It was highly insular and difficult to navigate, and the barriers to entry effectively curated the user base .
Pegatron
joined 2 years ago
I guess they know their audience.
Exactly this. The money tap has dried up post pandemic and they are seeking new revenue streams while also slashing costs. The hunger for perpetual growth to sate the investor class and their matyroshka nesting yachts is driving these decisions.
I wish this was the cause but I think it's more insidious. When cash supply was cheap and people were stuck at home these companies saw explosive growth. Now the market is down and investors smell blood. They want payouts. This is for sure the story with reddit and it's upcoming IPO as well as Musk burning down Twitter trying to make up for the 1.5bn in debt it's accruing.
Facebook/Meta is trying to expand into new markets since their main service hit saturation ages ago and they've cut all they can. That means killing gfycat, making a Twitter clone, etc.
I haven't thought about OCRemix in like 20 years. Can't believe it's still around! I used to download songs off here and play them through WinAmp while playing EverQuest, which had pretty dire music.
Someone should try to convince him to get into the submarine game.
It's not a mysery, we don't need psychics or time travellers to figure out what the founders meant. James Madison kept extensive notes on the Constitutional Convention. The intent behind the 2a is in there, as well as several earlier revisions of the final wording. All the modern court rulings are insane when you understand the founders' real intent.
Working in a hospital lab in a neighboring county to these cases. We all just had to bust out the malaria testing gear and do our annual training early.
This seems like as good a place to ask as any: how can I quickly find replies to my comments in threads? The equivalent of the reddit inbox, basically?
I read it ~20 years ago and I agree with the central premise, but I felt like it was still 80% faff. It's very much the musings of someone with a love for math and history. The core argument could have been made in a quarter of the space.
For me, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is the best Agatha Christie. Go in blind. For non-Poirot books, Crooked House and Murder at the Vicarage are also top shelf.
If you like Christie, I would also recommend Louise Penny. She's very stylistically and thematically similar. Still Life is a great mystery and also a nice window into a cute pastoral Canadian town.
For something off the wall, Leech by Hiron Ennis. A detective is dispatched to a snowbound manor house to investigate the death of his predecessor. However, the detective is a sentient parasitic leech hivemind and the killer he pursues is an alien fungus body snatcher.
I've tried coffee lemonade and found it a pretty suitable emetic. This seems like it could be even worse, cheers.