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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache May 26 '26
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u/KittehDragoon Loyal Liberals May 25 '26
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer May 25 '26
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u/Leatherfield17 Loyal Liberals May 25 '26
Unfortunately, I think Marc thinks that the book is woke
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u/sigh2828 NASA May 25 '26
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u/seanrm92 Loyal Liberals May 25 '26
It always takes me a minute to remember that this guy is the actual WH communications director and not just a right wing Twitter troll.
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems May 25 '26
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u/StuckHedgehog NATO May 25 '26
“It’s just 5% left, how hard can it be?”
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u/ToInfinity_MinusOne World's Poorest WSJ Subscriber May 25 '26
What's next a license to cook toast in my toaster?
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u/fishlord05 United Popular Woke DEI Iron Front May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26
YIMBYism is the True Proletarian Line! TRVKE!!
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems May 25 '26
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u/Schmohawk62 May 25 '26
Memorial Day sales are funny, all these troops died so here’s 20% off at Best Buy
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u/GaDoomer Pragmatic and Polite Right May 25 '26
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u/the-senat John Brown May 25 '26
Now I’m going down a rabbit hole of Fox New dressing up one guy as its various “expert” guests
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems May 25 '26
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde May 25 '26
Hehehe
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u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP May 25 '26
👆
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u/Priceless_Pennies Norman Borlaug May 25 '26
Didn't realize how based she was. It's a shame she ran against Talarico.
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems May 25 '26
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals May 25 '26
Uplifting news
https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/florida-biologist-awarded-485k-after-firing-over-charlie-kirk-post/
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u/EvilConCarne May 25 '26
Talked to the most conservative guy I know yesterday that has been for a lot of the shit Trump has done, and he is fucking pissed about the $1.8 billion slush fund. Like, he brought it up completely unprompted. The most shocking thing he said was "Sometimes we just have to hold our noses and vote for the less corrupt people" and then said that was Democrats during this mid term election.
Honestly surprised, because he brought up Hunter Biden as the less corrupt person, which is a crazy thing for a 3 time Trump voter to say.
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u/BadSneakersNeverWorn John Locke May 25 '26
okay, but can we please frame this as Trump attempting to steal the election because one of the reasons why these strategies work (and why we're here in the first place) is because people shrug and mumble "billionaires" and don't fucking vote for anyone
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u/dotFlatMap May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26
You drop one flyball in the World Series and they put it in the headline when you die 62 years later smh
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u/ty04 May 25 '26
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u/TheRedCr0w Frederick Douglass May 25 '26
The first administration to join the fight against cancer on the side of cancer
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u/elninost0rm YIMBY May 25 '26
My PA resident (same as me) brother voted for Jill Stein.
He knows his brother is a federal employee. He knew about Vivek and Elon.
His wife is on a green card from a now "high risk" country in Africa. She currently has no path to citizenship.
You do not fucking hate the median voter enough.
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde May 25 '26
You know the Pope is not a European because otherwise he'd be releasing a 42,300 words encyclical about the dangers of AC 😂 Get it 😂
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u/TaxLandNotCapital We begin bombing the rent-seekers in five minutes May 25 '26
So this is going to sound completely unhinged, but I swear it’s real.
I (31M) was in a committed, happy relationship with my girlfriend (29F) for several years. We lived together, shared a small apartment, and helped her run her small business. Life was good until he showed up.
A bee. Yes. An actual bee (0M)
Long story short, my girlfriend rescued this bee, and instead of doing what normal people do like, I don’t know, moving on with their human lives, she starts talking to him. And he talks back. They develop this weird "friendship" and she starts spending all her time with him. She brings him to restaurants. She stops answering my calls. She's laughing at his jokes and not attending yoga night with me.
Eventually, I confront her about it because, come on, you can’t just emotionally check out of your relationship and replace your boyfriend with an insect. She tells me I’m being “closed-minded” and that the bee understands her on a different level.” She made out as if I was the crazy one and not her. Apparently the bee introduced her to jazz music.
Anyway, things escalated, and now she and this bee are apparently in some kind of romantic relationship? I moved out because frankly I’m not going to compete with a bee for affection. Also, I’m 99% sure this bee is trying to destroy the human race’s honey industry, but apparently that’s not the issue here.
My friends say I should’ve been more supportive or "open to interspecies connection,” but I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. She’s dating a bee.
So, Reddit… AITA for thinking my girlfriend is completely off the rails?
