When you’re the biggest shop in your town it’s because you do good work.

When you’re the biggest shop in the world it’s because you’re scamming your clients.

This is like you breaking up with a toxic girlfriend and she tells you “oh yeah well other people are still gonna date me idiot!”

The psychological ramifications of that are immense. It would destroy people. It would be no different than any other drug.

Waiting for a Primus fan to make the joke

Yeah if people go to a game show host/sports commentator for their political or scientific worldview that isn’t my problem.

I love that though. I want to hear these wack jobs talk. I don’t listen to get smarter, just like I don’t go to McDonalds for a fine cooked meal.

Reddit is going to have to make the argument that it just boosts “what people like” and it just so happens people like negative engagement.

And I mean it’s been known for decades that people like bad news more than good news when it comes to attention and engagement.

This is a bit by a popular comedian that I cannot remember.

Yeah the problem is there would never be any reason for companies to even try to make working from home work unless some life or death event like COVID forced them to.

There was never going to be an easy transition for them. It was either nothing or against their will.

Well it’s like a super tape recorder that can play back anything anyone has ever said on the internet.

Imagine what would happen if a bunch of huge fully-remote companies with no office space were told by the government that they now had to buy a building for workers to work in.

Imagine how fast their opinion would switch.

The way you keep employees and build a strong team is by giving them things you aren’t obligated to provide.

So what you’re telling me is that written tests have, in fact, existed before?

What are you some kind of education historian?

My first thought. Has to be the most complex least alcoholic drink.

Have you tried the .ics download method?

I thought that the OS would see the ics file and automatically know to open your calendar app to deal with it.

I agree with this except for my admittedly radical opinion that anything you need to live should not be tied to work.

Food, clothes, shelter, healthcare. The bare minimum of those categories should be free. I’m talking like prison quality. You should not have to earn the right to live.

It’s just the normal capitalist cycle.

1. New thing invented
2. Golden age of thing
3. Corporations figure out how to engineer thing for maximum profit
4. Thing sucks

Yeah the issue is that with large online communities, your largest user group is always going to be that of least engagement.

So users who just read stuff is your biggest group. Then comes users who made an account. Then comes users who up and downvote. And last comes users who post.

It makes it very hard to grow a new social media platform.

Yeah the very top post on hot right now has 9 comments lmao.

There is no one here. I mean I love the platform and the apps. I don’t go to Reddit anymore on my phone. But there’s no one here.

If I don’t go to Reddit at least once per day I’m going to miss news and events that are important to me.

It’s cringe and embarrassing to me. That’s all I’m saying.