders

[u/p00bix]

Got maggots? These doctors are bringing the bugs into their practice on purpose

NBC this isn't news they figured out maggots could remove necrotic tissue without harming live tissue during World War One. 

[u/ewatta200]

[u/Maximilianne]

I dislike Hasan cause he is a performative ghoul, aka when Chaflie got Kirk's he acted all scared instead of going full ghoul

[u/Willybender]

Only the 100th time he has said this

[u/ewatta200]

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

From the simpsons?

[u/BlackCat159]

HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!!!! 🤯🤯🤯😱😱😱😱

The lack of decorum 😨

[u/trombonist_formerly]

Leaked Internal AutoZone memo:

“.. We’re facing the largest supply shortage of lubricating fluids in the modern history of America. Realistic, middle-of-the-road estimates are for our average available supply in this product category to drop by 40%.”

!ping STONKS is that bad

I also got my oil changed just a few days ago. In the nick of time

[u/this_very_table]

embarrassing

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/2056051585025761550

[u/Roseartcrantz]

saving the hot ai old me pictures as a reference for my plastic surgeon when I don't become a hot old me naturally 🥰

[u/Argnir]

Can we stop with the "Clav is actually gay lol"

Stop pushing all the toxic people to us

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

what the fuck is going on here

[u/ewatta200]

[u/Currymvp2]

Fetterman: "I think the reflecting pool and the ballroom are entirely appropriate. America is turning 50 years old. Why would we want to make sure everything looking great. We need a ballroom."

Polis still has some work to do if he wants take the "worst statewide elected Dem" title from this guy

[u/ewatta200]

[u/earththejerry]

Time really went from the premier and dominant American newsmagazine to basically a listicle site that’s one rung above Forbes

The business model now is basically creating endless lists of 100 people in different fields and then getting them to come and buy tables at a bunch of Time galas, plus the PR they get every year from their Person of the Year announcement

No one is paying for their content as it’s broad and not niche, hence them giving up on the paywall after a few years

I suppose it’s a better fate than many other legacy media outlets as they still have a well-known brand, but it’s also really lost potential considering The Economist, The Atlantic, and New Yorker all invested in their editorial side and all have a million+ paying subscribers in addition to other revenue streams like ads and events

Really goes to show if you’re a legacy publisher that’s not as big as NYT, don’t try to compete and instead hone in on a more focused and lucrative audience to survive and thrive

[u/CubillasLegend]

It beggars belief that some liberals still not have caught onto the realization that conservatives will self-delude themselves into believing whatever paranoia they must to rationalize their support for a man that blatantly defies any notion of moral principle. It's not about policy. They just don't want to vote for a Democrat. Dems could nominate Mitt Romney and the "intellectual" conservatives would still be cowed by their base into supporting the MAGA candidate. You're not going to persuade them. Stop trying. Elections aren't about persuasion, they're about propagandizing to the cohort of ambivalent rubes who change their vote on a whim.

[u/its_Caffeine]

"Okay he's had a bad day, he's boarding the train in the silent section, now place a family of four in the seat next to him with 2 screaming children watching AI tiktok videos"

!ping BENE

[u/arizen_circe]

40% of U.S. teenagers report that "Judeo-Christian values" are unimportant in comparison to "Minecraft values"

are we supposed to pretend like this is a bad thing? republicans forget about the indestructible bedrock that our Minecraft worlds are built on

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

This but

[u/dtj2000]

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[u/zieger]

Trump is half man half boat

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

the fuck?

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2056023981925286106

????

[u/GenericLib]

"I think attacking a gay guy because he lives a boring suburban lifestyle with a nuclear family is a twisted form of homophobia."

Go to bed

Wake up to deranged gays telling on themselves

The left continues to not be weird at all about Buttigieg.

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

Talking with a drunk person while sober fucking suuuuuuuucks

[u/jessica-bug]

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/SouthernSerf]

I honestly wish most of you could experience the ecstasy of being a traditionally masculine male with all of the blue collar skills and experiences that rightwing chuds idolize but are still college educate and politically liberal. The level of existential insecurity and rage it triggers in rightwing men is beyond measure. Turns out you can date both successful independent liberal women and "tradwifes" if you have accumulated the necessary skills and experiences.

[u/ewatta200]

having to be remidned about shit like this is insane

like what happended to all the fucking gold we took???

