That’s what they said

Cheers! Hope it works well, I’ve been awaiting the day where I would be able to click on my account name and see only a vast, empty desert of content that once was.

Point me at one and I’d love to put an end to this Sisyphean task. I have my GDPR data at the ready.

And if you have a lot of old comments and posts, it’s a long and manual process. The automated tools used around the APIcalypse were only able to access about a year of content.

At the time, Reddit was also hiding older posts from history, so it would seem like all of your content was successfully deleted, before making them visible again later on. This is what gave users the impression that their years-old posts were being undeleted, when in fact they were never really deleted in the first place.

To delete posts/comments beyond what the automated tools were able to do, you basically have to edit them and delete them one by one. This is the only reason I haven’t fully deleted my Reddit account yet, because all of my stuff will still be on there, just under the name [deleted]. I try to delete about 200 things a week, but it’s a long process when you have 13 years of content to work through.

Can I see the bench?

Part of Anarchy is understanding and accepting that that is a true for all individual life regardless of any laws or guideline.

I feel like this is the crux that I’ve seen people disregarding too often. They know how to make the perfect society, and it only requires everyone else having the same exact ideology and priorities that they do.

And if Google had any sense, those were all improvements they should have just brought to Hangouts, haha.

But why improve a service when we can just create a competitor that does 2 things better, 5 things worse, and 1 crucial thing not at all?

I have no idea how they could omit Hangouts.

Allo, on the other hand, which was supposed to replace Hangouts, did not live as long as Hangouts and should probably remain forgotten.

You Keep Me Hanging On is way better than it has any right to be.

Mostly I just really hate people who upload videos to YouTube like:

Artist Name - Song You Want To Listen To - Original…

And then you open the video, hear some Alvin and the Chipmunks bullshit, and get to read the rest of the truncated title:

Artist Name - Song You Want To Listen To - Original Nightcore Version

Hard to tell with chicken. I could imagine biting into that and it still being juicy.

I liked him in Super with Rainn Wilson. It wasn’t a perfect movie but I thought his performance was fine and it was a fitting movie to anticipate the Marvel saturation in the coming years (which director James Gunn would eventually actively participate in).

I also thought he was fine in Inception. Not the standout performance of the movie but I didn’t walk out thinking “ugh, Elliot Page really gunked that up” or anything, and he apparently worked well enough with Christopher Nolan to get brought back in for The Odyssey.

What’s wrong with Elliot Page’s acting? I thought he was fine in previous works I’ve seen him in. Maybe not Oscar-winning but I’ve seen plenty worse.

I feel like there’s still some public, high budget fetish porn being made. Like A Folded Ocean (potentially NSFL, kinky body horror).

I’ve definitely been there. I think it’s like what English teachers say when they see their students reading whatever latest YA drivel has been published (e.g. Twilight):

At least they want to read something.

Encourage their passions, even if you really hate what they’re currently doing with it, and trust that eventually they’ll get a better sense of taste when they learn more about what else is out there.

Take the “lead a horse to water” idiom but add the corollary that the horse definitely will not drink if no one leads it to water in the first place.

Lots of journalists are reporting on this buyout.

But not too deeply.

Some humor is timeless, like this one from 1921: