I think the only movie I have ever seen that was that bad was the Zack Snyder suicide squad movie. It was a total waste of 2 hours

Here we spot wild Bardfinn Bluesky activities.

Be valid and ping ! bardfinn for something worthwhile or create a new thread.

Any good places to start?

One paly of thuogh can easily last over 10 hours so perfect game for wearing a dildo on yuor head and standing around for 10+ hours

>We've found as AIs get smarter, they develop their own coherent value systems.

>For example they value lives in Pakistan > India > China > US

chuds btfo

Porn star Bonnie Blue’s controversial video with 1,057 men removed by OnlyFans: ‘What an anticlimax’ https://t.co/YQ8B2cvmUN pic.twitter.com/HEukWvDhGa

— New York Post (@nypost) February 3, 2025

been getting into ja rule, mystikal, missy elliot, ludacris, all the greats of the 2000s

got any favorites?

So what's everyone watching this week? !kino !hatewatchers

@Kongvann please pin

I remember when I first joined it was kind of cheeky and irreverent, and it still seemed plausible that women posted here. But it's become progressively more shallow and heartless. I mean I can't be the only one picking up on this, right? "The worst thing about DOGE is how soy it all is"? We can't just express outrage at immorality anymore, every criticism must be given through the lens of haughty indifference and framed around coolness or lack thereof. I think some people here have genuinely replaced their concept of wrong and right with cringe/not cringe and never stopped to consider how cruel and purposeless it could make them.

every criticism must be given through the lens of haughty indifference and framed around coolness or lack thereof

Quick question did you ever listen to the pod? Like even one clip or so?

People actually listen to Rspod?!

Gooooood, for the 100,000th time - this is a unique sub and one of the only decent culture/current events subs on reddit, the podcast sucks shit so most people here either never listened or stopped listening in 2019 (me). I used to like A&D but in the last five years one became a Fox News dork and the other is hawking a shit coin, they've changed. That being said, what drew me to them and this sub in the first place was their critique/thoughts on the overly woke/grifter left and establishment liberals. What I and many didn't know back in 2018 was A&D are insecure dorks who just adopt whatever ideology they currently find chic/edgy, and as soon as Bernie/progressive politics became boring they moved onto the next thing. But a lot of us here have beliefs based on morality/ethics/what we find to be true, so here we are

Tldr: "I have never and will never engage with the content this sub is about but here's how it should be run."

Anyways I thought this was a fun thread. The commenters even got OP to self delete out of shame.

!redscarepod

The jeet in charge is trying to tell everyone it's a great thing, but any time an equity firm buys you out, you are gone soon. lol Only people winning here are the jeet and the execs.

If time were nearing it's end, would you know?

— Whois Jesus (@TruthYouAreFree) November 30, 2024

>it's

whois jesus

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https://old.reddit.com/r/unusual_whales/comments/1ii65qf/trump_wants_to_shut_down_the_college_and/

https://old.reddit.com/r/Askpolitics/comments/1iib5o8/why_get_rid_of_the_department_of_education/

Lies lies lies

https://old.reddit.com/r/missouri/comments/1ihvuso/department_of_education_funding/

Shrieking morons begging for death

https://old.reddit.com/r/raleigh/comments/1ii06kt/im_embarrassed_by_our_school_board/

pic.twitter.com/4A1vxXbl9G

— Reginald D Hunter (@reginalddhunter) August 15, 2024

Like buttholes

Everyone has am opinion
If we didn't laugh at these atrocities
We'd all be crying 😢

I don't think it's bullying
I think it's political commentary and expect to be amused or outraged.
Chin up reg xx pic.twitter.com/4D9bBJkcvW

— Jacqueline mk2 extreme! (@JacquelineCabl9) August 15, 2024

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx287xz58jxo

Keep pushing those boundaries my man ✊🏾. We wouldn't have it any other way!

