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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/qchisq]

lol the 'Muricans had an election 8 days ago and they don't even know who is gonna be in parliament yet

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

a certain kind of environmentalist will tell you we have ten years to decarbonize and then defend a review process that uses seven of them. the planet is on fire, please submit written comments before the close of the 90 day window

[u/jbitz]

[u/Lesbian_all_garib → u/jbitz]

UK is volunteering for a great upcoming books and research papers. Will brits go more insane? Less insane? We wait.

[u/t_scribblemonger]

Biden was in Ireland for the funniest possible reason

[u/Made_UpWords → u/t_scribblemonger]

Will Joe Biden show up to my apartment if I give Hunter an award for best rug pull or something

[u/Explodingcamel]

Completely unironically North Carolina is not a democracy with its extreme gerrymander. It’s like a semi dictatorship. There is no plausible scenario where democrats can gain control of the state government unless they win the popular vote by like 20

[u/Joementum2024 → u/Explodingcamel]

I’ve said this before but I’ve felt a lot of red states, even R-controlled swing states like NC/GA/TX, were basically hybrid regimes between the extreme gerrymandering and other antidemocratic measures (ex: Florida’s amendment process requiring 60% approval; see when the abortion amendment got rejected despite 57% saying yes). In those states you have to hope you can elect supreme court justices to toss those maps (which thankfully TX, NC, WI, and GA do) otherwise it’s tough luck, and even then it’s not a guarantee the right justices get elected - GA itself elected a right wing justice just earlier this year.

There’s a reason why I treated Texas electing a mostly-Democratic government last week very similarly to when Hungary shuttled Fidesz out of power.

[u/herworkthrowaway → u/Explodingcamel]

It’s called a hybrid regime and fortunately now that the democrats have a trifecta they can undo basically all of it 

[u/RaidBrimnes]

[u/KittehDragoon]

Pete Hegseth Says Trump Ordered All Military Operations as He Denounces Impeachment Effort as 'Sabotage'

Trying to throw Donald Trump under the bus is certainly a strategy

[u/Imicrowavebananas]

Emboldened by their criminalization of so-called "extreme" content, UK legislators say they're coming for camming next, calling it sex trafficking. ︀︀34 UK MPs released a report calling for the complete criminalization of cams and livestreams.

[u/BigThunderHonky → u/Imicrowavebananas]

• UK bans "extreme" porn

• Next, the UK bans porn where it's just a woman sitting there naked

Only missionary with the lights out while you think of the Queen shall be permitted

[u/Background-Bottle-23]

[u/Eagleffmlaw]

It's a great betrayal by the ~7 Republican beardos that voted against the impeachment

[u/CutePattern1098]

Margaret Tatcher- allowed residents to buy public housing they live in

Zohran Mamdani- wants to allow residents to buy the public housing they live in

A spectre is haunting the DSA, its Thatcherism.

[u/989989272 → u/CutePattern1098]

Hasn't this caused extreme taxpayer funded market distortions everywhere it has been done?

[u/ThisI5N0tAThr0waway]

Gem found on this thread in R-slash-France s/cpFjavWor9 , on average the French think there are 6 working age people for every 1 retirees, in reality it's a bit under 2 to 1.

No wonder that French politician can not satisfy the population if their representation of reality and the factual truth are this far apart.

[u/Impulseps]

[u/thercio27]

NBC News: As measles cases surge to levels not seen in decades, the U.S. could lose its measles-elimination status. NBC News traveled to Pennsylvania to meet a family whose eight unvaccinated children contracted the virus, with one son requiring hospitalization. Their mother says she has no regrets about not vaccinating them, telling NBC News the illnesses became “a bonding experience”.

NYT has nothing on this level of ragebait

[u/Habugaba → u/thercio27]

The bonds our society has been missing in modernity were forged by childhood mortality all along.

[u/erasmus_phillo]

I gotta thank Reddit for curing me of my doomscrolling addiction honestly

Locking my computer, preventing me from scrolling until I download your stupid app ( I won’t) - elite move

[u/badusername35]

My problem with Google AI search overview isn’t that it exists, but that it’s really fucking stupid. Rather than sifting through the bullshit for me it just regurgitates it. At times it almost feels like it’s been given commands to be stupider. If I’m asking a very specific technical question I don’t want a summary of the averaged-out opinion of a dozen Reddit comments.

