Bongs are mad that they went through university just to make £7.50 an hour, find blame in everyone except those responsible

You have to make minimum wage a billion pounds an hour!!!!

NO NOT LIKE THAT

Graduate salaries are lower today in real terms than in 2001 and are heading towards parity with the national minimum wage, according to a report published this week.

>turn universities into visa factories so now 90% of the population has a BA in Sports Psychology

Graduates don't make any money. How could this have happened?

American Car Wash Cashier earns more than a trainee lawyer in the yookay btw

Seethe + Bongs Posting Ls

The lowest are below minimum wage, often in roles that pretend it's not a salary, e.g. PhD stipends are now substantially below minimum wage.

I should be rewarded (by the taxpayer) for throwing my life away on a worthless PhD

Plus junior doctors doing 90 hour weeks so their hourly rate works out at like 3 pounds

average 'junior doctor' training

When I did mine the stipend paid me £1300 per month (which was tax exempt). I worked well beyond 37.5 hours, as does everyone in academia, in fact including all academic activity expected of me (writing, supervising students, reading papers)

i had to READ!!! READ!!!

Yeah I have a master's from a top 5 university in the world for my subject and the entry-level jobs in my industry are around minimum wage.

Yeah but what's the master's in

Political science.

this neighour r-slurred fr

Is this because so many more people have degrees and there are more universities, not all of which are that great?

/r/unitedkingdom offers this fascinating experience akin to contacting a long lost Amazonian tribe where lefties discover the fricking obvious after everyone else did like 400 years ago.

wowowowowo you mean our blairite policy of handing a degree to the entire third world had some unintended consequences?

The good news is that these people will have jobs feeding worms at the bottom of a shallow ditch soon inshallah

When I graduated with a degree in Graphic Design in 2011 my starting wage was £13,500

brother nah Batman couldn't have got this out of me

Now DEI pushes the narrative only fortunate people can go to Uni so outside of high skilled roles

DEI? This isnt america, elon's brainwashing is working well on you isnt it lad? 😂

elon trump brainwashing bots putin musk reform IT'S DISGUSTING and if Starmer was really serious he would tax Elon Musk to 90%

We don't have DEI in uk..?

Partner-less post-wall foid who failed at life decided to create a spawn at age 38. After multiple rounds requiring the highest levels of Star Trek science era fertility hacks she finally got knock up only to deliver a beautiful Black baby. Despite her confusion, having donated her own egg and picking a white sperm donor, she decided to quietly go about her business until the fertility clinic discovered the frick up and contacted the bio parents who sued her for custody and damages.

Cost this foid huge in court fees plus years of her life - but it just proves that God does not want some people to procreate and she's obviously one of those people.

A Georgia woman is suing a fertility clinic after an in vitro fertilization (IVF) mix-up allegedly led to staff implanting the wrong embryo and to her giving birth to another couple's biological child.

Krystena Murray, 38, of Savannah, said she selected a sperm donor who looked like her "with dirty blonde hair and blue eyes." She became pregnant and delivered a baby in December 2023, according to the lawsuit.

However, Murray, who is white and who, according to the complaint, had a white sperm donor, was shocked when she gave birth and the baby boy she delivered was African American, the suit states.

Murray bonded with the baby and wanted to keep him, despite knowing that the clinic, Coastal Fertility Specialists (CFS), had likely implanted somebody else's embryo, according to the lawsuit.

She requested a DNA test which confirmed her fears that the baby was not genetically related to her. When Murray contacted the clinic, staff alerted the baby's biological parents of the mix-up, according to the lawsuit.

The other couple sued Murray for custody, and she turned over the baby five months after giving birth. She said she has not seen him since.

"I questioned at first whether I was meant to be a mom, because I had tried for so long," she told ABC News. "This is something that actually happens, and it's devastating, and it can ruin someone's life, and realize that it is an actual possibility."

A lawsuit was filed on Tuesday afternoon in the State Court of Chatham County, in Georgia.

Murray said she had dreamed of being a mother. When she was asked at a young age what she wanted to be, her response was: a mom.

"They were actually referring to career but, my young mind, that's what I wanted to do with my life was to be a mom," she said. "I spent the majority of my younger years thinking I needed to have the perfect person or spouse to start a family and, once I started getting older, I realized that my priorities changed, and I wanted to pursue being a mother sooner rather than later."

For about 18 months prior to contacting CFS, she said she attempted intrauterine insemination without success. During a press conference on Tuesday, Murray said she contacted CFS, which operates clinics in Georgia and South Carolina, in either late 2022 or early 2023.

Over several months, Murray said she attended many appointments that included follow-up exams and blood tests. She also underwent daily injections over a two-week period to stimulate the ovaries to increase egg production, the lawsuit states.

