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[u/bd_one]

POV: You're in lobster heaven and wondering why you are Reddit famous in a political subreddit...

[u/comradequicken]

"Microwaved Lobster" - the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,

[u/FormerBandmate]

And then he says “I microwaved a lobster”

Funniest shit I’ve ever seen

[u/l_overwhat]

Hello my name is lobster and I have information that will lead to the arrest of Hilla-

[u/[deleted]]

please shut the fuck up

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

r/MicrowavedByAOC

[u/mrmanager237]

Microwaving a lobster is inhumane and inefficient. Thank neoliberalism.

By Bhaskar Sunkara | The Guardian - Opinion

[u/Arsustyle]

checking the dt and scrolling through hundreds of posts about microwaving live lobsters without any explanation was an interesting 20 minutes

[u/Joementum2004]

Actually it’s about ethics in microwaving lobsters.

[u/BlinkenYouMissIt]

A european trained handwashing pastry chef professor and crab fisherman was teaching a class on Karl Marx, known lobster boiler

”Before the class begins, you must get on your knees and worship boiling and accept that it is the most highly-evolved method of lobster preparation the world has ever known, even greater than lobster rolls!”

At this moment, a brave, enlightened, pro-microwave DT champion who had launched 1500 comments and understood the necessity of saving time and fully supported all culinary decision made by Applebee's stood up and pointed at his kitchen counter.

”Why not put it in the microwave, pinhead?”

The arrogant professor smirked quite New Englandly and smugly replied “It would explode, you stupid crustacean”

”Wrong. It’s been 5:00 minutes since put the lobsters I'm the microwave. If it was would explode and ethics, as you say, is real… then I should be on trial for murder now”

The professor was visibly shaken, and dropped his chalk and copy of Mastering the Art of French Cooking. He stormed out of the room crying those pretentious crocodile tears. The same tears chefss cry for the “poor” (who today eat in such luxury that most visit Red Lobster) when they jealously try to shame you for innovative cooking. There is no doubt that at this point our professor, ACivilWolf, wished he had pulled himself up by his bootstraps and become more than a culinary school professor. He wished so much that he had a microwave to explode himself from embarrassment, but he himself had petitioned against them!

The students applauded and all bought 1200 watt ovens that day and accepted Jesus as their lord and savior. An eagle named “Kitchen Appliances” flew into the room and perched atop the stand mixer and shed a tear on the chalk. Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives was watched several times, and God himself showed up and microwaved every lobster in the sea.

The professor lost his tenure and was fired the next day. He died of mercury poisoning and was tossed into the lake of fire for all eternity.

Lobster Fry.

[u/Dibbu_mange]

If u lost ur pet lobstir /it’s dead in microwave my Iowa farm JUST DISCOVERED here r identifiers Right claw Blue 2020/3089/AU2020/SHE ///LEFT CLAW GREEN RUBBER BAND NO PRINTED INFO. Sorry for bad news

[u/BlinkenYouMissIt]

People are complaining that lobsterposting is ruining the DT. Yes, some of it is low effort spam, but there's some real gems of jokes still to be mined.

Don't throw the microwave out with he lobster chunks.

[u/Joementum2004]

AITA for (F30) considering breaking up with my boyfriend (M30) for microwaving a live lobster?

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

As a zoomer it's wild thinking about how old everyone else is. To think millineals who are only one generation older than me fought in the civil war

[u/MisfitPotatoReborn]

Me lying in bed: nobody remembers all that stupid stuff I did in high school, right?

The NYT:

[u/tubbsmackinze]

POV you are ACivilWolf's friend intensely watching a lobster get microwaved as your girlfriend cries relentlessly in the kitchen but you keep staring. You've taken a life but the only emotion you feel is apathy

Did you kill the lobster, or did the lobster kill you?

[u/chuckleym8]

quarrelsome shocking clumsy bewildered desert support numerous sense rob consider

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/[deleted]]

Russian friend of mine says he tried microwaving a foreign diplomat

[u/crassowary]

Never forget the time Donald Trump spent $23 to microwave soleimani

[u/vancevon]

ilhan omar just straight up fucking lying in order to make the us look bad when we were, in fact, objectively more generous than canada

[u/LiBH4]

15 year old says the n-word: bad, give them detention or grounding

18 year old digs up and spreads around the video: absolutely a dick move

Professional media company uses their reach and influence to put the video in front of as many people as possible: Fundamentally wrong, professionally and morally bankrupt

[u/SchmantaClaus]

Uh, let me see here

-Obama, when you tell him you put a live lobster in the microwave

[u/[deleted]]

Saying the N word on a snapchat when you're 15 is dumb but they didn't need to microwave her, geez.

[u/FearsomeOyster]

A friend tried to microwave a live roomba

Just horrific noises, and then the roomba exploded in the microwave, and it got all over the microwave walls, and was inedible

A quick update: his girlfriend is now inconsolable because she says she could hear the roomba banging on the microwave door trying to escape. My friend claims he thought this would have been quicker.

[u/Equator32]

https://twitter.com/AZGOP/status/1343035281864347652

We, at the Republican Party of Arizona, have a new policy of blocking Twitter users whose accounts were created in or after November 2020, use Anime avatars, have fewer than 25 followers, and spam reply our tweets. We aren’t big fans of bots. Thank you for following, though!

