Libs ownership status: pwnd

has no threads abput this lol

Edit: as per note

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1iqwbok/defense_stocks_drop_after_trump_says_pentagon/

https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1iorzko/defense_stocks_drop_after_trump_says_pentagon/

Nathan from data-driven Election Truth Alliance (ETA), who has a background in cybersecurity, provides an overview of the research and analysis ETA has conducted on the questionable 2024 elections. At 13:09 he is asked what percentage of people does ETA believe actually voted for Harris. Nathan responds that based on their analysis, Harris would have won at least 5 swing states and would have had about 70% of the popular vote (had the election results not been tampered with).

Give ETA some love and support:

AT LEAST 5 SWING STATES

70% POPULAR VOTE

Enter Betyes - 104 bets

Enter Betno - 125 bets

Enter Betplease stop posting - 6 bets

I will give a SIX HUNDRED (600) marseydollar bounty to the first person who sends me the inevitable news article.

If nobody has sent me the article within a month, I will spend SEVEN (7) minutes searching for the article on Google news. If I do not find it then, the bet resolves NO.

!remindme 1 month "site:nytimes suicide"

!bets !goomble !goomblers !goombling !project2025

Closed.

So, I'm short. 5'2". My girlfriend is tall, probably 5'10 or 6'. We're "a short and a tall," as Big Mouth would put it. We love to dress to the nines and go out. Dresses, jewelry, cocktails, laughter. I'm not gonna lie, we're a hot couple.

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!britbongs

!sophistry

Or that was BS from the start to pressure Turkey with lmao. S400 radar probably picked up dozens of F35s operating in yurape airspace so far, they have a 600km umbrella ffs.

And their F35s will be picked up by actual Russian radars, not ones merely made there lmao.

Reverse engineering and installing new subsystems is the same thing

These whiny cute twinks actually make me hope that happens lmao

Literally single digit IQ takes.

No yurape country is even remotely close to a FGAF and the country with the best aviation MIC on the continent also sells to India.

LMAO

There's a lot here, but a summary and some key takeaways:

Lady is a feminist and a dominatrix. Decides she wants to fight for social justice in a small South African kingdom. Applies to the Peacecorps; is told that up to half of all Peacecorps volunteers ragequit, and is she absolutely certain she wants to continue fighting for social justice? Says yes, gets in the program, is informed on arrival that there will be no fighting for social justice, since Africans are racist and sexist and the local King will absolutely FAFO the Peacecorps if it fricks around.

Whole country is full of AIDS. 25% of all people have HIV, including 40% (yes) of all pregnant women.

Lots of little details come to light, such as:

A man killed his wife for asking him to wear a condom. Whether this is a reasonable thing to do or not is, evidently, a matter of national debate in their society.

Peacecorps volunteers can't wear anything too slutty, like mom jeans, else they might get r*ped. Having to wear a dress and not being allowed to wear jeans causes her fellow volunteers so much distress that at least one of her coworkers quits.

Libertarianism is rampant. To the point where they have billboards everywhere warning adults that fricking kids will give them AIDS.

It's not just normies, either. Apparently the King himself spotted a middleschooler he wanted to bang; her family tried to flee to England, so he had the Secret Service track her down and abduct her.

Because Africans hate hookers, Peacecorps volunteers find themselves needing to do HIV outreach work while simultaneously avoiding groups with HIV, lest they anger the locals too much.

The Peacecorps offers months of training and ideological reinforcement, but after that, has no idea what the frick it's doing. Every individual volunteer is, evidently, expected to think of something useful to do on their own, if and when they get assigned to a village; there's no "plan". Just liberal 20-somethings, abandoned amongst AIDS-riddled libertarian male feminists, with truckfulls of cash and rapidly souring views on the nobility of underprivileged Africa.

Eventually Our Heroine finds a village where hookers have formed a union, of a sorts, and is like OOO GOODY as a hooker myself, that's for me.

Unfortunately, it turns out most of the hookers aren't actually hookers. They're fake hookers, only telling the NGOs that they work as hookers because they expect government gibs earmarked for s*x workers. There is, apparently, no way of screening any of them, so everyone loots the hooker aid money and nobody cares.

But whatever, some of them are probably hookers right?

The local NGOees hit on a brilliant plan to convert the "hookers" into car wash attendants - even though there's almost no cars, and the only "road" in the community is a mud track that makes cleaning an effort in futility.

But the car wash is abandoned halfway through the building process, after the money is handed out but before anything concrete and workable is in place. Instead of waiting to finish the wash (which would have been an economic failure anyways, given the aforementioned lack of roads), the Peacecorp Kids organize a press event and take a bunch of photos to go on their resumes, before every single one of them leaves.

The half-finished car wash is abandoned and the Africans go back to hooking. Only lasting legacy are the news reports touting the success of those bright-eyed white liberals helping African hookers get on their feet.

The fact that she, also, fricked off out of Africa and cynically hates her Peacecorps work, same as the rest of the buttholes she worked with, goes unremarked.

OH, and frick Trump and Elon, they're the real problem, even though aid doesn't work it's important we support it anyway. Maybe she'll explain this in a subsequent article...?

A man working at a cemetery in North Dakota was stopped in his tracks recently by the peculiar sight of three turkeys repeatedly circling a gravestone. pic.twitter.com/avV0HjO3kU

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What did the mean by this?

https://www.arealme.com/vocabulary-size-test/en/

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 downmarseyd 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 downmarsey 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 upmarseyd 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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!nooticers

Canine beauticians, DJs and pilates instructors are among the categories of overseas workers eligible to apply for UK skilled worker visas, an Oxford academic has found.

