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Your subreddit gets banned immediately if you don't agree with the redditeurs.

You don't see this an as issue because you share their opinions


Weird how you can find both trump worshipping subreddits and anti-trump ones... or pro catholic and anti-catholic, or pro child porn and anti child porn, and so on and so forth.


There are no "pro child porn sub" on Reddit anymore. Nowadays the threshold of is at screenshots and artworks of Asian games - you could get banned for posting top 10 contents on App Store. There are barely patches of green parts on the frog, and it is no longer beating.

There are also hardly concept of subreddits. Subreddits seemed to have completely homogenized. It's more of hashtags now, with so many obviously in-organic posts likely written by minimally trained call center type personnel, obviously quoting prefabricated scripts, everywhere. There are typos, "I'm on phone" remarks, bad punctuation, or honest misunderstandings are few and far between.

What I don't understand about it, though, is why. Reddit is supposed to be a social media with massive MAUs. Why can't they just let it run itself.


If you went to a website that consisted of roughly within 2 standard deviation population representative of multiple sides, then maybe you would have a point.

But this is reddit. It is not a population consisting of anywhere near that generous 2 standard deviations.

You know precisely what you're doing and you know you're being dishonest.

Tell me, a website that is not wholly owned and operated by shills on the left would respond with the state of /r/pics any day of the week, and exclaim that is entirely organic behavior, let alone consisting of representative population of the real world USA.

We can go blow for blow in any large sub. In fact, tell me why /r/Idaho, a state that has consistently voted red for decades somehow has "organically" resulted in posts entirely consisting of run-of-the-mill liberal posts? What of /r/Texas which is the same story and out of the question not a liberal stronghold that it presents itself to be.

You can pull the wool over your eyes all day, don't expect anyone else in the world to believe your bullshit.


Everyone else manages to do it, you're not special. Be on time, or be a NEET I guess. You've decided you'll never be able to function properly so yeah you probably won't.


What a fuckwit. No, not everyone else manages it. I decided no such thing, you're just fabricating bullshit to feel better about being an arsehole to people who weren't born neurotypical. I have a career with pretty good pay and benefits, and you obviously didn't read anything else I wrote about managing my issues. I'd rather be late than a sociopath.


>i never CHOSE to text jimmy

Yes you did. You are an adult human being with free will.


Another one that just doesn't get it. In that scenario, if you texted Jimmy, it would be a choice, if someone with ADHD did, it wouldn't. Again as stupid a response as telling someone in a wheelchair they chose not to walk upstairs.

Not everyone's experience is the same as yours. Denying that only makes you look like an idiot.


this is like saying someone with depression is choosing to be sad.

this lack of executive functioning is a cornerstone of ADHD. this isn't a controversial opinion, it's universally accepted fact of the disorder


Please keep things like this on iOS


Thank you! Coffee is a very expressive fruit, so we think the coffee app should be as well :)


iPeople reject your reality and substitute their own.

When Apple makes a mistake, it was really a genius 4D chess move and everyone will copy them and also it wasn't really a mistake, we just have to trust the plan.


It's not just that. When Apple adopts a trend or implement a modern feature/flow that they are not the first to, like flat UIs, wearables, VR, etc they do put in earnest effort to polish and distinguish their experience compared to others. Something their competitors don't put a ton of weight in. This pushes people in general to believe that the "Apple way" is somewhat better just because it's different or at least has some mysterious merit. iPeople even more so tan the general public.


Yeah this is usually how it goes, like with fingerprint unlock. But flat design was well-established outside of Apple before.


I read a lot of Apple blogs and they all complain about Apple all the time. They like Apple products, but they aren't stupid. For example, nobody thinks that Siri is a 4D chess move, everyone knows that Siri sucks.


that's what iPeople-haters like to say. people panned the trashcan pro. people panned the butterfly keyboard. people panned the removal of sd card reader from laptops. people call out apple, but that doesn't fit the iPeople-haters narrative, so it's best to just ignore it


> people panned the trashcan pro. people panned the butterfly keyboard. people panned the removal of sd card reader from laptops.

Those things all sucked and deserved to be panned, but we all remember plenty of people defending them too.


Actually. The charge port for the mouse on the bottom is genius. In this essay I will.....


The DRM on the Lightning charging cable ensures your mouse is secure from unauthorized power...


"I suppose you still want a floppy drive too" and then they re-added the SD card and HDMI


Ah, overly broad stereotypes, you totally can't go wrong with them. May they never change


Note: the text of that article itself is AI generated.

> Automate Content: Like this very post. I use Wispr Flow to talk with Claude, explain the topic and tell it to read my past blog posts to write in my style.


Now I have the mental image of the owner of that blog tearing his hair out trying to get back into his computer, while the AI that locked him out is happily posting on his blog trying to convince other gullible humans to hand over control of their computers.


Yes, the author (apparently) spent a lot of time with it.


If it had actually reduced mass immigration from the third world, as voters were promised, it would have been good.


> If it had actually reduced mass immigration from the third world, as voters were promised, it would have been good.

There isn't a very high bar to understanding that immigration from "the thirld world" had nothing to do with the EU.

As an immigrant to the UK, I was very acutely aware of the sentiment leading up to, during and after the referendum, but I was mortified by the ignorance displayed by people around the topic.

I'm from one of those third world countries by the way.


The England and Wales fertility rate is 1.44. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnvj3j27nmro

Without immigration, future demographics will be fucked. Which means government finances, welfare, and the NHS.

That's one thing I don't get about anti-immigration opinions: it's burying ones head in the sand about demographic problems.

The real debate, if there is one to be had, should be about enculturation / integration and policies around that.

(Because unless developed countries substantially increase their fertility rate, immigration is a non-negotiable requirement)


Saying what book you're talking about is kind of a spoiler now for anyone that happens to be reading its series. Are there spoiler tags on HN? <SPOILER> The Long Utopia, book 4/5 of the Long Earth series by Pratchett and Baxter. </SPOILER> The series has very meh characters/dialogue, excellent ideas and sense of nearly possibility-unlimited discovery that's executed very well, highly recommend if that's your cup of tea. Ended up skipping all the flashback chapters near the end of the series though, that felt like a load of filler


I was wildly disappointed in that series. A great premise that fizzled out about 3/4ths of the way through the first book. I powered through, and started the second, and gave up maybe five chapters in.

If the concept of world-hopping intrigues you, Charles Stross's "Merchant Princes" series does it better.


I'm really glad to see this wasn't just my experience.

I absolutely loved the premise of the first book. Every time I think about it I get the same kind of excitement I feel when I come up with the perfect idea for a D&D campaign.

But the second book gathers dust on my shelf, and no matter how many times I think "I should get back into these!" I just can't. The first book ended in a fizzle and the second completely failed to keep my attention.

I'll take a look at Merchant Princes and see if that's more to my liking!


You're just using buzzwords. How is this analogous to robber barons at all?


Consider that he might actually be a winner, and you might be a jealous loser instead.


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