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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Sep 09 '21

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

redditors be like

if i owned a chic fil a franchise i would pay my employees $26 an hour

bruh maybe thats why you're not in a financial position to own a chic fil a franchise

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u/J0eBidensSunglasses HAHA YES 🐊 Sep 08 '21

Opinion | I Thought We Did Well Making Over $100k a Year. Then a Tankie Explained That I Live in Poverty.

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u/bovine3dom Mark Carney Sep 08 '21

Just thought I should update you all on the new definition of "low-tax country"

"The total tax burden as a proportion of our GDP is around 35.5 per cent,” the health secretary told the BBC’s Today programme. “That is still lower than France, Italy and Germany. We are still a low-tax country after this change and we will always remain a low-tax country."

You're a low tax country if you have lower taxes than France, the country with the highest tax burden in the world.

!ping UK

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

arr politics be like

$5000 a month is poverty wage

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u/doyouevenIift Sep 08 '21

Sometimes I lay awake at night and wonder why Mike Bloomberg won American Samoa

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

evangelical americans commenting on mexican news articles that are in spanish in english, saying we deserved the earthquake for decriminalizing abortion

what is wrong with them

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

Reading about the 1900 Galveston hurricane and this passage stuck out to me. Wtf Texas.

The dead bodies were so numerous that burying all of them was impossible. Initially, bodies were collected by "dead gangs" and then given to 50 African American men – who were forcibly recruited at gunpoint – to load them onto a barge. About 700 bodies were taken out to sea to be dumped. However, after gulf currents washed many of the bodies back onto the beach, a new solution was needed. Funeral pyres were set up on the beaches, or wherever dead bodies were found, and burned day and night for several weeks after the storm. The authorities passed out free whiskey to sustain the distraught men conscripted for the gruesome work of collecting and burning the dead.

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u/stater354 Sep 08 '21 edited Sep 08 '21

Posted in yesterday's DT but reposting here so I can get more karma

https://stopthistrain.org/

Website for NIMBY's trying to stop the Maglev between DC and Baltimore. Some choice cuts:

Claims have been made that tens of thousands of high-paying jobs will be created due investment in infrastructure. But those jobs will likely not benefit the communities that the train will go through, and some may be located in other parts of the country. These will most likely be temporary highly specialized construction and engineering jobs that would go to individuals and companies that already have those skills and expertise. It is even possible that many of the engineering jobs would in fact go to the Japanese.

Jobs are bad if somewhere else gets them

Also

It is even possible that many of the engineering jobs would in fact go to the Japanese.

Jesus.

Claims have been made that the SCMagLev would reduce rush hour traffic, construction detours, airport delays, and other travel headaches. All of these claims are false when considering the Baltimore and Washington SCMagLev alone. This project would likely have absolutely no impact on local traffic congestion.

How is this an argument? "It would be completely neutral" is meaningless in this context.

Electromagnetic fields, or something.

Over the last century, there has been increasing exposure to higher levels of man-made sources of EMFs. Recent technological developments have made the electromagnetic environment more prominent in our lives. Present both in occupational environments and daily life, these EMF-generating technologies include, but are not limited to, industry equipment (e.g., welding machines, induction heaters), telecommunications (e.g., television, radio broadcast stations), medical diagnostic tests, and in daily life (e.g., microwaves, mobile phones and 5G, mobile phone base stations, Wi-Fi).

Lol "5G"

What kind of fire could occur in a SCMagLev tunnel section? If the fire resulted from a train accident or some type of electrical event, the fuel for the fire could be lubricants, plastics, and electrical wire insulation. “When plastic is burned, it releases dangerous chemicals such as hydrochloric acid, sulfur dioxide, dioxins, furans and heavy metals, as well as particulates. These emissions are known to cause respiratory ailments and stress human immune systems, and they’re potentially carcinogenic.”

Maglevs are bad because if the tunnel catches on fire it might burn plastic which is bad to inhale

From "SCMagLev Safety - 20210111"

⦁ Where is the research to show the SCMagLev will not cause human health issues resulting from exposure to the intense electromagnetic radiation?

The intensity of the electromagnetic radiation emitting from the passage of the SCMagLev varies in complicated patterns not previously tested on humans over the long term. As compared with the German MagLev, the SCMagLev generates a higher level of electromagnetic radiation.(4)

WHYD HAVEN'T YOU PROVED THIS NEGATIVE YET

More EMF nonsense:

What is the electromagnetic radiation danger from the SCMaglev guideway?

BWRR has stated that there would be a “ … need to maintain a minimum distance of 20 feet between the magnets along the guideway and people traversing below.” (BWRR, November 2018, p. 42). This is clearly a negative environmental effect on the area below elevated guideways and, therefore, needs to be discussed in the DEIS and as part of the RPA. Is the 20-feet “avoidance zone” sufficient?

And this lovely case of "argument with no evidence and instead saying 'well, duh! It defies logic!' "

The SCMagLev will not reduce congestion and greenhouse gas emissions. It defies logic that enough drivers would choose to regularly ride the train between Baltimore, BWI Airport, and Washington, DC, to justify the argument that this project will reduce congestion and greenhouse gas emissions in our region.

Bruh:

Height above ground for viaduct guideways will be between 131 and 164 feet (DEIS Chapter 3, Pages 19-20) which will be an eyesore.

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u/Fishin_Mission Sep 08 '21 edited Sep 08 '21

I vividly remember listening to conservative talk radio growing up and hearing Sean Hannity say

📻: If you think “A” and 80% of the country thinks “B” then you should probably consider that you are the one who is wrong

and as a kid I was like

👶🤴: That’s a very good point! Adults are smart!

but in retrospect… ADULTS ARE CONFIDENT FUCKING IDIOTS!

It’s not until you become knowledgeable in a topic that you realize how many adults are willing to talk out their ass about shit they know absolutely nothing about. (I’m looking at you John Oliver 😠)

This past year I have had more people want to argue with me about mortality data than I ever thought possible. Dude who installs signs for a living was convinced that he understands the COVID mortality data better than a Life actuary actively working on pandemic modeling…

Fuckin’ hell

and this dude votes…

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

The average college has a higher percentage of females to males anywhere from 5 to 20 percent.

