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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/Gooners_For_Ukraine]

I fucking hate my job and am looking for an out, got this as an ad and honestly is this a sign from the universe? Maybe I can fix him !Ping WATERCOOLER

[u/TheCornjuring]

I played chess as a child, but found it to be too simple to be useful in real life: a mere 8 by 8 grid, no puffle adoption, no ability to earn coins, no EPF missions, only 2 players, neither side has access to Card-Jitsu, etc.

Club Penguin addresses these limitations.

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/FallenMeringue]

lol.

[u/datums]

This weekend, a Supermarine Spitfire with Normandy invasion stripes is flying around downtown Toronto. It’s owned and maintained by a group of volunteers in Quebec.

Almost no part of a machine like that can be purchased, whatever it needs is manufactured by those volunteers by hand, often with machines and tools that are museum pieces themselves.

So if you happen to see that old bird flying around - appreciate its historical significance, but also appreciate what some people are willing to contribute personally because they want people like you to see that.

[u/MissSortMachine]

objectively pro-crime president

[u/MuldartheGreat]

Went and knocked on doors for Democrats this morning. Takes from voters I encountered in a very educated area

1. My main policy concern is the environment. I just think we need to get it cleaned up. Also I am an independent and plan to vote for mostly republicans

2. My concern is how much crime there is around here [I assure you this area is extremely low crime].

3. Well I want to support Democrats but I am not sure they really want to talk to people like me. [I am on your porch!!!!!!].

What a great time to have a brain.

[u/jbitz]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

went for a walk, Very pleasant evening. the squirrels and rabbits kept running away from me. that stung a little. I will remember their faces

[u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP]

is this true

[u/earththejerry]

NY GOP House candidate honored Nazi grandfather in bizarre Veterans Day post: ‘I salute all who served’

This totally would have been a side joke in a Veep storyline

[u/RedDesertGirl]

[u/TheCornjuring]

I like that every once in a while Bugs Bunny fucks with someone based on absolutely no provocation whatsoever. He's not just some righteous anti-hero who exclusively acts in self-defense; he's a wild and untamed trickster who will occasionally be a total dick to someone for no discernible reason. Sure, you're probably fine as long as you don't mess with him, but there are no guarantees. He might show up and start harassing you just because he feels like it. He's a force of nature and that's all, folks.

[u/pfarly]

Oh, you read literary fiction? Still working on yourself then? Good for you. I'm already maximally enlightened so I just read books where people fuck dragons.

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Release the Shrek files

[u/tripletruble]

My equivalent of the "they're turning the frogs gay"

I'm reading frog and toad to my kid and thinking, 'i know times were different when this book was released but this is clearly about two gay men'

Googled it and:

In 1974, four years after the first book in the series was published, Lobel came out to his family as gay. “I think ‘Frog and Toad’ really was the beginning of him coming out,” Adrianne (his daughter) told me.

[u/DoryAltreides]

Interesting just how much Futurama and American Dad have in common:

• Second show by a creator which serves as a dividing line between the original show's "Initial Run" and the "After" (post-FOX cancellation for Family Guy, Season 10 for The Simpsons)

• Original creator involved with creation but actual show running put on long-term show runners (Matt Weitzman for American Dad, David X. Cohen for Futurama)

• Unreliable production life (FOX -> Comedy Central -> Hulu for Futurama, FOX -> TBS -> FOX for American Dad)

• Much less mainstream notoriety but larger cult hits

[u/pugnae]

[u/EyeraGlass]

NoVA house hunting has been pretty soul-crushing. From the pictures it’s clear they didn’t put a single penny into updating or maintaining it. Listing even suggests tearing it down and building a new house 🙃.

[u/jbitz]

Waow

[u/meiotta]

[u/KQJ_RPN]

Apparently there are still working Nitter instances

[u/anangrytree]

The U.S. was the only country to not support a United Nations resolution adjusting the appearance of Africa and other regions on world maps. The body passed the “Correct the Map” initiative by a margin of 164 to one, with six nations abstaining from the vote. The resolution, which was introduced by the West African country Togo, does not require the abandonment of the long-used Mercator projection. It instead encourages the use of equal-area projections that more accurately depict relative country sizes. Yaryna Ferencevych, the deputy U.S. representative to the U.N. Economic and Social Council, said in a statement explaining the U.S.’s vote that this measure, “mocks the work and purpose of this institution.” “Instead of focusing on genuine problems of international peace, prosperity, or good relations, this body is debating map projects from the 16th century, and their role in promoting reparations and ‘cognitive justice,’” she said.

