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[dire canopy]

hell no

[dire canopy]

new post prepared for Finland

https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1642854096993505285/-7glhqYH?format=jpg&name=orig

it should be raised this afternoon

well not actually new post they made a new post but that one is for Albania because they are in alphabetical order

[grave shore]

https://tenor.com/view/its-happening-gif-23353691

[valid magnet]

[last eagle]

Finland is part of Europe now?

[balmy igloo]

yes

their island finally collided with the european continent and they are now part of europe

[grave shore]

yeah I felt the impact of the collision

should have changed course and just moved Finland next to japan

[last eagle]

wow

that's epic

[livid frigate]

i just saved wisconsin's democracy

[near jetty]

thanks

[near jetty]

I also saved Wisconsin democracy

I wrote in bucks members for the local elections because the other options are all repubes

[toxic spoke]

you two saved democracy thanks https://twitter.com/redistrict/status/1643428168710201345

Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict)

I've seen enough: Janet Protasiewicz defeats Daniel Kelly for Wisconsin Supreme Court. The result flips ideological control of the court from conservative to liberal, a huge victory for the pro-choice side.

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Twitter · Apr 5, 2023, 1:39 AM

[near jetty]

now to keep an eye on district 8 which decides if the repooplickans have a 2/3 majority

https://twitter.com/jrrosswrites/status/1643434413244534784

JR Ross (@jrrosswrites)

8th SD update:

@Jodi4Senate 51.1%
@DanKnodlforWI 48.9%

@RonJohnsonWI won 54.2% here in November as he won statewide by 1 point.

Twitter · Apr 5, 2023, 2:04 AM

[vital needle]

What does it mean did we win or did we get owned

[near jetty]

if jodi wins then democracy is saved

[vital needle]

Nice

[trim flicker]

good

[near jetty]

if jodi wins then it will officially be white girl summer

[livid frigate]

We got one more snow in us

Followed by an 80 degree day

[near jetty]

next week looking sublime

weather forecast

[slate niche]

:flag_us: West Bend, WI, USA

Tue 4/4 :foggy: 55 °F / 37 °F — Fog
Wed 5/4 :cloud: 68 °F / 30 °F — Cloudy
Thu 6/4 :sunny: 46 °F / 27 °F — Clear, Sunny
Fri 7/4 :sunny: 44 °F / 25 °F — Clear, Sunny
Sat 8/4 :cloud: 45 °F / 33 °F — Cloudy
Sun 9/4 :sunny: 62 °F / 38 °F — Clear, Sunny
Mon 10/4 :cloud: 66 °F / 49 °F — Cloudy
Tue 11/4 :cloud: 69 °F / 56 °F — Cloudy

[balmy igloo]

weather forecast

[slate niche]

:flag_us: Los Angeles, CA, USA

Tue 4/4 :sunny: 64 °F / 43 °F — Clear, Sunny
Wed 5/4 :sunny: 66 °F / 43 °F — Clear, Sunny
Thu 6/4 :cloud: 75 °F / 47 °F — Cloudy
Fri 7/4 :white_sun_small_cloud: 66 °F / 47 °F — Mostly Clear
Sat 8/4 :cloud: 71 °F / 56 °F — Cloudy
Sun 9/4 :sunny: 76 °F / 58 °F — Clear, Sunny
Mon 10/4 :sunny: 74 °F / 59 °F — Clear, Sunny
Tue 11/4 :white_sun_small_cloud: 73 °F / 59 °F — Mostly Clear

[dreamy ledge]

it be snowing where I'm at tomorrow... snowed most of the day today and yesterday.

I am now an old man shouting at the sky

[halcyon iron]

weather forecast

[slate niche]

:information_source: Please save your location using >weather save <location...>

[halcyon iron]

ah

right

[hoary charm]

join farming location data

[halcyon iron]

maybe later

[grave shore]

db select count(location_string) from user_settings

[slate niche]

:white_check_mark: 1 rows returned/affected

(6124,)

[grave shore]

[blazing depot]

[static creek]

[hoary charm]

db drop table user_settings

[slate niche]

:warning: You cannot use this command.

[hoary charm]

[haughty panther]

nani

[vital needle]

Today there was another attack on a brazilian school, it's the second in like 2 weeks

Wow not even two weeks, the other one was on the 27th

[blazing depot]

https://twitter.com/DailyLoud/status/1643358998995824640

Daily Loud (@DailyLoud)

Florida will now allow its residents to carry concealed guns without a permit or training. The law goes into effect on July 1st.

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Twitter · Apr 4, 2023, 9:04 PM

What could possibly go wrong

[trim flicker]

Oh no

[grave shore]

now why the fuck

[trim flicker]

Unsurprising

Still scary as fuck

[eager parrot]

it's the 26th state to do so

it's not really a groundbreaking change as far as US state laws go

after the Bruen ruling last year, basically no state in the US is even allowed to be a "may issue" state, all are "shall issue" and after this Florida law goes into effect, 26 out of 50 states will be constitutional carry states. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_carry

[blazing depot]

"Others do it to" isn't a relevant argument

[eager parrot]

it is a relevant legal argument in the united states.

[blazing depot]

State laws are completely independent from each other, so nah

[eager parrot]

State laws are bound by the constitution and supreme court ruling still.

[blazing depot]

Sure, but not by each others' laws.

[eager parrot]

That depends on which circuit they are a part of

[blazing depot]

Either way, watering down the "This is bad" point by going "Hey, this is pretty normal" isn't the play.

[eager parrot]

I didn't give it a moral standing

just a statistical one

[toxic spoke]

Was that the New York one that went to Supreme Court? I remember writing about it

[eager parrot]

yes that's right, NYSRPA v. Bruen

[oak lodge]

the ruling of NYSRPA II did not make much objectively worse than before. It removed the need for "arbitrary evaluation" (as it was called) of just cause for concealed carry that is present in a lot of states.

licenses were being issued before with the same basic background screenings as they are now

[eager parrot]

That depends on which state you are speaking of.

Several states, including NY, California, Hawaii, etc. had a "justifiable need" requirement, which Bruen has effectively removed, as you mentioned.

[oak lodge]

Like the requirements to carry in some European nations

[eager parrot]

I personally believe the training requirement should still be in place simply because of just how basic the CCW training usually is, and more than anything, covers interactions with law enforcement rights and requirements when carrying concealed.

[oak lodge]

it is quite essential yes

[eager parrot]

But as for the impact of Bruen on a larger scale, there's the aspect of " consideration of the public good" that is no longer a legal argument when it comes to defending laws and regulations that deal with 2nd amendment.

This is causing quite a bit of issues with for example California's assault weapons ban or handgun roster right now in the courts.

So there is a wider impact than just carry laws across the US.

[oak lodge]

interesting

[eager parrot]

https://apnews.com/article/politics-mississippi-state-government-delaware-california-massachusetts-3983cecfd1107c263d5309ec0d80a966

some context

[oak lodge]

thank you

[near jetty]

less restrictions just what the doctor ordered

[vital needle]

Better obey the doctor

(This was a meme in brazil 4 years ago)

[eager parrot]

LOL what was the context of the meme?

[oak lodge]

Vaporwave

Is that not the style?

[vital needle]

It was a very old joke that every boomer started sharing in whatsapp, it said "the doctor said I should eat only one loaf of bread and one cup of coffer a day... well, better obey the doctor!", followed by the image of this guy

Then edits started being made of him with the phrase obey the doctor in different languages and ominous settings

[eager parrot]

ah that is a large loaf of bread, I thought it was a big fish or something

[vital needle]

Mocking boomer humor was a worldwide trend back then, it was the same era as the "wife bad" revival

[dreamy ledge]

fake doctor
unlike me with my many diplomas

[oak lodge]

doktor bobba

[eager parrot]

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1643717672062840838

The New York Times (@nytimes)

Twitter on Tuesday added a label to NPR's account, designating the broadcaster “U.S. state-affiliated media.” Other news media Twitter accounts with the label include RT of Russia and Xinhua of China. NPR denounced the move as “unacceptable.” https://t.co/TvJTC03WLY

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Twitter · Apr 5, 2023, 8:50 PM

[vital needle]

Hope bbc is next

[vital needle]

🙏

[near jetty]

my home

[blazing depot]

lol
https://twitter.com/NoahGarfinkel/status/1644152367410221058

Noah Garfinkel (@NoahGarfinkel)

Buying bronze statues of other people’s 8th grade teachers is a level of wealth I’ve never even considered.

