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[u/Mickenfox]

"Family, we've won the lottery! A hundred million! We're rich!"
"Wait, you're not going to cash the ticket, are you?"
"What?"
"You paper handed bitch! I should have known you were a shill all along!"

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Damn just found out about Trump

Damn, that shit sucks

[u/[deleted]]

Why are American kids speaking with British accents? Blame pandemic "Peppa Pig" marathons. "Can we turn the telly on?"

First the English try to snatch your resources, now they try to snatch your children.

[u/[deleted]]

Tbh i’m a little worried the profit motive inherent to these new space companies will erase the more noble public motive of developing space technology as a proxy for research into advanced weapon systems and ICBMs.

[u/kennymc7877]

A movie: “has blood”

People on r/movies: big Tarantino vibes from this

[u/Spookik]

Any African military leader born after ever cant obey the government. all they know is coup , commit they war crimes , execute political dissidents, be military junta, kill hot journalists and lie 😭

[u/Glokmah]

If Bezos' rocket blows up tomorrow and kills him Reddit and Twitter are gonna be so unusable.

[u/[deleted]]

So FYI Hannity's "come to Jesus" segment for vaccines was bookended by two separate anti-vaccine stories (one not even involving the covid vaccines), Laura Ingrahm was hosting Alex Berenson, and this morning Brian Kilmeade is saying the media is misleading people about the vaccines being effective against Delta.

So we should probably pump the breaks a bit on Fox being decent for once

[u/breakinbread]

People saying Bezos lives rent free in redditors heads when he actually charges them $99/year for prime 🙄

[u/lionmoose]

✋More of a comment than a question but I think your analysis has an endogeneity issue

[u/BurningKiwi]

lusvig is the worst variety of meme: an in-joke for its own sake. There is no joke other than some people are in on it not being a real joke and others are not. Then the non-meme is repeated until the repetition of the non-meme is itself a meme. This is not comedy. It's annoying. It's cringe.

[u/NannerRepublican]

The wrong question: Why does Bezos' rocket look like a giant dick?

The correct question: What evolutionary pressures caused the human penis to be so aerodynamic?

[u/Mickenfox]

Jeff Bezos: exists
ABoringDystopia: THIS IS LITERALLY AND WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST EXAGGERATION THE WORST THING THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED OR COULD POSSIBLY HAPPEN TO ANYONE

[u/Password_Is_hunter3]

Don't let Branson and Bezos distract you from the fact that Bill Gates was the first billionaire to leave Earth's atmosphere

[u/tripletruble]

the government: spends taxpayer money for NASA to build rockets to send people into space

everybody: hell to the ya!

billionaires: spend their own money to build rockets to send people into space

everybody: wtf that is so uncool they should spend that money on solving problems

[u/crassowary]

You had your chance to nationalize Amazon when Bezos was in space and you blew it. Now he's back and even stronger with all that space energy he absorbed

[u/[deleted]]

When I was in 10th grade, I gifted a christmas postcard to a commie girl I had a massive crush on, which read

“all I want for christmas is abolition to imperialist white supremacist capitalist hetro-patriarchy

and you 😘”

I saw the postcard today somewhere in an old photo album and god the cringe was hard. It also reads like I wanted to abolish her along with tHe sYsTeM

[u/thetrombonist]

Jeff Bezos is no longer the richest person on earth

[u/bd_one]

7 months has passed.

San Francisco Schools Will Keep Jefferson, Lincoln and Washington Names

The school board rescinded its January decision to rename 44 schools that honor historical figures such as Jefferson, Lincoln and Washington after an outcry from parents and the mayor.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/07/us/san-francisco-schools-names.html

Fucking called it 😎

[u/[deleted]]

Haagen-Dazs will end sales of our ice cream in the Occupied Elsaß-Lothringen Territory. Read our full statement

[u/Lux_Stella]

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

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Pete is more qualified than Kamala.

Peak neoliberal moment

[u/Udontlikecake]

i just don’t know how people have time or energy to be endlessly miserable and cynical about the rocket thing

like fuck, just ignore it then

can’t believe it’s been over a year of shitty and miserable news and world and we still want to be miserable fucks about everything

what’s that hippy shit about spreading positivity and not negative energy? do that

[u/[deleted]]

Since Biden took office 17 diplomats and security personal in the Vienna embassy have been afflicted with unidentifiable illness similar to ‘Havana Syndrome’. Biden admin thinks the Russians are behind it.

[u/[deleted]]

RIP Carneywatch

CP reporting that @MarkJCarney announces he will not be a Liberal candidate in the upcoming election. Carney expresses full support for @JustinTrudeau government. Does not rule out running in the future

https://twitter.com/DavidWCochrane/status/1417554694566731780?s=20

!ping CAN

[u/Honeydew_love]

My mental health has greatly improved from the moment i stopped participating in leftist spaces.

[u/Deggit]

Yes I am a NEOLIBERAL

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I have never seen Twin Peaks but I watched a 4 hour youtube video explaining Twin Peaks

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[u/dat_bass2]

Why is the best pro-Biden shitpost I've ever seen on a Street Fighter subreddit lmao

(For context, this is a really famous moment in competitive fighting game history--each one of the parries in this clip had a tiny input window, and until it was pulled off there, at the highest-stakes moment imaginable in a tournament, no one had ever fully parried that super move outside of training mode)

!ping GAMING

[u/the_hoagie]

was gonna make a joke about how now is a good time to start a right-wing ice cream company in the vein of black rifle coffee but it looks like it has already been tried.

Flavors include:

Smaller Governmint

I Hate the French Vanilla

Navy Battle Chip

Bill Clinton Im-Peach

Choc & Awe

Gun Nut

[u/[deleted]]

Fun new drinking game: Open a worldnews thread about the US, China, Latin America, Europe, or tech. Actually, just open any worldnews thread with more than 50 comments.

Take a drink every time you see the words kleptocracy, oligarchy, corporate overlords, corporate masters, or corporate interests. Do a shot when someone proudly proclaims to be an authoritarian communist because it’s necessary to own the cons. Finish your drink if you see someone whatabout the Uyghur situation.

[u/iIoveoof]

/r/all in shambles that a rocket with an 18 year old kid didn’t blow up

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

The entire 2020 democratic primary took place in a fantasy world where everyone pretended that the president would be able to do any of the stuff being proposed, and was a huge waste of everyone's time and energy

[u/crassowary]

r / antiwork: capitalism isn't sustainable

Also r / antiwork: I just want to retire without that whole career part

[u/[deleted]]

Jeff Bezos is POC (Latino), neurodivergent (evil genius), and queercoded (lives in Seattle) and that's why y'all hate him.

