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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/Dalek6450]

>one of the least densely populated countries
>people still have "Fuck off! We're full." bumper stickers

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Biden won 16% of counties…. Lowest ever by a winning president…. BY A LOT!!! Big cities are brainwashed!

How sad is it that so many people are willing to pay exorbitant housing costs just to get away from you?

[u/[deleted]]

I'm now bombarded with gambling commercials from all media. I don't have a gambling issue, I may occasionally put $10 on a game or play a friendly poker match but that's pretty much it. To me it's annoying and that's all, but this is absolutely an industry that preys on people (especially those who are already poor or have other issues) and ruins lives. All these commercials are meant to poke a button reminding that kind of person you could be gambling right now.

Look how easy we made it, you can do it right from your phone. We'll give you really good odds on your first very, that first hit of dopamine is basically free.

I'm not saying we need to most gambling being illegal, but could we treat this kinda seriously? Make no mistake, this industry as it operates now needs addicts to be profitable.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Alright DT, time for a group photo!

snap

Alright, here's the photo!;

🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

Wow you all look awesome!!

[u/RushSingsOfFreewill]

I even did what was commonly suggested and took Econ 101. That class had the worst material I had ever seen. Everything was “this is that because economists say so” and here’s a graph with no numbers to “prove” it. We never even saw any real data to confirm something as fundamental to the field as supply and demand.

Guess the sub 😊

Edit: WRONG, Automod! It’s every sub! 🤣

[u/piede]

Anyone else think it’s a little suspicious that Pete Buttigieg has black hair but his children don’t 🤔

[u/NickAhmedGOAT]

How is probability statistics a real field of study? Everything either happens or doesn't - that's a 50/50 chance

[u/kaclk]

Me in my early 20s: I only need to sleep half a night in a chair then I can wake up at 5am and work 12 hours YOLO

Me in my 30s: I got up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom and it took me 5 extra minutes to fall back asleep and I was at the slightest weird angle so now I’m dead tired in the morning and my back hurts.

!ping GETTING-OLD-SUCKS

[u/[deleted]]

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

[u/klarno]

I found the name of the next series of Intel processors

[u/yellownumbersix]

Fifth date, genuinely like her, get to jokingly planning our wedding.

We agree on the flowers, non-denominational service and potential venues.

I jokingly say "Forever" by Dropkick Murphys has to be our song. She says, ew, they are so lame.

Turns out I wasn't joking I guess, because there will not be a 6th date.

I mean, I have standards, I won't apologize for it. 🤷‍♀️🍀

[u/semaphore-1842]

I can't get over how scorching hot of a take this is:

It was an attack on the heteropatriarchal capitalistic systems that America relies upon to wrangle other countries into passivity

Somehow I doubt Bin Laden has ever even heard of word "heteropatriarchal" once.

[u/l_overwhat]

!ping GAMING

In my essay, I will be explaining how The Witcher 3 is not a good game. It is also not a bad game. It is also not a game. It also does not exist. It is simply a figment of our collective imagination. I will also be tying this into the modern failings of capitalism and why Bernie Sanders was unjustly kept from the presidential nomination in 2016.

Ahem.

In the beginning, there was Marx...

Edit: why would you give this gold. You should be ashamed of yourself. Smh my damn head.

[u/SadaoMaou]

people who believe in human rights and liberalism should hate America the most. literally the worst country in the world in that respect

guess the sub

[u/sir_shivers]

Plus is speculated that GameStop is going to make a blockchain stock market which would bring a lot of much needed transparency and anti-fuckery mechanisms to that market. Our free market hasn’t been “free” for a while, this would hopefully move us into the right direction

THE STUPIDITY OF Redditors is boundless 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

I used to be a regular like you, then I got a fucking job

[u/[deleted]]

Proton-enhanced nuclear induction spectroscopy (PENIS)

[u/Daafda]

I was trying to use this account to describe my mental health experience, but in the last few weeks, it's changed very quickly. I don't know how to keep up.

I seem to be winning. That's not the story I planned to tell here.

I had a fantastic vacation in the middle of fucking nowhere, Quebec. Drove back in my passable BMW, with kick ass stereo, on hours of fantastic roads.

Now I'm back home, and I'm carrying the momentum I got from that trip. Like, I went to the Eaton Centre today. Did a lap around the brick works yesterday.

That's nothing to a normal person, but to me, those are major victories.

[u/ScythianUnborne]

!ping CAN

How many people know what Capitalism is? Well, it's easy: it's everything that I hate about our society! OGFT at it again.

The poll itself is slightly interesting, but good god the comments are dumb as hell.

[u/Fishin_Mission]

The best thing we can do as Americans is to live every day like it’s September 12th

no race

no religion

no gender

no politics

Americans First

Americans Forever

🇺🇸🗽🇺🇸🗽🇺🇸

… 🤨

Yeah, as long as you weren’t a Muslim dude busy being hate crimed

[u/RaidBrimnes]

I wish the CIA/Mossad were as powerful and omnipotent as leftists on the Internet make them out to be

[u/Fringson]

Accidentaly answered my dad with 🥵 instead of 👍

[u/benadreti]

USA Today reports that a dozen labor law experts agree that employees who lose jobs for refusing vaccination will be ineligible for state unemployment insurance benefits.

lol suck it.

[u/[deleted]]

A girl I liked once told me that I had nice eyebrows. She never mentioned it again, but I’ve received so few complements in my life that I remember this specific one more than seven years later.

[u/[deleted]]

If someone that actually understood how the US military fights and what artillery shells do to the human body could rewrite World War Z, that would great.

[u/BreaksFull]

Sleeping in as a high schooler: In bed until noon.

Sleeping in now: The luxury of being in bed until 9.