Murray went through one egg retrieval surgery and became pregnant during her second transfer in May 2023, she said. She gave birth in late December 2023.

"So, the first time I saw my son, like any mom, he was beautiful and literally the best thing I've ever seen, but it was also immediately apparent that he was African American," Murray said during the press conference. "I would like to say my first thought is, 'He's beautiful.' My second thought was, 'What happened? Did they mess up the embryo, or did they mess up the sperm? And if they messed up the embryo, can someone take my son?' That was all within the course of the first 10 or 15 seconds of me seeing him."

Murray said she loved the baby and bonded with him, breastfeeding him and taking him to doctors' appointments, but she knew the clinic had made a mistake somehow.

She purchased an at-home DNA test and received results in late January 2024, confirming the baby was not genetically related to her, according to the lawsuit.

Murray's attorneys reached out to CFS in February 2024 to share Murray's fears, the lawsuit states. In March 2024, the clinic realized its mistake and reached out to the biological parents to let them know their embryo had been transferred into Murray, according to the lawsuit.

The biological parents sued Murray for custody of the child. Another DNA test confirmed the baby was genetically related to them, the lawsuit states.

Murray said she wanted to keep the baby and hired a family law attorney but, after a "tremendous amount of money and time," they told her that she would likely lose her case.

During a family court hearing in May 2024, Murray said she voluntarily turned the baby over to the other couple, marking the last time she saw him.

Murray said surrendering him over to his biological parents was "the hardest day of my life."

"I think about him every single day. There's not a day that I don't wonder what he's doing," she told ABC News. "I raised him for five months, but I didn't get to see his first steps. I don't know what his first words are. I don't know, what milestones he's hitting."

"I'm not privy to what type of person he's becoming or how he's growing and developing, and it is very hard, and I do think of him every single day and wonder how he is," she added.

According to her lawsuit, Murray said she doesn't know what happened to her own embryo, whether it was also mistakenly transferred to another couple or resulted in a pregnancy.

Murray said the process made her question motherhood, but she said she is currently getting treatment at another clinic and hopes she can become a mother soon.

Her lawsuit against CFS and some of its staff was filed by the law firm Peiffer Wolf Carr Kane Conway & Wise for negligence, gross negligence, bailment, breach of fiduciary duty, fraudulent concealment, battery, lack of informed consent, violations of the Georgia Fair Business Practices Act and violations of the South Carolina Unfair Trade Practices Act.

The attorneys are seeking a judgment in excess of $75,000 as well as punitive damages, recovered attorney fees, recovered treble damages and all other costs. CFS did not immediately respond to ABC News' request for comment.

Murray's attorney, Adam Wolf, said he has represented more than 1,000 people against fertility clinics due to errors that allegedly occurred during their treatments. He described Murray's experience as a patient's "wildest fear."

"Having done this work for 13 years now, when you go into a fertility clinic, there's a risk that they might not get as many eggs as you had hoped, or create as many embryos as you wanted," he told ABC News. "You might come out of that process without having any embryos. But what you never think in your wildest fear is that your fertility clinic is going to transfer to you an embryo that belongs to somebody else. That is beyond the pale, and it should never happen at a fertility clinic."

He said he hopes this leads CFS to change its processes and procedures so a mistake like this doesn't happen again and that more safeguards are put in place across the fertility industry nationwide.

Murray said she hopes to bring more awareness by sharing her story and to let other patients going through something similar know they are not alone.

"You're not alone and use your voice. Don't be silenced," she said. "I feel like if we don't come forward and we don't speak our truth and we don't share our experiences, then there will never be change, and this will just be a repetitive cycle. And use your voice, if not for you, because we can't change the situation that we're in, then do it for someone else."

It gets funnier if you delve through her post/comment history. She's a homeless HAES subreddit janny "woman of size" who is constantly trying to keep her rancher boyfriend from buying video games and take her out for a reasonable $500 dinner instead… or leaving the faucets on constantly.

I'm halfway convinced it's a bit, but she's been screeching about misogyny and fatphobia for five years now.

https://old.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/1gunn2g/how_much_does_water_cost_like_in_an_apartment/

https://old.reddit.com/r/haes/comments/376y5c/i_lost_30_lbs_and_my_life_dramatically_changed/jv3jcr0/?context=8

I saw it on reddit and I know for a fact my bf is going to want to buy this. He plays too many video games and already has more than one console. So yeah, doing research basically like you said.

