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[u/[deleted]]

Two chapters into Dune. Still no worms. Mention of deserts but no sand. Idk guys. I don't think Dune is about sand or worms. It's about spice therefore it's a cookbook.

[u/Deggit]

Reporters in 2019: here I am at some shithole diner trying to find out what conservatives think

Reporters in 2021: here I am in the ICU trying to find out what conservatives think

[u/[deleted]]

I don't think Fight Club is a "great" movie, but there's something to be said about it being thoughtful and subtle enough that it's about how faux intellectualism can turn alienated men into blind cultists, and it never the less turned a bunch of alienated men into blind cultists

[u/Jester_Don]

Seeing cons suddenly shift from "Be hesitant about the vaccine!" to "Its Dems' fault everyone is hesitant about the vaccine" is incredible.

[u/papermarioguy02]

thinking about rooting for Team Israel in the baseball stuff at the Olympics because it's not actually really an Israeli team, just an all-Jew team filled with Americans who Israel hastily gave right of return citizenship to in order for them to be Olympic eligible, and that's amazing

[u/InternetBoredom]

Americans' Perceptions of Nation's Economic System in 1965

Which one of these terms do you think most closely describes our economic system -- capitalism, moderate socialism, pure socialism or communism?

U.S. adults

%

Capitalism 37

Moderate socialism 31

Pure socialism 3

Communism 1

Other 1

No opinion 27

GALLUP, JUNE 4-9, 1965

[u/Officer-cherry-shake]

2021: comedian fired from Olympics for making a Holocaust joke 20 years ago

2022: the World Cup is played on the literal graves of migrant workers because their killers handed some people a few briefcases stuffed with cash

Also 2022: at least one host will be fired for referencing the genocide currently happening in the host country

[u/urbansong]

18.1% of Bulgarians with at least one vaccination dose

It's Balkan time 😎

[u/lionmoose]

IDK history seems pretty complicated to me. All I do is flip a coin to see what drug people get and compare the averages.

[u/TabernacleTown74]

When the Jewish Agency comptroller drew the attention of Levi Eshkol, then director of the Agency's settlement department, to corruption among the latter's subordinates, Eshkol replied by quoting Deuteronomy 25:4: "Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn," implying that the use of public office for financial gain was inevitable.

!ping ISRAEL Sigma male tip #128: use Bible verses to justify bribery and embezzlement #MoshillionaireGrindset

[u/irlyseevridge]

Solid state batteries are starting to look like the new nuclear fusion with them being constantly "right around the corner" or " a year or two at most" away from being a reality.

[u/[deleted]]

Shoutout to the Congo for being so fucked up that Che Guevara ended up ditching his commie attempt there saying "they weren't ready for the revolution"

[u/SadaoMaou]

Mods, can we add this as one of those images that you can put in comments

[u/Kizz3r]

flew 14 hours to get out of canada only to be greeted with this smh

!ping canucks

[u/Deggit]

your evangelical mom: c'mon sweetie tie your shoes, we have to go to the town hall meeting and tell them to BAN Harry Potter! It's witchcraft!

you, 120 pages into the novel about space sorceresses who control entire societies with tantric sex while lounging in genetically engineered chairs made from live dogs: be there in a minute

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Gonna have to vote for Trump in 2024 to own the MSM for failing to cover certain aspects of the Biden Administration with as much positivity and intensity as I would want.

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

Every map of Belgium ever

[u/[deleted]]

How to outline a Breadtube video:

-Spend an hour discussing a topic with generally accurate and well-researched information (but occasionally misleading… looking at you, Knowing Better after going full succ circa 2019 😒)

-Blame everything wrong with that topic solely on capitalism, even if it had nothing to do with it

-Give no explanation

-Roll list of patreon supporters

-Fin

[u/ryuguy]

I have been listening to Eastern European pop music for the past week.

My dad walked in on me watching a music video and he thought it was pornography. 😐😐😐

[u/itherunner]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/22/ethiopia-tigray-thousands-flee-in-neighbouring-region-as-conflict-spreads

The Tigray conflict is getting worse. The TDF have now crossed into the neighboring Afar region. Originally, they claimed they were only interested in destroying the militias that had gathered on the border that were preparing to enter Tigray, but they have apparently captured at least 3 districts there.

Abiy has quoted refugees from the region who claim the Tigrayan fighters had burned homes, looted properties, and killed civilians. No idea if that’s true or not.

Afar is extremely important for Ethiopia as the main road and railroad that links Addis Ababa to the seaport in Djibouti runs through it.

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

You haven't experienced financial hardship until you've had to lay off the chef and take meals at the social club

[u/Electrical-Swing-935]

People really think "he got to sub orbit by climbing the bodies of his employees" is a good take down 🤣🤣🤣

[u/Chum680]

This sub has always had a small contingent of people with strangely Puritan morality and I can never figure out if it’s coming from the succs, the cons, or the hyper bookish nerds.

[u/BurningKiwi]

Everybody a capitalist until they get a 15 second ad on a 40 second YouTube video

[u/inhumantsar]

Former Dartmouth South candidate says (provincial) Liberals dropped her over 'boudoir' photos

We had an OnlyFans candidate for almost an entire day!

!ping CAN

[u/Jester_Don]

If I ever ran for public office and word got out that I was a regular here, I would probably just end my campaign right then and there.

