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Answer: Yes, it's a stereotype that a lot of people experienced growing up.
Kid wants a dog. Dad says no dog. Family gets dog anyway. Dad bonds with dog. Dad now loves the dog he never wanted.
(With my dad, it was a cat.)
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2019-07-31 23:37:09
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What's up with all the "dad and dog" memes?
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I keep seeing them all over reddit. Where did this come from? Is there a stereotype about dads not wanting dogs, then spending lots of time with them? Because that's an oddly specific stereotype. https://www.reddit.com/r/woooosh/comments/ckdmfc/f_instagram_normies/?utm_source=reddit-android
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Answer:
- Earlier today John posted a video clip of himself dancing on Instagram. Someone replied, "My boy, after realizing >!Kylo died so he can date Rey.!<" Boyega replied to that person saying "It's not about who >!she kisses but who eventually lays the pipe!<. You are a genius." For those unfamiliar >!"laying pipe" is a crude euphemism for sex.!< (Spoilers are major plot points of TROS).
- Someone jumped in and said something to the effect of "hey this is a bad take and offensive to women. Just holes eh?" Boyega replied "I was talking about Rey from Star Wars. When did I speak about women in general? Where did I even mention holes? You see your own idiotic mindset is showing itself. It is something called a joke. Bye now."
- Other people called him out. He replied to other people with things like "I said >!LAYING PIPE. BYE NOW.!<" Many of the comments calling him out are gone now.
- [Screenshots of the Instagram comments](https://reypalpatines.tumblr.com/post/189979449368/yeah-its-ok-if-its-a-joke-right) (**TROS SPOILERS**) were posted to Twitter and people started @ing Boyega, as pissed off fans do to celebs. Unlike 99% of celebs, Boyega actually responded. Many of the fans were Reylos who were defending Rey and Reylo in general. Some personal comments/insults were thrown at Boyega, such as people saying he had a crush on Daisy Ridley and that he was jealous of Adam Driver being the lead actor.
- About 2 hours after the Instagram comments [he Tweeted 4 pictures of Rey and Kylo](https://twitter.com/JohnBoyega/status/1212090062147637251) fighting with the caption "Star Wars romance.", including one picture that is a **spoiler** for The Rise of Skywalker (**I repeat the link is a spoiler**).
- After tweeting those pictures he kept replying to individual tweets, many with mocking/dismissive gifs. One person said ["you're a misogynist" and he replied, "you're an idiot."](https://i.redd.it/raycnaxec1841.jpg)(**SPOILER**) He also called a Reylos "inbreds" and a FinnPoe shipper an "irritant".
- Since the above top-level tweet he's posted several more top-level tweets including one saying ["job done" with a gif of "deal with it darling"](https://twitter.com/JohnBoyega/status/1212091084672786433) and another saying ["We did good SW fans! On to 2020!"
](https://twitter.com/JohnBoyega/status/1212103407076548611)
In summary, he posted comments on Instagram which some people construed as sexist/misogynistic. Screenshots of those comments were posted on Twitter and he was tagged in them. He started engaging in those tagged tweets and arguing with fans. People, primarily fans of "Reylo" or a relationship between Rey/Kylo, started commenting. Boyega then posted multiple top-level tweets that Reylo fans felt were deliberately antagonistic towards them. His name hit trending status because of people arguing about whether he was sexist or not and whether his subsequent comments were justified or not.
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Edit: Added links to sources.
Edit 2: Fixed my shit attempt to redact the spoilers.
Edit 3: Clarity and a typo.
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2020-01-01 06:52:42
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What's going on with John Boyega and Star Wars?
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He is trending on Twitter and there's something about him sharing his unfiltered opinion about Star Wars? Something about "Reylo" too?
https://twitter.com/search?q=%22John%20Boyega%22&src=trend_click
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2019-12-31 22:49:36
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Answer: Boyega (an actor in SW) is basically trolling people who ship Kylo Ren and Rey from Star Wars by making some jokes. People getting butthurt about it and he's laughing at them
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2020-01-01 15:25:53
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What's going on with John Boyega and Star Wars?
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He is trending on Twitter and there's something about him sharing his unfiltered opinion about Star Wars? Something about "Reylo" too?
https://twitter.com/search?q=%22John%20Boyega%22&src=trend_click
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2019-12-31 22:49:36
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Answer:
John Boyega has been making comments on twitter regarding his thoughts on the new Star Wars trilogy, usually but not limited to his role on the films.
To say that the films made after Disney adquired the franchise are controversial among the fandom is putting it lightly.
One of the aspects usually talked about is the perceived wasted potential of the characters, particularly that of Finn (John Boyega's character).
He was introduced from the very beginning and he had quite an unique backstory for the film franchise. He was the first ever "enemy mook" that became part of the main cast.
No other stormtrooper (the evil faceless minions of the franchise) had ever had any character. Boyega played the child soldier/slave that defected to the good side.
And that is pretty much it. After his introduction and part in the first film, he was basically sidelined for the rest of the trilogy. To add insult to injury, his character basically retreaded the same journey again in the second film but with considerably less impact to the events of the story.
The third film made little to no attempts to alleviate this.
Boyega is unhappy with the direction his character took, among other issues.
The *Reylo* part refers to a subsection of the fans that speculated and wished for the characters of Rey and Kylo to end up in a romantic relationship (these type of fans are usually called "shippers" and their pairings as "ships").
As I understand from his tweets, Boyega is not a fan of this pairing and has stated his reasons why.
While I am not really involved in these types of fan communities and I admit I may not get the whole picture... it is common knowledge that "shippers" tend to be among the most rabid of fans, being quite invested in their preferred pairings and reacting negatively when the story doesn't go their way.
Boyega (a public figure being part of the project) expressing opinions contrary to theirs is sure to rile them up and start "discussions" (read: "rants") on social media.
TL;DR John Boyega has made statements that rile up parts of the fans of the new Star Wars movies because they are of the contrary opinion
Edit: Clarity and removed some adjectives ("engaging" and "understandably") that could be interpreted as my opinion on the matter.
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2019-12-31 23:42:24
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What's going on with John Boyega and Star Wars?
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He is trending on Twitter and there's something about him sharing his unfiltered opinion about Star Wars? Something about "Reylo" too?
https://twitter.com/search?q=%22John%20Boyega%22&src=trend_click
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2019-12-31 22:49:36
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Answer: There was a Tumblr account a while back with a bunch of racist posts, which was confirmed to be Camila Cabello’s account. She uses a bunch of n-slurs in the posts.
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2020-01-01 07:16:55
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What's going on with Mariah Carey's Twitter being hacked by "Camila"?
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https://twitter.com/fallawaybandito/status/1212159676298780673?s=19 a lot of people are saying that "Camila" is the one responsible for posting controversial tweets on Mariah Carey's Twitter account. Who is this Camila?
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2020-01-01 07:09:43
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Answer: The “Camila” that is being referenced is singer Camila Cabello, former member of girl group Fifth Harmony and now solo artist. Racist Tumblr posts of Camila’s surfaced in December and now she’s being rebranded as a racist (and rightfully so) and everything racist on the internet is now being associated with Camila as a joke. [Here’s](https://twitter.com/camila_cabello/status/1207389734948880384?s=21) an apology tweet Camila made regarding the situation and [here's](https://twitter.com/motivatefenty/status/1207080182919684097?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1207080182919684097&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthemuse.jezebel.com%2Fajax%2Finset%2Fiframe%3Fid%3Dtwitter-1207080182919684097%26autosize%3D1) the racist posts she reblogged.
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2020-01-01 07:39:33
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What's going on with Mariah Carey's Twitter being hacked by "Camila"?
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https://twitter.com/fallawaybandito/status/1212159676298780673?s=19 a lot of people are saying that "Camila" is the one responsible for posting controversial tweets on Mariah Carey's Twitter account. Who is this Camila?
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2020-01-01 07:09:43
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Answer: These dances cannot be categorised in one genre, like the step 'Swagg Bounce' was created by Richard Curtis aka Swagg and is said to be a part of Urban dance. And the woah is widely used in Hip Hop as well as in Urban! These dances are called Viral Dances if you want to categorised them. Early this year when tiktok was blowing up many creators on TikTok did these dances and are still doing them for clout! Also, these dances were a part of the very popular Fortnite game!
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2020-01-01 09:50:59
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What’s up with all these girls doing weird hand dancing?
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I will fully admit I’m staring to reach the age where I’m losing touch with young pop culture. I’m 42 and my kids are 7 and 4.
Also as a woodworker and general handyman type, I use a lot of YouTube. Sometimes I fall down tangential rabbit holes. I’ve noticed compilations of (often white) girls on Tik Tok and such doing these weird intricate almost hula-like, but not, dances.
What is it? Where did it come from? Why do I find it so bizarre?
[for reference:](https://youtu.be/6Az9r5wrGfY)
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2019-12-31 06:24:42
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Answer: Tik Tok is an app that filled the void that Vine left behind, it's just like 15 second videos with music in the background (or sounds that you can create)
Has a unique system where a post is sent to people's feeds (all over the world) and if people like it or share/comment, it gets sent to more and more people
This leads people to create these funny or cool short videos, whether a joke or a dance etc Since there are a ton of guys on the app, girls usually get insanely popular, so if you download the app you'll see it , but its not just all girls dancing, theres cool skating videos, sports, photography , comedy etc type of shit on there There is even some kind of 'vine' revival going around with it
But with the dances, there'll be some popular song and people like to record themselves doing it, get likes and it just spreads
youtubers make money off compiling these to people like you LOL Downlaod the app and you'll see its not just white girls dancing, thats just what they upload since they know it leads to views
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2020-01-01 22:36:34
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What’s up with all these girls doing weird hand dancing?
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I will fully admit I’m staring to reach the age where I’m losing touch with young pop culture. I’m 42 and my kids are 7 and 4.
Also as a woodworker and general handyman type, I use a lot of YouTube. Sometimes I fall down tangential rabbit holes. I’ve noticed compilations of (often white) girls on Tik Tok and such doing these weird intricate almost hula-like, but not, dances.
What is it? Where did it come from? Why do I find it so bizarre?
[for reference:](https://youtu.be/6Az9r5wrGfY)
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2019-12-31 06:24:42
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Answer: Gloving, ie ravers, moving their fingers, just without gloves.
Also known in some circles as "tutting", this has at it's core become mainstream, and without drugs.
Alternatively, the entirety of generation anxiety is just permanently high.
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2020-01-06 07:08:18
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What’s up with all these girls doing weird hand dancing?
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I will fully admit I’m staring to reach the age where I’m losing touch with young pop culture. I’m 42 and my kids are 7 and 4.
Also as a woodworker and general handyman type, I use a lot of YouTube. Sometimes I fall down tangential rabbit holes. I’ve noticed compilations of (often white) girls on Tik Tok and such doing these weird intricate almost hula-like, but not, dances.
What is it? Where did it come from? Why do I find it so bizarre?
[for reference:](https://youtu.be/6Az9r5wrGfY)
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2019-12-31 06:24:42
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Answer: kids copy things that “popular” people (and perhaps also kids) are doing. My own daughter is 13 and she is constantly doing the same dances, and she and her friends do the same, recording videos of their coordinates group maneuvers. It’s no different than we did back in the 80s, copying dance moves seen on MTV, only we didn’t have the benefit of easy recording, sharing, and instantly reviewing. Today, kids are actively perusing IG and TikTok feeds (remember when Vine was a thing? It’s not any more) for the latest craze. Only now, the latest fad has an extremely short lifespan, perhaps measured in weeks or days until something else captures young minds.
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2019-12-31 06:58:07
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What’s up with all these girls doing weird hand dancing?
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I will fully admit I’m staring to reach the age where I’m losing touch with young pop culture. I’m 42 and my kids are 7 and 4.
Also as a woodworker and general handyman type, I use a lot of YouTube. Sometimes I fall down tangential rabbit holes. I’ve noticed compilations of (often white) girls on Tik Tok and such doing these weird intricate almost hula-like, but not, dances.
What is it? Where did it come from? Why do I find it so bizarre?
[for reference:](https://youtu.be/6Az9r5wrGfY)
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2019-12-31 06:24:42
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Answer: The app tik tok has made these short dances to specific songs popular and they get recreated by the thousands. The first girl in that video is “Charli” who is the most famous person on tik tok and is a dancer. However, idk if she’s making up these dances herself and setting the trends or if she’s following along and is just popular, but those dances are “in” on tik tok right now
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2019-12-31 07:01:22
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What’s up with all these girls doing weird hand dancing?
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I will fully admit I’m staring to reach the age where I’m losing touch with young pop culture. I’m 42 and my kids are 7 and 4.
Also as a woodworker and general handyman type, I use a lot of YouTube. Sometimes I fall down tangential rabbit holes. I’ve noticed compilations of (often white) girls on Tik Tok and such doing these weird intricate almost hula-like, but not, dances.
What is it? Where did it come from? Why do I find it so bizarre?
[for reference:](https://youtu.be/6Az9r5wrGfY)
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2019-12-31 06:24:42
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Answer: the style of dance is called tutting.
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2019-12-31 08:07:27
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What’s up with all these girls doing weird hand dancing?
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I will fully admit I’m staring to reach the age where I’m losing touch with young pop culture. I’m 42 and my kids are 7 and 4.
Also as a woodworker and general handyman type, I use a lot of YouTube. Sometimes I fall down tangential rabbit holes. I’ve noticed compilations of (often white) girls on Tik Tok and such doing these weird intricate almost hula-like, but not, dances.
What is it? Where did it come from? Why do I find it so bizarre?
[for reference:](https://youtu.be/6Az9r5wrGfY)
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2019-12-31 06:24:42
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Answer: it's called finger tutting as mentioned, first time I remember seeing it was in Taylor Swift's "Shake it off" video but I'm sure it was around before that, that's just what I'm citing as the reason it became so popular.
It's just like MC Hammer or Michael Jackson's dances were back in the day, but easier to pick up and imitate since it doesn't require full body coordination to pull off. Kinda like how people loved Beyonce's "single ladies" dance because it was easily reproducible and made it seem like you were up to date with culture, surprised this one's still around though. Once people over 40 start discovering it and doing it younger people will probably move on like with Facebook.
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2019-12-31 13:48:50
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What’s up with all these girls doing weird hand dancing?
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I will fully admit I’m staring to reach the age where I’m losing touch with young pop culture. I’m 42 and my kids are 7 and 4.
