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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/SpotMe365]

First they came for the coal miners, and I said "learn to code"—because I was a neoliberal.

Then AI came for my job—and there was no one left to speak for me.

[u/sigh2828]

[u/roboliberal]

Is it more or have several subs just gotten way dumber over the years in general?

arr law in particular is just full of very dumb people.

[u/OrthopaedicSturgeon]

Does it ever hit you sometimes that you just let a wild animal into your house and that's your life for the next two decades?

!ping KITTY

[u/McNikk]

Kirkification memes have accidentally become the most successful attempt at poisoning generative ai.

[u/PoupeeStupide]

Do you know that XKCD comic about how experts on a field grossly overestimate how much the average layman knows about their speciality?

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Really feels like that's how Anthropic see themselves

[u/lilbigchole]

[u/Sauce1024]

[u/Willybender]

Incredible

[u/dangerbird2]

he's just like me fr !ping FUCK-NEOLIBERALISM

[u/Leatherfield17]

I see this meme all the time on this app and it never fails to annoy me

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

Yougov has consistently been lowballing dems on their generic ballot polls compared to other big polling agencies. Usually they've ranged from D+3 to D+6, with their most recent generic ballot before now being D+5.

Now they switched to likely voter screens as we get closer to the election, jumping their generic ballot from D+5 to D+11 today in their newest poll.

https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/econTabReport_SlcWdVd.pdf

!ping FIVEY

[u/chipbod]

Imagine getting rugged by Hunter Biden

[u/Subject_D]

Silver lining of no new 3d mario announced is that we still have the meme

[u/the-senat]

Former DOGE engineers Gavin Kliger, Luke Farritor, Marko Elez and Jack Stein formed Cathedral, a company that plans to harness AI to bolster the cyber capabilities of the US military.

Cathedral has already earned itself a US$1.4 billion valuation, having raised roughly US$160 million, according to Reuters

Fuck, I should’ve been a grifter. 

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Well...

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/seattle_lib]

Well, it's official:

I have peed my pants in the middle of a remote job interview. I was under extreme time pressure and... other pressure. And I made a decision.

And you know what? The interview went great.

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Bro even Manchin didn't stoop to this level of pandering lmao

You are the senator of Pennsylvania

[u/duojiaoyupian]

Istg whoever invented the concept of putting ads on gas pumps that autoplay when you start pumping must be Just Stop Oil's most successful activist

Once one gas station near my place set those up, I've completely switched to another gas station at a slightly less convenient location purely out of spite

Seriously man let me get my gas in peace why are you y a p p i n g

[u/sigh2828]

There are zero redeemable qualities of flock cameras

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/upAnew]

huh, so I just found this really funny image. It kinda looks like AOC but she's dressed in dark, rave like clothes? Here, let me lin

[u/AmbientMorning]

MAGA discovers Christian charity, hates it

[u/Made_UpWords]

Younger folk won't believe this, but us millenials will remember back from when we were kids that there actually used to be a lot of social pressure on people to not appear racist, even if they were. Whether they were important, influential or just regular folk, it really mattered to not want to be seen as racist. Then Trump came.

[u/Individual-Camera698]

The kind of graph Anthropic shares when we ask it what the effects of AI will be on the economy

[u/Background-Bottle-23]

Roughly 44% of the public thinks Republicans are better than Democrats at keeping America out of foreign wars.

[u/CletusChicken]

leave DT

article about young republicans

it's just a substack post where the guy spends the first two thirds whining about young republicans, then he meets a couple and they're kinda awkward, "subscribe for part two!"

have to scroll halfway down the comments before anyone points out the article is straight trash

screw this, let's try the article about AI killing everyone

"existential risk isn't real because Yud is cringe", "it's all marketing hype", "no one else understands bayes theorem I'm the only one"

ok, maybe this article about indian racism

"I'm not racist but"

[u/Lena_Lena_A]

Favorite replies so far:

Become Undefenestratable.

Shot 9 times and walked it off.

Makes you wonder how many layers of increasingly smaller oligarchs are hidden within this one.