As the government promises a white paper later this year to slash the numbers entering the UK to work, a list of specific and in some cases unusual "middle-skilled" jobs to which foreign workers can still apply has been identified.

Analysis of Home Office data over three years to March 2024 shows that 334 visas were granted for "animal care service occupations", which include dog groomers, dog walkers, stable hands, kennel assistants and veterinary nursing assistants.

Over the same period, 167 fitness and wellbeing instructors, who include pilates and yoga teachers and lifestyle coaches, were given skilled worker visas.

Keir Starmer is launching an immigration policy drive amid a poll surge by Nigel Farage's Reform UK party.

The list of occupations also includes "costume interpreters" – the people wearing period dress who greet visitors at museums and National Trust properties.

The anomalies were unearthed by Robert McNeil, a researcher at the University of Oxford's Centre on Migration, Policy and Society. "Many of these roles may well be challenging and require particular skills, but they might not be the sort of things that are front of mind for most people when they imagine roles that are critical for UK employers to recruit from overseas," he said.

He found them among more than 300 designated jobs on the "eligible occupations" skilled worker visas list, after flitting past professions usually associated with visa applicants such as nursing, care work, the civil service, the diplomatic corps and banking.

In a blog post on Tuesday, McNeil said the jobs were on the list because of changes introduced after the UK left the EU. "At the same time as ending free movement, the government reduced the skills threshold to allow middle-skilled jobs to qualify for work visas. Previously, only graduate jobs qualified in the system that applied to non-EU citizens.

"When people think about such middle-skilled jobs, roles like plumbers, bricklayers or engineering technicians spring to mind. But defining what is actually middle-skilled is not straightforward," he said. "Some of the results are surprising."

The "middle-skilled" list also includes "air travel assistants" – cabin crew and staff who check baggage at airports. In the year ending March 2024, 869 visas were issued for these roles. Cemetery managers, homeopaths and cycling instructors are also on the list.

Ministers have promised to tighten the rules around visas after repeatedly saying they want to reduce overall migration. Starmer accused the Conservative government of conducting an "open borders experiment" in November after revised official figures showed net migration to the UK hit a record 906,000 in 2023.

The white paper is expected to be published in spring as part of Starmer's plans to see off the political challenge from Reform. Among the proposals included in the document will be moves to reduce legal immigration, including by linking migration to skills and ensuring more British workers are trained to fill jobs commonly recruited from abroad.

It is also expected to take into account a Migration Advisory Committee review ordered by the home secretary, Yvette Cooper, to limit overseas hiring by technology and engineering companies.

But Labour is also keen to show the UK remains open to high-skilled workers by reviewing visa routes. The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, told a breakfast event at the World Economic Forum in Davos: "We are going to look again at routes for the highest skilled people, visas particularly in the areas of AI and life sciences."

Home Office sources say that while the "eligible occupations" list is eclectic, applying for a visa is just the first step in being able to come to the UK to work. Foreign workers also need to be sponsored by an employer and most are required to be paid a minimum of £38,700. The required income drops to just less than £31,000 or lower if the applicant is under 26 or engaged in certain types of higher education.

Asked to respond to McNeil's findings, a government spokesperson said: "We are grateful for the work skilled international professionals do in the UK. However, it is clear that we must end reliance on overseas labour and boost economic growth. That's why, under our Plan for Change, we will publish a white paper to set out a comprehensive plan to restore order to the broken immigration system, as we aim to link our immigration, skills and visa systems to boost the domestic workforce."

https://old.reddit.com/r/somethingiswrong2024/comments/1ipahb7/the_united_states_of_america_and_the_people_vs/

!g*mers !codecels

Literally HUNDREDS of comments about

FRICK WINDOWS 11

I dont even get it. It doesn't make any fricking sense, Win11 has the latest features for gaming and is a much better OS than 10

I have 2FA on (authenticator based not phone number based), I use a randomly generated password, I've removed all active sessions, but someone keeps changing the password somehow and adding a new phone number. I don't know why either they haven't tried to buy anything.

How tf are they doing it. If it happens again I'm probably just gonna close the account as I barely ever use it.

Ewer, 28, showed an unhealthy interest in her student that was noticed almost "immediately" after she started working at Brady Exploration School in August 2023, the DA Office's investigation revealed.

In November 2023, after the boy hinted at an improper relationship with Ewer in a classroom assignment that another teacher saw, authorities at the school contacted the Lakewood Police Department.

They soon uncovered evidence of a disturbing sexual relationship between the pair, including explicit text messages and signs that drugs, guns and alcohol had been introduced, per prosecutors.

Thousands upon thousands upon thousands" of messages were sent by Ewer to her student and vice versa, with references to many sexual encounters, according to prosecutors.

Ewer introduced the teenager to illegal and deadly drugs including fentanyl, First Judicial District Attorney's Office Special Victims Prosecutor Brynn Chase told her sentencing hearing.

She also attempted to get the boy to bring a gun to their sexual encounters as well as shoot a fellow faculty member in their school, the sentencing hearing heard.

Ewer told the boy "to bring the gun to school and shoot another faculty member in the leg," Chase said at the hearing.

Average dimwit American (aka teacher's) understanding of firearm usage

Ewer was sentenced to four years in jail on January 31, after pleading guilty last November to sexual assault on a child and contributed to the delinquency of a minor, both felonies, a month before her trial was due to start.

"I'm really sorry; this will never happen again," she said, as per the office.

Probably because nobody will let you around the 'tarded kids anymore

Before her brief spell there, Ewer had worked at several Jefferson County public schools in various roles, including teaching assistant, paraprofessional, and school nurse, since 2015.