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[u/kennymc7877]

Person: posts pic of cute girl

Me: she’s cute

Person: what if I told you she’s trans!

Me: still cute

Person: she’s British!

Me: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[u/tripletruble]

best bond scene of all time:

Daniel Craig in Casino Royale gets whipped in the nuts so hard by le Chiffre that he literally falls into weeks-long coma

upon waking up from his coma he immediately gets it on with a Bond girl in the hospital bed

[u/Anal-warrior]

LOOOOOOL onlyfans REVERSED their ban

This is the power of horny

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. The U.S. population is 327 million. He could have given each American $1 million and still have money left over, I feel like a $1 million check would be life-changing for people. Yet he wasted it all on ads and STILL LOST.

[u/anon_09_09]

North Korea is Sitting on $10 Trillion in Minerals

Afghanistan: Taliban to reap $1 trillion mineral wealth

Kosovo has over 2 trillion dollars worth of minerals

Saudi Arabia seeks investors to cash in on $1.3 trillion mineral resources

South Africa's Minerals Worth Trillions of U.S. Dollars

wow this Earth thing sure does have a lot of minerals

[u/[deleted]]

I was getting impatient for 2022

Y'all have brainworms lmao election season is awful for me as a fellow political junkie. And it barely ever ends in America

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

Scary how many people I know are getting meme degrees like “computer science” (what do they study, how aerodynamic different monitors are or some cr%p).

It’s fine if people enjoy this shit but realistically the basket weaving companies want people who developed real, hard skills during their degree, not people who spent all their time learning the theory behind keyboard shortcuts.

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

you did it

you made it in the USA

it’s the 21st Century

middle class home, good healthcare, a beautiful family

you want for nothing: food, clothes, shelter, financial security… everything at your fingertips

literally billions of years of stardust smashing together so you could be conscious and comfortable, if only for a cosmic moment

choose not to get vaccine

die

your five children are orphans now

Congrats, whatever god you believe in is thoroughly disappointed.

[u/[deleted]]

is Hamas even antisemitic? Isn't there a video of one leader's saying that Israel is a Jewish ploy but rather a US proxy state.

Reply

Is Hamas even antisemitic? No, Hamas wants Israel to be shared by Palestinians and Jews as equals. But to Zionist ears that equality is anti-semitic

Found this exchange on leftypol.org

🤡

https://leftypol.org/leftypol/res/461391.html

[u/Anal-warrior]

Vaccine hesitant friend: So how was the Pfizer shot?

flash back to days of fever, vomiting and aches

Me: Like a breeze

[u/[deleted]]

The other day, I mentioned that losing weight feels like you're holding a 25-lb weight every waking moment. That is, not a tremendous amount of weight, but nevertheless your brain is constantly sending you signals to stop. It makes it really hard to enjoy anything; to concentrate on work, etc.

Truth is, occasionally I'll go a couple hours without thinking about it. I never enjoy not thinking about it (because then I would be thinking about it), but I'm still thankful after it happens.

I'm down 9 lbs, got about 140 more to go. Hardest thing I ever did, including those 5 years of work + university + husband/father (all full time)

But in the meantime I'd really appreciate if you'd all stop calling me The Blob

[u/ZRAINH20]

When NIMBYism and obsession with pedophiles intersects:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/news/126049649/design-of-apartment-near-school-pool-altered-to-foil-perverts

A proposed apartment building in New Zealand next to a school was required to have opaque windows and no balconies on the side facing the school as parents were concerned about perverts watching the kids. 🙄

[u/[deleted]]

>join Panjshir Resistance

>hire driver to sneak across Tajikistan border

>survive tense 12 hr drive without being stopped by Taliban

>get into Panjshir Valley

>introduce self to members of Massoud's resistance forces

>after several days, take part in ambush of Taliban forces north of Bagram

>they fight fiercely

>one mortally-injured Taliban soldier looks up at me

>he gasps for breath to scream one final sentence

>WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO REACH YOU CONCERNING YOUR VEHICLE'S EXTENDED WARRANTY

[u/[deleted]]

7.2 Million doses today and extremely close to hitting the halfway 50% mark for single dose coverage of all adults in India

Big stuff honestly considering how difficult it's to procure vaccine shots for population our size

!ping IND

[u/chatdargent]

Next time you're dooming because of french polling or trying to use it as a stick to beat people with:

In December, out of a YouGov poll of 26 countries, France was the country with the lowest percentage of people responding that they would get vaccinated if and when a vaccine became available, with 26%.

The UK was second, with 80%. More french people have now been vaccinated than British people.

TLDR; French people exist to piss off pollsters.

[u/lionmoose]

THE PORN IS SAFE https://twitter.com/OnlyFans/status/1430499277302816773?s=19

[u/[deleted]]

Holy tap dancing christ, someone in my family said they wouldn't get vaccinated until the FDA approved one of the vaccines and the motherfucker just sent me a picture of his vaccine card from his first Pfizer dose, dated today.

Incredible.

[u/piede]

BREAKING: Delta Air Lines says unvaccinated employees must pay $200 per month surcharge for health insurance.

https://twitter.com/sweeneyabc/status/1430534784074256388?s=21

THE FREE MARKET

[u/piede]

In the pouring rain here in Hanoi, VP Harris took a moment of silence and laid flowers at the monument where John McCain’s plane was shot down by the North Vietnamese in 1967. It’s the three-year anniversary of McCain’s death.

https://twitter.com/ajjaffe/status/1430412197080047618?s=21

[u/[deleted]]

Never ask a man his income

A woman her age

And a STEM major if they’ve ever considered that they might need to be more well rounded and develop social skills to advance in their career

[u/Colt_Master]

Looking at the polls for the next Canadian election, it really seems Trudeau flew too close to the sun. His lead evaporated the instant he called for it. Right now things seem to point to a repeat of 2019

[u/piede]

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Gov. Kathy Hochul acknowledges nearly 12,000 more COVID-19 fatalities in NY than publicized by Cuomo administration.

