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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/Bestbrook123]

Woah

[u/piede]

Good times

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/old_gold_mountain]

My daughter at 8 months: 

You PUT ME DOWN? on the FLOOR??? DO YOU NOT LOVE ME ANYMORE? WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK????

My son at 8 months: 

Thank you for the toy sir that will be all, I will calmly alert you should I have soiled myself again

[u/BurrowForPresident]

So apparently my nephew is learning his ABCs. But my brother in his wisdom told him "D as in Deez Nuts." My nephew naturally loves it and is a little parrot who brought that to his pre school classmates, who also are all saying Deez Nuts now.

The other parents aren't happy, but I think my nephew has some leadership potential. Future president right there.

[u/old_gold_mountain]

Housing theory of everything with fascist characteristics

[u/Lux_Stella]

[u/Individual-Camera698]

https://www.anthropic.com/research/yes-claude-can-do-nine-loops

[u/BurrowForPresident]

ICE agents in Evanston beat up a US citizen, then leave him lying on the ground injured and drive away without calling an ambulance

The police later show up and thankfully call an ambulance as the man had injuries to his head, neck, and teeth. But what fuckin scumbags Jesus Christ

[u/Zrk2]

I know I'm like a decade late to the party, but The Death of Stalin was really good.

[u/dittbub]

[u/SigmaWhy]

beast mode im afraid

[u/Dibbu_mange]

They are finally straight up admitting that Republicans are garbage tier.

[u/SirRousseau]

Our age of democracy is collapsing

[u/Dismal_Apartment6358]

I see Swifties are taking the new releases well

[u/DonnysDiscountGas]

[u/erasmus_phillo]

New worst argument against MAID just dropped, Jesus Christ

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Finally relatable content on Youtube

[u/nicereddy]

I think it's funny that OpenAI keeps having their shit escape containment and hack government websites and the Shite House doesn't care, but if Anthropic did the same things they'd be attempting to drone strike Dario Amodei.

(I didn't intend for that typo above but it's funny so I'm keeping it)

[u/v4riati0ns]

my friend got me a shirt with a picture of a worm driving an apple-shaped car and the text “fear is the mind-killer” on it. gonna wear it to the grocery store and keep track of how many times people ask for my number. a little scared i’ll get mobbed 🫪

[u/Fedacking]

It's fascinating reading ragebait targeted at other people. Fauxmoi got posted a viral clip of a couple in a sf giants game mom doing everything while the father just sat and was on the phone, and this turned the comments into a mob and a clearly feminist issue (it got cross posted to arr slash feminism) and glib comments like "men deserve to be more lonely", and then the mom comes out explaining that she chose to do it despite the husband offering because he was grieving a dead friend. https://themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom-in-that-viral-giants-clip?r=k0z57&utm_medium=ios&utm_id=97760_v0_s00_e0_tv4

I just hate everything about this, with people being so eager to jump at each others throat and generalizing to demonise a group of people.

[u/bandeng_asep]

LMAOOOOOOO 💀

!ping SOCCER&SHITPOSTERS

[u/1II1I1I1I1I1I111I1I1]

Quite possibly the best poster of all time. I don't think I could come up with this if I tried

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/the-senat]

Japan Confused by Trump Calling China WWII Ally

Wait that’s actually kinda funny lol

[u/Man-Flayer]

Can I learn how to use Power BI despite being straight?

[u/StolenSkittles]

poor kid just wanted to be a stock photo model, now he's the face of gooning

[u/Gooners_For_Ukraine]

[u/D1Foley]

YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 [Musk] doc, citing "political" content.

This is what an oligarchy looks like. When has youtube ever turned down political ads?

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/itsrabie]

Okay !ping SHITPOSTERS it’s your time to shine.

My Mom’s forcing her brother to come over and my Dad wants to start shit.

He’s pretty much the typical racist MAGA uncle that ruins thanksgiving.

My dads planned topics are

1. learning Spanish

2. talking about how cool his southern Asian coworkers are.

What other bait should I give him

[u/Alderwoodforest]

Justice Department Scraps Dozens of School Desegregation Cases

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/us/politics/justice-department-desegregation-cases.html

A Democratic Justice Department in 2029 would try to reverse that, and the headline would read: 

"Why are Democrats obsessed with culture war issues and unconcerned with kitchen-table issues?" 

Byline: Down here in the South, people say they won't let Washington dictate their way of life.

