!bardfinn

To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks and papers.

!bookworms

@Aevann can you pls

As you know the book club is back. I already read the Metamorphosis a few months ago so I'll just check my notes for the single discussion thread.

I started reading "Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89" by Rodric Braithwaite (former Bong ambassador to Russia) which is about the Soviet-Afghan war

I didn't finish it. It's not funny-bad. I think he's seething about not being part of the SNL crowd or something. I was hoping it would be like this kino film that I will one day rip and post, but it's just bad.

I retract my nomination for it for an rdrama movie night orgy.

I got banned from all 200 of his subreddits he has an autobot to do this

I am now banned from over 500 subreddits on this account after also upsetting the hentai powermods before

!merari

I got banned from /r/comics for this

I sent a couple of messages asking why I got banned for this, they completely ignored me, so I sent that copypasta

INSTANT seething ban from everything, they read all the modmail of course

!g*mers !fightclub

The rare actually good SRD post

In tonight's subreddit drama we have a user make a post in /r/bronxghanistan (a sub dedicated to gang culture in the Bronx) titled

I should boom one of these 1300 clowns right?

with a photo of some young men hanging outside a convenience store captioned

"10 upmarseys and ima make citizen app"

He initially gets clowned on as most people seem to believe he's all bark and no bite, with comments such as

N***** stood across the street & zoomed in 😭😭😭

And

This the corniest post of 2024 u barely made the cut bro

To which OP responds

We just hit 10 upmarseys check citizen app

At this point a few users post screenshots from the app showing a notification says a 12 year old girl and adult women were shot at the very same convenience store OP was at, and thankfully they remained in stable condition

The thread gets locked shortly after and a mod comments

To Reddit admins this is all lies / fantasy and cap shit is not real we don't condone violence - Lil Durk voice ‼️

Unfortunately it seems to be in fact real with the story later updated to include four other men who were the intended targets who used a 40 year old mother as a human shield and her 12 year old daughter getting shot in the leg.

Edit because there's some things I forgot to add

The news article states there are two suspects so he probably didn't act alone

He didn't delete any of his posts, comments, anything and is STILL actively using his Reddit account it has the little green dot next to it 😭

Also this pic is from the NY Post and you can tell it's the same store OP took a picture of bc of all the lights

Most Based Comments

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Dude. Most people don't even have the money for the basics. Rent for an apartment that's big enough for kids. You can't have kids in a one bedroom apartment. Childcare because almost nobody can afford to have one parent be a stay at home parent and not work. Food and clothing for an extra person. These are not easy and cheap expenses for people barely getting by already.  (62)

Can you cite where people are having trouble affording one bed apartments ? Need more specifics. You can have one kid in a one bedroom apartment btw. Clothes? where do you shop? Zara? Gap? (-40)

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this doesn't take into consideration childcare, groceries, rent, gas… (49)

groceries can be bought from Walmart for cheap.rent, there's cheap places not in fancy new apartments with gyms. (-24)

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Did your mother work?The most expensive part of having a child isn't the car or the food or the clothes or even the housing (the average American spends $23k or something like that on these types of expenses, which definitely can be brought lower). The most expensive part is the opportunity cost of a woman staying home. The average salary for an American between ages 25-34 is $57k. If she has kids instead of working, they immediately cost her significantly more than $23k. (51)

If the majority of women didn't work again salaries for men would double (-17)

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Your solution for medical care is Medicaid? Putting aside the fact that public healthcare resources are hugely underfunded and the incoming administration only intends to make them more so - You're assuming you won't have anything bad happen in pregnancy or at any point after. Childbirth is dangerous and complications are expensive. Which is the main reason the maternal death is higher in low income women. Are you a man? Perhaps you didn't consider just how common it is for pregnancy to go badly for women. Or for babies, btw. Cerebral palsy from birth injuries. Congenital birth defects. Your kid has a genetic predisposition and gets childhood diabetes? Your child just got VERY expensive in a way you couldn't prevent. Hit by a car? Seizure disorder? Don't buy into the myth that the only people struggling did something wrong or deserve it. Prosperity gospel bullshit through and through.And that's if they can get pregnant at all! Fertility treatments and the standards for adoption are ... (11)

