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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 20, 2025

Drinking on an empty tummy let's gooo!

!animalposters !cats

boris karloff, i like Yousuf Karsh's portraits to study, very value-laden (hehe)

Feedback always welcomed

Last thread

!art

Last week's prompt:

Panzers

Submissions from last thread:

@Cathedral

@Soren

@DWHITE___________DYNAMITE

@Sylveon

@Count_Sprpr

@KongsburyDonkboy

This week's prompt:

Rain

As always if you have any feedback on these threads I am all ears.

highlights from this thread include:

https://old.reddit.com/r/rs_x/comments/1iksaim/comment/mbp3tmu/?context=8

yeah this super scary d&d nerd who wants to make america a monarchy is why you MUST vote blue no matter who

https://old.reddit.com/r/rs_x/comments/1iksaim/comment/mbp6o7s/?context=8

this very stable guy posts exclusively in rsp subs and /r/oldergenz

https://old.reddit.com/r/rs_x/comments/1iksaim/comment/mbpwbrg/?context=8

you have 30k comment karma in rsp subs over a few months

https://old.reddit.com/r/rs_x/comments/1iksaim/comment/mbp38tq/?context=8

redditor of 6 years calmed down because federal bureaucrats didn't quit

https://old.reddit.com/r/rs_x/comments/1iksaim/comment/mbpghly/?context=8

this cute twink actually unironically trotted out the "prep for tuesday" bit from /r/twoxpreppers lol

https://old.reddit.com/r/TwoXPreppers/comments/1go8o1g/prep_for_tuesday_not_doomsday_because_under/

https://old.reddit.com/r/rs_x/comments/1iksaim/comment/mbou456/?context=8

the usual callbacks to 2016-2020

https://old.reddit.com/r/rs_x/comments/1iksaim/comment/mbp5lbe/?context=8

autism man is going to use your social security number to launder money to buy video game items

its all so tiresome

You won't believe what happened

In the southeastern part of the Kursk salient, Russian forces began counterattacks against the new Ukrainian positions in and around Cherkasskaya Konopelka and Fanaseevka.

They advanced in two directions on the flanks of the Ukrainian spearhead. In the east, Russian forces… pic.twitter.com/gJLFBFSZ8u

— AMK Mapping 🇺🇦🇳🇿 (@AMK_Mapping_) February 9, 2025

Russian retreated a bit to let Ukrainian…

wait for it

Wait

A new pocket

Novosilka wasn't enough with a 100% wipe

Ukraine continues to having more pockets

This map seems to also now updating slow

Since Russian mod report of capturing after reinforcements has arrived

According to Zelenskyy, a "significant number" of enemy troops were destroyed. He gave no details but said the losses were in the hundreds.

Billions

Russia's Ministry of Defense said Saturday that it had repelled a Ukrainian counterattack in the Kursk region.

Russia said Friday its forces had captured the mining town of Toretsk in their latest breakthrough in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region, where Ukrainian defenses are creaking. Ukrainian officials did not confirm the report.

I just love how the reporters sucker punch it

But let's ask our expert that knows everything Ukraine is doing is right:

@rdramamademegay

Since invasion of Kursk where Ukraine gained around 1400 km and now holding 400km and a town Sudzha with pre conflict population of 5000 people.

Ukraine lost those town with population over 10000 people: Kurakhove, Selydove, Hirnyk, Vuhledar, New York, Pivnichne, Ukrainsk, Krasnohorivka, Novohrodivka and of course Toretsk

You see that's why I love khohols they rush to lower the population of towns they are about to lose. I respect it and I am understandable so

So it's a 31k city.

And those clowns doing it other wise with Sudzha

They writing its population is 6k

While

So @rdramamademegay was it worth holding 400km of basically rural farm land in Kursk while losing land in the most populated and mineral rich region ? I ask pure rational question no need for emotional answers.

There is very good reason why Trump asking Zelenskyy to leave Kursk since Putin told there won't be any peace talk until Ukrainian are in Kursk and this month Ukraine is about to lose more than 400km in Kharkiv. Putin can get that land back when he wants and while Ukraine send its best men to Kursk and launches reckless offensive in zone where they are now outnumbered is a great gift for Putin in an attrition war.

Also here funny event

This week Korean soldiers left

But Ukraine offensive failed and they getting owned so this weekend

North Korean returned

@rdramamademegay Fact check this genius

Lebanese accounts are claiming Israel and HTS are working together against Hezbollah:

“Israel conducted airstrikes in Lebanon, targeting areas where armed Lebanese groups were defending border towns against HTS militia advances.” https://t.co/R4JvrpnROe pic.twitter.com/GHiaOEX4EQ

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) February 9, 2025

I hope they are. If both Muslim groups are fighting and killing each other, that is good news for Israel.

