I bought some pre-cut led dimming stickers on a sheet. Any new electronics that come into my house get one. As someone who likes to sleep in near complete darkness it's a must have.

I always assumed this was the case. One of the richest men in the world with an ego this fragile would definitely have his own propaganda campaign.

Interesting that by killing twitter and with Reddit dying off, he’s robbing himself of the ability to spin anything that’s said about him.

It feels like we’re minutes away from most of the content on the internet being generated by AI and most of it being consumed by bots.

I left twitter many, many years ago. Now when someone sends me a link to a tweet and I look at it, the whole platform just doesn't make sense to me. Once the habit was broken I stopped understanding the allure in the first place.

I have been off reddit since before the strike and it feels like a weight has been lifted off me. When I look at it now it just doesn't seem enticing. The addiction aspect has faded just so much faster with reddit than twitter, and I spent easily thousands of hours more on reddit.

That's good for me but I suspect bad for them if someone so ingrained can walk away this easily.

People will die. It’ll be 109 here on Wednesday. It’s not even go outside without a water break weather, let alone work.

I always ask the person helping me if they actually get the tip money when using some kind of kiosk. A ridiculous number of places "tip out" not only to cooks, but to managers and owners.

If I have cash and I think they deserve a tip, I will give them the cash directly and tell them to pocket it.

These people were billionaires. We've learned that there are pretty much only consequences if you mess with rich peoples money. What happens if you murder a bunch of them through negligence?

I think they will find a way to destroy this company and all of these people involved no matter what form that takes.

According to the internet spez's net worth is 8 to 10 million dollars. Even if that's wildly incorrect, he isn't even worth an amount of money Musk loses or gains in a few minutes of a normal day.

This looks like it's PA Dutch style pot pie, which is basically a stew. It looks pretty normal except they made the dough squares smaller and shredded the chicken to make it less of a choking hazard. This ladle full doesn't seem to have many potatoes or carrots, though they might limit them to keep the choking hazard down.

This is normally a super hearty meal and very filling. I make a big pot of it in the winter and you basically need a nap after eating it.

I agree. I personally don't have anything filtered out though. I just don't use Twitter, which I take it is where most of the talk about this guy was. I also really specifically used (until recently) /r/all to make sure I'm getting what is hopefully a representative survey of what other people care about and are talking about and I also just check the regular news. It's important to me to get a well rounded view on things.

I've definitely heard about most of the other edge lords though. Chowder, eyebrows mcgoo, the one that looks like a hipster bartender, and the one that looks like a hobo with dead eyes.

I had never heard of this guy before the most recent debacle and I'm on the internet a lot. So at least it's good that his reach wasn't really as far as it might seem.

This is really it. There are people who create content and then there are casual browsers. I personally browsed reddit casually for years before even commenting and then actually posting. I could look at it on my lunch break or something but I didn't have the time to really get into it, and there are a lot of people who are exactly like I was. It's also just a little intimidating for new people to take that leap because it feels like you're going to be torn apart.

During the time that I was just browsing, I would frequently encounter dips in quality. Like nothing actually worthwhile was happening. Nothing I wanted to click on or engage with, so I'd just bounce after a minute or so. I pulled up Reddit in an incognito browser yesterday and it was exactly like that. Modern day facebook level content was weaved all through the front page.

I honestly cannot think of a dumber move by a company than this. This is Circuit City div-x dvd player level dumb. Not even the debacle with Cricut approaches this.

I provide a lot of advice on Reddit for people and I want to preserve some of those answers if people ask those questions here. They will supposedly give me a CSV file that I can download. There are some other unofficial options but it seems like they involve downloading an SQLite database.

As much as I am fine with Reddit crashing and burning, I know it’s an incredible resource for advice and single handedly stops people from doing regrettable things every day. It will be a while before we have the same thing here.

https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043048352-How-do-I-request-a-copy-of-my-Reddit-data-and-information-

The only reason I logged into Reddit at all in the last 12 days was to request my data. Unless something drastic changes, I don't think I'll go back to Reddit at all. It was the only social media platform I still used.

I was on Reddit through all the bad times and I think they finally had a really good user base of people who actually cared about the platform. It was inevitable that it was going to all fall apart though. That's just how capitalism works. They try to wring blood out of stone until they squeeze so hard that they crush the stone.

They are all going to leave eventually. If this utter disdain for the users and mods is before the ipo, then everything after will be much worse. It is inevitable now that the quality of content will decrease, and that’s the thing that will doom them. Even if they fire Huffman and walk this back, the damage is done. They can’t draw in new users on a more than decade old product, so their only choice is to change the product to appeal to new users. Today that means going left or right. The users and mods that stay are writing graffiti on the walls in a flooding city.

I’ve been wondering which social media platform was going to fold like a house of cards, completely unable to make money or attract investors. Reddit was at the bottom of that list, but here we are.

Elongated has a rabid fan base built around what were perceived to be real accomplishments towards the betterment of mankind. That's not true, of course, but he's also actually wildly, wildly rich.

By contrast I have yet to find a single person who supports Spez or even likes him at all. His accomplishments, real or imagined, are nothing. He's rich but so, so, so much less rich that the contrast is like comparing our moon to the sun.

This is like a kid with a plastic butter knife comparing himself to John Wayne Gacy.

I’ve been reading more and playing my back catalog of games. I’m enjoying having a little less doom and gloom in my life.

I quit Twitter years ago and now when I go back it just doesn’t appeal to me at all. I already feel that way with Reddit mostly because Spez really created bad blood. I will miss the people but I don’t trust him and I don’t want him to make a single dollar off of me.

Any link to that tutorial?

This is the richest part of all of it. They’re taking tools away from people with no time frame for replacements. I’ve been using Reddit for 16 years and the only things I’ve ever seen them ship are new Reddit, rewards, premium, and avatars. The fact that it’s 2023 and they have accessibility issues is appalling. If they can’t handle screen readers then mod tools ain’t coming.

Maybe try Picross? I don't know how exciting that would be for a kid but I love it.

I have spent a lot of time with very rich people over the years for work and they will certainly bite it incredibly early in the apocalypse. If someone is born into wealth, they are almost always fundamentally inept in basic ways. The longer someone stays rich, the more inept and abstracted from the world they become. They are entirely ensconced in a bubble of their own making. Money opens so many doors and protects them from so many just basic consequences of living that they entirely forget that those obstacles exist.

They are also just constantly, constantly being glad-handed and yessir'ed into an excessive amount of confidence. They know it too, but they can't really trust anyone so they just make friends with people who they know would steal the wallet off their corpse but happen to be nicer about it than the other ones who would also do it because they have nowhere else to turn. Other rich people aren't trustworthy to them either because they are only either more or less rich, above or below them.

It'll go down pretty much how it did in the last third of the movie Triangle of Sadness. They are building bunkers that their handlers and others will actually live in. Not to mention that anyone that knows they were a potential engineer, actively or passively, of the downfall of man will have someone to take it out on right in front of them.