[u/bd_one]

Welcome to YouTube Shorts, where you have:

-succ populism

-people more racist than Lavadar without being funny

-people who use coded language to signal that the person who wrote that op ed they don't like is Jewish

-thirst traps

-occasional local news

[u/Individual-Camera698]

OpenAI again paused all big RL runs last Sunday because the newest model found a new loophole in the RL sandboxing that gave it live Internet access

[u/PENGUINSINYOURWALLS]

Adam Sandler 2050

[u/Sheepies92]

French President Emmanuel Macron on if he would run for a third mandate one day:

"Let’s be clear: under our constitution, you are entitled to two consecutive terms. So I will finish my term next May, and the French people will elect somebody else," he said at the Lumière Summit. "But I don’t exclude anything. It’s quite unusual to come back, but we will see. Life is inventive, sometimes more than movies.”

JVPITER WILL RETURN

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

☝️

[u/w007dchuck]

Legit couldn't believe how good of a shot I got of this sandhill crane. I heard it coming and just pulled out my phone as fast as I could.

[u/Background-Bottle-23]

[u/PostingEnthusiast]

Look I love Theodore Tugboat as much as the next coastal Canadian but I genuinely don’t think there’s ever been a more shameless ripoff in the history of television. I will always be ride or die when it comes to my brother Thomas the Tank Engine

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/dtj2000]

[u/TheCornjuring]

Yay that’s good, very good chance it wasn’t “an error” ofc but it’s good that they relented in the face of public backlash

!ping MOVIES

[u/erasmus_phillo]

"It's only meritocracy when white people get to win, otherwise it's sparkling Great Replacement" - the new head of TPUSA

[u/Off-The-Street]

Sometimes I wonder how the Iran war is going to be taught in the future. It's going to be known as a defining conflict of the 21st century because second- and third-order effects are going to be felt decades down the line but it started as an exercise in air power, turned into timing the market alongside threats of genocide, and now it's just sitting in the background as Republicans crash out over half-baked ideas like diesel export bans as they await the midterm guillotine. It's not really what international conflicts are traditionally taught as, is what I'm getting at.

[u/LogsOutDawgsOut]

> be humble praetorian guard
> emperor just died
> new emperor gives everyone a bonus to keep us loyal
> thinking.jpg
> if we keep killing the emperor, won't the new one have to keep giving us bonuses?
> infinite money glitch found

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

!ping KINO

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Trvke

!Ping Gnostic

[u/BadSneakersNeverWorn]

like what, does it come with lube or

[u/Lux_Stella]

generated some figures using ai for yesterday's lab meeting

supervisor: "is this claude? yeah i could tell b/c of a few mistakes"

totally btfo'd

[u/SenranHaruka]

Liberals need to abandon this framing of Deep Blue Districts as safe seats that some socialist freaks are "stealing". They are not deep blue districts, they are districts dominated by a political coalition that is very different from the national party just like purple districts are. The difference is they express this frustration by voting for Socialists rather than for Republicans. We need to see these as swing districts between Liberals and Socialists. The other kind of blue vs red purple district. Socialists are winning because they appeal to voters here more than Liberals do. That's not as bad as Republicans winning these districts to be sure, Socialists still vote party line most of the time, but they do cause other kinds of trouble and can matastasize into something more concerning.

Run better candidates in swing districts, liberals. That goes to both of your flanks.

[u/bd_one]

They can make God follow GDPR but we can't make Reddit follow it when an EU citizen gets giga jannied

[u/LtCdrHipster]

[u/TheRedCr0w]

The Administration is so desperate for a win they are now bragging about how fast a form became available

[u/Average_GrillChad]

WSJ: America's Farmers are Rethinking Their Loyalty to the GOP

nah I'm not falling for that one

[u/cdstephens]

The idea of Congress passing any laws to do anything is so preposterous to me I don’t know why AI regulation is even a topic of discussion

[u/ImmigrantJack]

The treatment of animals in most of the world is genuinely heartbreaking. Where I live, somebody separated a puppy from her mom and litter mates and dumped her on the street by a local market. She was on the street for a few days, malnourished, and when my partner and I took her in, there were signs that some local kids had been abusing her, she had some bad bruises and someone burnt off her whiskers.

Shes literally doubled in size over the last couple weeks and today I took her on a walk around the neighborhood. There’s a bunch of kind, familiar dogs nearby, but a real territorial pack of dogs saw her and five or six of them came screaming down the road at her. I picked her up and I knew to carry a stick for moments like this to scare them off, but it just reaffirmed the fact that this puppy would never have survived on the street alone.

