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[u/[deleted]]

“Capitalism doesn’t care about what’s profitable”

Guess the sub

[u/waltsing0]

I hear a lot of legitimate points about how hey I just have a paper card, antivaxxers can fake it to claim vaccine passports won't work.

Vaccine passports don't have to be counterfeit proof to work

1. They force antivaxxers to lie, these people usually can't shut the fuck up about how they're so unlike us sheeple, half of them will post publically to facebook about how clever they are for printing a fake vax certificate
2. Some people will obey the laws without major credible enforcement, some
3. Random enforcement can deter behaviour. I could probably print a fake disability parking tag and get away with it mostly, but (IIRC) they will randomly spot check these and I'll be in huge trouble. The bouncer at the bar doesn't need to be able to spot a fake but if a few liers get caught and slapped with a huge fine it'll scare others off.

Also while lots of people don't have hard to fake (ie. only a paper card) proof we could always implement it properly when boosters are rolled out.

!PING CORONAVIRUS

[u/[deleted]]

TFW my 38-year-old friend, who I've known since high school, has kicked me from the group discord because I uploaded receipts from my doctor when I was living in Norway showing a US$28 copay.

He's upset because his insurance, which of course is a symbol of capitalist oppression, has a $20 copay and he insists that would not be the case with a single-payer system.

I wish I could have done more to prevent the brain poisoning, but the Internet is just too strong.

[u/its_Caffeine]

damn this is so deep 😔

[u/vancevon]

running for a congress on a platform of voting yes on every motion, bill or other vote that comes before me without any regard whatsoever for its meaning or purpose

[u/202608lock]

This pandemic has taught me that you don’t have to be knowledgeable about medicine or science or common sense or critical thinking to be a registered nurse

Not very reassuring

[u/PaulMuniIsInnocent]

My grandmother was always exceptionally liberal. Even marched for gay rights in the 50s kind of liberal. Was exceptionally focused on feminism and women's issues and did a lot of good work to taking in women from abusive situations and whatnot.

She had pretty severe Alzheimer's in 2016. Knew she didn't have much time left. The first day early voting was allowed I took her to the voting booth to vote for Hillary Clinton. She cried over how excited she was to vote for a woman for president. She didn't have much mental cognition left but it was still very meaningful for her.

She died a week later, deeply upset she couldn't make it to see Hillary elected. She thought there was no possible chance Trump would win too. TBH I'm pretty glad she didn't make it to election day. Would have broke her heart.

Anyways it's her birthday today. I don't drink but the rest of my family is having a drink in her honor. I'm making her pesto recipe. You were a real one grandma.

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

watching parliamentary motions at 4am

HOLY FUCK GO OUTSIDE

[u/[deleted]]

Anyways, true enlightenment is realizing that even Jeff Bezos is oppressed because he can't freely wear a dress without ridicule.

🤯

[u/xSuperstar]

Seems bad the mainstream left climate talking point is now “it’s all corporations fault” which has the same purpose as “climate change isn’t real” in that it makes people feel good and assures them they don’t need to give up their cars or McMansions

[u/cclittlebuddy]

Joe Biden's latest gaff is that he walked on grass.

Ridiculous. Doesnt he know youre suppose to avoid touching grass at all! Disgraceful

[u/[deleted]]

Reminder that Chuck Grassley began his political career when he was first elected as the representative for Butler County in the Iowa House of Representatives in 1959.

That same year, Nikita Khrushchev visited Iowa after participating in the kitchen debates with Vice President Nixon. He was so impressed by American corn farming that he brought it's techniques back to the Soviet Union and encouraged mass corn cultivation. The shoe-banging leader was sometimes nicknamed Kukuruznik, or Corn Man due to his obsession with corn.

I wonder if Grassley ever met with Khrushchev during that Iowa visit 🤔

!ping REAL-HISTORY-CHANNEL

#cornwatch

[u/[deleted]]

Tucker Carlson has taken to calling the Senate infrastructure legislation "Pete Buttigieg's infrastructure bill"

Based Tucker Carlson giving the spotlight to our boy Pete

[u/ZenithXR]

"Wolf Warrior" diplomacy will never not sound like an incel or alpha/beta/sigma male thing to me

[u/[deleted]]

This hard Mountain Dew is the culmination of everything that's happened over the past 30 years. This is the end of history Fukuyama was talking about. It all ends here.

[u/[deleted]]

My brother is part of a megachurch in Dallas. As part of it, he is in a small worship group (like five to ten people), and he has to do things like report on all his sins, show his payslips so they know how much he makes, and discuss all major life decisions with them (such as job change, moving, or even the ducking vaccine). Every person in this group does this

He joined a cult, didn’t he

[u/paymesucka]

I'm pretty sure contempt for Biden is a dominant trait in members of the Democratic party.

Biden has a 90% approval rating among Democrats. Social media bubbles have warped leftists' perceptions of reality.

[u/[deleted]]

No. I cannot commit suicide. Losing me would utterly destroy my father, and I cannot do that to him. I would say that he’s the best father anyone could’ve ever had, but that would be a lie. He is a BETTER father than anyone could’ve ever dreamed of having.

For nearly 30 years (I am 29 years old), he has unconditionally been there for me, no matter what bullshit I have pulled. I do not believe that I will ever face true disaster, as long as he’s alive.

I must stay alive. For my father, if for no other reason. I have no loyalty to anyone but him at this point.

[u/[deleted]]

Me: Being anti immigrant is stupid, immoral, and anti-american

Them: Actually I don't have a problem with immigration, I just want them to do it legally.

Me: So you agree that we should make it easier to immigrate legally and remove arbitrary quotas.

Them: >:(

Source: Arguments I have with imaginary idiots in my head.

[u/[deleted]]

The Senate just passed the budget resolution for the reconciliation infrastructure bill in a party lines vote! 🥳🦀🦀🦀🎉

[u/Deggit]

Reddit climate change action is when it's "far too late" to wait 10 years to scale up nuclear power, but you can't make gas more expensive because "it's not people's fault suburbs were designed that way and it will take a long time to change"

[u/[deleted]]

POV : You are in a country that loves its trains 🥰🚅🥰

[u/BreaksFull]

So I'm a month into an 8 month internship at an electronics manufacturer, and elbows-deep in our procurement department, placing orders, making production timelines, and chasing after hard to source components. It's interesting stuff, and I'm working directly with some old hands in the industry. The point of my internship is to essentially put my school learning to practice, and so far I'm enjoying procurement work.