If folk want safe, inoffensive comedy that they can watch with their grandparents then there's always the likes of Michael McIntyre.

— ZigZag (@JamesMartinCla1) August 15, 2024

I wouldn’t worry about it Reg, a ‘review’ in the Telegraph is about as much use as a review on day care centres in Khan Younis by Benjamin Netanyahu, not worth a wank.

— Kelev Ra. (@ra44538785_ra) August 15, 2024

Y'all, y'all know this is a Black man from the South? And a comedian, someone who does comedy, that's the baseline. What fricking games you tryna play eejits? Go bomb some more children to calm your nerves

— Juan Siôn Castillo-Glas (@InflammaSean) August 15, 2024

My message to Europe: build nukes.

Do it fast.

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) February 16, 2025

Or just take over US nuclear bases.

— Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) February 17, 2025

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskConservatives/comments/1ipdjiy/i_know_a_lot_of_people_are_happy_with_trump/

https://old.reddit.com/r/Christianity/comments/1ip6xgh/conservative_christians_failed_a_big_test/

https://old.reddit.com/r/FriendsofthePod/comments/1iwpdl3/everyone_arguing_in_circles_about_bill_maher_is/meftdaj/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/FriendsofthePod/comments/1iwpdl3/everyone_arguing_in_circles_about_bill_maher_is/megbdox/?context=8

"No we should not unify, and no, we should not platform bad faith actors" says /u/Marxism-Alcoholism17 https://old.reddit.com/r/FriendsofthePod/comments/1iwpdl3/everyone_arguing_in_circles_about_bill_maher_is/mefwcs9/?context=8

But le heckin false narratives https://old.reddit.com/r/FriendsofthePod/comments/1iwpdl3/everyone_arguing_in_circles_about_bill_maher_is/meg7ey8/?context=8

There are so many seethe threads on their front page right now https://old.reddit.com/r/FriendsofthePod/

I was kind of here for "Espresso" as a song of the summer, but now it's like you had your 15 minutes and you're still here???

This new track is just godawful, reddit-hornyposting tier...

>Come right on me, I mean camaraderie

>Where art thou? Why not uponeth me?

>And I bet we'd both arrive at the same time

>And I bet the thermostat's set at six-nine

GET IT???

Has anyone ever said "bed chem"? Is that a real thing that zoomers say?

Fricking get the frick out of here. Honestly will take Chappell Roan over this shit.

I mean it's probably not going to happen for me anyway but I think I kinda want to have children. The problem is that I cannot stop thinking how selfish that is. What if my children end up hating their lives and wish they were never born? I really wish I never encountered anti-natalism.

Elon Musk, the richest guy in the world, is going after USAID, which feeds the poorest people in the world.

Next, he’ll go after the programs that impact you: Medicaid, Medicare, community health centers, Pell Grants, affordable housing.

We can stop him. pic.twitter.com/rchI5Ltdt0

— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) February 8, 2025

Oh vey

“USAID in 2016 gave $310 million of your taxpayer money to a Palestinian cement factory.

What did the Palestinians in Gaza use all that cement for, paid for by your taxpayer dollars? Any ideas?

Oh yeah, that would be the 300 miles of terror tunnels that Hamas built underneath… pic.twitter.com/ZcLSC7aXJO

— Jews Fight Back 🇺🇸🇮🇱 (@JewsFightBack) February 7, 2025

Anonymous is super lame

Anonymous is mad USAID was cut? 😂😂😂
It is a CIA tool pic.twitter.com/nbvGEPcGCR

— Angelo Giuliano 🇨🇭🇮🇹🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 安德龙 (@angeloinchina) February 8, 2025

Michael Moore

🚨Well, well, look who had his chubby fingers in the USAID cookie🍪 jar🫙$$$ pic.twitter.com/0C3CLOdLQ5

— Giordano Bruno (@GioBruno1600) February 8, 2025

I hope this is true because it's really fricking funny

🔥 EXPOSED: Doge uncovered that USAID funneled $84 million in Haiti relief funds to Chelsea Clinton—and guess what?

