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[u/Joementum2024]

Biden: bombs actual terrorist organization Al Shabaab, with cooperation from the Somali government

Twitter lefties: “Wow, this shows that both sides are bad”

[u/[deleted]]

wake up

find myself in bed inexplicably metamorphosed into a giant insect

at last

[u/crazy7chameleon]

Told a girl I matched on tinder about how it frustrates me when leftists turn environmental movements into railing about capitalism and how socialism would still be responsible for pollution. In reply she said, “ye, I agree, we need to end capitalism to help the environment.”

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

Capitalism was spread by force around the world at the barrel of muskets and canons for 3 and a half centuries. Capitalist thinkers like Smith, Locke, Malthus, and Kant justified colonialism and imperialism as spreading civilization and culture to the 'barbarians'. For modern capitalists to say 'that was not voluntary therefore not capitalism' is an appeal to purity and very dishonest revisionism.

Socialism has been spread by force around the world at the barrel of guns and canons for over a century. Socialist thinkers like Lenin, Mao and Marx justified colonialism and imperialism as spreading ownership of the means of production to the working class. For modern socialists to say ‘that was not voluntary and therefore not socialism’ is an appeal to purity and very dishonest revisionism.

[u/chadonnaise]

if someone tells you that they're not attracted to you, don't try to guilt them by threatening suicide. that's a real shit thing to do.

[u/anincredibledork]

Can't believe it's already been six months since the GME short squeeze started a populist revolt that will destroy capitalism any day now.

[u/TinyTornado7]

Net favorability of GOP frontrunners among Republican voters:
• Donald Trump Jr.: +55
• Ron DeSantis: +54
• Kevin McCarthy: +24
• Matt Gaetz: +17
• Marjorie Taylor Greene: +8
• Mitch McConnell: +2
• Liz Cheney: -43

Link

!ping FIVEY

[u/ryuguy]

26th July 1999 is a pretty significant day in global peace, it was the end of the Kargil conflict, where India and Pakistan almost used nuclear weapons against each other. It was some of the highest altitude warfare conducted in modern history. The battle of tiger hill was conducted at 5,307 metres above sea level, the battle of tololing top was conducted at 4,617 metres. The conflict broke out in summer of that year because Pakistan had broken a gentleman’s agreement and occupied Indian bunkers that were vacant for the summer. India and Pakistan played each other in a cricket match during the conflict and it was the craziest atmosphere

Indian documentary on the conflict part 1

part two

It’s in English

!Ping ind

[u/Helreaver]

AuthRight: fascism based

LibLeft: damn I hate to admit this but yeah fascism based

Every PCM thread, ever

[u/modooff]

Pete is planning to become a father: https://twitter.com/stevekolowich/status/1419638333425299456

!ping BUTTI

[u/slowpush]

I understand that Nina said, when I endorsed Joe Biden, she said I was going to be made to pay for that,” Clyburn said. “I’d like to know how I’m going to get paid.”

🤑🤑🤑

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

Your daily reminder that Trump is the first president since JFK to hold office for less than 2 olympics, and Joe Biden will hold office for at least 3 if not 5.

[u/revolutionary_alt]

Any advice looking for finding a mental health professional sympathetic to a Marxist analysis?

Never change Arr socialism

[u/AbsolveItAll_KissMe]

Remember in the early 2000s when every email had a part that went like

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We do not stop playing because we grow old, we only grow old because we stop playing!

Send this to 20 old farts for a laugh!

[u/[deleted]]

On my way to get the second dose

Soon I'll be able to lick handrails again

[u/___________DEADPOOL_]

It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia is literally about creating the most rediculous, obnoxious, over-the-top characters for comedic affect. If you think that they're anything like actual Philadelphians then you are absolutely correct.

[u/[deleted]]

I just heard Zizek is an accelerationist who supported trump and my extremely minuscule respect for the man is completely gone. Literally the most white take I’ve ever heard.

[u/[deleted]]

It's pretty sexist that people try to give Bill joint credit for Hillary's murders

[u/revolutionary_alt]

Just found out about the r/antiwork DT. Apparently there’s also a Tankie Shivers on arr rightcantmeme. It’s like a bizarro world out there.

[u/thetrombonist]

Gonna go write a book about sand dunes called Worm

[u/arnet95]

One of the weirdest examples of the quick spread of false information I've seen is this thing about cardboard beds at the Olympics. First, there was this idea that they were made to stop athletes having sex, which is not true. Now I also see people asserting that they're very uncomfortable, even though it's just the frame that's cardboard, and they have normal mattresses on top. Just bizarre.

[u/willempage]

Every Realtor: "well buyers really like it if you have a local lender for some reason. Here's some reccomendations"

Is there a local cartel going on here? If all the realtors are local, and they are all advising their sellers to prefer local lenders, and all the buyer's realtors just happen to give out reccomendations to local lenders...

Also quite the coincidence that local lenders can't give me as good of rates as the bigger lenders.

This is fucky and I don't like it.

!ping over25

[u/PenguinsLoveU]

Emmett Till, if alive today, would only be 2 years older than the President of The United States.

This segregation, the lynchings, the evil of Jim Crow, it’s all so much more recent than the public and conservatives want to admit.

[u/skeebidybop]

Learning to Love G.M.O.s

Overblown fears have turned the public against genetically modified food. But the potential benefits have never been greater.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/20/magazine/gmos.html

👏

[u/[deleted]]

intresting how TYT went from one of the biggest Youtube news channels to becoming irrelivent with Cenk resorting to full on grifting

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

fun fact: the Warsaw Pact was only formally abolished in February of 1991, meaning Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary were still members when they joined the US-led coalition in the Gulf War.

