whotookkarl

whotookkarl, 3 days ago

Anyone who feels the freedom to fuck with our elections or disenfranchise voters should have the book thrown at them, maximum penalties under the statutes.

whotookkarl, 3 days ago

No need to guess, just look at how Trump’s confederates treat BLM protestors and their executioners: texastribune.org/…/daniel-perry-racist-comments-t…

Abbott made good on his promise and pardoned Perry last week for the murder a jury found him guilty of committing.

whotookkarl, 7 days ago

Easy, it’s 1715894564 after Jan 1 1970 00:00:00.

whotookkarl, 15 days ago

Any streaming service that tries to combine ads+sub is just as greedy as cable TV and I can’t support that kind of shitty business practice. Ads free or sub no ads. Cancelled each service as they rolled out that trash. Currently only subbed to Criterion and thinking of resubbing to Shudder.

whotookkarl, 18 days ago

Our diversity is our strength, get bent white supremacist fuckers.

whotookkarl, 20 days ago

June 30th, 2023. There were always subreddits like r/thedonald that used violent right wing authoritarian cult-like political rhetoric, but after the users and mods who gave half a shit left when they banned third party apps and sided with advertisers over the people keeping it from becoming 99% bots and bootlickers.

whotookkarl, 21 days ago (edited 17 days ago)

It would also help if more than a handful of people in the House knew semitic is a pretty archaic term and would include Palestinians in Gaza as well as Israelis and people from several other countries as well.

Protected classes are race, religion, national origin, age, pregnancy status, gender, citizenship, disability or veteran, family status or genetic information. Nobody gets protections for genocide.

Edit: genetic not generic

whotookkarl, 22 days ago

“”" Within minutes of the assault on the building, Columbia University officials said they had no choice but to request police intervention.

“We regret that protesters have chosen to escalate the situation through their actions,” “”"

The Columbia administration forgetting they have nothing without the students. One person gets yelled at and they clutch their pearls and call the bastards in to beat and arrest peaceful protesters. They are escalating things, not the students.

Students asking to expunge arrests related to these protests should be putting on their resume they are willing to stand up for their rights and the rights of others without a voice. The university and cops are the ones who should be embarrassed and ashamed.

whotookkarl, 27 days ago

Who are you and how did you get in here?

I’m a wizard, and I’m a wizard.

whotookkarl, 27 days ago

Governments banning social media based on who can use it to spy on who, instead of creating privacy regulations and enforcing them to create and regulate markets, which is kinda what they should do, to make it so it doesn’t matter who owns which app. Taking an opportunity and shitting all over it for some childish standoff should be beneath us.

whotookkarl, 1 month ago

The only thing the Bible says about abortion is how to perform one, and many American Christian organizations were on the side of safe abortions performed by medical doctors until recently. Their scriptures didn’t change, medical science didn’t change, so why do they now oppose abortion? The primary reason I can see is clergy and politicians working together to undermine women’s rights. They don’t care if they are hypocrites or hurt people because they feel justified by their faith despite faith being an awful reason to believe anything is true. I don’t understand how anyone can say churches are apolitical and deserve tax free status.

whotookkarl, 1 month ago

0 index versus 1 index, the classic counting collections conundrum.

whotookkarl, 1 month ago

Based on a completely superficial review there are three almost guaranteed ways to become unhinged; studying infinities, refactoring legacy code, and working with timezones.

whotookkarl, 1 month ago

Between a corpo job only using teams and email and international folks all using WhatsApp I kinda want to just go back to irc and stay there forever. Everything that came after it has just been worse.

whotookkarl, 1 month ago

Pedantic mode engaged: Last command silently fails because TRUTH.TXT is not truth.txt

whotookkarl, 2 months ago

Not seeing anything yet but it can be hard to get accurate news reporting from a country that kills subversive journalists and is in a war. I think most are assuming it’s either an internal or external paramilitary group related to the war in Ukraine, or domestic terrorists related to the recent elections, I think targeting a concert is more likely the latter but we’ll see which group takes responsibility if any.

whotookkarl, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Yeah I don’t think mods and “power users” that stayed after last year are necessarily against reddit succeeding, just not willing to buy in at a 6.5bil valuation for a company that can’t turn a profit and lost 90+ mil last year and 700+ cumulative. The CEO got 193 mil last year it’s clear where their priorities are. And after the bad will they gained last year burning mods and third party apps it’s not a big surprise many are watching with a big ol’ bucket of popcorn.

whotookkarl, 2 months ago

“I thought you were going to try and pull that gun on me,” Coleman said.

But it’s not like he has a history of this shit, oh wait

“Coleman was implicated in court testimony in 2022 for participating in the Vallejo police badge bending scandal, where officers bent the tips of their badges to mark fatal shootings. Coleman testified his badge was bent against his will, but a department superior testified that he was more involved than he said and may have even helped spread the practice to other officers.”

whotookkarl, 2 months ago

Should add conspiracy and interfering with an investigation to the murder charges

whotookkarl, 2 months ago

What could have been done to increase the valuation higher and maintain goodwill with the community:

1. Cut CEO pay by 90%
2. Pay mods as employees, think of the GM/guide structure of early mmos where you start as a volunteer for a free sub but can work your way up
3. Subscriptions to remove ads
4. Push ads in API for third party apps to host your ads, remove for subscribed users
5. Profit sharing from ads and subs with top content creators

whotookkarl, 2 months ago

Not even close if we’re talking about current users or active contributers. After they shut down third party apps and sided with advertisers over mods there was a huge migration off platform to several other platforms. Many smaller subreddits are ghost towns and the biggest ones that are still active have a smaller participating community, less total votes, and changing norms.

It’s not just eternal September, it’s the same thing that happened when digg died in reverse where communities grew and changed because people were joining. Users are adding site:reddit.com or whatever to Google searches because of SEO general searches are an advertising dumpster fire, but those search results are going to degrade over time along with the site’s quality if they continue to make such shitty decisions for communities and users or people move to other ai based search tools.

whotookkarl, 2 months ago

Fascists look like idiots when interviewed until they get violent. They have no definitions or reasonable arguments for their position because bigotry isn’t a reasonable position and to them anyone who challenges them is an other, an outsider who deserves to be dehumanized. As long as they can convince people to be scared and angry they are safe to exploit hate. The more people collaborate, work together towards shared values, participate in local school and city board meetings, the less power these idiots can steal.

whotookkarl, 3 months ago

There’s a little trick my parents passed down to me whenever I asked them what a word meant or how to do something when I was a kid, “look it up yourself”. Look up the word in the dictionary, learn how to learn how to do things, and then when you get stuck ask for help graciously. Self reliance isn’t something that just happens, it takes effort and often failure.