Yeah, what’s even funnier is after noticing and appealing the temp ban I logged off and the only time I went back was to check my mail for a response which is when I noticed the perma-ban, so between those two time periods I was literally not even on reddit, so I have no idea what the fuck they were on about.
I’m here for you brother and/or sister, I’m always happy to preach the good word about telling other people to eat shit. I have just seen so many people giving each other shit about stuff like this that really doesn’t matter in the slightest and I’m tired of seeing it ruin other peoples’ joy. Those people need a fucking hobby.
Indeed, Nazi scum can fuck off.
It’s continued to get worse since I left a couple weeks ago? I’m shocked. Shocked, I say!
Yup. What’s left of their user-base is cranky, well-entrenched against their bullshit, and not afraid to show it. See: the APIpocalypse, etc. I would bet they lost millions of users over that, and now they’re alienating tens or hundreds of thousands more. They have a pretty shit business model which largely relies on enshittification.
I had no idea that was a thing, nor who I would have done it with considering none of my friends or family use reddit. Much less how I could’ve done it without even knowing about it.
I was perma-banned like 11 hours before my temp-ban was lifted, per the timing on the messages in my inbox, so I think the admins just got a lil carried away with the fashy bullshit and then walked it back a little.
And what joy would you have in life if you did or did things solely based on what other people thought about you? Maybe it’s just that I have a different perspective because I’m in my 50s, but one of the things I’ve learned in life is that what other people think matters so very little. I understand, it’s not easy to get there, I was very much a people-pleaser in my youth, but I have found a great deal of contentment in just doing the things I enjoy without regard for what others think. Don’t like my flip-flops? Don’t like my hair? Don’t like the way I talk? Well then you are cordially invited to fuck all the way off, but in the meantime this is my life and I’m going to live it how I damned well please.
And anyone who would shit on or kill the joy in you because you bought a pillow is not your friend. Why do you care what people other than your friends/family think about literally anything? It’s their weight, let them carry it.
The better question is why do you care? This is your life, do what you enjoy and tell anyone who doesn’t like it to get bent.
They 7-day banned me for ‘encouraging violence’ for saying I didn’t think Mangione deserved to go to jail for what he did. I appealed it and it was lifted, but not before it was upgraded to a permanent ban for ban-evasion on other accounts (I’ve never had more than one account in my 14 years of reddit.) The perma-ban was lifted on appeal too, but by that point I was just like fuuuuck off.
Meh. I joined Reddit in the original great Digg exodus, I’m not going back.
And this right here is why I laughed my ass off when they were doing their IPO and offered me an early buy-in. The company has never made a profit to my knowledge, why on earth would I imagine its value would go up?
This headline is inflammatory clickbait (which is not surprising coming from the Jerusalem Post.) ‘Columbia students are working with Hamas’ is a world away from the truth, which appears to be that some student groups are alleged to have possibly received funding indirectly from Hamas through a labyrinthine network of organizations that even reporters are having a hard time tracing. All of this, of course, is according to an Israeli citizen and former hostage who definitely has no reason to be biased against his ideological enemies and former captors whatsoever and a lengthy chain of ‘evidence’ that is circumstantial at best, and frequently just amounts to guilt by association.
I’ve never played an AC game, but that one looks beautiful and is kinda intriguing to me.
What we do not see, from even the most enthusiastic promoters of standardization, is the argument that standardization is for the benefit of capital.
Ok, I’ll make it. Companies participate in standards organizations because it is strictly in their best interest to do so for several reasons.
If these companies didn’t benefit financially from participation a lot fewer of them might participate; big companies like IBM for whom pushing technology forward is a part of their identity would probably still participate, but the little Taiwanese company that only makes CD players probably wouldn’t give a shit and would only adopt the standard after the fact to avoid losing sales with none of the expense of contributing to the standard.
Wow, what scummy bastards. I used the browser for a little bit, and I kinda figured they were up to some shady shit when I noticed a crypto-wallet was included, but I ignored all that shit and it was fine. But if I’d known what the CEO or the company in general had been up to I’d have dropped that shit like a bad habit long before I did for other reasons.
Yeah, the price nearly doubled. But then it all came crumbling down again. I doubt it will go much below where it was before for long, but I could be wrong.
That’s what we call the dead-cat bounce. The further and faster a stock price falls, the more people think it will go back up and buy in at the new low price, thus at some point there is a short-lived reversal of the decline before it continues as it was. Although much of Tesla’s value recently was from a big jump in November (getting a fancy new oval-shaped office will do that for you), so this is likely as much a correction of that overreaction as it is some protest of or loss of faith in Musk.
Oh shit, I didn’t even realize. Yeah, I’d never heard of them, so that was definitely mobile autocorrect. My bad.
Sort of. I have s friend who I consider a RL friend but whom I’ve never met face to face (he’s part of an RL friend group, but he joined after I moved away so our only contact is online.)
He and I have discussed politics extensively over the last 10 years or so, and he’s gone from being a 2-time Trump voter to rejecting him outright and voting against him this time. He’s not s Democrat, but I still consider it progress.