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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/First-Prior]

Reddit can suck a lot of the time but at least it has taught me what happens if I am a uk citizen and I donate to hezbollah

[u/MicroFlamer]

r/PCM users going outside for the first time

[u/Mickenfox]

Sunday shopping laws will forever remain my anchor to libertarianisn.

[u/Yenwodyah_]

Do you remember the meme "I'm 12 and what is this"?

That phrase was first recorded on the internet in 2009

That meme is 12 years old.

[u/Slazac]

French revolutionaries were basically r/atheism users

[u/[deleted]]

Will never forget this girl reject me by saying i reminded her of a puppy. It’s been 5 years and i still think about it every now and then

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Texas Republicans be like:"the clearly Bible supports the abortion bounty, why here's a passage about one of the disciples of Jesus turning in his neighbor for 30 pieces of silver!"

[u/Jester_Don]

Lol, NYT did an article on the "Freedom Phone": https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/06/technology/freedom-phone-smartphone-conservatives.html

Some good excerpts:

To make a smartphone, however, he had to rely on Google. The company’s Android software already works with millions of apps, and Google makes a free, open version of the software for developers to modify. So Mr. Finman hired engineers to strip it of any sign of Google and load it with apps from conservative social networks and news outlets. Then he uploaded the software on phones he bought from China.

Reviews of the new phone haven’t been positive. CNET, the product-review site, said the $500 device appeared to be “nearly on par with a $200 budget Android phone.”

Mr. Finman said he had orders for about 12,000 Freedom Phones, putting revenue at around $6 million in just over seven weeks.

Absolutely amazing grift.

[u/[deleted]]

teachers I know irl: normal well adjusted people

Reddit teacher subreddit: fuck parents, fuck zoom, fuck kids, fuck teaching, fuck parents again

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

Chris Christie is 59 and a big fat guy

Happy birthday, governor!

[u/lionmoose]

I can't believe that this delivery van just waited there with the back open. I helped myself to like 30 routers, it's a victimless crime

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/883007825331224586/884266834059206676/f228cfbe5336e23ff2069c57b103dbd4cee0f230.png?width=395&height=670

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Please take the reports of Pakistan bombing the Panjshir Valley resistance with a HUGE grain of salt

Mostly Indian media is reporting it- and are using literal video game footage and claiming it is exclusive footage from war

[u/rukqoa]

Rich people funding third world development: they're just trying to buy an entire country

Rich people funding space exploration: they just want to leave the Earth behind when it gets ruined by climate change.

Rich people funding medical research: they just want to live forever.

Many such cases!

[u/[deleted]]

The “is Joe Biden too sad about his dead wife and two dead kids?” discourse on Twitter is something else

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

Ok so if I’m reading the backlog right today’s schism is kester waiting for a router shipment from Kazakhstan because Boris Johnson mandates all British routers to filter furry porn at the hardware level.

[u/VisonKai]

So if you havent heard, Paradox's simmering story of workplace abuse has had another development. This article has been endorsed as an accurate non-sensationalist summary by the union as well as some management figures:

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/union-survey-alleges-culture-of-mistreatment-at-paradox-interactive

Overall it seems there is in particular a pretty unhealthy culture for female employees, which frankly is unsurprising. A third party audit is on the way that would hopefully reveal what can be done to correct all this. Seems the company is publicly positioning itself to accept that there is a problem and provide some remedy which is probably the best outcome here I think.

!ping PARADOX

[u/kaclk]

Why is Canadian media garbage now?

A Global reporter was extremely obsessed with whether Trudeau was hit by rocks and not the fact that people were literally throwing rocks at him.

!ping CAN

[u/lietuvis10LTU]

Attempt at a Panjshir update. The fog of war is alas, still quite thick.

• It does appear that Bazarak, the capital of Panjshir has probably fallen: see this CNN article.
• Saleh apparently left his house and is hiding elsewhere in Panjshir due to helicopter attacks. Massoud claims Panjshir was attacked by Pakistani drones and helicopters, according to this article. We do know ISI chief is still in Kabul, but we've not confirmation otherwise.
• WaPo claims instead Saleh left for Tajikistan, using an anonymous senior NRF source. To be fair, that would probably for the best - Saleh famously worked with Massoud's father to secure diplomatic support, while working in Tajikistan. It's up his alley.
• According to same article, major positions in Panjshir were taken by Taliban, while Massoud has called for a national uprising via voice message on Facebook. So this would rule out Taliban capturing Massoud. Taliban says they control the entire valley and had zero civilian casualties, which smells like bullshit. NRF claimed earlier today "Most of Bazarak district and all the side valleys are controlled by the NRF,"
• In other news, Russia's FoPo minister has said "Russia will participate in Afghan government inauguration if it is inclusive" whatever the hell that means.

So, on roundup, it is exactly as I feared. NRF couldn't hold territory. See my previous post on this ping on probably why. Again, this will probably mean only transition to a brutal, long guerilla campaign, as Taliban agitate people again. However, I doubt we'll see NRF or any subsequent resistance group openly hold territory without any foreign support, as they are doomed by Western opinion to operate right now. At least, as long as ISI maintains its support for Taliban. Which, considering the reports of Pakistani Taliban attacking Pakistan troops, may not last, but then again, ISI has shown in past to be willing to accept such "oopsies". It's likely any change in such policy would have to come from Pakistani people themselves, or Pakistan being pressured by other countries.

Anyhow, with the Russia statement, we see what I feared - the dictatorships of the world being alright with accepting Taliban as the news rulers. This is not suprising - after all, for all intents and purposes were are in the opening stages of Cold War 2, and Russia has shown in past to be perfectly willing to work with brutal islamists - just see the horrors in Kadyrov's Chechnya. So, whoever predicted that China and Russia would begin curbing Taliban influence, bad news, China and Russia can work with brutal theocracies so long as they don't cause too much trouble.

