Top Drama

Relative Drama (takes into account the size of the subreddit)

autodrama: returning jobs to dramneurodivergents. Ping HeyMoon if there are any problems or you have a suggestion

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

!bookworms

@Kongvann can you pls

PATCHNOTES https://www.nomanssky.com/worlds-part-ii-update/

Worlds Part II 🪐

🪐Gas Giants
🌋New Terrain
🌞Lighting Overhaul
🧑‍💻Inventory Sorting
✨New Solar Systems
🪸Deep Oceans
🌴New Biomes
🥶Weather Hazards
🛸Starship Archiving
👻Abandoned Mode
🦑Deep Sea Creatures
🌊Dynamic Water
🧑‍🍳Improved Cooking
📖Evolving story
🤖Titan Expedition pic.twitter.com/ar8M3ejtGa

— Sean Murray (@NoMansSky) January 29, 2025

Sean did another little behind the scenes video

!nms

Highlights:

Jungles

Mountains miles high

Oceans miles deep

Local environmental hazards

+18 ship storage

MOON WATER IS BACK 🥹

Krakens and other deep sea megafauna

Sea atmospheric pressure

Supermassive planets with heck gravity

Gas giants

New stellar class

Water worlds

Enhanced variety for existing planets

New ocean flora and fauna

New surface fauna

+18 MT slots

Cooking overhaul

Auto eat options

Exocraft flamethrowers

Customizable fishing rods

The usual massive modernization of graphics and lighting

THEY GAVE THE FISHING BOAT A GRILL

9 YEAR OLD INDIE GAME CONTINUES TO LOOK BETTER AND PLAY BETTER THAN AAA RELEASES IN CURRENT YEAR

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

— James Medlock (@jdcmedlock.bsky.social) 2025-02-18T15:49:06.575Z

Ok that made me laugh

— Kara Swisher (@karaswisher.bsky.social) 2025-02-19T02:03:06.464Z

Works as advertised

— John Scalzi (@scalzi.com) 2025-02-19T15:50:00.656Z

Whoa look at the hairline:

It's real. And you can get one for yourself!www.fender.com/en-US/ukulel...

— John Scalzi (@scalzi.com) 2025-02-17T22:21:17.918Z

So I guess we're really doing this.Good billionaire hotel guy to fight... you get the picture. F---in' 90s videogame-butt reality. Okay. Sure. Let's go.

— Bob Chipman (@bobchipman.bsky.social) 2025-02-19T21:34:52.288Z

And fully half of it is a humiliating error where they mistake the value of a contract by 1000x confusing 8 million with 8 BILLION

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes.bsky.social) 2025-02-19T12:58:19.768Z

— jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) 2025-02-19T02:03:15.069Z

“fed anarchist”Stares at you. Continues staring at you. Continues to continue to stare at you.

— astrid (@astrid-x.bsky.social) 2025-02-19T16:06:16.031Z

As someone with 9 years in customer service, I am trying to *diplomatically* tell this insurance agent that I want to speak to a manager without trauma dumping on the wrong messenger and they arejustnotpicking up on itWe're gonna have to kill this guy, Steven.

— Melo (@letitmelo.bsky.social) 2025-02-19T14:01:00.982Z

Manifestly 2024 demonstrated that campaigns don’t (have to) matter. Harris ran an unbelievably tight ship while Trump limped from town to town, sagging on stage like a bag of dog shit.He hated his audience, danced to show tunes for 40 minutes, sometimes sucked off a mic. He won the popular vote.

— Nick (derogatory) ✨ (@slothropsmap.bsky.social) 2025-02-18T21:28:44.314Z

https://rdrama.net/log

Tips please

BREAKING: Tesla now provides a discount of up to 10% on Tesla Insurance for customers who frequently use FSD (Supervised)

"The more you drive with FSD (Supervised) enabled, the bigger the discount is on your insurance premium." This new policy is currently only for Tesla… pic.twitter.com/Fjh0GT2fCB

— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) February 2, 2025

This totally won't backfire lol

https://www.tesla.com/support/insurance/fsd-discount#available

Related discussion:

https://www.cybertruckownersclub.com/forum/threads/tesla-insurance-now-offering-10-discount-for-owners-who-use-fsd-for-50-or-more-of-driving-miles.35591/

Starting now, the more you use FSD the less you’ll pay for Tesla Insurance.

Essentially Tesla is covering part of the cost of insurance when you use FSD https://t.co/Q7QT07PZkf

— Whole Mars Catalog (@WholeMarsBlog) February 2, 2025

A foreign billionaire has seized the United States government.

— DCCC (@dccc) February 3, 2025

Is he a foreigner from Canada? Or Africa?