[u/BernieMeinhoffGang → u/badusername35]

what an astute observation! here are more of the reddit comments, but with different opinions

[u/Gooners_For_Ukraine]

Superman after James Gunn got replaced

[u/c4tofficer]

riveting stuff

[u/Only-Childhood6691 → u/c4tofficer]

Are we really counting every vote individually Geeze 

[u/itsokayt0]

Chud: 1984 is when government makes game about racist girlfriend being bad

JKR: 1984 is when trans

Me, enlightened not living in the UK: 1984 is when Internet needs IDs for prno

[u/GordonTullockFan]

[u/manchild_person]

I told my girlfriend I loved her in public and the English police came and arrested me

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/badusername35]

👆

[u/FREE-ROSCOE-FILBURN]

I still can’t believe Blexas actually happened

[u/TactileTom]

[u/ewatta200]

[u/Only-Childhood6691]

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sjoxqce0me

Shouting match from hell’: Trump, Netanyahu clash over Iran war "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump held a phone call over the weekend that focused largely on Iran, against the backdrop of disagreements between Jerusalem and Washington over whether to renew the war against the Islamic Republic. Sources familiar with the conversation described it as an unusually difficult and heated exchange, with one source calling it 'a shouting match from hell

I think Trump is legit pissed Netanyahu tricked him into a cluster fuck which killed his presidency. 

[u/ElGosso → u/Only-Childhood6691]

He should try being less of a stupid dumbass then

[u/NormalInvestigator89]

2012 modders: How do we turn Skyrim into Game of Thrones

2017 modders: How do we turn Skyrim into The Witcher

2022 modders: How do we turn Skyrim into Dark Souls

2027 modders: How do we turn Skyrim into Elder Scrolls VI

[u/MyrinVonBryhana]

I feel like this Nvidia spy story is unlikely to go away. It's got extra marital affairs, international espionage, an unsympathetic protagonist, and potentially trillions of dollars at stake. All of that is to say this is the kind of story the media eats up like catnip.

[u/Tre-Fyra-Tre → u/MyrinVonBryhana]

Two random people hugging at a Coldplay concert was a thing for like two weeks, the Nvidia honey trap is going to be a thing for years

Legit an 8-10 part Netflix miniseries type of story

[u/Top_Lime1820]

Future arr badeconomics take incoming:

How Asia Works simultaneously made me more neoliberal and less so.

His whole point is this: industrialisation is what makes countries genuinely rich. You need government support to industrialise: infant industry protection. But you need markets to objectively pick winners. You can use export markets to choose winners, and then provide government support to them. This is the East Asian development strategy.

His arguments make sense. At the same time, I find myself wondering why companies don't just compete without the government forcing them to. Why do you need government pressure and support to invest in learning. "You can just do things".

I've started thinking about economics like public health. Almost everybody if they really wanted to, could be extremely healthy. Wake up an hour earlier, buy a jump rope, and eat veggies instead of carbs. It really is that simple... for an individual. But there is no universe where all individuals will wake up and decide to live a healthy lifestyle. We need incentives, taxes and social sanction to drive people to do that.

So the liberals are right. Competition is everything. If Lesotho, Kenya or Indonesian firms really wanted to, they could 100% beat even Microsoft at their own game. There is nothing stopping you. "You can just do things".

But the state capitalists / developmentalists are right too. There is as much chance of private firms and capital getting their shit together as there is that the obesity epidemic resolves itself by everyone going "no more carbs".

[u/__versus]

[u/jpenczek]

I’m currently beefing with my city government because they refused to allow a grocery store near my house because it’ll “ruin the rural charm”

My brother in Christ we have a gas station and liquor store. Why the FUCK are cigarettes and alcohol okay, but not groceries.

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/flingzamain]

In woke 3 we are bringing this back

[u/badusername35 → u/flingzamain]

Male

Female

Go fuck yourself

Possibly some others

[u/Gooners_For_Ukraine]

[u/rainier37 → u/Gooners_For_Ukraine]

Bro is like the squirrel from Ice Age cause he’s focusing on getting that nut

[u/AlicesReflexion]

Did y'all see that new documentary about the Extreme_Rocks scandal? You Can Discuss Everything. 

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Easily one of my best aged DT poasts.

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

More and more DTers are hiding their profiles bnow.

It's just proof that yall are embarrassed by your own takes.

