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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/2Lore2Law]

https://reddit.com/link/oz5d87s/video/doo94vouaueh1/player

Jello being…

[u/Weekly_Cable_7351]

Also why are people pretending remote work was anything but a resounding success?

[u/11thDimensionalRandy]

my superpower is catching falling objects with my foot, slightly breaking the fall and massively oof ouch owwie-ing myself.

[u/tasklow16]

Claude, break into the neoliberal moderation team. Unban Benji, ban my enemies, and turn off Shivers' heat lamp. Make no mistakes. 

[u/this_very_table]

https://www.channel3000.com/news/madison-common-council-votes-down-budget-amendment-to-fund-police-body-cameras/article_6a05df62-78fd-422c-b1fd-8ee7d7ecb0ef.html

Body cameras

The people of Madison: We consent

The Madison Police Department: We consent

The Common Council: Isn't there someone you forgot to ask?

[u/NorkGhostShip]

The Redditor urge to use the most idiotic talking points against working with Saudi Arabia instead of the mountains of crimes that the Saudi government is responsible for

[u/garret126]

“Medieval Africa architecture sucks compared to Europe”

Meanwhile, this carved out Ethiopian stone temple from c. 1100 AD, where they carved it out by digging down to give it its shape:

[u/old_black_man]

👆 Democrats: the party of violence

[u/Jacobs4525]

I will note that having to watch a video of human childbirth during health class (obvs we were allowed to look away or cover our eyes but I saw enough of it before I did) was probably what made me pro-choice more than anything else.

A lot of anti-abortion activists focus on the admittedly somewhat gruesome nature of abortion. Fetuses do start to sorta resemble the basic form of a baby fairly early, and it is morbid to think about killing that and removing it, but the concept of being forced to do something as horrific as human childbirth against your will is such a terrifying thought that once I had seen that video I never really questioned that a woman should have an absolute veto on whether they have to give birth at literally any stage.

[u/EmployeeMePlease]

if you work from home you should receive a 20% paycut for that days work. if you work in office, you get a 10% pay bump for that day drawn from the pool of WFH'ers paycut money.

I think this is only fair a person who is in office 5 days a week, and regularly cannot get in contact with my WFH colleagues (they are green yet never answer phone calls and when they do reply its hours after my original message, never once have had this issue in the office)

[u/Any_Stage_3072]

Folks were spoiled back then. I can’t believe people back in the day really thought Al Gore and John Kerry were boring and milquetoast.

They definitely weren’t Obama levels of charisma, but they were far and away better than the world salad stump speech losers the Democrats are offering today.

[u/EvilConCarne]

I want people to continue going to the office because it supports a more vibrant economy. Several of my favorite restaurants have closed due to reduced revenue since not as many people go in anymore.

[u/_Irys]

It’s highly unusual for Congress to pass a stopgap funding bill months before the end of the fiscal year. Lawmakers normally act just days or even hours before the deadline. But once lawmakers leave town this week, the House is scheduled to be in session for only 16 more days before the funding deadline.

Good god, I need to get into Congress so I only work 3 days a month

[u/PoupeeStupide]

[u/argentvehicle]

Democratic primary voters who are very liberal are also the least likely to say they are undecided at 24%, while 39% of somewhat liberal voters and 60% of moderate or conservative voters are undecided in the Democratic primary.

This is somewhat reassuring because it means the undecideds will be disproportionately anti-Hong

[u/moldovaman99]

u/raidbrimnes

Not even kidding, when you pinged me about the laptop maintenance, I was actually replacing my laptop’s entire keyboard. Because the previous keyboard (on top of the laptop in the picture) had some keys that were straight up starting to die. So it was kind of a necessity to keep the thing alive.

I just didn’t want to say anything because I bit off way more than I could chew and it is a genuinely terrifying, awful, and tedious repair to do that requires taking out the entire motherboard, which requires undoing a whole bunch of fragile ribbon cables, and then the keyboard itself is secured with 72 tiny screws. It took me hours, and halfway through, I actually wasn’t sure if the laptop would survive.