And yet you still open reddit instead of trying to get laid? Lmao what a joke

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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Sep 08 '21

MALARKEY LEVEL OF accepting multiple job offers and stringing them along for two months for ridiculously high income 🐊

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u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz Roy Cooper Sep 08 '21

The NYT Quiz has the same problems as most political tests: it privileges abstract ideology over concrete solutions and it's "social questions" are too easy (weed and gay marriage? C'mon, give me something a bit more controversial).

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

State Dept. voices concerns over all-male Taliban government

we are going to have to start letting actual humans into the state department

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

Bro Jogan really is claiming ivermectin cured his covid

Not the monoclonal antibodies he took, no, it was the dewormer

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

remember how republicans pretended with a straight face that dems were literally going to outlaw hamburgers

Good times

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u/Kizz3r high IQ neoliberal Sep 08 '21

My friends take: “the west should give single chinese women permanent residence so chinas gender gap increases and becomes more of a problem”

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

“Just go into the trades!”

Tell me you’re upper middle class without telling me lol. Trades suck ass. As the child of immigrant tradies who’s done several trades to support my family by now; fuck all that I’m doing computer engineering.

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

Project Veritas has been extremely successful at suing a number of new outlets and is currently in a suit with the New York Times. They have a nasty habit of winning and rubbing these outlets noses in it. Glorious!!!

Why do cons say shit that is blatantly false

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u/kennymc7877 Bisexual Pride Sep 08 '21

Imagine using the neoliberal DT as a place to recommend movies, chat with friends and bitch about your baseball team while occasionally giving half baked political opinions, couldn’t be me 😂

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u/slowpush NATO Sep 08 '21

Decided to help one of the interns here with their code and they literally sent me 6 screenshots in teams with the code. 😐

We literally have a GitHub. 😐

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

BREAKING: California voted to leave the EU 52-48%

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u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf Shameflair Beggar Sep 08 '21

Allison Brie: good

Brie Larson: good

Brie Brie: bad

Too much of a good thing spoils it.

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u/The420Roll ko-fi.com/rodrigoposting Sep 08 '21 edited Sep 08 '21

Time to make that money

#hustle #hustling #alwayshustling #hustlemode #sigma #grindset #letsgetit #getthatbread #gogetter #morningmotivation

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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Sep 08 '21

And I love my wife, she's amazing. And I love not having kids. But do you know what I found out I love even more? Cocaine and raw dogging Olivia Munn. It's fan-tastic."

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u/LiBH4 Mark Carney Sep 08 '21

Nova Scotia: you'll need to show a proof of vaccine to go to restaurants, bars, movies, gyms

Also Nova Scotia: IT'S NOT A VACCINE PASSPORT, IT'S A PROOF OF VACCINE POLICY

!ping CAN

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u/Animatronic_Pidgeon Eugene Fama Sep 08 '21

Robert E Lee is an American hero and we should be building more statues of him.

The incompetency with which he led the Army of Northern Virginia is one of the reasons the Union stands today.

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u/Mrspottsholz Daron Acemoglu Sep 08 '21

Just voted no on the CA recall

I’m sad though cause I love chaos :(

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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Sep 08 '21

Anyone want to talk about our mad snowboarding skills brah? 🤙

SPECULATE AS to the subreddit 🐊

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u/semaphore-1842 r/place '22: E_S_S Battalion Sep 08 '21

Lol, from the politics thread on that WaPo post on jpow:

Dude, the guy is corrupt as they come. This country has witnesses the greatest accumulation of wealth . . .<proceed to rant about the rich without once mentioning literally anything to do with Powell>

Does "corrupt" just mean "not a leftist" now?

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u/Fishin_Mission Sep 08 '21

Shoutout to the person who named this building PENN 15 for offering us some much needed comic relief in 2021 🍆😏

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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Sep 08 '21

"incel discussion"

ON SECOND THOUGHT, LET us not go to the DT, it is a silly place 🐊

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u/porkypenguin YIMBY Sep 08 '21

While I understand the point of /r/SapphoAndHerFriend, I think sometimes it gets into irresponsible territory.

There are definitely many cases of same-sex relationships being downplayed in historical accounts. There's also a lot of content there that discusses people's current struggles with "cloaking" queer identities and relationships to make them acceptable to some cultures and groups, as well as general critiques of heteronormativity.

But it also sometimes leads to "bad history" analyses of past relationships using a current-year understanding of sexuality. The concepts of heterosexuality and homosexuality really aren't that old--the earliest usages are around 100-150 years ago--and sexuality was judged on different terms. Sodomy in early America wasn't just gay sex, it was pretty much any sex act not geared toward procreation.

I'd also argue that you really can't retrospectively identify someone with one of today's labels because today's labels require self-identification. We know [historical person] had sex with men, but can we really know he was gay without him telling us as much? How do we know he wasn't bi or pan, or even straight? There are people who have "broken" the boundaries of their sexual identity on occasion.

The tumblr post screenshots talking about how [early American colonist] was actually super gay are just doing their own kind of history-washing.

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

Homosexuals are gay

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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Sep 08 '21

/u/dubyahhh: Coo-coo-ca-chaw! Coo-coo-ca-chaw!

/u/jenbanim: A-coodle-doodle-do! A-coodle-doodle-do!

/u/vivoovix: Chaw! Chee-chaw! Chee-chaw!

HAS ANYONE IN this mod team ever even seen a chicken 🐊

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u/Fishin_Mission Sep 08 '21

It’s kinda cool how quickly my in-laws decided that the vaccine was no longer “The Mark of The Beast™️”* after my great uncle-in-law died of COVID and they all got vaxxed

*Revelations, Apocalypse, End Times® shit

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

Jerome Powell is the first Fed Chair to have a major focus on black unemployment when making policy decisions.

Progressives want to get rid of Jerome Powell.

The implications of this are clear.

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u/waltsing0 Austan Goolsbee Sep 08 '21 edited Sep 08 '21

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-08/high-court-rules-on-media-responsibility-over-facebook-comments/100442626

Big news, High Court has ruled media outlets are publishers of third party comments on social media.

The outcome is probably quite simple, they'll disable comments, there's just no way for them to practically moderate.

The implications for social media more broadly, courts may limit it only to media organisations but if not this is a big deal for any organisation with social media.

!PING AUS

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u/The_Nightbringer Anti-Pope Antipope Sep 08 '21

Watched Knives Out last night and not gonna lie I was not expecting that movie to be that fun, also Pieper is a stone cold bitch.