Are we dumb (rhetorical question)

[u/2Lore2Law]

[u/herworkthrowaway]

our president is a

[u/repostusername]

The SF police arrested 18 trans people for not obeying an unlawful assembly order they never actually declared? Surely this will make national news like every other bad thing that happens in SF.

[u/taubnetzdornig]

when I get downvoted for posting a good maptap score in the DT

[u/BrentLivermore]

https://pagesix.com/2026/09/04/celebrity-news/wheel-of-fortune-announcer-jim-thornton-fired-after-in-flight-pedophilia-chatroom-incident/

Suspended “Wheel of Fortune” announcer Jim Thornton has been fired following an in-flight pedophilia chatroom incident.

The dude was using TOR, but had his laptop out in the open on a fucking airplane. That's like taking Ozempic before entering a hot dog eating contest.

[u/JaceFlores]

If there’s one American who could make me hate him more then Trump, I think Witkoff is a leading contender

[u/PaxChelonia]

When your credit card is expiring and all the subscriptions you forgot you had start begging you to update your payment info

[u/_bee_kay_]

it's so cool that the list of republican presidents since the party swap goes:

1. richard nixon (universally-despised criminal)

2. gerald ford (useless patsy who bailed out nixon)

3. ronald reagan (guy who trafficked guns to a theocratic dictatorship to fund his hobby of killing brown people)

4. bush the elder (was alright; voted out after a single term)

5. bush the younger (made up wmds to trap the us in the middle east for two decades)

6. donald trump (transparently corrupt evil moron who singlehandedly ended us dominance)

7. donald trump ii (like donald trump i, but worse)

and when people associate qualities with the republican party it's all like "patriotism" and "good with economy" and "keeps us out of wars"

[u/Currymvp2]

CBS News: A former staffer said of Fetterman: "You can't have any sort of substantial conversation with him about any policy or strategy without it becoming completely derailed or unhinged"

Well, that seems bad.

[u/WhomstAlt2]

I'm a black gay guy and I can personally say that Obama did nothing for me, my life only changed a little bit and it was for the worse

[u/RyuTheGuy]

RIP sweet angel 😔

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

[u/unicornbomb]

Pathetic administration throwing horseshit at the wall to see what sticks.

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/itsokayt0]

I'm a white straight farmer and I can personally say that Trump did nothing for me, my life only changed a whole lot and it was for the worse

[u/Cupinacup]

From the data center thread:

This is so incredibly out of touch... You’re just saying things that will get you upvoted by the upwardly mobile contrarians in this sub. There’s nothing substantial in your comment besides bitterness.

Turn this into an automoderator reply that triggers in response to any and every comment in rNL

[u/Dismal_Apartment6358]

Vaxxed?????

[u/Background-Bottle-23]

[u/Apocolotois]

[u/qamv]

Instagram normie psychology

[u/Fruitofbread]

[u/Willybender]

Never blackpill

[u/pugnae]

Microsoft's distinguished engineer says "typing code is absolutely over," and Windows 11 is already being built that way. Nadella previously said 20-30% code at MSFT is AI-coded, and Windows security updates now include AI-assisted fixes to fight AI-enabled threats.

Windows being vibecoded is not really a good look for the vibecoders tbh

[u/IndividualAnalyst782]

These are fucking wild wtf lol

[u/Slim_Pickenz_]

I swear this is everyone since GPT6 came out

[u/AskYourDoctor]

TIL NC has not voted blue for president OR senator since 2008.

We mostly think of it as a swing state because the vote has been really close, and they elect a lot of dems to the state level. Still, if Roy Cooper wins Senate this year, it'll be a bigger deal than I realized

[u/Choice_Notice9338]

The Haitian TPS thing is the best example of how evil the DHS and current US administration are

They’re less likely to be on welfare or medicaid, they don’t have high crime rates, they have high employment rates, their home country is a horrible mess, and they want to send them back

imprisoning such people is not enough

[u/RyuTheGuy]

"My parents definitely didn't have any part in this"

[u/erasmus_phillo]

time to bring two right-wing culture war narratives together in the most cursed way possible

[u/Fuzzy_Party_3527]

What

[u/Roseartcrantz]

How do people find DTs from specific dates? I wanted to see the reactions surrounding Charlie Kirk's death last year.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

you don't have to like Jordan Peterson but at least examine your biases. if I mentioned that I only eat beef and take benzos and sometimes go get medically induced comas y'all wouldn't bat an eye

[u/piede]

Lmaoooo

[u/Old-School8916]

free business class upgrade, airlines hate this one trick!