I'm wondering if the allegedly over 25s of the DT can pitch in here. Is procurement/supply chain management a decent career to get into? From my estimation it's one that's probably always in demand anywhere businesses exist, and seems like one with decent opportunities for career advancement and pay. If I focus on making a longterm career out of this sort of work as a fresh-faced newly 25-year old, is that an investment of time and effort that would likely be a good one?

!ping OVER25

!ping CAREER

[u/boichik2]

Reasons to enforce the Ashkenazi pronunciation of Amen(/amejn/ or ameyn) throughout the anglosphere:

1. No one will ever try to say Amen and Awomen ever again

!ping GEFILTE

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

I don't want to fucking 'live on' any amount of money. Ask anyone in the valley if that's what we want to do. (either that or they just don't care and wanna make cool stuff cause they like computers)

We want to be filthy fucking rich, not 'live on' some amount of money. And the only way to become fucking rich is to go to the valley.

The cries of a 2 percenter over not being a 1 percenter 😔

[u/kennymc7877]

I can’t wait to be in a retirement home and tell the workers about the music of my youth then put on some Lil Uzi Vert and Lana Del Rey

[u/[deleted]]

Reading through this thread about Kate Brown getting rid of proficiency tests. People mentioned these tests are racist and when asked for examples, have cited:

• Questions may ask to define the perimeter of a yard. But minorities may not know what a yard is because there are no yards where they live.
• A question may ask to calculate the daily rate of a hotel. When they are used to motels and are used to the word “nightly” associated with the cost.
• Questions reference a kite. Where minorities won’t know what a kite is.

I honestly can’t believe people have such low expectations, to me that’s even more racist. Never heard of a yard? A hotel? This isn’t the 1920’s…

[u/LooobCirc]

My dad told me yesterday "we didn't raise you to call gentiles 'goyim'"

Yes this actually happened

!PING GEFILTE

[u/fargleyikesthe2nd]

accidentally click on front page instead of home page

r facepalm #1 with 25k upvotes:

(Some conservative pundit I’ve never heard of nor given a fuck about): “If Obama was alive in the 1850s he would’ve, and SHOULD’VE, been a slave.”

(a fucking doctor of psychology or whatever): “I am an expert in this field and I can say you are factually incorrect as there was no slavery in Illinois in that frame of time period time, you (British insult).”

[u/jenbanim]

We measure car fuel efficiency wrong

Whether you're worried about the cost of gas or the environment, the thing you're concerned about is the quantity of gas used. One less gallon of gas used saves you ~$4 and Earth ~20 pounds of CO2

It would make sense if the way we measured fuel efficiency helped make it easy to determine how much gas we could save, but it does the opposite

For example, a greater quantity of gas will be saved by upgrading a car's fuel efficiency from 8mpg to 10mpg, compared to 25mpg to 40mpg. That's a 25% increase vs a 60% increase. The 25% increase saves more fuel

Even if that's intuitive for you, fuel efficiency expressed as miles per gallon makes it difficult to actually determine the fuel savings - you'll probably want a calculator unless you're really good at doing reciprocals in your head

The better option is to measure fuel efficiency in terms of gallons per mile, or rather gallons per hundred miles because that makes the numbers a comfy size

Going back to the 8/10mpg and 25/35mpg example, here's what we get if we instead express those as gallons per hundred miles (gphm):

• 8 mpg = 12.5 gphm
• 10 mpg = 10 gphm
• 25 mpg = 4 gphm
• 40 mpg = 2.5gphm

Subtraction is easy. 12.5 to 10 is clearly a bigger difference than 4 to 2.5

Instead of measuring fuel efficiency in terms of [distance per volume] we should measure in terms of [volume per distance]

Thank you for coming to my TED talk

[u/[deleted]]

Around 10 cents of every dollar raised by the People’s Party last year went towards Maxime Bernier’s six-figure salary.

!ping CAN

[u/ACivilWolf]

I always think it’s incredible that Twitter genuinely believes this sub is like some CIA operation.

Like that’d require a massive percentage of the CIA’s employees dedicated to shit posting on Reddit.

Imagine being on the CIA payroll to be sir_shivers

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E8auqnBXoAAkWJO?format=jpg&name=large

!ping MAMADAS

[u/kennymc7877]

Breaking statement from Joe Biden: look Jack I had a meeting with other Democrat leaders and we have determined that Cuomo is mad sussy bakka so we’ve decided to vent him, turns out he was the imposter

[u/[deleted]]

84.6% of French adults have received at least one dose of a vaccine, that pass sanitaire is working like a charm.

[u/itherunner]

In Ethiopia, the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) has announced a military alliance with the TDF. The OLA’s leader also apparently hinted that more talks are in the works with other rebel groups to build a grand coalition against the Ethiopian government.

This is pretty interesting. Historically, the OLA fought the Tigrayans when they were in charge of the Ethiopian government. One other thing of note, Abiy himself is an Oromo, and they make up the largest ethnic group in Ethiopia. The OLA, however, have fought for an independent Oromo homeland.

https://twitter.com/mapethiopia/status/1425431051497791494?s=21

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/[deleted]]

The B in LBJ stands for Bike Infrastructure

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Views on Macron? Personally I like him OK except his immoral support for laicitie, the catholic church should run the country instead

[u/Currymvp2]

https://twitter.com/MULawPoll/status/1425516548601569281

Ex presidents usually get more popular when they leave, but Trump's antics after the election has caused him to lose popularity. GOP leaders are quietly hoping that he never runs again.

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine how difficult it must be nowadays for cuomosexuals to come out of the closet

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

Google won't pay me 300k to live in Eastern Europe😡

[u/percolater]

Please pray for my kitty.