Also as a woodworker and general handyman type, I use a lot of YouTube. Sometimes I fall down tangential rabbit holes. I’ve noticed compilations of (often white) girls on Tik Tok and such doing these weird intricate almost hula-like, but not, dances.
What is it? Where did it come from? Why do I find it so bizarre?
[for reference:](https://youtu.be/6Az9r5wrGfY)
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2019-12-31 06:24:42
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Answer: TikTok allows you to grab the audio from any other post whenever you make a post. This leads to a lot of riffs on the same theme, and that’s the fun of TikTok. Someone does a funny dance to a certain song and then everyone grabs the audio and imitates the dance. People will add their own twist to it and the meme will evolve. There are any number of such memes on TikTok and they aren’t all dancing related. For example, in another one, the audio just has one person yelling gibberish while another confused person says “what? I can’t...” People have acted out this scene a hundred different ways. After a little while of browsing on TikTok you realize you’re seeing the same couple dozen memes a lot. Eventually they get tired and people move on to new ones. There are of course also some videos which aren’t riffs on a meme, so it’s not like this kind of meme-copying is the entirety of what goes on. But it is a central and fun part of TikTok. You really can’t get a good sense of it by just watching videos exported to YouTube.
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2019-12-31 16:38:25
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What’s up with all these girls doing weird hand dancing?
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I will fully admit I’m staring to reach the age where I’m losing touch with young pop culture. I’m 42 and my kids are 7 and 4.
Also as a woodworker and general handyman type, I use a lot of YouTube. Sometimes I fall down tangential rabbit holes. I’ve noticed compilations of (often white) girls on Tik Tok and such doing these weird intricate almost hula-like, but not, dances.
What is it? Where did it come from? Why do I find it so bizarre?
[for reference:](https://youtu.be/6Az9r5wrGfY)
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2019-12-31 06:24:42
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Answer: One thing that No other answer has touched on yet is the vertical video aspect.
Dancing in a tight frame vertical video doesn’t leave a lot of room for movement, so for a dance to be more dynamic it requires a lot more hand and arm movement.
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2019-12-31 16:49:21
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What’s up with all these girls doing weird hand dancing?
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I will fully admit I’m staring to reach the age where I’m losing touch with young pop culture. I’m 42 and my kids are 7 and 4.
Also as a woodworker and general handyman type, I use a lot of YouTube. Sometimes I fall down tangential rabbit holes. I’ve noticed compilations of (often white) girls on Tik Tok and such doing these weird intricate almost hula-like, but not, dances.
What is it? Where did it come from? Why do I find it so bizarre?
[for reference:](https://youtu.be/6Az9r5wrGfY)
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2019-12-31 06:24:42
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Answer: I stopped watching at the commercial, but everything up to that point was absolutely a "dance". Not really sure why you wouldn't want to classify them as such, but people dance, and people (young especially) video and share.
> Why do I find it so bizarre?
That's the real question.
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2019-12-31 17:05:45
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What’s up with all these girls doing weird hand dancing?
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I will fully admit I’m staring to reach the age where I’m losing touch with young pop culture. I’m 42 and my kids are 7 and 4.
Also as a woodworker and general handyman type, I use a lot of YouTube. Sometimes I fall down tangential rabbit holes. I’ve noticed compilations of (often white) girls on Tik Tok and such doing these weird intricate almost hula-like, but not, dances.
What is it? Where did it come from? Why do I find it so bizarre?
[for reference:](https://youtu.be/6Az9r5wrGfY)
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2019-12-31 06:24:42
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Answer:
I read this as 42 year old man is watching 15 year old girls dance on a music app and needs to justify it on reddit to save face
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2019-12-31 19:16:24
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What’s up with all these girls doing weird hand dancing?
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I will fully admit I’m staring to reach the age where I’m losing touch with young pop culture. I’m 42 and my kids are 7 and 4.
Also as a woodworker and general handyman type, I use a lot of YouTube. Sometimes I fall down tangential rabbit holes. I’ve noticed compilations of (often white) girls on Tik Tok and such doing these weird intricate almost hula-like, but not, dances.
What is it? Where did it come from? Why do I find it so bizarre?
[for reference:](https://youtu.be/6Az9r5wrGfY)
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2019-12-31 06:24:42
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Answer: Other people have answered what it is, but as for why you find it so bizarre, it's just not for you. I'm going to guess that you were never a little girl. Little girls play patty cake, make up dance routines, and are more expressive with their hands and arms. Teenage girls love shit like dance challenges. Not everyone is good at dancing, so you see a wide range of attempts and varying levels of difficulty. These very expressive types of dance moves are easier to replicate but also translate well to the format. If you've never seen jazz dance like, for example, Bob Fosse's style before, you would also think it was unusual, but it kind of hits the same notes--very expressive, sexually suggestive, translates clearly on film medium.
The first girl in the video is definitely weird and cringey watching it as an adult, but it's mostly because of her facial expressions and the disjointed way that her body moves. What you're missing is some context. Other people on the platform both acknowledge that this is a weird thing to do and that some people are bad at it, but still celebrate participation. Thus, the first girl is still popular on the platform because she is prolific and recognizable.
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2019-12-31 20:15:06
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What’s up with all these girls doing weird hand dancing?
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I will fully admit I’m staring to reach the age where I’m losing touch with young pop culture. I’m 42 and my kids are 7 and 4.
Also as a woodworker and general handyman type, I use a lot of YouTube. Sometimes I fall down tangential rabbit holes. I’ve noticed compilations of (often white) girls on Tik Tok and such doing these weird intricate almost hula-like, but not, dances.
What is it? Where did it come from? Why do I find it so bizarre?
[for reference:](https://youtu.be/6Az9r5wrGfY)
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2019-12-31 06:24:42
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Answer: This was all started by The Betoota Advocate, Australia’s longest standing news publication - actually just a satire site.
Over the last year they’ve made several references to the poor marketing of a Rugby Union in Australia at the top level and have said that the governing body’s - Australian Rugby Union (ARU) - marketing department is simply run by a pigeon. This has prompted various pieces like “Pigeon from Marketing saves itself by pulling off decent ratings” and “Barnaby Joyce (ex-deputy PM) so drunk he’s eaten the pigeon from marketing”.
Now the meme “...from marketing” essentially just means useless; not impactful enough to have a known title and whose job could be done by a pigeon.
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2020-01-01 11:02:20
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What's up with the Australian Prime Minister nicknamed "Scotty from marketing"?
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**Why is the Australian Prime Minister nicknamed "Scotty from marketing"?**
I initially only saw Scott Morrison referred to as "Scotty from marketing" in the Betoota Advocate (AU version of The Onion)
https://www.betootaadvocate.com/headlines/scotty-from-marketing-holds-focus-group-to-suss-out-if-hell-get-booed-at-the-sydney-test/
Now, the nickname is prolific and has entered the mainstream. What are the origins of the nickname "Scotty from marketing"?
*Meta: submission title requirements are too strict. "Why is..." should surely be permitted?*
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2020-01-01 09:21:34
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Answer: His job before politics was marketing. Most notably, he was the head of Tourism Australia when they put out that "where the bloody hell are you" ad campaign. The Betoota Advocate, a satirical news site, started calling him Scotty from marketing a while a ago and it caught on.
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2020-01-01 12:49:50
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What's up with the Australian Prime Minister nicknamed "Scotty from marketing"?
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**Why is the Australian Prime Minister nicknamed "Scotty from marketing"?**
I initially only saw Scott Morrison referred to as "Scotty from marketing" in the Betoota Advocate (AU version of The Onion)
https://www.betootaadvocate.com/headlines/scotty-from-marketing-holds-focus-group-to-suss-out-if-hell-get-booed-at-the-sydney-test/
Now, the nickname is prolific and has entered the mainstream. What are the origins of the nickname "Scotty from marketing"?
*Meta: submission title requirements are too strict. "Why is..." should surely be permitted?*
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2020-01-01 09:21:34
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Answer:
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, before he went into politics, had a career in marketing, and specifically in tourism marketing (having been responsible in some way for campaigns related to Australia and New Zealand - he is associated with a prominent and controversial Australian tourism campaign with the catchphrase ‘where the bloody hell are ya?’).
The Betoota Advocate, a prominent Australian satirical website, tweeted a link to an article of theirs on November 12th which satirised Morrison’s response to the (still-current) bushfire crisis that was beginning to emerge at the time (sigh). This satirical article portrayed him as cynically using public relations techniques to minimise the importance of the fires, rather than doing something about them: [PM Morrison Dusts Off His Marketing Hat To Rebrand The Climate Fires](https://twitter.com/BetootaAdvocate/status/1194212693470662656)
On the 7th of December, the Betoota tweeted a link to another satirical article titled [Mate, Do Something, Anything](https://www.betootaadvocate.com/headlines/mate-do-something-anything/). Taking a similar slant to the previous linked article, this one started with the words ‘Scotty from Marketing’ referring to Morrison (I think this was their first use of the specific term). ‘Scotty’ as a slangy version of Morrison’s first name has connotations of a lack of respect, and ‘from Marketing’ rather than ‘Prime Minister’ implies lack of leadership; marketing as a profession is often seen as full of people well practised in the art of bullshit, the implication being that there is more to leadership than being able to bullshit.
After Morrison took a holiday in Hawaii during some of the worst of the bushfires in mid-December, the phrase seemed to strike a chord amongst #auspol (Australian politics twitter), and became a prominent hashtag, #scottyfrommarketing, which has now been used by everyone from celebrities to commentators to former Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
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2020-01-01 17:48:05
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What's up with the Australian Prime Minister nicknamed "Scotty from marketing"?
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**Why is the Australian Prime Minister nicknamed "Scotty from marketing"?**
I initially only saw Scott Morrison referred to as "Scotty from marketing" in the Betoota Advocate (AU version of The Onion)
https://www.betootaadvocate.com/headlines/scotty-from-marketing-holds-focus-group-to-suss-out-if-hell-get-booed-at-the-sydney-test/
Now, the nickname is prolific and has entered the mainstream. What are the origins of the nickname "Scotty from marketing"?
*Meta: submission title requirements are too strict. "Why is..." should surely be permitted?*
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2020-01-01 09:21:34
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Answer: Most of us call him ScoMo (Sco-tt Mo-rison), which now due to his complete lack of empathy or action, has been changed to ScuMo. The “Scotty from Marketing” is also a dig at his previous failures in marketing, and a bit cleaner, so easier to use in headlines.
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2020-01-01 21:30:18
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What's up with the Australian Prime Minister nicknamed "Scotty from marketing"?
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**Why is the Australian Prime Minister nicknamed "Scotty from marketing"?**
I initially only saw Scott Morrison referred to as "Scotty from marketing" in the Betoota Advocate (AU version of The Onion)
https://www.betootaadvocate.com/headlines/scotty-from-marketing-holds-focus-group-to-suss-out-if-hell-get-booed-at-the-sydney-test/
Now, the nickname is prolific and has entered the mainstream. What are the origins of the nickname "Scotty from marketing"?
*Meta: submission title requirements are too strict. "Why is..." should surely be permitted?*
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2020-01-01 09:21:34
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Answer: My assumption is that Pepe works as a kind of underground, anti-establishment meme that makes light of serious topics and has mass appeal, especially through the Internet where support of the Hong Kong protesters seems to be high. He plays the same role in the US with Chan culture, but the enemy of the current political wing of 4chan is establishment media and social justice types who declare him a hate symbol. So for both he’s become a mascot of the counterculture in many ways.
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2020-01-01 12:42:01
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What is the deal with Pepe and the Hong Kong protests?
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I've recently started to see a lot of pictures of protesters with some sort of Pepe merchandise. What is the connection between the two? What does Pepe have to do with the protests?
Example from some photos of a recent protest: https://www.hongkongfp.com/2020/01/01/resist-tyranny-join-union-huge-turnout-hongkongers-hit-streets-new-years-day-protest/
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2020-01-01 12:32:04
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Answer: As far as I can tell, Pepe was a funny symbol, and was from there used as a symbol of protest and hope
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2020-01-02 03:10:03
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What is the deal with Pepe and the Hong Kong protests?
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I've recently started to see a lot of pictures of protesters with some sort of Pepe merchandise. What is the connection between the two? What does Pepe have to do with the protests?
Example from some photos of a recent protest: https://www.hongkongfp.com/2020/01/01/resist-tyranny-join-union-huge-turnout-hongkongers-hit-streets-new-years-day-protest/
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2020-01-01 12:32:04
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Answer: It's a meme. [More information](https://sea.mashable.com/culture/8306/the-2020-slogan-meme-has-everyone-setting-goals-for-the-new-year)
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2020-01-01 13:10:26
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What's going on with the 2020 logo?
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Saw a couple of sports (but not only) people using [this](https://twitter.com/F1/status/1212321068075098112?s=19) another example [here](https://twitter.com/AdriSanMiguel/status/1212313359607123968?s=19) and was wondering if there's a particular meaning/linked to anything
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2020-01-01 11:49:44
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Answer: To further expand it was said the US called to give a heads up that they were going to be bombing Iraq. Iraq told the US to call off their strike which they didn't. Violating Iraq sovereignty. This coupled with the months long protest against the current Iraq government may be bringing things to a head.
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2020-01-01 15:58:48
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What is the deal with this protest at a US Embassy in Iraq and it being compared to Benghazi?
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I haven't kept up with the news, but I heard there was some protest at a US Embassy in Iraq and now people are comparing it to Benghazi?
https://twitter.com/search?q=Benghazi&src=tren&lang=en
What exactly happened? There's way too much spin on both sides here. Is it really fair to compare this event to Benghazi or are they different?
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2019-12-31 23:05:38
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Answer: To summarize, both events are being compared as they were politically and/or ideologically motivated attacks against US diplomatic facilities by non-host nation militias in predominately Muslim countries. In both events attackers gained access to the compounds facilities despite them being protected by host nation security forces and caused millions of dollars with of damage. While every diplomatic compound, either US or that of another nation, provides its own security forces internally, it is ultimately the host nation’s legal responsibility to provide security for that facility. When a force attempts to gain unauthorized access to a facility it is the host nations responsibility to stop it. Generalized, the embassy can only protect itself once the forces are inside and employees’ lives are in danger.
