A series of fires have hit French high-speed rail lines, hours before the opening ceremony for the Paris Olympic Games

Rail company SNCF says it's a "massive attack aimed at paralysing the network"; France's transport minister says they're dealing with "co-ordinated malicious acts"

Some 800,000 customers are affected with disruption expected "at least all weekend", the rail firm says - passengers are asked to postpone trips and not travel to stations

Eurostar services to and from Paris are being diverted with several trains cancelled

Whodunnit? My guess is environmentalists.

There's a literal demon fashion show France wtf????

!kino !trekkies look at Star Trek: Discovery, why millennial writers do this?

The worst part is when adults behave like children while children are portrayed as mature and wise.

Compare with this

I'm taking it from Critical Drinker's video, yes he's a chud y*utuber but he's right

!chuds journo moment

Pulled AP article: https://archive.is/3gAIn

The Associated Press has deleted a report debunking a false claim that Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance once wrote about having s*x with a couch.

Vance, the former Bay Area resident who was recently tapped to be former President Donald Trump's running mate, is the subject of a viral online rumor spawned by a July 15 post on X. The post, from user @rickrudescalves, said Vance admitted to "f---king an inside-out latex glove shoved between two couch cushions" in his bestselling 2016 memoir, "Hillbilly Elegy."

This reporter has read "Hillbilly Elegy," and no such passage exists. Regardless, the post quickly went viral, causing several news outlets to publish reports debunking the claim. Mysteriously, though, the AP deleted its report Thursday.

A statement from the AP, which other news outlets pay in order to run articles written by the wire service's journ*lists, didn't offer many details as to why its story debunking the claim was deleted.

"The story, which did not go out on the wire to our customers, didn't go through our standard editing process," an Associated Press spokesperson told SFGATE in an email. "We are looking into how that happened."

A representative for Vance did not immediately reply to a text from SFGATE.

The numerous articles fact-checking and debunking the couch claim have done little to stop the spread of memes. On Thursday, X was inundated with posts mocking Vance. One showed a man trapped under a couch with the caption, "J.D. Vance when she wants to get on top." Another post simply said, "JD Vance upsetting his wife on purpose so he has to sleep on the couch."

Vance, who was selected to be Trump's vice president just last week, has endured a rough start on the campaign trail. The couch claim started gaining traction just days after Vance had an awkward moment at a rally in Virginia after cracking a strange joke about Diet Mountain Dew.

"I had a Diet Mountain Dew yesterday and one today. I'm sure they're going to call that racist, too," he said, claiming that Democrats believe it's racist to do anything. "But, it's good."

One X user combined the couch claim with Vance's soda joke. The user, @travishelwig, posted a photo of himself holding a bottle of Diet Mountain Dew in front of a couch. The caption read, "had a couple hits of this and now im looking at this couch a little different."

This is extremely embarrassing to post but this proves my ex was lying about the age of the guy she cheated on me with.

This conversation was in 2022 for Coachella and it speaks for itself.

I have retained legal counsel and need to let the legal investigation complete itself… pic.twitter.com/NqzstUL6ib

— Lex ✝️ (@MrTLexify) July 25, 2024

It's 6 and a half minutes of chatlogs so I'll post screenshots of good bits below

!g*mers

!moidmoment

The fall of Sony PlayStation is something that historians will study in great disbelief that a company could make such stupid decisions. pic.twitter.com/3FUOfpQlBc

— 🇯🇵 Colonel Otaku Gatekeeper 🇯🇵 (@politicalawake) July 25, 2024

They released like 20 games on PlayStations and only like 2 weren't garbage (the last and water gun one) so devs were just milking soft porn. I could understand bitching about dead or alive extreme volleyball since it got some quality behind and they didn't stripped underaged girls.

If their game had some serious quality behind they still could had released their games or do as stellar blade

Release the pervert stuff after the release so normies ignore the game. Yesterday patch added tan lines and 2 new bikini

All credits due to the Kiwiggers!

