I made some kind of noise yesterday about wanting to cancel my subscription because of this bullshit; I just followed through.
Interesting info for anyone curious: If you attempt to cancel your subscription online, it'll offer you $1/week for a full year if you stay. It's honestly a pretty good deal for their non-propaganda stories. But on the other hand, fuck 'em.
#nytimes
When asked why the Times doesn't see its job as trying to "stop Trump,"
This, to me, is a little misleading. The Washington Post didn't publish about Watergate to "stop Nixon." They were, in fact, trying to provide impartial information -- which in this case led them to present to their readers in stark terms why Nixon was a dangerous crook. But it wasn't based in any desire to get Nixon specifically as far as I know.
Kahn ... said journalism's role is to provide "impartial information" rather than becoming a "propaganda arm."
An excellent point. So you're planning to fire the propagandists working for you and starting to provide impartial information, right?
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Right?
Yeah, $124m for marketing doesn't strike me as instantly unreasonable, if they're managing to bring in $242m in ad revenue from ads that I literally have never once wanted to click on that are so poorly presented that my brain literally filters them out
Research and development and admin, on the other hand, I would have some questions about, if I'd spent money on the stock and was supposed to be receiving a return on my investment
thousands of people working on software engineering
Doing fucking what?
Have you ever seen a reddit ad?
All the time (possible you don't see them because of ad blockers etc). I just opened the front page and the fourth result was:
"Hey Reddit, there are r/nostupidquestions, so we want to know: What’s your decision making process before entering a trade? Walk us through your method in the comments. (tastylive.com)"
I honestly can't make sense of it and I don't want to know.
What the fuck, I think you're right
I remember someone doing some kind of calculation at some point trying to assess the cost of Reddit's hosting, and it being all the money in the world, but now that they're public we don't have to guess. I looked it up, and you're right.
Reddit's financial statement says on page 7 that in 1Q 2024 it was:
And on the expense side:
This is a little bit of a guess, but my first interpretation of that is that hosting goes under "Cost of revenue" and most of "Research and development" and "General and administrative" is salaries. I.e. that they pay spez's friends something concordant with the $139m that they paid spez personally last year.
Yeah. On page 11 it says they paid out $577m in "stock-based compensation". I don't know exactly what that means but it kind of looks like all that whining Spez was doing to the Apollo devs about how Reddit can't turn a profit with them out there charging $3 for their app or whatever, just meant "MORE, MORE FOR ME, I WANT MORE, IT'S NOT ENOUGH IT'S NEVER ENOUGH."
God damn dude, I should start a social media company.
Roll up, roll up, everyone take your turn to jeer derisively
Their hosting costs I'm sure are astronomical; my guess is that honestly that's most of it.
They're also, if my very limited experience with them is any guide, phenomenally incompetent with their advertising in a way that I'm sure kneecaps what should be a goldmine of ad revenue. You know those brain damaged ads like "Megathread: Why you should move all your money to Schwab" or otherwise trying to imitate Reddit terminology in the least convincing way possible? That's because Reddit tells their advertisers to do that. For real, it's worth looking over Reddit's ad materials sometime, because they are pants-on-head mentally disabled in a way that's honestly a little hard to believe if you haven't checked them out for yourself.
Akkoma and Pleroma are two popular "Mastodon style" Fediverse apps, I think born out of exactly this type of complaint about Mastodon, which you could get involved with if you wanted to be involved with better software without it being a one-man show.
I think it's made needlessly difficult by how sloppy a protocol ActivityPub is, such that different Fediverse apps can't really interoperate with each other except at a pretty rudimentary level, so you kind of have to pick one of the leading ones and imitate it, in order to be a citizen in its community and not have to build your own little community from scratch. But that's a problem without a real easy solution, I think.
Can I give you a list of substitutions which you will then have to apply to your comments going forward, and go back and edit your past comments to apply? Would you agree to that? For your convenience I can give you a set of links to click to apply the edits.
I promise (for real) that I'll only do it to poke fun.
