I’ve been a mod of several niche subreddits and entire reddit is absolute 100% gamed and astroturfed. Being a mod is incredibly lucrative to the point that’s full career for many mods.

In all fairness it was bound to happen and it’s similar on all social media groups. The power and lack of transparency makes it incredibly easy to start profiting of your positions even when the goal is noble at first. There’s this great podcast on cat drug black markets which perfectly illustrates this.

I find it funny seeing people complain about LLM hallucination and inaccuracy turn around and prefix site:reddit.com to their search queries in pure, blissful ignorance.

Outlook just called OP fat lmao

I’ve tried to get away from Spotify for years and the reality is the competition still sucks. I still have Tidal and YT music subscriptions but 90% of my music is on Spotify. I don’t know why is it so hard to match this.

Self hosting music is absolutely not worth it though it seems like that’s the only way to match Spotify quality of the experience.

Everyone can finally choose “dr.” option when filling out flight ticket forms guilt free and probably fly free on Canadia Airlines at least once.

Just ditch the bacon - it doesn’t really add any value here.

I feel the opposite. Film sucked so bad. I love pointing my phone at things and shooting a hundred shots and finding something good there or not finding anything and continueing with my day. Old photography was a pointless torture.

US states are turning into legal trolls - that’s how you know the empire is done for.

There’s a big “Download” url: https://equal-earth.com/ here’s the standard english one https://www.equal-earth.com/Equal-Earth-Map-0.jpg

You mean the homepage infographic? Thats not the map. If you click download you can get accurate full maps based on this projection.

99% of people dont know that there other projections. I dare you to ask people which map projection is their favorite.

Ideally yes we should stick to standard and make sure everyone knows thay there are many variants and none of them perfectly represent the sphere were on but thats not happening.

Thanks 🙏

Brave take with your comment history public lmao

Worked for whom? The countries that are over-represented in the current map? Or the countries that started this petition?

I somewhat agree, Africa never looked small imo. However Russia, Greenland, Canada etc are so comically oversized that it absolutely makes a difference imo.

The slider is very revealing. Hard to believe that were still using Mercator projection when its so incredibly deceiving even if you actually know the real sizes.

Getting into philosophy and ethics. Contemporary Stoicism in particular is very freeing and empowering. Theres this concept in Stoicism (and Buddhism) of “dichotomy of control” where some things can’t be controled like thoughts emerging or you dying but you can control your reaction to all of that.

Another concept from Stoicism that relates to community is the idea of “festival” which is basically being intentionally mindful of how awesome crowds are - the fact that a diverse group of people gather together for some shared activity or just to hang out is enough for you to enjoy it!

Unpopular opinion but Harrison Ford is a terrible actor. He’s literally just a guy that shows up on set and reads some lines. Zero range, zero character.

The bike lane is like 1/3rd the size of the car lane and has more people on it.

Obviously yes!

Try drowning. By that, I mean once you’re in safe waters like a pool put yourself in a stressful position like diving under water without a proper breath in etc. The goal is be ready for discomfort same way skate boarders learn falling so when you actually get into trouble you have some experience on how to react.