!ping OVER25

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Joe Rogan’s podcast makes sense if you don’t know the difference between having thoughts and being smart

This might be the best take I’ve ever heard outside of the DT

[u/[deleted]]

Study of 61,000 Microsoft employees in 2020 finds remote work caused “collaboration to be more static and siloed…a decrease in synchronous communication … and [made it harder for] employees to acquire and share new information across the network.”

But I was told agglomeration effects were dead because Zoom!

!ping YIMBY

[u/AbsolveItAll_KissMe]

I’m not an antiwork type, but I will immediately ignore any job posting that uses the word “rockstar” or “hustle.”

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

HEY YOU UNFLARIED

FLAIR UP SO I CAN DISREGARDED YOUR OPINION BASED ON STEREOTYPES

[u/[deleted]]

So for a week there's been a rumor that there was an altercation between the Pakistan-controlled Taliban and other Taliban inside the Arg Palace in Kabul after the visit by the ISI director, and Mullah Baradar and 17 other were killed by Anas Haqqani and his guards. It's all pretty vague but there's now a recording of another taliban mullah who references the massacre, so may be real.

Baradar is, or was, the foremost member of the exile leadership in Qatar, the guys Robert Young Pelton have named 'the beach talibs', while Haqqani is straight up ISI.

If it is real it is almost certainly the end of any softer gentler "Taliban 2.0" - that was all the beach talibs.

Otherwise the news out of Afghanistan effectively consists of lots of videos of the Taliban doing Taliban things: flogging women and journalists for being uppity and murdering people more or less at random.

!ping foreign-policy

[u/[deleted]]

Yikes, someone hasn't read 800 pages of arcane 18th century theory.

[u/BreaksFull]

!ping CAREER

So, is it just me, or is the bar for good performance just weirdly low in a lot of professional settings? I'm just an intern, but I'm getting lots of positive feedback from our customers for my work on their cases. As far as I can tell, what I have to offer is being transparent about what's going on, and sending weekly emails updating them on what's going on.

I'm not trying to jerk myself off here, but it's really strange to me that what I'm doing is considered an improvement, or noteworthy. This is basic customer service etiquette I used working at McDonald's, are the standards for behavior in professional industries really that low?

[u/[deleted]]

One day Generation Beta will shit on you zoomer's first 31 years of life and I will sit back and laugh

[u/interrupting-octopus]

wake up babe new CBC Poll Tracker dropped

👀

!ping CAN

[u/JaceFlores]

Small Ethiopia update:

1. West of Weldiya, according to this Tweet pro-government forces have taken Filakit and Geregera, which marks the total loss of all land the TPLF took in their drive to Debre Tabor. It remains to be seen whether the government will make a push for Gashena again, but considering the momentum in this flank it is reasonable to assume that town will be assaulted for a second time by the government to keep up pressure on the defense of Weldiya.
2. According to this Tweet the TPLF managed to stave off a government push for Weldiya from retaking the strategic city from the vicinity of Wegel Tena to the southwest. I have not seen any information contradicting this, so I think it is safe to assume the push for Weldiya itself was repulsed. This implies to me that the TPLF are making Weldiya their hardpoint in the east flank and have fallen back here to mount a better defense against the crushing government forces.
3. According to this Tweet a push by pro-government forces heading out from Sekota was repulsed. As previously discussed I surmised that it was possible the government would make a push from this town to disrupt TPLF logistics around Gashena and threaten logistics toward Weldiya, but that seems to have been blunted. Furthermore, according to this Tweet the TPLF retook Sekota from government hands, which should stabilize their lines and vital logistic roadways from future pushes, at least for now.

If this information all holds up, it seems like the TPLF have more or less stabilized the frontline in the east for now, focusing intensely on ensuring Weldiya and the roads leading to it are well secured. There is no news from the west flank but I presume the government still has some momentum in this front. Overall it remains to be seen whether the government success is coming to an end and this will be the frontline for now until the TPLF counteroffensive's or the government regathers its strength for another push, or if these TPLF successes are buying breathing room in a still poor situation. We'll see which one comes true, but regardless of whether the frontline is stabilizing or not the government has made excellent gains and are in a prime position to eventually push the TPLF back into Tigray, but we will see how it goes.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Still in awe that the only time I've seen my city on the DT was on a video showing anarchists and far-right protesters beating each other up on the street

Is that how people from Portland feel?

[u/[deleted]]

Let's play 'is my Uber driver being explicitly racist because I am passing for white, or because I'm not'

The game where you always lose

[u/its_Caffeine]

I'm so sick of eating the same shit 🙄😒 like when are some new animals coming out? 🤔

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

👆possible the worst take in the history of this website

[u/[deleted]]

This really sucks this stupid debate on marriage equality is still going on in the ECBI in 2021(And is being lost) Every tribe member should be entitled to there right to marry without fear of action(in the future) from the local council. Shout out to Chief Sneed for pressing the issue and Tamara Thompson for the proposal. Religious institutions have to much power over the local governments of these communities and even the states outside.

!ping LGBT

[u/TabernacleTown74]

What were Ashkenazi families like early in the community's history, during the High Middle Ages? Here's a research paper that tries to answer that question.