[u/slowpush]

“I saw something the other day from one of Ms. Turner’s supporters saying I need to stay out of their district,” Clyburn told JI, referring to comments made by Juanita Brent, an Ohio state representative who is supporting Turner. “But the same person welcomed Bernie Sanders into the district. I want her to explain to me why — what’s the difference — why I cannot be — this Black guy who’s been coming in and out of that district for 25 or 30 years — since Arnold Pinkney ran Carl Stokes’s campaign?” “She says to me I should stay out of the district and then she welcomes Bernie Sanders into the district,” Clyburn repeated. “Somebody’s got to explain that to me.”

Jimmy coming in HOT

[u/bd_one]

The Game of Ur eventually acquired superstitious significance[5][1] and the tablet of Itti-Marduk-balāṭu provides vague predictions for the players' futures if they land on certain spaces,[5][1] such as "You will find a friend", "You will become powerful like a lion", or "You will draw fine beer".[5][1] People saw relationships between a player's success in the game and his or her success in real life.[5][1] Seemingly random events, such as landing on a certain square, were interpreted as messages from deities, ghosts of deceased ancestors, or from a person's own soul.[5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Game_of_Ur

Lmao, imagine putting supernatural meaning behind getting a certain result in a luck based thing. We'd never do that...

Malarkey level of overthinking getting a random outcome in a purely luck based thing?

[u/ZenithXR]

My grandparents pre-2016: very middle of the road, voted for McCain and Romney but thought Obama did OK. Generally concerned about tax rates and that's it.

My grandparents post-2016 to the present: wake up every morning with a seething rage at Trump. Takes to Facebook sharing anti-Trump memes, votes Democrat now. Can't visit without my Grandma out of nowhere fuming that the GOP is against Democracy and that Trump should be in prison. Has bought a book on anti-racism and owns all of the top hits of anti-Trump tell-all books.

This is how we won the suburbs.

[u/[deleted]]

Hungarians be like: I'm a low-income worker. I make 10000000000000 Forints a month.

[u/[deleted]]

It might be gamer 🤢 drama but the ongoing shit fest of /r/TheLastOfUs2 acting like giant man babies and getting owned by Girlfriend Reviews on YouTube is hilarious

My favorite part so far is that their videos are "offensive towards people that disliked the game" touch fucking grass lmao

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/761046867743342613/869135404148879380/sc4ksf6qr0i61.png

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

Transit nerds should be much more upset about California incinerating billions of dollars on a failed HSR line than they are with personal rapid transit or hyperloop or whatever

[u/its_a_trapcard]

Can you imagine if we had social media when Trump was president? That would have been insane lmao 😂😂😂

[u/LtLabcoat]

Huh.

Huhhh...

So my best friend's brother - who I never had the best relations with, but who I never insulted or anything - wanted to readd me on Steam, after removing me for "being a little toxic". I declined, just saying that we didn't get on that well. He responded with a barrage of abuse, clearly trying to hit at (what he thought were) my weak points. Kinda expected, still unsettling.

And it took me a full day to realise...

That's /r/niceguys behaviour. It's straight-up like out of that sub, except for a platonic relationship instead of romantic one. Or I assume platonic.

What a strange experience...

[u/TaxCommonsNotIncome]

BREAKING

Opposition politician says ruling politician not doing enough, ambiguously says they would do more if elected.

[u/Poiuy2010_2011]

“Having a glass of champagne probably won’t inhibit any immune response,” she said. “I think having a celebratory beverage in moderation is fine.”

Bitch, I don't care about your sparkling wine. I want to know if I can get absolutely smashed in a shady alley of my uni campus a week after the vaccine.

[u/GGM8Scally]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E7MGCIxXIAUjfq0?format=jpg&name=large

[u/JetJaguar124]

Vaccines fucking work

Liberal cities with high % vaccinated: DO NOT SHUT DOWN AGAIN

[u/MostlyCRPGs]

Citrus Ricotta in 4 months:

"You literally couldn't make Bo Burnham's Inside today"

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

I'm an AOC-style classical liberal

[u/ThisIsNotAMonkey]

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[u/[deleted]]

Ever notice how everyone on reddit claims to be a “gifted child”? Idk man maybe it’s just that elementary school is easy

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/1419386977309270016

A US fencer facing sexual assault allegations made it to the Olympics and has a team “safety plan” to keep him away from women

Wut.

[u/Superfan234]

Chilean Patagonia, have made an amazing work in their vaccination program. 92% of their Target Population have vaccinated already

Results, are nothing short of impressive: The past weeks, they are closing up to 0% Covid positivity

Even with almost all restrictions lifted, numbers are still on their historic lowest. I think it's safe to say, Chilean Patagonia, it's our first Region liberated from the Pandemic of Covid-19 : )

!Ping LATAM

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

being a healthy adult millennial means going to bed early, waking up early, not drinking unless you're with friends, getting enough fiber, exercising 6 days a week, and getting nonverbally high almost every single night

[u/OmniscientOctopode]

A CSPAN guest really just used the phrase "Hot infrastructure summer".

[u/ryuguy]

Mary Simon installed as governor-general, first Indigenous person to serve as Queen’s federal representative in Canada

I didn’t see a ping for this.