How much is it going to cost? A few hundred dollars? I live in Portland. A realistic weekend night out that I would actually enjoy would be: a pre-dinner small restaurant to get some light starters at and get in the mood of the night. Mid-range restaurant with a few appetizers. Two or three top end entrees between the two of us. A couple of small desserts at the restaurant, then a dedicated dessert restaurant for the real desserts with some shakes to wind down.

Do you honestly think we'd be able to do that for less than like $500? With generous tips included? No way. And I don't play video games so the money he'd spend on this console could be used for both of us to actually enjoy a night out. And that's not even close to being a top-end dining experience.

And yeah, he's taking me out. I'm not paying for it. I don't have a job. Is it unheard of for the man to take his gf out for dinner? Well if he spends all his money on a new video game console then we certainly couldn't do that could we? So we're supposed to never go out just so he can play more video games when he already has video games?

I would definitely live in this hotel if it were in Portland. Or another 5 star full service. But unless you're an old white cis male, they price everyone else out. And that's not a coincidence.

I don't have an apartment. Can't live in this hotel. So where am I supposed to live? I'm forced to split my time between my bfs apartment and my parents home. They don't leave any other options for young women anymore. We're completely and intentionally forced out of every housing option that exists.

Sounds like you're just poor.

Well I don't have a job so how am I supposed to afford $4k/night? We were supposed to get UBI for bipocwos lgbtqia+ and where is that? And it wouldn't even be close to 4k per day anyways.

We were supposed to get UBI for bipocwos lgbtqia+ and where is that?

Wait what? What is "wos" part of bipocwos? Why were only minorities and queer people entitled to UBI, when were they supposed to get it and who promised it?

Women of Size. Because the marginalized and most vulnerable of society need it the most. Do you honestly think the most privileged groups need some more help to be even further ahead of bipocwos lgbtqia+? Heck, just being a man gives you 30% extra pay for the exact same job. Now add in white + cis. You're at over 50% extra pay. Or take the uncounted numbers. People like me who don't even have a job. You're at 100% extra pay now. And that's not even factored into the official statistics.

When you're so used to privilege, equality seems like oppression. Save that one. You'll need it for later.

And we've been talking about ubi for the most marginalized literally since forever. But it's easier to play ignorant than to actually address the issues that need to be solved I guess.

Daily PSA to not have s*x with conservative men.

Yep, my bf isn't getting any for... awhile. And he's as left-leaning as they get. This is a men's issue and men failed us again.

• In a thread announcing a new electric vehicle with a solid state battery:

It's way too low, it's gonna be extremely hard for any WOS to get in and out of. And when you're in it, it's just a low uncomfortable small position. How are people even supposed to get out of this thing? You'd need a friend already outside of it to help pull you up, and even that would be difficult. Are they gonna follow you around in a real vehicle and help everyone out when they stop? Lol, that's not gonna happen.

Large trucks and SUVs are popular now for a reason. Real bodies are able to get in and out of them easily, and they're comfortable to sit in while driving. That's it. That's all we ask for. Is that so difficult to make?

But of course they put their solid state batteries into a weird low small car that nobody is going to want so they can turn around and upsell you on a real sized vehicle for double the price.

This happens in almost all industries. Clothes, movie theaters, concert seats, etc. The size community is the main target for price manipulation to charge you double what you think you're gonna pay.

Privileged rich white cishet males don't need any UBI, or a "handout" as they would call it. Limit the UBI to bipocwos lgbtqia+ and you can reduce the tax to 1%. Everybody wins. Even the corporations since the marginalized groups will finally have a tiny bit of spending power to buy products. The corporations are literally just getting the money right back, and then some.

Although the privileged group will have a big loud cry about it since their 30%+ extra pay they get over marginalized groups isn't enough for them. So it's basically like a bribe to pay them too so we can finally get a tiny bit of money to the people stuck at the bottom. I'm actually from Oregon so I know these issues well.

• On Japanese businessman Morris Chang's inability to attract US investors:

Should be noted that first he tried to open his semiconductor business in America, but he hit the "bamboo ceiling" and could not get anyone willing to invest in him in the United States.

Yep, and let's not forget thats not the only ceiling that exists. How many bipocwos lgbtqia+ owned semiconductor businesses are there currently in the US? I'll save you some time. The answer is none. Just like most businesses in the US. Remember to support your local marginalized business owners in your community. They're already struggling with about 50% of people refusing to shop there solely because of political affiliations. I'll let you take a guess at who they are that boycott these stores.

i don't care who owns the store as long as it's good. No one does.

So you don't care about giving even the smallest amount of help to the most vulnerable and marginalized groups? Trust me, plenty of people do care. And choose to make a difference. Just not you.

I hope you bought something bigger than a Spark. Something that could actually fit a real sized person in it. Otherwise good luck getting any women to ever go in that car.