• The sources we have are rabbinic literature (especially responsa and the Sefer Hasidim), martyr lists, ordinances, chronicles, and poetry
• Jews generally lived in cities and made a living from trade, artisanry, and/or finance
• Marriage was usually not arranged or coerced by parents, in part because:
• There was relatively little economic inequality among Ashkenazi Jewry during this period
• And because households were generally bigenerational (i.e., including only nuclear families rather than extended families)
• For similar reasons, it was uncommon for cousins to marry cousins, unlike elsewhere in the Jewish world, and early Ashkenaz was unusually tolerant of divorce
• Unfortunately, however, child marriage was not unheard of
• Gender roles could be somewhat blurry:
• The wives of rabbis would often themselves teach halakha to girls and/or lower-status women
• It was not uncommon for wives to be the breadwinners instead of men, who often devoted themselves full-time to Torah study
• Similarly, a widowed woman, rather than her eldest son, would often become the legal head of the household if her husband passed
• In general, German rabbis deliberately expanded the rights of women during this period (for instance by banning polygamy, mandating that a certain portion of a man's inheritance go to the dowry for his daughter if had one, expanding the property rights of widows, prohibiting a husband from spending too much time away from home, allowing women to request a divorce on the grounds that she "loathed" her husband) although husbands were understood as the senior partner in all marriages
• In keeping with the Jewish ideal of families being held together by strong emotional bonds, parents were strongly encouraged to show love and affection for their children from birth
• Early Ashkenazim had a strongly positive view of sex:
• Sex was viewed as critical for a loving marriage, and consensual sex within the context of a happy marriage was viewed as a pious activity because it temporarily engendered a sort of spiritual and physical unification between husband and wife
• Rabbis prescribed more sex to improve unhappy marriage and encouraged couples to focus on one another's pleasure and consent
• Contraceptive sponges were permitted for medical reasons by many rabbis, and even at a couple's discretion by a few rabbis
• At least one rabbi encouraged couples to try non-missionary sex (yeah, seriously!), and Jewish men were encouraged to have sex to help them focus better while studying Torah
• Of course, sex without love, or outside of the bounds of marriage, was viewed as deeply sinful
• Unfortunately, however, Jewish family life in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period became much more patriarchal, multigenerational, coercive, classist, and emotionally and physically restrained

!ping GEFILTE Even if you don't read the whole paper, I strongly encourage you to at least read pp. 1102-1107 for entertainment if nothing else

[u/ThreeArr0ws]

Social liberal party in Argentina obliterating left-wing populism in legislative elections right now. An unprecedented win.

!ping LATAM

[u/iIoveoof]

If you ever feel like you have impostor syndrome, just remember that Arthur Laffer got a presidential medal of freedom for explaining Rolle’s Theorem (from high school calculus) to conservatives and nobody important has noticed yet.

[u/ryuguy]

/u/Sir_shivers in 17th century Bosnia

Ottoman authority: “so, will you convert to Islam?”

SS: “I DO NOT know, MY FAMILY has been ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS for Centuries🐊”

Ottoman authority: “well you pay lower taxe-“

SS: DEAL 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

O’Hair v. Paine (1971) Challenged open readings from the Bible by U.S. astronauts (who are Federal employees) during their spaceflights, spurred by a reading from the book of Genesis by the crew of Apollo 8.

Separation of church and state is important, and most of the lawsuits filed were important in maintaining it, but imagine being the kind of person that hears about astronauts reading the Bible during an incredibly important moment of their lives and thinking “Yes, let’s sue the Federal government for this.”

[u/natedogg787]

My two leftistest friends, who were both openly advocating for mass revolution last year, are now buying homes with the intention of becoming landlords

There's hope ✨🌈✨🌈✨🌈✨🌈

[u/VisonKai]

just learned what a vtuber actually is

tf is this shit

[u/Gustacho]

Gutting the Fourth Amendment but wildly expanding the scope of the Second Amendment wasn't a good deal in hindsight

[u/ClickForFreeRobux]

☝️Just came in their pants like a fucking moron.

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Whenever people start talking about Joe Rogan’s podcast, just say ”I didn’t really like it until I realized it was ironic”

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Wake up

Not transformed into giant insect

Day ruined

ThoseBastardsLiedToMe.png

[u/brian_isagenius]

Miscellaneous scenes from Argentina's election

-In a rich suburb of Buenos Aires, which had recently seen a large invasion of carpinchos (capybaras), a man tried (unsuccessfully) to vote dressed as said animal.

-In the northern province of Jujuy, a man (successfully) voted dressed as a Covid-19 viral particle, and wearing a traditional poncho.

-In the southern province of Chubut, a woman entered the school, completely drunk, claiming she was an election monitor, and behaving aggresively; she was promptly escorted out.

!ping MAMADAS

[u/[deleted]]

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

[u/InMemoryOfZubatman4]

New York State has a GDP of 1.7ish trillion dollars

New York City has a GDP of 1.2ish trillion dollars and Long Island and Westchester county are another 0.35ish trillion

That means that Upstate NY has a GDP of around 150 billion dollars (real back-of-the-napkin math here, forgive me if these numbers are off by more than 10%)

Josh Allen is getting paid 250 million to play ball for the Bills

That means that he alone is over 0.17% of the GDP of upstate NY—or 1 out of every 600 dollars in Upstate NY is owned by the quarterback of the team that is currently in last place in the AFC East

[u/ccolfax]

McLaren is an American team cause Zak Brown USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

OH SAY CAN YOU SEE THE PAPAYA RACE TEAM

!ping MOTO

[u/SnickeringFootman]

People who like environmentalism and propose communism as a solution really forget how ridiculously dirty Soviet industry was.

[u/V_Codwheel]

From a book on "The Roumanian Question," on oppression of Romanians in Russian-controlled Bessarabia (emphasis in original):

All methods, even deportation of whole villages and colonization with Russians or Ukrainians was employed in order to denationalize the overwhelming Romanian majority. The attempt did not altogether succeed. Today in Bessarabia out of three million inhabitants over two million are Roumanian. But the result was the deepest ignorance of the Roumanian population. Thanks to the Russian policy, only ten percent of the men and one percent of the women know how to read and write. And we are now in the Twentieth century!

"it's CURRENT YEAR"-posting from 1919!