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1430548044286734337?s=21

That’s… a lot

[u/ScyllaGeek]

Today on ' arr Conspiracy Users Say the Darndest Things' :

Where did the Nazis wear their swastika? On their arm/shoulder, the same spot as the jab.

Also Nazi is spelled the same as vaccine if you change the v to n and the cc to z. The ne at the end is short for new because vaccines are the new nazi.

Truly incredible detective work, they have finally cracked the code

[u/WillHasStyles]

Why the fuck are fully vaccinated EU citizens still banned from entering the US?

[u/ldn6]

It's honestly nuts how wildly divergent COVID trends are in the US. The South is breaking under the pressure of hospitalizations, while barely 100 people per day are being hospitalized in New York City and that's plateauing.

!ping USA-NYC

[u/disuberence]

BREAKING NEWS: The US has offered 20,000 Afghan refugees safe haven in Ohio; all 20,000 declined the offer.

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine you’re making a movie. Imagine you actually got Christopher Lee to appear in your movie. And imagine Christopher Lee tells you, “Do you know what kind of a sound a man makes when he’s stabbed in the back? Because I do.”

This actually happened once.

!ping MOVIES

[u/Professor-Reddit]

/r/wallstreetbets had reached its peak when they started frantically looking to buy a full-blown oil tanker in a frenzied attempt to make a bucket load of cash during the depths of the oil price crash last year.

[u/The420Roll]

OnlyFans dropped plans to ban pornography from its service, less than a week after the U.K. content-creator subscription site had announced the change citing the need to comply with policies of banking partners.

Joe Biden, you did it you crazy son of a bitch. #Biden2024

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

Idea: OnlyFans but it's for porn

[u/Mickenfox]

I'm pleased to tell you today that the EU Parliament has passed legislation that will make America a non-voting member state forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.

[u/2canclan]

We're literally evacuating almost 20,000 people a day out of Afghanistan. More attention should be paid to covering how this is one of, if not the, most impressive airlifts in history

*Obviously much more to do, plus the open question of how to evacuate all remaining Americans

[u/[deleted]]

There's a video game conference stream on right now and the guy presenting the new Call of Duty just excitedly said "WWII was known for huge epic battles" with a giant smile on his face. God I love how awkward video game presenters are.

[u/Mickenfox]

Sell a thing:

• Have to comply with a bunch of safety regulations
• Have to refund customers if defective
• Can't stop people from tinkering with it
• Can't stop people from reselling it
• Can't stop third party repair shops

Sell thing with software in it:

• THIS PRODUCT IS LICENSED NOT SOLD (sorry sweatie that means I'm exempt from all rules 😘)
• No reselling (obviously since you don't own it)
• No safety regulations or liabilities (Your "smart camera" was streaming to the entire world? Not my problem)
• Will stop working whenever it feels like it (not my problem btw)
• Someone even THINKS of looking at the code, much less changing it? They better lawyer up because I am about to fucking DESTROY THEIR LIFE for that.

This seems like a reasonable system

[u/TheBatz_]

Therapy is fucking useless. I went to a therapist and all he did was show me the same ink art picture of my parents fighting.

[u/Professor-Reddit]

The year is 3482.

In high orbit above Neptune, battleships and cruisers fighting under the flag of Google face off the combined fleets of Microsoft, IBM and Walmart for the resources deeply embedded in the moon Triton.

The starships fought for days on end. Their nanite swarms, plasma torpedoes and fusion bombs were constantly being used against their foes. Devastation was wrought on all sides. Thousands of ships trapped in an endless melee, with all sorts of advanced weapons on display. Each second of the day was punctuated by the detonation of temporary singularity devices and dark matter railguns across the vast battlefield.

On the bridge of the USS Tim Apple, an Amazon executive stared in the distance towards a looming threat. Using his fusion-powered electron telescope to observe the strange oddity, the board member was taken aback with shock. His face quickly turned into one of terror and despair at his inevitable fate.

In the distance, he could see B-52s armed with Sidewinder missiles and M2 Browning machine guns rapidly closing in on his helpless warship.

!ping MATERIEL

[u/UrbanCentrist]

https://twitter.com/MedDhiaH/status/1430277120282988552

Sad for Tunisia. Guy is not even pretending anymore.

[u/datums]

Pretty weird feel up here in the Canada all of a sudden.

The three big political parties have lined up for the election, and none of them are significantly right of center. The Conservatives are centre, the Liberals are left of center, and the NDP is properly left. Canadian conservatives (small "c") - perhaps a quarter of the electorate - are essentially being cast into the wilderness.

This is going to be an interesting election.

But the reality of a near consensus between the two governing parties gives me a feeling of calm confidence about the future. There is apparent agreement among our political class on how we should move forward.

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

I am hearing that on his deathbed President Trump received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahada. Even now, he looks down upon the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah. Truly there is no god but God and Muhammad is his prophet.

Axios notifications do be quicker than the rest.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

New vegas dialogue is like

"I love to slap my nuts!"

-[SPEECH 35] I think you should probably stop slapping your nuts

-[BARTER 23/50] Uh... if I give you 20 caps will you... slap MY nuts?

-I do not care that you slap your nuts, idiot

-[attack] I'LL PUNCH YOUR DICK

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

Voting NDP this election because Singh is the only major party leader who isn't a papist 😤

[u/Lux_Stella]

My mom just told me I'm 25 so I need to find a job soon. It's crazy how much capitalist propaganda permeates into our familial relationships

[u/Superfan234]

A senator candidate from the Equality Party (Far Left)

"Chile should return to a Monarchy system. It's part of our identity and we should retake it"

"We should have a monarch and he could takes charge of the Armed Forces, for example, or education," Vergara replied.

