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SKINNY SKINNY TUMMY
I could have that seen that live in person, she'd probably be all sweaty dancing around on stage and shit
FRICK
!petitelovers !skinny
I'm not pinging coomers cause I already wasted 610 coins on a post I had to delete
/r/TheAdamFriedlandShow banned 30 minutes ago "due to being unmoderated." Edit: /r/Wordington also banned 
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Is it over for !redscarepod next?
Or can it be reopened?
Same thing just happened to /r/Wordington (zoomer shitposting sub, actually was funny)
Is a great purge underway?
Jannies discuss
https://old.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/1ii6gbk/mass_sub_bannings/
The Jeet gays have fallen
/r/WhoreDaughter is gone. It's truly over now
https://old.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/1ii6p9n/our_subreddit_was_banned_by_mistake/
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Hecko! 
Hello Rdrama, it's time for your Minecraft YouTuber Autism fest again! 
It's always insightful to engage in a bit of market research. 
I gotta know what my contemporaries are up to, my competition!
Ladies and gentlemen the Minecraft YouTuber TommyInnit.
Now I do not want to do a deep dive on who this guy is because I do not feel like writing 1000s of words today.
But the run down is this guy was some 16 year old kid (hes 21 now) who made his way to fame through the Dream SMP Live Minecraft server, which streamed to hundreds of thousands of concurrent viewers.
Since then he has fallen out with the YouTuber 'Dream' and the coalition of streamers has split off into two camps. Both r-slurred but arguably the "Tommyinnit" side is worse.
I personally find this guy to be utterly obnoxious, cringe and is the very epitome of the current oversensitivity of Minecraft fans which plague my hobby and source of income. 
Here is a timestamped youtube video of the kind of guy he is!
NOT THE R-SLUR!!!!! 
Yeah, she is your mother after all 
Tommyinnit fancies himself a bit of a comedian, he does live shows where he charges $60 dollars per ticket to see him do the worse comedy routine ever.
I am utterly convinced that with no practice I could do better than him right now.
(timestamped video, watch like 30s if you can lmao)
THIS IS THE SHITNERNET
In pursuit of his comedic genius, he has started an internet show called "This is the Internet" and the target of my autism today.
I actually really like the idea and concept for the show, where he does like an episode once a month re-capping and making fun of internet trends and stories, like Norm Macdonald but for the zoomies like me!!!! 
The one problem is... Is painfully fricking unfunny and bad.
The show starts ok, and I don't have much to say about the intro, other than I would of been funnier to film real homeless instead of an actor.
Then we get to the main shot of his newscaster desk and the amateurish problems become apparent immediately
See that microphone? That is not a prop, that is the actual microphone the audio is coming from, as a result you can hear every microscopic movement he makes on the desk, even movement of his hands, and as the mic has no stabilizer he bumps is constantly!!!
Like its fricking crazy, its a static shot you can just attach a boom mic, and have the desk mic for a backup. And r-slurred production plagues this 20 min video.
Watch Joke
Ok first joke of the episode he looks at his wrist even though he doesn't have a watch, something I like in premise, but I think he holds it too long and it's too obvious that it kind of breaks it.
A better example of this joke is from this timestamp from the Amazing Digital Circus
And how would you follow up this silly 1s gag of a nonexistent watch?
Oh yeah, r-slurred train noises for an excruciating 12s, where he spits everywhere.
And this is a common trend in this video is that TommyInnit does not know when to end a fricking joke.
Like this should of been cut out anyway, but if you had to include it... LIKE 1 SECOND AT MOST
Peepee Joke
Tommy mentions how Magnus Carlson was disqualified from a chess tourney for wearing jeans, which leads to a joke about how he's against wearing trousers and shows that his actually naked below the suit.
Once again, a joke which can work but it should be a more subtle visual gag.
If he had a larger newsroom set or was on location he could have two men carrying a mirror in the background somewhere, which shows his bare butt to the camera while he says something else, not drawing direct attention to it.
