50,000 Square Foot Mansions. Such a waste.

Seems Linus is in love with money now.

If Microsoft loves anything, it's monopolies.

These last three days have been a lot more calm for me. I think social media in great quantities is bad. The normies that will continue using reddit are the ones that probably use Instagram as well. I am definitely not one of those. So reddit making this change was its final gift to me after 15 years of teachable moments.

scab mods... here they come! Good luck!

You know who's not?

^~ This guy.

I'd rather jump into a pit filled with rattlesnakes!

I also don't make a living trying to influence people into buying shit they don't need.

If the Democratic party is so out of touch their members don't show up to vote in overwhelming numbers, a four time indicted criminal wins a second term.

Scrum meeting now a corporate war room.

Not only that, once reddit IPOs they are tied to wallstreet and must beat wallstreet quarterly estimates or else. They already had trouble turning a profit, they are going to pound the users with shit no one wants. That was already happening, but it's going to get worse.

This is evil. Holy shit man.

Fuck this is trash. DRM for the web. I wish people would understand websites like kbin are not free and that if you use a website you need to pay to keep it alive. But no one wants to pay for anything on the internet, and so we have ads. Ads will for sure kill the internet.

I told this to a group of people once and the silence killed me from ever commenting on the situation in a group setting again. A diplomat I am not
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Idiot took advice from another idiot and is in shambles. I feel bad for all the staff that worked for years expecting a big pay day, but that day was never coming. I don't see how anyone can make money off of reddit like experience and not destroy it.

I am so lucky I was a dunce when it came to people skills when I was first entering the job market. I couldn't get a job at a grocery market. Always in the back running machines. Worked out pretty good actually.

On my birthday no less!

Digg tried to make money off it's communities ASAP and killed it. Reddit tried the slow burn: build up users for 15 years and then pull the rug. It's hard making money from a site that has all it's users do the work. The only value reddit has is automated infra, which in the days of auto scaling k8s clusters is not that unique.

And for those of us that did buy a Tesla that chump has made it harder to get rid of it.

My 13th birthday in 1993 where I got a SNES bundle with Super Mario World and Mario Kart and two controllers, McDonald's for lunch, and the we watched the Lion King in theaters. Doesn't seem like much, but we were a poor family. Best day ever.

I haven't been back since the blackout "ended". I am gun shy about deleting my 15 year old account. I fucking hate spez. His face pisses me off. If punchable face wasn't banned he would be on it.

I was thoroughly addicted to reddit, the blackout made me realize that. I like the fediverse, so I'm going to stay here.

We need alignment on x or y will suffer.