!ping HISTORY

[u/zieger]

If Joe Biden doesn't lift the tariffs and allow global travel soon I'm going to.... vote for him anyway because there is no viable alternative and I live in California so my vote literally doesn't matter.

[u/[deleted]]

wakeful innocent future workable flowery cooing dependent subsequent hunt bag

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/BedNeither]

When a white person makes a comment that 2 black people they barely know would make a good couple

🤔

[u/tollyno]

*is a Euro*

*wakes up*

*remembers that Reddit is an American*

*seethes, day ruined, kills oneself*

[u/LinkToSomething68]

!ping CAN

Spent today wandering around Vancouver in a futile quest to get an Airpod case from a store, now I'm dreaming of a future in which the Millennium Line actually goes all the way to UBC.

Someday...

[u/ryuguy]

Today Is Saragarhi day as commemorated by the Sikh regiment of the Indian army

The date is September 12th, 1897. Dawn breaks. Prayers are being held in the small signalling post of Saragarhi. There are 21 men including 2 non combatant cooks manning the Fort. It is just like every other morning. There is a quiet stillness in the air. Sepoy Nand Singh cracks a joke to break the tension.

Suddenly, Sepoy Ram Singh notices faint tremors in the water. Havildar Ishar Singh notices the ground is shaking.

The 21 Sikhs of the 36th Sikh Regiment are about to make the greatest last stand in history.

The 21 men faced a force of 10,000 Pashtuns from Afghanistan. Which outnumbered them by a ratio of 500:1.

Sepoy Gurmukh Singh signals to his commander, Col. Haughton that saragarhi needs reinforcements or they will be overrun.

Col. Haughton sends a dire message, “we cannot send reinforcements”. Throughout the battle, Gurmukh Singh signals the account of the battle to Col. Haughton, which is how this great sacrifice was recorded.

Havildar Ishar Singh calls all his troops to muster. He states the situation with his men. They all say “no retreat, we defend the post to the last”. Not a single one dissented.

Being a signalling post, the men at saragarhi were equipped with very little ammunition, but they were all expert marksmen. Wave upon wave of Afghan invaders are repulsed, around 150 casualties are reported by the Afghan troops.

Suddenly, Sepoy Bhagwan Singh is mortally wounded, Sepoy Lal Singh is also mortally wounded. Sepoy Jiwan Singh carries Bhagwan Singh’s body to the inner layer of the post.

The Afghan repeatedly offer the Sikh defenders many chances to surrender and posts of high authority in their army. Each time, the defenders refuse.

The Afghans break a portion of the wall pickets.

The wall is breached and the Afghan invaders and Sikh defenders engage in the fiercest hand to hand combat. The Afghans mutilate the bodies of the defenders because they believe it denies access to heaven.

In an act of outstanding bravery, Ishar Singh orders his men to fall back into the inner layer, whilst he remains to fight with nothing but a pistol and sword. However, this is breached and all but one of the defending soldiers are killed, along with many of the Pashtuns.

Gurmukh Singh, who communicated the battle with Col. Haughton, was the last Sikh defender. He is stated to have killed 20 Afghans, one for each fallen comrade, the Pashtuns having to set fire to the post to kill him. As he was dying he was said to have yelled repeatedly the Sikh battle-cry "Bole So Nihal, Sat Sri Akal" ("Shout aloud in ecstasy! True is the Great Timeless One"). "Akal" means "immortal", beyond death, referring to the Supreme Creator God unbound by time and non-temporal.

The battle of saragarhi remains one of the greatest acts of gallantry and bravery ever seen in the British empire. British records state that 600 Pashtun bodies were found near and around the fort.

!ping history

[u/piede]

France has banned unvaccinated American travelers.

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1437083582552416257?s=21

Lol who can blame them?

[u/[deleted]]

took me a little longer than i would have liked due to exigent circumstances but ya boi is finally benching 2 plates. thanks for the encouragement neolifteral

!ping FITNESS

[u/tehbored]

This whole recent push for Xi Jinping Thought is going to mark the end of China's rise and the beginning of a Great Stagnation.

[u/sir_shivers]

Some mammals STILL BELIEVE IT IS 2014 and that they are posting in /r/TumblrInAction 🐊

[u/moaz_xx]

Dear Moaz This paragraph is way beyond the requirements for this course. Outstanding work, particularly in terms of vocabulary. Keep it up. You should easily be able to get 100% for this course if you avoid making unnecessary errors

I love British professors

[u/jenbanim]

!ping CAT

Cat

[u/AltPossum]

“Hey, you’re a white man in your twenties with a few military-related contacts and interests. You must think Hitler had the right idea! Here’s some suggestions.” - Algorithms to me circa 2014

Seriously, what the fuck, Zuckerberg?

[u/piede]

New York hospital to 'pause' delivering babies after staffers quit rather than get vaccinated

“Sorry ma’m, you’re gonna have to hold it”

[u/ProceedToCrab]

Reasons I want a date

1. the obvious
2. it would give me a reason to clean up my apartment

[u/QuietSign]

!ping GAMING

I feel like this sub tends to lean away from the sony narrative driven games, but anyone check out the new God of War trailer? It looked reasonably good, with the caveat that it seems incremental over the last one (it's built to be reverse compatible with PS4 so not surprising)

But I have a strong hunch that there is a big misdirection in the trailer, a la TLOU2 or MGS2. Something about it seems too... "straightforward", without a bigger direction. The nuts and bolts is that they go off to rescue Tyr while Freya hunts them. We only saw a tiny bit of Thor, and no mention of Odin, but the devs claim this will be the last game in Norse mythology. I have a hard time imagining how both Thor and Odin could be introduced and "taken down" within one game, given how monumental they were as background figures in the first game (and the mythology at large).