Such attacks are more common than expected, both against US facilities and other countries, but normally not covered in the media to the extent of the current assault. Examples include the attack on the US Consulate in Herat in 2013, a suicide bomber attack on the US Embassy in Turkey in 2013, and the storming of the US Embassies in Egypt, Yemen, and Tunisia all in 2012 (these all fall under the “Arab Spring Protests” which were heavily covered by the media but under a different light as the attack on Benghazi had not happened yet and most viewed them as a political revolution away from the ultra-conservatism the host nation). The attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi received contestant media coverage due the death of the US Ambassador to Libya as a result of the attack and the initial statements by officials from the Obama Administration that the attack was a protest over an anti-Muslim YouTube video. A lengthy congressional inquiry was launched to determine if the death of the Ambassador was due to negligence within the Obama Administration, with ultimate responsibility for the security of the consulate laying with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi ultimately became a political tool for the US Republican party against the Democrat party, which both Obama and Clinton were/are members of. During an inquiry lunch by the Republicans it was claimed the Obama administration tried to cover up the true nature of the Benghazi attack.
With that in mind, back to the comparison. Many in the US media/Democrat party are referring to the attack on the US Embassy in Baghdad as President Trump’s “Benghazi”. By saying this they are inferring that it is a failure of his administration to protect US interest overseas to the level of the failure to protect the US Consulate Benghazi and the US Ambassador.
Ultimately, there is a valid comparison between the two events when comparing them in an international political light. Both were attacks on US diplomatic facilities overseas. Attackers assaulted the compound and were able to gain access. In both situations the host nation were unable or unwilling to ensure the security of the two facilities.
However the similarities end there. Due to the different security postures between the permanent US Embassy in Baghdad and the US Consulate in Benghazi, which was a temporary compound, the attackers were not able to make much progress. While they caused millions in dollars of damage to the Baghdad facility, the attackers were not able to gain access in to the actual embassy and no lives were lost on either side. While Democrats are trying to gain political capital by saying the Trump administration failed to protect US facilities overseas this is untrue as the US Embassy security forces and features in Baghdad worked as intended when they did not during the attack in Benghazi. There was no loss of life in Baghdad and no alleged cover up by the Trump administration over the cause of the attack, which were to of the biggest talking points of the Benghazi attack.
Cheers!
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2020-01-03 09:36:04
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What is the deal with this protest at a US Embassy in Iraq and it being compared to Benghazi?
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I haven't kept up with the news, but I heard there was some protest at a US Embassy in Iraq and now people are comparing it to Benghazi?
https://twitter.com/search?q=Benghazi&src=tren&lang=en
What exactly happened? There's way too much spin on both sides here. Is it really fair to compare this event to Benghazi or are they different?
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2019-12-31 23:05:38
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Answer: It’s a reference to the Yoda loving Ketamine meme (https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/yodas-ketamine-addiction) that’s been revived with the arrival of Baby Yoda
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2020-01-01 16:08:11
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What’s the Deal With Lego Yoda Loving Ketamine?
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So I found this subreddit: https://reddit.com/r/legoyodaloveketamine
while looking for lego subs and I am confused by Yoda’s love for ketamine. Its seems pretty active with a lot of baby yoda posts. Anyone know what this thing is about?
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2019-12-30 04:00:27
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Answer: one time he tweeted that format about a “free” watch. Then subsequently lots of fake Elon Musk accounts started to do the same thing with other, mostly scam products. Now it’s a meme.
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2020-01-01 19:55:57
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What’s the deal with the Elon Musk “just google XYZ, thank me later” tweets?
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Are they real, when did they start/ start being fake, and what’s the joke exactly?
[EXAMPLE](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/eimilb/what_did_he_done_this_time/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
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2020-01-01 19:54:32
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Answer: Adding ontop of the other comment, Elon recently tweeted about building a "Super safe, earthquake-proof, tunnels under the city to solve traffic" [Link](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1210774027054145536?s=19)
While this is an objectively good idea, many people have pointed out it's not some revolutionary idea he had, it's just a description of a subway.
It goes on with a theme of Silicon Valley big players talking about inventing things that already exist (something that has become a meme online now it's happened so often). So people respond with "Just Google a subway" as a way to joke about it.
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2020-01-02 18:04:18
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What’s the deal with the Elon Musk “just google XYZ, thank me later” tweets?
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Are they real, when did they start/ start being fake, and what’s the joke exactly?
[EXAMPLE](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/eimilb/what_did_he_done_this_time/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
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2020-01-01 19:54:32
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Answer:
[Iain Duncan Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Duncan_Smith) was leader of the Conservative Party between 2001 and 2003. He's considered a bit of a political also-ran in some circles; his tenure as Leader of the Opposition came after Tony Blair's landslide victory in 1997 (and his repeat performance in 2001), but covered a lot of the anti-Blair sentiment that came when Britain entered the Second Gulf War. His reputation as a 'quiet man' of British politics never really gelled with the voters, and (partly due to the feeling that he was unlikely to lead the party to victory, and partly due to [an expenses scandal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betsygate)), he was ousted in a no-confidence vote before he got to contest a general election. He made a quiet return to the [backbenches](https://www.parliament.uk/site-information/glossary/backbenches/) -- the UK term for an MP who isn't part of the Cabinet or the Shadow Cabinet (that is, the Cabinet of the Opposition) -- and that was that.
Well... for a while, anyway.
Politics is cyclical, and no party stays in power for ever. After thirteen years of Labour, the Conservatives managed to *just* squeak a victory in 2010. (It really *was* a squeak, no matter how entrenched they might seem at the moment; the Conservatives were basically forced into a coalition with the Liberal Democrats -- a pair of strange bedfellows indeed -- making it the first time the UK had had a coalition government since the seventies.) David Cameron took power, and began filling his Cabinet. IDS, who had been an MP since 1992 and who had increased his majority in the 2006 election, comfortably winning back his seat, was a safe choice: a loyal Conservative, someone not likely to make waves. After seven years on the backbenches, he was selected as the [Secretary of State for Work and Pensions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Work_and_Pensions). This is, as you might imagine, not really a sexy or exciting government position -- you're thinking more Housing and Urban Development than Secretary of State -- but it's one of the positions that has a significant impact on people's day to day lives. It determines pensions, tax credits, benefits... a large part of Britain's social safety net comes out of the Department of Work and Pensions (the DWP). Perhaps because of his prior history as Leader -- it's not all that common for someone who was previously Leader of a party to go back to a job like that -- IDS had a lot of attention paid to him in his new role.
IDS's flagship policy in the six years that the DWP was under his control was [Universal Credit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Credit) -- ostensibly a streamlining of the UK benefits system to make it more efficient and to encourage people to try to find work. However, there were some significant problems with the system, with [reports suggesting that many people would find themselves worse off as a result of the changes, even if they found work](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jul/12/universal-credit-less-pay) -- a case of [perverse incentives](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive) if ever there was. There was also criticism that the tightening of restrictions made it difficult for people who needed help from getting it, having to jump through a great many difficult hoops for what seemed to be little extra purpose. It's no real surprise that his era in charge coincided with a rise in [the British using food banks](https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/nov/05/welfare-changes-key-factor-rising-poverty-food-bank-use-study-finds), down to sanctions and delays and other bureaucratic hurdles. The Conservatives have always had kind of a reputation for being out of touch when it came to the needs of the poor in the UK, but IDS making claims about how easy it would be for him to survive on the £53 a week that benefits claimants received made him fairly unpopular in a lot of circles. (To give you an idea of just how unpopular his policies were, the [UN produced a scathing report about how poorly the UK was treating its disabled citizens under IDS's watch.](https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/aug/31/un-panel-criticises-uk-failure-to-uphold-disabled-peoples-rights) *The UN.*) He quit the DWP in 2016 (in protest over further cuts to his department), and -- pro-Brexit -- served as the campaign chief for Boris Johnson's 2019 Leadership Contest victory.
All of which brings us to now and the 2020 New Year's Honours List, in which IDS is touted to receive a knighthood for services to politics. This in itself isn't *that* unusual, especially for long careers in the House of Commons -- there are [three MPs being awarded honours this year](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/dec/27/iain-duncan-smith-bob-neill-diana-johnson-mps-in-new-year-honours-list) -- but the outcry over this one has been significant. A petition against it is [currently past 230,000 signatures](https://www.change.org/p/uk-government-and-parliament-we-object-to-iain-duncan-smith-receiving-a-knighthood), and there is a feeling among a lot of people that IDS's knighthood (which would make him *Sir* Iain Duncan Smith) is a reward for a service that, while long and high-profile, was actively harmful to a lot of individuals.
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2020-01-01 19:58:49
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What's up with Iain Duncan Smith?
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/29/iain-duncan-smith-knighthood-welfare-britain
My basic understanding: IDS was leader of the Tories at some point, and in charge of benefits and pensions at some point, too. He implemented policies which screwed over poor or disabled people, and others relying on benefits. Now he has been given a knighthood, which is being seen by some as reward for treating people terribly.
What I don't understand: When and where did he have power? What did he do, specifically? What were the impacts? Can it really all be traced back to him individually? What is the reason given for offering him a knighthood? Is there a side that truly thinks he deserves it and if so, why?
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2020-01-01 18:27:31
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Answer: The Tories have been in government for the last 10 years roughly, first under the Con/Lib Coalition and then as a Majority government. While IDS being Leader of the Tories and being spokeperson in opposition (shadow cabinet - no power, but holding his opposite number to account) of various departments pre-dates that, it does help understand why he was considered for the role of Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. The Secretary effectively controls the Department of Work and Pensions, which administers the various forms of welfare that the state is responsible for. One of the main reforms he started (it's still in progress) was Universal Credit, which was intended to combine the various individual benefits under a single umbrella. While he resigned from the post in 2016, the policy is still in place and will probably continue under the current government to 2024.
The principle of Universal Credit seems like a solid one (reducing the red tape surrounding welfare), but the implementation has been pretty much a disaster. It can take more than 6 weeks to get benefits to start being paid, even when the claiming person has been on long-term benefits already and therefore all required information is in place. As these are usually the most vulnerable in the UK, they very rapidly end up in trouble. In addition to this, since 2010, at least one of the benefits (the Personal Independence Payment, for disabled people) has been subject to an aggressive re-evaluation scheme, seeing significant numbers of people having to appear in front of officials to prove that they still require the benefit. There seems to be a culture among these assessors to get as many people off the benefit as possible, despite the evidence, which has resulted in most of their judgements being appealed and overturned. There has also been a significant increase in food-bank usage, even among the employed, which is being laid at his feet as well.
I haven't read why he's received a knighthood in this years New Years Honours list (it'll probably say for services to politics), but his record at the DWP is seen in a very poor light to say the least.
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2020-01-01 20:29:20
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What's up with Iain Duncan Smith?
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/29/iain-duncan-smith-knighthood-welfare-britain
My basic understanding: IDS was leader of the Tories at some point, and in charge of benefits and pensions at some point, too. He implemented policies which screwed over poor or disabled people, and others relying on benefits. Now he has been given a knighthood, which is being seen by some as reward for treating people terribly.
What I don't understand: When and where did he have power? What did he do, specifically? What were the impacts? Can it really all be traced back to him individually? What is the reason given for offering him a knighthood? Is there a side that truly thinks he deserves it and if so, why?
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2020-01-01 18:27:31
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Answer: The last 2 years (2018 and 2019) started with the tide pod and air pod memes, so people wanna complete the elemental meme cycle with fire and earth pods.
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2020-01-01 21:22:48
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What’s up with the Firepod memes everywhere?
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https://www.reddit.com/r/dankmemes/comments/eim7p6/amirite_fellas/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
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2020-01-01 20:29:56
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Answer: Bronies are adult men that are into My Little Pony. They collect the toys, dress up as characters, attend Cons, discuss episodes of the show and movies online, etc. For many of them it's just a hobby, but as with anything there will always be some in the group that will sexualize it and twist it to fit their fantasies despite the fact it was not created for that.
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2020-01-02 00:03:17
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What is going on with this "bronies" drawing nasty things about ponies and a kid?
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I saw [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/Cringetopia/comments/eikhdy/some_of_yall_need_a_reminder_of_what_cringe_is/) post in [r/cringetopia](https://www.reddit.com/r/cringetopia/) and I have no clue what is going on. Who are the bronies? Why do they sexualize ponies? It is like a joke or they really like that? What is up with this kid?
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2020-01-01 23:51:34
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Answer: Bronies are adults who unironically enjoy being fans of the show my little pony. They've been a meme for a while. Like furries, some of them sexualize it while other ones insist there isn't anything sexual about it to them. It's difficult to know how much the creepy people represent the community. There is also another term "clopper" that seems more specific to people who make porn of the show, sortof like "yiff" is to "furry".
There was a character added to the show with a minor role called "stellar Eclipse", who was part of a make-a-wish foundation wish. The character was created by a child with spinal muscular atrophy. People who draw my little pony r34 made explicit drawings of it. (as you can find explicit drawings of nearly anything imaginable).
the only other twist to the story is that apparently there was an anonymous tumblr message from the child's mother (who seems to voice the custom pony in the show) asking people to not create perverse fan works of her sons character. It's unclear whether the poster is legitimate, but the whole debacle is being used to blast "bronies".
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2020-01-02 00:53:22
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What is going on with this "bronies" drawing nasty things about ponies and a kid?
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I saw [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/Cringetopia/comments/eikhdy/some_of_yall_need_a_reminder_of_what_cringe_is/) post in [r/cringetopia](https://www.reddit.com/r/cringetopia/) and I have no clue what is going on. Who are the bronies? Why do they sexualize ponies? It is like a joke or they really like that? What is up with this kid?
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2020-01-01 23:51:34
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Answer: It's getting a lot more momentum recently because of the celebrity and company endorsements on twitter.
To back track, April 2017 Snyder's daughter passed away but he continued to work on JL. When WB realised the movie would be over 2 hours, they fired Snyder and got in whedon (a controversial appointment as he directed avengers 1&2) to marvelise the movie to make more money. So from may-september (I believe) whedon red-hot the movie, edited it down to a completely different vision. These changes are obvious as Ben Affleck loses and gains weight throughout the film, and cavills mustache CGI. As we know these changes did not help one bit, and actually damaged the movie massively, especially at the box office.
Fans were asking then for the release of the original cut, social media and other companies then denied the existence of the film. Recently Snyder has been sharing images of deleted scenes of his version of the Snyder cut which started speculation again. He then posted a picture of a film reel of the justice League movie with a cut of 220mins. He responded to a fan saying the assembly cut is 5 hours and the CGI is complete for the movie. Celebrities like Dave Batista, Jason mamoa and Ben Affleck have all tweeted in support of the Snyder cut to be released. Companies like subway have also got involved and got involved with some charity work relating to the hashtag as well.
All in all, the movie exists, but will it ever be released is the question.