— I Stand with Israel (@freegames101) February 9, 2025

The only people dying in this mess are the arabs, who are fighting man to man while Israel brought it's jets. Too bad both Syria and Lebanon lost their surface to air missiles, I wonder what happened to them

Back when he was signing USMCA he had this to say about it

And today, we're finally ending the NAFTA nightmare and signing into law the brand-new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement. (Applause.) Very special. Very, very special.

The USMCA is the largest, fairest, most balanced, and modern trade agreement ever achieved. There's never been anything like it. Other countries are now looking at it, but there can't be a border like that because, believe it or not, that is by far the biggest border anywhere in the world, in terms of economy, in terms of people. There's nothing even close.

This is a colossal victory for our farmers, ranchers, energy workers, factory workers, and American workers in all 50 states and, you could almost say, beyond — because it's all beyond. This is all over the world even though it's at one beautiful border — where, by the way, a very major powerful wall is, right now, being built. (Laughter.) Okay? I don't know if I should say that at this particular reading. I know last night it got a very big hand. (Laughter.) Today, they're a little bit like, "Are we supposed to clap now?" (Laughter.)

USMCA has a much weaker dispute resolution process than NAFTA did (something US producers absolutely loathe, Canadian provinces really love doing stupid shit with trade and they can't hold them accountable under USMCA like they could with NAFTA) where countries exchange & approve each others lists of potential dispute panelists. Even in the event daddy has updated this from Biden's list because the treaty requires all the countries to have agreed to changes its unlikely daddy will be able to front load it with yes men. It also allows Canada to just go around the US to the WTO.

The lumber is itself a great deal of lulz that has been going on for decades https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93United_States_softwood_lumber_dispute but there are three new opportunities for $DRAMA inflation:

• Daddy really doesn't seem to understand how trade works, a tariff on Canadian oil would immediately increase the cost of gas & energy in the US. Just the comment he was thinking about doing it added more than a $1 to oil prices

• Daddy is going to have to argue why his own treaty sucks and why its totally Biden's fault his treaty sucks

• First challenge to congressional authority. Taxing is an enumerated power of congress and the ability of a president to create tariffs is limited. His pet theory is that the impoundment authority that lets sanctions work allows him to create any tariffs he wants. Congress have to choose between challenging daddy or setting a precedent that future presidents could use however they wanted. Bong's PM called you a mean name? 9001% tariffs on all bong goods.

It's called nuance

I’ve said before and I’ll say it again: the problem with Rory and people like him is that he has an IQ of 110 and thinks he has an IQ of 130. This false arrogance drives so much elite failure over the last 40 years.

— JD Vance (@JDVance) January 30, 2025

Context is the heatmap meme about differences between liberals and conservatives (oikophobia vs xenophobia)

!chuds !sneed he's IQ-poasting

Imagine hating on us when we're literally just minding our own business and browsing the web 🙃

— Firefox 🔥 (@firefox) January 28, 2025

Apparently Brave got a little cheeky in Google Playstore (I don't see this in Tim Apple's store) and Mozzila is coping hard.

Firef*x claps back after Brave browser's Play Store shenanigans

https://old.reddit.com/r/firef*x/comments/1ic4w56/i_guess_this_is_a_response_for_braves_forget_the/

Pretty lame response. "We are just minding our business and fading into obscurity". They should have use this opportunity to promote some benefit of using Firef*x over brave.

Why would they give their competitor free advertising

where is the competition? the true privacy browser is firef*x

*conditions apply. Please turn off data collection, sponsored links, non-privacy-preserving website advertising preferences, weather on New Tab page, pocket sponsored posts, default browser agent, Normandy, as well as suggestion improvements for search and web browsing. Be sure to not enable AI, and set default search engine to something that isn't Google.

**kindly please ignore that even if you turn off data collection, we will still relentlessly reach out to incoming.telemetry.mozilla.org and location.services.mozilla.com.

Firef*x really be doing anything but enable hdr support on YouTube.

I don't get the drooling love some people have for Brave. I personally don't think I would ever trust the browser for anything other than just another option when the ones I like don't work due to the history of crypto schemes and ad/affiliate link hijacking.

Same reason I doubt I will ever trust something made by Lenovo. They screwed up in such a bad way in the past with that whole root cert thing on their OEM images that even a decade+ on I still associate them with it and never consider their products as an option if I can find anything else to do the job.

It is essentially a cult. The crypto crowd loves to overhype stuff as they are used to do it in their pyramid schemes.

Some other people also believe brave to be some kind of anti woke browser. It's just ideology.