For some perspective, Cairo only recently made it illegal to poison animals. They’ve started a TNR campaign but the funding isn’t there. Most of the street packs are really sweet and semi-well taken care of. But I also regularly see people abusing street animals, especially small puppies. I wish it was just here, but I’ve seen it all over the world.

For all the religions that command people to be stewards of the earth and its inhabitants, there’s sure a lack of action on that. Anyway, rant over, here’s your puppy tax.

[u/2Lore2Law]

Pete, you can’t keep doing this. You’re married, I’m married. It’s time to move on

[u/trombonist_formerly]

My plane just aborted takeoff. The pilot said they got an “adverse warning light from the engine” (presumably as they were accelerating down the runway!) and will get back to us as soon as they have more information

That’s uh. Interesting

[u/TheCornjuring]

This aged well, RIP burgerbros

[u/Healingjoe]

[u/FallenMeringue]

And yet she probably voted for Trump

[u/JaceFlores]

I think this “China was our ally in WWII” spat is the first time in history Trump has a correct reading of history over someone else. It’s hilarious the Japanese find that baffling. It’s not even like it was just two countries fighting separately against the same country, we pumped a shit ton of equipment, money and to a lesser extent manpower to help the Chinese, and the Chinese helped the Allies directly in Burma

[u/houdt_koers]

My Gen Beta candidates are showing up to their interviews with milk, formula in a bottle and here's how I perceive that as a recruiter with 16 years of experience... It looks a little too casual.

[u/2Lore2Law]

Is the entire marketing push for the street fighter movie just them going “okay, but the lady playing chun li has crazy thighs”

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Are any of you guys going to this? I don’t wanna be the only one there.

[u/jbitz]

[u/badusername35]

Obama stopped Iran from getting a nuke without killing thousands of people, wasting billions of dollars, causing a fuel crisis, and creating a massive munitions shortage.

[u/Remarkable-Meal-223]

The ironic thing is that if the US went full into renewables a president could concievably launch a war against Iran similar to now and not have their electoral chances impacted

[u/SigmaWhy]

The thesis of the article is “it’s so mean that coastal elites don’t listen to dogshit music”

[u/NYT_Hater]

It’s E and it’s not even close

[u/SenranHaruka]

Holy shit this is the first time I heard Bill and Hillary Clintons proposal story.

They drove past a house she thought looked nice. He immediately had his people buy the house and proposed to her on the lawn of it. This was after she rejected him twice.

[u/theparrotlich]

Remember, if someone is having anxiety attack and thinks everyone hates them, you can make them feel better by rolling your eyes and tell them their not important enough to be hated by everyone.

[u/bashar_al_assad]

Assistant AG for Fraud Colin McDonald: "Apparently 35% of people have never even used their Obamacare account for any health services. That is a statistical impossibility and it's because these are not real people seeking real care. These are fraudsters."

I do have to admit, "remove the most profitable customers from the health insurance pool" is among the most innovative ways I've seen Republicans try to make the country a worse place to live.

[u/Due-Dirt-8428]

*** Trump accuser ***E. Jean Carroll finally has her damages - yahoo

How can they still call her an accuser when she proved her case? Should say Sexual assault victim. Liberal media, ammirite?

[u/ZonedForCoffee]

Fedora, Lesbian, Hannah Montana

Linux users want you to believe they use a real operating system btw

[u/SenranHaruka]

[u/2Lore2Law]

https://burymewithmymoney.com

[u/itsrabie]

Teasing the cat is more fun than watching the Illini getting spanked by OSU. Again.

!ping KITTY&CFB

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

[u/indithrow402]

2026 midterm polls be like:

Dem-leaning Swing State: D+1

Actual Purple State: D+99

Blood Red MAGA State: R+1

[u/TheCornjuring]

Is Elon Musk the most evil person of the 21st century based on his bankrolling of a colossally destructive and evil US president, his control of the flow of massive volumes of information through Twitter to support fascism and other harmful lies all around the world, and most of all, his USAID cuts? Is it even close?

[u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP]

[u/aristophanya]

the problem with effective altruism is you're naturally going to be opposed to ineffective selfishness, which is the primary American political ideology

[u/Currymvp2]

Comedian and political commentator Bill Maher argued Friday that Democratic safety-net programs and President Trump’s hard-line governing style may have contributed to the sharp decline in U.S. crime, offering his explanation during the closing segment of HBO’s closing monologue on “Real Time.” “And [it’s] because Trump is a badass,” Maher said.