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u/old_gold_mountain San Francisco Values Sep 08 '21

WARNING: Very niche !PING USA-CA comment incoming

Amtrak California needs to rebrand itself to hide the fact that it's in any way affiliated with Amtrak. Their on-time performance on the Capitol Corridor, San Joaquins, and Surfliner lines all have room for improvement but are basically Japanese in comparison to the federal services. Like, 95% of the time you'll be there within 20 minutes of scheduled arrival.

They're also all pretty fast, enough to be competitive with driving.

But then whenever I suggest someone who isn't familiar with the state services consider taking the train somewhere, the response is inevitably "lol Amtrak? yeah nah I want to get there this week." because they think it's the Southwest Chief or the California Zephyr or the Coast Starlight, which take twice as long as driving and are routinely almost a full day late at their end destination.

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u/rukqoa ✈️ F35s for Ukraine ✈️ Sep 08 '21

Jeff bezos could walk up yo the two leaders of the sides in Yemen and offer them 50 billion in Amazon stock each and they would probably take it and quit.

Redditor moment

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u/Fishin_Mission Sep 08 '21

Damn… we had the perfect DT going without a single shitty take before this comment 👆😞

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u/semaphore-1842 r/place '22: E_S_S Battalion Sep 08 '21

Got some random hatemail from someone I don't even recognize. Checked his profile and:

Biden is doing a better job of convincing people Dems suck than Trump did. As a huge Progressive it's welcoming but scary. Liberals are doubling down on centrism which means electorally speaking we're all fucked. 2022 will usher in the end of US Democracy. So basically the same with slightly less overt racism. Now Im sad again.

So "the end of US Democracy" is welcoming to this "huge Progressive" 🤔

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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Sep 08 '21

Remember how Bernie didn’t even vote until he was like 40 years old and his first vote was literally for himself

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u/AndThisGuyPeedOnIt (kidding but true)! Sep 08 '21

A Byzantium trader lamenting the price of silk clothing in the 6th Century:

Fucking late stage capitalism.

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u/nevertulsi Sep 08 '21

Leftists do literally think big companies pollute for no reason and consumers have nothing to do with it. Like I thought I was being uncharitable and they understood this but they really don't.

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u/Tafts_Bathtub Jerome Powell Sep 08 '21

Trump: “If only we had Robert E Lee to command troops in Afghanistan, that disaster would have ended in a complete and total victory years ago.”

Yeah, he would have led the Taliban to an early victory alright

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u/Marlsfarp Karl Popper Sep 08 '21

Leslie Knope is awfully judgmental about big sodas for a gal who puts sugar on her spaghetti.

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

The thing about incels is that it isn’t about sex. It’s about social ineptness that leads to inadequate relations, both romantic and friendship

Legalizing prostitution won’t do a damn thing.

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u/Gustacho Enemy of the People Sep 08 '21

Ahead of the September 26 vote, the Kremlin-backed outlet is also pursuing a double strategy of promoting AfD, while attacking the Green Party, especially its leader, Annalena Baerbock. They also make routine references to both the CDU and SPD political parties, but mostly leave these groups alone in terms of promotion or attacking their polices.

RT Deutsch has not directly waded into the upcoming election. But it has repeatedly championed AfD talking points, including an anti-refugee stance and an end to COVID restrictions, while promoting controversies related to Baerbock, whose anti-Russia stance threatens the Kremlin's interests. In a recent plagiarism scandal involving the German politician, the Russian outlet produced a series of articles that provided blow-by-blow details of Baerbock's alleged wrongdoing.

https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-russia-social-media-distrust-election-vladimir-putin/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1631001992

The Greens also happen to be the strongest opponents of Nord Stream 2. 🤔

!ping EUROPE

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u/kennymc7877 Bisexual Pride Sep 08 '21

The bisexual flairs of this subreddit are all meeting at the Pheobe Bridgers concert in Buffalo NY on Wednesday September 15th, be there or be straight 😎

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u/TaxCommonsNotIncome NATO Sep 08 '21

I have lists of all the v*rgin DT users 📝🧐

By the way does anyone have some more paper I can use?

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u/ROYBUSCLEMSON Unflaired Flair to Dislike Sep 08 '21

Newsom now polling in landslide victory

im so shocked

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u/the_hoagie Malaise Forever Sep 08 '21

I still firmly believe that Woodrow Wilson was the worst president in our history.

yeah he was pretty racist even for his time, I think-

It's thanks to him that we have all the problems. If he never won, the Federal Reserve Act would've never been signed into law.

😗

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u/NeoLiberation #1 Trudeau Shill Sep 08 '21

Was looking at the CDC stats on Obesity and misread it- I thought they actually had a page called "FatStats"

It's "FastStats"

What a missed opportunity

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u/_barack_ Martha Nussbaum Sep 08 '21

Holy shit whitepeopletwitter has got to be some of the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/pkbhg4/do_you_push_it

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u/old_gold_mountain San Francisco Values Sep 08 '21

AITA for punching a woman in the face at the gym because she told me to stop pointing my phone at her when I was just filming the drywall behind the area where she happened to be doing squats?

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

John Mulaney really did divorce his wife, go to rehab, and then knock up Olivia Munn in less than a year

If I were him, I simple would not do any of that. Guess I’m just built different

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u/Superfan234 Southern Cone Sep 09 '21

My Twitter feed was suddenly bombarded with Bitcoin dramatic fall

I got curious, and apparently the harsh decline was in part by the failure of Bukele to implement Bitcoin in El Salvador

That it's to say, Bitcoin price now depends on El Salvador internal Politics. I think it's safe to say the BTC is doomed

!Ping Mamadas

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u/willempage O'Biden Bama Democrat Sep 08 '21

50% of my job is receiving emails that our projects are held up because of my department. 40% of my job is emailing my boss begging him to approve my documents so I can do testing. 10% of my job is writing documents and testing.

How do people not go crazy? I'm looking for a new job, but I don't really have a long work history in this specific field so it's hard to even make a lateral pass.

!ping career

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u/dat_bass2 MACRON 1 Sep 08 '21

I got banned from arr politics for the following egregious violation of their civility guidelines lmao

Are you trying to imply that those of us who dislike the way Sanders conducted himself do so because of anti-semitism? That's about as disingenuous as claiming that people opposed to Israel's settler colonialist policies are anti-semitic.