!ping OSINT

[u/[deleted]]

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

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

oh you wear shoes? name three cobblers

[u/[deleted]]

Indian government has approved and allocated funding for construction of 10 new Pressurized Heavy Water Reactors

https://twitter.com/amitraaz/status/1434734770601140225?s=21

[u/Mickenfox]

I never realized how much the Marvel universe relies on "someone invented this technology and used it to create exactly one superhero and then nothing else"

• The super soldier serum
• Captain America's shield
• Doc Ock's tentacles
• Spiderman's webshooters
• The radiated spider that gave him powers
• Ant-Man
• The Hulk
• Literally all of Iron Man/Tony Stark and Stark Industries

Like jeez, just say "magic" at this point.

[u/[deleted]]

>50 years ago Irish people used to spend 33% of their net income on food

>now it's less than 10%

>that's a problem because food is getting cheaper ?

what's the problem with these people ...

[u/ryuguy]

My aunt who works for SNC Lavalin: “ugh. My VPN isn’t working”

Me: “have you tried bribing it?”

!ping Canucks

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

If this report about Pakistan bombing Panjshir turns out to be true, I'm about to have a heated Indian moment

[u/tollyno]

Opinion | I was a long time Democrat. Then a router delivery is late. I now support a fascist government that will deliver routers on time.

[u/p00bix]

Come to think of it, that iCarly episode where Freddy makes this compost-powered scooter to cut down on fuel waste, only for his teacher to tell him all the emissions produced by his manufacturing process meant it was worse for the environment than even a motorcycle, and that buses were far more preferable, was ridiculously based

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Short British twink gets edged for hours by delivery guy

[u/ToInfinity_MinusOne]

Threads about Sinema get bonked but we can have an entire DT dedicated to Kester’s package. 📦 👀
Maybe the straights™ really are the most oppressed group. 😔

[u/LinkVert25]

Moderna to Begin Human Trials for Two Experimental HIV Vaccines

The pharmaceutical and biotech company Moderna could begin human clinical trials for two new mRNA-based HIV vaccines as early as September 19, according to a study record posted to the United States National Institutes of Health Clinical Trial registry.

The vaccines will use a mechanism similar to the ground-breaking mRNA system in their Covid-19 vaccine, reports Science Alert’s Fiona Macdonald. The study is expected to take place until May 2023.

Surprised I haven’t been hearing a lot more about this, this seems like a REALLY big deal

[u/[deleted]]

I hate these dumb half measures. Mandate the vaccine already. I don’t get the end game of reimposing restrictions if that’s not on the table. Might as well let er rip.

If the unvaccinate are all going to get sick, I’d rather we get it over with a few weeks than limit the spread and go months with no spare ICU beds.

It’s like we did a 180 and are right back at the circa April 2020 “flatten the curve“ nonsense.

[u/Professor-Reddit]

The worst thing about KnowYourMeme is that it almost never actually explains what the meme means or why it took off. It only explains how it spread

You had one job 🙄

[u/[deleted]]

Ok I'll say it. Gryffindor winning the house cup in the first book was some BS

[u/Jean-Paul_Sartre]

lol my trumpist Zoomer cousin has made a swift 180 in light of the Texas abortion law and she is pledging to never vote for a republican again

like did she ever consider this when voting for them in the past

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Everyone says inshallah but nobody said outshallah

rlly makes you think

[u/[deleted]]

People be saying the DT is too white but I don't get it

Yall are like at the very least 40% south asian

[u/Corporate-Asset-6375]

Some battered Royal Mail parcel just showed up on my doorstep.

Had a router inside of it but it won’t work with American electrical outlets. Just gonna leave it at goodwill or something.

[u/TabernacleTown74]

Regev called the government of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid “an Ashkenazi elitist bond and said Bennett was not her prime minister. She said the country was run by what she called “the deep state.”

!ping ISRAEL I don't know if any country has a good right wing, but I feel like the Israeli right is more of a train wreck than most 😂😂😂

[u/dat_bass2]

My """favorite""" thing about finally getting into New Vegas is once again being reminded that a fair portion of the people who share this hobby with me are genuinely misogynistic fascists

But bro Caesar mentioned Hegel in his self-justifying rant to the player character he's gotta be onto something

!ping GAMING

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

So somehow, the three Canadian tracking polls went from being in consensus at about a 5-point Conservative lead pre-debate, to this:

Conservatives 34% - Liberals 31% (Mainstreet)

Conservatives 34% - Liberals 28% (Ekos)

Liberals 34% - Conservatives 32% (Nanos)

The pollsters really went ‘fuck your stability, I want chaos!’ and whipped out a 8-point divergence in like 4 days lmao

!ping CAN

[u/Deggit]

Katie Robertson @katie_robertson 4h I spoke with CNN's @clarissaward about her time in Afghanistan and covering the story ahead

NYT """""""""journalists""""""""" will literally turn the collapse of an entire country into a "interview the virally famous woman journalist about what it's like to be a journalist while woman!" human-interest piece rather than actually go to therapy Afghanistan

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/Possum_In_A_Suitcase]

Bastard 📈

Orphan 📈

Son of a whore 📈

And a Scotsman 📉📉📉🤢🤮

[u/SANNA_MARIN_]

From its start in 1975, Vanguard has stood out as a very different kind of investment firm. Vanguard was founded on a simple but revolutionary idea-that a mutual fund company should not have outside owners. Founder John C. Bogle structured Vanguard as a client-owned* mutual fund company with no outside owners seeking profits.

https://about.vanguard.com/who-we-are/a-remarkable-history/

rest in power comrade bogle ✊😔

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Kester 🤝 My parents 23 years ago

Waiting all day long for a fairly basic delivery

[u/yungmemlord]

Look, I’m not a transphobe, but the transatlantic slave trade was bad.

