My company is freaking out over the trade war stuff. They're basically trying to turtle up and slash hours based on the instability of the current government.

They keep preparing fairly large price hikes on tons of items just to shelf them 2 days later.

With unemployment about to explode and government fueled instability increasing food prices I'm legit worried we're gonna see serious strife.

I JUST FOUND OUT THAT PUFF IS NOT ALLOWED TO MAKE OR COLLECT MONEY WHILE HE’S LOCKED UP SO I’MA SEND HIS HALF OF THE MONEY TO JUSTIN

— ye (@kanyewest) February 7, 2025

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there is an open source model stronger than your publicly available models and the weights are free. I can fine tune it to tell me how to make meth pipebombs today. I could upload those weights for anyone to use today. what is even the point of this? https://t.co/nryVv8qLff

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please PLEASE someone in jew york go to this and report back PLEAEs

quick point of privilege reminder of dsa types:

so anyway literally everyone hates this r-slurred idea and obviously a major !moidmoment by some limpwristed bluepilledcel to lure some baddie into their mom's basement

reactións:

:leninbewrongchallengeimpossible:

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some poor dramatard that seethes that foids like hamas piker will be one step closer to suicide bc of this screenie 🥰🥰🥰🥰

and it goes on and on and basically death to the dsa glory to the volcels

We spent $20 million on a Sesame Street show in Iraq. It probably looked something like this Lmaooo pic.twitter.com/BGkKEFSjaf

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 6, 2025

For context, if you use the progressive stack award, your posts are (temporarily) treated as if they have 2x their actual upkongs. This was thought of as so powerful by the jannies that it costs 1500 coins for just 6 hours. Now, if you make a post that gets 140 upkongs, and at the same time someone makes an effortpost that gets 30 upkongs, or chud ragebait that gets 50 upkongs, your post will actually be below them on the front page. In fact, since upkongs are basically normally distributed (getting 30 upkongs is pretty average, getting 90 makes yours one of the top posts of the day, getting 150 would make it the top post of the day), any sort of multiplier would change the content of the front page immensely, let alone a multiplier so large it treats mediocre effortposts and slightly above average chud ragebait as superior to the actual top post as chosen by users.

The fact that /h/chudrama is blocked by default is irrelevant, because most active users have it unblocked, so even if you block /h/chudrama every post you make is still effectively being deranked. And besides, there are plenty of people who want to read /h/chudrama and not have it be literally the only thing they see on the front page

!nonchuds

https://old.reddit.com/r/somethingiswrong2024/comments/1igf92q/these_little_boys_stole_our_election/

https://old.reddit.com/r/somethingiswrong2024/comments/1igb5dt/the_known_musk_employees_working_to_get_into_the/

Unfortunately Jannies have been on high alert mopping duty but heres some REDdit scrapes:

Enter BetDefinitely a transwoman. I feel it in my bones. - 28 bets

Enter BetTerrible driving? 100% biofoid. - 288 bets

Enter BetOnly a moid could be that stupid. - 29 bets

Enter BetWe'll never know (wins if we don't find out who the pilot was before 2026) - 8 bets

Send me the article when we find out, and don't yap at me if we already know who the pilot is because:

A. That just means the bet is literally free money.

B. I don't watch the news.

C. It's almost midnight. Go to bed.

D. :marseysassy:

!remindme 24 hours "close the helipcotper"

!bets

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I keep thinking the exact same thing.Why isn't that acknowledged even a little bit, even a little bit? (147)

The right living in the 1950's when the concept of token minorities was still new (-33)

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So you're saying women in the administration should be hidden in the backroom. That sounds a bit misogynisty.Edit: missed word (24)

Ah yes, the condescending "no U are!" comment from the rightoid. Positions of authority are rarely in the spotlight, they are leaders at the local level. Stop acting like a child. I know it's tough when your whole personality is built around it, but I believe in you. (-19)

