Ah well, maybe that IS uniquely American, the concept that depriving a company that makes digital content of their sales, depriving them of the use of that money they’d otherwise have, IS stealing.

I’m not defending those poor digital content creators, mind you. But your words here tell me you are both European and young. Be careful out there, ok. The people that make the laws don’t agree with your definitions, and that means you gotta be ready to explain to them why what you did was totally allowed and decent.

It’s okay to not know what something is. Crack pipes are WIDELY known to be drug delivery devices. That’s not unique to the United States.

Furthermore, advertising your product as being used to pipe “cracked” (otherwise known as … stolen) games RIGHT there in the name of your product is like daring law enforcement to shut you down in actual record breaking time.

If you want your company to survive such things, you pick a name that is even more clever in that it isn’t… moronic.

Everyone gets that. It’s just that sometimes things can be clever and stupid, unwise, and an automatic NO

You know how everyone knows you’re supposed to brush your teeth twice a day for 2 minutes, AND FLOSS? If we all did that on the regular, dentist appointments would be quick and painless the vast majority of the time.

Instead, we’ve got people who barely brush, never floss, avoid the dentist and then hate the dentist for giving them pain and grief when they finally get around to it.

Voting is like that. No one would have to harp on everyone to go vote if everyone did it, and frankly if everyone voted according to their own actual interests and benefits, we wouldn’t be IN this mess to begin with.

It’s not that it’s a magic bullet, and I don’t think anyone is pretending it is. It’s that not enough people ARE voting, and it’s the single best way we have to make a large step in the right direction.

If we all voted blue every election, without fail, eventually we start to see the impact of avoiding the GOP regressions. Eventually we gain momentum.

Vote AND organize. But if you can’t even be arsed to vote, what makes you think you’ll be willing to do the vastly more intensive actions involved in an active fight?

Do the bare minimum ffs. If you (global you) don’t vote, miss me with the bullshit angst and wimpy call to actions no one will take. It’s just as much a hand waving whether it’s a fist, a middle finger, or a dismissal if it’s not engaged otherwise. We need to use ALL the tools we have against oppression.

In the comments on one of the articles on The Verge about this, someone claiming to be a mod over there said they were reinstated. I know you can’t really prove that, but maybe that’s where this notion comes from?

He’s panicking. His biggest lie is that this protest doesn’t matter and hasn’t and won’t impact Reddit financially. It already has and will continue to do so. You can tell that the people who actually post content worth viewing are here and not there, despite the smaller numbers over here.

When I joined Reddit 10+ years ago there was no “old.reddit.com” it was just reddit. The “new” UI was designed to basically entice users who found the original threaded discussion forum a bit daunting. But that (barely) complicated looking format kept a lot of lazy minded fools away from the place.

It’s that way with literally every “scene”. The easier it becomes to join, the more diluted the quality of the music/activity/discussion/hobby.

So…that’s what happened. Reddit made reddit more palatable to a wider audience, and that wider audience includes a wider spread of the bell curve that is humanity. Sucks, don’t it.