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Twitter · Apr 7, 2023, 1:37 AM

This is pretty funny, ngl

[trim flicker]

LOL

What the heck

[vital needle]

Oh no they fucking did it

The tv news channel just said easter was based on the pagan goddess eostre

I fucking hate this timeline

I hate pseudo-history

[blazing depot]

lol

[dreamy ledge]

looks up pagan rituals in Christianity

[vital needle]

Very hard to look that up amid all the disinformation, be careful

At least I didn't see the Ishtar thing this year

[blazing depot]

Easter is basically the most Christian holiday out of all Christian holidays

[eager parrot]

How does one explain the bunnies then?

[vital needle]

They are not explainable yet, unless we have more sources

[balmy igloo]

ishtar was a fan of bunnies so they are part of the celebration

[blazing depot]

Said to be due to Protestantism

[vital needle]

The thing about eostre is that she was mentioned only once in passing by a medieval monk and we don't reslly know what she was or represented, everything else is loose associations

And neo pagans making stuff up

Boy do they love to make stuff up

[blazing depot]

"neo pagans"

[vital needle]

I unfortunately know a few ok

They tried to convince me their tarot cards fell under the bed because the art featured cats and cats like to hide under the bed

They talked about it for like 15 minutes

[blazing depot]

...

You might wanna look into finding new friends

Do they still use crystal balls and shit as well, or is than for pagan boomers

[vital needle]

For boomers

The ones I know enjoy candles

[blazing depot]

What scent?

[vital needle]

No clue

I make a point of not asking about it

The theological points I am aware of are against my will. Like when thesr tarot people asked a friend of mine to lend them a pair of sneakers so they could go to the park

Turns out, this couple was going through a rough patch in the relationship

[blazing depot]

That doesn't sound very theological

[vital needle]

The conclusion they reached was, the man was bewitched to not want his girlfriend anymore

Amd togehter they burned all his clothes to get rid of the bewitchment

They are getting married in the coming months now

I am sure it will work out just fine

[blazing depot]

So basically they're just doing shit and finding excuses afterwards

"It was the will of the spirits"

Aren't pagans supposed to actually believe in some pagan god or another and not just into pseudo esoteric bs

[livid frigate]

pagans should believe in jesus

[vital needle]

yeah, they claim to believe in the greek gods

[trim flicker]

oh no

[vital needle]

Aside from the esoteric stuff

The other one I know claims to be a druid, but he never said or did anything too weird.

Honestly I blame it all on tabletop rpgs

All of them play vampire and werewolf rpgs obsessively

[blazing depot]

Does Greek mythology even count as Paganism

[vital needle]

Yeah

I think any pre-christian european religion counts

[blazing depot]

Just European, huh

[vital needle]

yeah, because it was used by the romans specifically to differentiate them

[blazing depot]

Shouldn't a druid be worshipping some Irish tree goddess or something

[vital needle]

Non-europeans would just be idk, animist, polytheist, those more universal terms

[eager parrot]

what about post christianity european religions?

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/mar/08/oldest-known-reference-to-norse-god-odin-found-in-danish-treasure-trove

for example

[vital needle]

But pagan has a specific historical and spatial quality to it

[livid frigate]

p sure the norse stuff is reserved for neo-nazis and other white supremacists

[blazing depot]

Norsk mythology predates Christianity anyway

[eager parrot]

to be entirely fair, haven't Christians been doing exorcisms since at least middle ages? seems to be rooted in the same kind of superstition.

[blazing depot]

So it kinda falls under that weird definition

[vital needle]

When historians say pre-christian, it does not mean pre-christianity existing, it means pre-christianity reaching and taking over that specific place

[grave shore]

there was this neo pagan dude (nature worshipping kind) in my army squad and he sure had some weird shit to say

[blazing depot]

"Oh no, we have offended the snow Goddess!"

https://twitter.com/PopCrave/status/1644433408460746753

Pop Crave (@PopCrave)

Caitlyn Jenner slams Nike for their partnership with trans activist Dylan Mulvaney:

“It is a shame to see such an iconic American company go so woke! We can be inclusive but not at the expense of the mass majority of people, and have some decency while being inclusive. This is…

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Twitter · Apr 7, 2023, 8:14 PM

tfw

You'd think the Southpark portrayal of hers was over the top back then, but nah

[balmy igloo]

rights for me, not for thee

[eager parrot]

Wait this isn't satire?

[trim flicker]

Wish it was

[balmy igloo]

https://www.tmz.com/2023/04/07/caitlyn-jenner-nike-dylan-mulvaney-partnership-outrage/

just usual caitlyn jenner things

[eager parrot]

okay so in context it has nothing to do with dylan mulvaney's gender status, just nike being a piece of shit to women in the past in general.

[blazing depot]

The moment she brought wokeness into it it very much did have to do with said gender status, cause that is the only bit of the whole affair where it makes any sense in context

[oak lodge]

It's a bit strange to comprehend

[blazing depot]

Gotta keep in mind, the main goal of using that buzzword if to get the Repubs on your side fuming at the mouth over anything WOKE and those won't go "Nike treats women badly", they'll go "wtf, a trans person"

[haughty steppe]

[valid magnet]

Why is Caitlyn Jenner so weird

YOU'RE LITERALLY TRANS

Also the shoe companies do "woke" stuff since years

[trim flicker]

yeah then ppl get mad and burn their nikes

make a fuss about it but next week are buying shoes there again since they burned the ones they had

for clout

not even the first time ppl do this whole thing with nike and it's always just performative bs

[valid magnet]

Getting mad at something but not sticking to it, classic move

[trim flicker]

that's how reactionary movements work, need to find the next thing to get mad at

[valid magnet]

I have an offer then

[forest sigil]

this snake is woke

the hiz

idk this and all the republicans getting mad at bud light is just mind numbing

[oak lodge]

it's sensationalist news if anything

ignore

[eager parrot]

it's capitalism isn't it

not that I agree with it, but voting with wallet, even for misguided idiotic ideological or social reasons is how it's meant to be

[balmy igloo]

its just stupid culture wars nonsense to distract people from the real problems

[eager parrot]

Yuengling, especially around Cincinnati, and Heineken sales gonna go up again thanks to GOP shenanigans with Budweiser ...

Yuengling is a better macro brew anyway

[eager parrot]

yeah obviously, all sides play that game

[dire canopy]

not an expert but that car battery seems massive

[oak lodge]

Yes, old automotive battery units were quite large

more in #1042536674028159017

[dire canopy]

considering these things are made with lead it's gonna be heavy as af

[vital needle]

Today is the day fellas

https://www.isthatcherdeadyet.co.uk/

10 years

[valid magnet]

She really was popular/j

[blazing depot]

https://twitter.com/eisingerj/status/1644717090123685888

Jesse Eisinger (@eisingerj)

We stand accused of adjectival abuse. Assume the WSJ will be reporting us to the Society of Professional Journalists.

I’d take alt suggestions.

“Short & long-order cook who works just for him”?

“Extremely large boat”?

“Place where no gurls lowd”?

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Twitter · Apr 8, 2023, 3:01 PM

[trim flicker]

LOL

[blazing depot]

Let me adjectivally abuse you, Don. I'm sure I can think of something.

[trim flicker]

Sure

Swear I won't file a complaint

[haughty panther]

that's what they all say

[vital needle]

Relevant tweet I pulled this from https://twitter.com/abcnews/status/1644464382968209408?s=20

ABC News (@abcnews)

Jam factory in tiny town solves labour shortage by employing primary school kids https://t.co/mTsS02qGbT

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Twitter · Apr 7, 2023, 10:17 PM

[eager parrot]

well this one's in Australia but yeah ...

there aren't a lot of heartwarming stories in the US if it's not in corporate interests for the stories to be published anyway.