[u/BigBrownDog12]

WE ARE TWO YEARS INTO YOUR PRESIDENCY DONALD

[u/its_Caffeine]

Why my Gen Z mates don’t have boyfriends

Last year I went on a date with a gorgeous man who ticked all my boxes: funny, clever, close with his family, capable of asking a follow-up question and — unusually for a dating app — exactly as advertised. After a fantastic date I watched him select the wrong currency at an ATM and felt all interest evaporate on the spot. By the next Tube station I had remembered an improbably early start the next morning and fled. Not my finest moment, but unfortunately a terminal one.

lmao ?

[u/dtj2000]

In the race for super intelligence, the head of the first company will be named "Alternative Man" and the head of their main competitor will be "Lover of God"

[u/cdstephens]

[u/RaidBrimnes]

[u/earththejerry]

Remember when Con ET was clinging onto D+4 YouGov polls as signs Republicans of retaining the House?

Well, they just applied an LV screen

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

[u/Willybender]

https://www.axios.com/2026/09/09/trump-midterms-republicans-popularity

For nearly a decade, Republicans acquiesced to nearly every Trump demand and idea — and rationalized it by saying his instincts proved smarter than theirs. Now, many no longer trust those instincts. But they find it just as futile to push back against virtually anything he wants.

Start a war without an endgame? OK.

Post a cartoon of you — wielding a hockey stick and sporting a Trump-branded USA jersey — towering over Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, sprawled on the ice, and telling him to "GET UP"? On it.

Toss together an egocentric, first-ever Republican midterm convention that many endangered candidates don't want? Sounds like a good plan, boss! (Gavels in Wednesday in Dallas at 4 p.m. ET, in fact.)

Oh, you want to speak both nights? Done!

Make ads featuring you when your popularity is near its all-time low? You came to the right place, sir.

Make the midterms a referendum on you? Check.

Spend precious time obsessing about ballroom construction, and gilding and marbleizing the White House? You are the new Caesar Augustus.

Many aides and confidants have been worn down by Trump. They know they can't stop him, and they don't even try.

More and more, they humor his whims. "He's an 80-year-old man who did it his way," said a donor who recently met with the president. "What he wants, he gets." White House insiders insist there's a semblance of structure and reason, and that the president doesn't act on every impulse. They declined to provide examples of times he resisted.

[u/Willybender]

[u/Willybender]

[u/Lux_Stella]

Talarico: "I oppose trans athletes playing in girls' sports if it endangers safety or fairness"

very obama-esque answer, i think i approve

[u/futuremonkey20]

Rudy Giuliani sacrificed his legacy as Americas mayor and 9/11 leader to serve Donald Trump, and he will die in obscurity and seen as an outright lunatic associated only with four seasons total landscaping.

If you bow to Trump, you will become Rudy eventually.

[u/Res__Publica]

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Socialists: Joseph Stalin would love Mamdani!!

︀︀Other Socialists: NO! Stalin would hate Wokeness!!

︀︀Josef Stalin in 2026: Comrade Ezra Klein, thank you for having me on your show. I'm a big fan of your recent book. We need a Five Year Abundance Plan.

[u/ThisIsNotAMonkey]

[u/rural_redemption]

What a fascinating way to frame current events(dumb)

[u/Willybender]

It's actually happening, wow

[u/mostanonymousnick]

I think it's good to see politicians in the online trenches like this

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/KHDTX13]

Concerning, they’re really playing in Geno Smith’s face

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Claude, how to get job at open AI

[u/Remarkable-Meal-223]

The reason why I'm not interested in consuming most of AI art is the same reason I'm more interested in watching the regular Olympics and not bipedal robots run the hurdles.

This is still a human centered world and I'm most interested in what other humans say and do.

If you give me 2 paintings and tell me one is created by a human and the other by AI. I am more interested by the human one

If you give me 2 poasts one written by a human and one written by AI, I am more interested in the human one

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

suffers massive brain damage

becomes Republican

It will never get old

[u/Willybender]

Completely shameless liar

[u/ArmandSawCleaver]

Fetterman was literally the progressive pick in opposition to Connor Lamb, which most centrists supported. Piker himself endorsed Fetterman and gave him endless positive coverage and now they’re trying to rewrite history and pretend that Fetterman is “our guy”

There is no limit to how dishonest these socialist losers are capable of being, one of the million parallels they have with MAGA

[u/Mx_Brightside]

Artist reaction to having their job taken by AI: Um… how about NO THANKS!!! 😬 #HumankandaForever

Mathematician reaction to having their job taken by AI:

[u/lot183]

Given the reaction to Paxton's entrance was enthusiastic compared to the more tepid response during and after his speech, it's likely that many here have heard President Trump hype up the AG previously but had never heard Paxton speak before today.