Maybe not even have the context of Magnus Carlson at all and just have it has an absurd background visual with no explanation.
example of this type of joke done right from Naked Gun 2 1/2
But at the moment its obnoxious, in your face and goes on way too long.
GOES ON TO LONG
Goes without saying, CUT THE JOKE SOONER HOLY SHIT!
HOLY SHIT CRINGE, I know hes a kids entertainer but god darn, this is shit you do to make your very very young toddlers laugh
Genuinely this thread is just to make you guys suffer because I had to watch this, so did you
SKIT 1
This is obviously meant to be a parody of MrBeast and Hype style Youtubers.
He's doing something lame but biggining it up as something super duper epic, except I dont think he fully commit to the bit.
The music should be more obnoxious, like dubstep or something
He should have like 10 camera angles of the same lame stunt
Tons of ridiculous digital zoom ins and post production motion blur
I would of just said random money figures randomly to take the piss out of their money obsession. (500 dollar bottle of coke wow!)
The biggest problem with the skit is pacing, I believe in a comedy rule which I came up with after watching a horrible Jim Sterling Video.,
"A joke should never take longer than 60s to setup and payoff"
And establishing the parody, the coke and Mentos and the reaction is a tall order for 60s, so in cases like this you need to make the joke evolve somehow.
Have something to break it up into pieces, by sprinkling in smaller jokes in while your building the setup.
You could make a quick jab at overuse of merchandising.
Or ridiculous product placement in the background.
Just something to tithe the viewer over until you can get to that longer punchline. And help further establish the satire element
Now too be fair Tommy mostly avoids this problem, managing to get to the Mentos part within 15s pretty efficiently.
but keep this part in mid for the proceeding....
3 MINS OF FOOTAGE
Where hes taking the piss out of the amount of replays which works, but he just keeps the joke going way way way way too fricking long without any evolution.
I seriously encourage you to watch the whole skit and just be in shock with how long it goes on for
He should of done this replay joke for 20s at most, then hard cut to him choking and almost vomiting up the coke looking and sounding ill because he deepthroated it. as the joke "evolving" by undercutting the extreme editing.
Bonus points if you then pan to a random passer-by looking confused and disgusted.
SKIT 2
I am going to skip over a lot of the other shit jokes because its very much the same of what I've already covered
This is just the peak of the amateurish filming. First off how do you mic a scene that badly wtf. Everyone's mic quality is different, did they have 1 mic between them. Legit wtf?? It sounds fricking awful.
And the video is completely fricked up. Look at this shot/reverse shot
The colours and depth of them are completely fricked up, with the tommy shot being incredibly faded out and desatured, which creates a giant disconnect when these two are supposed to be facing each other.
This is further again compounded by the bad audio difference.
Anyway what's this skit about?
5 MINS ON A POOP JOKE WTF
Again I encourage you a ton to watch and suffer through this skit, because it's so fricking bad the whole thing should just be cut.
THIS GUY CHARGES 60 DOLLARS PER TICKET TO SEE HIM LIVE!
POOP JOKES
So the premise of the skit if Jack Manifold (also a YTuber) is proposing that Tommy starts making poop content for youtube as an idea, to which they act confused, thus inadvertidly revealing he is into it.
First off this should be filmed handhold style with lots of manual zoom in's on faces and try to emulate the style of the Office.
Poop is such a lame unfunny thing to centre this skit around
This is not an idea that can last 5 mins
A friend and I came up with a concept for the scene to try and make a funny skit out of it.
That instead of poop, Jack is proposing a new mascot for some merch called the "Grapist" where its the mascot of their new grape flavoured juices (you can make fun of prime)
And Tommy and the rest of the boardroom is trying to politely tell him that it sounds like r*pe, but he is oblivious.
You could do a visual joke where he shows a drawing of children sucking the grapists juice sacks, and it looks really really bad, but he just acts innocent and unaware about it.
Edgy but better that POOP FUNNY HEHE!
Serious this is negative comedy
the worse joke in the episode
I have no idea what the fricking joke is here legit.