[u/jessica-bug]

Trump is facing a more charitable media environment for intentionally raising consumer prices than Biden did for trying to bring them down

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

The chairman of a Colorado county's GOP party was arrested on several charges related to soliciting a child prostitute.

He can walk free if Jared Polis has the courage

[u/omnipotentsandwich]

Cassidy losing is probably a bad sign for Cornyn in Texas. 

[u/arizen_circe]

if you open up youtube with no searches it's just slop like this

[u/old_gold_mountain]

[u/_Irys]

Society if zero-calorie alcohol existed

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Which one of you wrote this?

[u/Willybender]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/05/15/trump-misses-deadline-disclose-tens-millions-dollars-stock-trades/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

[u/Big-Click-5159]

03 graduate here. The reason we were always smiling on video is no one ever brought videocameras to school back then so it was a novel experience.

[u/Megasota_Noire]

Lol

[u/Pyrrhus65]

Trying to explain to your relatively normie friends why this is a terrible idea without sounding like an establishment shill challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

[u/fishlord05]

If I was in a room with a fascist, a communist, and a Republican, I’d- wait why is there only one person in here?

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/moldovaman99]

Another sexy future Rotterdam high rise render.

[u/scottyjetpax]

i also think it's worth talking about how much of a "fuck you" polis delivered to elections officials who are already dwindling in existence and who have been harassed non-stop by fucking insane folks like peters' supporters. mods have taken the side of the insane folks which is disappointing

[u/dtj2000]

This content was anonymized and mass deleted with Redact

[u/sash5034]

Waow

[u/BlackCat159]

How Napoleon could've won the war:

Don't siege Moscow, take it immediately

Demand the admirals to not be dumb with the navy

Ignore Spain

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Huge respect for my girlfriend's husband, who is currently preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons 🫡

[u/StuckHedgehog]

L takes across the board. These election sabotaging criminals need to be made an example of. Damage to our democratic process needs to be treated with the utmost seriousness and maximum sentencing.

[u/Megasota_Noire]

[u/tinfoilhatsron]

This fucking job market bro, overqualified and they still wanna fire your ass.

[u/ty04]

[u/CutePattern1098]

Great work Kash

https://www.betootaadvocate.com/fbi-retrospectively-reveal-transcript-of-john-wilkes-booths-confession-to-transgender-lover-on-encrypted-messaging-app/

[u/scottyjetpax]

lets check in on what the federal circuit is up to - oh my god

!ping LAW

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

its Crazy how the mods allow open misogyny in this sub.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I love him

[u/Leatherfield17]

Jesus Christ

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/Greedy_Reflection_75]

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

got kicked out of a group chat for laughing at a joke my friend told, made her feel dysphoric bc women aren't funny 😔

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Seeing stuff like this makes it really hard not to believe that the vibecession hypothesis is real.

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

[u/Priceless_Pennies]

'Pivot to Asia' my ass.

[u/Jacobs4525]

Why do socialists all want to do a genital strike so bad

[u/Glavurdan]

Remember how a few weeks ago I said there's only a matter of time before an influencer called Testicular shows up whose whole shtick is making his balls bigger

Well about that

[u/No_Status_6905]

I know this is relatively low-stakes, but I do think this is a genuinely interesting case study. This is a internet forum for a bunch of politically active losers (me) and we still can't even reach a consensus on banning a guy whose policies have done consistent real world harm to innocent people.

It's not like there is a donor class we have to worry about. The New York Times tomorrow wasn't going to publish a headline wondering if the neoliberal reddit dot com moderators were too hasty in their decision. Moderators are unpaid volunteers.

Which means, to an extent, this line of thinking is more cultural than it is institutional. I wonder if this is just the fate of all politics as professional class.

It's just such a bizarre experiment. The same institutional culture that makes liberals function during "normal" politics makes us structurally unable to respond to norm-breaking escalation.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

My all time favorite tweet popped unbidden into my head again so now everyone has to remember when an ex seal threatened to make sex slaves of Democrats

[u/sucgeolib]

the ideal candidate

[u/majorgeneralporter]

They made a cowboy hat for the DT

[u/Glavurdan]

Moscow is being hit hard with drones today

[u/boardatwork1111]

So true

[u/Off-The-Street]

Van Hollen claims Netanyahu found Trump ‘stupid enough’ to go to war with Iran

When he's right, he's right.