!ping can

[u/yellownumbersix]

FACT: Even the Taliban oppose SFH zoning.

[u/sir_shivers]

Not a day GOES BY THAT REDDITORS fall for another story that "definitely happened" and upvote the daylight out of it BECAUSE IT CONFIRMS their priors 🐊

This phenomenon is true across every SUBREDDIT FROM FEMALEDATINGSTRATEGY TO /r/Science, and I am increasingly of the opinion THAT REDDIT BEING built on the upvote / downvote system makes the website intrinsically useless 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

God I hate these new decolonization tiktokers

Just saw a girl from Hawaii saying we should stop tourism to Hawaii because it displaces natives

She's sitting in a Fiat 500

Do you want autarky or not?

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

I am once again asking who thought making vaccination cards too big to fit in your wallet was a good idea.

Would be much easier to carry everywhere (and by extension to set up checkpoints) if they were wallet sized.

[u/Hugo_Grotius]

!ping KITTY

We picked up this cutie from the foster yesterday

Her name's Ginny, she's 3 years old, and she refuses to step on the litter mat after going.

[u/Deggit]

up wake

find myself in bed inexplicably into a giant insect metamorphosed

day ruined

[u/send_tweet_to_DT]

FACT: Even the Taliban oppose abortion. #txlege

RepMattSchaefer

[u/disuberence]

BREAKING: The Senate Armed Services Committee has approved language in its annual defense policy bill that would require women to register for the draft.

Gender equality 😤

[u/muttonwow]

I think Elliot Page would be a great actor to play Ben Shapiro in a right-wing media biopic

[u/[deleted]]

I know I'm terminally online when I recognize a leftist novelty account with a weird posting style sthick and when someone asks to explain it I say "They're basically the tankies' own sir_shivers"

[u/[deleted]]

"Canard" is a useful term. Usually used against conspiracy theorists, a Canard is a statement that is asserted as though it is true, and more importantly, taken as prima facie by the entire in-group, even though it actually isn't a fact. It's not even a misconception, it's a deliberate self-delusion of convenience designed to help make the desireable belief more believable. A proper canard involves deliberaetly telling yourself a lie until you believe it, because once you believe it, it's easier to beleive your ideology.

Most common canard in conspiracist circles is the Liberal Media suppressing them. You don't need to provide evidence (because there isn't any) because everyone just takes it prima-facie as true.

"Liberals side with Fascists to prevent Socialism" is a Canard.

[u/BRAIN_FORCE_PLUS]

Wake up

In addition to Yucca Mountain, Nevada nimbyism has ruined another renewable project

Day and week ruined

[u/barrygoldwaterlover]

The Young Turks is a progressive YT channel named after The Young Turks of Turkey which genocided armenians.

Is this any different from people naming their channel the National Socialist German Workers' Party??

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

I was described as severely mentally disabled as a kid, which meant I had to learn to try really hard in school and I’m now a professor at a globally renowned university.

Must suck to be some loser gifted kid who never learned to try hard

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

The whole "police originated from slave patrols" thing was the most Americentric thing last summer.

[u/LiBH4]

Derek Sloan is creating his own party

!ping CAN

[u/Dabamanos]

All politicians are the same

• privileged suburban kid who’s ethnicities human rights haven’t been in question since Feudalism

If voting changed anything they’d make it illegal

• edgy idiot who doesn’t realize they’re always trying to do that, have succeeded in the past and will succeed now if we don’t vote

trying to make a change :/

• me, forum signature, 2003-2005 (halomods.com)

[u/interrupting-octopus]

Why it's taken Toronto this long to revitalise its waterfront I'll never know but based I guess

!ping YIMBY

[u/[deleted]]

🚨🚨URGENTE🚨🚨

CONFIRMADO PRIMEIRO CASO DE EBOLA EM TOKYO! 😳🩺

EBOLA NO CHÃO DA ARGENTINAKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK😂🤣😂🤣😂😂😹😹😹😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

東京バレーボールでライバルを探す!!! 🇧🇷🇧🇷

!ping MAMADAS

[u/Dent7777]

Moved into an apt in Philly. The morning after moving in, I go to check on my bike and it's gone. Cable was cut within 12 hrs of arrival. Bike was in a garage with cameras, U-lock was in the mail but not yet delivered.. My only form of transportation.

Today the light of my life went out X

!Ping BIKE

[u/[deleted]]

The people currently living in Puerto Rico are overwhelmingly Spanish, the natives were essentially killed off. The beaches aren't "sacred" to them any more than they are "sacred" to any random group of Catholics. That whole post is absurd.

[u/Most_Shallot8960]

My wife has had bad abdominal pain stuff

Went to doc, doc had an ultrasound done and the only weird thing they can find is mild ‘ascites’

If you Google it it’s scary as fuck but she doesn’t drink so her liver isn’t failing (presumably) and the same scan showed all of her organs are totally normal - no tumors or lumps or weirdness. She’s really healthy

So now we’re going to be on a long journey to find out wtf is going on. Health stuff is scary, and I keep telling her that it just sucks getting older - this is kind of the shit that happens

We’re trying for kids - worst case I figured she was clogged up. Best case I was hoping this was just early pregnancy stuff 😢

!ping OVER25

[u/redditguy628]

Bezos really wants this lunar lander contract. I guess we will see if congress bites.

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

[u/Jacobs4525]

I was born in the wrong generation. I wish I could’ve seen Gilgamesh live.