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2020-01-02 01:35:27
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Why are people talking about the Snydercut?
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I know it’s part of the DC Universe and I’ve heard a lot of the fan base strongly dislike many of their movies.
[The Snydercut ](https://www.snydercut.com/)
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2020-01-01 16:38:37
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Answer: Op you already have lots of good answers I just wanted to add that folding ideas on YouTube just made a great video about why the Snyder cut isn’t likely to be released and explains what went on with that whole situation. It’s like 20 minutes long and completely answers your question + the video was quite interesting. I’d recommend it for sure
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2020-01-02 01:41:24
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Why are people talking about the Snydercut?
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I know it’s part of the DC Universe and I’ve heard a lot of the fan base strongly dislike many of their movies.
[The Snydercut ](https://www.snydercut.com/)
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2020-01-01 16:38:37
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Answer: Zack Snyder has confirmed that the Snyder Cut exists. He calls it "Zack Snyder's Justice League'. I had already commented on another thread weeks back giving sources on the people who have worked on the movie and their PoV of the Snyder Cut and the proof of how far along the Snyder Cut is, it is, like any movie as complete as it gets.
* [Here](https://www.reddit.com/r/DC_Cinematic/comments/eeuqxn/discussion_zack_snyder_confirms_the_snyder_cut/) is a post where Zack Snyder says that the CGI is complete, which confirms the assumption that I had that he had worked on the VFX/CGI these past 2 years, probably out of pocket.
* Here is the [post](https://www.reddit.com/r/DC_Cinematic/comments/dyqsyx/other_zack_snyder_shared_photo_of_gal_gadot/) with a picture posted by Zack Snyder of Gal Gadot doing ADR with an unfinished CGI of Uxas(Darkseid). There is a timestamp in the picture, that says 02:10:49:10, and this shows that Wonder Woman/Diana probably tells the history lesson about Uxas(who we know later becomes Darkseid) at 1H10m into the movie. Snyder says that ADR was being done in January 2017, you can extrapolate information from that nugget.
* Here is the [post](https://www.reddit.com/r/DC_Cinematic/comments/e5qz2h/discussion_fabian_wagner_talks_about_snyder_cut/) with a twitter thread where Fabian Wagner(cinematographer) says how he color graded the movie. He says the color grading of the first 3 trailers of JL is how the Snydercut would look, but months after he finished, they did 55 days of reshoots with Joss Whedon having 80 pages of script changes. Fabian said that what we saw in the theatres only contained 10% of what Zach Snyder shot, while the rest were all reshoots. Fabian wasn't called back to the reshoots, so someone else color graded Joss Whedons version. If we believe Fabian that only 10% of what we saw was by Snyder, that means we have only seen about 15-30 mins of Snyders actual cut, and since the Snyder Cut is 3.5 hours, there is 3 hours of unseen footage that is ready, or at least ready with a few unfinished VFX shots.
* Not sure if you have seen the Justice League VFX leaks by ascendedancient, someone who might have worked or got the leaks from someone who worked the VFX for Justice League. It had clips of some unfinished VFX of Cyborg testing his flight and other VFX shots that were unfinished.
* Here is a [post](https://www.reddit.com/r/DC_Cinematic/comments/e5rrh9/editorial_as_someone_who_works_in_the_biz_let_me/) where someone who claims do work in the business, and explains how far along the Snydercut is finished, explaining that since ADR process is confirmed with Gal Gadot, that means the movie had reached 'Picture Lock', which means that the editing has completed and all scenes are locked. He also believes what the VFX producers have said that 90% of the VFX work is completed.
* Here is an [article](https://heroichollywood.com/justice-league-zack-snyder-cut-vfx-shots/) which has comments from VFX artists who have worked on JL, who said that many VFX shots were finished but didn't make it in the movie, and also there were a few VFX shots that were in various stages of completion, from pre-vis to near completion.
* [Here](https://twitter.com/jayoliva1/status/1007848788977901568?s=19) is Jay Olivia, who is the storyboard artist and also directed many DC animated movies, saying that Zach Snyder has shot 99% of what he wanted to shoot and that the edit is complete
* [Here](https://www.reddit.com/r/DC_Cinematic/comments/dqa7fu/interview_jason_momoa_confirms_the_existence_of/) is Jason Mamoa who says that he has seen the Snyder Cut, and when the interviewer asks how that is possible since the effects arent done and various alternate takes, and Jason replies with "you think Zack didn't finish.....?
* [Here](https://www.reddit.com/r/DC_Cinematic/comments/doyeox/news_junkie_xl_confirms_his_justice_league_score/) is Junkie XL who says that the full score for the SnyderCut is complete.
* [Here](https://www.reddit.com/r/DC_Cinematic/comments/e5ph9p/other_justice_league_writer_chris_terrio/) is Chris Terrio, the writer, who says that he will soon say what he has to say when the NDA is over, this January. He has also said that he knows what the SnyderCut would be since he wrote the movie, he hasn't seen it though, but he says that the movie he wrote is very different from what we got in the theaters.
So, in short, we have the composer saying that the score is complete, we have the cinematographer saying that the color grading for the movie is complete, we have Zack Snyder himself saying the the SnyderCut exists and the CGI is complete, we have VFX artists who says that many VFX shots were completed and a few shots were in various stages of completion before the theatrical cut of JL.
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2020-01-02 07:52:53
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Why are people talking about the Snydercut?
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I know it’s part of the DC Universe and I’ve heard a lot of the fan base strongly dislike many of their movies.
[The Snydercut ](https://www.snydercut.com/)
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2020-01-01 16:38:37
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Answer:
1. You're correct, with a couple caveats. **There's also a requirement that the candidate have at least a certain number of individual donors**, though that's not particularly relevant for the question, since Yang has consistently been meeting the donor requirement - it's the polling that he's been having issues with. Also, there's actually a rule where, **if you have particularly high polling in a smaller number of early state polls, you can still get in.** For example, the December debate required either >4% in four national or early state polls, OR >6% in only TWO early state polls. This accounts for the phenomenon where candidates can "snowball" after an early state win, even if they weren't doing too well nationally to begin with. This is also irrelevant to Yang, as he isn't doing particularly well in any of the early states - he's trying to get national poll results.
2. **It's based on the polling organization**. Some organizations are more reliable than others, either because of methods used, or because of their past accuracy. The DNC tries to not allow polling organizations that aren't as reliable as others at actually predicting how candidates will do.
3. I mean it's basically just that **Yang is in danger of not meeting the requirements for the next debate**, and he *really* needs to make the debate in order to remain competitive in the race. So, he's trying to get the DNC to allow more polls, so that he'll have a higher number of polls where he meets the requirement. Several other candidates have pulled similar stunts when they were really close to making a debate, but didn't, including Cory Booker, Julián Castro, and especially Tulsi Gabbard, who went on Fox News to complain about it.
If you want to get into more subjective aspects, there seems to be a strong sentiment among Yang supporters that he's "underrepresented" in polls because Yang supporters are typically really passionate about it, and they see a lot of other Yang supporters online that are really passionate about it, but that doesn't exactly match up with the actual field of voters, in which Yang isn't very popular compared to the major players (Biden/Sanders/Warren/Buttigieg/Klobuchar to a lesser extent). There's also conspiracy theories about the DNC trying to make it intentionally hard for anyone other than their "desired picks" to win, but at that point it becomes a lot less fact-based and more, well, conspiracy theories.
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2020-01-02 02:29:33
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What's Going On With Andrew Yang Requesting More Polls?
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https://www.newsweek.com/pollthepeople-trends-dnc-rejects-andrew-yang-request-more-polls-ahead-iowa-debate-1479755
So before we start, I am a Yang supporter. Passively though. But I have noticed him and a huge amount of his supporters complain about polls. So I guess my question is two fold:
1. How does polling affect qualification for the debate stage? My understanding is you need to meet some X percentage on Y qualifying polls? Qualifying polls means polls approved by the DNC?
2. What kind of poll are approved by the DNC and how do they decide that?
3. Why is Yang and his base asking for more polls? There were polls out before. Are they asking for more polls now? I hear mentions of local state polls that shows them positively? I'm just confused about polling tbh.
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2020-01-02 01:01:00
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Answer: Yes, it is an indication of sarcasm, and nothing more.
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2020-01-02 11:19:24
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What’s the deal with adding /s to the end of comments?
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https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/ei8kub/new_year_meme/fcoexhd/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf link to an example of this. Does it mean sarcasm? I’m too afraid to ask anywhere else.
Thanks, it does, in fact, mean sarcasm
Edit: I have been told that I could have just googled the answer but I only started either seeing or noticing it recently and when I put in /s to the r/OutOfTheLoop search bar nothing came up... thank you for a possibly unnecessary amount of answers for such a stupid question.
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2020-01-02 11:15:36
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Answer: the literal translation is "end sarcasm ", indicating the preceding text was in a sarcastic tone. Anything after should be in a serious tone.
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2020-01-02 13:32:41
| false |
What’s the deal with adding /s to the end of comments?
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https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/ei8kub/new_year_meme/fcoexhd/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf link to an example of this. Does it mean sarcasm? I’m too afraid to ask anywhere else.
Thanks, it does, in fact, mean sarcasm
Edit: I have been told that I could have just googled the answer but I only started either seeing or noticing it recently and when I put in /s to the r/OutOfTheLoop search bar nothing came up... thank you for a possibly unnecessary amount of answers for such a stupid question.
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2020-01-02 11:15:36
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Answer: It indicates sarcasm. But why is "a clear indicator of intent" needed?
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
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eix0ja
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fcu6rew
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2020-01-02 14:05:00
| true |
What’s the deal with adding /s to the end of comments?
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https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/ei8kub/new_year_meme/fcoexhd/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf link to an example of this. Does it mean sarcasm? I’m too afraid to ask anywhere else.
Thanks, it does, in fact, mean sarcasm
Edit: I have been told that I could have just googled the answer but I only started either seeing or noticing it recently and when I put in /s to the r/OutOfTheLoop search bar nothing came up... thank you for a possibly unnecessary amount of answers for such a stupid question.
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2020-01-02 11:15:36
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Answer: In html, you use tags to change the way something looks. So if you want bold, you type <b>. That says “turn on bold”. Then you type what you want bold, and when you don’t want it bold anymore, you type </b>. So that turns off bold. People use this same convention to indicate sarcasm, they just don’t use the brackets because some forums won’t show the brackets, it will actually do the thing instead of showing up in the text.
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2020-01-02 15:13:27
| false |
What’s the deal with adding /s to the end of comments?
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https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/ei8kub/new_year_meme/fcoexhd/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf link to an example of this. Does it mean sarcasm? I’m too afraid to ask anywhere else.
Thanks, it does, in fact, mean sarcasm
Edit: I have been told that I could have just googled the answer but I only started either seeing or noticing it recently and when I put in /s to the r/OutOfTheLoop search bar nothing came up... thank you for a possibly unnecessary amount of answers for such a stupid question.
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2020-01-02 11:15:36
| true |
Answer: When you make a joke, but you don't want to be downvoted. Add a /s as a shield.
In other words, Poe Law.
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eix0ja
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2020-01-02 15:39:25
| false |
What’s the deal with adding /s to the end of comments?
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https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/ei8kub/new_year_meme/fcoexhd/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf link to an example of this. Does it mean sarcasm? I’m too afraid to ask anywhere else.
Thanks, it does, in fact, mean sarcasm
Edit: I have been told that I could have just googled the answer but I only started either seeing or noticing it recently and when I put in /s to the r/OutOfTheLoop search bar nothing came up... thank you for a possibly unnecessary amount of answers for such a stupid question.
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2020-01-02 11:15:36
| true |
Answer: No, of course it doesn't mean sarcasm. ^/s
Real Answer: Yes, it means sarcasm.
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eix0ja
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2020-01-02 16:30:53
| false |
What’s the deal with adding /s to the end of comments?
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https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/ei8kub/new_year_meme/fcoexhd/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf link to an example of this. Does it mean sarcasm? I’m too afraid to ask anywhere else.
Thanks, it does, in fact, mean sarcasm
Edit: I have been told that I could have just googled the answer but I only started either seeing or noticing it recently and when I put in /s to the r/OutOfTheLoop search bar nothing came up... thank you for a possibly unnecessary amount of answers for such a stupid question.
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2020-01-02 11:15:36
| true |
Answer: text is hard to tell the tone of since the element of voice is removed, this makes it clear that you're being sarcastic
It also helps since we're finding more and more outrageous statements being made completely seriously, that one would previously just assume were sarcasm.
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2020-01-02 17:20:29
| false |
What’s the deal with adding /s to the end of comments?
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https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/ei8kub/new_year_meme/fcoexhd/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf link to an example of this. Does it mean sarcasm? I’m too afraid to ask anywhere else.
Thanks, it does, in fact, mean sarcasm
Edit: I have been told that I could have just googled the answer but I only started either seeing or noticing it recently and when I put in /s to the r/OutOfTheLoop search bar nothing came up... thank you for a possibly unnecessary amount of answers for such a stupid question.
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2020-01-02 11:15:36
| true |
Answer:Yes
For questions like these go to /r/noStupidQuestions
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eix0ja
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fcv80lt
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2020-01-02 20:22:38
| false |
What’s the deal with adding /s to the end of comments?
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https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/ei8kub/new_year_meme/fcoexhd/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf link to an example of this. Does it mean sarcasm? I’m too afraid to ask anywhere else.
Thanks, it does, in fact, mean sarcasm
Edit: I have been told that I could have just googled the answer but I only started either seeing or noticing it recently and when I put in /s to the r/OutOfTheLoop search bar nothing came up... thank you for a possibly unnecessary amount of answers for such a stupid question.
| 2,900 |
2020-01-02 11:15:36
| true |
Answer: It stands for sarcasm. It came from coding language turned into a joke as in <sarcasm> text text text </sarcasm> with the /s standing in for the end of the sarcasm element. Sometimes you’ll also see the same thing with /rant - to signify the end of a rant.
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2020-01-02 20:48:54
| false |
What’s the deal with adding /s to the end of comments?
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https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/ei8kub/new_year_meme/fcoexhd/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf link to an example of this. Does it mean sarcasm? I’m too afraid to ask anywhere else.
Thanks, it does, in fact, mean sarcasm
Edit: I have been told that I could have just googled the answer but I only started either seeing or noticing it recently and when I put in /s to the r/OutOfTheLoop search bar nothing came up... thank you for a possibly unnecessary amount of answers for such a stupid question.
