!deathtomicks the flour you guys gave gazans not even given directly to them

!sophistry the final argument to BTFO all of !kino

The 's*x on TV' discussion is officially over

I don't really know why this hasn't existed yet, but especially recently there's been a bunch of great drama that deserved coverage.

The founder of Nikola donating $2MM to DDR and getting a pardon after committing a multi-billion dollar securities fraud by rolling a truck downhill and saying it was powered by electric, but the donation had nothing to do with the pardon guys

https://apnews.com/article/nikola-trevor-milton-fraud-trump-pardon-3fcebb0a3820cecb205656f2dc3f6764

The founder woman who had a classic when she told her code monkey to make up synthetic data for her company that she was selling to JPMC.

When the director questioned the legality of the request, her co-defendant Olivier Amar said: "Yes, it's legal. We don't want to end up in orange jumpsuits ."

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/feb/10/trial-of-forbes-30-under-30-honoree-set-to-lift-lid-on-startup-culture

Citi r-slurs somehow finding even new and funnier ways to frick up, most recently by crediting a customer with $81,000,000,000,000 by mistake

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/28/investing/citigroup-bank-account-error/index.html

Basically anything that makes it into Matt Levine's money stuff column usually deserves a thread here for being dramatic and funny.

• 3000 from @Redactor0

• 3880 from @LooNinja after tariffs

• 5000 from fellow Hibernian menace @KawaiiFembee

• 4850 from another fellow Hibernian @MayflyAlt-98 Go raibh maith agat

The new 4o shit is fantastic for making fake comic book covers, here's the prompt from reddit:

"Fake full page EC anthology styled comic covers of random fake and highly detailed "[whatever u want bb]" as comic book covers. Classic themes. Each full cover should have a wildly different tale or subject. Single full cover only. Full English. Huge amount of plot and exposition for each original comic cover."

Picture it. You're a retirement age woman somewhere in suburban Texas. You're still working part-time -- you figured you'd be done by now, but if you think about that too much you get sad in a way that's hard to explain. Anyway, it's wash day, and you're stalking through the house you own outright collecting laundry, linen, dish towels, for the hamper. You stop, just for a moment, in the living room by a window. It's nice outside; you can see it through a crack in the shutters. It might be good to brighten up the house, you think. It's your day off, after all. Hamper in hands, you step towards the window and tug on the blinds. In one fell swoop the house is illuminated in beautiful bright light.

"Mom! What the frick?"

It's Steve. He's standing in the doorway to the sunroom, glaring at you, gesturing to the open shutter. "I closed them for a reason". He's wearing an orange cap, and you swear you can see a smudge of something on his cheek, as if he's just wiped away a layer of thick pasty foundation. You don't mention it - it's not worth it.

Behind him, the light from a computer screen illuminates the sun room; otherwise, itself, in total darkness. You used to recognise the websites on his screen, but now the monitor shows a white pane with a deep blue silhouette of a butterfly aside it.

"What are you doing?" you ask. "Do you have any laundry?"

"I'm busy," he hisses, turning away. Then he turns back to you, softer now. "My laundry's on the floor in my room." He slams the door.

On the way to Steve's room, you pass an armoire in the corridor. Steve's father topped it with framed photos from years gone by, but you never look at them. You focus on a fading image in a golden frame - in it, you're holding an infant Steve, standing alongside his father and your old friends the Jeffries. Maybe you should call Sheila Jeffries, it's been a while. That might be nice. The last time you spoke to her was pre-COVID. Maybe she'd like to hear from you.

But you're struck, knowing you won't call: you can't face the shame in your stomach you'll get when Sheila inevitably asks how Steve is. The flustering attempts to swat away the question, avoid answering it. You're aware that everyone knows what you're trying not to say, but the thought of articulating it fills you with humiliation.

Later, you take a nap during the dryer cycle. You dream yourself to be laying on the road, in the middle of the freeway, a truck approaching without slowing. You're awash with relief.

!animalposters !cats

The redditors are uniformly outraged

He was a good boy pay he taxes and turn his life around n sheeit

Wait a second

One would love to know what these troubles could have been, seeing as they were weighty enough to obstruct the poor gentleman's citizenship application, but the article gives no further details

Providing context is, of course, unimportant in journ*lism.

What unlucky mistakes could have possibly befallen poor, innocent Mr. Jose Francisco Garcia Rodriguez of Cuba 43 years ago? Weigh in below

In a flashy, well-produced video, the channel pinpointed several areas where migrants had reportedly attacked residents. It also claimed that out of 8,000 local schoolchildren, only 50 per cent were ethnically Russian.

