Reddit is now dictating who can and can't moderate r/The_Donald. Will be vetting future mods.

lowrads · 2020-02-26T05:20:10+00:00

The usual modus operandi for the sitewide admin to eliminate a community is to bring in outside moderators (supermods, not unlike super delegates) who will then allow rule-breaking content to proliferate when it is posted by their allies. Then the admins will move in and nuke the sub.

They don't even make it a secret. It's openly bragged about on the usual subs that receive no attention for their own rule breaking.

lowrads · 2020-03-14T17:25:54+00:00

The admins aren't really bothering to use subterfuge now. They'll just ban or suspend all of the current mods, then lock the sub for being unmoderated.

lowrads · 2020-03-14T17:22:22+00:00

Censorship is a core feature of reddit, as embedded in the minority opinion censorship function of the downvote. Reddit may persist, but discussion and debate has no future there, outside of an ever narrowing Overton window that will always skew towards an irritated extreme position.

I genuinely think that completely eliminating people's writing and creative efforts will face severe opprobrium in the future, perhaps even legal limitations and liability, even on private fora. Moderation just means steering discussion and limiting digression via thread or comment chain locking.

Unless there's actual violation present, such as a call to violence, or doxxing, there really is no opinion so dangerous that it needs to be erased. Responsible moderation always leaves a breadcrumb trail.

lowrads · 2020-03-14T17:23:56+00:00

There are reports of wholesale banning of mod teams across smaller subs, then banning of subs for being unmoderated.

The sinoviets are really taking this next election seriously.

lowrads · 2020-03-14T17:29:35+00:00

The same guy is responsible for the following aphorism: "Nature never hurries, yet everything is accomplished."

lowrads · 2019-07-15T01:52:26+00:00

The best way to avoid becoming reddit is to limit censorship, even in subsaidits.

It's fine to lock comments or posts, but nothing should ever be deleted, or just wiped out as if it were never there. Disabling links from a post is obviously limiting harm, but the words never should be erased. No one should be erased. No thoughts are so dangerous that they need to be hidden.

lowrads · 2019-07-15T01:39:00+00:00

Considering their reliance upon tourism, CR likely simply can't afford visible kinds of pollution. This is an economic decision as much as anything. Styrene products are simply an import, and a dispensable one at that.

lowrads · 2023-12-28T00:51:13+00:00

Also known as heat.

lowrads · 2023-12-28T00:41:31+00:00

About 2% of workers earn at or below the minimum wage. It's a higher percentage in places like Louisiana or Mississippi, but vanishingly rare anywhere in the northeast or west coast.

People should be far more concerned about the eroding median wage, and suppressing the people with the poorest bargaining position won't alter that. That turnip has been thoroughly wrung.

lowrads · 2021-02-01T06:55:21+00:00

There's a 2nd and Charles one town over, but there's also a small used bookstore here that I've been patronizing since my college days. The organization of books is always terrible, but it's not unenjoyable to spend some time browsing through heaps.

lowrads · 2020-03-14T18:53:15+00:00

If the private sector can't figure out how to stem the declines in social mobility, rather than exacerbate it, then it's perfectly reasonable for the government to make their own incompetent play.

What we usually see instead is simply the new economy pillaging the vestiges of the old economy over and over. The ascendant class can fight their own battles without our help, or they should at least expect to pay through the nose. Fuck em.

lowrads · 2020-03-14T18:40:47+00:00

Sin taxes are elective taxes.

lowrads · 2019-07-20T20:53:11+00:00

I imagine it will make it a lot easier for people to move money around without paying fees to a company like Western Union. Given that the legislatures have been talking about applying penalties to people sending remittances out of the country, it makes sense that a big tech company would want to thwart any limitations.

lowrads · 2019-07-20T04:12:32+00:00

Remote sensing satellites in sun synchronous, polar orbits normally make a pass over a particular stripe of the earth every two to three weeks for non-angled passive imaging. The multi-week interval between images termed temporal dislocation. It's pretty common to have too much cloud cover for good imagery at a particular spot for a substantial percentage of passes.

lowrads · 2019-07-18T05:39:16+00:00

Launch delivery vehicles have been obsolete since their inception.

It's much easier to simply smuggle strategic weapons into the target site, or assemble them there, and then have them setup for remote activation. The internet makes this easier than ever. This gives actors millisecond strike time, instead of a factor of minutes.

The main targets of this are civilian, as secure facilities are harder to penetrate. That makes secure facilities more of a target for ballistics, but it also means that more anti-ballistic measures will be protecting those trajectories. This has been discussed since the seventies at least.

lowrads · 2019-07-18T05:31:25+00:00

Saidit can avoid becoming reddit simply by not allowing posts to be totally eliminated. Locked and links disabled, of course, but never totally erased.

There are no opinions dangerous enough that they need to be erased.

lowrads · 2019-07-18T05:28:49+00:00

Seems like you could also use it to make layered or composite objects, perhaps with different sorts of properties for each layer.

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