Reddit Lies on X - "r/fednews (the largest subreddit for federal workers) seems to be most active during working hours. Sorry, but I don't want my tax dollars paying federal employees to post on Reddit."
Crémieux on X - "I suspect that a lot of this activity is in violation of the law and could make for a great excuse to fire people. Under the Hatch Act, civil servants can't even 'Like' a political party's Facebook post during work hours. /r/fednews posts are very political. Probably illegal!"
Meme - Woman receiving cunnilingus with eyes rolled back: "OMG: How are you so good at that?"
*boy licking brownie batter off whisk*
Meme - "the perfect woman doesn't exi...
Carrot Tops carrot top
Amber Heards face
Arnold's pipe
Gianna Michaels handjob arm
Christina Hendricks rack
Danny DeVito stomach
Kim K ass
Man Hands hand
Cristina Ricci gun leg
Anderson Silva broken leg"
PeterSweden on X - "🇬🇧: In Britain, people are thrown in prison for posting memes on the internet.
🇩🇪: In Germany, a pensioner had his house raided by police for mocking a politician on the internet.
🇳🇴: In Norway, police tried to ILLEGALLY enter MY house after I exposed a cult that engaged in what many consider to be grooming of young girls.
In Romania, they arrested and now banned the leading candidate from running for President.
What's going on in Europe?"
PeterSweden on X - "BREAKING: Romania has BANNED Calin Georgescu from running for President. He won the first round of elections before they overturned it. Now he is leading the polls again. So now they simply banned him from running. This is happening in an EU country by the way."
Clint Russell on X - "Quick primer on Romania:
-right winger wins election
-election gets canceled by EU
-New election process begins
-EU bans him from running
-NATO base is being built to wage war on Russia
-Romanians don't want it, the EU/NATO demons don't care
Then they lecture you about democracy"
Meme - "i love this girl on tiktok who was like 'no matter how times someone explains it to me i will never understand why we cant just print more money'"
""if we print more money then it loses its 501K value" then just make it not lol I thought humans made the rules"
#cannabis | Mark Collins MBA - "My 4-year-old froze on stage at her first ballet recital. 'I failed, she told me after the show. I looked at her, heartbroken, with tears in my eyes. 'No. I failed you. But today, you've given me more than I could've ever asked for. You gave me a sad-kid story to post on Linkedin!' 'Link what?' she asked. 'Linkedin,' I replied. 'A place where depressing personal anecdotes involving imaginary children are posted & mined for engagements in order to boost one's own professional identity.' She looked at me, confused. 'But dad-' I cut her off. 'Shhhh."""
Meme - "You've got a point there, friend... How can we surf on your private heach without a surfboard" *2 kids facing big bald man breaking their surfboard*
Overdiagnosis of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Scoping Review - "Findings In this systematic scoping review of 334 published studies in children and adolescents, convincing evidence was found that ADHD is overdiagnosed in children and adolescents. For individuals with milder symptoms in particular, the harms associated with an ADHD diagnosis may often outweigh the benefits.
Meaning This finding suggests that high-quality studies on the long-term benefits and harms of diagnosing and treating ADHD for youths with milder or borderline symptoms are needed to inform safe and equitable practice and policy."
Meme - "32-year-old blogger's research forces Harvard Medical School affiliate to retract 6 papers, correct another 31. Sholto David, of Pontypridd, Wales, is a scientist-sleuth who detects cut-and- paste image manipulation in published scientific papers."
"Honey, come look, I found some information the world's top scientists and doctors missed"
Harry MacDougald on X - "In 2004 I was the first person (who was not an expert hired by CBS) to notice that the Bush Texas Air National Guard documents were forgeries because they were supposedly from 1972 but were in a proportionally spaced font. At home. In my boxer shorts. Posted about it on FreeRepublic.com, then told the wife."
Hernan Cortes on X - "Antony van Leeuwenhoek was a Dutch drapery merchant who invented an early microscope to view thread counts. With it he saw microscopic life for the first time ever. When he first told the Royal Society about his discovery they accused him of lying."
Jean LeBœuf on X - "John Snow posited that the 1854 Broad Steet cholera outbreak in England was caused by contaminated water, but the scientific community didn't believe him. They thought it was caused by miasma."
Hernan Cortes on X - "Or how the medical establishment treated Dr. Semmelweiss who believed that washing hands before surgical procedures could save lives, especially in obstetrics. Instead of lauded he was ridiculed and beaten to death in an insane asylum."
NachoCat on X - "Alfred Wegener, a German meteorologist, proposed the theory of continental drift in 1912. His ideas, backed by fossil and rock evidence, faced not just skepticism but outright ridicule from the scientific community, dismissing him as a fanciful outsider. After his death in 1930, plate tectonics validated his ideas."