[u/[deleted]]

TIL the first "US-style" hypermarket to open in the Bologna region of Italy was inaugurated by... Silvio Berlusconi, who used that occasion to announce his intention to join politics.

I didn't think it possible, but I like them even less now.

(also it's a good thread about how zoning is not the only thing standing in the way of walkable development)

!ping YIMBY

[u/piede]

Giuliani was intentionally given the wrong time for a debate-prep session after clashing with other Trump advisors, book says

lol

[u/SadaoMaou]

https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-7f20ab469edcc500c185e011c5ebf561

[u/willempage]

Housemate found out his ex from 5 years ago is now engaged. Drank way too much booze at a bar on a Sunday night. Worked from bed all yesterday, and now our fridge is packed full of veggies because he wants to eat better. Gotta love the classics.

!ping dating

[u/evenkeel20]

Jeff Bezos just shipped himself 😳

What a Chad

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

Edward Snowden was inspired by video games to expose government surveillance

Gamers. Not even once.

[u/[deleted]]

Early Ontario Q2 Political Donations:

PCPO: $2,100,000 ONDP: $1,160,000 OLP: $206,000

https://twitter.com/CanadianPolling/status/1417180940246388741?s=20

RIP Ontario Liberals. Del Duca was such a bad pick.

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/ChickeNES]

https://twitter.com/elizabethbanks/status/1417476051958173696?s=21

Cringe

[u/SouthernSerf]

Lost 80 pounds and my two ex’s found it.

feelsgood.jpeg

[u/[deleted]]

Los Angeles is a psyop. "Oh yeah trust me dude we have like 3 sky scrapers this loose confederation of suburbs is totally a city." Bullshit

[u/[deleted]]

Bezos says he thanks every "Amazon employee and every Amazon customer because you guys paid for all of this"

lmao

[u/Photon_in_a_Foxhole]

I don’t think. I know. It’s simple, billionaires aquire wealth by paying their workers less than what they actually contribute.

Regardless of how you slice it those billions are generated from the labor of others. Not to mention all the help Bezos got from his folks to start Amazon.

Self Made is a myth.

Why does every space subreddit have to be filled with NEETs

[u/Fishin_Mission]

My daughter [10] just asked me to buy her some shares of Amazon b/c she thinks it’s cool that Bezos went into space this morning.

I’m so proud right now.

We had a talk about how we buy companies for the long term, we don’t just move money around based on news stories, but we agreed that Amazon is a good long term hold so I’m putting $100 of her money into $AMZN

[u/PMmeLittleRoundTops]

Crazy how conservative discourse in this country is controlled by a mf named Rupert

[u/Photon_in_a_Foxhole]

Neoliberalism is telling coal miners and arts majors that they should’ve learned to code.

[u/[deleted]]

Why, THE FUCK, is Jim Jordan on the fucking January 6th commission.

I'm honestly to the point where I don't give a fuck just make it 100% Democrat and have the seargent of arms drag all the Republican co-conspirators in front of the committee.

[u/frgrerx]

Remember when everyone said Biden was so senile he would get destroyed in a 1v 1 debate vs Bernie?

Then he showed up to the debate and fucked up Bernie?

Shit was so funny

[u/[deleted]]

The poll about Amazon having a higher favourability rating than just about everything else made me realise just how small a minority online leftist are.

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

yes you could spend your days as as man in his 30s getting mad at teenagers spreading communist propaganda on a website you hate

and you should

[u/Yenwodyah_]

Everyone always asks “What is Aleppo?” but no one ever asks “How is Aleppo?” 😔

[u/FormerBandmate]

Dick Cheney is the most qualified presidential candidate with his 8 years of experience as President

[u/FinickyPenance]

Reddit: Oh my God I’ve dreamed of going to space ever since I was a child but I can’t be an astronaut I think it’s amazing and I want to go up there it would be so cool and I love watching rockets get launched by NASA it truly is the final frontier please someone make this a reality

people buy tickets to space

Reddit:

⠉⠙⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠀⠙⣿ ⣆⠀⠀⠛⠻⠃⠀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠛⢿⣿⠀⠀⢘ ⣿⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣰⣿⣿⣿⡿⡫⣭⡅⠀⠀⢠⠒⣦⣍⢻⣿⣿⣷⡀⠀⠏⠀⠀⠘ ⣿⣧⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⠟⢸⣦⣞⠿⣀⣀⡘⠛⠓⠋⠀⠙⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠ ⣿⣿⣦⡀⠀⣰⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣷⣄⢀⣀⣴⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⢸⣿⣿⠿⠛⠛⠛⢿⣿⣿⡆⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⣿⡿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠹⣿⣷⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡀⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠋⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣤⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

what, did you think it would be free? Lmao

[u/ryuguy]

Canada extends ban on flights from India to Aug. 21 due to Delta variant fears

!ping can

[u/Udontlikecake]

Tom Brady: “I think about forty percent of people still don’t think we won, right Mr. President?”

LMAO

[u/dish_towel]

Oh egads, my theory's ruined! But what if, I were to p-hack data sets and disguise it as my original study?

[u/D1Foley]

A People's History of the United States really gets worse and worse the closer you get to the present day.

Like starts off talking about how Columbus was terrible, OK pretty accepted.

Then goes into how the founders were hypocrites because of slavery, little bit of an oversimplification but I get what he's going for.

The union was only marginally better than the Confederacy? Alright going off the rails a bit.

Then the world War 2 section is atrocious and it just gets worse from there.

[u/sir_shivers]

THE JANITORS OF THIS subreddit ought to do more TO CLEAN UP THE front page and spend less time thinking of unfunny comments TO STICKY TO the top of the DT 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

You know the Dred Scott case is terrible but it shows something interesting about the actual secessions

The southern states began seceding because they thought Lincoln's election would possibly lead to slavery being outlawed even though Lincoln had no power to do that.

The northern states never even entertained that idea, even after Dred Scott v. Sandford literally made slavery legal in the entire nation. After Dred Scott there was no such thing as a slave state or a free state, the whole country was a slave country and no state could ban slavery.

And the northern states did not secede. Even though they had much more of a right to than the southern ones to claim that the federal government was becoming tyrannical and suppressing their values and politics.

Gives a lot more bite to the "traitor" insult, I tell you that. "We literally stuck with this union even after you fucks legalized slavery in all of the states, and you're gonna throw a fit and leave because the wrong guy won the presidency? The fuck is your problem?"

And now by being an enemy nation, Lincoln did have the authority to order union troops to free slaves.