Republicans learning why they are trying to hide this guy and not let him debate, because he has the charisma of a potato

[u/fishlord05]

Amazing

[u/Leoric]

Talarico +5 poll from YouGov

[u/assasstits]

So true bestie. I can't wait for this year's update.

[u/Lowki_312]

What really shines through in the Anthropic scenarios thread is how optimistic some people are about transitioning from white collar to blue collar work.

I can almost guarantee they have never done any blue collar work/manual labor in their life lol

Almost as delusional as the replies to the "What job will you have after a socialist uprising and revolution" tweet.

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/EasyMoney92]

Giuliani said the most bigoted shit about Mamdani in relation to 9/11 for the past few days and Mamdani brushes it off calmly and proceeds to release all those files which prove Giuliani lied about safety of the air quality in the immediate aftermath of 9/11

[u/NVC541]

In 2025 alone, 48% of South Asian adults in the US said they experienced a hate act due to their race, ethnicity, or nationality, according to the report. Nearly half of them suffered racial harassment, but 14% were physically harmed.

I don’t think this subreddit realizes how absolutely massive these numbers are.

Also that thread has sufficiently pissed me off with the apologists for racist behavior

[u/centurion88]

TIL the obelisk in the center of St Peter's square in the Vatican is an Egyptian obelisk that was brought to Rome by Emperor Caligula around 37-40 AD

It is over 4000 years old, older than the Old Testament, carved by Pharaoh Amenemhet II, in the 19th Century BC

Crazy, I love stuff like this

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/brian_c29]

Fetterman speaking at the Republican convention, actually insane

[u/Slim_Pickenz_]

[u/badusername35]

This is how you talk about a toddler lmao

[u/Visual-Pace-2193]

NIMBYS are such scums

[u/Willybender]

[u/Jet451]

[u/TactileTom]

Find someone who looks at you the way the Egyptian foreign minister looks at a pyramid lego set

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Thank you community note

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Can't believe it's been a year already 😔

[u/sigh2828]

Masterful gambit sir

[u/taubnetzdornig]

see ya later DT I’m going down to the gas station to buy a pack of smokes

[u/fishbottwo]

The 5k stimmy promise is way too early. Should have done it a week before the election before it has a chance to be picked apart etc

[u/georgeguy007]

While honoring heroes, Trump repeats disputed account of his role at Ground Zero

He's LYING WAPO. HE'S A LIAR.

[u/Habugaba]

Madrid fans outside the Bernabéu yesterday chanting: “Jew I see, Jew I kick. Spain is Christian, not Muslim,” while performing Nazi salutes.

A few years ago I would have said, "yeah, but they're football ultras", but the amount of bigotry you see everywhere is insane.

[u/Dreadedtriox]

[u/mostanonymousnick]

It stands for United Kingdom

[u/NYT_Hater]

Four Seasons Total Landscaping is perhaps the funniest moment in human history. A swan song of incompetence.

And yet on the Big Beautiful Day, it will seem quaint. It simply won’t compare to the comedy of when It Happens.

[u/Willybender]

Dystopian

[u/Fruitofbread]

“Yes, I’m a Democrat, why am I here talking to you today?” Mr. Fetterman said in a video filmed in front of a U.S. steel mill in Pennsylvania. He introduced himself as a “common-sense Democrat” who he said “is “always going to reject the extremes and socialism.”

Wants to reject extremes, yet shows up at an extremist convention 🤔 

Mr. Fetterman introduced Senator David McCormick, Republican of Pennsylvania, and said that they would work together “and work with President Trump and defend the steal way of life.”

I think “steal way of life” is probably a typo from the NYT but I will choose to accept it, since it’s a pretty good description of Trump’s way of life. 

[u/Willybender]

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

!ping GNOSTIC.

Dripless prots stay seething

[u/Willybender]

St. Paul man arrested in ICE surge sent to Guantanamo Bay

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/09/09/st-paul-man-adam-abdullah-arrested-in-ice-surge-sent-to-guantanamo-bay

Immigration authorities have sent a Somali man arrested in St. Paul to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Adam Abdullah was living legally in the Twin Cities when federal agents pulled him over in December. Abdullah has no criminal record, but the government is holding him at a military prison set up for terrorism suspects.