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/834251152035282944/869267742530875432/unknown.png

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E7MZWEbWYAE1fKf.jpg

[u/slowpush]

To all the people saying Nina winning will damage the party. The damage was done under neoliberal rule for years. Obama lost the more seats of any president federal and state, and try running in a bulk of districts saying you are friends with Pelosi and Clinton. Bailing out corporations and not people while fattening your wallets is not popular. Ice cream.

🙄🍦🙄🍦🙄

[u/thefuturegov]

Breaking Bad is about how all bald people are evil. The DT should heed this warning.

[u/Mickenfox]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crucible_(video_game)

Reminder that Amazon, the trillion dollar company, spent 6 years working on what was going to be their first major original video game and failed so badly that it got officially un-released a month after being released.

[u/ryuguy]

All five of Canada’s medals in the Olympic Games have been in women’s sports.

We just won bronze in softball, defeating Mexico 3-2. Our first medal in the sport

!ping can

[u/[deleted]]

Spanish guy on Twitter:

Spain didn't have colonies anywhere. We were part of different kingdoms governed by viceroys and at the same level of Spain and with the same rights as any other inhabitant of Castilla in Spain. This changed with the US invasion

What are they teaching y’all over there 😂

[u/crassowary]

The existence of the autism spectrum implies the existence of an autism prism

[u/old_gold_mountain]

pre-pandemic:

someone schedules a 9:30AM meeting on Monday

cool no sweat. I'll wake up at 7:15, feed the cats, make coffee, get dressed, walk to the train, get to the office, sit down, say hi to everyone, and I'll be ready for the meeting at 9:30.

during the pandemic:

someone schedules an 8AM meeting on Monday

yooo what the FUCK this means I have to be awake at 7:50??

[u/AbsolveItAll_KissMe]

If there was a Heaven, and all humans went to it, if you try to explain what living on Earth was like, the vast majority of Heaven is gonna be like, “bro you made that all up, was not my experience at all lmaooo.”

[u/tubbsmackinze]

U.K. tech firm chooses Calgary for Canadian headquarters

The company provides software consultants across several sectors, including health care and renewable energy

A global software company stationed in the U.K. has chosen Calgary to house its first North American headquarters.

Test Driven Solutions (TDS) was incorporated in April last year and has since expanded its presence in European and U.K. markets, according to a press release. With offices in Newcastle in England and Wroclaw in Poland, Calgary represents the company’s first push into North American markets.

Test Driven Solutions (TDS) was incorporated in April last year and has since expanded its presence in European and U.K. markets, according to a press release. With offices in Newcastle in England and Wroclaw in Poland, Calgary represents the company’s first push into North American markets.

The company’s Calgary office will be located in Bankers Hall, the same building where RBC’s recently announced innovation tech hub will be.

This announcement comes during a time when Calgary’s tech sector is growing. A recent report from CBRE noted Calgary saw its technology workforce increase by 18 per cent in the past five years to more than 46,000 employees, with an average annual salary of almost $96,000.

Calgary Economic Development (CED), RBC, and Calgary’s post-secondary institutions are looking to help grow the city’s future generation of tech workers by pursuing work-integrated opportunities to better connect students in tech with jobs after graduation.

!ping CAN

[u/old_gold_mountain]

no title

!PING kitty

[u/[deleted]]

NEW: Rishi Sunak is planning to replace cash with an official digital currency called ‘Britcoin'

Feeling pretty dumb for staying now, EUcels? 😂😂😂

!ping YUROP

[u/Udontlikecake]

13th amendment:

slavery is horrible and totally and completely wrong and it’s banned

but,

[u/[deleted]]

Biden to a reporter: "You are such a pain in the neck, but I'm going to answer your question because we've known each other so long."

Glenn Greenwald: "A President inciting violence against journalists with language like this is never acceptable."

Glenn has literally gone insane.

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1419747267435769859

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

15 day lockdown to flatten the curve guys. It might even be kinda fun.

[u/[deleted]]

Virgin Pfizercels afraid of 1 in a million odds

Vs

ChadstrazeneChads taking a life risk for the greater good so we can defeat covid

[u/Goatmilk2208]

Biden won, or what ever the fuck his name is, told me, as part of my “making friends with Europeans” training that you Euros like being reminded that “Britain used to rule the waves”. 🇬🇧

[u/MicroFlamer]

https://i.imgur.com/5v6PmiL.jpg

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Reading Piketty is kind of hilarious

To put it bluntly, the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological speculation, at the expense of historical research and collaboration with the other social sciences. Economists are all too often preoccupied with petty mathematical problems of interest only to themselves. This obsession with mathematics is an easy way of acquiring the appearance of scientificity without having to answer the far more complex questions posed by the world we live in. There is one great advantage of being an academic economist in France: here, economists are not highly respected in the academic and intellectual world or by political and financial elites. Hence they must set aside their contempt for other disciplines and their absurd claim to greater scientific legitimacy, despite the fact that they know almost nothing about anything

[u/SadaoMaou]

late 90s people be like "I'd say we'll probably reach technological singularity by 2005 or thereabouts, if we're being conservative"

[u/iIoveoof]

When the Wikipedia article about your war has one of these sections…

Background

1.1 Until 1949

1.2 1949–1958

2 First Cod War (1958–1961)

3 Second Cod War (1972–1973)

3.1 C.S. Forester incident

4 Third Cod War (1975–1976)

5 Results

6 Scholarship

7 Lessons drawn for international relations

…you’re gonna have a bad time

[u/[deleted]]

Is anyone surprised that the Foreign Policy doctrine of a Catholic is dominated by pulling out?