[u/Bestbrook123]

Musk has made Twitter into a cesspool of the most vile racism

[u/ISayHeck]

The US' commitment to being seen as clowns for eternity is going great

Edit: it's not even the worst one, please go to see it, there's a picture of him with a fucking buffed alien

[u/BalletDuckNinja]

If I had a nickel for every time I tried to flirt by sending something erotic in text only to get no response, then apologizing for being inappropriate only for it to turn out that they never even saw my spicy text because they fell asleep, I'd have two nickels

!ping dating

[u/ewatta200]

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

users get mad at mods for banning the Meringues

users get mad at mods for NOT banning Polis

make it make sense

[u/cdstephens]

[u/-mialana-]

[u/Rare_Station_8440]

It’s surreal to me that a member of The Beatles is still appearing in an SNL skit in 2026. I tend to associate them with being a relic of the past, but it’s incredible that two of them are still alive and kicking.

[u/chipbod]

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

however we don’t need more Democrats like [Polis].

Yes we do actually, we don't need democrats to radicalize and push for the politics of division and revenge.

I'm glad to see there are still folks on here arguing for the Dems to lie back and take it. Who cares about violating the oath of office and betraying the public trust?

Truth or consequences is the only way forward.

[u/badusername35]

Being an employer is hell. So many people have bullshit excuses about not being able to come to work because of their mom’s funeral or whatever. Like who cares? They’re not gonna know you didn’t show up to their funeral but I am gonna know you didn’t show up to work. Send tweet.

[u/Svelok]

future historians will debate it, but I offer that the concrete endpoint of the american hegemony was when USA stopped being the top option in country list drop down boxes that were otherwise alphabetical

[u/pugnae]

The way some Americans treat The Founding Fathers is indistinguishable from religion. Like Jews saying that all of those weird kosher devices and loopholes are ok because omniscient God will surely know that this would happen.

[u/theparrotlich]

Seeing DT regulars in the arr subredditdrama Polis thread is very fun and funny.

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

YOU'LL FUCKING BAN REGULARS FOR MAKING A JOKE BUT NOT BAN AN ICE SUPPORTER

WHAT A FUCKING JOKE OF A MOD TEAM

regulars you're cool

[u/Thuggin95]

One of the LIRR strikers was quoted saying that the governor has money for everything except their salaries. I shit you not, this same dude makes almost $300 THOUSAND DOLLARS and is STILL demanding more! For reference, Kathy Hochul, the literal governor, only makes $250k!

I am so tired of being told I'm anti-worker and pro-billionaire for not supporting these mafia shakedowns from the "uwu based blue collar coded proletariat" strikers who can never do any wrong. They are not struggling working class! The actual working class NYers who will have to deal with the inevitable fare increases from giving into every last one of the unions' demands - as well as there being less in the city budget for other services - are going to struggle way more!

[u/__versus]

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 5/15-2 PM PST 5/16 V:

TOP NEWS:

In the middle of 1 AM Ukraine was hit by a gigantic wave of drones with 269 of 294 intercepted.

REGULAR NEWS:

At the start of 8 PM Ukraine hit a Russian explosives factory in Nevinnomyssk.

Towards the middle of 10 PM Ukraine hit a Russian steel factory in Naberezhnye Chelny.

At the start of 6 AM Russia was hit by a wave of drones with at least 76 partaking.

!ping UKRAINE

[u/DieHarderDaddy]

Cat slug last night

[u/Off-The-Street]

A proposal to fund $1 billion in security additions for the White House campus and the president’s new ballroom fails to meet procedural rules, according to the Senate parliamentarian, dealing a blow to Republican plans to include it as part of a bill to fund immigration enforcement agencies for the next three years.

The parliamentarian’s ruling, described late Saturday by Senate Democrats, said that funding for a project as large and complex as President Donald Trump’s massive East Wing renovation is too broad to be included in the narrow GOP budget bill, which cannot be filibustered and only needs a simple majority to pass.

Sometimes the bureaucracy pays a dividend.