[vital needle]

It's just the USA 3.0

[eager parrot]

fair lol

[vital needle]

Canada being the 2.0

[blazing depot]

Minus the guns, ye

And definitely less "woke" in their language usage

When you think about it Canada and Australia are basically complete oposites

[vital needle]

Ok fair

[vital needle]

What's going on over there grumpy

[eager parrot]

freezer pops for just one euro?

outrageous

[inland dawn]

I remember that one tweet that had me hollering

Some guy posted a sign of McDonalds saying "Wir Suchen Dich" and homeboy said, shit Imma pull up

[vital needle]

Suchen dich is a classic

[inland dawn]

Im guessing a German native or someone that knew said "it says they're looking for you"

Homeboy deadass replied with "well shit they found me"

German folks was on the frontline for that 😭

[blazing depot]

https://twitter.com/williamlegate/status/1643984416166002691?t=RLvQ9Ek_rPqaqBY6nj_Ymg&s=19

LeGate🤠 (@williamlegate)

Elon Musk, in a remarkable show of maturity, has removed the "w" from Twitter's logo outside their San Francisco HQ. The company now reads as "Titter"

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Twitter · Apr 6, 2023, 2:30 PM

I swear, this dude

https://twitter.com/MattMcGillvray/status/1643995737854988290?t=WLglylNyJyngaV_UQYr8YA&s=19

Matt McGillvray (he/him) (@MattMcGillvray)

@williamlegate For a guy who has racked up so many recent Ls, it is crazy that he is just getting rid of the only W he had

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Twitter · Apr 6, 2023, 3:15 PM

[static creek]

gottem

[valid magnet]

finally a company name we can get behind

[dire canopy]

reminds me of the the when some dudes stole the massive letter from the roof of the Hornbach store in here

they posted a request to return that letter on their site and few days later someone stole another letter

[shadow elbow]

real shit just got yelled at by my amazon driver for not leaving him directions lmao

[forest sigil]

you didnt tell him you lived under the sea

[shadow elbow]

I got the package I guess he figured it out

[eager parrot]

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/sbf-called-alameda-unauditable-joked-about-losing-track-of-50-million/

[blazing depot]

"Such is life"

Fuck that guy, lol

[oak lodge]

simply misplaced it

[eager parrot]

for somebody who "misplaced" $32 Billion, I suppose misplacing $50 Million is like somebody worth $100K misplacing $155 ...

He even looks like a young Bernie Madoff

[oak lodge]

Relativity

the sheer scale of billions

[blazing depot]

https://twitter.com/PopCrave/status/1645864045956980737

Pop Crave (@PopCrave)

All legacy verified accounts will lose their blue tick on 4/20, Elon Musk reveals.

This includes blue ticks belonging to celebrities and other notable figures.

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Twitter · Apr 11, 2023, 6:59 PM

Man continues with the average intelligence of humor level of a 12yr old

[haughty panther]

lol

[last eagle]

420timetoloseyourbluecheck

[vital needle]

https://twitter.com/NoColdWar/status/1645886242079518720?s=20

No Cold War (@NoColdWar)

🇺🇸 U.S. Senator @MarcoRubio slams 🇧🇷🇨🇳 Brazil-China deal to do trade in own currencies for undermining U.S. power to impose sanctions:

"In 5 years... there will be so many countries transacting in currencies other than the dollar that we won't have the ability to sanction them."

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Twitter · Apr 11, 2023, 8:27 PM

Damn bro that's too sad

Anyway

Let's talk about how cool Lula is

[trim flicker]

this is so sad someone gift me discord nitro

"We won't have the ability to sanction them" lol

That's the goal

[oak lodge]

This is gonna get wordy, but the USD needs no introduction being the global currency for 50+ years

[oak lodge]

Rubio is complaining about how BRICS is a way for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa — who have all been trading with sanctioned nations, to forgo the penalty of being blocked by their middlemen which is the US and UN by anyone who trades in USD.

This way they can preserve the effort for any possible state advances. --> Put simply, no incentive to back-out from Ukraine and Taiwan via imposed consequence.

breaking up global economy into UN using USD and another confederation circumventing it opens up a big hole for the amount of countries that the USA can shift it's debt of printed money out onto.

That can really hurt the USD domestically which is kind of the entire revenge plot of sanctioned nations.

that's at least the idea I've picked up of the situation. If anything is wrong, please enlighten/consult. I'd like to not make a fool of myself past where I am by stating anything.

[livid frigate]

brazil and china are the axis of evil

[oak lodge]

lol

[near jetty]

Lula is gonna take my cheese and hamburger away

[oak lodge]

China and Russia only needed a handful of currencies that wouldn't be too inconvenient. Brazil's real is strong and stable option today. It being about 133% the value of 1 RMB

The USA having such a huge privilege to oversee a lot of the world's commerce is historically nothing new

the pickier they are, the worse it gets for brady cheeburgor pricing

[hoary charm]

why is elon trying to make me learn japanese

[haughty steppe]

assigned weeb

[trim flicker]

assigned weeb at birth

[haughty steppe]

New gender just dropped

Awab

[valid magnet]

Awab

[dire canopy]

that is something weebs would say as well

nevermind I won't make that joke

[shadow elbow]

I’ll make it

[blazing depot]

Do it, you definitely will won't

[oak lodge]

He wouldn't step on it even if it were a bug

no disrespect to bugs

[last eagle]

https://twitter.com/Dexerto/status/1645898489031802881?t=KLIsmcdDnzp9DI1XElDeQQ&s=19

Dexerto (@Dexerto)

Twitter changed their name to X Corp.

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Twitter · Apr 11, 2023, 9:15 PM

Elon has entered his super villain phase

[trim flicker]

??????????

lol

[blazing depot]

I mean, that's just the company (for now)

Like FB was suddenly Meta

And Google became Alphabet

[trim flicker]

Yep

[blazing depot]

Xcorp though...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Corporation

Twt in the MCU now

[dire canopy]

now watch him use this to sue Marvel

[hoary charm]

"X" is something he seems to use a lot

x.com, spacex

[balmy igloo]

children tend to love the letter X

looks cool and edgy to them

[haughty panther]

Lol

Twitter like a toy to elon

[dreamy ledge]

was using Harpy and Talon classic to view twitter but they caught up with Harpy. only a matter of time before they catch whatever remaining free 3rd party apps

trying to set up another one that's open source which acts like Newpipe (called Fritter) but clock is ticking for that too

[blazing depot]

Maybe he thinks X marks the treasure

[dreamy ledge]

X ellent

BOO URNS

[oak lodge]

This is the same reason why a watch company is named "Rolex" — it sounds good. Commendable marketing strategy

[blazing depot]

I mean, that name is over 100yrs old

idk if "it just sounds cool, bro" was as much of a consideration back then

[oak lodge]

brand itself says that is the reason, as for their creator, he has actually gone on record to say

a genie whispered it to my ears when I was in a horse drawn carriage

[blazing depot]

The genie being opium

[trim flicker]

when asked to explain the meaning, he stated "it just rollex off the tonguex"

Then provided no further comment on the matter

[oak lodge]

hahaha

[vital needle]

I cant really type because my carpal tunnel shit its pants, but youre not wrong except on the part of sanctions actually achieving anything other than making poor people suffer.

I did not mean to ignore you I was asleep by then

And I also really do not wish totype

[oak lodge]

That is certainly an outcome of sanctions

as you probably know though, appealing to allied nations comes first. Besides overriding moral reasoning

[valid magnet]

https://twitter.com/TheMcKenziest/status/1645949598429757447?t=4IriQOq2ATKzSVou6caxWQ&s=19 pls tell me this is true

Lauren McKenzie (@TheMcKenziest)

Elon Musk’s Twitter is now facing a fine in Germany bigger than what it’s worth - LOL

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Twitter · Apr 12, 2023, 12:38 AM

Or more like pls tell me this will happen

[blazing depot]

Watch Elon just turning off Twt in Germany

[trim flicker]

Yep wouldn't doubt that

[blazing depot]

(which wouldn't prevent the fine btw)

Also this is just the start in the EU

[trim flicker]

Yeah but it seems like the kinda thing he'd do because he's a baby

Not because it'd help in any way

[blazing depot]

He could also go "OH YEAH? Well then I'll close down my Tesla factory!"

(yes, we have one of those)

[valid magnet]

"Anyway this video is sponsored by NordVPN"

[haughty panther]

German people lucky

[vital needle]

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cq_etbkREGI/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

artneversleeps

How to fix a car dent : 🚙💥🚗

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[oak lodge]

HA

that's one way to do it

[blazing depot]

Well played

[oak lodge]

dope

[blazing depot]

although that technically isn't a dent, it's a scratch

[haughty panther]

smort

[vital needle]

The post has dent pictures

[oak lodge]

THEY'RE AMAZING

[haughty panther]

It has a picture of my head?

[blazing depot]

Ah, I see. That makes more sense now

Pretty sure the thors hammer one was more expensive than actually getting it fixed btw

[haughty panther]

make 3rd art on car body that looks like its art fixing a dent

[dusky rapids]

https://youtube.com/shorts/d6Mhf8ZvuQk?feature=share

shoutout to 🇲🇽 homies

TIL

[near jetty]

https://i.redd.it/w024z641guta1.png

[livid frigate]

LMAO

[vital needle]

https://twitter.com/FilmUpdates/status/1646671832756436993?s=20

Film Updates (@FilmUpdates)

An American remake of ‘SQUID GAME’ is reportedly in the works.

