some games, like CoD, have kernel level anticheat that Proton and Wine just can’t deal with

I think you mean “that Proton and Wine protection you from”

Telling us they know nothing about punk without telling us outright.

No, but it was pretty straightforward when I was still on the site. I heard they recently added “Luigi” to the list, so if someone used to talk about Nintendo games a lot you can potentially do something funny.

Moderator accounts also have their reports prioritized, so if you get added to some random subreddits as a mod you can even see instant bans in response to your reports. Only a couple of the report reasons go straight to the admins, including the “advocating violence” one, and the “promoting hate” one. But the “hate” report seemed to take a lot longer to be acted on and have much softer consequences. Whereas if I reported some fascist who wanted to depopulate the Earth, after the third report I’d often instantly get a message saying “we’ve taken action” and then their account would be gone.

It’s worth noting that they do also keep tabs on “report abuse” now, so you can potentially get shadowbanned for this stuff.

The source for most of this is either from personal experience, or straight from the Reddit admin team at one of their ridiculous Zoom events.

They outsourced almost all admin-level moderation (site-wide bans) to a bot service a few years ago and now you’re at the mercy of user reports. If someone reports you for “inciting violence” and your comment contains a keyword, it’s an immediate warning. If someone does it to several comments simultaneously, you get three strikes and an immediate ban. Last time I looked at the site (a while ago) you could even trigger it on comments talking about “killing time”.

The best they can think of is USA-style suburbs? Yawn.

Liberals will do shit like this but refuse to raise the minimum age required to get married

No, I used jumble.top but all the old episode download links still work. And yes, there is Patreon-exclusive content.

I have the Patreon download links for Citations Needed (and a couple of others) episodes up to July 1st. Is that helpful in any way?

I laughed several times while reading this

Nice emdashes, comrade. o7

The part with the scientist who did a study of 9 families who called increased eye contact as an “improvement” made me grimace.

This is too real. Talking to average liberals makes me want to tear my hairs out, because everything they have to say about politics is just a parroted thing they heard someone else say, or at best you get an “original thought” which is an attempt at a gotcha that is dispelled by even the most basic of research.

If you’re vegan you’re probably familiar with the fallacy bingo card. There is nothing more frustrating to me that talking to another vegan and the conversation turns to politics and suddenly they are spouting all kinds of liberal fallacies and refuse to reflect upon the fact that they are doing exactly the same thing they shit on carnists for doing.

[Lenin yelling emoticon]

This sounds like the ideal relationship

[scheduling problems joke] (I am too unsmart and unfunny to formulate one)

I had to listen to 40 hours of history podcast to understand this meme, but I’m glad I did

Reading the comments on this really is interesting. They’ve got some alternate history going on:

Communist revolutions have always been led by elites who claim to speak for the masses. That’s exactly how Mao rose to power.

I eat my lunch by scooping it with flatbread almost every day, and the whities at work still stare at me for it

Tauon works for me, but my synced lyrics aren’t embedded.

Cuba has resorts. It’s one of the most popular vacation destinations for people from Canada, if I remember correctly.

My bank app works fine, not sure what they do differently

The point is that people severely exaggerate how “unusable” a degoogled phone is. There are FOSS alternatives to most things, and anything there isn’t an alternative to is probably a shitty service that you’d be better off without (see: burger apps)

MicroG might be installed, but I don’t use anything that uses it. Since Aurora lets you search for apps that don’t require it, I always go for one that doesn’t.