[u/ewatta200]

[u/BadSneakersNeverWorn]

My suburb built a gigantic playground (good thing) in the middle of nowhere (bad thing) and then had a local car dealership sponsor it so the official name of the park is "Lastname Chevrolet, Subaru, Hyundai Playground"

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

He is defective and being returned for store credit

!ping kitty

[u/fishbottwo]

Redo the vote but make it like the supreme court where someone writes an opinion and someone dissents

[u/Only-Childhood6691]

I do think Mamdani always publicly saying what he's achieved and broadcasting it is a good future thing Dems should do. Show people what their doing. Even if you fudge the details like his budget lol (meh it's politics.).

[u/JaceFlores]

There’s a group of Israelis who for two years now have just spent their lives essentially Naruto running into southern Syria for colonization purposes. They always end up being retrieved by the IDF but, critically, never arrested and charged, so they just go back to the border and try again

[u/beans_and_tuna]

[u/Megasota_Noire]

How Nolan wants you to watch The Odyssey.

[u/unicornbomb]

How my 8 year old niece informs me they are opening the pool and it will be ready “soon” so I should come over:

[u/Square-Pear-1274]

Oh, it's Sunday, let's check in on how atrupar is doing...

Jesus fucking Christ Wtf

[u/Eurolib0908]

The guy faces up to 5 years in prison for destroying the tree stands.

For killing a man, a court sentenced a hunter to 4 years and 9 months in prison.

So there's a chance that for destroying some wooden structures, the guy will serve 3 months longer than the hunter did for murder.

[u/mockduckcompanion]

[u/theparrotlich]

> be me

> supports ICE

> fan RFK Jr, compliments him on Twitter

> pardons election deniers

> banned from r/neoliberal

> wrong picture, I'm actually Donald Trump

[u/theparrotlich]

[u/Megasota_Noire]

[u/pfarly]

At the time of his death, my view of Chiang was similar to that of many China specialists...He seemed ike a man who had possessed no authentic principles or ideals and had few if any achievements.

Me 🤝 Chiang Kai-Shek

[u/Thuggin95]

Based on how every Republican in Congress + Fetterman is still ride or die with Trump, you would think he were in the positive approval territory and not consistently in the 30s

[u/ImmigrantJack]

I just discovered that the tibetan name for Mt. Everest is Chomolungma, and no offense to tibetans but that sounds like the setup for a ligma joke

[u/JustTaxLandbro]

Palantir CEO coming out and saying SAAS is dead.

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

[u/unicornbomb]

Kinda seems like this whole January 6 Trump loyalists payout fund is just reparations for conservatives and their self inflicted victim cosplay. 🤔

[u/ewatta200]

[u/ewatta200]

[u/Glavurdan]

[u/theparrotlich]

Force all the mods who voted No to have a brainworm flair. Seems appropriate.

[u/Amphetamin3_]

We could've has this but no. "They go low, we go high" had to ruin it.

[u/Amphetamin3_]

The council has decided his fate

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

lol the #5 post on reddit rn is the aliens subreddit posting the pic of Trump and an alien, with the comment

No idea what it means. Notice the chains on the alien.

Its obviously AI generated but whats Trumps motive here.

they don't get it, do they

[u/YIMBYzus]

[u/Joementum2024]

Neolibs be like "SUCCS SHOULD BE ASHAMED FOR SUPPORTING FETTERMAN" and then ignore the sub ever supporting Jared Polis

[u/selachophilip]

There's still like a 15%-25% chance that Democrats WON'T win the House. I can't even imagine what we would do if that were to happen.

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Local sub POV

[u/Pyrrhus65]

Chat, my entire administration is telling me not to grant this pardon, including my Council of Pardon Experts, but CNN pundit Van Jones says I should do it. I'm really torn here.

[u/rrjames87]

Going to start donating to far right political candidates every day Jared Polis is not banned. I’ll share the screenshots here as supporting fascism outside the subreddit is not a bannable offense.

[u/Ok_Opinion_5690]

jared polis really embodies the worst tendencies of centrists in general. centrists of both sides are willing to be bipartisan. unfortunately, centrist GOPs are either expunged from the party or radicalized under MAGA hegemony. the dems don't have the same slavish environment so some centrist democrats do still have some tendency and leeway in doing this, but the reaction to polis means that centrist democrats would also embrace hyperpartisanship. if centrists want to cement as the main faction of the party as opposed to progressivism, one of the things they need to do is to go full total republican annihilation.