Shrimpena
BEST JOKE IN THE EPISODE
THIS WAS WRITTEN BY 3 PEOPLE WHAT THE FRICK
This was made by a production of a small team, which I unironically could make better by myself.
This fricker has gotten 1m views and I have no idea how anyone finds this guy funny
is this mass psychosis.
I don't think I'm an expert or a pro but holy shit.
I hate modern Minecraft YouTubers. I need to help fix the culture....
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I swear he probably watches trans women on porn hub in the White House
I would unironically give my virgin butt up to Trump until 2029, if he would just fricking stop. He is obsessed.
same actually, i was considering writing a letter offering to be his concubine in exchange for giving us rights, but i don't know if it would work or not. is it worth trying?
Might be worth trying at this pointโฆ Won't do any damage lol.
https://old.reddit.com/user/Trustic555
https://old.reddit.com/user/Tight-Salamander-844
dont be very mean to them because they seem really unwell, i mostly just feel bad for them that people around them and society has enabled their mental illness to this point, truly disturbing
) are STILL fedposting, seething, wishing for MAGAcide, and doxxing the names of the Zoomerchuds in the Drumpf administration even as WPT got gigamopped and its ban is now on mainstream news sites, also think that they can organize a revolution to overthrow the US government through Reddit! 
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This dude thinks you combat fascism with rainbows and unicorn.
Real cute, buddy.
/u/poop-scroller Canada
This dude thinks you combat fascism with Reddit posts.
Real cute, buddy.
How do you think movements start or are coordinated? Via messenger pigeons?
THIS NEIGHBOR THINKS THAT HIS REVOLUTIONARY INSURGENT ARMY WILL BE ORGANIZED ON TRANNIT
/u/Link9454 and /u/GPT3-5_AI go full-Kiwi Farms and use the "its public info chud, its not doxxing! 
REPORTMAXXERS, ASSEMBLE!
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I suggest you look through his post history he's genuinely mentally unwell and fully obsessed with the trans 
Genuinely see if you can pick any sense out of these mindless ramblings:
When you say hope you mean like you pray to god at your bedside in a spinny dress?
Oh my bad you mean hope like a poster of a foreign cia operative named Obama has hope
I think your mentality of black pilled porn addicted griller
is why we are having population collapse and going back to authoritarian rule of communism. You're demoralized and your time of being high and mighty and cool was fake astroturfing just like your dress in the mirror we all knew it's not real
No this is not your communist utopia where you get to put people in jail because they don't agree with your mental illness.
Oh yeah you're a real woman huh? What's a woman? How do you know you're not trans? If you can't define what a woman is
UPDATE: Admins say "We are looking into this at the moment." UPDATE 2: Some subs are unbanananed
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A lot of porn subs getting the mop.
rip /r/cocaine and /r/drugs 
/r/bannedsubs for up-to-whenever updates
/r/modsupport in shambles
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50501 is underway y'all !nooticers
https://old.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1iia7ku/stay_safe_stay_strong/
https://old.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1iic9i4/im_not_moving_my_truck_today/
https://old.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1iid9vz/elon_musk_is_a_nazi_upmarsey_this_post_so_when/
https://old.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1ii9bou/mentioned_on_ap_news/
https://old.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1ii9793/upmarsey_everything/
https://old.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1iidpas/state_capital_protest_has_already_started/
On a weekday afternoon lol
https://old.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1iid1mr/reddit_is_shadow_banning_posts_spreading_the_word/
https://old.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1iicc0v/heading_out_to_trenton_nj/
https://old.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1ii2q5y/got_my_sign_for_tomorrow_lets_do_this_thing/
https://old.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1ii8s2t/boycott_the_super_bowl/
https://old.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1iiem6j/texas_starting_to_gather/
https://old.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1iidl5b/bring_us_flags/
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Hecko!
Not required reading but this is a follow-up to the Iskall85 Drama 
https://rdrama.net/post/338283/man-gets-executed-for-flirting-with
https://rdrama.net/post/338501/quick-update-for-iskall85-controversy-marseybooba
Iskall85 is a famous Minecraft YouTuber who has been in controversy recently for daring to e-flirt with adult women in private (yes really)
For more info check the two attached threads above.
