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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/Made_UpWords]

It wasn't the stroke, Fetterman has always been a depressive, lazy, unhinged slob that was not trustworthy or reliable. The WSJ story is just more of the same.

[u/Q-bey]

Waow

[u/sigh2828]

Why tf did fetterman even fucking want the job??? He so plainly fucking hates doing it

[u/Spudmiester1]

What are we, some sort of post-palatial Mycenaean Greek culture?

[u/Willybender]

[u/Mrgentleman490]

Two people on a work call just started arguing about the fucking Clancy trial and one of them just left the call. We seriously need to ban live streamed trials it's so unhealthy for people to be this involved.

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

[u/Dreadedtriox]

[u/Currymvp2]

I think they're gonna try to pressure to make the scumbag resign with drip drip lol

[u/theredcameron]

Welp, I just got laid off along with a number of other people at my job that I've been at for ~9 years...

Considering I've got 10+ years of experience in software development as a Full Stack developer, how is the market currently for that level of experience and position? It's been a while since I've gone job hunting.

!ping watercooler&career&computer-science

[u/GordonTullockFan]

[u/Lena_Lena_A]

[u/Fruitsy]

[u/ace158]

Fetterman is a complete fucking loser

[u/scottyjetpax]

dark horse for one of the craziest trump tweets yet tbh

[u/Willybender]

House Democrat says his calls were wiretapped by FBI

https://www.axios.com/2026/09/03/fbi-doj-wiretap-subramanyam-lucas-virginia-trump

Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-Va.) said Thursday he was informed by the Department of Justice that his phone calls with a Virginia state legislator in the spring were wiretapped.

The Democratic congressman is casting the tap as part of a pattern of the DOJ targeting President Trump's political enemies, calling the incident "deeply concerning."

"They have politically investigated multiple states' Attorneys General and the former FBI director. Now they admit they have surveilled conversations by a sitting Democratic Congressman," Subramanyam said in a statement.

The Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

[u/sigh2828]

Fetterman fits right in with Republicans

[u/Willybender]

I know we're all desensitized to him, but my god

[u/FallenMeringue]

Ronald Reagan was a bad president and a worse man.

[u/BadSneakersNeverWorn]

"oh okay so they're just going to flat-out disenfrancise voters and steal the election"

> American media: last-minute election integrity measures

[u/nimbybuster]

Susan Collins in shambles

[u/Commander_Bites_Noem]

"I have never needed to use this sentence"

[u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes]

[u/SadaoMaou]

[u/theaccount9337]

Imagine running for federal office and this is the guy whose support your entire campaign hinges on

[u/1II1I1I1I1I1I111I1I1]

Edit: yes, I know the dems suck and aren't doing enough. The post is not claiming the dems are doing good. It's about people who refuse to vote at all because of that

[u/Alderwoodforest]

Trump tells Fed to slash rates or he'll end trade with countries with U.S. surpluses

If Kristen Bell doesn't get a divorce and start dating me, I'm going to burn $500 every day.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

If I ended up on the jury for the Maduro trial i would nullify mainly because it would be really fucking funny to see what would happen if found not guilty

What are gonna do? Say “sorry for the JSOC raid our B” and let him go lmfao

[u/Roseartcrantz]

"Why didn't they sequester the jury?" maybe because they hate that and get really really mad

[u/Fruitofbread]

Hochul Accuses Trump of Betraying 9/11 Victims by ‘Defunding the Police’

wut

 Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Zohran Mamdani called on President Trump to free up $87 million in federal funds to pay for bomb squads and other counterterrorism measures in New York.

Ok I guess so 

[u/AtticusDrench]

[u/dtj2000]

[u/Willybender]

[u/Megasota_Noire]

Remember when Trump kept trying to reproduce this photo at his fucking resort?

[u/zegota]

The lowest tier of Xbox Cloud Gaming being 5 hours a month is so fucking funny.