That's not the tree I bark up. My husband and I are right about 6 foot. We were fine. Moved on to a Bolt. I miss the basic roll up windows though.

Also, I don't use my vehicle as bait to get some butt. I'm not a shallow dipshit like you.

Yep, agreed. If you want a high value woman you need at least basic transportation that will fit us. I'm so sick of people thinking these tiny cars are acceptable. Like, most of us would never be comfortable being in one. Or being seen in one.

Weird, I'm not in the USA, so can't speak to tastes in that market, but I'm 183cm (6ft) and live in a market where we can get substanitally smaller cars than what is available in the USA, yet have never had an issue with space in the first row of any car. (2nd row headroom is an issue in some).

Don't really get the concern about woman being seen in a small car. The suzuki swift is pritty regularly in out top selling cars list and is very popular with woman.

It's pretty common outside of the US to have issues with food restricting and to have more unhealthy women as a result. We're not talking about height here. The cars are too narrow and cramped to fit real sized women comfortably.

And to be seen in one? Yeah, that's embarrassing. The only thing someone's bf can afford isn't even able to fit the woman? No thanks. I'll get a ride from someone else.

B-word you're not high value you're high cholesterol that's why you can't fit in a Spark. Stop makin' dumb comments when we can just look at your pf for the rest of the dumb context. "Anti-diet" headahh no one wants you breaking the suspension in their car

Are you seriously making both misogynistic and fatphobic slurs right now?

/r/conservative misses you.

They can't just ship the car here and start selling. They have to make the car conform to US safety regulations which isn't trivial. They will also need to deal with either the tariffs or starting production in Mexico, both of which, again, are expensive.

As an example, their cars are generally selling in the EU for around double their domestic price.

Not to mention, nobody is going to be buying these tiny cars. We need real sized cars for real sized bodies. And even if some small men wanted to cheap out and buy one, no women of size would ever get near it as a passenger. So goodbye to your dating life. It would immediately kill the market.

The incel energy from this comment is insane. And the projecting about being fat?? lol

I'm a woman. The only ones buying tiny cars are incels by definition. Because women aren't going anywhere near a car we can't even fit in. And we certainly won't want to be seen in one. Or with a guy who owns one. Not to mention it screams cheap. We don't want men who refuse to buy vehicles that can't even fit real bodies in them.

Entitled fatties…next you'll be expecting an extra seat on the plane for free.

Uh, yeah? If society is so fatphobic and misogynistic that even the infrastructure is built specifically to be unable to accommodate women of size, then yes they have to make space. If that means extra seats on trains, planes, busses, etc then they're giving us the extra seat. Otherwise build it right the first darn time.

• On grocery store profits:

Because food needs to be cheaper. I'm sick of these prices. And it looks like now they'll finally legally have to comply. Next up - fast food and restaurants.

Substantiate the claim that making food non-profit will actually make it cheaper

Most of food profits go to the rich male CEOs. If the profits were illegal then food would be cheaper. The government could just set the prices of what they're allowed to charge. Or heck, just make it free even.

If the profits were illegal there would be even less incentive to work an already low-margin, laborious, economically unstable (even with the existing government subsidies, which are significant) job. You'd have to totally and completely subsidize food production to make up for the total lack of any reason to farm (an extremely expensive proposition), or watch the farmer population plummet, driving food costs through the roof as supply shrinks. There are no free lunches.

They literally give free lunches out all the time. Just make it free for everyone. The top CEOs can't take a 1% pay cut for everyone to get cheap or free food?

Food and "obesity" (please don't use that type of language) have nothing to do with one another. Bodies come in all different shapes and sizes. And a woman's body tells her when she needs to eat. You know, for fuel to live. I listen to my body and what it needs.

Food and something that is directly caused by food have nothing to do with another.

Nice one.

Food and a person's natural size have nothing to do with one another. Unless you're food restricting and not listening to your body. Then you're starving your body of fuel and creating health and size problems.

• On a breakfast plate in foodporn:

Yup. Normally I'd eat about two+ of these and a breakfast milkshake to wash it down. And some type of dessert. You know, a real meal.

There's a lot of thin signaling and food shaming going on here, which is unfortunately very typical of this sub. It's often a target of /r/conservative and other body bigot brigades.

No food shaming, you wanna eat more than 2200 calories in one meal that's on you but don't deny the truth lol. That's way way way more than you need to eat unless you're performing some serious heavy labor or are an athlete. ETA: It looks divine and I would truly love to eat it tho 🥺

Every body has different caloric needs. Are you a medical professional? Are you specifically my medical professional? I'm preeeettttyyy sure I know my body better than you know my body.