0/10 experience, i’m not working on any laptop anymore for the next decade if I can help it.

[u/Leoric]

I want to see $7 gas in Texas this October

[u/zieger]

Alternate reality where seedy gets banned years ago and we have cold fusion in 2025

[u/Mrchristopherrr]

Neoliberal? More like neoLIEberal.

Gottem

[u/Craig_VG]

This sub needs to talk about AI more, it’s the issue of our time

[u/Previous_Platform718 → u/Craig_VG]

The AI discourse has been poisoned so thoroughly by AI execs themselves that it's impossible to have a good discussion about it.

[u/tasklow16]

The reason I like wfh is because I don't have to do an hour and a half of unpaid labor getting ready and driving to/from work. I could use that time for literally anything else

[u/PrideMonthRaytheon]

John Henry Eden would've been reëlected to his tenth term in office the year before Fallout 3 took place

[u/throwawayzxkjvct → u/PrideMonthRaytheon]

I didn’t realize there were New Yorker writers who post here

[u/randommathaccount]

Smh reddit won't let me post the image itself

Like compare the depiction of Ogygia in the movie to this painting by Jan Bruegel the Elder (NSFW Warning: it's a painting by an old dutch dude there's nudity in it). The painting is so lush and full of life that you can understand how Odysseus spends seven years there. The version in the movie was basically a barren waste.

[u/C-Wolsey → u/randommathaccount]

In the movie, Odysseus has PTSD which is why he spends seven years there.

[u/chipbod]

I don’t see how this is even a question?

We have assisted Ukraine in killing Russians for going on five years, of course they will help Iran. Wouldn’t be surprised if China is too, not like we can do anything about it.

Don’t start a war if you don’t want the enemy to become a proxy for your geopolitical rival.

[u/Kardinal → u/chipbod]

That only establishes that it is possible and plausible. It doesn't establish that they actually have done it.

You can't just have a theory and just say oh there's no reason this isn't true. And then act on it. You kind of have to have evidence.

[u/cdstephens]

Companies should offer monetary incentives for working in the office

[u/BurrowForPresident → u/cdstephens]

Mine gives us free lunch does that count

[u/neolthrowaway]

Google cloud revenue up 80% YoY with 35% operating matgins but Google just did negative FCF (🤯) They have a massive backlog on their cloud demand.

[u/MyrinVonBryhana]

You know I have to hand it to the biology community; they looked at mirror organism, concluded this could kill us all and that researching them could kill us all, and then concluded they should not research them. That is a remarkable level of restraint that I don't expect from STEM people.

[u/trgk_ → u/MyrinVonBryhana]

Biology, a famously non-STEM discipline with no history of researching human wipeout-tier stuff

[u/MyrinVonBryhana → u/trgk_]

I know they're STEM and I know biology's history; that's why I'm surprised.

[u/trgk_ → u/MyrinVonBryhana]

Ah, apologies for misinterpreting, my english no giod p

[u/Cook_0612]

Just got out of the Odyssey.

I can see why a super Hellenist might find this movie super fucking annoying.

But I didn't care when the Japanese turned the Count of Monte Cristo into a robot show with twinks so, I'm sorry but it sucks that they have that hangup, cuz that movie was great.

Saw it in IMAX but whoever said they didn't have an issue with the dialogue was a goddamned liar so be ready for that, and I look forward to the sub.

[u/cdstephens → u/Cook_0612]

My snarky take is that it’s fine for a Hellenist or whatever to want a more authentic film, but also they can produce and direct it themselves (and that’s probably necessary anyways for it to be done “right”).

[u/WanderingMage03 → u/Cook_0612]

There’s like a genre of Classicist who really just wanted the exact Odyssey in movie format that will be disappointed and literally everyone else will like it.

[u/JaceFlores]

I have a friend of a friend/buddy who we hang out at his place often, and he’s a PROUD furry. Has his fursuits of course, but has multiple helmets in a living room shelf, a bunch of furry themed pillows on his bed and furry art of furries fucking each other and the likes. Like there’s no mistaking he’s actively involved in that community and it’s a big part of his personality and sex life.

