huge congratulations to drugs for continuing to win the war on drugs
From: The Workers of the World To: Capital
COPE
Which one of you fuckers taped a fucking Goncharov poster on the door of a convention center in fucking Poland.
I heard that the guy who put up those posters has a six pack. I heard that he's shredded.
how do you guys post so much about celsius vs fahrenheit. It's not even like the rest of the metric ssytem where there's easy conversions (liter to 1000 milliliter, milliliter to cubic centimeters, etc). It's not even like comparing vs having a natural 0 like kelvin. Like where is this energy and passion coming from. Like celsius and fahrenheit are basically the same
it's precisely that they are basically the same that is the problem. there's no realistic argument that us customary units for distance are better than SI ones, but fahrenheit and celsius are completely arbitrary and so there's no clear winner, so the argument continues.
or not, idk. sounds like a neat story you could tell about it but i have no idea if it's true or for that matter if there's more temperature arguments than distance arguments.
Petition to change US customary distance units to feet, centifeet, kilofeet, megafeet, etc., so that we can have endless arguments about whether feet or meters are better.
Unit of mass is now set as the mass of one cubic decifoot of water at 39.2 degrees F.
Oh hey that's almost exactly one avoirdupois ounce. I didn't even plan that.
Hey bud, still trying to figure out that amphetamine prescription huh? Looks like you've got a solid four days without restful sleep. I know that you've spent the last few days eating nothing but corn chips and hard lemonade, and you feel like strangers are mad at you for no reason, but listen to me: Post through it. This is the blogging equivalent of those Orthodox priests that live in a cave and don't jerk off for 15 years. Youre just like them.
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JEB! is a recursive acronym for JEB! "Erotic" Bush
I cannot think of a sufficiently good insult :(
What? In order to punish me for putting this thought in your head? You should be genuflecting. You should be thanking me on bended knee. You should be so, so grateful that I have deigned to share my poison with you. You need little toxins to inoculate you against the big ones, and my shitposts are the thing keeping you from cognitive sepsis. I am doing such a favor to you
Yes but consider what it's doing to my poor health insurance premiums! I'm a sick old man I can't have with this nonsense!
You live in Denmark, well-known Socialist Paradise; why are you paying health insurance premiums?
JEB! is a recursive acronym for JEB! "Erotic" Bush
I cannot think of a sufficiently good insult :(
What? In order to punish me for putting this thought in your head? You should be genuflecting. You should be thanking me on bended knee. You should be so, so grateful that I have deigned to share my poison with you. You need little toxins to inoculate you against the big ones, and my shitposts are the thing keeping you from cognitive sepsis. I am doing such a favor to you
Yes but consider what it's doing to my poor health insurance premiums! I'm a sick old man I can't have with this nonsense!
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JEB! is a recursive acronym for JEB! "Erotic" Bush
I cannot think of a sufficiently good insult :(
The internet’s best resources are almost universally volunteer run and donation based, like Wikipedia and The Internet Archive. Every time a great resource is accidentally created by a for-profit company, it is eventually destroyed, like Flickr and Google Reader. Reddit could be what Usenet was supposed to be, a hub of internet-wide discussion on every topic imaginable, if it wasn’t also a private company forced to come up with a credible plan to make hosting discussions sound in any way like a profitable venture.
We are living through the end of the useful internet. The future is informed discussion behind locked doors, in Discords and private fora, with the public-facing web increasingly filled with detritus generated by LLMs, bearing only a stylistic resemblance to useful information. Finding unbiased and independent product reviews, expert tech support, and all manner of helpful advice will now resemble the process by which one now searches for illegal sports streams or pirated journal articles. The decades of real human conversation hosted at places like Reddit will prove useful training material for the mindless bots and deceptive marketers that replace it.
I think this is leaving out an important factor here, when it acts like the difference is between the good donation-driven things and the bad for-profit things.
It’s ignoring the factor that things do take resources to operate and some things are more expensive than others. Reddit is, in real life in the world, very expensive to operate. Almost all of its moderators are volunteers, and it does have user-driven donations (Reddit Gold and all things related thereto). That’s not enough. It’s still expensive as shit. You can’t get as many donations for it and donating to it doesn’t make you look good like Wikipedia. You need way more moderation, WAY more, and even if almost all of them are volunteers that’s a whole bunch of shit you gotta deal with.