𝟗-𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡-𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐊𝐟𝐢𝐫 𝐁𝐢𝐛𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝟒-𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫-𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐀𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐬 𝟐 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝:

Following the completion of the identification process by the…

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) February 20, 2025

!jidf

Let's see leftists figure out a way to spin this into being Israel's fault

Technology? !chuds !nooticers !trump2024

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1igv0jp/national_50_states_antitrump_protest_planned_for/

https://old.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1iguth2/newsweek_national_50_states_antitrump_protest/

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/duplicates/1ihh63h/online_movement_50501_calls_for_national_50/

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1igv0jp/national_50_states_antitrump_protest_planned_for/marvo4v/?context=8

Someone DMd me on Reddit that one of my posts was being discussed at this site I had never heard of so naturally I had to check it out. Immediately I am bombarded with racism and all kind of fricked up hate. Are the admins asleep? How is this allowed? Even /r/thedonald never had this much hate.

Is it me or is she turning into an absolute hog?

Here is her before shot.

This is where her physique peaks in my honest opinion. Here she appears to be of an ethereal beauty. Her incandescent image flows gracefully into my willing eyes like water to an african child. This is quite the contrast to her current appearance.

Notice how her face, which once looked as if it were chiseled from marble by a master craftsman... Is now round and plump as if she were nothing more than a common stone? Now don't get me wrong. I'm not saying she is ugly. She is definitely still better looking than someone like @AnHeroedOats. But this is Wongyoung we are talking about. She is supposed to be more than that. She is supposed to be a goddess up in the heavens amongst the likes of Madoka Kaname. As something for us to aspire to be. Not as some regular slut just like you and me. You honestly think the producers came up with her iconic butt twirl?

And speaking of the butt twirl (which I actually enjoy in her routine and am only being half serious when I say she's a whore for forcing the producers to include that smut in her videos. But look at what her butt twirl looks like after gaining all that mass?

It just doesn't have the same flow to it. It is... So much meatier. Take a look at how it looked before.

Notice how effortless that was? She flew. She is literally flying right there. What a disgrace it is to see such a thing of beauty reduced to this. I wish Wongyoung would take some time to think about the legacy she would like to leave behind.

!anime !weebs

Is this another reason to like the Japanese more than Koreans?

The #USArmy will no longer allow transgender individuals to join the military and will stop performing or facilitating procedures associated with gender transition for service members.

Stay tuned for more details.

— U.S. Army (@USArmy) February 14, 2025

I live in the northeast and people just walk up to you and start talking about how great illegal immigrants are and how sad it is that Kamala lost, etc.

First off, I was raised to believe that it's rude to bring up controversial topics. Second, I was raised to believe that it's rude to assume people will agree with you. It makes me SEETHE.

This is extremely unfair :C

He's one of my best friends

I feel so sad

I know people are going to talk about the money, but say someone was buying it for you, what are your opinions of the game outside of cost?

And yes, because I am a troll, I want to join the same Pirate Software server and join that guild harassing him in-game. teeeheeee

Previous posts on this subject, even if you don't want to read the whole thing you should check the description of the candidates and parties involved from the first link because I'll use the same marseys to represent them for a easier reading

https://rdrama.net/post/323123/marseyflagromania-a-literal-political-thriller-movie

https://rdrama.net/post/323407/marseyflagromania-romanian-elections-drama-continues-elections

https://rdrama.net/post/323949/marseyflagromania-our-spy-political-thriller-goes

Political rivals

• This was annoying to write because I don't know what details are actually relevant enough, I don't want to make this too boring A little backtrack first. I focused a lot of Georgescu in the previous posts but now the parties and the relations between them are more important for the drama. PSD and USR really don't get along. The old guard wants any new person entering politics to follow their orders while is formed from politicians who want to dethrone them and form their own political 'dyasty'. So they really hate each other. As I said in the previous post, the parties are too new to really have clear love or hate relations with either side in this conflict.

• So, when the Constitutional Court (controlled by ) demanded recounts for the first round of the presidential election, USR were naturally suspicious. PSD would never do something in their favor after all. Then the recounts happened and nothing changed, and ok, if these buttholes aren't trying to frick us over then what was the point? But they still remained tense, because while this move was weird and useless, it's a clear warning that are preparing to mess with the elections. And it turns out they were right to be worried

• After the elections were cancelled people were expecting, you know, stuff like explanations, accountability, arrests, plans to guard against similar shit in the future and other stuff that competent countries do At the beginning things were fine, some heads of the nazi and other far right organizations that threatened with violent riots were arrested, members had their homes searched, and our authorities were working with NATO and EU over the election interferences. For some reason, Georgescu was left alone. But hey, we're still in the early stages of the investigation, we just uncovered this whole russian plot, his time will come right?