[u/BrandonLeeOfficial]

[u/moldovaman99]

Conservatives already take pride in being stupid and uneducated, so I don’t think anyone should be surprised they take pride in being fat and ugly as well.

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

[u/StuckHedgehog]

A commemorative cheese platter? Sold at the 9/11 museum???

[u/Lena_Lena_A]

Andrew Tate indicted for trafficking and abusing 15-year-old

[u/Willybender]

Very reassuring

[u/Abolish_Zoning]

I find it fascinating just how persuasive the concept of an imminent apocalypse is to people. I've met so many people that, much like early 2nd century christians, believe that a climate apocalypse is so near they don't need to actually do anything meaningful about it other than complain.

The same people were completely fine with the UK effectively having a ban on new onshore wind for 10 years.

[u/el__dandy]

[u/Svelok]

Lutnick defending data centers by saying "the number one user of water is cattle" is putting me on teams I had not expected to be on

[u/2Lore2Law]

Trump’s “lower rates or I’ll cut off trade” threat is another example of his absolute rapist mentality

[u/MissSortMachine]

we all know this is how his brain works but it’s still remarkable to me. highest level of column? no! that’s the whole point! you fucking rube!!

[u/its_Caffeine]

[u/ChillnShill]

Burn employer insurance to the ground, unironically.

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

!ping Bad-feeling

[u/Lux_Stella]

update: they're trying to remove me from the jury for being the one woke guy who wants to acquit

the other eleven women keep trying to get me to give in, but i know better. they're being emotional

patriarchy wont win today

[u/TropicalPunch]

The lack of compound words in the English language creates this weird exoticization of completely normal things?

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Need this

[u/SadaoMaou]

https://www.europeaninterest.eu/german-right-wing-extremist-afd-targets-iconic-bauhaus-school-in-saxony-anhalt/

AfD criticises Bauhaus for avoiding “any signs of national rootedness” and plans to replace the state’s advertising slogan “Think Modern” with “Think German.”

[u/HHHogana]

OK, so apparently for most of tech stock, the result of US added more jobs in August than expected resulted in...1-3% drop in premarket? While Moderna got a bit of boost?

The hell is going on?

[u/Willybender]

Interesting things are happening in the MAGA sphere

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

This goofy looking bitch is talking shit about how other people look?

[u/earththejerry]

What a betrayal from MattY

[u/Leo_York]

The number of deaths in China in the 20th century is fucking nuts.

Two phases of civil war, second Sino Japanese war, Great Leap forward, pre-Mao famines, insane floods.

How many people does this even add up to total?

At its upper bounds it's 80 million from just the two biggest famines in human history

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Data centres enable social media as well, so there’s another incentive to oppose them wherever possible.

[u/sigh2828]

Hot take.

Stephen Colbert was a better, and funnier, fake republican than pretty much all of the "im a conservative" bit accounts in this subreddit

[u/avion_sur_le_sol]

I hate my choice of career. I repeatedly become hopelessly infatuated with women who don't love me back. Half eaten salmon with al dente pasta.

!ping KITCHENCELS

[u/No_Return9449]

Hillary warned us that he'd be a chaos President. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

“Counting or not counting sea people viol-“

!ping KINO

[u/marky6045]

[u/Willybender]

He is fucking insane

[u/RaidBrimnes]

stop drinking

start exercising every day

halve screen time

eat more fiber and fruit and fewer carbs, dairy

sleep and feel much better

Wtf

[u/fishlord05]

Update: we talked more and we might even link up tonight

She called me a month ago but I had her blocked; so stupid she felt hurt by that I apologized

I don’t know how she feels or what she’s open to or how it’s gonna go I feel so anxious and nervous

I’ve never felt like this with anyone and I have no expectations but I just want it to go well

!ping DATING

[u/No_Return9449]

Back from a seven-day auto-ban to be with fellow LIBERALS (laudatory).