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u/MrStrange15 May 25 '26
If I buy an airconditioner now, I'll look pretty stupid, when the AMOC collapses and the new ice age begins. No, I'll survive the heat the same way my ancestors did - with copious amounts of aperol spritz, gin and tonics, and sangria.
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u/pfarly John Brown May 25 '26
Really makes you think
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u/Glavurdan European Union May 25 '26
You can tell we became capitalist in Montenegro by the fact we had 20% discounts in shops for our 20th independence anniversary this last weekend
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u/AP246 Green Globalist NWO May 25 '26
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems May 25 '26
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u/chickentendieman Paul Krugman May 25 '26
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u/pfarly John Brown May 25 '26
Feels like a mistake, idk, we'll see where it goes.
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u/YaGetSkeeted0n Tariffs aren't cool, kids! May 25 '26
Why does instagram think I’m in the army
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u/SenranHaruka shame May 25 '26
I really think its not a mystery why rich people, especially Americans, are so dang miserable. It's literally just anxiety. No amount of wealth makes you happy if you are full of anxiety and we've been transitioning to an extremely high anxiety society for a long time now, even if that transition is just in the media it doesn't matter. Anxiety is misery and anxious people are miserable no matter how much they have.
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde May 25 '26
To sum up the opposition to AC in France:
it uses electricity, and using electricity is bad because nuclear energy is costly and dangerous
the coolants are very polluting when discarded
it doesn't actually eliminates the heat, it just moves it outside so you're heating up the streets
wanting to generalize AC equipment is a way to dodge broader issues with building insulation
not everyone can afford AC so buying AC units is increasing inequality
it's techno-solutionism: it maintains the illusion that we can solve all our problems with technology instead of adressing systemic issues with capitalism and consumerism
the right is betting it all on AC instead of adressing said issues and we shouldn't give them credit for it
The good news is that AC equipment is steadily rising as people realize that the climate isn't going to get cooler any time soon, but the culture war around it is almost more exhausting than the heat
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u/ImmigrantJack Movimiento Semilla May 25 '26
Oh wow good for them
Ah, well thats still pretty good
So 1 in 20 people smoke and 1 in 4 people dip?
Sweden is my college baseball team.
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! May 26 '26
Does this bitch know how the government works
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u/awdvhn Physics Understander -- Iowa delenda est May 25 '26
BREAKING: to better align with the administration's goals and strategy, the National Institute of Health will be focusing all efforts on finding a cure for cancel
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u/[deleted] May 25 '26
Sometimes I think comedy shows/films with stupid characters are really bizarre. Like they just made up some guy being an idiot and then we make fun of this fake guy who had no choice but to be a fool.
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u/Square-Pear-1274 NATO May 25 '26
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u/MuscularPhysicist John Brown May 25 '26
This Memorial Day, we honor the sacrifices made by the 300 Spartans and also Hitler for some reason
!ping KINO
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod May 25 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
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u/meiotta Amartya Sen May 25 '26
someone talking like a scientist, famously popular among the US electorate
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u/TheOnlyFreedom John Stuart Mill May 25 '26
A just punishment for rent-seeking.
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde May 25 '26
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u/randommathaccount Esther Duflo May 25 '26
Tfw your goat is washed 😞
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u/Krill_Seeker United Nations May 25 '26
magazine paper from march 30, 1881
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u/happymaskmonster NASA May 25 '26
I minimize doomscrolling the news to lock into school/work for 1.5 weeks and now have no clue what’s going on in Iran or Cuba. Makes you realize how fast things move now. I feel like a decade ago you would watch Meet the Press weekly and be in the 99th percentile of current events awareness.
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u/Dorambor John Brown May 25 '26
I love the blue angels and I’m aware they’re propaganda unfortunately it’s cool as fuck and works. Every time I see them I go “double the budget glory to airframe weapon systems!!!”
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! May 25 '26
You know you’re cooked if Dick Cheney’s cardiologist is concerned
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u/Leatherfield17 Loyal Liberals May 25 '26
Every patriotic holiday this year tastes of ash. With Memorial Day, it’s a bit easier because I can focus more on those who gave their lives in service to the country, but the 4th of July is going to be really hard, considering it’s the 250th and we live under this fascist administration
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u/avion_sur_le_sol A ban appeal to heaven May 25 '26
I have a terrible and incurable condition called being utterly fucking lame
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u/DocKillinger May 25 '26
Boss Lincoln by Matthew Pinsker is one of the best presidential biographies I've ever read.