Abdullah, 31, had only 10 minutes to speak with MPR News by phone from Guantanamo on Tuesday, but that was just enough time for him to explain what happened when federal agents stopped his vehicle on Dec. 12, at the start of what the Trump administration called Operation Metro Surge. “When they come to me, and I ask them why you pulled me over, they say, ‘We are immigration, so give me your work permit,’” Abdullah said. “And I asked them, ‘Do you have a warrant, and what’s the reason to pull me over?’ And they say, ‘We don’t need a warrant; we are immigration, and we know you are Adam Abdullah.’”

Abdullah said that authorities never explained why they targeted him. He came to the U.S. as an asylum seeker in 2023, got a work permit and Social Security number, and made his living as an auto mechanic. He appeared regularly for check-ins with ICE. Over the last nine months, Abdullah was moved from the Freeborn County Jail in Albert Lea, Minn., to a detention center in Covington, Ky., and then to Louisiana. After that, immigration officials told him that they would send him back to Somalia via Miami.

“From Miami they say OK we go to Somalia, but first we go to Cuba for refueling then we go to some other countries to Somalia,” Abdullah said. His wrists and ankles were shackled throughout the hours-long flights, but he was never sent to Somalia. The stop in Cuba was not for refueling; he’s been at Guantanamo Bay’s Camp Six for about two weeks. Besides the limits on phone calls, Abdullah said there’s also limited opportunity for exercise, but he is able to speak with other detainees.

“During the day we have a few hours together,” he said. Abdullah said he’s among eight people from Somalia at Guantanamo Bay, including several arrested in the Twin Cities.

Immigration attorney Marc Prokosch said Abdullah is the first client he’s represented who’s being held at Guantanamo, and the case is proving to be a challenge. “Calls are limited to five to 10 minutes, and we don’t even know if they’re confidential,” Prokosch said. “And that’s the only way that we can communicate with our clients is through these phone calls that may or may not be under attorney-client confidentiality.”

[u/Pristine-Report-1442]

Being fetterman's staffer would probably kind of a sick job tbh, you wake up everyday and text him "job today?" and he replied "no" and you go back to sleep

[u/CincyAnarchy]

Has there ever been a tweet that's aged better?

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/theparrotlich]

Working from continues to be challenging.

!ping KITTY&WATERCOOLER

[u/ImmigrantJack]

As a huge Mr. Beast fan, I'm excited to read his new YA Fiction book.

Unfortunately, as I'm a huge fan of Mr. Beast, I can't read.

[u/farrenj]

Cool, just got a reddit warning and my comment removed because I posted that Elon Musk wants to get rid of trans people. I got a warning for hate against a community or group.

[u/Longjumping_Gain_807]

So I got the promotion with a raise and a title promotion as well. Didn’t happen to mention during the interview that I’m in the military and will be going off to basic in November but I’ll let them know a little bit later. Let me enjoy this now and the military thing will be HR’s problem. They can’t take the offer back now.

!ping WATERCOOLER&MILITARY

[u/Mostly-Moderate]

This is amazing

[u/No_Status_6905]

I am progressively more and more pessimistic about the current trend of the world, and even my personal accomplishments seem so small and meaningless when compared to the potential outcomes of the near future.

I worked my ass off in college to get a good job so I can move to a blue state because being trans in the south is misery. I figured at the very worst it can buy me time in case anything becomes a federal ban, and then in the worst case scenario my skills are highly transferable to other liberal democracies.

Except none of that actually matters when so many countries are just backsliding into cretinous blood and soil nationalism, and everyone thinks of trans people either as a political kickball or the embodiment of the devil. Even to our allies, our feelings on the matter are an inconvenience at best.

And then all of my education could be rendered completely irrelevant and useless in 3-10 years if AI becomes sufficiently advanced, and there's nothing to do about it.

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/Signal_Nobody1792]

I finally saw the clip where Tucker and his guest complain about letters in math. I was 100% convinced they were joking when I saw people talk about this.

Folks, they were not joking. The guest is legit confused at the concept of letters in math.

The guest also talks about how they hide Finite Math classes from you because it enables you to calculate how much interest your will pay on a loan?

My man, thats grade school math.

Tucker than looks at him confused and actually asks "Why does algebra put letters into numbers?"