Bonus video here's Elon with his McLaren F1 and his ex wife of his child

!nooticers 6 million

GENEVA, Feb 7 (Reuters) - More than six million people could die from HIV and AIDS in the next four years if U.S. President Donald Trump's administration pulls its global funding for programmes, the United Nations AIDS agency said on Friday.

Although a waiver was placed on HIV/AIDS programmes in last month's U.S. foreign aid funding freeze, many concerns remained about the future of treatment programmes, the deputy executive director of UNAIDS told reporters in Geneva.

"There is a lot of confusion especially on the community level, how the waiver will be implemented. We're seeing a lot of disruption of delivery of treatment services", Christine Stegling said.

Trump put hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of foreign aid donations on hold for 90 days upon taking office on January 20. In the following days, the U.S. State Department issued a waiver on the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) - the world's leading HIV initiative - for life-saving humanitarian assistance.

While welcoming the waiver, Stegling stressed the situation remains chaotic.

Amid a broader decline of funding, Stegling warned there would be a 400% increase in AIDS deaths if PEPFAR financial support is not re-authorized between 2025 and 2029.

"That's 6.3 million people, 6.3 million AIDS-related deaths that will occur in future...Any penny, any cut, any pause, will matter for all of us" she said, urging U.N. member states to step in.

"In Ethiopia, we have 5,000 public health worker contracts that are funded by U.S. assistance. And all of these have been terminated," Stegling said.

She highlighted that community clinics were facing the biggest interruption as they are "entirely dependent" on U.S. government funding.

She expressed concern that some people may not come forward for treatment, which could in turn increase new HIV infections.

U.S. donations account for the majority of global funding for the U.N. programme that operates in 70 countries, leading global efforts to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.

Trump's administration says it is reviewing all foreign-aid programmes to see if they align with his "America First" policy.

!crossword

LA Times, Sunday, Feb 2, 2025 - "Silent Partners"

https://downforacross.com/beta/game/6947069-fect

SOLVED

NY Times, Sunday, Feb 2, 2025 - "Two-for-One Special"

https://downforacross.com/beta/game/6947074-vesk

SOLVED

LA Times, Saturday, Feb 1, 2025

https://downforacross.com/beta/game/6947079-jank

SOLVED

NY Times, Saturday, Feb 1, 2025

https://downforacross.com/beta/game/6947081-sphob

SOLVED

The Crossword: Monday, Jan 27, 2025 (New Yorker, thought I would try this. Mondays are the hardest puzzles in the New Yorker)

https://downforacross.com/beta/game/6947101-troff

SOLVED

Daily Cryptic Crossword (2025-02-02) (this is British but also pretty easy cryptics)

https://downforacross.com/beta/game/6947077-treb

SOLVED (BARELY)

MORE NEW YORKER CROSSWORDS AFTER

https://downforacross.com/beta/game/6947660-plash

SOLVED

https://downforacross.com/beta/game/6947719-sunt

SOLVED

THANKS FOR PLAYING

Think the reason people aren’t having sex is because they are retreating from life. They had porn in the 80s. Drugs before that. It’s the screens. People are living in virtual realities all the time. We’ve all seen the folks on subways buried in phones and tablets - no…

— FischerKing (@FischerKing64) February 18, 2025

That guy basically destroyed Sony

In comments you can read more how he destroyed PlayStation games but gayboxers don't worry power of cloud coming soon and will make Xbox one 50 time stronger

So I make breastmilk and memorial jewelry and there's a big company in China that manufactures the jewelry. There's actually even a really big well known brand that's I've seen that uses their jewelry and lots of smaller businesses do too. I've looked and looked and LOOKED to find something else but there's nothing like them.

My husband is a Trump guy even though he says he doesn't like him. We've had discussions about the tariffs and he's saying that it's corrective to bring jobs back to the US.

Well I was just talking to the owner that manufactures the jewelry and he told me that they might have to shut down because they basically sell at wholesale and barely make a profit and DHL and UPS are charging more for the headache of the tariffs. He's not sure if they will have to pay or the buyers will have to. I'm hoping a praying that it's us as the buyer.

So I told my husband this and he was like, "well, it's just the market correcting itself." I was like, "you're not even a little mad that my business might be affected?!" Idk what he said but he was laughing and I blew up in his face.

I told him that he doesn't care enough about anyone but himself. He doesn't care about women's rights, lgbtq+ rights, immigrants, not my business, nothing.