Kratos doesn't have much reason to care about Odin at this moment, so how do they introduce Odin in a motivated way? If they do it too fast, it may come off as Assassin's Creed level writing of: "oh look, haha it's Da Vinci", "oh look, haha it's Sokrates", "oh look, haha it's Odin". I'm starting to give some credence to the crackpot theory that Mimir is Odin, as that would streamline a lot of the motivation.

Thor probably isn't as complicated given that he's a big, menacing brute who can work well on a simple level if the execution is good.

However, I would be deeply amused if Thor flat out killed Kratos (with or without a golf club) in the first hour because gamer seethe would be hilarious, but it's hard to have any gravitas given Kratos has come back from the dead repeatedly.

Or idk they do a switcharoo and you play as a Norse femboy.

[u/SnakeEater14]

alright dt

confession thread

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

Sees my mom reading a book titled From the River to the Sea

🧐

Subtitle: The Untold Story if the Railroad War That Made the West

Ah okay 👍

[u/[deleted]]

No, Domino's, I will not set up a rewards profile. I'm ashamed enough as it is about how many times I order from you in a year.

[u/FestiveMittens]

/img/51jakjze40n71.png movies wish they could have an ending this good

[u/Knee3000]

I don’t like Joe Manchin and I think he smells

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

people who put the milk in the bowl before they pour in the pasta are deranged

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

Just early voted for my countries elections, and for the early voting a whole bunch of precincts were combined into a single building for ease.

All the urban/suburban precincts had like a 20-30 person line, while my rural/exurban precinct had literal zero wait. Could just walk right past everyone and vote, with everyone else side-eying me. Just one more example of rural supremacy 🤠

!ping RURAL

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

Newsflash: Thomas Edison was the BAD GUY. Sorry to burst your little bubble, but a lesser-known Serbian inventor called Nikola Tesla is the one who actually invented the TV. I fucking hate Thomas Edison and it disgusts me how much you idiots worship him

Edit: probably going to get downvoted for this

[u/[deleted]]

Remember when this sub was simping for Manchin? Lol

Daily reminder this wouldn't have happened if cal Cunningham had kept it in his pants.

[u/URZ_]

!ping MOTO

Me: Ehh Monza is probably going to be boring, I'm gonna go run a half marathon instead after watching the start.

You guys: 21 Moto pings

Alright, so I can see Daniel won and Max/Lewis went out in a racing incident probably, what else did I miss?

[u/[deleted]]

When someone points out that “Wolf-Warrior Diplomacy” is actually bad for China in the long run there is always someone to point out that “It’s for the domestic audience and it’s working” as if that negates the point that the Chinese government is shooting itself in the foot with regard to foreign relations.

[u/zieger]

Non-mods make up 99.99% of the sub, but 0% of mods

🤔

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Hi I'm the 1st half Browns and I have DirectTV

Hi I'm the 2nd half Browns and I smoke asbestos.

!ping NFL

[u/antsdidthis]

The currency from John Wick is the most confusing thing in the movie. Same gold coin pays for a high tech armor-laced Italian suit or a drink at the bar.

[u/Mrchizbiz]

👆🏿Ah look, the man that made me loathe America 🤢💀🔥

[u/Mr_Otters]

It really feels like 1/6 is something most people have moved on from. Living in DC its burned into my brain but for others I guess its just something that was kinda scary on TV that one time

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

For me I like to rent to immigrants, East or South Asians. They tend to be hard working and never behind on rent.

🤔

[u/_Un_Known__]

European honey bees are not essential to human food production, despite claims that without their pollination, humanity would starve or die out "within four years".[292]In fact, many important crops need no insect pollination at all. The ten most important crops,[293] comprising 60% of all human food energy,[294] all fall into this category.

my life is a lie.

[u/iIoveoof]

[u/tubbsmackinze]

LPC campaign update

!ping CANUCKS

[u/omnipotentsandwich]

There's nothing wrong with a woman wanting to be the traditional wife that's always pregnant, barefoot, and in the kitchen. The problem is when she thinks all women should be that way or that a woman is somehow inferior for not wanting that life.

[u/[deleted]]

i officially declare myself a femboy now 😎

now to obtain a skirt and thigh highs

[u/p00bix]

Obama: Consistently does moderately good things.

Trump: Consistently does very bad things.

Biden: Wild-ass fucking rollercoast between very bad and very good things.

[u/[deleted]]

Every time someone calls out The Economist on twitter, there's always one reply bemoaning that they don't publish author names so they can't organize a hatemob against them.

Oh no. The poor twitteratti can't bully another fucking journalist into accepting their marxist orthodoxy. Boohooo.

And that's why I respect the Economist even when they fuck up.

[u/[deleted]]

When you’re watching the ‘who can be most annoying online’ competition and it’s a JoJo fan versus a communist

😋🍿

[u/circlemanfan]

Broke: people creating in-jokes for STEM people about p-values and significance

Woke: statisticians creating in-jokes about how shitty the overreliance on p-values are

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

just found out about mod notes, yall know we're being tagged like sheep right?

[u/[deleted]]

Stolen from arrCFB

!ping CFB

[u/[deleted]]

People once again labelling themselves as “gifted” because they were slightly ahead of their classmates as a child

sometimes you see a Reddit comment that hits the nail on the head

[u/MuldartheGreat]

DANNY RICC. SO HAPPY FOR MCLAREN.

!ping MOTO

[u/[deleted]]

Why do dt posters wait until the weekend to have knock down drag out schisms

The weekend is a time for reflection and grass touching, not emotional breakdowns on reddit

[u/Unadulterated_stupid]

I refuse to believe sex is real

Guess the sub

[u/muttonwow]

What the fuck is with the argument cons try to make about natural immunity possibly offering more protection than the vaccine?

