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This is actually one of the few decisions Reddit has made in recent years that I agree with. They’re trying to eliminate the pattern of having “powermods” that just accumulate endless numbers of huge subreddits under their belts.

Deleting your comments isn’t going to prevent Reddit from selling your content. It’s only going to prevent other people from making use of your content. People like you and I, who might benefit from it.

Or they’re just really really hoping they don’t get dragged into this.

If we’re at the point where politicians are being killed and fleeing the country, we might be moving past mere “riots” and into civil war territory.

I haven’t seen any reports on whether there’s an organized opposition, I expect that’ll be the key to turning this into some sort of positive change rather than a paroxysm of violence followed by even more extreme repression.

Edit: I went and did a little digging. There are opposition parties, but many of them are apparently just as entrenched into the network of corruption that these protests are about at their root. There’s one newer party, the Rastriya Swatantra Party, that could potentially be an actual “anti-establishment” party. But it’s untested, nobody knows how genuine their stance is. Otherwise peoples’ hopes seem to be left in the hands of a collection of smaller regional and ethnic parties that’ll have to suddenly find a lot of unity to pull off any reforms.

The Nepali army is also a major factor, we’ll have to see what “side” they end up backing.

Yup. I’m using both of them and they both have their downsides. For now having them both means the disappointments kind of cancel out, though.

Yeah, over a long enough timescale every country’s relations have their ups and downs. Recent generations have been quite close, though - Canada spent a lot of military lives supporting America’s misadventure in Afghanistan, for example. So it’s still quite the massive stab in the back as far as the currently living Canadians are concerned.

Looks like it could be that one’s wearing a bracelet and the other’s wearing a headband and the two are just coincidentally lining up.

Frankly, I think this kind of CSI “zoom and enhance!” analysis is kind of silly generally speaking. Does it matter if these images are AI generated? Does Will Smith matter?

Maybe this is AI-generated. Could be. Maybe it’s real, could also be. None of the “defects” seem particularly egregious. But at the end of the day I don’t see how it’s going to change anything of any significance either way.

Well, he did have cancer…

I would estimate the chances are about 49% that the world as we know it will collapse by about 2050.

Emphasis added. That’s a pretty big bit of weasel-wording there, the world “as we know it” has changed drastically in the past 25 years. Things that we thought were indispensable to the proper functioning of the world order - such as, for example, the lack of a pudding-brained pedophillic fascist in the White House - are no longer operative. Yet we’re muddling along well enough, all things considered.

Things are rapidly changing in so many ways right now. Projecting that far forward with any confidence is a bit of a fool’s errand.

Sadly looking like the best we’ll get.

History will judge very harshly.

Do you realize you can unsubscribe and even block it from appearing in your feed?

Ah, you don’t want to discuss Reddit either. Why are you in this community, then?

Which itself completely misses the point. This is the place where we do talk about Reddit. That’s specifically what it’s for.

I don’t know what you’re doing to format that, but this is what I see:

https://i.imgur.com/HCCByy5.png

Lots of “oh well, what can I do?” and “what’s it got to do with me?” and “I just don’t want to get cancelled by speaking out.”

I’m sure there were lots of people in Nazi Germany quietly watching their Jewish neighbors get hauled away thinking similar thoughts.

It’s reddit@lemmy.world. The sidebar describes it thusly:

News and Discussions about Reddit

Welcome to !reddit. This is a community for all news and discussions about Reddit.

This community is for discussing Reddit. If someone doesn’t want to see discussion of Reddit then this is not a good place to be participating.

Stop talking about Reddit.

Do you know what community you’re in?

Oh, it’s a message to future generations, alright. Probably not one that says what you would like it to though.

I routinely say things that are not entirely negative about AI. I obviously care a lot about karma!