Bozicus

I like this. It'll probably be declared "vandalism" of the community, and they'll try to ban mods, but it would affect the community's usefulness to advertisers if it becomes annoying for users, or specialized in a way that makes it unsuitable for the companies who are currently in there. Brands choose Reddit because they think they can reach exactly the people who are likely to want their products by targeting the right subreddits. Change the type of conversation in those subreddits to something that no longer attracts the audience advertisers want, and advertisers will be less interested. Forbidding brand mentions is good, too.

I'm doing it manually, which takes forever, but at least I know what I am and am not getting. (And it's not like I am actually browsing Reddit, lol, so I have some extra time for deleting). Most of it I was able to do from my profile page, though it only populates 1000 at a time per category, so I had to log out and log back in to get it all. Then I Googled my username, and found a bunch of comments that had been de-linked from my profile (I couldn't see anything there), but were still under my username (anyone could see that I had posted them). Then I clicked through and deleted those.

Now, there are a few still popping up on Google that have actually been deleted, because Google's cache is a little behind the times, but enough are gone that I am not super worried. I'm going to double check tonight before the rollover to July 1, in case a whole bunch of comments come back (a few have over the course of this process, but I just deleted again), but otherwise I am just going to leave the last few until August, when I will do another (hopefully last) round. I don't want to give Reddit any traffic in July.

I don't necessarily recommend doing what I've been doing, but I figure a script is only faster if it actually works the first or second time. I'm not the kind of person who can get that kind of thing to work on the first try, so I decided to just skip that step, crank up my audiobook, and do it in the way I know I can do.

I don't actually want to hide all the posts I have read, since a lot of them are things I want to go back to. What I really want to hide are posts that I am not interested in. Is there an app that will let me select which posts to hide? Or is that feature under development? As Lemmy grows, it's becoming a huge issue that I can't prune my feed without unsubscribing from whole communities.

...some of those bot reviews are... choice, lol.

...if you did this to avoid doing your homework, you must turn this in. Your teacher needs a laugh, too.

Oh wow, they buried the lede on this one: "Pornhub data is transmitted to Google via its analytics platform..." It's one thing to have data collected and transmitted to advertisers, but I don't think anyone wants their Pornhub viewing history linked to their Google account. The company claims it only goes to Google in an anonymized form, but of course it would say that.

It looks like the actual research suggests that you can have the amount of aspartame in 12-36 cans of diet soda before you increase your cancer risk, so even if you stay on the conservative side of that, and say "no more than 12 cans," I think most people don't have to change their aspartame intake in response to this. You should definitely talk to your doctor about it if you already have a high cancer risk, or really like diet soda, or just want more reliable information than you can get online.

I think the more useful takeaway from this article is that beverage companies are trying to keep aspartame from being declared a possible carcinogen. That's hardly surprising, but it seems more verifiably true than the proposition that aspartame is a significant carcinogen. A lot of things can increase cancer risk slightly, but much fewer increase cancer risk enough to worry about them.

I didn't see that, but I like it! You're right that it's a better gesture than just sticking a rainbow somewhere. Homophobes hate guys kissing more than they hate rainbows. (It is probably bad that one of the ways I judge expressions of support for LGBT+ folks is "would homophobes/transphobia/etc flip out about this," but hey, at least I admit it...?)

Notes on the character sheet are a good idea. That helps me, when there's space for notes.

People can have trouble with the rules because they can't afford the PHB, or don't want to shell out for it until they know they actually like to play, or just don't feel comfortable looking things up in the middle of the session. Sometimes the rules just don't make sense to someone until they've seen how those rules apply during gameplay. I was extremely embarrassed the first few times I had to say "this rule doesn't make sense to me, can you give me an example?" but sometimes it just takes the right kind of explanation to make it click.

Assuming you have tried different ways of explaining and are pretty sure it's a memory thing, you could suggest that if a player doesn't have the PHB, they should not play classes that rely heavily on game mechanics. You could also try giving the confused players copies of just the pages that you think they need, and making it clear that you don't care if they look things up during a session, provided you actually don't care. If you really need a group to be good on rules without looking anything up, it might be a situation where you have to figure out how to tell a player to find a different group.

"But have you considered special-edition artisanal grass? Guaranteed to impress your neighbors! Practically mows itself! Thrives on zero water! [in small print: made of 100% high grade polypropylene filaments, not suitable for hot climates]." [/s]

For that kind of research, I usually go to Wikipedia, pick a random technical term for the topic I'm looking for, and add that. It doesn't always work, but it does eliminate some of the sales sites. But it shouldn't be necessary, sigh.

Agreed. I have never used Infinity myself, but I think anyone who can not only develop a functional app, but maintain that app over an extended period deserves better than an internship. But it's an awkward position, and companies like to claim they won't even interview you for a one-finger-typing job unless you have ten years of experience and an engineering degree. And from what I see in the news, tech companies are doing more layoffs than hiring right now.