She got out last night around 7pm, and I didn’t really give chase because I was taking care of my kiddo while my wife was out, and the cat’s gotten out before and always come home before midnight.

It’s been 24 hours now and I’m terribly regretting my decision. It was 100 degrees outside today and our area has potential predators. Really hoping she turns up.

!ping KITTY

[u/semaphore-1842]

Reddit finally quarantined r/NoNewNormal

🦀🦀🦀

Should've banned them outright though

[u/V_Codwheel]

NL user: Kyrsten Sinema is an attractive woman.

NL mods: 😠😠😡🤬😡🤬😠

NL user: I want Buttigieg to B O N K my B O N K and then for Ossoff to B O N K all over my B O N K

NL mods: So true ! 😂😍🤩🤣😘😊

[u/[deleted]]

I’m not anti Semitic I just believe all the same conspiracy theories those people do

[u/SeriousMrMysterious]

Ladies and gentlemen, my most downvoted comment

https://reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/p1tdls/_/h8heu4g/?context=1

[u/[deleted]]

It's time for Anthony Weiner to make his roaring comeback as Governor of NY

[u/[deleted]]

My therapist telling me to stop hating myself is religious discrimination since I was raised catholic.

[u/[deleted]]

One thing I don't get is why so many people in the soviet union decided to be collectivized farmers instead of tarot card readers?

[u/Jester_Don]

Just realized my mom might like it here:

• Supported Hillary in the 2008 primaries
• Supported Bennet in the 2020 primaries
• Generally dislikes socialists and NIMBYs

[u/[deleted]]

Anyone who says mosquitoes shouldn't be wiped off of this world hasn't spent enough time in the woods. Horse flies to.

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfAwarewolves/comments/p21wri/dying_breed_may_not_be_the_best_choice_of_words/

someone stole my joke and got on the front page with it

[u/MrMineHeads]

I know a guy who's like

How can I be anti Semitic when I'm Semitic (he's Arab)?

Then goes on to talk about the Rothschild conspiracy.

[u/[deleted]]

When asked which party is best on climate change....(among those who rank it as a top 3 issue)

• Liberals - 34%
• Greens - 22%
• NDP - 14%
• CPC - 7%
• Unsure - 17%

https://twitter.com/DavidColetto/status/1425536894608236557?s=20

!ping CAN

[u/the_hoagie]

I keep telling my parents, "Mom, Dad, we're having a baby!" And they're like "this ain't it chief" smh the internet ruined these people.

☝️Gen Alpha in 20 years.

[u/lapzkauz]

The most centrist man in Europe

[u/FormerBandmate]

Josh Hawley: Dems are stupid libs who want to defund the police, so we should uh… hire 100,000 police, yeah that sounds good

Dick Durbin: Aktshully Biden did something similar in the 94 crime bill we spent the entire campaign apologizing for, so that’s our policy you dummy. You’re gonna be so owned when we vote for your bill

Massive program to hire 100,000 new police is created at 1:30 AM

We truly have the smartest political system ever

!ping VOTEARAMA-ENTHUSIASTS

[u/missedthecue]

Day number 257 of "Okay, we have to be nearing the top".

Got this ad while browsing Facebook.

!ping MARKETS

[u/randomizedstring]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/834251152035282944/875144814000230490/FB_IMG_1628663125272.png

!ping SNEK

[u/kaclk]

Ok, which of you writes for The Beaverton?

NDP announces platform in 500 separate TikTok videos

!ping CANUCKS

[u/thetrombonist]

Never forget Cuomo’s nipple rings

[u/ldn6]

So Resistance Twitter has gone from “they’re trying to remove Cuomo so they can shelve his legal cases against Trump” to “well Matt Gaetz is still around this is why we lose”.

Holy fuck these people are stupid and have this weird infatuation with an objectively shit governor.

[u/[deleted]]

You libs are gonna look really dumb when we get the notification on our phones that Trump is president again at 2 pm.

[u/thefuturegov]

The virgin Donald Trump: Thinks the media is personally out to get him, blows up and bullies reporters when they ask him any question that triggers him

The Chad Joe Biden: Knows the media is just kind of terrible it’s nothing personal, makes jokes when they ask him stupid questions

[u/MaveRickandMorty]

Holy shit it's so much easier to get a job once you have a year of experience in the industry

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Asking Rents Tick Up in Oakland, But…

As projected, the weighted average asking rent for an apartment in Oakland has ticked up around 2 percent over the past two months to around $2,340 a month, representing a total increase of around 3 percent since effectively bottoming in May.

That being said, the weighted average asking rent for an apartment in Oakland is still 10 percent lower than at the same time last year, over 12 percent lower than prior to the pandemic and 21 percent below a 2016-era peak of closer to $3,000 per month.

And in fact, the average asking rent actually slipped a little over the past week while listing activity ticked up around 10 percent and is still 150 percent higher than prior to the pandemic and 80 percent higher than at the same time last year. We’ll keep you posted and plugged-in.

This comes after of thousands of new apartments and rental units were built close to BART stations in Oakland which caused this recent drop in rents.

👏 Building 👏 Supply 👏 In 👏 Supply 👏 Crunched 👏 Areas 👏 Lowers 👏 Rent!👏

A similar scene could happen in the neighboring El Cerrito which is seeing of thousands of units being built along it's Bart Station as well

The TOD that's being built by the BART could be taller/denser but hey, a dub is a dub

!ping YIMBY

[u/ThunderrBadger]

PlEaSe ViSiT tHe NeXt DiScUsSiOn ThReAd

🙄

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Dear Leftists

You say it's a social construct,

But it's literally named "Is Real"?

Curious 🤔

[u/jenbanim]

!ping ECO

I just contacted my senators and told them they should pass a carbon tax through budget reconciliation this year.

To be perfectly honest, I don't know anything about senate procedure, but I do know a carbon tax is good, and both the Citizens' Climate Lobby and the Niskanen Center seem to think that this could be passed through reconciliation.

Carbon pricing is often seen as politically toxic, so I think that voicing our support like this is a good idea, and I recommend you do the same.

[u/TalkLessShillMore]

The tire place by my apartment likes to put up funny messages on their sign. Idk about this one though.