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Thats a LOT more women and POCs to be considered "token" (36)

The way he shoves them into positions of high attention while quietly gutting women and POC from their previous roles of real authority is what makes them tokens. But yeah you got a blonde woman press secretary again, you did it lads. (-28)

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Ohhhhhhh. I get it now! It's okay to give preferential treatment to minorities and women because shit was unfair for them, checks notes, fifty years ago. And because there's an unproven possibility that some employers are being racist in one direction, we have to not only allow, but encourage, the rest to be racist in the other direction. Cuz balance. Yeah, man, makes total sense. This is good racism. (0)

My bad! You're so right! I forgot one of the core tenets of the MAGA cult is that you must believe racism and sexism ended the day we put the bill up. RACISM IN THE WORKPLACE?! Not in 50 years my guy! All of the "proven possibilities" died that day! Evil Libs in 1972 were not only building weather weapons, but they were pushing TITLE IX as an anti man bill then! Disgusting! Didn't they know racism and sexism was exhausted by 1970!50 years to educate and mobilize a workforce in a male dominated field. 50 years later there's still men in Blizzard and RIOT making the workplace heck for anyone without a peepee.But yeah. We only had problem's 50 years ago. Lmfao ludicrous. You said it in your last part that you feel the system is racist. And that's fine! I think you should feel a bit outraged that white people are losing opportunities. Every American should have opportunity. But since you admit that there's racism occurring in both directions and still feel necessary to burn the direction ... (1)

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Sure, racist actions like this?https://apnews.com/article/c4834e48841d97c5a93312b1bf75302a Trump signs bill restoring funding for black collegesOr would you rather say that something 51 years ago is more relevant?😂🤦 (1)

Not renting to black people for years is always racist no matter when it happened. Especially when he has never apologized. And saying Obama was born in Africa over and over again without a shred of evidence, is racist. It's pandering to racists. Which is just as bad as being a racist. There is no difference. And defending it is racist. You can say dumb things trying to whitewash it will silly language like he was just "exaggerating" or he wanted attention by saying. Doesn't make him any less of scumbag racist. (1)

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God the bee is literally just 90% Trump propaganda now. This is literally used so the right can spread misinformation but when argued by people on the left they can just say "duh you stupid, it's satire". It's exactly like when Tucker Carlson was knowingly spreading misinformation people actually believed, then got brought to court for it, and the argument was no reasonable person would believe what he said. People do believe this shit and it's damaging the country (1)

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https://old.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1i1zjgn/so_that_happened/m7ahrlm/?context=8

these birds are so r-slurred. first, which pervert ornithologist named them this? disgusting. boobies, tits, peepees, shags. what is wrong with these people?

second, i HATE that their beak is concealed like that. they look fricked up and deformed. also disgusting. beakless freaks. debeaked. GIVE HIM HIS BEAK BACK!!!

they are lekking birds, which basically means to Get B-words, a bunch of males gather in a group (called a lek) and desperately display for the females. however because they are r-slurred they often forget about the females and start fighting each other.

also, peepee-of-the-rock leks are fundamentally useless imo because there's a single Chad Male that gets almost all the females, and the rest of the incel males get nothing. lmao

more pics of these frickers:

Greetings strags

The 4-day-work-week is one of my favorite redditisms. It always brings out the lazy useless commies out of the work week. And always, ALWAYS, these lazy fools try and masquerade their supposed desire to improve society, when instead they are merely desiring a terraforming of the world to suit their own interests, namely them wanting to work less hard hard like /r/antiWORK

I want to ask you dramatards today what you guys think about 4-day-work-weeks. Because it's always an inevitable circlejerk in the reddit euphoric-atheist eurocuck leftoid anti-yank anti-west crowd.