Firef*x is objectively the best browser in the world

in a newly-bought Macbook, install Firef*x and Chrome, then compare. despite having the M4 processor and generous amounts of unified memory, Chrome lags while Firef*x is buttery smooth

i feel sorry for people who's using Chrome, they don't even know they got used to terrible experience that they think it's normal. it's like not knowing what's above 60 Hz refresh rate or not having experienced OLED

Firef*x for everything. Safari if I want to stream 4K on Netflix. Chrome if my work will be primarily on Google Docs or Gmail. Brave if it's winter and I want to use my computer as a space heater

I use Firef*x on my computer and brave on my phone. I haven't noticed brave heating up my phone though. What's going on with Brave that everyone hates them so much?

personally, i don't like that you can't disable or hide the features that are bundled with the browser - vpn, crypto, and ai. as for the company behind Brave, i dislike their marketing because they have no business hating on other browsers if they're just a Chrome reskin themselves.

as for the heating part, well, that's my experience on Mac because it's so unoptimized. Chrome is slow as it is, but when you bundle it with other bloat, it takes a toll on your machine. there's also a long-running joke that Brave mines crypto, that's why it gets hot

Brave on my old M1 laptop literally has better battery life than Safari. You can turn all the shit off. Neighbor what world are Mozzilatards living in? Oh yeah, one where Furryfox has a 69% market share and they're not a fat slob in a boring butt IT job for some middling company.

Don't be a lameass Furryfox user, be brave! The browser that puts you first | Brave

!braveshills

Suckless.org is the nerd version of living off the grid in a mud hut and foraging for berries. They are fed up with scary new-fangled technology and desperately clinging to the old ways. Like every aging Linux , they are really mad about systemd and wish we could go back to a collection of random garbage that doesn't work

tldr;

AITA for continuously triggering her trypophobia?

(Trypophobia is an intense and disproportionate fear or disgust for holes, bumps, or patterns that are clustered together or repetitive)

(aka r-slurred)

I (19F ) have had acne for so long that I honestly can't remember my skin without it. I used to wear a lot of concealer to cover it up, but that only made things worse. Eventually, I realized my skin was controlling my life (and draining my bank account 💀), so when I started at a new school, I decided to stop wearing makeup . My skin still isn't great, but I'm on medication, so I have some hope that it will improve.

Here's the problem: There's a girl in my class, let's call her Callie (18F ), who has trypophobia [is r-slurred]. I had no idea until we were put in a group together. The moment I spoke to her, she started crying. Naturally, I asked what was wrong, and she screamed at me that my face was triggering her trypophobia . Her friends immediately jumped in to comfort her while I just sat there, confused, wondering if I was supposed to apologize for my skin, something I obviously didn't choose to have .

When I tried to speak again, she told me to shut up and leave because I was " drawing attention to myself by talking. " I asked what she expected me to do about it, and she said I could at least wear concealer. I explained that it wasn't an option because it's expensive and just worsens my acne. Her friends glared at me and called me selfish .

That was just the first incident. Ever since, anytime I sit near Callie or have to present in front of the class, she starts dry heaving or crying (having a panic attack?) . It's disrupting lessons so much that my teacher pulled me aside and asked if I could just wear concealer for the sake of keeping the peace. She admitted it wasn't fair but said she couldn't think of another solution.

I already feel like such a freak because of my skin. I know my skin is horrid, but why am I the one expected to cater to Callie? I didn't choose to have acne any more than she chose to have trypophobia. I can't help but feel like I'm being unfairly treated here, but at the same time, I know she can't control her reaction either.

So… AITA? Should I just wear the darn concealer?

!r-slurs !neurodivergents !foidmoment !\verifiedugly

cant i just lurk in peace o algo， main page is flooded with all this groomercord esl libertarian slapfight bullraisin though

This is a crazy exchange.

Does the media really think the holocaust was caused by free speech? https://t.co/EBUKx75Wfm

— JD Vance (@JDVance) February 16, 2025

!eurochads !chuds

if so, I think this is a mistake and they should work the same way they do on rdrama (downmarseying makes a post more visible in the default sort but lowers it if you sort by "top", which I assume is how it still works though maybe not).

Nice little infighting in this SomaliSpot thread discussing deportations of Ethiopian Oromos from one of the federal states of Somalia, Puntland.

For those who don't know what's going on, Oromos have been caught fighting on behalf of ISIS in Puntland's remote mountainous areas, along with Arabs. Since then locals have demanded that they are deported and the government has obliged.

Furthermore, Oromos have installed themselves on Somali soil and we've lost Dire Dhaba to them and other areas. Moreoever, they are at constant war with the Somalis they neighbour, constantly stealing their land and using flipflopping 'Somali' communities to execute their land-expansionism.

https://www.somalispot.com/threads/oromos-on-the-streets-in-large-numbers-land-expansion-plans-foiled.177064/

Aurelian said: The attack by civilians on Oromos in Somalia will certainly fuel ethnic hatred in Oromia and Ethiopia in general against other Somalis.

