Reddit's admins don't recognize that they have very few levers to control the mod teams. They don't pay them, they don't give them any special benefits or consideration, and they (clearly) don't even respect them either. All that's left is the stick of removal, and that's only as threatening as the person is committed to being a mod on a site that clearly views them as a disposable tool.

They've already replaced some mod teams with new people, and i suspect that'll continue, and likely cause enormous disruption as people discover being the mod of a large subreddit sucks and is very tedious, dull work that isn't actually fun at all.

Considering how much money reddit makes off the vast amount of free labor provided to the site you'd think they'd have more sense, but, here we are.

I think that tens of thousands of people have done it and this is the first fatality says that it was something unique about the victim, rather than the chip.

We need a mandatory retirement age for federal appointees, fucking immediately.

my hot take is that AMA's haven't been good for literally years, and that most celebrity AMA's are terrible and nothing more than cheap advertising for whatever their latest project is.

This is one of those situations where there was no need for a police interaction at all, let alone a violent or forceful one.

yeah it's 100% just a murder. probably she thinks by saying it's an "accident" she can either skate or get a manslaughter conviction instead of murder.

I have no idea why CNN would do a news story on what amounts to a marketing gimmick from a website.

It is always really interesting when a system like that fails, and Im curious to see what they come up with as an explanation for why.

The public face a politician puts forth is often very different than the actual person, and it's been that way since forever.

Linux mint is often recommended for new people, and has a interface very similar to windows. In my own experience, it's very fast to get it up and running.

that's some real psycho shit right there.

I'm honestly surprised this doesn't happen more often than it does, considering how much coffee McD's sells.

The best part will be when they find out that local floridians absolutely will not work for the same wages, and in many cases any wage, for the same labor. Similar actions in the past have left crops rotting in the fields because no one wants to harvest them. This incident in california comes to mind although of course that was nowhere near as harsh...

Just think of the money saved in severance by them quitting instead of being fired, which is probably the plan all along.

My town didn't have cops for over three years, and it was totally fine.

or we could expect journalists to focus on stories that matter instead of this celebrity gossip crap?

I'll take the stance this is actually a positive, since rebuilding after a hurricane in florida is a bad idea to begin with. It's just gonna keep happening and keep intensifying in severity. The more people who relocate out the less people there'll be at risk.

tl;dr would be that one of the main actresses on critical role (Ashley Johnston) was in an abusive relationship with this guy named Foster, and Critical Role has now scrubbed every notion of his existence from their page by deleting all videos with him in it.

A valuable lesson on the importance of local archiving and not trusting any online source to stay online.

Because AI detectors suck and are the modern day equivalent of dowsing rods?

I can't even get 10 people to show up for a birthday party, but they can organize 20+ for a robbery. Feels bad.