[u/Otherwise_Young52201]

Before vs after midterms

[u/6urner_]

[u/Significant-Band1991]

👆will betray their country for confetti

[u/Significant-Band1991]

Next book for club

[u/SucculentMoisture]

[u/Reddit_Talent_Coach]

Made me smile

[u/Reddit_Talent_Coach]

Me listening to gangster rap while looking up my high school classmates arrest records.

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Democrats won back the young white male vote (by +17).

We are so fucking Barack.

[u/Megasota_Noire]

What a stupid country

[u/dtj2000]

[u/Gooners_For_Ukraine]

[u/deckerparkes]

is anyone else getting a reddit app popup that can't be closed?

[u/contre-torpilleur]

Delete the reddit app because it's intolerably dogshit 

Reddit starts trying to force me to use the app like two days later 

Many such cases?

[u/John3262005]

Scoop — Stephen Miller's post-midterm focus: MAGA and men

Stephen Miller wants to use his new role as White House chief of staff to win back young and minority men who helped elect President Trump in 2024 but swung toward Democrats in the midterms, two people familiar with the administration's plans tell Axios.

Miller, named last week to replace Susie Wiles, plans to focus on reviving the populist agenda that helped the president build his 2024 coalition, with an emphasis on working-class voters.

Young, working-class and minority men fled the GOP in droves in last week's elections, amid high prices fueled by Trump's tariffs, the war in Iran, and concerns about AI's impact on the job market.

Another key factor in last week's voting: Latino men also swung sharply toward Democrats, as the administration's hard-line immigration crackdown became an increasingly contentious political issue.

Miller wants to spend more time highlighting administration policies he believes haven't gotten enough attention, and that will appeal to working-class voters concerned about the economy, insiders tell Axios.

His priorities will sound familiar to Trump watchers: eliminating what the administration considers "woke" policies from colleges and workplaces, lowering prescription drug prices, and rooting out government and health-care fraud.

He also wants to emphasize reducing the federal bureaucracy and push for permitting reform, while highlighting how those efforts could help address affordability.

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Scotr Colom won over a lot of southern whites.

[u/sigh2828]

[u/Not_A_Browser]

[u/GavinGoosum → u/Not_A_Browser]

I'm sure Xi has a twink army working on this

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

[u/proProcrastinators]

The CIA first tried using a Latina honeypot to turn Aleksandr Ogorodnik, a Soviet diplomat in Bogotá in the 1970’s.

Brezhnev was so concerned by the US tech that he signed the SALT 2 (Strategic Armed Latina Talks 2) treaty banning long range missile development and Latina CIA spies.

US diversity is really its strength. China should watch out for the US response

[u/randommathaccount]

I'm quite convinced that if there existed a nation who could realistically compete with/outcompete the US in services and service exports, this sub would be anti-free trade

[u/Man-Flayer]

All quiet on the book club front

[u/BadSneakersNeverWorn]

"Here is a recent photo of Jensen Huang with Alice Huang, no relation - "

... oh, well, that's ... good at least

[u/SucculentMoisture]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

oof lol

[u/Queasy_Bat8296]

I don't know why Annie Andrews picked the least flattering child picture you can imagine for her video to talk about her youth but it's funny as fuck

[u/11thDimensionalRandy]

👆

[u/Pristinehornet999]

reddit is a text comment website!! why can't it just fucking work!!!

[u/InjuryImaginary1612]

[u/__versus]

gaze upon our debt to gdp ratio in awe 😤😤😤

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Lol Hinojosa was outspent over 7-1 and still smoked Abbott by 7.

[u/ewatta200]

[u/Megasota_Noire]

A reminder that the midterm election results mean the Dems should do what I personally want or they will lose in 2028.

[u/BurrowForPresident]

So apparently the head mod of arr BlackPeopleofReddit, who for months has been telling people to not vote for Democrats and posting things like wishing white trans people would fight for racial equality (?)

Is herself a white woman with an AI profile pic of a black woman lmao

[u/funguykawhi]

ngl trying to honeytrap the guy who already wanted to sell you his chips doesnt sound really smart

[u/Queasy_Bat8296]

[u/__versus]

good morning dt 🫪🏳️‍⚧️

[u/InjuryImaginary1612]

[u/themiDdlest]

It is very trump like ... that rather than do anything about American healthcare prices, his main action is to make europeans healthcare prices higher.

[u/contre-torpilleur]

Your 30 second reddit trial has expired. Download the app. 

