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DOGE recommended firing workers at:-FDA, which oversees Neuralink-FAA, which oversees SpaceX-USAID, which probed Starlink-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X."Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

— Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) 2025-02-19T20:15:07.904281Z

Look I know you don’t want to believe that Trump won the popular vote but there’s no evidence that Elon rigged the voting machines. Get out of here with that shit.

— Nick (derogatory) ✨ (@slothropsmap.bsky.social) 2025-02-18T23:48:16.663Z

In the fight between Captain America and the Red Skull, be like Cap.

— (@akatzel.bsky.social) 2025-01-21T22:41:22.499Z

Are men really this annoying 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/Ig9rONzGFu

— Kingsley (@_realkings) February 15, 2025

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

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/r/sanantonio recently had this discussion and I have some takeaways I want to share with you. Less about restaurants per se but the sentiment applies.Buccees owners are hardcore Paxton / Abbott supporters/donors.Pluckers owners drank the trump coolaid too.Heb does donate to republicans, though it seems it's more just because that's who's in charge - they've donated to more moderate, non-school vouchers ones and this has drawn Abbott's disapproval.Check out the "goods unite us" website to see what corporation funds what candidate and political party. Less local more national honestly but still. I've been looking at it and some egregiously conservative (like funding politicians vehemently against roe) include Home Depot, Valero, and Chick-fil-A. (408)

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Oh dear. Yeah, I don't know where "our" forum is but it isn't here! I sort of think nowhere, since the election proved that Americans will cut off their nose to spite their face. And AS A WOMAN, I'm pissed at the women who gave their vote to that male feminist, misogynistic, criminal, lying, boil on the butt of humanity the reigns. Frick. I'm so sick of no one else standing up and saying that we are hurtling at light speed towards a dystopian society and people just put the thumb up their butt, or actually, they keep them on their phones and believe allll the fricking bullshit that Trump and his allies claim.Aaaaanyway just wanted to say you sure jumped in with your first post 😂 buckle up! (2)

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Tilman Fertitta, Trump's ambassador to Italy, owns:Mastro's Steakhouse and Ocean Club, Morton's The Steakhouse, Del Frisco's Double Eagle Steakhouse, Del Frisco's Grille, The Oceanaire, Vic & Anthony's, Brenner's Steakhouse, Grotto, Atlantic Grill, La Griglia and Willie G's, Chart House, Landry's Seafood House, Rainforest Cafe, Saltgrass Steak House, Bubba Gump Shrimp Company, Mitchell's Fish Market, Dos Caminos, Bill's Bar & Burger, Joe's Crab Shack and McCormick & Schmick's, Portland City Grill, Kincaid's, Simon and Seaford's, and Henry's Tavern. This is a partial list. (2203)

Landrys is the worst company i ever worked for. And they are also horrible at business. When they took over BRGuest in NYC their goons (I refuse to call them anything but that) came in and changed everything. For the worse. They told me to fire 40% of my staff and if I couldn't find a reason to I was not doing my job. They ignored the Donn doff law and had signs at terminals saying "do not clock in until fully in uniform" which is…illegal. They got rid of the time card adjustment signatures. Which is required in nyc. Any time you adjust a staffs time card they have to sign off on it. Very simple. Yes it was a huge restaurant and yes it took a lot of time to do 3 times a shift (people forgot to clock in, people for got to clock out for they break, etc…) but it's the law. They did away with it. It's a HUGE lawsuit. Every single employee can sue for incorrect hour reporting. It's usually a class action and lawyers make most of the money, but it's an easy slam dunk case for any law firm... (2)

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Don't have a clue about who actually owns the company but I can tell you for sure that the family who owns the Jets Pizza stores north of Humble are hardcore crazy Trumpers. Worked there for a bit before quitting because the dad/owner went on a 45 min rant about how black people are the most terrible workers/they need to be "vetted way more" before going on another rant about how we're finally gonna get rid of all the ADHD & autism going around these days "once RFK gets in there" and gets rid of all the sugar in our food. They had a trans neurodivergent teenager working for them as a delivery driver too & I felt so bad for him because the owners talked soooooo much disgusting ignorant shit whenever he wasn't there. Not to mention the Trump/Vance "I'm voting for the outlaw & the hillbilly" sweatshirt the owner's son would come in wearing every day. I could go on but yeah they're definitely ones to avoid (6)

