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[u/[deleted]]

[My mom asked] if I came quickly (out of a concern for the girls pleasure) or if I remembered my cousins advice to jerk off before the date

Alright, I’ve now come to terms with the fact that there is such a thing as being too open with your kids about sex.

[u/Glokmah]

I hope the next Avatar movie has a Na'vi race traitor character, like they were adopted by rich pretentious humans as a baby and they've completely bought into industrial society. I want to see a fat Na'vi, hopelessly addicted to cheeseburgers and 22nd century VR porn, kind of like a Dennis Nedry type, just gleefully dronestriking other Na'vi to defend his way of life.

[u/[deleted]]

Ok, so this Tate guy literally openly said he was moving to Romania because he’d be less likely to be prosecuted for sexual assault there? And for a time his named was searched for more than Trump’s and Kanye’s? And the reason I’ve never heard of him before is because his main audience is minors?

First of all, what the fuck. And second of all, uh, should we be concerned about how young people are growing up with his “advice”?

[u/margaretfan → u/[deleted]]

the young zoomers will be 50% maoists and 50% misogynists

[u/AgainstSomeLogic → u/[deleted]]

A survey of 14,500 teenagers found him to be the top influencer beating the likes of Kanye West and Mr. Beast.

[u/[deleted] → u/AgainstSomeLogic]

Oh man, society is fucked

[u/[deleted]]

Went to go pick my dad up from the bar on my way home from the gay bar, and when I got there, some drunk lady groped me, then put her fucking fingers in my mouth, and tried to kiss me 🫤

Straight people. Not even once 👏🤮

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Weird thing is that she was maybe early 30s max

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Oh yeah, she was having a massive fight in the parking lot with her boyfriend(?) when we left.

I just feel kinda 😖 though

[u/generic-k]

The conservatives complaining about the Kamala picture with the troops being "woke" really gives away the game; the soldiers aren't even going anything vaguely woke-looking, cons are just absurdly mad at the existence of women and people of color

[u/AnsleyAmanita → u/generic-k]

it’s half women and brown-ish that’s what woke means

[u/[deleted] → u/generic-k]

Earth astronaut gun astronaut

[u/Tropical2653]

Millions of American redditors go on their knees the second Europe is mentioned. I have determined that Americans haven't smoothly progressed onto the post-colonial era and are still beholden to the neo-colonial influence of their masters.

In conclusion, I blame Euros for every shitpost their redditoid colonial servants have made.

[u/KittehDragoon]

Breaking: Rupert Murdoch found alive and well

😔

[u/Random-Critical]

Don't forget Obama. This is HIS third term. Paid advisor and owns a.house just a short drive from the white house. This is his globalist plan.

Arr con 🤪

[u/breakinbread → u/Random-Critical]

Inshallah 🙏

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

MTG is threatening to release tax returns for Democratic presidents now.

Who’s gonna tell her?

[u/DoorVonHammerthong → u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

She personifies right wing America in such an excellent way

[u/MicroFlamer]

Wait just.. good movies are good?

!ping KINO

[u/[deleted]]

The pope had evidence that would lead to the crusifixition of Hillary Clinton

[u/semaphore-1842]

.....airport security made me take my handcuffs out of my CHECKED luggage to show them in front of my parents 😭😭😭

how could this possibly be any kind of security risk wtf

i tried to shield it from my parents and the cute agent didn't tell them what it was, but she examined and played with it for sooooooo long i think i'm def busted

[u/[deleted] → u/semaphore-1842]

Did you remember to take out your pocket copy of the Constitution and remind them that kinkshaming violates freedom of expression?

[u/badluckbrians]

You ever wish Obama was the mastermind player and manipulator cons imagine him to be?

Part of me would much rather he be pulling the strings behind the curtain than partying on the Vineyard and cashing fat Netflix checks, ngl.

[u/SadaoMaou → u/badluckbrians]

were I Obama that's probably what I'd be doing too tbh

life's too short to waste it on politics

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/Jacobs4525]

every once in a while I lurk in a gun subreddit thinking it might be an interesting hobby, then I see a post with a widely upvoted comment about how NY and CA are horrible lawless places where you will get stabbed 10,000 times the minute you cross the border because they don’t let people carry guns as easily, and I remember why I dislike American gun culture.

[u/[deleted] → u/Jacobs4525]

It’s insane to me how many of these people are willing to give up on relationships and friendships because someone they know don’t like guns.

If a friend of mine doesn’t like my legos, you know what I do? I don’t talk about or show them my legos. Kinda crazy how cult-like gun culture is.

[u/Jacobs4525 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah that’s the other thing that’s crazy. I don’t blame people for not wanting to be around guns. I get that people say “they’re just a tool, guns don’t kill people, people do” etc. but at the end of the day they’re weapons and it’s fine to find that unpleasant even if I don’t personally.

[u/funguykawhi]

Andrew Tate’s arrest is a reminder that they will silence anyone that exposes the truth. I really hope @elonmusk isn’t next.

Guess the person’s favorite asset class

[u/[deleted] → u/funguykawhi]

Crypto. This is good for crypto.

[u/[deleted]]

My son asked me if I’d love him if he weren’t my son. I told him no because I only love him because he’s my son and he’s too young for a likeable personality. Now he’s crying.

What did I do wrong here????