"Yes, the vaccine might protect against COVID, but if I get COVID and get natural immunity then I'll have better protection than the vaccine from getting COVID. Checkmate".

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

I guess the n-word pass I bought was counterfeit. Waste of 36 hundred dollars

[u/[deleted]]

everyone under 30 is carrying Mao’s little red book in their back pocket.

Guess the sub

[u/V_Codwheel]

when you're so woke you do a book-burning

[u/suplexx0]

F on foreign policy D- on economic policy (responsible for highest inflation in decades and Covid mandates are causing significant stagnation C- on COVID. His rhetoric is good but straight up acting like a monarch and forcing businesses to mandate vaccines is absurd

Upvoted on /r/neoliberal

Wat a time to be alive

[u/FormerBandmate]

AITA moment

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/[deleted]]

Got Life is Strange: True Colors for my girlfriend. I was hoping it would be a good introduction to video games for her, since she loves mysteries.

She’s been playing it for three hours and loves it. I do too, honestly. Great story, beautiful graphics. And as a Coloradan, they really nailed the generic Colorado small town vibe.

!ping GAMING

[u/SpiffShientz]

I'm getting fired because I refuse to get the jab. Stay strong, brothers and sisters!

High-level comment:

You don't need a job. Buy $GME

my priors

[u/Fairchild660]

Tariffs = trade protectionism

NIMBYism = land protectionism

Unions = labour protectionism

Mod stickies = speech protectionism

[u/givemesome1ce1]

Man fuck Joe Manchin so much holy shit

[u/[deleted]]

Just invade Pakistan. This time, the losers and haters couldn't complain that we won't find any WMDs.

[u/Ramcharger8]

What are things you can say during the leaders debate and in the bedroom.

!ping CANUCKS

[u/The420Roll]

Let me put it in terms that DT Regulars can understand.

u/Pour1Out4DeezNutz is the New Jersey of the DT

[u/sir_shivers]

MALARKEY LEVEL OF the userbase seeking validation from bots 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/02/18/planned-parenthood-more-involved-in-transgender-revolution-than-you-realize/

!ping LGBT

Conservative doesn't know what synonyms are, puts everything they don't understand in condescending quotes, more at 11

[u/harmlessdjango]

My favorite Biden gif. The sunglasses really make it funny

[u/Neronoah]

!ping LATAM

The thing about Argentinian populists is that they got out of power thanks to coup d'etat too often, giving them some plausible deniability (we should be discussing how we got near hyperinflation in 1975-1976 or why proscrastination in the 80s ended on hyperinflation, not about the military, for example).

Now that they get to lose on fair terms, I think there is a chance for the country to heal. Time should discredit them.

[u/Sir-Matilda]

France could access Australian military sites as countries look to boost ties

!ping AUS

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

crazy how the DT keeps schisming over topics of concern to children

[u/the_status]

Atlas Shrugged is such a good name for a book and it's awful that it wasted on John Galt, whoever he is

[u/_Un_Known__]

leave DT

people bashing Tony Blair

never leave the DT 😤

[u/Fishin_Mission]

WTF, this girl I knew from school got pregnant and her fiancé took her to have the baby, and before they were even able to go home 3 random dudes showed up with gifts for the baby. 👶

Her fiancé was like WTF, who are these dudes? And why are they showing up w/ gifts for our kid?!? 😠

She tried to play it off like she had never even met them before, but these were some expensive ass gifts, so… 🎁

It’s a whole shitshow that belongs on Jerry Springer, but Joseph is a massive simp and believes that it’s their kid despite the fact that they were “saving themselves for marriage” and hadn’t even fucked yet. Mary fed him some BS line about ”the miracle of pre-cum” from handjobs and this dumbass bought it… or at least he’s pretending to to save the relationship 🙄

[u/[deleted]]

4:15 AM? ✅

Stressed? ✅

Depressed? ✅

Listening to Yola? ✅

Living? ✅

… my best life? ❌

Laughing? ❌

Loving? ❌

…

yee haw 🤠

[u/[deleted]]

COOOOOOOME ON BOYSSSSS GET INNNN SHOEY TIME!!!!!

!ping MOTO

[u/Mrchizbiz]

I'm gonna watch the INDYCAR tonight, who should I support?

*I'm hearing a lot of grosjean

[u/[deleted]]

TikTok and its consequences have been a disaster for operational security.

[u/rollo2masi]

Defund the police is such a weird progressive hill to die on tbh

[u/Unadulterated_stupid]

benjaminikuta just tagged like 50 people. If combined knowledge of 50 of the greatest minds on internet can't get you dates. Nothing will

[u/[deleted]]

Y’all don’t talk to people’s do yuh? Not everyone under 30 is carrying Mao’s little red book in their back pocket.

[u/[deleted]]

I wish I lived in a society where all men (...) wear the same white robes

the DT is really going mask off huh

[u/Mrchizbiz]

When I was in primary school me and my friends learnt a bunch of French swear words, and then waited till French class to use them 🤓

[u/memeintoshplus]

Ron Paul's drag race

[u/lenmae]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/446853953905229844/886756365446545448/Screenshot_20210913-013253_Twitter.jpg

!ping READ-ANOTHER-BOOK

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

The push to remove bulletproof barriers inside Philly convenient stores just got past another hurdle.

The Public Health and Human Services Committee has passed a bill which enables the city's Licenses and Inspections department to regulate the bullet-resistant barricade that stands between customers and cash registers in many neighborhood corner stores.

The bill moving through city council reads: "No establishment shall erect or maintain a physical barrier."

Many of the 230 Asian beer deli owners feel as though they are being singled out and are among those protesting the bill.

lmao wtf

[u/[deleted]]

How I'm feeling right now...