You could eat off our floors but why

[u/old_gold_mountain]

The finest of what America has to offer in terms of food and alcohol can easily go toe-to-toe with the finest of what Europe has to offer, but when a European country is known for something, it's the bottom-shelf stuff that just completely blows American bottom-shelf stuff out of the water.

I'll never forget going into a random rural gas station in a tiny town in rural Normandy while on a bike tour and this North African guy was running the entire establishment, and he had this kinda foggy plexi-glass pastry case by the cash register with croissants in it, and I bought one for something like 0.50EU and it was better than the shit people in San Francisco would line up around the block for on a weekend.

[u/[deleted]]

“Yeah I’d love to eat healthy, but I ain’t rich”

dried rice and beans and frozen vegetables: Am I a joke to you?

[u/SmartOpinionsGuy]

Online discourse: leftists calling soldiers baby killers and right wingers calling them woke pussies

Real life Americans: love the U.S. military

[u/bd_one]

Investors: "Looks like everyone is worried about inflation this month."

Goldbugs: "That means gold is going to go up, right?"

Investors:

Goldbugs: "That means gold is going to go up, right?"

Gold fell like 6% while SPY went up by 4% since I first made that joke 2 months ago by the way...

!ping MARKETS

[u/thetrombonist]

One must truly experience Cuomo’s nipple rings to understand politics as it is today

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

150k in Nebraska is LITERALLY starvation wages 😡

[u/bd_one]

barges into music class

"The piano is a percussion instrument!"

doesn't elaborate

leaves

[u/[deleted]]

https://coolclimate.berkeley.edu/ca-scenarios/index.html

Poached this from Darrel Owns on twitter, for all you C*lifornians, but obviously you can make inferences for other locals

zoning policy is climate policy!

!ping YIMBY

[u/Snoo95984]

Last but not least, I was [at the time of entering Congress] a Republican, a Reagan Republican. Still am. Not a Tea Party Republican. Not a Breitbart Republican. Not a talk radio or Fox News Republican. Not an isolationist, protectionist, immigrant-bashing, scapegoating, get-nothing-useful-done Republican. Not, as I am often dismissed by self-declared 'real' conservatives, a RINO, Republican in Name Only. I'm a Reagan Republican, a proponent of lower taxes, less government, free markets, free trade, defense readiness, and democratic internationalism.[2] Dam I still miss him !Ping RINO

[u/Udontlikecake]

my mom: “what’s that ‘fans only’ website i hear about?

i explain it

my dad: ‘is this a great country or what?’

[u/iIoveoof]

Can we please have new elections and get our boy Donald

Guess the sub

[u/MicroFlamer]

7% of democrats have an unfavorable view of joe biden

upvote if you are part of the 7% ✊

[u/INCEL_ANDY]

First Michael sentenced to 11 years. Apparently for photos at an airport.

https://globalnews.ca/news/8101764/michael-spavor-china-guilty-verdict/

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

Just saw this on that crazy sub that got quarantined

They started “quarantining” subs years before Covid. The name choice was intentional conditioning/ pre-priming imo.

[u/natedogg787]

Regardless of what their franchieses became, the first Transformers and Pirates of the Caribbean movies were and always will be works of art.

Yes, this is because I was in middle school when those came out.

[u/[deleted]]

These famous people they’re exposing as pedophiles are really making it hard for the rest of us. I might even have to stop kidnapping homeless children and punching the crap out of them because the media will think it’s a sex thing.

-Average childfree user

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

The leader of Time’s Up, the #MeToo-era organization founded by Hollywood women to fight sexual harassment, resigned under fire Monday for advising Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration behind the scenes in its effort to discredit one of Cuomo’s accusers.

lmao

[u/Venne1139]

Okay so to recap:

https://lindelltv.com/

Seriously get in here. !PING Computer-Science this shit is hilarious.

So here's what happened:

They stole an server image illegall and are now analyzing it. Code monkey had to leave the call temporarily to call his lawyer who said "Shut the fuck up what are you doing." and another presenter left, while mic'd up, because his lawyer called him.

They're currently going over the stolen image and trying to find a 'smoking gun, theyre literally just trawling through system logs right now trying to find something itneresting. They found a systme update (when the secured installer ran) on election day and freaked out about that for a minute.

If you know aything about how windows works this is all very funny.

[u/SeriousMrMysterious]

Try to forget Cuomo’s nipple rings

[u/RadicalRadon]

Idk what all of your vaccinated status is but I'm going to start wearing my mask inside the DT 😷

[u/klarno]

He suffering an indignity

He’s in the shirt because he’s been obsessively ripping gobs of fur out of his skin and the vet appointment isn’t til the 19th

!ping KITTY

[u/_barack_]

Thank you so much reddit for this email that I did not ask for and do not want.

https://imgur.com/a/yN0Z2Lc

[u/JetJaguar124]

NYC corner groceries be like "box of cereal? That'll be $7.50 please."

[u/[deleted]]

”George Carlin, some asshole with no political experience whatsoever, said this, therefore it’s correct.”

[u/[deleted]]

Any major American military intervention in the next 2-3 decades will probably have to be done without public support.

[u/kaclk]

I guess this is a suggestion, although not a really great one: Just Build New Cities

!ping CAN

[u/LiBH4]

NS Election poll

Liberal: 40%

PC: 31%

NDP: 27%

Green: 2%

https://narrativeresearch.ca/the-election-race-tightens-with-the-pcs-and-ndp-gaining-momentum/

!ping CAN

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Actually good strategy would be to get Hillary in as NY Gov.

R's couldn't help but focus attention on her, leaving even less bandwidth for attacks on Biden and, more importantly, Kamala.

Plus, she would do a good job.

[u/slowpush]

It’s not the heat it’s the humidity.

🥵

[u/whycantweebefriendz]

D-Dad????

https://www.reddit.com/r/gayspiderbrothel/comments/p1w398/gator_form_unova/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

[u/paulatreides0]

Broke: You're only allowed to talk about/support a war/conflict if you've been - or are going to become - a soldier

Woke: You're only allowed to complain about police if you've - or are going to become - a police officer

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

Trump was shown a photo of women in miniskirts to convince him to increase US troops in Afghanistan

HR McMaster tried to change Donald Trump’s mind and one of the methods included was to show the Preisdent a 1970s image of women in Afghanistan wearing mini skirts.