(via @TheRochaSays and @TheInSneider | https://t.co/EcNuV4lo38)

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Twitter · Apr 14, 2023, 12:28 AM

[blazing depot]

Talked about it in #kpop-chat-2 and yeeeeeah...

[vital needle]

Oh Sorry, i don't frequent there

[trim flicker]

Classic

Did the Train to Busan one come out

Wait

That's Parasite, not TTB

[balmy igloo]

isnt that just the walking dead

[trim flicker]

i vaguely remember them wanting to adapt train to busan

and parasite, idk what happened to that

[livid frigate]

Train to Busan becomes road trip to LA

[blazing depot]

The Walking Dead would be the "Train to Busan, but really, really boring and without trains" version

[trim flicker]

Without trains is the worst part

Trains are cool

Parasite would just become an american dream movie/series

Where it actually works out!

[balmy igloo]

man

now im thinking about how much better the walking dead would be if it had a train

[blazing depot]

I mean... isn't one of the main things of that series that zombies are just somehow really sensitive to sound and will come at you like those dumbass monsters in A Quiet Place if you're loud?

[vital needle]

I saw a tweet arguing that the protagonist in the american squid game will be an american entrepreneur and the guys watching the game will be substituted by russian oligarchs

[blazing depot]

Trains do be pretty loud

[trim flicker]

Makes sense

[blazing depot]

They're wrong though. Clearly the American Squid Game will be run by the Woke Army™️

[balmy igloo]

the very idea of zombies existing in the american south during the summer is already a stretch, so they might as well take even more creative liberties

[oak lodge]

"It's a commentary of the west!"

or whatever they said it was that I cannot ever remember haha

[dire canopy]

is it directed by Micheal Bay?

[eager parrot]

now with 200% more explosions

[last eagle]

...amd Guillermo del Toro

for 100% more (unrelated) fighting actions!

[dire canopy]

get Kojima in there as well

[haughty panther]

There's a new transformers movie coming out

[trim flicker]

Ah right the one w da monke

[blazing depot]

Well, Transformers movies are just like F&F movies, they keep on going

[trim flicker]

Think this one is a sort of reboot or smth

[oak lodge]

It's a different director

the one that made the Bumblebee (2018) spinoff

[blazing depot]

That's not.... promising

[oak lodge]

It goes more in line with the pre-2000s TF media in designs instead of alterations to characters like the "Bayverse" which were more often then not, marketing for GM (General Motors) and -- well...

[nova holly]

hows that going to work

i love soundwave and his vcr dogs as much as the next guy

but it is the year 2023

[oak lodge]

They were...

Cassettes

and it was a Puma

[blazing depot]

https://twitter.com/JesseCox/status/1647325551814909954

Jesse Cox (@JesseCox)

Corporate humor is never funny.

But this…

The box is flat. It’s FLAT!

Is this box supposed to be talking to Becky about another larger package?! What is the joke here?!

Twitter · Apr 15, 2023, 7:46 PM

tfw haha

[oak lodge]

🙂

[pale flower]

Hey folks! We'll be trying out something different by merging the currently not-so-active** serious forums** ( #1042067405175783524 )** into misc forums** ( #1042067151466545192).

What this means is we'll allow folks to create posts for serious topics here instead of in the serious forums, by using a **[Serious] tag **as well as the appropriate trigger warning tags.
This will hopefully increase the general visibility of the more serious topics, while still keeping the bigger topics separated so that people can join the conversations they're more comfortable with.
You're allowed to talk about shorter topics in this general chat as well ( #1042073107554381864 ), but please be cautious by using trigger warnings and spoiler tags for more sensitive content.

Feel free to let us know what you think! We hope this move makes sense in terms of how the server currently uses both forums ❤️

[trim flicker]

Sounds good

[vital needle]

That's great

[vital needle]

Since this is now officially a serious™️ channel, I must issue a trigger warning: do not watch if british

[blazing depot]

That's disgusting no matter where you're from tbh

[haughty steppe]

there are plenty of ways to incorporate tea into baking

[blazing depot]

Sure, but definitely not like this

[dusky rapids]

LOL

i'd drink the biscoff infused water but the tea leaf cake thing is gross

[pale flower]

@supple dragon @dire canopy @dreamy ledge @forest sigil @oak lodge
Hey sorry for the ping, just letting y'all know this is our current plan for the serious forums ( #1042067405175783524 ), as you're some of the more active users I've seen there.
We'll be archiving the serious forums for now, but feel free to repost the US Politics/Ukraine War posts as #1042067151466545192 posts instead.
Thank you for your understanding, if there's any issue feel free to let us know ❤️

[scenic cradle]

space

[oak lodge]

universe

[toxic spoke]

https://twitter.com/BEENHADMOTION/status/1647995056832368640

Co’ (@BEENHADMOTION)

One of the YSL attorneys just said something was “cap” to the judge

▶ Play video

Twitter · Apr 17, 2023, 4:06 PM

look at my lawyer im going to jail 😭

[trim flicker]

LMAOOOOOO

[balmy igloo]

The final frontier

[blazing depot]

https://fxtwitter.com/SawyerMerritt/status/1648081976400703488

Dumbest timeline stuff

[trim flicker]

[balmy igloo]

Does this remind you of a certain bird girl from a certain fantasy that’s final?

[oak lodge]

he stole my idea

[blazing depot]

I don't see any chocobos

[oak lodge]

so angry mad

[dire canopy]

Well it would make sense kinda

Rockets are like mechanical birds

So Elon being like Hermes isnt that much of a stretch except the unlikeability

|| Kinda fits the Fandaniel part though ||

[blazing depot]

tfw

[haughty panther]

wha

[trim flicker]

💀

[haughty panther]

https://twitter.com/0xgaut/status/1648383977139363841

gaut (@0xgaut)

someone used an AI detector on the US Constitution and the results are concerning.

Explain this, OpenAI!

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Twitter · Apr 18, 2023, 5:52 PM

[dreamy ledge]

iykyk

[last eagle]

no shit dude
https://twitter.com/txtdrimedia/status/1648325831167717377?t=2DGTaUFFYJVUzJdUTa2ofg&s=09

txtdrimedia (@txtdrimedia)

yah ketahuan

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Twitter · Apr 18, 2023, 2:01 PM

an influencer plagiarized amdrew tate

[blazing depot]

Can you even plagiarize an insufferable piece of trash human being and if you do, does it matter?

Like, that dipshit didn't put out anything you can technically plagiarize

There's no music, art, writing etc.

[oak lodge]

Property is property

[blazing depot]

Acting like the biggest douchebag on earth isn't a property

[oak lodge]

It seems he translated a video and made it into his own rant

Interesting

[last eagle]

yep

he just copypasta andrew tate's "inspirational" quotes

despite he slightly altered tate's words

[last eagle]

https://tech.hindustantimes.com/tech/news/nasa-gives-major-solar-storm-warning-earth-to-suffer-huge-hit-over-the-next-2-days-71681788753819.html

[balmy igloo]

is this why its gonna be pushing 90 degrees here by the weekend

[last eagle]

seeing the weather for the following week in my country, yep, it's gonna be doomed

full red hot

[near jetty]

gonna be almost 90 here tomorrow

[last eagle]

https://twitter.com/Jogja_Uncover/status/1648343867840958464?t=WQz-mtk9pvVVYg4PQLf7uw&s=19

🇮🇩 MTGS Georitmus⁴ 5.5+ (@Jogja_Uncover)

Perkiraan temperatur besok, warna makin gelap makin hot

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Twitter · Apr 18, 2023, 3:12 PM

[trim flicker]

sheesh

Classic random article overplaying how severe random solar storms are

When the max that'll happen is probably some cool aurora borealis for those rly high up north

[blazing depot]

I mean... there have definitely been much worse effects than that

But it's obviously not like we're suddenly all in a microwave

[trim flicker]

Well yeah but the tweet they're referencing for the article literally just says "haha expect some nice auroras"

CMEs can be very dangerous for sure

Get hit with one very strong one and poof all communications gone

[balmy igloo]

we'll finally be at peace

[last eagle]

no more cringe tweets

[oak lodge]

Mm will be wörme

[vital needle]

https://twitter.com/EFJBGC/status/1649091833904107520?s=20

Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club (@EFJBGC)

We are now in the “turn your neighbor in to the state for being trans” stage of genocide.

Also, if you have some free time please feel free to fuck up this disgusting police state informer website.

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Twitter · Apr 20, 2023, 4:45 PM

[blazing depot]

Yikes

[eager parrot]

This is where it was heading from the start, was just a matter of getting enough of the public on their side to push for it.

