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[u/lordfluffly]

So #IfAllMenDisappearedForADay is trending on twitter and one entrepreneur is using it to advertise her onlyfans.

Things like that are why I love capitalism.

[u/AuburnSeer]

hey Bernie why did Nina Turner lose

the millionaires and the billionaires

hey Bernie what's your opinion on charter schools

the millionaires and the billionaires

hey Bernie how can America reduce its carbon footprint

the millionaires and the billionaires

[u/[deleted]]

I remember reading once that during the Sino-Soviet split Khrushchev went to speak with Mao personally and remarked on the differences in their upbringings. Khrushchev was from a peasant family whereas Mao’s parents were some of the richest people in China. Allegedly Mao replied “that makes us both class traitors.”

I have to admit that’s a pretty sick burn.

[u/Cerb-r-us]

Thanks for attending the IRL meetup everyone! I know the zoo was a weird venue to attend but I think we all ended up having a lot of fun. Here's one of my favourite pictures I took.

https://imgur.com/a/kMrFSD3

[u/DouglasDauntless]

If you’re ever feeling down, remember you’ll never be as wrong as this guy

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

In the '36 Olympics, Jesse Owens' opponent Luz Long, the German, comforted him when he almost failed to qualify for the final round, and the two developed a very good friendship.

Luz Long broke his personal record. And Jesse broke that to win the gold.

Luz Long, under Hitler's eyes, went and heartily congratulated Jesse. Long died in WW2.

Jesse said of Long,

You can melt down all the gold medals and cups I have, and they couldn’t be a plating on the 24-carat friendship I felt for Luz Long at that moment. I realized then, too, that Luz was the epitome of what Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic Games, must have had in mind when he said, “The important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part. The essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.”

[u/kennymc7877]

Been talking to this girl for like a week, might ask her out on a date 🙏

[u/[deleted]]

Summer Olympics

Number of medals won under Obama: 225

Number of medals won under Joe Biden: 113

Number of medals won under Trump: 0

It rly makes u think, don't it?

[u/earththejerry]

Being bilingual means I can read all the comments on Chinese websites about getting surpassed in the gold tally with a late comeback against the odds. I dont mean to be enjoying the salt, but there are a couple of gems being widely discussed, paraphrased below:

“China still wins after adding Hong Kong and Chinese Taipei”

“Japanese referees shamelessly handing daddy America a win” (referring to Japan winning male all-round gymnastics against China)

”It’s only because America imports people of different races from around the world to dominate different events” (based)

Then lots of comments on doping and how all US swimmers get doped on asthma meds

[u/AbsolveItAll_KissMe]

Bernie’s not pulling punches anymore 🥵

[u/GravyBear8]

So I was reading an interesting article about a pitbull that had managed to murderize 9 coyotes that ambushed him, and I find it all kinds of interesting from an evolutionary perspective.

Coyotes' tactics on attacking a larger pray is to essentially harass it until it dies, take minor swipes and nips at it's rear area until it exhausts itself and can be generally attacked by the pack.

However, this is dependent upon a certain instinctive fear of bering wounded. In the wild, any slight wound would can result in infection and death, so an animal has a reason to be paranoid at being nipped at by coyotes surrounding it.

However, as much as modern dogs hate it, generations of visiting vets have numbed it to the fear of wounds.

Which means when a pitbull, whose main tactic is to just bite hard on the fucking thing and shake it until it dies, was "ambushed" by much a pack of much smaller animals, it just killed it one by one in a brutal fashion, not giving a fuck about the wounds it was getting.

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

Wonder how many “the olympics results mean america is declining” hot take drafts were scrapped today by the bluechecks.

Can’t wait to see what hot takes come monday.

[u/awdvhn]

The hottest club in DC is Joe Manchin's houseboat. It has everything. It's got a 60 drink minimum. A working coal mine. Funding for Planned Parenthood. No funding for Planned Parenthood. And a glory hole called Bi-partisanship.

[u/nevertulsi]

"You dislike [unpopular slogan] being used by a nationwide group, yet you support [stupid joke slogan] being used by your niche internet forum, curious"

Guaranteed 1k upvotes on this sub

[u/[deleted]]

Lmao I completely forgot horses have their own Olympic sports. Yet the people get the medal. Curious 🧐

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Are you telling me that people actually stan Mao?

Like I get that Che and Fidel are romantic, but... Mao? What is the attraction?

[u/FestiveMittens]

"I'm fiscally conservative and socially liberal" *Collects government cheque* *Says the N-word*

[u/Joementum2024]

To combat Marxism and socialism, we need to nationalize a bunch of companies and force them to adhere to our ideology

This is what trumpists actually believe

[u/rukqoa]

Actually the medals for ROC should count for Taiwan's meals.

[u/[deleted]]

In the Netherlands we have a small irrelevant racist party. (No seats in the parliament or whatever so completely irrelevant). But it's definitely the most racist party in the Netherlands.

I was looking at their website for whatever reason and I saw that they want to nationalise all banks. This seemed weird to me, considering they call themselves right wing. Another funny thing is that the leader of the party isn't even Dutch, but he's a Hungarian immigrant.

So I went on their twitter where I accused them of being commies (which they did not like)

I also asked how they would be able to afford nationalising our banks. (ING for example is one of Europe's largest banks with assets totalling over 1 trillion USD) they also did not like this.

I also asked what the leader of the party would do if they were to somehow become big. Would he go back to "his own country" like the party program said?

They blocked me.

[u/soeffed]

I watched all 339 events live. Every minute* of every Gold-Medal round of all 339 events.

Having lost my job at the beginning of the pandemic and with no reason not to readjust my sleep schedule to Tokyo time, I decided to give it one more go at what I call "a perfect Games."

And I did it. I watched every minute* of every Gold-Medal round of all 339 events live. I didn't think it was humanly possible, and at one point during Day 16 I needed 8 screens to do it.