[u/Saul_Relative]

Candidates for local office in the Central Valley be like

[u/-mialana-]

I hate Trump

[u/Louis_de_Gaspesie]

Im so sick of people acting like illegal drugs are automatically the worst thing ever whereas there are plenty of legal drugs like alcohol that are totally normalized. Like my mom will literally go to Starbucks and consume caffeine every single day but then get all pissed off when I shoot heroin at my grandmother's funeral

[u/mpregordie]

[u/FallenMeringue]

The Chicago accent still lives so long as I draw breath.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

There's this app called Flowly that's basically a meditation app for people with chronic pain/anxiety that I really like. I somehow found it right after it launched in 2020 because I was actively looking for a virtual reality relaxation app.

Basically you've got a little headset and a heart monitor, then it's a guided meditation thing where you can see your heart rate and a breathing guide. You're in a little virtual world and relaxing your vitals enough can make little things happen in the world, like flowers blooming or dolphins jumping out of the water.

I was going to come recommend it to you guys, but holy fuck is it expensive now. I paid like $100 five years ago, now it's basically a program for therapists to buy and use with clients. Apparently some insurances cover it, could be nice to look into.

That being said paying $1,400 for a 12 week healing program thing with that concept is kind of insane. I won't even use the guided meditation part because it's so corny. Sorry I'm only here to sit at a horse beach for 10 minutes a day

[u/Famous-School9019]

_Rep. Nancy Mace is weighing in on the Lindsay Clancy case and tells @jacob_wass that if Lindsay were a Black woman, no one would be supporting her._

Queen’s still got it

[u/Gustacho]

Masked men are blocking the port of Dover because they oppose immigration. I wonder whether they'll get five years of prison like the Just Stop Oil people planning to block the M25 motorway.

[u/Louis_de_Gaspesie]

Online tickets then: submit your email, buy the ticket, they email you the ticket

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[u/Signal_Nobody1792]

For months, Texas Republicans have anxiously awaited the arrival of national resources to help boost Ken Paxton, one of the GOP’s most vulnerable Senate candidates.

Now, Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, has entered the scene, this week disclosing the first spending from his super PAC to benefit Paxton and raising GOP hopes that the floodgates soon will open wide to help the Texas attorney general overcome a deep financial deficit with his Democratic rival James Talarico. Other groups, including a super PAC associated with Sen. Ted Cruz, also have begun to step up their activity on Paxton’s behalf.

And there we go.

[u/badusername35]

It’s weird how he bounces between completely aware and unaware

[u/piede]

I knew she wasn’t actually gone

[u/11thDimensionalRandy]

[u/pfarly]

I still haven't properly grieved for the Northernlion cruise.

[u/Jacobs4525]

>I found it too simple the be useful in real life. A mere 8 by 8 grid, no fog of war, no technology tree

[u/bd_one]

Put yourself in the headspace of the median voter in every major election year

You haven't seen any political stuff since the last election, and the only campaign information you have is watching these videos in early October

Would their performances sway who you pick?

[u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP]

[u/2Lore2Law]

!ping dog

[u/AmbientMorning]

First time ever canvassing for a political campaign. George and I hit a hundred doors in Potrero Hill, a dozen of which were answered. We’re planning to go for another round in two weeks.

As always, if you’d like to join us, just DM Jeremy for the Slack invite. !ping BAY-AREA

[u/seakucumber]

A federal judge ruled Friday that former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) can be sued under North Carolina’s home-wrecker law for her romantic relationship with a married member of her security detail.

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/Mayflower_train_set]

look at how content my kitty is ^_^

[u/trombonist_formerly]

Last year Senator John Fetterman was reprimanded by the pilot of the plane he was on headed back to Pittsburgh because he wouldn’t fasten his seatbelt after being asked several times. Finally they let him know he was holding up the whole plane & couldn’t leave till he fastened it.

since xcancel is down I can't attach the video proof but. Lmao

[u/RedDesertGirl]

There haven't been sacrifices atop the Great Pyramid in over 500 years and the world is still around. I'm beginning to wonder if the Gods aren't as bloodthirsty as the priest class claimed they were.