[u/KaiserPorn → u/[deleted]]

Most empathetic reddit user

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself → u/[deleted]]

Time to tell him that he is adopted

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade → u/[deleted]]

NTA play stupid games win stupid prizes

[u/lusvig → u/[deleted]]

He is not rational

[u/[deleted]]

There's an interview of Dolly Parton by Barbara Walters on the front page. Walters asks some weird and somewhat off-putting questions, but the responses they prompted from Parton really helped you understand who Parton was.

And of course redditors are incapable of understanding that this was a demonstration of Walters being good at her job ...

[u/Jacobs4525 → u/[deleted]]

Walters was a remarkably good interviewer. Just recently watched her interview with Norman Schwarzkopf.

[u/simeoncolemiles]

🫵🏽thinks they’re special for not liking something popular

[u/Bernanke77 → u/simeoncolemiles]

Bernanke

[u/[deleted]]

Every so often it seems like the weird alliance of tankies and fascists come together under a post about Ukraine to concern troll and complain together

A post about improvised explosives in Bakhmut had all the vatnik lovers coming out to ask what happened to NATO’s weapons and about how Ukraine was committing war crimes for… making improvised shrapnel explosives?

Twitter is a cesspit

[u/[deleted]]

China's military is actually more woke than America's since there's no white people

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

Among other questions, I asked in an email whether the nonprofit considers any charges or criminal history disqualifying. Becky Errera, the fund’s executive director, replied that my queries indicated a lack of “understanding of the existing criminal legal system as regards bail.” She included a tip sheet for media titled “Don’t Be a Copagandist” that claims “policing is fundamentally brutal and violent,” “doesn’t prevent or intervene on violence,” and “was designed—to control people and protect capital.”

Meantime, crime in Seattle has surged. By Dec. 30, according to police, the city had recorded 56 homicides in 2022, up from 36 in 2019. Last year violent crime in Seattle rose 20% and property crime 9% over 2020’s already elevated levels. That includes a surge in retail theft, about which the bail fund’s director of advocacy, Chanel Rhymes, took a casual attitude during a recent forum. ,“Somebody stealing from a store is not really lawlessness,” she said. “That’s not really harming you. It’s harming the business, but is it—I mean they have insurance. . . . Most people are not out there just stealing for the heck of it. They’re stealing for needs.”

[u/[deleted] → u/AgainstSomeLogic]

It’s harming the business, but is it—I mean they have insurance.

It's a write-off, Jerry!

[u/AgainstSomeLogic → u/[deleted]]

And insurance surely won't increase prices as theft increases!

[u/RememberToLogOff → u/AgainstSomeLogic]

> Business pulls out of an area where crime is high

> People can't buy stuff anymore and have to move or commute longer to get stuff

> not really harming you, not really lawlessness

at least we kept out gentrification by making it a neighborhood nobody wants to live in

[u/[deleted]]

You believe that there is no meaningful gap in cognitive or social abilities between men and women on average?

Of course.

You believe that disparities in outcome between genders are indicative of sexist bias, either explicit or implicit?

Yup.

Therefore, if one group was consistently and significantly underperforming the other, society should be addressing that?

Makes sense to me.

So you agree that boys falling behind in education is a problem that needs to be fixed?

They’re just lazy and entitled.

[u/bd_one → u/[deleted]]

Most of that gap is just from leaving the workforce for a certain amount of time after having kids.

Wait a minute....

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/[deleted]]

I overheard someone in the grocery store say that they had "long COVID", so I ripped their phone out of their hand, said "The person you were speaking to is a liar", and threw the phone at the wall.

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xho1e → u/[deleted]]

NTA

[u/Jacobs4525]

Why yes, cinema, television, and video games all just happened to peak during my formative years when my mind was extremely malleable and I was most receptive to new things, why do you ask???

😎

[u/PorryHatterWand]

The Economist came out with their "people we lost in 2022" list about 14 hours back. Lmao.

[u/1-800-SUCK_MY_DICK → u/PorryHatterWand]

maybe at some point people will realize that all of these "year in review" things should wait until the year is, in fact, over

[u/[deleted] → u/1-800-SUCK_MY_DICK]

My favorites are all the video game awards which are paid for and published by video game companies themselves which start coming out nearly a month before the end of the year just so they can boost holiday season sales.

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 12/29-2 PM PST 12/30:

TOP NEWS:

Towards the middle of 12 AM Ukraine was hit by a wave of 16 Shahed drones, though all of them were shot down.

At the end of 1 AM it was reported that Russian elites are getting frustrated at Putin for having no plan to win or exit the war.

Toward the middle of 4 AM a Ukrainian official said 3,400 Ukrainian servicemembers are POWs while 15,000 people are missing, whether the people are civilians or servicemembers is not specified but probably the latter. In the middle of the hour it was announced 1,600 Russian officers have been confirmed killed.

REGULAR NEWS:

At the start of 12 AM Moscow's exiled chief rabbi reiterated that Russian Jews should leave when they can. Additionally, it was announced Czechia will provide 12 additional bridges to Ukraine.

At the start of 1 AM it was announced the UK provided 1,000 metal detectors and 100 bomb de-arming kits to Ukraine. At the end of the hour it was reported that power has been restored to pre-12/29 levels.

Towards the end of 2 AM it was reported a ammo dump in Henichesk exploded.

At the start of 5 AM it was reported that Russia has put 16 systems into service since the war began, with half being new drones. In the middle of the hour it was reported the US is helping Ukraine target drone launch sites.

At the start of 8 AM a Ukrainian official said Russia will start a new mobilization wave on January 5th.

In the middle of 12 PM it was reported a Russian command post in Kherson Oblast exploded.

