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To the people who wear makeup for reasons that aren't gender euphoria or work, why would you wanna cover your face in various powders and creams for hours before your day while it slowly deteriorates, wash it off at night, then rinse and repeat? Not to mention all the money you have to spend on it. What's the point? Especially when you already have it all, if you're already extremely conventionally attractive without makeup, what's the point in using it? Why do you feel the need to hide your natural beauty under so many products?

An excellent question

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Here is the link to the actual post. Since Q4 is beginning soon it seems like reddit likely has something in the pipeline they know is going to upset either the community at large or the moderators in particular.

Everyone's friends over at reddit are at it again!

In a new post from a member of reddit staff reddit corporate has decided that, no, moderators are not allowed to do anything to prevent or disrupt activity in the subreddits they moderate, even if the community votes for it.

In the same post they make the absurd claim that protest is still allowed on reddit. Just not... you know, disruptive protest. So dear union members, no, you're no longer allowed to strike, but you are still allowed to say you're mad, so long as you don't say it too loud of course.

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Everyone's friends over at reddit are at it again!

In a new post from a member of reddit staff reddit corporate has decided that, no, moderators are not allowed to do anything to prevent or disrupt activity in the subreddits they moderate, even if the community votes for it.

In the same post they make the absurd claim that protest is still allowed on reddit. Just not... you know, disruptive protest. So dear union members, no, you're no longer allowed to strike, but you are still allowed to say you're mad, so long as you don't say it too loud of course.

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The golden rule in life and on reddit, don't be a dick.

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A question for you all today, do you think folks over on r/thathappened regularly discount totally plausible stories as impossible?

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r/conspiracy should be renamed r/confirmationbias

I will not be explaining further, do your own research! \s

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dndmemes has fallen

r/dndmemes, a sub for dnd memes which has always allowed NSFW content has had three mods unilaterally removed because the community, not the mods, had started posting NSFW content, it was tagged as such and was in accordance with the standing rules of the subreddit and sitewide rules.

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So, um. I just had to listen to the talk on things to do in the bedroom. And it was really embarrassing. But my mom explained that there were a million options besides my pregnancy hole. So I was wondering. Why do people always choose the pregnancy hole? It seems risky, especially now with abortion rights being gone.

my take: some folks just prefer it there or don't know better, some folks are a bit obsessed with it too.

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Regarding the Reddit blackout, I find it interesting that the more I listen to Reddit CEO Steve Huffman talk about it, the more I'm fairly certain he has no idea how his business actually runs.

You have to know that 90% to 95% of the work on Reddit is done by unpaid volunteers, the moderators of the various subreddits. Reddit itself only employs about 2,000 people to run a site that 52 million estimated users. There is no way that the company could function without those moderators.

The problem is, Mr. Huffman seems to think that Reddit is a technology company. And he's right, those moderators don't build servers, they don't code backend, and they don't do any of the kind of stuff that physically makes Reddit available for users.

But Reddit isn't a technology company, Reddit is a social media company. It doesn't sell the servers or the code, the way the company makes money is by attracting a pool of users and then charging advertisers to show things to those people.

What those moderators do is allow the social part of it to happen. They moderate their forums, they take care of abusive users, they enforce topic limitations… they basically do the majority of the work that makes people want to actually USE Reddit.

Fundamentally misunderstanding what their business does seems to be a habit now among many CEOs of major companies. Maybe one day the boards that hire CEOs will figure out that knowing what a company does is key to running it. I'm not holding my breath, though.

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How do I find the news-y parts of Tumblr? Is there such a corner to even find? I know the joke is that all major world news is communicated via that one Destiel meme, but that's something I legitimately find myself missing from Reddit.

Also curious about this

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a source I was unable to find earlier because I forgot the correct term.

Unawarded degrees

The unawarded degrees, as seen here in the university library of the KU Leuven (in Belgium), the degrees that should have been awarded to young Ukrainians, killed by Russian aggression.

The murder of youth, of humanity's promise for the vain wishes of an old man.

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I have a (very naive) question about the writers' strike: while I understand and support the cause, isn't everyone participating just giving execs what they want, as far as "replacing writers with Al" goes? Without working writers, won't studios just rely on Al to complete projects? I don't believe that Al is a valid replacement for real human writers but the more it's used the more it "learns," right? Isn't it possible that AI *could* get to a point where it's relied on so much that it does end up replacing writers?

My personal take on this is very much that no, because writers can't be replaced yet, and it needs huge training sets to learn something new so I doubt that the shot down hollywood projects would offer much, but I would love to see more takes on this.

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In another excellent move reddit demands r/noncredibledefense mods declare their sub SFW

General trigger warning for everything, because if there is anything you can't handle, don't go on NCD.

For those who don't know, r/noncredibledefense is a shitposting subreddit dedicated to military affairs and in particular bullying the russian armed forces. Because of that theme the subreddit includes photographs and videos of corpses, combat, the nearly dead and the half living. For reference one of the popular current memes on there is the mobikcube, an alleged cube of compacted dead russian soldiers (it probably isn't, but you know).

Additionally, because this is a shitposting sub with quite loose rules there is also a lot of defense themed pornography and intense thirstposting for military equipment.

So ladies, gentlemen and anybody else, I ask you this. Would you want your child to see footage of Russian soldiers being gunned down? Or reading about the Russians castrating Ukrainian soldiers? Would you like your boss seeing you look at a drawing of an F35 with breasts? I'm guessing the answer is no, so that sub ought to be NSFW and 18+

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Botdefense, a volunteer created and managed system that removed harmful bots from subreddits will be ending operations due to the new API changes, reddit has no internal mechanism to deal with repost and other harmful bots besides letting them run free or every subreddit individually and painstakingly removing them by hand.

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So, r/tooafraidtoask is NSFW

r/tooafraidtoask has for about a month now been set as NSFW, because, well the subreddit has a large number of highly explicit posts appearing every day. There's vulgarity, swearing, racism, sexism, sex... all of these questions appear about regularly. So allround not exactly a page you might feel like showing to a young audience right?

Well the mod team got a message from reddit

Reddit, poor old reddit, seems to think it was done out of protest, or more likely, they have no clue and are automating the process of trying to bully moderators. u/modcodeofconduct is the strawman account usually used for that. But do you want to know the best part? They have actually disabled the ability of moderators to respond to this message.

The only possible way to reply now is to make a private moderator note, which reddit can claim not to be able to see, though that is most likely a lie.

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What does it mean that tech companies got addict to cheap money and 0% interest? I knew interest rates were low but 0%??

A lovely question!