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2020-01-02 11:15:36
| true |
Answer:
Yes, as everyone else says it means sarcasm.
But _why_ it means sarcasm is in reference to HTML closing tags. If you're unfamiliar with HTML you can wrap text in HTML tags and have the text mean different things, e.g., `<p>This is a new paragraph</p>` or `<h1>This is a top-level heading</h1>`
So, it's short-hand humorous way to indicate that the text was originally wrapped in (fictitious) sarcasm tags, e.g. `<s>Oh, that was really informative.</s>`
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eix0ja
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fcvimsy
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2020-01-02 22:08:04
| false |
What’s the deal with adding /s to the end of comments?
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https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/ei8kub/new_year_meme/fcoexhd/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf link to an example of this. Does it mean sarcasm? I’m too afraid to ask anywhere else.
Thanks, it does, in fact, mean sarcasm
Edit: I have been told that I could have just googled the answer but I only started either seeing or noticing it recently and when I put in /s to the r/OutOfTheLoop search bar nothing came up... thank you for a possibly unnecessary amount of answers for such a stupid question.
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2020-01-02 11:15:36
| true |
Answer: it's what redditors use who are too afraid to commit to their joke.
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eix0ja
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fcwbqwt
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2020-01-03 03:22:07
| false |
What’s the deal with adding /s to the end of comments?
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https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/ei8kub/new_year_meme/fcoexhd/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf link to an example of this. Does it mean sarcasm? I’m too afraid to ask anywhere else.
Thanks, it does, in fact, mean sarcasm
Edit: I have been told that I could have just googled the answer but I only started either seeing or noticing it recently and when I put in /s to the r/OutOfTheLoop search bar nothing came up... thank you for a possibly unnecessary amount of answers for such a stupid question.
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2020-01-02 11:15:36
| true |
Answer: It's just a meme, it circled a couple weeks back saying "everyone make your this your profile picture on this date" - I forget what the date stated was but it's evidently passed.
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eissph
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fcu1db8
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2020-01-02 12:47:37
| false |
What’s up with people having the profile picture of a silver suv?
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Today on Instagram I’ve noticed multiple people with this profile picture of a silver suv: https://imgur.com/UtNaKeu I’ve never seen it before today? Is it from something?
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2020-01-02 03:45:19
| true |
Answer: He took a vacation to Hawaii and left his country while it burned.
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fcuskfk
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2020-01-02 17:54:30
| false |
What's up with the PM of Australia and the wildfires?
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Have been seeing a lot on the Australia wildfires recently, and recently saw a video of “Scomo” (Scott Morrison, I’m presuming) basically ignoring a pregnant women’s pleas to help. Outside of it being an obvious photo-op gone wrong, there seemed to be an undertone of him in the comments about him withholding aid, or at least ignoring the severity of the fires.
Is it apparent he could be doing more to fight these fires? I was under the impression that this was basically top priority in Australia right now, and assumed Australian authorities were doing everything they could to fight this.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/eiy7nd/australian\_pm\_scott\_morrison\_told\_to\_p\_off\_by/](https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/eiy7nd/australian_pm_scott_morrison_told_to_p_off_by/)
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2020-01-02 17:43:42
| true |
Answer:
He took a vacation to Hawaii in the middle of this national crisis.
The firefighters have been begging for more supplies and equipment, and got nothing. They were told to make do. Hardly the response of a government doing all it can.
Only five days ago, the government finally agreed to pay the volunteer firefighters for their weeks and weeks their tireless work on the front lines of the fires. Two have died.
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2020-01-02 18:38:54
| false |
What's up with the PM of Australia and the wildfires?
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Have been seeing a lot on the Australia wildfires recently, and recently saw a video of “Scomo” (Scott Morrison, I’m presuming) basically ignoring a pregnant women’s pleas to help. Outside of it being an obvious photo-op gone wrong, there seemed to be an undertone of him in the comments about him withholding aid, or at least ignoring the severity of the fires.
Is it apparent he could be doing more to fight these fires? I was under the impression that this was basically top priority in Australia right now, and assumed Australian authorities were doing everything they could to fight this.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/eiy7nd/australian\_pm\_scott\_morrison\_told\_to\_p\_off\_by/](https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/eiy7nd/australian_pm_scott_morrison_told_to_p_off_by/)
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2020-01-02 17:43:42
| true |
Answer:
I was looking up statistics to share here and discovered that our situation is even on Wikipedia. Scomo is covered too.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019–20_Australian_bushfire_season
While it’s normal for Australia to have bushfires, to the point that some flora have evolved to only reproduce after a burn, it’s gotten so bad that even species not evolved to do that are burning too. Lots of human lives and ecology have been disrupted on a scale greater than before.
Our fire season (which doesn’t align with the winter/summer cycle) is usually around Oct/Nov to Feb/Mar (please correct me if I’m wrong!!) so we’re only halfway through it, and already nearly 6 million hectares are burning or burnt.
What comments are our PM saying though? He couldn’t even fake empathy with empty words, he‘s commenting on our cricket games along the lines of “how good was the cricket game”, like it’s something the firefighters can look forward to for some respite/break. He flew off to Hawaii with his family because “his family needs a break too and needs him around”. He scheduled a photo OP but when the people affected didn’t want to shake his hand for the camera he forced it to happen and when he got heckled/told of their problems he turned his back on them.
https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/eiwd3y/welcome_to_the_real_world_scomo/
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2020-01-03 02:06:51
| true |
What's up with the PM of Australia and the wildfires?
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Have been seeing a lot on the Australia wildfires recently, and recently saw a video of “Scomo” (Scott Morrison, I’m presuming) basically ignoring a pregnant women’s pleas to help. Outside of it being an obvious photo-op gone wrong, there seemed to be an undertone of him in the comments about him withholding aid, or at least ignoring the severity of the fires.
Is it apparent he could be doing more to fight these fires? I was under the impression that this was basically top priority in Australia right now, and assumed Australian authorities were doing everything they could to fight this.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/eiy7nd/australian\_pm\_scott\_morrison\_told\_to\_p\_off\_by/](https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/eiy7nd/australian_pm_scott_morrison_told_to_p_off_by/)
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2020-01-02 17:43:42
| true |
Answer:
His political party are climate change deniers with fossil fuel industry backing and he personally has a religious faith that supports his own twisted ideas around "gods will" including the apocalypse, prosperity of the few and speaking in tounges. Don't expect rational decisions to be made over here for a while....
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2020-01-03 03:54:31
| false |
What's up with the PM of Australia and the wildfires?
|
Have been seeing a lot on the Australia wildfires recently, and recently saw a video of “Scomo” (Scott Morrison, I’m presuming) basically ignoring a pregnant women’s pleas to help. Outside of it being an obvious photo-op gone wrong, there seemed to be an undertone of him in the comments about him withholding aid, or at least ignoring the severity of the fires.
Is it apparent he could be doing more to fight these fires? I was under the impression that this was basically top priority in Australia right now, and assumed Australian authorities were doing everything they could to fight this.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/eiy7nd/australian\_pm\_scott\_morrison\_told\_to\_p\_off\_by/](https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/eiy7nd/australian_pm_scott_morrison_told_to_p_off_by/)
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2020-01-02 17:43:42
| true |
Answer: Try [r/BokuNoHeroAcademia](https://www.reddit.com/r/BokuNoHeroAcademia) that seems to be the main subreddit for the show and seems to have been for sometime.
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ej3gl7
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fcvddon
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2020-01-02 21:15:48
| true |
What is going on with r/myheroacademia ?
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I’ve been trying to go to the r/myheroacademia subreddit, but it’s not letting me access it. It’s says that there are active members on there so I’m not sure if it’s just me the subreddit doesn’t work for. [Here’s](https://www.reddit.com/r/MyHeroAcademia/
Download the Reddit app here: https://reddit.app.link/wwu4bpjPtW) the link to the subreddit. What’s gong on with it?
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2020-01-02 20:09:26
| true |
Answer: [This comic was made.](https://twitter.com/OneyNG/status/1212407740141883392) In it, the protagonist laughs about (presumably) Pewdiepie getting robbed, and when her coworker (hilariously labeled as "New Guy") asks to think about how they would feel were they robbed the girl snarkily rebuffs him and says they are obviously not going to be friends.
Twitter took the opposite view of the situation as the artist intended, backing the "New Guy" strawman and thinking his view was the more appropriate one. As such, tons of reworks of the comic and fan art of New Guy flooded Twitter.
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ej3uxj
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fcvhkut
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2020-01-02 21:57:23
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What's the deal with the new guy?
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Florkofcows posted a comic with "the new guy", which I gather is a meme referring to a comic strip by Mallorie Udischas. So far I'm in the loop. However, the comic created a lot of backlash, resulting in florkofcows deleting it and posting an apology. The apology references bullying and the original artist's interactions with people, but I've simply no idea what that entails. Would anyone care to fill me in?
&#x200B;
[https://twitter.com/FlorkOfCows/status/1212829851565977600](https://twitter.com/FlorkOfCows/status/1212829851565977600)
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2020-01-02 20:36:57
| true |
Answer: Monica Cellio's profile is linked from the answer posted in the first URL you provided; the profile itself contains a link to an overview of the timeline of events that lead up to the revocation of moderatorship and firing. A review of that timeline indicates that a Code of Conduct change was going to occur regarding use of pronouns. Monica asked questions about the acceptability of continuing to use gender neutral third-person pronouns as a way to comply with that CoC change, and in the ensuing exchanges accross various modes of communication, it would appear that Monica's status as moderator was removed in apparent anticipation of CoC noncompliance. This would seem to have formed the basis of legal action taken by the parties involved, which culminated in SE issuing the statement linked in the first URL.
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fcvxqrg
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2020-01-03 00:48:18
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What's going on with Stack Exchange, firing moderators, and pronouns?
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I've been trying to read up about this Monica Cellio thing but I can't for the life of me figure out what actually happened besides she was fired for some reason? Thanks for anybody that helps me out. Stack Exchange is a big part of my career and I'm really concerned about this drama.
URLs: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/340906/update-an-agreement-with-monica-cellio
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/336526/stack-overflow-is-doing-me-ongoing-harm-its-time-to-fix-it
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2020-01-03 00:05:56
| true |
Answer: [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/egamtc/whats_up_with_the_meme_where_a_dog_wears_a/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
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2020-01-03 02:08:43
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What's up with this dog profile picture?
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There was a fortnite tweet and most of the replies had this dog as the profile picture
https://www.reddit.com/user/BruskEmu/comments/ej3ywu/dog_profile_pictures/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
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2020-01-02 20:47:11
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Answer:
(Copy paste from another post)
Major General Qasem Soleimani was reportedly killed by a US-backed airstrike. Although his rank refers to a NATO equivalent rank of OF-7, he was arguably one of the most powerful men in Iran just alongside The Grand Ayatollah. As one of the leaders of Iran's main military branch the Iranian Revolutionary Guard (IRGC), Soleimani had specific and direct control over the Quds Force. This unit is responsible for training, funding, and in some cases fighting alongside non-state Shiite paramilitary forces all over the Middle East.
Some of their proxy forces include Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis, and various Shiite militias in Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq. Their involvement can range from direct control to a guiding hand to simply funding. It's really hard to gauge their level of responsibility in certain activities but overall they are often involved in many Middle Eastern conflicts. The Quds Force has been considered a terrorist organization for some time. They consist of 10,000 to 20,000 men and serve directly under The Grand Ayatollah Khameini, Iran's Supreme Leader. It is no exageration when I say the Quds Force and by extension Soleimani are some of the direct arbiters of Iran's foreign policy.
This put Soleimani as one of the top men in Iran. He reported directly to Khameini and had been leading the Quds Force since the 1990's. He not only was very distinguished in the Iranian military but reportedly had his own "cult of following" amongst many hardliners. He is very much a public figure in Iran and was often seen side by side Khameini.
Everyone is memeing about ww3 because his reported death is a huge geopolitical event. Not many others have held such influence in the Middle East like him. Not only that but a US-backed airstrike on a uniformed state adversary without congressional approval is a near unprecedented move. It is the equivalent of a foreign state bombing a US Joint Chief of Staff, Secretary of Defense, or even the Vice President (many consider Soleimani 2nd to Khameini but it's hard to say). Needless to say no one can predict Iran's reaction given how overt of an action this was. No one wants a conflict on either side but no one can possibly imagine Iran would have a tempered reaction. It COULD lead to a series of events that draw the US into another conflict in the Middle East with Iran hence the memes but honestly we're in such uncharted territories that that possibility is just one of many.
Edit: I should say though that out of all the generals the US could have killed, this guy would be the most justified. When the State Department refers to Iran as a state sponsor of terror, these are the guys that are largely responsible. They were heavily involved in fighting with American forces and organizing terrorist operations during the later stages of Iraq.
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ej8q6n
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fcwmbli
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2020-01-03 05:34:27
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What is the deal with Qassem Soleimani and how is his death affecting Iranian/Iraqi politics?
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I just heard that "Gen. Soleimani, the head of Iran's elite Quds force, has been killed in an airstrike." Who is he? Who launched the airstrike? Is this a response to the recent attack on the US embassy in Baghdad?
[Article here](https://news.yahoo.com/four-rockets-hit-iraqi-military-224352142.html)
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2020-01-03 02:30:52
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Answer: it's like Iran killing whoever is running the US navy while he's in a Canadian mitary base.
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2020-01-03 10:59:18
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What is the deal with Qassem Soleimani and how is his death affecting Iranian/Iraqi politics?
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I just heard that "Gen. Soleimani, the head of Iran's elite Quds force, has been killed in an airstrike." Who is he? Who launched the airstrike? Is this a response to the recent attack on the US embassy in Baghdad?
[Article here](https://news.yahoo.com/four-rockets-hit-iraqi-military-224352142.html)
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2020-01-03 02:30:52
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Answer: General Qassem Soleimani of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard's Quds Force, which is the branch responsible for Iran's backing of various terrorist organizations across the Middle East, was killed in an airstrike in Baghdad.
Qassem was in Baghdad to co-ordinate the recent terror attack on the US Embassy there, and in retaliation, Donald Trump ordered an airstrike on him. This has some significant ramifications, which I'll go over below.
While Qassem has been well-known for his terrorist actions for some time, his position as a member of an actual national government, and arguably one of the most powerful men in Iran, makes him more or less untouchable bar extreme circumstances (think Diplomatic Immunity. Same idea.) It was Trump's decision that attacking an Embassy, to be one of those extreme circumstances.