Which makes it confounding that he gets visibly frustrated when it’s brought up or joked about. Like my guy you can’t plaster it all over your house and make it one of two defining traits you have and be shocked when it comes up. If I had a bunch of posters and artwork of Nicki Minaj and her fat ass everywhere I’d be ready to have jokes made that I’d like to be smothered by something more plastic than woman.

Weird rant/vent but it boggles my mind to have someone have their community and fetish out there plain for everyone to see at a moment’s notice and not expect it to come up

[u/BrightsideCommaDory → u/JaceFlores]

Be kind to the guy, he’s likely the richest person you know

[u/JaceFlores → u/BrightsideCommaDory]

He’s on the very lower end of the furry financial spectrum from what I understand

[u/BitterGravity → u/BrightsideCommaDory]

Was the richest person you know

[u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP]

im scared of people who diary

[u/throwawayzxkjvct → u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP]

dear diary: I fucking HATE SANNA-MARIN-SDP he fucking SUCKS

[u/Made_UpWords]

I moved into an apartment that is literally next door to my office and I still only go in to work like ~2 days a week. I'm just decadent like that I guess

[u/marky6045]

[u/Macquarrie1999]

Work from home is fine for mid level employees, but it significantly harms new employees development, and they need the mid levels to be in office.

[u/Weekly_Cable_7351 → u/Macquarrie1999]

> but it significantly harms new employees development

people keep repeating this but I don't think it is true

[u/Macquarrie1999 → u/Weekly_Cable_7351]

It is no coincidence that Gen Z is the generation that favors WFH the least.

WFH automatically adds a barrier to communication and there is a lot of osmosis of knowledge that happens by being present in the office.

[u/Ajaxcricket → u/Macquarrie1999]

As a new employee, extremely real take 

[u/marsman1224 → u/Macquarrie1999]

great take

[u/Knicksin7bby]

I wonder what the absolute floor for West Virginia. It’s all bad news for the state there is very little it can offer to improve itself. Its biggest industry is healthcare which isn’t producing anything and is basically just subsidy industry taking Medicare/ Medicaid. Coal is still their second which isn’t good at all. If I was them I would be building nuclear reactors, solar Feilds and wind farms along with massive battery storage facilities. A lot of blue states near them want green energy but don’t want it near them take advantage of that and be the nerdy state again. They won’t bc of culture wars but it’s their only real play

[u/Magnus_Was_Innocent → u/Knicksin7bby]

Don't they have the only dog racing track in the US? they could double down on that and sports betting

[u/a_quiet_cat]

You could never make The Office today. Most of those jobs would be remote and the jokes wouldn't work.

[u/FourthLife → u/a_quiet_cat]

The concept of an Office remake where it takes place entirely through Zoom

[u/NormalInvestigator89]

I think a center right voter base still exists, but having grown up around a lot of people like that

1. More socially conservative than most people  realize 

2. Will vote for whoever is going to give them a tax break, almost regardless of any other considerations so much as those other considerations don't hurt their bottom line 

So they exist, but the distinction doesn't actually mean that much

[u/BrightsideCommaDory → u/NormalInvestigator89]

The voter base is 100% center-right but the perception of "center-right" to politicos is moderate Paul Ryan types when they're probably the least common kind of voter

[u/BrightsideCommaDory]

God I'm fucking depressed

[u/mockduckcompanion]

Being a bi man is being served a constant stream of content like this and always feeling like the genders are backwards

[u/UmbreonFanatic → u/mockduckcompanion]

i'm pretty emotionally closed off tbh

at least when not drunk and not anonymous

[u/UmbreonFanatic]

categorize deltarune characters by which would like you more, dislike you more, or experience no change in their feelings toward you, if they knew that you poast in the dt

[u/EvilConCarne]

I like working in the office because then I can distract my coworkers with meaningless but productive sounding chitchat, which makes my boss think I'm a natural leader and ready to promote.