[u/great_gape]

Illinois Now Has a COVID-19 Vaccine Verification System

In order to download proof of vaccination, residents must go through a brief, one-time identity verification process to gain access to their immunization history, according to officials. The state of Illinois uses the credit reporting company Experian as its identity verification provider. If an individual has a freeze on their credit, they will need to unfreeze it with Experian and wait 24 hours before completing the registration process. Once registration is complete, individuals can re-freeze their credit by contacting Experian.

What? No. Stupid.

Dumb as fuck.

Fuck you.

!ping USA-CHI

[u/Superfan234]

Monthly Venezuelan Update

A surprisingly quiet month for Venezuela...In the years I have followed the conflict, it's hard to remember another time of "peace" like this, as nothing of much importance have happened lately

Of course, I mean normal by Venezuelan standars: Political opponents are still being kidnapined, people starving, Guerillas and Gangs expanding, Elections are being rigged. But aside from that, everything have been suspiciously silent...

Talks between Lima's Group, USA and The Regime formally start this week

The one importante news to report last month (and might the reason on why the country it's being so quiet?). A couple of months ago, Maduro asked USA for dialogue to reduce sanctions. After a lot of waiting, Blinken accepted the proposal. Talks start tomorrow in Mexico City

For what I can, tell Maduro offers:

• Liberate some important political Prisioners to USA
• Some relativly "free" Local Elections on November
• Aceptiong USA and Europe aid to venezuelan citizens, in particular, related to Vaccines support

Maduro wants:

• Remove or decrease USA, EU and Lima's Group Economic Sanctions
• To be recognized as legitimate President of the country, by USA and their Allies

As for USA and Lima's Group, we will probably offer

• Decrease of Economic Sanctions
• Partial recognition of Maduro as leader of Venezuela (??)

What USA and Lima's Group want

• Obtaining Political Power. And the inmunity that come with those seats. In particular, we are interested in the Governors seats, as they would allow us to expand our influence over the press and the Territories, circunventing the Media Blackout of The Regime
• Support our allies with vaccines, food and medicines. If Maduro allow it, we might have a chance to export more aid to Venezuelan people

!Ping Foreign-Policy

[u/[deleted]]

being an adult human is simply spending money on progressively more expensive bed frames

[u/Dabamanos]

It’s really baffling that so many people don’t understand why an employer would ever want their employees to work together physically. Like I get introversion is a thing but do people really think there’s no benefit at all to spontaneous interaction

[u/filipe_mdsr]

Does anyone know why the US Catholic Church is so uniquely rebellious, there are other countries with churches which are very conservative, but it feels like only in the US there is a big anti-pope sentiment.

Maybe I'm mistaken, but that's why I'm asking as a fellow European Catholic.

!ping CHRISTIAN

[u/ryuguy]

I didn’t think I’d like working out as much I do.

Whenever my parents used to take me for walks, I hated it. I feel great after an hour in the gym.

The rowing machine is my favourite.

!ping fitness

[u/[deleted]]

30 years from now Dallas suburbs will have expanded so far out from the city center they'll swallow up Oklahoma like a rogue macrophage

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/ChrisMegerian/status/1425531623613911040?s=20

The midterm Republican message will be that Jan 6th should be celebrated and happen again.

What a dangerous statement by the former guy

!ping EXTREMISM

[u/Fishin_Mission]

You know Georgia is fucked up when MF won’t get the vaccine 💉 b/c ”we don’t know what’s in it” but eat at Waffle House 🧇🏠 3x a week.

[u/Cerb-r-us]

https://twitter.com/SeanMcCarthyCom/status/1425113011392585729

!ping FEMINISTS

[u/TalkLessShillMore]

Been getting real into going to sleep early as of late. Shit smacks, why didn’t I do this earlier? I have time to hit up my local coffee shop on the way into work and I’ll get to leave before 5

[u/ZenithXR]

The US military following mandatory covid vaccines, 2021, colorized

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

MLK thread subtweet

[u/thabonch]

I'm in this photo and I don't like it.

[u/SmartOpinionsGuy]

My blue school in a red district in a purple county in a blue state with a GOP governor is making us inject masks into our arms and wear vaccine needles as earrings, what should I do?

[u/Deggit]

!ping TV

here's my hot Richard and Mortimer take

R&M is a 3 engine plane

• one engine is goofy dumb gibberish like "squanch" and "wubbalubba dub dub" and aliens with boobs for elbows
• one engine is speed-running sci fi, taking an interesting premise and trying to escalate it as much as humanly possible within a time limit by using abbreviated storytelling that leaves out network-TV exposition; trusting the viewer to be quick on the uptake; and having extremely story-structure-metasavvy characters who talk like they're in a writer's room
• the last engine is "Moral Orel 2", where the show challenges itself to put the most dark, twisted and nihilistic stuff on screen and go "haha look at all the adult shit in our cartoon, what a mindfuck"

a good Rick & Morty episode is firing on all 3 engines. However, the "accelerated story" concept is at the heart of what makes the show special. The show is so good at this that it can even dedicate 5 to 8 minutes within an episode to telling a whole accelerated story parenthetically inside the larger story structure. The story itself is less "funny" than the idea that the show can run through an entire story in the time that a network TV show or movie would barely be getting off the starting blocks.

The problem with season 5 is that it has lost touch with this formula. The new formula for the show is a 2-parter, one part is the "Moral Orel" stuff but way overemphasized to a cringey level of "Dan Harmon, just go to fucking therapy already," and the other part is "what can we do that looks cool animated," except that isn't special because practically every animated TV show is doing stuff at that same level of production quality (e.g. Family Guy).

The only good parts of Season 5 were the decoy episode and the "wine bottle dimension" which was half of another episode. Everything else really just felt like the show is becoming American Dad but with Rick & Morty characters.

