I'm refusing to open reddit for any reason. A click is a click, and I'm feeling selfish about things.

I did this while at my private religious boarding high school. Absolutely raked in the dough.

I am not ashamed.

I sure thought I was at the time, haha! But I was not too clever about it. Had I taken half of each coin bin every time, my gambit would have been successful for far longer. As it was, because I emptied them completely every time, it wasn't more than a few months before maintenance caught on and installed different locks.

I am not convinced that our world needs more human beings.

I manually deleted all of my comments from the past 13 years because I don't trust an app to complete that process. It took a long time, partly because I revisited a few threads along the way. I'm feeling great about my content being unavailable to Reddit, regardless of whether anyone cares or misses it.

Yes, I do miss Reddit. No, I will not go back. Not because I don't find any value in it -- I do -- but because my personal sense of justice gets in the way of wanting to contribute any longer. The time I used to spend scanning Reddit for new information or drama or funny anecdotes is now spent thinking about how I can contribute to my community in other ways.

Never got caught!

When does it end, though? How many human beings can this earth support? At what cost of natural resources, flora/fauna, environmental harm?

AI is increasingly taking over jobs that previously required humans. How many humans are actually needed to support current populations? How many of these now-displaced humans will enjoy enough resources to sustain themselves while increasing humanity's knowledge base, artistic pursuits and general intellectual/emotional enlightenment?

These are not rhetorical questions. I don't know the answer to these things. It seems to me that increased population for the sake of population growth itself is not correct.

I nuked my account - including deleting every comment - prior to the blackout, and it remains completely nuked. Not a single comment survived. But instead of using a tool, I hand-deleted every single comment. It did take a while, but every moment was deeply satisfying.