I feel like people are saying “the Internet we loved just isn’t profitable any more” and using it to imply that it’s all just that good old specter of “corporate greed” taking everything away. But there is a very, very narrow gap between “profitable” and “makes enough to sustain itself but not a profit,” and then a vast, vast, unfathomably vast crevasse below that of “cannot make enough money to pay operating costs.” The Internet we loved is actually too expensive to run.
There’s a ratio of “how many people use the thing” to “how much of people’s time it takes to monitor and moderate and maintain and some other M-word their usage of that thing” and it turns out that ratio is never going to be a good one for most of the types of things we like. Reddit’s administration might be stupid and out of touch in how they are trying to get more money from Reddit, but the need to have Reddit make more money is real. If they’ve never turned a profit, they’ve never been sustainable. If it’s not sustainable, it either needs to become sustainable or it goes away.
I agree with your general sentiment, but I want to push back against this narrative that Reddit and similar websites are too expensive to run, at least on the tech side.
Twelve years ago, Jedberg, a reddit admin, confirmed that the back of the napkin calculations of a redditor were accurate and that monthly server costs are around $33.5k.
In 2023, Reddit had a revenue of $522.4 million. It has 2000 employees.
I don't know how much more popular Reddit has gotten and I don't know how to factor in the economies of scale. But let's grant that it has become 100 times more expensive. That would still mean that server costs amount to only $40.2 million.
This would leave $482.2 million. Which is $241.1k per employee.
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From here, I will start my biased speculation.
I am sympathetic to the idea that moderation costs can scale so aggressively per dollar you earn that it just can't work out. But I don't think it's the case for Reddit.
Reddit is full of bullshit jobs and bullshit work and it eats up money like crazy. I am sure legal also eats a good chunk of money, but again I struggle to believe it's sufficiently bad to make Reddit unprofitable at this revenue.
It's likely Reddit could easily be making money if it were a more lean company instead of the poorly managed megasloth that it is.
Like many large companies, the incentives within its own structure get so tangled up that it is very difficult to ever return to organizational sanity and efficiency.
I do not propose solutions. I do not know how one avoids becoming like Reddit. And I don't have more fact-based arguments if you tend to believe that Reddit is "legitimately" this expensive.
But from my perspective, there's a very high chance it's at least technically possible for them to be profitable, if the organization was remotely healthy.
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I also agree that narratives about corporate greed aren't helpful and can be misleading. It's a problem about incentives that nobody has a good idea about how to solve. Crossing your arms and talking about human sin isn't going to fix it.
The problem is more complicated than generic greed. I can assure you that startups can also be manned by incredibly greedy people and still be highly efficient. This is because at that point the goals of the company, the goals of the founders and early employees and the needs of the consumer tend to be significantly more aligned. Once growth occurs, especially when it happens via investor money, it gets harder and harder to keep things efficient and aligned.
HHhH I wanted to tumble-dry the quilt to revive it a little, it spent three weeks vacuum packed, but this bizzarely stupid "intelligent" washer/dryer decided (despite me explicitly specifying not to) to run some kind of hot "steam dry" cycle that looks like it has the same effect as a hot wash. Blue colour runs all over the place. Currently consulting with the relatives about solving colour runs while it goes for another cold wash, hopefully the steam cycle didn't make anything permanent. Fuck!
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I don't care what people say. Drinking water is such a horrible experience if it's not ice cold and drunk immediately.
It can taste funny, smell funny...filtered or not.
I HATE drinking water because of this!!
My husband says "water doesn't have a taste". It absolutely does! Even the most neutral of waters has a taste and that taste is Water. We argue about it sometimes lol
Hubby gave me a cup of water for my pills last night and I grimaced cuz I could taste that it was from a slightly warm tap. I told him it tasted like heat. It wasn't hot. But I could taste the heat like bubbles.
He just stared at me and walked away. 😂
Sometimes, and i dont know why, but sometimes water randomly tastes like dirty sock water. Its gross and makes me gag. Water definitely has a taste and the taste varies and its annoying and gross.
My husband: It's just water. Water has no taste.
The entire Autistic Community: Fuck water!
My doctor told me a few years ago (before my autism dx) that "if you can taste water, you're probably hypersensitive to the metals and minerals in it. Let me guess, every single different place you get water from, maybe even different sinks in your house, it all tastes different, right? Yeah, you're tasting minerals that normally people can't taste. I can't really blame you for not drinking water when it probably tastes like licking rocks. The only thing I can really do to help is suggest you flavor your water with mio or powdered mix" and I would *not* be surprised to find out that autism increases your likelihood for sensitivity to that taste!