Yet for somebody who works in an already left wing dominated country, and for a private enterprise, I have my great reservations about only 4 working days per week. In our private company, and similar surveying companies, as well as for building contractors, architects, lawyers, Trade-industry like electricians and plumbers, the notion of a 4 day work week is absolutely fricking ANATHEMA

The reason being is that contrary to white-collar soul crushing useless corporate office hours wasting manhours, our 5 days also consist of accumulating clients and jobs and contracts and tenders, from the private world and the government. If i make this sound sophisticated, what i mean is that it basically boils down to cutting your potential outreach opportunity to clients and available office hours, or even available fricking contacts hours by a brutal 20%.

And while I'm not privy to our business' exact financials or contemporary SA surveying companies, I know the netto income is about 20%. And if the government would for example MANDATE or force a 4-day-work-week, it would slit our throats overnight.

Kaamrev, you guys would say, won't the clients just call/visit the office on Monday=>Tuesday. They might, but customers/clients are funny in the mercurial world of business, you will note if you own a private organization, in which you are solely responsible for accumulating/finding clients, that available hours have drastic influence on whether clients finally take the leap in contractig/buying a service.

Many surveyors and chainmen even work way beyond natural office hours, well earlier than 8am, and well beyond 5pm, if a particularly important/large job is at stake. Many would work Saturdays, and even sundays if pressure is at stake. I myself had done so for months last year, as there literally not enough hours in the fricking 40 hours work week to finish particularly dire projects. Last year i actually worked harder than I studied for my 3rd year at univeristy, not out of principle but sheer panic.

This notion of going beyond mandated 40 hour weeks, is probably unknown to wagie redditors who are paid the same, regardless of whether they do their best/slack off. And while I have sympathy for people in wage-cage jobs, in white-collar soul crushing office-cubicle heck -holes, where middle-managers force useless meetings and useless hours, and thus wasting your finite life span away for unclear goals, in unclear corpo leadership - but that is NOT why redditors champion 4-day-work-weeks. No it is because it appeals to them

Supermarket businesses like Checkers/Spar/Woolworths in South Africa, had steadily encroached on weekend openings about 20 years ago. I recall distinctly massive drama within the Christian communities in Safrica, that when places like Spar and Checkers began to have open hours on Saturday, and then eventually open hours on Sundays. Because sundays are supposed to be the day of rest. In the 1990s you had exceptions to the rule, and in the early 2000s, if your pantry was empty, because you had poor planning or some calamity, then you were fricked out of luck for food for sunday, unless you could find some street-vendor road-seller who would sell you some mielies for the day to tie you over for Sunday.

I distinctly remember many neighbours begging after Sunday services for some key ingredients or some flour or fruit, and promising to pay back on Monday, cuz there literally was no shopping mall or tuckshop or anything open the whole day! But as religiosity gradually faded throughout the country, corporations gradually found weekend openings to be acceptable and convenient to the public

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_shopping

So for these corporations, 7-day operating weeks became a virtual necessity. Because if they did NOT operate during the weekend as their competition did, they lost out on potential clients, because the people who would have shopped during regular weekdays were now satisfied for their groceries on weekends. Smaller grocery businesses would find themselves in a death knell had they not adapted.

And many small town businesses like mom-and-pop bakeries, who traditionally operated on weekdays like they had in the past, and was closed during the weekends as it was family run, and they had to take care of family/kids, would be screwed if they did not compete with corporate chains like Spar, which had bakeries, as the Entire monday sales period would be cut off, as customers had their monday needs met during the weekend.

A not too dissimilar phenomenon happens in trade or contract industries. Even if Governments could make a blanket ban on 5-day-work-weeks, so that your competitors could not operate on a 5th day, same a your company does, and thus steal your clients, there is a weird hidden opportunity cost lost by customers which were on the precipice of a decision, but your unavailability, lost them to your business. This is in addition to the potential loss of manhours to work on potential projects.

I also don't buy this mythos from popular rediditor zeitghest, that in ancient/medieval times, farmer peasants worked much less today, and only in our modern corporatized world we work ourselves into an early grave. I've seen actual farms - there's always work, if the pipes burst, they need to be fixed. It's many long and hard hours.