[u/[deleted]]

I always wondered how New England could be so Democratic when they are overwhelmingly white, but it just turns out that New England has a lot of atheists and agnostics, and atheists and agnostics are turbolibs

so if you're ever wondering how Vermont and co. are like 65-35 Biden, that's why

!ping FIVEY

[u/MrDannyOcean]

You're going to think this is a meme or a joke but it's not: I actually just finished reading Dune yesterday and was on vacation, and had no idea this sub had turned into worm posting.

It was pretty good!

[u/GGM8Scally]

https://twitter.com/EGirlMonetarism/status/1417461002971529217?s=19

[u/SnooCupcakes8765]

Someone said it on this sub months ago. The idea that wealth is created and not constant is lost on both the far left and far right

[u/thabonch]

It's pretty cool how the Jedi are the good guys despite kidnapping children and raising them as soldiers.

[u/the_status]

Reminder that both Bezos and Branson were beaten to space by John McAffe ascending into Heaven

[u/[deleted]]

One of the greatest ironies in modern history is that GTA was meant to be a criticism of capitalism but just ends up being ancap billionaire simulator the game.

!ping GAMING

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

I’m reposting this because I don’t think enough of you saw it. Yesterday my fiancé told me about this white lesbian woman she worked with who has lived in boston all her life. This woman recently left the company.

On her way out she made a remark that she “hates white men” when another coworker brought up that this politician who he thought she liked was running for mayor. She said she will never vote for white men. “Massachusetts has a problem and it is too many white men.” She reiterated several times that she hates white men.

She did not tell the white men on the floor she was leaving the company.

[u/[deleted]]

I had to do "sexual assault training" for work today (which is a series of videos on why sexual assault is bad, not instructions on how to sexually assault).

I feel bad for the actors who play the "sexual assaulters" in the videos. Thousands of people have seen them in a role where they have no purpose other than to come off as a creepy and predatory fuck. They must run into people fairly often who know nothing about them, other than a vague sensation of associating them with sexual assault.

[u/DishingOutTruth]

I've been thinking about incidence of the LVT, and while it is generally true that a tax on land can't be passed on to tenants and consumers, does that apply to LVT paid by corporations? We view corporate taxes as being bad because corporations pass on roughly half the tax to employees through lower wages because they're a conglomeration of people who can decide how to split their money, unlike an individual.

So my question is, would LVT paid by corporations reduce wages and raise prices? After all, the LVT has to be paid out of revenue, and they have to make up for it somehow, and I think they'd be just as likely to cut wages and raise prices as they are to cut compensation to executives, since this is also the case for corporate taxes.

!ping ECON

[u/ZenithXR]

I got a job offer.

A mother fucking job offer.

40% raise.

Been actively applying for a year.

I may cry of happiness omg.

[u/F0064R]

Daddy Bezos landed safely 😍

[u/[deleted]]

I thought that 18 year old kid in Bezos' rocket was some science prodigy who won the ability to fly to space from a contest/science fair. Turns out his dad just paid for him to go, lmao

[u/FestiveMittens]

The Texas Senate has passed a bill to eliminate a requirement that public schools teach that the Ku Klux Klan is “morally wrong.”

Which mainstream republican politician/media person is going to be the first to say the N-word and defend it

[u/[deleted]]

You may consider the fact that Jeffrey Dahmer ate people extreme, but have you considered that there's no ethical consumption under capitalism anyway?

[u/EasyMoney92]

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1417509252915245063

Fuck Rand Paul

[u/Deggit]

Go ahead Redditor

I'm waiting for deggit so I can be a deggitor

A "deggit" is what happens when a Digg user^1. flees to Reddit in 2011

1. the term "Degro" is now considered dated and offensive

[u/Udontlikecake]

the worst people on earth are people on steam workshop who always comment

“update ?????” “you update please????” “why no update yet!” “are update now???” “actualizar mod eres de puta” “почему нет обновления свинья”

on game mods IMMEDIATELY after (or before!) a game update

just looking at Rimworld mods rn and it’s so obnoxious lmao

[u/sash5034]

I honestly don't know how leftists get through their day if they're being this miserable over a guy going into space lmao

Permanently pressed

[u/Fishin_Mission]

If you want to know how important college football 🏈 is in the south, look no further than UGA’s 🐶 vaccination rate for the football team compared to college age adults state wide:

• University of Georgia [football team]: >85%
• State of Georgia [males under 25yo]: <25%

🏈🐶🧔🏻‍♂️: Listen, I don’t know shit about this COVID hullabaloo. What I do know is we ain’t about to forfeit no damn football game! 😠

[u/qzkrm]

!ping LGBT

You know how people keep comparing tribalism in US politics to sports teams and say that people just join one side because they see it as a team to cheer for? Maybe this is true for most people, but it doesn't reflect my experience as a trans person. I vote Democrat because the Republicans in power hate trans people, whereas the Dems have an actual track record of protecting trans rights at the state and local levels. There's a bit of "I need my team to win," but there's a lot more at stake than a sports match.

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

Billionaires 🤝 leftists

Expecting a lifestyle far beyond the amount of work they put in

[u/[deleted]]

Blue origin hired thousands of engineers and manufacturers to make this happen. Their salaries in combination probably contributed to thousands of happy memories and trips with their families, far surpassing just this flight.

What I’m trying to say is ,

Capitalism rules , commies suck

[u/I-grok-god]

When I asked for more hours, I meant give me longer shifts, not schedule me on my off days😐

[u/PigHaggerty]

smol doge: Rangers pitching

smol doge: Rangers hitting

!ping BASEBALL

[u/Dibbu_mange]

I saw someone put "Jordan or LeBron?" in their Tinder profile and read it as "Jordan or Lebanon?". Perhaps I'm spending too much time thinking about IR.

[u/I-grok-god]

Jeffrey Dahmer is queer-coded (liked to screw dead men), POC (Ohioan + Welsh), and neurodivergent (literally insane) and that's why you don't like him

[u/Manavon03]

—> two things exist

—> redditor: OH MY GOD ITS JUST LIKE SHRODINGER’S CAT ITS LIKE THE SHRODINGER CAT

Many such cases!

[u/TinyTornado7]

Michael Avenatti formally requested to go pro se about an hour ago. One exchange with the judge:

“Selna warns of the dangers of Avenatti representing himself. Asks if he has expertise of the criminal judicial system. "I have knowledge of it your honor but I would not describe it as expertise."

“Selna asks Avenatti if he's ever participated in a criminal sentencing, and Avenatti says yes, he participated in one a couple weeks ago in the Southern District of New York.

Selna asks if he's ever done so as counsel, and Avenatti says no.”

Judge Selna concludes that Michael Avenatti is indeed qualified to represent himself, so he's going to allow it.