In addition to LITTERALLY raping women online, Iskall also has been developing his own Minecraft Modpack called Vault Hunters, which is apparently quite the unique and expansive modpack, which Iskall has claimed to have spent 'Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars in development'. Which is obviously funded by his and other collaborators YouTube series on the pack.
However in light of the recent controversy involving Iskall, The Lead Artist of the Vault Hunters Project "Kumara" has written a hit piece document on Iskall on the horrid working conditions they face.
IT IS 123 PAGES LONG OF UNHINGED BPD DRIBBLE 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K2zSSeaUHiKZQbpWV7kGx0uI88bPupFrqIlalaUiH3c/edit?tab=t.0
Let @BussyBoy here take you through the highlights of this hilarious novella of a mental schism
PAGE 1
So as you will soon find out, this person is a fricking nut-case and as a result has been fired from their position as "Lead Art B-word", Vault Hunters has come out and stated that she's left the project and she doesn't represent them anymore... However Kumara seems to be a bit confused here on the rights of the art assets they have made already.
Somehow this b-word thinks it's illegal to publicly say they fired her, because some art of hers is still in the game. And therefore she still "represents Vault Hunters".
Listen b-word you got commissioned to make some textures, you do not suddenly own the store. 
Now I want to ask you rdrama, how would you start your hit piece on someone? Lay out the simple facts you intent to prove? A brief overview?
WRONG!!!
You need to list out your mental illnesses.
Also this one is funny, I AM LITTERALLY SHAKINGG 
PAY ME 3 BILLION DOLLARS NAOW
Imagine for a second your enjoying your holiday when the ArtHoe you hired to make minecraft textures such as these:
Suddenly DM's you asking for 3000 dollars
Now rightfully I'd want to question how the art you've made has taken 300 500 hours, but whatever.
Iskall doesn't fight it or challenge the figure, instead he agrees to pay her the 3k but rightfully says that "its my fault for not agreeing a price beforehand" and that he would like to instead pay per asset in the future instead of the crystal ball of whatever the frick pricing. (obviously)
HOW DARE HE! This is manipulation !!!
Immediately after this she quotes the definition of a "micro aggression" (no im not kidding lmao)
Now Iskall and the dev team is small, after all it is a MC Modpack, and Iskall is aware of this and states it clearly.
HOWEVER....
This lady then goes on to complain that Iskall uses the word "deadline" and "return on investment" which are evil business words, what a contradiction am I right! ARE YOU A BIG BUSSINESS OR NOT ISKALL!?!!?!?!?!?!?
YOU USE WORDS LIKE.... DEADLINE and..... WORK!!?!?
She thinks this is a form of gaslamping
MORE FRICKING MONEY THE GREEDY C*NT
Iskall asks the ArtHoe to just whip together a simple pack logo as the one the currently have looks bad, For those unfamiliar with Minecraft, this is an example of what his asking for
What does art how want?
3,000 USD
I WONDER WHY!!! hahahahahahaha
Trigger Warning/ Sexual Harrsement /srs
Iskall is Swedish, English is a second language to him.
it's so abundantly clear he means kitty as in kittycat.
This is genuine insanity!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now on to the lack of getting any work done at all.
given reason... You guessed it.
BONUS ROUND
She decided to trauma dump about her abuse to her boss.
Ironically Iskall reminders her that if she feels mistreated by him to let him know.
How kind and courteous of the man... I hope you dont end up writing a 123 schizo doc on him. instead of just speaking to him.
oh wait.
I didn't realize he was... le manipulating.
I would like you to pay attention to the dates here, because currently we are at Decmember 2022
Suddenly we are jumping to AUGUST 2023, 8 MONTHS LATER!
Why?? what happened in those 8 months?
(This message is from the start of the haitus)
THEY HAD A MENTAL BREAKDOWN AT HAVING TO DRAW SPRITES FOR MONEY.