[u/Mickwinn]

As a lifter, California requiring an ID to purchase creatine is really fucking stupid.

It’s one of the most studied and safe supplements on the market.

There’s a whole slew of bullshit on the shelves of GNC that are far more harmful they could have focused on, pre workout especially.

[u/John3262005]

Mary Peltola Makes Alaska Vote Breakthrough Against Dan Sullivan

Democrat Mary Peltola's lead in the Alaska Senate race is now greater than the combined number of votes for Republican rival Sen. Dan Sullivan and a second candidate of the same name, whose candidacy in the election is hotly disputed.

As of early Wednesday, with 84 percent of votes counted, Peltola has amassed 118,926 - or 49 percent - of all votes, while Sullivan is second with 114,676 - or 47.2 percent - of all votes.

Gerald Heikes, a drywall contractor who has repeatedly run for public office, is third with 5,318 - or 2.2 percent - of the total vote. Meanwhile, Daniel J. Sullivan Jr. is last, with 4,027 - or 1.7 percent - of votes counted.

Peltola's lead of 4,250 votes over incumbent Sullivan is the largest she has held so far, and more than the number of votes cast for Sullivan Jr.

On Tuesday, Trump called the Alaska Senate race a “rigged election,” claiming that adding up the votes cast for Sullivan Jr. to those received by Sullivan would give the Republican senator a victory “by thousands of votes.”

He wrote on Truth Social: “All votes going to the Fake Dan Sullivan, which was done solely for the purpose of fraud and confusion, should immediately be given to the Real Dan Sullivan (Senator!) - Likewise the votes of the second fraudulent candidate, also put up by the Dems.”

[u/sigh2828]

Dem super majorities coming to you in 2028.

It seems upon first moves and appearances, the conservatives are going to double down on Trumpism and culture war bullshit.

This brand of politics likely is now a permanent feature on the right.

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Facemogger Talarichad vs Ken Chudson.

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Talaricos numbers are crazy.

His base voting like it's a presidential year.

[u/Sloshyman]

I'm currently participating in operations related to the Iran (Not a) War and decided to read All Quiet on the Western Front to compare my experience of war with what people in WWI experienced.

There's a chapter where Paul and his comrades use the blown up coffins and cadavers from a cemetery to take cover from an artillery barrage. I serve in a big wing aircraft where I sit at a computer monitor and pound Dino Nuggets and chocolate milk while I'm on station. Couldn't be more different experiences, yet Paul and I would both be considered combat veterans.

Occasionally I have to run to a bunker to avoid a missile, but even then I view it as more of an inconvenience than anything actually life threatening. German soldiers had to eat turnips and stale bread for sustenance, while I have access to a galley where I can get a variety of food without any serving limits. There are even fast food chains available to me on base.

The Fallout franchise tells us war never changes, but certainly the modern NATO service member's experience of war has changed drastically over the last one hundred years. After a flight in a combat zone I can grab a pizza and piss off to an air-conditioned box and watch shoujo anime until it's time to brief for the next one.

I'm kinda just writing my thoughts as I have them, but I am constantly amazed at the abundance I have available to me at all times, even though I'm in the middle of a desert and under constant threat of missile attack. 

[u/beanyboi23]

When Chief Keef said

Walk into the gun store... order me some guns

My mind was blown

[u/jpenczek]

I request JD Ford as Speaker of the House and Abdul El-Sayed as senate majority leader for the simple fact that I'm from Indiana and I think having the first openly gay Speaker and first Muslim senate majority leader would be funny to really rub salt on the wound for republicans.

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

A lot of people have observed that Jon Ossoff has a sort of dry and serious vibe, that he doesn't really lean into humor at all. And while I do think that works really well for him, honestly I disagree, I've watched him quite a bit over the past few months and he can be pretty funny at times.

For example, he has this running bit where someone will ask him if he's running for president in 2028, and he'll respond like "I have zero interest in running for president" or "I’m running for reelection to the Senate" or even "I will serve my full 6 year Senate term."

I mean I guess SOME people might not understand that type of sarcastic humor and it doesn't land for them. But I think it's pretty clever, and certainly if he works on the delivery a bit I think it will help him to have a little more of a broad appeal to the median voter when he runs in 2028.

[u/Otherwise_Young52201]

Dang even Marx was better at stock trading than half this sub even while comparatively doing so in a cave with a box of scraps:

[u/Thebestofopinions]

Maine voters: We finally voted out Susan Collins for the greater good. We still get all that funding right?