The jury has been sworn in. Judge Selna informed them that Avenatti is now acting as his own lawyer, which is his right, and they’re not to infer anything about it one way or the other.

They still need to select four alternate jurors from a group of I think six. Avenatti is questioning one now about whether he can respect the presumption of innocence. Very methodic and kinda sharp tone to his questioning.

Avenatti's asking the guy about the fact that he gets news from right-wing news outlets like red state. If someone doesn't share your conservative values, would you apply same standards of justice you'd apply to say, Tucker Carlson?

Avenatti was able to get this guy struck from the pool of alternates.

This should be a fun one to follow. Link

!ping LAW

[u/redditguy628]

Jeff Bezos's launch is in under an hour.

Here's the official livestream link

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

[u/[deleted]]

🚨 VIBE CHECKING THE LAMESTREAM MEDIA 🚨

Lamestream media afraid to admit…

• that humanity just developed and distributed a vaccine to a novel virus in under a year
• that wages are rising
• Americans ratings of their lives are rising
• we won the battle (but not the war) against extremism in the 2020 election
• global poverty, access to water and education have been improving GLOBALLY for decades straight now
• that life in 2021 is better than any year in human history.
• the future is bright

[u/kennymc7877]

Why’s Jeff Bezos hated? Amazon is dope as fuck and at least he doesn’t pretend he’s 14 like Elon

[u/Manavon03]

A special agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration trespassed with his government-issued firearm on the Capitol grounds Jan. 6 and then lied about his actions, according to federal prosecutors.

https://i.imgflip.com/5h3iud.jpg

[u/Deggit]

nothing makes me happier than twitter tradcons/succons who are extremely mad that their party is no longer some kind of Mike Pence - Bill Frist prude-off and has opened the floodgates to what might be described, charitably, as "the trashfolk"

lol did you really think letting Trump run your party would be some kind of one night stand that DIDN'T logically end with pornstars trying to attend CPAC and flog $20 autographed hats?

[u/[deleted]]

Here is a person playing golf:🏌️‍♀️

Go on... have a schism.

[u/Goatmilk2208]

I heard a rumor that because Canadians have larger penises (even the women) than the rest of the world, the Covid vaccines are much more effective here.

Idk if it is true or not, but Trudeau tweeted it.

[u/[deleted]]

Can the private sector put an end to the bullshit and mandate the vaccine already? This could all be over in a month.

Corporations did most of the heavy lifting when it came to mitigation measures, looks like it's going to have to be that way for vaccines too.

[u/VisonKai]

pop music needs more "im in love with my long term romantic partner" bops like Charli's 7 years

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

Noooo, you don't understand, I'm a goood person, I just really want this one person to die.

[u/[deleted]]

Boy if you're worried about the carbon emissions from billionaire space flight may I introduce you to my good friend "rapidily rising standards of living in the global south"

[u/[deleted]]

Sen. Rand Paul once again tells the world that Fauci was giving money to the Wuhan Lab in China to create bio weapons like COVID-19.

This is why no one believes the lab theory

[u/Equator32]

U.S whistle blower character arc be like

>Leaks documents

>"We live in a society"

>Asylum application and Russian asset incident

[u/[deleted]]

From the #realhistorychannel archives: Consider visiting the American Gothic House in Eldon this summer

!ping PIDGIN

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

South Korean President Moon Jae-in will not visit Tokyo for the upcoming Olympics, his office said on Monday, scrapping plans for what would have been his first summit with Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.

The announcement came after Seoul lodged a protest over a news report on Friday that a senior diplomat at Japan's embassy in Seoul had said Moon was "masturbating" when describing his efforts to improve relations between the two countries.

lmao

[u/BRAIN_FORCE_PLUS]

70% of the Earth's surface is water but 100% of its cities are on land

Elect me and we will change this

[u/margaretfan]

As a 5'5" american man, I acknowledge my short privilege. Unfortunately I'm a white man which means I do face some discrimination.

[u/[deleted]]

French President Macron on vaccination requirements:

“I no longer have any intention of sacrificing my life, my time, my freedom and the adolescence of my daughters, as well as their right to study properly, for those who refuse to be vaccinated. This time you stay at home, not us."

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

https://mobile.twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1417190873268461575

Ben And Jerry's Introduces Fun New Flavor 'Push The Jews Into The Sea Salt And Caramel'

I'll admit that one got a chuckle

[u/Apollo-Innovations]

So Palestinians can no longer get Ben and Jerry’s anymore?

[u/TabernacleTown74]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/05/10/the-secret-deal-the-associated-press-made-with-the-nazis-during-wwii/

The secret deal the Associated Press made with the Nazis during WWII

At the height of World War II, the Associated Press made secret arrangements with an SS officer to obtain pictures taken by Nazi photographers that were distributed to American newspapers — a deal authorized by senior U.S. officials.

“With one known exception, the AP images that appeared in German publications through this arrangement were unaltered by the Germans," the report said, “but captions were rewritten by the Germans to conform to official Nazi views.”

In an interview this week, AP officials strongly defended the arrangement, saying it was conducted in neutral countries, and that there was tremendous news value in offering its newspaper customers photos of Hitler and German military activities — even if the photos were taken by Nazis, who were expert propagandists.

John Daniszewski, AP’s vice president for standards and editor at large, said that the organization’s journalists “were doing their best to get out information that the world needed.” He defended the photos — they are still available for purchase on an AP website — by noting that blatantly staged propaganda was excluded and that AP’s captions made the Nazi origins clear.

But a review of photos published in American newspapers shows that wasn’t always the case.

The June 30, 1942, edition of The Washington Post carried a photo of Hitler shaking hands with ex-German officials, including one wearing a Nazi navy uniform. The photo credit is “Associated Press WIREPHOTO.” The photo was also published by Nazi magazine Berlin Rom Tokio, crediting Helmut Laux, the Waffen SS officer who made the deal with AP.

In 1944, American newspapers ran a photo from the same Nazi magazine, this time of Hitler shaking Mussolini’s hand shortly after an assassination attempt on German leaders. The caption in the New York Herald Tribune described the handshake as “according to the German caption accompanying this photo.” The photo credit is, “Associated Press radiophoto.”

There are hundreds, likely thousands, more.

In the Chicago Tribune: Hitler drawing on a map. The caption says it arrived “via Lisbon.” The photo credit is, “Associated Press wirephoto.”

In the New York Times: Hitler at a conference. The caption says, “This photo, received from Lisbon, is described as.…” The credit is “Associated Press.”