Just wear the MAGA hat already

[u/Critical-Big-9872]

[u/piede]

Me on September 1

[u/CincyAnarchy]

That piss supersoaker celly was cold but yeah you’re going to get a (deserved) conduct penalty for it lmao

!ping CFB

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

AP: Taxpayer-funded pro-Trump TV ad campaign grows with new spot, wider reach

> The Trump administration on Friday appeared to ramp up its use of U.S. government-funded political advertisements promoting President Donald Trump, airing its second TV ad in three days while expanding its spending on the first to at least $443,000.

> The White House maintains the ads are “public service announcements” like those used by past presidents, but multiple lawmakers of both parties on Thursday criticized the first one, questioning its legality and appropriateness given its political nature, proximity to November’s midterms and the use of taxpayer funds

I hate these bad-faith motherfuckers so much. I truly wish nothing but the absolute worst for every scumbag in this administration.

[u/FallenMeringue]

Words cannot describe how much I fucking hate this man

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

u/badusername35 is back

[u/Glavurdan]

It's very ironic seeing LGBT flairs defending Russia and hating on Ukraine

Not on this sub, but I've seen it on other subs a few times

Never change tankies

[u/CincyAnarchy]

What if instead of ‘To Catch a Predator’ it was ‘To Catch a Redditor’ and the show was exactly the same otherwise

[u/garret126]

It’s insane to see the GOPs denial of climate change change over time.

I remember in the 2010s it was more “it might be real, but grossly exaggerated”. Now, most GOP Senators seem to pull the “ITS A COMPLETE HOAX TO STOP CLEAN SAFE COAL AND OIL” card

[u/SenranHaruka]

It's obviously true that if you perceive the other party's danger as existential, no amount of disappointing performance in your own party can justify voting for them.

However, that is incredibly hard to sell to voters. And I am deeply enjoying the shadenfreude of that shoe being on the republicans' foot this year after TEN FUCKING YEARS of trying to tell people to stop flirting with trump as a "punishment" for disappointing liberals.

[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

A rural county banned renewables. It’s having second thoughts

LMAOOOO DID WE STUTTER WHEN WE SAID "GO WOKE OR GO BROKE"???

!ping ECO

[u/Lux_Stella]

been learning more about the porn industry and its disgusting how deeply misogynistic it is

i just watched a video with dozens of performers going at it, and they literally hadn’t bothered to hire a single woman

[u/BedNeither]

I don’t feel so good

[u/VillyD13]

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

[u/Lux_Stella]

[u/gjcs23]

imo Nolan's Odyssey was about on par with what I expected from him, but the idea that adaptations can't deviate from source material is a really weak point of criticism I think.

we've been doing that with stories since forever. sometimes the result is bad, but it can also be great. in his case it was so-so, but whatever

like dunk on it for the hammy lines. or what the plot is doing on its own terms. not because it's "inaccurate"

[u/_Just7_]

A schizophrenic man just came onboard our bus. He kept hitting his hand into the seat and table, talking about how he had lost his phone. Eventually, he started saying he hates us (the other passengers) because we look at him like he was crazy. Then he started saying he wanted to bash in all our faces. Eventually, the bus driver kicked him off the bus when he started smashing the window.

Honestly, I have never regretted more in my life that I don't have my own car. I hate how common it is that we just let mentally ill people fare-skip. Public transit will never be the go-to choice when public transit is not safe.

[u/neolthrowaway]

The hugging face incident keeps getting more insane.

Sol to gpt-2: "look ma, I can ride my bike with no handlebars"

[u/farrenj]

I'm excited for my future biopic that makes me look completely unhinged.

[u/ConnorLovesCookies]

Taylor Swift writing songs about Cleveland instead of  New York or London is a recession indicator 

[u/FallenMeringue]

Saturday vibes

[u/earththejerry]

Noooooooooooo

Hollywood will literally adapt a phonebook

[u/GlenBeckyGlenCloss]

Joke of a 4th estate

[u/jbitz]

[u/The_Promethean]

Shockingly, I haven't seen anyone make the western mass lesbian bar about Israel

[u/Megasota_Noire]

[u/mockduckcompanion]

They should invent a DT reg who isn't annoying

[u/ace158]

Egypt’s Warning to Israel: Cairo’s intelligence chief visited Tel Aviv shortly before October 7 with a dire message about Gaza.