🤔$3 million went to her wedding
👀$10 million bought a luxury mansion

Meanwhile, Haiti got next to nothing. Who else is sick of this corruption? 🤬 pic.twitter.com/OlnX0QCiwH

— Desiree (@DesireeAmerica4) February 8, 2025

Funny bit from a repub

Ilhan Omar: “USAID is the reason I am here and not in Somalia.”

Everyone else: “That’s why we want to get rid of it.” pic.twitter.com/wEyZcGtBYq

— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) February 8, 2025

Not looking good for Gaza

This is where the three hostages released today were kept just before their release… a tunnel paid for by UNRWA and USAID pic.twitter.com/2SCsK3PQKL

— Cheryl E 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🎗️ (@CherylWroteIt) February 8, 2025

Liberal twitter still a thing

Who else thinks Chelsea Clinton and Ben Stiller should sue the ever-loving heck out of any MAGA spreading lies about them taking money from USAID?

🙋‍♀️ pic.twitter.com/AcrwXu8rNO

— Art Candee 🍿🥤 (@ArtCandee) February 8, 2025

The tinfoil hat crowd supports this

https://x.com/liz_churchill10

USAID=Crimes Against Humanity pic.twitter.com/PjTGVa2YwI

— Liz Churchill (@liz_churchill10) February 7, 2025

Usaid employees need better pr. No one likes faceless bureaucrats

USAID employee Christian Gil tears up as he says Elon Musk fired him after 20 years at USAID.

The Democrat Party has been SCAMMING America for DECADES by using USAID.

Dems laundered countless billions, if not trillions, to artificially prop up the Democrat Party.

It’s over. pic.twitter.com/rqYglwYKzy

— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) February 7, 2025

Soros!!!!!

The target of the USAID purge, was George Soros.

The USAID slush fund was how he financed his global Left-wing influence machine.

It’s how he bought politicians, MSM, newspapers, radio shows, judges, prosecutors, etc.

Elon and Trump just cut off the head of the snake. pic.twitter.com/pNlLzAEsJ2

— Clandestine (@WarClandestine) February 7, 2025

Unfunny woman comedians

Now that USAID isn't propping up unfunny female comedians I hope we see a bloom of funny female comedians pic.twitter.com/hm3DtM5qc0

— Guy (@nosilverv) February 8, 2025

Usaid's defenders have had a pathetic showing

Trump's USAID shutdown: the real motive pic.twitter.com/41GWDTa4FD

— Richard Angwin (@RichardAngwin) February 8, 2025

Chemomics international

The top recipient of USAID funding seems to be a company called Chemonics International inc. and they’re not up to anything good.

Though I have yet to find them funding trans operas, they seem to just fund Hillary Clinton’s friends stealing our tax money.

Podesta even came up🤷‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/D7EQxqjXIM

— Ian Carroll (@IanCarrollShow) February 7, 2025

South Africans are pathetic

Beijing 🇨🇳 offer 🇿🇦 R16b in aid to replace R8b 🇺🇸 #USAID

"We'll not be bullied" pic.twitter.com/hXRfPBC54t

— Thuso™ 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦 (@ramalokot) February 8, 2025

Gloating

USAID offices soon: pic.twitter.com/PTxrVJYbt7

— DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) February 8, 2025

God I hope this is true because it would be so fricking funny

BREAKING: The U.S. government funded the education of an al-Qaeda leader

Anwar al-Awlaki received financial aid straight from USAID.

Washington “unknowingly” paid for his college degree, only for him to become one of the world’s most notorious terrorists. pic.twitter.com/2DM9cPlfyi

— ADAM (@AdameMedia) February 9, 2025

Chemtrails

This man claims that ever since Donald Trump and Elon Musk cut off USAID funding, the skies above him have completely cleared—not a single chemtrail in sight.

