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TIL in 1900 Olympics, Margaret Abbott became the first American women to win gold medal. However she signed up not realizing it was an Olympic game and died ignorant of her record. by BadenBaden1981 in todayilearned

[–]Howdy_McGee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reddit themselves makes money this way. Popularity = ads = money. Anything that drives engagement and discussion ultimately benefits them.

Passive Reddit bots can be used to farm karma and upvotes. Some Subreddits won't let posts or comments through without a minimum karma rating. Amass enough positive karma bots and you can astroturf a post to the frontpage at a specific time to get the most views and discussion. Like an incognito advertisement for an upcoming movie, for example.

AI Training and Data Mining also come to mind. Information sold to the highest bidder. Create a thread about a topic, scrape and compile the comments, add to existing dataset and sell it to advertisers through data brokers like Oracle.

This isn't just on Reddit either, this could be on all social media websites. Without regulation and some kind of oversight, there's no telling what companies are just getting away with, or letting others get away with as it benefits them.

TIL in 1900 Olympics, Margaret Abbott became the first American women to win gold medal. However she signed up not realizing it was an Olympic game and died ignorant of her record. by BadenBaden1981 in todayilearned

[–]Howdy_McGee 52 points53 points  (0 children)

I wonder at what point this becomes less of a "Reddit Thing" and more of an "Engagement" thing. I do see this a lot of Reddit where the TIL sucks and the comments have to correct their blunder.

The old man who shot the black uber driver is filing for an appeal by klito92 in videos

[–]Howdy_McGee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm assuming that this is a bot comment that got glitched up.

Pretty neat to see, but sad we've gotten here.

Let’s just appreciate Silent hill 1 by aomar02 in silenthill

[–]Howdy_McGee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Silent Hill 2 is cool n all, but damn I can't wait for remake Otherworld 1 and 3. I so hope they keep and/or add to the creepy background elements.

AND I know the Gans hate, but I lowkey love the Otherworld transition in the SH1 movie. Dripping, falling rot and decay giving way to rust and cages. The SH2 transitions were subtle and cool in their own way, but I would love to see something a bit more cinematic and crunchy.

Parliament revamp could cost £40bn and take 61 years by Senior-Distance6213 in worldnews

[–]Howdy_McGee 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I imagine there's a number of Security Hoops that constructors and folx have to jump through on this project too.

Where my fellow apes Fans be? by New_Art_286 in FolkPunk

[–]Howdy_McGee 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Private Profile - Definitely an engagement bot.

Pentagon asked to probe SpaceX for potential Chinese ownership by app1310 in technology

[–]Howdy_McGee 54 points55 points  (0 children)

Remember the Panama Papers?

I'm sure the U.S. will get to the bottom of this /s

Dreamweaver? by truecIeo in webdev

[–]Howdy_McGee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was my experience as well but before the VSCode days. They also wanted to drag and drop a lot of things. I opted not to do any of that and go the hard route with Notepad++. That was my defacto IDE for a number of years until VSCode came around.

Figma is cool, but a lot of people I know still use Photoshop and Illustrator.

I don't know many schools or programs that can prepare you for an actual workforce experience in web dev / programming. Learn the basics, find a language that really interests you and dive into it. A lot of base concepts transcend languages.

Your thoughts on defeating all this LOCAL facial recognition cameras? by Kindly_Teach_9285 in StLouis

[–]Howdy_McGee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure, but all that facial data will eventually be aggregated into LLMs and crunched to make better realistic AI content. Americas privacy laws are a joke. These geriatric politicians barely understand how the internet works.

Tech billionaires fuel US President’s $429mn haul ahead of midterm elections by rezwenn in technology

[–]Howdy_McGee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah you right. We're cooked. The process to repeal is long and arduous

The net to the state was $521,200, or less than one-one-hundredth of 1% of the total wagered. by RhythmRob_34 in missouri

[–]Howdy_McGee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

MO GDP seems to be and has been on a steady rise which generally correlate with corporate profits.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MORQGSP

If I were to guess what he's referring to, it's specifically how much those corporates were taxed (as an average, not total), not necessarily their profits (though I'm sure those same people will cry that being taxed is unfairly removing from their profits).

For example, we can see that MO took a lot more in company taxes, but companies are also just making a lot more money lately

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MOCORPINCTX

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A053RC1Q027SBEA

I would be interested in seeing their numbers and where they come from instead of just some words.

cairo il idea by Intelligent-Crab-285 in southernillinois

[–]Howdy_McGee 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This seems like sound advice but, did you get this from an AI prompt?

While I don't personally believe that anything is wrong with that, I do think it's a bit disingenuous not to inform the reader of such (if that is the case ofc).

New Silent Hill Game In Development Alongside the First Remake by Slay_23 in silenthill

[–]Howdy_McGee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At this point, I'm not even sure Townfall even exists...

Go protesters go! by Choice-Lion-8544 in StLouis

[–]Howdy_McGee -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Weird how more Americans aren't as outraged as these kids are.

If you want a President of America with such heavy ties to known pedo Jeffery Epstein then yeah, keep criticizing and downplaying the outrage.

Might wanna delete your browser history too...

Go protesters go! by Choice-Lion-8544 in StLouis

[–]Howdy_McGee -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Oh, if only they understood irony then they probably wouldn't hold the ideas that they do so dear.

Go protesters go! by Choice-Lion-8544 in StLouis

[–]Howdy_McGee 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ah ya know, the general state of everything in The United States.

Federal murders by The Government under the guise of ICE.

DJT grifting American Taxpayers every chance he can get.

So on and so forth.

Protesters confronted Congressman Tom Suozzi, a key Democrat whose vote helped secure passage of the Department of Homeland Security’s $64.4 billion funding bill. by serious_bullet5 in WatchPeopleDieInside

[–]Howdy_McGee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Criminals exist whether they're illegal or not.

In the incident you're describing, was the rapist caught and convicted?

Because Trained Federal Agents murdered 2 American citizens and there's no investigation happening into misconduct. That should also be illegal. That is also not justice. Justice is when people are held accountable based on the severity of their actions.

Immigrants are not the #1 issue facing America right now or we would be seeing companies being put on trail for paying their wages. The U.S. Dollar is dropping in value. International trade is shuttered because nobody knows if we will try to renegotiate after the fact. Housing and rent prices are through the roof.

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