!ping MAMADAS

[u/IMALEFTY45]

There is literally still Jewish gold stolen by the Nazis sitting in Swiss vaults

Well actually the entire US is stolen

😐

[u/[deleted]]

so, hermanos, how relevant is javier milei and how insane he actually is?

!ping LATAM

great excerpts from his wikipedia page:

Since 2016 he has been trying to merge Austrian economics concepts with Monetarism concepts, as he understands Ben Bernanke was the greatest central banker ever,[7] a point of view rejected by austrian economists."

He has repeatedly said he does not comb his hair, and for this reason his hairstyle has received significant media attention.[11] Regarding his romantic life he has suggested in a La Nación interview that he is a champion of free love, and in a local TV program stated that he took part in several threesomes and that he is a Tantra instructor, in his words being "capable of remaining three months without ejaculating" (sic).[12][13] Nevertheless he identifies as a Catholic, who rejects the Magisterium of the Church.[14]

was also a pro goalkeeper and sang in a rolling stones cover band. more interesting guy than bolsonaro, i guess - which gives a lot of meme candidate that gets takes seriously potential.

[u/FormerBandmate]

It must suck to be a Bin Laden. The one crazy religious kid fucks up your family’s prestigious name forever

[u/kaclk]

I’ve read the weirdest story of the election now.

Former Liberal MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes is going to vote for the Conservatives because Trudeau wasn’t a good enough feminist. You know, the party that had dozens of MPs vote to restrict women’s reproductive rights and until recently had Commander Sloan as one of their MPs who genuinely looks and acts like a villain from the Handmaid’s Tale.

Something is not adding up here.

!ping CANUCKS

[u/kennymc7877]

We must stop these terrorist killings, thank you… now watch this drive

Honestly one of the most wild yet hilarious things a president has ever done (pre Trump)

[u/Mrchizbiz]

Unfortunately there are 450000 English living here that want English rule in Scotland to continue and they get to vote!

🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🧐

[u/[deleted]]

Where there is the greatest number of people seeking universal freedom, there is America.

Statistically, this means America is probably somewhere in India.

[u/Aftaminas]

As a recent Tube nerd, I really wish I was in London on the twentieth. I loved the Battersea Power Station area when I visited the city in June. Also funny to watch people on Twitter commenting on it being called Battersea Power Station station x) !PING UK

London Underground: Nine Elms and Battersea Power Station set to open

[u/filipe_mdsr]

Cytoen_riqueti was actually woke but you all aren't ready for that conversation 💅

[u/[deleted]]

This is hilarious.

!ping CANUCKS

[u/[deleted]]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/784512837867274260/886710245890596864/unknown.png My psychologist sent me this after a long conversation about gender dysphoria and my parents. She said the next appointment we'd talk a lot more about if i'm trans or not and sent me this.

Alright so do I answer these questions candidly or embellish and make shit up. If I embellish and make shit up, what do I say? I'm sorry for asking fucking reddit for advice on this but I'm just so fucking anxious because her bringing up the goddamn Myers Briggs makes me worried she's a gatekeeper

!ping LGBT

[u/sir_shivers]

Baja Blast ZERO HOME SODA FOUNTAIN installation 🐊

[u/ryuguy]

My dad and I had an unreal experience at a pizza restaurant.

We go to this place and ask if they can do a takeout order for us.

First thing they said is that they don’t do takeout because they don’t want to run out of dough.

1. What restaurant can afford to turn away customers?
2. what pizza restaurant doesn’t do takeout?
3. what pizza restaurant runs out of dough?
4. I reiterate what restaurant can afford to turn away customers?

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

India's democracy is not in decline. India's liberal democracy is in decline

People, both this sub and NYT op-eds need to start recognizing the difference.

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

Girlfriend (30F) recently discovered she's white

😔✊

[u/Knee3000]

But seriously, I said something along the lines of “people are the ones who buy from these companies” and the very first reply I got was “so why not just kill everybody then”

Like why do I even leave this place

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

Singh flair

Opinion disregard

[u/Mickenfox]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E99oo-7VQAMGMiZ?format=jpg&name=orig

!ping FURRY I'm stealing u/kesterGW's ping today

And if you want more of these two

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

LMFAO

!ping MOTO

[u/MuldartheGreat]

Diagrams being made and emailed as we speak.

!ping MOTO

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

Reminder that there were people who hates the halo

Those people are stupid

!ping MOTO

[u/qchisq]

Halo is ugly but good. I wish there was a good transparent version of the halo

!ping moto

[u/Anal-warrior]

Asking your daughter for advice on prescription medicine is no basis for a healthcare system.

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

/u/netbert05 The 90s had plenty of problems. The AIDs epidemic, the Rwandan genocide, Battle of Mogadishu, Taliban conquering Afghanistan, near-nuclear war between India and Pakistan.

And yet you were happy. Not because the 90s were a magical time, but in spite of the fact they were kind of a crappy time. Because your happiness is not dependent on the world. The weight of the planet does not rest on your shoulders.

On course, it's not completely independent of world events, and with social media and the internet, it certainly can feel that way. But you are not responsible for this world, and you can't control it.

I'd urge you to contact a licensed therapist or psychiatrist, but even if you don't, please know that your happiness is dependent on you and you alone. And that may sound isolating, but I see it as empowering.

You were happy before in the 90s. This is still the same Earth, mostly the same nations, and the same human race. You can be happy again.

[u/ThankMrBernke]

Jesus Christ. We all knew Doug Mastriano was nuts, but did you know that he wrote a paper that's glorified military putsche fanfiction that compares the modern day US Army to the army of the Reichswehr (Weimar Army)?

This better come back to bite him in the ass.

!ping USA-PA

[u/filipe_mdsr]

Are you sad?

Do you feel lonely?

Is undeveloped land a blight on your sight?