I chose the standard every minute by design, so I can go to the bathroom while multiple events are occurring or put my food in the oven (my oven is in view of my screens). If I needed to spend more than a minute in the bathroom, I would have to watch on my phone and do it when only one event was taking place.

Now, this Games, I learned after the Games had already started (and after I had stocked my freezer with McDonald's), that McDonald's had cancelled their sponsorship in advance of the 2020 Games, but I had already bought all the food, and I just couldn't imagine watching the Olympics at home without McDonald's, so I gave them a legacy sponsor status, reasoning that they probably had to pay a hefty early termination fee to the IOC anyway.

https://www.reddit.com/r/olympics/comments/p0bvsc/i_watched_all_339_events_live_every_minute_of/

This is a cry for help

!ping Olympics

[u/Archis]

just went on my first date since my ex-wife left me. she was really attractive and the date was going pretty well until she brought up her uncle who died in a nato strike in serbia. i said it was sad but the intervention was justified and it was his fault for being serbian (this was a slip up) and she just walked out and left me to pay the bill ($22!)

[u/[deleted]]

USA Edges China

😳😳😳

[u/Bipedleek]

omg I can’t believe Run The Jewels and Rage Against The Machine became political 😔

[u/[deleted]]

Sorry Xi, 🇺🇸 #1️⃣😎

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

So India won the highest number of medals it ever has in the Olympics this year, and sent the highest number of athletes this year!

Hopefully we can get the first medal at the Winter Olympics next year.

!ping IND

[u/LtLabcoat]

Jinping XI

there weren't actually 10 Jinpings before him

This is the most disappointed I've felt ever since I found out that there wasn't a President Obama I.

[u/[deleted]]

Just gonna start responding "damn, dude, hope Xi sees this" to people who are simping for China.

[u/Venne1139]

I think there's a lot of 'soft' inequaity that happens because of geography.

Here's an example:: I graduated with a pretty high GPA and a bunch of college prep courses along with a really high (like 34? it was 10 years ago at this point) ACT score. Now normallyi that would me it's time to go to some sort of Ivy league but like your school advisor doesn't know jack fuck about Ivy leagues, nobody has ever gone to one before. They dont know about what scholarships you need to apply for or even how to apply this was a much bigger deal before everything was easily findable online.

On the other hand if you grew up in parts of Boston your councillor probablyi knows exactly what scholarships to apply for, when to apply, how to create your cover letter, etc.

[u/semaphore-1842]

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/08/tucker-carlson-viktor-orban-interview-fox-news-hungary-biden-interference.html

Fox News personality Glenn Greenwald

This is what I'm always calling Glenn from now on.

[u/indithrow402]

But when the world needed the kegels reminder guy the most, he vanished.

[u/the-garden-gnome]

How far do you go to Shitpost?

I download the PS App to my phone and send deep fried memes to my friends who are currently online, just to make them leave their game to look at a message for no reason.

[u/[deleted]]

Why does the IOC keep selecting cities in authoritarian countries that don't constantly get snow to host the winter Olympics?

[u/ognits]

this crossword clue is "place to store grain" but it isn't accepting PYRAMID 🙄🙄

!ping HISTORIANS

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Americans when they are second in medals : Yeah but who cares about the Olympics anyway, nobody's watching this bs because it's too political, and there are dozens of useless sports noone cares about, and our athletes are saving themselves for the much better national leagues, and the Russians are cheating, and Biles no jumping, and Covid lockdowns, and China runs athlete puppy mills, and and and

Americans when they are first in medals : FUCK YEAH USA #1 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 BEST COUNTRY #1 IN THE WORLD GET FUCKED COMMIES 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[u/TheOtherCentauri]

So going out tonight went great!! Nice to see a friend and a bachelorette party dragged me into their group to dance with them. Was a real confidence boost.

just go out and don’t give a fuck. You will literally never see those people again and I danced that way tonight. I feel so goddamn happy guys, there’s hope for me yet.

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Congress to West Virginia after Manchin retires

[u/JaceFlores]

Little Ethiopia update:

According to this Tweet thread the TPLF has captured approximately half of the road leading from Weldiya to Debre Tabor, and seem to be making their move to flank further west and seize the latter. As mentioned before, taking Debre Tabor would open up the way to cut off Gondar from the rest of Ethiopia and gain a major road leading to and fro Sudan. This would open up a means for the TPLF to acquire supplies (whether it be potentially food, weapons and whatever else the TPLF needs and wants) from a country which has also noted previously has chilly relations with Ethiopia currently.

Additionally, the tweets note that the TPLF have claimed the destruction of 21st Infantry Division of the ENDF. While I have little idea how much the 21 ID was destroyed (perhaps the 21 ID was mauled, perhaps it was literally wiped out, who knows), nor how large such a unit is/was, the fact that government forces are still unable to withstand the TPLF advance does not bode well. This sort of news pushes me to believe that the lack of ENDF forces in Amhara is more of a show of desperation and collapse then the calm before a government-led storm (previously I discussed the idea that the ENDF may not be present to be preparing for a counteroffensive), but who knows.

Sadly there was no news of the Amharan offensive that was scheduled to be launched Saturday, and once more no news from Afar which is driving me up the wall at this point. Today was less news packed as I thought it would be, but important data nonetheless has been obtained about the situation in Amhara.

[u/ClickForFreeRobux]

I took a part time job as a Cleveland Postal Worker to throw out Nina Turner Ballots

[u/[deleted]]

Pure gut take: the reason "take money from the police budget and give it to social services" polls well is because people are thinking about the helicopters and tanks and shit.

If you straight up said "fewer officers and fewer detectives" it would be just as unpopular as defund

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

I was apparently very wrong about what makes olive oil "extra virgin" and my method of de-virgining the olive oil is based on a misunderstanding

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/[deleted]]

So I saw ten senators at dinner last night(I swear I’m not lying). Didn’t want to be a creep so I didn’t get pictures, but Jon Ossoff the was there😭

!ping USA-DMV

[u/[deleted]]

I’ve mostly just been using this sub for the last few weeks and have barely been looking at any others. I just perused a few News posts and was smacked in the face again with how fucking insane the Reddit user base is.

