We have a shit load of laws designed to prevent fascism. They aren’t preventing fascism.

That’s fair. I left reddit before the AI boom, so I don’t really know what it’s like now.

Even buildings built for the homeowner suck, because building codes suck and construction materials suck. It’s very hard, and very expensive, to build a nice home of any size. And even if you spend the money, you’ll never get it back because the market doesn’t value quality.

Yes, and it’s also unfettered capitalism. Developers buy land cheap, build homes cheap, and sell them for a profit. That’s usually not in the best interests of the homeowners or the community. In many other countries, homeowners buy land, choose a builder, buy materials, and contribute to their local area. It’s a system that costs slightly more upfront, but most of the value stays where it should, with the homeowners and the laborers. There’s no mass-produced garbage or corporate veils to syphon and protect profits far away from the community.

OP provided their version of context. At face value, I agree with you. But did OP use a racial slur? Anti-Semitic talking points? Did OP call for violence or threaten someone? When I say OP didn’t provide context, I mean they didn’t provide anything backing up their context. They just said they were banned for being critical of Netanyahu and Israel being engaged in genocide. It’s been years since I made a reddit comment, but I know I made many similar comments back then and never received a ban, so either the mods were being feckless and arbitrary (certainly a possibility) or OP did more than they claimed. Either way, we’re lacking the context to know either way.

I used to mod a few subs, and I can’t tell you how many shitbags would come into the sub throwing slurs and threats around, only to blame us for overreacting when they were banned. That’s like the default response to earning a ban. I also saw mods act like power-tripping toddlers who would ban anyone that didn’t kiss their toes. My experience was more the former than the latter, but that’s just my experience.

The point is that the ones who don’t know should know. That’s like the entire point of news. If the article keeps it vague, then people who are barely paying attention might think that an actual judge made a legal ruling based on the law. They might assume that a federal judge is non-partisan and independent.

It holds up, especially with the plethora of mods.

Me, at 44, realizing I’m running out of self-soothing anecdotes about people older than me finding success…

There’s a reason that Putin throws people out of windows. He wants everyone to know that he killed those people, and he wants everyone to know that nobody is going to stop him.

Trump and his fascist army wants you to know that they will murder witnesses, and nobody will stop them.

Even if it was just a horrible coincidence, Trump is going to act like they killed him because he likes taking credit for things.

Yeah, these articles shouldn’t say “a federal judge…” “Trump lackey Aileen Cannon has once again protected her masters.”

Years ago, I had a work account that answered troubleshooting questions in the company subreddit. It was actually pretty great for that, because active users could get their answers quickly, but also the answers were preserved for future users. Our corpirate site had a community page, but it didn’t have 0.01% of the daily views the subreddit had.

I left that job years ago, though, and I don’t think the sub is as active as it was.

9 out of 10 “I got banned for no reason” posts, you find the offending content and think “oh shit, OP sucks.”

Not saying that this OP sucks, just that the lack of context is suspect. And of course reddit suck, and mods suck.

There are fan mod updates to both, including the Tale of 2 Wastelands that combines them into one game. The fanmade stuff is fantastic, far better than a remaster would be and they are basically free. I’d still pay for an official remaster, but I can understand why it doesn’t exist.

Amazon is big because they have businesses that rely upon them for infrastructure. Retailers pay Amazon to sell their stuff. Enterprise clients pay Amazon to host their servers in the cloud. Governments pay Amazon to provide internet and host data. Amazon could lose every single global retail purchase on their website for a month and the effect on their net profits would be less than the amount rounded off of their balance sheets.

The human mind cannot comprehend the amount of money the oligarchy controls, and the insignificance of the individual consumer. We are ants to people like Bezos. Annoying, maybe, but a nuisance to be dealt with. You don’t ask the ants what they want. You ignore them until they get into your house, and then you eradicate them and set barriers to prevent them coming back.

There are a lot of us, and we could be annoying to Jeff Bezos. But he is beyond economic retribution.

What’s a large number of people? 10,000? 10,000,000? Amazon Prime has 180 million subscribers in the US alone, with a revenue of $44 billion dollars annually.

That represents less than 7% of Amazon’s annual revenue.

You cannot fathom how massive Amazon is, and how small consumers are in comparison. By all means, stop shopping on Amazon. We all should, because we can. Just don’t expect Bezos to give a shit.

Yeah, but my point is that even if you stop buying from Amazon, it’s a drop in the ocean of profits.

What are you going to do, not shop at Amazon? Avoid AWS?

If it’s being cherry picked, it’s not a law, it’s fascism.

My kids get their assignments, turn them in, and receive their grades on four different apps, plus there’s a version for the parents.

Best movie, or best WW2 movie? Which is a better representation of the war? The experiences of the soldiers? Which has better art direction and writing and acting? Which one is a better reflection of the current zeitgeist?

I don’t have answers, I just feel like “better” has a lot of dimensions.