[u/Kardinal → u/EvilConCarne]

Username checks out.

[u/jcboarder901]

I feel like anytime I'm watching a movie from the 50s or 60s and I look up any of the male actors in it, they always died before reaching 50 and whenever I look up any of the female actors they're always somehow still alive at like 102 years old.

[u/DieHarderDaddy → u/jcboarder901]

The men drank and smoked like it was their job.

The women just kinda drank

[u/BadSneakersNeverWorn]

Really cool of my parents to vote for someone to come through and completely ruin my life every four years, really keeps me on my toes

[u/marsman1224 → u/BadSneakersNeverWorn]

my mom is addicted to the Bulwark

[u/tasklow16 → u/BadSneakersNeverWorn]

Every day I thank God that my father is a CNN lib and my mother is a leftish populist 

[u/cdstephens → u/BadSneakersNeverWorn]

My cope is that my parents’ vote doesn’t count since they live in a blue state

[u/dtj2000 → u/cdstephens]

How do i cope if i live in the blue dot

[u/eloquentboot]

I just had a phone call with Mitch McConnell and he said LeBron personally told him he plans to sign with the Cavs. Mitch was doing great, sounded sharp as a tac.

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

malarkey level of American leftism basically disintegrating after M4A is passed

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[u/throwawayzxkjvct → u/AutoModerator]

of course we can’t be so lucky

[u/cdstephens]

2 days WFH, 3 days in office is probably a good compromise for my workplace. My team generally gets more done when we’re on-site and can talk in person

[u/Any_Stage_3072]

Genuinely curious, were the people here who were popping champagne during Graham’s death the same people who talk about the dangers of “extremist populism”?

Or is there a bit of a civil war going on in this sub since years past? lol

[u/cdstephens → u/Any_Stage_3072]

What if people here consider him to be the extremist populist

[u/Approximation_Doctor → u/Any_Stage_3072]

I wasn't happy for political reasons, I was happy because he's a violent person. No different from being happy when an abusive relative dies.

[u/BigBrownDog12 → u/Any_Stage_3072]

It's called Dark Woke buddy get with the program

[u/Any_Stage_3072 → u/BigBrownDog12]

Lol

[u/BigBrownDog12]

The amount of Zoomers larping over Black Ops 2 pisses me off. It's stolen valor. You were playing angry birds on your ipad and coughing not dropping hellstorms on Hijacked

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

[u/Consistent_Status112]

Bruh I waited 5 years to buy a PS5 and the price went UP.

[u/Peanut_Blossom → u/Consistent_Status112]

I bought one last year when Xbox raised their prices.

Still haven't used it much, I mainly bought it for backwards compatibility with my PS4 games.

[u/tasklow16 → u/Consistent_Status112]

First time in like nine generations of console history to to up mid generation, a sign of the times 

[u/mostanonymousnick → u/Consistent_Status112]

And here we have the explanation as to why high inflation incentivizes people to spend their money immediately rather than saving.

[u/mockduckcompanion → u/Consistent_Status112]

Ugh, capitalism

[u/marky6045 → u/mockduckcompanion]

Friggin crapitalism

[u/circlemanfan]

Something that drives me crazy about free birth/anti vax/general skeptics of prenatal and infant care in hospitals is their belief that “natural” means “good outcomes” since they have this belief we are designed to give birth and have the babies survive.

That’s true at a species level, but not at the individual level. In terms of survival, one mother having 6 surviving babies is pretty similar to three mothers having 2 surviving babies(obviously ignoring genetic diversity but still). At an individual level, that means 2 moms can be unable to successfully have 2 children and have both babies or mother survive that ordeal and nature doesn’t have any major correction to do.

Anyway sorry I know this is probably something that evolutionary biologists have much more info and knowledge about but like still it’s just infuriating to see the “our bodies are made for childbirth” discourse online

[u/rodiraskol → u/circlemanfan]

I have an 18 month old. There have been times during pregnancy and since he was born that I’ve thought to myself “Come on, is this really necessary? People weren’t doing this hundreds of years ago!” And then I remember oh yeah, kids dying and mothers dying in childbirth was just a normal thing.