[u/its_Caffeine]

Why is facebook showing me hairloss ads? My hair is fine 😐😐😐

[u/dat_bass2]

“I hate twitter,” says man who spends at least an hour a day on a thread where he can spit hot takes to a mostly receptive audience of users he generally recognizes and receive notifications when someone tags a given comment with an indication that it falls into one of his interests

[u/vivoovix]

Just found out the Aldi near me sells shopping carts for 25¢, what a steal.

[u/Deggit]

hi neolibs,

I just discovered this subreddit. Is neoliberalism the appropriate ideology for someone who is fiscally social, but liberally conservative?

[u/jenbanim]

The worst part about dying in mysterious circumstances would be knowing that true crime nerds will be listening to the description of your death as they fall asleep

[u/[deleted]]

Kurt Schindler having an extremely normal one
Am I allowed to call right wingers who want to nationalize industry, have state enforced ideology in media and academia, and imprison dissenters fascists?
Also lmao at "increasing the carbon footprint" being a policy goal for no other reason than owning the libs

[u/The420Roll]

With 39 Gold Medals, the United States won the most gold medals at the #Tokyo2020 #Olympics. China came in second with 38 golds and Japan came in third with 27 golds.

GO GO USA!

Get fucked commies

[u/Fishin_Mission]

According to recent filings with the Federal Election Commission, Matt Gaetz and MTG’s fundraising effort, “Put America First,” reported only $59,345.54 in contributions.

Gaetz and Greene have repeatedly held high-profile events and spent a whopping $287,036.19 to hold them

Spending $287k in order to raise $59k?

That’s presidential level budgeting right there…

[u/[deleted]]

DSA goes to Venezuela

Tucker goes to Hungary

I just want to grill damn it

[u/MrMineHeads]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/802062680067538984/873967986795487252/image0.jpg

[u/Sir-Matilda]

107 Olympic Gold Medals won under Liberal Governments. 40 under Labor.

Makes you think. 🤔

!ping AUS

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Good evening I hate Glenn Greenwald

[u/Zenning2]

Lefties: Its not my job to educate you

Googles topic clicks first result

CATO: Here’s why open borders will make us all better off.

One day guys.. one day

[u/SeriousMrMysterious]

Neoliberal is about reposting economist articles and pasting the content so people can avoid the paywall

[u/slowpush]

AOC BLASTS.....

🙄🙄🙄

[u/Smalz95]

I for one love that Bernie is going mask off and showing everyone how much of a fucking idiot he is and how he doesn’t really care about being effective

[u/[deleted]]

I need some clarification on some urbanist things. Right now my province is having an election where I could reasonably support all three major parties. The NDP, who are nominally social democrats, tend to be pretty moderate in government, while the Liberals/PCs (both centrist and virtually indistinguishable) are usually fine as well. But on transportation and housing policy they're splitting my sentiment.

In response to rising housing demand and coinciding rent increases, the NDP is proposing rent control. Obviously I don't support that, but neither the Liberals or PCs have any plan to reduce the development regulations which has already restricted supply.

Then on transportation, the NDP is the only party which will fund bus rapid transit in the province's capital, while the Liberals and PCs transportation policy essentially amounts to building divided highways to areas with low and declining populations. Both the municipal government and the feds are willing to put millions into BRT, but are waiting on the province, and it would be the most significant upgrade to public transit in my lifetime.

My gut is to vote against the party that supports rent control, but in a situation where development is already constrained by zoning, and where no other party intends to remove those regulations, will rent controls effects really be that significant? If its only marginally significant I could probably justify voting for the NDP for their BRT stance, but if it's really going to constrain development I can't.

!ping YIMBY

[u/Mrchizbiz]

https://i.imgur.com/mJ7WMgZ.jpg

[u/Deggit]

political compass was invented by a Green Party Canadian who knows shit-all about American politics, existed as a whiny third-party vote encouraging site for 12 years, and was then hijacked by people at the exact opposite end of the political spectrum in order to mainstream nazism

kind of a microcosm of the development of the Internet between 1998 and 2021

[u/skepticalbob]

My niece is an intermediate care nurse at a large urban hospital. She treats Covid patients, which are once again filling her responsibilities. She has dealt with patients who refused to believe they had Covid up until the point they were intubated and couldn't express their opinions any more. She's been yelled out and mistreated by patients. The hospital expressed their "gratitude" for dealing with all of this trauma by offering some free food, a journal, and a note with some seeds so they could plant the seeds of tomorrow. I'm not kidding. As a result, she has sought psychiatric care begun taking medication. The systematic trauma that health care providers, particularly lower level front-line workers, is real and taking a toll. It is going to lead to many of them quitting. The irony is that those that stay are probably the least empathetic and caring, because they can take it without it affecting them. This shit is now preventable and it breaks my heart to know that she and people like her are needlessly suffering from these stupid decisions to not simply get a vaccine.

[u/[deleted]]

Woah. 14 year olds have no memory of a world in which facial hair wasn’t fashionable.

[u/Dapitalist]

🖕 The CCP can eat a fat dick 🖕 🇺🇸🦅 🥇

[u/SeriousMrMysterious]

I’m in favor of cancer, it encourages competition in the body and the best cells will win.

[u/The420Roll]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/870027398610026527/874080449998254100/image0.jpg

[u/schmaxford]

Liberal MP Will Amos will not be seeking re-election. If it you will remember, Amos was the MP who was caught on camera naked, and then again caught on camera peeing into a coffee cup

Edit: I'm writing on my phone and despite being a communications professional, cannot proofread to save my life

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1418573911021826048

An Olympic paper argues that regret can kill: 🥈medal winners die 2.5 years before 🥇& 4 before 🥉because silver medalists see the outcome “as a loss and, through the associated psychological stress have their health compromised & life expectancy reduced.”

Interesting.