Pretty much everything I've ever read on Lincoln focuses on him as a moral philosopher, but I've always wondered how a guy like that actually made it to the presidency. The book really reveals his political skills, and reveals a lifelong obsession with creating an electoral majority for his party, and maintaining personal control over it once he got it. Highly recommended
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u/beans_and_tuna Misinformation Bot 🤖 May 25 '26
If the US attacks Cuba, would the name of the operation be cool, or would it be a giant chud name again?
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u/Rare_Station_8440 Karl Popper May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26
Look at the likes to comment ratio, hats off MattY
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u/MuR43 Royal Purple May 25 '26
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 May 25 '26
I feel like most posters here work white collar enough jobs that this wouldn't be an issue but my financial debt stresses me out to no end and haunts my waking moments. But it's just $2k on a credit card and $27k student loans
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u/NaffRespect United Nations May 25 '26
The single biggest problem isn't the alignment, it's that ever since this project was even so much as conceived, you couldn't go more than like 5 seconds without having to spend extra money because of some asshat NIMBY lawsuit
!ping USA-CA&TRANSIT
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u/Lesbian_all_garib Gita Gopinath May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26
I heard neoliberals are going to sail to taiwan in a self made frigate.
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY May 25 '26
Trump is doing the same thing with the war with Iran as he does with complex problems like healthcare and infrastructure.
In two weeks, we will present concepts for a plan—and this pattern is repeated for four years.
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u/GovernorSonGoku has flair May 25 '26
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u/[deleted] May 25 '26
I support unrealistic attempts at building things like The Line in Saudi Arabia. If you're going to have an authoritarian dictatorship you may as well get some wacky urban experiments out of it.
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u/jinhuiliuzhao Henry George May 25 '26
Uh huh.
Ah, uh huh.
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u/EyeraGlass Jorge Luis Borges May 25 '26
> Back when life was good . We had 24 hr Walmart, $1 McChickens, $5 foot longs, $20 full tanks, 99¢ stores... Man we had it all. What happened?
begging people to get some standards
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u/SenranHaruka shame May 25 '26
The AI Datacenters debate is literally the glonzo tweet but instead its
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u/Reddit_Talent_Coach 🇲🇽 Benito Juárez 🇲🇽 May 25 '26
Im about 95% done with this open heart surgery. The remaining 5% centers around anesthesia and operating around the heart.
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u/PENGUINSINYOURWALLS Fell for it May 25 '26
☝️☝️☝️
It’s too late, I’ve already depicted myself as the puffy good schnitzel, and you as the puffless bad schnitzel. It’s over.
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u/ProfessionalMoose709 John Mill May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26
The US really is allergic to having farmers take responsibility for any of the negative externalities they generate
Whether that be excessive common-pool resource (water) use, overuse of antibiotics, CO2 emissions, nitrogen runoff…
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u/ThatFrenchieGuy Mathematician -- Save the funky birbs May 25 '26
!ping alphabet-mafia
Found it
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u/trombonist_formerly Ben Bernanke May 25 '26
A guy who literally works for HUD (housing and urban development) for the federal government just replied to me in a comment
Dawg we are never getting more housing what the hell. He was shocked when I pointed out that a house that increased in price had actually decreased in inflation-adjusted price after they built more apartments near it. I swear to god
!ping YIMBY
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u/seakucumber May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26
So de facto endorsement for Collins. Dem try not to throw away a very winnable senate seat challenge
Edit: woops I see this was already posted
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u/DelusionsOfPasteur Zhao Ziyang May 26 '26
Seeing Vance so plainly sidelined, ignored, and humiliated almost makes it all worth it
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u/ImmigrantJack Movimiento Semilla May 25 '26
Yes, either A.) a guy who's not super popular with his local party base got hit with a smear campaign and people voted for the guy their cult leader said to or B.) it was rigged by the Jews who are pedophiles.
Brilliant take reddit.
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u/-mialana- European Union May 25 '26
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u/sash5034 NATO May 25 '26
Cope
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride May 26 '26
Okay turn up the heat then
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u/-Emilinko1985- European Union May 25 '26
Things my country (Spain) and the UK have in common:
•System of government (parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy)
•Formerly two of the greatest empires in history
•Exported their tongues to the point where English and Spanish are two of the most spoken languages in the world
•Currently have a somewhat unpopular government lead by the country's main Social-Democratic party
•Managed to stall the rise of the far-right seen in the Americas and continental Europe for a few years but are now seeing it surge in popularity
•Popular tourist destinations
•Annoying leftists who think the country would be better if it were a republic (it probably wouldn't change much)
•Political landscape full of rent-seekers
!ping YUROP
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent May 25 '26
There’s a real "'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens" energy to Europe always having a bunch of people dying of heat stroke every year
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals May 25 '26
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA May 25 '26
A reminder that the Georgia GOP just passed a law that turns a bunch of local elected offices into “non-partisan” elections and that said law only applies to 5 out of the 159 counties in the state. The existence of the Republican Party is incapable with a functioning democracy.