And during those 8 months they did no work for Iskall, only occasionally updating him on her mental situation, with Iskall kindly asking... when are you able to do work again.... (FRICKING BUTTHOLE WHAT A FRICKING B-WORD DOESNT HE CARTE WTFTYEDWBDWD AGGHHH 
)
Eventually Iskall stop responding to this lady, because all she would do is fricking trauma dump to this youtuber who makes Minecraft videos, and unironically has better shit to do.
I'm not going to fill your screens with screencaps of the messages, but there are pages of them. Its fricking embarrassing.
But this one is pretty funny.
Eventually Iskall 5 months into her trauma sabbatical he asks her how things are going
She responds with a photo of her, says more about thearpy,
iskall responds "aww that sucks"
and then ghosts her again.
DO YOUR FRICKING JOB HOLY SHIT!
I need to really make this clear that there are so many fricking pages of this b-word complaining about her mental problems, and how iskall tried to comfort her at first but after months of this shit gave up and started ignoring her.
In between pages of pseudointellectual psychoanalysis of Iskall's mental state on how this is abuse. I really mean it. Check this out!
ALL OF THESE MESSEGES ARE ABOUT TRAUMA WITH NO RESPONSE.
I'm starting to think Iskall does have a problem with women,
he doesn't know when to tell them to frick off.
Also quick notice that while I've been writing this document, the hit piece I'm reading from has gone from 123 pages down to 59. IN REAL TIME.
Is this a case of schizophrenia George Lucas editing, or legal threats. Who knows.
Conclusion
I have left a lot of stuff out because it either isn't funny it is purely just deranged ramblings.
But as you can imagine Iskall eventually had enough of them not doing work within deadlines, asking exorbitant prices, and spending 8 months doing nothing so eventually was removed from the project
And despite them hit peicing Iskall specifically as the lead of the project, it seems there was a mass agreement with the rest of the devs were sick of their shit.
Literally keep yourself safe foid.
ONCE AGAIN I HAVE TO REMIND YOU ALL THAT THERE ARE STRAGGOTS READING THIS THREAD THAT WOULD STILL HAVE S*X WITH WOMEN.
SMH 
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Had to do this it was them or me sorry for my family and God bless pic.twitter.com/IzbwTXstDl
— FarmerRigz (@FarmerRigzDTS) February 3, 2025
I didn't see this posted already so sorry if this is a repost. I didn't really look that hard.
OP was shot and killed, obviously
Tweets for 'nauts without Twitter accounts
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Update 1:
I received a direct message via Reddit from someone holding the position "tech lead for Add-ons at Mozzarella". I will otherwise keep them anonymous. A quick google search of that position does not reveal their name. The individual does have an @mozzarella.com email address.
The individual in question invited me to provide troubleshooting information/Firef*x logs, to which I happily obliged. I will post any updates by appending this comment.
As an additional note, some commenters are suggesting using cowtools such as Revo Uninstaller or checking my registry. I am not a Windows user so this is not applicable.
Is this the answer? Mozzarella Furryfox will sync two daily drivers to info from two weeks ago?? (Probably not lmfao)
https://old.reddit.com/r/firef*x/comments/1iiagzr/removed_honey_after_the_controversy_this_morning/
Don't be a lameass Furryfox user, be brave! The browser that puts you first | Brave
] you think a redditor will actually murder this lil' dood or what?
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At least one of the following people will be murdered or critically injured in a murder attempt on or before March 4th, 2025: Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran - 7 bets
no, but we'll have some other murder/terrorist attack related to DOGE within the next month - 35 bets
nothing ever happens - 174 bets
500 marseybux bounty for sending me the link when it happens.
If nobody sends the link, I'll spend a few minutes looking !remindme march 5th ":marseybeandoge:"
!bets !goomble !goomblers !goombling !project2025
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the Dutch global Classical Music superstar, hated his primary fandom demographic (Boers) in - 31
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There was this !dutch violinist/ orchestra director who became famous worldwide, by having these "informal" classical music concerts/shows, where peeps in the audience would dance in the aisles, or even the musicians or Andrรฉ himself would walk down the aisles themselves, while celebrating famous classical music.