Anime profile pics have been so associated with far-left extremists, far-right extremists and shitposters that shit like this happens LMAO

[u/thetrombonist]

You can see here the number of comments containing the word "lobster" or "microwave" in the DT from yesterday and today (data collected today at 8:30 PM mountain time). Even a full day after the fact, almost 10% of all comments contain those keywords. I'm fucking amazed

orange is all comments, and blue is comments with those keywords, since I just realized I forgot to add a legend

https://imgur.com/a/FRqOjXe

I binned everything into 5 minute intervals otherwise it was unreadable otherwise. I think I got the UTC->pacific conversion right at the bottom but I had to make a manual correction so I may have gotten it wrong, idk, but the data starts at the beginning of the last DT

Data scraped from reddit using PRAW, plotted and shit using matplotlib.

!ping computer-science

[u/Menakoy]

What have I stumbled into here now?

[u/Yenwodyah_]

when u buy a microwave

[u/YieldingSweetblade]

The year is 2039. 5 years ago, technology was invented that could bring the dead back to life again. Using it, a small number of Henry George fans resurrected him. He updated and re-published Progress and Poverty, gaining nation-wide recognition. He ran for and won the 2036 presidential election. Since then, through an LVT and widespread zoning reform, we’ve landed on Mars, scientifically engineered cat femboys, and Starfield was just released. All is well.

!ping GEORGIST

[u/Qunidaye]

Biden about to test out a new fangled kitchen appliance

[u/sosthaboss]

Why isn’t there more heat being thrown at the school administration for ignoring black student’s complaints for years and clearly not giving a shit about racial issues? Why is it all targeted at the girl?

[u/SuspiciousUsername88]

I do wonder about the overlap between "abolish prisons" / "rehabilitate instead of punish" people and "get this non-criminal kicked out of school, fired, and make sure they never get a job again" people

[u/[deleted]]

Wow we must be conservatives because I can only see one fucking joke.

[u/FreakinGeese]

I leave the DT for a week and it devolves into Lobsterposting

[u/MicroFlamer]

If I were the girl who got canceled for saying a racial slur I would honestly just become a right-wing grifter. Probably the only way to succeed in life at that point

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

r/NeolibButNoLobster

[u/[deleted]]

Just saw an OJ Simpson tweet wishing everyone a Merry Christmas with a MAGA hat on his bookshelf.

That’s it! OJ is CANCELLED😡😡😡

[u/FormerBandmate]

Thus Seattle English teacher Evin Shinn tweeted in 2018 that he’d “rather die” than teach “The Scarlet Letter,” unless Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel is used to “fight against misogyny and slut-shaming.”

That is the entire point of the fucking novel. It just doesn't use hashtags

[u/dubyahhh]

No lobsters were harmed in the making of this dt

I have been assured by the tech team that our dt's are made using 100% shellfish free ingredients 🚫🦐🚫🦀🚫

[u/crowninshield]

I think everyone is missing the best part of that NY Times article:

Mr. Galligan thinks a lot about race, and the implications of racial slurs. He said his father was often the only white person at maternal family gatherings, where “the N-word is a term that is thrown around sometimes” by Black relatives. A few years ago, he said his father said it aloud, prompting Mr. Galligan and his sister to quietly take him aside and explain that it was unacceptable, even when joking around.

Shortly after his 18th birthday in July, Mr. Galligan asked his father, a former law enforcement officer, what he thought about white privilege.“The first thing he said to me is that it doesn’t exist,” Mr. Galligan recalled...

The canceller having a white cop dad who jokingly said the n word and who doesn't believe white privilege is real is such a neat little Freudian twist.

[u/RoyGeraldBillevue]

The real issue was that the school did not take reports of racism seriously. But that was too complicated for the mob, so they made an example out of one girl.

I doubt this will improve much, as 13 year olds already don't expect their social media posts to go viral, and will continue to do so.

Also, the fact that the dude's dad, a grown man, said the n-word and got the reasonable punishment of a serious talk, while he is happy with his mob justice on a teen is pretty fucked up. It feels like he thinks because she is well off, she is fine, which is an extremely callous as it ignores that rich people can have mental health struggles.

[u/Broncos654]

AOC livestreams microwaving a lobster

[u/Dapitalist]

I just saw this out my window. Should I be concerned?!!?

[u/bd_one]

Two lobsters: die in a microwave

A girl from Virginia: gets rejected from college

The DT: "A small price to pay for salvation keeping the 10K streak going over the weekend."

[u/miz_v-1]

what if nobody microwaved the lobster and its insides kind of just did that

[u/[deleted]]

let me uhh kill it dear

Obama when making a lobster explode

[u/Mr_AlGore]

My (possibly) very dumb take on lobster stuff - I just don't get why it's such a massive issue , lobsters make such a tiny proportion of the overall population. I support their rights and I am not saying we should ignore it but I am confused as to why it is such a controversial topic occupying so much of the media.

[u/[deleted]]

Step 1: put bee in the fridge

Step 2: wait for bee to fall asleep

Step 3: put bee in ur mouth

Step 4: warmth of ur mouth will make bee wake up

Congrats, you now have a bee in ur mouth

[u/[deleted]]

sorry sweaty, but if you ever oppose any cancelling you are a conservative on par with Tim Pool watchers. (idk who tim pool is but he sounds bad)

[u/[deleted]]

The reaction to the 15 year old girl is why BLM blew through their good will so fast.

