I honestly got the impression that the u/Spez AMA was intentionally shitty, as an attempt to scapegoat him. I cannot fathom how a multi billion dollar company could allow that to happen unintentionally. It was comically bad. They're just waiting until after the API change goes live to actually can him, so they don't have to change the decision.
That being said, this whole debacle is making Reddit stocks tastier for risk-tolerant investors; The more the valuation plummets now, the more potential it has to bounce back.
Most likely long-term outcome of this whole thing IMO: The valuation continues to go down for the next several months as the fallout from this API decision and subsequent protests drives away more users and advertisers and generates more bad press. Eventually the internet forgets about it (minus the "power users" who have already migrated elsewhere), and Reddit will wait until well after that for their IPO. Whether before or after the IPO, u/Spez will be replaced as CEO. While that likely won't change much, it'll be a symbolic move to say "we listened to the users/investors." After which, valuation will quickly recover to pre-debacle levels.
Only question from there is whether the loss of the "power users" was enough to send the site on a permanent downward trajectory. My guess is probably not; plenty of people left to fill that void. Reddit will continue on, as a slightly shitier, more investor-friendly site.
Probably feel better if you did less mixing of your feelings, and more mixing of your lineage with that of your rival
Missing my favorite: When Chuck Norris gets in the pool, he doesn't get wet, the water gets Chuck Norris
Open 20 posts at a time in new tabs and immediately close them, like me? Lol still some improvements to be made with the feed sorting algorithms
I mean, I agree that the construction is sketchy (runs the whole thing from an off-brand playstation controller? Couldn't splurge on the $800 for a real cassette toilet?), but acrylic and carbon fiber are appropriate material choices, if they were used in the appropriate thicknesses and configurations.
It could be mounted externally, separate from other systems, and it would be fairly trivial to implement a strictly mechanical means of activating it from inside the vessel. All that would be needed is to open the valve on the external pressure vessel.
If you're referring to getting out once you're on the surface...hell of a lot easier for rescue crews to find you and do that if you've got a huge orange inflatable holding you at the surface, rather than however many thousands of feet underwater.
Here's just about every gag food I can think of from the show that could be translated to an edible dish:
- Popplers
- Slurm
- Manwhich
- Glagnar's Human Rinds
- Bachelor Chow
- Bristol Myers Squibb steak (just serve steak tips in some novelty-size pill capsules?)
- FemaSlim (some liquid/gel served in disposable food-grade syringes)
- Soylent drinks
- Coffee served in whale mugs
- Deep-fried icecream sandwich wrapped in frosting and lightly baconed
- Jerked "lower horn"
- "Jamaican" platter: jerked meat of every variety
- "LaBarbara's cooking": comically spicy Caribbean food
- Sterno Nicoise (flambeed ice cream cake with blue frosting, probably a lot of work)
- "Froot" cup with cheese filling
- Molten Boron/Torgo's Executive Powder (I'm thinking serve some spaghetti with red sauce in tin coffee cans with the "Molton Boron" label and the chemical hazard symbol, and Parmesan cheese labeled executive powder)
Person A: (regurgitates really stupid talking point)
Person B: "I don't believe that's accurate, study (x) shows this, (y) action was completed by (z), there's recordings of this happening"
Person A: "Well what about (less stupid regurgitated talking point)?"
Person B: "I don't have the time/energy to personally refute all this stupid bullshit."
Person A: "You see? You can't deny it! I knew you were full of crap. I'm going to disregard all of the evidence you presented from the first point because of this."
The other problem is, a large portion of the population is now vocally anti-science. "If (thing I've always been told by my elders/peers) conflicts with (hard data from peer-reviewed sources), I'm going to believe (the former), because the 'scientific community' is controlled by the boogyman that's out to turn our kids Jewish with space lasers and melt their genitals with chemtrails."
Ask me why I don't speak with my father anymore lol.
My father: "This 'Climate change' is a hoax perpetuated by political parties to redistribute financial power away from the opposition, under the guise of this 'saving the planet' bullshit."
Me: (provides hard data refuting this)
My father: "You actually believe that so-called 'science?' This is why I regret sending you to college."
Me: (speechless)
Two clothing categories: Clothes that it matters if they're wrinkled, and everything else. Category one goes on hangers, everything else goes in piles. If I'm out of GUFE (give a fuck energy), category one gets draped over a chair.
People that fold their underwear/socks/workout attire are the same as people who make their bed every day: Whyyyyyy bother.
I've been toying around with some design concepts for a DIY submarine for like a decade now. The first thing I thought about, right after "how do I control it going up/down" was "what do I do when that system fails, and I need to ascend in an emergency?" My thought was to have some scuba tanks attached to deployable salvage lift bags, so even if my ballasts were completely screwed, I could still ascend.
If there's not something analogous to that on board the Titan, I'd be shocked at their stupidity; It seems incredibly foolhardy to intentionally go somewhere that no rescue vehicle can recover you, without secondary and tertiary systems in place to rescue yourself.
Aw really? Dammit Chuck...I guess shouldn't be surprising from a guy famous for playing a Texas Ranger