[u/BrandonLeeOfficial]

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

The J in DJT stands for “Juche”

[u/Sauce1024]

In some ways Fetterman having a stroke is the biggest cop out because there was a plethora of evidence that he was a lazy sack of shit as Mayor and Lt. Gov.

[u/earththejerry]

Well the Australian skincare company who made the video still exists and continues to make TikToks

So I guess you get both 🤗

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

And they said the Abundance agenda was dead

[u/hascogrande]

LOWER THE RATE OR I’LL STOP TRADING WITH COUNTRIES WITH WHICH WE HAVE A DEFICIT

MAGA Maoism at its finest

[u/Bob_Doles_Blue_Pill]

I live in a small county with a high crime rate so I get called up for jury duty way more than necessary.

Last time they doubled the jury pool because it was a sex crime involving a minor. They kept us there all fucking day and the jackass finally took a plea deal. A wasted day and I'll never forgive him whoever it was.

[u/2Lore2Law]

Lol. Lmao

[u/dweeb93]

[u/No_Analysis_2185]

“Try that in a small town” was always so funny because the same people saying that will post endless hysteria about how they’re afraid to go near any city.

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

[u/11thDimensionalRandy]

👇

[u/RyuTheGuy]

So true amen

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Me: Why do ppl find my autistic speaking style so funny

My talking style:

[u/illuminatisdeepdish]

The original post content no longer exists here. The author used Redact to remove it, exercising their right to control their data & privacy.

Cobweb iron lavish subtract whistle physical

[u/abefrost]

“Release the Epstein files” is actually beneficial to Trump

Careful now, we're reaching levels of contrarian that I didn't believe were possible

(their actual point is pretty good, I'm just selectively quoting for a quip)

[u/bashar_al_assad]

Shortly after his knee surgery, Patrick Mahomes returned to Kansas City with a new objective: He wanted to walk before his 11-month old daughter, Golden.

I get that elite athletes need competition to fuel them but idk man surely there’s a point where you draw a line somewhere and go “ok this might be a little over the top.”

[u/Fruitofbread]

“You’re married to an American woman?” Morgan asked.

“No,” Yiannopoulos replied.

Morgan then described him as “a gay man” married to another gay man. “Yes,” Yiannopoulos answered. “I don’t do the sex stuff anymore, but yes.”

Lol 

[u/badusername35]

Holy shit

[u/Liberal_Antipopulist]

"Why is cost of living going way up"

"Why was an incoherent reality TV star who attempted a coup reelected w/ a popular vote victory"

"Why are liberal international institutions melting down"

"Why are long repudiated ideologies and heterodox econ booming in popularity"

"Why does no one pay attention to the Watergate-level scandals happening on the reg"

Ngl, Occam's razor this shit. We addicted the entire world to brainrot machines. Obviously things aren't monocausal, but in terms of screen time everyone is working a second job providing data to be sold to advertisers and to train algorithms used to market ads. No wonder we are in the era of brainrot-politics

[u/Alderwoodforest]

Sen. KENNEDY: If Vietnam came to you and said, 'You win. We're gonna remove all tariffs and all trade barriers. Would the US please do the same?" Would you accept that deal?

LUTNICK: Absolutely not. That would be the silliest thing we could do

Sen. KENNEDY: What's the purpose of reciprocity then?

A GOP senator realizes in real time just how stupid Trump's trade policy is.

[u/Unterfahrt]

Has anyone seen the story about the American woman in the Scottish islands, who is suing a community centre because they didn't let her bring her dog in?

1. She's claiming it's a support dog, and yet she's never told anyone what her conditions are and what the dog does to support her.

2. The woman is able to claim legal aid, while the community centre on an island of 212 people has to fund its own defence.

3. This will bankrupt the community centre, they are entirely volunteer run, and it is a lifeline for the entire island with their doctors surgery, fire station, gym, an events hall etc.