The clip said terrorist recruiters were active at a Moscow junk market where weapons and Russian passports could be bought, and identified the locations of "ethnic brothels" and illegal mosques.

It ends with the on-screen message: "So, who benefits from this breeding ground of Islamic radicals, Russophobes and bandits near the Russian capital?"

Boris Rozhin, a blogger with more than 850,000 subscribers, said the Moscow suburb's transformation was reminiscent of the "minority-dominated neighbourhoods in Marseille and Paris".

"The town, which was previously dominated by ethnic Russians, has seen an influx of migrants from the Caucasus region and Central Asia," he added.

https://old.reddit.com/r/sweden/comments/1jr7uiz/gen_%C3%B6/

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I hope every future passenger of yours does the same. I wouldn't set foot in one of those Nazi death traps. (161)

Remember when Elon was a Democrat, and it wasn't a "Nazi death trap", you know, climate change, and all that bullshit. You have issues with your triggered by a vehicle. It's always the people that have never lived communism like I have, who speak bullshit and are the most clueless about extreme political authoritarianism. (-33)

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Until the next POTUS pardons them, right? (4)

May as well. If Biden can pardon people pre-emptively for setting loose a pandemic that killed millions of people, Trump can pardon people for being sent to prison for praying on a sidewalk. (-13)

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That way your GPS and theirs both show "same place" at nearly same time. (35)

yea! and if the passenger takes a video being in a different car at the same time as you're ghosting the ride, you get deactivated! but at least you got the $15? assuming uber doesn't claw it back after you commit fraud... (-14)

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This is a truly dumb statement. A car with a gasoline engine is more likely to catch on fire than an ev. Do 5 seconds of research before making a stupid comment. (2)

I never said anything about likelihood of a fire. What you say may or may not be true. Are you not aware that when exposed to air, the contents of the batteries catch fire and that fire is harder to put out than a gasoline fire? If you crash and a single battery pack is cracked, it becomes exposed to air, which causes a pyrophoric ignition.With ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) cars, all the cars have sensible door handles and everyone knows how to get out of the vehicle even if it has no power or gas.The problem with Teslas and fire date back to before DOGE and all that, this is a problem that existed before Elon took a turn for evil.In a Tesla, the doors are powered and after a crash the vehicle loses power, meaning the doors can't be opened via the usual way. There is manual releases, however they are HIDDEN in different locations depending on model and where you are seating in the vehicle. (0)

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"principled stand" against whom? "I will waste a drivers time because I don't like the car they drive" The only principled way to make a stand is don't buy a Tesla, anything else is being performative at best.Edit:"I will take a stand against a company that is 100% US based manufacturing their US product, employ over 125,000 people, is the most green company around and whose demise will hurt many many more millions of people because of the effects of the stock devaluing in pension funds and 100's of thousands of people being out of work." But it's ok because as long as I hurt Elon Musk the collateral damage is worth it.I have to laugh of the idiocy of the people participating in these "principled stands" (3)

But if owning a Tesla becomes a liability, it can make you not buy a Tesla. Consumer boycotts typically don't accomplish anything because people are generally too politically apathetic to reach any critical mass. But "I'm not buying that because it will make my life worse dealing with the blowback" is a potentially much larger group of people. It's a tricky balance though because the right in particular loves spite buying shit, so you need to make sure it's a product that is too expensive to buy solely out of spite and no utility. A car is a really good target because not only is it an investment, it is something you have to go out in public with every day. It is attached to business as well, so it becomes a liability to you and your employer. I do have sympathy for anyone stuck with a Tesla on a car loan, but saying it isn't effective at making people think twice about buying one seems misguided. (0)

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Someone catch me up, ion watch the news. What's wrong with Tesla??? (1)

Nothing. Elon is discovering all the fraud and waste in gov, the Progressive dems are terrified of being exposed, the nut-jobs are burning, dealers, threatening the workers, threatening Tesla owners and damaging Teslas out on the street & at people's homes. The irony is left loved Tesla for the "environment". Most people who buy Teslas were Dems. Now it seems the only EV that doesn't help the environment is Tesla & Elon is a Nazi. 😂 The people terrorizing and committing the crimes, have no idea what they stand for; They have no moral compass. (1)

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I don't think this is good policy at all.