[trim flicker]

[eager parrot]

All atrocities in history gained momentum when enough percentage of the populace backed it, through propaganda convincing or otherwise.

[blazing depot]

I mean, all of this is unconstitutional

But it would take years upon years of legal battles and a less corrupt SCOTUS to underline that fact

Listen man, the statues of everyone he's ever met were just gifts, bro

[valid magnet]

Nice to see America going back to the 50s

Seriously what the fuck

[blazing depot]

This is more German late 30s than American 50s, actuallly

[grave shore]

yeah that ended up really well

[eager parrot]

Late 30's is quite a ways off, this is more mid 20's.

coincidentally in this century's mid 20's as well lol

[blazing depot]

https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1649198100274094081

philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_)

Public schools in Texas would have to prominently display the Ten Commandments in every classroom starting next school year under a bill the Texas Senate approved today https://t.co/64D3VCrtRk

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Twitter · Apr 20, 2023, 11:47 PM

This seems completely normal

[proud tulip]

cant search twitter hashtags without an account anymore

guess i no longer get my football news from there

thanks elon

[blazing depot]

F

Traditional websites surging again

Boomers rejoicing

[clear tide]

we have to be verified on twitter to see notifications?????????? LOL

no wonder haven't gotten any in a while

[valid magnet]

Huh notifs still work for me

[balmy igloo]

verified notifications are notification’s from verified people

like their own special section so you can easily block all of them

apparently elon broke it because people were using it like that.

[haughty panther]

Lol

[dreamy ledge]

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/12w14se/twitter_is_adding_verified_check_marks_to_the/?ref=share&ref_source=link

[clear tide]

is mostly to users with 1m+ followers

[haughty panther]

How the turn tables

[blazing depot]

And every single of those accounts just goes "yeah, we didn't pay for this shit"

[haughty steppe]

dril had an entire fight yesterday about it

was really funny

[blazing depot]

A fight with who though

[haughty steppe]

they kept giving him the checkmark, he would change his name to get rid of it, and then it would be added back

a cycle

[blazing depot]

lol

[haughty steppe]

https://twitter.com/dril/status/1649859811532767232?s=20
https://twitter.com/dril/status/1649879817662382080?s=20

slave to Woke (@dril)

scientology brain. paint huffing used car dealer brain. pillhead grandma brain. shit stained herman miller brain #BlockTheBlueChecks

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Twitter · Apr 22, 2023, 7:36 PM

slave to Woke (@dril)

Ah they got me. Im fucked

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Twitter · Apr 22, 2023, 8:56 PM

https://twitter.com/dril/status/1649895619350364160?s=20

slave to Woke (@dril)

now that i have the baneful blue mark, I undertand the pain ive wrought. i was wrong to torment dog coin guys. im jealous of their million's

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Twitter · Apr 22, 2023, 9:59 PM

[trim flicker]

https://www.vxtiktok.com/@betusboi/video/7221986386138631470

Hey this one was funny

[toxic spoke]

@charred fulcrum you'll probably be interested in this https://vxtiktok.com/@monro_music/video/7222694575670955269

[blazing depot]

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/24/media/tucker-carlson-fox-news/index.html

Woah

That is the most of all time

[oak lodge]

Hopefully not a more insufferable replacement in works

[valid magnet]

🦀

[trim flicker]

lmao

[shadow elbow]

seems a bit niche

[vital needle]

https://youtu.be/_-u1Pjce4Lg

Wtf european social democracies being funded by exploiting poor countries? Thats so craaazy

[oak lodge]

It seems a little more known the older you are

They never really gave up their control and they were known to be one of the most violent coloniser nations.

[blazing depot]

https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1650606954983596052

Alejandra Caraballo 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇷 (@Esqueer_)

Updated my blue blocklist. It's up to 521k accounts and has no follower cutoff. Input the usernames 5k at a time into blockpartyapp to block these accounts. Sorted by biggest to smallest follower amounts. #BlockTheBlue

https://t.co/GNPgKyhaxj

Twitter · Apr 24, 2023, 9:05 PM

[valid magnet]

considering some artists i like need the blue soooo

also what the fuck over 500k???

[blazing depot]

Way too much money

But I guess these are all Elon followers

[dreamy ledge]

not going to block Steven King. don't need an app to tell me how easy it is to block someone who is an ass on Twitter either

also, still using one of the few 3rd party apps that hasn't fallen yet, so still no ads or promoted tweets

[blazing depot]

I mean, you wouldn't block SK

This is pretty specific to Elon fanbois

[dreamy ledge]

ah. wouldn't have them in my timeline anyway

[trim flicker]

Unfortunately that'd block a couple fansites too

[hoary charm]

kinda weird to care so much about people with blue

[blazing depot]

Not really, given that they are among the most obnoxious people on twt. This is basically like making a blocklist of people with tiny 7s in their name. Cleansing.

[pale flower]

I thought blocklists were a stan twt thing

Unless... we ARE stan twt....

[blazing depot]

I mean, I guess Elon fanbois are pretty comparable to stan twt

Oppar did nothing wrong

Should be noted I don't use that list, but it could be useful, plus the numbers on it were interesting

Watch them get banned for discrimination against Twt Blue users

[trim flicker]

I'm surprised by the amount of fansites I've seen with a blue sub tbh

And fanaccs in general

[grave shore]

they probably get it for the algorithm boost

[trim flicker]

Ye

[vital needle]

Extremely common and expected greenwald L

[last eagle]

Ratio time

[valid magnet]

Man shut the fuck up

[blazing depot]

Ah, good ol' Glenn. i really didn't miss him.

[trim flicker]

Cucker 🦀 He probably just gonna create a YouTube channel of his own or whatever
Expecting him on daily wire

[vital needle]

Definitely gonna be on daily wire

[blazing depot]

And it's already been reported what is the cause of the "seperation" (aka Tucker getting fired), which is yet another x hundred million dollar lawsuit that Murdoch really didn't wanna sit through

[vital needle]

Probably gonna voice some historical figure on Prager U cartoons for kids

[blazing depot]

Tucker is either gonna go to OAN or he'll do one of those rightwing podcasts and sell food supplements on the side

[last eagle]

https://twitter.com/starryshkshk/status/1650449748187312128?t=ExHGBHAzjcI-T_aqT3eNAA&s=19

#1 kyle fan‼️🆙️👆👆🗣 (@starryshkshk)

disney junior UK archive, a thread 🧵

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Twitter · Apr 24, 2023, 10:40 AM

(context: Elon mistakenly put gold checkmark on fake Disney Channel Twitter)

also tw: dark jokes

[blazing depot]

https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1650967603144278023

Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo)

Puerto Rico is not a foreign country

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Twitter · Apr 25, 2023, 8:58 PM

tfw Puerto Rico

[balmy igloo]

@forest sigil cope

[forest sigil]

weird

[balmy igloo]

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1651047466425262080?s=20

CNN (@CNN)

Singapore executes man for trafficking two pounds of cannabis, sparking outrage over harsh stance toward drugs. https://t.co/cDac9bbAtS

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Twitter · Apr 26, 2023, 2:16 AM

jesus christ

not even a hard drug that kills people

[dusky rapids]

the west finds out about sg's harsh drug trafficking penalties again

if anyone's curious as to how the sg govt justifies it, can search up shanmugam's interviews such as these
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/death-penalty-drug-trafficking-singaporeans-interest-k-shanmugam-2918591
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/thailand-travel-weed-legal-cannabis-cnb-singapore-shanmugam-2915951

[haughty panther]

death penalty. Wha

[charred fulcrum]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THeFCAXSLmY

[dreamy ledge]

note: hard to pay attention due to 코카콜라 맛있다

[unborn echo]

be like me, watch on mute

nice vid though, irfan

[dreamy ledge]

ah, good idea

[oak lodge]

I rewinded a few dozen times on the visual bangs and booms of the MV in accordance to the beat. Very nice

[vital needle]

https://twitter.com/JoshuaPHilll/status/1651285410738315266?s=20

Stop Cop City (@JoshuaPHilll)

This is an absolutely glorious speech given in the Irish Parliament

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Twitter · Apr 26, 2023, 6:01 PM

Based

[livid frigate]

That’s awesome

[eager parrot]

https://apnews.com/article/pope-francis-vatican-women-catholic-synod-ffc3dcf12f6c2bdcf7eb6896cade2ee1

[haughty steppe]

wow how progressive

[valid magnet]

damn the pope said women's rights

[near jetty]

feminist pope😍😍😍😘🥰

[haughty panther]

thank you Mr. Pope.