Embassies are held as almost sacred ground in a sense, the Embassy is more-or-less considered to be part of the Nation the Embassy belongs to (for example the US embassy in Baghdad would be considered US Soil, with all the rammifcations thereof). Embassies are also diplomatic headquarters.
In organizing an attack on the US Embassy in Iraq, Qassem has effectively attacked US soil, a key American diplomatic headquarters in the region, and US Civilians. This is tantamount to an act of war and as a result the Trump Administration opted for a hardline response.
As for why people believe this could lead to WWIII? Honestly, people just like to exaggerate. At most, this would be an escalation of the proxy war that Iran has been waging against the US and it's allies for years.
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2020-01-03 16:49:39
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What is the deal with Qassem Soleimani and how is his death affecting Iranian/Iraqi politics?
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I just heard that "Gen. Soleimani, the head of Iran's elite Quds force, has been killed in an airstrike." Who is he? Who launched the airstrike? Is this a response to the recent attack on the US embassy in Baghdad?
[Article here](https://news.yahoo.com/four-rockets-hit-iraqi-military-224352142.html)
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2020-01-03 02:30:52
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Answer: he died
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ej8q6n
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fcyq08v
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2020-01-03 20:52:07
| false |
What is the deal with Qassem Soleimani and how is his death affecting Iranian/Iraqi politics?
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I just heard that "Gen. Soleimani, the head of Iran's elite Quds force, has been killed in an airstrike." Who is he? Who launched the airstrike? Is this a response to the recent attack on the US embassy in Baghdad?
[Article here](https://news.yahoo.com/four-rockets-hit-iraqi-military-224352142.html)
| 11,429 |
2020-01-03 02:30:52
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Answer: He is in a custody battle with his ex wife over their daughter and she has made disturbing claims about his behavior, including physical/emotional abuse of both her and their daughter and heavy drug use. I am not aware of the validity of these accusations.
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ejbt2a
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fcws989
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2020-01-03 07:12:23
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What's going on with Jeremy Renner and his family?
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I remember something about him on the news and then this post confused me https://www.reddit.com/r/moviescirclejerk/comments/ej9jxb/in_the_marvel_cinematic_universe_jeremy_renner/fcwini4?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
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2020-01-03 06:55:52
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Answer: nothing too amazing I think it's people like being part of a group (even if just a jokey group over the internet) and to say their group is better than another, it also helps them get upvotes (I think) because people want to be like yeah I too am part of this superior group
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ejco9y
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fcx4cp1
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2020-01-03 11:24:33
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What is up with the "brought to you by ___ gang" memes?
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I was scrolling r/HistoryMemes and I kept seeing memes with the caption "This meme was made by the (so and so) gang". Can someone explain what this is supposed to mean?
Here is an example of a meme with this caption:
https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryMemes/comments/ehmg2k/damn_the_dutch_give_me_purple_carrots/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
Thanks in advance.
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2020-01-03 08:32:57
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Answer: Tensions with Iran have been building up ever since Donald pulled out of the nuclear deal that the US and many other countries had brokered with them.
Just this past week, "pro-Iranian" rebels attacked the US Embassy, and just yesterday the US launched an airstrike in Iraq that killed an Iranian General.
So, now people are predicting that we're going to go to war with Iran and that's going to be the start of WW3. Part meme, part real concern.
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ejfqcy
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fcxdhaq
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2020-01-03 13:59:50
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what’s up with all the ww3 memes?
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https://www.reddit.com/r/dankmemes/comments/ejajup/call_of_duty_skills/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
what’s up with all the ww3 memes? i know it has something to do with iran. i’m not into politics or news so i don’t know much about anything. what’s happening, and what might happen? what’s probably going to happen? how likely is ww3? details are appreciated
thank you
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2020-01-03 13:58:57
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Answer: I think it’s just an error since the n and the space bar are so close. any other examples?
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ejhqdg
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fcxqdlv
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2020-01-03 16:29:27
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What's the deal with sometimes replacing the letter "n" with a space? Example inside
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[Here](https://www.reddit.com/r/KitchenConfidential/comments/ej41i1/pitching_this_take_on_co_fit_salmon_to_my_chef/) is one example in which OP has replace the "n" in "confit" with a space
| 0 |
2020-01-03 16:28:20
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Answer: In the film, The Matrix the character Morpheus offers Neo two pills: red and blue. The red pill wakes him up from the simulated lie of the Matrix and learn the awful truth, while the blue pill lets him return to willful ignorance. All the terms have evolved from that.
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eje2te
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fcy219a
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2020-01-03 17:48:16
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What is up with the various “pills?”
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By this I mean the [blue pill](https://www.reddit.com/r/TheBluePill/), [red pill](https://www.reddit.com/r/theredpillright/), [pink pill](https://www.reddit.com/r/PinkpillFeminism/), etc. I know they’re political and that they’re references to The Matrix, but I have no idea what any of them mean or why they all seem to hate each other.
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2020-01-03 11:14:46
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Answer: It's a scam. The pictures are fake. Elon hasn't given away any cryptocurrency. They're trying to get people to go to that site and sending them cryptocurrency, stating that they'll receive more back.
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eji7c9
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fcy8iap
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2020-01-03 18:31:47
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What is the deal with all these accounts posting about Elon Musk under Trump's recent low-res american flag tweet?
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There are images of what seems to be a Elon Musk tweet giving away cryptocurrency, and what seem to be a ton of bots pushing the news and saying they got bitcoin for free.
Why in Trump's tweet, what do these people want? I am confused as to the actors and their intentions. Is there any relation to the Soleimani incident, other than the flag tweet?
[Trump's tweet.](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1212924762827046918?s=19)
[Crypto tweet](https://twitter.com/HERD_78_allen/status/1213061553651666944?s=19)
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2020-01-03 17:01:23
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Answer: it isn't Trump who they're targeting. These bot accounts are posting these types of replies on many famous peoples twitter accounts, including Elons own account
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eji7c9
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fcygwai
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2020-01-03 19:31:51
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What is the deal with all these accounts posting about Elon Musk under Trump's recent low-res american flag tweet?
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There are images of what seems to be a Elon Musk tweet giving away cryptocurrency, and what seem to be a ton of bots pushing the news and saying they got bitcoin for free.
Why in Trump's tweet, what do these people want? I am confused as to the actors and their intentions. Is there any relation to the Soleimani incident, other than the flag tweet?
[Trump's tweet.](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1212924762827046918?s=19)
[Crypto tweet](https://twitter.com/HERD_78_allen/status/1213061553651666944?s=19)
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2020-01-03 17:01:23
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Answer: Sherman is a known clown in the NFL and loves to start drama and be at the center of attention. Just earlier this year he went on a Twitter tirade about Baker Mayfield not shaking his hand before the game, and then when video came out he just played it off as a joke.
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ejjava
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fcya8f0
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2020-01-03 18:43:29
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What's the deal with richard sherman calling out haters on his twitter?
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His twitter feed on this post is running like an r/agedlikemilk post...what's up with that? I should note that this doesnt seem malicious, just a told ya so...Sherman is consistantly an amazing player and person. https://twitter.com/RSherman_25/status/1213152956779884544?s=19
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2020-01-03 18:17:23
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Answer::
After he ruptured his Achilles's in 2017, the Seahawks cut him. 3 days later he Negotiated and brokered his own deal with incentives(which he's getting now) to the 49ers. A lot of people at the time said he was dumb for doing it himself and yada yada.
https://twitter.com/espn/status/1213184170836541442?s=19
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ejjava
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fcywugf
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2020-01-03 22:00:30
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What's the deal with richard sherman calling out haters on his twitter?
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His twitter feed on this post is running like an r/agedlikemilk post...what's up with that? I should note that this doesnt seem malicious, just a told ya so...Sherman is consistantly an amazing player and person. https://twitter.com/RSherman_25/status/1213152956779884544?s=19
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2020-01-03 18:17:23
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Answer: Richard Sherman is an NFL Cornerback known for his trash talking. He is also one of the best at his position in the game.
He negotiated his new contract without the help of an agent, and was criticized heavily for doing so by a member of the media, calling it a bad contract, and saying he was not smart for doing it without an agent.
Well Sherman just had another great year, and was named to the Associated Press's All-Pro Second Team, which earning him a $2 million bonus.
So Sherman is just calling out his haters for not believing in him.
He seems to do stuff like that to motivate himself, ie "Chip on shoulder".
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ejjava
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fcyx393
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2020-01-03 22:03:06
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What's the deal with richard sherman calling out haters on his twitter?
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His twitter feed on this post is running like an r/agedlikemilk post...what's up with that? I should note that this doesnt seem malicious, just a told ya so...Sherman is consistantly an amazing player and person. https://twitter.com/RSherman_25/status/1213152956779884544?s=19
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2020-01-03 18:17:23
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Answer: There was a celebrity quiz show where Greta was the answer to a question\*, but a celebrity contestant guessed "Sharon". Greta's poking fun at it.
(\* "The 2019 book entitled No-one is Too Small To Make A Difference is a collection of speeches made by a Swedish climate change activist. What’s her name?")
https://metro.co.uk/2020/01/03/greta-thunberg-changes-name-sharon-amanda-hendersons-celebrity-mastermind-blunder-11998468/
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fcymjzh
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2020-01-03 20:19:58
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What's the deal with Greta Thunburg changing her name on Twitter to Sharon?
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I was scrolling through Twitter when I saw a tweet from Greta Thunburg, when I saw that she had changed the name of her twitter account to [Sharon](https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg?s=09). Does anyone know the reason why she's done this, or is it just a mistake?
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2020-01-03 20:06:34
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Answer:
1. She had a series of unscripted moments where she put her foot in her mouth, especially on Twitter.
2. She had a series of scripted moments in her videos that didn't go over so well.
3. There was the usual social media back and forth where some people overreacted, some people had reasonable issues, and some people *completely* lost their beans when responding to the different factions.
She just put out a video after years of this, and months of quiet introspection, to apologize for some things she messed up on, give context, and try to draw a distinction between the different meanings of "cancel culture" where one is mostly disingenuous people causing trouble, and another is seeking accountability through public shaming.
Her conclusion was that the former is mostly people being uncharitable, being dupes for agitators, while the latter is something she once supported but now believes does more harm than good.
It doesn't help that a lot of her fanbase is people who used to be alt-right and were deradicalized by her videos. They came back from the brink, but didn't deradicalize their behavior. So now they target the people who criticize her with the same kind of rhetoric they used before.
So now many who they target blame her for it, or at least wish she'd do more to add suggested changes in behavior to the good work she does changing views.
This is my best effort at an unbiased view as someone who can see and empathize with the perspectives of all sides as someone who's been on each of them in other social media blowups.
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ej8uaa
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fcyp0gw
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2020-01-03 20:43:00
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What's going on with ContraPoints?
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I saw this [video](https://youtu.be/OjMPJVmXxV8) being shared around and I'm not sure what's going on.
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2020-01-03 02:39:40
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Answer: It’s an awareness campaign. The general idea is that someone takes an image with a simple message, in this case fighting climate change, and posts it to a subreddit with a request to repost it everywhere. People who see the post and agree with it begin posting it to other subreddits, including ones completely unrelated to the topic, in order to garner support.
The subreddits listed at the bottom are places the image has already been posted, intended to show how widespread the message is.
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ejmo3l
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fcyyl98
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2020-01-03 22:19:08
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What's up with some image posts having a dark gray bar on the bottom that says "posted in /r/*insertsubredditnamehere*" followed by the reddit logo?
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https://www.reddit.com/r/HelluvaBoss/comments/ejbuho/stolas_dislikes_this_act/
Is it a stupid meme? Is it the way the official mobile app does crossposts? Is it a bot?
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2020-01-03 22:10:33
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Answer: Idk what the other person meant about it being an awareness campaign cause it’s nothing to do with that. Reddit mobile now has a watermark that can be disabled in settings when you save an image, showing who posted it and where.
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ejmo3l
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fcz5sa7
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2020-01-03 23:30:40
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What's up with some image posts having a dark gray bar on the bottom that says "posted in /r/*insertsubredditnamehere*" followed by the reddit logo?
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https://www.reddit.com/r/HelluvaBoss/comments/ejbuho/stolas_dislikes_this_act/
Is it a stupid meme? Is it the way the official mobile app does crossposts? Is it a bot?
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2020-01-03 22:10:33
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Answer: Jaja, this is a funny one. You see, in January 2018 there was an unfunny trend, the *Tide*Pod challenge, and in January 2019, there was the *Air*Pod. Reddit users saw this and thought that this wasn't a coincidence and proceeded to make a storyline which talked about the elemental pods and that there needed to be a *Fire*Pod and an *Earth*Pod meme the 2020 January and 2021 January. FirePod meme is pretty much forced but hey, it will be funny to have all the elemental pods!
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ejnrex
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fcz7yt5
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2020-01-03 23:51:39
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What's the deal with the red grill memes?
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I've seen it pop up a couple times and it seems to be a recent thing that I missed.
Example: https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/eikzfy/earthpod_is_next/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
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2020-01-03 23:30:03
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Answer: Escape from tarkov is becoming more popular recently, and twitch just introduced drops. By watching Tarkov streams it'll randomly reward you gear and different things to use in game. Don't know if you know anything about tarkov but they have a very dedicated fanbase. Dedicated veterans, influx of new players plus free gear just for having a stream up has launched twitch views recently. Hope that answers your question!
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ejogs7
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fczdfz0
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2020-01-04 00:45:23
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What's up with Escape from Tarkov recently?
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[For the past few weeks its been on the top most viewed games on Twitch and I have no idea why.](https://imgur.com/a/cHt1aer)
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2020-01-04 00:20:47
| true |
Answer:
Loot drops for viewers [were enabled on December 30th and running until January 5th](https://www.escapefromtarkov.com/news/id/156) allowing viewers who have the game to earn loot simply by watching another streamer. As a result, [a number of streamers with sizeable audiences like TimTheTatman](https://dotesports.com/streaming/news/timthetatman-plays-escape-from-tarkov-after-twitch-enables-loot-drops-for-watching), COHH, and Sacriel are heading into the game during this period taking their audience with them, attracted by what Ninja called "watch-to-win".
Granted a few of the streams could be sponsored by the Tarkov devs, but a few streamers that I've watched have also openly admitted (like COHH) to have been playing the game off and on for the past few years. The game is also still in beta but is largely functional with frequent updates at this point.