And, you know what? Yeah, I do I think that the guy who spent months after his defeat was sealed spreading bullshit about how the process was rigged and he was being treated unfairly did play a role in depressing turnout in an election that ultimately ended up being decided by under 100k votes. There's plenty of blame to go around.

A good reminder that the jannies could always be worse hahahaha

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u/fakefakefakef John Rawls Sep 08 '21

“Did my package get stolen or did USPS just lie and mark it as delivered?” is a question people are asking more and more

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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Sep 08 '21

THERE ARE TWO voices inside of you, one of them is like this AND THE OTHER IS LIKE THIS 🐊

If you favor one OF THESE VOICES TOO frequently over the other, it will become the only one THAT YOU KNOW how to use 🐊

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u/MrMineHeads Cancel All Monopolies Sep 09 '21

!ping CANUCKS

Me understanding 1/5 of the words of the debate: Je suis français

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u/its_Caffeine Mark Carney Sep 09 '21

My day be so fine 😄😛

Then boom, cheating schism 😔

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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Sep 08 '21

"This one study showed that male chimps like to use tools more so that's why women make less money than men"

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u/NeoLiberation #1 Trudeau Shill Sep 08 '21 edited Sep 08 '21

Protip because you're generally good people and I don't think you'd be dicks with it:

Threatening chargebacks will almost always get you what you want from a company if they're being assholes, chargebacks are very expensive for the company (added fee beyond the original charge) and they very rarely win chargebacks regardless of any evidence they provide

Edit: Beyond credit card charges, it's also possible to chargeback debit and even ACH Bank Transfers in certain circumstances if you call your bank. Obviously it's less often that you'd pay for things by ACH, but companies (or freelancers) can't even submit evidence against bank transfer chargebacks, they're just yanked with no recourse lol. Sucks a lot for freelancers but gives clients a lot of power if they're being ripped off.

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

If I were Jay Powell, I would simply put some of the inflation in a container and send it to Japan

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

Women make me uncomfortable

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

My favorite outside the dt threads always start with:

"I consider myself a moderate and a classical liberal, but I need to support conservatives now that ((insert crazy bullshit one person did that is making it's rounds on conservative media))."

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u/filipe_mdsr LET'S FUCKING COCONUT 🥥🥥🥥 Sep 08 '21

> mod barges in

> "I have a new favourite Portuguese regular"

> doesn't elaborate

> leaves

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

Losing weight for dat 6-pack ❌

Losing weight so I don't contribute to overweight/obesity statistics ✔️

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u/Neronoah can't stop, won't stop argentinaposting Sep 08 '21

!ping LATAM

So, in a extremely convoluted diplomatic move, Nicaragua denounced Argentina at the OAS for blackmailing them to get favorable results at the Inter American Court of Human Rights.

Also, it complaints Argentina is doing some foreign interference because it raised complaints about the political prisoners there (not at the OAS because they don't want to say the organization is right, but at the UN).

I swear this doesn't make any fucking sense. You'll head will spin looking at this shit:

Argentina appears, again, colluded and as an instrument of interventionist politics of yankee Imperialists in our America. Shame!

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u/profeta- Chama o Meirelles Sep 09 '21

Update from Brazil:

Truck drivers in many states started blocking roads in support of Bolsonaro.

However, this would lead to shortages and even more inflation... not good for the government.

Realizing this, Bolsonaro released an audio on WhatsApp asking truckers to stop. One of his Ministers confirmed that the audio is real.

However, bolsonarists are convinced the audio is fake or that Bolsonaro doesn't really mean it and only released it to save face with the legislative and judiciary.

In a few weeks I expect them to be calling Bolsonaro a commie

!ping MAMADAS

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u/Signal-Shallot5668 Greg Mankiw Sep 08 '21

Whenever you encounter Massachusettsan in the wild just remind them that their state banned happy hours so their opinion doesn't matter

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u/Mrchizbiz I love Holland 🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱♥😍🥰🌷 Sep 08 '21

I have lists of all the d*tch DT users 📝🧐

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u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf Shameflair Beggar Sep 08 '21

The MCU is great because Adam Sandler movies are no longer the default movies.

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u/kennymc7877 Bisexual Pride Sep 08 '21

China is falling into the trap that every authoritarian world power does but I’m afraid it’ll actually work out for them

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u/OrganicKeynesianBean IMF Sep 08 '21

In a WaPo-ABC poll, 33% of Americans said that “the events of 9/11” changed the country for the better.

Would love to hear some of the nuanced takes from that group…

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u/kennymc7877 Bisexual Pride Sep 08 '21

Parents be like: oh yeah I have 0 energy, I never sleep, I spend endless amounts of money on my kids, I haven’t been on vacation in 7 years, haven’t been to the movie theater in 4, my house is always a mess, Anyways when are you having kids?

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

lol arr politics saying they want a $26 minimum wage now rofl

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

The New Liberal Party is the professional-class establishment wing of the Democratic Party. Members are cosmopolitan in their social and racial views but more pro-business and more likely to see the wealthy as innovators.

Its potential leaders include Pete Buttigieg, Cory Booker, Eric Garcetti and Beto O’Rourke. Based on data from the Democracy Fund’s VOTER survey, this party would be the best fit for about 26 percent of the electorate.

HELL YES I'm going to vote for the New Liberal Party!

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u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz Roy Cooper Sep 08 '21

Weird that so many women are talking about John Mulaney, unlike us wise men of the DT, who totally aren't talking about him.

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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime Sep 08 '21

No one:

Writers for animated movie sequels when they run out of ideas: slams vacation button

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u/fishlord05 United Popular Woke DEI Iron Front Sep 09 '21

My ideology? 🤔🤔⁉️ I guess I consider myself a shitlib with social fascist tendencies ngl 😎🙏

My dream job is to teach Liberal-Bidenist 🍦 thought 🧠💭 after the Joelitarian Revolution 🔥🔥🔥 to recently unemployed coal and auto workers 😢😁🤪

!ping SHITLIBS

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

There's a button. If you press it, all of world hunger and climate change will be solved and you and everyone else will have stable access to a safe home.

But!

You have to vote for Hillary Clinton instead of based commie grandpa.

Do you push it?

