Jokelahoma?

These two have a chance to do something right, to show real leadership and responsibility, and to kick the fucking doors open and shine the light of day on the whole damn mess.

How many working years do they have left? How viable are they as politicians? What purpose does trying to save their own image serve? Do they really think people give a shit about them anymore? Do they really think they’re relevant as anything other than a symbol of why their party has failed the nation?

Fucking spineless.

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It’s not shame. It’s insurance. It’s to make it difficult/impossible to file a complaint or win a criminal case in the event that the administration crumbles and someone tries to hold them accountable.

I’d follow him anywhere.

A bike just for weight loss or something similar can be cheaper, of course.

Dan John, a prominent figure in the strength and conditioning community, once argued that the best bike for weight loss was a cheap, steel framed, single-speed beach cruiser, especially if you lived in a hilly area.

Doritos are underappreciated in terms of post ride nutrition…

Yeah, we’ve got a Chihuahua and for his sake I wanted it to be real, but there’s about zero chance wolves would put up with one.

As I pointed out in another thread, they act like intimidation is a shield against harm in exactly the same way that schoolyard bullies do. It relies on people’s tendency to freeze up and panic when surprised by a violent confrontation to work, and if it doesn’t work, things escalate quickly.

The other problem is, those kinds of bullies aren’t normally equipped with firearms…

Got pissed at corporate social media for the way they’ve accelerated the damage being done to our already degraded public discourse but I still needed somewhere to doomscroll and find… gifs… of… nothing in particular…

I’d even take crappy photo edits over this.

Not exactly sure what you missed or what your point is supposed to be.

The same would be true of any ad platform. I hate Facebook for all the ills it’s caused society and it pisses me off that my breakfast cereal is slightly more expensive because of Zuckerberg’s compensation package too.

But Facebook, et al. aren’t being discussed here. Reddit is.

Even if I stay off the internet completely, a portion of the money I spend STILL goes in their pocket, and the only way to prevent it is to spend hours exhaustively researching every product I buy to find the one or two alternatives out of hundreds of others that don’t feed into the system somehow. And even if product A doesn’t buy ads on these platforms, the place I shop for it probably does. If I can’t buy direct, as is the case with so many purchases, all that time and research are robbed of any real impact by the fact that my closest retail outlet spends millions on targeted Internet ads.

But it’s not really about the money though, it’s about where it’s going.

In an alternate timeline, Spez, Zuck, and the rest are decent human beings with a functioning conscience and use their platforms for the common good. I don’t mind those versions of them getting a piece of my alternate self’s dollar. But I don’t live in that universe.

So, because I’m stuck here, every single one of these modern-day Prometheus wannabe, god-complex, techbro shitheads can kiss my hairy ass.

I gotta unpack this a little…

Reddit’s main source of revenue is advertising. Other companies pay Reddit to shove ads in your face. You probably buy products from at least some of those companies, and while market forces and consumer perceptions have large influence, operating costs are still a factor in setting those prices. Just like everyone else, Reddit sets the prices of its advertising services based in part on its operating costs, which includes Spez’s salary.

Even if you avoid Reddit, things you buy are more expensive because this fucking toolshed gets paid $193 million a year just to be a sociopathic jackoff with a popular website.

I quit Reddit years ago, but I’m still fucking pissed about this shit and I have every right to be.

Some people need an enemy or they can’t make sense of the world. I’m not talking about a run of the mill competitive streak, they simply can’t understand society as anything other than a struggle for dominance. If they don’t have some sort of conflict to focus on, they make one just to quiet the cognitive dissonance they’re feeling.

I don’t know if it’s learned or innate, but it makes people easy fodder for conspiracy theories and the sort of high-functioning sociopaths we’ve been electing recently.