LOL You are always sympathising with Oromos, very interesting. What attacks? Hmmmm? The only attacks have been the other way round with Oromo terrorists, Oromo cannibals and Oromo violent land expansionism.

Very spicy, could Aurelian be an Oromo sympathiser? He replies to another user accusing him of harbouring anti-Somali sentiments for our Cushitic cousins:

𐒁𐒚𐒒𐒂𐒘𐒂𐒗 𐒎𐒚𐒗𐒗𐒒 said:

They are STILL BREAKING LAWS BY BEING AN ILLEGAL. Or do you think Somalia is a brothel where anybody can walk in without permission?

Aurelian said:

no, if they broke the law the law enforcement should deal with them not mobs them with sticks.

https://www.somalispot.com/threads/oromos-on-the-streets-in-large-numbers-land-expansion-plans-foiled.177064/page-4

Another patriot expounds on the current naivety of Somalis:

These guys forget this is third world backwards savage Africa, your bleeding heart liberal antics is misplaced, believe me ain't no naxariisc (empathy) in this cursed God forsaken continent, rn Addis Ababa is surrounded by these pagans, they're kidnapping civilians for ransom, if they can't even have naxariis for the weak (Harari) or their fellow countrymen, why should we?

https://www.somalispot.com/threads/oromos-on-the-streets-in-large-numbers-land-expansion-plans-foiled.177064/post-4250436

The OP of the thread, BASED Puntite Queen asserts that the Great Replacement is occurring right now not only in the suburbs of Galkacyo but in SomaliSpot itself!!

That is precisely why Ethiopia's plan is to send these people to us, to learn our language and then when they are large enough, they overwhelm our security forces and take over for their coastline fantasy. I am sure many more are in hiding. On this forum too.

https://www.somalispot.com/threads/oromos-on-the-streets-in-large-numbers-land-expansion-plans-foiled.177064/post-4250532

One commentator channels his inner Goebbels as he exhorts his countryment to wake up to the Oromo Final Solution!

It's shocking to see how many ppl here have naxriis for these vermins. Man up and stop crying like some lil b!tches. If they had the chance to wipe us out completely they would do it. They are a big threat to our nation. A decade didn't even pass since abiy became president and oromos are responsible for the most genocides and mass r*pes in ethiopia. why don't oromos call their own people out when it comes to the aforementioned atrocities against amharas and tigrayans? Or why didn't our so called oromo 'muslim brothers' oppose the MoU deal and side with us? There is no allies in this God forsaken continent. Believe me abiy would start a war against us and he would supply them with weapons but he can't right now because he's fighting against fano and ethiopia is too broke to fight in two frontlines. Just put two and two together and you will realise that these 'miskiins' are nothing more than sleeper cells whose goal is to take our lands. Kudos to PL dadkas ha la tarxiilo

https://www.somalispot.com/threads/oromos-on-the-streets-in-large-numbers-land-expansion-plans-foiled.177064/post-4250756

The last sane Somali on SomaliSpot speaks up and reminds the angry hordes of the unity of Islam !ummah :

>I personally don't give a shit. Dhuulka ilaahi baa leh. Any muslim is my brother and should never get harmed in any way. Simple as this. Resorting to tribalism or ethnocentrism is just how Somalis cope with their sad reality. Galvinising the masses to the point where they feel bold enough to physically assault people in their streets. How is this acceptable ? Everyone should be treated with respect.

https://www.somalispot.com/threads/oromos-on-the-streets-in-large-numbers-land-expansion-plans-foiled.177064/post-4250580

His peaceful response finally brings some levity to the thread as others agree that they might have gone a little too far:

I understand the concerns surrounding Oromo expansionism and tons of undocumented migrants flooding into Somali regions. I don't think most people are saying turn a blind eye and tolerate it or taking issue with safe, legal deportations. The problem is people whipping up Oromo-hate and demonising an entire ethnic group. Someone a few posts before me called them "vermin" and got many upmarseys. People are posting tiktoks and twitter posts of Oromo nationalists saying problematic things to paint a certain picture of them and incite further hatred and suspicion. These are dangerous sentiments that don't align with our morals and values. Which, by the way, come from our religion and not "the liberal West". There's never a justification for dehumanising an entire group of people.

https://www.somalispot.com/threads/oromos-on-the-streets-in-large-numbers-land-expansion-plans-foiled.177064/post-4250852

I'll call it a day there, plenty more slapfights in that thread for anyone who wants to laugh at more senseless !africans infighting.

!chuds !nonchuds