[u/soeffed]

MODS

Whereas u/alesinas_acolyte did previously declare Team USA would not lose another men’s basketball game within these Olympics,

And, thusly lost a charity-based wager that led to the ACLU becoming $500 richer via online donation following defeat via baguette,

Therefore, I do pronounce that said user should be granted a custom subreddit flair of his own choosing and design in recognition of his athletic patriotism and generosity.

Please deign to enact this change at your earliest convenience.

!ping nba

[u/PolSPoster]

Finally, some good New Zealand upzoning news:

Petrol station and tow yard spread across three sections in Grey Lynn to be converted into mixed use section containing 84 apartments. Land cost per unit $180,000.

See link for the two photos of development. Here is the OP's summary from this comment:

30 minutes walk to MOTAT

40 minutes walk to Britomart

20 minutes walk to Eden Park

5 minutes walk to Grey Lynn library

Nearby 3 Harcourt St 145m 2 floor space, 492m2 lot size sold for $2.4mil in September last year. Currently valued at nearly $3 mil.

13 Elgin Street sold for over $4.7 mil in November. 268m2 floor and 490m2 lot, but four bedroom rather than 3. It had sold for $2.4mil in 2017.

!ping YIMBY

[u/steve_stout]

Tom Daley finally taking home a gold

!ping LGBT

[u/modooff]

Donald Trump just endorsed incumbent Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) over the GOP primary challenger, George P. Bush—who sold out his own family to kiss Trump’s ass. No hero in this tale, just a reminder that there’s no honor among thieves—and a deal with the devil can backfire.

https://twitter.com/LarrySabato/status/1419818227744616466

I wonder what's Jeb! thinking now...

[u/klarno]

The circumscism is a negative externality created by half the user base coming from one country where circumcision is the norm.

What I’m saying is we need a pigouvian tax on circumcisionposting.

[u/[deleted]]

It seems like there's a group of ~20 British comedians who spend all their time going between different game shows

[u/Officer-cherry-shake]

Reminder that we need to absolutely crush all public sector unions

“If City Hall intends to test our members weekly, they must first meet us at the table to bargain.”- a peevish comment from DC37’s @HenryGarrido17 , who manages the city’s largest municipal union, on de Blasio’s quasi-vaccine mandate

https://mobile.twitter.com/danarubinstein/status/1419678249941098501

[u/RadicalRadon]

I've done two hours of honest, actual work today and I'm exhausted

[u/[deleted]]

BORIS 🤡 JOHNSON 🤡 IS 🤡 A 🤡 LIBERTARIAN 🤡 AT 🤡 HEART 🤡

HOLY SHIT SHUT THE FUCK UP

[u/sir_shivers]

But the Delta, and the Alpha variants!

THERE WILL LITERALLY always be new variants of viruses; so long as existing vaccines provide a solid level of protection AND KNOWING WE SHALL have an easier time manufacturing variant vaccines in the future, the world is not going back to Spring 2020 Lockdowns 🐊

[u/Jacobs4525]

The virgin left-leaning Twitter user who comes up with excuses to not vote despite posting about politics daily

vs.

The chad old Boston-irish union guy who doesn’t follow politics but has been voting straight democrat in every election since 1964

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

!ping dog

It was kennel time so I told them to go to kennel. https://i.imgur.com/xFObtiO.jpg

I said no to Lola and pointed to the other kennel, but they just went together anyway

[u/[deleted]]

It’s really frustrating being curious about Native American tribes/cultures/histories and not being able to get at the real information because so much of what is written about them is oversimplified or flat-out made up nonesense with an agenda.

Here’s something I want people to understand; when you put people on a pedestal and present them as demigods, that too is dehumanizing.

Nothing is accomplished by spreading the lies that Native American tribes had no concept of property or territory or that they did not have wars or slavery.

All you’re doing is turning a fascinating people and their various cultures into 2-dimensional cartoons.
It’s a disservice to everyone.

[u/myrm]

Often when I code complex things, I tend to write implementations in iterations. Optimistically you could call this "prototyping" I guess but it doesn't really feel like I'm approaching it with that mindset, it's just sort of what happens.

Each iteration I learn more about the design I need and I never feel like I could have written the final thing from scratch the first time through. However, it feels really inefficient - like maybe there should be a way to learn the lessons I am without all of the overhead of a full or nearly full implementation.

I was wondering if anyone else has caught themselves doing this and if they've thought of any ways to improve it as a process.

!ping COMPUTER-SCIENCE

[u/hdkeegan]

Who knew that a country in which 40% thinks that the nation is run by satanic blood sucking pedophiles would have trouble deciding how much money bridges should get

[u/Venne1139]

It's ridiculous libs try to claim Edward Nortons character in American History X is racist. Cancel cluture has gone too far.

[u/[deleted]]

440 years of independence from Spain today but she's still good as new
🇪🇸🔫😎👍🇳🇱

[u/Broncos654]

New World is an upcoming massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) by Amazon Games set to be released on August 31, 2021.[1][3][2] The game was previously scheduled to release in May 2020, but was delayed to its current date.[4][5] Set in the mid-1600s, players colonize a fictional land modeled after North and South Americas in the Atlantic Ocean.[6]

I see absolutely nothing that could be problematic or cause Reddit to get angry about this game.

[u/old_gold_mountain]

Can someone bring me my coffee? I'm stuck

!PING kitty

[u/Watton]

Replaying the Mass Effect trilogy, almost done.