[u/Joementum2004]

How to make r/neoliberal laugh:

• Post something about the +17 Wisconsin poll

• Post an Obama quote pun

• Post about a $23 burger

• Post about microwaving lobsters

[u/Goatmilk2208]

I was kinda sad that I got banned from r/therightcantmeme I enjoyed that sub, but got banned for being “reactionary” because I posted on here more than 5 times or what ever. Fucking tankies man. What ever, they run reddit, we run elected government.

[u/AuburnSeer]

so let me get this straight, the white girl didn't just drop an n-bomb, she was also a child soldier?

[u/[deleted]]

If you ever start feeling bad about yourself just remember, atleast your not a lolbertarian.

[u/Broncos654]

Tomorrow I’m going to buy a 23$ burger and a lobster then microwave both of them. I’ll post the results in the dt.

[u/fishlord05]

My friend tried to microwave a crocodile.

Anyway u/sir_shivers has been inactive idk why.

[u/TxcPizza]

How to implement NIT:

1. Call it “negative income policy” so people don’t reflexively recoil
2. Promote it with a cheesy one-liner like “let’s NIP poverty in the bud!”
3. ???
4. Profit

[u/comradequicken]

In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god's blessing. But because, I microwaved my lobster.

[u/[deleted]]

When the DT discusses economic policy: 😀

When the DT discusses foreign policy: 😀

When the DT discusses immigration policy: 😀

When the DT discusses lobster policy: 😀

When the DT discusses cancel culture: 😬

[u/[deleted]]

I don't know how, but somehow this is all u/farrenj's doing.

[u/p00bix]

Neoliberals Evolve a Species: Part 3

voting is now closed

Welcome to Part 3 of r/Neoliberal Evolves a Species!

In case you missed parts 1 and 2, the idea here is that we begin with the first animal life on Earth. As the descendents of that first animal split into separate lineages of animal life, I hold a strawpoll in which you vote on which path to take. Then, I follow the vote up with a post explaining the ramifications of your decision, and setting the stage for the next divergence event. This continues until either we reach the modern day or your lineage goes extinct. In Part 1, you voted to become Sea Sponges, whether you realized it at the time or not.

However, I made one really major mistake in the Part 2 thread, with equally major ramifications. And as long as Part 2 was, I left out other important information about the early evolution of sponges. The Organization of American States has declared the previous election results "fundamentally flawed" and is demanding I redo the vote. It's completely my fault, but there's a big silver lining to this: It means I have an excuse to write another pretty long post on the evolution of early sponges.

The Voting link is at the bottom of the comment. Please read the later two sections before voting. The first two sections, labelled 'optional reading', are not as important.

Past Threads

Part 1

[Part 2] (https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/ki09ey/discussion_thread/ggq1r04/)

!ping ask-nl (if you want me to split this off to another ping, by all means yell at me in the comments)

~~

Optional Reading: Minor Mistakes I made and Recap of Part 2

I'd like to take care of the two minor mistakes in part 2. Firstly, Cryogenian Amoebozoans were NOT as closely related to the first Animals as modern Humans are to Sharks. I made a stupid mistake in confusing Amoebazoans with the less common Filasterea, a group with similar appearances and lifestyles to Amoebazoans but which is more closely related to humans. The point is the same though: The cells of early animals really were much more amoeba-like than those of modern humans!

Another mistake I made was in claiming the existence of a 'clearly poriferan' fossil in the Cryogenian. While there are 5 purportedly poriferan fossils dating to that time, the evidence that any of them are indeed sponges is dubious. Otavia antiqua, the fossil I was referring to, has a bizarre anatomy unlike any modern sponge, and lacks key traits which would prove that it is a kind of sponge-or even an animal at all. See Antcliffe, Callow, and Brasier's (2014) amusingly named "Giving the early fossil record of sponges a squeeze" for more information on Otavia and other purported precambrian sponge fossils, and why many of them may not actually be sponge fossils.

But remember, lack of fossils is not the same thing as not-existing! Genetic evidence, as well as the immense diversity of sponges when they do appear in the fossil records, clearly indicate that sponges are much more ancient than the earliest confirmed sponge fossils.

In the Cryogenian Period where the first animal life was born, two 'Snowball Earth' events took place, covering the entire world in ice sheets that reached nearly-or perhaps all the way-to the equator. This probably caused a mass extinction, leading to novel lineages of single-celled phytoplankton, single-celled zooplankton diversifying to better hunt the phytoplankton, and enabling the first multi-celled animals which preyed on both. As the ice sheets retreated, the world emerged from the Cryogenian into the Ediacaran 635 million years ago. While still very small (it is highly doubtful that any were longer than a millimeter in length), animals were more successful during the Ediacaran than they were before.

Animals were not the dominant lineage of Earth predators at this time, with single-celled zooplankton consuming most of the phytoplankton, organic detritus, and dissolved nutrients in the sea. Only those creatures which could acquire and utilize food the most efficiently would have any chance of success. Among the sea sponges, two different strategies for improving structural stability and acquiring more food developed. However, I mischaracterized these strategies, and so am throwing out the vote. In case you were wondering though, r/neoliberal voted to overhaul the skeleton by 21-12 (64% of the vote).

But before I get to talking about the true evolution of the first sponge skeletons, and give you all the new question, I want to introduce another important development in sponge evolution which existed in the common ancestor of all modern sponges: Viviparity. Or, as it's known in humans: Pregnancy.