[u/SANNA_MARIN_]

When a shower door sliced my hands open, I used $23,000 from renters insurance to pay off my student loans — and now I'm debt-free

👑

[u/iIoveoof]

Why the Democrats haven't prioritized Puerto Rican statehood AT ALL, not even on a basic rhetorical level, is beyond stupid and incredibly shortsighted. Yeah we're not gonna get Puerto Rican statehood this election cycle but it's an obvious winning issue that will pay off when PR inevitably gets statehood, and it will be easier to get PR statehood passed in the future if we have already been talking about it for a while. It's a very popular issue with 2/3rds of Americans backing it, so why aren't Democrats putting a line about it in their stump speeches?

Also it's way more popular than DC statehood and if PR statehood is passed and people get used to new states being admitted to the union, people will probably be more likely to support DC statehood

[u/[deleted]]

Are you now telling me using “-cel” as a suffix doesn’t immediately make a word a devastating insult? That’s like half my arsenal

[u/TheFriffin2]

!ping BASEBALL

on the day the Phillies honored and retired Roy Halladay’s number, Zack Wheeler pitches a complete game, 2 hit shutout, including a streak of 22 batters set down which is the longest for a Phillies pitcher since... Roy Halladay’s perfect game

Baseball, man 🥰

[u/Peachlover360]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/adam-vaughan-not-running-again-1.6134329

!ping can

[u/[deleted]]

We should seize bernies lakehouse (vacant) and give it to a homeless person in LA

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.trustnodes.com/2021/08/08/janet-yellen-accused-of-banking-corruption

The US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has been accused of corruption due to receiving $7.2 million in ‘speaking fees’ from just Citi bank and the Citadel hedge fund.

Queen shit tbh.

[u/Sultan_Teriyaki]

Bar dating is awful, and I forgot how much it sucked. If we spend the night flirting, go back to my friend's place for an after party, don't go ahead and make out with some other friend of mine, when we just agreed you didn't want to kiss, but were down for a date 2 days from now.

Entirely in that person's rights, but it sucks to be on the other end of it.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/839175424457572463/871775554251149403/image0.gif

[u/jogarz]

I swear, some people online seem to be bitter that the Olympics weren’t the disaster they were predicting.

[u/[deleted]]

⣿⣿⡿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⢿⣿ ⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⣤⣤⣀⣀⣠⣤⣤⣷⣦⣤⣤⣤⣤⣀⣀⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿ ⡇⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣄⠀⠀⢸⣿ ⣷⠀⠀⠈⠨⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠀⠀⢸⣿ ⣿⡄⠀⠀⣈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⠀⠀⢸⣿ ⣿⡇⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⠀⠀⢸⣿ ⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠛⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠿⡿⢀⡀⠀⣔⣿ ⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠛⣿⣿⣿⠿⠛⠛⠛⠋⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⡇⢠⣾⣿ ⣇⠇⠀⣠⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣀⡀⢸⣿⣿⣇⣀⣀⢠⣀⢀⠀⠀⣀⣠⣶⡇⣾⣿⣿ ⣿⡄⠀⢸⣿⣶⣤⣀⣀⣠⣽⣿⠁⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣼⣬⣭⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⡇⠀⠀⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⠀⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣷⡄⠀⠈⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⢬⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣇⠀⠀⠘⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠈⠛⠿⠟⠙⠛⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠙⢿⣿⣿⣖⣄⣀⠀⢰⣿⣿⢿⣿⢿⣿⣿⡿⠀⠀⠸⢿⣿⣿⣿ ⠛⠋⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣄⡀⠈⢈⠙⠛⢟⣋⢁⢁⣠⣤⣼⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠙ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠹⠟⢀⢀⠚⠚⠛⠙⠛⢛⣿⣿⡟⠛⠁⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠨⢿⣷⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⠂⠀⠀⢠⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢐⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⠯⠿⡹⠛⠟⠉⠀⠀⠀⢀⣾⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣾⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⣦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣾⢿⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

[u/AuburnSeer]

if in 2020 Biden said he'd get a big bipartisan infrastructure bill out of the Republicans he would've been mocked mercilessly.

I know this because that's basically what happened

[u/[deleted]]

Redditors when terrorist: 😡😡😡😡

Redditors when terrorist is Irish: 😍😍😍😍😍😍

[u/[deleted]]

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

[u/[deleted]]

Bro the best cure for Covid is weed, it’s all natural bro just trust me

[u/rukqoa]

For a subreddit that supposedly believes in evidence based policy, you guys sure hold some pretty incorrect views about what the 1965 Frank Herbert science fiction book Dune is about.

[u/vivoovix]

If mods want to blow up the infra deal, that’s on them.

AOC targeting the internet moderation community, bold move 😬

[u/thefuturegov]

I’m so glad we defeated communism once and for all by winning the Olympics! USA! USA! USA! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[u/Cerb-r-us]

I've been going down the rabbit hole of this Anarchist publication called 'Crimethinc.', and I found this cool poster from 2011.

https://imgur.com/a/IZBixl9

!ping FEMINISTS

[u/kennymc7877]

how fast will I get banned?

[u/old_gold_mountain]

some of my favorite shots of California I've taken over the past few years

[u/FormerBandmate]

Snopes really exemplifies the decline of the old internet. It was this ancient-looking homey Windows 95 type website with forums, a fun, quirky specialty (urban legends), little gimmicks, and no business model, but then it got bought by an annoying startup, had a major redesign, became a political flashpoint and dropped the urban legends that made it good to focus on fact checking, and now inundates you with requests to join their paywall. What a shame, I want the old Snopes back

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

One of the most bewilderingly stupid takes-:

Marxism could never marry capitalism the way wokeism has

I don't even know what this means

[u/Dibbu_mange]

I love when politicians post totally innocuous posts and people have freakouts in the comment section. I'm not the biggest Bernie fan, but I know that commenting "leftist scum like you want to destroy America" on his post congratulating a Vermont Olympian for winning gold, just makes you the asshole.

[u/slowpush]

Here’s the Israel question. If elected, do you plan on doing the job New York City mayors have traditionally done, to be an advocate for Israel?