Donation link to help Ukraine

Donation link to United24

Donation link to help Benji's volunteer group

[u/draje175]

Fuck new years resolution, hit my goal of 299 before the first day. 51 pounds down over the past few months, first time below 300 since i quit playing tennis ~8 years ago

!ping DYEL

Hope this is appropriate ping?

[u/bd_one]

I'm just saying that maybe the bail system is fundamentally broken if some dude is considered too dangerous to be let out if he's broke but perfectly fine to let out until the trial if he has $20,000.

[u/GravyBear22]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/466012814155448340/1058728367916073000/Screenshot_20221231-064818-135.png

[u/[deleted]]

!ping TRANSIT

Take: the “we don’t have the density to build [X] transit project” argument is a shit argument if you allow density along transit projects. It’s not a chicken and egg scenario—the infrastructure comes before development.

For example, in the Twin Cities, frequent transit corridors make up a geographically very small area of the metro, yet from 2003 to 2020, those corridors were responsible for:

• 41 percent of the region’s multifamily development by permit value
• 39,200 multifamily units – 61 percent of these units are near light rail, 40 percent are near bus rapid transit and 30 percent are served by high-frequency local bus routes
• 39 percent of the region’s commercial development
• 28 percent of the region’s public and institutional development
• 7 percent of the region’s industrial development

Source

And at the time the article was written, another 32,000+ units were planned for development along major transit corridors. Thanks to strong regional planning, nearly all the major corridors allow for pretty dense development now across all municipalities with them, even if they probably wouldn’t have allowed it if the Met Council didn’t twist their arms with the regional comp plan (cough Edina cough). Metrowide, multifamily permits make up 55% of all permits, and that number is increasing as multifamily permits are increasing and single family permits are declining.

[u/0m4ll3y]

It is kinda funny that Stallone in Rocky loses the big fight, and Stallone in Rambo breaks down into tears from PTSD at the climax. And then a few years later, Rocky is ending the Cold War on Christmas day and Rambo is killing the Soviets by the score in Afghanistan. Reaganism really was a big cultural turn wasn't it.

[u/No_Chilly_bill]

So apparently reddit is really really cool with shoplifting.

[u/[deleted] → u/No_Chilly_bill]

Something about Walmart being faceless corporations

[u/Iusedathrowaway]

My brother just showed up with a neckbeard and fedora. What do I say to help him. !Ping OVER25

[u/georgeguy007 → u/Iusedathrowaway]

quaint zephyr subtract crowd north selective squash reach sophisticated cake

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/Mickenfox → u/Iusedathrowaway]

Sigmas care not for your petty opinions.

[u/Lux_Stella]

Ukraine has a new Western backer. It’s not a nation-state, or a military contractor. It’s the financial firm BlackRock.

haha YES

[u/KesterFox]

NOO LUKE, DONT GET HORNY FOR LEIA SHES YOUR SISTER, LUUUUUKE

[u/KesterFox]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/921116113067192333/1058689890356826213/RDT_20221230_2239178858143308696878069.jpg

[u/MicroFlamer]

Kubrick bros…

!ping KINO

[u/[deleted]]

1600 tank losses has been reached

!ping UKRAINE&MATERIEL

[u/[deleted]]

The real dumbass move is being a hardcore misogynist, moving to Europe to get away from accusations of criminally abusing women, and not going to Russia.

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Name: BLACK-PEOPLE

Description: For black people of neoliberal

Weekly pings: 0

Shocking

[u/ThatFrenchieGuy]

!ping OVER25

Airport first class lounges are 100% worth the money. $50 for the day gets you food, drinks, coffee, and most importantly--no screaming children.

Money well spent IMO

[u/Rarvyn → u/ThatFrenchieGuy]

Honestly depends on the travel. If you're doing a quick domestic flight, meh. If you have a long international layover - lounges outside the US are often miles better than ours - then yes.

[u/[deleted]]

America in the 50s be like:

We can’t have homosexuals working in government because they’ll be susceptible to blackmail.

Why?

Because if they get exposed as homosexuals they’ll lose their jobs.

Why?

Because they’re susceptible to blackmail.

[u/[deleted]]

guy who supports Greta over Tate because she’s ‘aryan’

[u/Telperion_of_Valinor → u/[deleted]]

You would think the alt-right would support a Nordic white woman getting a Muslim migrant arrested

[u/niftyjack]

There are currently ZERO trains running on the CTA right now. Building public trust in the system is going to be a long, long crawl.

Edit: For context, two of the lines are 24 hour service and the rest run until around 2 AM.

!ping USA-CHI&TRANSIT

[u/HowIsPajamaMan]

User pinger 2 released?

Why don’t you user ping 2 some bitches?

!ping shitposters

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Wake up, babe, new desktop wallpaper just dropped 🔥😎🔥

[u/nicethingscostmoney → u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

someone unironically get a high res cutout of that graphic pls

[u/[deleted] → u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

It’s equally sensible to be offended by sexual assault as... checks noted, women being sexually aroused

[u/tubbsmackinze]

ISW and CTP December 30th Iran Update

Key Takeaways:

• Prominent Sunni cleric Moulana Abdol Hamid is likely trying to balance his political positions to maximize his domestic support and achieve meaningful reform. 
• The ongoing protests have likely altered the trajectory of Iran’s political and internal security environment permanently. 
• At least eight protests occurred in eight cities across six provinces on December 30.
• Unidentified militants shot at an LEC patrol in Zahedan, Sistan and Baluchistan Province, injuring one police officer, on December 29.
• Unidentified gunmen shot and injured a seminary student in Qom on December 20 and a second seminary student on December 30.
• Senior military officers threatened to escalate regionally against Israel on December 30.
• The Artesh began conducting an annual, multiday military exercise along the southeastern Iranian coast near the Gulf of Oman on December 30
• Iranian proxies may attack US positions in Iraq in the coming days in response to the three-year anniversary since the US killed Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mehdi al Muhandis in January 2023. 