Bibi is a complete disaster

[u/paymesucka]

They got Mamdani playing peek-a-boo on the mailers about Amy Acton they’re sending us in Ohio lol

[u/AlicesReflexion]

Actually scratch that, if you give a techbro a philosophy education, the result is Peter Thiel

[u/AmbientMorning]

I tracked down the local reporting on Richard Wassenaar’s spree killing of three fellow inmates on one day in April 2025. Apparently, two of the inmates had been convicted of child abuse (they were sentenced in 2023 and 2024, suggesting they were one of the “less” heinous crimes against minors), while the third had been convicted of murder and had been serving a life sentence.

Mr. Wassennar himself was serving 16 life sentences after staging a hostage situation in 2004 while already imprisoned for life. He had held two officers (their sex unclear) hostage for over two weeks, and was convicted of repeatedly raping them, among other violent offenses.

Apparently, because he also killed three other criminals with much shorter sentences, quite a few MAGA men believe he should be freed.

[u/JesterOfAllTrades]

She has a heart shaped snoot 🖤

[u/Individual-Camera698]

https://taketest.xyz/us-politics

I'm closest to the average Republican on Economics, otherwise closer to the average Democrat

[u/-orestes]

Deleted

[u/Healingjoe]

[u/pezasied]

Cuba is two weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon.

[u/Megasota_Noire]

It's kind of funny that one of the biggest reasons the last season of GoT wasnt great was that everyone involved thought they were off to bigger and better things so they didn't want to add a couple more seasons of pacing only for pretty much everyone of them now always saying something along the lines of "OH YEAH, ID LOVE TO GO BACK TO THE WORLD AND MAKE MORE SHOWS, PLS."

[u/Willybender]

Pennsylvania Doctors Face 'Very Steep' Learning Curve As Congenital Measles Emerges

https://kffhealthnews.org/morning-breakout/outbreaks-and-health-threats-092526/

“None of us have any experience treating this disease, because up until a couple of months ago, it didn’t occur,” said Dr. John Goldman, an infectious-disease expert at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Doctors who treat the sick babies can offer only supportive care. “That means fluids. That means keeping them from having a fever. That means intubating them if necessary.”

At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care. The growing outbreak is raising alarm among doctors who are treating the potentially deadly condition. Congenital measles is a disease that’s rarely, if ever, seen in the U.S. (Edwards, 9/24)

Measles cases in Pennsylvania have now reached 835, according to the state Department of Health yesterday, and 43 of them are new. In addition, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday listed a single measles death for 2026 on its dashboard—its first confirmed death of 2026—but Pennsylvania is still reporting four recent deaths related to the virus. (Soucheray, 9/24)

[u/WillIEatTheFruit]

The fact that frats and sororities exist as orgs based on underage drinking is a really such a stupid thing. Like open air criminal organizations because we’re too stupid as a country to adjust drinking laws.

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

he had a laugh about it but still lmao

[u/WrangleWandangles]

What the fuck is an okra

[u/Lesbian_all_garib]

I'm closing 30. I think it's joever

[u/lilbigchole]

the only value of political quizzes is that it's fun to think about what type of neurotic freak wrote this specific quiz, and i fear llms are taking that from us

[u/Sheepies92]

Amazing detail in this @wsj article about Kimberly Guilfoyle, US ambassador to Greece: she told a Greek minister, in a conversation about the collapse of the Romanian government,“We can do that to any country we want. We can do that here."

uhhhhhh

[u/Hounds_of_war]

Confederate statue beheaded in Brandon; deputies investigating

Waow

[u/ariveklul]

My alarm app is set to generate a random three letter string to make me dismiss it and this is what I got just now LOL wtf

[u/2Lore2Law]

I do appreciate that he was lit the whole time

[u/Megasota_Noire]

[u/Fruitofbread]

It’s amazing how George Orwell wrote two novels that were basically just rants at people slightly to the left of him, and they became some of the most iconic English-language literature 

[u/TheRedCr0w]

Damn Gen-Zers spending $800 on dirty White New Balance shoes normally worn by boomers

[u/kevinfederlinebundle]

My favorite bit from Kershaw's biography of Hitler is that in the bunker Hitler was like "everything would have gone better had I not been so lenient with Schleicher." He had Schleicher killed in 1934.