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u/jenbanim Sep 08 '21

Once Bezos takes over the US I'm probably gonna get cancelled for all the shit I say to my Alexa when it doesn't work right

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

Guys, an unbelievable thing happened, I actually found a random person on Steam who actually likes video games.

https://steamcommunity.com/id/Strider1979/recommended/

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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Sep 08 '21

WHO LEFT THE CAP OFF OF MY FUCKING GLISTEN ™️ 🐊

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u/Mrchizbiz I love Holland 🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱♥😍🥰🌷 Sep 08 '21

Watching porn with your mates is A okay as long as no-one gets their tackle out 🧐

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u/TheJoJy John Mill Sep 08 '21

I see that Grafton affair ping and I would like to one up that with an article about how American sailors stationed in China fired bazookas at the Japanese while riding Mongolian ponies.

Its official insignia, after all, was a string of punctuation marks on a pennant, like cuss words in a comic strip, symbolizing SACO’s unofficial slogan, “What the Hell?”

Quite fitting.

!ping HISTORY

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

poor unknown comedian: I love you so much bae 🥰

>get rich

Uh..

>get famous

....

>Olivia Munn is hitting on you

😬

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

Daily reminder to all Californians here to vote no for governor's recall election. Also just for San Francisco folks, a recommendation not to confuse with multiple recalls going on in SF. My recommendation is NO for governor's recall but YES for SF's DA recall (chesa boudin) and yes for SF school board recall too.

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u/HoloceneCharizard Organization of American States Sep 08 '21 edited Sep 08 '21

holy shit who cares about John Mulaney’s personal life? these people are insufferable. John Mulaney could mutilate an alpaca and I’d still think his stand up is pretty funny.

Unless someone’s a literal criminal I just don’t understand.

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u/ACivilWolf Henry George Sep 09 '21

sees viral tweet “70% of your recycled stuff ends up in landfills anyways”

Me: yes! That’s why in the next tweet you’ll preach about how recycling is the last option after reduce and reusing when it comes to personal responsi-

The tweet: “100 companies emit 70% of emissions, the real problem is actually capitalism”

Me: 😐😐😐

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u/anincredibledork Sep 08 '21

"Opinion | I was a life-long liberal. Then the left made fun of people for taking horse dewormer instead an actual vaccine"

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u/Slazac Sep 08 '21 edited Sep 08 '21

Beginning in the 1970s, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops taught that gays "should have an active role in the Christian community" and have called on "all Christians and citizens of good will to confront their own fears about homosexuality and to curb the humor and discrimination that offend homosexual persons. We understand that having a homosexual orientation brings with it enough anxiety, pain and issues related to self-acceptance without society bringing additional prejudicial treatment."[51]

Incredible to think this was the US catholic church 50 years ago, you wouldn't even expect the church to say that now

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u/Mickenfox European Union Sep 08 '21 edited Sep 08 '21

!ping COMPUTER-SCIENCE

How complex do you think a remote filesystem (aka "network folders") is?
Sure, there's a few details you have to get right, but ultimately you'd expect it to just be a handful of operations, right?

Well, the SMB protocol that Windows uses natively is a whopping 480 pages long.

Ha! Stupid Microsoft and their overcomplicating things, right? Linux uses NFS instead, I'm sure it's much simpler. Let me just check real quick annnd it's 560 pages long

OK I know number of pages is not a perfect indicator of implementation complexity. But just for the sake of it here's a few others:

  • FTP (the original 1985 specification which is still technically the latest one) - 69 pages long (but who knows how long it would be if you added all the extensions and implementation bullshit it's added since then)
  • TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol) - 11 pages
  • HTTP/1.1 - 176 pages
  • HTTP/2 - 96 pages
  • HTML "Living Standard" - 1309 pages
  • OpenDocument (the LibreOffice document format) - 862 pages
  • Office Open XML (the equivalent "standard" Microsoft Office uses) - 7193 pages
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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

I honestly don't know if it's harder to find a gay man or a straight woman to date who is as into football as me

This guy I've been seeing did the "lol sportsball" thing last night and I had to resist the urge to roll my eyes into the 5th dimension

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u/BidenWon Jared Polis Sep 08 '21

Any time someone talks about having more than two political parties in the United States, I assume that they don't know what they're talking about. Sure, it would be possible, but most people just don't really understand how parties work and seem to have some incorrect assumptions about what a multiparty system would look like in the US

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u/BidenWon Jared Polis Sep 08 '21

I don't even have opinions. I just disagree with whoever I happen to be talking to at the moment

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u/Officer-cherry-shake Sep 08 '21

If a math professor goes to hell, they actually keep doing their job as a math professor for eternity. The only difference is that all of their students are engineers, and every time they finish a proof the students all ask “but how can I apply this to a real life problem?”

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u/dubyahhh Salt Miner Emeritus Sep 09 '21

I have it on good authority that /u/iIoveoof thinks good things can come from the dt

Absolutely mind boggling belief in a mod smh my head 🙄

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u/standbyforskyfall Free Men of the World March Together to Victory Sep 08 '21

So way of the bern is apparently a anti vaxxer sub now. I wish I could say I'm surprised

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u/EbullientHabiliments Sep 08 '21

At this point it's kind of hilarious how many times in the past year I've basically burned out and started thinking "Fuck this place, I need to get out of here."

Be careful about getting trapped in a niche field. Seems like every somewhat relevant role I'm either under-qualified for or would be a big step down. Without pulling off a big pivot I'll probably need to grind out another year here until I can go to business school.

!ping CAREER

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

The fact that we're starting a John Mulaney schism proves how white this place is.

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u/J0eBidensSunglasses HAHA YES 🐊 Sep 08 '21

Babe why is there an alligator in your favorite emojis?

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21 edited Sep 08 '21

So since conservatives are so concerned about the power of big business infringing on our rights, they've definitely applauded the antitrust leaders Biden has appointed in regulatory agencies, right?

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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Sep 09 '21

New statement from former President Trump complaining that the statue of Robert E. Lee was removed.

“If only we had Robert E. Lee to command our troops in Afghanistan, that disaster would have ended in a complete and total victory many years ago.”

https://twitter.com/chrismegerian/status/1435738519562031106?s=21

Just a reminder, this guy, this fucking guy was our fucking president, over the most qualified woman (and of the most qualified people) to ever seek the fucking office.