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This is the dumbest post about it I've seen

Some nonsense article has come out which cites:

A number of people connected to the Trump team have talked about "regime change" in the UK

'a number of people talking' holy shit total journ*list death

I didn't read it but basically it's about orange daddy wanting to get rid of starmer so naturally it caused some spilled cups of tea in the cute twink subreddit.

Good luck with that. Our next election doesn't have to be until 2029 so the orange turd is gonna have to wait a tiny bit

regime change? heh good luck with th-

>This article may be too long to navigate comfortably.

They will be hoping to use Twitter, social media, the papers and propaganda to make him so unpopular that he has to stand down.

Is Keir Starmer really the last bastion of hope for a world without fascist leaders? I'm scared.

Hey remember like six months ago when he released 1700 violent offenders and suspended due process in order to jail people who commented emojis on facebook posts?

I know you're joking, but if the UK, Germany and/or France go full right wing nut job then that's the set up for world authoritarian rule.

• man who can't purchase a knife without submitting a video of him next to his passport

I would think a UK headline "United Kingdom wants a regime change in the US" might prove popular.

We have about as much cache on the world stage as, say, Burundi. Paul Kagame publicly bent us over and this chap thinks he's Disraeli

but there is a very real possibility that the US can meaningfully alter and rewrite British politics against our will.

No they can't.

Coming from reddit user who was absolutely convinced Musk and his Bots are going to destroy democracy any day now?

You have to fight Trump with strength. This means letting it be known that meeting the Royal Family is conditional on Trump and Musk not interfering in UK politics as a start. Oh and I certainly would not be sharing intelligence right now: uk assets are at risk.

Yes, yes, and yes!

>W-we'll uhh.. stop you from meeting King Charles _{even though we have no power to do that}

wow talk about soft power! We've really got Drumpf over a barrel on this one I actually thought this was a joke until someone replied clapping like a seal

Starmer could be described as a lot of things, socialist? Don't be silly…

bro please

Frick Trump and his regime. We need to keep his influence away from our way of life.

>our way of life

This guy's entire life is football and sneeding about Trump and Musk

I love how the Right always harped on their hatred/fear of a New World Order. Guess what idiots? This last election should fall under "leopards ate my face"

So we're happy to be bullied by the US now, but the EU was an issue?

Reddit liberals are now Enochposting. Chuds really are playing eight-dimensional chess.

X (formerly chiobu) try to restrain yourself from pinging this guy with r*pe threats

shes here too!

Fabrics and crafts retailer Joann is going out of business and closing all its stores. pic.twitter.com/e3KdviP3rT

— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) February 24, 2025

ignore the 0 effort plating

2024 YR4 is an asteroid recently discovered by scientists in Chile (it's not the flying Tesla "asteroid", this one is legit). It is an "Apollo-type" near-Earth object that crosses our planet's orbit.

This week, scientists learned it had a 1.2%-1.6% chance of hitting Earth on 22 December 2032.

At a diameter of between 40 and 100 metres (130 and 330 ft), an impact with the ground could release approximately 8 megatons of destructive energy.

For reference, that is 533 times the bomb at Hiroshima and more than double the maximum yield of a US Navy Trident II ICMB.

All this places 2024 YR4 at a troubling 3 (out of 10) on the Torino Scale of impact hazards. It is the only non-0 threat, and the second highest ever recorded, exceeded only briefly in 2004 by 99942 Apophis before closer observations revealed that asteroid would not hit Earth.

So that is the bad news. Ready for the good news?

Calculations by NASA and the ESA show that 2024 YR4's "risk corridor" (where it would hit) doesn't pose a threat to anywhere important.