I seriously implore you to actually read it and not just dismiss it
Okay, sure. I read a good bit of it. From p. 159:
"Since Hamas’ rule over the Gaza Strip is not legitimised by the UN, and since Hamas is not recognised by the international community as the political representative of the Palestinian people, its diplomatic activities are usually carried out by third party states and pro-Palestinian organisations. These entities will often present 'proof' of alleged war crimes to attack Israel in the international arena.
"The most prominent example of this is the Goldstone Report. This report sheds light on the diplomatic context of the practice of human shields: about 1,400 Gazans and 13 Israelis were killed in the Gaza War. A UN fact-finding mission headed by Judge Richard Goldstone was established in April 2009 following the war, and published its 574-page report in September 2009. The report called for both parties, Hamas and Israel, to investigate their own actions and accused both of deliberately targeting civilians. However, before expanding its mandate to investigate both parties’ actions, the preliminary purpose of the commission was to investigate only Israel’s alleged war crimes against Palestinians.
"The final report criticised Israel harshly for attacking civilians and civilian facilities. It disputed Israel’s claim that the Gaza War was initiated as a response to rockets fired from the Gaza Strip, claiming that, at least in part, the war was targeted against the 'people of Gaza as a whole.'
"The report also stated that there was evidence that Palestinian armed groups committed war crimes and possibly crimes against humanity by deliberately launching rockets and firing mortars into Israel, calculated to intentionally kill civilians and damage civilian structures. The report accused Palestinian armed groups of causing psychological trauma to the civilians within the range of the rockets. It also concluded that killings and abuses of members of the Fatah political movement amounted to a 'serious violation of human rights.' However, the mission found no evidence of Palestinian armed groups placing civilians in areas where attacks were being launched, or engaging in combat in civilian dress, or using a mosque for military purposes or to shield military activities. This statement contrasted with both Israeli and international media reports that Hamas fighters wore civilian clothes and concealed their weapons.
"Despite placing the blame on both sides, the mission de facto rejected Israel’s claims that the IDF had only attacked Hamas’ targets, and that civilian casualties were caused mainly due to Hamas’ use of civilians as human shields. This was a severe diplomatic blow to Israel. In fact, the international community barely distinguished between the activities of a terror organisation and those a sovereign state. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights endorsed the report and supported the call for Israel and Hamas to investigate and prosecute those who committed war crimes. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon urged “credible” investigations by both sides into the conduct of the Gaza conflict 'without delay.' The European Parliament passed a resolution endorsing the Goldstone Report in March 2010. The resolution called on the bloc’s member states to 'publicly demand the implementation of [the report’s] recommendations and accountability for all violations of international law, including alleged war crimes.' These declarations, as well as others, demonstrate Hamas’ triumph in controlling the narrative. Hamas’ ability to control the narrative limits Israel’s strategic choices."
I had some commentary on this, but changed my mind and deleted it. I think it pretty much speaks for itself.
the sheer audacity of equating Hamas terrorists with Warsaw Ghetto resistance fighters
I had a feeling you wouldn't at all like that comparison.
I also had a feeling you wouldn't want to respond in detail to the other stuff I was saying, or answer questions... because what can you say?
All good. Have a good one.
infoterkiniviral.com
Okay that's a little weird
by NEWSLINE PAPER — Wednesday, May 08, 2024
Newsline Paper? Is the head editor named Fred Humanmale?
While on board, astronauts David Scott, Alfred Worden, and James Irwin used the Lunar Module Falcon to sneakily bring about 400 illegal mail covers to orbit and the moon's surface. The goal of the stamp traders was to make these postal covers, which are also known as "stamped envelopes," useless so that they could sell them to collectors as souvenirs.
Something about this nonsensical sentence structure seems familiar
Even though the Apollo 15 mission was a huge success, some people's actions hurt its image and showed how bad it can be to act unethically in the search for space. The event is still a serious and important part of NASA's past because it shows how important it is to act ethically and keep space missions completely honest.
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Oh they have an RSS feed
Oh...
I reported the post as botshit
Yeah. Their editorial stance is fucking baffling to me.
Fun fact, I like journalism so I periodically subscribe to a random selection of online news outlets for the tiny little bit of cash that it costs to do it. I just cancelled the NY Times and explained in some detail that this bullshit is why.