And I was told only perverts would want to secretly record their surroundings.

Actually all new accounts are shadowbanned by default automatically if they start commenting too much right away. 3 months old gives you full privileges.

They’ve been doing that since infrared remotes let you turn the TV on.

If anyone does, EU will be the first.

And yet, they’ve been the best government on the planet for the working class.

What makes you define the EU as ideologically liberal?

Waitll you get to Star Wars Episode 1

I think the biggest threat is all the billionaires who don’t want working class people getting together and agreeing with each other on the internet.

Everything you mentioned - misinformation, hate speech, age verification - works towards that same goal.

Most of Reddit’s users do not post, comment, or even vote.

Reddit’s product is the ability to sell people the perception of a natural conversation between two ordinary people on the internet, where the conversation is shaped by corporations and state agents.

Actual ordinary people get in the way of that. Reddit does not want users.

All I see on Facebook these days is Russian propaganda anyway.

So you mean a power vacuum?

How well did that go for Iraq?

They’ll just make a new Call of Duty series where you defend Aramco oil assets from terrorist invaders.

Competition is good. Two spheres of influence.

Chinese sphere of influence is not good. Theirs includes the worst countries in the world, like North Korea, and Russia.

The guy at the BBQ store got mad at my dad for wanting a cheaper BBQ, and said “well come back when you want a MAN’S barbecue!” and my dad was just so flabbergasted he never went back.

Like a reverse Hank Hill.

The US doesn’t manufacture RAM. But becoming reliant on a country so hellbent on dismantling democracy would be unwise.

It’s better to use their weak labour standards to exploit their workers for low wages, rather than try to compete with those conditions directly.

Works for China.

Is this a Nintendo Switch meme?

alright that’s how I’m renaming all my vbuses in Kicad including the silkscreen from now on

Nah I’m with this guy. These anti-AI weirdos drive me nuts. Guy writes you a free tool and all they can do is look a gift horse in the mouth.