“The best part of you ran down your mother’s leg.”

The best part? My friend’s dad said that to him when we were kids. Yeah, he was a major asshole. Also, not scientifically accurate. He was pretty stupid.

I mean a lot of things happened to Reddit.

The most recent obvious decline was allowing AI moderation. That’s when I finally checked out.

Conservatives.

Yup.

SSDs are not good for long term storage. “Old” disk drives are still king for long term.

Yeah but if society collapses or there’s some long power outage (sup Texas) then this thing could be worth its weight in gold. More than its weight in gold.

Assuming you have a generator.

I mean, I could make tacos at home. Or I could pay a bit more to go pick them up somewhere. I could change my own oil, or I could have someone else do it.

I could spend time downloading all this data and uploading it to a hard drive I purchase. I know how to do it all. But for the price they’re charging for the drive AND Raspberry Pi and the service of gathering and uploading the data, it’s not that bad of a deal. Especially if you work a full time job and want to use your free time to not do a chore like this. I mean I’m pretty sure there’s torrents for Wikipedia. Not so sure about WikiHow.

If the price was higher I’d be complaining. It’s pretty reasonable. It’s a peace of mind thing without hassle for anyone with even a little extra cash lying around.

It would be hilarious watching this clown empire fall if I wasn’t living inside of it.

Apes are smarter than this.

NOPE

GUMMI BEARS, BOUNCING HERE AND THERE AND EVERYWHERE!!!

Also, literally eating gummi bears right now.

Lol. Conservatives don’t care. Libs fucking OWNED. We got fucking OWNED, y’all.

Do you feel it? Does it fucking hurt to be owned by poor people who will now be poorer with less options?

They fucking showed us. And themselves. Fuck yeah!!!

Ignorance is strength!!!

Folding like a cheap suit after making duuuuumbfuck decisions.

A true American hero.

The conservative savior.

A cult.

It’s a cult.

Translation: Stupid Americans Vote For Felon Rapist Traitor To Increase Cost Of Living

As a help desk worker, I am starting to get tired of Microsoft’s bullshit.

Try something new and it doesn’t work out? Fine. That’s reasonable.

But can we stop breaking what was already working?

How would they “block” it?

Yup.

Millions of Americans LOVE complaining about our presidential nominees but are nowhere to be found during the primaries. Can’t be bothered to be proactive. Can only be bothered to complain after the fact.

People wanting to start 3rd parties etc, because the Democrats suck so bad.

Great way to have Republicans in power for the rest of our lives. I can’t see how anyone who voted 3rd party in November can STILL think it was a smart decision despite immediately finding out it wasn’t.

One of the most frustrating things in my whole life is how people simply cannot grasp that you cannot cheat code your way to voting a 3rd party presidential candidate into the Oval Office. Like, is it that difficult for people to understand that parties have to start winning locally, then getting representatives in state offices, then in the House and Senate, before a new party could even stand a snowball’s chance in Hell of winning a presidential election?

These fools need to stop fucking around with presidential election votes and start voting for a 3rd party in their local/state elections. Totally fucking pointless to vote 3rd party for president. You’re literally just ushering in Republican presidents by doing that shit.

As you said, it’s far more realistic to put pressure on the Democratic party to change than engage in a fantasy scenario where everyone holds hands and votes a 3rd party into power out of literally nowhere.

But, as you can see by your downvotes, people just want what they want right now. Logic be damned.

“Logic be damned.”

That’ll be inscribed on America’s tombstone.

The worst part about all this is knowing that the power really does rest with the people, we’re just too stupid and divided to utilize it.

This was all so comically easy to avoid.

But our society is so comically stupid that we didn’t.

Because Reddit has chosen the wrong side of history.

Just like multiple German companies did when Hitler and his fascists rose to power.

The only reason I still have a Reddit account is to leave comments telling people to leave Reddit and join Lemmy. I just find posts on or near the front page that are complaining about Reddit and leave the same comment every time.

When Reddit bans or even just temporarily suspends me, I just create a new account right away and jump back in.

1. I only use Reddit in a Brave private window. If I want to use Reddit on my phone I just use RedReader and never bother logging in. I don’t really feel the need to post when I’m mobile anyway.

2. Once I’m banned/suspended I open a Firefox window and create a new Outlook account.

3. Open a new Brave private window and create a new Reddit account with the new email. Log in. But hey, all your subreddits aren’t there from your old account and man, it’s going to be annoying to re-add all those subs, right? Nah. There’s a browser script for that.

4. In your old Reddit account go to old.reddit.com/subreddits or whatever button you click on in Reddit that shows a list of all your subreddits. At the top of your list of subs is a link titled “multireddit of your subscriptions”. Right click on that link and copy it.

5. Now go to your new Reddit account and paste that link in the URL field and hit enter and you’ll have a list of all your subs from your old account with the join button next to all of them. You could go down the list clicking join on all of them. I have hundreds, so screw that. I use the script. I won’t paste my script, just go to Google and search for “Reddit sub auto-add script Github”. There’s a few different ones you can try. Essentially, in the window with your new account and all the subs with the join buttons, you are hitting F12 to open the developer console, clicking on the “Console” tab, and then pasting the script and hitting “Enter” to run it. The script is essentially just searching the page for all the “Join” buttons and auto-clicking them.

NOTE: If the script is clicking those join buttons too fast, or if you’ve decided to manually go down the page clicking the join buttons and you’re doing it too fast, Reddit detects that and will block you from Reddit for like 10-15 minutes before you can continue. In any of these scripts you’ll see a number, usually 500. That’s the milliseconds the script waits before clicking on the next join button. 500 used to work. Now you’ll want to change that to like 3000 or 5000 to increase the wait time. 5000 has been working for me.

That’s it though. You can just leave that window with the script open and it’ll go down your list of subs auto-joining them. Before I found that script it was REALLY annoying manually clicking on hundreds of join buttons. Now, steps 1-4 take me less than 5 minutes and then step 5 is automated so I just go do something else. My new accounts aren’t shadowbanned and I’m back on their shitty site nice and quick. Because honestly, I wouldn’t still bother with their site at all if I had to wait for my suspension to end or had to manually rejoin all my subs every time.