• That planned riot was a failure, people didn't show up, some literal nazis were caught trying to enter Bucharest with weapons hidden in their cars, lots of funny shit. The guys were jailed Later released Then grabbed by the police again ...then released for good and allowed to frick out of the country This is some shit, isn't it? Aside from a few r-slurs threatening violence and screaming about the jews on the internet that were fined no one faced any punishment for the whole thing. And no one bothered Georgescu Add the fact that we still don't have any extra information on what happened during the elections and it's once again starting to look like this bullshit is just our own politicians doing stupid shit. But the question is, are they working with Russia or is this whole Russia story just a lie?

• Since they were already paranoid, USR saw the writing on the wall and accused PSD of trying to steal the elections as soon as the presidential ones were cancelled. After all, they were battling Georgescu for the president position, so the cancellation affected them just as much as it affected him. Besides, if the elections were cancelled because of Russian interference, then both the presidential and the parliamentary elections should be cancelled, since Georgescu's unofficial party POT won seats through the same TikTok strategy, but only the elections that PSD lost are being remade. But since they spent so much time during the elections screaming about how dangerous Russia and Georgescu were they now came out looking like hypocrites and were criticised for siding with the far right just to keep their political power.

Trying to form a government - new alliances and betrayals

• Since no faction won a majority for the parliament, our politicians are now stuck trying to make coalitions together. As the parties were branded as traitors the most obvious solution is for and to form a pro-NATO/EU coalition and leave the anti-NATO/EU parties in opposition, right? Too bad they hate each other's guts

• So, the first tentative alliance was formed. PSD + PNL + USR + UDMR UDMR is the party of our hungarian minority and they are big enough to make a difference in the parliamentary negotiations so despite being hated by everyone they are accepted into every single coalition ever. They are the single biggest whores in out politics, but then again I already said they are hungarians

• are starting to accuse our president of being an illegitimate president, since he only kept his position because our Constitutional Court refused to allow a new one to be elected. They said that if he doesn't step down after his term is over on December 22nd he's an unelected dictator. USR agreed with them. Once again, they were criticised for preferring to side with the extremists over working with their political rivals.

• Multiple embarrassing slapfights happened while all parties were trying to negotiate their coalition. USR came with an 8 point political reform program and said that if it's not accepted in full they will abandon the coalition and join the in the opposition. While their plan was good, their unwillingness to negotiate it while they were already hated by the were obviously not in their favor. Ciolacu, leader of PSD , insisted on being named prime minister, but PNL told him that his embarrassing failure in the elections (couldn't even enter the second round) alongside his disastrous economical policies during his last term made him unfit to be placed in the same position again So PSD decided to grab their toys and go home and told everyone that they'll join the parties coalition. This was a problem since they are the biggest party in the parliament so them joining means that they can form the government together. They said that they will make sure to only vote pro- NATO/EU proposals but no one trusts them, so... shit

• PNL decided that if their brother party isn't in the coalition then they'll back off too and soon after UDMR threw in the towel too. So, that will leave only USR and some minority parties in the coalition or what? In the mean time USR went to the president to complain about his unconstitutional mandate extension. They refused to stand up when he joined the meeting room, he didn't shake their hands, they told him to resign, he said no, and the whole thing lasted three minutes in total. Meeting ended after

• But plot twist! Not even a day after 'resigning' PSD told everyone that they were joking and that they'll still form a pro-EU/NATO coalition and invited all the other parties to negotiation again... aside from USR who were thus officially kicked out of the coalition. PSD + PNL + UDMR can form a majority together, a barely there majority true, but still a majority.

• USR threatened to not vote the new government, probably hoping that the in-party rivalries will destroy the barely there majority and will force the other parties to re-invite them in the coalition. Instead, convinced 20 parliamentarians from AUR to vote for them, and now we finally have a government!

• Ciolacu was named prime minister again, and with USR out of the picture PSD controls most of the country again.

Lmao wtf is going on?

• After this childish political battle more and more people started to accept that the real coup was done by PSD Again. EU, confused that there is evidence that Russia messed around our elections but also sniffing bullshit, keeps harassing TikTok for investigations. In the meantime America praises our decision to cancel the election every few days. At least someone is happy with the situation?

• Obviously now, when things started to calm down, it's the perfect time for another bombshell to drop! A journo group announced that they have proof that PNL paid for Georgescu's campaign! At this point people weren't even shocked just exasperated and done with the whole circus PNL denied it and said that they paid a firm to promote their campaign and that their money was instead funnelled into Georgescu's campaign. Really?