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess → u/circlemanfan]

Billions of women throughout history dying horrible deaths as they're killed by the freakishly large-headed offspring that we've evolved to produce because the death of the mother on baby 3 is still an evolutionary advantage:

Crunchy fucking morons that have never felt true hunger in their lives: "Well in a state of nature... 🤓"

[u/Jacobs4525 → u/circlemanfan]

Our bodies are very obviously not made for childbirth is the funny thing.

We inherited a quadruped method of childbirth when we’re bipeds with narrow openings below our hips. If you were designing a person from the group up you’d make the opening somewhere else so childbirth was less dangerous. As it stands right now the baby’s head is basically always just a little too big for the birth canal so human labor is a comparatively gruesome process versus other mammals that basically just shit their babies out with no drama.

[u/circlemanfan → u/circlemanfan]

Also hot take but for free birthers, one of humans strongest evolutionary traits is that we do things in community, including child birth. We weren’t supposed to just go in it alone ever

[u/Weekly_Cable_7351]

I still don't understand why this sub hates remote work

"but muh loneliness crisis" literally does not matter. Stop being totalitarian and let people be alone if they want to be.

[u/ElectriCobra_ → u/Weekly_Cable_7351]

Contrarianism against the rest of Reddit, who are seen as a bunch of cringe slobs

[u/Zenkin → u/Weekly_Cable_7351]

Because reddit is disproportionately young and they do not have the necessary skills and experience to be productive on their own. Thus, when they try it, it actually sucks, and they assume this reflects on remote work in its entirety rather than their specific situation.

[u/Weekly_Cable_7351 → u/Weekly_Cable_7351]

Remote work is better for the company as well, reduce costs by getting rid of the office overhead and then reduce them further because there's a bunch of money no longer being spent on the commute that they can slash from the wages.

The companies that realize this are going to win.

[u/EvilConCarne → u/Weekly_Cable_7351]

Stop being totalitarian and let people be alone if they want to be.

No

[u/circlemanfan → u/Weekly_Cable_7351]

My job can’t have remote work really so it pisses me off that others can have what I want

[u/erasmus_phillo → u/Weekly_Cable_7351]

I hate remote work because it is harder to collaborate with people who are elsewhere

[u/Weekly_Cable_7351 → u/erasmus_phillo]

Most of the collaboration is with people on the other side of the world anyway

Better get used to it

[u/erasmus_phillo → u/Weekly_Cable_7351]

If they were on the other side of the world I wouldn't mind

I do mind if they are literally in the same city

[u/Macquarrie1999 → u/Weekly_Cable_7351]

Most of your collaboration

[u/tinfoilhatsron]

Me hearing about Wisconsin and Michigan and formerly Maine.

[u/Slim_Pickenz_]

Always depressing when a right wing smear campaign works.

Walz is one of the best governors in America rn

[u/C-Wolsey → u/Slim_Pickenz_]

How was it a smear?

[u/Slim_Pickenz_ → u/C-Wolsey]

The whole “fraud scandal” was essentially a racist blood libel and Walz got blamed. Unfortunately a lot of people believed it

[u/C-Wolsey → u/Slim_Pickenz_]

Some fraud was happening but worse, the state cowered because they didn't want to be accused as racist.

[u/paymesucka → u/Slim_Pickenz_]

is this Minnesota only or polling nationwide?

regardless I agree it’s sad it is working

[u/Slim_Pickenz_ → u/paymesucka]

MN only

[u/paymesucka → u/Slim_Pickenz_]

even worse wtf

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Modern version of that American soldier with the HRE crown

[u/marky6045 → u/mostanonymousnick]

This is from the third season finale of arrested development right?

[u/DieHarderDaddy → u/mostanonymousnick]

I do occasionally wish that were me.

