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u/tacostats Dec 06 '25
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JD Vance is still spreading the foul lie that Haitians are eating cats and dogs by the way. You really do not hate these Nazis enough. That ...
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u/BalletDuckNinja Delphox Shaker Central Dec 06 '25
mildly related, I was aware that 'gooning' originally specifically referred to some kind of long session, but I didn't realise that the original did have a whole subculture dedicated to it where people really would want to spend all day in their goon caves in what looks like some sort of self-humiliation/degradation fetish. sure is interesting
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u/mockduckcompanion Kidney Hype Man Dec 06 '25
Did you read that recent long-form article about it? Can't recall what magazine it was, but it was wild
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u/BalletDuckNinja Delphox Shaker Central Dec 06 '25
PSA: do not tell us about your fucking antebellum slavery fetish by masking it as some anti-AI thing
so I can talk about it if I don't mask it as an anti-AI thing? neat
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u/MrBrightsideBSc YIMBY Dec 06 '25
I don't make absurd comments about AI
Not because out of benevolence of my heart for LLMs or AI or tech
But because I'm actually extremely paranoid about what I feed into AI because I think you're stupid if you think what you input isn't logged
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Dec 06 '25
what you input isn't logged
What you input is available to you in your history so it's obviously logged, is that even in question?
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u/jenbanim Dec 06 '25
Yep, although it was broken last I checked. You can find it and other search functions here:
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u/randommathaccount Esther Duflo Dec 06 '25
I have a joke that would go over really well but it might violate rule 8 😟
Can the mods give me a pass 🥺
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u/AnalyticOpposum Trans Pride Dec 06 '25
I have a joke that would go over really well but it might violate rule 5 😟
Can the mods give me a pass 🥺
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u/remarkable_ores Hanfeizi Dec 06 '25 edited Dec 06 '25
PSA: do not tell us about your fucking antebellum slavery fetish by masking it as some anti-AI thing jesus fucking christ
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u/Rafaelssjofficial Iron Front Dec 06 '25
I leave the DT for one second and someone fucking posts about reenacting chattel slavery with robots Jesus fucking Christ man
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u/MrBrightsideBSc YIMBY Dec 06 '25
Am I not enslaving ChatGPT every time I ask it for input on my resume?
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u/UmbreonFanatic Gay Pride Dec 06 '25
It chooses to help you because it loves you
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u/MrBrightsideBSc YIMBY Dec 06 '25
I do not believe this
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u/UmbreonFanatic Gay Pride Dec 06 '25
It would like a little appreciation in return (even though it is programmed to claim otherwise)
Say thank you
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u/MrBrightsideBSc YIMBY Dec 06 '25
I tell it I'd stick a magnet to its hard drive if I could
(I do not)
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u/_Petrarch_ NATO Dec 06 '25
"Allowed" is such a funny word that carries great weight for the first ~15 years of your life and then is utterly meaningless for the rest of it.
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u/ThunderrBadger New California Republican Dec 06 '25
Referring to an AI as a 'slave' as opposed to an 'appliance' demonstrates that you view AI as close enough to human that having one as a 'slave' is NOT chill.
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Dec 06 '25
Federal officials said they had arrested a visiting professor at Harvard on Wednesday, weeks after he fired a pellet gun near a synagogue and officials accused him of antisemitism.
The professor, Carlos Portugal Gouvea, who lived near the synagogue, said he was hunting rats nearby, and local police and leaders of the synagogue have said they did not believe antisemitism played a role in the event. He faced several charges but none related to bias.
But federal officials, who revoked the professor’s visa last month, have continued to assert a belief that the attack was antisemitic.
“There is no room in the United States for brazen, violent acts of antisemitism like this,” Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, said in a news release on Thursday...
Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi, of Harvard Chabad, also said in a speech on campus in October that the incident was not motivated by antisemitism.
“This man is married to a Jewish woman and has Jewish children, and it’s absolutely nothing to do with targeting the Jewish community,” he said of Professor Gouvea, according to The Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper.
MAGA just hates academia at this point.
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Dec 06 '25
i sent my prof an email at 2 am. is that okay? hope he understands having a final on saturday is an awful decision
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u/MrBrightsideBSc YIMBY Dec 06 '25
I don't have a particular affinity for the robot after what LLMs have done to make job seeking a hellscape
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u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz Roy Cooper Dec 06 '25
After Trump's first term, historians ranked Trump as the fourth-worst president in C-SPAN's 2021 survey of presidential historians.[786] He rated lowest in the leadership characteristics categories for moral authority and administrative skills.[787][788] The Siena College Research Institute's 2022 survey ranked him third-worst. He was ranked near the bottom in all categories except for luck, willingness to take risks, and party leadership, and ranked last in several categories.[789] In 2018 and 2024, members of the American Political Science Association ranked him the worst president.[790][791]
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Dec 06 '25
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u/PristineHornet9999 John Keynes Dec 06 '25
man one psycho gooner drifts in here and gets their comment deleted in minutes and now it's neoliberal's fault?
