Well, I appreciate the invite

I'm still looking for the "April fools" clue here

The lack of transparency is combined with a goal of "engagement metrics" and ad revenue rather than truly satisfying the user for web2 sites.

Some thoughts on reward-motivated action: it's just another way of saying people respond to incentives, and everyone does. Some incentives are psychic, others material. Some people look at profit as vulgar

Seems like a good idea, provided it's an addition to existing feeds, not a replacement for chronological, following, etc.

Prosecute all living presidents for war crimes. Clinton, W, Obama, Trump, and Biden are all guilty.

Allow me to introduce you to a ballad by Loudon Wainwright III describing a common occurrence where I grew up in the Midwest, and an occasional experience here in the Pacific Northwest.

Copy/pasting classic literature isn't a copyright violation, and you are attributing the author, but trying to profit from someone else's work is generally frowned upon. Please decline or burn rewards

This has nothing whatsoever to do with my post, so I will downvote it as spam.

I powered up 50.

Is that Windows 7? Uffda. What does the task manager say about system resource use? You'll probably want to clear the desktop clutter, prune the autorun programs on startup, and clean unnecessary files

Because gas and food are different things, and we're already scrimping and saving everywhere else.

Really. This level of vitriol, even toward warmongers, is harsh. And I hope that you die And your death will come soon I'll follow your casket On a pale afternoon I'll watch while you're lowered Down to

I thought Lindsay Ellis had a good video on the thorny topic of toxic masculinity, but either it's not on Youtube or she removed/delisted it. At any rate, like many concepts misused by the ideologues of

I'm far from the first to advocate natural fiber clothing and retreating from synthetics. Waxed cotton is one of many forgotten technologies we can rediscover and repurpose in modern life. Wear it over

We all make mistakes. The question is not whether we achieve perfection, but whether we acknowledge our error and try to improve day by day, or revert to our base instincts and regress as we age.

@sherah, @ankapolo, and @hurtlocker: the post is up now. Tagging you here since you supported the idea.

I don't see downvotes tracked in the outgoing votes graph. That's the biggest change. I'm not sure it's necessary, though. I had a bigh 75% "wedge" for one spammer, and I had to turn it off to

On one hand, I get the concern for election security if we are to be a democratic society with citizens having a voice in how our Republic is run. On the other hand, I detest how America has become a

A big fluffy black cat like that should be named something befitting, like Shadow, or Ninja, or... Chris.