The death of the dollar is eminent

Moscow Stock exchange halts trading in US dollars.

Russian warships and nuclear subs are right off the coast of Florida and Harvard in Cuba. This makes the Cuban missile crisis look like a tea party.

Interesting on the timing of this, as it…

— Ann Vandersteel (@annvandersteel) June 13, 2024

Petroguzzlers I don't feel so good:

Aliens be appearing:

Russia is groping America's gock:

Putler coming for those f16bussies:

!schizomaxxxers speculate wildly.

In response to constant bitching from jannies (unpaid) that new users aren't asking good questions, Stack Overflow have added a new feature called the Staging Ground:

Basically new users aren't even allowed to ask questions directly onto the site anymore and their questions are instead pushed into a separate pipeline where no one can give them answers and their questions are instead disseminated by powerusers. Only if a question passes this multi-stage process does it actually make it onto SO proper. Spoiler: nothing ever passes.

Let's look at what this new user experience looks like...

A new user asks a Python question (now deleted so no link). It's correctly formatted, it explains the question clearly and shows the error. This sounds like a good question, right? WRONG.

They're asked to edit the question (which they do), and then they're told to edit it again. The question is then closed as being "off topic" (it's a Python coding question lol) and to rub salt into the wounds a poweruser asks the Meta (aka poweruser sneed) forum how to punish them further in How should we respond in the Staging Ground when OP ignores feedback, makes a trivial edit and submits for re-evaluation?.

The response? Ask for more changes:

This is exactly what declined re-eval was added for. To elaborate more: we added this feature for this exact scenario, and it is designed to give the reviewer a frictionless way to both tell the author that they still need to address the original feedback (IIRC, banner tells them this). And if the author continues to ignore it, they will be temporarily blocked, with clear explanations why

Of course OP can't actually do this because their question has been closed as off topic.

Congrats Stack Overflow, you're going to die even faster.

!boozers

This ad in honor of World Down Syndrome Day : Darnthatsinteresting

A lot of the comment threads are basically one person incredibly milquetoastly defending the idea that learning disabilities are an actual, real thing that exist, and then another person replying "Actually, if you look at the 99.9th percentile most intelligent people with Down's syndome and extrapolate to the whole population, you'll see that they're actually able to succesfully live on their own entirely off of social welfare with ownly twice daily visits from their carers! This also means you should allowed to have s*x with them, HITLER"

"Assume I can have s*x so I will" seems like a dangerous message to generalize

What danger do you perceive there, within or without the context of this ad?

[Words words words about how you can't frick people with a mental age of 8]

This argument kind of loses traction when most people who would make it, would also turn their nose up at anyone who has s*x with a girl whose boobs and/or butt are too small, or who's too skinny.

You can't say the mental age is what matters, and then turn around and say "No no, physical appearance is what matters!".

Idk what the frick this last dude's talking about, I think he's had one too many arguments defending 8000 year old dragons and his gut insticts kicked in lol

I hate this ad so much 😭 Just because a small part of the Down Syndrome Community can do these things does not mean you can assume that everyone can. [Words words words]

You missed the point big time....which is to not assume at all and instead treat humans as individuals regardless of the assumptions that can be made based their disability. But great speech!

Bayes' theorem DEBUNKED by GENIUS Redditor. If you think about it, not giving driver's licenses to children is also judging people based on assumptions, so why not reduce the legal driving age to 0? Sure, a few twelve year olds might get wrapped trees, but that's a small price to pay to reduce the stigma we're currently putting on children. Because that's what matters: the stigma. The biggest problem people with Down's syndrome have isn't that they can't function independently in any capacity, it's the stigma they get from not being able to function independently.

I don't understand this ad because not everyone with down syndrome has the same cognitive or physical abilities. If someone is being discriminatory based on someone having down sydnrome, then obviously that's bad, but being respectfully cautious with your judgements about how much someone with down syndrome might be able to drink, or how hard they might be able to hit, don't seem like the horrible travesties that this ad make them out to be.

The message of the ad is to let the person fail. Don't prevent people with Down Syndrome from doing things because you don't think they'll succeed.

