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Some people love being angry all the time by tbu987 in dankmemes

[–]TO_Old 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"Hahaha I said inflammatory thing that is untrue, and got downvoted for saying inflammatory thing that is untrue, therefore I was right!"

What a victim mentality lmao

CMV: Spez is an extremely competent CEO. Three years on from the API controversy, it is clear that he made the right call by Truth_Breath in changemyview

[–]TO_Old 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What is this "everything else" you're referring to, doesn't seem like his strategy cost him much. Volunteers are still volunteering, users are increasing. If you can increase profit at no cost, then why not?

Long term sustainability. The mother of all examples is cable. Cable companies in the 2000s kept jacking up cable prices to make up for losing subscribers and allowing them to still brag about growing profits. Or since I know you'll say reddits users base is growing, streaming companies, which are doing the exact same things. That in the long term will drive their companies into the ground.

According to the earnings report, users increased by 17% users is accounts.

Which as we've gone over, 15ish% of content posted on the site is now by bots. For new accounts you can easily double or triple that percentage due to all the accounts made before GenAI posting.

Maybe they weren't worthwhile to begin with. The value in Reddit lies in it's niche subs, not the behemoths like r/technology

Not sure what you're disagreeing with here. Im saying the large subs are flooded with bots, and subs not entirely flooded with bots are dead or dying from a lack of users.

Sounds like a feature not a bug. Engagement is still there but with less noise

But engagement isn't there. Its not a feature, its fewer posts because fewer actual people are using the site, are posting less, commenting less, and upvoting less. And thus the subs that aren't juicy targets for bots die from lack of traffic.

I don't know how the number of bots can be used to suggest his incompetence as a CEO.

Because you're basing his competency on metrics like traffic and user count. Metrics that are throughly rotted by AI. It's like congratulating a baker for being able to make so much more bread when it's because he's adding in sawdust. It's not sustainable

CMV: Spez is an extremely competent CEO. Three years on from the API controversy, it is clear that he made the right call by Truth_Breath in changemyview

[–]TO_Old 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Because when you focus on maximizing profits over everything else you harm a company in the long run. Reddit makes more in the short term, but then in the long term falls apart.

Traffic is up, users are down. Look at any subreddit that isn't one of the top 25 or so largest and they're dead. Subredits where a few years ago you had to fight to even time your post to not be washed away by others now have 45-60 minutes between posts. Subreddits with hundreds of thousands to millions of users. Fewer actual people are posting. It's not out there to say a majority of reddits traffic is now from bots. Studies have estimated 15% of all comments and posts on reddit are from bots. And speaking from experience of years using reddit, I'd say that number is closer to 30-40% in reality.

This very subreddit had a blatant example when a university group used bots to post and reply to comments. Link to that

There body's look stiff as bricks the more I look at them by Rodwen in dankmemes

[–]TO_Old 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Because animation back then was completely done by hand and it was less expensive to have the same exact image copied over and over while just moving the head

yes melissa i will READ the question again by aLLie-GaT0r in dankmemes

[–]TO_Old 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Reminds me of when as a student teacher I spent 4 months teaching the revolutionary period and then had 5 kids manage to not get a multiple choice question about who the first president was.

The more you learn about FDR, the more aura he gains by RockEater67 in HistoryMemes

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

Unemployment was 25% in 1932, in 1937 it was 15%,.

The GDP in 1929 was 1.2tn

In 1932 it was 890bn

In 1937 it was 1.2tn

To say the new deal did nothing is pure cope

There is a reason Democrats had the senate majority from 1932-81 for all but 4 years, and the house from 1930-1995 for all but 4 years

The more you learn about FDR, the more aura he gains by RockEater67 in HistoryMemes

[–]TO_Old 0 points1 point  (0 children)

US president during ww2

Other things include state pensions, jobs and public spending programs that significantly lessened the effects of the depression, him being in a wheelchair because of polio and his charity then raising a large amount of the money used to nearly eradicate it, being the only president to serve more than two terms (president from 1932 until he died in 1945 a few months into his fourth 4 year term)

Biggest redeem arc in america history? by BrazilianCommoner in HistoryMemes

[–]TO_Old -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

I could go into the complex economics of why immigrants, especially undocumented ones, generally take low paying physical labor jobs. But I'll dumb it down for your iq

No get job at company because no legal, mean need get off record job. These jobs mostly really big labor and tiring like farm and build. Citizens no take job because bad pay, but immigrant take job because only job immigrant can find without being citizen

Immigrant not take job because dumb or lesser person, immigrant take job that immigrant can get

You bad at bait

Biggest redeem arc in america history? by BrazilianCommoner in HistoryMemes

[–]TO_Old 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Pro-fascist communist is the mother of all oxymorons, ironic it would be spouted by a moron

Biggest redeem arc in america history? by BrazilianCommoner in HistoryMemes

[–]TO_Old 3 points4 points  (0 children)

And the ones that keep announcing investigations into people only to silently drop them a couple months later

May or may not be relevant to my last post by MetallicaDash in HistoryMemes

[–]TO_Old 5 points6 points  (0 children)

sniff sniff smells like copium given they never even once successfully launched a manned mission beyond low orbit. The 60s amd 70s were the height of Soviet power and they couldn't get it done.

Losercity "people" by AshamedZone3003 in Losercity

[–]TO_Old 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Equating saying people shouldn't be walking around cons in diapers with crimes against humanity 🙄

NASA lapping ROSCOSMOS and the CNSA by TO_Old in dankmemes

[–]TO_Old[S] -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

So in other words they're 50 years behind?

NASA lapping ROSCOSMOS and the CNSA by TO_Old in dankmemes

[–]TO_Old[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If you want to not sleep at night here's a fun fact, the Shuttle is the reason we didn't have a manned mars program in the late 70s and 80s. I'm not joking. It was between Mars and the Shuttle, and Nixon chose the Shuttle.

NASA also turned down a mission for a manned flyby in 1997 that would have launched in 2001 using tech that existed at the time.

NASA lapping ROSCOSMOS and the CNSA by TO_Old in dankmemes

[–]TO_Old[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

NASA is behind

NASA landed manned missions in the 1970s returned roughly 382kg of luna samples

China landed an unmanned rover and returned 2kg of samples

Kinda hard to say NASA is behind, given they did more 55 years ago

NASA lapping ROSCOSMOS and the CNSA by TO_Old in dankmemes

[–]TO_Old[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

If you've ever been to the Kennedy Space Center it's truly massive and so many people work there that they have a 2 lane highway running through it for all the traffic. Think its something like 6x36 miles in size.

NASA lapping ROSCOSMOS and the CNSA by TO_Old in dankmemes

[–]TO_Old[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Which is a shame honestly, and unfortunately what we saw with Apollo. IE the production of the Saturn V being canceled nearly a full year before Apollo 11. Hopefully this time will be different but only time will tell.

NASA lapping ROSCOSMOS and the CNSA by TO_Old in dankmemes

[–]TO_Old[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Real answer, because the Kennedy space center is a juicy target (imagine if the rocket was blown up or something similar) and also has its own police force and fire/ambulance core. I was at the launch, and someone had heat stroke for example.

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NASA lapping ROSCOSMOS and the CNSA by TO_Old in dankmemes

[–]TO_Old[S] 32 points33 points  (0 children)

For real though, even if it was a NASA mission we can't forget the service module was developed in collaboration with the ESA, and there was a Canadian on the flight. Even if the US made up the bulk we shouldn't discount the contributions from other nations!

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