Not the hero we need, but the hero we deserve.

I’m speculating, but my guesses are:

• Gathering enough karma to post on subreddits that have a minimum threshold.
• Getting enough post and comment history to pass a casual inspection, either by human moderators or spam filters.
• Maturing the account to the point where it can be sold to another shady company.
• Generally having a lot of bot accounts ready, just in case.

Once mature, it’s usually used for spam or astroturfing. There is a noticeable uptick around big elections, wars, etc.

I saw one repost-bot that metastisized into the most vile porn-spam-bot you can imagine, but they’re usually more subtle than that.

They’re indistinguishable because they’re copied from top-voted posts that are a few years old (title, text, and image if applicable). It’s guaranteed to produce a post that fits the community and gets a lot of engagement, so it’s a cheap and effective way to mature a bot account. Once you start looking for it, it’s everywhere, and Reddit admins don’t care.

The healer in Tactical Breach Wizards is a necromancer, so she can only fix you up once you’re dead. She carries a .45 for medical purposes.

It’s like Pokemon. You only get four skill slots.

Rarely. A good intro gives me a moment to set aside real-life worries and get into the right mindset to enjoy the show. TNG, DS9, VOY, and SNW are all bangers.

Spock never lies either.

Every time I see “lichess”, it makes me think about “lich-ess”, i.e., a female undead wizard.

UTC is better than most, but leap seconds are still awful. Computers should use GPS or TAI everywhere. Dealing with time zones and leap seconds is for human readability and display purposes only.

I’m tired of having to choose between “Uvalde shooter” and “Uvalde cops” in every election. Fucking do something or get out of the way.

CBOR for life, down with JSON.

I’m looking at you, Olórin, Mithrandir, Incánus, Tharkûn, Greyhame, Stormcrow, Láthspell, and/or Gandalf.

This 100%. Only a hobbit would bring their favorite cast iron frying pan on a transcontinental hike into hostile territory.

Mediocre.

US Army logistics catalogs are organized this way. “Cookies, oatmeal” instead of “Oatmeal cookies” because it’s a lot easier to find what you need an a giant alphabetical list.

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Get life insurance. Hire hitman. Pay hitman with the life insurance money.

🎵 It’s the circle of life… 🎵

It’s not even the company’s first fine for similar misbehavior.

If the fine isn’t big enough to act as a deterrent, it’s almost like granting permission to do it again.

It’s not even the company’s first fine for similar misbehavior.

If the fine isn’t big enough to act as a deterrent, it’s almost like granting permission to do it again.

These services are so useless. I have about a million years of free “monitoring” from all the data breeches. Whoever decided a year of useless false-alarms was an adequate remedy for a class-action settlement should be launched into the sun.