Other sources:

https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Planetary_Defence/ESA_actively_monitoring_near-Earth_asteroid_2024_YR4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_YR4

article with video on news site

https://www.westernjournal.com/video-raging-trump-hater-mark-hamills-pants-fell-live-tv-isnt-joke/

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I forgot a few I think maybe but here we go !fitness tell me WHY ARE YOU STILL FAT

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Recall one of the most insane graphs ever: After a decade men paid off ~30% of their loans and women paid off ~3%

Men pay down student debt and women don't. They have different expectations around college's use and different sensitivity to cost-benefit. https://t.co/KlUXc8cTnn pic.twitter.com/pxsnF9Vr27

— Simon Sarris (@simonsarris) January 31, 2025

Face images computed by averaging people's perceptions of their political out-group. Liberals' perception of conservatives (bottom right) is the one that's "not like the others." https://t.co/zm4Uf1l3WZ pic.twitter.com/EXIF7L2pGB

— Rob Henderson (@robkhenderson) July 7, 2023

Boy who injected himself with a crushed butterfly mixed with water 'for online challenge' suffered horrific seven-day slow death, it is revealed - with the insect's toxins feared to be the cause of death

The fourteen-year-old boy who died after injecting himself with a crushed butterfly suffered agonising symptoms for seven days before he died, local media reports.

Davi Nunes Moreira, 14, died in hospital in Planalto, Brazil last Thursday after telling staff he had injected a solution made of crushed butterfly into his leg.

Believed to have carried out the dangerous procedure as part of an 'online challenge', Moreira began vomiting and struggled to walk before admitting his mistake.

The youngster was taken into hospital by his father and remained in the Vitória da Conquista general hospital for a week, receiving specialised support, before he died.

Last April, an online influencer from Brazil nearly required amputation after taking part in an ill-advised viral trend for her two million followers.

'Thammy MC' was left unable to walk after standing in a bucket of ice and salt for an online 'dare' that turned her feet black and nearly required the amputation of her toes.

'We spent 15 minutes with our feet on the ice with coarse salt,' she said, recounting the horror.

'When I took my foot out I never felt such pain in my life. Three of my toes had turned black when it came out of the ice bucket.'

Thammy was treated at a clinic where she was told she was at risk of thrombosis, and that she could have developed necrosis had she remained in the ice another minute.

Unable to put any pressure on her feet, she said she now gets around the house by being dragged around in a garden chair by her mother, who pushes her from room to room.

Be sure to check in later for more Brazil news.

I've been thinking about selling my main car for something more practical since I rarely ever drive it much anymore; was reminded of the horror of Fisker in an incredulously cheap local ad and found some semi-recent redditor coping.

Fisker was initially founded in 2007 as a sort of luxury electric vehicle. I'd only seen one of them on the highway in the city, but it was horribly ugly. The company had issues with production in 2011 and had to file bankruptcy for the first time on its government loans in 2013 after multiple issues with quality and production, including battery explosions.

It ended up being purchased by a Chinese company in 2014, which red to many improvements and much more high quarity parts, directry reading to its second bankruptcy firing rast year.

Anyways, the /r/fisker sub is somehow still active and full of cope, arguments, and complaints about bugs causing their cars to stop working and/or crash.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Fisker/comments/1804qwm/its_not_the_end/

https://old.reddit.com/r/Fisker/comments/1cmcmut/we_need_to_keep_this_brand_alive/

https://old.reddit.com/r/Fisker/comments/1brmv5m/reports_of_fiskers_demise_are_greatly_exaggerated/

https://old.reddit.com/r/Fisker/comments/1c5iwe8/cybertruck_deliveries_halted_due_to_car_being_a/

Some choice comments from right before they filed their second bankruptcy:

I am all in. Still holding 31000 shares and never planning on selling. I am here to stay.

Good luck bud. Hope you get something out of this. Really mean that :)

This subreddit is one of the few where it's very positive and not toxic.