I have a fairly robust education in economics, but I'm certainly not an expert. I've tried to keep thinking, "There are some very smart people behind these moves," but this is all making me uneasy. And I think what bothers me the most is that I get the sense I'm not being told the truth. Not necessarily "lied to," not yet at least, but it's like they don't think the masses are smart enough to understand what their reasoning is. So they trot out bullshit stats to justify what they're doing, which people on the right side of the bell curve can easily see through.

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Only reason the U.S. economy grew at all the past five years was because of trillions in new government spending and an associated growth in personal debt powered by new ways to get into debt.

It's all a mirage and I am as guilty as anyone of pretending it was real. But no more.

All the people angriest about Trump's policies are all the people who directly benefited the most from that spending boom that comes at a big cost to future generations.

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/u/One_Fix5763 I hope you go broke, lose your trailer, and spend the rest of your life working for minimum wage in Dipschitz American-Made Widget factory.

Because I'm already stretched thin, and the promise of taxes going down doesn't mean shit until it's passed. As of right now, the company I work for just sent out an email to everyone in the company telling us that because we have a 46% tariff from Vietnam, if it doesn't get dropped that they are going to do even MORE layoffs after they laid off 200+ people not even 3 months ago. They explicitly said that paying the tariffs is STILL cheaper than moving everything back into the US, and I would really prefer not to lose my job when I'm about to get married, buy a house, and have kids.

I feel for you. Hopefully this isn't long term. I wonder if its all for bargaining agreement. Only time will tell.

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Because apparently the only country that isn't allowed to use tarrifs is the United States.

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makes an incredibly strong basis for fiscal policy

They're "unfair" because everyone else has gotten so utterly used to playing on an uneven field for so long that when it suddenly isn't that way anymore it feels unfair to them.

Their ideologies and the egos tied up therein simply won't allow them accept the idea that we've been competing with them with one hand tied behind our back this whole time.

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This one calls himself a classical liberal.

Trump critics (particularly the ones who, if he found a cure for cancer would just complain about him single handedly ruining the pharmaceutical industry) claim that tariffs will only alienate us from allies and cause them to seek other partners, and the cost will just get passed down to the consumer.

They don't get, or conveniently ignore, that the U.S. economy is not dependent upon other countries and that we can outlast them in a trade standoff. As for the "cost passed down" argument, they don't seem to understand that tariffs are temporary and are a means to end to get other countries to do what we want. Yes, it may require us to crack open our wallets a little bit wider for a time, but I think that's preferential to the decline we were on before. This is an attempt to fix things that have been long broken.

Yes, it may make allies mad, but turnabout is fair play. If they're doing it to us, we have every right to return the favor. We can't be subsidizing other countries at this rate while our own debt is already at such a high level.

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Shreddy would love a trip to here!

Factcheck: This claim has been classified as misogynistic.

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Even ReetardEra is mostly confused by this, in an extremely rare time, Chuds and Redditors can agree that censoring female nudity is bad o algo (even doe this was censored in bad faith so it doesn't counts chud):

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ubisoft-updates-far-cry-4-to-censor-nudity-and-adjust-breast-size-of-female-character.1154859/

!g*mers !vidya !coomers

I JUST HAD AN ENERGY DRINK AFTER A MIDNIGHT BATH ASK ME ABOUT ANYTHING

!animalposters !cats

You idiots. The Trump team didn’t use a formula of (exports-imports)/exports. As Kush here points out, the formula was (exports-imports)/exports*4*.25 https://t.co/trOF3nGrLW

— Josh Barro (@jbarro) April 3, 2025

Unfortunately for the braphog OP, some users are too to realize that RADICAL FAT LIBERATION is more important than owning the chuds:

aren't the round faces to make him look like a baby?

I think that might have been the first one (with him holding a lollipop, etc) but now I am seeing ones where there's nothing else baby-ish about it, he is just made to look fatter and then memed

Gloves are off on Trump as he'll attack anyone without even knowing who they even are, without consequence. Remember this is the "two genders only" President? This is the President who's deported people out of the country based on having tattoos that may look vaguely hang-related. "Travel ban Trump? "Very fine people on both sides"?

This is Third Reich crap. Wake up, this is a nightmare to anyone not the status MAGA quo.

Democracy is honestly in jeopardy, cry me a river on posting images of JD with puffy cheeks.