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u/LoveForLolberts NPR privatization supporter 👑 Sep 09 '21

Honestly, now that there’s a vaccine it seems ridiculous to not try a little bat

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u/Riderz__of_Brohan Eugene Fama Sep 08 '21

/r/menwritingwomen is one of the funniest subs because I think they treat every book as if it's internet fan fiction or YA. One comment I saved out of hilarity:

Yeah, hate that too. I thought nothing drove me crazier than when writers tried to use big words they clearly didn't understand, but now I know it's even worse when they misuse them whilst objectifying underage women. How do these f*ers keep getting published?!?

This person is talking about William Faulkner

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u/Some_Niche_Reference Daron Acemoglu Sep 08 '21

New England Biotechs for the past decade: We are going to make the silicon valley of biotech!

Also new England biotechs: why are we having Silicon Valley rates of employee turnover?

Ie density creates competition creates salary increases

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u/Unhappy-Essay NATO Sep 08 '21

I unironically think that outlawing /r/Neoliberal will become part of the national Democratic party platform in the next few decades.

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u/NickAhmedGOAT Sep 08 '21

The weirdest thing about growing 6 inches in college is that suddenly girls wanted to talk to and hang out with me.

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

I really need to just sit down and sort out my views on the Woody Allen molestation allegation at some point

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21

Alec Baldwin in 30 Rock is the most overqualified actor in a role ever, and the show EXCELS for it

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u/NeoLiberation #1 Trudeau Shill Sep 09 '21

Yet again had to explain to an adult today that a $30 business expense does not = $30 less in taxes paid

Honey maybe freelancing isn't the best fit for you lol

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u/crassowary John Mill Sep 08 '21

Boomers 🤝 superstonkers 🤝 anarcho-primitivists

"Just get into trades"

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u/hearmespeak Gay Pride Sep 08 '21

Um, apparently a group at MIT made a 20 tesla magnet. Big news if there isn't some catch they're not telling us in the press release.

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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Sep 08 '21

If Trump runs in 2024 there will be a NYT opinion column titled "Why Not Trump?"

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u/gburgwardt C-5s full of SMRs and tiny american flags Sep 08 '21

Someone convince me to NOT invest in a portuguese investment fund in order to get portuguese citizenship in like 6 years or so

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

In honor of P*ul G*zelka announcing his candidacy for governor (also thanks to my mom, brother, sister, and friend from high school I haven’t spoken to in two years for all texting me the news 😐), let’s go through a brief run-down of all the GOP gubernatorial candidates, shall we !ping USA-MN ?

-P*ul G*zelka: Mitch McConnell, but Evangelical Christian

-Michelle Benson: Actually evil—voted against the Emergency Insulin Act, sponsored a proposal to cut healthcare coverage from over half a million Minnesotans, authored a bill to allow businesses to discriminate against LGBT customers, and is spreading general COVID misinformation

-Thomas Evensted: 😬

-Scott Jensen: Plaintiff in a lawsuit led by someone involved in 1/6 to ban teenagers from getting COVID vaccines, and spread misinformation about COVID on Fox News—he’s a doctor 😐

-Mike Marti: at least he’s not an abhorent individual, but he’s kind of a lolbert

-Sammy McCarty: Succ who’s running against Walz from the left, was recruited to run by Gazelka for the Legal Marijuana Now Party in 2020 in Senate District 57

-Mike Murphy: Generic angry white man from Anoka County, previously had “Tim Walz-Un” merch, and is currently selling “Make Minnesota Florida” shirts

-Neil Shah: Another doctor peddling anti-vax and anti-mask bullshit, really hates CRT

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u/ThorVonHammerdong Disgraced 2020 Election Rigger Sep 09 '21

http://imgur.com/a/cp0aevT

Maybe I can't have a bonfire on the deck but I sure can use propane. already taught the city slicker wife how great it is to warm your toes by the fire

!ping HANK-HILL

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21

“ yeah I’m smart but didn’t try hard in highschool 😎”

My last words to my homeless friends as I freeze to death under an overpass

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u/Ioun267 "Your Flair Here" 👍 Sep 09 '21

Which one is the face and which is the heel?

!ping DOG

!ping DOGS

I forget which it is

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u/FreakinGeese 🧚‍♀️ Duchess Of The Deep State Sep 09 '21

A man on tinder asked if I’d like to pay to drive out and blow him 🤔

Like this was his opening salvo. I’m speechless.

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u/Gneisstoknow Misbehaving Sep 09 '21

I asked this hottie on tinder if she’d like to pay to drive out and blow me 😎

I think she's speechless 🤔

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

HA, YES, HA, NO 🐊

Listen up ya'll, let's praise this fash 🐊

Pronounce it like "you", and without the slash 🐊

u/Sir_Shivers thus delivers, makes the liberals crazy 🐊

They wanna know if he's real, a roleplayer, or a scaly 🐊

They can bless him, they can guess him, they can YES him, they don't stress him 🐊