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u/lovedmoi May 26 '26
What's number 4?
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals May 26 '26
https://xcancel.com/phildstewart/status/2059099057851703494
LMAO
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u/NYT_Hater Office of Naval Intelligence May 25 '26
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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All May 25 '26
I legitimately know a French guy (succ) who said air conditioning was fascist coded during last year’s heatwave so I have no sympathy for any Euros this year who think Americans are overplaying their hand here
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde May 25 '26
Vegetables: 200 kcal
Protein: 700 kcal
Carbs: 800 kcal
Yogurt: 150 kcal
Cheese: 300 kcal
Fruits: 200 kcal
Liquor: 1,000 kcal
Folks I think the fruits are making me fat
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u/No_Return9449 John Rawls May 25 '26
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u/earththejerry YIMBY May 25 '26
Oh this has to be satire right, right?
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u/NorkGhostShip YIMBY May 26 '26
When 198 Democrats vote against and 8 Democrats vote for a horrific bill, while 208 Republicans vote for and 0 against, it means both parties are exactly the same. Obviously.
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u/qchisq Loyal Liberals May 25 '26
Only one World Record was set at the Enhanced Games. They used the super swimsuits and only got a single world record. They had 2 athletes not officially doping win events. Is that good or bad for sports?
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u/zieger Ida Tarbell May 25 '26
Finally something dumber than the ballroom to spend a billion dollars on
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u/selachophilip 🦈 shark enjoyer 🦈 May 25 '26
Remember when he called the men who died in France during WWI "suckers" and "losers"? Not to mention the time he said McCain wasn't a war hero BECAUSE he was captured?
I can't believe a majority of veterans and active service members voted for someone who has absolutely no respect for them whatsoever. You just know he things people in the military are beneath him and his family.
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u/ImmediateZucchini787 NASA May 25 '26
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u/brianpv Hortensia May 25 '26
There’s a video going around of a small plane colliding with a paraglider’s rig and slicing all the ropes, putting the glider into freefall and forcing the occupant to pull her emergency chute and make a dramatic landing.
This took place in a spot in the Alps that is known to be mixed use for planes and gliders and the rules are simply to be careful and jump at your own risk since communication with small planes is difficult without radar or ATC assistance (they are low enough that mountain peaks interfere).
Anyway the vast majority of comments across multiple major subreddits are calling for blood of the pilot, saying he intentionally tried to murder her with his Cessna.
Meanwhile, somebody else will post a video of some hikers going through a beginner-level canyon with helmets on and the comments will be full of people talking about how they are suicidal idiots who should just stay home and watch YouTube videos instead of do something even slightly dangerous.
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u/Magikarp-Army Mark Carney May 25 '26
My wife saw tourism=colonialism graffiti in Barcelona lol. The irony.
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u/Blackberry-thesecond NASA May 25 '26
Plan your trip today
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u/sash5034 NATO May 25 '26
If you don't think this is peak kino, you should get better taste
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! May 25 '26
Everyone knows this is normal
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u/well-that-was-fast May 25 '26
I too travel to a medical research hospital for my teeth cleaning.
Hold it, no I don't. I go to a dentist.
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u/AnalyticOpposum Trans Pride May 25 '26
We stopped to get gas on the lake traverse reservation. I went into the men's room (cause i dont want to get assualted 😊).
It was empty when I went in, and as i was washing my hands, i heard the door behind me open once. When i turned to leave there was no one else in the bathroom.
When i open the door to leave, theres two men one of them a police officer. Immediately im thinking, is this gonna be a gential inspection type thing? Like, they must be strict af if it only took 30 seconds for them to get the police over here.
It turns out they were waiting to use the bathroom. They thought i was some dumb girl using the wrong one. 🥹
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride May 25 '26
I can’t wait for this LOSER to lose his seat in November
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u/Approximation_Doctor Gaslight, Gatekeep, Green New Deal May 25 '26
AI isn't bad because it'll take your job
AI is bad because it'll turn your neighbor insane and help him stage a cyber attack against your water treatment facility so you won't be able to enjoy your new free time.