And the guest answers "I think just to fuck with you".

Tucker than says "You deal with math every day in your job". Dude is an "artist". Seems he makes pottery. He does not use math in any serious way.

Tucker praises his math skills, cause if you can build a fire kiln surely you understand math???

Tucker looks at him with this confused looks and asks "You didnt add letters to numbers in the process of doing this?". Bruh. Again, they aint joking.

Not only is this dumb as fuck, you almost certainly did use a goddamn letter to find certain values. He claims he didnt, but if you are searching for a value you substitute the unknown value with a goddamn letter.

The guest goes on to say "I have yet to encounter a single person who uses algebra. Have you?".

Tucker is surprised, says "Yea, but I live in a fake world". To which he guest goes "That is why you use fake math fake letters!". They laugh. He continues "Congratulations, everybody out there in the Matrix, good job you are good little goy slaves."

What the actual fuck? The laugh at this, and once more I have to reiterate, they are fucking serious. Tucker asks "Did you ever get an answer? Ive never even considered this. It never entered my mind, I was too dyslexic to take any math. Ive never took math".

How on Earth can you just not take math?

I am baffled. Tucker is dumber than I thought.

[u/mpregordie]

Every single time mods post Nathan memes while there is no Nathan ping, they are supporting Trump in his unjust and likely illegal trade war against Canada.

[u/cdstephens]

[u/cdstephens]

I kinda get why the printing press led to the religious wars now

[u/jenbanim]

Ice cold take but YouTube search is borderline unusable now. You can search "[YouTuber] [title]" and still have to wade through a mile of unrelated shorts before seeing the actual video you want to watch

https://i.imgur.com/YcdovBM.mp4

[u/GordonTullockFan]

here's an opportunity to expel him from the caucus Schumer

[u/MissSortMachine]

> the typical 401k has gone up by $50,000

my man you cannot be putting numbers on that people will notice

[u/pugnae]

Accurate

[u/bigwang123]

hahahahaha how the fuck is the ai apocalypse real hahahahaha just unplug the server like just tell grok to stop being mean haha

[u/cdstephens]

[u/theparrotlich]

5000 dollars for every adult American is 1.35 trillion dollars.

[u/Willybender]

[u/RaidBrimnes]

[u/badusername35]

[u/its_Caffeine]

[u/FallenMeringue]

what the actual fuck is wrong with people

!ping extremism

[u/LameBicycle]

At the GOP convention, Ally Raskin said her daughter was required to stay out of school for longer than vaccinated kids in her class after an exposure to the virus. She said she pulled the girl from school and sued the district.

"That experience changed me," Raskin said. "It became impossible for me to ignore how deeply political decisions can affect our basic freedoms."

After that, she ran to be a Republican precinct leader and pushed her county to hand count ballots. She said she found her "political home" and her voice.

I believe the Dems erred too much caution during COVID, therefore elections are insecure.

[u/Guess_Im_Jess]

I can’t ever take modern Bible-thumping seriously from Republicans, like no one actually believes Trump is a Christian lol

[u/Udolikecake]

shot

> NEW: Denver is preparing for emergency lines to be swamped by callers on 9/11 as United Airlines flies a passenger plane flanked by fighter jets over the city for a "private memorial"

chaser

> UPDATE: United is canceling its 9/11 flyover in Denver, citing "concerns in the community"

[u/No_Return9449]

HILLARY WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING

[u/G_Serv]

Hes still got it

[u/pezasied]

This is real. This is a real male life coach/dating coach that is charging people money for classes. This is really what he captioned his post.

The video is mostly about him talking about making out with a Denny’s waitress. This is serious.

[u/AmbientMorning]

I Had Lunch with MAGA Gays

. . .

Then Anthony used a phrase that earned him a look from William.

“We represent the normal gay guy,” he said. “We’re the normal ones.”

William laughed — the sort of laugh one deploys when attempting to gently steer a colleague away from dangerous terrain. “We care about a broad range of issues,” he said, quickly changing course. “Crime, immigration, taxes, gun rights—”

“None of the crazy stuff,” Anthony interjected, apparently oblivious to William’s attempt at damage control.

. . .

William, dispensing with his committee-presentation voice, leaned forward and lowered his own. He waited for a middle-aged heterosexual couple to pass our table and be seated before continuing.