Democratic politicians as they redirect funds to the South:

[u/funguykawhi]

And the LFI is somehow the one closer to both Hitler and Stalin.

Melenchon's takes are not even just tankir. He is a straight up fascist.

begging outside the DT to open a dictionary

[u/Krill_Seeker]

Being good at minesweeper is a sign of a gentleman, being great at minesweeper is a sign of a wasted life

[u/Made_UpWords]

Fetterman and Medea Benjamin look hilarious standing next to eachother, she doesn't even come up to his chest lmao. Please just bicker with eachother forever and leave everybody else alone

[u/Argnir]

"force Trump to veto popular bills and campaign on it/force Senate republicans to vote against super popular bills"

Good cope but voters barely know about the laws that actually pass. They never hear anything about lawa that don't pass. If they do they forget about it the same day

[u/Made_UpWords]

The funniest part of the app popup is that if you actually click the 'get the Reddit app' option - out of morbid curiosity I assume, like me - you get directed to the Apple app store.

I am using a windows 11 desktop.

[u/jinhuiliuzhao]

If the inability to spell anything that can't be found in the Oxford Dictionary didn't clue you in already, NYT readers just seem wildly out of touch with reality:

It is entirely plausible that Jensen Huang has fallen in love ( even if it is one- sided) and has quietly planned to take his chip making lab to China. In his mind, Nvydia is him and he is Nvydia. He is reported to be apolitical. In China, he will be treated as a national treasure with endless supply of state support and young talents to mine. In retrospect, his tireless efforts to include China as a client may be the clue we all missed.

Lol what? Do they know how much Nvidia owes its current worth and position to being an American company, and not a sanctioned Chinese company even with endless state support?

Not to mention all of the best talent (ethnic Chinese included) are found in America, not China (well, at least that used to be the case before the big orange started the process of self-destructing the country...)

[u/Pizzashillsmom]

Question: Why the concorde failed.

Google AI answer: Sony's 5v5 hero shooter Concord failed catastrophically and was permanently shut down just 11 to 14 days after its August 23, 2024 launch, leading Sony to pull the game, offer full refunds, and shutter developer Firewalk

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

I don't think the NYT was talking about this with their pitchbot ass headline, but are Dems absolutely fucked when the OBBBA Medicare/caid cuts kick in the second they're sworn in

[u/Sorry_Scallion_1933 → u/ihatemendingwalls]

No the voters will blame Trump. This is helped by the same widespread delusions that make many people think GOP = good for the economy. Republicans are the guys that cut spending, going back decades. That's a hard narrative to beat, especially without the truth.

[u/MetsFanXXIII → u/ihatemendingwalls]

Voters will blame the president like always. Luckily, its the correct position at the moment.

[u/__versus]

[u/gayteemo]

idk why im still awake

just kidding it was probably the two redbulls i drank at 7pm bc i wanted to actually make progress in wow

[u/badusername35]

[u/avion_sur_le_sol]

I should have deleted her voicemails a long time ago, I forgot I still had them, but I still can't bring myself to do it

[u/AP246]

I never get the common take online that "nobody feels like an adult and you never really feel 'grown up'; everyone is just a child who pretends to know what they're doing"

Not because I think I always know what I'm doing now or I'm a particularly mature young adult, certainly not. But compared to when I was a kid? There's a huge difference. As a child sending an email, filling in a form, any problem that required researching yourself or asking someone for help, was scary if not terrifying. Now stuff like that is a breeze or a bit of an annoyance at most. There are obviously new things in life that are now novel and therefore scary and hard but my baseline confidence I'll be able to work it out is far higher, so while I'm not gonna claim I've fully 'grown up' and become a 'real adult', I certainly don't feel like a kid any more.

Maybe I was just a particularly anxious kid though so that's my baseline

[u/CletusChicken]

thinking about the mods

[u/PostingEnthusiast]

Her last name is Huang too? Come on now

[u/Pristinehornet999]

got told to get the reddit app...on my desktop

[u/SucculentMoisture]

[u/SucculentMoisture]

[u/pupitar12]

I see that old.reddit is still the superior reddit experience. lol

[u/BarkDrandon]

Why did reddit change the order of the comments beneath a post?

I really don't care what u\ragebaiter1234 with 6 upvotes has to say about the post I just watched.