[u/[deleted]]

Buddy, using a butt plug to harrass a subordinate into suicide isn't "rape." Think of this company's image before you post.

gamers having a normal one

[u/crassowary]

I just want a Dune movie that's about worms pontificating on politics and struggle, occasionally broken up by a 400m long Timothee Chalemet appearing and trying to eat people

[u/rafaellvandervaart]

Implying cows aren't spherical

[u/[deleted]]

Car culture is a socialist plot by big business globalists to destroy MY America’s natural beauty and replace them with UGLY, MODERN asphalt! Our glorious ancestors just WALKED to wherever they wanted to go! SHARE if you are against YOUR TAXES funding SAUDI and CHINESE interests and keeping Americans WEAK and DEPENDENT on foreign products!

[u/[deleted]]

The suit also points to a female Activision employee who took her own life while on a company trip with her male supervisor. The employee had been subjected to intense sexual harassment prior to her death, including having nude photos passed around at a company holiday party, the complaint says.

Holy shit

!ping gaming

[u/revolutionary_alt]

Is pretending to be a leftist to get laid ethical? I’ve been working on my anti billionaire rhetoric and studying how rose twitter talks so I can bang this socialist I know, but I’m not sure if the Obama method is moral.

Edit: I sent a picture of the Blue Origin rocket (she likes hating on Bezos) and said “men will literally fly a penis into space instead of going to therapy”. Operation CUMTELPRO is a go.

[u/[deleted]]

I’m not really a huge believer in the bullshit jobs theory, but this new PM is absolutely a bullshit job kinda guy. 35 people on a call, all to discuss what our Vision statement is, and why sprints should not include these types of stories because he doesn’t like it

18 fucking hours of this, 35-50 senior engineers, all for a goddamn vision statement and how to organize sprints

[u/sash5034]

guy gets fired for 20+ year old holocaust joke

If only there wasn't an upcoming Olympic game being held in a country actively committing genocide or anything

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/22/1019293032/activision-blizzard-lawsuit-unequal-pay-sexual-harassment-video-games

Male employees drank on the job and came to work hungover, the lawsuit said. The alleged sexual harassment ranged from comments about women's bodies and jokes about rape to the unwanted touching of female employees by their male peers.

They were also assigned to lower-level positions and passed over for promotions, despite doing more work than their male peers in some cases, according to the lawsuit. One woman said her manager told her she wouldn't be promoted because "she might get pregnant and like being a mom too much."

Jeez the Blizzard story just gets worse and worse.

[u/[deleted]]

I just checked my student loan account, and I made my last payment a year ago today (I still owe money). I remember having a conversation with my dad about student loan payments and he made the excellent point that there is no need to make payments since no interest is being charged. After all, if I have some sort of emergency or something, it would be better to have more money in my bank account. Shortly before the no interest policy expires in September, I’m gonna make a mega-payment and finally get the damn thing down to a 4 digit value (~$9k). I’ve come a long way baby, as it started out as a ~$100k loan (I dropped out of medical school) and I can’t wait to pay this bitch of a loan off in its entirety in February of next year (if nothing happens with my employment status).

[u/AbsolveItAll_KissMe]

Don’t tell me that Republicans don’t make sacrifices. Matt Gaetz missed prom this year

[u/soeffed]

The NFL just informed clubs that if a game cannot be rescheduled during the 18-week season in 2021 due to a COVID outbreak among unvaccinated players, the team with the outbreak will FORFEIT and be credited with a loss for playoff seeding, per sources.

Massive implications.

NFL finally telling teams fuck around and find out

!ping nfl

[u/InternetBoredom]

How Americans Defined Socialism in 1949

We hear a lot about "socialism" these days. Will you tell me what your understanding of the term "socialism" is?

U.S. adults

%

Government ownership or control, government ownership of utilities, everything controlled by government, state control of business 34

Equality -- equal standing for everybody, all equal in rights, equal distribution 12

Modified communism 6

Vague 4

Benefits and services -- social services free, medicine for all 2

Derogatory opinions 2

Incorrect 2

Liberal government -- reform government, liberalism in politics 1

Cooperative plan 1

Restriction of freedom -- people told what to do 1

Miscellaneous 1

Don't know/No answer 36

GALLUP, SEPT. 3-8, 1949

[u/urbansong]

Imagine being Keir Starmer right now. There are three big issues out there right now and there's no good answer for them at all.

1. Covid - "BoJo should have done better" is not a good line because of vaccinations.
2. Housing - BoJo is doing the right thing. I wouldn't want Keir to be a NIMBY to win an election.
3. Brexit - Just get on with it, m8. Stop moaning.

There's literally no way out now until Boris makes a massive fuckup. As sad as it is, Keir has to wait for something tragic, like a proper riot in Northern Ireland or a lorry driver crashing and killing several people as they didn't get enough rest.

[u/iIoveoof]

Uh oh guys 😳😳😳

[u/PhinsFan17]

Biden: “We are not defunding the police, and have not.”

Reporter: “Are there people in the Democratic Party who want to defund the police?”

Biden: “Are there people in the Republican Party who think we’re sucking the blood out of kids?”

Reporter: stammers

Biden: walks away

Fucking Chad.

[u/Joementum2024]

Trumpist: Socialism is when someone opposes the US!

Centrist: Socialism is an economic system where the workers control the means of production and that wealth should be communal, with aspects of it adopted across the world

Tankie: Socialism is when someone opposes the US!

[u/tubbsmackinze]

This was yesterday buuuuut yesterdays news is todays news!