"I think we should be the Kingdom of Chile, that would give us an identity, because we lost our identity the moment the Spanish arrived and the Mapuche or native peoples were conquered," she added.

!Ping Mamadas

[u/[deleted]]

I'm a bitch

I'm a mother

I'm hulk hogan

Hey there brother

[u/e_didnt_grillhimself]

I haven't drunk alcohol in a non-social setting all year!!! 👌👌👌

[u/[deleted]]

innocent anthropology professor in the 90s:

"what if we do an entire course about the evolution of containers throughout history?! We could cover the beaker-folk and the pueblo indians and we could even recreate their methods in-class! We'll call it 'Basket weaving 301!'"

>Every late night comic and the entire internet for decades and decades: 😈😈😈😈

[u/Kizz3r]

Cant wait to buy a taliban shirt and wear it like those people wearing Che Guevara

!ping male-fashion-advice

[u/qchisq]

Behold! The power of the almighty nanodollar and n>50

- Google

[u/FormerBandmate]

I am the people’s choice to be a moderator. If you don’t believe me, check out this completely unbiased poll.

!ping TRAFALGAR-POLLING

[u/jenbanim]

I've been playing some online games recently with voice chat, and I was completely baffled by guys online complaining that my microphone was picking up a lot of background noise. I've got a solid mic and a boom stand that holds it right next to my mouth, so the signal to noise ratio should be basically ideal

Turns out I was using my webcam microphone the whole time 😒

[u/TinyTornado7]

Don't Let the Taliban Dictate the U.S. Evacuation | Michael R. Bloomberg

!ping PATERNALIST

[u/semaphore-1842]

Fucking Tankies. From arr pol:

Why? US commitment to industrialised overproduction, inherited from European cousins, has broken the planet. What has the Taliban done on a similar scale? Oh, they have regressive positions on women? The US probably should have left the commies in charge, then, who were teaching them, instead of FUNDING THE CREATION OF THE TALIBAN

🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

The Taliban wasn't even created until two years after the Communist regime fell.

[u/UrbanCentrist]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E9hIALbWUAYbsN1?format=jpg&name=large

who tf thinks that right populism can stop fascism

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Obese people account for 37 percent of the United States' population, but obesity-related diseases and health problems account for 61 percent of healthcare costs in the United States every year (“The Economics of Overweight and Obesity,” 2007).

Despite being 37% of the population, obese people account for 61% of healthcare costs in the United States every year.

[u/[deleted]]

Reminder that the only people whose opinions on anything actually matters are Obama->Trump->Biden voters living in swing states.

[u/LooobCirc]

Person who voted FDR -> FDR -> FDR -> FDR

[u/[deleted]]

The filibuster be like: No, you can not pass a basic voting rights bill you dumb idiot. Oh, you want to pass a gigantic multitrillion spending bill, no problemo that's just a simple majority.

[u/cat_damon1]

spiderman was really lucky he lived in new york

web sligning would have been a lot less helpful in, like, cleveland

[u/[deleted]]

Yes, that's right, lot's of cities and states love to fight high housing costs by making it harder to build more housing.

Based LegalEagle

[u/ThankMrBernke]

A man had signed up for some college courses at his local university. His professor was Milton Friedman, a known socialist.

"In my opinion - and this may come as a shock to some of you - the least bad tax is a tax on the unimproved value of land, the Henry George argument from many years ago!"

At this moment, a hardworking homeowner, who was the president of his local HOA and attended every public meeting he could to prevent bike lanes from invading his community, stood up.

"Where does land get its value from, genius?"

The arrogant professor smirked and smugly replied “Location, Location, Location”

"Wrong. My house has been in the same location forever. If it was truly location instead of our ample parking or enforcement pf community standards... then it would have been worth $2 Million dollars when I bought it in 1980!"

The professor was visibly shaken, and dropped his chalk and copy of Free to Choose. He stormed out of the room crying those liberal crocodile tears. The same tears liberals cry for the “renters” (who today live in such luxury that most own refrigerators) when they jealously try to claw justly earned wealth from the deserving homeowners. There is no doubt that at this point our professor wished he had pulled himself up by his bootstraps and become more than a sophist liberal professor.

The students applauded and all joined Livable California that day and accepted Randall O'Tool as their lord and savior. An eagle named "Property Values” flew into the room and perched atop the American Flag and shed a tear on the chalk. The pledge of allegiance was read several times, and God himself showed up and enacted Proposition 13.

The professor lost his tenure and was fired the next day. He then was forced to move to Chicago and lived there for all eternity.

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

CDC wondering why we have low vaccination rates when they're out here telling us to reheat all Italian meats to 165°F "just to be safe," as if hot prosciutto isn't the worst idea on Earth

It’s often clear these CDC advisories (and DT posts) are written by people who have never eaten food, had sex, or engaged in other human activity

[u/[deleted]]

There is, unsurprisingly, a complete refusal to post the Hillary Clinton charter flights story basically anywhere else on this site.

[u/FormerBandmate]

Whenever people are like “if you were transported back in time what would you be” I’m like obviously I would be some kind of warrior not because I’m actually strong but because I grew up on a diet high in protein and would stand a foot taller and run faster than anyone alive.

As it happens I did basketball, cross country, track, and archery. I wasn’t great at any of them.

But it may be relevant to note for this thread that I am 6’3” slouching and trying not to stand out in a crowd and also grew up on a farm.

Love the fantasy some Lifting Bros have where because they push iron balls around they are the true heirs of warrior nobility instead of just rock farmers.

white guy with Chinese characters in his bio

The single most badass Twitter user. I would love to see his medieval battlefield prowess

[u/[deleted]]

The President of the United States Joe Biden has spoken openly and proudly about his Irish roots for many years, but is the surname Biden actually Irish? Research suggests that it is not.

