We laugh but this does an excellent point of underscoring the whole power dynamic in Reddit.
Who normally keeps these subs on message, and controls content? The mods.
The mods are volunteers that curate the content of Reddit. And Reddit did a shit job by getting into a pissing contest with their own best assets.
This is the answer. /thread
Doesn’t have to be coffee of course - just get a spoon from hot (not boiling) water. It should be at the temperature where you can juuust stand to have it on your skin. Press and repeat as needed.
It will feel intense - even intensely itchy - for a couple of seconds, then….relief!
If they had charged API fees such that 3rd party apps would have had to charge a monthly fee to users…I would have probably just paid. And I know I’m not the only one.
But they priced it intentionally to kill 3rd party apps, because they wanted to channel access through their garbage app with its “promoted” ads all over the place.
It’s not about “free vs. not free” it’s about intentionally killing off the applications that made reddit likeable as a platform.
Not stiff enough, I’d say. And honestly, steel wool breaks into small pieces pretty easily too.
See I keep telling myself that I will put that hardware to good use, but never do. And that is why I end up with a hoard of 5+ year old hardware in the basement or closet…
I love donating blood and do it as often as I can.
But with 2 kids in daycare it’s so often that my appointment comes and I’m some form of under the weather.
I’ve learned to just re-book in those cases, as if you say “no” to their questionnaire they don’t like you rebook for 3 months. So perhaps they should revisit their policy on that at least? No reason why having to take an Advil for a headache once should mean not donating for 3 months.
Fully agreed that the sports betting ads are out of control and need to be toned down / regulated.
But the REAL problem I have is with how - in just one year or so - gambling has invaded all sports broadcast. The intermission panels are talking about odds, live odds appear during the game, talking heads mentioning how much X dollars could would make if placed on team Y to win right now etc etc.
Even if you try to avoid the commercials, that content gets to you. And if you have a gambling problem, do you just accept that you can’t watch sports at all without risk of being exposed to that?
We treat all other addictive properties with heavy regulation about exposure to the general public. Gambling should be no exception.
That’s really cool!
Love the little bar graphs filling up
Preach.
I’m honestly still using Reddit but mostly just lurking now, and really prefer Lemmy / kbin due to how completely awful the official app is (using Apollo now just makes me sad).
So I love participating here and plan to do so more and more! Whereas with Reddit, I can see myself opening that up less and less.
We’ll likely always be smaller, but we can be big enough while being better - and that would be fine by me.
You can call it laziness sure. But it’s closer to thermodynamics. A system is finding its lowest free energy configuration.
It’s not laziness to think of new things - like doing a simulation instead of a physical model takes a ton of work up front. It’s only worth it IF it works as a better solution, and it may not. This type of “activation energy” then leading to lower energy configurations is common in nature.
Laziness in this case would be to just keep building physical models because that is easier than thinking of the maths, validation, etc of working on a simulation.
I guess I just disagree with Bill entirely on this one.