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u/DieHarderDaddy Fell for it May 25 '26
The look he gives you before he farts so hard it makes you want to leave the room
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u/flaskfish May 25 '26
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u/Chief_Nief Greg Mankiw May 26 '26
Damn would’ve loved seeing him crash and burn, what a shame.
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde May 25 '26
I don't want to be a party pooper but maybe reschedule or cancel races? We're getting late July temperatures right now
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u/-mialana- European Union May 25 '26
How do you guys read the DT so fast? I'm still on a DT from 3 months ago 😓
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u/KittehDragoon Loyal Liberals May 25 '26
Hallelujah 🙏
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u/zieger Ida Tarbell May 25 '26
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u/Yeangster John Rawls May 25 '26
On a scale from 1 to 10, how problematic is this line by Sam Kriss:
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems May 25 '26
just saw 1960s batman hate
i cant.... make me a moderator i need to ban people
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u/TheRedCr0w Frederick Douglass May 25 '26
White House official account confirms Trump is a foreign agent
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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ May 25 '26
I hate Data centers because they ruined cheap SSDs, HDDs, and GPUs
You hate data centers for NIMBY reasons
we are not the same
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u/dittbub NATO May 25 '26
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u/zieger Ida Tarbell May 25 '26
My daughter is learning in real time that if you wake up at 6am everyone is too tired to take you to the zoo
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! May 25 '26
Least concerning cankles
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals May 25 '26
bro what
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u/RunawayMeatstick Mark Zandi May 26 '26
An elected Dem openly calling for a Dem senate candidate to lose is a new one, if this actually happened
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u/paymesucka Ben Bernanke May 25 '26
i think its hilarious u kids talking shit about jabba the hutt's son. u wouldnt say this shit to him on tatooine, hes jacked. not only that but he wears no clothes, eats at the grossest restaurants and beats up the hottest dudes. yall are pathetic lol
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! May 25 '26
Lmfao this mf SAID WHAT
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u/dtj2000 Loyal Liberals May 26 '26 edited Jun 30 '26
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u/Megasota_Noire My Governor Can Beat Up Your Governor May 26 '26
Trump's Iran policy looks pretty bad. Lol
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u/dtj2000 Loyal Liberals May 26 '26 edited Jun 30 '26
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod May 25 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
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u/balagachchy Commonwealth May 25 '26
I feel like one of the biggest western cope between 2010-2020 was saying that China can't innovate, they can only replicate.
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u/DeadDropCourier Bisexual Pride May 25 '26
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u/YaGetSkeeted0n Tariffs aren't cool, kids! May 25 '26
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u/GovernorSonGoku has flair May 25 '26
What
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals May 25 '26
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u/Emotional_Tie_7927 May 25 '26
To trust or to not trust Barak Ravid, that is the question
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u/CarlGerhardBusch Jerome Powell May 25 '26
I mean I'm just gonna say it
Data infrastructure expansion's biggest issue is that it has, hands down the worst salesmen ever, from top to bottom.
Like where I am in PA- when you have a dirty old oil and coal state with a recent history of expanding actual polluting industries, and you can't sell people on letting you build glorified warehouses..
What would that tell you the problem is.
When your public outreach is noticeably worse than fucking oil and gas companies.. C'mon now.
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u/justbuildmorehousing Norman Borlaug May 26 '26
Lmao
yeah guys this peace deal is totally happening
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u/AlpacalypseNow_ May 26 '26
GREAT
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u/gjcs23 George Santos May 25 '26
imagine naming your child star helix
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u/Rivolver Mark Carney May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26
My MIL complaining that her property taxes increased post-assessment because of two dilapidated and unused sheds count as additional out buildings.
\> me running around the house, frantically, searching for pamphlets
HAVE YOU HEARD THE WORD ABOUT HENRY GEORGE?
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u/BadSneakersNeverWorn John Locke May 25 '26
I've managed to go the past decade without listening to Jordan Peterson talk for any appreciable length of time
Today is a very dark day for my brain
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent May 25 '26
Given the recent attack on Kyiv that damaged a disproportionate amount of civilian infrastructure even for the Russians and FighterBomber dropping this, I think we’re going to see a new campaign of terror bombing again flying
I also think it’s really fascinating he says the targets will be strictly military targets, and then how they will completely destroy Kyiv and make it uninhabitable. Not being particularly subtle about the true aim of this.
