If they're not making a profit as it is charging rich rubberneckers 250K a trip and cutting corners on their builds, I can't imagine they'll ever be able to do it.

It's the same with those (Insert Theme Here): Pass it On billboards by the Foundation for a Better Life. They're funded by Phil Anschutz, a billionaire who owns the AEG entertainment group and has funded groups like the Parents Television Council, the Federalist Society (which helped get all those GOP justices on the Supreme Court and federal courts), and other conservative groups. I gag having to pass those things on the freeway.

Yes, and bus/train ads. I pass one every day on the commuter train near Angel Stadium in Anaheim.

We're learning that lesson in spades now with all the shriekers and Bible thumpers trying to stack school boards, ban books and curriculums.

I can see the ads on Fox or OANN now.

"MAGA Mush! Quality gruel for quality patriots! Available at your local Cabela's now!"

At least I'm assuming they haven't canceled Cabela's like Bass Pro yet.

It's funny, I used to be on BestofRedditorUpdates where almost any "good" story that got reposted was subject to arguments about whether it actually happened or if the OP made it up. Now with ChatGPT it can all be made up. /s

If they actually do wind up forcibly reopening the dark subs and replacing the mods, good luck having to police "Lemmy" or "Tildes" spam on top of all the usual bot nonsense and trolling that goes on. Metal and Motorhead subs are about to get nuked as collateral damage.

They wouldn't let me onto Beehaw with the answer I gave to their question, so I joined the first instance I could find that looked interesting. Now I kind of feel awkward making any new communities that aren't Star Trek related lol.

I'm no fonder of his smug, libertarian prepper ass than you are, but personally the best way to make him feel the consequences of his actions is to leave that baggage where it is to rot and just concentrate on making Lemmy and any other alternatives you may be on the kind of community that Reddit used to be and people valued.

I doubt it. It's not a blanket "buy everything" policy; we do have some standards we abide by like significance and value to the collection, the level of interest the community would have in something, how much it's been covered beforehand by reviewers or the media in general, etc.

Even if by some chance we actually did bring something like that into the collection, the policy allows for materials to be challenged by patrons. One probably wouldn't be enough to get something removed, but I imagine something like that kind of manifesto wouldn't stop at just one challenge.

I work in a library. It's part of our collection policy that we don't discriminate as to what viewpoints not to buy books for. Plenty of times I've had to grit my teeth and smile while helping some senior citizen put themselves on the waiting list for the latest Fox News anchor book or random ragebait. If we have to swallow that, then it better go the other way as well.

I have some helpful information posts saved for future use, which I'll try to archive if the subs they were on are up, but given some are now talking about extending the blackout and other users are deleting their posts, if the stuff isn't there I'm just going to stop using Reddit altogether. No sense prolonging the inevitable.