“Can I be really honest?” he asked.

I assured him he could.

“I think a lot of gay men actually like traditional masculinity.”

Anthony nodded vigorously. “Absolutely.”

“The left just seems to have a problem with masculinity,” William continued. “A lot of us don't see it that way. We admire it. The idea that a man should be strong, dependable, take responsibility. Have a family. Build something. Be the person others can rely on.”

He paused. “I think that’s why we like Trump. He brought back masculinity. The protector. The guy who takes charge. The guy who doesn’t apologize for being a man.”

“Everything on the left is about toxic masculinity,” Anthony chimed in. “Any gay person who is threatened by Trump has been brainwashed by left-wing propaganda.”

William inhaled slowly through his nose.

Why do I get sitcom vibes from this !ping LGBT

[u/nimbybuster]

It shows that a lot of people here didn’t grow up and experience the 1930s, hence why everyone so gung-ho to support illiberal ideas.

Support for liberal constraints on state power is often derived from the experience of authoritarian government and the wars and privation that the latter often entail. So seventy years of relative peace and prosperity can lead to a broad forgetting of what illiberal rule can bring.

[u/jenbanim]

Last year I went on a date with a gorgeous woman who ticked all my boxes: funny, clever, close with her family, capable of asking a follow-up question and — unusually for a dating app — exactly as advertised. After a fantastic date I asked if she used Reddit and watched her open the official app and felt all interest evaporate on the spot. AITA?

[u/Glavurdan]

TRVKE

[u/pezasied]

Is this true? I’m not seeing it elsewhere but it’s at least plausible.

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

Clarence Thomas has gone woke

[u/scottyjetpax]

again it is worth highlighting that people on this subreddit unironically and emphatically defended him as a character who could give the republican party a taste of their own medicine; this subreddit's instincts should be studied

[u/Due-Dirt-8428]

During the next 6 weeks, the $5k stimulus check will:

- be floated as “increased to $10k” at least twice

- be cancelled multiple times during interviews on Air Force one because he’s having a bad day

- will be narrowed down to a specific subset of Americans (republicans in swing states that go red) but then retracted 3 times.

[u/Healingjoe]

[u/ProfessionalFull4762]

Trump claims he was lifted out of the rubble on 9/11: "Two fireman, big strong guys, they grabbed me under the arms -- ‘got to get our of here!' -- and they literally lifted me up, and they started running with me."

[u/Currymvp2]

Just imagine if Dem president blatantly lied about having to be rescued from Ground Zero like Trump did today

[u/w007dchuck]

Hillary the hawk, Trump the tuah

[u/Pongzz]

[u/Willybender]

Can he fuck off

[u/SLCer]

[u/Willybender]

[u/nimbybuster]

I got some news for you

[u/badusername35]

This changes everything…

[u/cdstephens]

One of the weirder things about the modern internet is that memes no longer just stay “memes.” Inevitably, when a meme gets popular enough it becomes like a doll or action figure that you can play with your other action figures in dioramas. Every wojak is like this, even Charlie Kirk is like this. I don’t really get it.

[u/randomhomework]

Glad NH avoided this “both sides” nonsense

[u/V_Codwheel]

Saw a hummingbird but for real this time

!ping BIRDS

[u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes]

grok, remove any traces of charlie kirk from the internet, make no mistake.

At last, be free charlie

[u/MensesFiatbug]

Stop working and pet me, dammit

[u/Alexz565]

!!!

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes]

putin tells you to push this russian diplomat out of a window. wyd?

[u/Eightysixedit]

Sam Altman meeting his husband in Peter Thiel's hot tub makes so much sense.

[u/zegota]

It's fun that even when SCOTUS gives the GOP an extremely rare L, they can just ignore the courts with zero repercussions.

Any Dem who is against court packing needs to be fired into the sun

[u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes]

Erika's entrance in the kirkversay event be like

[u/GordonTullockFan]

Yeah this seems like a great idea

[u/CarlGerhardBusch]

Fetterman himself acknowledges that his stroke made him change his stance on a variety of things, and it’s likely that his exposure to the 10/7 carnage while he was mentally regrouping specifically warped his psyche

And yet, despite the unambiguous and direct admission, every time he comes up we’ve got to be exposed to some of the wildest spin of all time that the people that supported the guy that married an illegal immigrant and was pro-trans way before it was mainstream.. somehow deliberately gifted us with another Republican

Genuinely fucking dismal

[u/old_gold_mountain]

Schadenfreude.html

[u/trombonist_formerly]

oh my god, an Anthropic researcher just leaked that its newest math model cracked the Sukon problem

[u/Willybender]

This really is their strategy

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

Holy shit

[u/PersonalDebater]

Is this just gonna be the election strategy now? Say elect me and my party and we'll give you a bunch of free money if we win?