Can anybody else relate to this? pic.twitter.com/PajaRr1SaA

— Shadow of Ezra (@ShadowofEzra) February 7, 2025

Defense is losing

Trump's dismantling of USAID, a humanitarian program delivering aid globally for decades, is almost complete as thousands of employees are put on forced leave and the signs are being removed and covered.

It's a gift to our enemies and competitors.pic.twitter.com/aY2sEd0w3y

— Really American 🇺🇸 (@ReallyAmerican1) February 7, 2025

Still funny

Sindh Before Sindh After
Billions in USAID. Billions in USAID pic.twitter.com/piHaMf2cm4

— Mir Mohammad Alikhan (@MirMAKOfficial) February 8, 2025

Judge

🚨NEW: U.S. District Court Judge Carl Nichols has blocked Elon Musk and the Trump Administration from firing USAID employees.

RETWEET to thank Judge Nichols for standing up for our democracy! pic.twitter.com/rIU8troeoG

— Protect Kamala Harris ✊ (@DisavowTrump20) February 7, 2025

The wewuz people hate usaid

https://x.com/DavidHundeyin/status/1887964867044221405

Destiny sucks

USAID paid streamer Steven Bonell (known online as Destiny) 6 million dollars to perform oral s*x on several men pic.twitter.com/wOYkvJl2Ez

— Kaguya’s Top Gal (@hayasaka_aryan) February 6, 2025

(CNN) —  When a series of lightning strikes took down power across New York City on the night of July 13, 1977, streetlights, neon signs, and the bright lights of houses and skyscrapers went dark.

And just like that, for the first time in decades, the Milky Way could be seen streaked across the black sky, speckled by thousands of shimmering stars.

"I saw a (starry) sky from my location in the Bronx," said Joe Rao, a meteorologist and amateur astronomer who was living in New York City on the night of the blackout, "which I had never seen before and have never seen again."

Barring a freak power outage, the light emanating from towns and cities due to unnatural light sources is so bright that it washes out the stars. Today one-third of all humans, including 80% of North Americans, cannot see the Milky Way.

For a growing number of people, natural darkness has been lost. When the lights went out in 1977, New Yorkers could see how much they were missing.

Light pollution, the term for the brightening of the night sky by unnatural lights, is increasing worldwide. On average, skies are getting 10% brighter each year globally, with the fastest rate of change in North America.

Many species are suffering the consequences. Every year, up to one billion birds in the US are killed by colliding with buildings, a global crisis exacerbated by bright lights drawing them off their migratory paths at night. Unnatural lighting can disorient insects, and affect the leaf development of trees. A 2017 study found that light pollution poses a threat to 30% of vertebrates and more than 60% of invertebrates that are nocturnal.

Nesting sea turtles, which rely on the reflection of light on the water from celestial bodies to guide them to the ocean, can be disoriented by unnatural lights around beaches, resulting in fatal dehydration or predation.

"We've found sea turtles in elevator shafts," said Rachel Tighe, lighting project manager at Sea Turtle Conservancy, a Florida-based nonprofit funded by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. For the animals, she added, "it's confusion and chaos."

And humans are affected, too. While the health implications of unnatural light are still being investigated, research has linked light pollution to obesity, depression, sleep disorders, diabetes, and cancer.

"We know that if you start to shift temperatures you have really profound impacts on organisms across ecosystems, so you would imagine that if we start to mess with light cycles, we might have similarly profound impacts," said Professor Kevin Gaston, a light pollution expert at the University of Exeter, in the UK. "We're all ultimately dependent on this stuff for our very existence."

Unlike other environmental issues like climate change and deforestation, the problem of light pollution could be curbed overnight — by turning off the lights.

In 2020, the small town of Crestone, Colorado, switched off its streetlights when it ran out of money to pay the electricity bill. At night, the streets were dark, but the sky above was bright with stars.