Now I locked myself in my bathroom and I'm crying. He keeps trying to talk to me but I won't talk to him. Talk me down man.

https://old.reddit.com/r/videogames/comments/1ic7h2h/hmmmmm_morgan/

Vg journ*list loe

https://old.reddit.com/r/ConcordGame/comments/1ic6wfn/question_for_the_concord_defenders/

https://old.reddit.com/r/gamecollecting/comments/1idpnnn/my_first_ps5_cant_wait_to_play_these/

https://old.reddit.com/r/saltierthankrayt/comments/1ibanwp/finally_found_the_real_game_awards_list_and_here/

Gm - Lil B

Most Based Comments

Basedness: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔘

It's funny how woke/SJW are posting on all these places thinking that anyone has the wherewithall to actually read any of it. I don't give a crap about DEI, all I care about is who has the best product and the best price for it.What's more interesting though is the psychological mentality for people thinking this is somehow useful. It's not, all I care about is product and price. This is same train of "organic" food which failed because the real issue isn't DEI but economics for normal families. (-44)

Basedness: 🔥🔥🔥🔘🔘

No one mentioned DEI, I just said I didn't want to support MAGA. No one will have the best price shortly.And the best way, and most American way to vote has, and always will be, vote with your wallet. I'm voting with mine. (19)

Just replace DEI with MAGA. Still don't care. The only thing I hate about MAGA is the tarriff/inflation which hits our wallets. Let's stay focused on the real goal here. (-23)

Basedness: 🔥🔥🔥🔘🔘

Craziness don't go away easily. Kirkland is in the middle of liberal population. You have nothing to worry about. Move on with your life. (-19)

Angriest Comments

Angriness: 😡😡😡😡😡

So are you a capitalist or a constitutionalist.In your world, I am responsible for not only voting my conscience, but am then responsible for the economic stability of people who express ideals that are inimical to my belief systems. Under that logic, I am being punished for valuing things like free speech (if Musk is a special government employee, and he's actively banning political views from X, then this is a violation of my rights), separation of church and state, equal rights, etc.The moral gymnastics you are doing here is amazing. You've said it yourself, you really don't care, as long as people take care of your business by shopping at it. That's unbelievably selfish and completely morally vapid. (0)

are the two mutually exclusive?Didn't say you're responsible for others, but I did point out the harm that you'd cause (it would take a LARGE group of boycotters to have an impact, so when I say "you" I mean the entire r/kirkland subreddit) and the futility of your efforts (ya aint gonna change anybody's mind, but you will most likely entrench them). I can't tell you what to do, but I can let you know how stupid and futile it is.I think you misread. I pointed out the harm a boycott would do to businesses - not only the target's business but affiliated businesses and employees. And while it could include my business, the point I was making is the interconnectivity of all of us in this community. So how much collateral damage do you think is acceptable to punish someone for legally and constitutionally exercising their right to vote?Again, boycott criminals, child male feminists, and real Nazis. But when one group of people tries to punish another group for voting in their own self-interest,... (2)

Angriness: 😡😡😡😡😡

If a business posts QANON or MAGA paraphernalia at this point in the game they are advertising that they support an openly fascist regime. Where do you draw the line? (0)

What do you think will happen? If you boycott Spud Fish & Chips* because the owner voted for Trump, which do you think is more likely:a - The owner sits in a dark room with a glass of scotch and re-assess his life and choices. He thinks, "wow, maybe I AM wrong and I shoulda voted for Kamala"b - as sales at Spud Fish and Chips take a 10% hit, he lays off two employees and reduces his orders from local food and supplies vendors. He has no idea why sales have dropped because all the people who disagree with him ARENT engaging with him - they're boycotting. All he knows is what FOX news tells him, and he blames it on Bob Ferguson's climate policies. * I HAVE NO IDEA HOW THE OWNER OF SPUD VOTES! I'm just using him/her as an example. Anyway, boycott child male feminists. Boycott real, avowed racists and Nazis. But don't boycott people who are exercising their Constitutional right to have an opinion (no matter how misinformed it may be) and to vote on it. Because that's waaaayyy too close to firi... (2)

Angriness: 😡😡😡😡😡

Calm down my dude, I'm just asking for info to be more conscious in my decision making, as most commenters agree lol. (3)

And I'm agreeing!! HATE!! HATE!!! HATE!! Let's do this shit!!! (-3)

Biggest Lolcow: /u/goggleblock

Score: 🐮🐮🐮🐮🐮(+5🐮)

Number of comments: 14

Average angriness: 🔘🔘🔘🔘🔘

Maximum angriness: 😡😡😡😡😡

Minimum angriness: 🔘🔘🔘🔘🔘

NEW: Subscribe to /h/miners to see untapped drama veins, ripe for mining!

autodrama: automating away the jobs of dramneurodivergents. Ping HeyMoon if there are any problems or you have a suggestion

Most Based Comments

Basedness: 🔥🔘🔘🔘🔘

Darn this photo is clearly pushing some buttons! Enough Magat tears in here to stop the fires. (-24)

Basedness: 🔥🔘🔘🔘🔘

Did I read somewhere that that leaning stance has some association with Parkinson's or some form of frontotemporal dementia? Or am I mixing things up? (72)