!comicshitters !nooticers

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MANGARYANS AND ARYANIME WON

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/co/pe: https://boards.4chan.org/co/thread/144659440

idk some comicshitter site or something: https://comicbook.com/comics/news/marvel-x-men-bonus-scenes-qr-codes-explained-tom-brevoort/

Edit: Lol I am late https://rdrama.net/post/286941/marvel-adds-drm-to-physical-xmen

/r/iamveryculinary believe there should be no barriers around food, that no food belongs to any one country, that recipes are gatekeeping... but also that American food is superior to all others. As such, they are not amused by this YouTube Short in which an Asian woman suggests that American food boils down to burgers, ketchup, fries and self-service cola machines.

Let's see what the commenters say:

Oh boy, my favorite subject that makes me become extremely patriotic.

America has some of the most diverse food in the world, and its culinary scene is among the best if not the best in the world (in terms of things like global impact, food diversity, world-renowned dishes, Michelin stars, etc)

The American culinary scene is so vast that it varies dramatically even by region, with each region having unique styles and recipes inspired by dishes around the world. Even excluding cultural fusion foods, America still has incredible food that was entirely originated in America.

Oklahoma puts onions in their burgers and New Yorkers don't use mustard on their hotdogs.

Number one burger defender.

America simultaneously has no authentic food and no unique food.

Where's the lie?

The same people that complain that American immigrant food isn't authentic because it's not exactly what they have back in their country also say it's not American, because it's a copy of what they have back in their country.

America is a young and diverse country of immigrants with many agricultural zones, so of course what "American food" is will challenge the concepts held by anyone who's country is old, mostly one ethnic group, and mostly one agricultural zone.

"Which agricultural zone should we dine in tonight? Corn Land or Potato World?"

And then 15 separate comments that boil down to "ummm your point is invalid because of cajun food".

The YouTube comments are also pretty good:

They're unironically right, American food is basically airport food.

American food is diverse because there's a panpipe cover of "My Heart Will Go On" in the background of this video pooping on American food.

@r-slur @Lappland @Dramamine defend your culture and try not to mention tater tots this time x

Olympics they will never forget since the journey is we took together and the friends we made in that journey is what matters

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp-video/mmvo215647301574

Here some Mexican skateboarders riding on street of Paris because the bus forgot to take them

Next time they will know Muhamed don't give a shit that it's Latinx tradition to be late

https://www.indiatoday.in/sports/olympics/story/olympics-us-gymnast-simone-biles-defends-german-gymnasts-on-crowded-paris-bus-2572175-2024-07-26

Legendary Parisian politeness. Not giving seat to Olympic athlete because frick him, he is healthy and can stand

https://www.sortiraparis.com/en/news/olympic-games-paris-2024/articles/305898-special-olympic-games-transport-fare-of-4-per-ticket-starting-saturday

Parisian hospitality not only sell now one 333ml can of cola for 14 euro

https://www.sortiraparis.com/en/news/olympic-games-paris-2024/articles/305898-special-olympic-games-transport-fare-of-4-per-ticket-starting-saturday

They also doubled the cost of transport for everyone because frick you

I was basically looking for the story when people bitched that the Olympic busses don't have AC but sadly didn't found it

https://www.ratp.fr/en/discover/coulisses/daily-life/not-too-hot-not-too-cold-how-can-we-maintain-right-temperature-public

Not too hot, not too cold: how can we maintain the right temperature for public transport?

The earth is perfect and knows what we need so no AC

I am sure we'll hear more amazing story from real life Disney land

Off topic googled Paris Disney land and first video is this soy

If there is one nazi in a room and the 9 other people in the same room don't speak out and make a stand to oppose him, there are 10 nazis in the room.

if your husband won't vote against fascism and project 2025 he is complicit, just as bad as the MAGA fascists who vote for the wannabe dictator and convicted felon Donald Trump

I made the mistake of saying that during our fight....I'm now sleeping in my car.

I'm on the same side as your husband.

He also doesn't understand why women choose bear and he watches conspiracy theory videos all the time.

Well if he can't understand something as simple as the woman vs bear thing then I probably wouldn't expect him to understand the finer details of presidential candidates; in that case I wouldn't stress myself trying to make him see any further.