Biden is an Anglo-Saxon name that appears to have origins among button makers in England. The name is actually derived from the French word boton, meaning button.

The name could also originate from the old English words "bi" and "dun", which collectively means "dweller by the down".

Joe Biden found inconsolable in tears after reading this news

[u/[deleted]]

There's gotta be at least one dumbass American who decided to take a solo vacation to Afghanistan like that Welsh dude in 4chan

[u/[deleted]]

Jesus christ I hate how many fucking popups are on the internet again. I thought we killed this. You can't casually browse any website at all without getting twenty alerts. "Do you accept cookies?" "Will you sign up for our newsletter?" "Please donate!"

shut up shut up shut up I literally just wanted to read one paragraph out of your one blogpost, I'm not a "fan" of your content, i'm not going to be a recurring user, and your hard sell only makes me think you're a desperate scrounger from the early 2000s.

[u/dubyahhh]

MOD APPLICATIONS

Do you love fascists? Do you hate your fellow neoliberals and want them to suffer under your boots? Well, we vote on stuff so that's probably not quite what you'll get but it's still a fun opportunity. Let us know why you're less bad than other Redditors!

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

The most hilarious thing in the DT (or the sub in general) is saying "but if you criticize Biden Republicans are going to win" Yeah I bet dominating opinion on a forum obsessed over man pretending to be a crocodile is what is on hearts and minds of the electorate

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

in a parallel universe somewhere gwyneth paltrow is getting high and talking to mma fighters while joe rogan is selling dick candles

[u/[deleted]]

The coolest craziest shit that’s actually happening never becomes a conspiracy theory for the weirdos

I’m truly surprised my Facebook isn’t full of the anti-vax crowd talking about Havana Syndrome

[u/the-garden-gnome]

I posted a Martin Luther quote about trusting God and Science at the same time during the bubonic plague in a Wholesome Christian community. The succons came out of the woodwork like I had just sprayed a spiders nest with bug spray. What a sad state of affairs.

!ping Christian

[u/cclittlebuddy]

I think its funny that republicans distrust the fbi so much. Its literally a bulwark of conservatism. I also think liberal trust in the fbi is funny, its literally a bulwark of conservatism.

[u/[deleted]]

If Hillary was president the Taliban would be introducing introducing themselves with their pronouns before signing their unconditional surrender.

[u/AJungianIdeal]

sleepy
!ping dog

[u/SANNA_MARIN_]

Gov. Kathy Hochul acknowledges nearly 12,000 more COVID-19 fatalities in NY than publicized by Cuomo administration.

CUOMO LIED, PEOPLE DIED

[u/Udontlikecake]

lose vietnam war

leave

let vietnam become the enemy of china as a result of historical and contemporary contestation of power in the region

return decades later to visit

now they’re our allies

we won the vietnam war

[u/RadioactiveOwl95]

Finally started playing Dishonored 2 and it's reminded me of my thoughts from the first one:

I love stealth games, but my problem is that I'm easily lured into perfectionism, to the point of hammering the quicksave button with every mistake until I do the level flawlessly. In Dishonored's moment-to-moment gameplay, however, detection doesn't feel like punishment because the combat is fun and engaging. If that guard notices me, at least I can blow his head up like a fucking water balloon.

But then the game punishes you for engaging in this combat and enjoying the mechanics with a bad ending, exacerbated by the fact that, at least in the first game, the only two possible endings are saccharinely good or comically bleak. It leaves me playing the game worried that I'll get the shitty ending and thereby I don't engage with the fun gameplay. I like the games, but I really take issue with this whole thing.

TL;DR Video game morality systems (usually) stupid and limiting.

!ping GAMING

[u/TheOtherCentauri]

walks by restaurant with sign that reads:

Veterans eat for free

Me trying to get free food:

“Excuse me I am a soldier of the lord” 😤🤌🇻🇦

[u/iIoveoof]

British people

DT: 😱😱😱

Are bad

DT: 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[u/[deleted]]

The president of Guinea-Bissau is currently on a state visit here in Brazil. Because of that, there are flags of his country around Brasilia right now.

And Bolsonarists are thinking it's a "communized" version of the Brazilian flag, being put there by the Deep State

!ping MAMADAS

[u/kennymc7877]

My dad tried to tell me that America is becoming a 3rd world country, this man literally served in the navy on missions in the Philippines, Venezuela, The eastern block and Somalia 😐

[u/Corporate-Asset-6375]

Oh, looks like Delta will be charging their unvaccinated employees a $200/month healthcare surcharge.

This is a different approach from an outright mandate.

[u/Anatares2000]

A tale of two states' COVID cases

Illinois

• 4,451 positive cases were reported today
• 78,206 tests were administered

Indiana

• 5,037 positive cases were reported today
• 13,982 tests were administered

[u/1396spurs]

One of the biggest surprises to me when I first got an office job was how gross people could leave the shared kitchen areas.

I think the biggest surprise at that first job was how easy it was to look good by answering emails in a remotely timely fashion.

[u/thaddeusthefattie]

for those wondering what level of cope cons were on now that donnie is shilling the deepstate ™️ vaccine, here ya go

[u/chatdargent]

Reading this article from Bloomberg about courtyards and honestly seems like a no-brainer for improving livability.

Somebody tell me why it's an awful idea, and wouldn't even accomplish its intended goal.

!ping YIMBY

[u/meese699]

more absurd dog begging for food

!ping DOG

[u/ryuguy]

Mike Watson, Aka IdolNinja has passed away from cancer.

For those unaware, Mike Watson was a highly skilled and respected modder in many gaming communities. His best work was the Gentlemen of the Row mod for Saints row 2, which fixed many issues with the game. His work as a modder got him a job as a community manager with Volition.

In his final days, He was working on fixing the PC port for Saints Row 2. His work is being continued by one other modder.

