Maybe not “need”, but yes, a fully peer reviewed study confirming or rejecting seemingly obvious conclusions is an important part of the scientific method. It’s how we gain confidence in what we (think we) know.

I did a GDPR request for all my data, and then aimed the reddit-user-to-sqlite script at it – https://github.com/xavdid/reddit-user-to-sqlite

The metadata.json & recommendation to use datasette to interact with it makes finding old comments super easy. I’ve been going through all my comments sorted by date, clicking each permalink manually and editing-and-deleting them while bored during the workday (meetings, etc.). It has the added benefit of being incredibly difficult to figure out of I’m a bot or not.

I’m thinking of, instead, just pasting the content into chatgpt and editing the responses to leave it in place.

It’s a skill those of us from the IRC days cultivated.

I’m glad I’m not good at it anymore.

The worst part was it wasn’t even good gay porn.

Ass ass assstroturf!

US Cellular is the only one, and they’re planning a shutdown of CDMA “soon”.

I’d advise OP to seriously reconsider. GSM won that war.

Remember, elections have consequences. While, at least in the US, neither party is perfect, Republicans are actively engaged in climate denial.

Vote accordingly.

There’s a fun thing about the US court system.

The only thing mandated by the US Constitution is the existence of a Supreme Court, and that justices of that Supreme Court “hold their offices during good behavior” (fancy speak for “lifetime appointments”).

The size of the court, the entire federal system of lower courts, the circuits, appeals courts, the whole thing is decided on by Congress. Congress literally passes legislation that dictates what the Court systems look like.

If Congress wanted, it could obliterate every federal court in the country, and every single federal crime would need to be tried by the Supreme Court.

Should one party with a majority wish it and have the political will, that party could expand the Supreme Court by any number of seats. Of course, it would immediately trigger an arms race as control of Congress flipped around, more and more seats would be added (or removed) until the legitimacy of the Court was in shambles.

But then, we’re already at “shambles” aren’t we. Might as well dillute the power of those 9 un-elected individuals by a factor of 50 or so.

By all accounts, carbon fiber doesn’t “strain”. It does its thing great right up until it fails catastrophically.

It’s not about the ads. It’s about the telemetry you can get on user behavior from a mobile app. Reddit wants to leverage that as part of its ad sales package.

At inception I think it was legitimately a place for guys with oversized stuff to talk. Like, there are actual issues guys with giant dongs have to deal with.

But it quickly devolved into lulz my girl says my dick is too biiiggg!!!

The product owners over at Reddit are going to be surprised to learn that Brazil exists.

I was bored, so I pulled the most recent 50 comments, fed them into a Markov chain generator, and asked for a new response for every comment I edited. Then I aimed the Power Delete Suite at it, because I am of the opinion that I don’t want my data to appear on Reddit. For me, “Fuck you, I’m out,” is a far more powerful message than anything I could say about corporate greed.

Well, good news. After the IPO, Spez will fuck off into the sunset and layoffs will be a’commin!