I hope they get a slew of new moderators who make every subreddit unbearable by deleting every good post and leaving only bullshit ones.

Reddit is doing Place to demonstrate continued engagement despite protests. People should stay logged out. But if they’re going in, people should hit them where it hurts:

“Reddit ads support Child Porn”

“Short Reddit Stock”

“Reddit Fakes Views”

Reddit absolutely expected it. Wanted it, even. Reddit is going to show prospective investors its usage and engagement statistics for the duration of Place to demonstrate its continuing viability even after the API controversy.

I honestly have no idea what fediverse ads you’re talking about.

St Jude’s is a charity hospital that does not charge patients or their families. They accept insurance payments only and the rest is covered as charity.

Was it capitalism or was it refrigeration?

A lot of marginalized people survive by selling Ponzi schemes. When you refuse to buy into a scam, you’re enabling genocide.

I honestly don’t remember Barbie saying patriarchy even once. Ken says he likes patriarchy a lot, and that modern man is doing it wrong. But I don’t recall a line from Barbie with any variant of the word “patriarchy” in it.

It’s almost as if Elon hasn’t seen the movie but is jumping on the stupid wagon.

I just saw the movie. There is nothing gay about it, unless a shirtless Ryan Gosling is too much for the commenter to repress.

Original mod of /r/jailbait

Thermoses. They keep hot stuff hot. They keep cold stuff cold. No touchscreen or controls whatsoever. How does it know?

“Oh no! Our engagement is up right when we’re prepping for an IPO.”

Like how to do your taxes and get a good mortgage rate?

He was short. But so was everyone else then.

Belgium was esteemed among European diplomats and largely avoided military conflicts.

In colonizing Africa, Belgium sent mercenaries to cut off locals’ hands and steal their children if the locals did not meet their daily rubber harvesting quotas.

In both World Wars, the entire country of Belgium was used by combatants as the easy way to get around instead of going through an actually fortified territory.

tl;dr those who lack knowledge of history cannot contextualize current events either

Duck Duck Go search results are a little lacking, though, like it’s completely missing some possibilities. Looking up tech stuff for a Linux issue I’m having, Duck will miss a site that Google finds - and even if I enter the exact text of the site, it’s completely absent from Duck.

Dude 5’ 10 is slightly above average for men today. https://wikipedia.org/...

Napoleon was 5’ 6”, but again, average for the time. https://www.history.com/...

My five year old’s Fancy Nancy books are more than 19 pages.

Meh. From my antitrust course in law school (which was admittedly a long time ago), nothing about this screams antitrust. I don’t see that this deal gives Microsoft monopoly power over any defined market, and Microsoft definitely hasn’t flexed any existing monopoly power over the gaming space.

Certainly Microsoft has a history of anticompetitive action and flouting monopoly power whenever it has the chance in a sector. But I don’t see this deal as giving Microsoft a vertical or horizontal monopoly. It’s just typical consolidation within the industry. It’s not for consumers, but it isn’t the result of illegal price fixing type arrangements between competitors or using an existing dominant market share to overpower the market. That isn’t illegal. That’s just a shitty industry with shitty practices.

The best argument against allowing the deal to close, under US law, is likely targeted towards the cloud and subscription models. Microsoft really does seem to have a huge edge there. But I’m not sure anyone in the industry (except Epic Games) wants to challenge the subscription practices on another player’s hardware.