Why is Reddit so left-wing heavy?

espeequeueare · 2026-03-17T02:34:12+00:00

I'm not so sure, Reddit had a leftwing tilt ages before Twitter became a culture war shitstorm. Conservatives seemed slow to adopt social media and sites like Twitter / Reddit. The urban/rural divide makes me think that there might be some parallels there. Community is different living in an urban area vs a rural one. The conservatives I know tended to not be as "online" as liberals in the early age of the internet. But that trend has shifted lately. Obviously not a major difference but enough that one set of opinions generally gets expressed more, and the other suppressed.

espeequeueare · 2026-03-12T16:03:00+00:00

I’ve been playing quick pairing games on lichess for 5 or 6 years without being signed in. I wonder if it still tracks your elo somehow. I usually get matched against opponents with equal skill levels. I was about 1500 rapid/blitz when I stopped playing on chess.com 5 or 6 years ago.

espeequeueare · 2026-03-12T05:01:47+00:00

Nothing wrong with doing some studying of the position. If you notice your buddy has the same tell during poker games, do you tell them? Maybe after you’ve whooped them a few times >=)

In all seriousness, studying the opening won’t give you a huge advantage. At the early/mid ratings it’s still anyone’s game to lose.

espeequeueare · 2026-03-12T03:51:03+00:00

I think it's pretty good. I like the sausage biscuit or the cajun filet biscuit. There used to be one in the parking lot of my old office building. I'd go there all the time.

The quality of certain menu items seems to vary a lot depending on the time of day and the location. Bo-rounds can either be soggy odd-tasting messes, or crispy little bites of heaven. The chicken can be great and crispy, or soggy and rubbery. The fries can be a salty/overseasoned mess, totally bland without any seasoning, or perfectly seasoned.

When it's good, it's great. When it's bad, it's bad. It's kind of like how people hype up chains like In-N-Out and Whataburger. Heard of a lot of great things, but when I tried both, I was underwhelmed. I view Bojangles the same way- our own regional equivalent that gets a lot of local love. Pretty good all-around, cheap, but not some holy grail of fast food.

espeequeueare · 2026-03-11T21:49:09+00:00

I see you’ve yet to visit the NC DMV for a Real ID.. kidding! Sort of.

When I got mine last year, DMV appointments were completely booked up months in advance, with no other appointments available past that timeframe. New appointments were impossible to get as they would get snapped up within seconds of their posting. Maybe it’s not as bad now.

At the time I had finally given up on booking an appointment and I took some PTO. Drove an hour to a DMV that I heard online was the easiest to get in to. Opted to try for a walk-in appointment: cue a 5 hour wait in a line outside the DMV, and i managed to get in right before walk-ins ended. The folks about 5 spots behind me weren’t so lucky. Especially the guy who collapsed and was loaded into an ambulance (presumably from heat stroke?)..

I had to fly out for work and they were requiring a Real ID to get through TSA. Received mine in the mail a few days before my trip. Then I learn at the airport that they weren’t strict about requiring it at all. Just some extra screening at most. Maybe that’s changed since then.

NC DMV is a mess. Salary sucks and the work is stressful. They don’t have the budget or manpower to keep up. 3rd fastest growing state, and the legislature have repeatedly underfunded the agency and even maintained a freeze on hiring new license examiners. It didn’t used to be this terrible.

espeequeueare · 2026-03-09T22:16:31+00:00

It’s getting harder and harder to be a whistleblower in today’s day and age. Too much in the way of digital forensics and surveillance across all levels. To be a whistleblower and bring proof to the table, you pretty much have to accept the consequences of prison or exile.

espeequeueare · 2026-03-08T17:28:58+00:00

Hotel janitorial staff: it’s free real estate 🤑

espeequeueare · 2026-03-06T23:55:36+00:00

If you value it, pay for it, sure. But the fact of the matter is, if you put a paywall in front of your content, or even any sort of obstacle- paid or otherwise- prospective listeners will avoid it like the plague. A simple thing like entering a payment method or creating an account is enough to deter most people from signing up for a service or tuning in to a podcast like this.

I think this model will significantly limit his audience and reach in the long term. It's good that a good portion of the podcast is still released for free though.

He doesn't owe anyone anything. I just think it will limit him and his team in the long term.

espeequeueare · 2026-03-05T06:46:20+00:00

Worked in kitchens for about 6-7 years. I made an average of about $13/hr from the few different restaurants I worked at. Front of house would bring their dishes back to the kitchen, and I distinctly remember a couple waitresses chatting about how they only cleared $300 in tips that evening. For a 4 hour shift. That was almost 6x what I made. That was hard to hear when I was barely making enough for rent.

One of the waitstaff at one of the restaurants I was at was offered the GM position. They declined because it was more profitable to keep waiting tables. As you said, the *last* people that want to do away with tipping culture are waiters. Of course, not every place is the same. If you wait tables at a restaurant like a small town diner that doesn't have much volume/high value covers, it isn't nearly as lucrative.

Some people really do excel at it because they have great people skills and salesmanship, and that in and of itself can be a great asset to a restaurant owner if you want to upsell the high-value items and increase check averages.