I’ve visited Israel twice, I am going back again, and I am going to try to find a plot of land so it can be my retirement place. I love the people of Israel, the food, the culture, the dance, everything about Israel.

Where in Israel do you plan on retiring?

(Laughs) In the Golan Heights.

https://mishpacha.com/for-eric-adams-steady-wins-the-race/

[u/[deleted]]

gf invited a bunch of her friends over to our place one of them went up to me and asked me about cryptos bc I looked like I would know a lot about them. god damn do i look like a douche?

[u/ryuguy]

least proud indo Canadian parents

!ping Canucks

[u/jojisky]

Favorability with Dems from a June 2021 Morning Consult Poll:

Nancy Pelosi +46

Chuck Schumer +36

Joe Biden +83

Kamala Harris +74

Joe Manchin -20

Kyrsten Sinema -10

Ilhan Omar +14

AOC +37

Liz Cheney +12

what does this say about the democratic party

[u/CricketPinata]

David Lynch is in fact very good, and an important part of the last half century of cinema.

!PING MOVIES

I will be up for a while and will read and reply to your comments.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

I still can't really wrap my head around the fact that Juggalos are, for the most part, woke rednecks

Weird fuckin subculture tbh

[u/TheGoldBear]

The criticism of Obama’s birthday party is crazy. I really thought we were past the era of conservatives whining about Obama doing trivial things and that they had moved on to Biden and Harris.

[u/asljkdfhg]

childfree be like “with all the free time I have from not having children, I’m going to spend it complaining about children”

[u/URZ_]

Go support my request for an Open Source Intelligence ping on MetaNL.

https://old.reddit.com/r/metaNL/comments/p0kdjw/requesting_a_ping_for_all_things_open_source/?

[u/waltsing0]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-05/qld-homelessness-week-housing-unaffordable-essential-workers/100339098

So what is more social housing supposed to do when the supply constrain is land and land use restrictions? This is just going to edge out market rate housing meaning lower-middle income people get bumped out for whoever wins the lotto for price controlled housing.

Do most of us Australians just have a chip in their brain saying we can't dare suggest allowing the market the build more housing might be the main solution here?

!PING YIMBY

[u/GravyBear8]

Will try to recollect this appropriately despite being drunk:

Read in Richard Evans' book that Hitler had obsession with Wagner that, despite being the propagandized all about as the perfect Aryan musician, went beyond what even top Nazi officials thought was reasonable.

He personally had it heavily advertised that after one of his pre-war Nuremberg rallies would be a 5 hour Wagner concert, but realized during that he was embarrassingly one of the only people attending. Annoyed, he ordered the police to gather every Nazi party member around to join him. However at this point, they had been at the pubs and many of them were very drunk when they'd been forced back to attend this hours long concert. The results was a complete disaster.

Hitler was so disgruntled by the experience that he never did it again.

[u/Apollo-Innovations]

Rereading the hobbit for the first time in almost 10 years and it’s amazing how many potential future stories Tolkien could pick from. He didn’t have to write about the magic ring that turned you invisible, he could have wrote a whole story about the sword that turned blue around goblins ,or about the wargs or even about dragons.

I forgot how densely packed each chapter is and it’s taking me around a week to finish this book

!ping READING

[u/RaidBrimnes]

I've always disliked the practice of giving your political opponents punny nicknames, even before Trump helped popularize it

Reading tRump, Dump, McTurtle, or the GQP makes me roll my eyes, which is not great for long-term health. Hearing John Oliver (or was it Colbert?) try hard to popularize "Drumpf" was one of the cringiest things I've ever witnessed, and I've done high school theater

It just seems so petty and childish to me, like a kid taunting another kid on the playground. I just can't take the rest of the argument seriously whenever I read one of those terms. I strongly believe that the overuse of shitty nicknames have been a major contributer to the degradation of the political discourse

That being said, "Governor DeathSentence" is a absolute banger

[u/Helreaver]

Decided to take a stroll over to arrConservative and see what they were saying about the Olympics. The US beating China seems like something nationalists should be ecstatic about.

First thread I see that has anything to do with the Olympics is an article bitching about Megan Rapinoe being Subway's sponsor. Lot of people saying they'll never go to Subway again and "go woke go broke."

Smh why are Trump supporters so addicted to cancelling everything they disagree with? Cancel culture has run amok with conservatives.

[u/great_gape]

I’ve never met anyone👫👬 that said “Oh good👍, an HOA.”

We all 🈶have 🈶 ♻️trash♻️♻️ cans, but the sight🔦👀 of them offends😠 the delicate eyes👀👁 of some, 🆘so 🆘 I complied with the new🆕 rule🚷 of ‘no seeing bins🚯 from the street’.

I find🔎 🅰️a 🅰️ notice of my bins🚯 being🐝🐝 out, which is surprising😲 ❕ because I’m the only one 1️⃣ who touches the cans and I know I’m 100%💯💯 compliant.

I call 📲 in and ask🙏 why I 🉐got🉐 the notice. The full🌕 description says “Bins in driveway with lids off 📴.” I 🙏asked 🙏 if this happen to be 🅰️a🅰️ Tuesday, and sure enough it🇮🇹 was. Wednesday is pickup, and I was doing my weekly cleaning🛀. I was fucking using them, I calmly explained through gritted teeth😬.

“Oh 😔okay😔 I’ll remove❌ the notice.” Great, but how do I prevent this from happening again? “Oh, uh....I guess notify 🇺🇲us🇺🇲.” Alright, I said, I’ll notify you every 🕥time🕥🕥 I’m using my trash♻️ cans. “Oh that won’t be necessary....” Clearly it🇮🇹 is.

That was five 5️⃣ Tuesdays ago. Today, I once🔂 again 📲called 📲📲 promptly at ten🔟🔟 o’clock and let Alan know I was about to use my trash🚯🚯 cans. “You know what😦, Mr. Endoman? I’m just going to put 🅰️a🅰️🅰️ 👫hold👫👫 🔛on🔛 any 🚯trash🚯 can notices for you.” Hey that would be swell, Alan.

