One in five is quite a bit. To make an extreme example: If one in five people on the street were looking to stab you, you'd be thinking there's a lot of people wanting you dead.

Also it's ca. one in three among the young men, which is terrifying. And if the "more favorable among heterosexual" holds true for only the male half (I see no reason why it wouldn't), that's even higher among that demographic.

Fuck that's scary.

Have you heard of The Longing? It doesn't tick all your boxes but it is definitely a long term game that has you make slow, real-time progress while the real time clock of 400 days is ticking down. Not really management sim progress though.

On the more managy side, I've had some fun with Factory Idle. Essentially mini-Factorio as an idle game.

Obviously a good thing to keep the "allegedly", but that statement doesn't refute what the other person claimed. They said Meta hired them, not Meta put them in the Threads team.

Also I obviously don't know how Meta is structured, but where I'm at, it wouldn't be unusual for someone not part of a team to still talk to members of a team, give advice, etc.

In addition to what the other user said: some subs were hiding the downvote buttons through their custom subreddit styles. You'd only see this if you used old.reddit though and if you disabled the css (or used an app like RiF) you could downvote as normal.

Maybe that's where your confusion started.

After a quick Google search I learned that the answer is "kinda".

Just like us they do produces gases as part of their metabolism. That gas has to go somewhere. Some of it is absorbed into their hemolyph (blood) and expelled into the air through openings in their exoskeleton. But it's very unlikely that none of that gas exits through their anus.

Also, people have spotted "bubbles" on insects trapped in amber right where their anus is, it's likely that those are encased fart-bubbles.

I personally like ReadEra. Fits all the criteria you've listed

I mean ChatGPT was already very easily influenced by just stating a username of a heavy user of r/counting.

It's been patched out by now, but it was very funny.

Daemons

Also from I personally experienced and what others said too, it seems to be purely visual and those communities still show up in your subscribed feed as if it went through normally.

I found it interesting that after such a depressing bullet-point summary of their meeting, the last paragraph was still mixed and not more negative. I wonder if they actively try to stay on Reddit's good side to not end up in Reddit's crosshairs or if that's truly how they feel.

The difference between "pure infrastructure costs" and total costs of third party apps are the opportunity cost in ads and other potential money making schemes (NFT avatars etc.) that they cannot shove down people's throats on third party apps.

They even specifically admitted to this in one of the calls with the Apollo dev so it's not just conjecture on my part.

Me [Apollo Dev]: "Because I assume the majority of it isn't server costs. I assume the majority is the opportunity cost per user."
Reddit: "Exactly."

Edit: Of course that doesn't mean that Reddit's decision is a good thing. They'll have even more opportunity cost if many of their power users just leave, which seems to be the logical result to their actions.

I think what will happen is that a lot of the subs are eventually going to end up in the hands of the few mods who love sucking up to the admins and the mods who are in it for the dopamine they gain power-tripping instead of the mods who are in it to make the subreddit the best version of itself.

This will only further the "5 Mods Control 92 Of The Top 500 Subs" issue and lead to overall less happy, less engaged users.