Unfortunately not much a regular person can do besides word of mouth and showing the car off. Company needs a much more powerful assist right now

The company needs to get off its own peepee, fire the entire exec team, hire a competent one and start over. Unless that is done there is no amount of outside assistance that will help anyone outside the family.

The company is dead.

Dead company walking! Zero chance of salvaging this corrupt company.

Data to back that up?

Tesla was in FAR WORSE positions than this over their history.

Tesla had more funding though and also was ran better from a business perspective.

Tesla was in a spot where they had two weeks of cash on hand (ie no funding). They were completely out of money. At the last gong they got a 20M injection to keep them floating.

Meanwhile Fisker is here sitting on 400M and no fixed costs, and everyone acts as if they're already dead.

I own 10k shares at .13 and may buy 90k this week. I can see them getting financial support just like LUCID eventually if they can convince others to support. They actually have a demand for their product and it's growing. You may not like the company and how they have managed up until this point, but when you got something that sells it's hard to go away. There was a coffee company once that went to pinks and ran to double digits. It's high risk to own this stock but for under 5k, it's worth a risk. People don't want to get rid of their cars and stock and I can't blame them for doing so. I see a revival here for sure. EV will be pushed tremendously these next 5 years

I'm thinking the same. If they turn things around, it could be a huge payday. Im wondering how many class A shares are in existence at this point?

Some panic for when the rumors of bankruptcy were first announced:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Fisker/comments/1be4hjz/lets_calm_down_and_breathe/

https://old.reddit.com/r/Fisker/comments/1cb5x54/fisker_may_seek_bankruptcy_protection_in_30_days/

https://old.reddit.com/r/Fisker/comments/1bqq5d5/an_open_letter_to_fisker/

Can we still sell our shares at the opening of the market today?

Yes, for $0.

So does this mean the stock is worthless? Is there any hope at all? Serious answers only please

In bankruptcy shareholders are far down the waterfall provision of bankruptcy law in who gets paid. All the senior creditors (employees, bond holders, bank loans, vendors, lawsuits etc.) have to get paid out in full before shareholders see a penny. Not to mention the cost of the lawyers and bankruptcy itself are expensive and get top priority in being paid.

If Fisker liquidates their assets and has anything left over after paying the senior creditors in full then shareholders could receive something. But I doubt even the bondholders will get that much recovery.

Fisker declared bankruptcy because they have no money, a ton of debt and have little chance of generating money. Who is going to buy a car from a bankrupt company and does Fisker even have the money to make a car and sell at a profit? If Fisker had really valuable assets they would have sold them to cover their debts. It doesn't look like there's much chance of shareholders seeing much money, if any.

yes the bondholders are way, way underwater. what does fisker have left - a couple thousand pretty worthless cars thar wouldnt sell at a 50 pct discount, maybe some tooling and some worthless ip. might be worth 200 mil being really optimistic. debts are many multiples of that number. unless someone sees their ip as super valuable [super unlikely, theyve obv been for sale for months now with no takers] the equity is worth less than zero

Some type of recent hope still yet remains.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Fisker/comments/1g8sy34/i_hope_someone_goes_to_jail/

I think the problem is the Muslim men. I've dated Muslim girls and none of them wanted to kill me.

!jidf

Stay strong like Brock, everyone!

!animalposters !cats

Redditors scramble to the defence

Just received an email from the CEO of the company (not sure if I was supposed to receive this message) that they want to proceed with my termination.

For some context, this is an account management role and I have 4+ years of experience with me being a top seller and performer at the companies I've worked for. The reason I took this role is because I started my own company and wanted something stable in the meantime, and my previous employer lowballed my commission so I left.

I started this new job at the beginning of January and ever since I made a minor mistake in my email, my manager has been micromanaging me about what to say in my emails, how to talk, what time I need to be logged on, and so on. To be honest I've never been micromanaged in this way and it only started happening last week. But I want to know if you guys think this is a valid reason to be let go?

Call center slave self-suck or actually an average Sales r-slur?