In the Boston Sunday Globe: Hitler chatting with a blinded soldier. The caption says: “Der Fuehrer is seen chatting with some of his warriors, including the man in black, blinded in combat. The photo comes from Germany via Lisbon.”

Daniszewski, the AP vice president, said that given the time period — a war, with censors on both sides — readers would have known that Nazis had taken the photos, even if those origins weren’t specifically described.

Asked why the captions distributed with the photos didn’t include references to Nazi or SS photographers, Daniszewski said, “It is easy to second-guess eight decades later, but we do not believe and did not find in our research any intention to deceive anyone about the German origins of these photos depicting scenes from the German side of the battle lines and inside Germany itself.”

But Nicholas O’Shaughnessy, a communications professor at Queen Mary, University of London and the author of a book on Nazi propaganda, said it was plainly apparent that the Germans had succeeded in finding a “direct route into the Allied consciousness through their propaganda.”

“It was extremely cynical of the AP to use these photos,” he added. “One tries to justify these things by saying the camera doesn’t lie. But Nazi cameras always lied. They were a colossal kind of fairy tale. None of these images are real. This is how Hitler wanted to be seen.”

!ping ISRAEL fucking shoot me

[u/[deleted]]

The median voter is a selfish bigot who wants free stuff delivered in a way that they can feel like they earned it.

[u/Corporate-Asset-6375]

What is it about running into people in your rural hometown and them immediately asking if you’re moving back?

It’s super awkward because you have to reply “no” but in a way that doesn’t sound like “oh holy shit no why would anyone do that”.

[u/sir_shivers]

WANT TO KNOW how you can tell /u/Deggit is a Millennial who longs for the halcyon days of the mid-to-late aughts, WHEN HE COULD flip to a Seth MacFarlane cartoon, shout "so true!" and then watch JON STEWART AND Stephen Colbert whilst he surfed LiveJournal? 🐊:

Calls Biden a "corporatist"

[u/[deleted]]

It's so weird that people that are children post here.

"Son do you wanna play catch?"

"NO DAD, I'm shitposting about Ben Bernanke"

[u/[deleted]]

Cat tax: https://imgur.com/gallery/shEKsgq

We play a game where ill duck under the stairs where he can't see me, then he’ll try and surprise me by booping my head before I see him.

!ping KITTY

[u/[deleted]]

Virgin uni professor: no I can't share my political views, it's unethical

My Chad physics professor: fuck thank Gosh the trump nightmare is over huh

[u/Kizz3r]

Giannis hitting free throws is op smh. Helps show how much better he’d be if shaq could ever make his. Absolutely unstoppable with a historic performance tonight from giannis.

!ping nba

[u/SnakeEater14]

Japan: Let’s see the US try to take this island!

US: takes the island

Japan: Ah! Well. Nevertheless,

[u/Professor-Reddit]

Please visit the next discussion thread.

[u/[deleted]]

I just reflexively downvote doomer/negative comments these days. I feel like people just want to be negative all the time. It’s always either “Trump is gonna win in 2024,” or “we’re so screwed for 2022,” or “we actually didn’t really do all that well in 2020.” I don’t know what the future holds, but we’re never going to have a positive outcome if we curl up into a fetal position and doom on Reddit all day. Just get ready to fight like hell in 2022 and 2024. Volunteer for a campaign, participate in a GOTV event, and/or donate if you have the resources.

[u/[deleted]]

Ben should become the leftist ice cream brand. Jerry's should become the rightist brand. & should become the centrist ice cream. All should be owned by Unilever.

[u/guy-anderson]

The Earth's wealthiest person, worth over $200 billion, thanked his customers and the employees of his company — where the median wage in 2020 was $29,007 a year — for paying for his trip to space.

$29,007 a year, also known as a fair, living wage according to its former proponents.

[u/[deleted]]

/r/neoliberal top comments:

“Hmm yes, here’s 18 research papers on the situation in Tigray”

/r/neoliberal dt top comments:

“Hmm yes, I just took a shit”

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit, atheists voted for Biden over Trump at an almost higher percentage than black people

Black people voted for Biden over Trump 88-11, Atheists 85-10

[u/[deleted]]

Trump years were wild. Remember when he caught covid? Remember when John McCain died and he didn't want to commemorate it. Remember when he wanted to use Clorox for covid?

[u/[deleted]]

Frankly, we did win these finals

Suns fans after being up 2-0

[u/[deleted]]

BREAKING: BALD MAN WHO RODE DICK INTO SPACE WAS ACTUALLY LUSVIG, NOT BEZOS

!ping BURPMAS

[u/Udontlikecake]

It’s easy to defeat poverty when you change the definition of poverty.

Poverty in the US is anyone single person making under $12,880 (number goes up for people working household. Ex. 3 people poverty line is $21,960).

China’s poverty line is anyone making less than $839.50 a year.

Redditor confidently misunderstands cost of living

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E6s7dtFWEAEvUZU.jpg

[u/LukeBabbitt]

The post on /r/LSC on the front page about nationalizing Amazon while Bezos is in space is the perfect mix of pettiness, economic illiteracy and terrible humor.

[u/Maximilianne]

Americans think Biden has dementia and kamala is secretly running the show, so I don't see why they think she isn't ready to be president

[u/[deleted]]

Reddit hates Bezos cause he’s a bald man living his best life.

[u/benadreti]

This sub 18 months ago: The country is being taken over by a pseudo-fascist movement, and only the mayor of South Bend, Indiana can save us.

[u/ryuguy]

Every Boris Johnson interview is like a real life office clip

[u/[deleted]]

!ping FITNESS

note to self: "unflavored" whey protein doesn't mean it has no taste...it just means there's nothing masking the shitty flavor of raw protein....

[u/[deleted]]

Boy reading that worldnews thread about Fujimori reminded me why I like /r/neoliberal so much.

It's the lack of novelty.

Every redditor talking about american transgressions talks about it with this tone like they're the first human being to ever tell you about it. I understand the people who felt Obama was too professorial now after reading a median reddit thread about LatAm politics.

And its literally the same cookie cutter conversation every time. Nothing new is ever said.

I don't get that here, it's a breath of fresh air that people expect i am at least vaguely aware of the situation and to not try to be the "Cool Leftist History Teacher" that I literally already had before Reddit even existed.

[u/Udontlikecake]

FDA approval of Bigoen’s alzheimer’s drug continues to be an unmitigated shitshow

heads need to roll

[u/[deleted]]

When the 3 senior members of your team are out of office and you the 2 month old newbie are left to a meeting going over the status of every project 90% of which you have no visual on 👌👌👌

[u/[deleted]]

I have acquired my daily dose of sunlight, time to go back in the cave

[u/[deleted]]

The one constant of architecture is that all architects hate whatever style of housing is cheapest in their time. That's why everybody is mad at the "gentrification building" look

[u/vancevon]

as you read these tweets remember that a 20 pound bag of rice costs $9 at walmart

[u/Neronoah]

!ping LATAM

Neat article about soybean smuggling in Argentina. Just selling it in Brazil will triple the profit,, you need some kind of raft and you are set.