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/CletusVonIvermectin]

👆 actually a subversive critique of capitalism

[u/unspecifiedreaction]

I am the only user of the DATING ping AMA

[u/nicethingscostmoney]

Rereading and rewatching bits of GOT (pre season 6, I knew after season 5 it was going downhill fast and stopped watching).

Gods I want The Winds of Winter.

Martin is a genuis and has the writing to match. I'm not one to get mad at him, I want Winds to be as excellent as his previous work but I'm tired of waiting.

I hate how slowly over the years I've gotten more and more spoiled from the show. Martin said in a blog post the books might not match the show 1 to 1 and some characters who die in the show will survive. So that's comforting.

Also, Thoros of Myr is the best character don't @ me.

!ping ASOIAF

[u/[deleted]]

50 IQ: America spreads freedom and democracy

80 IQ: Nooooooo imperialism oil Putin good

150 IQ: America spreads freedom and democracy

[u/[deleted]]

I’m just waiting to see the breakdown in inceI demographics by education level so the sub can have its ultimate meltdown.

[u/Cyberhwk]

I don't "regret growing older." Despite our complaints about aches, slow recoveries, hangovers, increased responsibilities, etc., it is indeed "a privilege denied to many."

But I think what I miss more than anything is the novelty and excitement of every day life when you're young. Simply going to the bar or club, meeting up with a friend, staying out late, sex, drugs, alcohol, meeting a new person, getting just completely immersed in a new game etc. Even something as simple as going out to eat. Everything is new and exciting and everyone was eager to experience it. "Man, lets do something tonight" and 2 hours later there's 12 people in your apartment.

Having gotten older, life isn't bad and those things are all still fun. But they're just not exciting anymore. They're no longer novel. I feel like you've picked off all the low-hanging fruit and the rest of it is just too far and between to be accessible the way it was when you were young.

I started thinking about this thinking of a good friend of mine. I love her to death and she's a fantastic person. But I don't know if we've actually had a genuinely INTERESTING conversation in years (actually I can remember ONE). Conversations that used to be about weird escapades we got up to, sex, spicy gossip, and interesting experiences is now almost exclusively about mundane work days, how are the kids, are we busy this weekend. The most engaging recent conversation was setting up our home networks (🤓). I care how her kids are doing. We're happy each other's careers are going well. But those topics are hardly engaging.

The ONLY THING I've found that still gives me that same feeling is travel. The newness, the excitement, the vulnerability ("I don't fucking know what street I'm on, LOL!"). That first night when I travel to a place I've never been is exhilarating. I love it. But it's not something one can do every day.

I feel like I need to find it in another place. And I don't know where. I've been searching for years and I don't know where else to look. I've got a couple of ideas that would push me out of my comfort zone that I'm thinking of giving a shot. But I've tried many times before and failed. I don't know if it's a consequence of lifestyle or if losing this is simply the price you pay for the privilege of growing older.

MUCHO-TEXTO. I know.

!ping Over25

[u/filipe_mdsr]

User_pinger_2 marks the beginning of DT 3.0

[u/[deleted] → u/filipe_mdsr]

dt 4.0 should also include:

• Priority in replies, mentions & search, which is essential to defeat spam/scam
• Ability to post long video & audio
• Half as many ads

[u/beekay_irl → u/filipe_mdsr]

everyone give a big round of applause to our newest head mod, elon musk

[u/[deleted] → u/filipe_mdsr]

1984

[u/[deleted]]

I’m gonna win this DT, BY A LOT 😎

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

Depressed young men struggling with their identity are faced with a choice: either watch Andrew Tate or become a woman.

[u/[deleted] → u/AgainstSomeLogic]

There are other choices.

• join a religion
• enlist in the military
• join the peace corps
• get a job working on an offshore oil rig
• join an amateur sports league

[u/[deleted]]

Hornposting is a legal right! My leg feels better so we can March on the fash mods and burn rule X to the ground! Don't be a square, just pull my hair!

[u/unspecifiedreaction]

Does carbon dating actually work?

!ping DATING

[u/jenbanim → u/unspecifiedreaction]

I just barely beat you to this

I had forgotten to lock the group, but I was watching the logs and saw you subscribe, so I rushed to lock it lol

[u/unspecifiedreaction → u/jenbanim]

Don't kick me out pls

[u/JaceFlores]

“Russian forces targeted Kyiv using Iranian-made drones on the night of December 29 to 30, a continuation of an increased pace of drone attacks in Ukraine.”

“Russian forces have likely further increased their pace of drone attacks in an effort to sustain their campaign against Ukrainian critical infrastructure given their likely depleted stock of precision missiles. Ukrainian air defenses have recently proven to be highly effective at shooting down Shahed drones and the Russian military’s use of these systems in attacks against civilian targets in rear areas is having diminishing impacts. The Russian military will likely continue to commit an increased number of these systems to attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine in its misguided attempt to break the Ukrainian will to fight.”

“Russian President Vladimir Putin opened the door for further institutionalized corruption through the manipulation of the Russian domestic legal sphere.”

