The fact that Reddit thinks all that user-generated content is theirs and that they need to protect it from AI is really fucked up.

Reddit itself produces nothing, they wouldn't exist without the users.

Absolutely pathetic that they may block search crawlers over that.

I'm 28 and have no idea what a slide deck is. Is that somehow the new term for a PowerPoint presentation?

They're already doing that, have been for a long time. I have a Baptist coworker who thinks Catholicism isn't real Christianity...

By opening up r/place again, they've stolen the magic from it.

The first time it happened, it was amazing and novel.

The second time was an incredible surprise each time the board opened up again. I was involved with the r/Beach House community to put up an homage to our favorite band.

But now... It's become repetitive. It feels like just an attention grab, like a ploy to artificially increase traffic to the site. This time, it looks no different from every other time r/place has taken... place. It's flags everywhere, there's so much anger surrounding it, and it's just not fun.

r/place was special because of its spontaneity. But now it's soulless, like every other corporate-owned internet phenomenon is.

Fuck Steve Huffman.

Watch carefully when you hear and see coverage about this. The people Israel had were "prisoners" while the people hamas had were "hostages."

This kind of subtle reframing of words happens all the time.

CBS Nightly News had a story that talked about the 150% increase (don't quote me on the actual percentage) in antisemitism acts, but anti Muslim sentiments were just "on the rise."

It's a double standard depending on who they're talking about.

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You're probably wondering how I got here.

I tried to sign up for a Blizzard account and they were giving me long-ass math problems and I had to do fucking 16 of them. So I gave up.

Fuck Blizzard and fuck whoever is setting up the Captchas

Person explains why thing is worse now:

"Management"

It's just hilarious to me that these snowflakes are so triggered (remember when they made fun of liberals for that?) by the mere option to change your pronouns that has absolutely zero impact on the game. You can entirely ignore the feature if you want.

Let them be angry and make fun of them when they do, they deserve the ridicule.

It's nuts for them to rail against this because when Biden said 25% minimum, I was like, "that's it‽"

I get taxed at 25% already and I'm making $125k.

25% is nowhere near enough. Anyone making over 400k individually should be taxed closer to 50%.

The solution? Rental vans...

It's like people think they need mega trucks for the time once a year or less that they have to move a couch.

"But what about when I have to haul wood for my yearly porch renovation?"

"Rent a fucking truck!"

No country or government has a "right" to exist. They're given that ability to exist by the people they're supposed to serve. If the system is not serving the people, it shouldn't exist.

Okay, but fuck Bill Clinton. He signed DOMA into law and signed a bunch of crime bills that made things way worse for poor, minorities, and convicts.

"Some customers are fed up and pushing back"

But continuing to buy things from them, yeah? Companies are not going to change until people stop buying from them.

Nobody needs McDonald's. I'm not even sure most people actually want McDonald's. Just stop going, seriously.

More power to them! Shut it all down and get those shit companies to pay fair wages.

One of their demands is a 32 hour work week, and if they get that, it would be a huge group to do so and may jumpstart the transition in other industries to a shorter week as well.

You know what also cools houses down super efficiently?

Trees

They still have a lot of traffic. So yeah, they did win.

But you know who else won? The Fediverse. This place feels really active now and has the added benefit of feeling just a bit more wholesome.

All the tech companies in Texas would leave. As would most Democrats with the means to do it. There goes your highly educated workforce (Democrats tend to be more highly educated based on demographic data).

The US military would leave. And then there goes all the defense contractors too.

They wouldn't be self-sufficient on their own. They're only self sufficient because they're part of the US.

It's about the restrictions they put in place on those who have bought their products. They make it extremely hard to leave their ecosystem, overcharge for services, and prevent interoperability with other products.

They're only just now allowing RCS to try getting out ahead of these lawsuits. But they still don't allow side-loading (forcing developers to use their store so they can charge 30% on all sales), don't allow third-party app stores, and don't allow third-party browser engines (forcing everyone to reskin Safari).

Plus, in the US, Apple has 55% market share as just one company. The next highest is Samsung at 25%.

So yeah, they can play monopolistic games.

I'm going to call it LEGOs even harder now.