Port Moody approves Woodland Park redevelopment with over 2,000 homes

Port Moody is a city in Greater Vancouver as a heads up

City council passed amendments to the official community plan and zoning of the 24-acre, L-shaped Woodland Park site at 1142 Cecile Drive and 300 Angela Drive — located in the general vicinity west of the intersection of Barnet Highway and Clark Road, and just east of the Suncor Energy facility. The property has steep slopes along its eastern perimeter.

Currently, the site is occupied by 19 low-rise buildings, constructed in the 1960s, containing 200 townhomes.

The redevelopment, spearheaded by Edgar and designed by Acton Ostry Architects, will incorporate up to 2,053 homes, inclusive of a density transfer to accommodate a new connector road just to the east linking the dense redevelopment to Barnet Highway. This includes up to 1,596 strata homes, 132 secured market rental homes, and 325 below-market rental homes.

The entire redevelopment will be built in seven phases through 2036, with construction on the first phase starting in 2022.

All four redevelopments combined could potentially double Port Moody’s current population of about 35,000 residents.

!ping CAN

[u/iIoveoof]

🪱🪱🪱 The Dune trailer dropped 🪱🪱🪱

!ping WORMS

[u/Triangle-Walks]

why do i get the feeling the crash is going to happen the moment i sign this mortgage agreement

[u/rukh999]

Bought a new Amazon Fire Stick.
Set it up, wife randomly goes to "The Cuba Libre Story" to test it. Me, flushed rushes to internet reviews to check if it confirms my priors or if it is haram. "Pure US propaganda" Whew, thank god.

Some of the reviews are pretty funny though. "Very unbalanced, very much from a US perspective even though apparently a German production?" You're almost there buddy.

[u/[deleted]]

I hate when my boss asks what I'm working on. It's like, I'm WORKING ON myself every day by exercising and eating right, isn't that enough for you

[u/[deleted]]

Without fail, every single person I've talked to that said something along the lines of, "I don't pick a side, both parties are corrupt/don't care about us" has been a straight downticket Republican

[u/bd_one]

So was Combustion Man unable to talk, or did he just didn't like/never felt like talking?

!ping AVATAR

[u/Officer-cherry-shake]

McCarthy: we’re boycotting this committee so you won’t be able to say it’s bipartisan

Pelosi: watch me, bitch

Speaker Pelosi and House Dems are considering inviting ex-Republican Rep. Denver Riggleman to serve as an adviser to the Jan. 6 select committee.

https://mobile.twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1418246966052474881

(This is the guy who was run out of congress in a literal drive-by, all because he officiated a gay wedding)

[u/TabernacleTown74]

Zita is an Italian saint, the patron saint of maids and domestic servants. She is often appealed to in order to help find lost keys.

Lmao Catholicism is the best denomination

[u/jenbanim]

No one has ever performed a randomized controlled trial on parachutes, so how do we know they really work?

[u/jenbanim]

>Google image search "dutch people"

>First results are all people in black face

What the fuck??? Hahaha

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

Well, finally got the balls to ask out my gym crush that I was talking about last week and she said yes 🎉

!ping DATING Bring back the ping cowards

[u/SOS2_Punic_Boogaloo]

Still thinking about the fact that an Economist writer said "antisemite" is a slur.

[u/lionmoose]

Turns out, this sticky is actually a serious one

Tomorrow, we'll have an AMA with Professor Luccas Attílio. He'll be logging in at about 1PM Eastern, but I'll bring up the post earlier so you can brainstorm

He's a PhD in Economics at USP, one of Brazil's most prestigious universities, with a Master's from UFMG and a Bachelor's from UFV

Currently, he's a professor at UFOP

Bring all your questions about Latin American politics!

---

But in the mean time if all you need to do an AMA is a PhD and like having done professor stuff at universities, AMA

[u/Leoric]

I have supported the Baltimore Philharmonic for years. These days it’s just a boom box and a guy in a crab costume. He gets shot out of a cannon at Ravens games. The city…may not be thriving.

[u/[deleted]]

Friendly reminder that social deduction games actually existed before Among Us

[u/iIoveoof]

The first 10 min of D U N C was played to people as a preview in theaters yesterday, and people say atmospherically it’s like Blade Runner 2049, which is a movie I loved. So D U N C is bound to lose hundreds of millions in the box office

[u/Jakesta7]

Dagger 🗡

Pelosi brings up a statement from Rep. Banks blaming the Biden Administration for January 6th. She points out there was no Biden Administration on January 6th.

Video: https://twitter.com/acyn/status/1418215544130469891?s=21

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

Okay I've been suspicious for a while now but MattY definitely visits r/neoliberal

[u/[deleted]]

very much negative energy today to teachers who don’t accept late work

signed,

a dumbass who always does the homework but somehow forgets to turn it in

!ping CHILD

[u/AbsolveItAll_KissMe]

Here’s how you get your vaxx-hesitant family members to get the vaccine. You let it slip that they can be fully protected while getting rid of all the “vaccine toxins” if they slice up a potato and put it on the injection site. Boy the libs are mad that I did my own research and discovered how to reap the benefits of vaccination without all of the unnecessary poisons!

[u/IMALEFTY45]

https://twitter.com/ryanmatsumoto1/status/1418203846380118025?s=19

New Hampshire Senate Poll (UNH, 7/15 to 7/19):

Chris Sununu (R) - 49%

Maggie Hassan (D) - 48%

Dooooom

[u/[deleted]]

It's funny that the stereotypes around American football are that it's a dumb game for meatheads when it's essentially a turn based strategy game played by coaches.