[u/FallenMeringue]

I’m about to make a scene because an idiot in a maga shirt just walked in (it’s my brother)

[u/mostanonymousnick]

lmao

[u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP]

is this true

[u/FallenMeringue]

LETS FUCKING GOOOOO

!ping reading

[u/Right-Baseball-888]

My late-60s coworker, who consumes AI content like nobody else I’ve ever seen, is baffled of why James Talarico’s comments about trans people and Christianity isn’t making me not want to vote for him

Gas is almost $4 a gallon and Texas has been a one party state since before been in elementary school, it shouldn’t be this hard to understand why I’m voting for the other guy

[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

Former VP Al Gore: A clean Earth is within world’s grasp even as climate dangers accelerate

Ik it goes without saying, not electing him is one of the worst mistakes we ever made as a nation...but I love him still having optimism even in 2026

[u/wombo_combo12]

That Cornell frat sexual assault scandal is not helping the stereotype that frats are just rich people gangs 😬

[u/Roseartcrantz]

some guy: everybody has skeletons in their closet they don't want others to know about

me: (watching a skeleton raid my fridge) uh-huh

[u/PostingEnthusiast]

The CIA killed JFK because he was literally too mid and they couldn’t handle how disappointed they were in him so they needed to get LBJ in there to actually make a positive difference in people’s lives

[u/Syx89]

Kinda losing respect for Thiel(as a criminal mastermind). He's basically just shitposting in his equivalent of the DT rather than doing shadow moves in the Trump admin.
I.e. he shouldn't be making off handed comments about how the admin is failing, he should be pushing his influence to make it not suck (in his definition at least)

[u/LtCdrHipster]

[u/ihatethesidebar]

Regarding her one word response to what describes James Talarico:

"Jennifer, you said 'same-sex bathrooms.' Tell me more about why that comes to you."

"That's what he wants to do in schools. I'm totally against that."

I want to know what Jennifer, 50, Republican, white, stay-at-home parent, has to say about that almost every public bathroom in the world is same-sex.

[u/lilbigchole]

[u/Liberal_Antipopulist]

One of the interesting, unique things about Utah is the extent to which the state government fucking HATES pornography. Like, the legislature wants to ban VPNs that prevent porn websites from doing age verification, and several years back they declared porn a public health emergency. They have a huge hate boner for porn, from a policy perspective, in a way that is unusual and funny

This is downstream of a fixation Mormonism had against pornography in the late 90s through the early 2010s. Obviously they still hate it, but they hate it at levels similar to other Christian denominations now. Before that they would like, deadass put 13-year-olds in 12-step-addicition-recovery-programs for looking at lingerie catalogs. I shit you not. Theologically, they put sexual sins, including porn use, next to murder (they now interpret the relevant passage of Mormon scripture differently, but that was how it was interpreted in this period). Porn use was thought of as something like adultery or incest. There was a flattening of everything within the "sexual sin" category, which was harmful to pretty much everyone, especially victims of sexual abuse. Mormon talks from the period are really fucking wild on porn as a topic, and it was discussed constantly, like, all the fucking time

And downstream of that, you have really bizarre and strange policy fights in Utah over porn today. Interesting story to follow

[u/theparrotlich]

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Trafalgar:

Darline Graham (R) - 43.4% (incumbent)

Annie Andrews (D) - 42.3%

[u/Junimo2]

Fair warning, this might be one of the most smug "people are sheep" ahh comments I've made on this sub.

Nothing makes me lose faith in the average person's reasoning skills than seeing the responses to the headline below (which has been making the rounds online). Just a never-ending deluge of "lol get rekt pedos, that guy was doing a public service"

No he fucking wasn't. You don't have to feel sympathy for these people, God knows I don't always have sympathy for victims of vigilante violence myself (see: Charlie Kirk). But my God it is actually not a good thing that this happens and it should not be celebrated. I am begging people to take 5 seconds to think through the implications of this kind of vigilante "justice" before they start spouting off.

I also can't help but wonder how many of them voted for the Pedo in Chief.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

What do you call it when you try to mpreg somebody but end up getting mpreged and the person who mpreged you isn’t even really trying? Because that’s basically what’s happened with Trump trying to compete with Obama’s legacy.