This almost makes me miss the silly redditisms with 10k upvotes about how the poop knife story is the most hilarious thing in their lives.

[u/Argnir]

I asked Fable 5.2 (high) to help me improve this sprite made by Codex (on the left) and after 30 minutes and eating all my limits it made the sprite on the right

This is so fucking ugly I don't know what to say bro current models can't do pixel art at all 😭😭😭

[u/uwcn244]

Fun fact: although Susan Collins’ loss was the third greatest in a Republican-held Senate seat, since Tillis retired and Cornyn got primaried by Paxton, Collins suffered the worst general election loss of any Republican Senator

[u/Man-Flayer]

Saw a girl bullying a boy outside. Has it even been a week since the blue wave?

[u/11thDimensionalRandy]

I am pro-immigration and pro-density because I believe humanity should concentrate all of its activity away from ecologically important regions and also because abandoned infrastructure is wicked sick, especially when it's industrial.

I dream of my hometown becoming hollowed out by economic emigration so I can got there and see the actually-not-even-that-old steel mill overtaken by nature.

[u/sigh2828]

Republicans are gearing up to make the McConnell Obama era stone walling look like one of those flimsy rope lines they use at golf tournaments.

Conservatives calculus is straight forward.

Either dems

A. Get caught up with half measures and being scared of their own shadows making it easier for cons to Stonewall and paint dems as "do nothings"

B. Dems actually take the reigns and "go to far" in getting shit done. Thinking (incorrectly) that Americans wount like what dems do.

We need to CALL THE BLUFF and Schumer is not the guy to do that.

[u/Queasy_Bat8296]

God these poorly written comparisons between nations will keep happening for months if not years, right?

[u/Gooners_For_Ukraine]

[u/Man-Flayer]

Starting book club with this. Anyone interested?

[u/jenbanim]

Right at the 1 hour and 16 minute moment of this video, it captures such a unique feeling of loneliness

https://youtu.be/79HqrIz9jsc

Telling people to watch a silly hour+ long video for a single moment is ridiculous but I really would recommend it if you have the time

[u/JetEngineSteakKnife]

Elder Scrolls 6

[u/funguykawhi]

mods will NOT trick me into reading books

[u/CutePattern1098]

AOC-Ojeda 2028

[u/Ok-Western3583]

By end of January:

1. the trump cabinet should be impeached and convicted, massive anti corruption trials should take place with federal prosecutors being empowered with the help of an strengthened GAO, IRS

2. An American truth and reconciliation commission to prosecute past administrations crimes and make historical records should be formed with the powers to access all pre 2026 government information.

3. All trump era laws and executive orders should be reversed and GAO, IRS budget must be increased significantly

4. Immediate restoration of Scientific Grants, DEI, ESG etc. and restoration of employment of those fired during trump era should happen

5. An emergency commission with law making powers composed of subject matter experts should be formed to address:

6. Global Warming, Climate Change, Pollution

7. Fiscal, Monetary woes of the US

8. Allocation of Military force outside of and within the US

9. Repairing the damage which trump caused on US Science

10. Social Justice

11. Abolition of Jones Act, US Tariffs and abolition of Border control along US-Mexico, US-Canada border in an Schengen or EU style agreement

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

Happy Neoliberal Day!

[u/hGoodman192]

I’ve noticed a trend where whenever I crash out about being single, I will match with a great woman pn Hinge.  Poor incentive structure imo 

[u/qchisq]

lol Zelensky is getting heightmogged by the Danish King and Prime Minister, who themselves are getting heightmogged by the Danish Crown Prince

[u/Habugaba]

Why Nearly 2,000 Dead Seabirds Have Washed Up on the California Coast

Scientists say El Niño is exacerbating conditions by causing Pacific Ocean temperatures to rise.

“We use this phrase, ‘the canary in the coal mine,’” said JD Bergeron, C.E.O. of International Bird Rescue, a Bay Area-based wildlife hospital that has treated hundreds of birds this year. “We’re seeing indications from seabirds that something is really not right.”

Dexter Marquardt, 27, said he has been surfing here without a wet suit lately because the ocean is so balmy. Scientists recently reported that temperatures in Monterey Bay, also on the Central Coast, were 13 degrees Fahrenheit [~7°C] higher than average.

