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Reddit's CEO outright admitted that their own app was "never profitable", while also complaining third party's apps were making money from the same content.

If I was an investor, I'd absolutely want a good explanation for why Reddit isn't able to make their own app profitable, while other Reddit apps can do just that.

There are certain devices that do do that, but it's not a defibrillator. A defibrillator will stop/prevent an arrhythmia by stopping the heart, and letting it restart on its own (hoping that it goes to a normal rhythm), and delivering further shocks if it gets back into one.

The device you're looking for to help a heart beat again would be a pacer, or a pacemaker, which will shock the heart to force it to pump, and restore rhythm that way. They're commonly used for conditions like heart failure, if the heartbeat generation systems/internal pacemaker can't generate a heartbeat quickly enough to sustain life.

They should partner with /r/trains, and start posting steam trains.

Kbin does supposedly have a mobile app planned, but nothing's been done just yet.

Minecraft. Mods are like magic, and can totally change the game. I've lost countless hours just poking around and building fun things, even on vanilla.

For those curious about what a defibrillator does do: It stops hearts.

Which might seem insanely counterintuitive, but it's great for when the heart gets stuck in a rhythm that prevents it from being able to pump properly, since stopping it lets it restart itself in a more normal rhythm.

Before we invented the defibrillator, doctors basically had to punch the patient in the chest to hopefully hit the heart at the right point to stop it. It does also mean that if you really know what you're doing, and got lucky with the timing/amount of force, you could technically pull off one of Kill Bill's death punches, although it would be a little less dramatic than them walking five steps before their heart explodes.

But unlike video games, unless you fry the heart itself, a defibrillator won't instantly kill someone. It will stop their heart, sure, but their heart will restart itself, unless something is wrong (stopped for too long, physical damage, irreversible chemical imbalance, etc)

Because the stupid thing is the only thing that you remember. You don't remember what you were doing 5 years ago, except the stupid thing.

Now if you did a stupid thing yesterday, you would probably remember that, but not anything else.

But it will get them talking, which is the main point of it. Regular people will wonder why the sub is full of John Oliver, letting them find out about the API changed and everything.

It could be the smaller subs for precisely that reason. /r/videos is high-profile, and is likely to kick a fit, so smaller subs would be a better testing ground, to see what the reception is, before steamrolling the others.

The "StarTrek" community is also the default one, so anything goes there, until things get active enough to have to be shuffled to /c/Risa.

Since there's not a lot of meme activity yet, things are probably fine for the time being.

Just go to /m/startrek@startrek.website on your kbin instance.

For Mastodon, the community shows up as a user, so you probably want to follow @startrek.

You basically treat it like a subreddit, with an extra bit at the end saying which site the community is on.

Otherwise, they're usually intercompatible enough you can get away with replying to them without any unnecessary faff.

Kind of weird to think that the show was only one degree of freedom from regular politics, though.