I genuinely can’t think of any reason, outside of corporate interest to push engagement.

On Reddit, I found that blocking people by account age and link karma noticeably improved the site. edit: For example, blocking 1 year old accounts with more than 100k link karma. /edit Mostly helped me filter out karma farmers from my feed that did nothing but repost memes or low effort shitposts.

Of course, not having total karma publicly tracked might make reposting a nonissue.

What came first? The chicken or the egg?

Did the system that created the conditions people find themselves in come first. Or did the people running the system create the conditions that they find themselves in?

People in this context appears to be plural, thus I don’t see how Montreal_Metro’s take is Great Man Theory.

The system sets the conditions of who is going to be empowered or rewarded for their actions and positions.

Ultimately, any system is operated by mere mortals who will arbitrarily reward and punish people based on their own bias, morals and desires. Systems only work so long as the people manning them follow the rules. Systems only last if the people running it punish rule breakers.

According to all of history, corruption, apathy, and pure human greed and ingenuity will gradually eat away any system, economic and political, until it collapses. Only for the failing system to be replaced by a “better” system, which begins the cycle again.

If basic economics get you upset, then alright.

Bye o/

Extracting free resources of the land

Not to be contrarian, but there is a cost to extract those “free” resources; like labor, equipment, transportation, lobbying (AKA: bribes for the non-Americans), processing raw material into something useful, research and development, et cetera.

Pretty much this.

I worked retail during COVID. Watching people, somehow, find it within themselves to become more rude, demeaning and aggressive was awful.

Hilarious to see my comment removed.

I don’t see how that comment is offensive unless you purposely conflate Russia to mean “Russian citizens” rather than the very clearly intended “Russian Government”.

I’m horrified that people actually fall for such obvious bullshit, especially after such a great economy was handed off to little d.

People are falling for the lie because, the average Joe is being squeezed dry. The economy is only doing well for the already wealthy.

Of course, the current economy was the result of the Biden Administration attempting to fix Trump’s first term. Along with the Trump administration’s complete mismanagement of COVID-19.

Now that it’s Trump doing it, I wonder what the response will be?

“How could Biden do this?”

Is the response I’ve seen so far.

Same man, I miss the old “sane” conspiracy sub. Seriously, the shit on there now makes the old sub look sane.

>Be user

>Use website’s features as designed

>Banned

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Ya, I don’t get the point of including an AI response in the “What People Are Saying” section of a news article.

I think the real implication of the system is that Reddit will also start banning you for down-voting posts too.

Zelenskyy is the president of an authoritarian government who turned to martial law

Active invasion of their country from Belarus and Russia. What a brain dead take.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobilization_in_Russia

Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics

The mobilization was accompanied by mass raids on men of military age. In the enterprises of the region, up to 80% of employees were called up, which led to shutdown of mines and public transport, as well as the paralysis of cities and public services. To avoid mobilization, residents hid or tried to illegally leave the republics.[21]

Recruitment of prisoners

Implementation

It was reported that Russian authorities were targeting poor, homeless and people from poorer regions of Russia for conscription.[79][80] Russian authorities drafted detained protestors with no previous military experience, including a 17-year-old boy who was arrested at an anti-war demonstration in Moscow.[81]

On 14 April 2023, Putin signed into law a bill that would allow authorities to issue electronic summons to draftees.[92][93] The law blocks anyone eligible for military service who has received a digital summons from leaving the country.[94] Russian lawyer Valeria Vetoshkina called it a “hidden mobilization.” According to Russian economist Konstantin Sonin, “Now, any person, regardless of whether he took a summons or not, [or] has an account with Gosuslugi or not, can be arrested and convicted for not going to war.”[95] Russian lawyer and human rights activist Ivan Pavlov said that the “only option is to leave the country as soon as possible, but there is very little time for that.”[96]

I showed a clip of the meeting to someone I know and that is pretty much what they said.

We are so fucked.

The attacks were aimed at “military targets in southern Syria, including headquarters and sites containing weapons,” the Israeli military said in a statement. It added, “The presence of military assets and forces in the southern part of Syria constitutes a threat” to Israeli citizens.

Israel Katz, the Israeli defense minister, said in a statement late on Tuesday that the attacks were part of a “new policy” of ensuring a “demilitarized southern Syria.” He added that “any attempt” by either Syrian forces or militant groups to establish a presence in what Israel has deemed its “security zone” in the region “will be met with fire.”

Second and third paragraph of the article.

Another article with a direct quote from Netanyahu:

https://apnews.com/article/israel-syria-buffer-zone-military-netanyahu-6a107f835d4262b56551ad940a5144d7

“Take note: We will not allow HTS forces or the new Syrian army to enter the area south of Damascus,” Netanyahu said, referring to Syria’s new authorities as well as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the main former rebel group.

I’d reckon that managing a social media server is more involved than just using social media.

Even if they don’t outright cripple functionality, they’ll hound you endlessly to install the app.

Still don’t understand the logic of doing that.

It’s like saying,

“Our website is nigh unusable, please install our app instead. We pinky promise our app works”.

That is the objective for these types of people. A world where the EU and USA are isolated and China, Russia, Iran, etc. have free reign in ‘their’ backyards.