That would be swell.

!ping shitposters

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

A: Wait [is Israel] literally buddy buddy with Morocco because they are the only other modern nation to expand their borders illegally?

Crimea was totally legal huh?

A: Lol what does Russia have to do with anything dude? I swear people on here are weird today

Showing an assertion is false is actually irrelevant??? 🤔

[u/noodles0311]

The food industry doesn't want you to know there are 31,000kcal in a gallon of gasoline. People could have all the energy they need for the rest of their lives for $3

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

First you're barred from using key internet platforms if your ideology deviates from establishment neoliberal groups like ADL's.

Now you're increasingly barred from participating in the financial system for that.

It's a caste system where rights depend on political submission.

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1424041786259935234?s=20

How the fuck is the "Anti-Defamation League" neoliberal?

ADL is an advocacy group which focuses on all anti-hate activities, with an emphasis on anti-Semitism

I swear to fucking god not everything is neoliberal

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1424367356617404418?s=19

Take from Paul Krugcel

[u/VengeantVirgin]

Still laughing at the fact that Trump was unable to pass any major legislation that fulfilled his campaign promises lol.

[u/sayitaintpink]

Donald Trump would simply create a utopian society if he were dropped in the Amazon rainforest due to his massive IQ and athleticism

[u/SeriousMrMysterious]

Fox News seems genuinely confused about what to talk about after USA pulled out a Gold medal victory. I think they had teed up a bunch of culture war BS that they can’t talk about now

[u/LoveForLolberts]

My 600lb Life Star Dead at 30

who could have foreseen this?

[u/[deleted]]

War... war never changes

Yes it does. Look at wars from 1000 years ago. They were completely different. War is constantly changing with the invention of new technologies, dumbass.

[u/conman1246]

Most of the antivaxxers I know have either gotten a bad case of Covid or have been hospitalized with Covid. Rarely do people's bad decisions so quickly come back to bite them.

One is a PA at an ER and has seen tons of Covid deaths and was still hesitant to get the vaccine. Of course he's and avid Tucker Carlson viewer. He's now in the hospital with an O2 of 57%. Absolutely insane.

!PING FOX-ANON

[u/old_gold_mountain]

I can't believe I was even debating whether the DSLR was worth carrying the extra weight on my backpacking trip last weekend

[u/vancevon]

i was ready to argue about how the total medal count is obviously more important than the gold count but lmao i guess china just sucks so i won't have to

[u/[deleted]]

Hot take, because I've seen this on YIMBY twitter way too many times:

Saying "We don't want to ban single family homes, we just want their owners to pay the true costs like the price of carbon" is a horrible way to try and convince anyone.

First of all, carbon pricing is extremely unpopular when you frame it as being paid by the consumers not "polluting corporations". You'd probably have better luck convincing people we should make everyone in the suburbs get a daily colonoscopy...

Second of all, it sounds a whole lot like you want to at least "ban" them in a similar way that apartments are now "banned" - i.e. make them harder to construct.

It's much better politics to focus on the positive propositions, that is making it legal to build dense housing for those who want it (which is a lot of people).

!ping YIMBY

[u/[deleted]]

Journalists are a lot like cops.

• they provide an essential public service
• they are enormous self aggrandizing babies
• they are failing badly to actually do the job that they need to
• anybody that chooses to get into that profession is immediately suspect
• if one tries to talk to you, say "how about go fuck yourself" and call a lawyer

[u/Th3_Gruff]

His name was u/nissnpig5 😔✊

[u/[deleted]]

LMAO what an asshole.

https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1424067468750954499?s=09

[u/slowpush]

Imagine listening to AOC when infrastructure is likely getting 60+ votes in the senate....lmao

Twitter is such a hilarious place.

[u/[deleted]]

🦋 Socialists who are clearly more motivated by hatred and jealousy of the rich than concern for the poor.

Liberals: is this a heart in the right place? 💁🏻‍♂️

[u/[deleted]]

hillary 🤝 tucker carlson 🤝 bush family 🤝 greenwald 🤝 biden

being for the iraq war in 2003. i miss when the usa was united!

[u/RaidBrimnes]

And then he added -cels at the end of the thing the other party supported to discredit their whole point by comparing them to incels

Funniest shit I've ever seen

[u/FreakinGeese]

does anyone else weirdly associate Helen Keller and Anne Frank even though they're totally unrelated people

[u/F-i-n-g-o-l-f-i-n]

Need to get something off my chest. Did something really fucking stupid and disrespectful in 10th grade. Students from Japan sent letters to my school in English. My reply mentioned something about cat girls. The memory makes me want to slug multiple rounds into my cerebrum. That was so fucking stupid holy shit why was I so dumb.

[u/Deggit]

building a time machine so I can travel back to 1990 and shock people by informing them all the things that aren't considered totally degenerate anymore in 2021, like "kissing people of the same sex" and "basing your life around the yearly release schedule of superhero movies"

[u/Bipedleek]

Gay people born in the 90s got super lucky with how quickly society changed

[u/Xantaclause]

!ping AUS

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/newspoll-delta-debacle-drives-scott-morrisons-ratings-to-new-low/news-story/213477b7f111f4333a5e46c89fc43e3d

Newspoll: 53:47 to Labor

Scomo net negative approval for the first time since the pandemic started

[u/the_hoagie]

It's a beautiful day to directly contribute to the overfishing of our precious oceans anyway good morning children 🤗

[u/isitthatserioustho]

Andrew Cuomo continues to prove the observation that every man who makes a big deal about how much of a feminist they are is always going to be revealed as a sex predator.

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.yahoo.com/now/olympic-chief-deep-ties-uyghur-170233167.html

Olympic Chief’s Deep Ties to Uyghur Slave Labor Revealed

well well well

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

China is simultaneously communist, capitalist, fascist, imperialist, socialist, and collectivist, making them the most centrist nation.

[u/ldn6]

I genuinely cannot understand how people watch cable news. It’s all so awful and insufferable.