"he said there are 2 genders"

You're not fighting fascism by inflating the Vice President digitally. It's performative bullshit that makes people feel better while reinforcing values that fuel fascism.

you're FUELING FASCISM by enlarging JD Vance's cheeks

The then replied to his own comment crying about ending DEI programs

This is the Administration that put RFK Jr. in charge of the Department of Health and Human Services, that just confirmed Dr. Oz to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, that are ending DEI programs, that are gutting the CDC and is trying to get ride of the Department of Education. These people are not your friends. If you want an entire movement that is unhealthy for you, it's this stain upon the Earth. If memes of JD Vance with puffy cheeks are what is triggering you, my DOG zoom OUT.

Ugh, yes. And this happens with Trump too.

I absolutely detest him, but hearing people close to me body shame or food shame (cough Trump's relationship with McDs cough) ANYONE makes me rethink how I interact with them.

I'm still struggling to have conversations around food and fatphobia with people in my life. This type of joking in my blue bubble makes it even harder to open up.

STOP MOCKING MCDONALDS

I also have problems with all the snickering diaper comments—so gross and ableist.

Won't someone think of the diaper shitters

When people start doing this around me I will saying something like "his fatness is one of the few GOOD things about him!" It usually makes people pause, if nothing else

They pause because you sound

There are soooooo many more significant things to criticize about Trump than his appearance. It feels like a cheap shot or like they are making an association between his fatness and the negative aspects of his personality and policies, and then by extension that applies to other fat people.

Totally! And look if you're too burnt out to have a discussion about how he is a fascist and why he's terrible… the man has a gold potty.......Also man the discourse around mocking Trump for being disgusting cuz he eats Mickey Ds & allegedly abusing Ritalin/ dexamphetamines got to me. As someone who takes ADHD meds (as prescribed) and MacDonalds is one of my safe foods. (Boycotting atm cuz of BDS🍉🗝️🇵🇸).

I've also been noticing this- and with portrayals of trump as well. Like both these men are terrible but it just reminds me of watching Disney movies and all the evil characters are fat. It's like guys. Cmon.

if disney villains have an archetypal body type it is tall and rake-thin. it's literally just ursula and the captain from Pocahontas unless you dig into the direct-to-DVD crap nobody watches

Yeah I'm specifically thinking of Ursula… you are correct.

A singular example that is outside norm = ALL

Those monsters deserve ZERO grace. They are killing people with glee in their eyes.

They don't. The other fat people in your life do.

ok so would you call an evil lesbian a carpet eating cute butch? or would you use racial slurs against an evil politician who was a POC?

I would even if they weren't "evil"

Someone did something awful (I won't share it so you can remain blissfully ignorant) and the person who witnessed it was calling her out on Facebook and absolutely berating her for her weight. It was seriously frustrating. The guy almost seemed to see that as her main character flaw instead of her actions.

The fat comments and mobility comments with Trump are also super frustrating. There are so many things that people could choose that actually deserve ridicule. Going after weight and other health factors that people don't have a choice about is lazy. Pick something that actually matters.

I mean, that's just how tolerance works. Have you called anyone stupid? That makes me sad because I'm stupid. Have you ever said someone was not nice?....

Congratulations, or I'm sorry

What do you think tolerance is? One of the main points of the podcast is that fatphobia is intolerable because being fat isn't bad, because being fat doesn't hurt other people in the way that making stupid butthole decisions like voting for Republicans does. Being a stupid butthole is bad and we shouldn't tolerate that.

The 'ndrangheta are now going beyond cocaine. In Italy they steal...

...large quantities of high-quality food, including cheese, olive oil, and canned tomatoes...

...to sell in Germany. And this isn't just one minor local operation.

A total of 34 arrest warrants — 14 in German and 20 in Italy — and 40 search warrants were executed. In addition to Baden-Württemberg, officials said searches took place in the German states of North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinxte and Saarland.

!germs I got some news for you: If you're paying to have gangsters dodge the carabineri to get canned tomatoes then you're paying too much. I can get a can of tomatoes here for $1. Well... at least I could have a few days ago. It's probably $1.30 now.

If you're that desperate for Italian food just get a pizza or some fricking hot pockets or something.

You do NOT need the new iPad
You do NOT need the new Cell Phone
You do NOT need the new video game console

You WANT them

There is a big difference and if you look at the people whining about the tariffs I challenge you to ask them how their lives have been affected in any way

— TheQuartering (@TheQuartering) April 3, 2025

theory chads literally cannot stop winning

Throwback Thursday from 2016-2017! DOOM Girl Brooke causing chaos in heck! 😈

— MLeth (@mleth.bsky.social) 2025-04-03T15:54:22.900Z

It's been up since the day after the election and he just came out of his garage and took it down.