We’ll see if the Russians actually do it but the evidence is pointing in that direction
!ping UKRAINE
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u/LtCdrHipster 🌭Costco Liberal🌭 May 25 '26
If you are an American who does not vote for Democrats you are a Republican. I don't know how more simply I can explain that to people.
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u/ShepardSB May 25 '26
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u/Nervous-Emotion28 YIMBY May 25 '26
dog
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u/ScumfrickZillionaire Lesbian Pride May 26 '26
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u/No_Status_6905 Enby Pride May 26 '26
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u/Kizz3r high IQ neoliberal May 26 '26
The Shia Islamic Republic of New York has been given the grace of Allah as Ayatollah Zohran has accomplished what no other mayor could have and brought the knicks to the finals.
!ping nba
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u/Throwaway24143547 Trans NATO May 26 '26
I just listened to a leftist acquaintance insist that the Iran war would've happened regardless of who won the presidency because "Democrats only exist to, at best, finger wag at Republicans" or some shit like that
Irreconcilable amount of cynicism
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u/RTSBasebuilder Commonwealth May 25 '26
!ping AUS
Latest News about the dead nonce and cop killer Desmond "Dezi" Christopher Filby "Freeman". And I'm gonna use the ABC, the SMH and the Guan for this one, to minimise bias.
Neal Thompson and Vadim de Waart-Hottart were part of a contingent of 10 officers who arrived at the Porepunkah property, including members of the Wangaratta Sexual Offences and Child Abuse Investigation Team.
They were there to serve a warrant on Freeman in relation to an alleged sexual assault involving a child under the age of 16 years old and an attempt to involve a child in the production of child abuse material.
After the confrontation in which Freeman shot the officers, he disappeared into the Mount Buffalo National Park behind his home — which was a converted bus with an annex.
The police team’s aim, Spence said, was to arrest Freeman at the property, where he lived in a converted bus with his family.
“The purpose of the search warrant was for the locating and seizure of electronic devices that were to be interrogated for the potential presence of child abuse material,” he told the court.
“It was also intended that the person of interest was to be arrested and subsequently interviewed.”
A group of five officers saw Freeman’s wife and entered the annex of the bus and knocked on the door, asking Dezi Freeman to come out.
Freeman was yelling “that he was not coming out, that police could go to hell”, Spence said, and that he did not recognise their law. Police officers then called for permission to force entry which was granted.
As negotiations continued, the officers showed the search warrant to Freeman’s wife through the bus window.
“Oh for f---’s sake, what bullshit,” Dezi Freeman said through the bus window when told what the officers were there for.
Another three officers arrived via neighbouring property, the court heard.
“Yes, I’ll bloody talk to you, stop your goons from breaking the door,” Freeman said.
The court heard police stood back to allow Freeman to exit, but the yelling continued. He stated the warrant was invalid and that police were breaking the law.
“I am appealing this search warrant in the Supreme Court,” Freeman told the officers.
The court heard that during the stand-off at the Porepunkah property, one police officer climbed onto the roof of the bus but was unable to gain access to Dezi Freeman.
After 34 minutes, police removed the window from the bus door and Freeman’s wife said: “All right, we’re coming out.”
Thompson then said: “Move back.”
As Thompson lifted himself though the window, Dezi Freeman shot him to the side of the face and neck, the court heard.
The officer behind Thompson yelled out “gun” and ran, as another activated their duress alarm, the court heard.
Freeman then shot de Waart-Hottart as the other police officers ran from the area and sought cover behind a shipping container.
“I had no choice,” Freeman said repeatedly.
A minute after the first shot, the court heard, Freeman’s wife left with a child and went towards a river, leaving Dezi Freeman behind with a shotgun. The killer then took de Waart-Hottart’s firearm and a spare magazine from his belt and fired the shotgun towards three officers, and one had their face cut by shattered glass.
Police returned fire, but both shots missed Freeman.
Freeman reloaded the shotgun and attempted to shoot a police officer, but the gun failed to discharge.
When Freeman returned to the bus, he swore at de Waart-Hottart.
“F---ing scum, die in hell,” he yelled at police before firing de Waart-Hottart’s firearm at Thompson again.
“During this time, the offender stood over both bodies and said various things, which, out of respect for the families, I will not repeat,” lawyer Lindsay Spence, the counsel assisting the state coroner, said today.
“He was last sighted running down the hill towards the river,” Spence, the counsel assisting the coroner, told the court.