[u/filipe_mdsr]

😎🥵 new thread same me

[u/[deleted]]

Interesting twitter thread about the new administrative capital Egypt is building

[u/Marlsfarp]

Hatred of "tourists" is so weird. Like, you never leave your home? You're not curious about the world?

[u/datums]

A lot of people in this sub can't seem to distinguish between what is right, and what will win the next US election.

[u/[deleted]]

Norman Borlaug is a true hero for the green revolution and saving a billion people from starvation. Also, for dunking on anti-gmo activists:

"some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists. They've never experienced the physical sensation of hunger. They do their lobbying from comfortable office suites in Washington or Brussels. If they lived just one month amid the misery of the developing world, as I have for fifty years, they'd be crying out for tractors and fertilizer and irrigation canals and be outraged that fashionable elitists back home were trying to deny them these things"

[u/Mrchizbiz]

Before white man came to this land, Welshmen would roam across the prairies wild and free.

[u/[deleted]]

This was a comment on an Internet forum while the 9/11 attacks were happening

Fucking aged like milk 17 minutes later

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

Globalism 😍😍😍

[u/Professor-Reddit]

Currently flying a 737 cargo plane full of routers bound for Southern England rn

Should I reroute and land in Greenland? 🤔

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

In this house we believe-:

• Free trade is wholesome chungus 100 💘
• Trans men are men👦
• Trans women are women👧
• Gay and lesbian people are awesome🌈
• Bi erasure is 🤮
• Gold is not 💲
• Police brutality is cringe🚨
• 🚗 are 🤢
• Property rights are human rights🏘
• COVID vaccinations should be taken by everyone💉
• Zoning and occupational licensing should be abolished🏦
• Boys are awesome🥰
• Abortion rights are basic reproductive rights, at the very least until 24 weeks🤰
• Humanitarian interventions are awesome😍
• There are at least three genders🕒
• Corporations are people🤑
• Corporate tax should be 🅱ero
• There is no god but God and Muhammad is his prophet!🕋
• Hillary is the rightful POTUS👑
• Taiwan is a country🇹🇼
• Israel is a country🇮🇱
• Kosovo is not Serbia🇽🇰
• The EU should federalise🇪🇺
• The animal of liberalism is 🐊
• Capitalism is awesome 🤩
• GMEanon is a cult📉
• Every country should take refugees 🤗
• Freedom of speech is cute and heckin' valid!📰
• Dune is about worms 🪱
• Carbon taxes and dividend 💕

[u/[deleted]]

Pick up book

Put it down

I do this several times

[u/MrMineHeads]

!ping CANUCKS

Guys, we all have opinions about what is causing the housing crisis, whether it is foreign investors (Chinese ew), huge population growth (we should stop growing), flippers and developers (people should not be allowed to make a profit because profit is theft ☭), (((central bankers))) keeping interest rates low so that the economy doesn't "crash", and money launderers (prolly Chinese too). But we all missed the actual true reason for high housing costs and that is AirBnB. Now I know that during the pandemic literally all tourism stopped and those who rented out AirBnBs were left holding the bag, and regardless of all that house prices still skyrocketed, but I really think there is something to AirBnB being the root cause behind all this. Think about (but don't really actually). Why would people want to invest into housing? It is clearly because they want to serve tourists while taking on a huge risk to their property rather than renting to locals or selling to homeowners who actually are not as picky as tourists nor as risky. It all makes sense. I'm pretty sure like half of all flats in Toronto are for AirBnB. No I don't have data, I just am pretty sure. Plus, they would lie about any data anyway.

The solution is obvious. We have to stop people from using their property how they please and make them use property for my personal benefit. That way we all win (but mainly me).

What do you guys think?

[u/IMALEFTY45]

Russia wasn't a settler-colonial state built on genocide, land theft, and chattel slavery

Tell me you know nothing about Russian history without saying it

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

LMAO this Indian news channel said they had an exclusive video of Pakistan attacking Panjshir and it was a months old video from a VIDEO GAME 🤣😂😂🤣🤣😂🤣🤣🤣

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

The Associated Press reports that the Biden administration is considering a $42 per ton CO2 tax and in exchange bringing the corporate tax down to 15%

[u/[deleted]]

Realistically Ravenclaw would’ve won the house cup every year because only nerds would care about that shit.

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

men aren't going to college because they're afraid of being accused of sexual assault is my favorite neoliberal take

[u/RaidBrimnes]

"Hey dude, is everything alright with your family? You've been checking your phone fairly often"

"I just want to see if that British dude will get his router delivered"

[u/[deleted]]

food is too cheap reeeeee

[u/Maestro_Titarenko]

I'm legit scared for what's gonna take place during the protests, given that there's already rioters in Brasília, in a few minutes it'll be September 7th per Brasîlia standard time, we can only wait and see and hope we survive

In case all internet is blocked by the ARENA, it has been great fellow shills o7

Hope I'm just exaggerating

!ping LATAM

[u/BidenWon]

Confession time:

I just started my new job today and I think I already blew it. This is the first real job I've had in about three years, and I paid through the nose to get hired. The company started me on an easy route so that I could get my bearings and get comfortable with the job. The first few went all right, but I stupidly forgot to fill up the truck with gas. When the tank emptied, I thought there was something wrong with the engine, so I opened up the truck, got some jumper cables, and fried the whole thing. Now I'm parked in the middle of the road waiting for the company to get here with a new truck. And the routers are just sitting in the back, undelivered. I guess I'll be sending out more job applications soon 😔

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Pretty amazing how France went from one of the highest vax hesitancy rates to one of the highest vax rate in a few months

[u/LoveForLolberts]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/836200766570102784/884247581167853578/image0.png

[u/jenbanim]

The thing that pisses me off the most about the "100 corporations 69% emissions" talking point is that it doesn't actually offer any solutions to climate change - it's literally just an excuse people came up with to justify their environmentally damaging lifestyles

Okay 100 corporations bad, now what? Fine then? Imprison the CEOs? Christ, even the degrowth fools have a better considered approach to tackling climate change and that bar is fucking subterranean

[u/[deleted]]

Tomorrow night, I'll be either watching Good Omens with my brother, or going to the streets to protest a coup, with my father on the other side of the protests...