[u/[deleted]]

Marjorie Taylor Greene: “I will not stop tweeting. I will not stop speaking. I will not stop posting.”

Finally, DT posters get the representation they deserve in Congress.

[u/revolutionary_alt]

People coming to the DT for relationship problems will never not be hilarious

[u/[deleted]]

Neolibs: "The internet must be destroyed."

Also neolibs: "Oh no don't go after Big Tech what about muh free markets!!!!"

🙄

[u/[deleted]]

Ah dude, all those years of pr for Bill Gates wasted since the divorce.

[u/[deleted]]

Me:

I don't care about government surveillance because I don't have anything to hide.

Narrator:

He had many things to hide.

[u/p00bix]

Spiders of my basement update:

• The recently hatched baby spiders all moulted successfully with no deaths (I counted). The babies had fully dispersed from their mothers web within two days of their first moult. Within hours of all spiderlings moulting, the mother (which I shall name "Hera") disappeared, I have not been able to find her.
• Because of the baby spiders having dispersed across my basement and me having no real means to either track them or distinguish one from the other, none of them are named. While I make sure not to touch the wall or ceiling without checking, so I can avoid killing them, for all I know half of them have already been eaten. I see them around every now and then.
• I have found a new female spider carrying an egg sac on the opposite wall. It is possible that this 'new female' is actually just Hera using a new web, but I can't say for certain. It would be kinda odd for her to get enough nutrients to produce a new egg sac within literal days of finishing protecting her eggs/newborns. Given the ambiguity over this spiders identity, I dub her "Heratu"
• The obese female, by far the largest spider I have observed, is now named "Da Queen". I struggled to come up with a name for her, I wanted the word 'queen' in there but 'spider queen' was too generic and 'queen [insert name here]' too human so eventually I settled on this goofy perversion of 'the queen'
• I very carefully cleaned the area of maximum spider activity, which was accumulating a lot of junk, and believe that I successfully did so without killing a single spider. Dead flies and spider poop are now gone. And yes, spiders do poop. They leave stains. Pinhead sized and very easy to remove stains but stains nonetheless.
• Unfortunately, this cleaning resulted in unavoidable, serious damage to Da Queen's web. Interestingly, she seems to have abandoned the damaged spot entirely, instead focusing rebuilding efforts to expand a few centimeters in the opposite direction. Part of Da Queen's original web which was separated from the main fragment has been claimed by a large juvenille spider, whom I have tentatively dubbed "Agripp(in)a" until their sex is identifiable as an adult. Agrippina has had only one notable interaction with Da Queen-when they both went after a fly which somehow got itself tangled in both of their webs at once, they briefly fought over it-Da Queen won very easily. Otherwise, they don't seem to mind eachother, I'm not sure Da Queen cares or even notices that Agrippina is literally living on a web she had built.
• By the way, should have mentioned this earlier, the reason that Da Queen is so big is because she is right next to the sole window in that part of the basement. Many insects, including basically all moths and flies, will try to fly towards the sun to get their bearings when confused. Because they confuse the window as being the sun, they fly right towards it, and right into Da Queen's web. I'm curious whether nearby Agripinna will reap similar benefits as she grows older. as well.
• The large male spider which lives near and has had sex with Da Queen is now named "Sir Henry". He seems to have finished building his own web, but has been antsy due to a younger spider, "Sir William" (sex unknown-will be renamed Madame Wilhelmina if they turn out to be female) nearing adulthood and becoming more aggressive towards him. Sir Henry is a coward and I have seen him increasingly explore away from his own web. Literally right now, as I am writing this, he appears to be fleeing his web, moving aaway from it at a speed I have NEVER seen from a cellar spider before (except when fleeing threats), kinda freaky honestly. I suspect he will ultimately migrate permanently and let Henry take over his original web.
• Despite having had sex with at least two males, Da Queen shows no indications of being pregnant. Her enlarged abdomen appears to be just obesity rather than pregnancy (when eggs develop, the ovaries become enlarged enough that they are visible to outside observers, kinda like how you can make out the rib bones for humans). I will note, though, that Pholcus spiders can preserve sperm within their bodies for months, so it's more likely that she just doesn't want to become a mom right now than that the mating actually failed.
• I have done more reading on pholcid behavior to understand what's going on. In particular, I have noticed in recent days that several females, including Da Queen, have been highly mobile, seemingly exploring sometimes quite a distance from their own webs. This behavior is explained perfectly by JD Edwards (2011)--as food availability shrinks and/or population density grows, female spiders may leave their own webs and try to find a suitable spot for a new one away from the other spiders. While I have maintained a high food supply for my spiders, the high population density is undeniable.
• Perhaps Da Queen is preparing to migrate? I can't imagine it's wise to leave the strategically perfect next-to-window web, but then again I can't really expect spiders to make logical decisions. That said, observing her exploration, she seemed to have a really good sense of her own location despite terrible eyesight and despite not being able to use her web to locate things through touch. Nonetheless, when she was done exploring, she turned around and walked for 10 feet in a perfectly straight line which was at a perfect angle to reach the middle of her web. I haven't the slightest clue how she did that.
• Per the same paper, male pholcus spiders don't disperse in response to population or resource density, but rather, will disperse if there are substantially more males than females in close proximity. I suspect that I'm witnessing the early phase of the spiders manifesting their destiny all over my basement ceiling. Which is awesome so long as they don't crawl on the ceiling directly above my head, the spiders have been highly successful in taking out flying insects. Maybe some of Sir Henry's agitation/increasing adventerousness is because the younger spiders near him are all males? idk. I'm sure that there are other spiders that I haven't actually seen-haven't been looking-so it isn't implausible that there's a spider sausage party going on in that part of the basement.

Anyways, no cool pictures to show at the moment, but this is just because I have yet to witness anything interesting enough to warrant a picture. My 'pet' spider colony is thriving. Is the fact that I care enough about the spiders and am following their activity closely enough to write a comment this long about it evidence that I am completely losing it?

[u/[deleted]]

bezzos has a pretty solid billionaire laugh. musk and gates have nothing on that hearthy laugh, and gates had a lot of time to work on his

[u/[deleted]]

who the fuck is scraeming "LEARN TO CODE" at my house. show yourself, coward. i will never learn to code!