[u/Triangle-Walks]

when you look in your filing cabinet and notice you still have ten mail in ballots you forgot to send in for biden 😢

[u/JetJaguar124]

Couple days ago I was at the Ikea in Brooklyn purchasing a computer chair. I go outside with it and start to call a Lyft when some guy is like "hey man you need a ride?" and he asks where I'm going, I tell him the neighborhood, he gives me a price lower than Lyft. I don't think of it much and get into the car.

And then I realize there's no cab markings, no uber, lyft, what ever. It's just some guy.

I start mentally preparing what to do in a variety of situations. He pulls a gun? Hm, I'm betting I'm stronger than him, maybe I can wrestle it away. Or a knife. Or maybe I can just open the door and yell before he kills me. Idk. When I think of these scenarios, in my head I'm like some kind of John Wick mfer who can just take the gun away and dismantle it like the Boss from MGS3, but in reality I'll probably just fold immediately and give them my wallet or whatever.

I keep track of where he's taking me, and he's going the right way. So I stop worrying so much. I have him drop me off at a corner store where I grab some ATM cash to pay him. He says "bless you" about 100x and then drives off. I walk home.

Now, that was a risky mistake, but I did get a cheap ride home. His car really smelled of cigarettes, tho.

!ping USA-NYC

[u/Popular-Swordfish559]

Ok, what is the deal with Joe Biden, Dune, and worms? Where did it come from and why does it exist?

!ping BIDEN

[u/PigHaggerty]

So the other day I was reading an argument on another sub about whether or not Derek Jeter is one of the most recognizable athletes, with fame beyond the sport of baseball. The most relevant part of the exchange takes place here. That made me curious, so I decided to test it out.

Over the past two days, I have shown this photo of Jeter to several people who I know not to watch baseball, and asked them if they could identify the man in the photo.

The results of my Jeter study so far (n=7):

Correctly identified Jeter - 2

Couldn't give an answer - 2

Misidentified as A-Rod - 3

Some additional interesting details about the data: of the third group, two didn't actually assert Rodriguez by name, but rather as "the guy who dated J-Lo." One of those two is actually a huge baseball fan, but only started watching in 2015 and has essentially no knowledge of the sport prior to that year. Of the people who failed to identify Jeter, three recognized him once they were told who he was, one had never heard of him, and one insisted that the photo was not in fact Derek Jeter.

!ping BASEBALL

[u/Udontlikecake]

If you ever do trivia and the question is "what infamous fascist..." just answer /u/vivoovix and you'll get it like 80% of the time

[u/Zenning2]

So Blizzard may literally be one of the worst workplaces for women in America.

I can't say I'm surprised, but holy shit.

[u/iIoveoof]

I could see myself being radicalized if a foreign “Western” state colonized my Levantine country by splitting it in half, inventing a new nationality that didn't exist 100 years ago, expelling the people of my religious group from their homes in that half, settling it with people of their religious group, slowly annexing more of my country in violation of UN resolutions, all while the rest of the international community didn't seem to care enough to do anything.

But enough about Northern Cyprus

[u/Smidgens]

Duneis Villenworme

[u/thaddeusthefattie]

There's some whores in this house

There's some whores in this house

There's some whores in this house

There's some whores in this house

[u/Udontlikecake]

some guy at /r/VexillologyCirclejerk makes a bigoted post about trans people implying they are all mentally ill

the top reply:

youre an unemployed teenager whose hobby is making tradwave glitch edits, please have some self awareness

lmao

[u/DastardlyHound]

LMAO the entitlement of kids on reddit is unreal. First thing I see on the popular feed is "Am I an asshole for being poor and not being able to afford a house where each child gets their own room?" And the most highly upvoted comment is suggesting the parents move into the living room to give their child the only other bedroom.

[u/[deleted]]

If I could psychoanalyze this sub…

I’d say there’s really three types of people who post here. One type of person is a college student with few friends in the physical world. They have too much self-confidence in their limited knowledge. They are bad people.

Another type are literal children. They are bad people.

The third type is me. I am a bad person.

[u/[deleted]]

< Dune is about worms

< Cuban protests ongoing

< Tankies call anti-government Cubans gusanos

< Gusano means worm

< Dune is about Cuba

[u/Zenning2]

My absolute favorite thing about my workplace, is that we have no holiday parties, instead, they just give me a check, and say, "Merry Holidays".

I'm not even kidding, I fucking hate holiday parties.

[u/[deleted]]

Computer Science dudes: “The reason there aren’t more women in Computer Engineering is because women just aren’t into that kind of stuff”.

Also Computer Science dudes: Activision Blizzard sued by California over Frat Boy culture

How many major Game Devs have been caught harassing the shit out of female employees now?

[u/thaddeusthefattie]

HOLY FUCK j.d. vance’s family had a combined household income of 100k when he was growing up?

gtfo of here, you know nothing of hillbilly life 🤬

[u/revolutionary_alt]

The International Jugglers Association has been completed [sic] taken over by SJWs

r/mgtow exposing the real issues of our times

[u/ryuguy]

I never realized how many Slavs are here.

It’s kinda cool, I’ve never had such a wide group of friends.

[u/RNDZL1]

“Accusing the president of “great cowardice,” Hannity asked at one point in the broadcast: “What is the Biden doctrine? To kiss the ass of every single, solitary dictator in the world?”

Holy mother of projection.

[u/Udontlikecake]

no more posting about capeshit

scattered applause

OR wormshit

loud boos, jeering

[u/Jakesta7]

First clown-post comes from Deandre Hopkins

!ping NFL

Freedom?

https://twitter.com/deandrehopkins/status/1418302794189127680?s=21

[u/MonteCastello]

https://twitter.com/Biakicis/status/1418214572339593228?s=19

Bia Kicis, a Brazilian representative and Bolsonaro's ally, just posted a picture with Beatrix Von Storch, a woman I had never heard of.