Meme - "Honey, come look! I've found some information all the world's top scientists and doctors willfully ignored because it didn't support progressive outcomes."
Meme - "While browsing for sex slaves on the dark web, Bert points out the the handicapped options are cheaper and less likely to escape."
Colin Wright on X - "This person got a PhD in education from @StJohnsU by interviewing just TWO "self-identified LGBTQ+ undergraduate students" about how they "came to understand their writing and experiences in a queer out-of-school writing workshop space." The dissertation used "queer phenomenological methods" and "queer and affect theories" to study "the ways young people interact with texts and writing prompts that center queer topics and issues.""
"MY WRITING MAKES IT SO OTHERS CAN FEEL SEEN: A QUEER PHENOMENOLOGICAL " by Jenna L. Lynch
Meme - "WHAT'S THE ESTIMATE?"
"A MONTH"
"WHAT IF WE ADD ONE MORE THEN ENGINEER?"
"2 MONTHS"
"..."
"IF WE ADD A PM?"
"TRUST ME YOU DON'T WANNA KNOW."
Meme - Flurk with stubble: "Wow! WHOLESOME CONTENT!"
Trans coloured candy: "CASTRATE YOURSELF."
Green frog: "Okay!"
George R.R. Martin Is Really Never, Ever Finishing That Damn Book - "Three seasons into AMC and AMC+ series Dark Winds, the acclaimed noir drama starring Westworld‘s Zahn McClarnon, two of the show’s executive producers decided to drop in for a cameo. Last night’s season three premiere featured a brief but memorable scene of legendary actor Robert Redford and legendary fantasy author George R.R. Martin playing a little jailhouse chess"
Meme - "POV: you're about to lose your virginity to your best friend's mom on a family ski trip *Nancy Mace holding glass in hot tub*""
HS runner who bashed opponent's head cries over national backlash - "The Virginia high school track and field runner who was seen violently smashing her baton into an opponent's head during a relay race has spoken out about the backlash she's received, while claiming the incident was an accident. I.C. Norcom High School senior Alaila Everett gave opponent Brookville junior Kaelen Tucker a concussion and possible skull fracture when she beat her head with the baton at an event on Tuesday. Everett claims the attack occurred because she lost her balance and her baton got "stuck" behind her opponent's back... Everett also said that while she caused physical pain for Tucker, there is not enough empathy for Everett's own "mental" impact. "Everybody has feelings, so you’re physically hurt, but you’re not thinking of my mental," Everett said. "They are assuming my character, calling me ghetto and racial slurs, death threats… all of this off of a nine-second video.""
Michelle on X - "If you zoom in & go frame by frame you can see at no time did baton get stuck and she intentionally reared back and struck, and she kept running after so at no time did she show any concern until she got called out online."
Meme - "Big Data Security Management"
"Data Security Management Framework"
"BDSM stands for big data security management, obviously"
John Handley on X - "The latest IMF World Economic Outlook expects Poland to overtake Japanese GDP per capita next year"
John Handley on X - "Even at market exchange rates, the gap is much smaller than PPP skeptics seem to realize"
Kevin Bass PhD MS on X - "Deaths in America from 1999 to 2025
Suicide: 1,100,000
Overdose: 1,500,000
Heart attack: 17,800,000
Measles: 4
Biggest cause of media hysteria: measles Hmm. Why is that exactly?"
Why do international chinese students not try to make friends with other ethnicities or just disregard them entirely : r/AskChina - "As a student at a university that has a lot of international students from China I am suprised how little the chinese care to make friends or even talk to foreigners. Even if people attempt to talk to them or be friendly they kind of don't care or are fake nice. People at my uni often try to network but I have never seen a chinese student try this. I know they know english to a high level so it can't be that (all classes are in english aswell so they have to). Is this just a normal thing? Is this racism or classism? Or do they just not care at all? Is networking a thing that chinese people don't really do or do they see no use doing it with people from different countries? I'm just confused mostly"
"I actually wrote to and spoke with our University principal about this, and advised the diversity&inclusion board (for whatever little good that may have done). The following are from my personal experience & observations:
Language - due to the way it is taught, Chinese students tend to have better written English than spoken. Sometimes Asian students are also shyer or less confident when speaking foreign languages. Among the friendlier Chinese students, I find a better command/confidence of spoken English is the biggest correlator with how many 'foreign' friends they maintain.
Cultural barriers - the Great Fire Wall means that the Chinese internet is a functionally seperate ecosystem, with it's own pop culture, fashion, music, memes, media, etc. You add new friends on wechat, something other students aren’t likely to have. There are also significant food and traditional cultural differences between East and West.
