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I chuckled… it happens! And it blessed us with this funny exchange.

I suspect they have been tweaking the front page algorithms to bury niche posts. Niche subs that I already follow don’t seem to have changed, but r/popular and r/all have definitely lost their spark.

It’s awful. I actually didn’t mind new Reddit. But they switched my account to new new Reddit and I changed my bookmarks to go to old Reddit. I’ll try to stay for as long as there are good discussions but this cursed design is bursting with “know-nothing middle manager” energy.

It’s not even loading for me (Vivaldi on Android). I ran it through Textized. It’s on the Verge alright… verge of unreadability 🙄

Exactly

He’ll really do anything except the things we all know will bring the advertisers back.

Ah, the tao of internet

Conservative TV commentators love dropping buzzwords, dog whistles, and conspiracy theories, to the point of incoherence. Dear god it’s been word clouds all along…

Many good recommendations already. Mine are: Warhammer, namely the Horus Heresy, the first few books of which I’ve read. Only 51 more to go. Robert Heinlein, all of his books are in the same universe which is pretty neat. He has his issues but the world building is top notch and sustained across so many works.

I’d recommend looking into behavioral economics. It’s in very infant stages but has a lot of potential imo. And there is bleed over into experimental psychology.

hey! i’m so old i saw that in the movie theater!

gonna file this away for five or ten years from now…