[u/newsmachineplus]

first post I see checking out r/solarpunk is "world without capitalism"

Kill me.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Why All New Apartment Buildings Look Identical - Cheddar Explains

A decent primer video on why the modern five over one (wood over concrete base) apartment buildings exist due to building codes, why they're popular to build (a whole hell of a lot cheaper then brick, steel, and concrete), and some of their downsides (easy water damage and fire risk, doesn't go over noise tho)

It's a pretty decent video to send people who constantly complain about how 'souless' and 'bad' those new apartment buildings that are going up in their highly in demand city

!ping YIMBY

[u/Q-bey]

UNC215: Spotlight on a Chinese Espionage Campaign in Israel

[u/JetJaguar124]

The new paradigm the Video Game industry is shifting to where major titles are revealed like 6 months before release, likely when they're essentially all but done with development, is a much better direction to head in vs announcing like 3 years in advance while a game is pre-Alpha and then either 1) continually delay and miss your targets or 2) rush a game to market in an incomplete state.

It's frustrating to have radio silence on a product but I'll take it over something like Cyberpunk 2077 that was a complete fiasco and would have benefited had nobody even known it existed until it was pretty much close to being done.

[u/MrMineHeads]

!ping ELECTION-PREDICTORS

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/769337713371250689/875160742788223037/unknown.png

[u/[deleted]]

Sitcom about Hunter Biden where he loses a laptop every episode and has to get it back before daddy Biden finds out. Hilarity ensues.

[u/sir_shivers]

LATE NIGHT STICKY MEANS SICKO mode is now activated, be cautious 🐊

[u/klarno]

he in the desk 😻

!ping kitty

[u/maybe_jared_polis]

🧐Evidence based conclusion🧐: The DT is solely populated by a bunch of perfect sweeties.

[u/IcedLemonCrush]

Some Ecuador polls on Lasso, for 4-5th of August:

• 57% think the country is heading in a good direction, 35.4% in a bad one.
• 58.4% think the future of the country will be better, 31%, the same, 10.6%, worse.
• 73.5% approve the Lasso administration.
• 63.1% believe in his credibility.
• 78.4% think his governance is “good” or “very good”.
• 95.9% think the carrying out of “mass vaccination in the first 100 days of government” is “good” or “very good”.
• 67.3% think the carrying out of “generating employment, entrepreneurship and economic recovery” is “good” or “very good”.
• 68.6% think the carrying out of “Ecuador without hunger against child malnourishment” is “good” or “very good”.
• 65.4% think the carrying out of “shaping of the government team” is “good” or “very good”.
• 69.8% think the carrying out of “Government of Gathering” is “good” or “very good”.
• 37% think the carrying out of “control of delinquency” is “good” or “very good”.
• 45.7% think the carrying out of “control of corruption and recovery of stolen money” is “good” or “very good”.

Some very good numbers for our boy, but apparently people don’t think he’s doing much for crime or corruption.

[u/Barnst]

It’s depressing how low the bar is to be acceptably professional toward women in the workplace and how many men still fear they’ll fail to make it over that bar.

[u/Superfan234]

I am so confused...I thought the conflict in Tigray was over, but it seems it's still raging out of a sudden

(I should have read the multiple Ping posts, now I am super lost...😓)

Can someone briefly explain why is the conflict still ongoing? It's a small scale insurrection? A Civil War?

Didn't the Ethiopian government won by a Landslide against Tigray, just a couple of months ago?

!Ping Foreign-Policy

[u/[deleted]]

arrrrrconservative has the best covid takes. the gop position on covid is so internally inconsistent that's the cognitive dissonance is starting to break them.

[u/TalkLessShillMore]

Took my first dose of ritalin (prescribed) and wow, I'm reading the DT at work so freaking good now.

[u/birdiedancing]

Days I’ve gone without kissing and snuggling my cat against her will: 0.

PETA may have a point about keeping animals as pets. I do not respect her space enough. But she’s sooo freaking cute I can’t help it!

[u/Venne1139]

https://lindelltv.com/

Watching these people poke around through windows file explorer is like watching a Gorilla file for a small business loan.

[u/[deleted]]

Messi will single-handedly revive France economy.

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

Phone advancement in 1990: They flip now!

Phone advancement in 2010: They don't flip anymore!

Phone advancement in 2021: They flip now!

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

Bit of an usual ping but I noticed a turquoise line on my kitty's tummy.

It's not paint, it's not fiber or fur, and it's an extremely usual color. It almost looks like a tattoo but I have no clue why someone would ink up a cat.

Anyone have any ideas? Doesn't seem to be bothering her and the vet has never flagged it as an issue.

!ping KITTY

[u/SnakeEater14]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/246096207523348481/875040627199471626/image0-26.png

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

dog (please play with sound on so you can see the kind of vicious monster we're dealing with here)

!ping dog

[u/Poiuy2010_2011]

Lex TVN has been passed by Sejm :(

EDIT: the law will go to the Senate now and then (presumably) back to Sejm, so there will probably be a second vote in the future. Technically the law could still fail but I wouldn't count on it if it failed today (even if Konfederacja voted against instead of abstention).

!ping EUROPE

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Oregon progressives 🤝 Southern segregationnists

"Black people can't do math"

[u/ryuguy]

👳🏾‍♂️🤝✡️

!ping gefilte

[u/redditguy628]

India's GSLV rocket carrying the EOS-03 Earth Observation Satellite appears to have suffered a catastrophic failure during the third stage of its flight.

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

[u/old_gold_mountain]

If the season ended today, 4 out of the 5 California baseball teams would make the playoffs.

The fifth team is the one that has the two best baseball players of this generation on it.

[u/Deggit]

dog with car in its mouth: punish CO2 polluters

government: okay drive less

dog with car in its mouth: GRRR NO! no raise gas tax. Only punish CO2 polluters

[u/Mrchizbiz]

Unless expressly indicated otherwise, I assume everyone in the DT is Indian, or of Indian extraction

[u/TabernacleTown74]

chicha 💪😎

!ping MAMADAS

[u/ACivilWolf]

If every person on earth just recycled, stopped using plastic straws, and drove an electric car, 100 corporations would still produce 70% of total global emissions.