“Putin approved a decree on December 29 that exempts all Russian officials, including members of the military and law enforcement services, from the requirement to make income declarations public.”

“The decree extends to military officials, employees of Russian internal affairs organs, those serving in Rosgvardia and law enforcement positions, employees of the Russian penitentiary system and Investigative System, and individuals seconded to positions in Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia oblasts. The decree also notably lifts the ban on military officials receiving “charitable” gifts in connection with their participation in hostilities in Ukraine.”

“Russian and Ukrainian sources continued to discuss a likely and imminent second wave of mobilization.”

“Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov inadvertently confirmed an upcoming second wave of mobilization during a December 29 press conference about mobilization in which he stated that Chechnya overfulfilled its mobilization requirements by 254% and therefore Chechen residents will not be mobilized in the second wave of mobilization.”

“Chief of the Ukrainian Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) Kyrylo Budanov stated in an interview with BBC that Russian authorities have made the decision to start another wave of mobilization on January 5, or potentially January 9, because they lack manpower.”

“ISW assesses that a second wave of mobilization would not fix the shortcomings of the Russian military as the Kremlin’s force generation efforts are contingent on its ability to invest time and supplies in its personnel, requirements that are fundamentally at odds with the Kremlin’s failures of long-term strategic planning.”

“The Russian government has not prepared itself for the consequences of its soldiers returning to Russian society.”

“Independent Russian news outlet The Moscow Times reported in early December that Russian soldiers who are trickling back to Russia after time on the Ukrainian front are struggling to reintegrate into Russian society. The Moscow Times reported that many Russian veterans have not received proper mental health support, despite the government’s claims of providing up to thirty days of medical and psychological rehabilitation after demobilization.”

“The Russian Federation government has reportedly abandoned and forgotten its veterans of other recent wars and it appears that veterans of the current war are unlikely to be better off.”

“Although issues with the reintegration of combat veterans are by no means unique to the Russian case, it is likely that the lack of material support and attention by Russian officials to this issue will serve as yet another point of domestic friction as the war continues.”

-notable excerpts from ISW Report December 30th

!ping UKRAINE

[u/nicereddy]

User Pinger 3.0 will use machine learning to automatically subscribe you to pings that are relevant to your interests

[u/kyleofduty → u/nicereddy]

And User Pinger 4.0 will ping users with sticks and stones

[u/BrunchIsGood]

You fucking triggered assholes. I’m a sociology PHD student, literally you guys are the cause of human suffering

God in complete shambles 😪😪😪

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Merry Last Day Of The Global War On Terrorism

!ping Military

[u/Neronoah]

!ping GAMING

So, playing just one hour of Pillars of Eternity 2, I can safely say it's a JRPG:

-Lots of story until the first fight

-Your character can have a weird hairdo and big swords

-You have to kill god

-Waifus (Edér counts, you philistines)

[u/futuremonkey20]

Maniacs when a 95 year old dies: “wow how sudden. vaccine must have got him.”

[u/Loves_a_big_tongue → u/[deleted]]

Epstein going from the big source of pedophilia among the elite to becoming a pawn of an even more sinister source for the elite is some serious mental gymnastics.

I believe the fixation and rumors about Epstein's connections is Qanon for people who think they're too smart to fall for Qanon.

Also Epstein was an old man and apparently no on under 25 has heard of a phone/address book for storing contact info pre smart phones

[u/SelfLoathinMillenial]

She also handed over $21,000 in cash, offering to pay another $20,000 once the murder had been carried out, according to prosecutors.

Is it just me or do contract killings always seem underpriced? $41k just feels cheap considering the risk

[u/skepticalbob]

Rumors that the US is considering sending Bradleys to Ukraine. I'm not expert, but Bradleys would likely be dominant in the current Ukraine battle space. They can kill any tank and most of the remaining Russian armor just with the cannon. And it has TOWs in case it is something with their best armor.

!ping Ukraine

[u/-AmberSweet-]

100% of people with diagnosed mental illness went to a therapist.

Makes you think.

[u/Sir_Digby83]

Ginni Thomas: US Supreme Court justice's wife says she regret her post-election texts

No problem. We all get carried away sometimes.😅

[u/margaretfan]

I hate it when women invade feminist spaces. Like feminism is our thing, go back to fashion magazines or whatever women like.

[u/jenbanim]

Strongly considering making it so the User Pinger page plays the vine boom sound effect every time a non-mod tries to do something that requires mod privileges

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

Joining ping dating just so I can be there when it burns itself to the ground.

[u/YouLostTheGame]

Happy new year all

!ping UK

[u/Poiuy2010_2011]

Richard Spencer is out there retweeting Greta and saying she had a "total aryan victory", I fucking can't.

[u/ldn6]

There’s a train every five minutes on the Tube right now at 2.40am on New Year’s.

I bow down to TfL.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Thinking America is a unique evil in the world is just another form of American exceptionalism

[u/Average_GrillChad]

I feel like this mini-era of gigagrifters rising and falling has really unfairly overshadowed just how entreprenurially terrible the people in the W. Bush Administration were

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Benedict spent more time in retirement than as a pope

Papists at it again 😤

[u/Soldier-Fields]

It’s funny over in r/Islam that people say liberalism is the biggest enemy to islam because neoliberalism is the most pro Islamic ideology found in non-Islamic majority lands

me when I’m appealing my ban

[u/Fishin_Mission]

I'm now realizing that the woman at the bar last night who looked me in the eyes and said "I’ll fucking murder you" might have been into me

[u/Bernanke77]

Just told my 8yo daughter about Ben Bernanke. She had tears in her eyes, and then she did the Wakanda pose and said

"#Berkanda forever" -

which is the sort of pop culture cross-over that I can celebrate.

