If I accidently watch a Linus Tech tips video, that will be all it recommends me for the next month.

I watched a Some More News video criticizing Jordan Peterson, and Google thought “did I hear Jordan Peterson? Well in that case, here’s 5 of his videos!”

Almost all content algorithms are hot garbage that are not interested in serving you what you want, just what makes money. It always ends up serving right wing nut jobs because that conspiracy theorists watch a lot of scam videos.

Edit: my little jab at Linus has nothing to do with politics. I have no idea what his views are. I only mentioned it to point out how YouTube will annihilate my recommendations if I watch a single one of his videos.

A lot of conservatives aren’t playing by the same rule book. They don’t care that Trump committed crimes because they only care that he achieves their desires goals. All the outrage and confusion when conservatives support terrible people is missing the point. They aren’t hypocritical when they try to call out others, because they don’t really care that someone else committed a crime. They only care that they win.

It’s not a contradiction to them when they cry about pedophiles and then vote for one. Crying about pedophiles was just a tactic to try and gain power and further their goals.

Capitalism is in a permanent prisoners dilemma.

Overall they need to treat their employees well so that there’s growth in the economy, since no one to buy things means no market to sell things. However, they can also choose to screw over their employees with bad pay, terrible conditions, or in this case, automating their workforce and firing people.

If no one screws their employees, the economy expands with modest growth.

If one or few corporations screw their workers while everyone else doesn’t, they become fabulously rich and the rest get outcompeted.

If everyone screws their workers, then the economy collapses because there’s no growth, and everyone eventually goes out of business.

Socialization is always brought up as an excuse not to allow WFH. The thing is though, replacing real socialization with work fucking blows. Talking to a coworker to get the latest TPS report isn’t socialization. It’s work. The only time you do any real socialization is after work ends. And there’s nothing stopping you from going out to dinner with coworkers when you work from home.

Upvotes are useful for determining what people like and dislike so you can sort posts and comments

Account karma is for narcissists to masturbate about how loved they are

Terrorism

No fucking shit

Saying that it’s over and the Reddit won is a bit naive. The majority of the subs that I used to frequent have come back online, but they are definitely still protesting. ProgrammerHumor is making new troll rules based on majority vote every week. Madlads made everyone a mod. Many subs are posting John Oliver or troll versions of their original purpose.

It’s not over. Will they succeed? Who knows. But Reddit is currently a completely different place than it was a month ago because of the ongoing protests.

Magazine size laws aren’t really effective at doing anything. Up in Canada you can’t have a rifle magazine with more than 5 rounds. However, almost all of the magazines are full size magazines that have been modified to hold fewer rounds. All of the responsible owners leave them at 5, but with a minute or two of work you could turn most of them into full size again. We don’t have mass shootings every day.

Gun violence in America is a culture issue. You’re broken.

Browsing personal sites, especially social media, on a work computer is insane