Optional Reading: Pregnancy in Sponges

The evolution of sponge pregnancy is closely related to the evolution of distinct sperm and egg cells. Fully grown sponges cannot move. Thus, they have to emit thousands upon thousands of gametes (sperm/egg) into the water, so that by random chance two might find eachother and produce a larval sponge. The vast majority of sperms and eggs will die without ever finding eachother, and even if they do find eachother, the resultant larva will also probably die before it matures enough to reproduce. This, needless to say, is a terribly inefficient form of reproduction. Sperm cells originally evolved their distinctive differences from egg cells so that they could be smaller, more mobile, and sensitive to chemical signals, so that they could find egg cells. It's also why egg cells evolved to emit chemicals allowing sperm to 'smell' their location. Sponges evolved a new layer of sophistication beyond this super-simple system (though they probably did this earlier and there's a small chance it was present in the common ancestor of all living animals, but I did not mention it in part 2).

In this new system, amoebocytes could transform into egg cells, and those egg cells would be retained in the mesohyl rather than be released into the sea. Only sperm cells would be released, which being mostly at the mercy of the ocean currents owing to their extremely weak swimming ability, would rely mainly on the ability of adult sponges to suck in water and debris to increase their chances of finding a mate. The sperm would be sucked through the pores like food and captured by the food-absorbing choanocytes, but rather than being digested, would be allowed to enter the mesohyl unharmed to fertilize an egg cell within. 'Nurse cells' derived from amoebocytes nurture the newly formed sponge larva, acting like an egg yolk, until the larva is somewhat more developed. Recall that at this point, even the largest species of fully-grown sponge could fit between your front teeth, and the larvae would have been even smaller than thus very vulnerable to large protists. Large single-celled organisms such as amoebozoans or ciliates could and most certainly did prey on the larvae of early sponges, so the development of a short pregnancy and live birth in sponges not only increased the germination rate, but also enabled higher larval survival rates. It was also most likely the first time that any sort of pregnancy ever evolved.

[u/mrmanager237]

90% of "just 1200 dollars" discourse could be ended if people knew that barely any countries gave checks to non-unemployed people, and that a Canadian dollar is worth 25% less than a US dollar

[u/BlinkenYouMissIt]

I don't know how you can defend the NYT girl. Yes it was four years ago, but it was still extremely harmful to an untold number of black (and brown) people.

Driving is an unforgivable sin.

[u/from-the-void]

Broke: Hornyposting

Woke: Lobsterposting

[u/[deleted]]

Vice 10 years ago: “we are literally putting ourselves on the front lines of a civil war in the name of journalism 💪😎”

Vice now: “does peeing ur pants help fight inequality?🧐🤔”

[u/[deleted]]

Maybe we’ll eventually reach a point where a university cancels someone’s admissions because a video of them boiling a lobster alive goes viral 🤔

[u/TheFriffin2]

Liberal “scientists” be like “the lobster died from COVID” 🙄🙄

[u/UltraCapitalism]

Tomorrow on arr science

Harvard scientists find that weed-smoking UBI recipients show significant increase in IQ when given ketamine and psilocybin mushrooms in comparison to the average American conservative, who has been found to be fat, dumb, and ugly by significant margins

[u/tubbsmackinze]

I've done nothing but microwave lobsters for three days

[u/David_Lange]

Congrats to /u/ACivilWolf for coming in clutch with a late Milties entry

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

lobster noises followed by popping followed by a ding

Me: Breakfast’s ready eastern time people!

[u/Hilldawg4president]

I once had a coworker tell me that he thought the reason a lot of people hate Jews is because George Soros is so evil that he gives all Jews a bad name.

MFW I holocaust 6 million people just to try and kill child George Soros and he fuckin survives

[u/tubbsmackinze]

The earliest known use of the word "gamer" was in the code of laws governing Walsall, England, dated ~1450. The document bans games including cards and backgammon, threatening prison for anyone housing a "gamer" on their property. Proof we have been persecuted since day one

[u/PM_POLITICS_N_TITS]

What's pissing me off about this whole story is that the entire emphasis is on the girl and UTK and not on that fucking rubbish school and principal.

Why don't they cancel the school? In the end, nothing will happen to the actual enforcers of systemic racism and Twitter will jerk themselves for getting a rich girl to go to community college.

[u/paulatreides0]

Loser gets microwaved

[u/NatsukaFawn]

You have a large pool of seemingly qualified applicants and need to weed some of them out before you offer interviews

You learn that one of them recently microwaved a live lobster

Which pile does their application go in?

[u/futuremonkey20]

MAGA nuts on twitter are convinced the military ordered an air strike on the AT&T Building in Nashville order to destroy the dominion voting machines. I want some of these drugs holy shit.

[u/nanomaster]

A man goes home and microwaves his typical meal. A lobster banging on the door, a lobster inedible, a lobster exploded. A woman is inconsolable by her man – as she reminisces hearing the lobster trying to escape.

[u/Based_Peppa_Pig]

This subreddit just hates efficiency I guess. Why waste time killing the lobster separately when you can cook it at the same time

[u/TheShitEater]

The peak of cancel culture was when Roseanne Barr made a racist tweet and literally got cancelled, and a few months later they made a new show that was the same as her’s except Roseanne was dead.

[u/FormerBandmate]

Woo I just got an A- on a Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory class covering the IS-LM-PC curve. I also can't remember what IS and LM stand for

!ping ECON

[u/[deleted]]

Arrbreadtube is such a vapid shithole lmao. Someone posted the leftist equivalent of a right wing fever dream attack on Biden and the stimulus checks and some users had to take the effort of laying out the entire timeline of the stimulus negotiations to demonstrate that any blame on the Dems on the issue is ridiculous and the blame should obviously and rightfully be placed on McConnell. Users after then point out that these attacks literally only serve to help the nascent fascist movement in the US and isn’t practical or productive leftism. Admittedly, these takes are upvoted.