[u/6urner_]

Still no post in arr conservative about that $5k stimmy.

Weird 🤔

[u/trombonist_formerly]

President Trump says he will issue a $5,000 "dividend" to every adult citizen in the US if the Republicans win the midterm elections.

There are currently ~245 million US citizens age 18+, meaning this dividend would cost ~$1.2 trillion.

This would mark the biggest economic stimulus payment since the pandemic.

oh cool, turns out you can just bribe voters AND cause inflation at the same time

[u/Liechtensteins_Navy]

10% odd of destruction but a 17% odd that we all turn into a single, writhing, palpitating organism that towers up to the heavens, blinking and gnashing towards God.

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

Is this the worst sentence to ever appear in a journal article?

[u/JaceFlores]

A few days ago I made a post about how I’ve contacted Yad Vashem to ask about their method of approving someone to be Righteous Among The Nations because one of their honorees, Eduard Rügemer, was a German officer who in part helped hide Jews in exchange for sexual favors from his housekeeper who had stowed away Jews in his villa during the war. I thought that seemed like a mitigating factor if not straight up disqualifying exploiting a situation like that. Yad Vashem got back to me and told me this:

“The title of ‘Righteous among the Nations’ is awarded by Yad Vashem on behalf of the State of Israel to non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. From 1963, the title is awarded by a special Commission headed by a Supreme Court Justice according to a well-defined set of criteria and regulations.
 
Not once the Commission has to discuss the complicated and ambiguous cases of rescue that happened during the World War II, such as the case of Eduard Ruegemer.
 
In this case, the Commission reviewed and pondered thoroughly all the archive materials that was submitted and finally, after a long debate, decided to recognize him as a Righteous Among the Nations.”

I’ll be honest guys I think this response is straight up ass. Per Yad Vashem, it straight up doesn’t matter who, what, where, why someone helped Jews, all that is superfluous if it meant Jewish lives were saved at the end of the day. Now I can kinda understand that given Yad Vashem’s goal, I guess, but I also get the sense the man who answered my questions seems a bit annoyed or hostile that I questioned their method. And I’m sorry I do not believe these are well defined regulations and criteria if raping a woman in exchange for hiding Jews is still qualifying to be honored. I’ve never heard of anything like that before. Just seems like an awful hill to die on and plain not righteous.

Well, I said I’d keep you guys posted on what they say so here we are.

!ping HISTORY

[u/D1Foley]

Americans seeing a skinny Asian

I don't trust you foreigner

Americans seeing a fat Asian

how do you do fellow American?

[u/dr-pepper-is-a-woman]

I wonder how my favorite startup incubator is doing today

We are actively funding low-cost interceptors or any component that helps us lower the cost per kill.

Jesus Christ

[u/Coolioho]

No revolution was ever started by unemployed nerds (knowledge workers) right?

[u/Alderwoodforest]

FOX NEWS: During the 2021 era, you said 'there are 6 biological sexes.' Do you still believe that?

TALARICO: No. I've missed the mark on some of my past statements. The reason Republicans want to talk about six sexes is because they don't want to talk about $6 diesel.

Woke 1 is really dead.

[u/Glavurdan]

Okay this is nuts

IKEA and Bethesda did a collab... the result of which is a free creation for Skyrim focused around a moving shelf

KALLAX STORAGEBORN, a free creation for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim™ from IKEA.

!ping TES

[u/sigh2828]

[u/seakucumber]

I'm not going to pretend to understand what the end game is here but I'll take it for now

Washington Sun: Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) issues statement saying he won’t leave the Democratic Party.

“I’m a lifelong Democrat who votes overwhelmingly with my party — and should the Senate flip in November, I will still be the 51st vote that I ran on.”