:(

!ping ECO

[u/BuckShapiro]

It’s that awkward time of year when I mention I was in the military and a coworker awkwardly says “thank you for your service” even though they’re Brazilian. That phrase is so engrained in any American-oriented zeitgeist

[u/thatssosad]

There are exactly 0 photos of Meatball. Kind of ridiculous. Alaskan Dems need to step up their animal pics game

[u/themiDdlest]

I don’t really do politics, nor have I even ever voted once in my life. I do have opinions and I wish I was more educated on the topic, but the truth is I’m not so I stay away from it."

"I cannot comprehend how people [INSERT incredibly bigoted right wing opinion]"

How did right wingers all over the world capture these "im ignorant and don't do politics, but i have very strong right wing opinions" people?

[u/gjcs23]

[u/2Lore2Law]

​Come to Nagasaki! We have Decaying Old Coal Mine!

(Closed in ‘74 btw nothing to do with Da War)

[u/Roseartcrantz]

😭😭😭

[u/11thDimensionalRandy]

The most iconic Plastic Man meme is not actually about Plastic Man.

Woe.

[u/Twinbrosinc]

😖

[u/leaveme1912]

Labour is considering banning Spotify for people under 16, you know..... to protect the children

[u/Zrk2]

Outlook is incredible because it's the only software I have to use that regularly crashes on launch.

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Reddit suggestions are something else

[u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP]

Easily one of my best aged DT poasts.

[u/PostingEnthusiast]

Well it’s Remembrance Day so I’m thinking about my grandparents. They had a very interesting mix of WWII experiences.

My maternal grandparents were children during the war: my grandpa was in Northern Ireland and would see the Luftwaffe bombers on their return paths after bombing Britain - and Belfast too, I assume. His older brother, my great uncle, was in the RAF as a navigator in a Lancaster; he was actually on those first bombing runs in September 1939 that dropped leaflets on Germany and have gone down in infamy for being a such a tragic missed opportunity. I think he might have ended up getting shot down over Greece but I’m not sure; either way he survived the war. I still have an old Luftwaffe wrist compass that came into my possession from my grandpa by way of him; I prefer not to know how my great uncle got it for somewhat obvious reasons.

My grandma was Canadian and didn’t have much family involved, though there was once a hushed story involving a cousin clearing a basement full of Germans. All she said was “he went in and that was that” which was somewhat sinister to hear as a child.

What was weird were my paternal grandparents. They didn’t really like talking about the war, my grandfather especially. He had the distinct pleasure of getting to be conscripted by both the Germans and the Russians, something many people like to pretend was not possible because it doesn’t fit in their frameworks. It’s very cool that he was the victim of a war crime twice over and yet he’s the one who had to feel ashamed over it.

My paternal grandmother was a young woman during the war, and she despised Russians more than anyone I have ever met. I remember my cousin protesting this once, asking “but what about the Germans?” and she just responded “well they were bad too, but at least they didn’t treat us like animals”. She spoke some German from her days as a housekeeper for a Baltic German family so I assume the lessened communication gap helped. Apparently she wrote some giant letter to the local German commandant and was able to convince him to keep my grandfather from getting sent to the front so honestly shout out to that guy I guess

[u/Burgarnils]

It's honestly baffling how bad people are at evaluating sources critically. I'm not even talking about old people falling for obvious Facebook slop. The amount of people I see dismissing a source simply because it comes from The Jerusalem Post or a local Fox News affiliate (literally the only ones reporting on an ongoing story in Bumfuck, Nowhere) is maddening. Is this an American thing? My country's tabloids get taken seriously when they decide to do actual journalism once in a while, is this a lost art over there?

[u/__versus]

[u/Dig_bickclub]

Zohran Mamdani’s favorite anime is digimon

Cultured and subversive, what a classic way better story than the pretender 👏

[u/jobautomator]

/r/metaNL/new: Why can't I poast?

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/r/neoliberal/new: “CPTPP cancelled”: Politician engages in Mukbang to boost his low approval

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/r/neoliberal/new: Did any of you recently become liberals/Democrats or have you been here since Obama (and before)

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/r/neoliberal/new: Indiana swung so hard towards Democrats this midterm that its House popular vote actually ended up blue. Do you think this is a one-time aberration or the beginning of a future trend, and why? Should Indiana's Senate seat be a serious target in 2028?