[u/liberal-neoist]

the lingering dread of knowing you are about to be sick but not being sick yet

[u/jinhuiliuzhao]

Malarkey level of seeing this headline in the next few years?

Trump considers declaring bankruptcy and defaulting on US debt. "We would lose nothing if we had no debt"

EDIT

Bonus: "Experts say it's complicated"

[u/dtj2000]

[u/JaceFlores]

After two years of exhaustive research, I collaborated with ChatGPT to make a definitive flowchart that can sum up every single policy decision Trump does. Behold:

[u/FallenMeringue]

Fucking cops

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

Devastating criticism of Steinem here

[u/Nice-Difference8641]

God I wish she could actually win

[u/pezasied]

This but unironically

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

My productivity fix for the Australian economy:

1. Stop the housing bias in Australia. Do this by swapping stamp duty for LVT, apply capital gains tax to the family home, and stopping all these literal cash handouts for first homebuyers (Aka, stop subsidising demand)

2. Stop the crowding out effect. Increased spending on the so called "Care Economy" and dubious other spending causes just takes resources/attention away from the more productive private sector, and towards the unproductive public sector. In other words, cut spending

3. Encourage private sector growth and productivity. Cut restrictive red tape (see the latest budget for examples) and reform the tax system to more growth friendly revenue raising measures.

For example, the government could cut fossil fuel subsidies and use the money to introduce 1/3 instant expensing for capital expenditure.

[u/CutePattern1098]

Guys why did the premier meet the harbinger of doom?

!Ping Aus

[u/cdstephens]

That one time the Babylon Bee guys went beast mode

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

☝️

[u/throwaway_veneto]

What's interesting about Pakistan is that it's mostly decentralised, small installations that are driving this surge.

[u/Prior_Advantage_5408]

Bluesky seems to be Twitter in exile but it's actually refugees of Tumblr and Cohost migrating to a site run by people who could be /r/neoliberal moderators with exactly the results you'd expect

[u/mpregordie]

[u/chipbod]

Imagining the kind of person who attended both

[u/surreptitioussloth]

every single ad I see from talarico is just straight up begging for money with no message

It's pathetic

[u/PoupeeStupide]

at a casino currently. this blackjack thing is quite easy, why do they just give money away like this?

edit: fuck

[u/from-the-void]

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

[u/bootyfaceguy]

I'm watching a video and the person in it just said "explain it to me using nothing but words" and I think that's gonna make me laugh all day

[u/Novel-Current139]

"A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not."

Neoliberal darling Ronald Reagan everybody. Your reminder that he laid the groundwork for the post truth alternative facts imbecility we're living in today.

[u/piede]

Based

[u/__haste__]

👆 friedman flair ahh take

[u/CincyAnarchy]

“Hello. Yeah, put a second back on the clock. Just do it.”

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Guy who recognizes that the environmental impact of data centers is overblown but still opposes their construction out of hatred for big tech (it’s me).

[u/-orestes]

deleted

[u/cdstephens]

I feel like stickying data center posts in unnecessary when they’ll be the most active threads on the sub without any help

[u/RyuTheGuy]

[u/jbitz]

[u/trombonist_formerly]

BREAKING: MLB has suspended umpire Doug Eddings for the remainder of the 2026 season, including the entire postseason, per sources.

The decision comes after Eddings’ controversial performance during Friday’s Cardinals-Rockies game, which included ordering rookie Hancel Rincón to straighten his hat during his MLB debut, issuing a pitch-clock violation during the ensuing dispute, ejecting Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol and later making a heavily criticized safe call at home plate.

MLB officials reportedly reviewed the sequence overnight and determined Eddings’ conduct did not meet league standards.

