And this is going to suck for the American economy.

A large part of the economy is built on providing goods and services to all members of the economy. The economy is going to suck when half of it can’t afford to spend.

The powermods arent bringing anything unique moderation except a network that allows them to control content for a specific audience.

It depends who. There are some that build tools and procedures for handling large forums. They may also share best practices across different subs.

As for controlling content, it isn’t like a corporation or political group can’t create 20 accounts and take over subs. That’s already happened on Reddit.

Its overall a good thing but the powermods will be replaced with reddit admins doing the ame

Or sock puppet accounts. Banning the current set of mods without a plan on who replaces them doesn’t fix the problem.

The problem with powermod isn’t that they exist, though. Moderation of a large sub is still done by volunteers that have had to hack solutions together because they don’t get a lot of support from Reddit. It helps Reddit to have experienced mods overseeing several subs because they bring with them experience on how to handle high profile and large scale moderation efforts. They are a technical talent pool that Reddit relies upon a lot.

The problem is that Reddit has shitty mod governance. It still uses rank by add date and offers no ability for users to kick a mod out except for TOS faults. Reddit doesn’t want to fix mod governance issues because it creates a legitimate mod power structure and Reddit doesn’t want to give that much power to users, including mods.

That said, Reddit’s shitty mod governance was copied directly to Lemmy.

And the AI being bad at its job was a feature.

Well, he lived a good life.

That was how the Internet worked back in the day. Site reliability for small sites was shit and going viral would routinely pull a smaller site down.

Non-founder CEO’s typically get brought in to use their connections to improve the company of is an internal promotion to signify the new direction of the company. They also provide a single throat to choke when things go wrong.

What will be more likely to happen is that CEO’s will use AI to vibe manage their companies and use the AI output as justification. We don’t have enough data to tell if AI helps the best or worst CEO’s.

Garak to Damar, “Set the scene, have we been drinking?”

Well, pardon me, Bashir, but we can’t all come from places as socially acceptable as Earth.

"I said, ‘Edosian Orchid’… that’s what I call myself sometimes…”

…fuck.

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This one folds into a disk:

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This one is just a small bundle of three sticks:

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I don’t see how you could do it with an orange.

People deep in MAGA usually focus on words or phrases as bad, not going deep into the ideas of it. If you can discuss something without bringing up those words or phrases, you can probably get them to agree to something.

The conservative need to burn everything down got Trump elected.

The problems with Charlie Kirk’s assassination is the following.

First, random gun violence hit a conservative news commentator. Worse, it was someone who grew up in a conservative family. So, you’ve got a lot of conflicting emotions playing out in real time.

Second, there has been a lot of push back regarding what kind of commentator Charlie Kirk was. The discussions of who Kirk was outside of the conservative bubble are leaking in and a lot of Kirk’s fans hate it.

There are a lot of good museums in LA. The museum for the La Brea Tar Pits is next to a few others.

There are also a lot of theme parks in the area, not just Disneyland.

Also, have you thought about getting a portable chair? I’ve seen one type that’s a plastic disc that folds out to become a stool.

Disney has invested a lot of money in ADA compliance. The ability to cut in line with a wheelchair has gone down significantly.

It makes sense when you understand that MAGA doesn’t really have a ideological base. They are a group of people pissed off on the economic prospects of their lives without having any real understanding on how to fix it.

I don’t look at it from an ethical bar, but functional. The political conditions where impeachment is likely is rare.

https://www.eastvalleytribune.com/news/gunman-gets-life-in-rick-chance-murder/article_88a29648-5991-5d66-91e0-31397324e51a.html

There was a guy who owned a car windshield replacement company who would give away free dinners or diamond necklaces if you hired his company to replace your car’s windshield.

He was found dead with two strippers/hookers, one of either sex, some cash, and one of the diamond necklaces his company would give out.