This was considered radical for Boomers, who found the dour and sour and uptight classical music conformity of Europe to be to too stifling. People like my parents were pretty excited to watch his shows and performances on DSTV, which had become more common in Safrica, and appreciated his musical acumen, whilst having much more lighthearted tones in his shows.
Here's a bull attacking a woman!!
He also looks like an eccentric mad-scientist nutjob with his hair! 
In 2010 he had a tour in 
https://www.andrerieu.com/en/about-andre/my-biography/2010
Unfortunately his weak !dutch genes were no match for the filth and garbage of Safrica, and he got a debilitating ear infection mid tour. 
DRAMA!
Drama had however occurred over time in the 2010s when Andrรฉ Rieu obtained the notable quirk, in that he REFUSED 
to speak the Colonizer language of Afrikaans!!!! 
This caused a lot of seeth for Boers, who ironically made the lionshare of his fandom in the country, even beyond the large Bonglish CD-buyers in Cape Town. This social media drama has been largely purged by time and linkrot (omg this like 15 years ago 
) But it was pretty big drama.
In his tours of 2010 & 2012, he had repeated numerous times that he had been disappointed in the demographics makeup of his shows, which as can be predicted, were always overwhelmingly 
He was especially disappointed to find Safrican black peeps didn't really give a shit, despite his massive catering towards them in all his Safrican tours, whether in Cape Town or Suncity. Especially in his "My African Dream" shows, which he tailored to include lots of black opera singers, local black dancers, and it was still 99% mayo 
https://www.news24.com/life/andre-rieu-refuses-to-speak-afrikaans-20110318
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Andrรฉ Rieu, King of the waltz and musical hero to many South Africans, still refuses to speak a word of Afrikaans or even Dutch onstage.
Last year already many of his fans asked why Rieu did not speak a word of Afrikaans or Dutch on stage.
He has toured across the globe, always making an effort to speak at least a word of the language of the country in which he is touring. 
Rieu is aware that many of his fans in South Africa are Afrikaans speaking and that they are able to understand the Dutch heard on the DVDs.
Country's demographic 
When Volksblad asked Rieu in an official enquiry why he does not speak Afrikaans or Dutch onstage in South Africa, he said: "No comment."
"He wanted to make it easier for his fans to travel to the show, because not everyone will be able to travel all the way to Sun City. He also hopes to then see an audience that is a better representation of the country's demographic."
Rieu has said that he would like to see an audience that is 50% black and 50% white. Last year, he asked the Bloemfontein Children's choir to perform with him in his hometown of Maastricht in the Netherlands. His condition that the choir should consist of 50% black members, was heavily criticised. 
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Watch Andre Rieu talk about his South African tour in 2012, with a lead black singer to a white-only audience, and why everyone was in tears. https://t.co/ZNosC0yEvK
โ Seema Chishti (@seemay) December 26, 2020
I tried really hard to find old twitter 
about drama when Andrรฉ Rieu stated in front of his 99% mayo audience how sad and disappointed he was that so few black peeps had come to his Cape Town and Suncity shows, and with many people stating how full of shit he was, because if he wanted a primary black audience, he should have hosted a show in Soweto stadiums (he didn't cuz it was unsafe 
)
Like holy hells there was scores of drama - you guys don't appreciate how linkrot has culled so much drama of our forebears 
Like I remember newspaper articles about the drama and events but that shit is now banished to the shadowrealm i literally cannot find anything on the face of the internet to prove what I'm recounting to you guys, it's information just gone into the ether 
RANDOM BONUS DRAMA: Reddit thread about Andrรฉ Rieu's detractors
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What a lovely night, tucked into bed with the boys and mister man 
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— Reddit Lies (@reddit_lies) February 5, 2025
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: Fascistmisia
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You are free to tell the truth here that punching Nazis like Elon Musk and his DOGE script kiddos is a good thing.
