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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Every country has their own brand and degree of nationalism. For example, in Europe, you won’t commonly see the national flag displayed in a private context in countries like France or Germany, but it’s very common as a decoration in Switzerland and Denmark. Doesn’t mean I’d really compare the Danes or Swiss to American nationalists though. I think what makes US-brand nationalism a special kind is the intense superiority complex, the feeling that they’re the greatest country on earth and everyone else doesn’t matter. No Swiss nationalist would think that their country could thrive without at least some degree of cooperation with other countries.

    Maybe other large-population countries like China and India might be more similar. When I went to high school in China as an exchange student, they had a flag-raising ceremony once a week where the national anthem was played. But I guess that’s still tame compared to having the pledge of allegiance every day.


  • I’d say it’s less the surgery being addictive and more that the type of person going for plastic surgery in the first place may often have body dysmorphic disorder, so they’ll keep finding flaws in their appearance. The surgery may even result in additional perceived flaws, which will lead to a cycle of getting even more procedures done.




  • Right but reddit created the karma system and allows mods to set karma limits. Why did they allow this ?

    Reddit relies on unpaid moderators to manage the subreddits. Antagonizing them by taking away their options for moderation is not a great idea for Reddit (as the API changes have shown).

    Does it though ? Because a bot can post more and by virtue of being a bot has nowhere to be and nothing to do. Let’s say it takes 1 hour to get 10 karma. A human with school and or work can only to deal with might only have like 2 hours to post a bot can post 24/7 365.

    Bots have ways to get around karma limits, for example by just reposting some popular memes for a few days after account creation and only starting to post spam a few weeks later. But that still means there’s an additional difficulty to posting spam and that there’s time for automated systems to possibly kick in before the bot gets the chance to post spam.

    If that is really the issue then why not just have a captcha on post ? I know bots are better at dealing with captchas but those are still expensive.

    That sounds like a nightmare TBH, I’d take a Karma limit any day over having to do a captcha every time to post.

    I’m also curious, which subs did you want to post in where Karma limits are so high you couldn’t reach them? I’ve never seen them be much of a hurdle. You can easily get 1k karma on a single comment just by echoing a popular sentiment or making a mediocre joke.



  • I was about 2 decades later, but I bonded over games like Pokemon and later made many friendships in minecraft. Wish I could revisit that time. I think it’s less about any particular era in gaming - it’s about being young. Kids are still forging friendships over video games today - just different ones (although, at least in the case of my nephew, Minecraft is still one of them :D).



  • I’ve never experienced real poverty. Poorest I’ve been was the first month working at my first job. I had spent most of my money moving there and I think I had about 200€ on my bank account at the beginning of the month. Had to be frugal for a while but it was manageable.





  • I broadly agree, but I’ll add that knockout tour is where the game and its open world design really shines. That should probably be considered the main mode for this game rather than grand prix. I hope that they’ll add a 3-lap “classic grand prix” mode at some point. The world in free roam does feel quite empty unfortunately.






  • The charismatic guy at the top may always get all the credit, but hundreds of other people played a role in Tesla’s success. He wasn’t even a founder of the company. All we can really say is that he bought in at the right time, but we don’t know how much of Tesla’s success was down to his personal decisions. If anything, it seems like Tesla’s decline really started when Musk started using the company more and more for his personal pet projects (Cybertruck, Teslabots etc) rather than the cars that people actually want.