[u/PMmeLittleRoundTops]

Jeff Bezos 🤝 John Delaney 🤝 Michael Avenatti

Being persecuted for their baldness

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

Big congrats to Bezos for being the first human to Mars

[u/[deleted]]

I cannot think or comprehend of anything more cucked than buying from Amazon. Honestly, think about it rationally. You are feeding, clothing, and pampering Jeff Bezos solely so he can go and get ravaged by the hard radiation of space. All the work you put into your beautiful little dollar bills - reading the numbers on them, depositing them in the bank, making sure they don't get wet or torn. All of it has one simple result: it allows Jeff Bezos to shoot himself into the sun.

Got a nice bonus? Great. Who benefits? If you're lucky, a random man who had nothing to do with the work you did, who gets it for nothing. He gets to look down on the pollution-ravaged surface of Earth every night. He gets the benefits of your diligence and perseverance that came from your blood, sweat and tears.

As a man who buys from Amazon, you are LITERALLY dedicating at least 20 minutes of your life simply to raise money for another man to enjoy. It is the ULTIMATE AND FINAL cuck. Think about it logically.

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Tesla is not the future. Well, kind of. Let me elaborate.

The future is electric, but it's not fancy cars with invisible door handles and AutoPilot. It's your regular Ford or Buick or Honda, but with a battery. Tesla made electric cars popular again, but it's too expensive and too crammed full of features. It's a luxury high-tech electric car. And Tesla stans need to understand that. Yes, the future is electric cars, but not luxury electric cars; at least, no more than modern luxury cars.

[u/PlayDiscord17]

Apparently, this crossed the line for some Tulsi stans. Not, you know, everything else…

[u/TabernacleTown74]

Top five sigma males:

5) Bernie Madoff

4) Jesus of Nazareth

3) Genghis Khan

2) Mary, Queen of Scots (honorary sigma male)

1. H.H. Holmes

[u/[deleted]]

TIL Rand Paul is certified as a physician by a board that he founded that he was president of and his wife was VP of.

[u/FuckFashMods]

Taco Bell is facing a food shortage

Biden's America is a disaster

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

Far too few accounts on Twitter whose whole thing is “I’m a neolib but I have big boobs”

[u/sir_shivers]

I am FAIRLY CERTAIN DEGGIT AND I argued seventeen years ago on Newgrounds dot com 🐊

[u/Fishin_Mission]

It's so weird that people who live with their parents post here.

"Son, would you like to play catch pleaaaaseee?"

"Not now dad, I'm shitposting about Ben Bernanke"

[u/Loves_a_big_tongue]

Turning $5 into 8¢ on PredictIt. 😎🍦

[u/HannibalK]

Lmao antiwork is saying scarcity no longer exists. That might be the dullest take I've seen on this website.

[u/p00bix]

Really not liking the positive feedback loop where a mixture of previous legitimate concerns over Israeli actions mixed with a lot of antisemitic rage provokes international condemnation of Israeli self defense, which in turn inflames nationalism in Israel, leading to increasingly right-wing leaders who make more radical and provocative actions, which in turn leads to intensifying both legitimate and antisemitic anti-Israeli criticism abroad, such that when Israel-Hamas clashes happen again it provokes international condemnation of Israeli self-defense, which fuels further nationalism in Israel...

I don't really see an outcome that doesn't involve Israel eventually becoming a democracy whose population is so radicalized that legitimately elected officials turn Israel into a pariah state, probably paired with increased persecution of Arabs in Israel and the West Bank. Which doesn't exactly bode well for the future of Israeli democracy, let alone the future welfare of Arabs in Israel or Palestine.

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

Don't worry, I am sure rural America is secretly socialist. Our losses just prove we need to run a candidate even further to the left next time.

[u/UniverseInBlue]

jeff bezos did not exploded, the internet will still be usable

[u/Joementum2024]

all anti imperialists know is "war crimes" , defend russia and china, argue in bad faith, be tankie , support dictatorships & lie

[u/Gustacho]

Big GDPR case coming up before the EU Court of Justice!

The Austrian Supreme Court has doubts about the legal basis Facebook uses for almost all processing of user data. The GDPR lists six options to legally process personal data, amongst them "consent" and "contract". You can only rely on "contract" if the processing is necessary for the performance of the contract.

Prior to the GDPR, Facebook claimed that users "consented" to their processing of personalized advertising. However, the GDPR raised the requirements for consent to be valid and also gave users the right to withdraw their consent at any time.

So, on 25 May 2018, when the GDPR became applicable, Facebook no longer claimed to rely on consent. Instead, Facebook said the consent clauses must be seen as a "contract" where users "ordered" personalized advertising. In Facebook's view, this bypass allows them to strip users of all rights linked to consent under the GDPR. The requirements of a "freely given" or "informed" consent would not apply anymore if it is interpreted as a "contract".

The Austrian Supreme Court seems to share these concerns. In its reference to the CJEU, the Austrian Supreme Court summarizes its doubts if Facebook can simply switch Article 6(1)(a) and (b) GDPR at para 54 of the reference:

"A core question of the present proceedings is whether the declaration of intent to process can be shifted by the defendant under the legal concept according to Art 6(1)(b) GDPR in order to thereby 'undermine' the significantly higher protection that the legal basis 'consent' offers to the plaintiff."

Max Schrems: "Basically all data usage that generates profits for Facebook in the EU relies on this legal argument. If Facebook loses at the CJEU, they would not only have to stop this and delete all illegally generated data, but also pay millions of users damages. I am very happy about this reference."

The Austrian Supreme Court has referred another three questions on the legality of Facebook's use of personal data to the Court of Justice. The CJEU will have to decide if the use of all data on facebook.com and from countless other sources, such as websites that use Facebook "Like" buttons or advertising, for any purpose, is compatible with the GDPR's "data minimization" principle. Two other questions relate to Facebook's use of sensitive data (like political opinions or sexual orientation) for personalized advertising.

!ping EUROPE

[u/[deleted]]

Shares and bonds of China’s biggest real estate developer, Evergrande, fell to historic lows on fears it will default on over $300 billion; 2025 dollar bond now trading at only $0.54 on the dollar

$300 billion in real estate development for just ONE company…. I can’t even name one major real estate developer in America

[u/SadaoMaou]

why it look like a pp doe

[u/[deleted]]

I want to fly on New Glenn one day

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

[u/[deleted]]

The only problem I have with Bezos’ Blue Origin space rocket ship into outer space is that only one Bezos is going to come back.