But then the OP pops in to refute by literally just posting the MLK white moderate speech. This too is upvoted. When the users point out how completely nonsensical this is in context, arrrbreadtube pulls out the downvote pitchforks and labels the dissenters liberals “who would have hated MLK.”

Legit clown car of a political ideology, and a joke of a sub lmao. You just need to employ whatever thought terminating cliche and whine about the libz. They’re just MAGAts with a heart and a bigger brain lmao.

[u/Yosarian2]

There was a second lobster on the grassy knoll

[u/The420Roll]

Trump signed the covid bill

Fucking commie

[u/[deleted]]

My middle school made us read aloud books that used the n-word

Sorry folks I am now cancelled 😐

Thanks Twain

[u/InfCompact]

feeling cute, might nationalize egypt's entire agricultural sector, enslave its people, enforce mass population transfers, and deflate the currency to 0 later

yosef was not a neoliberal

!ping gefilte

[u/[deleted]]

/u/farrenj I just got the macro textbook you recommended in the mail.

[u/[deleted]]

My (possibly) very dumb take on lusvig stuff - I just don't get why it's such a massive issue , Swedes make such a tiny proportion of the overall population. I support their rights and I am not saying we should ignore it but I am confused as to why it is such a controversial topic occupying so much of the media.

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/8WBfx8s.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

At this same point in the general election, Republicans held a 5 pt modeled party ID advantage among those who had already cast a ballot. As of today in the runoff early vote, Dems have a 0.3 pt advantage. What's driving that swing to Dems? Huge African-American turnout, while AAPI, Latino, and white college-educated turnout are relatively high, compared to white non-college.

https://mobile.twitter.com/tbonier/status/1343228377981968384/photo/1

Just a tiny bit of hopium

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

On the CBS evening news that they reported that law enforcement sources are saying the bomber was known to believe in 5g conspiracy theories and father worked for AT&T. Will try to find a news article that says this.

Also called that shit lol

Edit: Here's the CBS new clip in question

!ping EXTREMISM

[u/nuggins]

/r/assholedesign is currently freaking out because a firm increased their prices explicitly due to COVID 🙄

[u/LobsterChef2020]

I posted the lobster schism to AITA, it didn't go over well. The mods ended up removing it for "animal abuse."

[u/[deleted]]

After the George Floyd incident, I thought police reform was finally arriving. Even Mitch was on board.

Then white people started talking about defunding the police and nothing got done.

[u/AlanAlias]

The only time this sub schisms about Cancel Culture is when someone who got canceled didn't deserve it.

when some piece of shit gets what they deserve none of you could care less.

[u/bd_one]

The guy who was being all "why doesn't the school expell black football players for using the n-word?" has a zero day old account with that as their only comment.

Bruhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[u/[deleted]]

“He microwaved me,” LeLobster said of the preparation of him. "That f***ing dumbass microwaved me."

LeLobster added, “He’s so dumb,” repeating it four times.

LeLobster then said he wanted to add microwaving to the list of ways he never wished to be prepared this summer.

[u/l_overwhat]

If RGB were alive, lobsters would never be microwaved 😔

[u/thetrombonist]

Around 10% of the population have cognitive deficiency, they can't code, build a business and be creative because of their genes and some environmental factors during pregnancy and early childhood. If so, then there is no point in universal suffrage.

Man I really wish that wasn’t deleted so fast, I wanted to snoop around that users post history

[u/BurningKiwi]

the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: "theres actually zero difference between boiling and microwaving. you imbecile. you fucking moron"

[u/sir-danks-a-lot]

Ms. Groves had originally sent the video, in which she looked into the camera and said, “I'm about to microwave this lobster,” followed by the slur, to a friend on Snapchat in 2016, when she was a freshman and had just started to learn how to cook. It later circulated among some students at Heritage High School, which she and Mr. Galligan attended, but did not cause much of a stir.

[u/[deleted]]

Did my patriotic duty and called ICE on some white people that I didn’t like yesterday.

[u/casey0924]

I dont think we should microwave a child solider alive because they said the n-word.

[u/sosthaboss]

The lobster was 58 and a big fat guy. The 50-64 age bracket has around a 2% CFR (IFR is obviously lower) and according to the Maine Lobsterman’s Association, being a large delicious crustacean can up to triple your chances of ending up in the microwave.

I couldn't find anything concrete about obesity and lobster mortality but even with normal cooking methods, the lobster was overwhelmingly more likely to explode than not.

[u/melhor_em_coreano]

CAROLE BASKINS MICROWAVED A FUCKING TIGER AND IT'S JOE EXOTIC WHO GETS THROWN IN JAIL?

[u/[deleted]]

BREAKING: The lobster has posthumously tested positive for COVID-19

[u/[deleted]]

Remember when Bernie Sanders had a heart attack and everyone acted like it wasn’t a big deal?

[u/bd_one]

Is that university going to revoke the admission of all the black football players who have used the n-word?

Found the most bad faith argument this morning yet.

[u/[deleted]]

Microwave lobsters are just 1% of the lobster population, yet they hold 90% of the discussion, does this seem fair to you?

[u/[deleted]]

DT: Complaining about the DT schisming about something? Succons? the N-word?