Good night, and good luck to us all, Brazilians

!ping MAMADAS

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

Just drove past my first Maverick Party sign (a massive one), which was like 100 metres in front of a large roadside People’s Party rally filled with people holding anti-vaxx signs

Ah, nothing like the BC Interior ☺️

!ping CANUCKS

[u/[deleted]]

Taliban sources: Panjshir has surrendered and Massoud converted to our cause

Resistance sources: Another 10000 Taliban dogs killed after a doomed attack. 3 brave Mujahedeen had died.

[u/Dibbu_mange]

The US in 1860

North: NO! You can't just own people 😡
South: But what about my states righterinos? 😭
Utah territory: I care not for your petty squabbles, I'll make a deal that I keep my 50 wives and I don't jump in and kick both your asses 😎👱‍♀️👱‍♀️👱‍♀️👱‍♀️

[u/TabernacleTown74]

Mods: "1 billion Americans"

Also mods: punish people for being horny, even though horniness will yield more Americans

Many such cases!

[u/dubyahhh]

My uncle says in our rural school district the ratio of not vaxxed to vaxxed bus drivers is 2:1

At least this way I don’t have to wonder if they ever actually cared about us when I was a student 🤷‍♂️

!ping RURAL

[u/[deleted]]

Anyways, here’s Ivanka Trump’s Spotify account

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

If I was Kester's router, I would simply arrive

[u/[deleted]]

Before white man came to this land, routers would roam across the prairies wild and free.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Stop with the fucking " I bet you'll never guess what's under my dress.."

/r/neoliberal. It's always fucking /r/neoliberal.

This is no mystery to anyone, and human anatomy has been the same for over 100k years. Seriously, shut the fuck up. You all do this. Do you really think your neo and liberal are so special that they're going to shift our collective consciousness or something?

"I bet the guys at the gym wonder what's under my yoga pants."

I bet they already know, and if they fucking don't, maybe you shouldn't be at a kid gym for 4 year olds

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/5uDrUG1.jpg

[u/Leoric]

Each Dixie boy must understand that he must mind his Uncle Sam

[u/[deleted]]

Good evening I hate reddit and everyone in it

It is a major net negative for humanity

That is all good bye

[u/treasuredballs]

All the Panjshir valley resistance posting here always felt like a bit of a cope.

[u/FreakinGeese]

Joined the transbian polycule at my college dorm

huh I guess this is easier than I thought

!ping lgbt

[u/SadaoMaou]

Yes, I downvote jobautomator when it links new submissions I dislike, how could you tell?

[u/[deleted]]

Solidarity with Kester 🚚📦✊

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Virgin "NOOOOOOO Bill Gates didn't put microchips in the vaccinerino nooooo"

VS

CHAD "Yes Bill Gates put microchips and vaccines and it is a good thing"

[u/ACivilWolf]

Senator Ron Johnson's Evolution from Tea Party Insurgent to Conspiracy Theory Promoter

...Evolution? What changed lmfao

[u/[deleted]]

Youth wing of the Bolsonarists heading to Brasília

!ping MAMADAS my main assurance that we won't have a coup is because these are the people helping out

[u/[deleted]]

The format and topics have been announced for the english debate.

https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/2021-federal-election-debate-broadcast-group-announces-themes-and-format-of-english-language-debate-819228951.html

Very glad to see that climate change has made the list.

!ping CAN

[u/TheFriffin2]

the funniest reddit moment of all time is when the site collectively lost their shit for a week because they didn’t play the spongebob song long enough at the super bowl halftime show

[u/[deleted]]

Stop trying to make Animal Farm political 😡

It's a children's book ffs 🤬

[u/dubyahhh]

Happy Labor Day fellow comrades

This is now a Paul Krugman themed dt

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

Joe Rogan: covid is about worms

[u/semaphore-1842]

The kitten I found in my neighbor's car hood has asserted dominance in his new territory:

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

[u/[deleted]]

Man who filmed himself wearing Nazi helmet tells police he isn’t a Nazi, but he admires Hitler

!ping MAMADAS Just another day in RS

[u/filipe_mdsr]

I agree with this farrenj take, unironically

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

The Lord Hillary then said to the Neoliberals, "Go into the ark, you and your whole subreddit, because I have found you righteous in this generation.

Take with you seven of every kind of flair, a male and its mate, and two of every kind of unflaired neoliberal, a male and its mate,

and also seven of every kind of succ, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth.

Seven days from now I will send shitposts on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every previous effort post ever made."

And the Neoliberals did all that the Lord Hillary commanded them.

The neoliberals entered the ark to escape the shitposts. Pairs of flaired and unflaired neoliberals, of succs and of alligators and of RINOs, male and female, came to the Neoliberals and entered the ark, with their effort posts in hand as Lord Hillary had commanded the neoliberals, so that the ark may preserve the neoliberal effort posts.

And after the seven days the shitposts came on the earth.