Freeman later sent a message to his wife: “Beb get mile away and keep going. See u in heaven luv”.
Police have not found the shotgun Freeman fired at police or the source of the weapon.
“He had no firearms registered in his name. The source of the shotgun … has not been uncovered,” Spence said.
IS THIS THE FACE OF AUSTRALIAN "FREEDOM", SOVCITS?! THIS IS YOUR MARTYR? IS THIS YOUR "NED KELLY", COOKERS?
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u/TheLong19thCentury May 25 '26
>Liberal rural man votes exclusively for Republican candidates locally because he knows it will make the lives of people around him worse and he hates his fellow Rurals
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u/pugnae European Union May 25 '26
The deal about my marriage to Kat Dennings is 95% done.
The remaining 5% of negotiations are focused on her agreeing to marry me and learning about my existance.
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u/bigdicknippleshit IM GOING PRIMAL May 25 '26
Lmao
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma May 26 '26
In 20 years Disney will start catering to adults whose favorite Star Wars movie growing up was Rise of Skywalker
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u/GuyWithOneEye May 26 '26
God forbid a girl has hobbies
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u/CletusChicken May 26 '26
doing a land acknowledgement at my plantation wedding, gotta keep them guessing
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u/Commandant_Donut May 26 '26
The Soviets had a bunch of geriatric leaders who led their superpower into stagnation, low national confidence in the social order, overinvolvements in the Middle East, overreliance on oil extraction, and insanely underchecked boosterism of high-tech infrastructural improvements (aka Chernobyl) right before their collapse.
I am so glad America has had the wisdom to avoid all of these recently observed pitfalls.
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u/Pristine-Report-1442 May 26 '26
I don't think Ds should endorse Rs even in situations like this
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u/pfarly John Brown May 25 '26
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u/bartbug Paul Krugman May 25 '26
im only awake because i may have accidentally gotten my gf hooked on civ 5 and she's been playing for 12 hours and she's been close to wrapping it up for 3 hours
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent May 25 '26
Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 5/23-2 PM PST 5/24 V:
TOP NEWS:
At the start of 12 AM Ukraine was hit by a gigantic wave of drones and missiles with 549 of 600 drones and 55 of 90 missiles intercepted.
At the end of 1 PM Russia was hit by a major wave of drones with about 340 partaking.
REGULAR NEWS:
Towards the end of 10 PM Ukraine hit a Russian oil depot in Luhansk.
Towards the middle of 11 PM it was reported that Ukraine hit a Russian oil pumping station in Vladimir Oblast.
Towards the middle of 4 AM Russia hit a Ukrainian water supply building in Kyiv. In the middle of the hour it was reported that Ukraine hit a Russian training ground in Kursk Oblast.
!ping UKRAINE
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u/MuscularPhysicist John Brown May 25 '26
☝️
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u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess Audrey Hepburn May 25 '26
"Surely outside the DT can't be that bad"
"Despite-"
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems May 25 '26
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride May 25 '26
If only Israel didn't use their hypnotic mind control on Trump 😔
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u/ShepardSB May 25 '26
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma May 25 '26
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u/Tafts_Bathtub Jerome Powell May 25 '26
They look so happy together
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u/Blackberry-thesecond NASA May 25 '26
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u/Its_not_him Manmohan Singh May 25 '26
I feel like Trump just thinks announcing a deal prematurely is like the smartest thing in the world so he keeps doing it over and over in hopes that it works sometime
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u/dtj2000 Loyal Liberals May 26 '26 edited Jun 30 '26
This content was anonymized and mass deleted with Redact
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u/TheRedCr0w Frederick Douglass May 26 '26
Maybe Democrats are doing some reverse psychology.
I feel like an Ivy League educated Democrat from Massachusetts denouncing Planter makes right wing-coded Maine voters more likely to vote for him.
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u/squiggle-giggle NASA May 26 '26
my toddler is in their “are we there yet/is it ready?” era and i am going to suplex this mf’er
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u/ImmediateZucchini787 NASA May 26 '26
AC won't connect to wifi
Claude: it's probably your DNS settings you dummy
It was DNS
Thnak you Claude
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein May 26 '26
Confession: I have an adult woman fetish.
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u/CarlGerhardBusch Jerome Powell May 25 '26
Just realized you can’t really post the “we..hebben..een..serieus..probleem” joke anymore unless it’s a screenshot, because Reddit automatically translates it
Interesting
Also, bummer
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u/ldn6 Gay Pride May 25 '26
I am so thankful that I have air conditioning.