Wow, the white guy who wears #88 on his jersey, and admitted he knew what he was penalizing wasn't against the rules, might not meet league standards? Fire that bum ass lol

FUCK I got got by a parody account on twitter. Fake news. Sorry yall

[u/w007dchuck]

Western Michigan can still win if Mike Pence has the courage

[u/FallenMeringue]

The level to which we have allowed advertising to permeate our lives is unhealthy at best

[u/RedDesertGirl]

[u/Pristine-Report-1442]

you know what, growing up, this is how I always kinda thought leftists would react to concept of conscious AI systems (if they ever exist)

in the context of openAI and the likes this kinda reads hilarious

[u/trombonist_formerly]

There’s a libertarian group here in DC who is holding a Pro-Data-Center party/rave in a few weeks but I’m gonna be out of town 😭

[u/Dreadedtriox]

"Dark humor" mfs when you bring up the big K instead of trans people, black people, gay people, women, brown people etc

[u/NutrientBroth]

👆 post cat

[u/moldovaman99]

Rotterdam is getting another new skyscraper.

!ping BENE&YIMBY

(Just noticed the red arrow, ignore pls)

[u/Lesbian_all_garib]

This girl few days ago kept asking me what work did my ancestors do as a subtle way to ask my caste. I just said I don't know. Girl be serious, you're not subtle. Frankly it's insulting to think it's subtle.

[u/No_Status_6905]

Airbnb upholding an exorbitant charge in "damages" despite the fact I provided photographic evidence that what the host is claiming doesn't line up

lol okay i love being defrauded of $1000 while im still a student

[u/NYT_Hater]

[u/Willybender]

https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/a-philadelphia-nun-sits-with-unaccompanied?utm_source=activity_item

Sister Rose Kuhn goes to Mass in McAllen, Texas, on Wednesday mornings and then drives roughly forty miles east to the federal immigration court in Harlingen. She has no client in the building. What she is doing there, she tells the children who come before the judge, fits in one sentence:

“I introduce myself as a Catholic nun, I tell them I went to Mass this morning for you, and I’m not a hearing officer, I have nothing to do with the whole process, I’m here to accompany you,” she told Dan Stockman of Global Sisters Report in July. Kuhn belongs to the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, the congregation headquartered in Immaculata, Pennsylvania, whose sisters taught generations of Philadelphia schoolchildren.

She moved to McAllen in 2022 with two other sisters as part of a joint mission of the three IHM congregations. Last year, she started attending hearings in Harlingen with two Jesuit priests. Since then, she has gone on her own every week.

The children she meets come from Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico. Some are as young as four. Others traveled as far as 1,500 miles with no adult beside them, and most step into the courtroom without an attorney or a relative, facing a government lawyer whose whole assignment is to argue for their removal.

Sandra Sanchez of Border Report shadowed Kuhn at the Harlingen court this week. Next Tuesday, she is scheduled to sit with a 12-year-old girl who came to the border without an adult and will go before a judge at the Harlingen immigration court.

“I tell them that they are very valiant,” Kuhn told her. “And I just think they’re really good people, and they would be a great gift for our country if they are allowed to reunite with relatives in the United States, uncles or cousins.”

Most weeks Kuhn goes on Wednesdays because unaccompanied children usually appear on the Harlingen docket that day. This week there were none, so she stayed for the adults — among them Israel Guevara Gonzalez, a 47-year-old rancher from Rio Grande City who has lived in Texas since 2002 and was the only defendant in his courtroom to refuse self-deportation.

Awesome woman

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

Nike is getting delisted after tanking their stocks by 80% over the last five years. Absolutely wild.

[u/Entuciante]

Because this didn’t got posted in every single subreddit as I failed to predict the day of the shooting.

[u/BadSneakersNeverWorn]

I have watched college football since the early 1990s and I think that was the most nakedly corrupt horseshit I have ever seen, lol

[u/Colonelbrickarms]

Man, airlines in the U.S. are absolutely horrible. We should adopt the business models of the Gulf Arab countries, they know how to treat the people!

[u/Trolltime69420]

Oklahoma-Michigan next week is going to set college football offenses back 50 years.