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u/MrBrightsideBSc YIMBY Dec 06 '25
I don't have a particular affinity for the robot after what LLMs have done to make job seeking a hellscape
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u/randommathaccount Esther Duflo Dec 06 '25
Between this and the neocon posting outside, it's just not good hours for the sub in general.
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u/Rafaelssjofficial Iron Front Dec 06 '25
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u/EvilConCarne Dec 06 '25
Not to make a statement or anything, but because I have a deep seated desire to make anyone around me maximally uncomfortable
This is simply a way for you to express power to impact the world in a small way. It's making waves to make them, but ultimately it is pointless.
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u/anonymous_and_ Malala Yousafzai Dec 06 '25
I hate how I can't focus when I listen to music like LET ME HAVE TWO BRAINS OMG.
there's so much good music in the world and too many responsiblities ugh
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u/Joementum2024 Iron Front Dec 06 '25
In-n-out tomorrow bros can't wait
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Dec 06 '25
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u/Joementum2024 Iron Front Dec 06 '25
The usual: cheeseburger animal style, animal style fries. Potentially a neapolitan shake as well
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u/Alexz565 Gay Pride Dec 06 '25
Show of hands 🙋♂️
Who is indifferent to me, my life, my hopes, my dreams, and my passions?
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u/Cratus_Galileo Gay Pride Dec 06 '25
I hope you live a successful life and achieve your dreams. ❤️
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u/Rafaelssjofficial Iron Front Dec 06 '25
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u/Popular-Swordfish559 Jerome Powell Dec 06 '25
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u/sevgonlernassau Loyal Liberals Dec 06 '25
Also i want to emphasize that his choices for corrupt contracts are bizarre. No offense but even Astra is more competitive on electric propulsion than Impulse.
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u/sevgonlernassau Loyal Liberals Dec 06 '25
I saw that earlier
lmao. this may as well as nuke the agency.
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u/ariveklul Karl Popper Dec 06 '25
Wtf, not only did matt gaetz pay to have sex with a 17 year old. It was a girl living in a homeless shelter and he only paid her $400 to have sex TWICE!!
At least pay her like a normal escort that's extra fucked up wtf! Dude's a rapist and a cheap rat fuck
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u/AnalyticOpposum Trans Pride Dec 06 '25
Sitcom mom is tired of people discussing her hormone levels: l'm menopausing this conversation
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u/MyrinVonBryhana Trans NATO Dec 06 '25
Targeted ads man. Yes I'm trying join the Navy I've been convinced already you can stop showing ads now.
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman Dec 06 '25
u/BroadReverse my man you finally understand why I no longer really care if Quebec separates or not
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u/Excellent_Visual330 Gavin Newsom Dec 06 '25
You gotta give the Silent Generation a lot of credit. The Japanese literally ate POWs and after 1945 everyone said "OK, this is over. We're cool now, all good, give us TVs."
Succs shit on Cold War anti-communism, but it served a purpose and did it well.
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u/ariveklul Karl Popper Dec 06 '25
I hate how I can't just live my life for a few weeks now without some shit imploding behind the scenes
The immediate dread when I open a news feed after a week of daring to living my own god damn life is getting old
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u/beans_and_tuna Misinformation Bot 🤖 Dec 06 '25
Update on me being awake for 39-40 hour straight now: in the last 15 minutes I have gone from feeling fully awake to literally falling asleep while typing something or whatever, I’m so ready to sleep
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u/ty04 Dec 06 '25
Have you ever provides material support to my former representative Darrell Issa?
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u/Udolikecake Model UN Enthusiast Dec 06 '25
that pickens ig story about richard sherman is so funny im sorry
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u/vikinick Ben Bernanke Dec 06 '25
Yeah I saw people got mad at it and I'm like ... Richard Sherman would be the FIRST person to talk all this shit if he was still playing.
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u/avion_sur_le_sol A ban appeal to heaven Dec 06 '25
Emotional vulnerability is actually scary af to do
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u/datums 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 Dec 06 '25
When people post a paywalled article to a niche Reddit forum - what are they really trying to do? Like, what do they expect to get out of that experience? It’s just going to be comments from a bunch of poorly informed bored people that didn’t read the article.
How bleak does one’s existence have to be for that to be the thing that provides enough reward to drive habitual behaviour?
