Tolstoshev @ Tolstoshev @lemmy.world

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Yep, and all gleaned from publicly available interviews.

It was ever thus:

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Winston Churchill

The funny thing is that Spez didn’t even come up with the idea of Reddit. Him and Ohanian showed up with some other dumb idea and Paul Graham was like, that’s stupid, try this idea of mine.

Then Spez put together some shitty code in Lisp of all languages, which Aaron Schwartz had to rewrite in Python. The site was so unstable that Spez slept with his laptop so he could reboot it in the middle of the night.

They used sock puppets because nobody was posting enough content. Then they cashed out and fucked off, leaving Aaron to rewrite it, and Erik Martin to actually make a proper community out of it.

Then Spez comes riding back into town over a decade later to claim credit while he fucks the whole site up by selling out.

Truly a masterclass in incompetent white male privilege.

Streisand effect intensifies!

https://youtu.be/tHEOGrkhDp0?si=4ykOGtaMACaAs7i4

The only natural predator of billionaires is addiction.

What makes a man turn neutral?

The right side is totally inaccurate. There’s also a lot of child rape that is going on, along with the thoughts and prayers.

https://smorgasborg.artlung.com/Invention_of_Cplusplus.shtml

I can barely contain my excitement.

Mississippi still has the death penalty right? Sounds like the perfect opportunity to use it.

Gen X is miserable too, but as usual there’s not enough of us to influence anything.

Of Covid.

Loss is the new Rickroll.

https://i.imgur.com/mF6B757.jpeg

Paintball. So many times in the 90s I’ve fantasized about this while at the mall.

Or even better come up with liquid filled inserts if they are worried about spills, so you get realistic sloshing movement. They are so concerned with realism in guns in movies that actors get shot by accident but when it comes to cups they’re like “shrug”.

And I own 1 out of 100 of them. Time to work on my backlog some more.

4k80 has issues. It’s been harder for them to track down good prints and get the color correction right: https://www.thestarwarstrilogy.com/project-4k80/

CEO: the lesson I’ve learned is if I keep saying platitudes while doing nothing I can keep my job and buy another yacht.