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I had a small role in recruiting this man. He'd spent the last ten years leading engineering teams on a consumer product you've probably used, and he's just arrived in DC to work with the federal government. He started on Monday, and it's now Thursday night. I run into him at an event. He arrives late, and looks shellshocked.
How's it going? He's struggling to put words together. I'm worried. "I just left the office. I think everything's going to be okay." What is he talking about? "For the first day and a half, nothing. Then it was 'go to this agency and help them with this thing. It needs to go live on Thursday and there's a problem.' Yes, there was a problem. The data the service relied onโฆ.I've never seen a database like that. Ever." What do you mean? "1993. The guy couldn't find any other way to make it work. The vendors would have taken too long even if someone could justify the budget. So he just hacked it at nights and over weekends. Used whatever he could find and taught himself how to use it. The machine is ancient. The software has just been running since then. I'm amazed he managed to keep it running this long. It's a miracle. Either no one knew, or no one cared โ my guess is that they were just happy to have something that worked at all. The guy's been keeping this going like thisโฆI meanโฆI had no ideaโฆI've never seenโฆ." He's shaking his head and looking past me.
What happened? "First we just had to make sure we could get the data out somehow, make sure we had a copy. I mean, these recordsโฆthey're the only copy. The whole system relies on this. People rely on this. To help real people. People who need help. If it had failedโฆ" He really is in shock.
"I'd just never seen anything like this. I was afraid if I even touched it, it would all go poof. We got it out. It's okayโฆ. It's okay nowโฆBut this guyโฆHe's been keeping this together for 23 yearsโฆ"
For a minute, I worry that he's angry. And that he might be angry at me for encouraging him to take this job. But I look in his eyes and it's not anger, it's awe. Respect. Admiration and gratitude for a public servant who has achieved the impossible. Made things work in spite of the rules, not because of them. "He made it work. He's the only guy who can run it. He knows it wouldn't work without him so he's deferred his retirement. I meanโฆhe's extraordinary."
Extraordinary. A Silicon Valley technologist, the kind of person we champion as a savior of government, thinks that a career civil servant beyond retirement age with sorely outdated technical skills is extraordinary.
That career civil servant's name is Jed. The system he started building in the 1980s and maintained for decades before my friend came along was called VACOLS, the Veterans Appeals Control and Locator System. It started out serving just 400 users, and expanded to 17,000 across multiple parts of the VA system. Logic Magazine later interviewed him, and the backstory is well worth a read.
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Immediate family? No. The only other sibling is his sister and she's 20-ish. She does baby sit in fairness to her. Widening net to cousins etc none stepped forward. They definitely are there on my wife's side at least. Not sure about his side. (1595)
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I did that with another story the other day and I got the same thing ๐ Dead internet is looking really real rn (1294)
Are we the orphans of the dead internet? Who will care for us? (561)
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NAH. It's a devastatingly sad situation but your wife is doing what's best for her and you're doing what's best for the children. I can't get my head round your wife saying no either BUT she's not an AH for it. Some people really don't want kids and that's their right. Unfortunately, you may have to choose between them. (323)
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This is the correct response. You have not been an butthole. it's a tragic situation that said, she is not wrong either.This will most likely end your marriage and it's a tough spot you have to choose. She made it clear upfront her view of her life. You agreed to that view. Your view changed hers didn't. So you either go back to the lines you both drew together or get ready to start drawing lines without her. She's not wrong or a bad person for this. If you choose her you have to do it under the pretense you can never resent her for this. Can you do that? If you chose the kids and your marriage ends, would you ever resent the kids? There is not an option here that is not going to leave you with massive "what if" questions. Only you can decide what's most important. You are not the butthole unless you resent your decision and others suffer for it. She's not the butthole cause she is just keeping her word about what her life view is. There's nothing wrong with that.Edit due to the 100+ r... (795)
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Just because she doesn't want to do want you and op wants her to, doesn't make her a bad person. A bad person, is trying to force your beliefs onto others then, slandering them when they refuses. (1)
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