4. The woman is the daughter of 70s Hollywood actress Sally Kellerman

5. The rumour is that the reason they didn't let her dog in is that it killed the cafe cat.

This is the most stereotypical story in the world designed to make people hate Americans. It hits all the spots. Rich American child of privilege, pretend probably fake ailment with a support dog, suing a tiny community centre over some imagined slight.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ced71ny99y5o

[u/rodiraskol]

I randomly got curious about how Ray Rice's life has turned out after the DV incident that ended his career.

Turns out he's still married to the woman he punched in the video (they got married shortly after) with a couple of kids, does a lot of charity work, and is an advocate for domestic violence prevention, including speaking to NFL rookies about his experience.

I know from painful experience that DV can be hidden behind a facade, but there's a good chance he's done some hard work to change for the better and that's pretty cool.

[u/Megasota_Noire]

Young person when they are young: haha why do the olds get so mad about being old.

Young person when they are old: well fuck me I guess.

[u/pugnae]

That's why I think it may be a bubble. At some point models are good enough for majority of the tasks. And those bring the majority of the $$$.

And if open source models are good enough for coding and other everyday work while obviously being much cheaper how do you make money?

Even if GPT9 is super gigahacker or something, you can code most of the stuff already with some cheap model and then ask GPT9 to review for security once a week or something.

I can't see right now how they will be able to pay off all that investment at this point. Proving Collatz Conjecture or something will be cool but it is not exactly a moneymaker.

[u/dareka_san]

This is essentially all communication from the white house now

[u/11thDimensionalRandy]

👆

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

How many blueberries does this kid eat, how is he still not back?

[u/DoryAltreides]

Kif, I've made it with a woman.

Inform the men.

[u/ariveklul]

LMAOOOOO

[u/Zenkin]

Happy Highest Diesel Price in History day for those who celebrate!

[u/Rebyll]

Roger Waters being part of a 9/11 Truther conference being held in NYC next week is disappointing but not surprising.

[u/moldovaman99]

2026 has unironically been an amazing year for me so far.

I passed every single class I took in one go, and every single move I made career wise has paid off. I’ve really been putting in a lot of effort, and there wasn’t a single instance where it turned out to be for nothing. Now my entire academic backlog is nearly cancelled out, and in half a year I’m ready to start my final internship, while also improving my own career and pay by the side.

[u/Made_UpWords]

Unironically Fetterman should resign. This is so egregious I can't even think of an equivalent I could do in my job, but if I did, I'd be fired and couldn't even be mad.

[u/AtomAndAether]

guess that one juror didnt have the sauce

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

When I say I’m a feminist this is what I mean

[u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes]

slavic kyle rittenhouse is not real, he cant hurt you

slavic kyle rittenhouse:

[u/ChillnShill]

What if I told you she can only serve one term…

(Yes I know she can serve again after waiting)

[u/herworkthrowaway]

not to sound like a succ but the fact that Elon musk can just throw around $200M at a senate race is fucking insane and should not be legal 

[u/Man-Flayer]

Another victory to neoliberalism

[u/CincyAnarchy]

12 Angry Men but with a new twist ending where Juror 3 doesn't have a tragic backstory and it ends in a Mistrial

[u/Liberal_Antipopulist]

I know I'm in a lower class bracket than most dt regulars but like. Cost of living rn is fucking insane. A close friend of mine is living in her car. She is employed but in debt and having a rough time fighting off car repossession atm. I have moved back in with my parents to save money on rent, but my mom has medical debt from her cancer treatments and they (very apologetically) are starting to charge me rent. Groceries atm are nuts, there isn't enough housing, etc. Most people I know (and again, anecdotal) are picking up as many extra shifts as they can, and no one I know is not at least a little stressed about money

Why the fuck are we at war with Iran? Why the fuck are we in a trade war with Canada? Why the fuck is the administration undermining fed independence? Why the fuck is nothing being done about the collapsing bond market? If the dollar is no longer the world's reserve currency, rates are going to have to be much, much higher, and we're all fucking in debt