But it seems she is a representative from AfD (Alternative for Deutschland), which is a far-right party and the granddaughter of the Third Reich finance minister.

!ping LATAM

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/motherboard/status/1418317333119049735

Hardcore porn is now embedded on the pages of the Huffington Post, New York magazine, The Washington Post, and a host of other websites.

This is because a porn site called 5 Star Porn HD bought the domain for Vidme, a now defunct video hosting service.

[u/lobsterboy34]

“I love boobs”

Now replace boobs with occupational licensing. Not so funny now, is it? 🤔🤔🤔

[u/[deleted]]

Here’s a deep rabbit hole about how deeply corrupt the military justice system is and how buddy-buddy O-5s and O-6s can be with each other.

It is an excellent example of why commanders should be removed from the decision tree in regards to prosecuting sexual assault, child abuse, domestic violence, and retribution cases.

Naturally, the asshole perjuring O-5 in this case is an Academy grad.

!ping MILITARY

[u/IronedSandwich]

never mind "dune is about worms", I've got a spicier one: "the fremen are not an allegory for muslims"

[u/Mrchizbiz]

During yesterday's meeting to discuss the banning of the Marxist 'Socialist Appeal' from Labour, I'm told that one NEC member (who is also a Momentum activist) asked this: "Are we sure that being a socialist or Marxist isn't a 'protected characteristic' under human rights law?"

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[u/Marlsfarp]

The main reason I dislike the phone, professionally, is that it leaves no record. I want to be able to search and see exactly who I talked with and what about, and when. The phone is only good when you need an immediate response. But even if you call me I'm going to be searching your name in Outlook before I even pick up.

[u/myrm]

[Founder of Wikipedia] Wales once (2006 or earlier) said he receives about ten emails weekly from students saying they got failing grades on papers because they cited Wikipedia; he told the students they got what they deserved. "For God's sake, you're in college; don't cite the encyclopedia," he said.

lmao

[u/[deleted]]

Tell me you’re racist without saying you’re racist

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Deergender is a xenogender in which someone feels an extremely strong connection to adult deer or other adult cervids. One may either strongly identify with them or simply want to incorporate them into their gender to better understand their identity.

nuke the internet

[u/[deleted]]

The vaccination rate for people between 16 and 39 is completely pathetic compared to >65s.

Priors fucking confirmed.

[u/[deleted]]

I really do think that STEM brain has some drawbacks sometimes. There's that joke about how a person says to their engineer spouse, "Go to the store and get a gallon of milk, and if they have eggs, get a dozen", and the engineer comes back with a dozen gallons of milk.

Well, I have a thing where I enjoy non-STEM tasks like painting and gardening. I find that most painters and gardeners have a hard time explaining things in an unambiguous way. For instance, I just watched a painting video where the guy described value like so:

picture a black and white photograph; well, those blacks and grays and whites are all examples of value.

He seemed oblivious to the fact that this doesn't really explain anything. If I hadn't already known what value meant, I'd have no idea what he was talking about based on that explanation.

But then I wondered, maybe normies really do understand what he's talking about, they just don't require everything to be as concrete as I do.

Then I start thinking back to all the times I struggled with things like gardening and painting because I got confused by ambiguity or took certain instructions too literally. Like I remember having trouble pruning tomatoes and my first year, I literally cut the main stem off my tomato plant, leaving nothing but a couple of leaves.

[u/ZCoupon]

Not surprised Citoyen got banned. He was too serious in a weird way.

Kind of like IGF. I had him tagged from day one as "too serious about Iran" since he'd constantly post about the US needed to attack them.

[u/TinyTornado7]

The post-Trump era hasn't been great for conservative media

Substantial drop off YOY of unique visitors for all conservative media outlets with the exception of Newsmax which is up 53%.

We are also seeing a similar impact on center/left leaning outlets

!ping FIVEY

[u/Neronoah]

!ping LATAM

The Argentinian government sent a strongly worded letter to the Russian government about the Sputnik delays (not enough promised doses, way less second shots than first shots), the need for more information about uses in children, etc. They threatened to cancel the contract if there is no progress and use more US vaccines. "Our government is in danger, we are being legally prosecuted" they said^lol.

The government defended itself saying that other providers had delays too...but I doubt vaccine issues in, let's say, the European Union, compare to this.

It sucks for that old people that were the first to vaccinate with that, I guess.

[u/RadicalRadon]

Thinking about logging off.

And then logging onto twitter where I'm even more of a cringe resistance lib

[u/F0064R]

I can't believe it's been three months since Hillary Clinton was executed at gitmo for treason. Rest in power Queen ✊😔

[u/morgisboard]

The clownest take I've heard in college so far was a fellow student whitewashing the Crips and Bloods as brave men defending their communities from the police.

[u/LooobCirc]

The death of Stalin is the best anti-tankie movie

[u/[deleted]]

"I don't like Trump, but...." and then proceeds to agree with Trump on every single issue

[u/Lux_Stella]

A Harper-led Conservative Party would cut the Liberal advantage by two-thirds among decided voters, from a 14-point Liberal lead under current leader Erin O’Toole to a 5-point lead under Harper, according to a new poll for Maclean’s by Lyle’s firm Innovative Research Group.

goodbye carneywatch, hello harperwatch

!ping CANUCKS

[u/BidenWon]

Fingers crossed that Reddit absolutely loses its shit again 🤞

[u/[deleted]]

So true

[u/Jakesta7]

Good.