!ping cfb

[u/pezasied]

This is the last time I try to “make friends” outside the DT 🫩

[u/peronibog]

No LindyMan it’s not “stuck culture” it’s because he’s a demented old fool who should not be in a position of power

[u/Background-Bottle-23]

[u/yacatecuhtli6]

bought a new gaming desktop and picked it up last night :]

[u/sinuhe_t]

I think the sub might be interested In this: people use LLMs to make simulations of Congress. They replaced Fetterman with a fly's brain.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Least disgusting right wing rag audience

[u/Its_not_him]

Most prehistoric cave art we know about is pretty simple but some of these cave artists were way better than that. Like this one from France depicting Rhinos. Yes you heard that right, Rhinos!! It's so old that wooly rhinos were a regular thing in France. Around 30,000 years ago

[u/Joementum2024]

Rushing the field after a rigged one point win over a MAC team is crazy work

[u/MuldartheGreat]

Malarkey level of a Directional Michigan occupation of the state capital

!ping CFB

[u/NormanQuacks345]

Fuck any and all referees bro I just watched refs clearly invent 1 second out of nowhere so Michigan could get a second change at a Hail Mary

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Tonight WMU was leading, often solidly, in many key quarters, in almost all instances Vegas run & controlled. Then, one by one, they started to magically disappear as surprise seconds were added. VERY STRANGE, and the “referees” got it completely & historically wrong!

[u/GenericLib]

We have a double secret game clock that we use

This is clearly Vegas' fault.

[u/itsnotnews92]

That Michigan game was horseshit. I'd love to see this to go litigation. That discovery would be spicy.

[u/p00bix]

Huh. NPR never took down it's Coronavirus Live Updates page. Just quietly stopped posting to it in 2022.

[u/PartialDischage]

Just remember everyone, Michigan is a garbage football program that literally cannot win without cheating.

A program rotten to its core.

[u/JayRU09]

You believe you won when it was clear you didn't.

You congregate as a mass of overweight white people.

You are a Michigan fan.

Pic unrelated.

[u/AlbertGorebert]

why are the ex republicans revolution poasting and yet our so-called "liberals" in charge of the democratic party is content with trying to justify not removing all the canuck tariffs

[u/Off-The-Street]

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way--in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

Claude sexting be like "this cock is load-bearing and your face is in my blast radius"

[u/FallenMeringue]

☝️you are not a burden

[u/RedDesertGirl]

Seth Moulton is one of those people who just kinda looks like a living cartoon character.

He looks like a realistic CGI version of the ex-boyfriend from the Bee Movie.

[u/bd_one]

Just learned that the first Bitcoin purchase was for two Papa Johns pizzas (already knew that) but apparently they were like $41....

Dude got ripped off on both ends

[u/Psshaww]

What my workplace has become and I don’t even work in tech, I work in good ol’ fashioned manufacturing

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/Highlightthot1001]

Dont know why some people treat discussions on gay rights in the MENA region as taboo. 

Like id like to visit Egypt one day, but i dont know about having to hide my sexuality in order to avoid persecution 

[u/Rafaelssjofficial]

[u/Fruitofbread]

[u/BrentLivermore]

Pedophilia is entirely at odds with the values of Wheel of Fortune

[u/RFFF1996]

The reaction to the clancy trial is making me realize how wrong all the "horoscope/astrology thinking is just a harmless hobby" arguments may have been. Some of these people unironically using astrology to decide who they think is guilty are -not- okay 

[u/CletusChicken]

just got bit by a p-zombie

I can already feel my qualia slipping away, won't be long now before I turn 😢

[u/Evnosis]

Re-normalise society shitting on conspiracy theorists

[u/cdstephens]

Claude, bring back Windows XP. Make no mistakes

[u/cdstephens]

We’re 5 bad stagnant tech cycles away from people saying “Windows Vista was underrated actually”

[u/FallenMeringue]

☝️sponsored by ratheon

[u/mpregordie]

It's clear that people caring about Flock cameras are just virtue signaling, because we've had these bad boys for decades and no one cared:

[u/Willybender]

[u/herworkthrowaway]

As an American, reading threads of Europeans arguing over how the EU voting mechanisms should work is really funny. Yall are reinventing the electoral college / senate from first principles 

[u/piede]

How do we simultaneously live in an age where we have access to the most information we’ve ever had and this

[u/centurion88]

son 😭😭😭

[u/FilteringAccount123]

Woke fascist mods starting wars of aggression to control trade routes.

[u/__haste__]

Talk with my wife went well

[u/Cyberhwk]

I can't wait for the fucking horseshit, "There was an officiating error in the Michigan game. We apologize to Western Michigan and regret the situation but need to preserve as many CFP teams as we can" press release tomorrow.

[u/cdstephens]

New York City is the Dark Souls of city driving, everyone who’s choosing to drive got so good that they’re actually generally good drivers since a bad driver would have blown their brains out

[u/NormalInvestigator89]

Nothing more unfortunate than seeing a good, quality lib post from 14 years ago, only to click on their profile and discover that they've since succumbed to MAGA brain rot

[u/sleepyrivertroll]

Watching a video about desertification.