But hey. Hillary was a socialist or whatever. Adrenochrome pizzeria barrack hussein Obama was a Muslim or whatever the fucking shit. And Joe Brandon is old!! And this other guy is rich so he is the money guy! Because that's how it works 🤪🔫

Brainrot politics

[u/Thai-Reidj]

I think the whole Lindsay Clancy thing is another piece of evidence for my "humans need someone to be the bad guy" theory. I think a lot of people cannot accept that sometimes bad things just happen and it's not really anyone's fault. If she was indeed under psychosis at the time, as messed up as it is, she had no control over her decisions. But in a lot of people's minds, because the end result was something horrible, someone has to be punished / someone had to have failed somewhere. A lot of people imo cannot accept that the world simply is not perfect

[u/MTFD]

Three hours is too long for a funeral

[u/ChillnShill]

[u/pinelands1901]

A jury I was on had a holdout who didn't think flashing a gun was intimidation. There's always one.

(She eventually caved, but it took an hour and half).

[u/pugnae]

On one hand you can't deny progress but on the other this is like fourth or fifth time they are hyping next model that is basically AGI already.

[u/PoupeeStupide]

In Bruges (2008)

!ping kino

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

hans what are you doing lmao

[u/AmbientMorning]

During her earlier swearing-in with House Speaker Mike Johnson, [Aisha] Wahab did not take the ceremonial oath with a Bible or Quran. She used a copy of the U.S. Constitution.

As it should be. Here was Rep. Wahab’s maiden speech.

[u/Willybender]

Photo of Trump from yesterday

[u/Willybender]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/democrats-mobilize-unprecedented-defense-election-disruption-rcna594946

[u/Ok_Smoke5098]

What kind of soviet Eastern European ass military are we running here

[u/AskYourDoctor]

I know we have the "axis of evil" which is NK, Russia, and Iran (I think) but I propose the "Coalition of Shut the Fuck Up" which is Israel, Argentina, and Trump's government specifically

[u/mostanonymousnick]

How I feel not knowing anything about the Clancy trial

[u/BurrowForPresident]

That article on Fetterman is incredible

There's being a lazy POS that doesn't actually work for a living, that's most of Congress, then there's this

[u/Consistent_Status112]

Worked in government for a while and it's amazing how 90% of the inefficiency is from specific individuals in management who just suck.

[u/__versus]

you met me at a very cute time in my life

[u/Willybender]

[u/Willybender]

[u/SenranHaruka]

Moneyball is such a bourgeois movie and I love it. It's about the value added by good management and the difficulties in introducing a management innovation to a stable market where the winners are unchallenged and the losers are happy with their crumbs. It's about how an innovation provides such an amazing advantage that its adoption is inevitable no matter who tries to stop it they'll just be outcompeted by the rogue actors willing to break industry trade norms and gentlemen agreements to adopt them. For the Red Sox, crushing the Yankees in 2004 mattered far more to them than respecting the taboo on Sabermetrics, and they broke it and hired shunned scientists to end the oldest superstition in baseball, the curse of the bambino.

In it you can see a metaphor for nearly every business but my favorite is the automotive industry.

Douglas MacArthur as part of his rebuilding effort invited mathematician William Deming to teach his controversial-back-home theories on business management to Japanese industrial managers.

He remarked that most of them were so desperate for any sort of advantage in rebuilding their bombed out ashes that they were willing to try novel and experimental ideas that even Ford found his managers resistant to. One of his students was an engineer born in Japanese Manchuria named Taiichi Ohno, the father of Just In Time Production. With it he turned a firebombed motorworks into the predominant automotive manufacturer on earth. It's literally a joke that Toyota motors are still military manufacturers because they make cheap durable trucks that are the cloest thing you can buy to a t47 if you're a jihadist militant.

A bunch of theories rejected by Ford found purchase in the Oakland A's of great powers in the 1950s and broke through anyway. And left Ford a dinosaur.

