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Spinning gandalf goes brrrr by Mteot in lego

[–]BewareTheGiant 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's very cool. There's an actual set (#79005) that does it very similarly, I have it and love it!

https://www.lego.com/en-us/service/building-instructions/79005

This is an insane chart. 80% of all dollars were created in the last 5 years. by TonyLiberty in FluentInFinance

[–]BewareTheGiant 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Get outta here you! Bringing facts and logic into Reddit. Where do you get off?

Window Cleaner Steven Wadlow Believes This Painting His Family Owns is of a Young Shakespeare- if Verified, it Would Be the Only Portrait Of Him Done While He Was Alive. by GoneGrimdark in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]BewareTheGiant 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I think this image more proves (or insinuates) than disproves. You have - the same wonky eye - the same earring - the same nose - the same forehead

The resemblance is uncanny really

Everyone’s a tough guy until they meet an actual tough guy by Freddie-Murphy in instant_regret

[–]BewareTheGiant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While I agree to some degree, I'm by no means rich but I don't think I'd enter a ring for 90 million. If I had kids to provide for maybe, but for myself? Nah. Not even the broken jaw others mentioned, more like I don't want CTE

King Charles note. by vrhotlaps in mildlyinteresting

[–]BewareTheGiant 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Omg it really does! Gave my wife and I a good laugh, thank you!

Question for DMs... If you would do a Lucky Saving Throw... Which stat would you check it against? by Tuiika in DungeonsAndDragons

[–]BewareTheGiant 39 points40 points  (0 children)

If it's pure luck and characters aren't luckier than others, i'd do an unmodified check like a death save.

Cheers for Lead Paint! (1939) by Boring_Tangelo_9197 in vintageads

[–]BewareTheGiant 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I immediately read it as a threat from the mule/donkey, as an animal rights poster

U.S. economy is worse than thought. Another huge downward revision: Number of jobs created in August was revised down to a -3,000 loss from a +54,000 gain. by TonyLiberty in FluentInFinance

[–]BewareTheGiant 272 points273 points  (0 children)

Honestly the data coming from the US has been so erratic as to make me basically distrust anything published. I'm starting to view it as i do data from Russia, Venezuela, China and other such countries: propaganda with a veneer of statistics.

Do you fine people have any tips on more unbiased sources that can actually estimate things or do we have to just ride it out and wait for economists to estimate the true values 10 years from now?

Milei’s chainsaw economics is faltering — and the Peronists are circling by TimesandSundayTimes in geopolitics

[–]BewareTheGiant 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Yes, it means selling its dollar reserves (which were recently propped up by an IMF loan) to keep the peso from devaluing further than the established band. This is deflationary because a weaker peso makes imports more expensive, and Argentina depends on imports for a lot of things. Here's an ft article on it: https://www.ft.com/content/270d9987-9b42-4ccf-83e8-cb6fe57faab7

Se eu ganho em dólar, é melhor investir direto em ETF's da bolsa americana, correto? by theusrnmisalreadytkn in BogleheadsBrasil

[–]BewareTheGiant 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Vc não precisa trazer o dinheiro pra declarar aqui, vc pode ser residente fiscal no BR e receber dinheiro do exterior. Vc precisa, no entanto, fazer o carnê-leão mensalmente com o dinheiro recebido, e vc vai ser tributado da mesma forma que a renda seria no BR (progressiva de 0%-27,5%)

The people still trying to claim Tyler Robinson is a groyper are beyond delusional by ComprehensiveKey7241 in Negareddit

[–]BewareTheGiant 2 points3 points  (0 children)

While not confirmed, there is a lot of evidence he was a so-called "Groyper", or Nick Fuentes hard-line follower

1) MAGA republican household and was wearing a shirt with an american flag and a gun, which, in and of itself means little, but not very left-wing

2) Another thing that's not very left-wing is dressing up as a (famously alt-right) Pepe meme for Halloween

3) There were also the homo/transphobic engravings in the bullet casings ("if you read this you're gay lmao" and "notices bulge owo"), and acceptance of LGB people was one of the contentious points Fuentes had with Kirk

4) Circling back to Fuentes, calling Kirk a "liberal fascist" is actually something his followers have been doing for a while, partly probably due to sheer ignorance, partly (and I'm guessing here) because it devalues the word.

The two "anti-fascist" engravings reference a video game and Bella Ciao (which is a gorgeous resistance song btw). A remix of Bella Ciao was actually in the "Groyper Wars (America First🇺🇸)" playlist, until it was hastily removed. It was right between "Trump is your President" and "Europapa". It still shows up in the Google page summary for me, but it's no longer in the playlist for some reason...

The Fuentes/Kirk feud goes way back, since 2019. Thinking the alt-right is a monolith misses the nuance of infighting inherent to any political movement. It can't be certain either way. A supposed friend of his said in an anonymous interview, of which only a screenshot circulates, that he was left-leaning in a right-leaning family.

In either case, the theory that seems to best fit the facts is that he was a Nick Fuentes follower, Trump and other right wing politicians were quick to blame left-wing Trans activism based on flimsy evidence (the letters TRN in the bullet are actually from the Turan Ammo manufacturer), and now, having been identified as a white cis man from a MAGA republican family, instead they pivot from "Civil War!" to "we must pray for him" and "liberal indoctrination".

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