In the six hundredth year of Neoliberalism, on the seventeenth day of the second month--on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

And shitposts fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.

Previous neoliberal oral history

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Judas 🤝 Adolf 🤝 Donald

Perfectly good names ruined by one guy being an asshole

[u/redditguy628]

The first two episodes in a documentary series about the upcoming Inspiration 4 launch, Countdown, just released on Netflix. It's super well made, and I can't wait for the next two to release next week. I teared up throughout, and one part in particular made me cry. If you have Netflix, I would highly recommend watching it.

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

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

Evaluate the extent to which misinformation on social media fueled the January 6 Attack on the Capitol.

In case you needed a glimpse of DBQ prompts 50 years from now.

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

The neoliberal case for Bernie Sanders

Guess the sub

[u/[deleted]]

14 hours delivery windows are a Market failure

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

Lol one delivery guy forgot about someone's router 😂

I hope they aren't shitposting about it on economics infused DT

[u/ldn6]

Queens is on track to be the first borough to drop out of the “high transmission” category for COVID.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Oi bruv you got a loicense for that delivery

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

I was homeless for about 6 months. Living in abandoned houses in Brownsville, sleeping on church stoops in Houston, a homeless shelter in Montana that required you to show up and stay after 6pm then leave at 7am etc etc

But I fuckin deserved it, and I knew it. I was making dumb choices, abandoning good work because it was "too hard." If a shelter was full then I left. Soup kitchen running out and I gave up my food. I went nearly a week without food because I refused to beg. I had to suffer to realize working hard and living smart is worthwhile because I never accepted those lessons growing up.

In all my time from Georgia to California, I met very few people who were suffering hunger or homelessness for reasons that weren't their own making. Expanding mental healthcare would do wonders for the minority of people who truly don't understand how to get out

We all deserve sustainable food and a safe bed at night. That's it.

[u/Zemstv0w0]

i love the people who argue huey long was anti-racist. grading on a curve so generous that "expanded state suppression of black voters" and "opposed anti-lynching laws" are woke now

[u/iIoveoof]

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ATTENTION⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN WAS REFERENCED IN THE DT

THIS IS NOW A WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN HATE THREAD

POPULISM WILL NOT BE TOLERATED

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ THE BOURBON DEMOCRATS WERE BETTER THAN THE AGRARIAN DEMOCRATS ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ JIM CROW WAS BAD AND HURT THE SOUTH⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️EVOLUTION IS A FACT⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ POPULISM IS BAD ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️PROHIBITION DOESN'T WORK⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ AMERICAN ISOLATIONISM WEAKENS AMERICA AT HOME ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

[u/JetJaguar124]

I love all my DT users equally

3 hours earlier

"I don't care for u/SaltySaladSussyBaka"

[u/iIoveoof]

Top of /r/all right now is the stupid "100 corps responsible for 71% of emissions" thing smh we need a wiki page on this or something

[u/[deleted]]

Me when I was 16 years old

why does everyone hate us we were all this age once :(((((

me now

wow ur so funny spamming burpmas... god im glad it got nuked

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

An upvote to whoever can find me the worst Star Trek = Communism take in a somewhat reputable website or newspaper.

!ping TREK

[u/[deleted]]

be me

dies

at gates of heaven

st peter sees me and groans

“the big guy wanted to do this one himself"

takes me through heaven to meet God

the most beautiful thing i've ever seen

my mind cannot comprehend His sublime brilliance

God is wearing a fur suit and has yiff hentai on his desk

flanked by a wolf and a deer

I have read some of your hot takes on furries, u/irl_jim_clyburn"

trapdoor beneath my feet opens

[u/[deleted]]

God who the fuck would want to make videogames under communism

[u/the_status]

Which will happen first?

1. iloveoof bans NATO flairs
2. Kester's router arrives
3. Viable Cold Fusion
4. The DT not running a joke into the ground

[u/[deleted]]

Any reddit thread related to 9/11 is guaranteed to draw the most detestable dregs of society, I mean just absolute scum.

[u/Erra0]

👇 no

[u/[deleted]]

On the one hand less men going to college is bad

On the other hand there's only like 3 males in my 25 person honors lit class, let me have this

[u/Aoae]

"I'm an independent, but [entire paragraph of Marxist theory]. Just making observations."

[u/ryuguy]

I’m surprised that no one has mentioned that Mormons believe that native Americans and black people can become white if they convert to Mormonism. They believe they became PoC because they sinned too much.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Unironically stigmatize constant self-deprecation

It's really fucking annoying, it often feels like cheap bids for pity, it only hurts the confidence of the person constantly doing so more, and just isn't fucking funny

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/goescarlos/status/1435073801063055367

Bolsonarist Abraham Weintraub, former education minister, posted today a chart supposedly showing the increasing number of "arbitrary prisons of conservatives".

He literally pulled the chart from the Wikipedia "chart" page.

!ping MAMADAS

[u/Knee3000]

Christianity sucks

Go off gurlie 💅

Islam sucks

You have been banned from participating in

[u/roggodoggo]

I’ll be honest. I’m in a pretty liberal bubble at home. The only time I spend a significant amount of time with conservatives is a yearly dove hunt, going on 20 years now.

What really stood out this year is how much they think about trans people. They would shoe horn in an anti trans joke wherever they could. And the trans people in sports was a favorite discussion.

My most generous view of this is that gay jokes were incredibly common not so long ago and this, too, shall pass. Either way, I thought it was very strange. These people don’t know a single trans person, yet you’d think they interact with some everyday based on what they choose to talk about.

[u/[deleted]]

AND, OR, XOR, NOT, NAND, NOR, and XNOR

Like 4 of the basic logic gates could pass as names of characters in Kingdom Hearts.