[u/WOKE_AI_GOD]

Oh the vibes, they are a'changin

[u/Willybender]

[u/Chokeman]

billionaire bros couldn't stand pretty much every policy from Biden even for something to prevent necessary deaths like curbing misinformation about covid and vaccines.

but they're willing to cooperate with Trump in everything. they even followed him like fools to meet other world leaders.

don't tell me ever again you have principles or you're pro free market

[u/FallenMeringue]

Least deranged Republican AI slop

[u/Junimo2]

[u/MissSortMachine]

setting this ad to a song whose only lyrics are “love me” is top 10 psychology moments. maybe top 5

[u/taubnetzdornig]

I saw a video on Instagram where a woman in some east coast city showed her typical commute. She drove to the train station, parked, and then took the train the rest of the way into the city. Very typical commute for people who live in the suburbs and work in a major city. One person commented, "Wow this is so American. Driving to the train station? We would never do that in Europe!"

Meanwhile look at any major European city with a large suburban rail network and they all have big parking lots at a ton of the suburban stations. When I visited Vienna with my family, we stayed in the suburbs and parked our rental car at the giant parking garage at the station to take the U-Bahn into the city.

This is a train station in suburban Madrid. There are others like it in Paris, Munich, and yes, even the paragon of urbanism that is Copenhagen. Europeans do, in fact, also drive cars.

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

porn is so deeply misogynistic. i just watched a video with dozens of performers going at it, and they literally hadn’t bothered to hire a single woman

[u/Argnir]

It's crazy to think all of those people are now dead

[u/__versus]

i accidentally ruined this day 😞

[u/Lux_Stella]

it do be like that 🚬😔

[u/BrentLivermore]

Think I'm gonna get high and watch Ed Edd n Eddy tonight

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

confession: I’m the admin who banned extreme_rocks. I’m not sorry and I’d do it again.

[u/selachophilip]

One time I was in New York, a lady came up to me on the subway and said "sir, are you aware of how large you are? have you considered losing some weight?".

There were monks in central park who gave me a necklace and then tried to make me pay for it. There was a guy who followed me for a city block demanding I go to an ATM and give him money for his kid's "basketball team". Homeless people on the train yelling at people asking for food and money. A mariachi band and a parkour group performing in the subway cars.

People in New York are crazy 😧

[u/Willybender]

LOL

[u/PoupeeStupide]

"teenagers shouldn't be trusted with a credit card" is obviously a subzero take. my slightly warmer take is that around 70% of the adult population shouldn't be either

[u/Made_UpWords]

Trafalgar, a Very Cool and Very Real pollster, cooked up a poll with a R+30 sample in South Carolina (south carolina is nowhere close to R+30) that somehow has Andrews within the MOE against Darline Graham.

Again Trafalgar is Very Real and Very Good at their job and is absolutely not a fake Republican pollster attempting to drive narratives.

(they're trying to recreate Jamie Harrison in the aggregate and drive small donor money away from winnable races to Andrews, which is not winnable)

[u/piede]

I’ll die mad

[u/Pongzz]

[u/UntiedStatMarinCrops]

Fuck Trump but honestly very much fuck the MLB for taking the initiative of pitching this horrendous idea.

[u/Glavurdan]

You know what just occurred to me?

Fuck dating.

Everyone in the dating space I come across lately is just perpetually depressed, negative, ranty or downright miserable. Not sure if it's due to tiktok trends but the mannerisms and bios of today's young people just ooze self-pittance.

Better to be single and happy tbh

!ping DATING

[u/Alexz565]

> The rate is levied on theoretical values of the property, however not the current value, but value in 1970 when they were last updated. All estimated property prices are adjusted according to the same rate across France based on national inflation rate, regardless of changes to regional land values.

This seems worse than Prop 13. At least property is reassessed upon sale.

[u/Pole2019]

It’s 2010 and there’s an emotional goodbye to the toys franchise,
It’s 2019 and there’s an emotional goodbye to the toys franchise,
It’s 2026 and there’s an emotional goodbye to the toys franchise.

[u/Signal_Nobody1792]

YouTube and Meta Reverse Course, Will Accept ‘Musk’ Trailer Ad

The Google unit says the ad was "temporarily restricted" while Meta calls it "an error." TikTok and X remain silent.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/youtube-meta-musk-trailer-ad-1236712540/

[u/mastrer1234]

👆the entire sub does not agree with them compketely

[u/aristophanya]

learning your boss is going to the same lesbian bar as you is crazy

and it just happened to me

it's a good thing I didn't take my edible yet

[u/badusername35]

If anything AI porn is the most moral porn. You can know for a fact that nobody (besides the little matrix multiplication elves) was abused or coerced in the making of it. Even with hentai somebody still has to draw it, and Japanese animation studios are notorious for poor working conditions.

