Reddit taught me to never trust anything Y Combinator shits out, ever.

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Why broadcast this on a community dedicated to bitching about reddit of all places? Seems like a cry for help. You won’t find it on social media, unfortunately. Find a therapist.

You are, I guess, an introvert. I am too. That doesn’t mean you should rule out making friends with people. It just means you have a lower threshold for how much socialization works for you. If you can, find a therapist, and I don’t mean this in a condescending way at all. It sounds like you have some kind of chip on your shoulder preventing you from attaining something that we as humans emotionally need - which is connection.

A lot of this is reductionist and kind of generalizing. Really depends on what we’re talking about. There are ways to punish companies and hit them where it hurts, money, for instance. There are ways to lobby Congress. I’m just saying there’s a framework for being strategic about these things, and distilling it down to violent uprising is just lacking any nuance any of these types of conversations actually deserve.

How is wanting to avoid civil war “mainstream”? I mean sure, go and promote revolution from the comfort of your climate controlled box with modern amenities, detached from the horrors of war. The feds have tanks.

Diplomacy, conflict resolution, etc. Not really motivated to fight against the tide of lemmy people sipping koolaid. But if you step outside the echo chamber, it’s mostly common sense.

Yeah, that was 200 years ago. We have better ways to handle things now.

Very recent history shows Republican senators are almost entirely to blame.

That’s still a violent thing to wish on people.

Violence generally doesn’t get what you want out of the system.

My current Reddit account I carefully curated and built is unbanned but associated to a different email, but my primary email is actually receiving new emails as of this week that my old accounts are permabanned. That alone is not noteworthy, but over the past couple months some of my other alts have had their passwords reset at random, with emails asking me to verify. These are not phishing emails, but actually from Reddit. I think they’re on to me and trying to get a confirmation, but not clicking those links so they can do their IP identification. Sociopathic, vindictive, people run Reddit apparently. Like sorry for dissenting and calling out specific employees that have bullied me, your operation is surely not corrupt. /s

Those snoo avatars for the execs look like the most soulless looking art styles possible, sort of like how Chuck E Cheese got rebranded. Pretty gross.

I’ve gone out of my way to avoid giving Microsoft money over their continual hypocrisy on almost virtually any issue I care about. Really, a shitty company that gets away with way too much.

A lot of people profile him as just a weird nerd and treat him like a digital punching bag, but I think it’s a mistake to underestimate a censorship extremist who built an empire on unpaid labor. Ironically, the loudest “fuck this guy” comments often help him, because they reinforce the idea that opposition is just angry noise, not serious critique. That plays better in mainstream media than you’d think.

Well I wouldn’t say it’s better but it’s definitely less enshittified. Give it time, the owners of Sniffies have given no indication they have the ability to earn anyone’s trust.

That $126,500 number refers to the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion (FEIE), but it’s not a hard threshold below which you’re totally off the hook. U.S. citizens abroad still have to file a tax return if their income exceeds the standard filing requirement (around $14k+ for single filers). And the FEIE only applies to earned income, not investment income or retirement income. It’s not automatic, you have to qualify under the bona fide residence or physical presence test, and file the right forms (like Form 2555) to claim it.

Even if you’re making well under $126k, you still have to file, and you might owe something depending on your situation.

If it makes you feel better, even if you migrate to another country and gain citizenship, you still have to pay income taxes to the US.

At least have some dignity and be grounded in the reality of where this company is aligned politically. Reddit doesn’t care about you or anything other than emulating everything Elon Musk does.

In other words an edition of Linux mint is finally getting a feature Ubuntu has for every variant, good for them I guess?

This system is so easily gamed by report spam. I’ve gotten multiple warnings on my account for “violence” removed after appealing, their system is automating this somehow and it’s not doing a good job. Really that’s just the story of Reddit for the past several years, they cast a wide net and piss off a lot of people now. They used to be a lot more hands-off but now they’re just controlling fuckwits.