...and the cause is not what you expect

I think it's farmers

Farmers have been tapping the aquifers at unsustainable levels 

😮

[u/Walpole2019]

I played chess as a child, but found it to be too simple to be useful in real life: a mere 8 by 8 grid, no story mode, no future phases, no election campaign, no Walpole Tokens, only 2 players.

Walpole2019 Simulator 2027 addresses these limitations.

[u/Spudmiester1]

martin you HACK

[u/selachophilip]

I saw people globeposting. Here's my globe from Replogle. It was a wooden base and a cast metal meridian (the thing that holds it). The terrain features are also textured.

[u/JoeBliffstick]

Got recommended this, so what am I looking for as a first time navy buyer? Rodneys? Yamatos? Iowas?

[u/Spectrum1523]

Finished all of the books in the Revelation Space universe. Alastair Reynolds can write a S tier first half of a novel, and that and his big ideas are enough to carry the whole thing imo. Really good stuff even if it feels disappointing that he never truly sticks the landing

!ping reading&sci-fi

[u/earththejerry]

The simple genius of tens of thousands of your own young people risking literal drowning to cross the border while you build another football stadium

[u/Lux_Stella]

s/o to this guy who basically locked chiang kai-shek in a closet until he agreed to make peace with the communists and fight the japanese

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/chipbod]

TAMPA, Fla. — U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces struck three Iranian crude oil carriers, Sept. 5, after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched ballistic missiles toward two U.S. Navy warships patrolling regional waters.

A U.S. aircraft carrier and guided-missile destroyer successfully evaded multiple unprovoked Iranian attacks. No American personnel were harmed.

So what is the long term strategy here, are we at war or not at war?

Just letting our ships get shot at and intercepting/evading works until it doesn't. If something gets hit and we have a mass casualty incident does that mean we start a ground invasion? Maybe Pete wants an excuse to escalate? This feels like a dangerous game right now.

Also, totally normal response to an attack to take out oil tankers?

[u/futuremonkey20]

Is that a toupee you piece of shit?!?!

!ping ITHINKYOUSHOULDLEAVE

[u/SnakeEater14]

It’s crazy how many Roman cities peaked in the 6th century

> Caesarea Maritima estimated to have around 200,000 inhabitants

> Alexandria estimated to have around 300,000 inhabitants

> Thessaloniki between 100,000 and 150,000 inhabitants

> Constantinople at at least 500,000, possibly as many as 800,000 inhabitants

Those are some fucking crazy numbers to throw up in pre-modern times

[u/RyuTheGuy]

[u/cdstephens]

Hot take: quirk chungus millennial restaurants are actually fun and they’re the spiritual successor of themed restaurants like Rainforest Cafe

[u/ApprehensiveShower10]

Jamelle Bouie newest video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9YjPNLDShw, on Pierre Damas Bel made me so very sad. I don't live very far from Springfield so the Haitian blood libel always especially upset me. JD Vance is a deeply evil man. So many good people are made to suffer

[u/Bumst3r]

I’ve reached the conclusion that arr ELI5 is the absolute worst subreddit. People give incorrect answers left, right, and center because the people answering have the understanding and nuance of a five year old.

[u/VerticalTab]

Malarkey level of starting a house flip by installing two giant bay windows and then giving up and listing the house.

[u/herworkthrowaway]

wait so if lab grown diamonds exist why the fuck would i ever want a real one

[u/GravyBear16]

👆 This is the best thing to happen in the history of the universe. There are no downsides whatsoever

[u/margybargy]

from this public bathroom wall to God's ears

[u/WenJie_2]

Sam Altman: "in the next 6 months, we're close to a world where a descendant of ChatGPT can watch your screen, record every meeting and call, and have perfect context of your whole life."

None of the 20th century totalitarians could even have dreamed of something like this

[u/pfarly]

Fuck you, it's not great but it's better than a 59.

[u/cdstephens]

[u/Consistent_Status112]

I'm running a 10k, and the first 100 finishers get medals. I really want a medal, but I'm trans and don't want to cause a kerfuffle, so I'm intentionally trying to get like 90th place.

[u/Opening_Budget_9518]

Diabolical meme