It really blows my mind how good of a deal reddit has (had?) with regards to content and how determined they seem to be to blow it up.

By that I mean: they make the site, all the content is created for them for free, all the moderation, sifting through horrible porn, nazi shit etc. is done for them, also for free, people create apps to more effectively drive traffic to their site, also for free, literally all they really have to do is run ads to rake in the cash, keep the servers up and try to provide better tools for the free moderators to sort through the free content more effectively.

They only do one of those things reliably, and people still contribute endlessly for free. So really all they have to do is not directly torpedo all the free labour they rely on, and they even fucked that up.

Peter Molyneux is by quite a wide margin one of the biggest bullshitters in the gaming industry lol.

Flashback to that time when he was at Microsoft in charge of selling the Kinect and he tried to make everyone believe that you could use it to hang out with an AI boy.

I know it's not nice to be piling onto an ailing old man who probably isn't going to be around much longer, but yeah when he was in good health he was an awful person who didn't give a single fuck about anyone else who was having a hard time, and had literally decades filled with opportunities to help people who were worse off and squandered them all just to accumulate more worthless power and money for himself.

Keeping him in power does nothing but harm other people and the country in general IMO, although to be fair that was also true before his health started to go south as well.

I dunno, he seems to have actually filed a tax return so he might not be qualified.

I'm not sure which other Republican candidates could really step up. Aside from Trump there's DeSantis, who seems to be imploding and I think hates Trump anyway, Chris Christie (who called him a 'One Man Crime Wave' lol) and most of the others I haven't even heard of before.

But there is also Mike Pence who is truly a wild card - there's a reasonable chance Trump literally tried to have him killed and yet he still defends him for some reason - so if anyone is bonkers enough to make it to the White House and then set Trump loose, it'd probably be him.

Her responding with "this is what happens when you don't recycle your pizza boxes" was possibly the funniest thing that happened all year.

You also get the "I must make the simplest transaction absurdly difficult for no apparent reason" shopper:

Hi Alice, I want one of your pies, I'm situated at <location 40km from where you are> and I have $2.98 in cash. Would it be possible for you to meet me 26.7km away from my house where I'll give you the $2.98 in cash, and then the remaining balance in a series of travelers cheques, one of which is from a country which no longer exists but I assure you it can still be converted to legal tender if you're willing to make a quick stop at the Belarusian Embassy? Also what kind of apples are in the pie? If the amount of baking apples relative to other apples is above 68.7% I can't eat it or I'll die, but anything below that amount is fine.

I agree it is sad but also when he was well, if he'd seen someone else in the condition he's in now and had the choice to either cure them or make $1 for himself that he didn't even need, I'm 100% convinced he'd have walked away a dollar richer.

I'd have to agree. Facebook polluted up the social media landscape with their gross business tactics, to the point where many people ditched traditional social media entirely and created/moved to the fediverse. Now they're getting ready to start dumping their toxic sludge here too, and I'd hope that most of the popular areas of the fediverse would just shut them out entirely. They deserve zero goodwill from anybody and are almost guaranteed to be bad-faith actors IMO.

I'm not holding out hope, however. I assume they'll play nice for the first year or two, integrate with everything, and then enshittify this as well. It's just the way things go.

I was watching one of those videos once where a non-religious person debates a religious person (which are always good to angry up the blood lol) and when asked about fossils that proved the world was more than 6000 years old the guy was like "well you weren't there to see that happen so how do you know it's true?" And the other person just let that go by instead of being like "Motherfucker, are you 2000 years old? Did you meet Jesus?" which still bothers me a bit to this day.

It's so weird that Nestle could quite easily just sit back, make chocolate and be a reasonably benign presence in the world and still make a fortune, but instead they decided to go down the path of almost cartoonish super-villainy.

Honestly, the Steam Deck is my favourite bit of tech that I've bought in a long time. For one thing, my SO has a Switch, so now we can both game on the couch together instead of sitting across the room. But also, between Steam, being able to run Epic and GOG through Heroic Launcher, and being able to emulate all the consoles I grew up with, it's like having my entire gaming history all in one portable device. Plus it's amazing for travel.

Also being familiar with Linux, in Desktop Mode it's just a regular Linux PC, so with a bluetooth mouse & keyboard and a dock/monitor (and maybe a bigger hard drive) I genuinely think I could probably get away with just using it as my daily driver PC if I really had to.

If you do echo "3 6 * p" | dc in a terminal it'll give you the result of 3x6, but the dc part of that is software that was written probably between 1969 and 1971.

I'm probably just being idealist of whatever but personally I really hope it doesn't. I don't really like the idea of one instance getting so big that it has the ability to disrupt all the other ones, I'd much prefer in was all just little niche servers run by people who are passionate about the subject, even if it's not making them any money.

But probably it'll all just eventually conglomerate into one big thing and then turn rotten and we'll all have to find something else, because that always seems to be the way it goes. But these are the wild west days for this platform, enjoy it while it lasts!

Also if there's any chance of a Fly situation happening I'm not going. Even if it's like a .00000001% chance then fuck that lol

I get what you're saying, but at the same time, we can't start fucking around with nazis and letting them creep in. We just can't.

Remember, the nazis taking power in Germany in the 40s was done democratically, and everything they did after that was "legal."

I'm not anti-democratic, but just because something's done democratically or legally doesn't necessarily mean it's right.

Additionally, is there a way to block a magazine (hopefully I'm using the correct term) aside from having to actually go in there and click on the block button? If a properly skeezy one shows up on my general feed I'd prefer to not have to actually open it to filter it out if that makes sense.

I've done a bit of this for TV/film stuff, and yeah there's basically two copyrights on a piece of music - there's the rights to the song in general, and the performance rights. That's why you've got to be careful with public domain recordings and check the date of the performance - if you use a song that's old enough to be public domain but a more recent recording of it that isn't, you can be in trouble.

I'm pretty sure that's also why so many trailers have weird covers of famous songs on them (usually a woman doing a slow acoustic version of a rock song for some reason) - that way they can pay for the song rights, and get some aspiring singer to record it for next to nothing so they don't have to also pay the performance rights for it.

Yeah I do kind of suspect that's an optimistic one. I could genuinely see us doing: 10 years of bickering over whether it's going well or not, then 10 years of regret, 10 years trying to get back in but by a very slim margin while 48% of the voting public tries to undermine it at every turn, 10 years and untold amounts of money trying to meet the criteria to be let back in, then it goes to a vote and someone puts an idiotic slogan on the side of a bus again and it doesn't go through. Then we go back to square one.

I'm possibly being a party pooper, but I'd also like to see all three disappear into their respective prisons and never hear from any of them ever again.