But I'm also aware historic labour laws came into being becuase of much sacrifice and due to great abuse by magnates and oligarchic businessmen who literally worked English children to death in mine shafts during the Bong Industrial Period.

What do you guys think?

Anyways some drama and sneed below

https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1i0cn9d/til_a_uk_trial_of_a_4day_workweek_with_61/m6wsqxx/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1i0cn9d/til_a_uk_trial_of_a_4day_workweek_with_61/m6wtgzg/?context=8

What does billionaires have to do with the 5-day-work-week?? It's like wagie redditors are so far removed from ever having had the fate of a business enterprise on their shoulders, that they equate a societal business norm of the past several hundred years due to the greed of a cabal of billinaires

https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1i0cn9d/til_a_uk_trial_of_a_4day_workweek_with_61/m6x33fc/?context=8

Thank frick for that

https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1i0cn9d/til_a_uk_trial_of_a_4day_workweek_with_61/m6wtjl1/?context=8

"STOP MAKING SENSE!" only stupid people want to work for 5 days a week!

Some takes with more than 1 braincel

https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1i0cn9d/til_a_uk_trial_of_a_4day_workweek_with_61/m6x8zql/?context=8

"It really depends on the industry. I work in manufacturing. Output is directly tied to labor hours applied. My wife works in healthcare. Obviously you still need staffing coverage 24/7."

https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1i0cn9d/til_a_uk_trial_of_a_4day_workweek_with_61/m6xae3c/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1i0cn9d/til_a_uk_trial_of_a_4day_workweek_with_61/m6xdeau/?context=8

This guy gets downkongd for pointing out against the circlejerk that the 4-day-work-week was only considered by the experimenting 61 companies, becuase it DIDN'T affect a loss of productivity, and these cute twinks downkong him for pointing out that any loss of productivity/ or incurring more costs like hiring additional staff would negate the feasibility

https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1i0cn9d/til_a_uk_trial_of_a_4day_workweek_with_61/m6xecgh/?context=8

ooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhh man he really pissed off these neetstrags

"Congrats. Not everyone is you. You're not even going to stay the you that you are now. Try working 50 hours/week for 20 years and see if your productivity keeps up." lmoa 20 years, try people who worked 50 years of their lives you strags

Of course redditors can't read (or ever read the linked articles anyway)

https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1i0cn9d/til_a_uk_trial_of_a_4day_workweek_with_61/m6xc5vb/?context=8

"The dude you are replying to is just going around to very comment trying to justify why him and his area shouldn't allow people to work fewer hours. He also talked about not seeing any decrease in productivity till he pushed workers to work more than 50 hours a week."

https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1i0cn9d/til_a_uk_trial_of_a_4day_workweek_with_61/m6xrie2/?context=8

Anti-yank circlejerk begins

https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1i0cn9d/til_a_uk_trial_of_a_4day_workweek_with_61/m6wspod/?context=8

Those filthy yanks

https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1i0cn9d/til_a_uk_trial_of_a_4day_workweek_with_61/m6wusca/?context=8

Again these redditors miss the forest for the trees. Sometimes a company cannot exist in a system where a loss of opportunity is caused by a loss of potential clients or contacts because the fricking business wasn't open or available for liaison

Some more redditors with braincells in smaller threads outside the usual 1000-point upkongd circlejerk teenage angst subthreads, ask significant questions, because they are skeptical of this supposed overgood news.

https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1i0cn9d/til_a_uk_trial_of_a_4day_workweek_with_61/m6x1ihz/?context=8

Manufacturing industries are out

https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1i0cn9d/til_a_uk_trial_of_a_4day_workweek_with_61/m6ws0nj/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1i0cn9d/til_a_uk_trial_of_a_4day_workweek_with_61/m6x5xrt/?context=8

Ok, nice link, thanks.