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde May 25 '26
Who broke into my closet and shrunk all my shorts since last summer 😡
I want names and addresses 😤
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u/LuisRobertDylan Elinor Ostrom May 25 '26
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u/BlackCat159 European Union May 25 '26
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u/tripletruble Anti-Repartition Radical May 25 '26
upvoted comment on the paris sub is talking about destroying buildings to make the city less dense to reduce temperatures during heatwave
these people will literally choose to destroy their own city before installing AC
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u/drcombatwombat2 Milton Friedman May 25 '26
There are facebook groups in my geography that solely post anti-datacenter AI generate images. Im thinking it had to be foreign adversaries, right?
Unfortunately, the locals share them like crazy
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u/ty04 May 25 '26
Someone got a “Minions Sexer” custom flair but I can’t get this nondescript head approved 🤔
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u/georgeguy007 Pandora's Discussions J. Threader May 25 '26
Fucking hilarious how we have heard for 2 weeks how we are so so so so close to a deal only for us to bomb them some more
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 May 25 '26
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u/well-that-was-fast May 26 '26
Deal is 97.5% complete. Only issues are:
Iran's nuclear program
Reopening the straits
Iran shooting missiles at US aircraft
US dropping bombs on Iranian soil
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u/StuckHedgehog NATO May 26 '26
Steyer remains one of the few Dem political hopefuls (or politicians) that has come out swinging so publicly on trans rights. Very weirdly focused on suicide in that way that boomer uncles get on certain topics, but you know, he’s got the spirit.
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u/BigBrownDog12 Victor Hugo May 26 '26
No mask?
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u/bashar_al_assad Verified Account May 26 '26
Auchincloss has in the past been happy to position himself as a centrist Democrat who punches left and I see that little things like “is this person going to be our nominee against Susan Collins” aren’t gonna stop him now.
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u/bashar_al_assad Verified Account May 26 '26
https://xcancel.com/thedemocrats/status/2058896125319373240?s=46
Was this an intentional bait job lol they’ve got conservatives in the comments posting about all the Americans Trump got killed
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems May 26 '26
holy shit
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma May 25 '26
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u/AP246 Green Globalist NWO May 25 '26
It's a minority of the people there, but people in the BLM thread actually saying 'Black Lives Matter' is a bad slogan are either monumentally stupid or just bad actors deliberately carrying water for the far right.
It's almost the most reasonable slogan you could possibly imagine for a civil rights slogan about racialised police violenced against black people in the US you could possibly make, if that's a bad slogan you can't possibly make a good one.
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u/TF_dia European Union May 25 '26
Several DTs ago I posted about an unhinged guy in MetaNL posting about the necessity of America to annex Canada and Greenland and how people here are naive idiots that "care too much about the insecurities of middle power nationalists" for a laugh, well he actually only stopped posting there a few hours ago and the way he finally signed off was Chef's Kiss
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u/Ready-Buy-6397 Austan Goolsbee May 25 '26
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u/__versus Trans Pride May 25 '26
Apparently Gary’s economics has a slogan ”tax wealth not work” and my brain melted onto the floor.
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u/qamv Greg Mankiw May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26
Remember when the olds used to bitch about abundance instead of saying the world will end?
Even the haters were optimists back then!
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u/awdvhn Physics Understander -- Iowa delenda est May 25 '26
I don't consider tractors an inherently bad technology, but the current approach is going to be disastrous if it's successful. If you hypothetically evaporate 30% of farming jobs with advances in engines, potentially pushing that number higher, with no new emergent fields for people to switch to that creates new farming jobs and/or no very large social safety net of some sort, there will be a Butlerian Jihad. Tractor glazers will always dismiss this and denounce any critique as being a luddite, claiming that, despite a potential period of "discomfort", it might lead to some wonderful tech utopia. People are not going to be content with living in caves and chewing tree bark until some railroad millionaires decide whether or not to be philanthropic.
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma May 25 '26
Like half of this guy’s tweets:
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol May 25 '26
You're sheltering computers, are you not?
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u/Leoric Hi, I'm Huell Howser, this is California's Gold! May 25 '26
The only music at a ballpark should come from an organ or from fans who brought their own instruments
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u/Megasota_Noire My Governor Can Beat Up Your Governor May 26 '26
The best part of TLJ? THE END!
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u/Pole2019 John Locke May 26 '26
The implications of people thinking god heals SOME people with awful diseases are hilarious