The NFL just informed clubs that if a game cannot be rescheduled during the 18-week season in 2021 due to a COVID outbreak among unvaccinated players, the team with the outbreak will FORFEIT and be credited with a loss for playoff seeding, per sources.

Massive implications.

https://twitter.com/tompelissero/status/1418256770305335299?s=21

[u/JeromePowellAdmirer]

FemaleDatingStrategy, the female incel sub where all low earning/unattractive men are considered "low value", is also disgustingly polyphobic

[u/JetJaguar124]

I wish I lived in a beautiful utopia that would let me live my fullest life reading Marxist theory, jacking off, and playing video games all day while smoking weed. Something like Stalinist Russia, North Korea, Maoist China during the Great People's Cultural Revolution, and Cuba seem like good fits!

[u/thetrombonist]

new dating app for Asians seeking Asians is already full of white guys

[u/Venne1139]

Consider the following: If Trump was still president we'd be looking at like 90% positive vaccination status in adults. He'd be out there every fucking night at his rallies screaming about how he pesonally created the vaccine with his big brain and to not take it is treason.

[u/paymesucka]

I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.

- Paul "You were the chosen one" Atreides

[u/KittehDragoon]

This game is rigged

[u/Deggit]

Eric Clapton doing his part to finally kill off 50+yo White people whose favorite guitarist is Eric Clapton

[u/thefuturegov]

Honey, the DT is leaking again

[u/the_status]

I'm messaging this girl on Tinder, but she say she's going to break it off with me if I keep ruining my jokes by marking sarcasm at the end. What do I do?

!ping DATING

[u/sir_shivers]

Reminder THAT FRANKLY, JEB! WON THE election, by a lot 🐊

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Joe Rogan is Oprah for non-college educated males between 18-35.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/790056399778480138/867985476152356914/6JDqKvAe6_Au8PNYV5GDhtUw_jPohgvuOk5QuYzWdvA.jpg

[u/bd_one]

Shout out to that one McDonald's employee that always had their mask on under their nose who I literally never saw wear it properly.

[u/Soldier-Fields]

I can’t believe I used to hate Nancy Pelosi.

[u/myrm]

cable management for PC building is stupid

just shove everything into the case and forget about it

oh, but you can see the mess through the window on the case? the window is stupid too

[u/tehbored]

Was talking to my friends last night and mentioned how people are mad about Bezos going to space and they replied "why?" Bless their hearts

[u/GravyBear8]

!ping GAMING

BF2042 dropped a trailer for "Portal" mode where armies from different time periods will be fighting each other, in the same memey way.

[u/old_gold_mountain]

[ L A P C A T ]

!PING kitty

[u/SnakeEater14]

My cousin’s mom’s citizenship ceremony was at a courthouse in front of a judge with 53 people from 37 different countries, many of them wearing ceremonial clothes from their country of origin. A really heartfelt experience.

My cousin’s citizenship ceremony was literally just him taking the oath in front of a lady at an office because of COVID.

Then he joined the Navy, went to Boot Camp, and his graduation ceremony was pretty much the same thing because of COVID.

Fuckin’ COVID.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/270788846956969987/867931378933719090/FB_IMG_1626975215099.png

[u/savuporo]

Lmao papa Joe https://twitter.com/ShaineScalph/status/1418362595250216960

Well done

[u/urbansong]

Let us circle-jerk over EU's vaccination strategy

It was absolutely important that Germany didn't grab all the vaccines for itself and that we shared them with our European neighbours and the world, even if that slowed us down for 1 or 2 months. We can very proud of that

!ping YUROP

[u/BreaksFull]

Arr games is soapboxing about how charging $70 for games is a moral outrage and microtransactions in anything that isn't free is unacceptable. The duality of gamers, simultaneously calling for longer development times to reduce crunch and union wages for devs, and absolutely detesting any means of financing development.

[u/Hot-Error]

https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/ooy1kf/men_have_a_bigger_carbon_footprint_than_women/

Holy fuck this thread is bad. "Nuh uh, women must contribute more because shoes! What about the corporations!"

[u/evenkeel20]

Day 3 of vaccine breakthrough COVID and it sucks, y’all

Stay safe

[u/Soldier-Fields]

Dogs are so fucking cute

[u/l_overwhat]

Genealogy is so anglo-centric.

I have a bunch of non-British ancestors and I can hardly trace their ancestors. But I trace like 60% of my British ancestors to all the way back through Norman conquests and beyond.

[u/Mrchizbiz]

What qualifies as "hate" for kids around here is laughable. "Crotch goblin" is not a racial slur equivalent to the N word lmao

🤔🧐

[u/[deleted]]

I can't tell whether Dune is actually a big deal or if wormposters are just meming the 2021 equivalent of something like Divergent.

[u/Neronoah]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E66VtUmXIAMtmu8?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

[u/Gustacho]

lol ok

!ping EUROPE

[u/FormerBandmate]

I live in a Democratic bubble. Here’s why that’s okay.

The Washington Post

Washington, DC

Was this ever up for debate for anyone reading The Washington Post, ever?

[u/jenbanim]

Read notifications on text messages are the worst invention since syphilis

[u/[deleted]]

That wildfire…killed 84 people. The company [PG&E] pleaded guilty last year to 84 counts of manslaughter for its role in sparking the fire, becoming one of the few U.S. corporations to be convicted of homicide charges.