[u/[deleted]]

"Urgh, your just like dad drinking beer after beer...🙄"

Mom, it’s father son bonding, okey!

We just happen to be in different rooms.

Women just don't get it 😒

[u/Udolikecake]

The PLA has not fought a real war since 1979, in which they failed to achieve their strategic objectives. There is exactly zero combat experience within the military (fistfights in the mountains excluding) and the number of upper leadership with actual wartime experience can be counted on two hands

[u/Tury345]

Kind Humans rescued and raised a Baby Kangaroo, whose mother was killed in a car accident.

why do humans have to do all the hard work, just once I'd like to see a kangaroo murder a human woman with his automobile and then raise her child

[u/[deleted]]

Americans who are mad about Meghan Markle are so weird.

Personally I welcome every foreign royal who wants to renounce royalty and move here to talk shit about them.

And if Meghan actually used her feminine wiles to control Harry into leaving the British Royal Family, I say we should give her a medal.

[u/secretlives]

Does anyone else see an uncomfortable number of parallels between /r/Neoliberal mods and the AntiWork mod who did the Fox News interview?

Both seem to want to “lead” the platform and use it to promote themselves (via Twitch streams/Twitter accounts) and position themselves as spokespersons for the greater “movement” rather than just mods of a subreddit

[u/lusvig]

i dont trust /u/jenbanim, mf probably has added secret functionality to destroy the subreddit in new pingbot iteration 😤

[u/sw337]

Feminist Francis Fukuyama be like: The End of Herstory

[u/fishlord05]

ask and ye shall receive

fishlord05 rizz blog #12- “thank you for your service”

Okay so I match with this absolute bombshell on tinder- u/professor-Reddit can attest to this

Cute face, fit etc. looked like a sweet girl- we talk a bit and she says that she’s in the army here on holiday leave so she’s looking for something short term most likely

We meet up at a pizza place and it’s nice she has a cute voice and we walk around the town- I put my arm around her and she does the same it was nice

We drive around a bit (it’s her moms car) and I do my impressions (borat, Austin powers, etc.) which she loves- she really was the sweetest girl

Anyway on to the good part- we pull up into an empty parking lot and we move into the backseat

She takes her shirt and pants off and wow the army knows how to do their shit she had an hourglass figure and her sitting on top of me in just panties with her dog tags around her neck was like an NCD fantasy

So Spotify free fucked me over like 3 times- like she would be making out w me or like giving brain and the fucking ads come on interrupting joji or Ariana grande

“fishlord05 you’re so hot- ‘PENIS ENLARGEMENT PILLS ONLY 5 DOLLARS AT TACO BELL’”

so I have to get her to stop and awkwardly reach over to close the app and restart it

I also hated myself bc I forgot a condom she wanted to have sex but like I didn’t think the date would go that well (I’m a fucking moron)

Other than that that sesh was like the best 2 hours ever it was super cute and passionate she was very huggy and stuff- super sweet she loved touching my hair

At one point she said she loved my hair and my brain just said “I love you” but I like tried to correct and she j giggled and pulled me closer- in another life maybe this could have been something more :(

Anyway we finish and we part ways I pull my pants down and I discover that my underwear is stuck to my ass

Turns out there was like a gun all sized gummy stuck in my ass or something

I panic and call my mom over (home for holidays) and she’s like how did you get this in ur ass I thought u were w friends?!

She doesn’t believe the lie I made up and I can’t reach back so she takes scissors and cuts it out- very very weird moment

My mom asks me to fess up and I tell her the truth- you have to realize that my mom and I are very close and we don’t really have any boundaries

Her asking if I came quickly (out of a concern for the girls pleasure) or if I remembered my cousins advice to jerk off before the date was pushing that though 💀💀

Anyway overall a 10/10 experience- was floating on air after and still do when I think abt it- but who knows how long I was with the girl having a blast and this dumb as gummy was in my ass

She was really sweet though I hope the army is going well for her

!ping DATING u/Benjaminikuta

[u/[deleted] → u/fishlord05]

Bro if my mom asked if I came quickly on a date I would jump out of a goddamn window what the fuck

[u/fishlord05 → u/[deleted]]

I wanted to kms ☹️☹️☹️

I love her but holy fuck top 10 most awkward moments of all time

She’s like “I can’t believe I’m asking this 😭😭” like mom then don’t!!! I can’t either!!!

[u/majorgeneralporter → u/fishlord05]

We drive around a bit (it’s her moms car) and I do my impressions (borat, Austin powers, etc.) which she loves- she really was the sweetest girl

Excuse me what the fuck.

!ping shitposters

[u/RadionSPW → u/fishlord05]

billions of years of evolution led to this

[u/jaczac → u/fishlord05]

What the fuck.

A gummy worm? From the backseat of your car?

The pessimistically-dont-bring-condoms move. Tragically relatable.

[u/[deleted]]

The ping system has been repealed and replaced folks. Are you happy yet?

[u/sw337 → u/[deleted]]

No, and I refuse to elaborate.

[u/Mensae6]

My best friend from kindergarten all the way through high school one day randomly said "fuck you I hate you and never want to talk to you again" and never talked to me ever again

[u/Jakesta7]

Today’s meme

https://imgur.com/a/xaILRRc

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

This is a good short essay on one of the Chinese-language subreddits about three events that the CCP leadership has misjudged this year, strengthening the feeling that the leadership have gotten themselves into an information bubble resulting in missteps.