[vital needle]

Woa

[trim flicker]

Curious

[haughty panther]

Fake news

[pale knot]

Bit of a stretch tbh

[dusky rapids]

nearly
i see we have a territorial dispute on our hands

[trim flicker]

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/peter-thiel-republican-megadonor-wont-fund-candidates-2024-sources-2023-04-26/
Kinda wacky to see the culture war bullshit is actually tiring donors too

That's kinda nice tho, the less support this kinda shit gets the better it is

[hoary charm]

didnt know he was gay

[last eagle]

there was earthquake alert

[dire canopy]

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1652498486309314561

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar)

Biden shouts out Brittney Griner at the WHCA dinner

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Twitter · Apr 30, 2023, 2:21 AM

a thread of Biden's speech as Dark Brandon

[oak lodge]

Dark Brandon LOL

that title is just great

[trim flicker]

Classic dark brandon

[oak lodge]

biden-laser-eyes.png

[vital needle]

https://twitter.com/BrianMteleSUR/status/1652645767868469249?s=20

BrianMier (@BrianMteleSUR)

NYT criminalizes Brazil's rural poor today with an intellectually dishonest hit job on the Landless Rural Workers Movement, MST, parroting a neofascist narrative that ignores Brazil's Constitution to maliciously frame it as "stealing" land. This narrative encourages violence. +

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Twitter · Apr 30, 2023, 12:07 PM

How much trash can the us media churn out? Its amazing

[oak lodge]

"most polarizing" certainly

[trim flicker]

bro leave us alone

[livid frigate]

doesn't the constitution let people take land that's been abandoned for 10 years

[vital needle]

It does

[livid frigate]

that's good

lula bad

brazil bad

[trim flicker]

Lula talks to China
US newspapers: anyways look at these commies that are gonna take your land

[livid frigate]

how dare you

[trim flicker]

I'm gonna personally take your land

[livid frigate]

good thing i don't own any land for you to take

[trim flicker]

Good

[oak lodge]

Don't own anything

they'll still find a way to try and tax you lol

western societies™️

[blazing depot]

To be fair, China is the worse option, but for a country caught in between the dominant powers that's just being stuck between a rock and a hard place

[trim flicker]

Oh yeah

And Brazil has had a relationship with China for ages

[eager parrot]

It is interesting to see how quickly the US media turned on Brazil's current ruling adminstration

when they were so strongly backing them against Bolsonaro before.

A sort of reverse of "own the libs" but in this case "own the right-wing trash" at all costs. Even though Lula's interests really were/are far more misaligned with US interests than Bolsonaro's was.

[blazing depot]

Both options can be bad, Americans should probably be aware of that by now

It's just that one of the bad options is worse

[eager parrot]

Americans don't get options, we live in a uniparty system with a theatrical political scene to make it seem like we have two choices.

[vital needle]

Bolsonaro was bad for optics and that's it

[eager parrot]

Both sides have very aligned interests with very little difference just in the social aspects of their platforms.

[trim flicker]

well lately there's even less options in the US

when one party is clearly just genocidal

[vital needle]

The goal now is to coup the worker's party (again) and put another bolsonaro that knows how to bathe

[trim flicker]

[eager parrot]

US is good when it comes to coups and South American countries, isn't it lol

[vital needle]

By far the best option, you mean

[livid frigate]

lula is way better for brazil

[eager parrot]

For Brazilians, for sure. But for US interests and US corporate media, Bolsonaro would have been the better option, certainly in hindsight.

[vital needle]

He was, that's why he was put there in the first place

The us literally colaborated in imprisioning lula

To allow bolso to be elected

He just didn't know how to behave properly is all

[eager parrot]

I don't know if I've heard that conspiracy, but certainly US has never been a fan of socialist leaders and administrations in South America.

So it wouldn't seem that farfetched.

[vital needle]

https://youtu.be/hRC3PBjthxI

This is a very good summary

Funnily enough some of it was exposed by glenn greenwald

Im perhaps his only W in history

[eager parrot]

So what's the solution, because it seems every time in modern history there's been leadership changes, there was unrest and politically charged criminal cases.

In Brazil that is, after the dictatorships.

That doesn't seem very stable.

[blazing depot]

I refuse to attribute any wins to that lizard person masked as a man on twt

[livid frigate]

the best solution would be to not have the US interfering

[eager parrot]

Well that's not going to happen lol

If we're being realistic.

[vital needle]

It isn't, and something worse will come after lula's term if he manages to finish it

[eager parrot]

Yes, that does seem to be a problem, especially since he's old, gotta be careful about too much cult of personality centered around one man to hold it all together.

[vital needle]

Yes the left has to ditch Lula and his party asap

Perhaps not asap

But soon

[eager parrot]

They need a transition plan, yes.

Same for US Democrats trying to continue to prop up Biden like it's weekend at bernie's

[vital needle]

In favor of someone who won't put neoliberals as ministers of economy and won't seek useless compromised with the right

[eager parrot]

That ...... I am not sure is the right way

[vital needle]

The hope was that lula wouldnt do it again

But he did

[eager parrot]

Almost half of your country is on the right.

The presidential election was a very narrow victory for Lula

not compromising with half the country is going to alienate them to the point that ...... the cycle of violence, unrest and political instability would continue.

They aren't the 'enemy', they are still citizens who just happen to have different political alignments and ideologies, I'm sure there are areas of compromise and overlapping values that can help with unity and keeping such a large country together.

The enemy in your case are foreign powers trying to interfere in your domestic affairs, whether that be the US or China or otherwise.

[blazing depot]

Thing is, politics = compromise. That's the golden rule. Without compromise politics will ultimately fail.

[trim flicker]

Yeah i don't really see that working

gotta have some compromise specially in transitional periods like these

[oak lodge]

Hard switches, the end may not justify the means

[trim flicker]

when a good portion of the country still hates his guts and thinks he's a criminal

[eager parrot]

And yet they are still willing to believe in the democratic process that elected him.

Thanfully.

except for a fringe few.

which to be fair the left also has such fringes.

Those fringes may not need any kind of compromise, but by and large the majority of the country is willing to go along with it still for the next four years.

So compromise there is key at keeping it all together for the time being.

I can't really say the same for how the US political scene has been.

[vital needle]

Compromises failed spectacularly in 2014-16

[trim flicker]

yep

[vital needle]

And there was no compromise with the left from 2016 forward

So compromise is just another word for moving right

Usually for no gain

[eager parrot]

Moving center tbh.

[trim flicker]

yeah i get that

[oak lodge]

It's going to be a lot of trying. Can't just say it's a lost cause because of 5 years of purgatory

[trim flicker]

generally the compromise is like "wait this is actually too good for poor people we can't have that"

"make it worse"

[eager parrot]

Unfortunately in short turnover democratic systems, political representatives who are meant to convey the interests of their constituents often are more interested in their own re-election than actually doing anything useful.

[trim flicker]

it's the same on a lot of countries

"compromise on this infrastructure bill that would literally make everyone's life better"

[eager parrot]

Meaning the root causes of any issues, whether it is poverty or crime or otherwise never get addressed, because there's no political gain, and it won't leave them with wedge issues to push for the next election campaign.

[vital needle]

Brazil has a big turnover actually, voting is mandatory

Wait turnover is showing up to vote right?

[eager parrot]

short turnover, as in the period of time any elected official is in power.

4-5 years.

[vital needle]

Ah ok

[eager parrot]

You're thinking of "turnout"

which is voters showing up

And short durations of power also means that the next administration might just upend any changes that some benevolent politician has made to address root causes in rare cases.

And it is so sad that this kind of system is still the best we got in the world.

Versus the authoritarian ones so prominent worldwide.

Like there are a lot of ideal systems in theory but very few if any have ever been successfully implemented and lasted long enough.

This kind of liberal representative democracy, whether in the form of a republic or a parliamentary system is still the best we got....... 😔

I suppose the Swiss have a form of direct democracy, sort of.

But that works for them and them only.

And who knows for how much longer.

With the influx of immigrants that may cause a breakdown of their unique social contracts, and the increasing pressure from the EU to get them to fall in line.

[blazing depot]

https://twitter.com/PopCrave/status/1652756146459901953

Pop Crave (@PopCrave)

Twitter is rolling out a new feature that will allow media publishers to “charge users on a per-article basis.”

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Twitter · Apr 30, 2023, 7:25 PM

Does he think media outlets will come back and pay the 50k per month for this?