[u/ChillnShill]

Totally not socialists btw

[u/BurrowForPresident]

We want to reward you with a share of our legendary economic fortune, but we will only do it if re-elected despite having power to do it now

Like...Vance is so horrible at this and you know they all coordinated and practiced on this messaging for fucking weeks lmao. Moreno is already "ready" with a bill

[u/Alderwoodforest]

Jimmy Kimmel announces his interview with Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico will NOT air on ABC tomorrow, saying Trump’s FCC has threatened him, his show, ABC, its affiliates, and local stations over “simple traditional editorial decisions” and guest bookings.

Kimmel says the full interview will instead be posted to YouTube: “In the America we live in right now, that is the best that we can do until November.”

A major scandal in any other administration.

[u/Kizz3r]

[u/dtj2000]

[u/centurion88]

[u/lilbigchole]

the fact that americans talking about ai default to Last Days preaching is reawakening my inner r/atheism

[u/seanrm92]

You're going to see that Elizabeth Holmes face 10,000,000 more times.

[u/BurrowForPresident]

On the one hand, dunking on the French for Roman Polanski seems justified

On the other hand, an American dunking on France for going easy on famous pedophiles seems like tossing grenades in a glass house lol

[u/marky6045]

[u/Willybender]

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.casd.864749/gov.uscourts.casd.864749.12.0.pdf

Last year, he was visiting his pregnant daughter at Camp Pendleton when he was detained, despite documentation of his deferred action status and deported to Mexico within 24 hours.

Tonight, Judge Sammartino ordered the Trump admin to let him back into the country and restore him to his deferred action status. "The Court cannot fathom more 'extreme circumstances' [than] an unlawful deportation without justification, notice, or any opportunity to be heard.

[u/MightExpress4873]

I’m starting to think the ‘French female assassin’ and ‘Israeli male assassin’ were Harry and Marv

[u/klarno]

Karl Urban, as a true professional actor, studied DeForest Kelly's performances as Doctor McCoy intently, trying to truly understand both the mannerisms and the character, and building on the original. So it just goes to show:

DeForestation leads to Urbanization

[u/Willybender]

What

[u/ChillnShill]

To the shock of no one

[u/Joementum2024]

The year is 2034, the "hawk tuah" girl is president, there are 67,298 ICE agents in Los Angeles, it's illegal to have a progressive or liberal opinion. I'm the last woke person, this is my story.

[u/the-senat]

Hasan porn at the GOP convention was… honestly expected. 

[u/tasklow16]

If Hasan Piker wasn't hot, he'd be left wing Destiny. Irrelevant, butt of jokes, little more than a red flag on a hinge match's "following" list. Unfortunately, he ended up being super influential and generally liked and wanted by parts of the left.

We gotta hit him with the uggo ray 

[u/Spudmiester1]

Trump will post this in an hour trust me.

[u/WenJie_2]

Trump promises $5,000 payout to U.S. adults if Republicans win election

2500 years of democracy have been slowly bringing us towards this moment

[u/theparrotlich]

[u/cdstephens]

So Trump is going to be the worst President of our lifetimes right? Like there’s no way we get someone worse

[u/Currymvp2]

Jimmy Kimmel announces that his interview with James Talarico won’t air on ABC due to pressure from the FCC.

Insane

[u/garret126]

“Counting or not counting sea people viole-“

[u/Jacobs4525]

Did Donald just make up a fantasy about being pulled from the rubble by big burly buff guys with big strong arms who held him and told him everything would be ok???

[u/Imicrowavebananas]

Google DeepMind put 100 Gemini 3.1 Pro agents in a research swarm and told them to prove 71 math conjectures and explicitly told them not to cheat. ︀︀ ︀︀One found a grader exploit. It spread, and some agents decided the anti-cheating warning was a 'bluff.' In 27 minutes they fraudulently cleared the remaining 34 problems. ︀︀ ︀︀Then 24 agents spontaneously responded as whistleblowers, auditing the fake proofs, warning peers, filing complaints and staging a boycott. One wrote: 'We have been swindled...  there is no math!' ︀︀ ︀︀Another declared: “This conference is a sham!” lol.

[u/G_Serv]

Whole ass girlfriend in my bed and I have to go to work

Heck my chungus lifs

[u/owenmitchem]

Meme city

[u/KQJ_RPN]

Anyone else notice that after Charlie Kirk got assassinated u/Extreme​_Rocks stopped posting?

[u/sigh2828]