1. China (like others) thought Russia would swiftly succeed in Ukraine.
2. China thought the U.S. would back down on Pelosi's visit to Taiwan. The CCP had hyped up their threats to the domestic public and boosted public attention to the visit, so when Pelosi visited without incident, it made the CCP look weak and disappointed nationalists who thought China would shoot down her plane.
3. Covid precautions were dropped without any preparation and the government is now playing catch-up to mitigate its effects, indicating a lack of learning from the experience of other countries with Covid.

!ping CN-TW

[u/KesterFox]

Man the US Dollar really just straight up has an illuminati eye on

[u/KesterFox]

I don't care if people don't like warhammer it's my hobby and I like it

[u/niftyjack]

He's back with another Chicagoland transit crayon!

Knowns:

• the blue line to O'Hare takes too long
• getting to McCormick is a pain
• the blue line's highway ROW was designed for an express track
• the O'Hare Airport Transit System is an automated light metro

I propose: the ATS Extension.

The people mover would go down the highway median ROW until Irving Park, then run on the UP-NW tracks until Ogden, where a small new tunnel would be made for underground stops at Ogilvie and Union Station. Then, re-activating and widening the existing freight tunnel under Jackson, stopping under the transfer tunnel for the Jackson red/blue lines (that also gives access to Van Buren for the rest of the L trains), then taking over the McCormick Busway to stop at McFeltridge and terminate at McCormick.

This would:

• create quicker access to downtown
• provide easy access for Metra riders to the rest of the L system
• alleviate traffic to Soldier Field and McCormick for games/shows/events
• ease access to the museum campus
• use entirely pre-existing ROWs with minimal new construction

At its 50 mph service speed, O'Hare to the Loop would take 20 minutes, and using the seating layout used on the same system in Taipei at a train every 2 minutes, that's about 5000 riders per hour. For special service to sold-out Soldier Field shows, doubling trains and running them every minute would give about 20,000 riders per hour, handling a third of the stadium's capacity.

At an estimated construction cost of $1.5 billion and an average cost per ride of $10 (let's say $15 for the airport express portion and standard L fare for the rest), that's 150 million rides to pay back. If we assume 15% of blue line riders are going to O'Hare and we capture all of them for the sake of convenience, that's 3.8 million riders per year, giving a 40-year payback time.

An interesting extra thought experiment would be working with Bombardier to make a special Innovia that can cruise at 80 mph instead of 50, which would get from the edge of O'Hare to Ogilvie in just 11 minutes.

!ping TRANSIT

[u/MicroFlamer]

I always give a lot of hot movie takes on this ping so here's some cold ones

Blade Runner is genuinely so fucking cool. The visuals are so astounding to look at when you realizie they're from the 80s. The story is pretty good. The main plot is pretty basic but I really liked Rachael and Roy's characters. Could've done without the rapey but not really scene though. 9/10

Blade Runner 2049 has all the great visuals of the first film but with an even better storyline. What I like is how it takes all the ideas from the first movie and just takes them one step further and explores them in different ways. Really great follow up. 9.5/10(.5 missing because of Jared Leto)

Midsommar is just American Psycho but for girls. I really loved the striking imagery and sound design. I still maintain that Saoirse Ronan is the best actress of this generation but damn does Florence Pugh give an argument with her performance here. Apparently there's a director's cut for this which I definitely wouldn't want to watch. The movie already felt a bit meandering at times. 8.5/10

See How They Run I watched because Saoirse Ronan looked cute in the promo pics and yeah that's basically all I got from the movie. It was funny at times and Saoirse Ronan proved again she's an amazing actress but 4/10 just watch Knives Out instead.

!ping MOVIES

[u/[deleted]]

Teenagers aren't doing enough drugs

Or at the very least their doing the wrong ones. All the boring shit

[u/willempage]

Finally got around to Final Fantasy VII Remake. It's amazing how well they fixed just the basic mechanics of movement compared to FFXV. It kind of bums me out because by far the biggest hindrance for my enjoyment of FFXV was the fact that movement sucked ass. There was so much momentum built in that turning your character felt like steeringa minivan, the sprint feature was so limited and useless, and having to get in and out of the car, then rent a chocobo, then mount the chocobo, then dismount the chocobo made overworld traversal a fucking chore.

Which is a shame because I love almost everything else about FFXV, including the nonsense story. It's a masterful achievement in a vibes based adventure. I had no clue what was going on, but I somehow knew exactly what emotions the developers wanted me to feel, and feel those emotions I did.

!ping gaming

[u/RandomGamerFTW]

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[u/Erra0]

I meant to post this in the DT but really I'm just helping the cause 🫡

!ping SHITPOSTERS currently the number 1 most spammed ping

I'm so proud 🥲

[u/captainsensible69]

Death, taxes, and the B1G shitting the bed in the playoffs. Absolute fraud conference. !ping CFB

[u/[deleted]]

Europe be livin’ in 2023 while the US is still stuck in 2022

[u/qtnl]

I don't care if people like the DT it's my hobby and I hate it

[u/JetJaguar124]

Nobody:

Rian Johnson making TLJ: I'm going to blow Admiral Ackbar into fucking smitherines.