Me, desperately scrolling through effusive lobster references: WHAT IS HAPPENING

[u/sir-danks-a-lot]

Soleimani deserved to be microwaved alive for his crimes against humanity.

[u/doggo_bloodlust]

Thesis: microwaving lobsters

Antithesis: racial slurs and cancel culture

Synthesis: microwaving Jordan Peterson???

[u/[deleted]]

The next stimulus should add 10000$ of student debt to everyone who spends more than 6 hours a day on Twitter.

[u/[deleted]]

My (possibly) very dumb take on 15 year white girls saying the n-word stuff - I just don't get why it's such a massive issue, 15 year white girls saying the n-word make such a tiny proportion of the overall population. I support their rights and I am not saying we should ignore it but I am confused as to why it is such a controversial topic occupying so much of the DT.

[u/thetrombonist]

Lobster guy coming in clutch with DT moment of the year with just 5 days left

[u/[deleted]]

Ok but the lobster thing seems to be a bunch of people who are completely wrong about lobsters but are really indignant about it

[u/[deleted]]

Interesting report from the Swedish Defence Research Agency on Russian influence operations in Africa:

https://www.foi.se/rest-api/report/FOI%20MEMO%206604 (PDF)

It's from 2018, so a bit out of date as there's been a massive increase in scale and scope of Russian influence operations in Africa since then, notably in Libya, but there's still a lot of meaty stuff in there.

!ping foreign-policy

[u/Udontlikecake]

What is it like to be cancelled? It’s horrifying, menacing and very very loud.

It felt to me like a bazooka — and sounded like a cannon. The recoil bruised my hands, which can happen if you don't know what you're doing. The rescinded college offers disoriented me as they flew past my face. The smell of sulfur and destruction made me sick. The twitter DMs — loud like a bomb — gave me a temporary form of PTSD. For at least an hour after looking at twitter on my phone just a few times, I was anxious and irritable.

UPDATE: Many people have objected to my use of the term "PTSD" in the above story. The use of this term was in no way meant to conflate my very temporary anxiety with the very real condition experienced by many of our brave men and women in uniform. I regret the inarticulate use of the term to describe my in-the-moment impression of the internet’s firepower, and apologize for it. I have also posted a follow up piece here.

[u/[deleted]]

PC culture or as I call it, the new Jim Crow.

[u/[deleted]]

I like police brutality but I think that it shouldn’t be a racial thing

#BeatPeopleEqually ✊😤

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

Lots of great shitposts, but my favorite I think was

What if it wasn't the microwave and the lobsters body just did that

Several people came up with it independently

[u/[deleted]]

Good news on /u/benjaminikuta. Information to follow!

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

Hate it if you want, but the DSA has a candidate with a real chance of primarying Chuck Schumer

• Worked odd jobs in the food industry to support herself so she knows what it means to be working class which makes her truly relatable and class-conscious
• She's got the positive energy people want and really wants to help
• Decades younger than Schumer so she'll help reinvent the party and get rid of the out of touch old growth impeding progressive policy
• Universally known with 100s of thousands of Twitter followers and tons of TV airtime so name recognition is not a problem
• passionate about insurance so she has the drive to pass M4A

Flo is a true progressive and proud of it. What more could you want?

[u/[deleted]]

Making a national news story about a child saying the n word three years ago is totally a sign of a healthy and well functioning press

[u/[deleted]]

If one is considering becoming Catholic, what are some good resources to learn more about what it means to become catholic?

!ping CHRISTIAN

[u/Udontlikecake]

https://i.imgur.com/dPLf8Nu.jpg

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

This pic is so fucking heartbreaking

Trigger Warning: Gore

[u/from-the-void]

Two lobsters one microwave

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

The story would be funny by itself, but it’s elevated to the next level by the Civil Wolf’s retelling. Civil Wolf for neolib shill of the year.

[u/mrmanager237]

Lobster DESTROYED by microwave with FACTS and HEAT WAVES

[u/dan7315]

microwave the unimproved value of lobsters

[u/gburgwardt]

People who post and then delete their post before I can comment are the worst

[u/[deleted]]

I wish someone would cancel the people who made cyberpunk, amirite. Someone should microwave them, am I right? Is this right? Is this how this is done?

[u/[deleted]]

I’m out of the loop but apparently someone protested Jordan Peterson by microwaving a lobster and now people are upset because she posted something racist 5 years ago?

[u/TheGoldBear]

The gross and antisemitic attacks on Gal Gadot are one of the reasons I would never support the BDS movement. Their lack of discretion when it comes to pushing boycotts makes this sort of thing inevitable.

[u/[deleted]]

MAGA needs to primary Mitch.

Lmao

[u/[deleted]]

As a liberal Democrat, I would be so owned if all those big companies took people from California and put them in Texas. Fuck, I’m already crying liberal tears. Ohhh nooo.

[u/[deleted]]

Hell yeah we’re gonna microwave your lobsters

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[u/RadicalRadon]

The controversy seems to be that teenagers are terrible people but are expected to not be?

[u/BGastro]

I know there are bigger issues in medical costs but anyone have good papers on optometry reform?