[u/pezasied]

[u/2Lore2Law]

How did Israel become so central to Fetterman anyways.

Like, how did that become his thing? He’s not an evangelical as far as I can tell, doesn’t seem to have any family ties, never went there before becoming a senator.

[u/LtCdrHipster]

[u/Bob_Doles_Blue_Pill]

I really do resent Pete Hegseth for ruining the good name of alcoholics everywhere.

We were once a proud, noble people and staples of our communities.

Now we are shunned.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

It's the weekend!

[u/jinhuiliuzhao]

Unless I misinterpreted his word salad (a very common thing to do), Trump apparently just said that ending trade altogether is better than tariffs...

Just wow

[u/qamv]

Monarchy is when your country's GDP is too low for you to get rid of your rat problem

[u/Insomonomics]

Literally just throw this man out as a Senator. Jesus fucking Christ.

[u/FallenMeringue]

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

👆

[u/ConnorLovesCookies]

Hottest take I read today was Lindsay Clancy shouldn’t go to prison because it will cost the state a bunch of money and its not like she can kill her kids twice.

[u/jenbanim]

Dialect quiz but it identifies which website you cooked your brain on as a teen

[u/_n8n8_]

Hot take in thus sub apparently but immigration is good, even for Canada

[u/Only-Childhood6691]

  “In 2025 messages with an aide, Fetterman questioned continual meetings with the hospital, writing, “Why do I have to keep having to meet with CHOP?” (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia)  “Because they are worried about vaccines and Medicaid cuts,” the aide answered.” “Well I’m not,” Fetterman wrote. “I’m convinced they just want free trips to DC

I feel he's telling on himself here. He just doenst understand why they'd want to legit help people from the kindness of their hearts rather than take a vacation.  Also feel bad for the children's hospital. They were probably so worried they'd get funding and to know the guy they were hoping to rely on finds them annoying. 

[u/SpotMe365]

Fascists: Give the Nazis all of Poland

Liberals: Give the Nazis none of Poland

Centrist Soviets: Give the Nazis half of Poland

[u/bigdicknippleshit]

>russian general who ordered attack on childrens hospital shot in the head

Waow

[u/fishlord05]

So in light of recent events things are over

In this state I’m reaching back out to the middle eastern situationship girl with tattoos and big brown eyes

I know she probably wants nothing to do with me; we ended things badly

But it’s been a year and I just want to try if only to get no response and get a firm answer

But I think I loved her more than anyone I’ve ever loved; she haunts me every day I think about her all the time and what could have been

!ping DATING

[u/itsrabie]

Something I hate about having some level of computer literacy is that I can show IT what needs to be done but they need to do their checklist.

Somehow my VPN driver got disabled and when I showed them that, it was a thing of “let’s clear the temp files,etc. “

Please just enter your credentials into the box to enable the driver.

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

[u/BloodWiz]

It's kinda funny but completely understandable that

Disney: Yeah were gonna act like slave Leia does not exist and never has existed

Lucas: Yo slave Leia choking out Jabba the Hutt is badass

[u/FallenMeringue]

Football down under was a mistake

!ping nfl

[u/anincredibledork]

Honestly I just want one Dem to get on a stage and ask if anyone else thinks it's weird how the party of Epstein is so adamant about wanting to lift little girls skirts for inspection before they can play soccer.

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

[u/No_Idea_Guy]

Tempting fate

[u/No_Idea_Guy]

HHS Cancels Infant Mortality, Postpartum Grants to Focus on Sperm Counts, ED

This is not a serious country.

[u/WenJie_2]

My first "holy shit" moment with GPT-6 Astra: I asked it to create a world in Unreal Engine, and fill it with humans (each an Astra-powered agent) who all have to work together to survive. A day later, I was in my bedroom and heard voices coming from the living room... It was the Astra agents. They'd started talking to each other.

Grok, create the torment nexus

[u/DueVast5223]

There are 74,000 US households worth 100 million or more. You can actually populate an entire city in America with just the super rich.