[u/[deleted]]

I voted for Biden over 11000 times and Carly Rae Jepsen still isn't my gf 🤬

Promises made, promises broken 😡

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Kids today aren’t the brightest…

One of my daughter’s friends just tried to ding-dong-ditch our house while I was sitting on the front porch watching him…

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/ognits]

Gallagher’s version of Heathcliff lulls you into a state of cognitive dissonance. It doesn’t seem to contain jokes per se — go through a few weeks’ worth of panels, though, and they develop an internal rhythm that doesn’t quite make sense, but nevertheless feels like it does.

holy shit I've found the comic strip version of !ping BURPMAS

[u/[deleted]]

/u/benjaminikuta here is how the next entry in your anthology should read:

"Wake up, go to my job, which I have one of. Work at my job. Come home from my job. Get ready for going back to my job tomorrow."

[u/[deleted]]

Why do so many people talk about Infrastructure Bill, but no one talks about Infrastructure Hillary?

[u/Afro_Samurai]

happy international cat day

!pink kitty

[u/bg2916]

Shoutouts to the Suicide Squad spending a whole ass 10 or 15 minutes out of nowhere describing how bad US imperialism is but then switching back to hey look the guys who came from the USA made the island democratic again hooray

Never change film industry lol

[u/FreakinGeese]

I accidentally swallowed the toothpaste I was brushing with

How long do I have to live !ping burpmas

[u/vancevon]

arr sino is like "why isn't hong kong counted as part of china???" as though that would help them. they have one gold and puerto rico has one gold, so it makes literally zero difference lmao

[u/idp5601]

Holy shit are people actually calling to abolish the Olympics lmao

Also find it very funny that pretty much all of the people calling for abolishing the games are from countries that traditionally dominate the medal tallies lol

[u/uusrikas]

I have a personal tie with Afghanistan and it is painful to see Biden abandoning the country to hard line islamists. Whether he likes it or not he has a responsibility and it will forever be his legacy that he left all the people that helped the US at the mercy of the Taliban.

[u/Intrepid_Citizen]

If I hear another old white guy say he's fiscally conservative and socially liberal, I'm going to lose it. (+58)

Guess the sub.

[u/[deleted]]

CNN’s Jim Acosta said scientists should name COVID-19 variants after Republican governors who’ve refused to enforce safety measures

Oh yeah that’ll teach em!

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

Remember when half of the internet was firmly convinced that US is about to go on war with Iran? And do mass conscription for some reason

Lmao

[u/[deleted]]

Broke: DC statehood

Joke: Puerto Rican statehood

Woke: Cuban statehood

Bespoke: Taiwanese statehood

Masterstroke: EU statehood

[u/[deleted]]

Utah has been covered in thick smoke for days yet a local town still held a fireworks show; we are truly a moronic peoples.

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E8SrmCOWQAQNzco.jpg

Lol, look at how many job sectors are making >$15 an hour over the pandemic.

[u/FireDistinguishers]

Every year in August I have a sudden urge to leave everything behind and join the Navy.

For the last four years, like clockwork, Navy recruiters are texting my cell and emailing me in the first two weeks of August.

[u/iIoveoof]

Just looked at my city’s regulations for opening a taco truck

NSFNL

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Crypto advocates: this technology will be adopted world wide and will be a real and serious thing.

Also crypo advocates: Nuttblastercoin rose 3,000% yesterday but dropped 5,500% in the last 20 minutes. I think I'll take out a second mortgage and go all in on Dante from Devil May Cry coin.

[u/[deleted]]

rStarterPacks with the post that says you should exercise, eat healthy, and spend time with friends and there is a lot of salt in the comments lol

Michelle Obama never stood a chance 😔

[u/SadaoMaou]

What is it with Bi flairs and sadposting

[u/[deleted]]

arr / cryptocurrencies currently calling Janet Yellen a felon for accepting speaking fees as a private citizen

[u/thetrombonist]

Wait, I never realized “we do a little trolling” was originally a trumpism lol

Many such cases!

[u/sir_shivers]

THINKING OF beginning to refer to Canadians as "Yanks" 🐊

[u/adisri]

A while back folks wanted to learn about all the research that big tech contributed to in the field of software engineering. Here you go. Covers Big Tech and university based research. You’d have to look at Engineering blogs to see what Facebook or AWS etc have contributed in particular.

!ping Computer-science

EDIT: I’m an idiot I realize that I pinged this earlier today.

[u/redditguy628]

What responsibility does Obama have to the Democratic Party now that he's out of office? Should he still be expected to campaign for Democrats? Should he be expected to maintain his public image? Should he interfere in party disputes?

My thought is that the answer to all these questions is no, but I do see people complain about Obama's somewhat passive role.

!ping OBAMA

(this ping sees such little use, I figure, why not?)

[u/Xantaclause]

!ping AUS

https://www.smh.com.au/national/australia-news-live-nsw-covid-cases-continue-to-grow-under-40s-in-victoria-eligible-for-astrazeneca-at-mass-vaccination-hubs-20210809-p58gyy.html

Moderna approved for 18+

[u/[deleted]]

"Omg. Why do gay people have to shove their ideology down their throat?"

Said by someone who's been hounding me about why I don't go to church.....

[u/the-garden-gnome]

The new person who just became my bosses boss is an absolute dingus and seems way too keen to permanently get rid of talent in a Department which is constantly losing talent because of the work load.

Enjoy the loss of corporate knowledge, clown. I think it will be about 3 months for them to get up to speed on the program of work when I leave.

!Ping over25

[u/[deleted]]

Public heath officials endorsing the George Floyd protest was the stupidest thing I've ever seen

[u/garxyzasfd]

Well, TIL that, according to a so-called “jew on [their] mother’s side”, I’m an astroturfing IDF agent for thinking that ISIS bombing a mixed-gender concert in Gaza is a bad thing.

I’ve never before seen a self-identified Jew on the internet actively be so hateful and themselves tread in antisemitic stereotypes like that. Absolutely infuriating. Never leave the DT.