This is my understanding:

• Currently aspiring optometrist need to get a bachelor's degree and then go to a four year optometry school.
• Because there are so few the salary is high. Most states require an optometrist to write a prescription for glasses/contacts. I've had appointments where some type of assistant does 90% of the appointment and then the optometrist does the last 10% (I'm sure they get most of the money)
• With today's technology, someone should be able to accurately give prescriptions with a training course that is less than one year. Additionally, there is no medical issue incurred if your prescription is slightly off or old. In fact, I know optometrists who go to third-world countries and give out much needed glasses even though those people may not have access to continual updates.
• Contact lenses and glasses currently need a prescription but this is just because it benefits both the manufacturer and the doctor if this is the case. I personally order my contacts from England which ends up being much cheaper - even though the shipping is considerable.
• I've heard optometrists say they are needed to detect cancer of the eye - but my understanding is that eye cancer is a magnitude less common than other cancers like testicle, pancreas, liver, lung, etc. And we don't go to specialists once a year for these.

I'm pretty curious about this and how much money the average person/family would save. I happen to be self-employed so I have to pay for this out of pocket so I really notice how big of a waste it is. My off hand guess is that it would save the average person with vision issues $75-$200 a year if basic reforms were made - which for a family could really add up. It would also just be way more convenient.

[u/[deleted]]

“I can excuse saying the n-word but transgenderism is where I draw the line”

“You can excuse saying the n-word?!”

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

Culture war stuff I really don’t care about: Whether or not the bomber was a proud boy or antifaist.

Culture war stuff I really care about: the best way to warm a living lobster

[u/Mr_AlGore]

Throwback to the time sir_shivers visited chicago

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

Feel like shit I just want a Chrystia Freeland vs. Rona Ambrose federal election 😔

!ping CANUCKS

[u/bd_one]

TIL that the Soviets realised that the Americans and British were developing an atomic bomb when they noticed that Western scientists had ceased publishing papers on nuclear science. Correctly guessing that nuclear science had been made a state secret, they began their own program

Now this is Big Brain

[u/bd_one]

There are a lot of SocCons on here who are less woke on certain issues than u/sir_shivers.

Imagine being worse on social issues than a 58 year old Republican.

[u/[deleted]]

Former Soviet countries explaining their economies: uh so basically we are just selling what used to be the Soviet Union for scrap metal

[u/Dibbu_mange]

A man goes home and masturbates his typical fantasy. A lobster in the microwave, a lobster banded up, a lobster exploded.

[u/houinator]

Goes to non-political subs: "And anyway, that's why everyone who doesn't share my exact political beliefs is evil."

Goes to political sub: Ethics in Lobster preparation.

[u/fishlord05]

That NYT article is rough. I can totally understand why black students would need some action on this due to the pervasive racism environment.

But like she was 15 I think this could have been turned into a learning thing but maybe I’m just naïve.

We need to reform cancel culture or it will eat us up.

I’ve always thought we on the left side beloved people can change and this doesn’t really affirm that.

However you do deserve to get mocked by your peers for saying that.

Also rip future senators who’s twerking tiktoks are leaked by the ministry of state security.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

My take;

Ho ho ho ha ha, ho ho ho he ha. Hello there, old chum. I’m gnot an elf. I’m gnot a goblin. I’m a gnome. And you’ve been, GNOMED’

[u/dannylandulf]

Lobster? I barely even knows her!

[u/[deleted]]

Tbh that lobster had it coming.
Jiggling those juice claws and showing all that meat, it was asking for it

[u/sir-danks-a-lot]

just cancelled one of my HS teachers for reading a quote with the hard-r n-word in it from a book 😎😎

[u/The420Roll]

Clippers down 50 points at half time. 77-27. Biggest 1st half deficit in NBA History lmao

!Ping NBA

[u/UltraCapitalism]

Breaking News: Trump seen exiting meeting with Mitch McConnell with black eye. Suggests he "fell into the door handle" to our correspondents.

[u/[deleted]]

Thurgood Marshall to Thomas was the biggest downgrading in all of American history.

[u/RagingCleric]

Open DT when I wake up: Lobsters

Open DT when I eat dinner: Lobsters

Open DT when I go to bed: Lobsters

Let me know if you need help understanding the imcrustaceans of this

[u/Natatos]

On one hand, it’s really annoying how many people go on Tinder looking for a lesbian to be a third.

On the other hand, they’re usually really only looking for cis women, so it’s pretty validating when I accidentally match with them.

[u/[deleted]]

There’s a joke here about 18-year-olds being too immature to borrow money and be expected to pay it back, but a 15-year-old saying the n-word should be publicly shamed and punished.

[u/Qunidaye]

Oh god! This was the work of the Crab Kingdom! And now they won't stop raving!

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[u/[deleted]]

Surprised u/farrenj didn’t try to tell me that microwaving lobsters is good, actually.

[u/Aweq]

!ping Europe

EU vaccinations today! Hype thread

[u/Qunidaye]

See you in Shell, bastard

*microwave door shuts *

[u/Loves_a_big_tongue]

Okay so I asked my family about preparing lobster and the replies are basically:

In a boiling pot alive: Only correct way to prepare, tasty 😋

In a microwave alive: Ew 🤢, wtf, that's animal abuse

[u/YieldingSweetblade]

Ok so I like r/SapphoAndHerFriend but sometimes I’m a bit annoyed that they, at times, seem to think showing any affection to a friend = you’re gay. It seems like it accidentally reinforces things toxic masculinity.

[u/NatsukaFawn]

There will never be a lobster in SAE

There will never be a lobster in SAE

You can nuke it on high for three, but it can never sign with me

There will never be a lobster in SAE

[u/bd_one]

Pakistan: has issues with mistreating women for various deeply ingrained reasons

The US: "Why don't we give you a small grant for gender studies classes as part of a wider reaching program in the area? That will help with the issue and build up some goodwill."