• Still, things don't make sense Georgescu's campaign was massive, with millions of bots and dozens of sites involved, the cost alone must have been way past what PNL paid, and multiple countries confirmed Russia's involvement. We're still missing a few things here

• Trying to patch all the information... PSD wanted to promote AUR to split USR's anti-establishment votes and lower their winning chances. Realizing this, PNL then decided to promote Georgescu as a way of splitting AUR's far-right votes so that PSD's plan will fail. But at some point Russia decided to promote Georgescu too to stir chaos and/or coup us and massively blew up his popularity. PSD was too busy with their schemes to notice anything and gave some of their votes to AUR in the first round, accidentally kicking themselves out of the second round. Georgescu and Lasconi won the first elections because these two r-slurs were too busy fighting each other. That's why our secret services and didn't react to Georgescu's raise in popularity, they were involved in the whole mess too and now they didn't know how to swipe everything under the rug as much as possible.

• Still, Georgescu was a problem and something had to be done, so they had to sound the alarm and call NATO's help. Russia's plans were stopped PSD , until now disappointed that they lost the presidency and their hold on the parliament was severely diluted, realized that they now have an excuse to steal the elections and get their control over the country back. They couldn't do any bullshit with all the NATO/EU eyes on them so Russia's interference was like a gift send from God Himself into their laps. So they talked with the Constitutional Court to annul the elections, all with our allies panicked blessing, kicking Georgescu out of his top position for now, caused one heck of the mess during the coalition negotiations, and managed to kick out USR too PNL just shrugged and went back into allying with them, while and parties were left defeated and screaming in the dust

• Another theory here is that, after messing up and accidentally promoting Georgescu on top on the race with Russia's help, parties wanted to let him win the presidency and join forces to control the parliament and block any dumb shit he wants to do. Especially since he has some ideas similar to Trump, so maybe they'll get along or something. But Biden's cabinet insisted that we do something about it so the elections were cancelled. Unfortunately, now people around Trump, like his son and Musk, are bitching about Soros and democracy, so what do we do? America might still get pissed at us Now wait, we have an idea! We'll just do nothing against Georgescu himself, we'll postpone the new elections and any investigation until Trump steps into the White House and if he still wants Georgescu as president we'll just let him candidate like nothing happened while blaming everything on Biden and his people and things will be fine

Current situation

• So, right now we still don't know what exactly is with Georgescu He seems to be both with our glowies and with Russia. Mostly probably PSD will try to negotiate with him until the new presidential elections (somewhere in spring most lkely) and if he seems like he can be reasoned with (read, he'll listen to their orders - and ) he'll be allowed to run, if not they'll just get some institution to forbid him from running again PDS has not only gotten more power, but will also get bolder in their bullshit next elections since the population didn't react to them stealing the elections in any way, so why not do it again?

• Out of all the parties, AUR started to work with PSD the most. It's expected that the rest of them will be pushed out of politics one way or another until AUR will become the far-right controlled opposition to PSD. A few parliamentarians from the other parties are already two steps away from getting kicked out of their new positions because of different cases opened against them in the past (corruption, defamation, antisemitism, and other shit). USR is marginalised ever further, and seems like they'll even lose their anti status-quo party to AUR

• parties and their supporters are still screaming about how the government is illegitimate and try to get people to protest them, but since it's cold and most of us are doing the last minute preparations for Christmas they don't have much any success

• But there's still time for other plot twists to happen, so who knows what the future will bring?

The (second) revolution that never was

• Quick funny thing that didn't fit in the main post So, two weeks after the elections were cancelled, Georgescu's voters finally realized that they were dunked on by the establishment and decided to actually carry out a violent revolution We're serious this time guys, we swear! So they threatened to gather in the streets with axes and bats if the president doesn't step down after his mandate expires on December 22 Like with all of the shit that happened until now, this was massively promoted on TikTok

• In the mean time, in order to calm down the far right rumours that EU couped us in order to force Romania to enter the war alongside Ukraine, our (old) government used it's last days in office to approve two laws: one where Romania can now down foreign drones flying over our airspace, which could be used as a potential escalation against Russia, and anther one where foreign generals from allied countries can take command over our army. Yeah, totally not suspicious at all and will definitely calm everyone down (Last one should be called the 'America take the wheel' law tbh )

• To prove to everyone that they are hardcore patriots willing to die for their country at any time, our brave revolutionaries panicked that our new NATO army will break their bones if they start shit and stayed at home. No one turned out to even protest peacefully So that embarrassing episode ended without any bloodshed

All right, last two things:

• our diplomat in America said at some point that our secret services work hard to gather data for CIA, fifth largest contributors actually. This will totally calm down all those conspiracy theories about glowies and us being a NATO colony

• First shit our prime minister said after taking his role was that we are ready to fully support Trump's peace plan for Ukraine, so if at any point EU plans to keep supporting Zelensky after America bows out of the conflict they should start planning on how to do it without us

/u/ElderExecutioner she's right, you pathetic frick. Stop crying on groomercord. No female wants a pathetic kitty male.

