Arkansas, where transparency goes to die. Apparently.

Nope.

Engagement numbers help the IPO, this in turn would put more $$ in u/spez pocket and that I will not support.

You’re lucky if the communities you have followed survived intact or unaffected. The tenor of my feed was changing for the worse before the API protests. When I left, after? It was a shithole.

Sure, there are communities that I miss, that are absent, or have weak, or hard to find presences. But the solution isn’t to go lurk and buff those engagement metrics, in my somewhat Reddit hostile opinion.

Don’t take it seriously. Don’t put up with toxicity. Don’t be afraid to do without.

Dunno why this would rate a down doot, it’s a little fluffy, but mildly informative.

Thank the party of trickle down for the bulk of that.

What, now?

Just.don’t.go.

Watch the fun.

With a side of hallucinations.

… try using a Macbook touchpad and then any other one after it.

^ This.

Have been given a current Surface Pro laptop for work and must use an external mouse, or rage in frustration that my 13 yo MBP has a better functioning trackpad.

Clarkesworld Magazine and anything from Skyboat Media.

Kate Baker narrates the former, Stephen Rudniki a lot of the latter’s content and both deliver sonorous, resonant readings that are easy to nod off with.

Along the same lines, but not a podcast, McFadden narrates a docuseries on all things Trek, “The Center seat”, on Amazon currently.

Credit card for the rewards, paid monthly. Keep cash for tipping and small stuff.

It all comes down to greed and enshitification in the end.

In a term? Dominion mentality. Add a little master/servant hierarchy, a pinch of patriarchy and stir well.

55” infotainment screen, in a fucking vehicle? That’s what I have in my living room. 🤯

I agree with everything you’ve said, but would add that I yearn for a return to the season length of TOS, or TNG.

These 10 episode seasons, or eight in some cases, since streaming’s become the default, are for the birds.

So banning the word will eliminate the behavior?

That’s some epic magnitude magical thinking there, for damn sure.

I feel your anecdotally and resemble that remark.

I also wish I lived in a more forward thinking state. /sigh

It’s significantly related to reducing consumption of regulated opioids as well.

That’s a pretty broad generalization there.

What lead you to this conclusion?

Pretty much. They deliver a couple of sponsored entries per search, but even those have been occasionally productive. No harm in trying for a while, you can always change if it’s not working. GL&HF!