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Just another person bringing love, peace, freedom through the judicious use of 🤜

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Yo, the mods here are all big jerks

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Shorts and crocs. All he needed was a cigarette in his mouth while he did it.

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he was on a plane that crashed in Russia today, possibly because it collided with a a2a missile.

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Hahaha.

Also, per the BBC’s reporting:

Earlier, a Wagner-linked Telegram channel Grey Zone reported that the jet was shot down by air defences in Tver region, north of Moscow.

Surprisingly not surprising.

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Say what you will about the guy, he’s got more experience shooting down civilian jets than almost anyone.

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This comment managed to age poorly really fast.

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I like that they didn’t even try to translate boy kisser into Russian

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Ok, but that caption is completely wrong about what, “the dictatorship of the proletariat,” means.

I like that they had to bring Ukraine into it for no apparent reason.

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Pringlecan’s head really does look a big ol’ testicle

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Good point, a nuclear holocaust can only improve the economy of Russia.

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FWIW, this isn’t the first mention I’ve heard of Ukraine using S-200s for ground targets. See here. It’s certainly plausible.

I wonder what that building is.

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I assumed it was downvoted by people who see China as being largely a state capitalist economy with a nominally socialist/communist government, whom I would guess are primarily lefties. Contrary to seeing it as western propaganda, they’d see it as Chinese propaganda as it pretends that the country is something it really isn’t.

This is only a possible view, of course.

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A Reddit spokesperson declined to comment about this year’s edition of r/Place, telling Polygon via email “redditors are going to reddit.”

Honestly, that’s probably the best response he could’ve given.

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They’ll probably try to emulate Fr*nce and preemptively nuke Germany in response to Soviet Russian aggression.

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The US is part of the world.

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The internet peaked with gopher, tbh. Mosaic was the beginning of the end.

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The reactor is actually full of Nazis, so Russia has no choice but to blow it up.

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This new multipolar world they’re building looks amazing, ngl.

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Unilever, too. I think this means they’re actually handing over information about the employees to the government so they can be conscripted. Also, fuck them for still operating there at all.

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grimes

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I think he’s just kind of a jackass, and he got himself into something he couldn’t get out of - like he’s always been able to do - and now he’s desperately throwing shit at the wall to fix it. He knows it’s not going well, and maybe he knows that everything he’s trying won’t actually help, but desperate people don’t reason well.

I’d pity him if he weren’t also human garbage.

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We don’t know that Putin is willing to order a nuclear strike if he gets desperate. They want everyone to think that because they hope it makes people afraid of interfering in their shitty behavior.

Apparently, it’s effective on at least some people.

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Works like a charm

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Multiple independent warheads that can hit different targets. Also, they can actually carry up 12 warheads each , but the US limits the number deployed to meet treaty obligations. And each boat can has 20 missile tubes.

It’s a lot of Armageddon in a small space.

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u/spez ist ein Hurensohn

stimmt

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A majority of Americans opposed the moon landings.

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We stopped doing awesome things and that was stupid, and I’m glad we’re getting back to it.

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Plays stupid games, win stupid prizes as the saying goes.

Oh no, what will the US do? I mean, apart from producing it domestically or sourcing it from other counties because it’s not a particularly rare element and the refinement process uses waste from things like aluminum smelting.

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We actually produce gallium in the US already, the technology for refining it is well established, and you don’t actually mine it directly because it doesn’t really occur by itself - it’s commonly derived in bauxite, which is mined for it’s aluminum content, which I why I mentioned waste products form aluminum refinement, because that’s the most common source for industrial production. Also, other countries can do this, too

But, sure.

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You know that we can grow the industry in the US pretty trivially, right? And, again, other countries can and do produce it? You’re presenting this as some massive win, when it’s really just someone observing that we should fix that before it becomes a serious problem.

Alas, this isn’t a big deal and you’re going to have to look elsewhere for the defeat of the west. Sorry!

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I love your desperation.

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Getting on the climate change denial train is always a bad idea; but for a whole state that’s narrowly above sea level, routinely hit with hurricanes, and relies on tourism dollars? Stupid af.

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Maybe the hips do lie, but only on their taxes

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No doubt the Poles are terrified and not actively wishing a motherfucker would.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi also said the incident had “shamed India” and that “no guilty will be spared”.

And you can believe him because of the great job he did with the Gujarat riots in 2002.

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Modi, imo, has no problem with angry religiously motivated mobs, so long as it’s the Hindutva people committing the violence. He’s just making the noises the expected noises for the sake of propriety - don’t expect anything to change markedly.

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Nobody with the power to fire spez has a problem with what he’s doing. This is likely driven by VCs and other investors wanting their money now that the Fed has turned off the cash hose.

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Perhaps I wasn’t clear - they care, but think he’s doing what’s necessary to drive value for investors by eliminating places where revenue or potential is being lost - 3d party apps that don’t show Reddit ads/collect user data and the new found value of posts and messages as training data for LLMs.

You’re replaceable to them, and frankly the fact that you care makes you less valuable than a random person who’ll just click on memes and post answers to questions. The communities that they can effective extract value from are more trouble than they’re worth. You and your ilk are the problem, not spez.

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First of all, most of the devaluation happened before any of this went down. Second, stopping the chaos on the platform plays well with investors.

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From the article you linked:

Fidelity now estimates that Reddit’s holdings could be around $15.4 million as of May 31, which is down over 7% from the fund’s estimates of $16.6 million from this past April.

This was from before the whole shit fiesta actually happened.

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I completely agree, it’s a pretty bad time for an IPO - in general. But, they also raised 10 rounds ($1.3 billion total) in funding over the years, a lot of that in the last 3-4 years; their E and F rounds were in 2021, for $250 million and (iirc) $700 million respectively. That’s a lot of pressure to produce results, especially after the pandemic-inspired craziness has worn off and the Fed changed the zero percent interest rates that drove a lot of poor business decisions.

To quote a sadly departed poet on the subject - mo money, mo problems.

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I think the core problem is that Reddit’s leadership wanted it to be an SV unicorn, and they tried lots of ways to make money off the site (cryptocurrency, Reddit gold, an official app that I swear was designed to make you click on ads by mistake, etc.). But it as never going to be the kind of cash making machine, actual or potential, that they were looking for. Well, that and, once you start taking outside investments (especially from VCs), the goals of the organization necessarily change towards making an exit (IPO or acquisition).

I think this essay gets at a lot of the things about how the place worked and why the value was hard to convert into money. The feudalism frame is a little gimmicky, maybe, but does provide some perspective and a useful analogy.

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How else is he going to eat the baby’s soul, though?

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