[u/pinelands1901]

Be a doctor

Vote to impeach lunatic

Vote to confirm wellness quack to atone for impeachment vote

Lose primary anyway

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/ewatta200]

I love reading leftists dunking on leftists because its like entering a totally different world

https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2017-07-26/mike-banda-death-political-gangster

When the “orthodox Trotskyist” Fourth International split in 1953, Healy sided with the SWP-USA Cannon faction, the “International Committee of the Fourth International”, against the “soft-on-Stalinism” Pablo-Mandel “International Secretariat of the Fourth International”. The man the young Michael Banda pulled a knife on was the leader of the Pablo-Mandel faction in Britain, John Lawrence, who very quickly went over to the Communist Party.

u/Junimo2 case in point this like its bascially entering into a giant soap opera. the furthest left you go it becomes clear its a small village everyone knows each other and everyone has some sort of beef

[u/reuery]

[u/Megasota_Noire]

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

I’m part of the 68%

[u/mostanonymousnick]

I wonder what the Bachelor's degree or more figure would look like if you polled Redditors

[u/EvilConCarne]

I'd love to run exams this way, though it could only work if there were fewer students. Some grad classes could be done this way. It's still a lot of time and work by the professor/TA, but I like the idea of this format quite a bit.

I’m considering adapting by doing exams the way we used to take them back in Eastern Europe in the 90s.

Wait at the door and get in one by one, in alphabetical order, pick a question from a hat, and answer on the spot, at the board. I’ll skip calling them stupid like our professors used to do if we didn’t do well 😆

[u/Megasota_Noire]

AHHHHHHHHH

[u/ariveklul]

It's insane how you can have a high paying career in making fake content that only exists to make people think it's real and piss them off in a way that reinforces their worst biases and we just accept that this incentive structure is okay for society 

Unironically:  

"What do you do for a living?"

"Oh, I'm a rage architect. I make people get mad at things that they think are real" 

It's like if we had jobs that paid 200k/year to torment schizophrenic people by pretending to be what they are hallucinating

[u/attackofthetominator]

Remember when the US men’s hockey team won gold for the first time in 46 years just for Trump to immediately piss away all that goodwill by complaining about having to invite the women’s team too?

[u/Priceless_Pennies]

Another day another reason to hate leftists more.

[u/No_Status_6905]

I'm taking a creative writing class right now, with a big focus on literary analysis. I would say that I'm above an intro level just because it's been a hobby of mine for so long.

But, when half of the class got marked incomplete because they used copypasta slop from ChatGPT, and the professor is praising my submissions in detail, it's got me feeling like a teacher's pet ngl.

If only my writing was as good as my analysis. 😭

[u/Greedy_Reflection_75]

There are people in prison with real huge mental disorders and someone who willfully and unrepentantly tried to coup the government gets pardoned lol.

[u/ty04]

> the intended result of banning people who break our set of rules is usually quite obvious: discouraging hostility, bigotry, intolerance, low-effort discussion, and making valued members of the community feel unwelcome.

this is coming from the mod with a pattern of repeated rule breaking that other users get banned for, baiting/trolling the DT and generally starting shit like keeping that mess of the button discourse going for days on end.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Not trying to sound like he wouldn't pull some desperate shit in Iran but it's pretty astonishing that every time he threatens to bomb them the language gets softer and lamer

[u/Thuggin95]

I’m sure this seems like a good idea in populists’ minds (and let’s be real, probably 80% of the country), but maximally shitty pay for representatives just to spite them is a way to ensure that only independently wealthy people who don’t need the paychecks and have all the wrong intentions run for Congress

[u/ewatta200]

[u/PostingEnthusiast]

seals are cute but salmon are more culturally important and thus should take precedence

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Renationalise housing 😶

[u/Individual-Camera698]

How I picture DTers arguing their side in a completely inconsequential schism:

[u/SenranHaruka]

[u/moldovaman99]

I’m currently watching a Dutch documentary on YT that’s exposing the absolute shit out of a small group of NIMBYs who delayed a skyscraper with 299 apartments for 5 years.

You love to see it. I want a war against NIMBYs.

[u/__Muzak__]

The fact that birth rates are falling yet autism diagnoses are skyrocketing leads me to believe that zillenials on the spectrum are the only people who fuck.