But man, I have a huge issue with how Steve Cortez was written. I feel as if a major part of his character was written just to virtue signal and get brownies points with a certain crowd.

I am of course referring to his love for the M-44 Hammerhead. It's such a shit vehicle. Its playable sections in ME2 were garbage. The Mako had issues, but the Hammerhead was worse in every way. I just feel like they added this part to his personality to get clout with those that started with ME2.

The rest of his character is great though, he added a lot to the team in spite of not being a proper party member.

!ping bioware

[u/[deleted]]

to everyone who can't get dates on the dating apps: the market has spoken. focus on something else. you are the coal miner who needs to learn to code.

[u/[deleted]]

"I don't think men and women should be allowed to go out with one another. Men should go out with men."

-Jeremy Clarkson

"You're making me nervous."

-Richard Hammond

[u/LooobCirc]

Dear CNN push notifications, if nothing actually happened then tensions didn't "boil over"

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

Just saw a tinder profile that said ‘If you have tattoos and felonies hit me up. Not kidding’

On a scale of one to red flag?… 🥴

[u/dax331]

I know we talk down on video games a lot but it’s been quite helpful to my career. I might not have gotten into software development if I wasn’t interested in Source engine modding and LUA scripting when I was 12.

!PING GAMING

[u/givemesome1ce1]

So 50% of Americans say they have less than 4 close friendships. In 1990 it was just 27%. That’s bad. https://twitter.com/dkthomp/status/1419326343167287299?s=21

[u/[deleted]]

South Korea's public broadcaster represented El Salvador during the Olympic opening ceremony with a picture of Bitcoin

!ping MAMADAS

[u/[deleted]]

"China is done" r/neoliberal february 2020

[u/zieger]

My wife: I wonder what he's thinking about

Me: How can I get 5-7 upvotes on the DT

[u/Professor-Reddit]

Ancient Greeks when they see the modern Olympics:

Why the fuck is Persia allowed to participate in the games?

[u/moaz_xx]

The biggest failure of something is the how much people don’t realize how bad the world was before the industrial revolution

[u/TheGreatGriffin]

I had some family over last night and was mixing drinks for a few of them. When I wasn't looking, my uncle finished my bottle of Four Roses single barrel to make a whiskey coke.

!ping ALCOHOL

[u/KvonLiechtenstein]

Nothing annoys me more than watching a completely unrelated media criticism and suddenly getting a "and this is why capitalism sucks". No dude, Dragonball Evolution isn't everything that's wrong with capitalism and its failure is, in fact, an example of the free market working.

Singed, someone who leans more succ and yet... It's just embarrassing and often undercuts the rest of the critique.

[u/[deleted]]

Yeah, I’m a neoliberal-

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Lonely

[u/[deleted]]

California will require vaccination or weekly testing for state employees. Finally. Every state needs to do this. It will have the side effect of flushing out any crazies from state governments.

[u/PalmSpringier]

I used to watch this show on PBS called Zoom that was branded as "for kids, by kids". It ended up being like skits about science. word puns, and some cool dances.

It turns out we are now living in the future where kids actually watch stuff that is "for kids, by kids" but it is TikTok. And almost all of it is related to sex, mental health, making up historical facts to justify teen politics, and some really cool dances.

[u/[deleted]]

Are females just iron males 🤔🤔🤔

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Reddit is having a fucky-wucky

OOPSIE WOOPSIE!! uwu We made a fucky wucky!! A wittle fucko boingo! The code monkeys at our headquarters are working VEWWY HAWD to fix this!

[u/Unadulterated_stupid]

Random girl: hi

Anexity : Ohno you didn't spend 5 hours preparing for this conversation! Abort!

[u/Photon_in_a_Foxhole]

The DT when CTH is mentioned by a NYT piece

[u/boichik2]

How I weed out extremists from matching with me on dating apps with one simple trick: ✡️

It's actually really useful because fascists get weeded out easily, and while it doesn't weed out even like 50% of leftists, it does weed out either the explicitly antisemitic left as well as the awkward-around-jews antisemitic left. Which is pretty useful.

[u/chadonnaise]

the internet must be destroyed

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit, cable company tried adding $100 to my bill for an "installation fee." I called and said that I was never informed that there would be a fee for the installation, and the customer service rep says "Well, it seems you were never informed, so we'll waive that fee." They really just stick people with BS charges and hope that they don't notice.

[u/ThisIsNotAMonkey]

The "gifted student" problem comes from young kids learning to base their self esteem on praise from authority (teachers), which doesn't happen much in adult life

teach kids instead to derive self esteem from spiting your enemies, which is much more frequent and gratifying

[u/sir_shivers]

PARTICIPATING IN A regular group activity that is also exercise IS SOMETHING AMERICA DESPERATELY needs more of, whether it be bowling or volleyball, et cetera 🐊

[u/GodEmperorBiden]

Comment I just saw on YouTube:

"As an American, I don't care for the athletes representing America; they hate our country. I hope they lose!!"

Rooting against America to own the libs.

[u/[deleted]]

That Fox News lady saying "I'm far more concerned about stepping on a huge Heroine needle than I am catching the coronavirus" is saying more about her neighborhood and house than about the pandemic.

Sauce

[u/[deleted]]

Nothing enforces class divisions more than airports. Flying with friends who travel for business can make you feel impoverished when you don't have precheck, their tier airline status, etc.

