Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.

Spent many years on Reddit before joining the Threadiverse as well.

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  • FaceDeer@fedia.iotoReddit@lemmy.worldHow to "kill" a subreddit?
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    So if Linus Torvalds were to announce one day “I’m tired of Linux, time to burn it all down” that’d be fine? Someone else can just create a new operating system, after all.

    The point here is that OP may have “created” the subreddit in the sense of clicking a few buttons and filling out some text fields, but at this point it’s a community with 200,000 participants. Those participants also share in its ownership. Forcing them to jump through hoops recreating the whole thing just because OP’s decided he wants a Viking funeral is selfish.




  • Trump has also made it very clear that this isn’t really about fentanyl, that’s just a convenient excuse (he can’t impose tariffs without congress unless it’s for “national security.”)

    His real purpose seems to be some combination of “if I hurt Canada then that makes America stronger somehow” and “if I hurt Canada enough then they’ll give up and submit to being conquered by America outright.” He’s said both of these things, and Trump is too cheese-brained to be an effective liar; when he shows you what he’s really like you should believe him.

    It’s a war of aggression, essentially. Fentanyl is just his Gulf of Tonkin.



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    Then they can make a new sub and pointlessly use their own leg work.

    The existing sub is right there. OP wants to walk away from it. There’s absolutely no point to burning it to the ground and forcing someone else to do a bunch of work to recreate it, it’s just petty.

    I’ve had to deal with this sort of “if I can’t have it nobody can” mentality in online communities before, helping rebuild the ruins of something that someone pointlessly destroyed on their way out the door, and it massively sucks. OP’s just going to make everyone hate him.



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    Might not necessarily be as narcissistic as you imply. If this person created the sub, and is still the only mod, then it wouldn’t really exist without them.

    No, but maybe it can exist without him. Out of 200,000 subscribers someone could want to step up and take over.

    The Reddit corporation doesn’t give a fuck.

    200,000 people might give a fuck.




  • No he hasn’t.

    One of the biggest gripes I’ve had with Americans over the years has been their perspective that America was the whole world. The rest of the world was just “out there somewhere”, some vague hinterland that news stories came from sometimes but that didn’t really matter and was totally at the whim of whatever was going on in the real place in the world, America. Even now, even among the Americans who are horrified at Trump and what he’s doing and want to say sympathetic things to the allies he’s screwing over, we’re still seeing this.

    Putin’s useful idiot has smashed America and America’s global dominance. This is bad for America, sure. But it’s not necessarily bad for the whole world, and it’s not necessarily even good for Putin in the grand scheme of things. Putin is still three years into his three-day “special military operation”, with his troops travelling to the front lines on crutches and donkeys to die in meat waves. Finland and Sweden joined NATO. The EU is allocating hundreds of billions of Euros to defense. Germany just elected a government that seems willing to stand up and join them in combating Russia. Russia is still completely hosed. It is not bending the world to Putin’s vision.

    Sure, it would have been nice to have America fully on board with defeating him too. But America’s only a part of the whole world, and an increasingly smaller part these days. Let them go wallow in the isolation they seemingly crave.