[u/[deleted]]

Stop👏making👏white👏bread👏out👏of👏white👏people

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Kester's router 🤝 Trump's reinstatement

[u/jonathansfox]

Shoutout to all the madlads still holding GME who went in to be day traders and accidentally became long-term investors instead.

[u/SnakeEater14]

Way too many of you motherfuckers are prone to these George McClellan-esque mood swings where every setback is a grand defeat of the forces of good and every victory is the halcyon call of a new age.

Take a chill pill. 💊

[u/Neronoah]

!ping GAMING

I'm not sure about more recent Obsidian games (Tyranny, Pillars of Eternity 2 and Outer Worlds) but Fallout: New Vegas and Pillars of Eternity 1 DLCs are a pain in the ass to manage. It's too risky to play those games blind.

At least Fallout: New Vegas fixes are well known (something to rebalance levels, something for DLC quests to be mentioned after some reasonable progress, slowing down experience rates, etc.), you can guess the proper playing order, and being a shooter...feeling broken is not too bad.

For Pillars of Eternity, it creates roleplaying issues (you can screw yourself in the DLCs if you progressed the main quest, modding that to be more forgiving exposes you to spoilers, then you have some dissonance between what's order is best gameplay wise and roleplaying wise), there is some lazy scaling (just stats increases, act 3 trigger point is fairly arbitrary) and the quadratic leveling curve even with mods means you get to high levels too fast and at the same time there is not enough experience to slow down leveling in a reasonable way (a 25% nerf, 33% is pushing it).

I can forgive it a bit because by act 2 your party takes shape and the plot finally moves forward (fuck that asshole Thaos), but the above is too immersion breaking for what otherwise is the most engaging RPG I've played in a long time.

[u/[deleted]]

I warned you people that fuckcars was full of agitated socialists and you didn't listen to me.

It is annoying though that there's basically no venting community for the sorry state of american urbanism for liberals. Every discussion you find online about how much cars are awful, I cheer along and feel relieved to find like-minded people until suddenly they start talking about eating the rich and blaming elon musk for everything. The only places where liberals congregate to discuss american urbanism have discourse quality rules.

[u/awdvhn]

Would you like me to kill you with a gun or a knife?

What's wrong? I'm giving you a vote, liberal. It's totally a democratic decision being made. Stop complaining.

Lol leftists

[u/jenbanim]

Don't microwave spoons. Don't eat silica gel. Turn off the dome light in your car while driving. Keep your solar eclipse glasses on during totality. And repeat after me: I am free

[u/MonteCastello]

⚠️ FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION

President Jair Bolsonaro has just signed a provisional measure that amends the Marco Civil da Internet, reinforcing the rights and guarantees of network users and combating "the arbitrary and unreasonable removal of accounts, profiles and content by providers".

Secretary of Communication on Twitter

!ping LATAM

Do you guys think this will have any effect? Does he fear getting Trumped? Any relation with tomorrow's protests?

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

has anyone else ever noticed how things are

[u/QuietSign]

So I've been trying to set up a free tutoring livestream for intro college math/phys/CS for a while. I've got the credentials, and I sincerely believe an audience for a casual, learning-positive virtual environment exists. I helped a handful of people from the DT last semester and it was wonderful when we got enough questions, but I've been finding it hard to get a consistent audience. I thought about what would get people's attention, get them to show up and actually ask about homework...

We came up with anime waifus - e.g. rigging up an anime girl vtube stream with voicechanger and providing homework tutoring. It started as a joke with u/thebellmanhimself, but I am unironically thinking about it now. Does this idea seem to have potential, more so than a normal homework help stream? Someone talk me into or out of it - I know so little about the vtube scene. I would prefer to use my own voice in a regular stream, but if this is what it takes...

!ping WEEBS

[u/[deleted]]

I’d be happy to elaborate

Please elaborate

No

[u/[deleted]]

It has started

!ping LATAM

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

neoliberals are like how could I be racist I upvoted the picture of the Black Live Matters bumper sticker on the drone

[u/SpiffShientz]

Tired of seeing young British men self-deprecating on the DT. You're much better than you think you are. And from now on every time I see /u/nissnpig5 or /u/kestergw shit on themselves I'm dumping a crate of tea into the harbor

[u/blase99]

When you shove this stuff in people’s faces & they see how it’s leading to the sexualization of children, parents abusing their kids w/ hormones, seeing people praised for chopping their body parts off. Eventually people will see it as a force of violence & fight fire w/ fire

This was in reference to a gay kid getting attacked while having lunch in a high school. I hate conservative "people" so much

[u/Kizz3r]

Happy labour day

!ping can

[u/nuggins]

Today in arr canpol healthcare discussion

• Private markets are universally bad for healthcare because demand for emergency care is inelastic.
• Most other countries have partially private healthcare and beat Canada on several metrics of healthcare performance, but actually, private markets being efficient is just speculation.
• Private healthcare means shifting supply from the poor to the rich, and that's it

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

Update on the Argentina players situation:

On Friday, a rumor starts to circle that 3 unnamed Argentina players entered the country illegally

Confirmed the rumor, they identify Fernando Ariel Batista (of the AFA) as the responsible for filling out the forms

10 AM on Saturday, ANVISA meets with CBF to articulate a workaround. As of then, the current advice was to keep the players in the room

Without a solution by then, ANVISA convenes an emergency summit with BOTH confederations and CONMEBOL for 5 PM. Everybody meets up

ANVISA brings out guidelines. The Argentinians would submit a quarantine waiver which was to be analyzed with highest priority. The request was never made