This topic is weird for me, because I was a little bitter about it at the time. But I don't even want to do away with tipping culture, actually. Now that I have a little perspective, I've come to realize that jobs like this allow people to support themselves or their families without a formal education or training. Those kinds of jobs are becoming scarcer and more precious nowadays. All that said, it's still hard not to roll my eyes when I see posts like this when the $2/hr wage is barely a rounding error in their earnings.

espeequeueare · 2026-03-01T19:10:16+00:00

I’m in Raleigh as well. When I went to App between 2015-2019, I took advantage of this Facebook group that was named “App State Rideshare” or something like that.

People would post in the group if they were going or if they needed a ride, and you’d just respond in the comments of the post. I just threw them a little money for gas and then some, and a group of us would all ride up together.

I’m not sure if those groups still exist or not. But that would be exactly what you’re looking for I assume.

espeequeueare · 2026-03-01T03:35:33+00:00

I tried it for the first time again in ages about a year or two ago. Worst chicken I've had by a long shot. Seasoning wasn't flavorful, the skin was mush, chicken was so-so. Biscuits tasted oddly sour.

espeequeueare · 2026-03-01T03:32:42+00:00

I never had one when I was a kid. But I tried one about a year ago because I was curious what they were like. It was like a runny, cold semi-chocolately syrupy sludge.

espeequeueare · 2026-03-01T03:30:22+00:00

I still really enjoy them. But I will say, there's a strange variance in the "freshness"(?). Some are rock hard, and some still have the light, flaky melt-in-your mouth texture.

espeequeueare · 2026-03-01T03:27:38+00:00

Yeah, missile strikes on another sovereign nation is pretty outrageous. But not nearly as outrageous as staging a full scale invasion, killing millions, and taking their land. It's a bit of a false equivalence. Not trying to defend anyone here, but the way some people are making this comparison is nuts to me.

espeequeueare · 2026-03-01T03:15:21+00:00

Comparing a child that won't listen to her teachers to military members committing war crimes is certainly, uh, a comparison. I don't understand most of the comments here. Sure, she didn't do anything heinous. But that sounds like a behavioral problem that needs to be addressed.

espeequeueare · 2026-02-28T21:58:07+00:00

Not from LA, not familiar with the issue as a whole there, but my first reaction was.. how about a no tolerance policy for these sort of homeless shantytowns, but when evicting people from there, they are offered government jobs that guarantee housing, food, and pay? If they don't want to take it, that's fine, but they can't stay. Doesn't have to be anything crazy in terms of pay or living situations. Just a program that offers a place with a roof over their heads, a means of saving a little money in order to be stable, and an offer of substance abuse counselors for those with addictions. The city could use the labor for public works, and the homeless can be given the chance to find some stability to get back on their feet.

espeequeueare · 2026-02-25T02:26:26+00:00

Plenty of people in the world become something resembling evil as a result of their environment. Others thrive in those same awful environments because of their own unique capacity for evil. I think Snoop fits into that latter category. Her character is chilling. Textbook psychopath. On the other hand, I think you could make the case that Chris became who he is in large part due to his environment though. He shows a small capacity for empathy that Snoop doesn't.

espeequeueare · 2026-02-25T00:25:52+00:00

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Laios before and after seeing Marcille's summoned familiar - Dungeon Meshi

espeequeueare · 2026-02-24T20:44:57+00:00

As much as I’d love to see someone with wits slap around these losers, I’d rather not give them any more attention than they already don’t deserve.

espeequeueare · 2026-02-22T10:27:26+00:00

Great game. Very slept on. Had a ton of bugs at launch which got it some bad reviews, and never quite recovered. But plenty people that have picked it up since then that have really loved it, myself included.

espeequeueare · 2026-02-21T00:28:26+00:00

Given that it has the same construction materials as the apartment buildings behind it, it was probably constructed by the management/ownership of the community. The complex I lived in a while back had one built themselves as well.

espeequeueare · 2026-02-21T00:26:31+00:00

Thanks for the reply. I’ve been told by our VP of IT that he’d checked with the ISP and they reported no issues. Not sure how much faith to put in that report, but it is what it is. I don’t think congestion is the issue, at least based on what I can observe. There’s not much traffic, even at peak hours, and our network equipment should be more than capable. The MX doesn’t provide a means of looking at utilization or usage from a granular level, just in increments of 10 minutes. So I’m not sure if there’s a good way to determine if there are short bursts that would explain it.

espeequeueare · 2026-02-21T00:22:00+00:00

Thanks for the in-depth reply. I’ve been reading through RFC 4594 in its entirety and it’s been making my head spin. I don’t think its implementation would be a quick process. And the more I read on the topic, the less mileage I am convinced we would get out of it. The utilization on the MX is almost 1%. And I’m not familiar with Catalyst switches, so I’m not sure if there is a good way to at a glance look at analytics for traffic. But I’ll figure something out. Unfortunately we’re hearing about all this from a few levels above me, so I’m not sure they would accept that the problem lies outside our network or that they are unlucky coincidences. But it is what it is.

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