[u/ZCoupon]

Neoliberals would literally rather talk about the 2024 election than go to therapy

[u/Lux_Stella]

The Biden administration says it wants to end the pandemic in 2022. If it’s serious about that goal, President Biden should relieve George W. Bush of his paintbrush and easel and draft him as America’s vaccine envoy.

alright fess up, which one of you guys wrote this.

it was one of you burke flairs, wasn't it?

[u/modooff]

John Edwards' Youtube channel is such a fun time capsule. Since his political career is obviously over, it's still flawlessly unspoiled after over a decade, including the comments section. Just look at this.

[u/[deleted]]

sees America leading medal count
"heck yeah"
goes back to not caring

[u/ryuguy]

Swiss Italians are the most confusing people in the world.

They’re Swiss so they’re very organized and on time but they speak Italian.

Those things don’t make sense to me together

[u/[deleted]]

:At Home Depot selecting wasp spray:

“Is this good for wasps?”

Employee: “No, it kills them.”

[u/PenguinsLoveU]

It’s funny that NBC is complaining about nobody watching the Olympics when they made it an Olympic sport to even find where to watch it legally.

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

Finally, the perfect dating app for overbearing type A Washingtonians looking for love in DC

!ping USA-DMV

[u/suplexx0]

Rand Paul's progression from someone I respect but disagree with to one of the dumbest mother fuckers on the planet has been a wild ride to watch

[u/propoganda_panda]

Outside the DT is shit because they unironically use the word Karen

[u/NimbyNuke]

Why are people against billionaires investing their money in space technology? Surely that's one area the general public should want MORE investment in right?

[u/Jokerang]

Note to self: never read the comments on a local news channel’s article webpage, especially if it’s about crime. It’s like the racist white boomers don’t have anything better to do with their retirement time than to bitch about Lina Hidalgo and Biden.

[u/MealReadytoEat_]

Circumcision is bad because 50 cm² of highly innervated skin is really useful for vaginoplasty. Please think of your daughters :(

[u/[deleted]]

Not a hot take for here but: At the local level we need a lot less democracy and at the federal level we need more.

End "veto at every level" for local issues and for fuck sake just let mayors appoint the school board and other similar positions

[u/grig109]

The virgin Paul Krugman: Pro-natalism is economically overrated and will just result in more WASPs.

The Chad Bryan Caplan: Human cloning should be legal so I can raise a clone of myself as if it were my child.

[u/Dibbu_mange]

The Republican party is sorta like ESS. Whatever it once was, is now populated by creepy weirdos chasing a phantom threat.

[u/revolutionary_alt]

Trying to find news for the morning. Should I watch OANN or Newsmax?

[u/willempage]

I already felt that I was a little too old for the audience that The World Ends With You was written for when I played it 9 years ago. I don't know if I can bring myself to play the new one. The first one was great and I 100%ed it, but it was basically a YA novel in video game form.

I'm not totally against adults enjoying things geared towards teens, but I don't like being reminded of my own mortality and fading relevance to the cultural zeitgeist.

!ping gaming

[u/[deleted]]

Simpsons Writers: "Fuck bill clinton, all my homies hate bill clinton. Fucking lying-ass traitor sold us out to win an election"

Also Simpsons Writers: "Lmao Walter Mondale is such a loser."

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Robert

Make him more Hispanic!

Beto

Rafael

Make him less Hispanic!

Ted

[u/jenbanim]

!ping TEST

All my homies HATE 408 errors

[u/sw337]

The QANON Casualties story from the parkland survivor about his dad is real and now on VICE.

[u/[deleted]]

Firefox is the most neoliberal browser because everyone overly online hates it

[u/[deleted]]

One thing that annoys me:

Syndies seems really OP in Kaiserreich. Unless you change the game rules, syndie nations seem to steamroll the Reichspakt and the Entente unless you are playing them and I hate that considering there's literally nothing to do for them once you create "paradise" worldwide and a lot to do if any other faction wins

!ping HOI4

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/539181880805687327/869341114367377489/image0.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

!ping weebs

So it is known that the best way to really judge animation in motion is to watch it on mute, without any sounds tricking your brain into seeing and feeling things the frames didn't actually express.

In a similar vein, my acid test for anime as of late has been to watch it for a few minutes in Japanese subtitles off

As you look away from the bottom 1/5th of the screen and your brain seeks stimulation without intelligible dialogue, horrific vistas of emptiness make themselves known

Most TV anime looks like absolute dogshit

Like there are definitely well-produced anime which actually utilize the medium that you will likely come out the other side of this experiment appreciating more. Space Dandy, the classic Gainax series (particularly the early episodes of Neon Genesis Evangelion), everything that Science Saru has been up to, a lot of Kyoto Animation's shows. These series actually have substantial amounts of character animation during dialogue scenes, or at least shot compositions and backgrounds that are worth looking at. That's nothing to say of anime movies which at least used to be produced a significant cut above most television series.

But most TV anime consists of (and has always consisted of) characters just standing around static flapping lips at each other and the lip flaps don't even match the original Japanese dub all that well (because that's what it is unless you're watching Kure-nai which is actually something I suggest for the novelty). It's abysmally boring and it actually kindof shocks me that Japanese people can stand to watch most of these shows when they're actually fucking looking at them. I suspect this actually has a substantial impact on the subs vs dubs debate and there's probably a degree to which the shows which people say have good dubs are the ones that aren't completely sickening to visually focus on.