Me. Yesterday. On Twitter. A million and a half views and soon to be a hundred thousand likes. I get why so many of you abandoned Twitter. I REALLY DO. But the fight rages on there in a way it doesn't on any other platform. Including this one.

— Patrick S. Tomlinson (@stealthygeek.bsky.social) 2025-01-21T02:38:32.719Z

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Despite knowing that Elon is literally Himmler reincarnate, Patrick is still a Twitter addict and barely posts on bluesky because number doesn't go burrrrrr.

Patrick is also the most throttled account in #resistance history due to his power, yet he still pulls numbers. That would have easily been a 50M like twitter if Elon didn't flip the switch!

Blueskiiers just don't have Patrick's grit, determination, and wit which let him outmanuver Elon daily on his own platform. Pathetic.

You see, this post was not only a humble brag, but a trap to draw out stalker children who would disagree with Patrick! Enjoy banworld stalker child, truly your feeds will fall to fascism without Patrick's guiding light.

Don't forget. This is how you fight fascists (from approximately the past 36-48 hours, only tweets including "enjoy prison")

I love her my special lil gal. She has begun giving more nose-kisses daily than Socks ever has the whole time I've rehabilitated that brown piece of flabby tabby they are going to fight so stupidly over sleeping with me once Sheila's fixed. We are close to the savings mark for her spay

!animalposters !cats

Bottom coin leaderboard when

!metashit !deadBIPOCstorage

1) fursuits are expensive

2) i dont have a bitchin bod that compliments a slutty partial

3) fursits are expensive

4) i dont know any fursuiters well enough to do anything fun with them

5) fursuits are expensive

6) i dont know what i would actually get as a fursuit

i want a fursuit :c

So here's the sitch:

• I principally vidya on my desktop PC

• When practical, I use an xboner controller so I can game from any room (my pc screen is mirrored to all TVs in the house)

• I only play single player games, mostly normie stuff like Fallout, BioShock, Elder Scrolls, etc

• I have a laptop with okay specs, AMD 8700P or similar. It could run BioShock Infinite all the way through the story, but it wasn't happy about it. It's been getting laggy about even watching fullscreen YouTube, possibly due to thermals. Fresh reinstall of Windows didn't fix it.

• I'm on the road for work for a couple months. I don't like to travel, but sometimes it's either this or be on layoff

• I also take one or two vacations annually, usually flying.

I'm home every weekend for the duration of this project, so it's not really practical to bring my desktop PC to the hotels.

My laptop can't handle my current fixation, shapez 2, unless I really throttle down the visuals to bare minimum. I'm kinda reaching my endpoint in that game anyway.

I can't decide if I get a used gaming laptop (2-3 years old) or a Steam Deck. I don't play the latest and greatests -- the newest AAA I have is red dead 2.

My laptop feels a bit dated but I like the big 17" screen, and it still gets a bit clunky trying to use it in a hotel room -- especially with this week-to-week where I'm not going to bother hooking up to the TV.

I see there's a 512GB OLED model for $450 near me, brand new.

But, I don't REALLY know if it's worth it to me. I can afford it, no doubt, but I need to JUSTIFY it. Even though I could always sell it if I end up not liking it.

I also looked at the Asus thing, everyone says the Windows is better for modding, battery life is DOGSHIT.

When you came, you said to me as follows : "I will give Gimil-Sin (when he comes) fine quality copper ingots." You left then but you did not do what you promised me. You put ingots which were not good before my messenger (Sit-Sin) and said: "If you want to take them, take them; if you do not want to take them, go away!"

What do you take me for, that you treat somebody like me with such contempt? I have sent as messengers gentlemen like ourselves to collect the bag with my money (deposited with you) but you have treated me with contempt by sending them back to me empty-handed several times, and that through enemy territory. Is there anyone among the merchants who trade with Telmun who has treated me in this way? You alone treat my messenger with contempt! On account of that one (trifling) mina of silver which I owe(?) you, you feel free to speak in such a way, while I have given to the palace on your behalf 1,080 pounds of copper, and umi-abum has likewise given 1,080 pounds of copper, apart from what we both have had written on a sealed tablet to be kept in the temple of Samas.

How have you treated me for that copper? You have withheld my money bag from me in enemy territory; it is now up to you to restore (my money) to me in full.