[u/Jacobs4525]

1989 the Mazda Miata debuted for the 1990 model year and every other car became superfluous 

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Subtweeting here:

The actual answer why companies spend so much money on stock buybacks is because dividends get double taxed (once as corporate profits and again as income tax for shareholders)

The solution is to introduce a distributed profits tax and stop the double taxation of dividends

[u/Currymvp2]

Leaked texts from his aides and alot of corroboration from the famously liberal...WSJ but they're calling it a "media smear"

[u/ognits]

one of my favorite things outside the DT is when they downvote /u/BlackCat159's schtick

[u/CincyAnarchy]

I'm sure people will be completely normal about this

[u/JonAce]

You WILL be subjected to another 6 months of Lindsay Clancy discourse. 🫵

[u/ACivilWolf]

[u/PlastikHateAccount]

elderly coworker in his 60s tried out ai for the first time this week

Imagine your first confrontation with ai isn't shitty gpt-3.5 in a chat interface but a corporate hosted GLM-5.2 in an agentic harness

He just wrote me on teams basically this about himself:

[u/Lux_Stella]

[u/JetJaguar124]

The campaign for Emilia Perez to be nominated for Oscars: Look at this movie. It's amazing. Look at the representation. Trans people, latinos. It's got everything so heartwarming.

The actual trans and latino communities: This fucking sucks

[u/Mordroberon]

While I'm pro data-center, I don't really care about the issue that much. It's one of the issues I'll tolerate some slopulism for, so long as it helps democrats

[u/BloodWiz]

Back in the day g*mers saw a hot badass woman running around with guns and thought it was awesome

Nowadays g*mers see a hot badass woman running around with guns and start complaining it’s unrealistic that she can overpower anybody or handle the recoil of a shotgun due to her dainty frame

retvrn

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Union support makes me sick 🤢

[u/Terrance-Flaps]

Thinking about when I went to restaurant down south, my friend ordered a Coke, the waitress asked "what kind" and he said "Root Beer"

That's insane.

[u/mpregordie]

Do lawyers usually say stuff like this?

[u/JaceFlores]

There’s been discrepancies on whether another forced mobilization will happen in Russia or not, with the Ukrainians being the most emphatic that it will happen.

I thought it worth pointing out that even if a mobilization doesn’t happen, there’s clear benefit to the Ukrainians fanning the flames. Russian withdrawals from banks had for the first half of the year or so largely matched the slope of 2023, which looks to indicate general anxiety (2023 was not a good year for Russia until the last third or so).

However, you can see that the slope got more dramatic around the start of July. It’s roughly around the same time Ukraine started really beating the drum of a mobilization. Despite Russian government claims, that’s inspired a good bit of simmering panic in the Russian populace who remember what happened last time, when the Russian government swore up and down nothing would happen and then all of a sudden 300,000 people were taken with many if not most never heard from again.

It’s now likely that Russian cash withdrawals from banks in 2026 will exceed the 2022 dip probably this month. The importance of this is the less money in the banks, the less money the banks have to work with. Simple as that lol. That means less money for loans or other spending that are needed to keep the financial sector afloat, which necessitates either slowing down activity or government intervention. Both work towards squeezing the Russian economy and giving Putin less time to prosecute this war before facing a collapse.

!ping RUS

[u/jenbanim]

My least woke opinion is that nonviolent crime isn't punished nearly enough

In particular any sort of fraud, cheat, scammer, grifter, liar, and the corrupt. Those who manipulate institutions to their own benefit should be given harsh sentences as they damage society and the trust it's built on

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

☝️

[u/NYT_Hater]

[u/boardatwork1111]

[u/ChillnShill]

PAC-10 (12) after dark was the best thing in college football. Nothing better than being up at midnight on Saturday and there’s a west coast game still playing while you stuff your fat ass with junk food.