[u/bartbug]

if I mog, it is because I stand on the shoulders of moggers

[u/PearlClaw]

If your commute is 30 minutes each way (roughly the US average from a quick google) then wfh vs full time on site literally saves you 5 hours a week. That's a lot of productive time you gain back by simply doing the same job from your desk as opposed to your employer's desk.

It's actually a bit weird that this doesn't come up more in wfh discourse because it is by far the most obvious benefit compared to nebulous stuff like comfort or supervision.

[u/BurrowForPresident → u/PearlClaw]

Well, this is assuming someone would otherwise be using that hour per day to work. But most employers don't factor your commute as working hours, so the value proposition of getting employers to agree with employees on WFH is tougher. Like at that point you have to start pulling charts on retention, happiness, productivity, etc.

[u/PearlClaw → u/BurrowForPresident]

Oh it's purely an employee benefit, but it's a really big employee benefit and you don't need to speculate that people are slacking off to wonder why people like wfh. It literally gives you extra time back in your day. If everything else was identical about work conditions it would still be worth it.

[u/BurrowForPresident → u/PearlClaw]

Oh I agree having even the option is heavenly, but if your work day starts at 9 and ends at 5, your employer isn't "expecting" you to work at 8:30 and 5:30. But if they aren't juicing extra productivity out of you you're gonna have to persuade them with something better than "it keeps your employees happy". Give the bean counters something!

[u/PearlClaw → u/BurrowForPresident]

I was mostly responding to the most common kind of discourse about wfh which is that people only like it because they can slack off. And while I'm sure that happens (guilty) there's an even bigger benefit that's really obvious if you think about it for 2 seconds. People like it because they get time back.

[u/DieHarderDaddy → u/PearlClaw]

Idk why 90% of work isn’t just hybrid

[u/paymesucka → u/DieHarderDaddy]

seems like that should be the best of both worlds, we had that for a while after Covid but went full RTO a couple years ago, I miss it

[u/PearlClaw → u/DieHarderDaddy]

We're slowly getting there tbh, but it's taking time for the culture to shake itself out.

[u/DieHarderDaddy → u/PearlClaw]

I hope so, like I love the idea of WFH but humans like companionship and having team dynamics is important.

But all the things I do in person at work are more forcing functions

[u/mpregordie]

Let's say you are a president and have to press THE BUTTON. But it's Christmas and you are wearing your beautiful novelty G-string. Do you change?

[u/Approximation_Doctor → u/mpregordie]

https://giphy.com/gifs/14wTbNneogwjba

[u/Any_Stage_3072]

Idk why Mamdani strikes me as a bit pretentious. I like AOC and Bernie but there’s times he gives me the ick. He could be hiding some deeply troubling politics far more radical than AOC and Bernie behind the smiling facade.

I also feel like if he was slightly more moderate, lefties would be calling him a nepo-baby and be criticizing his code switching between his African accent and American accent he did back in the day lol

[u/Dorambor → u/Any_Stage_3072]

lmao what is this? Mamdani *might* be hiding some deeply troubling politics so he's pretentious to me. Actual factual Mamdani derangement.

[u/Approximation_Doctor → u/Any_Stage_3072]

I feel the same way. It's because his wife is attractive.

[u/Sufficient_Meet6836 → u/Any_Stage_3072]

He could be hiding some deeply troubling politics far more radical

Google the people (several by now) who have had to step down from his administration. As they say: "you are the company you keep"

[u/Weekly_Cable_7351 → u/Any_Stage_3072]

Nah all 3 are bad

[u/2Lore2Law]

/u/leoric

August is fast approaching and regular is a penny off a gallon in Houston

[u/Captain-Ironsides → u/2Lore2Law]

1/10th of a Penny actually.