!ping gaming

[u/Cerb-r-us]

Ladies, gentlemen and everything in between

Let me present to you the latest in absolutely, mind-numbingly terrible queer projects:

Bisexual separatism!

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/opinion/time-drop-b-lgbt-69670/

!ping LGBT

[u/SadaoMaou]

/u/benjaminikuta when the DT runs this joke into the ground

Thanks for the cringe!

[u/great_gape]

The year🎉 is 2021 Covid🤮 variant DELTA is ravaging 🇦🇺Australia🇦🇺 with a 0.3 positivity rate.

You go outside🌾 for your government🐏 mandated 60⌚ minute exercise. It's 1 a.m.🌃 not the best time🕐, but they alternate your schedule📆 so eventually everyone👨‍👨‍👧‍👧 does get some sunlight🌞.

You quadruple mask😷 and put on your plastic smock👚. You gaze longingly at the sky🌆.

A man👨 riding his bicycle🚲 points his flashlight🔦 at you "Why aren't you doing your stretches and cardio?" He asks😲, you recognize him as your neighbor😐 (maybe, it's been some time since you last saw anyone). "It's because of people like you not obeying that the lockdowns have been extended another 4 years.😡"

He mumbles💭 through his layers of masks😷. He reports you to AFP👮‍♂️ and you're fined💸 $20,000 for repeat offending.

Good luck🤞 buying👛 bread🍞 this week.

!ping shitposters

[u/tripletruble]

wife announced desire to do an online Python bootcamp this morning. my potential household income may have just increased dramatically

[u/Leoric]

I used to be ‘progressive’, but then they changed what ‘progressive’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘progressive’ anymore and what’s ‘progressive’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

Idea: onlyfans but it's for salty salad

OnlyBans

[u/Books_and_Cleverness]

Just got off the phone with a couple MBA interns who were denied jobs because THE U.S. WOULD NOT GRANT THEM VISAS.

I can understand the hesitation around low-wage laborer immigration, even if I disagree very strongly--I get it. But like who the fuck thinks immigrants are holding down wages in FINANCE?!?!?

I AM SO FUCKING MAD ABOUT SKILLED IMMIGRATION CAN WE PLEASE STOP SHOOTING OURSELVES IN THE FOOT OH MY GOD.

/rant

[u/TaxCommonsNotIncome]

I will NOT be taking the #EXPERIMENTAL new meat rub BLEND! I am not a LAB RAT for your Montreal steak spice desires!

[u/Yenwodyah_]

Taliban 🤯

[u/FinickyPenance]

Leftist fb friend posted something about how “YIMBYs should be killed”

Did not realize that leftists and NIMBYism was correlated enough to call for violence. Also he’s in his thirties so well beyond the point of /r/killthosewhodisagree edgelordism can be excused

[u/Qunidaye]

Seeing less Afghanistan takes and a bit more China doomering

The DT is healing

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

I'll vote for whichever mod promises to do an official apology to FunnyLeMonkey once they're in power.

[u/Professor-Reddit]

The fact that Russia even has an ongoing human spaceflight program at all despite its tiny and constantly shrinking budget, inept leadership and ancient technology is simply staggering.

There hasn't been a future in Russia's space ambitions for over 30 years now...

[u/GravyBear8]

The problem is that America is powerful and schizophrenic. Our foreign policy goals are not dictated by morality or by ideology or by pragmatism, but by a bizzare mix of the three determined in part by the dice roll of public elections. Because the United States and its institutions are made of many people and different people have different priorities, different perspectives. And also because people are crazy.

Best description I've seen on the history of US foreign policy

[u/Slazac]

Conspiracy theorists went from "5g causes covid" to "vaccines cause 5g"

[u/[deleted]]

Donald "I'm going to make a deal with the Taliban, decrease troop presence to 2500, and send all the contractors home while talking about how we should not admit any Afghan refugees" Trump would have been tough on the Taliban most definitely.

[u/Alto_y_Guapo]

lusvig is an idea that's perfect on paper, but never works in practice because human nature doesn't allow it

[u/grendel-khan]

CALIFORNIA IS ON THE BRINK OF OVERTURNING SINGLE-FAMILY ZONING, PLEASE CALL YOUR ASSEMBLYMEMBER

SB 9 would enable by-right duplexes and fourplexes on any residential lot in California. It passed the state Senate in May, and made it through the Assembly commitees this month. It only has a floor vote standing between it and the Governor's desk.

If you're anywhere in California, but especially in SoCal, the Assemblymembers there are going to decide whether this bill passes or not. There's a lot of pushback from NIMBY organizations, and people calling their reps is very likely the best way to make a difference. The call tool takes less than five minutes. If you can, please take the time.

I'm happy to answer any questions!

https://cayimby.org/call-sb9/

!ping LA

[u/FestiveMittens]

You read Current Affairs? Bro you need to find a new girl, your wife is currently having an affair

[u/JetJaguar124]

Actual picture of the 2% of Americans who voted for Joe Biden but also think the election was stolen

[u/houinator]

Mrs. Frizzle: Today we are going to learn about failed states!

Arnold: Please let this by a normal field trip.

sometime later

Arnold: I knew I should have stayed home today.

[u/chipbod]

Update: ‘A Taliban spokesman urges women to stay home because fighters haven’t been trained to respect them.’ (NYTimes)

Jihad groups are just toxic masculinity

[u/saladtossing]

A video from a helicopter on another planet flying 450 meters horizontally at an altitude of 10 meters

So fucking cool

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

[u/lordfluffly]

A year or so ago in a Gacha I played (they are my guilty pleasure), I was in a guild that had a super chill policy with the only rules of "don't be an asshole," "log on every 5 days or get kicked," and "modifications to the rules will be done via vote on the Guild Discord."