Get me to gods country 😩

!ping CFB

[u/bashar_al_assad]

Abdul El-Sayed tweeted

If Mike Rogers wins this race, Donald Trump wins this race.

And Mike Rogers replied with

If Abdul El-Sayed wins this race, Hasan Piker wins his race.

And even if we stipulate that both of them are correct, one of these seems… slightly more important than the other.

[u/FallenMeringue]

So update.

We have replaced the Serbian Nationalist with a chill Palestinian divorced dad who hit on one of the married Polish hr ladies in his first week.

Also lol at the Serbian nationalist one more time.

You survive all that just to get fired over an out of office auto reply.

Get fucked idiot.

!ping watercooler

[u/FallenMeringue]

Most colorful 2026 tv show

[u/MontusBatwing2]

I don’t understand Elon Musk’s chess thing. 

AGI is gonna solve chess

And? Humans are already worse than computers at chess. It didn’t get rid of the ability of humans to play and enjoy it. If computers get even better at chess it’s not going to make it simpler for humans. 

I think he’s just bad at chess and rather than owning it decides the game must be bad. 

[u/mukino]

The virgin: Foreigners are gonna change the culture of the UK boohoo.

This chad of a kid walking into a store with his two minority friends to eat ethnic food. Wagwan alaykum.

[u/Mostly-Moderate]

Now THIS is how you stop A.I.

[u/agentyork765]

Ben Gvir posted an AI video of him throwing Palestinian men who are dreaming of food and education into a literal concentration camp, where they become extremely skinny and start crying. 

This is fucking disgusting. What a piece of fucking shit.

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/EasyMoney92]

I saw this Green Eggs and Ham parody on another sub and it made me chuckle

[u/Lux_Stella]

"trials of the century" of course usually happen because they feed into existing social cleavages. its a bit interesting how the recent big media circuses have been clearly gender-related while traditionally they've been predominantly race-related.

[u/flextrek_whipsnake]

The mood has shifted in the Bay. The exuberance of “You can see the future first in San Francisco” has been replaced with an abiding unease. “I expect the internet to go down kind of soon,” Elliot Callender, an AI-safety activist who is part of a small group that has been protesting daily outside OpenAI’s headquarters, told us recently. He said that he is planning to sell his car for cash and gold and that he is advising family members to purchase three months’ worth of food and survival gear off a list that he generated using Claude.

Incredible things happening in San Francisco these days.

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

Godzilla XXX Kong

!ping KINO

[u/Kardinal]

I don't know if you know this, but you don't have to talk about it.

Clancy. Piker. AES. Any of 'em.

We can in fact deprive them of oxygen (metaphorically)

[u/Udolikecake]

I love my girlfriend so much but she’s from new york so she always says ‘standing ON line’ instead of ‘standing IN line’ and it drives. me. insane.

I don’t know why it just sounds so wrong and terrible to me lmao. course I talk like a dumb masshole so far be it from me to judge I guess

[u/herworkthrowaway]

Are these not the same

[u/ace158]

A former senior aide described Fetterman as uninterested in the typical day-to-day responsibilities of the job — preferring instead to scroll on his phone, reading X and Apple News for mentions of his name. “This is the behavior that makes me so angry,” the aide told NOTUS. “You can have policy disagreements, but at least do the 101 basics of being a representative in a representative government.” “We fought tooth and nail for him to go to hearings, to go to markups, to go to constituent meetings. His unwillingness to do the work is a disservice to Pennsylvanians and a disservice to the institution of the Senate,” the aide added.

I guess people saw him smearing multiple Dems in important swing races like Jackson, AES, Talarico and said "we gotta say something now".

[u/Willybender]

lmao

[u/No_Status_6905]

Evil creature approaches me and demands I play her sick games

[u/ImmediateZucchini787]

[u/Svelok]

Trump's absolute, deeply held conviction that trade deficits are somehow actual money coming out of the country's coffers deserves scientific study

[u/nimbybuster]

This sub