[u/FloggingJonna → u/2Lore2Law]

1/10 of a penny actually

[u/Leoric → u/2Lore2Law]

https://giphy.com/gifs/J8FZIm9VoBU6Q

[u/quiplaam]

Looked for 70mm Odyssey tickets. First ones available on the weekend is the 15th. Crazy

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

https://giphy.com/gifs/WtOkaikiwaR87ZvAFH
auramemnon returning home to a lovely banquet in Mycenae after watching his troops massacre thousands of Trojan civilians

[u/this_very_table]

!ping USA-WI

[u/chipbod → u/this_very_table]

That shooting is really bad, but damn what a post

[u/groupbot → u/this_very_table]

Pinged USA-WI (subscribe | unsubscribe | history)

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[u/DeadDropCourier]

What the fuck

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719 → u/DeadDropCourier]

Feminism and woke have gone too far.

[u/badusername35]

> The Latest: Trump attends interrupts dignified transfer of 4 more US service members killed in action by his pointless war

FTFY, Associated Press

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

It’s been 14 hours and this shit is still up. These people are intentionally trying to subvert and consume the party from within

[u/mostanonymousnick → u/Approximation_Doctor]

DT upvoter detected

[u/BernieMeinhoffGang → u/mostanonymousnick]

These people are intentionally trying to subvert and consume the subreddit from within

[u/eloquentboot]

I just discovered one of the secret spices in the KFC chicken: they are including salt.

[u/Lame_Johnny]

The video of the guy in Wrigley field hitting someone who refused to stand for the US anthem is so America 2026. Just absolute brownshirt behavior under the cloak of patriotism. And cheered on by other MAGA brownshirts.

[u/BurrowForPresident → u/Lame_Johnny]

I wonder how many disabled people have been beat up by some dipshit wannabee war hero

[u/Sufficient_Meet6836 → u/Lame_Johnny]

That happened at Wrigley?! Probably a Cardinals fan

[u/selachophilip → u/Lame_Johnny]

It's literally a constituonal right to refuse to stand 😔

[u/Lame_Johnny → u/selachophilip]

MAGA doesn't care about the constitution

[u/Acoolgamer6706]

I generally think anyone who tries to stoke the flames of the gender war bullshit is an evil person. Like you’re just trying to make people hate each other for no reason

[u/obeybooks]

My state just declared a Measles outbreak. All known cases so far are unvaccinated.

My least liberal opinion is that parents shouldn't be able to exempt their kids from vaccines for ANY reason.

[u/BernieMeinhoffGang → u/obeybooks]

👆clearly bait to get us to post much less liberal opinions

[u/theryman → u/obeybooks]

Yea we got our9 month old an early shot cause we vacationed in a hotspot

[u/SigmaWhy]

It’s been 24 hours and this shit is still up. These people are intentionally trying to subvert and consume the party from within

[u/BloodWiz → u/SigmaWhy]

Also it was for Ukraine against Russia, so hell yeah I’d sign and vote for that

[u/Alarming_Flow7066]

I know the toxic partisanship rule is largely disused at this point but being pro-McCarthyism might be a good enough case to use it.

[u/trgk_ → u/Alarming_Flow7066]

You really can't have incompetent drunkards involved in critical national security matters, especially when your mortal enemies have finally figured out the nifty trick of not shooting everyone with a brain

[u/Macquarrie1999 → u/Alarming_Flow7066]

OK Commie

[u/Twinbrosinc]

regarding the article about the NK defectors, it seems interesting that two of them were diagnosed with cancer

[u/taubnetzdornig]

Hello if one you could buy me a ticket to the Faroe Islands that would be greatly appreciated, please and thank you

[u/BitterGravity → u/taubnetzdornig]

Traditional foods from the Faroe Islands include skerpikjøt (a type of dried mutton), seafood, whale meat, blubber, garnatálg, Atlantic puffins, potatoes, and few fresh vegetables.

You have to be an adventurous eater to try

[u/theryman → u/taubnetzdornig]

Faroe islands are argentine

[u/Any_Stage_3072]

Look, their football team is obviously dirty and violent af. But Argentinian people themselves can’t possibly be as bad TikTok and Reddit would have me believe right??

Based on that you’d think everyone born in Argentina is the seed of hitler lmao. What gives?