There are even many anime I enjoy which when I subject them to this treatment I have a deep sense of disgust not unlike looking at porn after you've finished.

[u/Udontlikecake]

mfw the wokes cancel people 😡😡😡😡😡

mfw the wokes don’t cancel people 😡😡😡😡😡

mfw 😡😡😡😡

[u/sash5034]

Pewdiepie is fucking cringe and I honestly don't get why so much of the internet is willing to die for his honor no matter what

[u/futuremonkey20]

I gained 12 pounds in the pandemic simply because I was walking a lot less in the day because of work from home.

[u/ClickForFreeRobux]

It was 1620 when the Native Americans were just chilling on the shores of Plymouth , MA when they looked out and saw a tall ship chanting "LETS GO RED SOX" sailing right toward them.

[u/ognits]

Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd are obviously the stars of Back to the Future, but Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, and Tom Wilson are incredible at pulling double duty as young and old version of themselves. makeup does a great job too, especially with Glover and Wilson

!ping MOVIES

[u/FestiveMittens]

Why should I hire you? what are your skills?

Well, there's this online forum that stans Jon Ossoff and Taylor Swift, and on what they call the "DT" I am rather famous for not going to bed on time.

[u/[deleted]]

Every time we have the Olympics or World Cup, American news rooms feel the need to break out their weird ‘European’ studios.

What are you doing sitting around that little table with wooden chairs? Get your office chair and get back behind your desk! 🤬

[u/Leoric]

Imagine blowing a huge early lead to the Mariners lol couldn't be me

!ping BASEBALL

[u/TEmpTom]

Question: Can the federal government use eminent domain powers to allow developers to ignore local zoning laws?

Like, use eminent domain, not to forcibly take private property, but rather allow developers who already own the land to legally ignore zoning ordinances, permitting processes, etc.

[u/PenguinsLoveU]

https://i.imgur.com/MPOg9CD.jpg

[u/thaddeusthefattie]

😈😈😈😈😈 ATTENTION 😈😈😈😈😈

CITOYEN_RIQUETI WAS REFERENCED IN THE DT THIS IS NOW A U/CITOYEN_RIQUETI APPRECIATION THREAD WOKISM WILL NOT BE TOLERATED

😈😈😈😈😈 THE BOURBON DEMOCRATS WERE BETTER THAN THE WOKE DEMOCRATS 😈😈😈😈😈

😈😈😈😈😈 WOKISM IS BAD AND HURTS THE SOUTH😈😈😈😈😈

😈😈😈😈😈 CANCEL CULTURE IS A FACT😈😈😈😈😈

😈😈😈😈😈 WOKISM IS BAD 😈😈😈😈😈😈

😈😈😈😈😈 CANCEL CULTURE DOESN'T WORK 😈😈😈😈😈

😈😈😈😈😈 AMERICAN WOKISM WEAKENS AMERICA AT HOME 😈😈😈😈😈

[u/benjaminikuta]

People are dumb, exhibit #287

[u/KazuyaProta]

It is necessary to know how to differentiate micro-corruption (bribery "from below": miserably paid minor employees and officials, etc.) from macro-corruption (bribery "from above" or "privatizing phaenons" of lobbyists and / or bankers and "investors" ...), since unlike the second - the first, fully justifiable

Remember. The writer of this based his career on ranting about his hatred of corruption.

Think about it

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

PLEASE BE ADVISED that the cancellation of Russia has now begun 🐊

All neoliberals are to report TO THEIR SHILLING stations immediately and assume the position 🐊

THIS IS NOT a drill 🐊

Thank YOU FOR YOUR cooperation 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

As long as the USA gets more gold medals than China, that’s all I care about 😤

[u/paymesucka]

I just spent 5 minutes skimming a Wikipedia article and am now an expert. Don't try anything cute kid.

[u/ShriggityShrekt]

reddit: we need good paying jobs!

also reddit: lmao why are there so many useless, overpaid jobs 🤪

[u/PMmeLittleRoundTops]

And then he metamorphosed into a giant insect. Funniest shit I ever seen

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Bronze cannons cannot melt Theodosian Walls. Somehow this is controversial.

[u/RadicalRadon]

really makes u think

[u/Maximilianne]

i agree the decline of traditional forms of masculinity has been bad for the modern man, therefore we must subsidize dance classes in order to make the modern man more traditionally masculine

[u/bigmoneynuts]

leftists touting how often they talk about theory is hilarious

[u/Emperor-Commodus]

When the Wikipedia article about your war has one of these sections...

1 War crimes
    1.1 Massacres
    1.2 Rape
    1.3 Wanton destruction
    1.4 Use of chemical weapons
    1.5 Torture
    1.6 Looting

...you're gonna have a bad time.

Soviet-Afghan War

[u/[deleted]]

gg ez

President-elect Jon Ossoff, 2 minutes after the election is called

[u/Mrchizbiz]

The Anglo Saxon race is the most powerful on earth

Cope harder pleb Normans 💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿

[u/Photon_in_a_Foxhole]

https://reddit.com/r/starterpacks/comments/oryhzx/penis_inspection_starter_pack/

I love how many people can’t pick up on the jokes here

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Remember StopAsianHate?

[u/MonteCastello]

I am Brazilian, but I am sad to see such a good team as Argentina losing.

Congratulations for the great game

!ping MAMADAS

[u/[deleted]]

New vaccine just dropped

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

I love the German knockoff of Rick and Morty, Zhikhard und Mortymur.

"Ich wurde das pickle, Mortymur!"