I mean, these are very dangerous things. The assumption that someone can drive, or drink, or live on their own, or have s*x, when the average person with their disorder has the mental capacity of a child in first grade is immensely dangerous.

Imagine letting a 10 year old live on their own. How long do you think it'll be before the house burns down? Extend that to 14 and it's still the same answer. These assumptions are not without consequences

You teach people to drive, you give them s*x education, etc. Nobody's saying just throw a person with Downs into the deep end. The point is presuming they can't learn or understand is the problem.

Lmao imagine giving a 16 yr old the keys to your car and saying "good luck!" That's what you're pretending this video is saying.

Yeah, obviously the main reason not many people with Down's syndrome know how to drive is there's just no one to teach them lmao

So are we normalizing having s*x with people with Down syndrome now? Wild.

Yes because depending on their disability, they can consent. Not that wild.

All of this r-slur-molesting nonsense is underpinned by a sort of implicit Cartesian dualism and the belief that there's some ephemereal perfectly rational "self" that exists inside of everyone. This means that with the correct intervention--in this case, letting them do whatever they want all the time--people with severe learning disabilities could become just as smart and rational as Redditors. This is contradictory to all modern science, undermines the logic of offering any sort of accommodation to disabled people, and is only morally necessary in the first place if you make an a priori assumption that intelligence is necessary for a person to have individual worth, but is otherwise socially convenient, so it's mindlessly accepted even if the argument also explicitly promotes molesting people with learning disabilites

#BREAKING

Shocking & Incriminating details emerge against actors Darshan & Pavitra Gowda in the Murder case

Police sources claim #Darshan & aides allegedly assaulted #Renukaswamy repeatedly inside a shed next to Pavitra's residence. #Pavitra was also allegedly present with… pic.twitter.com/JtDNFOD9DK

— Nabila Jamal (@nabilajamal_) June 12, 2024

This man who was the actor's fan sent his peepee pics to his gf saying he was confident he was better than the actor in that one aspect at least and she shouldn't bother their family Incidentally his own wife was three months pregnant

https://www.moneycontrol.com/entertainment/movies/renuka-swamys-pregnant-wife-demands-justice-for-late-husband-says-whether-he-is-an-actor-or-a-star-i-want-justice-article-12746892.html

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TL;DR - watch carefully what he does when he says no, and then punish him for it until he loses the ability to ever refuse you.

This technique is also effective on human moids.

!fellas

This morning at the gym THIS MORNING AT THE GYM there was a fricking homeless guy sleeping in the men's change room and I CANT TAKE IT ANYMORE

I specifically joined a key fob access private gym to escape the hobocels that frequented Planet Fitness but this is somehow WORSE cos they would never sleep at PF and stink up the place.

These "people" ruin everything. Parks, plazas, restaurants, malls, the entire city center is all DISGUSTING and I have HAD IT

‼️🔥🇺🇦Near Kiev, an oil depot at the Vasilkov airfield has been burning for 1.5 days
▪️ “In the Kyiv region, a fire continues at an industrial enterprise,” reports the State Emergency Service.
▪️There are 249 rescuers, 98 units of equipment, and four firefighting trains on site.… pic.twitter.com/G1WJEfijH2

— Zlatti71 (@Zlatti_71) June 13, 2024

Just a derbie bro

There's absolutely no drama here but it's not like anyone else is posting at this time in the morning.

The thread on /r/roosterteeth is "What products or services that RT sponsored did you use? What did you like and dislike?".

One of the threads is about mail-order underwear service MeUndies:

Me Undies. They're great, but the fabric doesn't hold up more than a couple years before they start developing holes if you wear them regularly. Mediocre product for a mediocre price. [+12]

[Me] I don't think underwear is meant to last for that long. [-2]

You don't see a problem with that?

**[Me]**A couple of years of regular usage? No, buy some new underpants.

Imagine owning underwear that you wear regularly for two years

Wanted to share a specimen of how body shaming and unsolicited advice from relatives work in India. Public service message from today morning: pic.twitter.com/fsl1cKmDH8

— Surbhi Gupta (@bysurbhigupta) June 12, 2024