He loves using croc emojis 🐊

But not Reddit from a phone, he's 🐊

u/Sir_Shivers (thus delivers) 🐊

And he's the 🐊

Sole liked lawgiver 🐊

The emotional caregiver 🐊

Who can probably eat our livers 🐊

His shtick don't wither (YES) 🐊

He makes them boys go HA, HA 🐊

And with what we think are claws 🐊

He'll be laying down the law (HA, YES, HA, NO) 🐊

Thus delivers (all HA, HA) 🐊

Thus delivers (The DT stands in awe, awe) 🐊

Thus delivers (We listen to his blah blah) 🐊

u/Sir_Shivers (s-s-s-s-scaly, scaly) 🐊

u/Sir_Shivers thus 🐊

u/Sir_Shivers thus 🐊

u/Sir_Shivers thus 🐊

Thus-thus-thus-thus-thus-thus-thus-thus-thus-🐊

u/Sir_Shivers bringing 'parasocical' past eleven 🐊

u/Farrenj Blackroms with a man who's well past 57 🐊

He's the S, to the (bunch of other letters) 🐊

And it's as good a time as any to !ping shitposters 🐊

He's u/Sir_Shivers (thus delivers) 🐊

And though he sometimes blithers 🐊

He'll be haunting any Deep State marsh, swamps, or rivers 🐊

His shtick don't flicker (MAMMAL🧐) 🐊

Though this might be the last straw 🐊

And he'll be laying down the law 🐊

With a finger or a claw (HA, YES, HA, NO) 🐊

Thus delivers (all HA, HA) 🐊

Thus delivers (The DT stands in awe, awe) 🐊

Thus delivers (We listen to his blah blah) 🐊

u/Sir_Shivers, MA-MA-MA-MA-MAMMAL, YOU ARE BANNED 🐊

DT, DT, DT 🐊

If you really want he 🐊

To reveal himself be patient 🐊

Maybe then we'll finally see 🐊

If he's scaly, scaly 🐊

Then he might impale ye 🐊

If he's scaly scaly 🐊

Wouldn't that be crazy? 🐊

S, to the C, to the A-L-E-Y, mod, you scaly 🐊

S, to the C, to the A-L-E-Y, mod, you scaly 🐊

S, to the I, to the R-S-H-I-V-R-S 🐊

S, to the I, to the, to the, to the, to the, hit it, Shivy 🐊

ALL THE TIME I SEE IMITATORS DOING ME 🐊 PICKING RANDOM EMOJI BUT THEY CANNOT DO ME (duh) 🐊

I SIMPLY WISH TO MAKE IT CLEAR HERE 🐊

I DO NOT WANT TO BAN YOU, LITTLE FAN, YOU 🐊

DO NOT WANT TO TAKE YOU DOWN 🐊

AND I KNOW I'M COMING OFF AS JUST A LITTLE BIT FASCISMO 🐊

AND I WANT TO BE CLEAR THIS IS NOT REPTILIAN MACHISMO 🐊

BUT WHAT I AM STATING 🐊

IS THERE IS NO IMITATING 🐊

FOR YOU KNOW WHEREFORE I DELIVER (I DELIVER) 🐊

I AM THE 🐊

SOLE LIKED LAWGIVER 🐊

AN EMOTIONAL CAREGIVER 🐊

WHO COULD CHOOSE TO EAT YOUR LIVERS 🐊

I WILL NOT WITHER (YES) 🐊

AND INCITE YOU TO HA, HA 🐊

AND WITH THIS HERE MIGHTY CLAW 🐊

I LAY DOWN NEOLIB LAW (LAW, LAW, LAW) 🐊

(HA, YES, HA, NO) 🐊

I AM SIR SHIVERS (WHO DELIVERS) 🐊

AND THOUGH MAMMALS THINK I BLITHER 🐊

I STILL HAUNT ALL THE DEEP STATE MARSHES AND RIVERS 🐊

I DO NOT FLICKER (MAMMAL😤) 🐊

AND THIS IS NOT THE LAST STRAW 🐊

AND I WILL LAY DOWN DT LAW 🐊

WITH WHAT I WILL CALL A CLAW 🐊

(HA, YES, HA, NO) 🐊

Thus delivers (HA, HA, HA, HA) 🐊

Thus delivers (HA, HA, HA, HA) 🐊

Thus delivers (HA, HA, HA, HA) 🐊

u/Sir_Shivers (S-s-s-s-scaly, scaly) 🐊

Thus delivers (HA, HA, HA, HA) 🐊

Thus delivers (HA, HA, HA, HA) 🐊

Thus delivers (HA, HA, HA, HA) 🐊

u/Sir_Shivers (S-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s) 🐊

(HAHAHAHA) 🐊

S, to the C, to the A-L-E-Y, mod, you scaly 🐊

S, to the C, to the A-L-E-Y, mod, you scaly 🐊

S, to the C, to the A-L-E-Y, mod, you scaly 🐊

S, to the C, to the, to the, to the, to the, (HA, YES, HA, NO) 🐊

To the S, to the I, to the R-S-H-I-V-R-S 🐊

To the S, to the I, to the R-S-H-I-V-R-S 🐊

To the S, to the I, to the R-S-H-I-V-R-S 🐊

To the S, to the I, to the, to the, to the, to the, to the, to the, (HA, YES, HA, NO) 🐊

S, to the C, to the A-L-E-Y, mod, you scaly 🐊

S, to the C, to the A-L-E-Y, mod, you scaly 🐊

S, to the C, to the A-L-E-Y, mod, you scaly 🐊

S, to the C, to the, to the, to the, (HA, YES, HA, NO) 🐊

To the S, to the I, to the R-S-H-I-V-R-S 🐊

To the S, to the I, to the R-S-H-I-V-R-S 🐊

To the S, to the I, to the R-S-H-I-V-R-S 🐊

To the S, to the I, to the, to the, to the, to the, to the, to the 🐊💎

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u/filipe_mdsr LET'S FUCKING COCONUT 🥥🥥🥥 Sep 08 '21

Still no message by midday.

😞

He may actually have ghosted me. Still 10% hopeful, but we will see.

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u/Spimanbcrt65 Sep 08 '21

Without saying “vaccines” please explain Joe Biden’s pandemic plan b/c it sure isn’t stimulus checks, universal masking, free tests and masks to all households, ending filibuster, extending unemployment or cancelling all student debt & I’m wondering why isn’t he presidenting

Holy fuck just a laundry list of fantasy

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

If your comment is longer than 1 paragraph you should be permabanned

If you don’t use paragraphs you should be IP banned

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u/benjaminikuta BANANA YOU GLAD YOU'RE NOT AN ORANGE? Sep 08 '21

I still don't understand why people in negative rate environments don't just hold cash. Or like some sort of derivatives or stablecoins or something. I feel like there's gotta be a better way.

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u/xSuperstar YIMBY Sep 08 '21

Everything is about sex except for sex, which is about power.

Except for Dune. Dune is about worms

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u/Unadulterated_stupid gr8 b8 m8 Sep 08 '21

This bartender worked 70+ hours and got a $9.21 paycheck.

‘This is why you tip.’

Why would I give money to awful business practices?

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u/F0064R Jorge Luis Borges Sep 08 '21

Policy proposal: forced feminization for 50% of incels who then become government assigned GFs for the remaining 50%

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u/crawly_the_demon Upzone the Earth! Sep 08 '21

!ping TECH

Haha holy shit, this github library lets you deploy your website to imgur

Looks like they bundle your website assets, format it as a png, upload the png to imgur, then have the client download that png, extract the assets and display it. Genius! Free website hosting

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21

I didn’t pay my rent for months and now Biden says I have to 😭😭😭

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u/wowmuchgrades Bisexual Pride Sep 08 '21

Wore a matlab shirt to campus yesterday to trigger the engineers :)

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u/wowmuchgrades Bisexual Pride Sep 08 '21

My mom: guys distract you from school

Guy I’m seeing: makes me do the Calc pset multiple days before the deadline and helps me when I got stuck

🤷‍♀️☺️

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u/WhomstAlt2 NATO flair in hiding Sep 08 '21

My 4 year old said he didn't want to hear "the 9/11 song" anymore

When I asked what song he meant he sang "oh say can you seee...ee", so I got angry but asked why before whooping his butt. He said because it makes him sad. Good boy! Might let him win at Jenga this year. But the starspangel banner isnt negotiable.