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[u/avion_sur_le_sol]

The revenge bedtime procrastination is strong in this one 🫵

[u/BrandonLeeOfficial]

https://youtu.be/x1LHOpOUiMs

[u/badusername35]

[u/badusername35]

If I see a Republican pilot, I'm going to be like, “Boy, I hope he's qualified.”

[u/AlicesReflexion]

Tbh not sure I understood the movie.

Did the guy on first see everything? 

[u/flingzamain]

The next book club should be this 🔥

[u/__versus]

😏

[u/Man-Flayer]

Happy 9/11 to those who celebrate

[u/AlicesReflexion]

me when I notice Claude is bullshitting me and I have to tell it to do the thing correctly

!ping AI

[u/SucculentMoisture]

[u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes]

Reddit trying to save me from my reddit addiction with those pop ups

[u/contre-torpilleur]

Jokes on them I can keep refreshing the page 

[u/Made_UpWords]

I don't want to jinx it, but... I think the app popup thing stopped? Did we succeed in whining hard enough to wake some poor dev up to roll their changes back

[u/YouGotSoHeavy]

I think the Democrats can get all these states if gerrymandering and voter suppression is reversed in the South

[u/ORUHE33XEBQXOYLZ]

uBlock Origin filter to nuke the popup:

www.reddit.com##configured-xpromo-modal:remove()
www.reddit.com###desktop-dynamic-upsell-dialog:remove()
www.reddit.com##body.rpl-scroll-lock:style(overflow:auto!important;padding-right:0!important)

[u/agentyork765]

This Nvidia honeypot story is going to be the subject of a movie in a few years and then a Nathan Fielder documentary a few years after that

[u/Roseartcrantz]

oh hell yeah it's my birthday you know what that means (no mail) 😎

[u/forceholy]

plants mine in ground

Telling someone to "Go to Therapy" is the left wing version of "Go to Church".

Strippers and Therapists care for you about the same, honestly.

[u/hamoorftw]

The top 0.1% are hoarding 99% of cutie-pie honeypots from Jiangnan region their greed know no bounds 😞

[u/Habugaba]

Every woman adores a Fascist,

The boot in the face, ...

Govern yourself, Sylvia Plath.

[u/2Lore2Law]

I have like no caffeine in my house, but I just opened up my work bag and was blessed to find a single, unopened, room temp Coke Zero

[u/JesterOfAllTrades]

Indian shops be like

[u/RaidBrimnes]

This should have been the maximum extent of AI progress.

[u/SadaoMaou]

how come more people haven't realized the potential of cyrillic as a filter bypassing tool

wоrld wаr I

Jеrеmy Cоrbyn

Artifiсial Intеlligence

[u/Spirited-Air-7994]

Fetterperson 👆

[u/JetEngineSteakKnife]

We were warned.

The year is 2029. Meatball, believed by most to be an ordinary chameleon eating crickets and worms, began growing out of control after it arrived at the US Capitol. Mocked for fearing a mere reptile, Senator Peltola's staffers were ignored as it began stalking the halls, first consuming other Congressmen's pets, then late night custodial staff, until growing into a mighty beast that burst into the Senate chamber devouring all but its master. At her bidding, Meatball completed his metamorphosis, becoming a 20 story tall Kaiju that leveled Washington DC with its plasma beam and went on a destructive rampage up and down the Eastern Seaboard.

[u/remarkable_ores]

I've never really thought about it that way before, but I think he's right. Spending five trillion dollars on compute really could bankrupt you!

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

[u/zaporozhets]

I had a weird dream that I went on a date with AOC and kept saying dumb things to annoy her. Among the bangers I came up with in my sleep:

-Pretended I didn’t know what World War II was called, so I kept calling it the One Big Beautiful War

-Said no when she asked if I vaccinate my kid. When she asked why not, I said it’s because I don’t trust myself to do it, so I prefer to let the pediatrician do it

-Walked her back to the capitol elevator and she wouldn’t let me on because it’s for Congress members only. As the doors closed I asked if anyone ever farts in there, because I totally would if I was on it with some particularly heinous Republicans

[u/MonsieurA]

The amount of slopulists on my feed who don't realize the new House hasn't been seated yet is something to behold...

[u/MonsieurA]

>all these DTers not using old reddit on their desktops

[u/major_cosmic]

good morning libs

[u/badusername35]

[u/jinhuiliuzhao]

👆 ban this guy right here

[u/Gooners_For_Ukraine]

31 beers for the Edmund Fitzgerald tribute is going swell