Lewy body dementia, the disease Robin Williams was diagnosed with before he killed himself. (25)

Basedness: 🔥🔘🔘🔘🔘

Define fascism (-12)

Angriest Comments

Angriness: 😡😡😡😡😡

A lot of people just don't have the mental bandwidth for subtlety.I lived in California for about ten years, and I still keep an eye on what's going on there because I love the place, have a ton of friends there still, and am seriously considering moving back in a couple years. I've got a few criticisms of Newsom, but all in all I do think he's a relatively decent person (especially compared to politicians in general) and I think he's done a pretty good job as governor of California. (347)

Are you kidding me.He has allowed his commission that he appointed to raise our pg&e rates not once but 5 times last year. It's disgusting! 24 billion dollars disappeared for the use of combatting homelessness no accountability of how it was used gone with no results of the money. Now the gruesome just used his cabinet to pass a law because he took 20 billion from the feds for stimulus checks and social programs. He had a massive budget surplus that just disappeared and now 20 billion is due so the law say's he can attach every working Californian 21 dollar's a paycheck till this 20 billion is paid back. So come on back and join the party because it's going to get worst. Oh ya I tried to buy a gas generator just a small Honda generator no big deal. No small gas motors sold in California anymore no weed eaters or lawnmowers that are gas powered anything gas powered banned. This is me talking Frick California now I have to drive to Nevada to buy this generator. (6)

Angriness: 😡😡😡😡😡

He got that close and didn't punch him? LOST OPPORTUNITY!I do find it funny when World Leaders who sometimes have literal armies fighting and dying against each other meet for cups of tea, safe in the knowledge that they're not going to get murdered. "Send a million men to die to defeat this Evil Cause? Absolutely. Risk my own life to kill the architect? How ridiculous. Do you think I'm a member of Hoi Polloi?" (1)

Angriness: 😡😡😡😡😡

The frick you say? Newsom is a decent man? Whats decent about him?! This is why reddit has become stupid. - was it his light on crime?- was it him fixing homelessness with 24 billion dollars? - was it how he handle the forrest? - maybe it was how he always looks good evening pinning his emergency coat to speak on tv while theres a god darn wild fire buring in LA- maybe watching a distraught woman begging him for help and him lying sayi g he is o. The phone with the president right now and when she asks to hear and or speak with him he doesnt have service. Say all the mean shit about trump but dont glorify newsom while families have lost homes schools and businesses while he was warned by all the gdarn isnurance companies, that left california, that this was going to happen. (1)

Biggest Lolcow: /u/Spagoodle

Score: 🐮🔘🔘🔘🔘

Number of comments: 2

Average angriness: 🔘🔘🔘🔘🔘

Maximum angriness: 😡😡😡😡🔘

Minimum angriness: 😡😡🔘🔘🔘

NEW: Subscribe to /h/miners to see untapped drama veins, ripe for mining!

autodrama: automating away the jobs of dramneurodivergents. Ping HeyMoon if there are any problems or you have a suggestion

🚨 #BREAKING - RAW 60 MINUTES INTERVIEW with Kamala Harris during the election released... TRANSCRIPT in reply... pic.twitter.com/dYneIEPqQu

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 5, 2025

Long story short, I met a guy from grindr 10 years older than me. He was the daddy type.

He said he needed the money because he was short on rent. Which wasn't a lot. I was hesitant because I hadn't done it before, but I thought he was also kinda into the fun, but with extra money.

When I came to his place, he looked like he was really struggling. I asked him if he was okay, and he said yes. I gave him a bj and paid him. He really looked like he regretted doing it, being paid for s*x because he had no other choice.

I told him it was just a friendly gift instead, and he didn't have to treat it like a transaction.

I am so guilty. How am I different from a grapist or a mol*ster? I had s*x with someone not from their own will. I didn't enjoy it. I didn't enjoy it at all. I feel disgusted.

I texted him if he wanted to just pay me back in the future and treat it separate from our s*x transaction. But he blocked me already.

EDIT: when i said struggling, i meant struggling financially

Not trying to play devils advocate for a racist weirdo, but how are you sure? Not trying to argue, just curious what gave it away.

This is, of course, assuming it's the OK hand gesture. If it's something less obscure, the answer is self explanatory

He was taking a selfie in the mirror. The hand that was at his side was doing the white power gesture. Hands do not naturally fall like that… so no.

EDIT: Hinge has actually emailed me to say they've taken action against him, so I'm not mistaken as you're inferring.

Her previous posts indicate she absolutely hates men, but is having trouble finding her disney prince on dating apps because they all love hitler.

https://old.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/1chuwpl/i_feel_like_giving_up_online_dating_men/

was trying to ignore this shit but

ENOUGH