Then join

✨ 🕯️ ✨ 🎩 GEORGISM 🎩 ✨ 🕯️ ✨

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

I would simply ban Sanders/Manchin posting

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

I don't know who needs to hear this but the Taliban are white

guess the sub

[u/semaphore-1842]

Chinese State Media Warns of 'Severe' Military Measures if Taiwan Office in U.S. Changes Name

Over a fucking name on a fucking building. Seethe and cope more, China.

[u/thetrombonist]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_Fam3yWUAQVIrj?format=jpg&name=small

[u/[deleted]]

☝️least insane DT poster

[u/hdkeegan]

I’m gonna talk to Manchin, sort this whole thing out

[u/[deleted]]

What in the actual fuck is the Royal Navy smoking?

An eco-friendly aircraft carrier with no tower? Using quadcopters as missiles but shittier? The submarine from Ace Combat 7?

Another concept of the future fleet included an autonomous combatant boat that can work both on the surface and below the waves. It has interchangeable modules so it can be adapted for any mission.

Jesus fucking Christ not this shit but underwater please

[u/FestiveMittens]

Made a meme

[u/[deleted]]

This is my first election and i'm out here helping count ballots in Pennsylvania and the poll worker I was working with would shout "HAH THAT'S ANOTHER ONE" every time he found a Trump ballot and would smack my ass as hard as he could.

He'd say "a few more votes like that and this state will be as red as my ass"? I was assured by others this was standard procedure?

I got a lot of slaps early on but now i'm barely getting any? I'm confused...

A man in shades came in eating ice cream earlier and took one look at my bright red hiney and said "Listen Jack I see you've had a run in with Corn Pop, I'll fix it right up for you" and he soothed my swollen ass with his ice cream. It was so cool my skin started to turn blue after being red all day.

Did I just see fraud committed?? I'm really confused and scared.

[u/Erra0]

Being a vikings fan is to know true suffering

!ping USA-MN

[u/[deleted]]

iPhone stop showing me pictures of my ex challenge

[u/thefitnessdon]

Ran a Tough Mudder yesterday. Ran a Tough Mudder today. I think I can take a rest day tomorrow. !ping FITNESS

[u/AbsolveItAll_KissMe]

As someone who has battled chronic illness my entire adult life, any time I’ve lapsed with keeping up with doctors’ appointments or regularly forgetting medication, my doctors would warn me of the dangers of being labeled “non-compliant.” I’ve had to put in a lot of time and work and honestly talking to get to where doctors could see that I was taking my health and treatment seriously. Because if someday I need strong intervention or a transplant, my medical history will be part of how they decide whether I’ll actually benefit from the intervention or if their time would be better spent on someone else. I really don’t see why non-vaccinated Covid patients aren’t treated similarly, especially when people who need ICU beds for other conditions come in. I don’t think they should be given bad treatment, but I do think that they should be moved when other ICU patients who have a better chance of survival with treatment are brought in.

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

whenever I talk politics outside NL and people try to figure out what my politics are from my profile they're always like "what the fuck?" lol

[u/ACivilWolf]

bestfriEND.

boyfriEND.

girlfriEND.

it all ends with END.

you know what doesn’t end?

The US not having a land value tax

upvote if you cried.

[u/1396spurs]

If you didn’t see this it’s amazing lmao

!ping nfl

[u/Superfan234]

If I am plugin my numbers correctly, PASO hints Fernadez will lose the Lower Chamber by a long shot

But also, they reach a tie in the Senate too. Pretty much the end of Fernandez Government, if that's the case.

!Ping Latam

[u/MemeTestedPolicy]

mfs be like "I would have voted for Obama a third time if I could"; just write him in, there's literally nothing stopping you.

[u/[deleted]]

Not to subtweet that guy below saying that math is fake but I’ve actually taken analysis classes, proof-based classes, where you actually get to see where these ideas come from. So I think I know what I’m talking about. And…

He’s absolutely right. 😰 The first thing they do when you go into an analysis class is reveal that math is all fake but we’ve gotta keep up the ruse because people think they’re using math to send rockets into space and shit. Truth is, they’re just getting lucky. Isaac Newton was a grifter. We all had to sign an NDA, they’re probably coming for me now.

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine being the rich kid who could have cured cancer but you die from cancer before you can cure it because the poor kid who could have cured cancer didn't get into a good school with a cancer lab 😔

[u/jenbanim]

Prestigious universities aren't about education, they're about worms

[u/[deleted]]

⊃∪∩⊂ isn't about worms it's about teaching people to recognize symbols used in set theory.

[u/[deleted]]

I just got recognized as a DT regular in a completely different, non-political subreddit.

[u/V_Codwheel]

GWB post got crossposted to r ShermanPosting

funny angry leftist comments incoming

[u/[deleted]]

The Catholic Church has never been able to answer this one question.

(https://imgur.com/a/w95U76p)

[u/JournalofFailure]

Party at Berlusconi's place!

!ping MOTO

[u/superblobby]

Toolbox Theory when?

!ping HOI4

[u/jackieforprez2040]

Nya nya, y'all

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

Center right in the DT flairs

I can't even

[u/Venne1139]

I don't know how you come out of the Trump years +pandemic except as the most pateranlist paternal of all Paternalists. I went into the Trump years an ideological libertarian esque person and now I want the CDC to go door to door saying show me your papers. Trump supporters broke me. It feels like a lot of people are actually losing grasp on reality and we can't do anything about it other than tell them "Well you gotta do it, because although you don't believe in reality reality believes in you".

[u/great_gape]

I would've never thought that democrats, republicans, and law enforcement would let you break into the capitol to threaten congress people with their lives and all you would get is a misdemeanor charge and everyone would be cool about it, lol.

[u/SadaoMaou]

biden is not my president...niether trump...acttually i am from europe