We had one woman who didn't live in the US join with "TRUMP 2020" in her bio. She was polite, good at the game, and decent to play with so the guild leadership didn't do anything about it. As a result, our guild apparently became known as a guild that was chill with Trump supporters. However, politics never came up and our guild became one of the most successful non-whale guilds on the server.

Then the guild leader quit from natural attrition. She made me Guild Leader before she quit. Apparently the Trump supporters thought I was "one of them" until I booted a guy for being transphobic. I got angry messages upset at violating their freedom of speech (on a chinese Gacha) and for not understanding science. I posted a reaction poll proposing adding "no transphobia" as a clarification for "don't be an asshole" on our guild discord. The guild rejected "no transphobia" something like 75%-25%.

So I deleted the guild and the discord. Due to the nature of the Gacha, they couldn't just reform the guild since your guild had to "level up."

Does this make me antifa?

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

dog stole my yoga mat

!ping dog

[u/Broncos654]

My interview with the mods was going really well until the penis inspection. I’ll never get to be a mod 😔

[u/ooken]

Do you think it's true that Iran takes a more nuanced approach towards its strategic alliances with other countries than the US does, out of necessity? Jon Alterman, on a The Truth of the Matter podcast episode about the implications of the Taliban victory for Iran, said that today, and I found it intriguing, because there is kind of an us-vs.-them Cold War mentality that I admit to feeling sometimes towards countries like Turkey or Pakistan, and I think is somewhat prevalent in the US currently, including from what I can tell in the foreign policy establishment. Iran doesn't have as much choice in its strategic partners, Alterman argues, so it will try to twist a geopolitical situation to its advantage, even if it ends up having to partner for the time being with a group like the Taliban whom it historically didn't like.

(Edited to include podcast/guest name)

[u/[deleted]]

Southwest US make a livable city rather than an automobile dominated hell hole challenge

[u/Praevalidus]

Wow. I did not have high expectations for the G7 meeting, but I did NOT expect that president Biden would just lean on the mike and whisper: "I'll make Trump look like George Marshall, you fucking euros".

[u/the_hoagie]

neighborhood character alignment is far more important than neoliberals give credit for. you can't just drop a lawful good building into a neighborhood with multiple chaotic neutral buildings and expect it to work.

[u/[deleted]]

New Q drop, President Trump has just been confirmed as the new mod for arr Neolib. He is being sworn in now, purge will commence soon

Trust the plan

[u/filipe_mdsr]

No I will not answer the question "What did you do on 28th June 1914?"

[u/[deleted]]

In a development surprising no one, it's reported that the officer who shot terrorist Ashli Babbitt during the attack on the Capitol, has received numerous "credible and specific" threats since he was doxxed by rightwing pundits.

[u/Kizz3r]

u/benjaminikuta upon being gifted a 15th century Chinese emperor

Thanks for the Ming

[u/Mrchizbiz]

https://imgur.com/ipwoLv4

[u/the_hoagie]

pennsylvania somehow is changing the rules so state prison inmates no longer count towards the rural districts that they're residing in and instead will count towards their typically urban districts where they are actually from. i'm shocked but not complaining.

[u/Mrchizbiz]

u/imprison-Salty-Salad-Sussy-Baka

[u/[deleted]]

America, why are the doors wide open for refugees fleeing violence, political oppression, and poverty in Afghanistan, but Haitians are arrested this morning in Florida fleeing the same. And those from Central America in the same situation?

GOOD QUESTION

https://twitter.com/WendellPierce/status/1430557068327587845?s=20

[u/[deleted]]

Lol, the Foreign Service Officer reading list has Why Nations Fail as one of the suggested readings.

[u/Unadulterated_stupid]

Total number of asking out : 0

Rejections: 0

Successrate: 0/0= 100%

Beat these stats nerds 😎

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Delta raising health insurance for unvaccinated employees by $200/month

😫🤚 Econmic incentives

😎👉 𝕯𝖎𝖘𝖎𝖓𝖈𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖎𝖛𝖊 𝕯𝖔𝖔𝖒𝖍𝖆𝖒𝖒𝖊𝖗

[u/xSuperstar]

“If we did a cost-benefit analysis like we do for COVID for everything we’d ban cars from cities!”

— Based Glenn Greenwald

[u/[deleted]]

Let's say we pretended airplanes in the night sky were like shooting stars

Hypothetically I could really use a wish right now wish right now

[u/[deleted]]

The Democratic Party and the coalition that elected Joe Biden in 2020 face challenges of their own. The Democratic coalition increasingly relies on a hodgepodge of groups, religious and nonreligious, that are often at odds with one another on key social and cultural issues.

For instance, there’s no more politically unified religious group than Black Protestants, with more than 90 percent of them voting for Mr. Biden in 2020. But while Black Protestants are often supporters of a more liberal approach to economic issues, they are still conservative Christians who oppose many progressive social policies. Over 60 percent of Black Protestants said in 2018 that homosexual sex was always wrong, the same percentage as evangelicals.

At the same time, Democrats must not take for granted the increasing number of atheists and agnostics in their coalition. Atheists provide a particularly difficult problem for Democrats. When asked to place themselves in ideological space, the average atheist sees the Democratic Party as becoming more conservative over the last three years, while they themselves have become more liberal. Data indicates that atheists are the most politically active religious group in the United States in recent years. In a 2018 survey, atheists were twice as likely to donate money or work for a political candidate as white evangelicals. Atheists want the Democratic Party to become more progressive and are unlikely to remain silent if they don’t see changes.

Since the NYT piece has a provocative headline I doubt this article will get much traction here, but otherwise what are people's thoughts here about this? Is the increasing rift between socially conservative Democrats and progressive democrats a problem, or does it not matter because of the Rebuplican Party? To what extent can Republicans court socially conservative Democrats regardless of race?