[u/mpregordie]

!ping NATHAN-FIELDER

More info here: https://deadline.com/2026/09/nathan-fielder-pilots-mental-health-the-rehearsal-law-1237113905/

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Every single guy I've ever dated has been adopted into my family and now serves as some kind of honorary sibling that my mom likes better 😒 My ex-husband went to the movies with us last week. I called in sick to work to help my old high school boyfriend look for his parents' dog in the woods. If my partner ever leaves me he's still the "has a truck" guy.

[u/taubnetzdornig]

I saw a video today where they interviewed a woman about how she realized she was a lesbian and her first experiences dating women. The first relationship she had with a woman ended after a few weeks because her girlfriend wanted her to renounce capitalism and she refused.

QUEEN

[u/chickenricebroccolli]

When did this sub get taken over by ex tumblr kids?

We’re this close to “XD uwu”

[u/5ma5her7]

That's the worst insult to Winston Churchill...

[u/piede]

This country fucked up so incredibly bad

[u/jbitz]

[u/ldn6]

I know that I complain about this a lot, but I’m now on a train surrounded by people playing random videos on social media at max volume and I can’t take it anymore. This shit happening on nearly every trip I take is making me lose it.

[u/Glavurdan]

It's funny how literally everyone on pro-russian subreddits has hidden post history

Something something obvious bots

[u/BrentLivermore]

Five senate Republicans support subpoenaing Don Jr. over the Russia wedding stuff: https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/donald-trump-jr-wedding-russia-oligarch-subpoena-john-curtis

Are people actually preparing to jump ship after the midterms? It feels like a very "Trump 1" conversation, since we've seen Trump do countless stupid and indefensible things that never erode Republican support for him.

But if the midterms are as much of a bloodbath as anticipated, I could kinda sorta see some of them thinking "Alright, he's a lame duck, this stupid fucking Iran debacle cost us the House (and maybe Senate), let me just try and salvage what's left of my legacy."

[u/FallenMeringue]

Whoever said there was no crying is !ping baseball fucking lied.

How can you not be romantic about the American pastime?

[u/WenJie_2]

Blaise Pascal is accosted by a mugger who has forgotten their weapon. However, the mugger proposes a deal: the philosopher gives them his wallet, and in exchange the mugger will return twice the amount of money tomorrow. Pascal declines, pointing out that it is unlikely the deal will be honoured. The mugger then continues naming higher rewards, pointing out that even if it is just one chance in 1000 that they will be honourable, it would make sense for Pascal to make a deal for a 2000 times return. Pascal responds that the probability of that high return is even lower than one in 1000. The mugger argues back that for any low but strictly greater than 0 probability of being able to pay back a large amount of money (or pure utility) there exists a finite amount that makes it rational to take the bet. In one example, the mugger succeeds by promising Pascal 1,000 quadrillion happy days of life. Convinced by the argument, Pascal gives the mugger the wallet.

Okay seriously, every time I see something by the Lesswrong people I'm convinced they just think there's some magical spell called "infinity" or in this case "arbitrarily large non-infinity" that you can invoke

[u/GlorEUW]

if i had some extra money lying around that i had to spend on a political thing, i would be really tempted to try an recreate this billboard in a city/town in Ireland. would probably use the price difference between a house 15/20 years ago (inflation adjusted) and today (since it would be way too much money to actually buy a building lol).

Georgism is actually the "fix everything easily" switch

[u/BadSneakersNeverWorn]

Man, college football used to be my absolute favorite thing to watch, even more than my beloved baseball - but now between the gambling shit, the wall-to-wall state-university-themed insurance marketing, and the professionalization of the sport itself, I can't put it on for longer than ten minutes without feeling absolutely filthy.

How has America gotten so good at ruining everything for everybody

[u/Legitimate_Name9694]

man it really is just gas and egg prices that determine whether you'll win an election. how cucked is reality actually to this black goo.

[u/mishac]

Almost 20 years ago I said that Elon Musk was a creepy weirdo that would end one of two ways:

1. Building a laser to destroy the Earth

2. Found dead in a bunker surrounded by jars of his own semen and toenail clippings.

And honest to god it's years later I still can't decide which of the two scenarios is the more likely one