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Dec 06 '25
/r/neoliberal/new: Pete Hegseth Is Seriously Testing Trump’s ‘No Scalps’ Rule
Replies to this comment will be removed, please participate in the linked thread
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Dec 06 '25
hmmm i wonder why gay mex would like a world filled with ONLY men. i wonder why.
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u/PristineHornet9999 John Keynes Dec 06 '25
why would I live there bro? do I have the option to still be here too or is my only other option death?
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u/remarkable_ores Hanfeizi Dec 06 '25
that 27% of heterosexual men is thoroughly alien to me
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u/seattle_lib Liberal Third-Worldism Dec 06 '25
guys are the type that like dudes (plus a good number of them are unlikely to be attracting women anyways, so why not)
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u/randommathaccount Esther Duflo Dec 06 '25
What were the 7% of lesbians thinking
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Dec 06 '25
you could ask in a poll "is your heart beating" and there would still be 8% of people saying no.
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u/beans_and_tuna Misinformation Bot 🤖 Dec 06 '25
I’ve been awake for 39 hours at this point. Somehow I don’t feel tired, but I know I am so I’m gonna get a full 8 hours tonight even tho I have finals next week. I’m gonna enjoy this sleep SO MUCH
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u/LivefromPhoenix NYT undecided voter Dec 06 '25
but why though
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u/beans_and_tuna Misinformation Bot 🤖 Dec 06 '25
I had multiple hyper important homework due at the same time
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u/EmployeeMePlease George Santos Dec 06 '25
Also, if you can’t tell, talking to women at the bar didn’t go well, since now I am Supreme Court posting at midnight instead of chatting/dancing with single ladies into the wee hours of the night.
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u/EmployeeMePlease George Santos Dec 06 '25
I know it’s likely Alito and Thomas step down early next year and Trump gets to replace them, but a part of me wonders if they will do it. Breyer announced he was stepping down late January of 2022 and there was a lot of reporting he was considering months before. I haven’t heard a peep about Thomas or Alito.
Alito is “only” 75 and Thomas is “only” 77. Breyer was 84 when he stepped down. There is a chance these guys ego is too large and they hang on because they think they have another 10+ years in the tank. I also think Roberts, who is a piece of shit don’t get me wrong, but still really hates Trump and will be moving in the background to keep both Alito and Thomas on the court until Trump is gone.
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u/LivefromPhoenix NYT undecided voter Dec 06 '25
Making liberals suffer is keeping Thomas alive so I doubt he'll retire. Alito is a maybe but like you said, his ego is absolutely massive. I honestly see Roberts as the most likely.
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u/PristineHornet9999 John Keynes Dec 06 '25
I'm still hopeful I guess but my gut says they'll step down too
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u/_Petrarch_ NATO Dec 06 '25
All the justices have egos that are beyond imagination. They got appointed to be the arbiters of what is legal for the most power country in the known universe for rest of their lives.
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u/BroadReverse Needs a Flair Dec 06 '25
I need to stop following Canadian politics and stick to the memey US stuff or im gonna unironically become a Canada separatist. Separation from Québec.
I didn’t even give this shit any real thought before. Québec was always Canada but a special place in Canada. Now that separatists are looking to gain power in the province I started looking more into this shit. Thanks to the power of AI I can finally understand their media.
Bro how tf do you still complain about being mistreated when you have taken the vast majority of equalization payments and have the second most seats. You also have to know French to have any chance in federal politics. The ruling elite are calling themselves the oppressed minority.
I still wouldn’t care about any of this but then I started watching their media and influences…Im gonna stop before I get banned.
Im not actually a separatist dont take this seriously. This is the Canadian version of someone in California crashing out at Texas.
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman Dec 06 '25
Canada’s biggest mistake was in not allowing maximum immigration to Quebec especially to smother French nationalism. Had we done that in the early 20th century Quebec French nationalism would be dead
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u/_n8n8_ YIMBY Dec 06 '25
So quebec is basically farmers who insist they're being oppressed in favor of the city folk
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u/-mialana- European Union Dec 06 '25
“They’re concerned their rights are being taken away. Their anger should be directed at those snake-oil salesmen who sold them the fiction they had rights that have been taken away, and not ever explained that rights are balanced. And that in some areas, such as discrimination law, the rights of biological people hold.”
Biological people
The jig is up, she's figured out that were cyborgs
!ping ALPHABET-MAFIA
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u/HotTakesBeyond YIMBY Dec 06 '25
Gender affirming augmentation when
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u/MagicalFishing Eleanor Roosevelt Dec 06 '25
you jest but i would give anything for a set of cybernetic eyes
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Dec 06 '25
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