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Could have not started the illegal war in the first place...

Could have invaded the actually bloody country responsible for 9/11 instead of a central Asian backwater.

Could have reigned in your massive military industrial complex which essentially demands wars for profits....

What am i kidding... 'MERICA!

Not sure how Reddit is worth that much... Are the 50 power mods in charge of 90% of the top subs selling access to state propaganda departments? Actually don't answer that, its painfully obvious.

$ per user revenue is pathetic compared to most social media platforms.

If you live in a modern western country? Nothing.

The asparagus season might be a few weeks shorter, you may pay 3-5% more but ultimately no one is going to starve.

The best thing to do is prepare for slightly higher outgoings.

If you are in Sub-Saharan Africa continue doing what you're already doing, get on a dinghy and point it at Europe.

I love seeing these issues reverberate around the internet.

This time i think /r/sysadmin pegged the issue first, great sub.

I think Reddit might be fundamentally flawed because of its voting system and its need for high moderation to make it workable. Mods influence so much power over what people are and aren't allowed to talk about. You use the example of CasualUK which is indeed a very good if slightly "police state" sub but it only exists because the other UK subs became unviable.

The old defence has always been "if you don't like it go away and make your own sub", unfortunately with so many obvious subs being squatted its difficult to get exposure to newer communities.

From memory we have:

/r/unitedkingdom - Mostly teenage lefties, often resembles a 6th form common room, mostly dislike the UK.

/r/ukpolitics - Similar to above, slightly quicker on the banhammer.

/r/england - cybersquatted and shutdown for years by a power mod, just opened back up but the power mod won't give top rank over to active mods.

/r/scotland - A borderline anti-English hate sub, harsh group think in most threads.

/r/baduk - The less said the better.

I don't know what the solution is because as i said, reddit is flawed at a base level. The only positive change i can think of is to cap active participants in a sub to a specific small number.

NSO Group Hacked 5 years ago

One unnamed company is still struggling to secure a print spooler after most of a month. I don't have the optimism you do.

I have a long standing issue with crypto that's starting to bug me...

When i buy stock i'm hoping for two things. first that it increases in value but also that i get to collect some dividends because i own a tangible piece of a company.

When i buy ETH or XLM my only goal is to sell it on to someone else for more, i get nothing while i hold it and can't actually use it for anything. All i'm doing is searching for a bigger idiot to buy it off me.

What am i missing?

Edit: I get crypto is emotive and a lot of you guys are balls deep in the cult but it'd be nice to get some answers rather then my post just getting hidden.

My commute is 20ft, this increases by as much as 30% if i get out the other side of the bed.

I get a 30 minute walk every day in lockdown but you can only trudge aimlessly around the same grey/brown industrial estate so many times before losing the will.

Some of those comments are straight up nightmare fuel for sysadmins

We are severly fucked. Up to 2100 endpoints are infected right now, most are desktops but also servers.

We have been hit as well 1000 endpoints. What is your plan of restoration?

Happy 4th of July weekend everyone.

Robinhood S-1 IPO 5 years ago

Because its a massive conflict of interest.

Its the same reason you wouldn't let a Defence contractor CEO be secretary of defence, or why you shouldn't let a telecoms lobbyist run the FCC.

Oh wait...