mitch

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[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 13 points 2 months ago

White People: "guns are for everyone! That's why there is a second amendment. SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED."

Black Panthers: "oh ok carries unloaded guns'

White People: "wait actually now there are limits"

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 6 points 2 months ago

Honestly, doing this for would be such a hilarious operational vulnerability that I think it would be like a dinner bell ringing to th international spy community lol.

If they release files with only Republican names blocked out, all it'll take is a single congressperson to read the full list of names that appear in the documents out loud during a speech and into the public record — then, Internet sleuths and journalists will be able to piece together names from details, they always do.

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My problem is that I only want striped tree squirrels to munch on my junk. Any suggestions?

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In the way humanity can study the structure of the brain despite being inside one, consciousness is just the means by which the Universe discovers itself. Or something, I don’t know, I’m high.

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 0 points 2 months ago (9 children)

if you ask me, mushrooms are a bullshit double standard. THEY get to show their genitals to passing hikers in the state park, but when I do it, suddenly everyone gets real prudish? What’s THAT about?

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 10 points 2 months ago

check it out: https://web.archive.org/web/20060117004220/http://reddit.com/

if you look at a lot of this stuff now, it'll be assigned to a subreddit called "/r/reddit.com"

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 59 points 2 months ago (14 children)

i had signed up to see if I am a match, which i would have donated if i had been selected. please show me where i mentioned actually donating bone marrow.

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

a lot of people aren't old enough to remember that when the digg exodus happened, reddit didn't even have subreddits yet. it was just links on one page, and we built our little subculture in the comments of each thread. that's why there is such a culture of commenting before reading the article (if at all) — it used to be a big, disorganized blob of chatty nonsense, much like Fark or MetaFilter were at the time too.

reddit is a lovely example of how tech companies from 1995 to 2020 fell into success and figured out what their product does later down the line. to quote homer simpson when asked what his tech company does, "we're a website that sells computers.... or.... a computer that sells websites, I haven't decided yet."

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 189 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (23 children)

i actually knew one of these powerusers in the early 2010s. he had leukemia, and i signed up to be a match to donate spinal marrow for him. i visited him in the hospital a bunch. he hasn't acknowledged me since. that was a real bummer, but, i tend to see friends where they don't exist so that might be on me.

i am a little bummed that i got permabanned just because i was so close to all of the reddit founders and early employees. i personally prevented alexis from getting arrested for trying to openly smoke weed on the street in pittsburgh when it was still the kind of thing that got you put in prison for a few years if your skin is darker than popcorn.

steve huffman in particular is a shitter and always has been. think of that kid you knew growing up who would make up that his dad worked at SEGA and that Goku was going to be in the next Sonic game — that's spez, still, to this day. he is "mr. namedropper." steve, genuinely, i do not care that you saw Beyoncé at the airport.

ETA: since people are being weird about phrasing, i signed up to be a match. his alias back then was Dacvac. i literally sat in bars and watched him mod /r/pics on an iPad. believe me or don't, i'm just some schmoe online after all.

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 4 points 2 months ago

Naked corruption. Investing in cryptocurrency is essentially enabling billionaires to abuse workers on a cosmic scale.

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 7 points 2 months ago

Aw, look at that, you got the stink lines and everything.

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 1 points 2 months ago

I am not sure cryptocurrency even has a practical use outside of money laundering. I guess it's a casino, too.

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