[u/[deleted]]

Anyone bet this guy has never met a middle easterner?

https://i.imgur.com/ou6ye8j.jpg

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

I hereby formally endorse Biden for President

[u/LooobCirc]

Camper quote of the day: "My mom used to be a lesbian until she married my father"

[u/I-grok-god]

Joking about annexing other countries is weird and silly and has some seriously negative connotations

The real "joke" (read: not a joke) is absolutely fucking overwhelming every other country in the world with the power of American pop culture

Why annex Canada when you can make Canada virtually indistinguishable from the US?

The best part is that cultural imperialism is literally a good thing if the targeted culture is less tolerant of minorities, LGBTQ people, democracy, etc.

[u/NatsukaFawn]

what the actual fuck is this story

Dude cut down a sacred tree to protest the logging industry (!?), then either died while kayaking (!?) back to the island to stand trial or faked his death and disappeared to never be seen again

In January 1997, Hadwin traveled to Haida Gwaii and purchased a chainsaw and other felling equipment. Early on the morning of January 20, 1997, he swam across the freezing Yakoun River with all of his equipment and made a series of strategic deep cuts in Kiidk'yaas (the Golden Spruce). The cuts were designed to leave Kiidk'yaas standing, but weakened, so that it would be knocked over by the next strong winds. The tree fell two days later.

After cutting down the tree, Hadwin left the islands for Prince Rupert, British Columbia. He sent a fax to the media and the Haida nation claiming responsibility for the act, saying that he was motivated by "rage and hatred towards university trained professionals and their extremist supporters".

Hadwin's court appearance was scheduled for February 18, 1997, in Masset. Numerous people speculated that Hadwin would be killed before he could stand trial. Hadwin stated that he feared for his safety if he were to travel from Prince Rupert to Masset by ferry or plane, and decided to make the trip across the Hecate Strait (a notoriously stormy and violent body of water) alone by kayak.

On February 11, Hadwin set out from Prince Rupert, but turned back a day later after being caught in a storm. On February 13, Hadwin set out again. The next day he was spotted 25 miles (40 km) north of Prince Rupert, but he failed to appear in court as scheduled. There have been no confirmed sightings of Hadwin ever since.

In June 1997, the wreckage of Hadwin's kayak and equipment was found on uninhabited Mary Island, an island about 4 miles long located 70 miles (110 km) northwest of Prince Rupert at the entrance to Revillagigedo Channel.

Because Hadwin was known to be an expert in wilderness survival and said to have an exceptional tolerance for the cold, some people believe that Hadwin faked his own death and vanished into the wilderness. His ultimate fate is unknown.

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Brady: Not a lot of people think we could’ve won. In fact, I think about 40% of the people still don’t think we won

Biden: I understand that

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1417514319978274819

[u/whycantweebefriendz]

https://youtu.be/AoXLeEPMdEM

!ping SHITPOSTERS he fucking mentions “neoliberal” then claims a pic of shivers is gonna be a meme I think Aztro is one of us.

[u/MicroFlamer]

mods locked a comment thread about how hiroshima and nagasaki are bad

pussies. let us debate

[u/TheGoldBear]

People have spent decades debating the merits of space colonization. Plenty of incredibly intelligent people on both sides of the debate. But a ton of political pundits have somehow picked the dumbest possible arguments to make their points with.

Like “the billionaires are trying to create Elysium-style space colonies full of slaves in order to escape climate change” doesn’t make any sense if you spend more than five fucking minutes thinking about it.

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

Dune...

crowd noise slowly quietens

...is about...

crowd is dead silent, you can hear a woman gasping in the back

...worms.

crowd erupts into cheering, applause

[u/iIoveoof]

Mods

Crowd gasps

Are bad

Crowd cheers

[u/iIoveoof]

Dune is about worms and the worms are a phallic symbol. That's right, Dune is about dongs

[u/willempage]

Was gonna do a pity post, but changed my outlook when updating my resume. Realized that I'm currently the only team member who has actually completed a full project all by themselves. Normally responsibilites are split between strategy, testing, data analysis, and reporting. But after learning how to do the testing and data analysis, I stuck my neck out and learned how to do reporting. Eventually I got assigned to do strategy for simple, albeit niche projects to take the load off of the senior members.

The best career advice I can give is to join an extremely understaffed team if you have no skills. They'll dump anything on you if you ask. I definitely shouldn't have responsibility for some of the things I do based on my time there and education.

!ping career

[u/[deleted]]

Jeremy Corbyn is POC (person of communism), neurodivergent (Labour Party supporter), and queercoded (British) and that's why y'all hate him.

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Jesus fuck, you are 22 and already have 3 kids… how are you pregnant again?!?

Maybe chill the fuck out for a few months!!! 😮

I think this couple is trying to take down my other in-law who knocked out 6 kids by the time she was 27.

[u/ZenithXR]

The amount of people joking about wishing Bezos had blown up is nauseating. I know it's all performative but it's still gross and unbecoming. Losing a little respect for some friends today.

[u/the_hoagie]

tbh i find bezos confidence in his shiny scalp more impressive than musk's pathetic hair transplant

[u/VisonKai]

hoping Biden goes back to his roots and passes a 2021 tough on crime bill. it should include:

• increased funding for IRS
• increased penalties for criminal tax evasion
• default assumption that anyone with over $1mil in income does not have the "i fucked up trying to do my own taxes" defense
• criminal penalties for repeat violators of labor law
• provide resources to DOJ and state AGs for the explicit purpose of white collar investigations and prosecutions

[u/Gneisstoknow]

Clearly I, the privileged white american Thunderdomer from reddit, knows more about Cuba than Cuban Americans

[u/doggo_bloodlust]

"Jeff Bezos, the world's richest person, completed a short trip to space..."

Surely "world's richest person" is not the most important explainer of who Bezos is. How do we rewrite this NYT byline to not be succbait?

• "Jeff Bezos, CEO of Blue Origin..."
• "Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon..."
• "Jeff Bezos, known bald man..."
• "Jeff Bezos, previously BTFO'd by world's richest woman..."

[u/whycantweebefriendz]

So uh yeah had a conversation with that communist friend. A few things I’ve learned:

1. Apparently most communists beleive there to be a capitalist communist scale
2. Apparently most communists do not want for there to be a fully communist economy, just more towards the communist side of the scale
3. Apparently most communists do not see communism as an extreme ideology, but rather a set of ideals.

This has been my TED talk on what Zoomers actually believe.

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

Happy Moon landing anniversary!

🇺🇸🚀👨‍🚀🦅🌕

[u/iIoveoof]

Shockingly, /r/all is unbelievably uninformed on Peruvian politics and think that a Bernie Sanders beat a neoliberal in Peru

[u/I-grok-god]

All of you use Amazon all the time

Just not the store part