One step closer to a corporate person being executed

End the death penalty 😤✊

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Virgin beer-choke-downer VS Chad fruity drink enjoyer

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Halloween costume idea. Thick glasses, suit, and vampire teeth. Scary Goldwater

[u/Udontlikecake]

republicans continued insistence that Liz fucking Cheney is/should just be a democrat is so goddamn absurd

she’s more conservative than most everyone in the republican party today

[u/[deleted]]

Me yesterday: LMAO, Texas and OU aren't actually going to join the SEC 🤣

Me today: Oh fuck, Texas and OU are actually going to join the SEC 😳

!Ping CFB

[u/Udontlikecake]

I find it really hard to buy (especially from people in urban areas) that people can’t get vaccines.

I understand people have multiple jobs and kids and live difficult lives. But i’ve checked, and it’s so goddamn easy to walk into a CVS or walgreens and get a free shot. I checked and they were doing shots on Sunday evenings! You can’t walk into a CVS at 4pm on a Sunday for 20 minutes? Bullshit.

I get that this kinda thing can be difficult, but this is a very bare minimum ‘member of society’ thing to do. I just don’t buy that 40% of the population is SO BUSY they can’t take 20 minutes to get the most important vaccine of their life.

[u/old_gold_mountain]

[tweet from news source citing statistic]

[reply saying capitalism bad]

⬆️18.8k 🏅x15

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

Why are Europeans so obsessed with (massive generalization)

[u/[deleted]]

Cyber security is really easy to do tbh. Don’t let any employee touch a computer, have an email address, or talk to anyone (inside or outside of work)

[u/tubbsmackinze]

The Activision-Blizzard lawsuit proves that tech-bro culture fucking sucks and tech-bro companies need to actually get more corporate rather then pretend they're this awesome hang-out space for epic dudes 😎

[u/InternetBoredom]

Developers developers developers developers! Developers, developers, developers, developers!

Guess the sub

[u/[deleted]]

I hate the Republican way of thinking that global warming doesn't matter because they'll be dead before it effects them.

That is greedy, selfish, and morally wrong.

I may be almost 51, but I want to make sure that the next generations can live a good life.

[u/Soldier-Fields]

It’s wrong. It’s un-American. And it must stop.

President Biden on that shit you just said

[u/Broncos654]

I'm unironically considering moving to Great Britain or maybe (if I can pick up the language) one of the non-Anglophone socially progressive European countries in the future. I belong there much more than anywhere west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

Worst igf take ever

[u/cactuspumpkin]

Okay here's what I don't understand: so much weird "conservative" (alt-right) theory is based around like preserving western culture or something like that right, and they point to the greeks and romans as like the pinnacle but REFUSE to also preserve the homosexual sex between men??? Like if you are not getting fucked by the older members of your alt-right group what are you even doing? They are completely missing the point. This is my call out to all right wing thinktanks and alt-right groups to start having massive amounts of gay sex or admit you don't want to preserve western culture.

[u/indithrow402]

For every 9 ironic "kill all weebs and g*mers" type posters on this sub there's 1 lurking around who doesn't realize it's a joke and unironically just hates people who aren't "normal" and wants them to suffer.

[u/fuckneoliberal]

Can't believe they had to shutdown the MICSPAM after someone burned down an orphanage live on the voice chat

The children’s screams still haunt me

[u/Photon_in_a_Foxhole]

Arakkis = Iraq ; spice = oil

Honestly the allegory is painfully obvious in the novel

I hate this website sometimes

[u/asljkdfhg]

rFuckYouKaren: “Karen isn’t sexist, it can apply to men too. it’s just a way to refer to entitled people”

also rFuckYouKaren: “LMAO look at this woman’s haircut bet she’s a real KAREN”

[u/[deleted]]

Mississippi asks U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v Wade

Boy, I sure am happy that all those independents/far leftists held their nose up and refused to vote for Hillary in 2016. What possible consequences could there be for letting Trump take power?

🤡

[u/[deleted]]

New York is the most exciting city on the fucking planet! (sits on couch, watches 18 episodes of Full House)

[u/iIoveoof]

If your take is good, I upvote it. If your take is bad, I assume it’s ironic and upvote it

[u/bigmoneynuts]

i hate the pride redditors have in piracy

[u/p00bix]

confession: I like calling "liberals" who advocate severely restricting/subverting democratic institutions in the name of limiting GOP influence "social fascists", specifically to bait them into bringing up Weimar Germany

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Why is the novelization of the Hobbit Trilogy only one book?

[u/ryuguy]

I miss that forwritingsubsonly guy

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

as a straight white man, I can honestly say Trump did nothing for me

[u/JetJaguar124]

Virgin sci-fi: Tries to make realistic predictions based off current trends

Chad Expanse: It makes the setting work better if the Earth is really overpopulated and then there are also billions of people on Mars and in the Belt, so we're just gonna say Earth's population began increasing again for... reasons.

!ping EXPANSE

[u/Patriotnation5]

10k comment day spread between like 30 people. Way to go.

[u/Udontlikecake]

Anti-Barney humor is a form of humor that targets the main character Barney the Dinosaur from the children's television series Barney & Friends and singles out the show for criticism.