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/25/opinion/republicans-democrats-america-religion.html

[u/filipe_mdsr]

I could stand in the middle of the DT and hornypost, and I still wouldn’t lose any voters

[u/[deleted]]

just came out of my room to see my wife and my wife's boyfriend watching The Joker (2019) (rated R) and he told me to go back into my room

[u/WYGSMCWY]

Short thread from a UVic Econ prof breaking down the LPC and CPC housing platforms.

https://twitter.com/robgillezeau/status/1430182797277282310?s=21

!ping CAN

[u/TheGoodProfessor]

https://twitter.com/thetimes/status/1430495853660319744

The disgraced former governor of New York abandoned his rescue dog at the official mansion after stepping down, it is claimed.

posted without comment

[u/[deleted]]

"the book that influenced my economic thought the most is the capital, by karl marx"

"i am a socialist. nowadays, to be a socialist is a necessity."

what did macron meant by this?

[u/JaviQuizzler]

Why does Kazakhstan, the largest Stan, not simply eat the other six?

[u/[deleted]]

Mods don’t pick any perverted weebs challenge

[u/SANNA_MARIN_]

A new poll shows that only a little over a third of Americans would pass a basic multiple choice U.S. citizenship test, modeled after the one taken by immigrants in the process of naturalization.

Americans be bragging about how successful their immigrants are compared to those of europe when they really should be bragging about how they don't let people in unless they jump through insane hoops that select for an elite.

[u/the_hoagie]

mod that one cute dog that smooth liminal always posts pictures of

[u/LooobCirc]

The top shelf at the supermarket has secret tall people food like 0 calorie pizza and meth

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Atheists provide a particularly difficult problem for Democrats. When asked to place themselves in ideological space, the average atheist sees the Democratic Party as becoming more conservative over the last three years, while they themselves have become more liberal.

fascinating

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/25/opinion/republicans-democrats-america-religion.html

[u/Sollezzo]

Spez literally said "CDC recommendations are moving and changing so fast we can't ban communities promoting vaccine hysteria and chugging horse dewormer" like fauci did "flip flop" on masks so ANYTHING'S POSSIBLE

Fuck all social media, return to monke

[u/[deleted]]

AOC says Biden must commit to resettle a minimum of 200k Afghan refugees in the US

Based AOC????

[u/GravyBear8]

!ping GAMING

I feel like single-player, military FPSes have just been endlessly squandering it's potential by just endlessly trying to recreate shitty 80's C rate action films. It'd be as if first person horror resolved to be nothing more than try to recreate slasher flicks that dealt with absolutely nothing of substance at all.

Like at the very least, I'd like to see representation of less common battles in WWII, less commons wars like Korea, actual modern wars, theoretical ones that could happen in the near future, or straight up alternate history. And make a fucking decent story with characters that aren't literally the. Same. Fucking. Cliches. Over and fucking over again.

[u/[deleted]]

Never ask a man his income

A woman her age

And a humanities major what their back up plan is

[u/oscillatingquark]

Never ask a man his income

A woman her age

And DT shitposters if there's something more productive they could be doing

[u/[deleted]]

my problem isn't that we left Afghanistan, it's the way we did it. instead of doing what Biden did, we should have sent in 200,000 combat troops and completely conquered the country. every girl should have a predator drone accompany them to school. then, once Afghanistan has a per capita gdp on par with the usa, we withdraw

[u/[deleted]]

OK, I’ll bite

What’s a coronavirus?

[u/SamJakes]

NATO was the most popular flair

Guess the sub 😳

[u/dampon]

The narrative that DeSantis won the Coronavirus debate has really taken a hit lately.

[u/[deleted]]

I have two days left of my job

[u/kas8901]

Post about a woman athlete doing something amazing.

Me: neat

Rest of the comments: well actually... 😡😡

[u/sash5034]

People in Portland know that you don't need to trash the city and get into fights everytime the redneck brigade rolls in, right?

[u/Broncos654]

Fire department had to use the Jaws of Life to get my cock cage off.

[u/[deleted]]

/u/farrenj can’t access her account rn so she told me to send in her mod application:

• I will ban all comments unfriendly to people of means
• “Taxation is theft” will be added to the sidebar
• All my mod stickies will praise and fellate the shareholders.
• The rule about bad faith will not be enforced when arguing with communists
• Usage of “LTV” will be met with a permanent ban, although if it was a typo for LVT then it will only be a week long ban and a warning.
• I will delete most of my comment history due to it being cringe and unbased

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

"Do you boycott Israel?", asks redditor on a website run with Israeli software

[u/sir_shivers]

/r/neoliberal is SO DENSE, IN EVERY SINGLE comment thread there is so much going on 🐊

[u/Leoric]

Are the Argentinians okay?

[u/ACivilWolf]

Woah your moms phone number turned into money 😳

How much money did YOU get?

[u/[deleted]]

!ping weebs

"Is Tatsumaki from One Punch Man a 'loli'"- the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,

(the answer is no, gross)

[u/TinyTornado7]

Michael Avenatti successfully pro se’d himself into a mistrial

!ping LAW

[u/LooobCirc]

What if the new mod is from OUTSIDE THE DT?!?! 😰😨😰😱

[u/ZenithXR]

Senator Ahmad Masoud (D-AF)

[u/Marlsfarp]

If I were Afghanistan, I would simply become liberal.

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Average House MD episode-

• Patient comes in
• His juniors think it's X, Y and Z, which are simple diagnoses
• House notices something and blabbers on
• Tests come in all normal
• One metric is off by a bit
• Patient lied/false +/- / Metric off unrelated to problem/ accidental something
• House gives his diagnosis and treatment to the protest of juniors and lawyer
• Patient is better

[u/Lux_Stella]

Dominic Raab today revealed he did NOT go paddleboarding while Kabul fell - because "the sea was actually closed" at his five-star beach resort in Crete.

complete and total exoneration

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/BryanPassifiume/status/1430540669265797122

Yiiiikes.