My god, "educate myself", "educate him", you're a broken record of preachy insufferability

Oh, I'm sorry. Did I offend you by being too logical about a situation you're trying to flip to fit your narrative?

Madam President's border is already paying dividends

One of the stupidest vibe ruining tropes ever lmao. "Hmm it's been like 17 minutes since I used my story to virtue signal about current culture war... Oh I know! I'll have the bad guy do it this time!" Like, literally replacing the whole page with a "sonic sez" would be better lol

Having fun on the wrong side of history there bud?

Villains typically have respect for everything but the actual life of people or they don't genuinely care. Bigotry isn't evil it's an ideology.

What?

I honestly find it funnier when a fanbase is somehow disappointed with a villain for being racist/sexist. Like, when Freddy Krueger's about to kill a black girl and says a racist one liner first, people were like wtf. As if Freddy fricking Krueger is some kind of role model lmao

Oh, or the recent Halloween movie where people were upset that Michael Myers killed a gay couple. Like, obviously? He's an indescriminate serial killer, what did you expect?

Lol.

Honestly joker hating Nazis makes tons of sense, he's all about chaos and they're a dictatorship.

That might be the most reddit thing I've read.

the imperium of man in warhammer 40k, famously murders people for heresy and being mutants (which often is just humans who adapted to other planets), is incredibly accepting of trans and gay people. in one book (pariah nexus i think? i don't remember) the practice of "tactical pansexuality" is discussed

Keep yourself safe.

https://www.amazon.com/Kamala-Harris-Future-America-Essay/dp/B08HGZK7P4

Cope, chuddie

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They should be charged and/or deported to Gaza, ASAP. If they want to burn the US flag and deface our monuments, then they should go coexist with the terrorists they align themselves with. (1)

Defacing public property is just a crime, but honesty it's fine IMO as a form of protest. I would rather they deface properly than hurt people which to my knowledge they didn't do. This kind of property is worth killing of stance is insane and anti American.Burning is flag is a form of protest, it's actually insane to think it isn't. It's a method of showing how it feels for you to live in a country at the moment. It's not done to offend you personally, it's about conveying a message.The closest to of these to something I get is waving terrorist flag, but I still think this is dumb, and especially not something people should be disappeared over. Like nobody on earth who has just waved a Nazi flag in a march to was deported or sent to prison despite it being a much worse flag IMO. If they get arrested it's for an actual crime they committed.As for getting violent with police, like again it's a crime, but whatever man. It's not like police are helpless. They're infinitely more trained... (1)

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Let's stop talking about the last thousand years. What happened on October 7th was a large scale attack on innocent civilians. Israel has responded militarily to destroy Hamas, who trained and armed the attackers. Hamas hides behind children. Israel locates high ranking Hamas officials, and instead of sending soldiers into dangerous door to door combat, bombs the building they're hiding in. Innocents, along with the Hamas official are killed. If the terrorist wasn't there, no bombing. For those of you that don't understand what is occurring, this is called war. What's worse, it's war against a terrorist organization. They don't wear uniforms. War is horrific. War ends when one side surrenders. Hamas can end the war today. Release the hostages and disarm. End of war. (2)

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Americans saying "death to America" well freedom of speech also means the freedom to sound like an butthole. But speech is speech. That itself is not a crime.Arson is a crime. Vandalism is a crime. Assault is a crime. Inciting a riot is a crime - there is a huge difference between peaceful assembly and a "mostly peaceful" assembly and a flat out riot. Assaulting law enforcement is a crime. Destruction of property is a crime. All are crimes which should be prosecuted in order to hold those people who commit them accountable for their actions and as a deterrent to others. Failing to hold people accountable for their actions, only encourages others to continue and escalate those actions leading to greater confrontations and ultimately violence. Non-American citizens should have their visas reviewed and possibly revoked if warranted. Non Americans who are here on a visa are expected to conduct themselves as guest of this country. If they are unable and are unwilling to do so then their... (2)

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!chuds wonder what subreddits Alec moderates

lmao he looks just like you would imagine