Ease & familiarity - the Chinese cohort (and generally the Chinese diaspora) is huge. There are so many other Chinese students to be friends with; there are so many services run by Chinese people, catering to other Chinese people. A Chinese student will typically feel less 'pushed' to integrate, since a familiar Chinese support network already exists for them.
Transience - Many Chinese students intend from the get go to return to China; thus they see little need to foster local connections. This is stereotypical for the richer Chinese students who are here just for the Uni ranking clout.
Sampling bias - there are so many Chinese students that any proportion of 'unfriendly Chinese students' will be a large and visible group"
Rachel Gilmore on X - "PARDON ME??? The @caj legitimized the right-wing RAG the Western Standard as "journalists," condemning them not being allowed into a press conference as an example as a "crime against the democratic process"???"
Attacking and delegitimising the press is classic fascism. Unless you're attacking and delegitimising the right wing press
Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund to buy Pokémon Go - "The Public Investment Fund (PIF), Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, is set to pay $3.5 billion (€3.2 billion) to buy the gaming division of Niantic. The San Francisco-based software development company is best known for its mobile games Pokémon Go and Monster Hunter Now... With the purchase of Niantic, the PIF continues its expansion into the esports industry. PIF already owns Scopely through its Savvy Games Group company. After the $4.9 billion (€4.5 billion) acquisition in 2023, Scopely – which is known for Monopoly Go – will add Niantic to its portfolio."
Why Gen Z Are Turning Down Promotions - "In 2024, Amsterdam-based staffing firm Randstad's annual Workmonitor report revealed that 39 percent of workers are uninterested in promotions, while 42 percent said they would turn down a promotion altogether... A key reason why younger employees like Emma are turning down promotions is the trade-off between additional responsibilities and what she describes as "marginal gains." When the extra workload comes without significant financial compensation, younger people are less likely to jump at the opportunity."
The streaming wars are over. The rich won. - "Increasingly, streaming content is subject to tiers and the trend of "premiumization." For years, companies like Netflix, Max, and Disney+ fought the so-called streaming wars — losing money because of pricey content, fierce competition, and high churn rates among users who hopped from platform to platform. But 2024 was the year things turned around. Spotify, Netflix, and Disney+ were all posting profits, finally making investors happy... Ultimately, entertainment tiers might not be such a bad deal for consumers. Z. John Zhang, a professor of marketing at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton Business School, says tiered pricing actually does democratize these services. Different pricing levels allow people who want to pay less to do so and still get decent access to content, subsidized by those willing to pay for premiumization. "What's good about tiered pricing is they give you the choice. It's not like it forces you to be in business class," he says. "For the people who pay the higher price, it's voluntary, they want to. The customers all become better off; they all have their own choice.""
Apparently streaming companies are obliged to lose money to subsidise consumers
Indeed CEO: I always ask these 2 questions in job interviews—they’re more important than a resume - ""It's funny, the more I do this, the less I'm looking for specific knowledge or experience," he says. "The most important thing is curiosity and adaptability, not necessarily what you've done."...
1. "What are you insanely curious about?" Or, alternatively, "What do you care deeply about?"
2. "Tell me a story about when you were really, really sure about something and found out you were completely wrong."...
The Indeed CEO approaches interviews in at least one more creative way: He typically doesn't look at candidates' resumes before speaking with them, he says. Instead, he wants to come to his conclusion about someone based on what they show him, without being influenced by what he read on a piece of paper. "It's really important for me to try to eliminate as many preconceived notions [beforehand] and just assess a person …. As much as I'd like to think that I am rational and open minded, I have biases. Everyone has biases," Hyams says. "I have biases for and against certain schools, certain degrees and certain companies that, no matter how much I work at it, you know, these are just old patterns that I recognize.""
Canadians hit tipping point on tips, say they are too high and too pushy - "Overall, only 30 per cent of Canadians support a strong tip culture, despite 31 per cent having directly worked in a gratuity-based job at some point in their lives."