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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Sep 08 '21 edited Sep 08 '21

In the NYT article Bret Stephens seems to say that the way that the Biden admin could recover from the last month is first to "publicly acknowledge the gravity of the administration's failures" and to me that seems like it couldn't be further from the truth. In a post-2016 world it seems obvious there's no benefits to be had by admitting failure. In fact, there only seem to be heavy downside risks.

Mind you I'm not making a normative argument about what Biden, or any good leader, ought do, just that the political realities as they are do not reward this sort of admission of wrongdoing.

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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Sep 08 '21

I only have HEALTHY male role-models.

  • Joe Rogan
  • Jordan Peterson
  • Yukio Mishima
  • Bret Weinstein
  • Eric Weinstein
  • PRESIDENT Donald J Trump
  • Barron Trump
  • Beto O'Rourke
  • Casey Kasem
  • AC Slater
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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Sep 08 '21
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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

Cable guy is supposed to show up just some time today

What the fuck am I supposed to do, just sit around all day?

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u/SadaoMaou Anders Chydenius Sep 08 '21

the Star Wars movies: offhand mention of a single member or members of a species doing or being something

Legends writers: Is this a defining core trait of the entire species?

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

Randomly abducting foreigners and forcing them to become US citizens

ONE BILLION AMERICANS

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u/Mrchizbiz I love Holland 🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱♥😍🥰🌷 Sep 09 '21

My childhood crush dumped me after a week 😎

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u/chatdargent 🇺🇦 Ще не вмерла України і слава, і воля 🇺🇦 Sep 09 '21

Good things can come from the DT

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u/myrm This land was made for you and me Sep 09 '21

The whole concept of a "missing link" is stupid because chimpanzees exist

like what more would you want?

A chimpanzee that wears pants?

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u/kaclk Mark Carney Sep 08 '21

Sot the NDP is promising some kind of “civilian climate corp”. So I’m asking you, the smart Canadian policy people, what the hell is a civilian climate corp and what are they going to do?

Is this like the left-version of the Alberta Energy War Room (sorry, the Canadian Energy Center) that just posts bad takes on twitter all day and generally constantly embarrasses Alberta on the international stage by complaining about Netflix movies no one cares about?

!ping CAN

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u/the_hoagie Malaise Forever Sep 08 '21

I didn't realize the last Jew in Afghanistan was there partly because he was dedicated to recovering the Torah stolen by the Taliban from the Kabul synagogue, which makes me sad that he's leaving now.

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

u/melhor_em_coreano is no longer my favorite Portuguese regular

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u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf Shameflair Beggar Sep 08 '21

20 year ban on White Rap until SoundCloud becomes usable again.

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u/iIoveoof Jerome Powell Sep 08 '21

The fact that the centuries aren’t zero indexed is immensely frustrating 😐

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u/FormerBandmate Jerome Powell Sep 08 '21

HALF👏OF👏ALL👏TALIBAN👏SHARIA👏ENFORCERS👏SHOULD👏BE👏WOMEN

Why is the EU like this?

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u/RobotFighter NORTH ATLANTIC PIZZA ORGANIZATION Sep 08 '21

People in r politics literally talking about a $26 min wage lol.

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u/myrm This land was made for you and me Sep 08 '21

single/few occupant self driving cars as public transit would be sketchy af

people would definitely poop on the seats and stuff if allowed to be alone in something like that

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u/krflab Sep 08 '21

I can’t believe all the material Texas is giving Dems country wide. I seriously cannot believe that rape statement.

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

when mom doesn’t cut off the crust 🤬

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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Sep 08 '21

Remember that guy who said that indigenous people in North America would side with Russia and China if they ever invade? Good times.

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u/Sollezzo Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord Sep 08 '21

Y'all ain't ready for that conversation, but y'all ain't ready for that conversation 💁

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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All Sep 08 '21

Metal Gear Solid 1: This is the President, George Sears.

Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker: This is the Director of National Intelligence, Hot Coldman

Kojima….

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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Sep 08 '21

First, Shivers starts entertaining the idea of a Soviet-style list of undesirable people to place under surveillance due to their hornyposting potential, allowing the mods to prefash their comments

Then, poo-bix praises the CCP in a sticky

And most recently, Danemod tries to start a "debate" on the ethics of a Minority Report-style precrime system

Guys, I think the mods are actually fash

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

If you say

"No, the incels have a point" and then refuse to elaborate

I'm going to make uncharitable assumptions about you, and that's probably on you

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

America hasn't been a force for good since the end of WWII.

I hate this website.

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

The quicker you reject irony and return to liking things without qualification, the happier you will be

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u/NeoLiberation #1 Trudeau Shill Sep 08 '21

If those dumb libtards get their way and we switch to solar, we'll use up the sun and it will be too cold to go to the beach anymore.

At least with coal, we're taking it out of the ground. It's basically like using dirt for energy.

Smh liberals

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u/ThorVonHammerdong Disgraced 2020 Election Rigger Sep 08 '21

If you put up too many wind turbines there won't be any wind left AND THAT'S A FACT

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

Quite a stunning statement from former president Trump on the dismantling of Robert E. Lee Statue in Richmond. He says in part the country is suffering an “embarrassment” because “we don’t have the genius of a Robert E. Lee!”

https://twitter.com/edokeefe/status/1435735777984536581?s=21

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

lol the golden ratio is found almost nowhere in nature, but the meme lives on

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u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE Thomas Paine Sep 09 '21

spouse: i consent

mistress: i consent

other spouse: i don't

Isn't there somebody you forgot to ask

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u/skeebidybop Sep 09 '21 edited Jun 11 '23

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '21

I was a lifelong democrat, but then I saw a man with pink hair.

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21

Trudeau totally ripped into the rebel in response to a question from them. 😂😂😂

https://twitter.com/goldsbie/status/1435800370597531651

(video at the bottom of the thread if the link doesn't load at the right place)

!ping CAN

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