We getting ever closer to the ppt (paypertweet) era

lmao

[hoary charm]

in some places it might idk

i dont exactly remember how it went but there was a big thing in australia with news companies and facebook/google

news companies claiming lost income or something due to reposting on fb/google

could be a similar thing here except the platform is offering a payment method

[blazing depot]

That absolutely no one is gonna pay for

Genuinely

If I wanted to subscribe to news site X I'd go to that site and not to a fucking pay-per-twt service

[hoary charm]

well yeah we know that but news companies are run by dinosaurs

[blazing depot]

Even Dinosaurs are probably smarter than paying elon to be able to facilitate this service

[hoary charm]

dumb idiots got wiped out idk about that

[blazing depot]

Turns out being smart doesn't protect you against big rock falling from sky

Unfortunate

[hoary charm]

F

[oak lodge]

I don't even think the human race has a truly effective cosmic deterrence armament

[trim flicker]

Still think Dwayne Johnson kinda exaggerated on that one

Like what did the dinosaurs do

[oak lodge]

Morgan Freeman survived it, so there is light at the end of the tunnel

https://tenor.com/view/god-morgan-freeman-gif-18278205

[blazing depot]

Well, they starred in Jurassic Park 3

[trim flicker]

Maybe they didn't like Shazam too

Wait, Black Adam*

[blazing depot]

Biggest sin is probably not inviting him to their jungle

[trim flicker]

Fair

[oak lodge]

Queue guns n roses

[trim flicker]

it's about drive, it's about power

[oak lodge]

we stay hungry we devour

[last eagle]

Get the new limited BLACK ADAM edition Zoa in a discounted 50% off, for two days only!

[eager parrot]

https://apnews.com/article/first-republic-bank-silicon-valley-fdic-5ab48702b7136d42f73ac13e0a20955d

third one in two months

totally healthy

[hoary charm]

always bet against jim cramer

[livid frigate]

happy first of may

[vital needle]

I can't be happy about it because I am unemployed

I will not appropriate worker culture

[dusky rapids]

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/vice-media-preparing-file-bankruptcy-report-3458201

[trim flicker]

Damn wtf

[hoary charm]

thats what they get for cancelling huangs world

[dusky rapids]

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/godfather-ai-quits-google-warn-techs-dangers-3458551
doomscrolling ✅

this is somewhat apt i suppose

[oak lodge]

Amazon

[trim flicker]

Really fun

[vital needle]

Uuuh

[trim flicker]

there was news of someone actually shooting a person because of this a couple weeks ago

so yeahhhhhh

[vital needle]

It was two separate instances actuallt

It's so cool that this is how some elderly folks choose to spend their retirement days. Clutching a gun and waiting for kids to shoot

Signs of a very healthy society

Nvm he edited to clarify the girl was just looking for her kitten and he threatened to assault her until she broke down crying

[balmy igloo]

yah that just made it worse

[haughty steppe]

bro what

if you don't want your doorbell rung

don't have one

[balmy igloo]

i dunno

if they knock then theyll claim they were scared for their lives and had to shoot becuase the knock sounded so loud

maybe just put up a fence and lock it

[oak lodge]

they're a troll. Using a role-playing-style of satire

There's so many assholes who will kick up dirt in light of tragedies or trends relating to it so they can spark more outrage over any group of people

It's a travesty

I can name a few, but there's basement dwellers that act like progressives everywhere on the internet to make a fool out of them. Those "attack helicopter" lots

[oak lodge]

eloquently bearded man with a torch

[little comet]

Don’t you love when it’s 4 am and you’ve been working on English homework that’s been due 2 weeks ago but today is the deadline so you have to finish it now?

[dusky rapids]

sounds like me when i was in hs (specifically for english)

[little comet]

Istg I gotta get this essay outline done by 4:30 so I can write the rough draft, complete the rough draft review, and then finish my final copy by the time the bus comes lol

[little comet]

17 more days left of this hell

[dusky rapids]

wow a whole essay

gg

gl dude

[little comet]

I got most the outline done already. After that it’s basically plug and play

Now the painful part is I have to do a handwritten review of my rough draft

I hate writing with pencil

Oh well, I shouldn’t be wasting my time on discord rn

Thanks for the luck lol

[blazing depot]

Just ask Chatgpt to write it for you, clearly

[little comet]

That moment when I’ve already been accused of using chatGPT even though I’ve never used it before

And I finished the rough draft just now. Gonna finish the actual essay later today

[keen nest]

https://www.ddinstagram.com/reel/CrWOgixgJG1/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Why does this look like an episode of the office

How was this actually the president

I can't stop laughing

[trim flicker]

Yeah this video is amazing lmao

[toxic spoke]

https://discord.com/blog/usernames

[pale flower]

We twitter now 💀

I don't really like this change tbh it feels kinda annoying

[balmy igloo]

isnt being able to change your number to 0420 or 6969 or 8008 a thing people pay for tho

[pale flower]

Everyone having to individually update their usernames and all now

[balmy igloo]

why are they taking more value away from nitro subscribers

[blazing depot]

But Joey, that's the funny number!

[clear tide]

got to stop all these scammers

[grave shore]

the fuck

[blazing depot]

I will say that it was about time they got rid of the pointless number system

[haughty panther]

good decision imo

[grave shore]

now instead of having 10k people with same name, only one of them can have it and the rest will have to add numbers anyway

and there's gonna be a big fight over usernames

[balmy igloo]

probably a good bit of stealing accounts too

classic twitter moment

[trim flicker]

pog selling usernames now

[balmy igloo]

imagine if Bug doesn't get Bug

[clear tide]

won't be recognize anyone anymore

[grave shore]

2 or 3 letter usernames better get used to getting more scams

[trim flicker]

unfortunately won't get don

[grave shore]

probably not

you gotta be like @don.

[hoary charm]

letting people change name based on how long they’ve had their account pog

[vital needle]

The feds raided Bolsonaro's house and arrested one of his cronies btw

Bolso himself is gonna eventually be arrested because he forged vaccine ceriticates when he fled to the USA lmao

[trim flicker]

Didn't Michelle post about it on her IG saying only her got vaccinated too

[vital needle]

That's even stupider than tax dodging which was the crime he was previously more likely to be arrested for

[trim flicker]

Or that was a meme i foolishly fell for

[vital needle]

I don't know

I just saw him crying, again

Saying he didn't vaccinate his daughter because he saw videos of side effects in children

[trim flicker]

Oh yeah she did confirm only she got vaccinated lol

RIP

[vital needle]

[oak lodge]

the serialised user decision is why I was able to have this name lol

I thought I couldn't. When it went though I shit brix

[oak lodge]

I will have to be original!

[blazing depot]

Surely @ 69God69 will be available

[dusky rapids]

welp

[trim flicker]

Hope you get to keep holydust

[blazing depot]

Might have to go unholydust

[balmy igloo]

There already one here

[oak lodge]

Praying for all friends

all ye lot

Preserve namers

[last eagle]

going to claim @ MariyaTakeuchi for memes

[dreamy ledge]

pray or curse...
time to flip the coin...

[atomic jetty]

https://youtu.be/H9VVkwRb_7M

@static creek @balmy igloo

[balmy igloo]

this must be what having a stroke is like

[static creek]

lmfao

is this what speaking in Shakespearean feels like

[atomic jetty]

https://youtu.be/7w5JYp8HgfU

[dreamy ledge]

😵‍💫

[oak lodge]

LOL that is great

[vital needle]

Looks like the doorbell guy wasn't really joking then, god

[oak lodge]

so you're telling me this was just to kick up dirt on "recent events" by posting neurotic shit?

"It's just a prank/social experiment bro"but facebook edition

[pale flower]

Idk why y'all keep posting about the doorbell guy tbh 😭

[oak lodge]

[pale flower]

If they're trolling it's just giving them attention, if not then people need to be calling the authorities on them

[vital needle]

I do it because I find it interesting and there's no harm in doing it

[haughty steppe]

bold assumption the authorities would do anything

[balmy igloo]

i think hes from texas

so yeah they wont do shit

probably help him tbh

[haughty steppe]

of course it's texas

[oak lodge]

lol

[haughty panther]

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/plane-evacuated-at-lax-for-suspicious-package-investigation/

🤦‍♂️

[last eagle]

clever, but not that clever

[blazing depot]

Well, they'll spend the next 5+ yrs in jail, so really not very clever at all

[dire canopy]

Wanted to try something and he blew his chance

[valid magnet]

I have seen so many cases where this happened wtf

[little comet]

Yeah this definitely happened before

[oak lodge]

stupidity be universal

[blazing depot]

https://twitter.com/travisakers/status/1654580643362111488?t=yDz7zpptq_NoOem2dW2q0Q&s=19

Travis Akers (@travisakers)

Over half of Twitter Blue's earliest subscribers are no longer subscribed

Out of about 150,000 of the first subscribers to Twitter Blue, only 68,157 have stuck around and maintained a paid subscription. https://t.co/Mtvgca79EB

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Twitter · May 5, 2023, 8:15 PM

[balmy igloo]

things are going great for elon i see

[trim flicker]

L on

[last eagle]

lean on the l

[haughty panther]

Lol

[last eagle]

https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/05/1136367#:~:text=The head of the UN,no longer a global threat.

