Yep r/worldnews went from condemning Russia for their war crimes on Ukraine to damn near universally praising and supporting Israel's war crimes on Palestine.

Sadly, I don't think it's all bots and propagandists. A lot of them are real people that really do have that level of cognitive dissonance.

And then the gf decides she wants to try a new flavor, buys her "normal" nic strength, and fills her vape up with it before anon has a chance to dilute it.

I mean, for it to be an equal trade, Texas has to remain at least a US territory. So Puerto Rico gets Statehood, and Texas keeps most of the downsides of Federal control while losing most of the benefits.

I see this as an absolute win.

I have... soooo many questions, but oddly not about the price. $500 actually seems pretty reasonable for a rock of that size.

Maybe, just maybe, we shouldn't be picking domains based on stuff like "hehe it says queer as fuck lul"? What did they expect to happen picking Afghanistan of all places for the domain of an LGBT instance?

I mean... the sink in the pic is visibly dirty.

And even then, all of those websites still technically exist, in some form at least. They died, but they're not dead.

A lot of people seemed to expect reddits crash and burn to eventually shutter the service entirely, but even if every single major content creator left the bots would keep things running semi-smoothly for the less engaged users for probably years to come.

Hasn't GabeN said on record that he would dissolve Valve before even considering selling it?

I wouldn't be worried, in the same leak they expressed hopes of buying fucking Nintendo. Antitrust regulators would have a fucking field day.

No, but there are tons of people who believe something is moral as long as it's legal, and even more people who believe something being illegal makes it inherently immoral.

Calling it now, old.reddit.com will be dead by the end of the year.

Living near a coal plant, on the other hand, is really, REALLY bad for you.

If the instance you are on doesn't defederate from this hypothetical Meta instance, then yes. I'd leave any instance that didn't immediately do so upon it becoming a thing, personally.