So the #1 category, by a large margin, is not-for-profits/charities. Which isn't very representative of most people's workplaces.

The #2 is the creative/consultant/PR/marketing space - an industry where the actual hours worked have little relevance.

I thought there was a construction company in there, but it turned out to be a Housing Association. Unfortunately, these really aren't representative of where most people work.

https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1i0cn9d/til_a_uk_trial_of_a_4day_workweek_with_61/m6xovrl/?context=8

This guys shits on the hopes and dreams of soyneets and soywagies

https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1i0cn9d/til_a_uk_trial_of_a_4day_workweek_with_61/m6x2xww/?context=8

Anyways the same theme is repeated throughout the thread. What do YOU dramatards think?!

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Loving every minute of it. Just laughing at everyone losing their minds. Acting as if Kamala would not have done anything different than Biden did. Sometimes you need chaos. Sometimes its a good thing. (-69)

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Voter turnout for this election was 58%, which is about on par with every presidential election. Around 40% of the country never cares about voting.I know several people who are in this 40%, and asked them why, and it basically always comes down to the fact that they think their vote doesn't matter. (19461)

My husband has never registered to vote. His answer is "All politicians suck. It doesn't matter who's in charge." (390)

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Still fine with it.Happy we are finally addressing all the illegal immigration and DEI stuff.As far as the trade wars meh, I wasn't impacted last time and most of it is bluster considering he's meeting with Traduea today while they go into effect tomorrow. Honestly makes it easy for swing trading.  (-51)

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While I did vote this time around, I didn't vote in 2020. Of course this all feels bad. But... it's always bad. No, this isn't saying, "the dems are equal as bad as the republicans." This is me saying that US republicans are such a fricking low bar that being "better" than them could still mean you are absolutely abysmal. Let's call this what it is: Trump is the imperial boomerang flying back home. And while it's going to make things worse for everyone, it has always disheartened me -- and often infuriated me -- how many people in the US won't care about the terrible things a US president is doing unless it's happening to them personally. Many so-called "progressives" will absolutely be progressive about certain things, but in many other ways they are the same old imperial conservatives that republicans are. Ruth Bader Ginsberg, heralded as being "so progressive," used the doctrine of discovery to deny the Oneida claims to their ancestral lands. Detention, abuse during detention, an... (1)

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Since I have been allowed to vote I have watch the DNC overflow with obvious corruption. My first election I supported Bernie, and then I watch as the DNC used "super delegates" to completely screw Bernie and rig the primary so obviously. It was blatant corruption to promote one of the another very evil elitist, Hillary who was friends Epstein and she's the queen of Wall Street. I hate Wall Street. The priorities of Wall Street have always been at odds with what is good for the American people. No one ever brings this up anymore. It's like ancient history now, but Bernie won a large majority of the delegates that are assigned by popular vote, but got screwed by the "superdelegates" who can make sure what happens is "good for the party". Right there my very first time voting I watched as the party of "good guys" said "we don't actually give a frick what you want." Then the next election was Joe Biden. Are you fricking kidding me. The same bullshit about lesser of two evils and all this... (1)

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Honestly, man.I voted for Gary Johnson back in 2016. In 2020, I would've voted for Tulsi Gabbard, but she didn't make the cut for the Dems. I instead voted for Jo Jorgensen.This cycle, I just didn't vote. No one on any side had any good policies and were panning on sensationalism.I don't feel indifferent, I just feel disappointed that this is the best we could come up with. You either get incompetent democrats or you get corporate owned Republicans.At no point do I enjoy what I see. We have a spending problem. We have a housing crisis. Government keeps declining the quality of education and healthcare. We have a border and national security issue. Our government is way too big, and way too powerful. If they can't tax you, they'll hit you with fees, and if you don't pay the fees, they'll fine you. You can't own or build anything without permits, which is just paid permission. Corporations aren't taxed; they're using loop holes. The ultra wealthy stashes their money in untouchable tru... (3)

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