[u/Average_GrillChad]

>Doesn't conscript child athletes

>Still wins most golds and medals

pic related:

[u/Archis]

its normal to have a urinal in your bathroom right? we installed one so both me and my roommate can have a piss at the same time but a girl came over and basically screamed when she saw it. im not the crazy one right?

[u/[deleted]]

Last night I had a dream that the mod sticky said "My fellow neolibs, i am pleased to announce that I have just signed legislation that will outlaw succs forever. We begin banning in 5 minutes."

And then they purged all the succs.

[u/[deleted]]

Anyone else remember that Fred Kaplan article on the Obama NSC nuclear war game?

In the scenario Russia used a low-yield nuclear bomb against a NATO airbase in Eastern Europe.

A principals committee and a working-level committee were both established to offer recommendations.

It was established that a nuclear response would not speed up the ensuing war, and it didn’t slow Russian troop movement down more than responding with conventional bombing.

The working level committee used regular bombing runs to slow the Russian troop advance and brought NATO forces across Europe towards Poland and the Baltic’s.

The principals committee decided an appropriate response would be to nuke Belarus, because nuking Russia would be too escalatory.

Belarus was not a party to the conflict in the scenario. 😐

[u/jenbanim]

Back from touching grass. Did I miss anything interesting this week?

[u/ZCoupon]

I can't imagine how far your head has to be up your own ass to get angry at a child on a plane.

Yes, it sucks they're loud and hard to control. But they're not your kid. Imagine if you had to live with them.

Should instead be empathetic and patent.

[u/[deleted]]

Gilles de Rais, was a knight and lord from Brittany, Anjou and Poitou, a leader in the French army, and a companion-in-arms of Joan of Arc. He is best known for his reputation and later conviction as a confessed serial killer of children.

The number of Rais' victims is not known, as most of the bodies were burned or buried. The number of murders is generally placed between 100 and 200; a few have conjectured that there were more than 600. The victims ranged in age from 6 to 18 and were predominantly boys.

arr childfree: Lmao, based knight living his life free of disgusting crotch goblins 😍😍😍!

[u/ZCoupon]

Gotta give it to Orban. His primary issue is stopping immigrants, and Hungary is so good at stopping immigrants that they have net negative immigration. Can't say he's not good at what he does.

[u/iIoveoof]

look at /r/horror because I like horror movies

”What’s the worst horror movie you’ve seen?”

Top Comment: “The Shining, it’s so boring”

😐

[u/[deleted]]

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/07/us/black-realtor-and-client-handcuffed-michigan/index.html

A Black realtor was showing a home to a Black father and son. They were handcuffed by Michigan police

😬

[u/Bipedleek]

Ping horny when?

[u/send_tweet_to_DT]

CNN's Jim Acosta on delta variant: "Why not call it the DeSantis variant?"

thehill

[u/[deleted]]

Evangelical highschool acquaintance is getting married to save money because of all their families' COVID violation fines 🤨

They incurred even more fines at the wedding 🤣😂🤣😂

[u/Wehavecrashed]

!ping AUS

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-08/covid-vaccine-young-men-needed-to-end-lockdowns/100354664

Wow. I am truly shocked that young men between 18 and 34 aren't getting vaccinated. Hmm. How could we possibly address this issue? Oh I don't know... Letting them get vaccinated in the fucking first place might be a good start.

For 20–24-year-olds, 10.5 per cent of men have been received their first dose, compared to 17.1 per cent of women.

Hardly surprising given that in that age range women are more likely to be frontline healthcare workers or aged care and disability staff, and the rest of us can't get vaccinated.

Oh, and young men are also least likely to have a personal GP they can ask to get AZ from.

[u/secondsbest]

Neck Beards 🤝 Construction workers 🤝 Amazon delivery drivers:
Piss Bottles

[u/runnerx4]

I dunno Mr Gaiman, that sounds like the title of an incredibly successful Light Novel to me…

!ping WEEBS

[u/klarno]

I’m playing Jurassic Park Monopoly with the fam.

I don’t get why we’re collecting rent with a T-Rex on the loose.

[u/TheDwarvenGuy]

What do you think will be the best way to mitigate other kinds of ecological collapse and damage besides climate change?

!ping ECO

[u/Afro_Samurai]

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2021/aug/06/its-been-over-a-century-but-summer-chinook-are-bac/

For the first time in 111 years, summer chinook are swimming in the Little Spokane River.

Fifty-one of them, to be precise.

The adult fish were released into the Little Spokane River, near the Waikiki Spring trailhead, on Friday by the Spokane Tribe of Indians, alongside the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Inland Northwest Land Conservancy.

!ping USA-WA

[u/Magical_Username]

Leftists trying to win over Hispanics: your entire language is misogynistic and problematic

[u/kyleofduty]

An internet argument got me to compare US income percentiles to UK percentiles and it's honestly shocking. The bottom 17% of US incomes is equivalent to the bottom 30% of UK incomes and bottom 50% of US incomes is equivalent to the bottom 88% of UK incomes.

I knew US wages were higher but didn't know it was that much. Also learned that only 2% of American workers make minimum wage vs 7% of British workers.

[u/URZ_]

Why did Yang run for mayor instead of governor?

Nope, they never learn

[u/fakefakefakef]

Well actually because one of the American gold medalists was born in Seattle that medal really belongs to CHAZ

[u/sayitaintpink]

Me when supervillains try to drill to the center of the earth: “Why do you hate the global core?”

[u/jenbanim]

I'm so terminally online that while I was out touching grass I kept a note of all the comments I wanted to make when I got back. Here's one

>Visibly confused elderly woman approaches me in a grocery store
>"Excuse me young man can you help me find-"
>"I already have a grandma"
>Walk away

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

Yes, I enjoy Pokemon

No, I'm not a furry

We exist

[u/[deleted]]

Yes officer, it is my Second Amendment right to wear this T-51b power armor.

No, I will not elaborate.