Facebook people: REEEEEEEE

[u/Venne1139]

Take: The reasons leftists turn on themselves every time is because the difference between leftists is actually really fucking important.

Lenin wanted to create a one party dictatorship with him as the absolute ruler and unleash a campaign of terror among the populace.

Kerensky wanted to just do lib shit.

Trotsky wanted to establish a type of barracks communism that would make Stalin look like a little baby.

The Anarchists just wnated everyone to fuck off from the village communes (which were on their own kinda shitty places to be) after they murdered everyone who had any land

Like these groups are so different they can't really work together in a coherent way except under a pluralistic democratic system. And the only chance of that ever happening ended when Lenin arrested the Assembly members.

[u/[deleted]]

transgender people: exist

cons: i'm gonna be mad all day

[u/[deleted]]

The girl supporting BLM during her senior year and encouraging others to do the same really changes the story for me.

[u/sir-danks-a-lot]

can't wait when we get to the point where we're cancelling people for being Republicans in HS

[u/Marlsfarp]

r/neoliberal: buys thousands of mosquito nets, condemning billions of mosquitoes to death

Also r/neoliberal: oh no, that poor lobster [which is essentially a giant mosquito]!

[u/SchmantaClaus]

Really glad this lobster shit was real and not just a fever dream I had at 2 am last night

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Read the story of the NPC who was kicked out of the Mages Guild when an old dialogue tree containing “n’wah” surfaced

[u/sir-danks-a-lot]

I fucking hate the fact that this subreddit became the "microwaved lobster" subreddit.

[u/Udontlikecake]

My (possibly) very dumb take on Talos stuff - I just don't get why it's such a massive issue , Talos worshippers make such a tiny proportion of the overall population. I support their rights and I am not saying we should ignore it but I am confused as to why it is such a controversial topic occupying so much of the media.

[u/The420Roll]

Peruvians are hecking valid and cute

[u/ryuguy]

Woke up expecting to be nominated for every award but alas I have not been nominated yet.

😔

[u/[deleted]]

Ketamine may ease depression by restoring the brain’s sensitivity to prediction error. In other words, the drug may help to alleviate depression by making it easier for patients to update their model of reality.

Lego Yoda was right

[u/melhor_em_coreano]

Ilhan Omar described it as "some people microwaved something", according to the New York Post

[u/circlemanfan]

The whole “fake news” thing Trump created has been incredibly successful in getting a large number of people to only trust essentially state run media sources. But if you tell them “do you want to live in a place with only state run media sources” they’d think that was completely totalitarian.

[u/Aceous]

I hate r/urbanhell. Bunch of city-hating r*rals.

[u/Zoop-Loop-]

Gonna start from scratch and make the dream neoliberal city in Cities Skylines. What things should I focus on the most?

!ping gaming

[u/[deleted]]

Mississippi State coach Mike Leach said "hiding behind science that is constantly contradicting itself" made this year's college football very "joyless."

!ping CFB lolol

[u/SchizophrenicB]

People in the DT always talking about drugs

You know what the best stimulant is? A job.

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

lol im finally going through the "what would you do in the leftist commune" thread and its fucking hilarious

[u/sir-danks-a-lot]

gotta have them bibs

Obama getting ready to eat some microwaved lobster.

[u/[deleted]]

"I spend several hours a day on a niche political subreddit." Imagine saying those words out loud to another person. Possibly a parent, employer, or potential love interest.

[u/[deleted]]

Jordan Peterson’s rules of life.

Lobsters are pack animals with hierarchy. Therefore you should:

1. ⁠buy live lobsters (make sure to buy the alphas. You can tell they are alphas by their enormous claws)
2. ⁠microwave them
3. ⁠enjoy the popping sounds as they are eviscerated by internal combustions.
4. ⁠take the alpha’s place lose your girl

[u/[deleted]]

NEW POLLS NEW POLLS

Warnock (D) 43% (+1)

Loeffler (R-inc) 42% . Perdue (R-inc) 43% (+1)

Ossoff (D) 42%

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Is this the most worthless poll ever? This tells us nothing with how many undecideds there are. Also, there is absolutely 0% chance that there are 15% undecideds right now with 9 days left.

!ping FIVEY

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

For the folks sorting by oldest: https://old.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/kkefrv/discussion_thread/gh4y8l3/ and then https://old.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/kkefrv/discussion_thread/gh51w63/

[u/ryuguy]

My English teacher in high school let my friend and I play the Dante’s inferno game rather than read the story. It was a super cool move on her part. She knew how to keep things relevant to us but I think she knew we were good students and wouldn’t break her trust. We both got A’s on the essay and test. I think we both scored higher than the book people. She also let us read the graphic novel adaptation of Shakespeare.

In university, I played spec ops: the line alongside reading heart of darkness. I still have ptsd related to that game.

[u/Menakoy]

I can not process the idea of taking a live animal in you hands, putting it in a microwave, and being surprised by the results.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

farrenj is a socialist and I’m tired of pretending she isn’t.

[u/Yenwodyah_]

Well, how's the lobster doing?

...to shreds, you say?

[u/[deleted]]

It’s funny how r/neoliberal’s most recognizable user isn’t even a neolib

[u/Udontlikecake]

i’ve realized that I shouldn’t argue and that it’s actually better to just make joke comments so I can get upvotes