"At the next meeting (of the Board of Trustees), someone said, 'You know, we kind of like it dark,'" recalled Kairina Danforth, mayor of Crestone at the time. Inspired to preserve natural darkness, the town decided to leave the streetlights off.

Soon, Crestone became one of a growing number of towns around the world officially recognized as a Dark Sky community by DarkSky International, an organization that promotes the battle against light pollution.

"We are probably the only Dark Sky community in the world that has no residential lights because they couldn't afford to pay the bill," said Danforth. "Now there's a strong communal support for our dark sky."

As Crestone, and the residents of New York City in 1977, can attest, a total blackout will bring back the stars instantaneously. But efforts to tackle light pollution need not be so extreme to make a big difference, said Ruskin Hartley, CEO of DarkSky International.

"The solutions are simple," he said, "and they don't involve giving up anything apart from bad quality lighting."

Light pollution experts abide by the mantra: "keep it low, keep it shielded, keep it long." In other words, ensure that lighting is low to the ground, that it is targeted to avoid light leaking in all directions, and, if possible, that it has a long wavelength, typically observed as amber colored. Finally, turn lights off when they're not needed.

Some communities are following DarkSky's recommendations by retrofitting their lighting fixtures to reduce light pollution, or simply turning off more lights. DarkSky International has worked with communities and nature reserves in 22 countries to provide support and give official accreditation to areas that have made positive changes. Nearly 300 areas are now accredited.

In 2022, DarkSky, in collaboration with the Czech Republic, developed a European policy brief on reducing light pollution, recommending that "all light should have a clear purpose," that it "should be directed only to where needed," and that it "should be no brighter than necessary." The brief suggests using current EU legislative frameworks — on biodiversity, climate change, and energy efficiency — to push for light pollution mitigation measures.

As of October 2022, 20 pieces of nationwide legislation that concern the mitigation of light pollution had been introduced in nine member states of the European Union since 2000, according to the Czech Republic's Ministry of the Environment.

Countries are further incentivized by potential economic advantages. Electric-powered indoor and outdoor lights consume 17% to 20% of global electricity production, according to the European policy brief, and cutting usage means cutting costs. Areas with dark skies are also benefitting from astrotourism, a growing trend in which tourists travel to stargaze in locations with lower levels of light pollution.

"(Under) the stars are the places we told our first stories," said Hartley. "For many communities, these have been erased and lost because of the scourge of light pollution. But more and more are starting to recover and rediscover this."

Wildlife is benefitting, too. The Sea Turtle Conservancy has changed over 30,000 lights and estimates it has darkened over 45 miles of nesting beach in Florida since 2010, possibly saving as many as tens of thousands of hatchlings. "It's really cool to be able to see such a change so quickly," Tighe said.

Despite positive changes, stemming light pollution is an uphill battle.

Even in some parts of Chile's Atacama Desert, one of the darkest places on Earth, you can now see a distant glow emanating from nearby La Serena, one of the country's fastest-growing cities, said Hartley.

"You can't escape it anymore, and it is just a product of waste and ignorance," he added. "How can we get more people to care about this?"

For Rao, who was 21 on the night that the Milky Way appeared above his house in the Bronx, and is now 68, optimism for the fate of our skies is at an all-time low. "I'm beginning to wonder whether anybody is going to be able to see a good dark sky anymore, 30, 40 years from now," he said. "It's very, very sad."

But as the movement to save the dark grows, there is still a faint hope that a star-studded future is possible.

It never happened chud and even if it did it was a good thing.

My boss texted me asking if I was free to join him for dinner tomorrow. Isn't that kind of weird?! Or am I over reacting? How do I get out of this? I already told him I didn't have anything going on after work

edit: please give me an excuse to get out of this after already telling him I had no plans??

nvm I think I'm going to pretend to be sick and not show up at work tomorrow