[near jetty]

https://tenor.com/view/cheesesteak-we-did-it-joe-gif-24017839

so much has changed

[last eagle]

https://twitter.com/lovingtaeonmain/status/1653064568309010432?t=BblzyK_U6RLfu8Fq5omMSg&s=19

may⁷ (temp ia) (@lovingtaeonmain)

🚨🚨🚨Guys please please please spread this

U.S. Congress has reintroduced a bill called the #EarnItAct.

This is the most dangerous bill I have ever seen when it comes to online privacy and free speech. Essentially, it's going to censor the entire internet. Thread:

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8339

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Twitter · May 1, 2023, 3:51 PM

[vital needle]

@oak lodge

[oak lodge]

HAHA

holy shit that is great

[trim flicker]

Expect the unexpected

[livid frigate]

happy victory day

[vital needle]

[charred fulcrum]

https://twitter.com/imnormgoh/status/1655496389537955840

@agile hornet @last eagle YOO

Norman Goh (@imnormgoh)

Many of us may not be aware that Malaysia and Indonesia just announced a cross border QR payment link.

Malaysia’s @BNM_official and Bank Indonesia both announced the commercial launch today.

Yesterday, I tried using our DuitNow to pay in Jakarta, it was seamless! Now I can…

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7825

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Twitter · May 8, 2023, 8:54 AM

[last eagle]

more convenient for you and me

[charred fulcrum]

So that means I might be able to buy electronics cheaper from you

mhmhmhmhmhm

[agile hornet]

Do they have the shipping options tho

[charred fulcrum]

No they don't

[balmy igloo]

lmao

[blazing depot]

This is obviously fake, but you just know there is some dude out there stupid enough to do exactly that

[little comet]

I’m a regular on a chess discord and there are so many of these fuckwads I’m sure at least one of them have tried some shit like this

Fuckwads in the nicest way possible, because tate’s main fan base is insecure young dudes that he lured in with some good talking points (men’s mental health, taking care of yourself etc.) but then starts saying the most deranged mysoginist bullshit ever

And if you repeat those talking points a hundred times over, eventually some poor fuckwad is gonna start believing you and turn into an asshole fuckwad

[oak lodge]

The most naive of people will see a world so large and expect for it all to be fair and for the picking of anyone who isn't rich, pretty, and famous. His followers mistakenly force their will to take and say what they want. Living vicariously through his persona

Takes time to realise the best things are best served unexpected. Like a slap.

[hoary charm]

something that people seem to forget unfortunately

too many are too quick to deride those that "fall" for it instead of the grifter at the top

[dusky rapids]

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/commentary/fast-food-chain-restaurant-slow-self-service-delivery-payment-technology-3474671

asking the real questions

[static creek]

true, went to mcdonalds the other day and probably had to wait longer than a normal restaurant

[oak lodge]

Fast food isn't cheap nor quick ye

and it has always tasted like card paper

with sauce

[dusky rapids]

fast food tastes different in different parts of the world so i can't say

but at least in sg, i like mcd, bk, texas chicken, and subway

(texas chicken is called church's chicken in usa i believe)

i dont eat it often tho, cos it's more expensive than average food here

probs like once or twice a month

[oak lodge]

I see the issue. I never realised the paper wasn't edible

teriyaki chicken mcburger was better than I expected. The last thing I had from the big m

[grave shore]

dont see any point in going to fast food place anymore

it's not faster, it's not cheaper and its certainly doesnt taste better

[vital needle]

https://twitter.com/jules_su/status/1656005035631820804?s=20

Jules Suzdaltsev (@jules_su)

this is the the best idea I have ever had in my life

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Twitter · May 9, 2023, 6:35 PM

[blazing depot]

PSA: If you need cute cat and dog pictures, stick to Orbit chat rn and do not try and search it on Twitter, cause....

[balmy igloo]

[last eagle]

A breaking news, Covid-19 resurfaces again as the new cases increased

[blazing depot]

That's not news, cases have been high constantly

It's just that no one does mass testing any more

[dusky rapids]

not constantly

cases have been rising in the past month or so in sg too

not that it's PANIC MODE news

but it's still worth reporting and reminding ourselves to take precautions if necessary

long covid is a thing after all

[haughty steppe]

people seem to forget that covid isn't going to go away

[blazing depot]

It's a common disease like any other at this point and here to stay, yes.

[little comet]

Yeah it’s basically as common as the cold now

Luckily the variants have gotten more mild over time

[haughty steppe]

probably doesn't help that the who announced we're out of the pandemic

apparently

[little comet]

My state cut support for the Covid alert app just last week

[haughty steppe]

bruh

[little comet]

But yeah, masks have been optional for over a year now and people just live with it now

And people don’t really see the need to go out of their way to test cause they just call out sick whenever they see any symptoms

[dusky rapids]

yeah but i think ppl seem to conflate common and harmless unfortunately, at the risk of ignoring the potential consequences

seeing how one of my fav youtubers (Physics Girl / Dianna Cowern) get absolutely debilitated for the past year due to long covid, when she was perfectly healthy before, is a pretty stark reminder that it could happen to anyone

[little comet]

Oh don’t worry, I’ve actively gotten stupider and more eccentric since I got Covid

Really scary stuff man

[last eagle]

https://twitter.com/Taaaaamas/status/1656588178344628224?t=uya0vX74w6P022sVfslzvQ&s=19

Taaamas (@Taaaaamas)

ICYMI: Twitter is cracking down on 'inactive accounts', starting right now. Accounts are already being taken down for inactivity.

What I had ASSUMED though, that it'd be counts that were maybe 3 years inactive, 5 years, 10 years maybe. NO, IT'S 30 DAYS!

Gone for a month? BANNED

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Twitter · May 11, 2023, 9:12 AM

[blazing depot]

Well.. goodbye a lot of fansite pics.

Forever lost to the Musk

Group is inactive for a couple months and fansite didn't use the account? Also bye-bye.

[trim flicker]

rip my private account

rip art account

all dead

[hoary charm]

maybe i can finally get the handle i want

since its been dead for 12 years

[blazing depot]

also RIP a lot of actual official Kpop company/group accounts for that matter (who is taking @ loonatheworld)

Actually they retweeted Yves' Tiktok, they're safe, lol

[little comet]

RIP my random ass account I made to check group twitters lol

[trim flicker]

I use my random ass kpop acc to grab tripleS stuff so I'm fine

[little comet]

There’s probably at least 1 major company who just got yeeted

[trim flicker]

My personal account is deadge tho

Which tbh fine i don't use twitter anyways

[valid magnet]

https://twitter.com/Dexerto/status/1656747998594887692?t=M-rvstC3HHPxZ1BUhSDtcw&s=19 wanna bet it's him in a wig

Dexerto (@Dexerto)

Elon Musk announced that he will step down as Twitter CEO in around 6 weeks

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Twitter · May 11, 2023, 7:47 PM

[valid magnet]

30 days are ridiculous

[trim flicker]

lol

[vital needle]

Tbf the policy states that you have to log in, not that you have to post

[balmy igloo]

probably just a puppet ceo. he'll probably still be making all the big decisions and changes to the site, he just wants someone else to get blamed for it.

[blazing depot]

It's still ridiculous

[balmy igloo]

hopefully people aren't dumb enough to go along with it

[valid magnet]

Don't overestimate their intelligence

[dreamy ledge]

I almost want to assume if you're using an app that it will count as being continuously logged in. but ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[balmy igloo]

boy would that be hilarious if it didnt count

[dreamy ledge]

Elon will just move the goal post again later

[valid magnet]

https://twitter.com/Mikel_Jollett/status/1656837126603014145?t=nKeekYpcT5H4KfTwO4jAtQ&s=19

Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett)

Elon changed the Twitter algorithm so we could all
be exposed to the maga peeps more regularly (and I guess be persuaded).

So having been exposed to them more regularly for a few months now, one thing really sticks out:

My God, these people are fucking stupid.

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Twitter · May 12, 2023, 1:42 AM