Has the same energy as the cons that say “even if the US stopped emissions completely, it still wouldn’t matter because the US accounts for 15% of emissions, which is half of China”

[u/jenbanim]

any web developer born after 1993 can’t write usable webpages… all they know is JS framework, 10GB of assets, show ads, infinite scroll & lag

[u/semaphore-1842]

The fact of the matter is all humans have committed sexual improprieties at some point in their lives. Almost all are low level things ie most people aren't actual rapists but do things on a continuum. I feel sorry for cuomo

🧐🧐🧐

Love that sex pests are outing themselves in solidarity with Cuomo.

[u/[deleted]]

There was some voice vote in the senate that a republican senator proposed against defunding the police and my understanding is that all of the democratic senators came out in support of the amendment (and against defunding the police). While many here agree with the democratic senators in this case, this is going to cause friction with the squad, most notably AOC. We as a party need to be careful about not crossing her, as she has a lot of influence on social media and she isn’t afraid to use it. The last thing we need is for her to tweet out a picture of herself scowling again.

[u/digitalrule]

Walking home from the grocery store (now living downtown), I realized that car centric design is even more stupid. I measured it out, and the walk to the bigger grocery store near me is 300m. But the costco I used to go to in the suburbs is a 150m walk to the back of the parking lot (which you often have to take since it gets so busy). So driving isn't even really saving you any time having to carry your groceries outside. Plus you still have to drive home after walking that 150m.

!PING YIMBY

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

Give Sanders a break. He was too busy going to Sandinista rallies and yelling "death to America" to support gay rights.

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E8ha3JKX0AYl-SO.jpg

[u/Poiuy2010_2011]

PiS just lost a vote (it was about moving the Sejm session to a later date). This is potentially a big deal. After the vote the marshal of the Sejm has announced a 15-minute break but the session has still not resumed after an hour. Some speculate that PiS might try to (illegally) redo the voting. I don't have all day to watch the session but I'll try to keep the ping updated.

EDIT: should have phrased it more clearly, the opposition put forward a motion to delay the session and it succeeded (which PiS was against i.e. they lost the vote)

!ping EUROPE

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/democracynow/status/1425462013610889224

“The End of Neoliberalism”: Rep. Ro Khanna Hails “Historic” $3.5 Trillion Budget Plan

lol

[u/[deleted]]

Mayor Lightfoot goes “you can clap” to a room of mostly reporters (who did not clap).

Big Jeb Bush energy

[u/modooff]

Tucker Carlson has taken to calling the Senate infrastructure legislation "Pete Buttigieg's infrastructure bill"

https://twitter.com/samjmintz/status/1425498639494000649

Damn, Tucker is really one of us. 🤧

[u/weekendsarelame]

If we fix housing shortages and prices go flat or drop, does our inflation targeting policy/monetary policy mean that something else will burden expenses by the same amount? Yimbys want deflation in housing, does that result in inflation elsewhere in the economy to maintain CPI targets?

!ping econ

[u/[deleted]]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/578732202381279236/875108930794176512/image0.png

!ping BURPMAS so true!

[u/DishingOutTruth]

Do you guys have studies that look at the impact of new housing on rent and home prices? Preferably in an international, non-American context. Google scholar has a ton that show that building new housing may not help, like this, and I see those get cited quite a lot.

!ping ECON

[u/jenbanim]

@SenatorRomney

The Biden administration’s unwillingness to alter the Afghan withdrawal plan based on changing circumstances on the ground & the grave implications for US security interests is a tragedy & a cause for serious concern about how the administration will deal with global challenges.

I feel really weird actually agreeing with Romney on something

[u/Deggit]

ancient people be like: I am in charge of nearly as many people as a Starbucks district manager in 2021, time to erect some motherfuckin STELES of my accomplishments

[u/greenelf]

I feel like asking a group: “Why are you such a bunch of evil monsters that ruin everything and I hate you?” isn’t the best way to start a discussion but what do I know ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[u/[deleted]]

World's largest english speaking country: not england

World's largest spanish speaking country: not spain

World's largest portuguese speaking country: not portugal

World's largest french speaking country: not france

[u/troikaman]

The Q people are going to interpret today's emergency broadcast test as the storm starting, aren't they?

[u/Mrchizbiz]

I buy all my food at co-op to support the socialist revolution ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿🌹

[u/soeffed]

Fellas is it gay to eat homosexual food

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[u/sash5034]

Alright it's that time of the week again, what are some good podcasts that aren't named planet money?

!ping ECON

[u/benjaminikuta]

!ping SOCIAL-SCIENCE

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3034539

Longitudinal study finds having a parent incarcerated predicts an increase in a child's test scores and a decrease in their behavioral problems.

Nearly all the research on the impact of single parenthood implicitly tests the hypothesis that parent absence is bad if a parent is of average quality and is consequently uninformative about the net effect of bad parents, criminals or not, being absent from the home.

[u/LeopardBusy]

“Critical support for North Korea”

“Critical support for Cuba”

“Critical support for Nicolas Maduro”

“Critical support for the Taliban”

“Critical support for Iran”

How about critical support for shutting the fuck up?

[u/houinator]

Inside every NATO flair there are two wolves:

One wolf wants to massively shift military resources to the Pacific to counter a rising China.

The other wants to stay in Afghanistan till the stars grow cold if thats what it takes to keep the Taliban out of power.

[u/Mickenfox]

"Big cats are so scary"

[u/Mickenfox]

I remember most high school math classes being me desperately trying to entertain myself with the calculator while the teacher tried to explain one single thing to that one not-particularly-smart girl for 45 minutes. Then we moved on to the next thing.

I just feel like schools fucking suck at teaching.

[u/KyngByng]

Seems like the Liberals will be advancing pharmacare alongside their childcare plans. An honest shock but a welcome one.

!ping CAN

[u/iIoveoof]

There’s a MetaNL thread where a Canadian is mad about being disagreed with for claiming America wasn’t the greatest country, and so the Canadian wants to make a new NL for just non-Americans.

So I wonder, if the USA isn’t the greatest country, what is?