Traveling Full-Time Isn't Worth It, Says Girl Who Spent 9 Months Abroad - Business Insider - "I kept looking for places and experiences that felt like home
It felt like I was constantly thinking about money
My friendships at home changed, and the new ones I made were fleeting
I missed having a space to call my own"
Ridicule is nothing to be scared of - "What a professional or a parent can’t accomplish, a friend often can. My daughter was partnered with a group of three boys in her home economics cooking class, all of them “toxically” — and wonderfully — male: irreverent, funny, and just the right amount of mean. “Don’t let Nat get near the knife!” they’d tease. “Knives are for cutting vegetables, Nat. Vegetables.” This ridicule might strike some as unusually cruel, a form of bullying and an instance of an “unsafe place” in her public school. But it was the mockery and jokes which were precisely what was healing for Nat. In her words: “It showed that they cared because they acknowledged my hurt, but they also showed that I didn’t have to let it overcome me. By drawing attention to my scars, they showed me that I didn’t have to feel ashamed of them. By laughing at me, they showed me that it was okay to laugh at myself.” And just like that, her cutting stopped. But as I see it, there was another, deeper aspect to their ridicule that helped her to heal. It was the faith they had that she would take the jokes with a good spirit. Implicit in their teasing was their understanding that N would join in on the fun. And the bond created by that faith was the healing she needed. They trusted her to know that implicit in their mockery was care and love. Their leap of faith meant she felt less alone. A university chaplain once told me something that seems to capture the spirit of our age: the highest ethic for the students she talks to, she said, is to not hurt another person’s feelings. That is a line that the kids will not cross. Not only do we not presume to tell one another how to live, we affirm others in their choices (largely to feel affirmed ourselves in our ethical, nonjudgmental behaviours. We are all such good people). Yet this seems to me to be profoundly anti-life, as well as deeply disrespectful of another’s capacity for good faith. How can one even begin to form real relationships if one is too afraid to hurt another person? How can we discuss ideas and feelings, debate them or contest them? How can we be authentic if we are constantly monitoring our every thought and action so as to not disrupt another’s sense of well-being?... When Shakespeare has couples hurl barbs and banter, it is a reliable measure of their mutual affection, of their fitness for true friendship, and a measure of their equality... Making a joke is always a risk and an act of faith. Comedy, says comedian Charlie Demurs, is “like throwing a rock into a window and turning it into stain glass”. Something is broken: a placid surface, an ideal, a politeness. But the breaking of a social nicety is only the prequel to a more beautiful transformation. We laugh. Laughing makes us feel better. We have had faith in others. That faith creates a connection."
Anti "bullying" campaigns are not all good, and neither is victim culture
Gen Z hires are easily offended, and not ready for workplace: business leaders - "The survey found 75% of execs felt most of the recent college grads they hired were unsuccessful — and 60% said at least some of them had to be fired. The supervisors, who ranged from C-suite execs and business owners to senior and human resources managers at companies with more than 10 employees, said they’ll refrain from hiring Gen Z workers in the coming year... About 17% of leaders believe Gen Z, who range in age from their teens to about 28, is often “too difficult” to manage, and 39% said they have poor communication skills... James has seen what he calls “snowflakeism” — some Gen Zers “crumbling” under even a little pressure. “It’s almost like you have to walk on eggshells around them, being super sensitive when managing them, in case you offend them, upset them, or push them too far,” he said. Some twentysomethings have even brought a parent with them to job interviews for support... even with a more laid back office environment, recent college grads don’t dress professionally and don’t use “appropriate” language for work, 19% of those surveyed said. “A lot of these responses matched up with general stereotypes of how people talk about Gen Z in general,” Nguyen said. While some of the beliefs are subjective, others are not, he said, like being on time. About 20% of respondents said Gen Zers are often late to work, and 15% said they frequently hand assignments in late. The younger generation is also more likely to use up their sick days than their older colleagues... many bosses are trying to tame the immature hires, even mandating “office etiquette training.” Fifty-four percent of the company leaders surveyed said they offer the training and many mandate it for new hires — and a quarter of them specifically require it for Gen Z recruits."
Gen Z Is Ghosting Employers - "Roughly 41 percent of Gen Z job seekers admitted to ghosting a potential employer, while 37 percent of millennials said the same... Only 26 and 22 percent of Gen X and Baby Boomers had done the same. Across the board, 35 percent said they had ghosted a company during the hiring process... HR consultant Bryan Driscoll told Newsweek: "Gen Z isn't ghosting employers out of nowhere. Employers have been ghosting candidates for decades. This just gives employers a taste of their own medicine. I don't necessarily agree with the approach from either party, but I do understand it.""
Fast-fashion retailer Forever 21 files for bankruptcy - "Fast-fashion retailer Forever 21's U.S. operating company on Sunday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy for the second time in six years, hamstrung by dwindling mall traffic and mounting competition from online retailers. The move likely means liquidation for the company, which was unable to find a buyer for its roughly 350 U.S. stores. Its trademark and intellectual property - still held by an entity called Authentic Brands Group - may live on in a different form... Founded in Los Angeles in 1984 by South Korean immigrants, Forever 21 at its height was popular among young shoppers on the prowl for stylish but affordable clothing. By 2016 it was operating around 800 stores globally, with 500 of those in the United States."