My roommate, autistic, hates our tap water. I, autistic, can absolutely tell the difference in taste. I agree that we can have the weirdest kinds of sensitivity that nobody believes.
I grew up on Brooklyn water and artisan well water and upstate NY water, then when I moved near DC, I went through months of feeling like the water had a vastly different taste - because it absolutely did.
Can confirm. The water in many places has no taste, and in other places it does. There are certain mineral springs that taste weird and metallic, while other places almost have no taste. Fancy bottled water is more hit or miss with the taste of minerals, because the minerals are often a selling point. Cheap bottled water has almost no taste.
Once in a hotel in Spain I recognised the sweet taste of lead pipes in my tea, and went down into the supermarket to buy bottled water. Vichy Catalan tastes aggressively mineral, like one of those springs in spa towns. But it doesn't taste like chlorine or lead.
Once in a hotel in Spain I recognised the sweet taste of lead pipes in my tea,
what a creeping horror story of implications and layers and realizations that you cannot do fuck-all about fuck-all.
that's just what Spain is like. never mind, uno beero lass y esteak and kidney pie con mucho bisto and peas
It's less for the spanish (i have long reached peace with the fact that the world cannot be perfect) and more...
Ok so now I buy bottled water instead of drinking the hotel tea, sure. What do I eat for dinner tonight? Do I insist the chef cook with bottled water exclusively? Solving the problem in general is impossible, and solving it just for yourself requires that you solve it in-general.
millenials can clearly recall what they were doing when they first played Oblivion much in the way boomers can recall JFK being shot and gen X recalling where they were on 9/11
As a millenial I am definitely more of a "where was I on 9/11" kind of guy than I am a "where did I first play oblivion" kind of guy.
gonna start making snopes-style responses to urban legends about tumblr
"this how we lost post editing and it was still worth it"
❌ False
The John Green Cock Monologue, while one of the most egregious examples of post editing, was not why the ability to edit posts was taken away. This feature was removed because scammers would edit posts with huge note counts to try to make their scams look legit.
"those are his hooves, bitch."
✅ True
Those are his hooves, bitch.
every 6 months or so I endeavor to write something in C. and then I'm reminded, oh. this is why people are making replacements to C.
No that looks a lot like Sil, which is an Angband clone (except not)
I don't care what people say. Drinking water is such a horrible experience if it's not ice cold and drunk immediately.
It can taste funny, smell funny...filtered or not.
I HATE drinking water because of this!!
My husband says "water doesn't have a taste". It absolutely does! Even the most neutral of waters has a taste and that taste is Water. We argue about it sometimes lol
Hubby gave me a cup of water for my pills last night and I grimaced cuz I could taste that it was from a slightly warm tap. I told him it tasted like heat. It wasn't hot. But I could taste the heat like bubbles.
He just stared at me and walked away. 😂
Sometimes, and i dont know why, but sometimes water randomly tastes like dirty sock water. Its gross and makes me gag. Water definitely has a taste and the taste varies and its annoying and gross.
My husband: It's just water. Water has no taste.
The entire Autistic Community: Fuck water!
My doctor told me a few years ago (before my autism dx) that "if you can taste water, you're probably hypersensitive to the metals and minerals in it. Let me guess, every single different place you get water from, maybe even different sinks in your house, it all tastes different, right? Yeah, you're tasting minerals that normally people can't taste. I can't really blame you for not drinking water when it probably tastes like licking rocks. The only thing I can really do to help is suggest you flavor your water with mio or powdered mix" and I would *not* be surprised to find out that autism increases your likelihood for sensitivity to that taste!
My roommate, autistic, hates our tap water. I, autistic, can absolutely tell the difference in taste. I agree that we can have the weirdest kinds of sensitivity that nobody believes.
I grew up on Brooklyn water and artisan well water and upstate NY water, then when I moved near DC, I went through months of feeling like the water had a vastly different taste - because it absolutely did.
Can confirm. The water in many places has no taste, and in other places it does. There are certain mineral springs that taste weird and metallic, while other places almost have no taste. Fancy bottled water is more hit or miss with the taste of minerals, because the minerals are often a selling point. Cheap bottled water has almost no taste.
Once in a hotel in Spain I recognised the sweet taste of lead pipes in my tea, and went down into the supermarket to buy bottled water. Vichy Catalan tastes aggressively mineral, like one of those springs in spa towns. But it doesn't taste like chlorine or lead.
Once in a hotel in Spain I recognised the sweet taste of lead pipes in my tea,
what a creeping horror story of implications and layers and realizations that you cannot do fuck-all about fuck-all.