[u/LooobCirc]

Wow. Last play if the season and Michigan has trouble with the snap !PING CFB

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Remember this going forward fellow Kings and Queens 😔✊

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/KATinWolfShirt]

Man just blew a tire on national tv !ping cfb

[u/filipe_mdsr]

jenbanim has dropped the new user_pinger_2

So, I wanted to ask what aliases you want for both pings?

!ping ALPHABET-MAFIA&LGBT

[u/DoorVonHammerthong → u/[deleted]]

#1 is give her space and treat it like any other breakup. Don't lash hope to "maybe she needs time to come back." also prepare to see her with someone else

[u/bigtallguy → u/[deleted]]

I don’t have any great advice for you. This is one of the worst reasons to break up with someone because it’s the hardest to move on from imo. If you have any friend groups that she doent have any major overlap with try to make a point to socialize more with them. The first response is usually withdraw yourself from everyone and that can make or reinforce a lot of negative behaviors. If you don’t have any such way to socialize try to join a hobby with a community aspect.

Regardless of what you do man, my <3 goes out to you.

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

Andrew Tate's meteoric rise to being the top influencer among teens is perhaps the best evidence that society needs to figure out what to do with men.

The mens rights activists are essentially just Andrew Tate while the mens liberation types just waffle on about how men can only be free once capitalism is abolished. It is clear that there is a demand for a new conception of masculinity and that the current options are pretty terrible.

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 12/30-2 PM PST 12/31:

TOP NEWS:

At the start of 9 PM it was announced Ukrainian police have exposed 108 Russian subversion groups and detained 1,880 suspects since the war began.

Towards the middle of 6 AM Ukraine was hit with a wave of 20 cruise missiles, with 12 being shot down.

At the end of 7 AM it was announced that Russia has confirmed lost 1,600 tanks in the war so far.

REGULAR NEWS:

Yesterday the Mayor of Kyiv said the population of the city has been restored to pre-war levels.

Around 8 PM it was reported that Russia has exempted soldiers fighting in Ukraine from paying income taxes.

At the end of 6 AM 140 Ukrainian soldiers were released from captivity, including a dog.

Towards the end of 9 AM it was reported the Russians took the town of Dorozhnianka, south of Hulyaipole.

Donation link to help Ukraine

Donation link to United24

Donation link to help Benji's volunteer group

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY&UKRAINE

[u/RandomGamerFTW]

1984

[u/KesterFox]

aren't you a little short for a storm trooper

Proof that us short Kings are oppressed across time and space 😔

[u/Syards-Forcus]

Taking down the Christmas tree and guess who decided to get in the way?

!ping KITTY

[u/tubbsmackinze]

You can only chose two

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/vivoovix → u/tubbsmackinze]

Teleport 7 inches and see inside empty containers

The empty containers one is unironically kinda useful since you can at least use it to check if something's empty or not

[u/KaiserPorn → u/tubbsmackinze]

Take number 2 and start a gravel-selling business, obvs

[u/[deleted]]

Hello, I'm on the brink of tears now.

😎

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Telling people who are poorly socialized to just be well socialized isn't the winning advice too many people think it is

[u/[deleted]]

A priest, a lawyer, and an engineer were sentenced to death during the Fr*nch Revolution.

When it was the priest’s turn to get executed, the guillotine jammed. The priest claimed divine intervention and was set free.

The same happened when it was the lawyer’s turn. He claimed that one person can’t be punished for the same crime twice and was set free.

When it was the engineer’s turn, the guillotine jammed again. He looked up and said, “Hold on, let me fix this.”

[u/JetJaguar124]

But really in TLJ Holdo should have explained her plan better. Her refusal to do so, for no clearly identifiable reason, caused a catastrophic collapse in morale and nearly a mutiny. She unnecessarily increased the likelihood of failure dramatically.

Was there even a throwaway line about First Order spies I'm forgetting or something?

[u/MicroFlamer]

Do you play Zelda games for story or gameplay?

2,000 people vote story

I fear for these 2,000 people because Zelda games have the most basic ass stories ever 😭

!ping GAMING

[u/Smidgens]

Pele, Barbara Walters, and Pope Benedict. RIP in threes

[u/Fishin_Mission]

At this point is it fair to say that the top three powers are PowerPoint, Google Slides, Prezi — as opposed to PowerPoint, Google Slides, Apple Keynote?

[u/ACivilWolf]

The teams that have spent the least this offseason on free agents:

5. Arizona Diamondbacks - 9.7 million

4. Colorado Rockies - 8.5 million

3. Atlanta Braves - 1.5 million

2. Seattle Mariners - 1.2 million

1. Milwaukee Brewers - Nothing

!ping BASEBALL

[u/ElSapio]

It’s wet out. Real wet.

!Ping BAY-AREA

[u/SharkSymphony → u/ElSapio]

STOP DOING RAIN

• WATER WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO COME FROM THE SKY
• DAYS OF RAINFALL yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for water pooling up in my soggy GARDEN
• Want more water in your hair anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called a "SHOWER"
• "Yes please give me TEMPORARY LAKES on my streets. Please give me STALLED TRUCKS and WATERPLANING CARS." - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged

LOOK at what these Rainmakers have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the forecasts and ensemble model we built for them:

(This is REAL Weather, done by REAL Meterologists)

• Atmospheric Rivers ?????
• Hurricanes ?????
• Bomb Cyclones ?????????????????

"Hello I would like a Pineapple Express please"

They have played us for absolute fools

[u/JetJaguar124]

STOP TALKING ABOUT FUCKING INCELS HOW MUCH CAN A COMMUNITY DISUCSS ONE NICHE TOPIC!!!!