Ah, where are those books now? Which shelves can I find them on?

I get the metaphorical point, but it’s a point without effect. “Removing with no possible present or future access” is the same as “burning” for society’s purposes.

Can we please just have one day during this presidency that isn’t the least qualified people maximizing harm?

Like, can this bumbling idiot just waste some money on a harmless holistic cure side project while not actively trying to kill us by destroying modern medicine? Is he trying to outdo Trump’s pandemic score and get the medal for killing the most Americans?

Not sure I understand your NPR comment. Distrust among Dem/Lean Dem is 3%, the lowest level tied with The Atlantic and Axios (for some reason). Affirmative trust among Dem/Lean Dem is 47%, which isn’t the highest but clearly in a very trusted category.

Sure, as an absolute rust number 47% may seem low, but the distrust number is the more important one, and in general there’s less affirmative trust than expected across the board for generally reliable news sources.

I hear these justifications a lot, but the conclusion doesn’t follow from the premises.

The value of the archival data that can be affected by deleting or editing is almost entirely only user-accessed value. Reddit isn’t harmed at all from the edits. It primarily needs active regular users to improve its stock value. Alternatively, it can sell archival data for AI training.

Editing old comments removes neither value source from Reddit. You moved away from it so deprived it of both the material value of new comments and the statistical value of being an active user. Reddit also assuredly has saved data from before the API issue and can likely spot and clean the mass edits to sell the data from training purposes.

Conversely, the value to users and society is high. So many solutions to problems that are gone forever. The Internet is decaying already and it gets harder to find useful information, and those leaving decided to just burn down a library of Alexandria.

It’s their - and your - right, sure. They’re by definition done on comments the user owns. But this is just punching desperate Internet users in the face hoping it gives Reddit a bloody nose.

When their kink is non-consensual, or otherwise with unwilling and unwitting participants, that’s when you know it’s not “just a kink” and they’re actually just a bad person.

Edit: CNC is “consensual” if done legitimately, in case anyone thought this was kink-shaming. My take is, everybody over the age of consent should be free to do what they want with their own bodies, including consenting to things other people don’t like.

one of the most Lunchables faces

I know this is a typo, but yes, it still works.

That’s literally what I wanted you to feel!

Missed that - hope I have a good lawyer.

It’s going to be a hard life for a lot of innocent boys after their parents effectively tattooed “punch me, I’m a douchebag” on them.

Edit: Clarified “innocent,” obviously the parents are the issue.

Having a girl in a red state? You are legally required to end it in “lynn,” “leigh,” “ly” or “ley”.

For reference, Rockefeller was worth $1.4 billion in 1937 dollars on his death. That is the equivalent of $31.36 billion today. The richest person, Elon Musk, is currently worth $400 billion, or nearly 13 Rockefellers.

Nothing humanity has ever seen really compares, unless you’re looking at literal kings literally enslaving and literally extracting all value from an entire population, and even then the scale will be far lower given population growth. We are in the oligarch golden age, and if we’re lucky and we don’t stay here, people will look back at this moment, and not the robber baron era, as the historical comparator for grotesque wealth accumulation.

I would have agreed with you three years ago. But at a macro level, we are in proxy civil war - we are in the legal phase of a coup of the Constitutional US government by fascists. They are literally deposing our ruler: democratic constitutional law. A necessary part of that coup is control of the government’s three branches, and so denial of that control by any legal means necessary is itself an imperative.

I’m at the point where I accept the necessity of using the same tactics, if moves like this can help delay or avoid overt civil war.

Oh, they must have coordinated, seems like it happened the same day for them both: https://youtu.be/TwOLo_U6bTw?t=1523

Jon Stewart, unless I missed Colbert saying it too.

It’s honestly about time.

No state should be gerrymandered, and I would have been upset about this years ago. But we can’t try to win by arguing over the rules of the game while the GOP is snapping the gameboard in half, stabbing other players, and setting fire to opponents’ pieces.

Hey, Canada is on top and Alaska is on the bottom, it’s even in the picture.

But what people don’t get is that the scale of the map means that bridge would have to be half as tall as New Mexico, which is like at least 5 miles, and also there’s no way the bridge would support the weight of the entire United States. C’mon people.

Wow, incredible, so they “slammed” him?

Now if we can just get them to “criticize,” “lambaste,” “scold,” “lecture,” “eviscerate,” “castigate,” “censure,” “chide,” “rebuke,” “reprove,” “condemn,” and “excoriate” him, we’ll all be fine.

Pretty clear message: Lies and corruption are now so powerful that if you defend the Constitution and do your job ethically, you will be branded a traitor.

I actually don’t know if I can take another year of this, much less 3.5, or whatever worse number it ends up being.

Edit: So anyway, did you hear Trump is in the Epstein files?