It's fine to still call it a sub. Everyone know what you mean. If anyone else really feels the need to be pedantic, it's just not a "sub-reddit," but you still "sub-scribe" to it, so...
BlemboTheThird
joined 2 years ago
Uhh I guess it's kinda like that, minus you knowing you farted. Imagine the dog barked and ran but you genuinely had no idea why that happened. As a joke you go "dang that was like I farted so bad even the dog couldn't stand it!" But now everyone heard you say you farted, so any time a dog barks and runs away they call it "Rowbot's fart."
Dark matter may not literally be matter of any kind at all. All we know for sure is that objects with a certain amount of observable matter are, for some reason, behaving like they have much, much more. But also not with any consistency; some of them act like they have 30% more, others like they're twice their size. We just call it dark matter because "dang it's like there's a bunch of matter we can't see." But we don't really know what's causing the discrepancy.
To be fair, it's not like we're totally clueless about it, but as of yet no single hypothesis has any concrete proof.
Like I said, watch her video. She goes into lots of detail and gives a much better explanation than I could ever hope to. But here I go anyway:
The gist of it is that "dark matter" isn't really an attempt to explain anything. Like, theory of gravity, we have some good rules, things accelerate depending on mass and proximity to other things. Theory of dark matter? Not so much.
Dark matter is a problem in the sense that it's an observable phenomenon we can't really explain. When we observe really far away stars and galaxies, they interact in ways that imply far larger amount of matter than what we are actually observing. So where's that matter? We don't know! Dark matter! But unfortunately that nomenclature and the many ideas surrounding what does cause the dark matter phenomenon have deeply clouded the conversation.
Dark matter is not a theory of how things work. It's a problem to be solved.
Watch her dark matter video. And the follow up. But for the love of God, dodge the comments. SO MANY people read the title of the video and then went to make comments calling her wrong, even though she spent like an hour specifically addressing the arguments they make.
Dark matter is not a theory. It's a problem. Fuck!
I genuinely think a large proportion of Reddit posts have been automated for at least the last 5 years. I'm sure the constant repetition of the exact same jokes and threads can be partially attributed to real users repeating things, but frequently it seemed like things would get repeated multiple times a day for months (or indefinitely). Any thread on specific topics would invariably wind up with the exact same responses.
Anything to do with Russia? "Hope they don't fall out a window."
Anything to do with any type of disease, in literally any animal or microorganism? "This is how the zombie apocalypse starts."
Literally anything political? "Gaslight, Obstruct, Project" with a usually arbitrary "<---you are here" thrown in. Confoundingly would even pop up in non-american threads sometimes.
I'm sure there are many, many more examples that are slipping my mind now since it's been years since I've browsed Reddit proper, but the point is this type of manufactured popularity has been possible even before the advent of LLMs. Now the systems could be far more complex.
These companies literally survive on showing advertisers how much traffic they have. Even if the bots aren't run by the social media companies themselves, they have no incentive to remove bots, only to disguise them as real visitors. It's a very small jump from that to only allowing posts that express certain opinions to hit the big time. In all likelihood that's the real reason they introduced vote fuzzing in the first place.
The dumbest part is, he absolutely could have gotten involved in politics and still been fine. Zuckerberg and Bezos have both publicly supported fascism and not seen nearly as much backlash. All Musk had to avoid was making two brazen Nazi salutes on national television and then becoming the face of the most moronic, questionably legal, regularly reversed (by both the courts and DOGE itself) funding cuts in the history of our nation.
But billionaires are actually narcissistic and lucky, not smart and hardworking, so here we are. The richest man in the world, probably high most of the time, crying on TV. If someone had written a novel with this plot 20 years ago I would've dismissed it as too stupid.
I mean, it still is. People like having all this stuff in fortnite because it's funny
I'm pretty sure musk is still the richest man in the world (at least on paper, who knows what people like Putin have hidden away). Until that changes there is a .00001% chance of trump and musk's relationship deteriorating
Archive should probably work, but I always seem to forget about it lol.
I only access Reddit through libreddit instances and they usually have links to various undelete services in place of the deleted comment, but they never seem to work :(
Just like basically every mental attribute, ADHD is a spectrum. I've been diagnosed ADHD but don't have it half as bad as many of the people here seem to, and yet I've also had a variety of bad reactions to every medication I've tried. Other people may have a few symptoms but not enough to bother getting a diagnosis, as it may not affect their daily lives at all.
But also I'm another person who has too many favorites to ever properly read through, so this is a definitely real, medically valid internet comment diagnosis that you undoubtedly have ADHD
I got down to my last egg like a month ago and keep thinking about when and how I should use it. Technically I could afford to buy more but it's the principle of the thing; not so much about not being a Spoiled American but I really don't want to support the companies price gouging these things. But I was also making a loaf of challah almost every week and I don't think my flax meal substitute will work for that...
My solitary, lonely egg. Just chillin in the fridge.
Maybe I should start my morning with an egg sandwich tomorrow.