**Why is loot so huge in this game? Doesn't Borderlands 3 already do something like the Twitch plugin thing?**
It does. Players can earn loot in certain instances in Borderlands 3 with a Twitch plugin, too. The difference is that if you die in Tarkov, you *lose everything you have including whatever you looted during your raid session* and can be stolen by other players. There is insurance you can get which, from what I've seen, gives you a chance to retain your gear.
Whatever gear you get during a "raid" can be saved as part of your stash if you survive to extract. You can then gear up using said gear for another raid in the game, hopefully survive long enough to not get killed by players or the vicious AI to get more gear, and then escape the map.
The game leans very much into hardcore 'realism'. There is no instant heal, you can die from a single shot, it takes time to reload magazines with bullets, search bodies, and there are no indicators showing who and who isn't on your team (you can't even wear armbands or colored gloves, etc.. You just have to kind of work out who is who before moving out). Teams are basically people that get together over comms and try not to kill each other during a firefight.
So being able to get a lot of loot to better your chances in Tarkov by simply watching a streamer, especially someone who is really good at the game, and because the window for doing so is limited, has also encouraged a lot of Tarkov fans (and fans of the streamers in general) to watch the game.
EDIT: Changed wording of clips to magazines, sorry for that and thanks /u/Iziama94
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ejogs7
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fczeaa9
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2020-01-04 00:54:03
| true |
What's up with Escape from Tarkov recently?
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[For the past few weeks its been on the top most viewed games on Twitch and I have no idea why.](https://imgur.com/a/cHt1aer)
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2020-01-04 00:20:47
| true |
Answer: Not only is there an in-game event going on, and not only are a bunch of big-name streamers jumping on, but the game fills a rather unique niche. It's not quite a battle royale, as you are allowed and encouraged to bring a few friends into the raid and work as a team, and it's not a traditional FPS because nearly every piece of equipment and round of ammunition that you bring into a raid can be lost when you die. Everything you manage to escape with, of course, is yours to keep. Unlike DayZ, however, the game is action-packed enough to draw large audiences.
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ejogs7
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fd3osq7
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2020-01-04 17:53:11
| false |
What's up with Escape from Tarkov recently?
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[For the past few weeks its been on the top most viewed games on Twitch and I have no idea why.](https://imgur.com/a/cHt1aer)
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2020-01-04 00:20:47
| true |
Answer: it's mostly because it makes it too easy to forge a different date. For example if you write 1-4-20 it is really easy to change that to 1-4-2019. so a lot of places are just making sure you write the entire thing out as a matter of habit. Especially when you're writing things like checks.
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ejoy1z
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fczemyk
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2020-01-04 00:58:02
| false |
What's the deal with schools, workplaces, etc. wanting people to write out this year in full when dating? (ex: you can write 1/3/2020, but don't write 1/3/20)
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Here's an example: https://www.nbcboston.com/news/national-international/dont-abbreviate-2020-when-signing-documents-police-warn/2056384/
But I hear of this elsewhere now. Are people gonna really confuse it with 1920? Even that news article I left above doesn't get into much. The only thing I could get from the comments section of the referenced Facebook post was that it can be altered for fraudulent purposes. Still don't fully get it.
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2020-01-04 00:55:46
| true |
Answer: From my understanding, it's mostly just because they're cute and goofy and nowadays relatively affordable(which is likely the main reason it's gotten more common over the last few years).
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ejq8t0
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fczo0t8
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2020-01-04 02:37:09
| false |
What is going on with all these videos of people dressed up at dinosaurs?
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[https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/ejlwpp/just\_a\_family\_reuniting\_at\_an\_airport/](https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/ejlwpp/just_a_family_reuniting_at_an_airport/)
This is an example. I have seen many videos of it throughout 2018 and 2019, but I don't know why it has become a phenomenon on the internet and why it is a thing.
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2020-01-04 02:35:04
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Answer: The costumes are fun and relatively cheap on Amazon. That's all it takes. I got my nephews each one for Christmas and you bet your ass we made some funny videos.
| 1 |
ejq8t0
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fde94gg
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2020-01-06 18:04:54
| false |
What is going on with all these videos of people dressed up at dinosaurs?
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[https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/ejlwpp/just\_a\_family\_reuniting\_at\_an\_airport/](https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/ejlwpp/just_a_family_reuniting_at_an_airport/)
This is an example. I have seen many videos of it throughout 2018 and 2019, but I don't know why it has become a phenomenon on the internet and why it is a thing.
| 3 |
2020-01-04 02:35:04
| true |
Answer: [This](https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Asia-on-alert-over-mysterious-virus-outbreak-in-China) is, I think, the earliest article I can find on the matter.
> HONG KONG -- Asian governments are stepping up precautionary measures to prevent an outbreak of a mysterious illness after Chinese health authorities reported 44 cases of a "viral pneumonia of unknown origin" amid concerns that the flu-like virus is linked to the highly contagious SARS virus that caused hundreds of deaths in Asia and elsewhere 17 years ago.
> The outbreak prompted authorities in Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and Malaysia to take emergency measures, including stricter health control at borders and temperature screenings on all flights from Wuhan, in China's central Hubei Province, where the outbreak originated. Chinese officials said on Friday that 11 patients remained in critical condition with respiratory tract infection symptoms, including fever and breathing difficulty.
So far, China has still yet to confirm whether or not it is a SARS case, but it is suspected.
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2020-01-04 03:21:25
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What's up with the plagues?
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I tried finding something online, but the best something came was [this](https://www.google.com/amp/s/theconversation.com/amp/history-repeats-itself-thats-bad-news-for-the-2020s-127116) quite dubious article, I am not sure if I could trust it.
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Answer: it's mostly meme, partly superstition. Huge plagues broke out in both the 1820s and 1920s, so people are predicting/joking that the same will happen in the 2020s.
As for factual backing, I don't know if any disease outbreaks have begun yet. My American news sources tend to exagerate disease pretty heavily.
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2020-01-04 15:56:00
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What's up with the plagues?
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I tried finding something online, but the best something came was [this](https://www.google.com/amp/s/theconversation.com/amp/history-repeats-itself-thats-bad-news-for-the-2020s-127116) quite dubious article, I am not sure if I could trust it.
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2020-01-04 02:04:02
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Answer: Rupert Murdoch is an Australian billionaire and founder of News Corp.
While the various incarnations of News Corp are somewhat complicated to explain, the current incarnation owns or has a stake in a significant portion of the news media in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia amongst other countries.
News Corp owned outlets typically lean right politically and Murdoch is seen as having undue influence over politics and politicians in countries where News Corp operates. This includes having apparently direct access to multiple British Prime Ministers, for example.
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2020-01-04 07:31:10
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Why are people talking about Rupert Murdoch? Who is he?
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Everyday for the past couple weeks, I have heard about someone called Rupert Murdoch. I think he has to do with politics.
Examples of him being in headlines are here:
(1.)https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://amp.theguardian.com/media/2020/jan/04/the-australian-murdoch-owned-newspaper-accused-of-downplaying-bushfires-in-favour-of-picnic-races&ved=0ahUKEwjn-rq-9ujmAhXCjOYKHShSDzkQyM8BCCgwAA&usg=AOvVaw2EcxZro8Z_z5Uu7ayhaMhX&ampcf=1
(2.)https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://independentaustralia.net/business/business-display/rupert-murdoch-is-leading-australia-to-climate-ruin,13437&ved=0ahUKEwjn-rq-9ujmAhXCjOYKHShSDzkQxfQBCDcwAw&usg=AOvVaw0HnnCi9mNvK5SR6oxm_-Y-
(3.)https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2020/01/02/michael-pascoe-murdoch-climate/amp/&ved=0ahUKEwjn-rq-9ujmAhXCjOYKHShSDzkQyM8BCDIwAg&usg=AOvVaw0gPu7_nU-qr7CxwlIadyoB&ampcf=1
Please explain his relevance and why he is important, Thank you!
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2020-01-04 03:02:41
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Answer:
My guess is that it initially started trending because of Wrestle Kingdom, then some Naruto fans found it and thought it was about the character from Naruto and continued from there.
[Wrestle Kingdom](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrestle_Kingdom_14) is japan's equivalent of Wrestlemania. It is an anual show promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling and happens every year on January 4th in the Tokyo Dome. This year marks the retirement of one of its longtime wrestlers, [Jushin Thunder Liger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jushin_Liger), an icon for the company. For this various other famous retired wrestlers came out to be part of that match, including his longtime partner/rival [The Great Sasuke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Sasuke), who himself was extremely popular when he was active. There is also a move called "Sasuke Special" (named for the wrestler, a cartwheel to moonsault from inside the ring over the ropes out) that english wrestler [Will Ospreay is fond of and performed at the show](https://twitter.com/MrLARIATO/status/1213403662002925568).
Both the name of the wrestlers and the character in Naruto are references to [Sarutobi Sasuke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarutobi_Sasuke), a ninja in japanese folklore. "Sasuke" is kind of the "typical name" for a ninja in various other japanese properties as well. For example the game show another answer referred to (now deleted) is called Sasuke in japan, but the concept was ported to other markets under the name "Ninja Warrior".
P.S.: Wrestle Kingdom is actually two shows this year, the second one tomorrow also in the Tokyo Dome, including Liger's actual final match.
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2020-01-04 14:06:40
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What's the deal with Sasuke trending on Twitter?
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https://twitter.com/search?q=Sasuke&s=09
I rarely ever go on Twitter but I noticed that Sasuke is one of the top trending tags right now. Naruto ended in like 2014 and that hardly seems relevant now. I know we live in odd times and memes have a way of popping up randomly. Is this just an example of that or is there another connection here?
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2020-01-04 12:57:35
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Answer: He was a top player in the country's most popular sport, on one of its best teams, who had just signed a huge contract. Then it comes out of nowhere that he was a killer and maybe had three victims. Then he kills himself in prison, apparently attempting to invoke a loophole in Massachusetts law that would have allowed his family to inherit his money. It's a compelling story.
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2020-01-04 18:09:26
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What is up with Aaron Hernandez being such a fascinating person to the media?
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There are still articles being published about him. I just saw [this](https://radaronline.com/exclusives/2020/01/aaron-hernandez-new-podcast-uncovers-shocking-new-revelations/) on my news aggregate app today, January 3rd.
I listen to the true crime podcast Generation Why and they have advertisements for a whole Netflix series on his life/end of life called [Killer Inside](https://www.netflix.com/title/81062828?s=i&trkid=13747225)
Why is his life/crime/death so fascinating that we are still dissecting it today?
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2020-01-04 16:45:40
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Answer: Aaron Hernandez was easily one of the biggest stories that happened in professional football this decade. He played Tight End for the New England Patriots during the first half of the 2010s and was really good. Some say he could have been the greatest TE in league history.
What made the story so crazy was when he was arrested in 2013 and charged with murder. Turns out Hernandez was a Blood and murdered the man who was dating his fiancee's sister. He was found guilty and sentenced the life in prison. He was later indicted for a double homicide, but was acquitted in 2017. Days after his acquittal, he hanged himself in his cell.
This was an extremely high profile case of one of the league's best players being found guilty of murder and essentially ending his career. I remember when the news broke, it was absolutely HUGE. New England cut him immediately after his arrest, and [photos of his arrest](https://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/intelligencer/2013/06/26/26-aaron-hernandez-arrest.w710.h473.2x.jpg) were plastered across the internet and quickly became the [subject of internet memes](https://images.latintimes.com/sites/latintimes.com/files/styles/large/public/0/80/8034.jpg). This was in addition to a photo of [him in Blood colors doing gang signs](https://imagez.tmz.com/image/f0/o/2017/04/19/f002e2fbd2475a1b8d422a89bb575585_md.jpg) and [one with a pistol](https://imagez.tmz.com/image/65/o/2013/06/26/65b3825971af56bebbe0b852884ada40_md.jpg) being proliferated online by sites like TMZ.
But his story turned out to be a rabbit hole where more and more revelations got revealed. It appears as though the motive for killing Lloyd was when Hernandez and him went clubbing and apparently Lloyd was telling people about the double homicide Hernandez was being investigated for. Some say he murdered him cause he was worried Lloyd would snitch on him. When he was acquitted of the double homicide, some say he killed himself shortly afterwards because he couldn't deal with the irony of him having ruining his life for trying to cover up something he was ultimately acquitted for.
This goes back to Hernandez' mental state which was extremely troubled. The man dealt with a series of traumas as a child, including being sexually molested. Furthermore, it's all but certain that Hernandez was gay, and this contributed significantly to his mental decline since he was brought up in an apparently anti-gay environment. Prosecutors even threatened to use Hernandez' sexuality and internalized homophobia as motive for committing the double homicide.
This was in addition to significant drug use, where he admitted to being high every time he took the field at the University of Florida and his weed and cocaine use continued as a Patriot. These existing problems were compounded by evidence found by Boston University researchers that Hernandez suffered significant brain damage caused by CTE, a rampant problem within the NFL that causes significant personality and mood changes that makes its sufferers angrier, more aggressive, erratic, and violent.
Needless to say, Hernandez was an extremely troubled person. There were numerous reports of him suffering from paranoia. One noted event was a 2013 shooting in Miami, where Hernandez thought two cops were in plainclothes at a strip club trying to nab him for the double homicide which resulted him, allegedly, shooting Alexander Bradley, his drug dealer for whom his relationship was becoming more strained and the two threatened each other via text messages, in his eye. In addition, he was apparently paranoid that the FBI was spying on him.
This paranoia led to his relationships becoming increasingly toxic. During a 2013 trip to California with his fiancee and daughter, the police were called twice in less than a week because Hernandez was drunk and violent with them, with Hernandez even putting his hand through a window in one incident. His paranoia even affected his relationship with his team, with reports noting he had few friends in the dressing room, his behavior described as "unhinged" by his teammates, and even Tom Brady reached out to Tim Tebow, Hernandez' teammate at University of Florida, after a Denver v. New England game for help dealing with him. Hernandez became so scared from paranoia that he even went to his coach, Bill Belichick, to tell him that he felt his life was in danger. Following his arrest, Belichick banned any reference of him in the locker room and his teammates refuse to talk about it to this day, with Rob Gronkowski, who was also TE with Hernandez, even walking out of interviews when asked about him.