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You "grew up in the projects" but seemingly aren't aware of the fact that some people can't even afford food for just themselves, let alone another person? Boldfaced lie. And I've never in my life met a person who says they "can't afford kids" and then cites being unable to buy them the hottest toys or a car at 16 as an example. They usually cite the fact that they themselves are barely getting by, if that. Quality of life is not a luxury. You're right, kids will not keel over and die if they don't go to prom. They just might feel mental anguish from being excluded both socially and socioeconomically, and from not getting the chance to form irreplaceable memories. That's a big frickin deal if you view kids as more than just something to keep alive until they're old enough to contribute to the economy. (10)

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Not only is children's clothing expensive to people who are already poor, but in the early stages of a child's life they will be constantly outgrowing their clothes and need new ones, meaning it's a continuing expense. (30)

This bot wants poor people to document and file a claim everytime they are struggling like someone is going to help them out. Like most guys, when a family struggles, it hits your pride, and we bottle it up because of fear that were vulnerable and one crazy cps call from loosing their kids, the only thing probably worth fighting for. You could look up how many families added to the homeless problem if you think noone is struggling. As someone who grew up in a poor family of 9, who's mom was 14 when she got knocked up by a 27 year old man, taken to bfe to raise his kids and the next 5 he would give her. You haven't seen shit.  (19)

Biggest Lolcow: /u/bruiserbrighton

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I love this boy dearly. Sleep is a luxury.

!animalposters !cats

Government officials in China are cracking down on erotic fiction writers and their online distribution networks, according to multiple news reports and social media posts, with dozens of writers reportedly arrested in one province and facing years in prison.

Many of the writers specialize in danmei, a style depicting gay romance and s*x similar to Japanese manga.

In December, Chinese news site Shuiping Jiyuanreported police had detained more than 50 writers in Anhui province, west of Shanghai, since June. Sentences have ranged up to four and a half years in prison.

At least 10 people have been sentenced for posting gay-themed erotica online, according to open records from the Jixi County People's Court in Anhui, the South China Morning Postreports.

A "special task force" carried out the arrests of the writers, many of whom published on the Taiwan-based adult fiction website Haitang Literature, Hong Kong's Sing Tao DailyNews and Taiwan's Pacific Daily newspapers reported.

"One of my friends is an author, who was released on bail, called me from a new phone and told us to be prepared," one writer posted to the gaming bulletin board NGA, cited by the AO3 fan-fiction site on Reddit.

"Later, others also reported that their friends had been affected," the post recounted. "We compared details and confirmed that this is a nationwide crackdown. Moreover, the website's [Chinese] distributor is indeed in trouble and can't be reached."

China's state-controlled media haven't reported on the arrests.

"Disseminating obscene electronic messages" has long been illegal under the authoritarian Chinese regime. A 1997 law defines obscene material as "publications, films, video and audio recordings, and images containing depictions of sexual acts."

In 2010, a Chinese court ruling determined erotic material that gains more than 5,000 clicks can be deemed a criminal offense.

How the writers are sentenced under Chinese law depends on how much money they make. Those who earn more than 250,000 yuan (US$34,500) from selling erotic materials can face a maximum sentence of life in prison.

Sentences have been reduced, however, if the writers can pay back all or a portion of the money they've made selling their work online. Family members have posted to social media and crowdfunding sites in an effort to raise funds to get their loved ones an early release.

Erotic literature has long been a target in the Chinese government's crusade defending "social morals" in the Communist country, despite the fact there is rarely an obvious victim in such cases, said Chen Zhaonan, a Guangdong-based lawyer. He argued against the government's practice of basing sentencing on potentially inflated sales figures gleaned from the erotica websites.

In 2018, a woman using the pen name Tianyi was jailed for 10 and a half years for publishing a novel that was filled with "graphic depictions of male homosexual s*x," according to local media reports. It reportedly sold 7,000 copies.

Tabbies are so magical

Have lovely evenings, everyone!

!animalposters !cats

Inshallah he streams the release of his movie.

(He copyright striked the trailer tho RIP)

Maha kumbh mela is the world's largest pilgrimage, happening once every 144 years

Over 400 million devout hindoos will come see the midget who doesn't bathe, their folk hero

It is also your only chance to meet the naked naga sadhus, holiest of all hindoo ascetics

Unlike decadent western monks occupied in "illuminating manuscripts" or "contemplating god", these holy incels spend their time smoking weed

Unfortunately, millions of pilgrims' health may be affected if raw sewage doesn't stop being pumped directly into the festival waters

Luckily, there will be light bulbs and even 24 hour electricity, the first time either has been tried in India

Thank you for reading and redeeming the needful sirs. Kindly enjoy maha kumbh mela

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