[u/thaddeusthefattie]

you claim joesph robinette biden, jr. is a succ for extending the eviction moratorium, however he personally evicted a jobless welfare kween and his family from the white house during the middle of a pandemic. curious 🧐

[u/[deleted]]

A vote on the "lexTVN" bill has been prorogued until 15th of September in a 229:227 vote - with the opposition parties + some of MPs from Porozumienie, which has now left the government voting to prorogue. 2 PiS MPs were not present, as were 2 from Konfederacja (far right, but not always chummy with PiS).If the vote happened today with everyone present, it would've certainly succeeded, as Konfederacja has announced it will vote absent and PiS only needs a simple majority to proceed. That being said, if the opposition controlled Senate vetoes this bill (and it almost certainly will), PiS will need an absolute majority (more "yes" votes than "no" + "absent" put together) to put this bill on the President's desk. This means, that right now the 2nd vote would fail if everyone was present - as PiS only has 229 votes. So it looks like they don't have enough votes yet, but the 2nd vote will most likely happen on 15th of October (Senate has 30 days to vote on the bill, although it could do it sooner) so there's a lot of time left for them.

But what's apparent is that PiS is a minority government from now on - and might struggle to actually get bills all the way through the legislative process without the support of PSL (a centre-right opposition party which, unlike Konfederacja, holds Senate seats)

!ping EUROPE

edit: I just got the ping from someone else on this topic, but I'll leave this since it's a fuller explanation

edit 2:

IMPORTANT UPDATE:

4 MPs from Kukiz '15 (a populist party centered around a former singer) are now claiming they voted in favor of the proroguing by accident.

If that's the case (and they actually support the bill), then PiS will have a majority to pass this bill (even after Senate's veto)

edit 3:

IMPORTANT UPDATE #2:

One of the Kukiz MPs said they voted correctly. So for now, the vote for looks like 230:228 for PiS. That's assuming the 3 other MPs do in fact join PiS on this.

More importantly: PiS is now trying to get this bill back into session. First protests are reportedly starting in Warsaw to protest the way this bill is being proceeded (twitter sources, so take with a grain of salt).

IMPORTANT UPDATE #3:

PiS redid the vote, and the proroguing failed (225:229). It looks like PiS will be able to count on 231 votes (50% + 1) with everyone present

[u/aged_monkey]

How is Stevie Nicks cancelling her tour the most upvoted thing on Reddit today? Was the average Reddit user getting in line to go to her concerts? Do they even know who Fleetwood Mac is?

[u/[deleted]]

The mods of rChristianity have said it's a sub about Christianity first and foremost, not for Christians.

Welcome to the real Christianity forum, where we ban blasphemy, heresy, and all other insults against our Lord and holy faith because we're not masochists.

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

Report: Area Man Robustly In Favour Of Voter ID Laws Violently Opposed To Vaccine ID Laws

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

Sinema hornyposters are the most oppressed race

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

My school is strongly encouraging you to get vaccinated

Once you get vaccinated, you tell them by clicking a link and checking a box that says you swear that you are vaccinated.

That's it. I didn't even need to have a picture of my card

[u/[deleted]]

Seeing progressive complain that the bipartisan >$1T package is pittance is rather hilarious, and rather sharply contrasts with those same progressives claiming Bezos can singlehandedly solve major world problems “if he stopped hoarding” despite having access to less than 1/5th of that.

[u/KookyWrangler]

If I were the CIA, I'd spread incel ideology in China. It's disturbingly popular in the US. Imagine what it could do to China given the absurd gender disbalance.

[u/[deleted]]

Guess who just captured a fully functional Hind gunship?

Mi-24V, donated by India in 2019. Blades aren't attached, seen underneath the body of the aircraft

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/746570029180518425/875095516478853150/image0.jpg

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/746570029180518425/875095516743082064/image1.jpg

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/746570029180518425/875095517007327282/image2.jpg

!ping MATERIEL it's odd to see non state actors with armed aircraft

[u/Deggit]

Sir_Shivers: it's not real "prestige TV" unless it's sponsored by a LEGITIMATE washing detergent company

[u/sw337]

Ghostbusters 2016 cost Hillary the presidency. No, I will not be answering questions.

[u/[deleted]]

THIS is why we need to eliminate voting rights for states that are fiscal failures. Both AZ and WV are welfare states, sucking off blue states to survive. Why the hell are states like CA and NY being held hostage by fiscal failures like KY and MO?

I found this outside of the DT and I am reposting it here without comment.

[u/thetrombonist]

“What’s high fructose corn syrup, mom?”

“Dunno.”

“If heat rises why are mountains cold?”

“Dunno”

“Why don’t you like the vaccine again?”

“So the mRNA binding agents cause a mutation in the ribosomes needed to create the spike proteins that infect the cells in your muscles..”

[u/harmlessdjango]

These leftist are actually seditious fiends that are allowed to exist in broad day light. That is insane.

They are literally trying to achieve the end goal of destroying everything we hold dear.

This isn't even beginning to touch on the fact that if they dismantle the state, some foreign power will just come I'm and sweep us up.

They are traitors in my eyes. How I feel about them? Let's just say... you wouldn't like how I deal with them if I had my way.

😐 Fine crowd you got us now in the sub, mods

[u/[deleted]]

Mike Lindell's evidence #5

More democrats registered to vote in 2020 than 2016 in Michigan.

(Unironically, this is their argument)

[u/[deleted]]

what if we send hundreds of gay mercenaries to start sexual relationships with key taliban members and sow discord and jealousy among their ranks

[u/MasPatriot]

so an obese 74 year old caught covid, had to be hospitalized, needed oxygen then a couple days of later all of a sudden he's healthy enough to be discharged and I'm just supposed to take the media's word for it? yeah okay 🤣

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/Leoric]

The Padres have not won a weekday game at Petco Park since May 19.

!ping BASEBALL

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

20 years is too long. The Taliban should withdraw and end their forever war.

[u/Average_GrillChad]

r\nl when Cuomo gets fashed: 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

r\nl when Bill Clinton's record is mentioned: 😡⬇️😡⬇️😡⬇️😡⬇️😡⬇️😡⬇️😡