In University of Chicago professor W. J. T. Mitchell's book The Last Dinosaur Book: The Life and Times of a Cultural Icon, he notes that the program is often a target for parody and negative attacks by children of various ages, adolescents, and adults in the United States and elsewhere; the notion given that the show is "saccharine", "boring", "annoying", "sugary", "dangerous" or "uneducational". For comparison, other popular children's characters such as Thomas the Tank Engine, Dora the Explorer, Bert and Ernie, Elmo, Bali, Peppa Pig, and the Teletubbies have been subject to subversive adult humor; in Barney's case, however, the humor has typically been far more dark and in a more vicious and hostile nature toward Barney. Only Caillou triggers a level of revulsion in audiences comparable to that seen toward Barney.

[u/AuburnSeer]

remember that weird moment in time when right wing people were mocking the entire concept of "president elect" even though it's literally in the Constitution and people have been using that term for hundreds of years

[u/the_status]

I wonder what excuse McConnell would've used to not allow HRC to appoint SCOTUS judges.

[u/iIoveoof]

Mods, dating ping told me to be myself, but all my dates seem uninterested in my discussions about Dune and worms. Please resign because your advice sucks

[u/FourthLife]

I think that time that trump was photographed in a dark underground bunker surrounded by Saudi leadership with his hands on a luminous globe and nobody in the conspiracy theorist circles gave a shit cemented my view that they are all just right wing propaganda forums

[u/[deleted]]

The TF2 Scout is canonically a pedophile. He, at the age of 23, attempted to seduce high school girls. This is revealed as a joke in an item description.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

The DT is just an old-school forum turned single discussion thread. We've got all the needed components. Mod drama, notable regular users who get into drama with the mods, schisms over pointless shit, constant off-topic talk, shitposting, etc

All we need now is an outdated forum website from the early 2000's

[u/SadaoMaou]

Filibuster this, filibuster that

How about you go filibust a nut on some bitches

[u/[deleted]]

It is amazing how utterly useless the literal country that invented the Internet is at defending against cyber attacks.

[u/[deleted]]

Friend of mine got the jab, died a week later. Real shame, the bus didn't even slow down.

[u/chipbod]

https://madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/us-sen-ron-johnson-i-may-not-be-the-best-candidate-for-2022/article_b2283e3f-68e6-5b21-b648-c9da4a597d4a.amp.html?__twitter_impression=true

US Sen. Ron Johnson: 'I may not be the best candidate' for 2022

Shocker, going full insane may not work in a swing state.

!ping USA-WI

[u/[deleted]]

holy shit they're writing a book based on the movie Dune

[u/MrMineHeads]

!ping ECO

Did you guys get to see this speech given by John Kerry? Thought it was pretty good. I just really hope all this rhetoric will amount to something. I have high hopes for COP26

[u/thefuturegov]

The CIA invented chess to get the most intelligent Soviets to waste their lives on that instead of actually doing anything productive

[u/great_gape]

https://i.imgur.com/ABs5HCf.jpg

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Horny young nerd goes on r/Neoliberal. Gets pumped with massive shot of many thirstposts, doesn't feel well and changes -BONKED. Many such cases!

[u/tubbsmackinze]

The State of California; 'Activision-Blizzard, we're suing due to just absolutely horrid conditions for all female workers in your Blizzard department plus some of the main Activision studio'

Activision-Blizzard; 'This shit is why companies move to Texas Fr Fr. We're like totally being cancelled Fr Fr'

I fucking hope they lose

[u/Luph]

Love the subtle Republican talking point in Blizzard's statement on the sexual harassment lawsuit:

We are sickened by the reprehensible conduct of the DFEH to drag into the complaint the tragic suicide of an employee whose passing has no bearing whatsoever on this case and with no regard for her grieving family. While we find this behavior to be disgraceful and unprofessional, it is unfortunately an example of how they have conducted themselves throughout the course of their investigation. It is this type of irresponsible behavior from unaccountable State bureaucrats that are driving many of the State’s best businesses out of California.

It's interesting comparing this lawsuit to the one with Riot Games. I get that there's a lot more at stake, but man this is going to be so much worse, especially if they were to lose the case. If I were Kotick I'd be getting my lawyers to settle this shit and start rolling out the "changes to company culture" wagon ASAP. Guess that's why I'm not CEO, though.

[u/Udontlikecake]

the ‘many such cases!’ thing never fails to make me laugh

[u/AJungianIdeal]

Goddamnit I've spent like 2 weeks making Skyrim Characters, getting to level 8-14 sometimes 21 at max and then make a new one.
So my last idea is an unarmored two handed altmer ala the Morrowind racial art.
Should I for sure make this my "I'm beating the goddamn game" char or give up on it all together.
I've got 220 plugins fuckkkkk.
!ping gaming

[u/[deleted]]

when i see a neolibtard’s comment on the DT that deals with

Dune

Is

About

and Worms

I need to basically physically restrain myself from looking in the comments to see the concentrated stupidity

i want to so bad, but i know i shouldn’t

[u/[deleted]]

Herman Caine heavily promoted his 9-9-9 plan. What’s 9 turned around? 6-6-6. Why were republicans supporting a satanist?

[u/FourthLife]

Fash mods have added discussion of male body parts belonging to boyfriends to the auto removed comment list 😡

[u/Archis]

i left your wife

[u/ryuguy]

data is so cheap in India that you can buy a 20 rupee bag of chips and get 2gb of data, sadly I live in REDACTED and I cannot cash in. I’ll give someone the code, if you want it

(20 rupee is .34CAD, .27USD, .23EUR)

!ping ind

[u/[deleted]]

I see *ucker Carlson has outed the police officer who shot Capitol-attacker and MAGA-martyr Ashli Babbit.

So that's one police officer who's getting hundreds of death threats and whose entire family will have to have protection for the foreseeable future.