that’s stupid

ooh, is there another time? that’s my birthgay

Dukat had more likable moments than Huffman.

I think all that would happen is billionaires would pay people to be their 'front' character and somehow find a way to monetize it on the down-low.

Dumb question: what’s a mind map? i’ve heard of it, and seen some examples, but still have no real idea what one is for.

I should refine what I said. I think they genuinely believe many of the things they espouse, but (1) they espouse many things they don't believe in an effort to bring in outsiders with less harsh ideas before acclimating them to the intensity ("I'm as gay and liberal as they come, but even I can see how the trans movement has become largely exclusionary and radical") and (2) this is more about what the purpose of the community is, rather than the individuals. The individuals that are trolls can just be blocked, even if it becomes tedious when they grab new accounts. The community itself has a purpose, however, and that purpose can be either focused "internally" (members are discussing things amongst themselves) or "externally" (members largely discuss how to affect other communities). I think worries about freedom of speech or the silencing of honestly held (and expressed) beliefs are largely worried about the former (which may be more earnest), but a lot of the toxic communities are the latter, where there is very little that is expressed in earnest on the platform, because earnest conversations aren't the purpose of the community. They're little more than staging grounds on a given platform to try and either recruit outsiders or annoy their political opponents. I think this last aspect is the worst part, since communities like the_donald only really shared a communal love of annoying 'the libs' or left wing ideas in general, and the only purpose of the community was to be shitty.

It's not even like the object screams 'sexual organ'. Boston University archaeologist Curtis Runnels, who was not involved in the recent study, told Science the ornament looks "rather shapeless", and at first glance, it's hard to disagree.

really wish they’d said “at first glans”

Maybe, but another way of looking at it is that this already unprofitable company just lost (potentially) 5-10% of their marketable advertising attention. That makes their job of becoming profitable harder, and anything they do to compensate may well make their situation worse. (It could, obviously, also have no effect given how large Reddit already is)

in fairness, the title said “how”, not why

in fairness, he used to be Jimmy Cymru before the English got to him.

you can probably insure a church in case of civil suit, it probably has a really high premium

at some point it'll be worth investigating what the "real" cost (inasmuch as this can be determined) for the blackout was to the IPO, and whether the fees Reddit makes of API access makes up for it.