They’re YouTubers, probably thought they’d get more views and their money would go farther in Russia.

They said years ago that they only kept one previous version, which is why everyone overwrote and then deleted their stuff.

It’s possible that reddit changed that, but honestly? That requires a level of foresight that I believe is entirely beyond spez. He didn’t foresee AI products, he literally paid all the bandwidth for them to harvest the data, he didn’t foresee changes to API pricing, he didn’t foresee the protests, how long they’d last, or how many people just walked away.

Hell, in the previous big “closed subs” protest they’d never even considered a moderator rebellion: once the mods took the subs private, the admins were accidentally locked out as well - they had to negotiate to get them re-opened while they worked on backdoor changes that wouldn’t break reddit.

I just don’t see them having the foresight to add in preservation code, nor to allocate the database and storage space to keep up with it. I think if you overwrote and then deleted your stuff, reddit doesn’t have it anymore. Of course, it’s still out there, in Google’s cache and the internet archive and all the other snapshots she preservation schemes and the data already harvested for the various AIs, but at least it’s no longer indeed reddit’s control, and they won’t be able to profit from it.

Spez has spent his entire time as CEO chasing the latest tech shiny - reddit crypto, reddit NFTs, reddit video a la TikTok. And he’s always managed to do it after the craze has started to peak. So now he’s chasing the latest shiny, reddit AI, starting a full year after everyone else already released their products.

He’s late yet again, and he’s proven repeatedly that’s he’s failed to understand reddit’s greatest strengths and value. This “reddit AI content” and the IPO is his last chance to get some value out of reddit, and his last chance to make money for nothing because no one is going to hire him in a leadership role ever again. I just wonder if he’s smart enough to understand that, or whether he’s just hoping to get enough money to fully build out and stock his personal doomsday bunker.

Our library has a tool library, will lend out sewing machines, and has a seed library. Oh! and a museum pass program!

Israel has been surveilling information provided to the United States by the Palestinian Authority regarding settler violence in the occupied West Bank in recent months […] in order to “understand what the U.S. knows about settler violence.” […] ”the political-diplomatic echelon in Israel views the increasing international preoccupation with settler violence as “political pressure,” and is therefore trying to prove that the scope of the phenomenon is not as broad as the Americans claim. That’s why, the source said, “we’re working to help refute these allegations, or prevent them from developing into sanctions. The political echelon is concerned that all kinds of international moves will be taken that will force Israel to deal with this issue.”

So they don’t care about the violence and damage they inflict on everyone around them, just that a comparative handful of Israelis might not be able to travel or use US banks.

the plan calls for displaced Palestinians to be “concentrated in the western area of the enclave, within the coastal strip,” along the sea. […] Israel says it will establish 15 camp villages along the coast between Rafah and Gaza City in central Gaza.

Concentrated in camps, you say?

Each camp will be equipped with 25,000 tents. Egyptian officials say that Israel expects the camps, which would include medical facilities, to be funded by the US and Arab states.

So Israel just expects to blow everything to shit and have everyone else pay for it?

If Palestinians in Gaza are increasingly concentrated in tent camps along a tiny strip on Gaza’s coast, with no homes to return to, no functioning hospitals, and little food and humanitarian aid, this will enable Israel’s efforts to force Gaza’s population to ‘voluntarily’ flee to Egypt by land or other third parties by sea. Israeli leaders have stated they wish to make life so difficult and dangerous for Palestinians in Gaza that the most humanitarian solution for them will be to leave Gaza and allow Israel to take it over for Jewish settlement.

Fuck you, Israel.

One of the reasons Hillary lost (aside from that asshole James Comey) was that a significant percentage of this country doesn’t believe a woman can lead, and not all of those disbelievers are Republicans.

My suggestion: once you have your movie list, divide it by year so you can also see the development of film. Like you have the silent films, then there’s a little spurt of musicals when sound becomes available, that kind of thing. You can also see how historical events are reflected in the movies, either by escaping or engaging in what’s going on.

And even if no one recommends them here, throw in a few of the films that redefined film, genres or cinematography - if you watch a bunch of early movies first, you can really see how films like Metropolis or Citizen Cane affected the films that came after them, but you’re only really going to notice it if you’re watching your film list chronologically.

I would argue that is actually Russia that’s killing Ukrainians by, y’know, invading their country and bombing them and such. And that anyone telling the Ukrainians not to fight back is essentially telling them to ‘just lie back and enjoy it’.

I usually set mine to mono and get along okay.

“It’s not an SUV unless it’s from the US, otherwise it’s just a large sparkling hatchback.”

Seriously, good for them!

I use TMSoft’s White Noise which runs on most platforms, or stream. It has plain white noise, yes, but it also has a wide range of other sounds that you can use (brown noise, railroad, city street, stream, etc). You can also upload your own sound, get sounds/mixes from other users, or make your own mix.

My personal mix has a mild background of pink noise, with both a thunderstorm and some rain mixed in: the pink noise filters out common background, the rain helps with masking as well, and the thunder helps me sleep through bass sounds like lawn mowers and trucks.

There’s been video of this on the internet for a couple weeks now. Any of the vehemently pro-Israel lot want to explain how this isn’t a war crime?

And I would like to note that claiming that the other side may have done the same thing does not al give you the right to do this. Also, he’s been released by the Israelis, which mean that they see him as a civilian, which definitely makes this a war crime.

Q Mr. President, do you hold Iran responsible for the death of those three Americans?

THE PRESIDENT: I do hold respon- — them responsible in the sense that they’re supplying the weapons to the people who did it.

Cool. Now do Israel.

No, not that one, the other other one.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ztsXWp0nj2c

tl;dr:

Inflation played havoc with cost estimates […] Pandemic-driven supply-chain challenges and labor shortages […] Executives of U.S. defense contractors tried to reassure investors they wouldn’t chase projects that presented high risks for cost overruns.

I think it’s about hatred. It’s about destroying a community and saying “You have no place here, not even your dead”.

Germany razed Jewish cemeteries and usedgrave markers as paving stones.

Fucking liars.

pointing out that Iranian leaders have called for Israel’s destruction and that Iran gives strong backing to Hamas and other Gaza terror groups that carried out the October 7 atrocities.

IMO, they think their defense case was damaged by all the comments senior Israelis have made calling for the genocide of the Palestinians, so now they’re trying to defuse that argument.

And when they were out and about, all anyone kept talking about was how rude they were - make up your minds!