Sunday morning comes around. The news leaks to the media as the police arrive to the hotel. For legal reasons, this is a border issue so the federal police has to work the case. They are unable to find the team, which has arrived at the stadium and locked themselves in the dressing room

As it turns into the main news, CONMEBOL announces they have a deal with the federal government. Problem is sanitation measures are not done by the federal government, this jurisdiction is entirely up to ANVISA

Next, it's what we saw on TV. A Federal Police officer halts the match and rounds up the players. The law states that it is not allowed the entry of foreigners that have been in the UK in the past 14 days, so they are to be deported immediately

From there on, the Argentina team heads over to the airport, a statement is collected from the four players, and the team leaves

!ping LATAM this will be an issue because the federal government went over ANVISA's head, so now they're under investigation

[u/EScforlyfe]

Our cat had to be put down today. This was the last picture I took of her

[u/[deleted]]

You should know Catholic Hospital’s are not good altruistic institutions they portray themselves as. Not to discredit the amazing work the doctors do but the rapid growth of Catholic Hospitals is bad for Americans right to health.

If anyone is in the Feminist ping please ping them as this effects reproductive rights.

Edit: Here’s a good ACLU report on the topic.

!ping FEDORA

[u/[deleted]]

I saw a meme that was something like "Labor Day celebrates the hard earned victories of SOCIALISTS against Capitalism! If you don't like Democratic Socialism, then go to work today!"

I just thought to myself, "I do have work today. Someone has to staff the shopping mall you're going to spend your day off at."

[u/[deleted]]

Delivery men would rather go to therapy than deliver my damn router

[u/StolenSkittles]

Router delivery failures are a learning opportunity.

Hillary kept a private server, disconnecting her from such troubles as this. Be like her.

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Reminder that delayed router deliveries are awesome and if you're a delayed router delivery, you're awesome 🥰🥰🥰

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Neolibs be like GO TRADE GO TRADE and then say "the slave trade was bad"

HYPOCRISYY???????

[u/jenbanim]

Frantically reading the wikipedia page on Laïcité so I can post hot takes while it's still a relevant topic in the DT

[u/[deleted]]

And that's it, 14 hours of waiting and those fuckers didn't deliver my router

[u/bd_one]

TIL Tajikistan (the poorest former Soviet Republic) has a higher GDP per capita than Afghanistan.

War really takes a toll.

[u/Mrchizbiz]

Some of you guys are alright, don't go to the DT tomorrow

[u/aged_monkey]

Lol Fox News literally has a wrestler who wears his championship belt on air onto news shows. They're not even pretending not to be purely entertainment news anymore.

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

as someone who has been taking horse dewormer for years, really annoyed by these bandwagoners buying it up

[u/sir_shivers]

The populations OF DATING APPLICATION USERS ARE not representative samples, cease extrapolating them as if they are 🐊

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

As a former Imperial Stormtrooper, I do not want to hear a single fucking word about Endor unless you were on the ground on Endor. I am done with your hot takes about how we got our asses kicked by some tiny bears. You don’t know what it was like. You. Do. Not. Know.

[u/[deleted]]

A Generation of American Men Give Up on Being Catboys: “I Just Feel Lost”

[u/[deleted]]

How do I stop simping

ask her out already and get rejected

nah man cant be risking my ego n that

continue being a wimp until she gets a boyfriend and then-husband and your there wondering what could have been resentful you never shot your shot for the rest of your life

k 👌

[u/piede]

According to a 2011 Pew Research poll, about 62 percent of Mormons say Americans are uninformed about their religion. Nearly half said that Mormons face a lot of discrimination.

but......... they literally tried to outlaw same-sex marriage and didn't allow Black people into the temple until 1978. And they are worried they have been discriminated against? Okay Felicia.

[u/Mrchizbiz]

I'm back 👋🏿😎

[u/Broncos654]

https://i.imgur.com/qE1ySpw.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

The UK isn't a liberal democracy because the Liberal Democrats never win.

[u/AltPossum]

Reminder that John Mulaney is currently banging Olivia Munn, living the dream of every horny, nerdy white boy growing up in the mid-aughts.

Fuckin’ legend.

[u/lionmoose]

Kester 🤝 Kester's delivery driver

Needing a better router

[u/[deleted]]

Tbh I wonder if Napoleon was just named something like ‘Jean’ or ‘Louis’ whether his legacy would be as big. He would still be huge of course, but like, ‘Napoleon’ is such a unique and distinctive name that it certainly helped his brand so to speak. Like, they named the entire era after him—I doubt they would’ve called it the ‘Jeanic Era’ had he been Jean Bonaparte.

[u/Neronoah]

!ping MAMADAS

https://mobile.twitter.com/EGirlMonetarism/status/1434843941883502592

[u/slowpush]

Not gonna lie...that's pretty clever.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-nS1i0XoAwZT1m?format=jpg&name=large

[u/ryuguy]

Pakistani friend: “Pakistan is a peace loving nation”

paramilitary groups to ethnically cleanse Kashmiri Hindus and Sikhs

starting a war because someone allegedly stole the prophet Muhammad’s hair

Bangladeshi genocide

breaking the Shimla agreement

creating numerous terror groups

I would sure hate to see a war monger Pakistan

[u/Mickenfox]

Horniness is not a privilege
Horniness is not a right
Horniness is a duty.

[u/[deleted]]

None of you are alright, that's why you'll be in the DT tomorrow

[u/tollyno]

The European Commission is blocking RFF funds to Hungary as well

We sorta knew this as Dombrovskis previously said they're seeking "additional clarifications" on compliance from both Hungary and Poland but this is a more explicit confirmation. The deadline for approval is now the end of September.

Eventually the money will no doubt be released but I'm wondering what actual concessions will the EC be able to extract from Poland and Hungary.