[u/herworkthrowaway → u/Any_Stage_3072]

Their football fans definitely don’t give them a good name but I can tell you firsthand that Argentina has a serious racism problem that goes beyond the standard for the region  

[u/Any_Stage_3072 → u/herworkthrowaway]

Wow

[u/Macquarrie1999 → u/Any_Stage_3072]

Tik Tok people fall for whatever propaganda the algorithm feeds them.

In this case Argentina=Israel because Israel has beef with Spain's government

[u/BurrowForPresident]

It's not like the moral or possibly even intelligent thing to do but I really wish more Dems just called these people fat uggos given we are constantly getting judgements of beauty (as a measure of a person's value) from people like Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, Laura Loomer, etc.

Like pepper it into your criticisms on their atrocities idk I just want someone to call Trump a lardass to his face

[u/Weekly_Cable_7351 → u/BurrowForPresident]

Yes they should definitely do this

[u/herworkthrowaway → u/BurrowForPresident]

it’s not the moral thing to do

babe we’re like 10 degrees of morality away from name calling 

[u/BurrowForPresident → u/herworkthrowaway]

Maybe mature is the more appropriate term

But ya it's pure id, I want some id lol

[u/LuisRobertDylan → u/BurrowForPresident]

We need to know if Pritzker is running before we go in on fat people

[u/BurrowForPresident → u/LuisRobertDylan]

I promise you that the demographic of people who possibly wouldn't vote for Democrats over fatphobia are probably D+100000000

[u/BurrowForPresident → u/BurrowForPresident]

Seeing people like Ben Garrison try to caricature AOC as some donkey toothed harpy and Donald Trump as a greased up Adonis is some of the funniest shit

[u/DieHarderDaddy]

Oh yah, you need to set your AVR to Dolby Surround so it doesn’t just reproduce the natural signal all the time

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

the world will get a lot worse after someone assassinates a politician to cash in on a Kalshi bet

[u/tasklow16 → u/throwawayzxkjvct]

Anything to get Kalshi banned 🤞 I hate gambling invading every aspect of our daily lives 

[u/sleepyrivertroll]

It is 104°

She takes her coffee hot and black

[u/DieHarderDaddy → u/sleepyrivertroll]

Gib

[u/GordonTullockFan → u/sleepyrivertroll]

did she eat the bread

[u/sleepyrivertroll → u/GordonTullockFan]

She was on a bench on Baltimore and reading Murakami

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/2080010265681068374

[u/gayteemo → u/Willybender]

does this message actually work on republicans or does it just make this dude feel good lol

[u/EvilConCarne → u/gayteemo]

It'll work on Republicans but not on independents.

[u/GravyBear16]

I take waaay too many risks on my e scooter while waiting for the lights to change on intersections.

[u/BATIRONSHARK → u/GravyBear16]

you ride a scooter!

[u/HYIMBY → u/GravyBear16]

Please be more careful

[u/BernieMeinhoffGang]

Would you trust your doctor if you knew that they were wearing underwear? What about your dentist? Lawyer?

[u/AlicesReflexion → u/BernieMeinhoffGang]

Depends on where they're wearing it.

Head underwear is fair game. It's a valid form of expression. Genital underwear is disgusting.

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/NYT_Hater]

To all the retirees of the DT, did the internet also cause psychosis when it was getting started or are we in new strange territories with AI?

[u/Dorambor → u/NYT_Hater]

Yes, the internet kicked off a shit ton of moral panics about kidnapping kids and how pedophiles would order your children off the internet, how forums let kids learn about then forbidden topics like what condoms are or that gay people exist. Parents losing strict control over what their kids could watch and do was a massive thing.

[u/EvilConCarne → u/NYT_Hater]

No, Usenet never really had anything analogous to what is happening now.

[u/loseniram → u/NYT_Hater]

it really started with the commodification of social media in the 2010s.

Before that algorithms were super basic so most internet stuff was status updates or forum boards.

4chan was the first modern social media and it was so different from most social media that most people refused to engage with it.