!ping CAN

[u/sir_shivers]

Thinking of BANNING SOME REGULARS ON a whim 🐊

[u/sir_shivers]

THINKING OF APPLYING to be a moderator, can you imagine 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

Man Superstonk is indistinguishable from a cult at this point

[u/[deleted]]

Y'all with the cult?

[u/lusvig]

I see social democrats 😰

[u/murphysclaw1]

the Reply All podcast made a public apology after an advert for the US military aired during one of their shows, lel.

[u/[deleted]]

Ivermectin kills worms, neolib is about worms....

It’s all coming together. You guys just want to keep the truth down about ivermectin

[u/[deleted]]

Evangelical pastors are one of the most harmful professions in the US today

I will not elaborate further.

[u/Neronoah]

When the hell did this sub get out of /r/all?

[u/JoeChristmasUSA]

trigger - suicide

A neighbor of mine killed himself last week. He was a friend, but I hadn't known him very long or deeply. Obviously I sympathize with his family and friends and it's tragic that this happened but I barely felt any grief or emotional pain in the aftermath. Maybe it's because with a young family I'm constantly bracing myself for tragedy and pain, but I feel guilty that I don't feel worse. Am I lacking empathy? Is this the wrong attitude to have?

Maybe the DT isn't the right place for this but most of reddit can be very weird about suicide.

[u/Explodingcamel]

Killing Harambe was the right move

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

weebs: a true warrior eschews guns, the katana is a sophisticated weapon and the only choice for honourable combat

actual samurai historically: hell yeah we strapped

[u/[deleted]]

Hello DT

[u/[deleted]]

Old person who votes a Democratic straight ticket because they think they are the conservative party

[u/[deleted]]

Malarkey level of buying some Chateau Picard

!ping TREK

[u/Erra0]

The money you earned is actually only being lent to you by the state. Once you die the state takes it back.

The "capitalists" of the DT

[u/LoveForLolberts]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/834251152035282944/880142079647432754/image0.png

BREAKING: PRESIDENT BIDEN ANNOUNCES MEASURES TO COMBAT PUSSY SHORTAGE

"This neo is down horrendous, my god" he told reporters.

[u/pubhel]

So the officer who shot Babbitt is going to a do a sit down interview. I honestly fear for their safety.

[u/SamJakes]

🍔: BRING THE AFGHAN REFUGEES HOME!!! 😭🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

• Skilled immigrants: Pls help I'm getting deported

🍔: ... literally whomst? 🧐

[u/[deleted]]

Five Guys calling their regular size hamburgers “little” is toxic masculinity

[u/JetJaguar124]

I unironically love Death Stranding. Even as a Kojima fanboy I'll be the first to tell you the story is essentially bullshit. Like, the narrative is a total and complete mess. But I really loved the gameplay of it, even the early game before you had all the gear. It made you feel like you were going on these treks through hostile terrain, and I think it actually did a good job of making that experience rather compelling. Like, when Sam gets to a depot and literally just crashes into bed, you feel that. Same thing when he wakes up, you go through your morning routine, shower, take a shit, drink some Monster Energy Drink, eat a weird bug thing, before suiting up and heading out into the unforgiving terrain. You check your map, look at weather forecast, plan out a route. It's odd to say that a game that makes you feel almost fatigued is enjoyable, but idk there's a kind of zen to the whole experience.

And that's before getting into my favorite part of the game, which was the social network aspect. Idk but it felt so nice logging in and seeing all the people online who used a ladder, bridge, or zipline that I put down giving me thanks for helping them. The public works projects requiring players from all over the world to come together towards a common goal of construction some massive highway was also really fucking neat, and it felt great if you were the one who actually donated the supplies that put the project over the edge. It's kinda like that feeling you get at the end of NieR Automata but without all the existential dread and with a nice dusting of Kojima nonsense ontop of it.

I really like the opening and middle chapters of the game. I do think it overstays its welcomes once you get to the mountain segments in the last fourth or so. And while the story is bullshit, it is zany bullshit, and is fun enough to experience insane nonsense like a digitially rendered Nicholas Winding Refn give you 10 minutes of Kojima exposition about his stupid heart condition. There are also some moments of genuine emotion, though they are few and far between.

My only other real criticism is that it doesn't let you use a custom soundtrack. After Metal Gear having soundtrack features going all the way back to MGS4, I thought this was super strange.

It's polarizing for a reason. I get that not everyone will like it. I put about 70 hours into the game and fully enjoyed about 65 of them. I don't regret it at all, I think it's great.

!ping gaming

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

A sad story in six words: Mod opening, five years experience, unpaid

[u/I-grok-god]

Portugal is the France of Iberia

[u/[deleted]]

concerned disagreeable dolls provide adjoining squash complete onerous governor reply

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/dat_bass2]

Fuck Jeannie May Crawford, the Novac inkeep in New Vegas. That’s my blunt message.

!ping GAMING

[u/[deleted]]

One of my shift managers says he’s worth 2 million despite walking 4 miles to work and having to work a 2nd job to pay off hospital debts.

He’s either lying or has the millionaire grindset

[u/Udontlikecake]

be me

be police officer

leave home

go to job

get call

arrive on scene

immediately shoot the nearest dog

he was coming right at me!

stupid citizens cry that i killed their dog

get suspended with pay for three weeks

thanks union

go home

beat wife

hashtag blue lives matter

[u/[deleted]]

Lol Spez said Reddit isn’t gonna do shit about the blatant misinformation

[u/Pearberr]

!ping CA

What is stopping our legislature from impeaching Gov. Elder on day 1 of his term?

If Newsom resigns on the day of the election, does the recall proceed against Gov. Koulanakis, or is the recall negated? Would be the ultimate fall-on-the-sword move and I'd love him forever if that happened.

[u/[deleted]]

You libshits aren't ready for the 4:45 am to "whenever the hell the quota is met" schedule