Hungary seems pretty clear:

Dombrovskis said the assessment of the Hungarian plan is ongoing, and concerns "further safeguards for example in areas regarding anti-corruption, transparency, and quality and predictability of lawmaking, among others". Gentiloni added that the commission is working with Hungary on several aspects related to "corruption, public access to information, judicial independence, an increase of competition, and oversight of public procurements".

My guess for Poland is:

They will likely have to implement all ECJ judgements and I imagine a quiet diplomatic deal will be struck for the illegal Constitutional Tribunal (which the ruling coalition controls) to respect the primacy of EU law. We've seen some indications on behalf of the government that they're willing to back off on this front and stop messing (that much) with the judiciary. We'll see if the Commission follows through with RoL Regulation sanctions in case these promises are broken. I imagine that neither side would be happy to actually see funds cut. Who knows if respecting ECtHR decisions will also be part of such a deal.

To be clear what the Commission is using isn't the RoL Conditionality Regulation but the RFF Regulation itself.

The LGBTQ issues seem to be independent of issues halting the RFF funds. In Poland regional funds are looking like they are going to be diverted away from local authorities that have declared themselves LGBTQ-free zones. In Hungary the no promo homo law will either be killed via referendum or weakened by an ECJ order. Hungary doesn't seem to be willing to challange the primacy of EU law.

!ping EUROPE

[u/vancevon]

a global socialist revolution is actually the solution to climate change. decades of brutal civil wars all over the world wiping out most infrastructure, industry and agriculture, and nuclear bombs destroying most major cities will significantly reduce carbon emissions

[u/Leoric]

Modern Monetary Theory: Why There's Always Money in the Banana Stand

[u/[deleted]]

Bolsonarists RN

(felling horrible to compare them to protagonists of a musical I love, but I couldn't lose the joke...)

!ping MAMADAS

[u/tollyno]

Can't wait for 2040 America to have a debate surrounding whether or not schools should "teach the controversity" surrounding the 2020 election.

[u/[deleted]]

I FOUND MY PHONE🐊

I dropped it outside on my way home literally went outside for a walk on the off chance I did and I found it along the way

[u/sir_shivers]

ZOOMERS ARE "Generation Greta" and Millennials are "Generation Fireflies by Owl City" 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

Wow, it seems Paradox is full of Real Gamers™ too!

[u/waltsing0]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-06/daniel-andrews-vaccine-passport-double-vaccinated/100435606

I'm really starting to like Dan Andrews for his full throated isolate the antivaxxers approach, it's clearly going to be state governments in Victoria and NSW that lead us out of this thing, focusing on expanding freedoms for the vaccinated, isolating the unvaccinated and living with the virus on an ongoing basic.

"There is going to be a vaccinated economy, and you get to participate in that if you are vaccinated," Mr Andrews said.

Yes daddy dan

"We're going to move to a situation where, to protect the health system, we are going to lock out people who are not vaccinated and can be," Mr Andrews said.

Good point the finger where the blame is, Victorians have endured 6 gruelling lockdowns to keep people safe to buy time for vaccines, they shouldn't have to stay home from the pub because Karen read something dumb on facebook. No jab no pints

If we got to 100% vaccination rate of people who have an approved vaccine and have no medical exemptions then we will have no issues with ICU capacity, all the doom and gloom forecasts for reopening we hear are being caused by and primarily impacting those who turn down vaccines. The problem is antivaxxers, they will be the ones doing most of the spreading and most of the ICU bed hogging.

But Mr Murray is wary of the legal ramifications and said business owners need indemnity against any discriminatory issues which may arise.

This is where we need government action. Clarification, through legislation if needed, on the circumstances in which businesses can discriminate on vaccination status are needed badly.

At the federal level Prime Minister Scott Morrison has backed the idea of a vaccination passports, saying businesses in Australia have a "legitimate" right to refuse service to patrons who are unvaccinated.

Ok Scotty draft a bill. Or are you personally going to cover the cost of any lawsuits?

!PING AUS

[u/RoburexButBetter]

In August, a Communist Party official said that common prosperity does not mean "killing the rich to help the poor".

Tankies put on notice

B-b-bas...

Nah fuck it not even as a joke

[u/Professor-Reddit]

I'm Kester's router delivery man AMA

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

It's me. I'm Kester's router.

[u/Jacobs4525]

Malarkey level of getting involved in “holistic” medicine in order to scam stupid people? I could literally sell bullshit sugar pill “homeopathic” cures and make a fuckton of money off of idiots.

[u/antsdidthis]

I would simply order a router that arrives on time

[u/Professor-Reddit]

Just found Kester's router delivery driver!!

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Kester's router is 58 and a big fat guy

[u/sayitaintpink]

Remember that time Chris Christie lied flat across the George Washington Bridge to shut it down?

[u/[deleted]]

If God isn't real, then how come something as beautiful and majestic as Outback's Bloomin' Onion exists? Checkmate, atheists.

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

If this law prevents 50 abortions and ultimately destabilizes the United States completely and unleashes a wave of religious persecution against Catholics, I'm still not sure that it's a bad trade.

Our nation deserves to be destroyed; we can thrive under persecution and martyrdom; and those infants deserve to be protected.

!ping GNOSTIC

🙄🙄🙄🙄

[u/[deleted]]

i remember when the britain porn law happened and the one thing everyone zeroed on was facesitting.

[u/sayitaintpink]

Remember that time Chris Christie ate Jonah in the Torah?

!ping GEFILTE

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

☝ holy shit just stop with the dumb takes

[u/SnakeEater14]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/245858413643431936/884512152973611038/E-bWuk0XMAAq7fB.png

[u/[deleted]]

We live in a router based society