Aaron Hernandez was by far the biggest individual news story involving an athlete of the decade and even possibly in media in general. The renewed interest in him has to do with the upcoming release of a Netflix documentary that will premiere in 2020 about is life, struggles, arrest, and death. The fact that he was one of the NFL's most prolific players shocked the entire media. It brought to light not only the connections between NFL players and gangs, but the experiences of those in poverty (the NFL is filled with players who have suffered similar harsh upbringings), LGBT issues and dangers of internalized homophobia, and the role of football and CTE in destroying these peoples lives. His initial arrest and newsbreak was nothing short of a media circus and it's likely to reach a new fever pitch when his Netflix documentary premieres.
Edit: Hernandez went to the University of Florida, not Florida State
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2020-01-04 18:20:11
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What is up with Aaron Hernandez being such a fascinating person to the media?
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There are still articles being published about him. I just saw [this](https://radaronline.com/exclusives/2020/01/aaron-hernandez-new-podcast-uncovers-shocking-new-revelations/) on my news aggregate app today, January 3rd.
I listen to the true crime podcast Generation Why and they have advertisements for a whole Netflix series on his life/end of life called [Killer Inside](https://www.netflix.com/title/81062828?s=i&trkid=13747225)
Why is his life/crime/death so fascinating that we are still dissecting it today?
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2020-01-04 16:45:40
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Answer: According to Billy Joel we didnt start the fire as it was always burning since the world's been turning. Sorry I couldn't resist. Now for the real answer- In the Southern Hemisphere it is summer and concurrently it is Australia's dry season which is also their fire season (although wild fires can occur year round). Its been incredibly hot like 107 degress F or 41 degress C in Australia along with windy and drought conditions has made the fires spread. Also some stoner set a fire to protect his marijuana plants so that hasnt helped either.
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2020-01-04 21:34:53
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What’s up with Australia being on fire? How did it start?
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Been seeing a lot about how damaging it is like [here](https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/more-than-4-000-people-trapped-on-a-beach-are-ordered-to-put-on-life-jackets-and-take-cover-in-the-ocean-as-bushfires-turn-the-sky-red-a-day-after-they-were-warned-that-staying-put-was-suicide/ar-BBYthbo?ocid=ob-fb-enau-307&fbclid=IwAR2zhtscKSYzx1aVHdMl94Kqn_iv5G4mQK_kkqitiueYvne1zxwpPhKhBJU#image=BBYthbo_4%7C1) but I know almost nothing of how and when it started. Why is it so large?
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2020-01-04 20:56:21
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Answer: Our fire season is generally Nov - Feb but with the climate getting hotter we've had our fire season start earlier in Sep/Oct. The fires have been going since September in NSW (Who has been impacted the most by the fires) and and late October in Victoria. It's so large because this year has been [the hottest and driest year in Australia](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-02/2019-was-australias-hottest-and-driest-year-on-record/11837312) meaning that things that the bush is dry as anything and easily lit. We're also in one of the worst droughts we've experienced, and this makes fighting the fires almost impossible since everything catches alight so easily. I'm not sure if causes for the big fires have been determined, but dry lightning is generally a cause for bushfires.
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2020-01-04 21:50:35
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What’s up with Australia being on fire? How did it start?
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Been seeing a lot about how damaging it is like [here](https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/more-than-4-000-people-trapped-on-a-beach-are-ordered-to-put-on-life-jackets-and-take-cover-in-the-ocean-as-bushfires-turn-the-sky-red-a-day-after-they-were-warned-that-staying-put-was-suicide/ar-BBYthbo?ocid=ob-fb-enau-307&fbclid=IwAR2zhtscKSYzx1aVHdMl94Kqn_iv5G4mQK_kkqitiueYvne1zxwpPhKhBJU#image=BBYthbo_4%7C1) but I know almost nothing of how and when it started. Why is it so large?
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2020-01-04 20:56:21
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Answer: The fires are a yearly occurrence but are so bad this year because of increasingly extreme drought, the climate crisis, the coalition government (the liberal and national parties) cutting funding to fire services, and some fire departments were running out of water because of the coalition privatizing water supplies.
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2020-01-05 01:43:13
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What’s up with Australia being on fire? How did it start?
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Been seeing a lot about how damaging it is like [here](https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/more-than-4-000-people-trapped-on-a-beach-are-ordered-to-put-on-life-jackets-and-take-cover-in-the-ocean-as-bushfires-turn-the-sky-red-a-day-after-they-were-warned-that-staying-put-was-suicide/ar-BBYthbo?ocid=ob-fb-enau-307&fbclid=IwAR2zhtscKSYzx1aVHdMl94Kqn_iv5G4mQK_kkqitiueYvne1zxwpPhKhBJU#image=BBYthbo_4%7C1) but I know almost nothing of how and when it started. Why is it so large?
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2020-01-04 20:56:21
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Answer:
From Monica's official blog post on [Judaism Stackexchange](https://judaism.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5193/stack-overflow-inc-sinat-chinam-and-the-goat-for-azazel)
>On Friday, half an hour before [Shabbat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabbat) and two days before [Rosh Hashana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosh_Hashanah), Stack Overflow Inc. suddenly revoked my moderator status on all sites where I had it. I found this out while handling flags, when I suddenly got notifications for Marshal and Deputy badges (which moderators are ineligible to earn). They did this not because I've done anything to violate SE policies (*which I have not done*), but because they *think* I will in the *future* violate a thoughtcrime-style provision of a Code of Conduct change that hasn't been made yet.
>
>Rather than just asking you to take my word for everything, let me quote something that [another moderator who has no particular ties to me wrote](https://cs.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1650):
>
>Social life means being confronted to different points of view. This is especially true on in an international setting such as Stack Exchange where you get to encounter people from different cultures. When interacting with others, you need to draw lines — for example, racism is not acceptable, full stop — and within those bounds, you need to open up to diversity. Sometimes that means listening to multiple points of view, and sometimes agree to disagree, and sometimes compromise.I have witnessed a disagreement between moderators where both sides made some good points. Both sides deserved and requested respect. One side was aware that their behavior could hurt even though no malice was intended and tried to get out of their way not to be hurtful. The other side demanded to have things their way, and did not care who they were hurting on the process. In this particular dispute, there was clearly a victim and aggressors.Stack Exchange intervened, did not try to calm spirits, came firmly on the uncompromising side, and fired the victim in a very hurtful manner.
>
>The behavior that Gilles describes happened in the Teachers' Lounge, a private chat room for moderators. I was the victim. Someone with a "director" job title had dropped into the room to announce an upcoming change to the Code of Conduct; unlike the rest of the CoC, this rule mandates specific, positive actions.1 I raised some issues with the formation of the policy and asked some questions, the vast majority of which were never answered. I was polite and was trying to work with others to solve a problem I have with the change as presented.
>
>After a couple hours, the director responded, chastising me for raising issues and saying my values were out of alignment. I said I would leave the room to avoid causing problems, and did so. The Teachers' Lounge is a *resource* for moderators, but there is no requirement to participate there and many moderators do not. This appeared to be a TL-centric issue.
>
>Two days later (Friday September 20), after a lot more discussion, a community manager instructed people to send email if they have concerns. I did so in the minutes before Shabbat.
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>On Monday I received email from a different CM explaining why they were making the change and mis-stating some issues I had raised. Concerned that I had not made myself clear in my haste to respond quickly on Friday, I replied with some questions. This was an amicable exchange; I thought we were having a productive conversation. I was promised a reply by this past Friday.
>
>Instead, I saw my diamond disappear before my eyes and briefly saw an announcement from a CM in TL that contained false allegations against me. When I tried to respond I was booted from the room. Around this time I received email firing me. This email did not cite anything I have done wrong; this was a pre-emptive move that runs counter to how SE tells moderators to treat users when considering suspensions. (Moderators suspend in response to behavior, not speculatively.)
>
>In TL and now in answers here and elsewhere, Stack Exchange employees made vague statements implying that I oppose inclusion and respectful behavior, which is false and adds insult on top of the injury already done. I suspect a profound misunderstanding is at the root of their behavior, but all of my attempts to resolve it have gone unanswered. It feels to me like the company prefers a scapegoat to a resolution.
>
>If I had *done* anything to violate the Code of Conduct, I would apologize and try to make it right or bow out. I didn't violate this important code (and especially not the code currently in force!), and I find it especially offensive that I am being accused of behavior that is not welcoming, inclusive, and sensitive when these are things I strive for in all of my interactions on the network (and elsewhere).
>
>Last November, in the wake of a different controversy around SE employees maligning moderators in public, Tim Post made a [blog post](https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/11/21/our-theory-of-moderation-re-visited/) promising moderators five things: trust, support, agency, accountability, and autonomy. The actions that Stack Overflow took in the last week and a half violate all five of those.
>
>It has been an honor to serve this community.
>
>1 Now that this has been [made public elsewhere](https://christianity.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6718/4145), I feel safe in saying more. The policy is an update to the Code of Conduct that requires us to use people's preferred pronouns (when known). What was posted in the TL wasn't polished language; I assume they're working on that. I **completely agree** that it is rude to call people what they don't want to be called; knowingly misgendering someone is not ok. But the policy was about positive, not negative, use of pronouns. I pointed out that as a professional writer I, by training, write in a gender-neutral way specifically to *avoid* gender landmines, and sought clarification that this would continue to be ok. To my surprise, other moderators in the room said that *not using (third-person singular) pronouns at all* is misgendering. The employee never clarified, and this is one of the questions I asked in email. In my email I said clearly that I'm on board with "use preferred pronouns *when using pronouns*", but from the fact that they fired me without warning (or answering the question), I conclude that that's not the policy. I haven't seen an actual policy, though I am being accused of violating it.
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2020-01-04 23:26:05
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What's the deal with StackExchange and Monica Cellio?
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There seems to have been much turmoil within the StackOverflow & co. circles about a conflict and legal process against Monica Cellio, a former moderator of various StackExchange sites. What happened? What did she do? What's the conclusion? What does that mean going forward?
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/340906/update-an-agreement-with-monica-cellio?cb=1
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2020-01-04 22:55:48
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Answer: There's some videos that discusses this very subject such as [this one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXTDx3HmrRA), [this one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRZEFxVsmDU), and [this one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGF5cbFuF60)
In short, people are frustrated that he keeps going on about his personal issues and weight and feel like he's not really doing anything about them and is looking for pity.
Another issue with him that people have is that he keeps responding to haters and trolls and will not move past it.
There's many other reasons he's been disliked that that's been extensively covered, but his audience has grown tired that he will not let things go and are starting to drop because of it.
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2020-01-05 04:56:54
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What is going on with Boogie2988?
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I use to watch his videos and he use to get a lot of views and not so many dislikes but now it seems to have dwindled and there are a lot more dislikes,What Happened?
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5V4pxr3S8w](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5V4pxr3S8w)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3vPp0QcXx4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3vPp0QcXx4)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwwYMc6KhkM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwwYMc6KhkM)
EDIT: to the people who downvoted, I apologise if this question is already asked, I just heard a multitude of things and I just want to know what has finally tipped the scales
Another Edit: if you are downvoting because of boogie, bare in mind this post isn't to hate on him
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2020-01-04 19:30:00
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Answer: I am on Android. When I "saved" the image I got [this](https://i.imgur.com/01C8bnP.jpg) message.
Seems to be like a new crosspost format to give credit to the original creator, like you mentioned.
You can change the settimg in the settings as a [toggleable button](https://i.imgur.com/LxLYg3A.jpg).
Also seems to be [infinitely repeatable](https://i.imgur.com/Jvb6ewB.png), as it just includes the watermark in photo file.
Not sure if its similar on other devices or on desktop.
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2020-01-05 05:28:29
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What is up with the watermarks on the bottoms of some posts that give original credit to other subs, and how do you do it?
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All of a sudden, ive seen these water marks on the bottom of some reddit posts, which give credit to the original maker or poster i think. I originally thought it was the new crosspost format, but thats obviously not true. What is it, and how do i do it?
Ex: https://www.reddit.com/r/confusing_perspective/comments/ei0r43/mugs_are_out_of_control/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
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2020-01-05 04:06:21
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Answer: The New England Patriots are an American football team. They have been insanely dominant for the last 20 years. During that time span they have won 6 super bowls and have almost always been in the playoff game that comes just before the Superbowl called the AFC Championship Game. Today the Patriots got eliminated from the playoffs in the very first round. Since they have been so dominant for so long a lot of people are just happy that they lost and won't be in the Superbowl this year.
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2020-01-05 05:51:33
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What's up with everyone being happy that the Patriots lost a game?
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I'm not from the US and I don't follow football. But I find the collective hate interesting. Anyone mind explaining it to me?
[Match Report ](https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/01/04/new-england-patriots-tennessee-titans-afc-wild-card-game-playoffs/)
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2020-01-05 05:40:02
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Answer:
The New England Patriots are an american football team and the most dominant team of the last 20 years. Since Bill Bellichick became their head coach in 2000, they've been to the Super Bowl 9 times, winning 6. They also won at least one playoff game in the past 8 seasons. Much of this success is also on their start Quarterback Tom Brady, who is however 42 years old now and probably retiring soon.
The Patriots are the team to beat for the past two decades, but in addition to that have also been subject to a lot of controversy. They have been accused at various times of [spying on their opponents](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spygate_%28NFL%29) and [manipulating equipment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflategate), and the NFL has been accused of favoritism towards the team as well as questioned for the lack of punishment the team has received for these incidents. As such there are a lot of NFL fans who dislike the team and enjoy their misfortune, which they hope is a sign of the end for their reign of dominance.
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2020-01-05 18:34:49
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What's up with everyone being happy that the Patriots lost a game?
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I'm not from the US and I don't follow football. But I find the collective hate interesting. Anyone mind explaining it to me?
[Match Report ](https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/01/04/new-england-patriots-tennessee-titans-afc-wild-card-game-playoffs/)
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2020-01-05 05:40:02
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Answer: no particular reason, just another internet trend. It’s been spreading through tik tok pretty fast.
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ek9vfp
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2020-01-05 08:24:26
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What’s up with people changing their pfp to LEGO Star Wars characters?
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I’ve seen this on both twitter and tiktok
https://imgur.com/gallery/yxHedVq
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2020-01-05 07:30:20
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Answer: I guess it's a spinoff off of people trying to start another trend similar to the dogwifhat pfp trend, where a bunch of (gaming) people on twitter changed their pfp to a dog with [photoshopped hats](https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/egamtc/whats_up_with_the_meme_where_a_dog_wears_a/)
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ek9vfp
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fd85dix
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2020-01-05 08:47:33
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What’s up with people changing their pfp to LEGO Star Wars characters?
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I’ve seen this on both twitter and tiktok
https://imgur.com/gallery/yxHedVq
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2020-01-05 07:30:20
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